25.02.22

Ayushman Bharat for families with income up to 1.8L: Haryana CM Khattar

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The Haryana Government has decided to extend the benefits of Ayushman Bharat to all those families whose annual family income is less than Rs 1.80 lakh and to those who are not included in Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) data.

The process of registration of all such families having verified income has been started. Three phases of income verification have already been done. Now the data of these verified families would be uploaded on the Ayushmaan Bharat portal so that they can get their cards, said Khattar.

The CM said under the Parivar Pehchan Patra, there were around 23,000 eligible old-age pension beneficiaries who had not availed the benefits.

Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh: 100th ‘Har Ghar Jal’ District

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Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved numerous milestones of providing water to each Home of 100 districts across the country.

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Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved many milestones in providing water to each home of 100 districts across the country.

Chamba, in Himachal Pradesh, has become the 100th ‘Har Ghar Jal’ district, the fifth aspirational district to be covered under the initiative.

The other four Har Ghar Jal Aspirational districts are Bhadradri Kothgudem, Jayashankar Bhupalpalli, Komram Bheem Asifabad (all in ), and Mewat in Haryana.

To translate Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of providing clean water to each range in the country by 2024, during a short span of two and half years and despite COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown disruptions, Jal Jeevan Mission, has provided water supply to quite 5.78 Crore rural households. As a result, today, 100 districts enjoy unpolluted water supply advantages.

Jal Jeevan Mission is on target to fulfill the Government’s resolve to supply water to each rural household by 2024.

Jharkhand: Hemant cabinet withdraws subsidy on power tariff

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In a major blow to the middle class, the on Thursday decided to withdraw the subsidy offered on grid power to various categories of power consumers who use 400 plus units ofelectricityper month. The decision was taken by the cabinet during its meeting on Thursday in which 35 proposals were approved. However, the new subsidy till 400 units was not specified.

Until now, the energy department offered different slabs of subsidy to urban domestic consumers which was approved by the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JSERC). At present, the tariff order of 2019-20 is in force and the rate has been fixed at Rs 5.50 per unit (for urban domestic consumers). The department has been offering a subsidy of Rs 3.25 for 200 units per month, Rs 1.50 per unit for consumers who used 201-500 units per month and a subsidy of Rs 1.25 per unit to consumers using between 501 to 800 units.

Moreover, 50 paisa subsidy was given to consumers using more than 800 units per month. With this decision, the department targets to save around Rs 210 crore annually. The decision assumes significance in the wake of a new solar power policy approved by the council of ministers aimed at promoting solar power in the state. Under the new policy, the state targets to instal 4,000MW solar power Plants in the next five years and various subsidies and incentives have been offered to the consumers.

Moreover, the government has promised to give free land and offered 100% exemption on stamp duty for the upcoming solar park. At the individual level, rooftop grid-connected solar power plants will be provided different subsidies up to 80%.

The cabinet also approved a proposal for two bills to be tabled during the budget session beginning Friday. The ministers agreed to adopt the central bill on the Marketing of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture produces with slight amendments and accordingly, theJharkhand State Agriculture Produceand Livestock Marketing Promotion and Facilitation Bill-2022 would be tabled.

CG to conduct 4 lakh cataract operations by 2025

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has set a target to reduce the cases of blindness by conducting a total of 4 lakh cataract operations by the year 2025.

Under the blindness control program in the state, to attain the target of 4 lakh cataract operations by the year 2025, a list of visually impaired patients is being prepared by Health workers, mitanins and Anganwadi workers. Marking is being done for cataract operation after confirming the patients from the list prepared by sending them to the selected development blocks through eye assistant officers.

As per state health officials, in the current financial year 2021-22, a total 59,793 cataract patients have been successfully operated from April 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022 in the state.
Cataract surgeries are being performed in all government medical colleges, district hospitals and Supela Civil Hospital in Durg district, Bhatapara Civil Hospital in Balodabazar-Bhatapara district and Pathalgaon Civil Hospital in Jashpur district and community health centers of Koriya district, Manendragarh,Sonhatand Patan.

Madhya Pradesh assembly without deputy Speaker for 2 years

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TheMadhya Pradesh assemblyhas been without a deputy Speaker for two years, and the issue is back in focus in the run-up to the budget session, which starts on March 7.

Heena Likhiram Kavre was the last deputy Speaker ofVidhan SabhawhenCongresswas in power till March 2020.BJPreturned to power after that, and the post remains vacant.

