#Fifteenth finance commission

[currenthunt]

Scheme for expansion and modernization of fire services started

Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India has launched a “Scheme for Expansion and Modernization of Fire Services in the States” under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for strengthening fire services in the States.The Scheme finds its origin from the recommendation of the Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV-FC) which allows an allocation of 12.5% of each of the NDRF and State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for the Funding Window of Preparedness and Capacity Building. Objective - It aims to expand and modernize Fire Services in the States with a view that activities for strengthening of fire services at the State-level through preparedness and capacity-building components of the NDRF will be ensured. Measures under the Scheme - Setting up of new fire stations - Strengthening of State Training Centres and capacity building - Provisions for modern fire-fighting equipment - Strengthening of State Headquarters and Urban Fire Stations - Technological upgradation and installation and augmentation of online systems. Fund Allocation - Fund allocation under the scheme is on a cost sharing basis of 75:25 with the States, except for North Eastern Hill States which is in the ratio of 90:10. - While the Centre will provide Rs. 5000 crore to the States for identified activities, the States’ contribution will be of Rs. 1387.99 Crore. - An amount of Rs. 500 crore, out of the total central outlay of Rs. 5000 crore will be available for incentivizing the States for adoption of legal and infrastructure-based reforms. https://currenthunt.com/en/2023/08/cinematograph-amendment-bill-2023/ Read the full article

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[meghalayacareer]

NHM WJH Recruitment 2023: Medical Officer, GNM & ANM Vacancy

NHM WJH Recruitment 2023: For the operationalization and implementation of Urban Health & Wellness Centers under the Fifteenth Finance Commission, the Office of the District Medical & Health Office, West Jaintia Hills, Jowai has released an employment notification for the recruitment of the Medical Officer, GNM and ANM on a contractual basis. The last date for submission of the application is 7th July 2023. For more information please visit https://www.meghalayacareer.com Read the full article

[sanjosenewshq]

How a lot cash will you get from California gasoline rebate and when will you get it?

California sends cash on to thousands and thousands of residents to assist with rising prices and rising gasoline costs. The funds, which started October 7, vary from $200 to $1,050, relying on earnings and different components. About 18 million batches will likely be distributed over the following few months, benefiting as much as 23 million Californians. The money funds are a part of the June finances deal. Are you eligible? To be eligible, you need to file a California tax return for 2020 by October 15, 2021. There may be an exception for individuals who didn’t file by the October deadline as a result of they had been ready for an Particular person Taxpayer Identification Quantity (so long as they filed by February 15, 2022). Individuals who didn’t file taxes for 2020, together with some seniors and other people with disabilities, will likely be disqualified. Individuals who could also be thought of dependents for tax functions won’t obtain their very own funds. How will you receives a commission? Eligible folks will get to pay both by direct deposit into their checking account or by debit card mailed, in accordance with the Tax Board. Typically, individuals who filed their 2020 tax return on-line and obtained their state tax refund by direct submitting will obtain a direct submitting. Most different eligible folks will obtain low cost playing cards within the mail. The circumstance will likely be clearly marked with “center class tax refund”. When will you receives a commission? The primary spherical of funds will go to individuals who have obtained a Golden State Stimulus fee beginning in 2021 and are eligible for direct deposit. The primary spherical of funds is anticipated to start out between October 7 and October 25. The remainder of the direct deposits are anticipated to return out between October 28 and November 14. The Tax Board expects to ship out 90% of direct deposits in October, in accordance with its web site. Debit playing cards for individuals who obtained a Golden State Stimulus fee are anticipated to be mailed between October 25 and December 10. All remaining debit playing cards are anticipated to be mailed by January fifteenth. Why not ship them suddenly? “There are limits on the variety of direct deposits and mailed debit playing cards that may be issued per week,” mentioned Andrew LePage, a spokesperson for the Franchise Tax Board. “Logistically talking, it takes time to effectively and precisely ship roughly 18 million funds to Californians, defending each taxpayers and Californians.” How a lot will you get? Estimate your refund right here. The Franchise Tax Board additionally has a Buyer Helpline, which might be reached by calling 800-542-9332. The helpline has assist in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Vietnamese, Korean and Punjabi. The board says different languages ​​could also be supported upon request. Originally published at San Jose News HQ

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[theliveusa]

Revenue deficit grant of Rs 7,183 crore released to 14 states

Revenue deficit grant of Rs 7,183 crore released to 14 states

The Center on Friday released the second monthly installment of post devolution revenue deficit (PDRD) grant of Rs 7,183 crore to 14 states, as per the recommendations of the Fifteenth Finance Commission. The Commission has recommended a total PDRD grant of Rs 86,201 crore to these states for FY23. The recommended grant will be released by the department of expenditure to the recommended states…

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[indizombie]

Over the last few years, the central government has used various ways to coerce the State governments to amend their respective APMC Acts to liberalise agricultural markets. In the terms of reference of the Fifteenth Finance Commission, the central government specifically asked it to consider using performance-based incentives for the provision of grants. Consequently, in its report for the year 2020-21, the Finance Commission introduced performance-based grants and recommended that the States that pass the model “Agricultural Marketing Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) Act”, “Model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Contract Farming and Services (Promotion & Facilitation) Act” and the “Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2016” in their legislatures would “become eligible to avail the grants awarded by us from 2021-22 onwards”. This was an unusual recommendation. Although several Finance Commissions in the past have used developmental indicators to measure resource requirements of States, to facilitate them to take policy measures for development in the States, and more recently, to impose fiscal discipline on the States, there are not many precedents of Finance Commissions demanding specific legislative changes by States for them to become eligible for grants. The most important, and perhaps the first such case, was when the 13th Finance Commission made amendment/enactment of the FRBM Acts by States as a precondition to get the State-specific grants. But the Fifteenth Finance Commission went a step further, unprecedented in the history of Finance Commissions, to demand that States enact legislation in areas that were not  directly related to State finances or fiscal discipline of the States.

