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Want ‘earn while you learn’ scheme for agriculture students: Fadnavis

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said that he has asked agriculture universities in the state to prepare a “earn while you learn” stipend scheme for students to carry out fieldwork.

Fadnavis said that, as part of the plan, students of agriculture colleges would be required to send agro advisories to farmers, collect data and ensure that a proper mechanism was created to disseminate information to farmers at the ground-level.

He told reporters that students would get a stipend, funded by the state government, for this work.

“The students will be responsible for sending agro advisories to farmers, data collection and ensuring all the agriculture-related schemes and policies reach farmers,” Fadnavis said.

He said the need of the hour was to ensure correct advisories to farmers in order to avoid double sowing.

“We need to create a mechanism for information dissemination and proper communication on the ground,” Fadnavis said.

He said that the government was ready to make a provision for “earn while you learn” scheme which will work on an app-based mechanism.

“With this, we can reach out to farmers, have speedy communication, and do various interventions,” Fadnavis said.

He was speaking while chairing a review meeting for this year’s Kharif season.

The meeting was attended by cabinet ministers, secretaries of departments, Vice-Chancellors of various agriculture universities, collectors, CEOs of Zilla Parishads among others.

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Seizures of over Rs 120 crore made in Karnataka, says official

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The Election Commission-appointed surveillance teams have seized suspect cash, jewellery and other inducements worth over Rs 120 crore in the poll-bound Karnataka, a senior official said today.

Cash amounting to over Rs 67.27 crore, over five lakh litres of liquor worth Rs 23.36 crore, gold valued at 43.17 crore and other items such as pressure cookers, sarees, sewing machines, gutkha, laptops and vehicles, among others, worth about Rs 18.57 crore, have been seized, he said.

The official said Rs 32.54 crore in cash, out of the total seizures of Rs 152.78 crore, has been released after verification.

The figure also includes seized narcotics worth more than Rs 39.80 lakh, according to official data since the declaration of the elections for the Karnataka Assembly.

The seizures have been made by various surveillance, police and Income Tax department teams that have been deployed in the state by the poll panel to check the use of black money and illegal inducements, the official said.

The state will go to polls on May 12. The counting of votes is scheduled for May 15.

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