# Finance ministry

• The centre will remit 95,082 crore rupees to states next week, double the funds due to them from the shareable pool of taxes this month to enable them to deploy more money on capital spending.
• Finance and corporate minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced it late on Monday after a six hours long meeting with state chief ministers and finance ministers.
• States where also nudged to smoothen land acquisition and create land banks for investors as land is one of the major bottlenecks for investment projects.

# Schemes for tribals

• Prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to tribal people, inaugurating the Birsa munda museum in Ranchi as well as a slew of welfare schemes in Bhopal.
• The birth anniversary of Birsa munda has also been declared as the Janjatiya gaurav divas Or tribal pride day.
• Earlier he inaugurated the first of ten museums dedicated to tribal culture and contribution to the freedom movement and also marking the birth anniversary of tribal freedom fighter Birsa munda in Ranchi.

# Autospy

• The Union health ministry on Monday revised the post mortem protocols to allow for conducting the procedure after the sunset.
• Apart from aiding the family of deceased, the revision was also aimed at promoting organ donations and organ transplants.

# Temple asset monetization

• The Tamil Nadu government is planning to monetise the assets of religious institutions managed by the department of hindu religious and charitable endowments by putting them to productive utilisation.
• A tender was floated recently for selecting an agency to prepare a road map.
• A total of 38,652 Hindu and Jain religious institutions are under the control of the Department.

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