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Changes in pay grade and DA

Jabalpur:Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company limited has issued orders of three per cent on sum of wage band and pay grade of sixth pay commission and two per cent on dearness allowance (DA).At present employees are provided 139 per cent DA which has been increased to 148 per cent from January 2018 and in the same manner in seventh pay commission 5 per cent DA has been increased to 7 per cent which would be applicable from January 2018.The employees would be provided DA in cash with the salary of May 2018 and the DA from the month of January 2018 to April 2018 would also be paid in cash with the salary of the month of May 2018.

sagar group deemed Fastest Growing Indian Company  

Bhopal:Sagar Group has bagged the ‘Fastest Growing Indian Company Excellence Award’ for its contribution to National Development. The above was announced in the National Seminar of “Outstanding Contributions to National Development’ in International Achievers Conference.The award was presented to Siddharth Sudhir Agrawal, Managing Director, Sagar Manufacturers Pvt ltd by Honorable BP Singh, Honorable Former Governor of Sikkim and Aman Sinha, Senior Advocate and BJP Spokesperson at New Delhi in a seminar organized by Indian Economic Development and Research Association.

man threatens with suicide

Indore:A man climbed a mobile tower and threatened to jump off during an anti-encroachment drive here on Thursday. Officials succeeded in persuading him to come down after a 30-minute drama.Santosh Chouhan (45) climbed a mobile tower during a drive against illegal slums in Bhuri Tekri area and threatened to commit suicide to protest demolitions, said an official of the Indore Municipal Corporation. Officials talked to him for nearly half an hour before he finally agreed to climb down.Chouhan lives in one of the illegal shanties, the official said. Over 600 unauthorised shanties in Bhuri Tekri area are being removed in a phased manner, and residents are being provided temporary shelters, the official said. They would be provided permanent tenements, to be built under the Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana, in the same locality, he said.

college director arrested

Indore:The director of a private medical college here has been arrested for allegedly cheating students. Ramesh Badlani (70), director of Modern Institute of Medical Sciences, was arrested by Delhi police from a hotel in the national capital yesterday, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Harinarayanachari Mishra told reporters here.He was brought here on Thursday. Badlani was absconding and police had announced a reward of Rs 20,000 for any information leading to his arrest.He is accused of collecting fees of upto Rs five lakh from more than fifty students for admission to medical and nursing courses at the institute, and discontinuing the classes later citing financial difficulties. The college staff too wasn't allegedly paid their salaries.The students who had taken admission to the institute held a protest last month, following which police registered a case under IPC sections 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) against him. Badlani has a degree in dentistry and had worked in the US in the 1980s before returning to India, police said.

3 die inhaling toxic gases

Satna:Three members of a family died after inhaling toxic gases inside a dried-up well in the district on Thursday. Assistant sub-inspector Mahendra Kumar Gautam said the victims were trying to remove a motor pump from the dried up well in their house at Chhinda village.Jitu Kushwaha (35), who climbed down first, passed out after inhaling the toxic gases. Sapna Kushwaha (18) and Rupesh Kushwaha (25), his family members, got into the well to help him, but fell unconscious too.Some villagers then entered the well wearing masks and brought them out, but all three were declared dead at hospital.