DB Tarik team wins Cricket Tournament
Bhopal: DB Tarik team won MlA Trophy Cricket Tournament by 5 wickets at Nehru Nagar Police line Ground here on Sunday. It defeated Rajesh Singh Fans Club’s team in the final. Batting first, Club’s team scored 60 runs in 12 overs. Higher & Technical Education Minister Umashankar Gupta gave away prizes to winners, runners-up and best players.The winning team was given Rs. 25 thousand, runners-up Rs. 15 thousand and shields. Rs. 2500 man of the series prize and shield was given to Shri Vinod of DB Team while Rs. 300 and shield were given away to man of the match. In all, 32 teams of South-West Vidhan Sabha constituency took part in the competition playing 12 matches each. Gupta said that a strong cricket team of South-West Vidhan Sabha constituency should be raised by selecting best players of this tournament. The team will represent the constituency in other tournaments. He informed that state government has increased sports budget from Rs. 5 crore to Rs. 500 crore. Gupta said that apart from cricket, players should also come forward in other sports. Members of the organising committee and players were present on the occasion.
`72k santactioned for DD colony temple
Bhopal: Higher & Technical Education Minister Umashankar Gupta laid foundation stone for marble flooring at Doordarshan Colony temple here on Sunday. Rs. 72 thousand has been sanctioned for it. He directed to complete it before Shivratri. Gupta also gave a patient hearing to people’s problems.
15th lS lost max hours to disruptions: Diggy
Bhopal: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has said that the present lok Sabha has created a record for losing maximum hours of work due to repeated obstruction of proceedings. He also urged the Members of Parliament to behave properly so that people do not lose faith in democracy. “15th lS creates record for maximum hours lost as Members obstruct proceedings. If people lose confidence in Democracy who is responsible for itIJ" Digvijay tweets recently. "Parliamentarians pl behave else we are putting Democracy at peril. Hope Parliamentarians behave so that people don't lose faith in Democracy," he tweeted. In its last session before the general elections, the lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have witnessed repeated disruptions over separated Telangana statehood and other issues.
Mohan Bhagwat to visit Bhopal next week
Bhopal: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would pay a four-day visit to the city from February 20 during which he will hold meetings with office bearers. Bhagwat will meet his organisation's office-bearers from Malwa, Madhya Bharat, Mahakoshal regions and also Chhattisgarh, RSS sources said. RSS workers would organise a “path sanchalan” (procession) here on February 23. After culmination of the march, Bhagwat would address a gathering of RSS workers at the Model School Ground, they said.
NTPC to lay foundation stone of 1,600 MW project
Bhopal: Country's largest power producer NTPC will lay the foundation stone of its 1,600 MW Gadarwara plant, that entails an investment of nearly Rs 11,000 crore, in Madhya Pradesh this week. The project, located in Narsingpur district, would have two super critical units, each with 800 MW capacity. State-owned NTPC said foundation stone for the plant is scheduled to be laid on February 19.
"An investment of approximately Rs 11,000 crore has already been approved by NTPC for setting up the project and it is targeted to be commissioned in the 13th Plan period (2017-22)," the company said in a statement. Coal for the project would be sourced from the Talaipalli block in Mand Raigarh coalfields. Half of the electricity generated from the plant would be supplied to Madhya Pradesh while the rest would be provided to other states in the Western region. The company is also working on 50 MW solar plants at Rajgarh in state. Currently, NTPC has an installed generation capacity of 42,464 MW.
AAp starts its activities in state
Bhopal: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started its activities in Madhya Pradesh. AAP in a statement here on Sunday said that once again after Vyapam and Makhanlal Chaturvedi University now fake marksheets have surfaced at Sanskrit Board. The special task force (STF) has registered a case against seven people in connection with fraud in the Sanskrit Board examination. The case pertains to sale of forgery in preparing mark sheets of students who had appeared in the examination, In fact, 686 students who had failed in the examination, were given mark sheets that showed them as successful candidates. Aam Admi Party is already going among the people to motivate them to join the agitation so to ensure that Government is forced to convert all the Government schools into world class schools, starting from 2014 session, providing not only marksheets but world class skills too so that our children become independent and lead a dignified life, we have already waited for 65 year and now we are not ready to wait beyond the forth coming session.
Office of wildlife fails to protect animals
Bhopal: Wildlife and social activist Ajay Dubey has alleged that the office of wildlife warden has miserably failed in its duty of protecting wild animals in the State. Dubey in a letter to forest minister of the state said, “The office of wildlife warden has proved to be incompetent in the proposed shifting of lions from Gujrat to Madhya Pradesh despite the Supreme Court order.” Dubey sought timely intervention of forest minister and remedy by him in this matter.