Gareeb Kalyan Mission approved in MP Cabinet meeting, state will be free from poverty by 2028

Bhopal: A cabinet meeting was held in the ministry on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav. The cabinet approved the implementation of ‘Gareeb Kalyan Mission’ to make the state poverty free by the year 2028. The objective of the mission is to bring the income of the poor and deprived sections of the state to the minimum income level by economically uplifting them. Garib Kalyan Mission will be jointly implemented by the Panchayat and Rural Development and Urban Administration and Development Department with the cooperation of other departments.

Garib Kalyan Mission is mainly focused on three components such as improvement in multi-dimensional poverty index, livelihood strengthening and empowerment of existing organizations. The main points of the Multidimensional Poverty Index are ensuring nutrition of women and children, reducing infant mortality rate, ensuring health of pregnant women, ensuring secondary education, attendance of students up to secondary class in school, availability of proper fuel for cooking food, cleanliness, availability of drinking water, electricity connection, housing construction, availability of resources with families, availability of bank account along with financial inclusion will be improved.

Gareeb Kalyan Mission-2028 will prove to be helpful in leading the people of the state on the path of self-reliance and prosperity by ensuring better implementation of current government schemes through empowerment of local community. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav had announced ‘Gareeb Kalyan Mission-2028’ on the auspicious occasion of Independence Day of the year 2024.

The Cabinet has approved the installation of solar roof top plants in government buildings of the state under “PM Suryaghar Free Electricity Scheme”. Solar roof top plants are to be installed in mission mode by the year 2025-26. The scheme will be implemented by M.P. Urja Vikas Nigam Limited through tender by aggregating government buildings of 20 kW and above capacity at the district level in RESCO method or CAPEX mode. “PM Suryaghar Free Electricity Scheme” has been started by the Central Government. The various components of this scheme include installation of solar roof top in the domestic sector as well as installation of solar roof top plants in government buildings of the state.

The monitoring of installation and operation of solar roof top plants in all government buildings will be done by the “State Level Coordination Committee” and “District Level Committee” created under the “PM Suryaghar Free Electricity Scheme”. All departments will prepare an action plan for installing solar power plants on their buildings and all district collectors will prepare an action plan for installing solar power plants on government buildings of the district and present it before the “State Level Coordination Committee”. With the successful and efficient implementation of this scheme, the state will definitely be included among the leading states of the country in the field of solar energy.

The Cabinet approved the project of Rs 1565 crore with 1200 First Response Vehicles (FRV) for the operation of the second phase of Integrated Police Call Center and Control Room System (Dial-100) service from April-2025 to September-2030 (5 years 06 months).

The Cabinet has decided to continue the “Mukhyamantri Machhua Samridhi Yojana” for the next 2 years (year 2024-25 and year 2025-26). Under the scheme, a state share of Rs 100 crore has been approved for the implementation of programs like fish seed production/fisheries in rural ponds, shrimp farming in rural ponds, training to fish farmers, Kisan Credit Card (interest subsidy), establishment of smart fish parlor, development of integrated information system, conservation of state fish Mahseer etc.

The Cabinet has approved the creation of a total of 932 new posts for the establishment of police bands in the districts of Madhya Pradesh. This includes the posts of 10 Inspector Band, 38 Sub Inspector Band, 72 Assistant Sub Inspector Band, 170 Head Constable Band and 642 Constable Band.