12.07.23

Rs 100 cr approved for flood relief: Punjab minister

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Punjab Resources“>Water Resources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has released Rs 33.50 crore from the Disaster Management fund and in addition to it also approved the release of another Rs 71 crore.

Hayer said many areas of Punjab had to bear the brunt of flood. He had visited spots where Siswan and Budhki rivers damaged canals and washed out roads.

The Minister said the department has made full preparations. The situation is under control and people need not panic. The flood-affected people in the district have been lodged in relief camps, where their food and accommodation have been fully arranged.

Govt to provide all possible help to flood-hit Himachal Pradesh: Nadda

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BJP national president JP Nadda visited flood-affected areas in Mandi district on Friday. He was accompanied by Union Minister Anurag Thakur, Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Jai Ram Thakur, BJP state president Rajiv Bindal and other local party leaders.

Interacting with media persons, Nadda said the Central Government is in touch with the over the rain fury. The Centre has provided 13 teams of the NDRF for the rescue and relief operations, while Army choppers have also been engaged in rescue efforts, he said.

Nadda assured the state government of all possible cooperation from the Central Government.

U’khand aims to attract Rs 70k cr business during Investors Summit

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TheUttarakhand governmentplans to attract Rs 70,000 crore business during the Investors’ Summit, scheduled to be held in Dehradun in December this year. The state cabinet on Friday gave its approval to start preparations of the summit.

Secretary, MSME, Vinay Shankar Pandey said, “Before the start of the summit, we aim to complete formalities related to projects worth Rs 30,000 crore so that the MoU can become the final confirmation. For this, we have directed the departments to identify sectors, locations and firms which were suited for the .”

The government aims to provide direct EMPLOYMENT to 2.5 lakh people and indirect benefit to other sectors like the hotel Industry, cab operators etc, adding that a high-powered committee would be constituted for the summit.

UP second in country in disposing of crime against women cases

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UP has emerged as second in the country in disposal of cases of crimes against Women. According to an official, until July 6, the women and child protection organization had solved 97.8% of cases of crime committed against women.

Also, UP ranks fifth in terms of registration of FIRs and investigation of such cases. An officer added that the has taken several steps to prevent and control crime against women in the last six years.

On this, the Police officials briefed Yogi that until July 6, 2023, the state witnessed disposal of 97.8% of FIRs registered under Section-376 of IPC and POCSO Act, bagging second position in the country. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu have bagged the first place in solving cases of crime against women with 98.3% disposal of cases and Puducherry the third place, with 97.5% disposals. The worst performing is Bihar with 18.5% disposals, followed byManipur(20.6%) andAssam(46.7%).

Furthermore, UP ranks second in the country with 0.3% disposal of cases of crimes against women registered under Section 376 of IPC and Pocso Act, pending for more than two months.

Adani Groups Godda thermal plant starts commercial ops

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TheAdani Groups newly commissioned 2X800 MW ultra-supercritical thermal power plant in Jharkhands Godda district has begun its commercial operations from June 26, the company said in a statement.
The reliability run rest, including the commercial operation tests of the new second unit, was completed on June 25 in presence of the officials of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and the Power Grid Corporation of Bangladesh, the statement added. The first unit of the plant began its commercial operations on April 6.

The Rs 25,000 crore unit will supply 1,496 MW power to the neighbouring country as part of its power purchase agreement (PPA) which it inked with the BPDB in November, 2017.

Bihar can become a hub of IT & electronics sector

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State development commissioner Vivek Kumar Singh called upon investors in IT (information technology) and electronics sector from across the country to invest inBiharwhich has encouraging policies and the largest pool of skilled and unskilled labour.

Singh was speaking at an investors meet for IT, ITES and electronics system design and manufacturing sectors organized by the state department of industries and information technology department in New Delhi.

Singh said many policies, including Bihar Biofuels Production Promotion Policy, 2023 and Bihar Industrial Promotion (Leather and Textile) Policy, 2022 have been formulated by the department to increase investment and establish new industries.

Experts said Bihar can become a hub of information technology, Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) and electronic system design and production. Bihar has a huge pool of technically skilled youth. B-Hub has been created for the development of startups in Bihar, where 162 of them are working together. Bihar’s ecosystem is quite conducive for the development of IT industries, Poundrik said.Secretary (information technology) Santosh Kumar Mall said Bihar is becoming a favourite state for investors. Due to the efforts made by the industries department, it has become very easy to set up industries in Bihar. State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) meeting is being held regularly and land is also allotted within a week.

