The State Cabinet here on Tuesday approved amendments to the Mukhya Mantri Medhavi Vidyarthi Yojana (Chief Minister Meritorious Student Scheme).
According to the amendment, such students who have got the benefit of the scheme once and even if the income limit is more than Rs. 6 lakh, they will be eligible for the benefit of the scheme till the completion of the course. Also, students who have secured place in first 15 percent the centralised common merit list of the state in the second year of engineering and pharmacy courses through "lateral entry" and the students who pass in 10th and 12th examination of the Board of Secondary Education with 70 percent or CBSE / ICSE with 85 percent and if they take admission in the engineering and pharmacy courses of the institutions included in the order, then such students will be eligible for the scheme. Such students will not be bound by JEE Mains rank for admission to engineering courses.
The Cabinet decided to get constructed two lane asphalt road with paved shoulder (length 36 km and estimated construction cost amounting to Rs. 178 crore 62 lakh) from Bharatpur (Bhaisraha) to Govindgarh via Jigna by MP Road Development Corporation.
The Cabinet gave its approval for the establishment and operation of Motor Driving Training and Research Institute (MDTRI) in Datia district. As non-recurring expenditure of the institute Rs. 30 crore will be given for establishment and operation and Rs 22 lakh for the purchase of necessary equipment, Rs. 90 lakh in the first year for the purchase of one-third of the vehicles proposed for the institute and the remaining amount of one crore 80 lakh rupees will be given in the next 4 years. One Additional Superintendent of Police, one Inspector (GD), one Sub Inspector (MT), one Sub Inspector (GD), 3 constables (MT), one constable (electrician), one constable (mechanic), one constable (machinist), one Subedar-A/Steno, one Accountant-A, one Sub-Inspector-A thus total 13 posts have been approved for the institute. Also, for the recurring expenditure in the institute administrative expenditure of Rs. 50 lakh 7 thousand, Rs. 50 lakh for hiring vehicles and Rs. 1 crore for outsourcing (total Rs. 2 crore) per annum will be given by the state government in the form of Block Grant for the next 4 years.
The Cabinet has ratified the order issued on 18 August 2022 to hike the rate of dearness allowance and relief payable to government servants and pensioners in the seventh pay scale by 3 percent from August 1, 2022 (payment month September, 2022) to 34 percent and the dearness allowance of government servants of state government undertakings, corporations, boards and aided institutions working on deputation in the state government on a proportionate basis in the fourth and fifth pay scales. As a result of increase in dearness relief to the pensioners/family pensioners in section 49 of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2000, the expenditure is borne by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and the Government of Chhattisgarh in the prescribed ratio. After obtaining the consent of the Chhattisgarh Government, the Finance Department was authorized to issue the order of dearness relief.
With the increase of 3 percent in the dearness allowance payable to the employees, an additional estimated expenditure burden of Rs. 625 crore is likely in this financial year. In the event of 3 percent increase in dearness relief to the pensioners / family pensioners, in the event of obtaining consent from the Chhattisgarh government, an additional estimated expenditure burden of Rs 304 crore is likely in this financial year.
Approval to consumer charges collection
The Cabinet has given approval to collect the consumer charges in the pre-constructed 3 routes Satna Maihar-Umaria road and Ghansaur Mandla road under the Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation after the completion date of the concession agreement and the Sehore Ichhawar Kosmi Nasrullaganj road after completion of construction in the consumer fee scheme.
Approval to take contract/outsourced services
For speedy implementation of the schemes run by the Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation, it has been decided by the Council of Ministers to speed up the recruitment process of human resource and easy availability of IT experts skilled in new technologies (COE, PeMTS, MPSSDI, CPCT, Email-PMU, TCU, SDC, Security Audit Lab) services can be taken from contract or outsource by converting the sanctioned posts in the projects.
Disposal of assets
After depositing 100 percent of the highest tender amount of Rs. 6 crore 66 lakh for disposal of plant and machinery set up on the assets of the Cooperative Department's Dalda Factory, Churhat district Sidhi, MP, as scrap, the Council of Ministers decided to get the sale contract proceedings executed by the Joint Commissioner Cooperative, the liquidator of the State Oilseed Producer Cooperative Federation.
The land and building assets located at Ward No. 25 of Cooperative Department, House No. HIG 34 of Oilseeds Union, District- Dewas, are on lease from Dewas Development Authority. The Cabinet decided that after depositing 100 percent of the highest tender amount of the H-1 tenderer for the disposal of 226.97 square meter of Nazul land survey No. 440 / 1 out of the total area of 10 thousand 190 square meter, the execution of the contract of sale of leased property, and transfer of the lease in favour of H-1 tenderer by the Madhya Pradesh State Oilseeds Producer Cooperative Federation and to get it recorded in its records by the Dewas Development Authority will be done by the Joint Commissioner Cooperatives, the liquidator of the State Oilseed Producer Co-operative Federation.
Decision taken by the Council of Ministers that the parcel number 1 and 2 land assets of Revenue Department located in Ward No. 36 Village Nipania, Tehsil Juni Indore, District Indore, whose survey No. 72/1/1 Packi area is 1810 square meters and 1980 square meters respectively, in the tender invited for the bid, the financial tender amount of the tenderers and the bid amount placed in the e-auction were found to be the highest, the highest tender amount being Rs. 11 crore 6 lakh, which is the highest tender amount of Rs. 9 crore 11 lakh 64 thousand for Parcel-2 after approving and selling it and depositing 100 percent of the tender amount by the H-1 tenderer, the action of the contract / registry should be done by the District Collector.