Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav approved many important decisions in the cabinet meeting. Approved Rs 1,740 crore 57 lakh for continuous operation of Chief Minister Kanya Marriage Assistance Scheme and Kalyani Marriage Assistance Scheme for 5 years from April 1, 2026. Chief Minister Kanya Vivah Sahayata Yojana is effective in the state from April 1, 2006. The scheme is implemented by the state government.
Under the Chief Minister Kanya Vivah Sahayata Yojana, an amount of Rs 55 thousand per girl is given as financial assistance in the mass marriage of marriageable girls, widows and abandoned families of poor, needy, destitute and indigent families. Under the scheme, assistance amounting to more than Rs 989 crore 80 lakh 62 thousand has been provided to 1 lakh 72 thousand 905 beneficiaries from the financial year 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Schools will be upgraded
Mohan Yadav In order to increase the educational access and quality of students, it gave in-principle approval to the plan to upgrade government secondary schools to high schools and high schools to higher secondary. As per the approval, 75 secondary schools will be upgraded to high schools and 100 high schools will be upgraded to higher secondary schools in the year 2026-27. Similarly, in the next two years 2027-28 and 2028-29, in-principle consent was given to upgrade 75 secondary and 100 high schools every year.
Besides, the proposal for the estimated expenditure of Rs 635 crore 24 lakh for the upgradation of schools was agreed upon. Under Vikas Madhya Pradesh@2047, a target has been set to achieve 100 percent gross enrollment rate by the year 2029. Based on the parameters and mapping from the district level, there is a need to open 315 high schools and 214 higher secondary schools.
Important decision in the interest of farmers
The Cabinet has approved the conditions in the interest of farmers under the scheme to provide short-term crop loans to farmers at zero percent interest rate for the year 2026-27. As per the approval, instead of keeping separate due dates for Kharif and Rabi seasons, an annual single loan limit will be kept instead. In this, sub-limits for cash and goods loans should be fixed.
Under the scheme, the due date will be fixed 12 months from the first loan withdrawal from the annual single limit sanctioned to the farmers and 1.25 percent (normal) interest subsidy will be provided to the farmers taking short term crop loan and 4 percent incentive (additional interest subsidy) will be provided by the state government to the farmers who repay the loan till the prescribed due date.
New Government Law College in Shujalpur
In compliance with the announcement of the Chief Minister, the Cabinet has approved the opening of a new Government Law College in Shujalpur (Shajapur) in the session 2026-27. As per the approval, 9 posts of academic category and 8 posts of non-academic category, thus creation of total 17 posts and expenditure amounting to Rs 2 crore 39 lakh 92 thousand have been approved. Also, the Higher Education Department has been authorized to take necessary action.
Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Government Post Graduate College, Shujalpur operates a law course (three-year LLB) as a faculty. According to the ‘Legal Education Rules’ of 2008 of the Bar Council of India, for recognition, law courses are required to be conducted in a separate government law college instead of a faculty. On this basis, a new Government Law College is being started in Shujalpur.
Approval of Rs 3580 crore in public distribution system
Under the process of examination and administrative approval of publicly funded programmes, schemes and projects in the Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department, the Cabinet has approved Rs 3,580 crore 7 lakh for the continuous operation of the 16th Central Finance Commission for the period of 16th Central Finance Commission for reimbursement of transport and commission expenses under the targeted public distribution system of the related scheme worth more than Rs 500 crore.
The Cabinet has decided to make the amount of SGST payable on the central share given by the Government of India for electrification work under Pradhan Mantri Tribal Tribal Justice Maha Abhiyan (PM Janman) and Dharti Aaba Tribal Village Utkarsh Abhiyan available to the distribution companies in the form of share capital by the State Government.
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