polls preparations to be reviewed on May 17
Bhopal: Officers of the Chief Electoral Office will review preparations for elections during a video-conferencing on May 17 with district nodal officers and deputy district electoral officers. From 10.30 to 11.30, discussions will be held on EVM level checking while election conduct action plan will be reviewed from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm with district nodal officers and deputy district electoral officers. Discussions will be held on polling booths, postal ballots and preparations for training from 12.30 to 1.30 pm.
Mushaira to be held at indore press club
Bhopal: A lecture and mushaira in the memory of world-famous poet Allama Iqbal, the author of Tarana-e-Hind Saare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara will be held at Indore under the auspices of Allama Iqbal Sahitya Prabhag of Sahitya Akademi of Madhya Pradesh Sanskriti Parishad. lecture and mushaira will he held at Indore Press Club’s Ravindra Mathur conference hall. In the first session, 2 lectures will be read out by Aziz Indori and Fahmina Mansoori. The lectures will be followed by mushaira which will be participated by Rana Zaiba from Gwalior, Mehtab Alam from Bhopal, Anita Mukati from Dhar and Rasheed Indori, Aziz Indori, Anwar Sadqi, Ishrat Wahid, Siraj Warsi, Javed Arshi, Sabir Sahba, Ahmad Nisar, Jaleel Talib, Khaleel Atish and Hafiz Mohsin from Indore.
Polytechnic colleges to be equipped with WI-FI
Bhopal: As per announcement of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, campuses of all the polytechnic colleges in the State will be equipped with Wi-Fi facility. The Director, Technical Education has directed to complete process of making available wi-fi facility within one month. Specification of wi-fi has been prepared by Jabalpur Engineering College. It is also uploaded on the departmental website.
50 new veterinary dispensaries to be opened
Bhopal: For ensuring veterinary health, State-level veterinary hospital, divisional polyclinics, district, development block and village level veterinary hospitals and dispensaries are being run in Madhya Pradesh. The State Government will open 50 new veterinary dispensaries this year. For this, Rs4.97 crore has been provisioned in the current departmental budget. Similarly, 123 veterinary dispensaries will be upgraded to veterinary hospitals at a cost of Rs13.14 crore. At present, 795 veterinary hospitals and 1,666 veterinary dispensaries are being run in the state. Besides, there are also 38 mobile veterinary units, 27 semen centres, 22 disease analysis labs, one unit each for food & mouth disease, veterinary health and organic production institute, serum institute, Deputy Director Chicken Pox Epidemic, 19 veterinary check-posts, 10 trailing units, 7 units each of vigilance and intensive vaccination, 2 disease control teams, 5 frozen semen banks and one each animal control venue and frozen semen bull station in the State.
JE nabbed for accepting bribe
Tikamgarh: A junior engineer (JE) working with a Government power company was today caught red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs2,000 from a complainant, lokayukta police said. A six-member police team from lokayukta Sagar nabbed the JE, Kl
Kushwaha, while he was accepting Rs2,000 as bribe from one Praveendra Gupta for raising the height of the 11,000 KV line near his house in Palera town, about 65 kms from here, lokayukta Inspector lN Tiwari told reporters. The JE allegedly demanded Rs7,000 from Gupta for raising the height of the line and had already taken Rs5,000 as advance from him. However, Gupta tipped-off lokayukta sleuths before paying Rs2,000 following which a trap was laid and he was caught. Kushwaha was arrested by the lokayukta sleuths and was later released on bail. A case was registered against him under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act in this regard.