Chhattisgarh State PCS

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Big Decision in the Interest of Weavers

On December 15, 2021, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, taking a big decision in the interest of thousands of weaver families of the state, directed to purchase the uniforms of school students through Chhattisgarh Handloom Development and Marketing Cooperative Federation of Maryadit.

With this important decision of the Chief Minister, thousands of weavers associated with the Handloom Development and Marketing Cooperative Federation will get regular employment and they will get financial benefits.
After this initiative of the Chief Minister, the School Education Department has given in-principle consent to Chhattisgarh Handloom Development and Marketing Cooperative Federation Limited regarding the purchase of uniforms for the academic session 2022-23.
Uniforms will be distributed free of cost to the primary-secondary students of the School Education Department and only Rs.10 to the students of economically weaker families studying in high school-higher secondary schools.
There are 292 weavers' societies working in the state, out of which 250 weavers' societies are engaged in the production of 59 types of government garments in the Handloom Association. In the last three years, 7812 women of 651 women self-help groups working in the state were also provided additional employment in sewing clothes by the state government.
The State Government has provided about Rs 10.02 crore for new weaving training and skill training of 3100 traditional weavers to 1346 beneficiaries willing to adopt handloom weaving employment.
Along with this, to encourage the children of weavers by the Handloom Association, a scholarship of Rs 36.19 lakh has been provided to 885 students who have passed class 10th and 12th with 60 percent marks.

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On December 15, 2021, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel released the book 'Chhai Kori, Chhai Agar Taria Au Budha Narva' written by Govind Patel in his office room located in the Vidhan Sabha.

In this book, information about 126 ponds excavated during the reign of Gond kings in Dhamdha block of Durg district has been published.
The name of those ponds, construction year, measles number, area and waterlogging have been mentioned in the book.
Through this book, an attempt has been made to revive the tradition of water conservation which has been going on since ancient times.

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By registering a total of 2 lakh 8 thousand 308 e-shram cards till December 14, 2021, Gariaband district is at the first place in the entire state and has achieved 169.8 percent achievement against the target.

Instructions were given by the Gariaband Collector for 100% registration within the stipulated time period, under which, with the cooperation of the Labor Department, E-District Manager and other departments, the target set ahead of time has been achieved.
Along with this, the target 122692 achieved for Gariaband district has been completed before the scheduled date of December 31, by organizing camps for development block-wise and village-panchayat wise registration with the help of the members of the committee.
It is noteworthy that, taking special cognizance of the registration by the Collector, in view of the problem being faced in the portal during the day, instructions were given to organize night camps in all the Gram Panchayats. By implementing this, this achievement has been achieved ahead of time while fulfilling the target achieved.