Rs 125 cr to be spent for PM’s Yatra event: Cong
Bhopal: As much as Rs 125 crore will be spent on ensuring an impressive crowd at a ‘Namami Devi Narmada Sewa Yatra’ event, which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress Madhya Pradesh unit claimed on Sunday. The May 15 event at Amarkantak will mark the end of the Madhya Pradesh Government’s pet project. This sum will include expenditure on ferrying people to the event in over 5,300 buses and providing them food and training, besides on the security paraphernalia, the State Congress unit said. A target has been set for authorities in each of the 51 districts on the number of people to be sent for the event, Congress leader Ajay Singh claimed. He alleged that the ground reality on the Save Narmada project was quite different from what was being projected by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan State Government.
2 dead, 6 injured as car hits stationary truck
Katni: Two persons, including a woman, were killed and six others injured on Sunday when their car rammed into a stationary truck near Chapra village in the district, a police official said. The incident took place in the morning when their car hit the truck near a fuel pump, about 35 kms away from the district headquarters, Sleemanabad police station in-charge J P Dwivedi said. The deceased have been identified as Usha Singh (56) and Vimal Mishra (60). Those injured in the incident are all family members of Usha Singh and they have been admitted to a hospital in Katni, police said. “The victims were on their way to Hyderabad from Bhadohi town in Uttar Pradesh when the accident took place,” Dwivedi said. Further investigation is on.