GM ECR meets Bihar Energy Minister
General Manager, East Central Railway, Lalit Chandra Trivedi held a meeting with the senior officials of South Bihar Power Distribution and North Bihar Power Distribution Co, in the presence of Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Energy Minister, Government of Bihar on February 01 in Patna. In the meeting, detailed discussions were held on important issues including power requirements of East Central Railway. On this occasion, Chief Electrical Engineer of ECR Ramesh Chandra and other senior high officials were present. Various issues related to railway electrification projects including open access were discussed in the meeting. Also, all the important transmission line projects being implemented by Bihar State Power Transmission Company Limited and their connectivity to Railway Traction Substations (TSS) were reviewed. Officials of Bihar State Power Transmission Company Limited said that it will be started soon. In this sequence, the role of Indian Railways in promoting the trade of agricultural products of Bihar was also discussed in detail. To ensure the timely implementation of all decisions, a standing committee has been formed for which the nominated officers meet at regular intervals.
Meeting on Dedicated Freight Corridor
General Manager, ECR, Lalit Chandra Trivedi held a high level meeting with Arankeen Jain, Managing Director of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Limited (CTHP). Dedicated Freight Corridor projects were reviewed at the meeting. To enable the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor to be operational by June 2022, the work of the section 219.77 km of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, Sonnagar, Gomoh, will be started on PPP mode in 2021-22. Today's high-level meeting was very important in order to complete the project in a time bound manner. The progress of the DFC project from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay to Sonnagar was also reviewed in this sequence. In this order, in today's meeting, in-depth and detailed discussion on the construction work to be done from Sonnagar to Gomo on PPP mode was also held.
DWA distributes food at RIMS
Doctors’ Wives Association took a small initiative and distributed food to around 200 underprivileged people at RIMS. A few members, Vinita Sharan, Chairperson DWA, Co- chairperson, Jhooma Sarkar, President Kamlesh Middha, Secretary Arti Singh took the lead and made arrangements with the help of Vijay Pathak from Roti Bank and served food to approximately 200 patients/attendants at RIMS. Arti Sinha, Rekha Mishra, Bibha Singh and Deepa Chauhan were also present at the venue. The association has decided to carry on this service in future too.
General Budget hopeless: Shailaj Singh
Congress Leader Shailaj Singh has termed the Union Budget 2021-22 a budget full of despair. He said that the decision of the Centre to sell government companies will make the country bankrupt. This will not only increase unemployment but also lead to a problem of bread and butter for lakhs of youth. The economy of the country will go in the hands of some capitalists. He said that the middle class did not get anything in the budget as the Modi government left the middle class at the mercy of the almighty. This budget will increase inflation, which will directly affect people of the country, he said.
January a better month of production for BSL
Committed to make every month a better month in every dimension of execution, the Bokaro Steel Plant is continuously setting new records in the field of production with the collective efforts of its personnel, which continued in the month of January. The production of 352961 tonnes of HR coils from BSL's hot strip mill in January is the best as compared to any month of January and also a new monthly record after modernization of the mill. Production of CRM-1,2 and 3 to 102266 tonnes of CR coils for sale , production of CRM-1,2 and 3 to 107513 tonnes of CR saleable and dispatch of CRM-1,2 and 3 to 104485 tonnes of CR coils and Dispatch of 110803 tonnes CR saleable is also the best record till date of January. Last month, new daily records of 14872 tonnes of hot metal production from four furnace operations and 14666 tonnes of HR coil production from hot strip mills were also created. Apart from this, new monthly production records from BAF and SPM were also made last month.
PNB Ranchi Circle held car dealers meet
Punjab National Bank (PNB) Ranchi South Circle Office organized a conference of car dealers on Tuesday which was charged by PNB Ranchi North Circle Chief, Deepak Kumar Srivasatva. During this conference Deputy Circle Chief, PNB Ranchi Circle South was also present. Car dealers of Maruti, Hyundai, Toyota and other companies participated in the meeting. The car dealers got various information regarding vehicle loans given by the bank at present.