MADHYA PRADESH

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the products manufactured by the women Self-Help Groups (SHG) will be marketed by the State Government. He informed that the work to stitch uniforms of school children and prepare nutritious food for anganwadi centers will be undertaken through the SHG.

Chouhan while informing about the schemes of the Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development and Government’s decisions said that gram and red lentil will be procured in mandis of the state from April 10. Gram at the support price of ` 4,400 per quintal will be procured and the State Government will also give an incentive amount of Rs. 100 per quintal over it.

Benefit of Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana will also be given to those farmers, who sell wheat and gram outside mandi. Chouhan stated that the state government will bear interest of loan and compound interest under the Samadhan Yojana.

Chouhan expressed happiness over the registration of 3 lakh labourers of the unorganised sector till now in Rajgarh district under the Asangathit Shramik Kalyan Yojana. While congratulating the district administration for the achievement, Chouhan informed that the benefit off Asangathit Shramik Kalyan yojana will be given to the farmers holding up to 2.5 acre land also. In addition to this, under this scheme the eligible houseless persons will also be benefitted under the Pradhanmantri Awas yojana.

Besides, Chouhan mentioned that irrigation facility will be expanded in 6 lakh acre area through under-construction Mohanpura and Kundaliya irrigation schemes at Rajgarh district. He further stated that potable water facility to every house will be expanded through group tap-water schemes by these dams.

INTERNATIONAL

· World Health Day is celebrated on 7th April

The World Health Dayis a global health awareness day organized globally on 6th April.
World Health Day is one of the eight official health campaigns which are marked by the World Health Organization.
With an aim to spread awareness about health and well being, the first-ever World Health Day was observed in 1948 by the WHO.
The theme of World Health Day isUniversal health coverage: everyone, everywhere. The slogan is “Health for All”.

NATIONAL

An all encompassing coordinated and composite exercise named Gaganshakti is being conducted by the IAF from 08-22 Apr 18.

The aim of this exercise is real time coordination, deployment and employment of Air Power in a short & intense battle scenario.

During Gaganshakti IAF will exercise the entire machinery to validate its concept of operations and war waging capability.

The Ministry of Tribal affairs has approved establishment of the first multipurpose “Van Dhan Vikas Kendra” on pilot basis for establishment in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh State.

It has been setup for providing skill upgradation and capacity building training and setting up of primary processing and value addition facility.

This first model Van Dhan Vikas Kendra is being implemented for training of 300 beneficiaries with a total outlay of Rs 43.38 lakhs for training, providing equipment’s & tools for primary level processing and infrastructure & building for housing the Kendra.

The 9th National Board of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) met in New Delhi.

The Minister launched a mobile phone application for locating 4,000 Khadi stores in the country.

There are more than 8,000 Khadistores in India, the rest of stores will also be available on the store locater by the end of this month.

· Deepak Lather Becomes Youngest Weightlifter To Win Medal

Teenager Deepak Latherbecame the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal, clinching a bronze in the men’s 69kg category.
The 18-year-old from Haryana lifted a total of 295kg (136kg+159kg) to finish third after his nearest rival, Vaipava Loane, fouled his last two lifts to end with a total of 292kg.
He held the 62kg category national record at 15.
He trained at the Army Sports Institute as a diver before being pushed into weightlifting by the coaches there.

The Centre, Maharastra Government and the World Bank have signed a 420 million dollar projectto help small and marginals farmers in the Marathwada and Vidarbha region of the state.
This project will help in increasing climate resilient practices in agriculture and ensuring that farming continues to remain a financially viable activity for them.
The Maharashtra Project for Climate Resilient Agriculture will be implemented in rural areas largely dependent upon rain-fed agriculture.
The project will take up a series of activities at the farm and watershed level.

Chhattisgarh bagged the ‘State of the Year’ Awardfor its remarkable progress in business and services activities in various sectors of the state.
The remarkable jump is the result of policy decisions taken in the field of business by Chhattisgarh government in the past few years and its effective implementation.
Union Information Technology and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the award at India Business Leader Awards (IBLA)event. The award was received by Chhattisgarh Revenue, Higher Education, Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey.

On the occasion, the minister attributed the growth of the state to the BJP government which has been in power since 2003 in the state.

The state government has successfully completed 14 years under the leadership of Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh.