12-13.03.22

Haryana gives Rs 2026.19L financial assistance to 2556 SC beneficiaries

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Haryana State Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation has provided financial assistance of Rs 2026.19 lakh to 2556 beneficiaries of Scheduled Castes under various schemes during the financial year 2022-23 till February, 2023. Subsidy of Rs 165.71 lakh is also included in the assistance.

The governments official spokesperson on Tuesday said that loans under various categories including Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and allied sector, industrial, business sector and self-EMPLOYMENT sector are provided to the SCs so that they can establish their business and generate self-employment opportunities. Financial assistance is also being provided to them under the schemes implemented with the help of National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation.

Punjab mulls policy rejig to regularise plots in colonies

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To facilitate the speedy disposal of cases pertaining to regularisation of plots in unauthorised colonies, the AAP government is in the process of announcing major amendments to the regularisation policy.

The proposed amendments aim at regularising plots in unauthorised colonies where construction has taken place till December 31, 2022. There is, however, a rider that the execution of the sale agreement should have taken place before March 19, 2018. The proposed amendments also entail recovery of regularisation charges from individual plot holders in colonies where 25 per cent of the plots have been sold, besides initiation of legal proceedings against defaulting colonisers and recovery of dues from them.

If the amendments are approved by the government, such cases may be reopened. Sources said there were many cases in which the sale agreements of such colonies were executed before March 19, 2018, but their physical existence could not be verified from Google images.

Subject to approval by the government, such colonies and individual plot holders could be considered for regularisation after a physical verification that the property existed before December 31, 2022.

Himachal govt to issue White Paper on fiscal health of the state: CM

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Regular monthly interaction between the Ministers and workers of Congress party would be held at Congress party office, Rajiv Bhawan, Shimla to ensure speedy redressal of the grievances of the Congress party workers, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Thursday.

This move has been initiated in consultation with State congress President Pratibha Singh, he said adding that this would improve better coordination between and workers of the Congress Party including general public.

The Chief Minister himself initiated this move by visiting Rajiv Bhawan today and met various delegations, party workers and common people who came from different parts of the State and listened to their grievances for about three hours.

Sukhu also highlighted the precarious financial Health of the state and said that a white paper would be brought out on the economic condition of the state in the upcoming Vidhan Sabha session, thereby helping the people of the state to better understand the reality of the unmindful spending done by the previous BJP government. Furthermore, he advised the leader of the opposition to introspect about the last five years of the BJP government regime before casting any allegations.

The present state government has inherited a debt of Rs. 75 thousand crore and the then BJP government failed to release a sum of Rs. 11 thousand crore, due to the government employees as arrears. Additionally, over 900 institutions were opened and upgraded during the last six months of the previous government, which would have resulted in an additional burden of Rs. 5000 crore on the state exchequer, he added.

Over 100 hectares offorestcover has been affected by wildfires in the past one month between February 15 to March 15.

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Mid-February is considered as the official commencement of summer wildfires pan India by the Forest Survey of India (FSI).
The data by Uttarakhand forest department indicates that 116 hectares has been affected in this duration. Both Garhwal, which has seven districts, and Kumaon, that has six districts, registered almost equal amounts of forest area 53.9ha and 50.7ha respectively under blaze in this duration. And nearly 12 hectares of (PA) have also come under the grip of fires. In the combined winter and summer wildfires from October 1 to March 15, Uttarakhand saw 97 forest fire incidents in which 155.7ha were gutted as per the data of the forest department. The fires led to losses to the tune of Rs 5.6 lakh to the state. While in the winter months, Kumaon region recorded absolutely zero cases of forest fires. Garhwal logged 20 hectares gutted and an almost equal amount of fires gutting 19.7 ha of PA.

The state has nearly 49.21sqkm of extremely fire-prone forest area, 757.92sqkm forest is very highly fire-prone, 4,070sqkm forest is highly fire-prone, 5,887.7sqkm forest is moderately fire-prone while 13,540sqkm forest is less fire-prone according to FSI. Nearly 15% of the forest has chir pine trees, whose needles are considered extremely combustible.Therefore, areas that had smallest of fires, saw spiked incidents in February, according to the authorities.

World Bank reps, agri dept officials visit IRRI

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A team of representatives from theWorld Bankand government officials of the State Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture department,Uttar Pradeshvisited the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) – South Asia Regional Centre, Varanasi.

