jails minister felicitates brave girl
Bhopal: Home and Jails Minister Babulal Gaur visited Bhumika Residence in Kolar area and felicitated brave heart girl Reeti Patoti with Rs 5000 in cash and bouquet. MlA Rameshwar Sharma and ASP Rajesh Chandel were also present on the occasion. Gaur said that the teenager through her courage and presence of mind forced looters to flee the spot. Gaur congratulated Patoti couple for girl's exemplary courage.
first global bamboo summit at indore
Bhopal: Country's first Global Bamboo Summit will be held at Indore from April 8 to 10, 2016. Theme of the summit will be 'Bamboo for Sustainable Development - Global Cooperation'. This would provide opportunity to bamboo producers and businessmen to connect with global network. Objective of the summit is making available discussion forum to bamboo producers, craftspersons, industrialists and technicians and discussions on bamboo procurement, bamboo policy, bamboo innovations etc. It also aims at maintaining demand and consumption of bamboo and increasing interaction between banking institutions, designers and bamboo industrialists. The summit will also discuss economic upliftment of the districts which produce bamboo on large scale, but are unable to earn proper profit from it. Discussions will also be held at the summit on role of bamboo in climate change, further its importance in market as replacement of timber, supply chain management for bamboo craft and products, bamboo in Make in India etc. India is second in the world in bamboo production. As many as 130 species of bamboo are found here. Indian bamboo industries transacts business of Rs 2040 crore at international level and Rs 4463 crore in the country. Through innovative management, bamboo can be used for economic upliftment of villages, serve as an alternative of wood and developed as significant factor of climate change.
tiger family multiplies in panna reserve
Bhopal: A tiger family has multiplied in Panna tiger reserve again. Tigress Panna-213 has been sighted with 2 newborn cubs in the reserve. Monitoring for security of the tigress and cubs has been tightened. Panna-213 has delivered third litter of cubs. Earlier, she gave birth to 4 cubs including one tiger and 3 tigress who have grown up now. Tiger had become extinct in Panna. They were relocated in year 2009. Panna-213 is one of the first litter of T-2 tigress relocated in Panna. The once tiger-less reserve has about 32 tigers now. In Madhya Pradesh, Panna is the only tiger reserve where tigers have been collared. Roaming of tigers is traced through collars which results in their better safety and maintenance.
tourism dept to spruce up key destinations
Bhopal: Tourist destinations in Madhya Pradesh will be further developed to spur growth of tourism sector. Every possible effort will be made for it, stated MD of Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation Hari Ranjan Rao at inaugural function of two-day annual meet of the corporation at Khajuraho on Friday. Rao held one-to-one meetings with hotel managers regarding increase in tourism business and elicited their suggestions. He said that the hotel managers not meeting their annual target should do it within time-limit. Rao informed that a tourism promotion unit has been constituted in the corporation to implement tourism policy, tourism promotion and development through private investors. The unit is also selecting suitable land for tourism projects, its transfer in the name of department, limitation ands survey etc. Unit's main work is providing necessary assistance and guidance to investors for establishing projects. lease agreements are being entered into by the unit for various tourist facilitation centres on the sides of highways. Additional MD Tanvi Sundariyal, Executive Directors PP Singh and OV Choudhary and managers of various hotels and establishments in the state were present on the occasion.
cm,pr min mourns death of pa sangma
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Public Relations, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Rajendra Shukla have expressed profound grief over the death of former lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma. Chouhan said that his term as lok Sabha Speaker will always be remembered. He also ensured welfare of the poor and weaker sections. He will be remembered as a leader of masses. Chouhan has prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family to bear the loss. Expressing profound grief over the death of former lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma, Shukla said that late Sangma was popular political leader. His term as lok Sabha Speaker will be specially remembered. Shukla has prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family to bear the loss.
neemuch woman’s polyhouse farming
Bhopal: Neemuch's woman farmer Rekha Bai Baanchhda has set an example for other farmers by making agriculture profitable through polyhouse farming. Rekha Bai of village Jaitpura near Neemuch has developed a polyhouse costing Rs 9.35 lakh with the assistance of Horticulture Mission. Shunning social traditions, Rekha Bai not only started farming, but also set an example to make advanced agricultural techniques as better source of livelihood. Rekha Bai's husband is a driver. When he went to Gujarat, he saw polyhouses there. He was inspired to take to polyhouse farming. On return, he informed his wife Rekha Bai about it. Rekha Bai held discussions with officers of Horticulture Department on construction of a polyhouse. Polyhouse costing Rs 9.36 lakh includes 50 per cent subsidy by the state government. First Rekha Bai grew up crop of cucumbers from which she earned additional income of Rs 1.50 lakh. later in consultation with Horticulture Mission officers, Rekha Bai grew highbred yellow and orange marigold flowers. These days, large marigold flowers are blooming in the polyhouse. Rekha Bai has made preparations to sent marigold flowers to Ujjain for Simhastha. She hopes of better income through it. Recently, Ujjain Commissioner Ravindra Pastor inspected and lauded her polyhouse. Rekha Bai is doubly sure that marigold flowers of her polyhouse will spread fragrance in Simhastha.
house expresses concern over student suicides
Bhopal The Madhya Pradesh Assembly Friday expressed concern over the spurt in incident of students’ suicide due to depression. Ramniwas Rawat and Arif Aquil of Congress raised the issue during a calling attention notice. Taking coginsance of this serious issue, Speaker Sitasaran Sharma announced to constitute an assembly committee to stop such unfortunate incidents. The committee would submit its report after consulting experts. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the issue is very serious. It seems the happiness goes away from the school children as their innocence is robbed by huge bags on their back and pressure to bring better marks in the examination. The School authorities should not exert pressure on the students to keep afloat their institutions name. Chouhan suggested forming the committee and after the Chief Ministers reply, the Speaker announced to constitute the committee. Earlier, Minister of State for School Education Deepak Joshi said in his written reply that 193 students in 2012, 218 in 2013 and 223 committed suicide for unable to pass examinations.
kolar sanskriti samiti to celebrate shivratri
Bhopal: Kolar Sanskriti Vikas Samiti will celebrate Maha Shivratri festival like every year and take out Shiv Barat on March 7. Shiv Barat will start from Bairagarh Chichili temple premises at 12 noon and end at Fine enclave temple premises at 6 pm. Renowned Bhajan singers Baba Sinku from Jhansi, Jyoti Sharma form Agra and Bablu Mishra from Gwalior will be present bhajans at the programme that would start at 7 pm at Bimakunj, Kolar Road.
jithu rai wins gold in 50m free pistol event
Mhow: International Shooting Sports Federation World Cup is being conducted at Bangkok, Thailand from March 01 to 09. On Friday, Ace Shooter, Nb Sub JItuRai, Sena Medal of Indian Army Marksmanship Unit won Gold medal in 50m Free Pistol event at the ISSF World Cup, Bangkok. The individual wins Gold medal by scoring 562/600 in Qualification round and 191.3/218 in Finals. The Individual has won 14 International medals including 05 Gold, 05 Silver and 04 Bronze medals which includes World Cups, World Championship, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. This sterling performance brought laurels and fulfilled the Indian Army and Army Marksmanship Unit’s promise to the nation.