Madhya Pradesh Budget - 2016-17

Budget 2016-17 Highlights

Madhya Pradesh finance minister Jayant Malaiya presented Annual budget at state assembly in Bhopal on 26 february 2016. Key Points of the Budget 2016-17 are :

• The fiscal deficit for the year 2016-17 is estimated to be Rs. 24913.64 crore.

• It has proposed to make machine used to make bio-fertilisers and for milk processing tax free.

• The budget proposed an increase in VAT on plastic products.

• Reduced VAT on CSD cars, soya milk, dialysis machine from 14% to 5%.

• Battery operating vehicles are exempted from tax.

• Proposed 6% tax on the goods purchased online as e-commerce was resulting in revenue loss.

• VAT on cars purchased from canteen stores by soldiers are reduced from 15% to 4%.

• VAT of 5% on bicycle cost above Rs.10,000.

• Proposed 20 new girls education centres, 120 new High and High secondary schools.

• Under inter-caste marriage promotion scheme to abolish untouchability, couples will get Rs.2 lakhs instead of rs.50,000.

• Introduced 'e-shakti' campaign to train 3 lakh rural women to use internet.

• 'Usha Kiran kendra' will be set up in each and every district to empower women. This centre will provide legal and economic help to victim of domestic violence.

• The Minister earmarked Rs.903 crore for 'Ladli Laxsmi Yojana', Under which 21 lakh girls in the state already get benefitted.

• Under the development head, the state has proposed the budget estimate for 2016-17 as

         Agriculture and allied activities - Rs. 5,521.01 crores

         Irrigation and flood control - Rs. 7,494.92 crores

         Industry and mining - Rs. 2,780.52 crores

         Transport - Rs. 4,658.18 crores

         General Economic services - Rs. 926.76 crores

         Social Services - Rs. 30,346.91 crores

• For the fourth consecutive year State has received 'Krishi Karman Award'.

• 'Rashtriya jaivik krishi mela' and seminars are to be organised to encourage for the marketing of bio-agriculture and bio-products.

When Work Meets Play

"Finding the proper key, that's the trick of them.

Everywhere another door."

--Richard Maltby Jr. & David Shire, "Doors" (Closer than Ever)

Last Friday, I got to do perhaps the most unique author event I've done so far. Capitalizing on the adult coloring craze, the library near my parents' home in Cinnaminson, NJ has started a monthly event called "Colorful Conversations." It's an emerging program, drawing (no pun intended) first timers like me along with repeat visitors and offering the librarian who came up with it lots of opportunities to experiment with content. The coloring happens at every session; what happens surrounding it changes from month to month.

This event, like so many others I've done, met my primary qualification: it had the potential to be fun.

And it delivered.

As the featured guest, I spoke briefly about the stories behind my books (a topic I selected) and then I got to color, too, as we all chatted, first about books and writing and then about whatever came up. It was low-key (okay, it helped that my family made up half the audience) and I got to introduce my work to a whole new audience.

Like it or not (and many don't), authors have to promote their work. And, since most of us lack the money, resources and dedicated promotion time of, say, John Grisham or James Patterson, finding a way to get our books out there that goes beyond screaming, "Buy my book!" from the rooftops can be a challenge. And, since screaming, "Buy my book!" from the rooftops is incredibly annoying and tends to drive people away, we need to find better avenues. We need to do what we do best: get creative.

I'm one of the lucky ones. I enjoy promotion. But, that's mostly because I've decided that if an event doesn't have the potential to be fun, I'm not doing it. When I'm not having a good time, my audience isn't either. Fun events don't guarantee sales, but they create connections, and, if we're really lucky, wonderful memories as well.

So, the next time you see an author at a bookstore or event, smile at her. If you're really brave, go up and say hello. Ask him about his book. If you start to feel overwhelmed by a sales pitch, steer the conversation back to process -- how long it took to write the book, which character was most fun to write (if it's a novel), whose books serve as inspirations. Just chat. Although we'll appreciate it if you buy a book, there's no law that says striking up a conversation with an author means you're required to make a purchase.

