11.10.22

House-to-house survey to check illegal immigrants in Manipur soon, says CM N Biren Singh

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A house-to-house survey would be conducted soon to check influx of illegal immigrants in the state and legal action could be taken against anyhouseowner found renting out or housing illegal foreigners, CM NBiren Singhhas said.

Saying the has also already announced 1961 as the Base Year for the ILP Act, the CM said the government will soon launch its mechanism to trace foreigners, including face recognition cameras, apps, to regulate entry and exit.

Earlier,the government had identified and arrested around 613 illegal violators and they have been booked accordingly. The main worry is that most of these violators are fromBangladeshwhile some are from Myanmar.

Rs 900 crore rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra approved: Nitin Gadkari

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Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari announced on Twitter that a new rail-cum-road bridge across the Brahmaputra, near the existing Saraighat bridge in Guwahati, has been approved at a cost of over Rs 900 crore under PM Gati Shakti national master plan for multi-modal connectivity.

This new bridge will be constructed on the upstream of the historic Saraighat bridge, the first bridge built over the Brahmaputra.

He said the bridge would connect the north bank of Assam to the south bank across the Brahmaputra. “Once the bridge is completed, it would provide seamless and strategic connectivity with heavy traffic at present of over 75,000 PCUs (Passenger Car Units).

Contractual employment era ends in State

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The abolished the contractual recruitment system with effect from October 15. All contractual employees would be regularised.

The contractual recruitment system started in 2013. It was too a difficult decision for me. Now, our economy has improved significantly. Odisha has created a new identity for itself in the field of development in the country. Last year, we substituted the contractual recruitment posts with initial appointees, he said.

‘13% Tamil Nadu women of 15-24 years use cloth during period’

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At least one in every 10 Women between 15 and 24 years of age in Nadu, around 13%, uses cloth during her period, data from the fifth edition of theNational Family Health Surveyshows.

Although the scores for menstrual hygiene in Tamil Nadu were ahead of the national Average, child rights activists say there is a risk of girls with poor hygiene dropping out of school, besides facing health issues.

The NFHS-5 (2019-21), which considers cloth as one of the hygienic practices, has said that nearly 98% of women age 15-24, use a hygienic method during menstruation. On Thursday, the NGO, Child Rights and You (CRY) said there is a strong positive correlation between menstrual hygiene practices and the Education of girls (Literacy as well as years of schooling) across south India.

In Tamil Nadu, 96.2% of women with 5-7 years of schooling were practising hygienic methods during menstruation. This increased to 98.6% in women who have completed ClassXIIor more years of schooling in TN.

Cabinet approves Municipality, Panchayat Raj act amendment bills

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The State Cabinet on Wednesday decided to approve the draft Kerala (Amendment) Bill 2022 and the Kerala Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill 2022. The bill will enable the regularisation of unauthorised constructions, which were completed or began construction before November 7, 2019, when the Kerala Municipal as well as Panchayat Raj Building Rules came into effect.

The Section 407 (1) of the Municipality Act 1994 and Section 235 AB(1) of the Panchayat Raj Act 1994 would be amended for this purpose. Based on this, the Kerala Municipality (Regularisation of Unauthorised Constructions) Act and the Kerala Panchayat Raj (Regularisation of Unauthorised Constructions) would be promulgated.

Karnataka lost 746 hectares of forest in three years

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Karnatakais one of the key states fast losing large swathes offorest landto mining and developmental projects.

And the most recent instance is the Hubballi-Ankola rail, clamour for which has reached a new crescendo, especially after the visit of an experts’ committee, even as conservationists oppose the proposed diversion of 595.6 hectares of forest land for the project.

The state has lost 746.1 hectares of forest land in just three years, including two pandemic years which saw minimal activity. According to data from the forest department, Ballari andUttara Kannadahave been the worst-affected districts losing much of the forest areas.

Telangana mulls new loan calendar to tide over funds crunch

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Despite earning a record income of around Rs 62,000 crore in the first six months of this fiscal, theTelanganagovernment has proposed a new loan calendar schedule of Rs 8,578 crore for three months (October, November, and December) due tofund crunch.

The state finance department has submitted this schedule to theReserve Bank Of India(RBI) and hopes to raise Rs 3,500 crore in in October, one of the highest for any month.

This is cause for concern given that the State Government is feeling the pinch of the Union Government‘s loan calendar cuts, which total around Rs 8,814 crore this fiscal year, said sources. In the next two months along with October, bonds will be raised once every two weeks. The total amount of bonds to be raised in November will be Rs 3,000 crore and Rs 2,078 crore in December.

The state has proposed raising Rs 53,000 crore as bonds in the budget document (2022-23), but only managed to raise Rs 19,500 crore so far. The Union finance department was strict with the state governments at the start of this fiscal year, stating that off-budget borrowings (loans taken as bank guarantees given to state-owned corporations by the state governments) will be considered as part of theFiscal Responsibility Budget Management(FRBM) rules to be adhered to by the states. According to these rules, states have to limit the total loan burden to 3% of GDP.

Aqua University of Andhra Pradesh set to become a reality

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TheAqua University of Andhra Pradeshis set to become a reality as the has decided to allot nearly 200 acres of government land for the university’s extension and research activities near Narsapuram in the West Godavari district.

GSDP said that the Fisheries sectors contribution to the AP Gross State Domestic Production is 6.04% and it provides 14.5 lakh EMPLOYMENT opportunities directly and directly.

In 2019-20, Andhra Pradesh State emerged top in the country in L.Vennamei production, which was above 5.1 lakh Metric Tonnes. The total extent under the L.Vennamei is above 63,000 hectares in the State.

The crab cultivation spreads in above 1100 hectares and production was 977 MTs in 2019-20, according to the annual report-2010-20 of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA).Asian seabass is one of the leading products from the State, where its production was above 1000 MTs by 2020.

Goa got Rs 1,291cr GST from Centre in 2021: CM Pramod Sawant

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Chief ministerPramod Sawanttold the assembly that the state has already receivedGSTcompensation of Rs 1,291 crore for 2021 from the Centre. As per the first quarter data, revenue collection for the year was ahead of the budgeted targets.

With the Growth in taxes coupled with intelligent monitoring through systemic interventions and measures being taken for expenditure management and revenue augmentation by the state, there is no question of any fear and anxiety.

The five-year period quoted in the report, Sawant said, included two years of the pandemic, which was an abnormal period in itself and should not be counted.
The compensation was based on an assumed annual growth of 14% of revenue on a year to year basis. However, the actual growth of taxes was around 7.5%-8% in the post-GST regime due to the new system and Covid years.

Maharashtra tops states in foreigners entering illegally, 40% of total

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A total of 182 foreign nationals were booked from 2019 to 2021 for enteringMaharashtraillegally with forged Indian passports and procuring help from touts to live in the country. Maharashtra tops the list of such states, accounting for over 40% of the country’s cases (448).

The offence is under the Indian Passport Act, with the next state on the list being Tripura (122), followed by Nadu (46), West Bengal (17) and Karnataka (14). The data was recently released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

However, Maharashtra is fourth among states when it comes to the number of those booked under the Foreigners Act, with 61 cases from 2019 to 2021. West Bengal tops the list with 2,572 cases, Karnataka is a distant second with 204 cases and Tamil Nadu third with 63. After Maharashtra comes Tripura, which is at fifth place with 11 cases.
Also, as per the NCRB report (for the same three-year duration), the maximum number of persons arrested or apprehended at the country’s borders for trying to illegally enter India were from Bangladesh (4,149) followed by Pakistan (137).