Min presents 15 pledge forms for eye donation
Bhopal: Minister for Rural Development Gopal Bhargava presented 15 pledge forms of eye donations to lC Janiyani trustee of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital on Wednesday in annual function of the employees of cooperative department held at Samanvay Bhavan. Bhargava praised the employees for noble cause of this social service. It is learnt that mother of Ashok Saxena cooperative inspector died two months before. His mother Shanti Devi Saxena had filled a pledge form of her eye donation in her life time. Fulfilling the will of mother, Ashok Saxena donated her eyes to Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital. Besides, he motivated 70 persons of his family members, relatives and friends to fill pledge forms of eye donations. Thus he presented an example of selfless service of the society. Now, Saxena have started encouraging his official colleagues also. In this series 15 employees of cooperative department have filled their pledge forms to donate their eyes. Names of those employees are- Pushpa Dongre, Sapna Guha, Neelam Agrawal, Veena Verma, Sudarshan Joshi, Sajji Verghese, Kailash Chandra Jaiswal, Krishna Jaiswal, Saurabh Singh Rajput, Shivkumar, VP Joshi, MP Purohit, Rajesh Verma, Pradeep Neekhra and Avinash Singh. Trustee lC Janiyani have welcomed this pious endeavour of cooperative employees.
Polling at Pandri gram panchayat on feb 24
Bhopal: Polling will be held at Pandri Gram Panchayat in Kesla development block on February 24. Polling was earlier postponed following court order. Polling will also be held on February 24 for areas of Kesla Janpad Panchayat area no. 20 and Hoshangabad district Panchayat area number 4 at polling booths falling under Pandari Gram Panchayat. Counting of votes for sarpanch and panchs will be held February 24 at polling booths soon after end of polling. Counting of votes for district and Janpad Panchayats will be held at development block headquarters on February 25.
MP GETS NATIONal AWARD FOR INNOVATIONS
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh was conferred National Award for praiseworthy innovations in watershed area management and land development. The prestigious award was given away by Union Minister for Panchayats and Rural Development Virendra Singh Choudhary in New Delhi today. He lauded innovations of Madhya Pradesh describing them as worthy of emulation. Joint Commissioner Rural Development Vikas Dave received the award on behalf of the state. Central government has given award to Madhya Pradesh in the category of Best Practices in the remote sensing plan while lauding innovations being adopted for result-oriented implementation of Integrated Watershed Area Management Programme. Under the programme, works are being undertaken in the state for water conservation and augmentation as well as soil conservation in the state to ensure increase in agriculture production. Projects costing Rs 3522 crore are being implemented in 29.35 lakh hectares in the state at present.
WHEAT PROCUREMENT FROM MARCH 18 TO MAY 26
Bhopal: Food and Civil Supplies Department has directed collectors that procurement from any farmers should not be withheld for absence of Samagra ID. Procurement will be made in the State from March 18 to May 26. Wheat will be procured from farmers on support price at `1,450 per quintal. Food and Civil Supplies Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has informed that registration process has been completed. This year, 19.08 lakh farmers have got registered for selling wheat on support price against 17.28 lakh last year. Department has asked field staff to enter information about Samagra IDs of farmers from gram panchayats so that procurement process can be smoother. The State has completed all preparations for wheat procurement on support price. This year, 2995 procurement centres have been set up in the State. To save farmers from inconvenience, they will be informed about procurement dates through SMS on mobile phones. In the State, 80 lakh MT wheat is estimated to be procured this year against 71.88 lakh MT last year. Committees headed by district collectors have been formed in districts to ensure systematic procurement. State Civil Supplies Corporation has been appointed nodal agency for procurement.
Van vihar guides to apprise public of upper lake
Bhopal: Van Vihar Management has raised guides to apprise common people of all information related to Bhopal’s pride Upper lake during Jheel Mahotsav. They would be deployed at various spots like catchment area in front and behind CPA Rest House, near CPA plantation, Upper lake catchment area, Kerwa reservoirs and Van Vihar. Management of Van Vihar trained these guides on February 5, 6 and 7 through forest officers, heads of university departments and officers of lake Authority. From February 21 to 22 during Mahotsav, bird watching camps will be held at Van Vihar from 6.30 to 8.30 am, screening of films on wildlife at Vihar Veethika and on February 20, 21 and 22 photography exhibition will be held at Boat Club from 8 am to 5.30 pm.