With a vision of development of agriculture and promotion of rural enterprise in the state, the representatives from and the government officials are on a visit across the state from March 13 to 18. As a part of the same, an eight member team visited the IRRI- South Asia Regional Centre, Varanasi.

The much awaited demands of doctors of State will soon become reality as the State cabinet has given the nod for implementation of the Medical Protection Act in State. Doctors of State have been demanding implementation of the Medical Protection Act in the state for a long time. Their much-awaited demand has been approved by the Hemant Cabinet. Soon the Medical Protection Act will be implemented in Jharkhand.

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The Cabinet nod for implementation of the Medical Protection Act has come after Jharkhand government on Saturday held a meeting with representatives of doctors’ associations for discussing issues such as the implementation of the Medical Protection Act and an amendment to the Clinical Establishment Act.

The Jharkhand cabinet approved 40 proposals. Jharkhand Property Rules 2022 amended. With this the formula of holding was changed. Now holding tax will be determined by taking the Average rate of property in all the municipal bodies in a division. The same educational institutions running without profit or loss will now have to pay only 25 per cent holding tax. Coaching institutes will not benefit. 75% holding tax will be waived.

Mission Vatsalya scheme was approved. The honorarium of healthy and elderly artistes was increased. Bhim used to get 1000 in which he will get 4000 and in the second category he will get 4000 to 8000. If they are getting Money from other governments then also they will continue to get money from this scheme.

State closes in on 1 lakh EVs, ranks 8th in country

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The number of electric vehicles in the state is nearly one lakh. According to data provided by the Union Government in Parliament on Wednesday, Gujarat ranks eighth in the country in terms of total number of electric vehicles (EVs). As of March 6, the number of EVs in Gujarat was 99,236, which is, however, only 0.44% of the total vehicles registered in the state.
According to the data tabled in the Lok Sabha,Uttar Pradeshhas the highest number of EVs (4.65 lakh) of all states and union territories, followed by Maharashtra (2.26 lakh) and Delhi (2.03 lakh). , with 21 EVs, has the lowest number in the country. As of March 6, the total number of EVs in the country was 21.70 lakh.
With a total of 2.22 crore vehicles registered in Gujarat, the Percentage of electric vehicles compared to total vehicles is about 0.44%, slightly lower thanthe nationalaverage of 0.6%. States such asRajasthanandBiharhave more EVs than Gujarat.

Chhattisgarh has potential for exports

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Exporters and investors said on Monday that Chhattisgarh has great potential to boost exports but they sought concessions for transportation as it is a landlocked state.

The exporters and investors were participating in the Export Outreach Programme in Nava Raipur.

They discussed ways to increase exports from the state along with making Raipur district a hub.

The Directorate General of , New Delhi, and the Raipur District Administration organized the event, an official Communication said.

The exporters sought to continue the exemption of 5 percent in mandi fee issued to increase the export of rice, which is effective for a year. The exemption will end by next two months.

Over 6600 schools in state dont have toilets

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Thousands of government primary and middle schools inMadhya Pradeshdo not have toilets even for girls, nor boundary walls.
At least 6,610 government schools are without toilets, and 2,700 dont have washrooms for girls, says information tabled by school Education ministerIndar SinghParmar in the assembly on Tuesday. A whopping 50,417 (60%) of the 83,239 primary and middle schools in MP dont have boundary walls.

Of the 58,506 primary schools, 2,025 dont have girls toilets. Its the same for 679 of the 24,733 middle schools. Over 3,900 schools dont have toilets for boys either. As many as 65% primary schools and 49% of middle schools are without a boundary wall.

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18.44 lakh got work under MNREGA in Gujarat in 2021-2022

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The said that 18.44 lakh persons were given work in 2021-22, and 14.34 lakh in 2022-23 (till December 31, 2022).
In reply to the question byVadgam Congress MLAJignesh Mevani, the government said that from April 2021 to December 2022, the central government gave grants totalling Rs 3,052.43 crore for MNREGA. Of these, the Centre released Rs 1,625 crore in the financial year 2021-22.
The government also stated that the state government added Rs 129.16 crore for MNREGA in 2021-22 and Rs 184.80 crore in 2022-23 (till December 31, 2022). The government thus added Rs 313.96 crore to MNREGA in two years.

MNREGA is implemented in all 33 districts of the state, and the state is divided into 248 blocks for the purpose of providing EMPLOYMENT under it. The MNREGA website states that the government has been paying workers an Average of Rs 215.99 per day in 2022-23 and Rs 205.66 in 2021-22.