Cabinet approves hike in honorarium for dist panchayat presidents to 1L/m

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Statecabinetheaded by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan decided to increase the honorarium of district and janpad panchayat presidents and vice-presidents. Now the district panchayat presidents will get an honorarium of Rs 1 lakh per month.

Briefing the media after the cabinet meeting, Home minister Narottam Mishra said, Honorarium and vehicle allowance of the district panchayat president has been increased to Rs 1 lakh monthly while honorarium for the district panchayat vice-presidents has been increased to Rs 42,000 monthly.

It was also approved to increase the honorarium of janpad panchayat president to Rs 19,500 monthly and that of janpad panchayat vice-president to Rs 13,500 per month. Along with this, the maximum annual honorarium of panch and up-sarpanch will be Rs 1,800 monthly. Approval was also given to the Madhya Pradesh Capacity Building Policy-2023 for thecapacity buildingof government employees and officials.

A release said that this policy has been prepared by incorporating the concept and characteristics of Mission Karmayogi implemented by the Government of India. For this, a new budget head Mission Karmayogi will be created with 1% of the budget available in the salary head of each department. Along with this, a new budget for Mission Karmayogi will be made in the Academy of Administration of Rs 10 crore.

Every 7.5 minutes, a cybercrime reported from Gujarat

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Between January 1, 2020, and May 15, 2023, Gujaratis made a total of 1.59 lakh applications related to cybercrime on theNational Cyber Crime Reporting Portal(NCCRP) or helpline number 1930. It comes to 5,585 applications per month on an Average, 186 applications per day and average one application every 7.5 minutes!

Gujarat was among the nine states that recorded more than 1 lakh applications related to cybercrime during the said period, indicated data by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

The data was reported recently in an NCRB response to an RTI application filed by Jeetendra Ghadge, a Girgaon-based activist. Ghadge had sought details on the Percentage of applications related to cybercrime converted into FIRs by Police. In all, the national ratio was found to be 1.9% as 43,022 FIRs were filed based on 22.57 lakh applications. In comparison, Gujarat’s applications-to-FIR ratio was found to be less than half at 0.8% – the state police recorded 1,233 FIRs out of the 1.59 lakh applications.

Govt okays 37 packages for organ transplant outside Raj

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Among the 37 packages finalised for organ transplants outside the state, Rs11 lakh is the highest package rate fixed, which is for liver transplant (liver transplant surgery, including donor hepatectomy for liver donor) and same will be for the bone marrow transplant (allogenic bone marrow transplant-Haplo). The pre and follow up packages of transplant has also been included in 37 packages. The package rate will be reimbursed to the patients after the transplant or the actual cost of transplant, whichever is lowest.

If the transplant cost exceeds the package rate, the patients will have to pay from the pocket. A list of 37 packages with rates has been released along with the guidelines of availing these outside Rajasthan, under theChiranjeevihealth Insurance scheme, said, a Health department official. The beneficiary will not be able to avail the benefit without following the procedure mentioned in the guideline. A transplant evaluation committee headed by the principal of the medical college will be constituted to decide if a patient needs a transplant. The two members of the committee will be experts of the specialty and one member which will be nominated byRajasthanState Health Assurance Agency.

The RSHAA will collect the details from the hospital where transplant takes place. If RSHAA finds the bills are fraud, thenlegalaction will be taken. There is a provision in the guidelines made for easy travel of the patients to outside state for transplant.

The Rajasthan government will reimburse the actual air fares for patient and one attendant or Rs 1 lakh whichever is lowest for going and coming back.

Panel proposes $100bn new equity for MDBs

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The independent expert group on strengthening multilateral (MDBs) has proposed the launch of a process to ramp up new Equity of all these agencies by $100 billion as part of the overall strategy to triple annual commitments by 2030.

The panel co-chaired by former US treasury secretaryLarry Summersand 15th Finance Commission chairman N K Singh will share its report at the meeting of G20 finance ministers inGandhinagarnext week.
The first set of the recommendations in its report focuses on “The Triple Agenda” of trebling financing by 2030, setting up a triple funding mechanism through a fund and setting a triple mandate for MDBs that includes eliminating POVERTY, boosting shared prosperity, and contributing to Global Public goods, especially Climate-change”>Climate Change.