In the meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Mantralaya today, the cabinet approved three schemes to provide more opportunities for self-employment to the youth of scheduled tribes. These include Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self Employment Scheme, Tantya Mama Economic Welfare Scheme and Chief Minister Scheduled Tribe Special Project Financing Scheme.
Under the Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self-Employment Scheme, projects ranging from one lakh to 50 lakh rupees for manufacturing activities and one lakh to 25 lakh rupees for service and business activities will be approved. The annual income of the family taking benefit of the scheme should not exceed Rs. 12 lakhs. Under the scheme, interest subsidy at the rate of 5 percent per annum and bank loan guarantee fee at the prevailing rate will be borne by the corporation for a maximum period of 7 years (including the moratorium period) on the loan disbursed by the bank to the beneficiaries. Interested candidates will also be given training as per the requirement.
Under the Tantya Mama Economic Welfare Scheme, members of the Scheduled Tribes, who are not income tax payers, whose age is between 18 and 55 years, will be provided loans from banks for all kinds of self-employment activities for projects ranging from 10 thousand to one lakh rupees and 7 percent interest subsidy and bank loan guarantee fee will be given to the beneficiaries at the prevailing rate for a maximum period of 5 years.
Under Chief Minister Scheduled Tribe Special Project Financing Scheme, mainly to benefit the beneficiaries of Scheduled Tribes category beneficiaries, the maximum finance of Rs. 2 crores the entire project amount will be provided by the government as a grant on the recommendation of the State Project Implementation Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary for projects from Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Horticulture, Panchayat and Rural Development, Energy, Technical Education, Skill Development and Employment, AYUSH and Public Health and Family Welfare Departments and for funding such special project proposals received from the District Collector, which is not possible to be done in any of the existing plan projects of the line departments and that are very useful and necessary to be done for the Scheduled Tribes category.
Under the scheme, projects related to self-employment, livelihood, skill upgradation, promotion and innovation will be financed on priority basis. It will be mandatory for at least 50 percent of the beneficiaries in the project to be from the Scheduled Tribes category.
The Cabinet approved the Auto Rickshaw Regulation Scheme- 2021 presented by the Transport Department. This includes formulation of routes for operation of auto rickshaws, colour coding according to the routes, approval of permits according to colour coding, building proper number of auto rickshaw stands and recording the details of route number, route indicator, details of auto rickshaw stands and routes etc. on the auto rickshaws.
The cabinet decided to amend Rule-27(c) of Madhya Pradesh Home Guard Rules-2016 to remove the discrepancy in the time off of Home Guard jawans. According to the system prevailing earlier, there was a provision of calling out duty for 10 months in 12 months to the jawans who came in the service of Home Guard soldiers in the year 2016 and after that.
According to the revised rules, now all the soldiers of Home Guard will be taken on call out duty for 34 months in 36 months.
The cabinet gave its approval for posting an additional 950 volunteer home guard soldiers on deputation from home guard to SDERF for flood rescue and disaster management. Now the total sanctioned strength in SDERF will be 1500. There will be an additional expenditure of about Rs.11 crore 11 lakh per annum on deputation to 950 volunteer home guards in SDERF.