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AP Seva Portal 2.0 Launched By AP CM

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The AP Seva Portal 2.0 was recently unveiled by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Highlights:

Citizens will benefit from the portal’s improved Services. Citizen Service Site is another name for the portal. The platform will provide citizens with transparent digital services.

The platform would make it easy for the public to follow their applications. The applications’ updates are also sent to users via SMS. Thirty services are available through

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the site.

This includes six civil supply services, 25 municipal administration services, 30 revenue and land administration

services, three rural development services, and additional 53 energy department services.

Applications can now be approved online in version 2.0. Officials can also give certificates and documents online through the platform. Digital signatures are supported by the portal.

Approximately 90% of government services are now accessible through the platform.

To gain access to paid services, gateways have been included.

The platform would make it simple for citizens to obtain government services.

They can use the services from the comfort of their own homes, rather than running from pole to pole.

The platform will also allow secretaries to keep track of the status of their applications.

More than four lakh persons are currently a part of this system.

They provide 540 services to the general public. 3.46 crores government services were available to the public as of January 2020.

Need to reduce post-harvest losses while handling foodgrains

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Lossesfrompost-harvesthandling of foodgrains should be minimised through value-addition and processing. This issue was discussed during an event on processing and storage of foodgrains and

pulses, organised by the ICAR central coastal agricultural research institute (CCARI) and Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), North Goa.

In the technical session attended by 35 farmers and Women working on farms, senior scientist and head of the institute HR Chidananda Prabhu delivered a lecture on processing and storage of foodgrains and pulses.

A national-level training programme on cashew, recent advances in cashew production, processing and post-harvest management was also organised at the institute. Director at the directorate of cashew nut and cocoa development, Cochin, Kerala Dr Venkatesh N Hubballi spoke about the status of cashew production in the country and its scope for improvement.

Mashelkar panel stresses on 70% school enrolment in Maharashtra

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

ocus on research that would help people and Society, public-private PARTNERSHIP model to generate finance in Education, introducing phygital education which would essentially be a blend of physical and digital education are some of the important recommendations made by theMashelkarcommittee with respect to implementation of theNew Education Policy in Maharashtra.

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recommendations were discussed during the state cabinet meeting on Thursday. Eminent scientists and educationistRaghunath Mashelkar, who chaired the committee, told that the emphasis of the report was to improve the gross enrolment ratio from 32% currently to 60-70%.

The report has stated that all learners should be eligible for free digital devices and for students that can reach even the remotest part.
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report has stated that every student in the state must get end-to-end digital access as the lockdown had shown how digital and physical education both go hand-in hand.

Haryana Govt to set up a call centre to offer employment related assistance to citizens

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

After implementing 75 percent reservation for people of the state in private jobs, the Manohar Lal Khattar Government in Haryana has decided to set up a call centre to provide assistance to its citizens and seek feedback on various aspects related to EMPLOYMENT. The outbound call centre is proposed to be launched to provide personalized assistance to the job seekers, offer information on different government policies and schemes, redress grievances of citizens and address the queries of job seekers. Besides this, a bulk

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messaging service is also planned to be started by the government to connect to the citizens on employment related issues.

The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020 that reserves 75 per cent of jobs in the private sector in Haryana offering a salary of less than Rs 30,000 a month only to locals came into effect on January 15, 2022. Under this, any local candidate (resident of Haryana) aggrieved by the action of any employer in violation of any provision of the Act, can file a complaint with the government.

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Chhattisgarhis all set to launch aNYAY Yojana a customized version of theCongresspartys much-publicised NYAY scheme for the rural landless Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture labourers by providing a financial assistance of Rs 6,000 every year. Congress leaderRahul Gandhiwill launch the scheme by releasing the first instalment to 3.55 lakh beneficiaries at a function in Raipur on February 3.

Titled as ‘Rajiv Gandhi rural landless agri workers NYAY Yojana’, this is the third NYAY scheme of theBhupesh Baghelgovernment. The Congress-ruled state had earlier startedRajiv Gandhi Kisan NYAY Yojanafor providing agriculture input subsidy to the farmers and GodhanNYAY Yojana under which the state

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procures cow dung from cattle rearers at a price of Rs 2 per kg a unique scheme of its kind in the country.

Significantly, 70 per cent of the Population of Chhattisgarh is engaged in agricultural activities. A large number of agricultural labourers do not have their own agricultural land and work as labourers on the land of others to support their families. Hence, to improve the financial condition of the landless labourers in the state, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel announced the implementation ofRajiv Gandhirural landless agri workers NYAY Yojana.

As per revenue department officials, landless agricultural labourers were registered for the scheme from September 1, 2021, to November 30, 2021. Along with this, necessary guidelines were issued by the revenue and Disaster Management department to all the district collectors to identify the beneficiaries and provide them grants on annual basis. According to the information received from the department, so far 3.55 lakh beneficiaries have registered to take advantage of Rajiv Gandhi rural landless agri workers NYAY Yojana.
The eligibility under the scheme will be only for the native residents of Chhattisgarh. Under the rural landless agricultural labour families, families belonging to the including shepherds, carpenters, blacksmiths, cobblers, barbers, washermen and priests, forest produce collectors and other categories are will be upgraded from time to time will for its eligibility. The necessary condition for the beneficiaries of this scheme is

that the beneficiary family should not have agricultural land. Land held for residential purposes will not be treated as agricultural land.