11.03.23

Haryana Govt to set up six veterinary polyclinics in State

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aryana government would soon set up six veterinary polyclinics in the State. Announcing this while addressing a gathering on the concluding ceremony of 39th State Exhibition-2023 in Charkhi Dadri on Monday, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that the polyclinics would be set up in the state so that the cattle in the gaushalas are cared and protected. A polyclinic will also be set up at Charkhi Dadri, he added.

In our culture cows hold religious significance. Cow has been given the status of the mother in religious texts, thus from increasing the budget of Haryana Gau Seva Aayog from Rs 40 crore to Rs 400 crore in 2023-24, dedicated efforts are being made by the present State Government for the protection of cattle, he said.

Earlier, the Chief Minister also visited the Livestock Exhibition. Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Animal Husbandry Minister JP Dalal and BJP state president Om Prakash Dhankhar were present on the occasion.

The Chief Minister informed that under Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana, loans have been provided to such families who have shown interest in adopting animal husbandry. He said that under this scheme, this year, the Government aims to increase the income of about two lakh Antyodaya families.

A separate budgetary allocation of Rs 2000 crore has been kept reserved for these families if they wish to do any work related to animal husbandry or any other sector or field, said Khattar.

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Punjab FM presents tax-free budget of Rs 1,96,462 crore; Focus on Health and Education

The first complete state budget worth Rs 1,96,462 crore 26 percent more than the previous years budget size presented by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government in Punjab on Friday turned out to be more taxing for the State than its people. Despite the challenge of resource mobilization for implementing its pre-polls promises, including a monthly stipend of Rs 1,000 to every 18-plus woman in the State, the Governments estimated subsidy bill rose to over Rs 20,500 crore. Punjabs debt is also expected to rise to Rs 3.47 lakh crore by the end of 2023-24 financial year.

Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, at the same time, did not impose new taxes on the people for the second year in a row. The focus primarily remained on Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, education, and health sectors on expected lines, along with development. It also proposed 2.50 lakh jobs.

Facing allegations of deteriorating law and order situation, Cheema also proposed a budgetary outlay of Rs 10,523 crore for the Police an increase of 11 percent than the previous year. No less than Rs 64 crore was proposed for modernization of the police force to tackle crime and maintain law and order.

Finance Minister also announced various new schemes, including a Market Price risk mitigation scheme for the Horticulture sector, solarisation of agriculture pumps, a young entrepreneur scheme, two coaching initiatives for students, Bill Leayao Inaam Pao, among others in his second paperless budget.

Cheema, sharing the State Governments focus areas for the year 2023-24, said that the Government aims to boost the income of farmers by promoting agricultural and allied activities, creating a conducive Environment for industrial promotion, and Infrastructure Development, as well as strengthening the state finances.

Rs 804 crore disbursements as land compensation in NH projects: Himachal Pradesh CM

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Himachal Pradeshchief ministerSukhvinder Singh Sukhuon Sunday reviewed the progress of various ongoingnational highway(NH) projects in the state focusing on resolving issues related to land compensation, clearances of FRA (Forest Rights Act) and FCA (Forest conservation Act) and other bottlenecks of the projects.
He directed the officers to expedite the FRA-FCA clearance cases, by monitoring the cases every 15 days. He said that a follow-up review meeting would be held on March 27 to assess the progress made in these matters.

He said that as the roads are the lifeline of Himachal Pradesh, the has been working diligently to ensure the timely completion of NH projects. The state government’s efforts to expedite the land compensation and other clearances process would facilitate smoother implementation of the projects and provide better road connectivity to the people as well as tourists visiting the state, he said.

He also reviewed the progress of the Shimla-Mataur Road, Pathankot-Mandi road, Shimla bypass and Pinjor-Baddi-Nalagarh road and gave necessary directions to accelerate these projects.

He said that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Bihru-Lathiani road worth Rs 900 crore was submitted to the Union Government on February 20 and the project is expected to be approved by March 31. This road development project is set to improve the connectivity in the area, and provide a major boost to the transportation sector, he added.

In a major cabinet decision, theUttarakhandgovernment passed a proposal for a new tourism policy. The policy offers capital subsidy up to 50% of the eligible capital assets.

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The move is aimed at promoting investments in the tourism sector of Uttarakhand as it would directly boost the economy and also provide EMPLOYMENT opportunities to the locals.

Under the policy, the locations have been divided into three categories — A, B and C. Entire district area of Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar have been included in category A. Areas of Dehradun district which are not included in category B and Ranikhet and Almora tehsil of Almora district have been included in category A.

The remaining areas of district Almora (not included in category A), Kalsi, Chakrata, Tyuni, Garud Tehsil, Kotdwar, Lansdowne, Yamkeshwar, Dhoomakot, Dhanaulti and Narendra Nagar have been included under the category B.