A deputy Speaker not only presides over the House sessions in the absence of the Speaker, but also heads important committees and works as coordinator between media gallery advisory committee and legislators and even heads the committee for revision of pay and allowances for MLAs. The Speaker has power to delegate the job to other senior MLAs in absence of deputy Speaker

As per the MP assembly tradition, set in the 1990s, the Speaker is appointed by the ruling party while the deputy Speaker post is given to the opposition. However, with 109 MLAs, BJP wanted to show its strength in the House in 2019 and asked for an election for the Speakers post.

Gujarat government likely to scrap Class X board exams by next year

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Beginning as early as the next academic year, the Class X board examination could be done away with in the state. TheGujaratgovernment has initiated an exercise to adopt theNational Education Policy(NEP) 2020 which recommends doing away with the Class X board examination system with the rationale of reducing the burden of board examinations that students face in X and XII standards.

Although the implications of this exercise are huge – and involves engagement with a wide range of stakeholders who will get impacted, sources in the government said that beingPM Narendra Modi‘s Home state, Gujarat aims to take the lead in implementing recommendations of the NE.

Instead of the existing 10 + 2 system (10 years of secondary and two years of higher secondary), the new NEP envisages a 5 + 3 + 3 + 3 structure. According to NEP 2020, the first five years will be considered foundational and will include class nursery to class 2. The next three years class 3 to 5 will be preparatory, the next three years class 6 to 8 will be middle and the last four classes 9th to 12th will be secondary.

The NEP recommends that children who are minimum of 4 years old should be admitted to nursery class. This will mean that students who appear for class XII examination will be 18 years old.

My Policy, Mere Haath campaign launched in Rajasthan

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Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture ministerLalchand Katariaclaimed that the central government, while adopting the innovations of the state, has decided to distributeFasal BimaInsurance policy certifcates to farmers throughout the country. This would facilitate farmers to claim benefits of the policy.

Speaking at the launch of the state-level programme of Meri Policy, Mere Haath campaign by distributing the policies of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana to farmers at PantKrishi Bhawanhere on Saturday, the minister said farmers sometimes have to suffer crop losses due to natural calamities like unseasonal rains, hailstorms and locusts. To provide relief in such critical times, crop insurance scheme is a better option.

Due to continuous publicity by the and timely payment of insurance claims to farmers, the popularity of this scheme has been increasing in the state. He said in the last three years, insurance claims worth about Rs 14,500 crore have been distributed to more than a crore farmers, he added.

Immigration Visa Foreigners Registration Tracking Scheme Approved

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The Government of India has approved the Immigration Visa Foreigners Registration Tracking (IVFRT) scheme’s continuation for 5 years till 31 March 31, 2026, with Rs 1,364.88 crore financial outlay.

Highlights

This scheme looks to optimize and interlink functions associated with visa issuance, immigration, registration of foreigners, and tracking their movements within the country.

The scheme’s continuation demonstrates the government’s commitment to the IVFRT’s fundamental goal of upgrading and modernizing visa and immigration Services.

IVFRT features a global reach and aims to optimize and connect functions that are associated with visa issuance, immigration, foreigner registration, and movement tracking in India by involving 192 Indian missions around the world, 12 Foreigners Regional Registration Officers and offices, 108 Immigration Check Posts in India, and over 700 Foreigners Registration Officers, Deputy Commissioners of Police and Superintendents of Police across the country.

Bhasha Certificate Selfie Campaign Launched By Education Ministry

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The Ministry of Education has launched the Bhasha Certificate Selfie campaign.

Highlights

Its aims to promote multilingualism and inspire cultural diversity so on foster the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat spirit.

This initiative aims to market the Bhasha Sangam mobile app, which has been developed by MyGov India and, therefore, the Ministry of Education.

People often learn 100+ daily use sentences in around 22 scheduled Indian languages using this app.

This initiative ensures that the country’s people acquire basic conversational skills in several Indian languages.

Seventy-five lakh people Learning basic conversational skills are set as a target to realize the target of this initiative.

Minister of Education and Skill development Shri Dharmendra Pradhan had launched the Bhasha Sangam mobile app.

Foreign Direct Policy In J&K

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Jammu & Kashmir’s lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha has approved a Foreign direct (FDI) policy for the union territory with a Foreign stake of a minimum of 51 percent.

L-G Manoj Sinha approved the Policy for Promotion of Foreign Investment within the Industrial Sector in J&K during the Administrative Council (AC) gathering.

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and the Reserve Bank Of India‘s (RBI) guiding framework on FDI has supported this new policy.

This policy is going to be effective for the subsequent ten years.

The FDI Policy in J&K aims for foreign investments worth quite Rs 100 crore with a minimum foreign stake of 51 percent.