SUMAN K SHRIVASTAVA
Ranchi, Dec. 15: Conceding a long-pending demand of Tata Steel, CII and other industrial houses, the Jharkhand cabinet nodded to provide Jamshedpur with an Industrial Township status.
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In a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday, the State cabinet approved a committee with representatives from Tata Steel, the state government and local bodies to run the township.
The cabinet also approved the partial amendment in the Jharkhand Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy-2021 (HIPP-21).
The cabinet also approved a Bill to amend the Jharkhand Reservation Act, 2001, to give 5 per cent reservation in government jobs to the kin of those who fought for a separate state of Jharkhand.
Fund for medical college in Bokaro
The cabinet also nodded to constructing a new 500-bed medical college and hospital in Bokaro district for Rs 6,88.49 crore.
BBMKU Dhanbad
Th Binod Bihari Mahato Koyalanchal University, Dhanbad, will get Rs 77.72 crore for furnishing work of classrooms, library and laboratory, equipment and miscellaneous work for the new university campus.
Job bungling in Jharkhand Assembly
The cabinet approved making the report submitted by the one-man Judicial Commission constituted under the chairmanship of Justice S.J. Mukhopadhyay, former Judge of the Supreme Court, available to the Assembly Secretariat for necessary action.
The Hemant Soren government constituted the Mukhopadhyay Commission to resolve the complex questions of law and facts contained in the investigation report submitted by the Inquiry Commission constituted under the chairmanship of Justice (Rtd) Vikramaditya Prasad, to investigate the irregularities in appointments/promotions in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly Secretariat.
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Shine National University Bill
The cabinet also nodded to set up a new private university i.e. Shine National University in Jharkhand.