B’pur Aahaar employees stage demonstration
Brahmapur: Employees of all the four centres engaged in execution of the populist Aahaar programme of the State Government staged a demonstration in front of the Mana Trust here on Thursday in support of their five-point charter of demands and submitted a memorandum to the trust manager Saroj Maharana. The demands included fixing working hours from 10 am to 3.30 pm; not to assign any external work; payment of salary between 1st between 7th of each month; increasing the existing strength of employees of each centre from four to five. The trust sought three days’ time to consider the demands, said employees’ leader Narendra Jena. Police persuaded the employees to restrain from the agitation.
6 K’pada KV girls ill after eating potato chips
Kendrapara: Six Class-V girls of the Kendriya Vidyalaya here fell sick after eating potato chips when one of them shared the chips with her friends in the school. They developed abdomen pain, after which teachers brought them to the district hospital. They were discharged after treatment.
NTPC Kaniha gets Business Excellence Award
Talcher: The NTPC, Kaniha received the NTPC Business Excellence Award Model 2015-16 among the 21 power stations all over NTPC. The award was received by NTPC RED (East-II) Arvind Kumar and Executive Director NK Kothari received the award from Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan in the presence of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission member Dr MK Iyer and NTPC CMD Gurdeep Singh. The award was given during the International O and M Conference held in New Delhi recently.
Dell felicitates its Campassadors (Pix)
Bhubaneswar: The Dell India felicitated its top ‘Campassadors’ from around the country on Thursday. Dell Campassadors is Dell’s first, year-long pan India college engagement programme aimed at spreading technology and PC knowledge among the college students. Kaustubha Panda and Yule Sarkar from the KIIT University secured the 4th and 5th positions respectively in the programme. Dell India Consumer and Small Business marketing director Ritu Gupta said, “We extend our congratulations to the top Campassadors in the country for their activities to connect with their peers using technology.”