Maharashtra: Detention centre for foreign nationals to come up in Navi Mumbai

The Maharashtra government on Friday approved a proposal to set up a permanent detention centre in Navi Mumbai area of Maharashtra for foreign nationals who have overstayed in the country reported the PTIThe proposal was approved at a cabinet meeting chaired by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde an official saidThe permanent centre will be constructed at Balegaon in Navi Mumbai while a temporary detention centre will come up at Bhoiwada central jail in Mumbai the cabinet decided according to the PTIThe Navi Mumbai facility will house 213 inmates while the Bhoiwada centre will have the capacity to accommodate 80 persons at a timeThe need for such centres was felt as in many cases foreign nationals released from prison after serving their sentence for overstaying the visa limit can not immeditely go back to their country for various reasons the official saidIn an another decision in the cabinet also decided to pay milk producers in Maharashtra Rs 5 per litre for milk export and Rs 30 per kg for milk powder export as per the PTIAnother decision it took was to approve Anandacha shidha package for ration card holders for Rs 100 ahead of the Ganesh Festival The package will include one kg of rawa sugar lentils and edible oilThe cabinet also approved the tourism policy for 2024 which contemplates an investment of Rs one lakh crore in ten yearsA new law will be brought in to curb support to Naxalites the cabinet decided the news agency reported on FridayA proposal to purchase 259 mobile forensic vehicles also received its nodA separate land acquisition rehabilitation authority will be set up in Nashik and Amravati districts of MaharashtraWomen will be given 10000 pink erickshaws in 14 districtsThe exgratia payment for shikshan sevaks would be hiked with 334 sevaks getting Rs 10000 per month the cabinet decidedNotably assembly elections are due in Maharashtra in OctoberMaharashtra CM announces Rs 11 crore reward for T20 World Cupwinning Indian teamMeanwhile CM Shinde on Friday announced a cash reward of Rs 11 crore for the Indian cricket team which won the T20 World CupThe announcement was made in the central hall of the Vidhan Bhavan state legislature complex here where four Mumbai players from the team captain Rohit Sharma Suryakumar Yadav Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shivam Dubey were felicitatedCM Shinde in his speech expressed his delight over the teams victory against archrivals Pakistan in the World Cupwith PTI inputs