Maharashtra increases MLA fund to Rs 5 Crore

Assam Finance Minister Ajanta Neog has tabled Rs 600,36 crore deficit budget in the assembly on Wednesday for the year 2022-23. The Finance minister has proposed 4 new schemes for road construction, upgradation and maintenance of all-weather roads, including those on embankments. Ms. Neog said that the Assam Public Service Commission will fill up 13 thousand 572 Class III and 13 thousand 787 Class IV posts.  In a bid to provide quality education in tea garden areas,  117 Model High Schools to be made operational from 10th of May this year. The budget also proposed to set up three new medical colleges at Sivasagar, Karimganj and Goalpara while 6 district hospitals to be upgraded to super specialty hospitals.  The budget proposed to set up 1 thousand Buniyadi Swasthya Kendras in the state.  The budget also earmarked 4000 crore rupees for Mukhya Mantri Souro Shakti Prokolpo to increase generation of clean energy by installing solar power generation plants. The budget also proposes to construct a 35 kilometer long elevated corridor for safe passage of animals from Kaziranga to Karbi Anglong.

-Maharashtra finance minister Ajit Pawar has announced hike in the MLAs local development fund from four crore rupees to five crore rupees, for the overall development of the state. Replying to the debate on state Budget 2022-23 in the legislative assembly,  Pawar on Wednesday said, the state is riding on the path of development by implementing various measures while tackling the Covid situation as well as during the natural calamity. He said, farmers’ are the focal point for the development of the state, adding that those farmers’ who are repaying their loan on time would be given fifty thousand rupees as encouragement subsidy. He said, provision of allocating three percent additional fund has been made for the Vidarbha region. Similarly he said for Marathwada region also proper allocation of fund has been made.

-17th Mumbai International Film Festival, MIFF will be held from 29th May to 4th June, this year at the Films Division complex, Mumbai. The submissions deadline for it has been extended till upcoming Sunday. Films completed between 1st September -2019 and 31st December -2021, are eligible for entry in the MIFF. The Best Documentary of the Festival will receive a Golden Conch and 10 lakhs ruees cash award. The winning films in different categories will receive handsome cash awards, Silver Conches, Trophies and Certificates. As India is celebrating "Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav", the current edition has instituted a special award for Best Short Film on the theme, India@75.   The festival will also honour a veteran personality from the Indian non-feature film fraternity with the prestigious V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award carrying a cash component of  10 lakhs  rupees, a trophy and citation.

-Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani has said that the applications of children for seeking support of  PM CARES for Children scheme are uploaded on the portal by the State and UT Government.  In a written reply in Rajya Sabha today the Minister said, as on 14th March 2022, over eight thousand 973 applications have been uploaded on the portal out of which, four thousand 302 applications have been approved by District Magistrates after due process.  Ms Irani said Women and Child Development Ministry is implementing a centrally sponsored scheme namely Child Protection Services CPS Scheme - Mission Vatsalya under which support is provided to States and UT Governments for delivering services for children in need of care and in difficult circumstances. She said the Child Care Institutions CCIs established under the CPS scheme support age-appropriate education, access to vocational training, recreation, health care, counselling etc.

-The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested Khalid Moin, a Professor in Department of Civil Engineering Jamia Milia Islamia University and two others Abid Khan and Prakhar Pawar of Vyom Architect based at Okhla, New Delhi in a bribery of one lakh rupees. A case was registered against the accused on the allegations that the said Professor in conspiracy with the representatives of different private builders, architect, middleman etc. was indulging in different activities for issuing structural stability certificates for the projects after taking bribe. CBI laid a trap and caught the Professor and the two others while accepting and giving the bribe of One lakh rupees. Searches are being conducted at the premises of the accused. The arrested accused will be produced before the Designated Court at Delhi.