The event was graced by senior officials including Shri Amitabh Jain, Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh; Dr. Alka Mittal, Member (Administration), CBC; Shri Subrat Sahoo, Director General, Chhattisgarh Academy of Administration; Smt. V. Lalithalakshmi, Secretary, CBC and CEO of Karmayogi Bharat; and Shri S. P. Roy, Joint Secretary, CBC.

An orientation session for Secretaries, Heads of Departments, and Departmental Nodal Officers showcased the iGOT Karmayogi platform, with Shri Rakesh Verma, COO of Karmayogi Bharat, providing a live demonstration. He highlighted the platform’s features, such as modular, role-based, and self-paced learning, which has already benefited over 1.26 crore learners nationwide.

The Government of Chhattisgarh committed to onboarding officials from various departments onto the iGOT platform and expressed interest in co-developing localized content to address the state’s specific governance priorities. This MoU marks the beginning of a long-term institutional partnership aimed at realizing a competency-based, technology-enabled, and continuously evolving learning ecosystem for civil servants in Chhattisgarh, reaffirming a shared commitment to effective and accountable governance.

The company in partnership with the state nigams will plant more than 26 lakh saplings in the state of CG and almost 12 lakh saplings in MP. This is the third such MoU by the company. Through the previous two MoUs the company has planted more than 46 lakh saplings in CG and more than 16 lakh plants in MP between  2013-14 and 2022-23 at a total cost of more than Rs 168 crores.

it is proposed in the MoU that the selection of the species of plants to be carried out shall also be guided by opinion of the local villagers.

The total value of MoU for plantation work in Chhattisgarh is Rs. 131.52 crore (excluding escalation) and the same for Madhya Pradesh stands at Rs. 38.11 crore.

On this occasion on behalf of SECL Shi. B.K. Jena GM(Min.)/HoD(E&F) and from (CGRVVN) Divisional Managers of Industrial Plantation Division Korba, Raigarh & Sarguja signed the MoU and on behalf of MPRVVN Ltd., Shri Veni Prasad Dotania (I.F.S.), Divisional Manager of Umaria Project Division signed the MoU.

She has been posted at one of the Mega Projects of NCL Jayant, Singrauli. A Native of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, she completed her engineering in Mining Discipline from NIT, Raipur. She joined NCL on 26th June 2023. Miss Pramila said that Mining is a challenging field but learning new things inspires her to work in the field every day as she considers Challenges as opportunities.

The states going into lockdown till March 31 include those where coronavirus cases have been reported – Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, West Bengal, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry and Uttarakhand.

People entering Assam from Coronavirus infected states will be stamped and will be kept under Home Isolation for 14 days.

If found in streets or public place before the completion of 14 days quarantined, will be booked immediately by Police.

The states going into lockdown till March 31 include those where coronavirus cases have been reported – Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, West Bengal, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry and Uttarakhand.

Three new coronavirus positive cases were reported in Rajasthan on Sunday, taking the total number in the state to 28. One positive case each was reported from Bhilwara, Jhunjhunu and Jodhpur, Additional Chief Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh said. He said that out of the total 28 cases, 13 are from Bhilwara and four from Jhunjhunu and rest from other parts of the state including the capital city Jaipur. Singh said that the government is in process if earmarking quarantine facility for 1 lakh people to face any emergency.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel announced a lockdown in urban areas of the state till March 31 in view of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “To prevent the spread of virus in Chhattisgarh, we have decided to impose curfew till 31 March in all urban areas. During this period, all offices, institutions,
transport services etc will be closed. However, essential services such as medical shops, grocery shops, vegetable outlets, milk shops and petrol pumps will function,” he said.

Besides, services like electricity supply, water supply, domestic gas supply, municipal sanitation, waste disposal and commercial transport will continue to function as before, he said.

Presently the last date of filing GSTR-3B returns for every taxpayer is 20th of every month. From now on, the last date for filing of GSTR-3B for the taxpayers having annual turnover of Rs 5 crore and above in the previous financial year would be 20th of the month. Thus, around 8 lakh regular taxpayers would have the last date of GSTR-3B filing as 20th of every month without late fees.

The taxpayers having annual turnover below Rs 5 crore in previous financial year will be divided further in two categories. The tax filers from 15 States/ UTs, i.e., Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will now be having the last date of filing GSTR-3B returns as 22nd of the month without late fees. This category would have around 49 lakh GSTR-3B filers who would now have 22nd of every month as their last date for filing GSTR-3B returns.

For the remaining 46 lakh taxpayers from the 22 States/UTs of Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha having annual turnover below Rs 5 crore in previous financial year will now be having last date of filing the GSTR-3B as 24th of the month without late fees.

The Finance Ministry said that the necessary notification in this regard would be issued later by the competent authority.

In a statement issues, the Ministry further said that it has also taken a note of difficulties and concerns expressed by the taxpayers regarding filing of GSTR-3B and other returns. The matter has been discussed by the GSTN with Infosys, the Managed Service Provider, which has come out with above solution to de-stress the process as a temporary but immediate measure. For further improving the performance of GSTN filing portal on permanent basis, several technological measures are being worked out with Infosys and will be in place by April 2020.