Four major water projects were started in 2011. While North Guwahati and theCentral Guwahati water supply projectsare funded by JICA, West Guwahati Zone is funded by JNNURM and East Guwahati zone is funded by ADB. Gammon India was awarded the contract to construct the projects.
He said among the four projects, only the West Guwahati Zone has been completed and commissioned on November 30, 2020. But for the other three projects, even after 10 years, over 30% work is yet to be executed, he added.
Sixteen districts reported a TPR of less than 1%, in eight districts the figure stood above 1% and the TPR was zero in four districts. The positivity rate was 2% and 3% in Khurda and Deogarh respectively.
The trend of dip in cases might prompt the government to lift the weekend shutdown in Cuttack, Puri and Bhubaneswar and do away with the night curfew across the state from September 1.
So far, 2.2 crore vaccine doses have been administered to people out of which 53.17 lakh people have received both doses.
According to it, an appeal shall be disposed of by the first appellate authority within 15 days of the receipt of the appeal. The first appellate authority must be in writing communicate the order of first appeal to the applicant and the designated officer as well through post and online portal. The designated officer should provide the service within five working days of the receipt of the order of first appellate authority, it added.
As per top government sources, while KIIFB sought Rs 2,400 crore for 2021-22 for fulfilling its project commitments, the has cleared only Rs 1,560 crore till now. It is reliably learnt that the government has not yet taken a call on the remaining Rs 840 crore. The state governments income from motor vehicle tax and petroleum cess in the last financial year was hit due to the pandemic. The obligatory share to KIIFB had to be reduced correspondingly. KIIFB asked for Rs 2,400 crore to meet its expenses but the government has not taken a final call. There are chances that the balance amount may be sanctioned as a loan from the government, sources said.
The KIIFB received Rs 1,921.11 crore, as its share from petroleum cess received by the state till March 31, 2020. As per KIIFBs annual report of 2019-20, the government provided Rs 3,651.74 crore from motor vehicle taxes and Rs 2,634.52 crore as grants. As per KIIFB (Amendment) Act, 2016, government set apart 10% of motor vehicle tax in 2016-17 for KIIFB, increasing it by 10% every year until it reaches 50% in the fifth year. The cess levied on petrol and diesel is also given to KIIFB, before Dec 31 every year and paid on an escrow basis from state treasury to KIIFB accounts automatically. The government channelled Rs 8,207.07 crore to KIIFB under these three heads till March 31, 2020, as per the audit report.
In addition to Rs 2,150 crore raised through masala Bonds at an interest rate of 9.723%, KIIFB availed long-term loans from NABARD (Rs 565 crore at 9.30%), State Bank Of India (Rs 1,000 crore at 9.15%), Indian Bank (Rs 500 crore at 9.15%) and Union Bank Of India (Rs 500 crore at 8.95%).
The south-western extension of Purple Line and the 10-lane Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway are likely to boost the real estate sector, especially projects along Mysuru Road.
While the Mysuru Road-Kengeri Metro corridor will commence operations soon, the expressway is likely to be ready by October 2022.
Though many real estate firms take advantage of Metro connectivity, only a few have tied up with BMRCL. While Embassy Group is funding Kadubeesanahalli and Bettahalasur stations under Metros innovative financing concept, Prestige Group is funding Kodibisanahalli station.
Considering the importance of providing metro rail connectivity for passengers, the board of GHIAL has recommended that it provides support up to 10% of the project cost.
The project cost of metro line would be around Rs 5000 crore and the company will be investing Rs 519.52 crore in the project, as per the report Application for determination of aeronautical tariffs for the third control period (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2026) submitted to the Airport Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA).
GHIAL is also investing Rs 300 crore towards airfield pavement enhancement and Rs 75 crore on airfield ground lighting upgrade. The company has awarded the contract and works are in full swing to complete the same while air traffic movement is contained due toCovidand said it expects to complete it in the next 10 months, as per the report.
The survey would cover over 1.26 lakh square kilometres of land across the state, said Siddhartha Jain, commissioner, State Survey Settlement and Land Records.
The integrated survey would cover all categories of land including Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, non-agriculture, urban and rural habitations. The survey would be done in hybrid methodology using drones, CORS Network and GNSS receivers.
The survey is also part of the central governments programme of Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology In Village Areas (SAVAMITA).
The first one, oncashew feni, was released earlier in August.
AGI tagis a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.
The GI tag and its publicity through these special covers will increase awareness among the common man and will also fetch a decent price for the farmers, Goa Philately and Numismatics Society president Ramesh Kumar said.
A target of 25MW has been sanctioned for MSEDCL underMinistry of New and (MNRE) Phase-II scheme. Under this scheme, central financial assistance will be provided by the Centre for installation of rooftop Solar System of at least 1KW capacity to residential category consumers 40% subsidy for 1-3KW and 20% for 3-10KW. Consumers of group housing Society and residential welfare association will also get a 20% subsidy for common facilities up to 500KW, with a limit of 10KW per house.
Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, who also holds the portfolio of Excise and Department, on Sunday said that during this excise year 2021-22 till August 26, 2021 from all four types of tax (VAT, CST, GST and Excise) of the department, a revenue of Rs 20,558 crore has been collected, whereas in the same period last year, Rs 12,831 crore was received by the Government.
There has been an increase of 65 percent in the said period as compared to last year, he said. Giving information about the total revenue collected from VAT, CST, GST and Excise during the last 3 years, he said that Rs 37,350 crore in the year 2018-19, Rs 39,837 crore in the year 2019-20 and Rs 45,119 crore in the year 2020-21 had been collected as revenue. The Deputy Chief Minister further informed that for the year 2020-21, the liquor contracts of the Excise Department were auctioned for Rs 3,559 crore while the reserve price was Rs 3,128 crore.
He said that for the excise year 2021-22, those who already had licenses were given the option to take contracts with an increase of 10 percent and thus 85 percent of the contracts were renewed.
In this excise year, revenue from liquor contracts amounting to Rs. 3,803 crore was received in the form of fees, he added.
He also said that during the year 2020, an additional quota of 32.42 percent of country liquor and 25.45 percent of foreign liquor made in India was raised.
Dushyant informed that during the inspection in the excise year 2020-21, 1,249 cases were caught for violating the rules, in which a fine of Rs 257 crore was imposed on defaulters. About Rs. 136 crore has also been recovered from them, he added.