MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a state cabinet meeting approved work plan of Rs 12.51crore for setting up a 50-bed fully equipped police hospital in the 23rd and 25th battalions of Special Armed Forces in Bhopal campus.
For this purpose 46 human resource posts will be created for the hospital and the expenditure of Rs.24.98 crore to be made on it in 5 years.
This includes the cost of construction of police hospital building and furniture, Rs 10.41 crore and Rs 2.10 crore for the purchase of medical equipment of the hospital.
CM chaired the state cabinet meeting. Amongst other decisions ratification of Ladli Laxmi Yojna 2.0.
The state cabinet approved the order of the Women and Child Development Department regarding Ladli Laxmi Yojna 2.0 to operate the Ladli Laxmi Yojna in an expanded form.
This includes the proposals to organize Ladli Laxmi Day, on 2nd May every year at the state, district and village panchayat level, to declare Gram Panchayats as Ladli Laxmi friendly from the district level and provision of incentive of Rs 25000 to Ladli girls for taking admission in graduation or professional course (course duration of minimum 2 years) after Class XII.
This amount will be given in two equal installments in the first and last year of the course period.
Along with this, the government has to bear the tuition fee of higher education (up to graduation) of the Ladlis and to build and upgrade the portal for smooth implementation of the activities of Ladli Laxmi Yojana 2.0.
So far 42.16 lakh registrations have been done in the scheme. In this 9.05 lakh scholarships are received.
This year 1330 Ladli are becoming eligible for graduation.
The specific financial assistance for furniture and toy manufacturing units in line
with the MSME Development Policy-2021, the Cabinet has decided to provide specific financial assistance to the manufacturing units of furniture, toys and their related value chain products.
In this, industry development subsidy, interest subsidy, exemption in electricity duty, assistance in electricity tariff, reimbursement of stamp duty and registration fee, employment generation grant, export assistance etc. will be provided.
This decision has been taken for the inclusive development of the state, creating employment opportunities and promoting entrepreneurship. In this, maximum 40 percent industrial development grant will be payable on fixed assets like plant, machinery, building etc. Interest subsidy will be given at the rate of 2 percent on term loans taken from banks/financial institutions for a maximum period of Rs 1 crore per annum for 5 years.
All eligible new units will be given 100 percent electricity duty exemption for 5 years from the date of high pressure power connection.
High Tension power consumers will get the assistance of Rs 1 per unit for 5 years from the date of commercial production on new connection.
50 percent reimbursement will be given on the registration fee and stamp duty paid on land/bank loan documents.
25 percent cost reimbursement will be given up to a maximum of Rs 10 lakh on obtaining maximum 4 quality certificates from authorized institutions.
In this way, a maximum assistance of Rs 2.5 lakh will be provided on one certificate.
The exemption from store purchase rules, the cabinet has given its approval to relax the provisions of Madhya Pradesh Store Purchase Rules and Service Procurement Rules 2015 for purchasing materials to be supplied to the bride under the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Vivah / Nikah Yojna.
Tenders will be invited offline instead of online.
It will be mandatory to publish the tender in two state level newspapers.
The minimum tender period will be 7 days.
This relaxation in store purchase rules will be only for the events to be held from May 2022 to July 31, 2022.
After this period, it will be mandatory to follow the existing provisions in the store purchase rules in marriage programmes held on or after August 1, 2022.
The rescheduling of rent of Indore Press Club
Decision was taken in the meeting of the Cabinet held on April 3, 2018, to fix the rent of Indore Press Club building at 10 percent of the market value (rent). After re-fixing of the rent by the Cabinet, it was decided to take Rs 10000 per month from the date of contract for Indore Press Club.
