Employees Unions delegations meet CM
Bhopal:Delegations of several employees unions met Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Vidisha air strip on Sunday. Chouhan assured them for fulfillment of their justified demands at the earliest. Contractual Health Workers and Officers Union, Aaganwadi Workers and Assistants Ekta Kalyan Sanghathan of Women and Child Development department besides District Cooperative Committee Employees union met Chouhan one at a time.
Chouhan also heard the grievances of the local people and assured them for speedy redressal. Before this, Chouhan along with this wife participated in the Holi Milan Programme held at local Shahnai Garden.
Edu dept calls Teacher cadres’ merger fake
Bhopal:The School Education department has described the order in connection to the merger of employees of teacher cadre in the education department by abolishing the post of teacher cadre in the State as fake. The department has also written for initiating a legal action against the culprits in this regard. The School Education department has clarified that no such order has been issued by the department.
Guv honours women for their feats
Bhopal:Governor Anandiben Patel honoured women for their achievements from various fields with the ‘Woman of Wonder’ award at Mumbai. The programme was organised by International lions Club Divyaraj Foundation and Wokhai Foundation.Governor Patel gave away the award to Pankaja Munde in political field, Rani Bang in social sector, Pallavi Ghadade for administrative leadership, Aruna Oswal for social service, Manashi Pradhan for NGO leadership, Sunaina Hajarilal for dance and cultural leadership, Indu Sahni in education sector, Marine Joseph for police leadership, Rangmanch artiste Mahabanu Kotwal, Veerta award to Nidhi Chafekar, for Yogya Arogya to Jamuna Bai and Anayta Shroff Adzabnia for fashion. Besides 12 other women were also honoured by banker Smt. Amrita Fadnavis.
Burn injuries patients to get better facility
Bhopal:Arrangements at wide level are being made for better treatment of patients, suffering from the fire injuries in the State. In order to provide good and proper facilities to the patients, burn units are being established at 5 medical colleges of Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Rewa and Gwalior under the NPPMBI scheme of the Union Government. An amount of Rs20 crore is being incurred to establish these units.
Almost 70 lakh people of the country become victim of various fire accidents every year in the country. Out of these victims, treatment is provided to about 7 lakh people by admitting them in the hospitals and about 2 lakh 40 thousand people become inactive due to the serious complications. A 12 bed ward along with 4 bed ICU and OT are being established in each unit of the proposed burn unit in the medical college. Trained nurse, paramedical workers, general surgeon and burn plastic surgeon will be made available to take care of the injured patients in these units. Moreover, programmes will be conducted from time to time to spread information about the burn units among the common men.
BHEl exec dir administers Safety oath
Bhopal:On the occasion of National Safety Day being observed in BHEl, Bhopal DK Thakur Executive Director BHEl Bhopal today administered the “Safety Oath” to all general managers, DROs and other senior officials at Third Floor Administrative Building Conference Hall.
Thakur in his address appreciating the initiatives carried out in the unit towards health & safety said that there always remains a scope for improvement in the implementation of safety measures. He further urged the gathering to put all out efforts in achieving all health & safety related target saying that Prevention is better than cure. later, a mock drill was conducted at the Inflammable Store located inside the factory premises. A message from Executive Director was also released on the occasion.
BHEl ladies Club puts up exhibitions
Bhopal:BHEl ladies Club on Sunday put up a stall exhibiting various products manufactured by different wing of the club at Gurudwara premises, Piplani. On this occasion Pratibha Thakur, President BHEl ladies Club, all vice-president and members were present. Thakur inaugurating the stall said that the objective of the club is to empower the economically weak women of the society. The product on display included bag, purse, spices, artificial bouquet, decorative bag, wall hanging, photo frame and many other items made by different wings of the club.
Dalit man pushed into Holi bonfire
Sagar:A dalit man was allegedly pushed into a Holi bonfire by an upper caste couple in Futera village in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district on March 1.According to police, the couple got angry fearing the bonfire lit by the victim and others would engulf their house. The dalit, identified as Balram Ahirwar, survived with 15 per cent burn injuries, an official said, adding that the police arrested one Raje Rajput (38) in connection with the incident on Thursday night while efforts are on to trace his wife.
The incident occurred during the Holika 'dahan' (burning) ceremony in the village, located around 40 kms away from the district headquarter, said Rahatgarh police station inspector Anil Singh.
He said Rajput and his wife got angry after Ahirwar and others lit the bonfire to mark the occasion, which they feared would engulf their house.In a fit of rage, they caught hold of Ahirwar and pushed him into the bonfire, the inspector said. Ahirwar was rescued by other revellers and admitted to hospital.
District SP S Shukla told Ahirwar alleged the Rajput couple passed casteist remarks during an argument with him. Singh said the accused duo have been booked under relevant sections of the IPC and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.