'Political Economy of Agricultural Market Reforms: Analysis of the Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020', Vikalp

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[technodabhi]

‘Freebies race could lead to bankruptcy of States’

‘Freebies race could lead to bankruptcy of States’

Political competition over such sops a “quick passport to fiscal disaster, says Finance Commission chief Finance Commission chief NK Singh red–flags populist steps in Punjab, Rajasthan Political competition over such sops a “quick passport to fiscal disaster, says Finance Commission chief India could face the prospect of sub–national bankruptcies if States continued to dole out freebies to…

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#bankruptcy #Fifteenth Finance Commission #NK Singh

[hummingzone]

Petrol tax to swell states' revenue past pre-pandemic highs: Crisil

Petrol tax to swell states’ revenue past pre-pandemic highs: Crisil

NEW DELHI: Thanks to the higher GST collection and ever-growing sales tax on petroleum, revenue for states in India is likely to surpass the pre-pandemic heights in the coming few months, said CRISIL Ratings. The agency said revenues of India’s top 10 states, which plunged 600 basis points (bps) last fiscal, are set to exceed the pre-pandemic levels by 600 bps this fiscal. It analysed 10 data for…

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[nellygwyn]

When I first began studying Renaissance history, almost two decades ago, I did so in part because I wanted a change from the world of present-day politics. I always found parallels, of course: I would laugh over sixteenth-century letters that unwittingly foreshadowed the voices of politicians I knew, but I was firm in my mind that the past was a foreign country. When I made jokes comparing those supranational centres of Europe - fifteenth-century Rome and twenty-first century Brussels - they got a laugh but I was sure I was being flippant. As I went on, however, the past seemed to become less foreign. I would read 'tech revolution' stories and think about the history of printing; read about the election of Pope Francis and think about the global sixteenth-century Catholic Church; read about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and think about the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Spain. This is not to say that nothing has changed: as we will see, there are many differences between that society and our own. But precisely because the legacy of this Renaissance (or Age of Reform, or Age of Exploration, if we prefer) has become so important in Western culture, in defining who 'we' are (and who 'we' are not), it is worth getting to know it better.

This is all the more important because the popular story of the Renaissance - like many versions of modern Western history - tends to focus on the genius and the glory at the expense of the atrocities. Machiavelli's ideas about power, for example, become a set of timeless aphorisms rather than emerging, as in fact they did, from a specific setting. The fact that all these people coexisted with the early European voyages to the Americas, to which some of them had personal connections, and that Italians provided personnel, finance and write-ups of the subsequent colonisation, is not unknown. The bloody side of the Renaissance has always been part of the period's fascination. It is more often told, however, in the fashion of TV's 'The Borgias' as the glamorous, sexy violence of the rich-and-famous murdering one another in pursuit of power (the viewer consoling herself that most of them deserve their fate), and far less the violence of war, exile, and colonisation, nor yet domestic abuse. This is the narrative that makes the Medici a family of mafia godfathers, and it is about as connected to the reality of Florence in the sixteenth-century as gangster movies are to actual life in a town run by organised crime today. I have no objection to people enjoying a bloody tale of vendetta: I’ve told the gory story of the Baglioni wedding in Perugia in 1500 to tour groups myself. Yet too much of this masks the brutal realities beyond Renaissance works of art. Take the 'Mona Lisa': Lisa Gherardini, the woman of the mysterious smile, was married to a slave-trader. One possible model for the 'Venus of Urbino' - Angela Zaffetta - was gang-raped. The Florentine Republic that commissioned and was symbolised by Michelangelo's 'David' came to a brutal end with a sack of 'unheard-of cruelty' in which thousands of men were massacred in just a few hours. 

As I was finishing this book in March 2019, forty-nine people were killed in a gun attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The perpetrator, a right-wing extremist, posted on social media numerous precedents for his actions, including notable Christian victories against Muslim forces. One was the 1571 Battle of Lepranto, the subject of my final chapter. Sixteenth-century history has rarely been so explicitly appropriated by the far-right as have, say, the Crusades or the myth of the all-white medieval West. More commonly, Renaissance history has played a more subtle, if no less pernicious role, the mythologies of its great men reinforcing ideas about European and Christian and white superiority without ever being so vulgar as to say outright. That is not to say it is wrong to appreciate or enjoy the artistic innovation of sixteenth-century Europe: there is plenty to wonder at. And by exploring how people of this world thought about their own media revolution, or considered questions of gender and sexuality, or responded to changing weapons technology, we can better understand our own world too, and the ways in which then as now brilliant cultural innovation can exist alongside - indeed, is often intertwined with - all manner of atrocity.

- The introduction of Catherine Fletcher’s book The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

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[a2zbio]

Shaktikanta Das is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Tamil Nadu cadre. Currently serving as the 25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India, he was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20.

#shaktikanta das #rbi #rbi governor #ias