Welfare panel for scribes demanded
Gwalior: The State Government should constitute a journalists welfare commission for the benefit of the scribes. Not only this, a journalist welfare fund should be formed at district level so that they could get help at the time of need. The formation of such commission was necessary today for the security and self respect of journalists. This was stated by the president MP Patrakar Sangh and secretary Rajesh Sharma on Wednesday. Sharma said that for the security and the respect of journalists A Patrkar Maha Panchayat would be organised on Thursday at Ganesh Shankar Vidyarathi premises in Moti Mahal in which the journalists of division would participate. Sharma further informed that a memorandum would be submitted to Chief Minister demanding for formation of a journalist welfare commission, journalist welfare fund at district level, journalists working in the field should be provided accreditation. The journalists should get medical facility free of charge and they should be given free pass in the contracted buses. They should be given facility of press tours quarterly, meetings at district level should be called by the Collector and regular advertisements should be given to small medium daily and weekly newspaper, magazine and electronic channels.
Govt to bear cost of treatment
Gwalior: Amina Baghum suffering from cancer would get proper treatment now. A resident of Islampura Amana Begum requested the Collector in public hearing that due to economic hardship she was not getting proper treatment. Immediately Collector P Narhari assured her that her treatment would be born by the government. The Collector ordered chief medical and health officer to prepare case of health for treatment of Amina from the State Disease Health fund. The Collector also made arrangement for free of charge medical treatment to the needy persons. The collector also provided economic help to the needy families which are economically week for various purposes of domestic needs. The collector took take seriously the complaint of students of scheduled caste came from village Aroli of Morar development block and ordered to district project coordinator to minutely enquire the case and submit the report. He said that if the complaint found correct strict action would be taken against the teachers or Aroli School.
Agri market centres in six districts
Bhopal: To make agriculture profitable, the State Government has decided to construct at least 27 agriculture market centres in six districts of Bundelkhand region of the State. For this, Rs 96 crore has been provisioned. In the markets, farmers will get modern farming facilities under single roof. Each agriculture mini market costing Rs 3.50 crore will have 3000 MT capacity godown, auction platform, agri clinic in composite building, farmers training room, soil testing centre, ATM, canteen and farmers’ restroom. Mini markets are being constructed by three construction agencies Warehousing Corporation, Mandi Board and MARKFED. In all, seven mini markets are being constructed in Bundelhand’s Sagar district, six in Chhatarpur, four each in Tikamgarh and Datia, three each in Damoh and Panna and one mini market each is being constructed at Sagar, Damoh and Tikamgarh. Directives have been issued to complete all these mini markets by October 2013.
Dist-level Grievance Dredressal Authority
Bhopal: The much anticipated chairmen and members have been nominated to district-level Grievance Redressal Authority constituted in Harda, Betul and Khandwa districts in January 2013. The Authority has been constituted in compliance with the Supreme Court order passed in the case of Shramik Adivasi Sangathan v/s State of Madhya Pradesh and others. People of concerned districts can register their complaints in the authority. Retired Additional District and Sessions Judge KP Tiwari has been appointed chairman of Harda Grievance Redressal Authority. Its members include Indrabhushan of Harda, Kusum Keshware, Shivdayal Singh Mourya and Syed Mehraj Ali. Similarly, Retired additional district and sessions judge Ankit Swami Naidu has been appointed Chairman of Betul Grievance Redressal Authority. Its members include Betul’s Inderchand Jain, Mira Anthony, KK Chaube and SR Mahate. Retired additional district and sessions judge RP Solanki has been appointed Chairman of Khandwa Grievance Redressal Authority. Its members include Khandwa’s Indrajeet Singh, Shakuntala Rathore, Bina Jain and Prakash Chand Baheti.
