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News: Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said he sought a report on all purchases made under the rate contract system in the last 10 years from government departments to gather information from various departments and to understand the facts. He said that 31,208 items are lying in godowns unused, that were bought in Financial Year ...

News: The Centre will soon release a package of Rs 1,950 crore for the cooperative sugar mills in Maharashtra. This will help sugar mills overcome financial problems. It will also be then possible for them to pay fair and remunerative price (FRP) to farmers. If the sugar mills do not pay the FRP to ...

News: The Maharashtra government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global technology major, Cisco for making Nagpur a smart and safe city and the first Indian Institute of Information and Technology has been approved to Nagpur. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says, “it was a proud moment to witness the ...

News: A survey will be conducted from July 1 to September 30, by Maharashtra government on cooperative societies in the state, to zero in on societies which exist ‘only on paper’. Officers and staff of the department will make spot visits to the societies and check if it is functioning ...

News: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today announced a budget of Rs 4 to 5 crore for e-training of policemen to make them efficient in the IT sector. While distributing awards to the trainers and trainees, she congratulated all new Sub-inspectors for completing the training successfully and announced an award of ...

News: Gujarat government to wipe out child labour from the state and a massive drive will be launched in July in this regard. In the first phase,the state has  planned to make six districts – Arvalli, Mahisagar, Narmada, Chhotaudepur, Amreli and Dang-child labour free by the end of this year. ...

News: Irrigation fee will be waived for farmers living in 563 villages of Rajasthan’s 12 districts, whose crop was lost above 50% due to untimely hailstorm and rainfall. The Calamity and Relief department had declared 563 villages of the state under scarcity hit, and this order would be effective till ...

News: In 2012-13, when Maharashtra state faced a severe drought-like situation, Prabhakar Deshmukh, the then Pune Municipal Commissioner, conceptualized a Jalyukta Gaon Abhiyan in five districts of Pune division: Pune, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Solapur. The programme was funded by Integrated Watershed Management Programme of 2008 and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment ...

News: Maharashtra government will soon appoint a regulatory body to safeguard interests of home buyers after the centre gave a go ahead to the state to frame rules to implement the Housing Regulatory Bill passed by the legislature and approved by the President. The Maharashtra Housing (Regulation and development) 2012 was passed two years ago ...

News: Maharashtra cabinet has amended a provision of the Criminal Procedure Code to prevent filing of an FIR against a ‘public representative’ without the sanction of a competent authority. With the amendments to the CrPC (156) (3) and 190 provisions, police won’t be able to file an FIR against an MLA ...