Asst Pension officer suspended for taking bribe
Bhopal: Assistant Pension Officer, Hoshangabad Girish Kumar Malviya has been suspended. This action has been taken by Commissioner Treasury and Accounts after receiving information that the Assistant Pension Officer was caught red-handed while taking bribe by lokayukta Organisation, Bhopal. His temporary headquarters during suspension will be office of the Divisional Joint Director Treasuries and Accounts, Rewa.
MP gears up to takcle dengue, malaria
Bhopal: Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa reviewed efforts to check dengue and malaria in the State here on Tuesday. He directed to make available necessary medicines in all district hospitals and medical colleges. The meeting was informed that Public Health and Family Welfare Department has started intensive drive to check malaria, dengue, swine flu etc. Isolation wards have been set up in hospitals. Due to activeness of Health Department, preparations to check diseases have been started at district level. For this, ASHA workers, ANMs etc have been trained. Test and medicine arrangements have been made from village to development block to district level. Malaria test kits have been distributed at village level so that blood test can be started and free of cost treatment of patients started at the earliest. Central Government has been urged to provide requisite testing kits for testing of dengue and swine flu. Health Department has ensured all arrangements for treatment. As per informtion collected by the department from districts, 29 cases of dengue and swine flu have been reported this month so far. Field officers have also been directed about malaria. Action has also been taken to create awareness among people in the state for effective control and treatment of diseases. Principal Secretary Health Gauri Singh, Principal Secretary Medical Education Vinod Semwal, Health Commissioner Pankaj Agrawal etc attended the meeting.
guv mourns death of Padam shri Jagdish Chaturvedi
Bhopal: Governor Ram Naresh Yadav has expressed profound grief over the death of eminent scholar and poet Padamshri Jagdish Chaturvedi. In his condolence message, the Governor said that late Chaturvedi’s contribution to Hindi is unforgettable. He also worked towards linking non-Hindi speaking people to Hindi. The Governor has prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family to bear this loss.
Joshi calls for Uniform educational system
Bhopal: Uniform education system should be implemented at national level, stated Minister of State for Higher and Technical Education Deepak Joshi at a meeting on proposed education policy at lucknow.
The meeting chaired by Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani was attended by Education Ministers/representatives of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Joshi informed about primary education being imparted in local language in Madhya Pradesh. He also informed about Super-100 Scheme of School Education Department. He informed about ‘Gaon Ki Beti’ and ‘Pratibha Kiran’ schemes being implemented in the state to promote girls’ education. Joshi also informed about hostels built for girl students, residential premises opened for rag-picker children, 250-seat hostels in all divisions and 100-seat hostels for children of denotified and Nomadic tribes. Joshi said that model schools have been opened in all development blocks with state funds. He informed that e-libraries are being opened in colleges. Joshi also suggested promoting local sports.
Irani directed that information should be collected from all districts about new education policy, data of teachers, best practices in education sector, aptitude test and suggestions regarding inclusion of local sports and upload the same by October. Joshi also paid a courtesy visit to Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik.
Govt employees playing hooky to face music
Gwalior: Hundreds of Government employees were found absent from duty during checking. They are drawing their emoluments every month. These employees are not seen working in any department, but they are receiving salaries regularly, sources said. District Collector Sanjay Goyal warned the employees and said that strict action would be taken against them if they found absent again. There has been shortage of employees in various Government department.
felicitation marks Engineer’s Day
Indore: Institutions of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers on Tuesday in collaboration with the Oriental university felicitated eminent engineers of the city in recognition to their exceptional services in various engineering streams to mark Engineers’ Day.
Those who were felicitated include Indore municipal corporation city engineer Harbhajan Singh, Professor SGSITS Rakesh Saxena, MG Sharma of IETE, senior consulting engineer Azad Jain and young woman entrepreneur Rekha Kadam respectively. Speaking on the occasion, IMC city engineer Harbhajan Singh recalled the contribution of Visheswasaraiya towards the water supply scheme of the city stating that it was Visheswasariaya who had designed city’s technological marvel Yashwant Sagar in 1939.
Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz held in Indore
Bhopal: Debasish Mandal, Sr Manager (TXS) and Vivek Pathak, Sr Manager (ITS),representing BHEl, claimed the Runners-Up spot in the Regional round of the Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz, held at Indore, after competing with the sharpest minds of various reputed organizations from Central India. This is the Second time that this Team has brought laurels for the organization. last year, in 2014, they had won the Quiz.
Tata Crucible is India’s most prestigious Corporate business Quiz competitions [wherein 2000 + teams, across 25 cities participated in the last year’s edition], held by the Tata Group. The Team won a cash award of Rs 35000. The award was presented by N Mohan, Global Business Head, Tata International, who was the chief guest for the event. Around 70 teams from different reputed national and multinational companies participated in the preliminary round of this Business Quiz and the BHEl Bhopal team was amongst the top 6 teams to make it to the Finals. After a thrilling final, BHEl emerged as runners up in the event.
Hindi Day observed in SBI Head Office
Bhopal: Hindi Day was observed in the local Head Office of the State Bank of India. On this occasion a message from the Chairperson of the Bank Arundhati Bhattacharya was read to the members of staff.
The Circle Development Officer and Deputy General Manager of the Bhopal Circle Pooja Thakur administered an oath of working in Hindi to members of staff. Thakur also cut open the question papers for the Hindi Competitions for officers and staff of the Bank. She exhorted upon the Heads of Departments to ensure that the bank's policy on Official language is implemented and complied to in their area of operation.
Govt to provide all facilities to disabled: Min
Bhopal: Panchayats, Rural Development and Social Justice, Disabled Welfare and Cooperatives Minister Gopal Bhargava said that disabled persons would be provided all that facilities that are necessary for their better life. Bhargava was speaking at a discourse organised here on Tuesday at the NITTTR auditorium on the occasion of establishment day of Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC). The subject of the discourse was 'Rights of disabled and the reach of Government schemes to them'. Bhargava said that the State Government is concerned for the disabled and it is working with full devotion in this direction. The State has made all round efforts to connect the disable persons with the society and it is the result of these efforts that state was awarded as the best state with the national award of empowerment and promotion of disable for year 2014-15, he added.