Rotary, Ranchi to help PRAN Clinic
In order to provide free and affordable medical care to patients of urban and rural areas, Rotary Ranchi held a discussion Dr Dinesh Ranjan of PRAN clinic- Pravasi Alumni Nishulk clinic and Raj Barolia of Dawai Dost. Ranjan said,”Free health check- up is being provided by doctors at Ranchi Press Club and consultation with American doctors can also be arranged through teleconferencing if needed.” “With 17 outlets, patients can now buy medicines at cheaper prices which they could not afford once,” said Barolia. Rotary Ranchi President Aditya Malhotra said that Rotary will help PRAN clinic and Dawai Dost as much as possible. Former Jharkhand DGP RR Prasad, Dr Vinay Dhandania, Nishi Jaiswal, Deepak Shristava and others were present on the occasion.
Workshop on IoT at UMU
A hands-on workshop on Internet of Things (IoT) was organised by the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Usha Martin University (UMU) on 27th and 28th of February. The workshop was to stimulate and receive input for the development of the idea of allied platforms for IoT. Specialised resource persons including Dr. Itu Snigdh, Assistant Professor, BIT Mesra and Dr. Md. A.K. Akhtar, Assistant Professor, UMU discussed the subject in detail. The workshop addressed researchers, industry, application developers, and start-ups. Besides UMU, students from other institutes including St. Xavier’s College, World Star (Hatia), Yogada Satsang Mahavidyalya, Ranchi and IGNOU Jamshedpur also participated in the workshop.
DDC direction for banking officers
The Deputy Development Commissioner Bokaro Ravi Ranjan Mishra, after meeting with various government and private bank managers in the district, directed to get the target of approving the applications received by the government for schemes like PMEGP. He also instructed to distribute Kisan Credit Card among all the 33,000 registered farmers till saturation as per the target and said that the government's top priority is to make farmers prosperous and promote small scale business. If any bank branch does not fulfill the given target by working as expected by 07 March, then departmental action will be taken on them.
Hindi workshop at BSL
A Hindi workshop organized in the water management department of BSL. The Chief Guest General Manager (Water Management) L. Upadhyay, Deputy General Manager Sanjay Khes, Senior Manager I. Minj, Manager (Rajbhasha) Basudev Rajwar and other officers and employees of the department were present in the workshop. Initially, Deputy Manager and Hindi Officer F Kisku presented the departmental Hindi report. Upadhyay called upon the employees to pay special attention to use of Hindi in official and daily work to promote the propagation of Official Language Hindi. On behalf of the Department of Official Language, Manager Basudev Rajwar highlighted the main points of propagation of the Official Language and the Official Language Act and stressed on the use of Unicode.
RRD bids adieu to 5 employees
Five railway employees of various departments working in Ranchi Railway Division retired on Friday and were paid all the retirement benefits. On this occasion, ADRM (Operations) MM Pandit extended best wishes to retired employees and wished for a happy and healthy life after retirement. Sr DPO Manik Shankar, Sr DME Sidharth Pradhan, APO Rishabh Sinha, APO Mohammad Ibarra, AOM Vibhuti Narayan Sharma, were present on the occasion.
Ranchi-Patna-Ranchi special train
Keeping in mind the extra rush of passengers during Holi festival, it has been ensured by the Railway Administration that a special Holi Special train will be run between Ranchi - Patna - Ranchi with special charges. The train will depart from Ranchi on March 7 and will depart from Patna on March 8. There will be a total of 18 coaches in this train, in which there will be 02 luggage coaches, second class sleeper coaches, 03 AC three tier coaches and 03 unreserved coaches.
National Science Day at BIT
National Science Day was celebrated at BIT, Mesra under the aegis of TEQIP-III on Friday. The event was being coordinated by Dr. S.K. Rout, Dr. Dilip K. Singh and Dr. Sukalyan Chakraborty. The ceremony started with the lighting of the lamp by Vice-Chancellor, Dr. S. Konar, Dean Students' Welfare, Dr. A. K. Sinha, TEQIP-III Coordinator, Dr. Kunal Mukhopadhyay and the coordinators of the event. An extempore competition was held. The topic for the same was 'Visionary View on Science 2050'. Parallelly, another speaking competition was being held in CAT Hall in which the participants were asked to express their views on 'Women in Science'. The final competition of the first half was held in the CAT Hall from 12:00 PM in which the participants were asked to ideate their views on societal relevant information by means of Speech, Presentation or Model.
