Govt declares Public holiday on April 14
Bhopal: State Government has declared public holiday throughout the state on Bhimrao Ambedkar Jayanti April 14, 2014. General Administration Department has issued a notification in this regard.
‘Do not interfare in Modi’s personal life’
Bhopal: Urban Administration and Development Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya on Friday objected to Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh’s tweet about Narendra Modi’s wife and asked him not to interfere in the personal life of the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.
"Digvijay should talk about issues related to power and ideological matters. He should stop interfering in opposition leaders’ personal lives. By commenting on Modi he has damaged his reputation," Vijaywargiya told reporters. In a recent tweet, Digvijay had stated, "Modi accepts his marital status. Can women of this country trust a man who stalks a woman, deprives his wife of her rightIJ" The Minister also termed Digvijay’s allegation that the BJP Government tried to pass of Congress-initiated welfare schemes as its own for which it got money from the Centre. "Under the federal structure, every State Government gets assistance from the Centre and from States also, a large amount of central taxes are collected. Therefore, by helping the States, the Centre is not doing any obligation. In any case, we are using Government of India’s money and not that of the Italian Government," he said.
Term of poll expenses monitoring teams
Bhopal: Election expenses monitoring teams have been appointed for 3-phase lok Sabha elections in the State. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has clarified about duration of their appointment. Duty of assistant expenses observers, flying squads, SST, VST, VVT and accounting teams will continue only till polling and re-polling. Assistant expenses observers and accounting teams will undergo training for submitting expenses accounts of candidates and their agents first a day before counting and on 25th and 37th day after declaration of results. Besides, they will also assist in preparation of monitoring reports of district election officers and election expenses observers. Due to this, assistant expenses observers and accounting teams will be relieved of duty after 37th day following declaration of results. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has written a letter in this regard to all collectors and district election officers and returning officers of 29 lok Sabha constituencies.
DD allots Time slots for political parties
Bhopal: Doordashan has allotted time slots to three political parties for their lok Sabha election-related telecast. Timings of the telecast will be selected through lottery at a meeting at the CEO office, which will be convened soon. Doordarshan has allotted 15 minutes to Indian National Congress, 10 minutes to Bharatiya Janata Party and 5 minutes to Bahujan Samaj Party.
Counselling for Asst Grade-3 on april 21, 22
Bhopal: Professional Examinations Board will hold counselling for the post of Assistant Grade-3 in land Records & Settlements at Gwalior on April 21 and 22. list of the candidates who are to appear for counseling is available on the website of Commissioner, land Records & Settlements, Madhya Pradesh. Candidates will have to report at the meeting hall of the office of Commissioner, land Records & Settlements at Gwalior on April 21 and 22 at 10.30 am along with original copies of educational/technical qualifications.
Panel to assess air service arrangement
Bhopal: The State Government has constituted a committee for effective assessment of the arrangement of air service by Air Connect to link major cities of the State. The committee chaired by Additional Chief Secretary Finance will have Principal Secretaries Tourism and Aviation and Managing Director of TRIFAC as members. Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation is the committee’s Member-Secretary.
Schoolchildren meet Chief Secretary
Bhopal: A number of schoolchildren with office-bearers of Child Rights Observatory, Madhya Pradesh and UNICEF called on Chief Secretary Shri Anthony de Sa here on Friday. On the occasion, the Chief Secretary also released a book “Aawazen Bachchon Ki”. Chairperson of Child Rights Observatory Nirmala Buch and Madhya Pradesh Head of UNICEF Traver Clark were present on the occasion. The Chief Secretary discussed and sought information from children about teaching arrangements. The school children put forth suggestions regarding Right to Education Act, Child labour Act
and holding various activities for children in schools. The Chief Secretary said that apart from education, it is also the right of children to get various facilities in schools as per their sports and cultural interests. The children who met the Chief Secretary today belonged to Bhopal’s Sunflower School situated in Naya Basera area, 7 Hills Public School, Arera Hills, Ankur Middle School, Shivaji Nagar, Ankur Higher Secondary School, Ravishankar Nagar and Itarsi’s Jeevoday Vidyalaya. Shri Anil Gulati of UNICEF and Shri Raghuraj Singh of Child Rights Observatory were also present on
the occasion.
RMNH to hold Poster making competition
Bhopal: Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal is organising National-level poster making competition on April 22 on the occasion of Earth Day for selection of young environmentalist of the Year award (YEYA-2014). The theme of Earth Day is "Green cities’’ Children born between April 1, 1996 to March 31, 2000 may participate in the competition. A maximum of 200 children will be registered on first cum first serve basis, Registration is opened from April 15 to 18 between 10.30 am to 3.30 pm at museum’s reception. Registration is free. Besides first, Second, Third and Five encouragement prizes, all the participants would be given certificate of participation. National level winner will be awarded young environmentalist of the Year 2014 (YEYA-2014) at a function to be held at New Delhi on World Environment Day.
Fire breaks out near venue of CM’s rally
Bhopal: A fire broke out in electrical equipment near the venue of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s election rally here on Thurday night, police said. Chouhan was addressing the rally near 12 Number Stop when some equipment affixed to nearby electric tower for taking power connection for the programme caught fire. Police personnel immediately cordoned the area and fire fighters doused the fire. The incident caused interruption in the Chief Minister’s speech for some time. No one was injured in the incident.
NHDC, Ministry of Textiles sign MoU
Bhopal: National Handloom Development Corporation limited (NHDC) signed MOU for the Financial Year 2014-15 with Ministry of Textiles. The MOU was signed by Zohra Chatterji, Secretary(Textiles) and Sarvepalli Srinivas, Managing Director-NHDC Dinesh Kumar, Development Commissioner for Handlooms and JG Mahajan, Dy General Manager (F&A) were also present. National Handloom Development Corporation limited (NHDC) has received ‘Excellent’ rating from Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) under the category of Trade & Service for the year 2012-13.