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Uttarakhand government to hire consultant to ‘double’ economy in 5 years

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Uttarakhand government is in the process of engaging US-based consultancy firmMcKinsey Globalfor two years to help it in drafting and implementing policies to double the state’s economy in 5 next years. Talking about the need to rope in the global firm, officials said the has set a target to double the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) from Rs 2.73 lakh crore to Rs 5.5 lakh crore by achieving a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 15% in the next five years.

In the first six months, the consultancy firm will carry out diagnostic study and in the remaining 1.5 years, it will do the handholding in the implementation of projects.

Besides tourism,

the focus areas will be Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, Horticulture, urban (brownfield and greenfield cities), service sector, infra projects (core as well as social sectors) and new cities.

In Uttarakhand, the government is targeting seven to eight products that have great potential and can prove a game changer in future.

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UP govt announces conditional subsidies for upcoming firms

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

In his ongoing attempt to ensure EMPLOYMENT to the youth of Uttar Pradesh in industrial units being set up in different sectors in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced conditional subsidies for the investors.

The government has divided the into four categories, keeping in view the increase in industrial activities in UP, and has told the investors that they would get subsidies on various items if they provided employment to the youth as per their merits and the industry standards.

The Yogi government has recently brought a new Industrial Investment and Employment Promotion Policy 2022 to provide new opportunities for investment and employment in the state. Under the new policy, the industry has been divided into four categories namely, large, mega, super mega and ultra mega, to increase investment in the state.

Under this, a large industry will have to give employment to at least 300 youths of UP every year whereas mega industry will have to provide job opportunities to at least 600 youths every year. Similarly, super mega and ultra mega industries will have to provide employment to at least 1,500 youths each every year.

The chief minister said that if an industry provided employment to 75 per cent Women in its staff in addition to

meeting the minimum requirement of providing jobs, it would get a booster subsidy under different heads according to different categories of the industry.

Under the scheme, mega, super mega, and ultra mega industries will get booster subsidies of 2 per cent and 4 per cent each on provision of employment to 75 per cent women along with ensuring minimum employment as well as more than double and three times of the minimum employment, respectively.

After implementing the new policy, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instructed the higher officials to give the benefit of subsidy to the investors in due time so that industries could be set up on a large scale in the state at the earliest.

Health Dept inks deal with Care India to improve health services

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Health Minister Banna Gupta said that the agreement signed between the Health Department and Care India will set an example of a new dimension in the as it will boost health facilities in the State.

On the occasion, an MoU was signed between the Health Department and Care India to work in the health sector for five years. The Health Minister said that in order to prevent Women from cervical cancer, after various tests, this test should also be done, so that work can be done under a single system. He said that rural women and girls should also be informed about the benefits of green vegetables, about the Minerals and minerals found in them so that work can also be done to prevent anemia and other diseases.

CARE India will work with the aim of addressing the gaps in child health, maternal health, tribal health, improving the status of Malnutrition, trauma centers and urban health.

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Bihar seeks Rs 20,000 crore for infra, 1% hike in fiscal deficit limit

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Biharhas urged the Centre to allot Rs 20,000 crore in the 2023-24 Union budget for development and creation of assets in the state and suggested 90:10 ratio of the central and state Shares of funding for the centrally sponsored schemes (CSS). The state also suggested to the Centre to increase the state’s Fiscal Deficit to 4% of the gross state domestic product (GSDP).

Similarly, Choudhary suggested that the Cess and Surcharge collected by the Centre should be included in the central divisible pool to transfer a part of it to the states.

Noting that the central fiscal deficit has been periodically increased in the past far beyond 6%, Choudhary said the Centre should permit the state to have its fiscal deficit 1% more than the mandatory 3% of the GSDP for a backward state like Bihar.

Choudhary said the Centre had provided Rs12,000 crore under Bihar specific plan (BSP) in the 2012 Budget for use in Infrastructure Development and on the creation of assets.

While 95% of the BSP fund provided in 2012 had been utilised, another chunk of Rs20,000 crore should be allotted in the forthcoming Union budget as BSP-Phase II, Choudhary said.

CM pays special attention to the development of agriculture sector

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that several important steps have been taken in Madhya Pradesh for the economic prosperity of the farmers. While staying on top in

wheat production in the country, Madhya Pradesh did the work of giving full benefits of all types of production to the farmers.

