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  • Fest Advance Scheme in MP
  • Pension cut, increase in retirement age of armed forces officers proposed
  • Fresh FIR against Arnab Goswami & his family for assault on lady cop
  • Govt constitutes committee regarding TRPs
  • Chinese fireworks banned in MP; law against love jihad
  • Himachal records 11 deaths, 433 new cases
  • WT20 Challenge: Velocity beat Supernovas by 5 wickets
  • WT20 Challenge: Velocity beat Supernovas by 5 wickets
  • Flexi Plan for power supply in MP
  • Target 2023: MP CM’s deadline for Atmanirbhar state
  • Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives in Kolkata on a two-day Bengal visit
  • Heavy rain likely in southern India in next 24 hours
  • Covid death toll breaches 6000-mark in Bangladesh
  • Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives in Kolkata for two-day Bengal visit
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Fest Advance Scheme in MP

Bhopal, Nov 4 (UNI) The Madhya Pradesh Finance Department has issued orders in compliance with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s announcement vis-à-vis providing special relief to government employees, it was officially learnt on Wednesday.
Amounts of Rs 10,000 each will be extended between November and March 31, 2021 – to those drawing a salary of Rs 40,000 or less – under the Special Festival Advance Scheme.

Additionally, 25 per cent of the third and final instalment of Seventh Pay Scale arrears – amounting to approximately Rs 375 crore – shall be paid this month.

Finance Minister Jagdish Dewda expressed gratitude to Mr Chouhan for the decisions.

Contractual, permanent workers, daily wage earners and those on the rolls of semi-government institutions receiving salaries from cent per cent government grants have also been included. Implementation shall result in additional expense of about Rs 400 cr.
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Chinese fireworks banned in MP; law against love jihad

04 Nov 2020 | 11:10 PM

Bhopal, Nov 4 (UNI) Sale and use of Chinese firecrackers stand prohibited in Madhya Pradesh and violation will attract action under the Explosives Act, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan underlined on Wednesday while appealing to the populace to purchase local products under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
“Buy earthen lamps during Diwali in order to benefit local potters,” the senior politician was officially quoted as saying.

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Himachal records 11 deaths, 433 new cases

04 Nov 2020 | 11:08 PM

Shimla, Nov 4 UNI) As many as 11 persons succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Himachal Pradesh in last 24 hours, while 433 new pandemic cases registered in the state on Wednesday, a Health department official said.

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Flexi Plan for power supply in MP

04 Nov 2020 | 10:52 PM

Bhopal, Nov 4 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan averred on Wednesday that a Flexi Plan will be implemented with a view to supplying adequate electricity for irrigation.
“The strategy will also daily save approximately 1,500 MW worth about a crore. At present, our cultivator brethren are being provided power for watering farms in the day and night. In rabi, it is rather uphill to irrigate fields owing to wintry weather so the hours of supply during the day should be enhanced,” the senior politician was officially quoted as saying while chairing an Energy Department meeting at Mantralaya.

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Target 2023: MP CM’s deadline for Atmanirbhar state

Target 2023: MP CM’s deadline for Atmanirbhar state

04 Nov 2020 | 10:36 PM

Bhopal, Nov 4 (UNI) Reiterating that achieving self-reliance for Madhya Pradesh is his dispensation’s foremost priority, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan averred on Wednesday that timebound implementation will be ensured so that the golden goal is attained by 2023.
“Each department should commence working from this day itself in that direction,” the senior politician was officially quoted as saying while in discussion with department heads via videoconferencing at Mantralaya.

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Rural drinking water and sanitation committees to be constituted in all gram panchayats: CS

04 Nov 2020 | 10:13 PM

Shimla, Nov 4(UNI) In order to ensure quality drinking water in the state, rural drinking water and sanitation committees are being constituted in all gram panchayats of the state according to the guidelines of the Jal Jeevan Mission. A total of 47 laboratories have been set up to ensure the availability of clean drinking water in the state and it would also be ensured that all district level laboratories are accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Laboratories (NABL).

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