Bhopal: A cabinet meeting was held in the ministry on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav. Taking an ambitious and decisive step to make the state poverty free by the year 2028, the cabinet approved the implementation of the ‘Gareeb Kalyan Mission’. The objective of the mission is to economically uplift the poor and deprived sections of the state and bring their income to the minimum income level. The Garib Kalyan Mission will be jointly implemented by the Panchayat and Rural Development and Urban Administration and Development Departments with the cooperation of other departments.
Garib Kalyan Mission is mainly focused on three components such as improvement in Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index, livelihood strengthening and empowerment of existing organizations. The main points of Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index are ensuring nutrition of women and children, reducing infant mortality rate, ensuring health of pregnant women, ensuring secondary education, attendance of students in school up to secondary class, availability of proper fuel for cooking, sanitation, availability of drinking water, electricity connection, housing construction, availability of resources with families, availability of bank account along with financial inclusion.
Garib Kalyan Mission-2028 will prove helpful in leading the people of the state on the path of self-reliance and prosperity by ensuring better implementation of current government schemes through empowerment of the local community. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav had announced ‘Garib Kalyan Mission-2028’ on the auspicious occasion of Independence Day of the year 2024.
Approval for installation of solar roof top plants in government buildings
The cabinet has approved the installation of solar roof top plants in government buildings of the state under the “PM Suryaghar Free Electricity Scheme”. Solar roof top plants are to be installed in mission mode by the year 2025-26. The scheme will be implemented by M.P. Urja Vikas Nigam Limited in RESCO method or CAPEX mode through tender by aggregating government buildings with capacity of 20 kilowatts and above at the district level. “PM Suryaghar Free Electricity Scheme” has been started by the Central Government. The various components of this scheme include the installation of solar roof top in the domestic sector as well as solar roof top plants in government buildings of the state.
The monitoring of installation and operation of solar roof top plants in all government buildings will be done by the “State Level Coordination Committee” and “District Level Committee” formed under the “PM Suryaghar Free Electricity Scheme”. All departments will prepare an action plan for installing solar power plants on their buildings and all district collectors will prepare an action plan for installing solar power plants on government buildings of the district and present it before the “State Level Coordination Committee”. With the successful and efficient implementation of this scheme, the state will definitely be included among the leading states of the country in the field of solar energy.
Approval of Rs 1565 crore for operation of second phase of Dial -100 service
The cabinet approved the project for operation of the second phase of Integrated Police Call Centre and Control Room System (Dial-100) service from April-2025 to September-2030 (5 years 06 months) with 1200 First Response Vehicles (FRV) at a total estimated cost of Rs. 1565 crore.
Decision to continue the “Chief Minister Fisherman Prosperity Scheme” till the year 2025-26
The Council of Ministers has decided to continue the “Mukhyamantri Machhua Samridhi Yojana” for the next 2 years (year 2024-25 and year 2025-26). Under the scheme, a state share of Rs 100 crore has been approved for the implementation of programs like fish seed production/fisheries in rural ponds, prawn farming in rural ponds, training to fish farmers, Kisan Credit Card (interest subsidy), establishment of smart fish parlor, development of integrated information system, conservation of state fish Mahseer etc.
Approval for creation of new posts for establishment of police band in every district
The cabinet has approved the creation of a total of 932 new posts for the establishment of police bands in the districts of Madhya Pradesh. This includes the posts of 10 inspector bands, 38 sub-inspector bands, 72 assistant sub-inspector bands, 170 head constable bands and 642 constable bands.