The agricultural Growth rate of the state is the highest in the country. Despite this, keeping in mind the efforts being made for the welfare of farmers in other states, continuous efforts are being made to implement them in Madhya Pradesh as well. In this connection, on the initiative of the Union Minister Gadkari, work will also be done to adopt the multi-faceted Agro Vision agricultural exhibition and other innovations which have become popular in Vidarbha. Necessary initiative will be taken to organise the programme of Agro Vision in Madhya Pradesh in the interest of the farmers.

The Chief Minister said that arrangements have been made to provide adequate relief amount to the farmers in Madhya Pradesh on damage to their crops due to natural calamities and other reasons. Continuous review was done to provide the amount of crop Insurance to the farmers. As a result the farmers got relief.

80% pupils in 3 northeast states walk to school; in Goa, only 20% do

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

About 80% of the school students in Nagaland, Meghalaya andMizoram, characterised by difficult terrains and remoteness, walk to school while nearly same the Percentage of students in Goa either take the bus, family vehicle or ride bicycles to school.

The Foundational Learning Study report 2022 compiled by theUnion ministry of educationand National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) show that against the national Average of 55% of students walking to school, 84% walk to school in Nagaland, followed by 80% each in Meghalaya and Mizoram. On the other side of the spectrum, only a little over 20% students in Goa walk to school. In the national capital, 50% go to school on foot.

In Nagaland, 9% of students travel to and from school in private four-wheelers or two or three-wheelers while 3% go in school buses, 2% use public transport and the 1% go to school on bicycles.

In Mizoram and Meghalaya, the report said schools are able to provide transportation facility to only 1% and 2% students respectively, while 3% and 4% students respectively avail public transport to attend school.

In Mizoram, 11% of students commute in their own two or three-wheeler vehicles while 3% travel in their family four-wheelers in both Meghalaya and Mizoram. In Meghalaya, the percentage of students going to school in privately owned two or three-wheelers is 5%.

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Over 1,500 Dima Hasao farmers benefited under PM-KISAN plan

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

At least 1,561 farmers out of 3,636 eligible beneficiaries inAssamsDima Hasaodistrict have received the 12th instalment of their under the PMKisan Samman Nidhi(PM-KISAN) through direct benefit transfer.

The eligible families are provided Rs 6,000 per year in three equal instalments of Rs 2,000 each under the scheme. He was addressing the PMKisan SammanSammelan 2022 at Haflong Krishi Vigyan Kendra.

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Skill India to host Kaushal Mahotsav in Dnal

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Ministry of Skill development and (MSDE) through its strategic implementation and knowledge partner the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) will be organising a Kaushal Mahotsav on Sunday in Dhenkanal.

Under the guidance of Union Minister for Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan, a series of events will be periodically held in the State, bringing an array of opportunities to the local youth and communities of Odisha.

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Tamil Nadu assembly passes Bill to ban hookah bars

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Nadu assembly passed aBillamending the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) to banhookah barsas part of the State Government‘s efforts to weed out tobacco abuse.

The Bill, tabled by the Health and family welfare department and passed without any objection, has introduced a clause, effecting Prohibition of opening or runninghookahbars. The clause states that sale and service of hookah at any place including an eating house is prohibited. It describes an eating house as a place where food or refreshment of any kind are served.

The Bill also sought addition of a clause empowering Police officer of the rank of sub-inspector and above to seize materials and articles from a hookah bar. It has introduced another clause that violators can be punished with an imprisonment up to three years and fined up to Rs 50,000.

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Karnataka govt to merge all road transport corporations

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Despite a recommendation to the contrary, the has decided to merge all four state-run road transport corporations to plug operational losses and increase efficiency.

KarnatakaState Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Staff and Workers Federation, for years, has

been demanding a merger with Bangalore Metro Transport Corporation (BMTC), North Western Karnataka RTC (NWKRTC) and Kalyana Karnataka RTC (KKRTC).

It was even one of the demands made to the MR Srinivasa Murthy committee which was set up by the government in November 2021 to recommend measures to restructure and revive ailing RTCs. However, the one-man committee reportedly rejected the merger demand.

KSRTC was bifurcated in 1997 into new corporations such as BMTC and NWKRTC. In 2000, one more corporation, KKRTC (formerly NEKRTC), was formed.

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