The commissioner and secretary stated that the travel advisory has been issued after assessing a video footage available withAssam Policewhich shows that many civilians are heavily armed with automatic weapons.
The Indian Railways had sanctioned an electric loco periodical overhauling (POH) workshop at Narla inKalahandidistrict in the budget 2017-18 with an estimated cost of Rs 186.37 crore.But construction work of this project is yet to start. The Railways has received only 141.07 acres out of 328.35 acres of land required so far.
In 2016, the Railways had faced widespread criticism and protest from people of the state for shifting the proposed wagon maintenance workshop in Kalahandi district to Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh. It had invited sharp political reactions from all the parties. Even chief minister Naveen Patnaik had taken up the issue with the then RAILWAY minister to give an alternate project in Kalahandi district.
Later the Centre had sanctioned the electric loco POH workshop in the Union Budget 2017. This is a maintenance workshop for electric engines. It had sanctioned a token amount in 2017 for the beginning of the project. Four years have already passed, but construction work of the project could not start.
An amount of Rs 3.28 crore has been allocated for the project up
to the Budget 2021-22, said the reply of the Union minister.Tamil Naduminister for commercial taxes and registration P Moorthy conducted a review meeting with the registration officials to discuss the avenues to boost revenue through property registrations after the second wave of Covid-19.
Land registrations had been affected for four months during the first wave of Covid-19 last year.
During the meeting, Stress was laid on steps to be taken for increasing the revenue as revival for registration offices was faster than in 2020.
The pandemic year of fiscal 2020-21 recorded revenue to the tune of Rs. 10,643 crore through stamp duty and registration fee between April 2020 and March 2021. The income was less by around 3.6% the corresponding financial year of 2019-2020 when Rs 11,028 crore was generated as revenue.
According to sources, officials were directed to ensure that properties of temples under the jurisdictional control of the Hindu religious and charitable endowments department, water bodies and poramboke land are not being registered underSection 22-Aof the Registration ( Nadu Amendment) Act. TheActfacilitates re-registration of plots, if the earlier land transaction refers to it as ‘house site’. Returning the documents on the same day to arrest any delay, measures to curb staff reporting late
to office and progress of the recently launched grievance control room were also reviewed, sources added.