The State Government for the upcoming season has revisited paddy procurement mechanism by decentralising the supervision system. Now, implementation panels would be in place right from the State level to block level making easy for the farmers.
Informing about the decision taken by the Cabinet on Tuesday, Principal Secretary (Home) SKG Rahate said that three-stage implementation committees would ensure smooth purchase of paddy. "For the 2017-18 kharif season, new process for paddy procurement would be in place with separate committees at State, district and block levels. DCs would head the committee at district to look after the process," said Rahate.
He further added that the Government has set a target to procure four lakh metric tonnes of paddy during the current kharif season and the new system would help in achieving this. "Districts like Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jamtara and Koderma would take a lead in implementing the system," said he.
Several other fillips have been given for dairy, horticulture and building storage facilities as well. "Rs 69.17 crore has been sanctioned for building 426 godowns and offices of lAMPS/PACS during 2017-18 at the estimated cost of Rs 16.23 lakh each. Beside this, new dairy plants would come up in Jamshedpur and Giridih for which Rs 75.34 crore has been granted. Rs 22.16 crore can be spent during this fiscal," added Rahate.
On horticulture front, the Government has approved a Horticulture Development Scheme with input cost of Rs 50 crore. The scheme would be comprehensive in nature in which training of farmers, survey of prospecting areas, marketing of the produces and desired technical support to the producers would be provided.
The Cabinet also approved the Factory Jharkhand Bill, 2017 proposing amendment into provisions of overtime and night shift to women. Now, up to 150 hours of overtime can be given in three months time while woman workers would be allowed to work during nights.
"The Cabinet has also approved long pending proposal to allow sale of non-PDS items into PDS shops across the State under Deen Dayal lok Vastu Bhandar scheme. PDS dealers would be permitted to keep common household items as well for the convenience of rural populace," said the official.
Amendment to CM Kanyadan Yojna has been done by inducting also the families with Rs 72,000 annual earning. Three per cent hike for Government employees getting non-revised pay, has been done from July 1, 2017. The DA has gone to 139 per cent from current 136 per cent.
Also, GIS-based master plan for 12 different municipal corporations, municipalities and Nagar Panchayats has been approved. The places are Phushro, Dhanbad, Chas, Jamshedpur, Chirkunda, Mihijam, Jamtara, Kapali, Nagar Untari, Chattarpur, Deoghar and Ramgarh. Rs 348 crore has been granted for Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University. Also, Rs 29.68 crore is given for infrastructural development of Barhi Industrial Area.