RAJASTHAN

Theminesdepartment has earned close to Rs 36 crore from the amnesty scheme launched in 2022 to recover dues while giving exemptions. In 565 cases, the department has also given relief of Rs 129 crore.

In the amnesty scheme, the department had given exemptions on lease rent, royalty and others with the maximum relief going up to 90%, and a minimum relief of 40% on dues with a complete interest waiver.

The ACS, mines and petroleum, Subodh Agarwal said the maximum number of cases resolved came fromJodhpurregion. From 179 cases, the department earned Rs 17 crore and gave relief of about Rs 44 crore.
Jodhpur was followed by Rajsamand and Jaipur both in the number of cases and the amount of dues recovered.

The state’s department of personnel (DoP) on Monday issued the order appointing 1985 batch Ias officerUsha Sharmaas the new chief secretary ofRajasthan, making her the second woman to hold the post. In addition, the outgoing chief secretary, Niranjan Arya, who retired on Monday, was appointed as advisor to CM Ashok Gehlot.

Sharma has also been given additional charge of Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Ltd, Udaipur. She will hold this charge till further orders.

The DoP order also stated that salary, allowances and terms of service of Arya will be issued separately after the Consent of the finance department. Sharma, who was secretary, department of youth affairs, government of India, returned to Rajasthan, her parent cadre, following the ‘s request on Sunday. Sharma is the sister-in-law of state assembly Speaker CP Joshi. She will retire from service in June, 2023.

The state’s food and civil supplies department has identified 7.38 lakhNational Act(NFSA) beneficiaries who have not picked up wheat from fair price shops in the last seven to eight months. Out of these, the names of 2.89 lakh beneficiaries have already been deleted from theNFSAlist.

The department has launched an exercise to identify those beneficiaries who are now financially Sound (or do not require benefits under the scheme anymore) and have stopped availing themselves of the benefits under the scheme.

There are around 4.44 crore NFSA beneficiaries in Rajasthan. The department has so far recovered Rs 72.69 crore from 59,260 defaulter government employees who had received benefits under NFSA. In all, 83,687 such employees have been identified in the state.

With improvement in and basic facilities in schools across the state,Rajasthanis now at Level 2 of the performance grading index (PGI) to assess school Education with a score of 903. This is likely the first time that Rajasthan has reached Level 2 in the PGI report.

The index was released by the ministry of education on Thursday. Seven states and Union Territories (UTs) have received Level 2, the highest rating given in the latest report.

The PGI helps you to understand the status of school education in different states and UTs and checks parameters such as Learning outcome and quality, access, infrastructure, and facilities, among others, and identifies areas that require improvement.

Since 2019-20, the state has shown improvement in indicators such as access, infrastructure and facilities, and Governance processes, as per the report.

These categories are further divided into five domains – learning outcomes (LO), access (A), infrastructure & facilities (IF), Equity (E) and governance process (GP).

The finance department has stopped Right to Education (RTE) entitlements for 50,000 state private schools citing that the schools were shut due to the pandemic and the bills could not be cleared without verifying if regular online classes were conducted.

The has to pay more than Rs 300 crore to the private schools under RTE. According to sources in the department, the proposal of releasing the amount was cleared by the finance department earlier and funds for some schools were also released, however, the department decided to take back the amount released.

As the schools remained closed in the session 2020-21, and students were made to study online. The finance department has asked the government to make a complete plan and verify the quality of education on the basis of which funds will be released and the mode of payment will be decided.

Following orders of theSupreme Court, the state transport androad safetydepartment has now made it mandatory to have district road safety committees in every district.

These committees will be headed by the district collectors and have Police commissioner, chief medical officer, executive engineer of public works department, programme director fromNHAI, district Education officer (secondary), district transport officer among others.

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in the presence of Chairman and Managing Director of AU Small Finance Bank.

MoU envisages a joint initiative to benefit farmers, Self Help Groups (SHGs), rural artisans, Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), agri-entrepreneurs, and agri-start-ups in Rajasthan

It will provide institutional credit support to ongoing development schemes in Rajasthan, which in turn will lead to further prosperity in the rural areas.

It will also give a boost to the process of lending, especially in areas of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and rural development.