Explanation (b) Life Insurance Corporation of India is headquartered in Mumbai. It has eight regional centres and 101 divisional offices, one of which is located in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh.

COMMENT

• Life Insurance Corporation of India or LIC is India’s largest life insurance company and also the largest. investor in the country. It is completely owned by the Government of India. The Indian Parliament passed the Indian Life
• Insurance Bill on June 19, 1956. Under which the Life Insurance Corporation of India came into exis tence on September 1, 1956.

Explanation (a) For the first time in the country, the first community radio centre of Madhya Pradesh was started from Sironj in Vidisha district on September 12, 2008, as part of the establishment of Community Radio Center in Madhya Pradesh for the information of tribal welfare schemes. The telecast from this centre started on October 2, 2008.

Note: Community radio is a type of radio service that provides a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial and public service. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular with a local, specific audience, which may be ignored by com mercial or mass media broadcasters.

Explanation (a) In Madhya Pradesh, Gau Seva Commission has been set up to protect and take proper care of cows. For this “Goseva Ayog Rules, 1995” has been passed.

COMMENT

• . Chairman of Madhya Pradesh Goseva Commission (Board) gets the status of Cabinet Minister.
• By the Year 2015, Madhya Pradesh Gau Seva Board was named as Animal Promotion Board, in which only 16 crore annual support was provided by the government for the promotion of cows with all animals and chickens, but now the arrangement of finance for this is 96 crores.

Explanation (a) The first farmer school of the state has been opened by the Madhya Pradesh government in Jabalpur city.

Explanation (c) The office of the Accountant General of Madhya Pradesh is located in Gwalior. The headquarters of this office is under the Chairmanship of the Accountant General, “53, Arera Hills”, Bhopal.

COMMENT- Office Main Functions

• . Revenue generated in the form of central receipts re lated to Income Tax, Central Products and Customs
• Departments of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Receipts of Madhya Pradesh Government.
• Expenditure of forest, public works, water resources, public health, engineering departments and Narmada
• Valley Development Authority. Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana