Maharashtra's former CM Devendra Fadnavis | FileMaharashtra Budget Session 2022 Live: The Mumbai cyber police have issued a notice to senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, asking him to appear before them on Sunday in connection with a case of alleged illegal tapping of phones, news agency PTI reported on Saturday.
Fadnavis, however, said that a senior police officer called to inform him that police will visit his residence to take the required information and there was no need for him to visit the BKC cyber police station.
The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) on Saturday questioned Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey in relation to a corruption case against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, news agency PTI agency said.
Maharashtra Deputy CM and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar, while presenting Budget 2022 in the assembly on Friday, said that the state will be the first to have $1-trillion economy. Maharashtra’s economy is set to grow by 12.1 per cent, substantially higher than the 8.9 per cent growth rate that the Indian economy is expected to touch. The revival comes following the 8 per cent shrinking that the state suffered due to Covid-19.
The number of vehicles in Mumbai stands at 42.12 lakh as against 40.48 lakh in 2020.
The Mumbai cyber police have issued a notice to senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, asking him to appear before them on Sunday in connection with a case of alleged illegal tapping of phones, an official said on Saturday.
Fadnavis, however, said that a senior police officer called to inform him that police will visit his residence to take the required information and there was no need for him to visit the BKC cyber police station. (PTI)
Observing that the pace of progress of the widening of the Mumbai-Goa National Highway (NH-66), which started in 2010, is “disappointing, to say the least”, the Bombay High Court expressed “extreme displeasure” on the same, directed that the work be sped up and sought a progress report in three months. Read more
Union Minister Raosaheb Danve on Saturday said for development of the railways in Maharashtra, the Maha Vikas Aghadi government has to contribute 50 per cent of its share for projects.
The Union minister of state for railways was speaking at the inauguration of railway electrification from Manmad to Mudkhed at Jalna railway station. (PTI)
The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) on Saturday questioned Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey in relation to a corruption case against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, news agency PTI agency said.
In a relief for consumers of domestic piped CNG as well as vehicle owners, Maharashtra Finance Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday proposed a drastic cut in the Value Added Tax (VAT) on natural gas from 13.5 per cent to 3 per cent. Pawar, who presented the state Budget in the Assembly, said this reduction will cause a revenue loss of Rs 800 crore annually.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday presented a revenue deficit budget while announcing an amnesty scheme for Goods and Services Tax (GST) payees and a reduction of VAT on natural gas, among other tax concessions. Tabling the third budget of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in the Legislative Assembly, Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, said a provision of Rs 1,50,000 crore has been made for the annual plan.
As per the budget estimates, revenue receipts would be to the tune of Rs 4,03,427 crore, and revenue expenditure at Rs 4,27,780 crore. There would be, thus, a revenue deficit of Rs 24,353 crore, Pawar said.
Nearly 1.64 crore people in Maharashtra are yet to take the second dose of coronavirus vaccines and the state health department is pursuing them to get jabbed at the earliest to complete the two-shot course and ensure protection against Covid-19, a senior official said on Friday. From December to mid-January, the state administered was administering eight to nine lakh vaccine doses daily, but the number has dropped significantly now, Dr Sachin Desai, in-charge of the state's immunisation programme, said.
"Now, the number has dropped to 2 to 2.5 lakh doses a day. There are nearly 1.64 crore people who have missed their second dose," Desai told PTI. Of the 1.64 crore people who have to take their second dose, 1.30 are those who have been administered Covishield, while the rest are Covaxin recipients, he said.
The Bombay High Court on Friday closed all arguments on the habeas corpus plea filed by NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and said it will pronounce its order on March 15. Malik, the minority development minister and NCP's chief spokesperson, was arrested by the ED on February 23 in a money-laundering probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. The minister was initially sent to the ED's custody and subsequently remanded in judicial custody.
Though the allocation of Rs 13,552 crore for the irrigation sector in Maharashtra’s budget for 2022-23 announced by Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday records an increase of 4.4 per cent over the previous year’s allocation, it is unlikely to meet the massive funds required for the completion of long-pending projects in the state. Read more
For the year 2022-23, an amount of Rs 253 crores has been proposed by the state government for the Environment and Climate Change Department.
