TheBihargovernment has directed the teachers of government schools to keep an eye on the consumption of liquor, manufacturing units, smuggling, and provide information to the officials on the toll free
numbers.As per the directive, the principals, teachers, contract teachers and teachers of Madrasas to collect the information about consumption of liquor, manufacturing units, smuggling, transportation and other operations of mafias and informed on toll free numbers.
As per the cabinets decision, under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, only local residents of Bastar and Sarguja divisions would be eligible for recruitment on the vacancies ofGrade-IIIand Grade-IV posts and this decision will be enforced till December 31, 2023. The state cabinet has also decided to increase the rebate on guideline rates of the properties
of municipal corporations and their areas by 10 % which means, now 40 % rebate would be provided on guideline rates instead of 30 %.To encourage plantation in Chhattisgarh, draft concerning the amendment in previous rules for felling of trees in private sector under Chief Minister Plantation Promotion Scheme was approved.
Chief ministerShivraj Singh Chouhansaid that SantRavidas Jayantiwill be celebrated across the state on February 16. For the development and welfare of the Scheduled Caste community, new schemes will be made if necessary.Chouhanwas addressing a felicitation ceremony organised by Ahirwar Samaj atShahganjin Sehore.
Chouhan further said that the is providing free books, scholarships and hostel facilities to the children of scheduled caste, tribes and poor families, besides paying the medical, engineering college fee of the meritorious children. He said that the government is providing houses under the “Pradhan MantriAwas” scheme to the poor, so that they can also live with dignity. The chief minister said that free ration is being provided under “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan” and “Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojna”, so that poor families do not face any difficulty in their livelihood.
At present, the government is in the process of selecting agencies that will provide trained doctors for telemedicine consultation and distribute free medicine to citizens on the basis of e-prescriptions. This system will prove to be a game changer for senior citizens and those who find it difficult to visit a doctor and even for those who cannot afford medicines from pharmacies. Initially, the government will roll out the consultation service.
The eSanjeevani OPD and medicine supply Services will also be in sync with nearby government hospitals for treatment of citizens like further diagnosis and operations etc.
The office of commissioner for persons with disabilities (PwDs) has directed the states department to consider nominating specially-abled persons as members in the panchayati raj bodies on a similar pattern asChhattisgarh.
The disability court made these remarks after the panchayati raj department gave a reply to it that there is no provision in the panchayati raj act to nominate specially-abled persons as members
In Rajasthan, the State Government had already nominated specially-abled persons in the Urban Local Bodies, but it is yet to take a decision on panchayati raj institutions. The state government had amended the Rajasthan Municipal Act last year to introduce this provision of nominating PwDs to the ULBs as members, making it the first in the country.
After amendments in the Rajasthan Municipal Act, now it has
Bollywood actorSanjay Duttsaid Arunachal Pradesh’s culture, food, and people are unique. The actor who has been roped in as Brand Ambassador of the ’50 Years of Arunachal Pradesh’ celebration said he will try his best in highlighting the uniqueness of Arunachal Pradesh to the people outside.
The celebrations would start from January 20 to February 20 next year, commemorating the birth of Arunachal Pradesh as a state.
BSF director general(DG) Pankaj Kumar Singh said that the “demographic balance” has been upset in border states like Assam and West Bengal over a period of time and that was probably the reason that the Centre recently extended the force’s jurisdiction.
Rejecting allegations that the October notification of the Union Home ministry (that expanded its jurisdiction to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a larger 50 km stretch from the international border in Assam, West Bengal and Punjab as compared to the earlier 15 km) interfered with local policing, he said that theBSFwas not trying to “act as
a parallel Police” and the powers to investigate and file charge sheets continue to remain with the state.The Border Security Force (BSF) guards over 6,300 km of the Indian fronts with Pakistan on the west and Bangladesh on the east of the country.
The DG said that the force has dome a survey in some border villages that found that there is a “definite” demographic change.
The BSF has a strength of about 2.65 lakh personnel at present and it was raised on December 1, 1965. It has 192 operational battalions at present and is the country’s largest border guarding force with ITBP, SSB andAssam Riflesbeing the other three.
Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday urged the to repeal theOdishaUniversities (amendment) Act, 2020 to ensure academic autonomy of state public universities.
“The state government has come up with a law to bring all state public universities under one Act. It was created this keeping the administrative needs of the universities in mind. As an alumnus of Utkal University, I request the government to reconsider the proposal of the academics on the Act for academic autonomy, multidisciplinary, employability and other benefits,” said Pradhan while attending the
79th foundation day of Utkal University.Pradhan said putting the universities in order does not mean the Act will end up creating an obstacle on the path of autonomy of the universities. “A university cannot be a college where a teacher can be transferred from one institution to another. Besides meeting with the governor, I had also written a letter to the then education minister about this issue last year,” Pradhan said.
The government had amended the Odisha Universities Act, 1989, in September last year and brought all state public universities
under one Act. Academics and retired professors had criticised the government for amending the Act which they said curtails the autonomy of the universities.The Union territory of has the lowest POVERTY ratio among the Union territories in the country with just 1.72% of its Population living in poverty, according to a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report prepared by the NITI Aayog based on the National family Health survey – 4 done in 2015-16. Among the states, Kerala has the lowest poverty ratio with 0.71% whileBiharhas the highest poverty ratio with 51.91% of its population living in poverty. Subscribe on YouTube
Jharkhand has the second-highest poverty ratio with 42.16% of its population living in poverty followed by Uttar Pradesh (37.79%), Madhya Pradesh (36.65%) and Meghalaya and Assam 32.67%. Among the Union territories, Dadra & Nagar Haveli has the highest poverty ratio with 27.36% of its population living in poverty, followed by Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh (12.58%) and Daman & Diu (6.82%). Lakshadweep is the second least poor territory with 1.82% followed by Andaman & Nicobar Island (4.3%), Delhi (4.79%) and Chandigarh (5.97%).
Gulati Institute of Finance and (GIFT), a State Government-funded think tank, has urged the government to overhaul the land fair-value assessment system and hike electricity duty as measures to increase its revenue.
The state government had asked
the agency early this year to make suggestions to improve the states revenue. The suggestions, touted as the ones that would ignite little public wrath, have appeared in elaborate form as articles in the latest edition ofKerala economy, a journal published by the institute.Narayana claims the failure by the state in adopting modern methods for fixing fair value of land has led to a situation wherein the revenue from stamp duty and registration has slipped to 6.76% of the states own taxes and duties in 2020-2021, from 12% till 2010. It recommended the government to use remote sensing and GIS tools to continuously revise the land fair value in accordance with the market value of the land. Though the technology upgrade would require substantial Investment, phenomenal revenue increase would justify the same, he argues.
Even a small increment in duty for
the domestic consumer category would bring large-scale revenue benefits. The domestic consumers alone would have contributed an additional revenue of Rs 2,349 crore in 2018-19 period if the electricity duty collected in the state were on par with that levied in Punjab andMaharashtra, said the report.