MADHYA PRADESH

MP to continue giving loans to farmers at zero interest

State cabinet headed by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan decided to continue with giving agricultural loans to farmers at 0% interest.

Government has also decided to increase the deadline for Short term Crop Loan scheme from March 28 to April 27.

In yet another decision, government decided to hike the salaries of employees in the Madhya Pradesh law courts with a pay grade of Rs 3600. “Those falling in this pay grade have been approved a scale with two grade increments. A total 1,526 employees will benefit from this decision. The state exchequer will bear a burden of Rs 2.52 crore.

A proposal to set up two centres of excellence, one in floriculture and another in citrus fruits, in Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation of Israel is awaiting the Centre’s green-signal.

While talking to media persons here on Thursday, Israel Consul General in Mumbai Yaakov Finkelstein told, “India and Israel are working on to strengthen the partnership and cooperation in the fields of agriculture and water. As part of these efforts, two more agriculture learning and training centres are planned in Madhya Pradesh. I hope this will do wonders in the farm sector.”

The counsel general further said the cooperation between the two countries got a boost after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu visited each other’s countries. “The Indo-Israel cooperation in fields like smart city development iis on the rise.

INTERNATIONAL

Government nominates J S Rajput as Representative to the Board of UNESCO

The Government of India has decided to nominate Professor J S Rajput, former Director NCERT, as India’s representative to the Executive Board (EXB) of UNESCO.

Professor J S Rajput is an eminent educationist with rich experience in various fields including UNESCO.

The EXB has a four-year term of office and 58 seats.

The executive board is one of the constitutional organs of UNESCO and is elected by the General Conference.

· India U-16 Win Hong Kong Football Tournament

The India U-16 team emerged champions in the Jockey Cup International Youth Invitational Football Tournamentwith a victory over Hong Kong U-17 in the final in Hong Kong.
The tournament was a U-17 event where India fielded their U-16 National Team.
This was the team’s third consecutive victory in as many days. The team was coached by Bibiano Fernandes.

· SWIFT Introduces Universal Real-Time Payment Tracking

SWIFTannounces the extension of its GPI Tracker to cover all payment instructions sent across the network, enabling GPI banks to track all their SWIFT payment instructions at all times, and giving them full visibility over all their payments activity.
The Tracker, which has been available since May 2017, enables banks that have signed up to the service to track their GPI payments in real-time.

NATIONAL

West Bengal tops the list of states with most number of beggars

The government has come out with the total number of beggars in the country. As per the data released by Union ministry of Social Justice, there are around 4 lakh beggars in total.

The highest number of beggars, 81,000, are in West Bengal.

West Bengal is followed by Uttar Pradesh and Bihar at number two and three respectively.

Lakshadweep, a union territory, has only two people begging for their livelihood.

UIDAI set to introduce face authentication feature from July 1

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is all set to make face authentication available alongside iris or fingerprint scan as means of verifying Aadhaar users from July 1, 2018.

The UIDAI, which is in-charge of the 12-digit identifier Aadhaar, in January had announced that it will introduce face authentication feature to help those who run into problems in biometric authentication due to old age, hardwork or worn-out fingerprints.

· Asias Largest Tulip Garden In Srinagar Opens For Visitors

Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden was opened for visitors in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir.
It is recognized as the Asia’s largest tulip garden.
This year, 12.5 lakh tulip bulbs of 48 varieties were sown in the garden by the floriculture department.
Apart from the tulips, 40,000 hyacinth bulbs have also been planted.

5th India Maize Summit 2018

Maize production in India has seen a boom in recent years which has been possible due to increase in area as well as productivity.

This was stated by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Radha Mohan Singh at the inaugural event of the 5th India Maize Summit 2018 at FICCI, New Delhi.

Delivering the inaugural address, Shri Singh said that during 1950-51, India produced only 1.73 MT, which has reached 25.89 MT in 2016-17 and is expected to cross 27 MT in 2017-18.

The average productivity in India is 2.43 ton/ha.

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