Five students of ayurvedic college held
Gwalior: The police on Monday rounded up five students of Ayurvedic College of BSc for creating nuisance in the city under the influence of intoxicants. However, their gang leader Praveen Kirar and one of his associates managed to escape. Police said these students used to consume liquor at Ganga Malanpur based Yadav hotel till morning and then robbed vehicles on highway. They also sometimes paid bill to the dhaba and sometimes not. On Monday these miscreants begin to create havoc in the city and were captured in CCTV camera with their bike numbers. later a police team nabbed them. Their gang leader Praveen Kirar lived in Bahodapur while his family live in Shinde Ki Chawani. The police are now preparing to get the students removed from the college so that after completion of punishment they could be sent to their home. The miscreants included Praveen, Gagan, Sankalp, Rajendra, Vikas and three others. Sankalp and Rajendra are students of BMS while others are doing BSC from Shivnath Singh College. The ASP city Yusuf Kureshi informed they have written a letter to their institution to expel to take action.
Employees threaten hunger strike
Gwalior: Alleging that the State Government was not following the order of the High Court sportsmen of clerical cadre employees association on Tuesday warned that if their demands were not met within three months, the association will reply in the election. They said if their demands were ignored, then they would be on an indefinite strike from August 4. They have been demanding to remove anomalies in the salary. A computer allowance of `500 should be sanctioned to the clerks. Third time stale and pay stale should be given after 28 years of service, they added. Following the strike of the clerks the Government work is being adversely affected. The people coming from far away to the offices suffer most. On account of strike the PHE woman and child development, Tehsildar, Collectorate, education woman polytechnic, tracery, PWD and other offices or bearing deserted look.
lack of manpower at post offices hinders work
Gwalior: The State Government has made Aadhar card compulsory for lPG subsidy, but even after submitting all necessary documents including photo ID, fingerprints and slip, the Aadhar card could not be delivered by the post offices due to shortage of staff. From October 1, the subsidy of lPG would be deposited directly in the bank and so far 50,000 consumers have completed formalities for getting Aadhar card. They are supposed to get information through SMS by uidai, but still the post offices could not deliver it. The scheme was started on June 1, 2010. Chief Post Oiffce officer AK jain informed that if anyone who have enrolled their names for Aadhar card one and half month before can received the card or otherwise they can download e Aadhar letter from uidai website. The official informed that anyone who hasn’t received the card can contact the department for further information.
Govt provides live chat facility for tourists
Bhopal: In view of tourists’ safety in the State, Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation has provided facility of live-chat on its website www.mptourism.com. Giving this information during Tourism Ministers’ conference in New Delhi, Minister of State for Tourism (independent charge) Brijendra Pratap Singh said that tourist helpline number 18002337777 and women’s helpdesk number 1090 will be available on reception counters of all hotels/motels/guest houses in the State. Besides, the State Government is providing facility of tourist police at Sanchi, Khajuraho and Orchha. At present, 60 trained police personnel have been deployed at Khajuraho tourist destination. District Tourism Promotion Councils (DTPC) has been constituted in 22 districts of the State, which will apprise tourists of district’s culture, heritage, rural lifestyle etc. Besides, 1,338 stakeholder such as auto/taxi drivers, porters, guides etc have been given behavioural training under Tourism Awareness Programme.
It is noteworthy that in a letter, Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi has urged Chief Ministers of all the states to ensure effective measures for creating conducive atmosphere for tourists.
Seeds to be distributed through co-op societies
Bhopal: Cooperatives Minister Gaurishankar Bisen has said that maximum seeds produced by Seed Federation should be distributed through service cooperative societies. For this, he also asked 4,536 cooperative societies to do this work with alertness. Bisen was addressing a meeting of Seed Federation’s Board of Directors at Mantralaya here today. Farmers Welfare Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria, Agriculture Production Commissioner MM Upadhyay and Registrar Cooperatives Manish Shrivastava were also present on the occasion. Bisen stressed the need for motivating seed producer farmers for more production of seeds of wheat, soybean and pulses. Farmers Welfare Minister Kusmaria said that dependence on fertilisers can be reduced by producing Barseem and Dhencha. He said that farmers should be motivated for this. It was informed that there are 2,316 seed producing societies in the state. About 2 lakh farmers are engaged in this work. Production of certified seeds has doubled in the state during last 5 years. In year 2012-13, 11.50 lakh quintal certified seeds have been produced. It was informed that about 400 fertile seed production societies collect fertile seeds from different areas. For removing this difficulty, this work is now being done at centralised-level by Seed Federation. During current Kharif, 2,010 quintal fertile seeds were provided to district seed producer societies. It was informed at the meeting that Federation’s regional offices will be opened at Vidisha, Betul, Balaghat, Jabalpur, Khandwa, Panna and Gwalior in view of demand for seeds.
BHEl to augment production capacity
Bhopal: With a view to tap the untapped corners, BHEl is bracing up its capacity augmentation drive towards product development and capacity enhancement. As a part of this HCM department is working on development of a wide variety of equipments as surface condenser, Moisture Separator Re-heater, low Pressure Heaters for India’s first 700 MW Nuclear project of NPCIl. In addition to these extra large size Tube Support Plates of magnitude 3.34m X 6.929m having 11,515 number of tube holes, each of size 28.90mm developed for condenser having 28 numbers of plates is the maiden innovation of BHEl. The augmentation force is further invigorated with indigenous development of 04 No’s Pass type lP Heater for installation in condenser neck for 700Mw KAPP, Nuclear set. The development of Duplex lP Heater for 800MW Yeramarus Super Critical plant is another feather to the glory. The heaters are housed in a common shell with compact arrangement to keep them functionally separated, work on which is in the advanced stages.
