Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Awas Yojana” will now be known as “Mukhyamantri Ladli Bahna Awas Yojana”. This will be encompass the houseless eligible families of all categories. Whenever there is a rise in the cost of housing construction unit under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Rural, the unit cost will also be increased under this scheme. This decision was taken by the State Cabinet, which met here on Saturday.
The Cabinet has decided to increase the current monthly honorarium of cooks engaged in the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman Yojana, operated under the Panchayat and Rural Development Department, from the current monthly honorarium of Rs 2,000 to Rs 4,000 per month which will benefit 2 lakh 10 thousand cooks. For this, in addition to the amount already allocated, Rs 294 crore 32 lakh has been approved for the remaining period of the current financial year 2023-24 and Rs 714 crore 79 lakh per year from the financial year 2024-25.
The time limit of the special recruitment drive to fill the backlog/carry forward posts of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Persons with Disabilities has been extended by one year from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.
The Cabninet has approved doubling of the monthly honorarium given to guest teachers. The honorarium currently received by Class-1 has been increased from Rs 9,000 to Rs 18,000, the honorarium of Class-2 has been increased from Rs 7,000 to Rs 14,000 and the honorarium of Class-3 has been increased from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000.
The Cabinet has decided to implement Mob Lynching Victim Compensation Scheme 2023 Madhya Pradesh for relief and rehabilitation of the victims of mob lynching and their dependents in the state. Under this scheme, the crime of mob lynching involves causing harm to any person or persons by a mob of five or more persons on grounds of religion, caste, sex, place of birth, language, food habits, sexual orientation, political affiliation, ethnicity or other such ground or grounds or involves any act or series of acts of violence intended to cause injury. Under the scheme, a provision has been made to provide compensation to the victims of mob lynching.
In compliance with the announcement made by the Chief Minister Shri Chouhan on 27 August 2023, a decision has been taken to provide cooking gas for Rs 450 to all women having gas connections under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and Ladli Bahanas having gas connections under non-PMUY in the month of Shravan (04.07.2023 to 31.08.2023). Subsidy will be payable on refills done in the month of Shravan on gas connections issued in the name of Ladli Bahanas.
The Cabinet decided to allot a total of 4.8540 hectares of government land to village Barkheda Bondar Tehsil Huzur, Bhopal to be used for educational purpose by “National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Gandhi Nagar Bhopal under the terms and conditions of government, at no interest and Rs 1 land rent.
The Cabinet has approved a total expenditure of Rs 77 crore 27 lakh 88 thousand, which includes the recurring expenditure burden of Rs 13 crore 22 lakh per year and other non-recurring expenditure of Rs 64 crore 05 lakh 88 thousand for the establishment of 4 new government colleges including Government College Bilaspur (Umaria), Government College Bharewa (Umaria), Government College Salichauka (Narsinghpur) and Government College Rahatgaon (Harda) and for creation of a total of 240 new posts for starting new faculty/subjects in 3 government colleges including Government College Nagda (Ujjain), Government College Rajpur (Barwani), Government College Seoni Malwa (Narmadapuram.