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Interim Budget 2019-20: An overview

Approving 12 Crore Small farmers with income support, a state-of-the-art Pension initiative for 10 Crore unorganized sector workers, exempting income up to Rs. 5 lakhs from the Income Tax, highest ever budget allocation of Rs 3 lakh crore for Defence, record allocation of funds at Rs. 59 crores for North Eastern Areas, a new AIIMS for Haryana, single window clearance for Indian film makers at par with foreigners and higher budgetary allocations of Education, Health, Infrastructure for the benefits of weaker sections including SC/ST, a Separate Department of Fisheries for welfare of 1.5 crore fisherman are a few of the key highlights of the Budget 2019-20. The budget was presented at the Parliament on 1st Feb, 2019 by the Union Minister of Finance Mr. Piyush Goyal. In addition to a major initiative for the farmers, it provides tax concessions and sets the Developmental Agenda for the years to come. Key Highlights New Scheme- namely “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)...

Clean and Green University! An Ideology or Fact

Students and staff of IIMC taking the Swachhata Pledge Swachhata Hi Seva, taking the ideology behind the Swachhata Pakhwada mission in mind IIMC   students embarked on a cleanliness drives this January. The mission behind the drive was to clean the University of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati and make an analysis of the garbage collected. The drive started on 16 th January 2019 with the students and staff taking the Swachhata Pledge . By collecting and categorizing the garbage the students found everyday they made a conclusive result of just how much waste there is and what consists of majority in this waste. The findings helped students understand the consumption habits of the people in the university. What was consumed the most, the least and what was consumed at regular time periods. With this finding a report of the matter was shared which said that tobacco, particularly chewing tobacco and cigarettes , was the majority waste found in the university campus amoun...

District’s 1.25 Lakh Families Become Smoke Free

Amravati, 3rd  January 2019 : “Under the scheme of the Central government, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 1.25Lakh families in the Amravati district have received LPG Cylinders, as of 31st December 2018,” said Mr. Yaglesh Jharvadekar, Amravti division head of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas , at a press conference which was held to inform and urge the people of Amravati to join this scheme. As per Mr. Jharvadekar, at least 5Cr. women, who have the BPL card, shall receive an LPG cylinder by March 2019 and another 3Cr. LPG cylinder are to be distributed, by 2020, for which the government has invested Rs. 12,800Cr.   He advised the people of Amravati who want to be included in this scheme to inform the Nodal office of the District, Mr. Sumit Devgade. He also said that those who shall use this scheme shall also be given subsidy on the tax of the LPG cylinder. He further said that people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana , such as the Scheduled Cast...

Grand celebration of Republic Day at SGBAU

Unfluring the national flag on the occasion of Republic Day at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University , Vice-Chancellor Dr. Murlidhar G. Chandekar called upon the gathering to make a resolve for all-encompassing development of the country. Speaking further he said that the education field has a greater responsibility in this direction and should work to take the development further. He said that for the equal progress of all the haves need to pay more attention towards the have-not. Later the Music team of the University sang the national anthem, where the very spirit of nationalism could be felt in the air itself. Later, talking to the students of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication the Vice-Chancellor said,"there is only one parameter to elections which is development and the willpower of the person behind that development." He further added that "since the number of vote leads to victory of a party, one should keep in mind whom they ar...

Regional Campuses better than Delhi: K. G. Suresh

From Left to Right IIMC Amravati Director Vijay Satokar, IIMC Director General K. G. Suresh “I believe that regional campuses have three major advantages over IIMC Delhi which make the regional campuses a lot better than the Delhi Campus.” said IIMC Director General K. G. Suresh while addressing the students of IIMC Amravati, on Monday. Mr. Suresh pointed out that students living in a city away from the comfort of their home and away from their social circle are able to learn at a much higher grade and also learn how to handle themselves in different situations. He further added that since the student-teacher ratio is less(Approx. 15:1), as compared to Delhi where for every 60+ students there is 1 teacher, each teacher is able to give more attention to each student and is able to guide them personally on their shortcomings . Lastly he said, as the students live in close quarters in the hostel the bonding among them is stronger too. Further into the ev...

Difference in Water level in Maharastra in the month of January

On the basis of the findings of the Maharashtra`s Water Resource Department a bar chart has been shared here. The Chart informs us on the percentage of Water level in Reservoirs, Storage and Flood of 19th January 2019 against the level in 19th January 2018. As per the data the city of Amravati saw an increase in water level almost 9 percent. The worst hit city is Aurngabad which has gone down by almost 45 percent. The data is an interpretation of real time water level. Nagpur city has more or less not have a drastic effect on the water level going down by only 5 percent. A map has also been shared showcasing the same data in location wise format below.

Developments of Narendra Dabholkar murder case

The Mumbai HC has said to take instant action and not depend on independent investigation of Gauri Lankesh. Further out of the three accused arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation Rohit Rege has received bail after CBI fails to file charge-sheet. The case started back in August of 2013, when Dr.Dabholkar out on a morning walk was shot down by two unidentified gunmen near Omkareshwar temple, Pune at 7:20 AM IST.  The police had stated that it was under suspicion that it was a planned murder because the assailants were aware Dabholkar stay in Pune. Later a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by activist Ketan Tirodkar, urging the case to be investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) instead of the state police, over lack of faith over the latter. On 17 January 2014, during his visit to Pune,the then Home Minister R. R. Patil gave Pune police a week to make some progress or hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CB...