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Big News: Jharkhand approves Jharkhand Ethanol Production and Promotion Policy 2022; Odisha releases the draft Deviation, Settlement Mechanism, and Related Matters Regulations, 2022; Gujarat issues its Regularization of Unauthorized Development Ordinance (GRUDO) 2022; and more.

Industrial Policy & Business Regulations

Nothing critical to report this week

Land Acquisition & Labor Regulations

Nothing critical to report this week

Infrastructure & Governance

Maharashtra approves a telecommunications infrastructure policy to rapidly expand infrastructure for 5G technology in the state. This policy will be applicable to both above ground and underground optical fiber cables.

Source: Free press Journal; In detail: Cabinet decisions

Maharashtra becomes the first state to have a Niti Aayog-like think tank called Mitra — Maharashtra Institution for Transformation.

Source: Mid-day; In detail: Cabinet decisions

Climate Change

Jharkhand launches a website to provide data on air pollutants being emitted from industrial units. This portal seeks to bring transparency to the state’s rating program that is based on industrial units’ particulate matter emissions.

Source: Outlook India; In detail: Portal

Jharkhand launches the second phase of the ‘Aap Ki Yojana - Aapki Sarkar - Aapke Dwar’ program, which will be monitored through the portal. The program aims to connect every person to welfare schemes and ensure benefits are received.

Source: Daily Pioneer; In detail: Press release; Portal

Oil & Gas

Nothing critical to report this week

Water & Sanitation

Nothing critical to report this week

Power & Renewable Energy

Jharkhand approves Jharkhand Ethanol Production and Promotion Policy 2022 that aims to promote ethanol production in the state. The policy will increase farmers’ income due to the use of sugarcane, maize, and broken rice as raw material in ethanol production.

Source: Daily Pioneer; In detail: Cabinet decisions

Jharkhand issues its Jharkhand Electric Vehicle Policy 2022, which provides grants for the purchase of electric vehicles

Source: Lagatar; In detail: Gazette notification (Notification No. 1089, Gazette no. 498)

Odisha releases the draft Deviation, Settlement Mechanism, and Related Matters Regulations, 2022 that seeks to improve the security and stability of the grid.

Source: Construction world; In detail: Regulations

Health

Nothing critical to report this week

Center – State Relations

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy issues the revised draft of the National Repowering Policy for Wind Power Projects 2022, that aims to optimize utilization of wind energy resources by repowering older, smaller wind turbines with higher efficiency turbines.

Source: Economic Times; In detail: Draft National Repowering Policy for Wind Power Projects, 2022

Any Other

Gujarat gives citizens a chance to regularize their properties through the Regularization of Unauthorized Development Ordinance (GRUDO) 2022. This Ordinance will help poor and middle class families legalize their unauthorized properties.

Source: Times of India; In detail: Notification; Gujarat eGazette

Tamil Nadu passes a bill that prohibits online gambling and regulates online games in the state to lessen unsustainable debt incurred from online gambling.

Source: The Hindu; In detail: Ordinance

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu top the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U) awards that recognizes the contribution of states, union territories, and urban local bodies in the implementation of the PMAY-U housing scheme.

Source: The Hindu; In detail: Press release

Chhattisgarh approves the draft of a policy to set up higher educational institutions under public-private partnership (PPP) model to provide quality education to youth from backward areas.

Source: India Today; In detail: Cabinet decisions