Jharkhand State Finance Commission has been constituted. Retired IAS Amarendra Pratap Singh has become the Chairman of the commission. Associate Professor of Saint Xavier College, Ranchi, Harishwar Dayal has been made a member. Jharkhand Governor, CP Radhakrishnan made the appointment on
The Jharkhand Cabinet on Monday approved the proposal to provide scholarship to girl students to pursue technical education.
Under the Manki Munda Scholarship scheme, a girl student will get Rs 15,000 scholarship per annum for pursuing diploma courses, while Rs 30,000 annually for engineering
The Jharkhand government had published in July draft rules for wide-ranging public consultation for implementing the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act or PESA enacted in 1996 to ensure self-governance through gram sabhas for people living in Scheduled Areas
The Jharkhand government is likely to bring in an ordinance soon to ensure that panchayati raj institutions can continue functioning in the state.
The present term of the rural bodies expires on July 15. “We will surely find a way out before that,” state rural development and panchayati raj minister Alamgir Alam told The Telegraph.
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Sources said an ordinance is being considered unavoidable because the panchayat elections that were due in December last year could not been held due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the term of the office-bearers of the rural bodies was scheduled to end by the first week of January this year, the government took a decision to set up working committees with the elected representatives as members for another six months, expecting the panchayat elections would be conducted within that time. But the polls could not be conducted as the country and the state had to grapple with the ravaging second wave of the pandemic and the situation remains