Home Minister lays foundation stones
Bhopal: Cement Concrete (CC) roads costing Rs 20 lakh in Machna Colony, Rs 10 lakh at Panchsheel Nagar and Rs 2 lakh at Durga Nagar will be constructed. Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta laid foundation stones for these roads here on Wednesday. Funds for roads at Machna Colony and Panchsheel Nagar have been sanctioned under Mukhyamantri Adhosanrachna Vikas Karyakram and Durga Nagar under MlA’s Fund. Home Minister Gupta said the State has a Government, which gives everything without asking. The Home Minister said that every girl under ladli laxmi Yojana will get Rs 1.21 lakh cheque at the age of 18 years. He also informed about Mukhyamantri Tirth-Darshan Yojana. Gupta said that about 1.50 lakh senior citizens have visited pilgrimages of their choice so far on government expenses. He said that power was supplied in village for 2-3 hours day earlier, but now all 53,000 villages in the State are getting 24X7 power supply. It is the result of farmer-friendly schemes that state’s agriculture growth rate has increased. local public representatives also spoke on the occasion.
SC congratulates tech education dept
Bhopal: Chief Secretary R Parasuram has greeted Technical Education and Skill Development department for securing SKOCH Platinum Award. The Chief Minister was informed about the award by Additional Chief Secretary Ajita Vajpayee Pandey here on Wednesday. It is noteworthy that ‘Practice for Smart Governance’ award was conferred to State’s Technical Education and Skill Development Department at 33rd SKOCH Summit in New Delhi on September 3. The SKOCH Platinum Award given for opening of employment and self-employment oriented skill development centres at development block level was received by Additional Chief Secretary Technical Education Ajita Vajpayee Pandey. The institution has received about 1500 applications for the award from all over India. After screening, 100 entries were selected for order of merit. Of these, 10 applicants were given the award. Apart from Madhya Pradesh, other states were also given awards for innovations in various sectors.
Exhibition at lalit Kala Akademi
Bhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya is engaged to portray diverse aspects of culture through several exhibitions on various subjects and at different places. In the same series Sangrahayala is organising an exhibition at lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. The theme of the exhibition is ‘Diversity of the languages of Cultural Expression’ from September 5, 2013 to 7, 2013. The three-day exhibition will be inaugurated by Union Minister of Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch. In this exhibition, Manav Sanghrahalaya is presenting paintings, folk mask and other pieces of art made by tribal artists. Ravi Shrivas, Assistant Curator (Display) of IGRMS is the leading the team which includes other officers from Photography, Art, Cine-Video and Specimen store sections.
CBI chief to visit State capital
Bhopal: Animesh Chauhan, executive director, Central Bank of India, will be on a two day visit to the city on Thursday and Friday. This is his first visit to the State capital after taking over as executive director of the bank recently. During his visit, Chauhan will review the performance of Bhopal Zone and Regional Offices under its control, besides undertaking outreach visits under financial inclusion programme. A seasoned banker with over 34 years’ experience, Chauhan was working as general manager & head of Rajasthan Zone of Bank of Baroda prior to his present assignment. He has served in the States of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan besides his foreign assignments.
Bank of Baroda conferred five prizes
Bhopal: Bank of Baroda was conferred upon five prizes under Reserve Bank Rajbhasha Competition for the year 2011-12 at an award function held at RBI, Central Office, Mumbai.
The bank was awarded with the first prize in Region ‘C’, second prize in Region ‘A’ and ‘B’ under Reserve Bank Rajbhasha Shield Competition. The Bank also received the third prize for its Bilingual House Journal ‘BOBMAITRI’ and Hindi House Journal ‘Akshayyam’ under ‘Bilingual House Journal Competition’ and ‘Hindi House Journal Competition’ respectively. The Bank was the only one to receive an award in all five categories. SS Mundra, chairman and managing director of the bank received these awards from D Subbarao, Governor of RBI in the gracious presence of RBI Deputy Governor Urjit R Patel and Executive Director R Gandhi. The award function was attended by top executives of RBI and Public Sector Banks.