Green fencing around Ashrams, hostels
The assistant commissioner, Tribal Development has instructed the block education officers and principals to plant saplings for green fencing around the hostels, Ashrams and educational institutions run under the Tribal Development department, according to the available space.The assistant commissioner, in a circular issued recently said that there were sufficient land with the regular and special institutions run by the Tribal Development department, but due to lack of boundary wall and fencing facilities in many of the institutions, demarcation of the campus could not be done so far. Now, the department has decided to make arrangement for construction of boundary walls around the girls’ hostels and Ashrams in a phased manner. At the institutions where boundary walls could be constructed at present, as an alternative, the department has considered to make green fencing by planting saplings. During the rainy season, with the assistance of forest, horticulture department and local panchayats, sapling plantation would be done for green fencing of departmental hostels, Ashram and educational institutions.
Pollution control panel meet on July 9
The meeting of the District Panchayat Environment Protection and Pollution Control standing committee has been convened at the District Panchayat meeting hall on July 9 at 2 in the afternoon. In the meeting discussions will be held on environment protection and pollution control and on the progress of sanctioned sapling plantation programme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
Assistant director Garden and the secretary Environment Protection and Pollution Control has appealed to the chairman and members of the committee and officers of the departments concerned to be present at the meeting.
Speed up paddy milling, says Collector
Collector Mukesh Bansal has instructed all the millers of the district to speed up the process of lifting and milling of paddy purchased during the year 2012-13. Expressing displeasure on the mill-wise information of storage of rice in the Food Corporation of India and Civil Supplies Corporation and on the progress of paddy milling, the collector instructed the food officer to set a mill-wise paddy milling target by July 15. The collector said that the Government has to bear loss as the milling of paddy was not up to the required quantity. He told the millers to ensure compliance of the instructions with positive thinking. The administration would take positive action on the problems related to electricity, labour etc, raised by the millers at the meeting, he added. The collector said that at present 30.50 lakh quintal paddy remains for milling in the district. There are 112 rice mills in the district. He instructed the millers to deposit the rice after lifting and milling the paddy according to the capacity of their mills.