Govt to construct toilets in 45,000 schools
Bhopal: Around 45,000 schools in Madhya Pradesh do not have toilets and efforts are on to construct them by June next year, State Government said on Monday. Of the total 1.25 lakh schools Government-run schools, about 45,000 are without lavatories and authorities are making efforts to have them built in the next six months, School Education Minister Paras Jain told reporters. Central Government agencies have been given the task of constructing 13,300 toilets. For this purpose, Rs1.50 lakh each had been sought from funds of MPs from the State and Rs40 lakh each from the 230 MlAs, he said. The Minister also invited different Government establishments and private sector for building new lavatories. Giving details of his department’s activities, Jain said that moral science teaching had been incorporated in school syllabus and a chapter from Bhagwad Gita was being taught to the students.
183 donate blood at camp
Bhopal: On the occasion of 9th death anniversary of Paramhansa Saint Hirdaram Sahibji as many as 183 persons have donated their blood in a camp jointly organised by Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital and Hamidia Hospital, on Sunday. Sidh Bhauji also donated blood during the camp. A mobile blood donation unit and paramedical staff of the Hamidia Hospital have rendered their services in the camp. Simultaneously one another free camp of various dental diseases were held at Gandhinagar. Dental specialist Dr Seema Chauhan diagnosed and treated as many as 50 dental patients in that camp.
On this occasion, Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital has also organised a free eye diagnostic and treatment camp at Shobhapur in Hoshangabad district on the same day, where 577 eye patients have been diagnosed. Of them, 426 patients were treated in the camp itself. Rest of 151 patients were identified for their cataract surgeries. They were later brought to Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital for their operations. Ophthalmologist Dr Rohini Garde and Paramedical staff rendered their services in the camp held at Shobhapur. Trustee lC Janiyani have said that Sewa Sadan is now expanding its activities in the field of blindness eradication with the cooperation of internationally known NGOs like Sight Savers and Helpage India. He further said that during current year, this organisation is trying to increase the number of cataract surgeries in comparison to the previous years.
CM to attend Khel Alankaran Samaroh
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be the chief guest at Shikhar Khel Alankaran Samaroh, 2014, at Marshall Art Hall in TT Nagar Stadium here at 5 pm on Tuesday. As many as 22 players will be conferred sports awards on the occasion. Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia will preside over the function where winner of silver medal at london Olympics and Rajiv Khel Ratna laureate Saina Nehwal will be special guest. This year, Vikram Awards will be conferred to nince senior players, Eklavya Awards to 13 junior players and Vishwamitra Awards to 3 sports coaches. Besides, one sports personality each will be conferred lifetime Achievement Award and the first Prabhash Joshi Sports Award.
Chouhan inaugurates trauma centre
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated a newly constructed trauma unit and took stock of arrangements at Chhindwara District Hospital on Monday. With construction of trauma unit, serious diseases will be treated at Chhindwara hospital. The 10-bed trauma unit has been constructed at a cost of about Rs3.58 crore. Of the ten beds, five each are for males and females, respectively. It will have an entire treatment facilities including X-ray, pathology, CT Scan etc. An official of the hospital informed that presently, treatment would be made through available resources, but separate resources and doctors would be arranged for trauma unit. During visit to Chhindwara city, the Chief Minister was accorded floral welcome by people at a number of places to the beats of drums and fireworks. Deaf and dumb also garlanded the Chief Minister. He was weighed against bananas at Purana Chhapa Khana. The Chief Minister was also presented a memento.
Govt to ensure jobs for State’s youth
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Madhya Pradesh Government has ensured concrete steps to provide education and jobs to youths through ‘Make in Madhya Pradesh’ campaign. The Chief Minister was responding to a public reception accorded to him at Chhindwara on Monday. He announced Rs50 lakh each for Nagar Palikas and Rs25 lakh each to Nagar Panchayats of Chhindwara district. The Chief Minister said that urban areas would be made slum-free. Built-up houses will be provided to the urban poor living in slums. For this, his Government would construct five lakh houses in urban areas during next 5 years.
At Global Investors Summit, industrialists have been invited to set up industries in the state so that youths can get employment. He said that the State Government would provide bank loan guarantee on higher education loan to youths for studying in private medical colleges. He said that students of every section of society would be given scholarship and admission in hostels. Chouhan said that Chhindwara would be developed as a modern city by chalking out a master plan. He inaugurated and laid foundation stone of construction works costing over Rs157 crore. He distributed assistance worth Rs165.16 lakh to six beneficiaries of various Government schemes. At the outset, the Chief Minister was accorded a public reception. On behalf of people of Chhindwara, he was offered a turban and ‘Gada’.
Shejwar inspects Vulture Breeding Centre
Bhopal: Forest Minister Gaurishankar Shejwar inspected Vulture Breeding Centre here on Monday. The Minister went round the centre and also took stock of monitoring system through CC TV camera. The centre has 20 vultures of two species presently, including seven White Backed and 13 long Billed ones. Vulture Breeding Centre has been developed at Kerwa here by Madhya Pradesh Forest Department with the cooperation of Bombay Natural History Society to augment vultures. Shejwar said that vultures are described as nature’s sanitation workers. Their declining number might lead to increase of germs of various diseases in the environment. Shejwar said that the centre has been set up to augment vultures, which are on the verge of extinction. Directing for continuous safety and monitoring of vultures, Shejwar instructed to increase their number to the maximum. He said that when vultures are bred in adequate numbers, they will be released in natural environs.
State’s leaders mourn death of Chaurasia
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his Cabinet colleagues, BJP chief Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, BJP’s organisational general secretary Arvind Menon and other leaders of the State have expressed profound grief over the death of laxman Prasad Chaurasia, father of senior journalist Deepak Chaurasia. The leaders prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family to bear this loss. Public Relations Minister Rajendra Shukla, Urban Development and Environment Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, PHE Minister Kusum Mahdele and School Education Minister Paras Jain also expressed profound grief over Chaurasia’s death. BJP State office in-charge Govind Arya, State spokespersons Vijendra Sisodiya and Dipak Vijayvargiya, MlAs and spokesman Vishwas Sarang and Rameshwar Sharma, State office secretary Satyendra Bhushan Singh, State co office secretary Rajendra Singh Rajput, State media in-charge Hitesh Vajpayee, co-media in-charge Sanjay Govind Khoche and others have also expressed profound grief over the death of laxman Prasad Chaurasia.