17.12.22 Daily [Madhya Pradesh] MPPSC Current Affairs

Under the Leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the took unprecedented decisions in the year 2022 in the interest of the farmers of the state to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a Atma-nirbhar Bharat come true.

These were such decisions, which unexpectedly provided more than double profit to farmers. Farmers’ Money and time were saved, which benefited them and their families. We can say that the year 2022 fulfilled the saying “Na Bhuto Na Bhavishyati” for the farmers. The state government received ‘Krishi Karman Award’ for the 7th consecutive time, along with ‘Best Performing State’ for maximum utilisation of <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Infrastructure fund, ‘Best Emerging State’ in Millet Mission Scheme and ‘Excellence Award’ in Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana.

An important decision was taken to benefit the farmers of forest villages in the state through the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. Taking an important initiative, the government got the forest villages included in the revenue villages.

Due to this, forest rights lessees started getting the benefits of crop Insurance scheme. In order to enable maximum number of farmers to take advantage of the crop insurance scheme and to insure their various crops, the government has made the criterion of notified crop area as 50 hectares instead of 100 hectares. Lakhs of farmers of the state are being provided annual assistance of Rs. 10 thousand by combining Rs. 4 thousand of Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojna with Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi.

Crop diversification scheme was implemented in the interest of farmers to encourage production of profitable crops in place of traditional crops. The government is also committed to take forward natural farming in the state in mission mode. Every farmer is being encouraged for natural farming on some part of his land. The government has decided that natural farming will be done in more than 4 lakh 45 thousand hectare area on the banks of river Narmada. 60 thousand farmers have registered for natural farming in one lakh 86 thousand hectare area. The state government has also decided that to encourage the farmers doing natural farming, a grant of Rs. 900 per month will be given for the rearing of indigenous cows.

Giving priority to the quality control of agricultural inputs in the interest of the farmers, the government also took strict action this year against the sellers of non-standard seeds, fertilisers and pesticides. This year, action was taken to suspend and cancel the licenses of 136 seed sellers, 120 fertiliser sellers and 14 pesticide sellers. FIR action was taken against 39 sellers of seeds, fertilisers and pesticides.

With the special efforts of the state government, the regional office of APEDA was approved and made operational in the state. This office is located at Mandi Board Bhopal (Kisan Bhawan).

Flagging that only 11 states and UTs have Acts and Rules in place for lifts which mandate compliance of standards, the consumer affairs ministry has urged all the state and UT governments to frame laws and notify the rules specifying a robust audit mechanism.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (Bis) has published several Indian standards on lifts covering various aspects for ensuring safe travel in lifts. The letter said, However, it has been noted that only 11 states have Lift Acts/ Rules in place which mandate (or are in the process of mandating) compliance to Indian Standards on lifts.

The states which have the compliance mechanism in place are Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Nadu, Haryana, West Bengal, Kerala, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Assam.

Government has launched ‘Mission Coking Coal’ in August, 2021 to suggest roadmap to augment the production and utilization of domestic coking coal in India by 2030. Mission Coking Coal document has made recommendations majorly relating to new exploration, enhancing production, enhancing washing capacity, auction of new coking coal mines.

CIL undertakes constant efforts to enhance coking coal production by capacity enhancement through expansion of existing coking coal producing mines and from implementation of new coking coal blocks. Mass Production Technology has been introduced in UG mines of CIL to enhance the domestic raw coking coal production. CIL is taking steps regarding offering of coking coal mines for production to investors on revenue sharing basis.

According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a global will start in 2023. A global recession is predicted by other agencies as well to begin in 2023. New borrowing costs put in place to fight Inflation cause several economies to shrink. According to the British consultancys annual World Economic League Table, the global economy topped $100 trillion for the first time in 2022 but will halt in 2023 as governments continue to struggle against growing costs.

The global gross domestic product will have doubled by 2037 as developing economies catch up to the wealthier ones. According to Bloomberg, the East Asia and Pacific region will produce more than a third of the worlds output by 2037, while Europes share will drop to less than a fifth as a result of changing power dynamics.

The data from the IMFs World Economic Outlook and an internal model serve as the foundation for the Centre for Economics and Business Researchs estimates of Growth, inflation, and currency rates.

India is ranked fifth on the global list of the best cuisines for 2022, according to Taste Atlas. The ranking is based on audience votes for ingredients, dishes, and beverages. Italys food came in first place followed by Greece and Spain. India received 4.54 points and the best rated foods of the country include garam masala, malai, ghee, butter garlic naan, keema, the rating said. Ithas a total of 460 items in the list. Furthermore, the best restaurants to try Indian cuisine are Shree Thaker Bhojanalay (Mumbai), Karavalli (Bengaluru), Bukhara (New Delhi), Dum Pukht (New Delhi), Comorin (Gurugram) and 450 others, according to the list.