02.11.22 Daily [Madhya Pradesh] MPPSC Current Affairs

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the daughters of the state will be enabled for development in various fields and social Leadership along with support in Education. The implementation of Ladli Laxmi Yojana 2.0 has been started for this purpose.

Chouhan was addressing 1477 Ladli Laxmi daughters by transferring an amount of Rs. 1 crore 85 lakh for higher education under the scheme at Ravindra Bhavan, Bhopal today. He said that today is a historic day. I can’t imagine the happiness. Today those daughters are starting college, whom I reared in lap. These little daughters were given certificates with their own hands. I am fortunate that today I have got the opporunity to give there daughters assistance for education. Saluting all the daughters, Chouhan said that this day will be remembered in the HISTORY of Madhya Pradesh. All obstacles have been removed for the development of daughters. Read and move on, daughters, let them fly high up to the high skies. These daughters will also work with them to make the future of the state and the country.

The Chief Minister said that many steps have been taken to ensure that girls get educational and economic Empowerment in the state. Daughters and sisters have got an opportunity to move forward with the provision of reservation of 50 percent in the recruitment of teachers, 30 percent in the Police recruitment and in local bodies including panchayats. Madhya Pradesh government will continue this effort continuously.

The PMAY-U Award for Implementation and Innovation was instituted under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban, by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2019.

The PMAY-U was launched in 2015 to address the housing shortage in Indias urban areas.

There are 3 broad categories of these Awards:

State Awards, Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats Awards

Special Category Awards

Beneficiary Awards

The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education today released the Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States/UTs for 2020-21, a unique index for evidence based comprehensive analysis of school education system across State/UTs.

The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 14.9 lakh schools, 95 lakh teachers, and nearly 26.5 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. DoSE&L devised PGI for States/UTs to provide insights and data driven mechanism on the performance and achievements of on the success of school education across all States/UTs. The prime objective of PGI is to promote evidence-based policy making and highlight course correction to ensure quality education for all. So far, DoSE&L has released PGI report for the year 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. The present report is for the year 2020-21.

The PGI structure comprises of 1000 points across 70 indicators grouped into 2 categories viz., Outcomes, Governance Management (GM). These categories are further divided into 5 domains, viz., Learning Outcomes (LO), Access (A), & Facilities (IF), Equity (E) & Governance Process (GP).

SAFAL (Simplified Application for Agricultural Loans) is Indias first online Agricultural credit facilitation portal. This common credit portal eases access to over 300 term loan products provided for farmers and agri-entrepreneurs. These term loan products will be provided by more than 40 partner banks.

The portal acts as a one-stop solution for farmers and agri-entrepreneurs to access loans offered by public and , Regional Rural Banks, state Cooperative banks and small finance banks.