Just have fun. And, if the book sounds good, maybe tell a friend about it.

Manners Monday

Whatever happened to fair dealing and pure ethics and nice manners?
Why is it everyone now is a pain in the ass?
Whatever happened to class?  

-- John Kander and Fred Ebb: Chicago

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I did more traveling last week than I usually do in six months. Along the way, I came into contact with a lot of people. Bubbly college tour guides. Helpful hotel desk clerks. Professors passionate about the subjects they teach, and librarians excited to create new programs that excite their patrons.

I also dealt with grumpy folks who didn't seem to enjoy their jobs. Customer service representatives content to put people on hold indefinitely. A man conducting business on his cell phone in a restaurant loudly enough for everyone around him to hear.

When our kids are little, we teach them manners. Please and thank you. Excuse me. I'm sorry. 

How is it that somewhere between preschool and adulthood, these simple niceties fade away?

Even teenagers, considered by many to be the rudest beings on the planet, know when to turn their manners on. They may grunt in reply to parents, and text in code to friends, but, generally speaking, most know when it's time to haul out those pleasantries from preschool and put them to use.

So, why can't adults do the same thing? Why is it so hard to say, "I'm sorry. I made a mistake."? To thank the person who goes above and beyond? To give a little consideration to the expression on our faces or the volume of our voices?

The thing is, it isn't. Anyone who deals with the public knows this -- it's Customer Service 101 -- so much so that seemingly every establishment prints links to customer satisfaction surveys on the bottom of their receipts or e-mails customers who've visited them to see if their employees are doing these things. And, in an age where customer reviews are easily accessible online, scores below the top 10 to 15% are considered unacceptable. A difference of less than 5% can sway a customer toward one business and away from another.

And yet, in our non-business interactions, we so often forget -- or forgo -- the very pleasantries on which these businesses rise and fall. Why is that? 

Maybe today is the day to change that. To take our faces out of our phones and smile at the barista who hands us our coffee. To thank the person who goes out of her way, to apologize to a colleague or family member when we make a mistake, no matter how embarrassing and uncomfortable that might feel. 

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Some of you already do this, and for that, I thank you. I also suspect that people like being around you, much as I enjoyed the company of that tour guide, desk clerk, professor and librarian. These are the people who put smiles on our faces -- smiles that last long after the interaction has ended.

Sometimes, we're busy, or preoccupied, and we mean to do these things, but we don't. We forget. Or, like teenagers, we haul out the pleasantries when we're in public, and dispense with "please" and "thank you" at home.

Maybe today's the day we pause for a moment and bring back class.

Have a wonderful day.

Friday Freebie: Doing Good is Good

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Did you know that there's a global Good Deeds Day? And that it's celebrating its tenth anniversary in a little over a month?

Even better, did you know that doing good is good for you? Study after study confirms that helpful people are happy people.

So, if you're feeling down in the dumps today, check out the happy links above, or, for a daily fix, sign up for daily e-newsletters from Happify.com to give yourself a little taste of happy every day.

Have a happy weekend.

Railway/SSC Quiz - 8

Q.1 Wood Spirit is
(1) Ethyl alcohol
(2) Methyl alcohol
(3) Butyl alcohol
(4) Propyl alcohol

Q.2 Super Nova is
(1) a comet
(2) an asteroid
(3) an exploding star
(4) a black hole

Q.3 Which of the following processes is used fro the production of biodiesel?
(1) Transamination
(2) Transcription
(3) Transesterification
(4) Translation


Q.4 The color changes in Chameleon is due to the presence of
(1) Haemoglobin
(2) Chromatophore 
(3) Chlorohyll
(4) Pneumatophore

Q.5 Eclipse occurs due to which optical phenomenon?
(1) Reflection
(2) Refraction
(3) Rectilinear propagation
(4) Diffraction

