17.06.21 Daily [Telangana] TSPSC Current Affairs

After deciding to auction unutilised government land, the state government is mulling to increase land values for property registrations. After GST and excise, revenue earned through property registrations is the third highest source of revenue for the government.

Sources said the revised land market values will come into force from August 1 this year if chief ministerK Chandrasekhar Raookays the proposal. Theregistrationand stamps (R&S) department has kept the proposals ready, sources said. Our department is aiming to achieve Rs 12,500 crore this financial year (2021-22) after revising the land values.

The government has plans to enhance market land values for non-agriculture properties between 30% and 50%. While the enhancement will be 30% in the rural areas, it will be 50% in Greater Hyderabad and other municipal corporation areas. For agricultural properties, the hike in the values would be about 20% on the existing rates.

Though the government has powers to revise market values every year under the Indian Stamp Act, land values have not been revised after formation ofTelangana. The last revision was done in August 2013 when the state was united.

In the last year 2020-21, the government had given a target of Rs 8,000 crore collections to the registration department, but it had earned Rs 5,260 crore through 12.11 lakh documents registrations, which was Rs 1,800 crore less than the 2019-20 revenue. The property registrations had to be stopped for three months as the government decided to have agricultural properties registration through tahsildars and non-agricultural properties through sub-registrar offices in September last year.

The Centre on Monday told theSupreme Courtthat its notification of May 28 delegating powers to collectors of some of districts to grant citizenship to members of the minority community from Afghanistan,Pakistanand Bangladesh was not related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and that such exercise had been done earlier too since 2006.

By the notification, the Centre has delegated power to grant citizenship in such cases to the collectors of 13 more districts Morbi, Rajkot, Patan and Vadodara in Gujarat; Jalore, Udaipur, Pali, Barmer and Sirohi in Rajasthan; Durg and Balodabazar in Chhattisgarh; Faridabad in Haryana; and Jalandhar inPunjaband to the home secretaries ofHaryanaand Punjab. Now, district collectors of 29 districts and home secretaries of 9 states can exercise such powers.

A Chinese spacecraft “Shenzhou XII” with three crew members docked with China’s new space station module Tianhe 1. This follows the launch of the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft, which delivered critical supplies to the space station.

Highlights:

About six hours after taking off from the Jiuquan launch centre in the Gobi Desert, the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft connected with the Tianhe space station module.

The three-man crew will spend three months on the Tianhe module, which will orbit the Earth at 340km to 380km altitude.

This is the first of two manned space missions scheduled for this year, as part of a intense launch schedule aimed at completing the Chinese space station by 2022.

The three astronauts are the first to live in the main living module, where they will conduct experiments, test equipment, perform maintenance, and prepare the station for the arrival of two laboratory modules next year.

The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the risk that children working in informal processing face as a result of discarded electronic devices, or e-waste, in its report Children and Digital Dumpsites. It is the world’s first WHO report on electronic waste and child health.

Approximately 12.9 million women work in the informal waste sector, exposing them to toxic e-waste (such as nickel, lead, and mercury) and putting themselves and their unborn children at risk.

Children are especially vulnerable to the toxic chemicals found in e waste because of their smaller size, less developed organs, and rapid rate of growth and development.