The Cabinet in virtual meeting on Tuesday decided to implement "Mukhya Mantri Covid-19 Anukampa Niyukti Yojana" to provide compassionate appointment to eligible dependents of those who died while serving in government service during Covid-19 pandemic including regular permanent workers, workers on workload and contingency fund, daily wage earners, ad hoc, contractual, collector rate, outsource, government servants working on honorarium, government servants working as outsourced employees.
The Cabinet authorised Madhya Pradesh Health Corporation to purchase one crore vaccine doses through global tender to provide Covid-19 vaccine to persons aged between 18 and 44 years.
The formation of a high-level committee was taken to conduct technical examination of the tender process of vaccine purchase and to approve the financial proposal.
After technical examination, the financial proposals of the tenderers will be examined and a proposal for fixing rate for the purchase of the vaccine will be presented before the Cabinet for approval.
The Cabinet approved immediate / contingent expenditure to deal with the corona epidemic, which could not be anticipated and the expenses for the transportation of migrant workers from outside the State.
The Cabinet provided ex post facto approval to instructions issued for expenditure permission to 52 districts for the unexpected expenses in prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic, which were not permissible in the SDRF norms such as for the operation of relief camps (excluding the permissible expenditure in the SDRF) for instance the transport arrangements of the workers.
The Cabinet gave ex post facto approval for the action taken to bring the trapped workers in other States through trains in Madhya Pradesh during the lockdown in the year 2020.The Cabinet gave post-facto approval to the Mukhyamantri Pravasi Mazdoor Sahayata Yojana launched for a provision to transfer `1000 into the bank account / e-wallet of the labourers of Madhya Pradesh who were trapped in other States keeping in mind their basic needs during the nationwide lockdown to prevent corona virus infection.
The Cabinet gave ex post facto approval to the directions issued for rental vehicles to Naib Tehsildars for two months from April 1 to May 31, 2020 for discharging administrative responsibilities during lockdown for prevention of corona.
The Cabinet has given approval to the action taken for the acquisition of hotels by the district administration for the purpose of operating as quarantine centres for the stay of doctors, paramedical staff, police officers and other officers and employees doing duty during lockdown due to Covid-19.
The Cabinet has given its approval to conduct ‘Safe Tourist Places Programme for Women’ in the period from financial year 2020-2021 to 2022-2023. A total of `27 crore 98 lakh 66 thousand 706 was also sanctioned for spending including 10 crore 40 lakh 78 thousand 100 rupees for the year 2020-21, 10 crore 5 lakh 51 thousand 360 rupees for the year 2021-22 and 7 crore 52 lakh 37 thousand 246 rupees for the year 2022-23.