Q.6 Which of the following in automobile exhaust can cause cancer?
(1) Oxides of nitrogen
(2) Carbon monoxide
(3) Lead
(4) Polyclinic Hydrocarbon

Q.7 Elements having different physical properties but identical chemical properties are called
(1) Isomers
(2) Isotones
(3) Isotopes
(4) Allotropes

Q.8 Covering membrane of heart is called
(1) Pericardium
(2) Perineurium
(3) Periosteum
(4) Perichondrium

Q.9 Most of the refraction of light takes place in
(1) Pupil
(2) Retina
(3) Iris
(4) Cornea

Q.10 Lipids are
(1) carbohydrates occurring in plants
(2) fats of natural origin
(3) nucleic acids occurring in plants
(4) protein occurring in animals

Previous Year Questions from Acts

As we all know all the acts that included in MPPSC prelims syllabus have its equal importance as other subjects. Every year MPPSC asked around 5 to 7 questions from these acts. Here is the collection of previous year questions that MPPSC asked from these three acts.

1. Under the protection of civil rights act 1955, all offences are

(1) Cognizable

(2) Bailable

(3) Compoundable 

(4) Punishment with imprisonment and fine both 

2. In a prosecution for a offence under the Scheduled tribes(Prevention of atrocoties) act 1989,the court can presume which of following?

(1) Abetment

(2) Common intention

(3) Common Object 

(4) All of the above

3. The state government can specify a court of a session to be a special court to try the offences under Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, with the concurrence of the

(1) Governor

(2) Chief Justice of court

(3) Session Judge of concerned district

(4) Ministry of law

4. Under the Scheduled caste Scheduled tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, which of the following is absolutely barred?

(1) Pre-arrest bail

(2) Post arrest bail 

(3) Benefit of probation

(4) all of the above

5.An offence commited under the Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 shall be investigated by police officer not below the rank of 

(1) Sub-Inspector

(2) Inspector

(3) Deputy Supritendent

(4) Superintendent

6.Which of the following power a special court cannot exercise under the Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989?

(1) to remove a person

(2) to forfeit the property

(3) to take the measurement of a person

(4) to impose collective fine

7.Article 17 of indian constitution deals with 

(1) Education 

(2) Health 

(3) Abolition of untouchability

(4) Food guarantee

8. In a prosecution for an offence under the Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, the accused in his defence cannot take the plea that:

(1) Act was done in exercise of the right of personal defence

(2) He also belongs to the caste as that of victim

(3) Act causes to slight harm which could not be a subject of complaint

(4) None of the above

9. A court can presume that any act constituting offence was committed on the ground of 'untouchability' - if such offence is committed in relation to 

(1) a member of Scheduled caste

(2) a member of Scheduled tribes

(3) a member of any community

(4) none of the above 

10. All offences under the Protection of civil rights act 1955 are 

(1) Coginzable and non-bailable

(2) Congnizable and non - compoundable

(3) Non - Cognizable and bailable

(4) Non - Cognizable and Compundable

11. An offence arising out of 'untouchability' would not made out where :

(1) The act of accused with regard to the enjoyment of benefit under a charitable trust created for benefit of any section of the general public

(2) The act of accused is with regard to the use of finery 

(3) An accused is not being competent to commit offence 

(4) The accused and complainant victim belong to the same social group 

12. The Protection of civil rights act extends to the :

(1) Whole of India

(2) The Whole of india except the scheduled area

(3) The Whole of india except the state of Jammu & Kashmir

(4) The Whole of india except the union territories of Goa, Daman And Diu

13. The Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 came into force on

(1) 1st july 1989 

(2) 30th january 1990

(3) 30th july 1989

(4) 1st january 1990

14. A court of as seesion specified as special court to try the offences under the SC and ST act for the purpose pf providing?
(1) Speedy trial
(2) Time bound trial
(3) Special Protection to victims
(4) All of the above

