Maharashtra Cabinet okays recruitment of 15,000 police personnel
The initiative is part of a 150-day programme aimed at restructuring the police department, updating rules, ensuring compassionate appointments, and identifying vacancies. CM Fadnavis had said that the state government has already recruited 38,802 police personnel between 2022 and 2025, and a proposal for recruiting an additional 13,560 police posts has also been submitted.
The Cabinet also cleared the decision to increase the margins of ration shopkeepers in the state.
Minister of Food and Civil Supplies Chhagan Bhujbal said that the Cabinet gave the approval to increase the margin amount of ration shopkeepers who provide food grain to eligible beneficiaries of the National Food Security Scheme (Antyodaya Anna Yojana and Priority Households) under the state's public distribution system.
Bhujbal said, 'The margin rate currently being given to the fair price shopkeepers for distribution of food grains to ration card holders through e-POS machines under the public distribution system in the state has been increased by Rs 20 per quintal (Rs 200 per metric tonne). This will result in an estimated annual additional financial burden of Rs 92.71 crore on the State Exchequer.'
In other decisions, the Cabinet also decided to provide viability gap funding for Solapur-Pune-Mumbai air travel. The government also gave approval to relax the guarantor conditions in various loan schemes implemented by corporations under the jurisdiction of the Department of Social Justice and Special Assistance. The government guarantee has been extended for five years.
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