UAD min writes to Moily for early action on piped gas supply
Bhopal: Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur Minister has written to Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Veerappa Moily to ensure early action on piped supply of gas for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes in Bhopal city at the earliest. Gaur has said that Avantika Gas limited is supplying CNG/PNG in three major cities of Madhya Pradesh including Indore, Gwalior and Dewas. Masses in these cities have evinced keen interest in this facility. This facility can also be made available in similar manner to 20 lakh population of Bhopal city. He urged the Union Minister that Jagoti-Pithampur gas pipeline passing from near Bhopal should be linked with main gas grid at Biaora and Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board should accord necessary permission for the same. Gaur said that the State Government will extend necessary cooperation in this task like land allocation for mother station and permission by local administration for laying of pipeline.
Raghavji reviewing dept schemes
Bhopal: Finance and Commercial Taxes Minister Raghavji is reviewing implementation of departmental schemes in districts constantly. During 5 months till May, he has visited 34 districts. So far, Raghavji has visited Sheopur, Morena, Bhind, Shivpuri, Ratlam, Ujjain, Dhar, Jhabua, Khargone, Sehore, Raisen, Betul, Damoh, Panna, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Katni, Narsinghpur, Seoni, Balaghat, Rewa, Shahdol, Sidhi, Gwalior, Satna, Sagar, Guna, Ashok Nagar, Vidisha, Rajgarh, Shajapur, Neemuch, Mandsaur and Ratlam. During his visits to districts, the Finance Minister holds discussions with taxpayers, businessmen and other concerning people and also seeks feedback from them. Finance Minister Raghavji will visit Alirajpur and Barwani on June 15, Burhanpur and Khandwa June 22, Tikamgarh and Datia June 23, Harda and Hoshangabad June 26, Jabalpur, Mandla and Dindori June 27, Anuppur and Umaria June 28 and Chhindwara district on June 29.
New Milk production record in MP
Bhopal: A new record of purchasing milk from 2 lakh milk producing farmers has been set in Madhya Pradesh during White Revolution through cooperative sector. In the series, Bhopal and Indore dairy federations have fixed Rs450 per kg fat price for purchase of milk. Out of Rs1 received from sale of milk, 72 paise are provided to milk producers. Cooperative dairy federations paid Rs703.88 crore to milk producers during year 2012-13.
New VC nominated for MGcg University
Bhopal: Governor and Chancellor Ram Naresh Yadav has nominated Prof Arun Kumar Gupta, Dean faculty of agriculture, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya as vice-chancellor of the university till appointment of a regular vice-chancellor. It is noteworthy that section 44-B of Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya Adhiniyam, 1991 was enforced through a notification by Higher Education Department on June 14, 2010. The Chancellor has ensured this action after passage of three-year period on June 13, 2013 as provided in the Act.
Rs1.34 crore sanctioned for lab upgradation Bhopal:The State Government has accorded administrative sanction of Rs1.34 crore for lab upgradation in 6 colleges. Of this, Rs26.15 lakh has been sanctioned to Government Girls College Vidisha and Rs 25.72 lakh to PG College Mandla. Similarly, Rs22.73 lakh has been sanctioned to Government Model Science College Gwalior, Rs23.25 lakh to Satna, Rs20.08 lakh to Mungawali in Ashok Nagar district and Rs16.78 lakh has been sanctioned to Bina in Sagar district for lab upgradation.
SBI launches first E-lobby
Bhopal:State Bank of India (SBI) Bhopal Circle kicked off its first e-lobby of the region at Minal Mall in the city on Friday. Inaugurating the facility, Bhopal Circle Chief General Manager Dinesh K Khara said, “SBI is committed to customers' delight & has been striving to offer State of the Art facilities to its customers.” He informed that the e-lobby would provide all facilities under one roof round the clock. Speaking at the function, Deputy General Manager UK Pandey said, “This customer centric initiative offers ATM facility, cash deposit facility through Cash Deposit Machine, pass book printing and online account opening. The customer can open account and thereafter visit the branch to collect passbook, cheque book and ATM card after completing KYC (You’re your Customer) formalities.” Also present on the occasion were Regional Manager P Bedekar, several other bank officers and large number of customers.
Seminar on modernisation at Bhel
Bhopal: A seminar on “Envisioning the direction of modernisation in BHEl’, Bhopal was held on Thursday at BHEl, Bhopal in association with HRDC and Modernization Division. SN Daga, Ex- ED BHEl, Bhopal and Professor and Dean, Bansal Institute of Science and Technology was present as the speaker on this occasion. The program was conducted under the guidance of TG Chouragade General Manager, Modernization while G Prakash AGM, HRDC threw light on the details of the program. The program was mainly meant for the engineers and managers associated with modernization work. Daga speaking on this occasion laid stress on capacity and capability enhancement. He also asked to monitor minimum carbon foot print keeping in view the aspects of sustainable and green manufacturing process. He further said to adopt procedures like lEAN, use of nano material such as Griffin along with new modernization techniques. later, Daga appreciated the efforts of HRDC and Modernization Division.
Rly meet on electrification works
Bhopal: A meeting of senior railway officers was organised on Friday for accelerating the ongoing electrification work in different routes.
The third railway track is being laid from Bina to Bhopal and Itarsi to Habibganj segments and then electrification work in other routes will be carried forward. Also second railway track is being laid on the Bina-Ruthyai-Kota segment and at the same time, this route is being electrified. Itarsi-Jabalpur-Katni-Satna-Allahabad electrification work has been also approved and would start soon. Centre for Railway Electrification (CRE) Allahabad General Manager Jagdev Kaliya and West Central Railway (WCR) General Manager Sunil V Arya had the meeting. Feasibility of simultaneous electrification will be tested on the Itarsi-Allahabad route by dividing into five parts. Discussions were also held in the meeting for deciding the locations of facilities like tower wagon shade, depot and loco trip shade etc for the electrification work. Besides, discussion over residential complex for officers and employees was also held. CRE GM Kaliya also asked Arya to ensure recruitment of officers and employees for accelerating the electrification work. Meanwhile, railway administration has declared to attach one more sleeper class coach in 11464 Jabalpur-Somnath express, 12185 Habibganj-Rewa Rewanchal express and 12186 Rewa-Habibganj Rewanchal express each respectively on June 15.
37th Power lifting Championship inaugrated
Bhopal:Urban Administration and Development (UAD) Minister Babulal Gaur here on Friday inaugurated the 37th MP Power lifting Championship at Indira Priyadarshini College, Khanugaon. The championship began here from Friday would conclude on June 16. While inaugurating the championship, Gaur told that along with studies children should also actively participate in sports to make the state and the country proud with their brilliant performance.
The Director of the Indira Priyadarshini College Arif Massod told that several power lifting players of the state have made Madhya Pradesh and over a dozen players of the state capital have performed brilliantly.
On the occasion Secretary of Madhya Pradesh Power lifting Association RK Tiwari and Chief organiser and patron Ramesh K Dave were also present