Team Blitz India
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Cabinet last week cleared a Centrally sponsored ‘Silk Samagra-2’ scheme to promote silk farming in the state and develop the lot of farmers. The duration of the scheme has been decided as 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Silk industry has been giving good returns to farmers in the state, hence the decision to promote it further. A large-scale campaign has also been implemented for new beneficiaries who want to start mulberry plantations and tussar silk production by implementing the Mahareshim Abhiyan.
Paithani weaving has been going on for years in Yewala, Paithan, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts of the state by artisans, on traditional hand looms. Similarly, the production of tussar sarees and cloth happens in Nagpur, Bhandara and Andhalgaon.
A committee will be formed at the district and regional level for the Silk Samagra-2 scheme and the beneficiaries will be identified.
The Cabinet also approved making a provision in the Cooperatives Act that no matter how the management of the cooperatives is done, the chairman and vicechairman will not be affected for two years.
Previously, a no-confidence motion could be brought against the president and vice president after six months.
A decision was also taken in the Cabinet meeting to give an allowance of Rs 5,000 per month to ministerial clerks-typists. An expenditure of Rs 11.3 crore has been approved for this.
Milk cooperatives
Among the other major decisions of the state Cabinet was approval for a subsidy scheme for urban milk cooperatives and milk-producing farmers in the state. Under this scheme, urban milk cooperatives will receive a subsidy of Rs 5 per litre of milk supplied to the government.
There will be a subsidy of Rs 3.5 per litre for cow milk and Rs 8.5 per litre for buffalo milk. The amount will be directly credited to bank accounts, and producers will also receive an additional incentive of 30 paise per point increase in fat content over the base rate.
