The State Cabinet on Tuesday deferred the Assembly session from July 11 to July 17 to August 7-11, apparently to redraft the CNT-SPT Act amendment bills in the wake of dropping the two contentious provisions in the previous bills, returned by Governor Droupadi Murmu.
During the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, a total of 12 proposals were passed, including a proposal of taking Government schools students every year to other states on educational tour under Chief Minister’s Educational Tour Programme.
The Chief Minister during the meeting also informed his Cabinet colleagues about his announcement of repealing the proposed amendments in the CNT and SPT Acts.
“The Cabinet gave its approval to a proposal of the School Education and literary Development Department for taking a total of 950 students from Class 6th to 12th of Government and Welfare Department run schools to other states on educational tour,” said Cabinet Secretary SS Meena.
“Decision over students to be taken on tour will be taken by a committee headed by a Secretary level officer, and will also be given responsibility to prepare guidelines in this regard,” he added.
Meena further said that 190 students along with 10 teachers will be taken from South Chotanagpur, 120 students and six teachers from Kolhan, 280 students and 15 teachers from North Chotanagpur, 240 students and 13 teachers from Dumka while 120 students and six teachers from Palamu will be selected every year for the educational tour.
“Five routes have been identified so far for the purpose which include Hatia-New Jalpaiguri-Darjeeling, Hatia-
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Yashwantpur-Bangalore-Mysore, Hatia-Delhi-Agra, Hatia-Mumbai-Mahabaleshwar,” said the Cabinet Secretary.
The Cabinet also gave its approval to a proposal of creating 100 posts of Civil Defense Volunteers in each of the districts in the State for which it also gave its nod to advance withdrawal of Rs 3, 60,00,000 for paying training and work allowances.
In another decision, the Cabinet also gave its nod to giving Rs 18.50 subsidy on the purchase of 1 kg of sugar to 9,8393 families under Antyodaya Yojana in the State.
To dispose of 400 pending matters of giving jobs to the dependents of deceased uniformed men on compensatory ground, the Cabinet gave its approval for the formation of a Compassionate Committee to look into it separately.
“The Committee will be headed by ADG (HQ) and ADG (JAP) and DG (Fire) will be the other members,” said the Cabinet Secretary.