A meeting of Council of Ministers was held in Mantralaya today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
In the meeting, while taking a policy decision for the restoration of water storage capacity of the reservoirs of the State, the tender process, base price, criteria of tender eligibility and other conditions were approved.
After the amendment of the policy, Madhya Pradesh will be the first State in the country in which tender will be held to remove silt from four reservoirs in the first phase.
With this 5 lakh hectare irrigation potential will be restored. The productivity of the land will increase. The life span of dams will increase. Sand can be utilised. Local people will get employment and revenue of about Rs 300 crore will be generated.
The cabinet approved the upgradation of CCTV system of 859 police stations already established in the state and installation of new CCTV surveillance system in 258 police stations, 500 police outposts and 42 women police stations and for monitoring at district level in 52 district headquarters and Rs 66 crore 18 lakh 95,175 for installation of CCTV control system in SRP offices in the financial year 2021-22 and services of Project Management Consultant in the year 2022-26 and including 5 years warranty / AMCRs and other recurring Expenditure amount of Rs 28 crore, thus sanctioned total project cost of Rs 94 crore 18 lakh 95 thousand 175.
The Council of Ministers has decided to remove the word "bus stand" only from the lands mentioned in the Madhya Pradesh Nazul Bhoomi Nivartan Nirdesh 2020, on which there is regular income from making plans and construction - such as market, complex, bus stand etc. and replacing it after “for the public use- such as road, garden, playground, filter plant, trenching ground, hospital, school, office”.
These directions will come into force from the date of publication in the Official Gazette, but these instructions will not be applicable in the case of alienation of land under any scheme of the State Government from the competent level, as per the procedure laid down in such scheme.
The cabinet gave permission for land use change for setting up of 550 MW capacity solar power project by NTPC or its wholly owned company under Ultra Mega Renewal Energy Power Project mode and CPSU scheme on the land acquired/allocated for thermal power project.
MP Power Management Company will have the first right to purchase the solar energy produced from the proposed project at the rate of Rs 2.45 per unit for 25 years.