Abha-Vibha Chaurasia concert on July 27
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum from the month of July, 2013 has commenced various activities and programmes under the performing art presentations. The musical concert of Abha-Vibha Chaurasia, Indore was scheduled on July 27 and that of Urmila Pandey, Chhatarpur on Bundeli music was to be held on 28th July have being cancelled due to some reasons. These musical concerts will further be organized in the month August. The Sangrahalaya regret this inconvenience.
Senior Citizen Award 2013
Indore: As the last date for submission of nomination form for Indian Senior Citizen Award 2013, is coming nearer, the participants who have filled in nomination forms are eagerly awaiting October 1, 2013 when 19 senior citizens of the country will be parts of never happened before award competition ‘Indian Senior Citizen Award 2013’ by becoming winners and receive awards. Indian Senior Citizen Award 2013 is a competition of its own kind, conceptualised by being responsible, a social organisation. Based at Indore, organization aims to serve society and exploring talents of senior citizens of our country is their goal. It is presumed that with growing age, a person becomes weak and cannot work properly, but if we look around us only, we can find several old persons who despite growing age, are still fit and doing their work properly. Many of them, besides their own work are also extracting time for doing social services for betterment of society and humanity. Under the situation, if such stalwarts are given due recognition and honored for their contribution to society and country as a whole, we are sure, a new energy will generate therein and they will discharge their services, more effectively.
HC issues notices on PMT racket
Indore: The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore bench) has served notices to the State Government and the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board in connection with the Madhya Pradesh PMT Impersonation racket exposed by Indore police recently. While serving show cause notices, the High Court has directed both the State Government and the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board to submit a reply in this regard within seven days of the issuance of show cause notices. The High Court has also asked the MCI release conditional counseling list. The show cause notices were served following a PIl filed by five students through their counsel Pushyamitra Bhargav in the High Court on Monday. In the PIl, the students had sought cancellation of the PMT examination and demanded that admission to medical colleges be made on the basis of marks in NET -13. In the PIl, the students feared with exposure of PMT impersonation racket by the police, there is a possibility of about 200-250 students getting admission to the medical colleges illegally as the kingpin of the PMT racket Dr Jagdish Sagar in his confession before the police had stated that he had got over 325 students appear in the PMT examination through unscrupulous means.
CM and wife perform puja
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan along with his wife performed puja at famous Khajrana Ganesh Mandir at Indore on Tuesday. Commerce and Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, Minister of State for Public Health Mahendra Hardia, MP Prabhat Jha, MlAs Sudarshan Gupta, Ramesh Mendola and Malini Gaud and other public representatives were also present on the occasion. Following this, Chief Minister Chouhan garlanded a statue of lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak at Palasiya crossing and paid tributes to him. Mayor Shri Krishna Murari Moghe and other public representatives also garlanded on lokmanya Tilak’s statue. Earlier, Chief Minister Chouhan met public representatives and representatives of various organisations at Residency Kothi, Indore.
Governor pays tributes to Amar Shaheed Chandrashekhar Azad
Bhopal: Governor Ram Naresh Yadav has paid tributes and recalled services of Amar Shaheed Chandrashekhar Azad on his birth anniversary here today. Governor Yadav said that revolutionary late Chandrashekhar Azad’s was a true son of the soil. He had set a rare precedent of laying down life for country happily. His brave and self-respecting personality is still a source of inspiration for young generation. Yadav has stressed the need to apprise the young generation of late Chandrashekhar Azad’s personality and sacrifice.
Foundation stone for 7th Medical college today
Bhopal: As per Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s announcement, foundation stone for State’s 7th medical college at Ratlam will be laid on July 24. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be chief guest at inaugural function at village Banjali at 5.30 pm. It will be presided over by Medical Education Minister Anoop Mishra while Minister of State for Medical Education Mahendra Hardia will be special guest. This medical college will have 150 seats. It will be accompanied by a 750-bed fully-equipped hospital. The hospital will provide health facilities to citizens of Nimar and Malwa. Districts of Rajasthan and Gujarat adjoining the district will also get its benefit.
Home Minister inaugurates new community hall
Bhopal: Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta inaugurated the new Community Hall building on the premises of Hanuman Mandir at 5 No Bus Stop here on Tuesday. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs 11.50 lakh sanctioned from the Home Minister’s MlA Fund. Gupta said that construction of the community hall will facilitate devotees coming here to perform religious rites. He also garlanded a statue of Chandrashekhar Azad on his birth anniversary.
Hand-pumps under MP Service Delivery Guarantee Act
Bhopal: Repair of hand-pumps has been covered under Madhya Pradesh Service Delivery Guarantee Act for supply drinking water to people easily and smoothly. Besides, Public Health Engineering Department has also made arrangements for receiving complaints regarding dysfunctional handpumps for Tele-Samadhan Service. Over 5 lakh handpumps are functional in the state. Of these, about 2 lakh handpumps have been installed during last 10 years.