A cabinet meeting was held at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai.

Many important decisions were taken in the Cabinet meeting held here today at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai.

 In the meeting of the Council of Ministers, the draft of Chhattisgarh Appropriation Bill-2025 was approved for presentation of the third supplementary estimate of the financial year 2024-2025 in the Legislative Assembly.  The draft of Chhattisgarh Appropriation Bill-2025 was approved by the Council of Ministers for presentation of the budget estimate year 2025-2026 in the Legislative Assembly.  The Council of Ministers decided to expand the list of exempted institutions in Rule 4 of Chhattisgarh State Store Purchase Rules-2002 to ensure the availability of new improved varieties and quality seeds to the farmers of the state. Under which, first of all the seeds will be procured by the Seed Corporation from the registered seed producing farmers of the state. After this, to meet the requirement, the seed producing cooperative societies of the state, seed producing undertakings of Government of India and State Government, NAFED, M.P. Committees of Seed Federation, institutions selected as empanelled Central Nodal Seed Agency in various schemes by the Government of India will be procured from the institution or agency quoting the lowest price from the offer letter issued by the Seed Corporation.

 The draft of Chhattisgarh Loktantra Senani Samman Bill-2025 was approved.  The address of the Hon’ble Governor for the fifth session of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh in the month of February-March 2025 was approved by the Council of Ministers.  The permission for the additional government guarantee amount of Rs 3300 crore approved to Chhattisgarh State Marketing Federation for payment of the remaining amount of paddy procured from farmers at the support price for Kharif marketing year 2024-25 was approved.  The Council of Ministers approved the draft of Indian Stamp Act-1899 (Chhattisgarh Amendment) Bill-2025 for determining the rates of stamp duty on documents related to bank guarantee.  The Council of Ministers decided to create necessary posts to provide scale equivalent to Principal Chief Conservator of Forests in situ on non-functional basis to the officers posted on the post of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests from 1992 to 1994 batch who have completed 30 years of qualifying service in the Indian Forest Service of Chhattisgarh cadre.