25-12-22 Daily-Punjab-PPSC Current Affairs

Punjab Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) department is all set to digitise the Khasra based Masteplans, which will enable common man to easily identify the status and nature of the land, besides, check the zoning of the land.

Punjab Housing and Urban Development Minister Aman Arora on Sunday directed the department officials to tie-up with Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) team to further speed up this project to provide all the information pertaining to land on a click.

While reviewing the status of the project with the PRSC team, Arora said that with the implementation of the project, people will be able to identify their land online, besides, getting the information about the zoning plan of the area where the land falls. The initiative will also be helpful for people in applying Change of Land Use (CLU), besides, stirring the investments by enhancing transparency in the record maintenance mechanism, he said.

The H&UD Minister was apprised that a total 43 masterplans have already been notified. Out of the 43, work on khasra based digitization has been initiated for 22 masterplans. Under this project, masterplans are being superimposed on the cadastral map.Arora asked the PRSC team and the department officials to ensure that accuracy should be maintained by using the state-of-the-art latest technologies in the project.

17th Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award:27 Indians living overseas have been chosen by the Indian government for thePravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards(PBSA), for outstanding achievements both in India and abroad. The award is the highest honour conferred upon Indians living abroad, including Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) or organisations/institutions established and run by them.

The government anticipates allocating roughly 2.3 trillion for food subsidies in the upcoming fiscal year as opposed to 2.7 trillion for the year that has just ended on March 31.

The amount spent on fertiliser subsidies will probably decrease to roughly 1.4 trillion in contrasts to 2.3 trillion this year.

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In addition to direct observation, QCI assessors gathered comments from 1.2 million passengers to determine which Indian railway stations were the cleanest and dirtiest.

In accordance with revenue creation, the ranking has classified Indian railway stations into a number of categories for the third consecutive year.

There are 75 railway stations in the A1 category that generate more than 75 crore in annual passenger income.