Haj pilgrims to be screened for Ebola
Indore: Haj pilgrims who would be coming from Saudi Arabia would be subject to Ebola screening at airports in Bhopal and Indore, sources said. Names and details of suspected pilgrims would be noted down and a follow-up would be done till they regain their health. According to State Haj Committee, a total of 3,144 people went to perform Haj from Madhya Pradesh. In all, 1,280 passengers took flights from Bhopal airport, while 1,864 took off from Indore airport this year.
Panchayat members to get 7% DA
Bhopal: The State Government has increased dearness allowance by 7 per cent on the total of band pay in salary and cadre pay of Adhyapak cadre and Panchayat Secretaries employed by Panchayat raj institutions and local bodies with effect from July 1, 2014. Now, they will get 107 percent DA. The increase in DA will be payable from July 2014. The DA to Adhyapak cadre and Panchayat Secretaries will be paid to them by the institutions where they are working.
Contractual workers in poll duty likely
Bhopal: Contractual workers may also be deployed in polling parties for general elections for urban bodies and 3-tier Panchayats in the state. Directives have been given to deploy contractual workers only under unavoidable circumstances due to shortage of government employees. State Election Commissioner R Parasuram said that only those contractual workers will be deployed who have completed service of continuous 3 years or more. He said that contractual workers deployed in polling parties will not be appointed as presiding officers and polling officers number-1. They will be deployed as polling officers’ number 2, 3 and 4.
Two minor sisters die of suffocation
Dhar: Two minor sisters died of suffocation when their house caught fire in Sardarpur town near here apparently due to short-circuit. “The mishap occurred in Main Bazar area when blaze started at the house of one Vijay Garg, apparently due to short circuit,” Dhar SP BS Chouhan said. The fire spread due to the presence of crackers for Diwali stored in the house, he said. While one of the victims, identified as Nainu (06), died at primary health centre, Sardarpur, her elder sibling Vaishnavi (08) succumbed to her injuries in Indore. The SP said that both the sisters died of asphyxiation after inhaling thick smoke that had engulfed the house soon after it caught fire. The blaze was brought under control by the fire tenders with the help from local residents.
land revenue officer, son held for graft
Bhopal: A land revenue official and his son were on Monday arrested lokayukta police while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 4,000 at Multanpura village in Rajgarh district. Acting on a tip off, the lokayukta police caught Shivnarayan Mandolia and his son for accepting bribe from complainant lakhan Dangi for transferring land record papers in his name, a lokayukta official said. Shivnarayan’s son Shyam Mandolia (35) took the bribe on behalf of his father, the official said. A case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused in this regard, he said.
Kamlaraja hospital to get new machines
Gwalior: Principal Secretary of Health Ajay Tirki on his one-day visit here inspected Kamlaraja hospital. He found the arrangements in hospital quite satisfactory and found all the doctors in proper dress with name plates. Every room of Kamlaraja hospital was very clean. Tirki expressed satisfactory during his inspection of operation theater, lecture room, library etc. On this occasion the dean Dr JS Patel, Superintendent Dr Jyoti Bindal, Deputy Superintendent Dr Kamal Bhaduaria. Gynaeco HOD Dr Veena Agrawal, Dr Ritu Mishra, Dr Neelam Rajput etc were present. After the inspection Tirki said that there has been some improvement during the last 6 months, even than there is scope for more improvement. He told the reporters that in the next 3 months the machines of CT, MRI would be install in the JAH. After that the people would get facility of the tests at minimum cost. About 1000 bedded hospital he said that the state government has allotted the amount for hospital. The work would start after its completion. About KAITH lab for cardiac he said that tenders have been issued and it would be installing within a year. This would benefit the patients of this region.