The State Cabinet here on Tuesday approved the new scheme number 7659 treatment and management of Covid-19 for the implementation of activities related to Covid-19. The plan includes health infrastructure upgradation, human resource management, purchase of medicines and other equipment, free treatment of Covid patients, testing and sampling arrangements, Covid appropriate behavior-awareness and publicity, Covid care center operation, waste management of hospitals, home isolation monitoring. and medical kit distribution etc.
At present, Rs 75 crore is available from re-appropriation for the implementation of the scheme. There is a total proposal of Rs 480 crore.
To provide medical facilities, helpline, FIR facility, counseling facilities etc. at one place to the women victims of violence in the municipality Neemuch the Cabinet decided to allot 300 square meters land near the Farm no. 12, Neemuch City Road, Atal Rain Basera, owned by the Municipality Neemuch, to district program officer, Department of Women and Child Development, Neemuch for the construction of One Stop Center (Sakhi) building without charging premium and under conditions to take annual lease rent of Re 1 on the condition of changing the use of the land from residential to "public and semi public."
In order to control Covid-19, in the month of April-May 2021, as the livelihood of street vendors in rural areas was adversely affected due to the corona curfew and various other restrictions in different districts, the Cabinet gave ex-post facto approval to provide a grant of one thousand rupees to each street vendor in the bank accounts of 6 lakh 10 thousand 60 beneficiaries distributed and pending during the period up to May 25, 2021 by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department under the Chief Minister Rural Street Vendor Loan Scheme. In the demand number-58 from the Revenue Department, post-facto approval was given to provide allocation of Rs 61 crore 60 thousand from the relief scheme in view of Covid-19.
According to the brief of the Tribal Affairs Department, the Cabinet decided to permit the use of the amount of Rs 38 crore provided by the Central Government as approved by the project appraisal committee in the form of reimbursement against the amount released to the Agriculture Department for the approved schemes under the Organic Farming Support Program (Reimbursement) new scheme.