DHE allocated Rs 41.10 lakh to 22 colleges
Bhopal: A sum of Rs 41.10 lakh has been allocated by the Higher Education Department to 22 colleges to pay honorarium to guest faculties. A total of Rs 1.45 lakh has been allocated to Government College Sarni, Rs 91.55 to Pachmarhi, Rs 2 lakh to Mankunwar Bai College Jabalpur, Rs 1.50 lakh to Girls Post Graduate College Sagar, Rs 1.16 lakh to Post Graduate College Panna, Rs 1.47 lakh to Home Science College Jabalpur, Rs 1.10 lakh to Girls College Bina, Rs 5.72 lakh to Bhainsdehi, Rs 2.50 lakh to Nehru Post Graduate College Budhar, Rs 2.37 lakh to Government Madhavrao Sadashiv Golwalkar College Rewa, Rs 25,652 to Girls College Rewa, Rs 2.16 lakh to Girls College Baidhan, Rs 80,000 to Commerce College Ratlam, Rs 1.75 lakh to Narsinghgarh, Rs 1.20 lakh to Tilak College Katni, Rs one lakh to Athner, Rs 86,000 to Benazir Science and Commerce College Bhopal, Rs 3.66 lakh to Kamla Nehru Girls College Balaghat, Rs one lakh to Baktara and Rs 1.50 lakh has been allocated to Government Thakur Niranjan Singh College Gotegaon.
pumpset to be provided to SCs, STs: Gyan
Bhopal: SC, ST Welfare Minister Gyan Singh has said that now, Rs 30,000, one pair of oxen and pumpset each will be provided to SC, ST farmers. Singh stated this while inaugurating various different works costing Rs 18.83 lakh in Umaria district. Gyan Singh said that satellite survey of forest dwellers residing on forest land as on year 2005 and left out forest land pattas will be undertaken. Due to this, no eligible beneficiary will be deprived. Minister Gyan Singh informed that apart from medical and engineering education, tribal students will also get the opportunity to study abroad. Ten tribal students of the state figuring in the merit list will be sent abroad for studies. He said that farmers will also get transportation and traffic facilities under Sudoor Gram Sampark Yojana. Wheat and rice will be provided at the rate of Re 1 per kg who have been registered under labour Welfare Board and are job card holders.
Cases upto Rs 10l must be sanctioned at bank level
Bhopal: Cases pertaining to development of small, medium and micro industries should be approved at a rapid pace. Cases upto Rs 10 lakh should also be sanctioned at the bank level on the basis of eligibility. These directives have been given by Additional Chief Secretary Commerce and Industries PK Dash. He was holding discussions on development of industries at a meeting of State-level Bankers’ Sub-committee at Mantralaya on Thursday. Dash directed that there should be no delay in clearing the cases about which bank branch managers are satisfied and which have no practical difficulties. Discussions on Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarozgar Yojana’s targets for the current year were also held at the meeting. It was informed at the meeting that it is being seriously considered to adopt online application process of sanction of cases under Yuva Swarozgar Yojana from next year. This will do away with paper work and save on time taken in sanction. Punjab National Bank’s Field General Manager Himanshu Joshi, Commissioner Institutional Finance Ashish Upadhyay and TRIFAC’s Managing Director Arun Kumar Bhatt were also present on the occasion.
Uma Shankar Gupta to leave for indore today
Bhopal: Higher and Technical Education Minister Uma Shankar Gupta will leave Bhopal for Indore in the afternoon of January 3. Gupta will participate in local programmes at Indore on January 3, 4, and 5. The Higher Education Minister will return to Bhopal in the night of Jan 5.
IAS officer posted as Resident Commissioner
Bhopal: IAS officer ICP Kesari, OSD General Administration Department has been posted as Madhya Pradesh Resident Commissioner in New Delhi. At present, Kesari is posted at the office of the Resident Commissioner, New Delhi with additional charge of Resident Commissioner.
Cong blames MP Govt for power tariff hikes
Bhopal: Opposition Congress on Thursday accused Madhya Pradesh Government of hiking power tariff despite rural areas in the state not getting round-the-clock electricity supply as promised under its ambitious 'Atal Jyoti' scheme. “Although there is no power in rural areas, bills with increased electricity tariff are being sent regularly,” state unit Congress Vice-President Manak Agrawal said in a statement. He alleged that Shivraj Singh Chouhan government had failed to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply it had promised under the ambitious scheme. “Those farmers who are unable to pay inflated bills are being arrested and thrown behind bars. Some of the farmers have even committed suicide due to increased tariff,” Agrawal alleged.
14,962 complaints were received from women
Bhopal: A total of 14,962 complaints were received from women throughout Madhya Pradesh last year on women's helpline number 1090, official sources said. Officials said that a maximum number of 5,511 complaints were received from Bhopal, followed by women from Indore who made 1,771 complaints. The number of complaints from Bhopal was more due to high awareness among women about their rights, officials said, adding that they received complaints from remote areas. The government had launched the women helpline last year to address complaints of atrocities against women in the State.
RSS' three-day mega camp to begin today
Jabalpur: Nearly 1 lakh Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers from Madhya Pradesh's Mahakoshal Region are expected to take part in the RSS' three-day mega camp beginning here from Friday. “Preparations for the mega camp are complete. Necessary arrangements have been made for boarding and lodging of RSS workers,” said the camp's Organising Committee Chairman Kailash Gupta. Deliberations would be held on social and political problems during the camp. RSS workers from Jabalpur, Mandla, Katni, Sihora, Damoh, Anuppur, Tikamgarh, Dindori, Chhindwara and Shahdol would take part in the camp. A 'path sanchalan (route march)' would be taken out at the camp venue on Saturday. The 'path sanchalan' would start from four places and traverse various routes before converging at the camp venue.
Weapons deposited as Model Code come into force
Sehore: Two weapons deposited by candidates when the Model Code of Conduct came into force before the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, have mysteriously gone missing from this district's Kotwali Police Station, police said. These include weapons belonging to former BJP legislator Madanlal Tyagi and sitting MlA Sudesh Rai. The fact came to light when Tyagi's son Rakesh Tyagi came to collect his father's revolver but police could not locate it. Rai's pistol was also not found.
‘Health services provided to rural, urban areas’
Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh Minister of State for Public Health and Family Welfare Sharad Jain on Thursday said the work for setting up of medicinal universities here would be given impetus while super facilities would be provided to hospitals. "A better health facility will be provided to the rural and urban areas and the government had already started rural health campaign from December 31 under which all free health services will be included in the Public Service Guarantee Act,” Jain told in an informal chat here.