CM holds emergency meet, visits affected areas
Bhopal: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan to visit flood affected Rewa and Satna cancelled all his pre scheduled programmes. Chouhan reached Itarsi by road and boarded train from there to reach Satna. He reviewed the situation emerged due to heavy rains in all the districts of the Atate in an emergency meeting held in the morning at his residence. On receiving information about the worst hit Rewa and Satna districts, he cancelled all his pre-scheduled programmes and took a journey to the most affected area. Due to the bad weather condition instead of plane, Chouhan chose road and train journey to go to the flood affected people.
workshop held by Biodiversity board
Bhopal: MP State Biodiversity Board, Bhopal organised a workshop on ‘Urban Biodiversity Watch’ on Saturday in collaboration with Bhopal Birds and Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal for the school teachers. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Scientist-B and In-Charge of Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal, Sangeeta Rajgeer and Mohd Khalique from Bhopal Birds were attended the programme. Teachers from various schools of Bhopal participated in this programme. Sangeeta Rajgeer detailed about the importance of workshop. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Scientist-B and In-Charge of Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal informed about the programme and activities doing towards the importance of Urban Biodiversity and its conservation by the museum. Mohd Khalique detailed to make a Digital Biodiversity Register of Bhopal city, to make a proper data base about biodiversity of different areas of Bhopal through photographs of urban biodiversity. Interested schools may be registered their participation through website www.urbanbiodiversity.in before September 31, 2016.
cci young indians to hold ‘horn not ok’ rally
Bhopal: CII Young Indians on August 21 will organise ‘Horn not ok please’ car rally (HNOP) from ISBT at Hoshangabad road to RPM GoKart racing at Ratibad. The objective of this rally is to create awareness about noise pollution in people, to prevent from unnecessary honking and to encourage good driving habits. This rally will be flagged off at 8 am. The Young Indians volunteers and Traffic Police will distribute HNOP stickers. Young Indians Bhopal Chapter Chairman Rakesh Sukhramani in a press release issued here on Saturday informed that one can also contact on 8818889849 to participate in the rally. They said in 80 per cent of the matter people use horns unnecessarily. This campaign is in the direction to stop noise pollution by educating people to make least use of horns on roads and also encourage them to imbibe good driving habits. He also said that it is not possible to stop people from using cars and other means of transport but we can certainly encourage them for lesser and wiser use. This in turn will help in preventing noise and air pollution.
management body holds gen bogy meeting
Bhopal: The 10th foundation day and the general body meeting of Bhopal Management Association was organised at hotel Palash Residency here this evening. The general body meeting session was chaired by BMA chairman Subhash Vitthaldas wherein the honorary secretary Vishwas Ghuse presented annual results and the future plans of the association. Treasurer Manoj Jha presented audited report while Rajesh Tiwari from Vardhman Group proposed vote of thanks. During the session the All India Management Association Director Sanjay Grower, Sanwariya Group director Anil Agrawal and Chief Information Commissioner Atmadeep addressed the audience. Some of the members who have completed 10 years in BMA were felicitated. In the next session cultural programme were presented by the BMA members and their families. An orchestra also presented new and old melodies on the occasion.
ashutosh gowarikar visits igrms
Bhopal: Renowned producer Ashutosh Gowariker visited Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya with Ajay Brahmatmaj film critic, journalist, Gowariker is an Indian film director, actor, writer, producer is especially visited house types of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh at Himalaya village open air exhibition and said, “These exhibitions are exemplary because such habitat even in the Himalayan region are also losing their identity.” After visiting the indoor exhibition museum building Veethi Sankul, Gowarikar said, “The exhibitions are of international standards and the display is quite unique.”