Madhya Pradesh State PCS

• 26 Apr 2022

Honors of Celebrities in 'Madhya Pradesh Ratna Alankaran Ceremony'

Why in the discussion?

• On April 25, 2022, Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel felicitated various personalities at the 'Madhya Pradesh Ratna Investiture Ceremony' organised by the Madhya Pradesh Press Club at kushabhau thakre international convention centre.

Key point

• The Governor presented the madhya pradesh navratna samman at the investiture ceremony with the country's renowned journalist Padma Shri Alok Mehta, param vishisht seva medal (retd) Air Marshal Pradeep Padmakar Bapat, screenwriter and filmmaker Rumi Jaffrey, professor Lokendra Trivedi of the National School of Drama, Sanjeev Saran, who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the industrial world by the Government of India. The short and documentary producer-director Devendra Khandelwal, senior social activist Nirmal Das Narang, dancer (choreographer) Dr. Tina Deole Tambe, poet and editor Dr Sudhir Saxena were felicitated.
• Dr. Laxmi Sharma (Literature and Art), Dr. A.K. Dwivedi (Homoeopathy Medicine), Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi (Mental Medicine), Dr. Mamta Singh, Suresh Singh Bhadauria, Dr. Deepti Singh Hada (Medical and Medical Education), Dr. Devish Jain (Education- Industry and Agriculture), Harneet Kaur Rana (Education), Avadhesh Dave (Higher Education), Rajkumar Sabu (Industry and Trade), Engineer Amit Ojha (Mathematics Education) and Social Sevi Manoj Nandkishore Panchal were honoured with Pratibha Samman.
• The Madhya Pradesh Press Club was established on April 18, 1992. Its founding president was late L.N. Verma and Presently its President is Dr. Naveen Anand Joshi and General Secretary is Bhai Nitin Verma and Vice President is Mahendra Sharma.
• The Madhya Pradesh Press Club organisation continues to organize various workshops and seminars besides programmes related to social concerns. This event is also a sequel to this series.

Chief Minister virtually participated in the National Workshop on Innovative Agriculture of NITI Aayog

Why In News?

• Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan virtually attended the National Workshop on Innovative Agriculture organized by NITI Aayog at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi at The Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi on April 25, 2022.

Key point

• The first session was chaired by Dr. Ravi Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy also shared his views virtually.
• Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the Natural Agriculture Development Board has been constituted to promote natural farming in the state. The State Government is taking several steps to create an environment up to the village level to adopt natural farming and to help the farmers in it.
• There are 52 districts in Madhya Pradesh. Initially, special activities will be carried out to encourage natural farming in 100 villages of each district. The current kharif crop will start natural farming activities in 5,200 villages of the state.
• In order to create an environment, state-level workshops will be organized in the state in the month of May for officials of agriculture related departments under the guidance of Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat. So far, 1 lakh 65 thousand farmers of the state have shown interest in natural farming.
• The Chief Minister said that just as subsidy on chemical fertilizers and other assistance was provided to the farmers for the Green Revolution, it is necessary to encourage and cooperate with the farmers to adopt natural farming.
• The desi cow is essential for natural farming. It is from the desi cow that the necessary jeevamrit and dhanjivamrit for natural farming can be made. 900 per month i.e. 10 thousand 800 rupees per annum will be provided to the farmers who adopt natural farming for keeping the desi cow. At the same time, 75 per cent of the amount will be provided to the farmers by the government for taking natural agricultural kits.
• The services of 5 full-time workers will be provided in each development block to guide natural farming. Each village will also have arrangements of kisan mitras and kisan didis, who will act as master trainers of natural farming. Honorarium will also be given to the workers and master trainers.
• It is worth mentioning that Madhya Pradesh is suitable for natural farming, where 17 lakh hectares of tribal dominated area traditionally does not use chemical fertilizers.

Madhya Pradesh is the first in the country in redressal of complaints in Madhya Pradesh 'Ayushman Bharat'.

Why In News?

• On April 25, 2022, The Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare of Madhya Pradesh, Dr. Prabhuram Chaudhary informed that in the National Health Authority's report for 2021-22, Madhya Pradesh secured the first position in the country in the field of redressal of grievances in the 'Ayushman Bharat' scheme by scoring 86 marks in grievance redressal.

Key point

• Minister Dr. Prabhuram Chaudhary said that the National Health Authority in its progress report for the year 2021-22 has collected rs 1.57 crore by imposing penalty in the complaints received against 67 hospitals in the state under the grievance redressal system.
• The scheme fulfilled the objective of free treatment by refunding Rs.59 lakh 2 thousand through bank accounts on the basis of complaints received from 140 beneficiaries.
• Under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme, the eligible beneficiaries of the state have been getting quality health services for more than 3 years. Under the scheme, treatment upto Rs.5 lakh per family is being provided to eligible beneficiaries from 1,000 government and private hospitals per year.

Madhya Pradesh got respect in malaria control

Why In News?

• On April 25, 2022, Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya conferred the 'Certificate of Appreciation' to Madhya Pradesh for its outstanding work in malaria control at a function held in Delhi on Malaria Day.

Key point

• Madhya Pradesh's Public Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Prabhuram Chaudhary said that as of 2015, more than one malaria case per thousand population was found in 25 districts in the state, which has come down to .03 per thousand in 2021.
• There is no longer a single district in Madhya Pradesh which has more than one malaria case per thousand population.
• The work done by the Health Department has made the state a place in category-1 from category-3 states in 2015 to category-1 states.