15. The SC and ST act is a special provision for the advancement of SC and St which is based on which one of the following doctrine
(1) Doctorine of severability
(2) Doctorine of prefered position
(3) Doctorine of protective discrimination
(4) Doctorine of Haronious construction

16. Under which article schedule caste and schedule tribe has granted fundamental, socio-economic, political and cultural rights?
(1) Article 20
(2) Article 19
(3) Article 18
(4) Article 17

17. The causes are not atrocity of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe according to the report of National Commission of schedule caste and Scheduled tribes in the year 1990
(1) Land alienation
(2) Bonded labour
(3) Indebtedness
(4) Religious causes

18. Under which act the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe Atrocity removal law implemented?
(1) Act 1990
(2) Act 1989
(3) Act 1992
(4) Act 1991

16. Under which article schedule caste and schedule tribe has granted fundamental, socio-economic, political and cultural rights?
(1) Article 20
(2) Article 19
(3) Article 18
(4) Article 17

17. The causes are not atrocity of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe according to the report of National Commission of schedule caste and Scheduled tribes in the year 1990
(1) Land alienation
(2) Bonded labour
(3) Indebtedness
(4) Religious causes

18. Under which act the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe Atrocity removal law implemented?
(1) Act 1990
(2) Act 1989
(3) Act 1992
(4) Act 1991

Growing, Growing, Grown

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Today, I'm in Connecticut with my daughter on a college visit, so I'm pulling a post from the archives. This one ran in June 2014 on "Six Children and No Theories," a community blog I wrote for WITF for a time, and since it's about milestones, it seemed about right for today, as we prepare for the next milestone.

I talk a really good game when it comes to milestones in my daughter�s life. Though I can�t believe how quickly she leapfrogs from one to the next (walking to running to a riding a bike to starting school to middle school to high school), I know that each is a necessary step on the ladder of independence, and I generally view these milestones with optimism. But today, she�s embarking on a whole new level of independence, one I�m not sure I am ready to face.

My daughter is getting her driver�s license. 

I must admit to conflicting feelings about this. To be honest, I never really minded transporting her. She's good company and we usually enjoy our time in the car together. Now that she's on the cusp of going it alone, I wonder how often we'll have those times. Not often, I imagine, and I find myself oddly unready to let go of those trips.

And then there are the practical concerns. I'm handing my child the car keys. No matter how good a driver she is (and she is good, if a bit, er, speedy), I don't know whom she'll encounter when she's on the road. I plan to adopt an approach I've dubbed "Prayerful Ostrich" -- praying a lot for her safety, and then burying my head in the sand.

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Still, although she is sixteen and old enough to drive, with new privileges come new guidelines, guidelines my husband and I have discussed, but have not yet fully worked out. Thus far, we've told her only that there will be rules -- something I'm sure does not come as a surprise to her as most of her new privileges came with rules -- or at least guidelines. Some of our rules will reiterate what the state of Pennsylvania has to say (cell phone off, wear your seatbelt at all times, no more than one friend in the car with you, no driving after 11 pm), while others will be designed to put our minds at ease (we need to know where you are going and when you expect to be home) or reiterate common courtesies (if you're going to be late,  you need to let us know).

But setting up rules for a child on the cusp of adulthood is different than setting up rules for a toddler. Fortunately, the same concerns that have been persistent throughout her life (safety is non-negotiable, for example) still form the backbone of those rules. This license, many of my friends have warned me, is her first step toward real independence. Much as those first wobbly toddler steps signify a sea change, so does ready access to the car keys. Only this time, I can't hover and be there to catch her if she's close to a dangerous fall.

And for the first time since I watched those Lamaze videos in childbirth class, I don't know if I'm ready for this. But a big part of parenting is letting go, and allowing our kids to run ahead of us when they�re prepared to do so.

It�s just that no one told me she�d be prepared before I was.