UP first in disposing cases of crime against women

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Owing to the sustained efforts by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to reduce crimes against Women and provide them a safe Environment in the state, Uttar Pradesh has secured first position in the country in terms of disposal of cases registered under IPC Section 376 and POCSO Act, a government spokesman claimed while quoting to a National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report on Thursday evening.

In addition, UP is fifth in the country in completing the investigation process within two months in the FIRs registered in these cases, he added.

Yogi recently held a high-level meeting regarding crimes related to women and girls, Section 376 of IPC, harassment of women and POCSO Act, and instructed the Police officers to curb these crimes under the zero Tolerance policy.

The chief minister was told that according to the figures till February 27, out of 77,044 FIRs registered under Section-376 of IPC and POCSO Act, 75,331 cases (97.80%) were disposed of and that the state was in pole position in the country in this regard, followed by Goa and (97.30% each).

The Jharniyojan portal will beinaugurated by the Chief Minister Hemant Soren on March 17, 2023 at 4 pm in the Chief Minister’s Chamber located in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. Through thejharniyojan.jharkhand.gov.inportal created by the Department of Labour Planning, Training and Skill Development, Government of Jharkhand, the government is trying to provide a platform to the employers and job seekers. On this portal, employers can share information about their business and manpower related to it, as well as create vacancies for the required manpower. At the same time, candidates desirous of employment will be able to register themselves for related employment and fill their application.

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Along with this, in the interest of the youth of the state, the government expects all the employers, while discharging their social and moral responsibility towards the state, to voluntarily ensure 75 per cent local participation in the private sector EMPLOYMENT of Jharkhand state. Comply with the Employment of Local Candidates Act 2021 in the private sector.

‘Seven from Bihar among 50 most polluted cities in world’

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Seven cities fromBiharhave figured among the 50 most polluted cities in the world, as per the latest 5th annual world air quality report released by Swiss air tracking firm IQAir.

Patna, Darbhanga, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Chhapra and Hajipur in Bihar are among the 50 most polluted cities, as per the IQAir report, which has ranked India as the world’s eighth most polluted country in 2022.

With an annual Average concentration of particulate matter less than 2.5 microns measured at 90.3 micrograms per cubic metre (g/m3), Darbhanga ranked sixth most polluted city in the world, while Patna was tenth with the annual PM2.5 level measured at 88.8 g/m3.
Incidentally, all seven cities from Bihar in the IQAir’s report had PM2.5 levels more than 10 times higher than the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s prescribed annual safe limit of 5 g/m3.
The IQAir stated in a press statement issued from Switzerland on Tuesday that data from more than 30,000 air quality monitoring stations across 7,323 locations in 131 countries, territories and regions was analysed by its air quality scientists for the report.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday said poverty, illiteracy andignorance are behind crimes.

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He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of a Legal Awareness Training Camp cum Workshop organized by the Chhattisgarh State Commission for Women at the Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium near the Science College, Raipur.

The government is working economically and educationally to prevent human trafficking. Due to awareness of Police officers, there was a major decline in human trafficking.

But this is not enough as human trafficking should not happen at all, he said.

Baghel launched a souvenir of the Women’s Commission and the mobile app Chhattisgarh State Women Commission for online complaints. He also administered oath to all people to make women safe and empowered.

He said the workshop will help in improving the efficiency of the people who are discharging their duties on various subjects related to women.

The workshop focuses on human trafficking, cyber crime and sexual harassment at work place.

.Promotion of MSME units must: CM

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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that necessary facilities should be made available to encourage micro, small, and medium industries. EMPLOYMENT opportunities increase when industrial units of this category are formed. They should get adequate incentives. Necessary help should be provided even if such units operate the Plants using new technology.

Chouhan was discussing the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Conference to be held in Bhopal in the coming month in the Manthan room of Samatva Bhavan today. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Minister Omprakash Sakhlecha, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Secretary MSME P Narhari, and other departmental officers were present.

It was told that Union Ministers for Micro, Small and Medium enterprises Narayan Rane, and Commerce and Minister Piyush Goyal will be invited to the conference to be held in Bhopal in April.

Ahmedabad among 16 districts that use up more water: Study

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With a few good years of rainfall and a significant rise in water distributed through the canals,Gujarat’s water security scenariois better off now than it was a decade ago.

However, even today, 16 of the 33 districts including Ahmedabad are ‘water deficient’ in terms of their demand and supply.

A study titled ‘Building Informed and Scalable Water Security solutions for Gujarat,’ carried out by Development Support Centre (DSC) and other NGOs, assessed the groundwater, surface water, crop pattern and water quality among other parameters based on both primary and secondary data to estimate the demand-supply gap and the way forward.