executive meet of Mayor’s Councils begins
Gwalior: The 107th meeting of executive committee of Mayor’s Councils is being held here on Saturday. Mayors from across the country would stay in the city for two days. In various sessions of the meeting the role of organisation and work plan would be discussed. Special arrangements would be made for the greeting staying and visiting the city are being made. The preparations are being monitored by Sameeksha Gupta. Three dozen mayors are coming from various cities of the country would stay in hotel Adityaz on Bhind road. In this connection the mayor directed officers of Municipal Corporation to make the programme dignified. Gwalior Mayor Sameeksha Gupta has been made vice chairperson of the executive committee of All India Mayor’s council. The letter of chairman of mayor’s council Vinod Chamoli has been received here.
Elderly man fights with 2 men-eater bears
Gwalior: An elderly shepherd was severely injured after two men-eater bears attacked him in Punnapura forest of Panihar in Gwalior district. The sphere fought with the bears for an hour, witnessed said. He was admitted in the trauma centre of JAH for treatment. A resident of Punnapura, Jardan Singh Gurjar went to the forest to graze his buffaloes. When he reached dense forest, two bears attacked him and he fought back with the stick and stones. After a long struggle, bears fled. He reached home in injured condition where his family members informed the police. According to the doctors his condition is out of danger. This is the second attack of bears in Ghatigaon block. 10 days before 10 bears attacked a villagers and injured him seriously.
BJP launches Parivar Sampark drive
Gwalior: The BJP launched its Parivar Sampark drive from Thursday evening from Mukherjee Bhavan in connection with municipal corporation elections. In the Vikas Patra to be distributed most of the old works have been enumerated. The BJP is making a joint folder containing achievements of 100 days of Modi government, public welfare schemes of state government and development municipal corporation Gwalior. The folder contains most of the old work of Municipal Corporation. The old works include Motijheel based water filtration plant, new water treatment plant near Tighra, 15 water tanks and construction of Chopati in Phoolbag, Gurudwara bridge construction, Chapparwalapul, Hazira Bridge and Stone Park on AB road.
ITC to invest more in MP
Bhopal: ITC chairman and business tycoon YS Deveshwar has said that Madhya Pradesh was his next investment destination. Expressing his views at inauguration of ‘Make in India’ campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday, Deveshwar had a word of praise for Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, saying that Madhya Pradesh has made a beginning to change laws in favour of investors. The ITC chairman said that problems of inflation and unemployment could be solved through domestic manufacturing. It is noteworthy that ITC was an established name in varied sectors including agri-business, technology, paperboards, packaging, IT, hotel etc. After success of e-Chaupals to provide benefit of information technology to villagers, the company launched Chaupal Sagar. Under Chaupal Sagar, various types of facilities are available to farmers apart from collection and storage at the same place. As many as 24 Chaupal Sagars exist in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. The company is going to open another 100 Chaupal Sagars in future. ITC agri-business division is the second largest agri products exporter in the country.