painting contest organised
Bhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya is observing ‘World Heritage Week’, that is from November 19 to November 25, 2013. A painting competition on “Heritages of Bhopal” was organised on Friday where 50 students of 8th to 12th standard from various schools of state capital participated. The first prize was awarded to Prasun Jain of Anand Vihar School, second prize to Huzefa Zafar of Red Rose School, third prize to Vijay Gaharwar of Radhakrishna Higher Secondary School and consolation prizes to Rupal Uhare of Demonstration School and yash Barani of Campion School. The cash prizes and certificates were awarded by Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Joint Director, IGRMS. The students were addressed by veteran painter, Ajay Shukla, he explained students the various details of painting. Well-known photographer Ravi Shanker Shrivas gave technical insight of art to the students in his address. In his speech Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Joint Director, IGRMS praised student’s art sense which they painted during the competition. The competition was organized by Anand Tehanguriya Chief Artist, Praveen Saraswati Narad senior artist and Mr. Ratnakar Dhok Painter, from Art Section of Manav Sanghralaya. The jury of the painting competition comprises Himashu Joshi (Bharat Bhawan), Ajay Shukla (freelance painter) and Prof Rekha Shrivastava, government Girls College Bhopal.
Excise dept keeping 24X7 watch on liquor units
Bhopal: Officers of the Excise Department are keeping 24X7 watch over distilleries, bottling units of foreign and country liquor and warehouses of foreign liquor in view of Vidhan Sabha election on November 25. Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa has issued directives to officers regarding this. Chief Electoral Officer Jaideep Govind has directed district election officers to monitor activities of liquor warehouses and plants by installing CC TV cameras. Officers of the Excise Department are conducting raids continuously to prevent illegal transportation and sale of liquor. The department’s flying squads have seized 4 thousand 978 litre liquor during 734 raids over last 24 hours and arrested 406 persons in this connection. Raids were also conducted throughout the state to seize country-made liquor during which 50 persons were held. In the raids, 1622 litre liquor was seized. During raids, 189 litre bear was also seized and 10 persons arrested. Officers of the Excise Department in the raids in Dhar district seized 21,600 liter foreign liquor brought from Punjab. The liquor was in 24 bottles kept in boxes. Its market value is about Rs 2.50 lakh. The Election Commission of India has also directed for joint action by Excise Department officers and police in urban slums and rural areas till polling day.
illegal arms more than legal ones in Chambal
Gwalior: During the election the Election Commission has focused its attention on Chambal region. It is stated that illegal arms out number legal arms many times in this region. A case in this point is fierce firing between supporter of the Congress and BJP. Following the firing the Police has become high alert and started search of miscreants. Taking the help of central Paramilitary force, most of the area of Chambal region is juxtaposed UP and Rajasthan. According to the information the musclemen from outside of the state have started pouring in. the police following the input started search of these miscreants together with absconding miscreants. The IG Police Chambal range Syed Mohhamed Afzal said, “We have the list of all miscreants who can raise their heads in the election. So the central Paramilitary force has started to come to be deployed in search of absconding miscreants.” He said that raids would be conducted on all the places where taken shelter.
SMS for knowing booths, serial number
Bhopal: SMS facility has been provided by office of the Chief Electoral Officer to voters to help them know name of their polling booth on polling day for Vidhan Sabha elections on November 25. Through SMS voters can know about their polling booth and serial number in electoral rolls. For this, they will have to send SMS to 51969. Voters can obtain such information by typing MP space EPIC without space. Following this they will have to type their EPIC card number and send the same to 51969. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer is conducting voters education and electoral participation programme (SVEEP) for increasing poll percentage during Vidhan Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. For this, SMSes are being sent through mobiles urging voters to cast their votes necessarily. For this, mobile numbers of 92.23 lakh voters have bee collected. A call centre is also being run 24x7 for voters’ facilitation at the CEO office from where voters can obtain information regarding their polling booths. Toll-free number of the call centre is 1950 with 10 lines. links have also been given on website of the office of the Chief Electoral Officer ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in to facilitate voters.
parmar appointed as V-C of Nanaji Varsity
Bhopal: Governor and Chancellor Ram Naresh Yadav has nominated Dr SNS Parmar, Dean, Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Faculty, Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University, Jabalpur to carry out responsibilities of vice-chancellor of the university till appointment of a regular vice-chancellor. It is noteworthy that term of first vice-chancellor of Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University, Jabalpur Govind Prasad Mishra for 4 years from the date of his assuming charge has expired on November 22, 2013.
NGT demands town planning norms draft
Bhopal: Bhopal-based Central Branch of National Green Tribunal during hearing of Neel Choudhary vs Government case on October 25, 2013 had directed Town and Country Planning to prepare draft of conditions in the context of norms for planning etc. of marriage gardens and Barat Ghars following discussions with all stakeholders. The draft for permission evolved after suggestions received from stakeholders and in the light of prevalent rules can be viewed on the website of Town and Country Planning www.mptownplan.nic.in.
Voters’ awareness rally taken out
Indore: A voters’ awareness rally was taken out in the city on Friday with a view to creating awareness among the city people to cast their votes during November 25 elections. Carrying banners and pamphlets in their hands, hundreds of boys and girls students from various city schools took out rallies from two different places. The first rally was taken out from Khalsa college wherein hundreds of students carrying placards and banners in their hands appealing people to vote in large number on November 25, after passing through various parts of the city reached Rajwada. Another rally was taken out from Gandhi Hall which was attended by hundreds of boy students. This rally after passing through the MTH compound also reached Rajwada where district collector Akash Tripathi administered oath of casting their franchise on November 25 election without falling prey to any greed or lust. The rally had been organized jointly by the higher education department and the National Service Scheme. While boys’ rally was flagged off by Prakash Gadhwal and Manish Singh, the girls’ rally was flagged by Narendra Dhakar. All through their rallies, both boys and girl students raised slogans appealing voters to cast their votes without any fear or prejudice.
PMT scam: 92 candidates list given to MPPEB
Bhopal: Demanding details of 92 suspected candidates from Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board in the PMT examination scam, Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has provided list of suspected candidates to the MPPEB. Other accused arrested in the scam Sudheer Rai, Santosh Gupta and General Manager of Arbindo Medical College Indore Pradeep Raghuvanshi were questioned. Meanwhile, kingpin in the PMT examination scam Jagdish Sagar was taken to his native place Charetha under Bhind district and found several acres of land, a Tata Safari car and few tractors in his name. The property details are being investigated.