08.04.21 Daily [Madhya Pradesh] MPPSC Current Affairs

Chief ministerShivraj Singh Chouhansaid rewriting a new chapter in <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture production farmers ofMadhya Pradeshalong with the state governments policies were able to produce the highest yield of food grains (wheat and pulses) in the country last year. This was possible due to the sheer hard work of farmers which did not let the economy of the state down in tough Covid-19 times, said Chouhan.

Chouhan digitally dedicated the countrys second state-of-the-art semen production laboratory established at Bhadbhada, Bhopal at a cost of Rs 47.50 crore. As many as 985 community cowsheds built at various gram panchayats at a cost of Rs 260 crore were dedicated and foundation stone of 145 community cowsheds to be built at a cost of Rs 50 crores was laid. Chouhan dedicated 33 power sub-stations and also performedbhoomi pujanof four sub-stations in the Mission Earth Programme. Their total cost is Rs 1530 crore.

Chouhan dedicated 80 lakh saplings grown by selfhelp groups in nurseries to the people of the state. Along with this, cheques were also distributed to beneficiaries of Farmers Producer Organizations and Agriculture Infrastructure Fund.

TheUnion cabinet approvedthere-promulgationofordinanceonair quality managementinNational Capital Region(NCR) and adjoining areas spread over four states Haryana,Punjab,RajasthanandUttar Pradesh with important changes that seek to assuage farm unions opposed to the new <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture laws.

The re-promulgated legislation has been tweaked to take care of the concerns of farmers who had objected to its substantially high penalty provision for stubble burning in neighbouring states. The multi-member statutory commission will now also have representation from farmers, and construction sectors. Penalty provisions for erring industry or other sectors remain intact with jail term up to five years or with fine up to Rs 1 crore or with both for any non-compliance or contravention of any provision or rules and order or direction of the panel.

The commission had replaced The Supreme Court-backed <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Environment-pollution”>ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION (Prevention and Control) Authority EPCA which had been taking care of the issues of Air Pollution in the NCR for last 22 years. The EPCA had successfully implemented certain measures such as relocation of polluting industries, switching over of public transport buses from diesel to CNG and restriction of entry of polluting trucks in the Capital.