The State Cabinet here on Tuesday decided to constitute a Pravasi Bharatiya Department to connect maximum number of NRIs with Madhya Pradesh. With this, number of departments in Madhya Pradesh will go up to 64.
The department will look after all issues pertaining to NRIs. It will also extend cooperation to them for investing in the State. The department will also collect and disseminate information about NRI students/ students of Indian origin in various educational, technical education and cultural institutions. It would also deal with issues pertaining to these students' scholarship.
The department will also discharge responsibilities of chalking out a marketing and communication strategy to establish a strong link between non-resident Indian communities and Madhya Pradesh, establish vocational and technical education institutions to meet demand of skilled manpower abroad, address issues pertaining to trade, culture, tourism, media and youths, take new initiatives for NRIs in sectors like science and technology, coordinate with Union Ministries for effective implementation of departmental activities, tackle issues pertaining to Friends of Madhya Pradesh and Global Talent Pool and inter-caste, national and international issues concerning NRIs.
It is noteworthy that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has recently taken initiative to establish Global Talent Pool. For this, portal named Friends of MP has also been launched. The department has been constituted in the context of discussions of the Chief Minister with NRIs and people of Indian origin during his recent America visit.
The Cabinet decided to create 2 new tehasils Avantipur Barodiya and Polai Kalan in Shajapur district. For these, 13 posts each have been sanctioned including one post each of tehasildar and one naib tehasildars.
The Cabinet created 28 posts as a result of upgradation of District Source Centres of Harda, Sheopur and Umaria to District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) and State Science Institute to Teachers Education College and a total of 78 academic and non-academic posts for new DIETs in Burhanpur and Jhabua.
The Cabinet decided to give Rs9,500 crore security to enable Madhya Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation limited to avail loan for procurement of wheat, paddy and coarse cereals under support price decentralised scheme in Madhya Pradesh, public distribution system and other Government schemes. The security is for the period between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016.
The Cabinet accorded revised administrative sanction of Rs88.57 crore for Bagharru medium irrigation project in Vidisha district.
Other decisions
The Cabinet gave permission to continue services of 35 daily wagers/ contractual/ temporary employees working in Narmada Project under Directorate of Archaeology on the posts mentioned in approved action plan of projects.
The Cabinet accorded sanction to revised Budget of Rs16.56 crore in place of prescribed Budget of Rs11.60 crore prescribed for CII for holding Global Investors Summit 2014.