Rajasthan State PCS

• 27 Aug 2022

Rajasthan 'Mahila Nidhi'

Why In News?

• On August 26, 2022, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot established the first 'Mahila Nidhi' (Rajasthan Mahila Nidhi Cooperative Credit Federation) for the social and economic advancement of women in the state level Women's Equality Day celebration organized at Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Center (JECC), Sitapura. ) was launched.

Key Points

• This fund will provide easy loans to women for business growth and entrepreneurship in addition to daily needs.
• On this occasion, the Chief Minister provided an amount of Rs. 1 crore 42 lakh as loan from Rajasthan Mahila Nidhi to the members of 386 self-help groups of 6 districts. He also awarded 8 women of Rajivika Community cadre for their distinguished work at the community level.
• The Chief Minister said that in the budget 2022-23, it was announced to set up the Women Fund through the Rajasthan Rural Livelihood Development Council. Rajasthan is the second state in the country after Telangana where women's fund has been established.
• Mahila Nidhi has been established to strengthen the women self-help groups, get loans from banks, increase the income of poor, propertyless and marginal women and social and economic progress of women by skill development.
• Under this scheme, loans up to Rs 40,000 will be deposited in 48 hours and loans above Rs 40,000 will be deposited in the bank account of the group of members applied within a time limit of 15 days.
• At present, 2 lakh 70 thousand self-help groups have been formed in 33 districts of the state, in which 30 lakh families are connected. In the financial year 2022-23, 50 thousand self-help groups are proposed to be formed, in which about 6 lakh families will be connected. A total of 36 lakh families in the state will get benefits from Rajasthan Mahila Nidhi in a phased manner based on their needs.
• In the program, an MoU was signed with Amazon for online sale of products. This will list products made by over 15,000 women entrepreneurs and self-help groups on the online marketplace and made available to millions of Amazon customers across the country.
• Through this, work will be done to empower the artisans and weaver community and encourage them to digital inclusion by making them Amazon sellers. Chief Minister's Work from Home Job Work Scheme and portal were also launched on the occasion.
• On this occasion, the scope of 'Indira Gandhi Matritva Poshan Yojna', which was earlier implemented in 5 districts of TSP area, was extended to all the districts. Under this scheme, a total of Rs 6000 is given in 5 installments on the birth of the second child. Now the benefit of this scheme will be available to the women of entire 33 districts from April 1, 2022.
• Apart from this, the second phase of 'UDAN Yojana' was also launched in the program, in which a provision of Rs 600 crore has been made for 1 crore 45 lakh adolescent girls and women. It is noteworthy that 29 lakh adolescent girls and women have been benefited from the first phase of this scheme.

Rajasthan Tops in Service Delivery through Digital Medium

Why In News?

• On August 26, 2022, Information and Technology Commissioner, Rajasthan, Ashish Gupta said that Rajasthan has now become Sirmaur state in the country in the service delivery of schemes through digital medium. There are a total of one lakh e-mitras operating in the state.

Key Points

• A total of one lakh e-mitras are operating in the state including 85 thousand e-mitras and 15 thousand e-mitras plus, whereas in the country this figure is 3 lakh. In this way, one-third of the e-mitras of the entire country are operated in Rajasthan.
• Information and Technology Commissioner Ashish Gupta gave this information while addressing a state level workshop on 'Recent Initiatives to Simplify Aadhaar Usage' at Bhamashah Techno Hub, Jhalana Dungri.
• He said that earlier in the state, the common man had to visit government offices to take advantage of government schemes or for other works, but in this era of digital revolution, now all the schemes of the government are available on mobile phones and digital service delivery has increased transparency in the system.
• The most important role in service delivery is the authenticity of the data. In the state, this work is being done through Aadhar card or Jan Aadhar card. In the coming time, work is being done to make Aadhaar registration 100% in the state.

Rajasthan gets Award for Smart Water Supply Monitoring System

Why In News?

• On August 25, 2022, In the 3rd Digitech Conclave-2022 held in New Delhi, Rajasthan was awarded for its remarkable work in installing IoT based Smart Water Supply Monitoring System.

Key Points

• Rajasthan's Public Health Engineering and Ground Water Minister Dr. Mahesh Joshi received this award.
• Dr. Joshi said that Rajasthan has installed IoT based smart water supply monitoring systems in most villages under a pilot project using digital technology.
• IoT (Internet of Things) based smart water supply monitoring systems have been installed for real-time monitoring of drinking water supply through taps in 15 villages of Jaipur district selected under a pilot project in Jal Jeevan Mission.
• In this system, sensors have been installed at the beginning of the drinking water supply line, branch node and tail node of the pipeline. These sensors have been connected to the Internet. Data collected by sensors is exchanged and monitored through the Internet.
• Through the sensors, it is also known that the water in the tank is pure and there is no contamination in it. Also, data on the water that the tail end consumer is getting, what is the pressure of the water, how the flow is, the pH value, TDS, chlorine and fluoride, the data is also received from the sensors.