CM gets Rs1.75-cr cheque as fisheries royalty
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was presented a cheque of Rs1.75 crore towards royalty on behalf of Madhya Pradesh Fisheries Federation on Friday. A cheque of Rs1.31 crore towards royalty was presented last year. It is noteworthy that fish production had increased by 32 per cent last year as a result of planned efforts. Increase of 34 per cent is estimated in 2014-15. It may be mentioned that several novel and welfare schemes are being implemented by the federation for fishermen including accident insurance scheme, housing scheme, Janshri Bima Yojana, livelihoods assistance scheme, credit card scheme, education incentive, Jaldeep Yojana etc. Principal Secretary Fisheries Saleena Singh, Fisheries Federation’s MD UK Subuddhi, Director Fisheries UK Purohit, CGM Fisheries Federation Rl Pandey were present on the occasion.
Kumari Bhupendra to see polling in Indore, Dhar
Bhopal: State Election Commissioner R Parasuram has informed that Union Territories Andaman & Nicobar, lakshadweep, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu’s Electoral Officer Kumari Bhupendra Prasad will witness Panchayat polling process in Indore and Dhar districts on February 22. She will leave Indore for Delhi on February 23. Similarly, Additional Secretary of Kerala State Election Commission KV Muralidharan and Joint Secretary Radhakrishna Kurup will arrive at Indore on February 24. They will witness polling process of district and Janpad Panchayats. The team will also seek information about multi-post EVMs and other electoral processes.
council for NUlM implementation constituteD
Bhopal: The State Government has constituted State Mission Management Unit-Governing Council for effective implementation of National Urban livelihoods Mission (NUlM) in the State.
The Chief Minister will be Chairman and Urban Development and Environment Minister will be the Vice-Chairman of the council. Its members will comprise Finance Minister, Chief Secretary, a representative nominated by Union Housing and Poverty Alleviation Ministry, Chetanya Kumar Kashyap, MlA of Ratlam City besides 2 representatives of urban bodies-Mayor/Chairperson, state level head of lead bank, civil society representative Sharad Joshi, industrial sector’s representative Sanjay Agrawal and livelihoods expert Vikas Tiwari. Principal Secretary Urban Development and Environment will be council’s Coordinator.
Centre, West’s Rajbhasa Convention held
Bhopal: The joint ‘Rajbhasa Convention and Prize distribution ceremony’ of Central and Western region was organised the other day at BHEl, Bhopal. On this occasion, Sneha lata Kumar, Secretary, Rajbhasa, Union Ministry of Home Affairs was present as the Chief Guest. Among others present were Poonam Juneja, Joint Secretary, Rajbhasa, Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Professor KK Jain, Director, NITTR; Umesh Singh, Field General Manager, Central Bank of India; Girishwar Mishra, Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi International University, Wardha; Professor PJ Sudhakar, PIB and Appukuttan, Director, MANIT. On this occasion, BHEl, Bhopal was accorded the special prize for exemplary contribution in implementing the Rajbhasa policies. The prize was received by Vishwas Bhave, Representative President, TOlIC and General Manager, MM & logistics; Harish Singh Bagwar, Manager, Rajbhasa & Transport Services and other members of Rajbhasa Department.
workshop on Int’l Mother language Day
Bhopal: On the occasion of International Mother language Day, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised a two-day-long workshop. International Mother language Day is an observance held annually on February 21 worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It was first announced by UNESCO. The Sangrahalaya had started a programme ‘learn New languages’ to promote regional languages- dialects and to explain importance of preserving regional culture in society, family and offices. In this series today, three languages – Oriya, Marathi and Bengali was taught. P Anuradha imparted training of Oriya and Dipak Kumar Chowdhary taught Marathi to fellow officers and employees. Everyone learnt simple communication sentences used in daily in all three languages.
BPCl re-launches premium high-end Speed fuel
Indore: BPCl, a Fortune Global 500 company on Friday re-launched its premium high-end fuel Speed. The new Speed fuel, which epitomises a unique blend of technology and performance and transcends barriers of vehicle class and category, will not only offer improved mileage to the vehicles but also smooth drivability, reduced emissions and lower maintenance cost. Announcing the national re-launch of Speed, Pramod Sharma, Executive Director (Retail), BPCl, said that keeping in view the stringent quality requirements of a number of new generation cars and bikes being introduced in the Indian market which require superior quality petrol, the BPCl's R&D team has developed has developed Speed with several new futures which apart from improving mileage of the vehicle, will also help in reducing carbon emission to the environment.
swine flu: 57-year-old teacher dies
Bhopal: A 57-year-old teacher died of swine flu while he was being treated at a private hospital in Bhopal, official sources said. The deceased was identified as Pipliya village-resident Balchandra Malaviya, who died during treatment on Friday. District Health Officer RK Gupta said five other people were tested positive in the district and they were sent to Bhopal and Dewas for treatment.