An amount of Rs 100 crores has been allotted for Mazhi Vasundhara Mission 2.0, which received a huge response from local self government bodies as Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said.
In order to create awareness about environment and climate change in the schools, a curriculum on the subject of environment will be prepared for students of class I to VIII.
For the conservation of 23 rivers int he state, an amount of Rs 150 crores has been sanctioned.
In Budget 2022, the state government has allocated an amount of Rs 100 crore for improvement works in slum areas outside Mumbai.
The Mahavikas Aghadi government has decided to set up a Bharat Ratna Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar International College of Music and Museum. For this purpose, the government has identified a land parcel in the Kalina Campus of Mumbai University and Rs 100 crore has been sanctioned for it.
In the budget estimates of 2022-23, revenue receipts are estimated at Rs 4,03,427 crores and revenue expenditure at Rs 4,27,780 crores resulting in revenue deficit of Rs 24,353 crores.
Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who also holds the Finance portfolio, presented his maiden budget on Friday.
He announced an incentive grant of Rs 50,000 to 20 lakh farmers who repay their loans regularly. An expenditure of Rs.10,000 crore is expected for this in the year 2022-23.
The Maharashtra Highway Safety Patrol (HSP), better known as the highway traffic police, has collected e-challan dues worth Rs 57.15 crore from 11.60 lakh motorists in a month’s time. The vehicle owners paid up fearing that they would have to be present before the Lok Adalat. The motorists were served a pre-litigation notice asking them to be present before the court on March 12 for defaulting on payment of their e-challan fines.
The motorists, who fail to appear before the Lok Adalat and continue to keep their dues pending, will have to face a case in regular court now, a highway traffic police official had said. “If the motorists fail to appear before Lok Adalat on March 12, we will file a case against them in a regular court,” he said. In December 2021, through Lok Adalat, an amount worth Rs 51.01 crore was recovered.
Maharashtra's economic survey report on Thursday revealed that the FDI inflow in the state in 2021-22 was Rs 48,633 crore as compared to Rs 1,19,734 crore in the previous year.
The report, which was tabled in the legislative Assembly, stated that Karnataka was leading with Rs 1,02,866 crore FDI inflow in 2021-22, followed by Gujarat with Rs 11,145 crore, Tamil Nadu with Rs 8,364 crore and Telangana with Rs 7,506 crore in the same year.
The total debt stock of Maharashtra is expected to be Rs 6,15,170 crore which is 19.2 percent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), as per the Economy Survey for 2021-22 tabled in the state legislature on Thursday. The GSDP for 2021-22 is expected to be Rs 31,97,782 crore, it said, adding that at 19.2 percent, debt stock is within the prescribed limit of 25 percent.
At least 41.60 lakh hectares area in Maharashtra was under irrigation in 2021-22, the state's economic survey report revealed on Thursday. As per the survey report, which was tabled in the legislative Assembly, irrigation potential created up to June 2020 by major, medium, minor projects was 54.15 lakh hectare.
At least 3,777 irrigation projects were completed and ongoing till June 30 2021, while the total live storage in major, medium and minor irrigation reservoirs as on October 15, 2020 was 33,005 million cubic meters. In 2021-22 till September, crop loans worth Rs 33,066 crore and agriculture term loans to the tune of Rs 24,963 crore were disbursed through financial institutions, the report revealed.
MAHARASHTRA’S ECONOMY is set to grow by 12.1 per cent, substantially higher than the 8.9 per cent growth rate that the Indian economy is expected to touch. The revival comes against the backdrop of the 8 per cent shrinking that the state economy suffered due to the impact of the pandemic last year.
As per the findings of the State Economic Survey 2021-22, which was tabled by Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar in the Assembly, the revival of the economy will be fuelled by the service sector which is expected to grow by 13.5 per cent. The service sector accounts for nearly 60 per cent of the state’s economy and witnessed a nine per cent negative growth last year.