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Uttar Pradesh has doubled the number of scholarship seats for children of farmers and agricultural labourers under the Mukhyamantri Krishak Chhatravritti Yojana (Chief Minister's Farmers' Scholarship Scheme). The scheme is run by the State Agricultural Produce Market Board (Mandi Parishad).

At each agricultural university and institute, 90 students will now get the scholarship in place of 45. At each agricultural college, the number goes up from 15 to 30. Each selected student gets ₹60,000 a year, up from ₹36,000, which is ₹24,000 more every year. The scholarship is given on merit.

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma launched a housing scheme for accredited journalists on 17 October 2026 at the Constitution Club in Jaipur. It runs under Rajasthan Housing Board's Vishisht Panjikaran Yojana-2026, and phase 1 cuts ₹15 lakh from the cost of a 3 BHK flat and ₹12 lakh from a 2 BHK flat.

Flats are coming up at Indira Gandhi Nagar, Sector 9, Jagatpura. Reports put phase 1 at 144 MIG-B flats with about 118.38 sq m built-up area each, at an estimated ₹74.68 lakh per flat. Only accredited full-time journalists working in Rajasthan, who earn their living from journalism, can apply. Allotment is by lottery.

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First-time Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) members can get up to ₹15,000 under Part A of Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PM-VBRY), which the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) runs. The incentive is equal to one month's eligible EPF wage and is capped at ₹15,000, so not every eligible employee gets the full amount.

Four conditions decide who can apply. The person must join an establishment between 1 August 2025 and 31 July 2027. They must not have been a contributing EPF member before 1 August 2025, including through an exempted PF trust. Monthly wages must be up to ₹1 lakh. The employer must meet the applicable EPF reporting and contribution rules and file Electronic Challan-cum-Returns (ECRs). Meeting the salary limit alone does not make someone eligible.

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Around 4.53 lakh people registered under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh will get free LPG cylinder refills in two phases in financial year 2026-27. The first phase runs from October to December and the second from January to March.

The money for the refills goes straight to the registered bank accounts of eligible people. A consumer has to complete e-KYC, link the bank account with Aadhaar and finish Aadhaar authentication to get it.

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Over 5,960 people attended Sarkar Tumchya Dari camps held in Goa's 10 talukas on Saturday, 17 October. Chief minister Pramod Sawant led the camp in Pernem, where the turnout was the highest at more than 1,500.

Salcete saw over 1,000 visitors. Dharbandora and Bicholim had around 650 each, Sattari and Ponda over 500 each and Mormugao over 400. Sanguem saw 260 people. Tiswadi and Canacona had 250 each. Ministers led the camps at the locations given to them.

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Bhopal Municipal Corporation has approved 712 houses for EWS families under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana at Kasturba Nagar and Nayapura. Applications for these houses will be accepted from October 22 to November 6.

Of the total, 256 houses are planned in Nayapura along Karond Bypass Road and 456 in Kasturba Nagar near Chetak Bridge. These houses are for non-slum EWS families. Land allotment is still pending and the corporation has sent the file to the nazul department. The civic body will seek environmental clearance and RERA approval after the land is allotted, and the sale will move ahead only after these approvals.

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Puducherry has started paying its ₹30,000 share of subsidy to Electricity Department consumers who installed rooftop solar plants of 3 kW and above. Minister for Home and Electricity A. Namassivayam opened the payment at Kamarajar Manimandam on Saturday. Around 3,333 consumers who put up a 3 kW plant will get the money, and the government has spent ₹10 crore on it.

Along with this, 3 kW consumers get ₹78,000 from the Centre under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana. A 1 kW plant brings about ₹40,000 in total (₹30,000 Central and ₹10,000 from the UT) and a 2 kW plant about ₹80,000 (₹60,000 Central and ₹20,000 from the UT).

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Madhya Pradesh MLA from Sendhwa, Montu Solanki, has told Public Health Engineering (PHE) officials to give every household in Jhirijamli village a tap water supply within eight days. His inspection found that ₹2.07 crore was approved for a Nal Jal Yojana project in the village, yet no home had received water.

Villagers, including women, told him they still walk long distances for drinking water. They said a borewell was built without a motor pump, and a pipeline lay above ground at several places. Scheme rules require it to be buried about three feet deep. They also raised a ₹12 lakh electricity bill issued to the gram panchayat.

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About 60,000 registered construction workers in Uttarakhand have got health check-ups under the Chief Minister Sharmik Swasthya Yojana, state labour commissioner Prakash Chandra Dumka said. Uttar Pradesh is now studying the scheme.

A team of the UP Labour department, led by additional labour commissioner Junaid, visited Uttarakhand on Saturday and met officials of the Uttarakhand Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board. The team went through the scheme's basic framework, technical arrangements, working process and main features.

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