Chief Secretary Anthony de Sa awarded
Bhopal: Chief Secretary Anthony de Sa was conferred SKOCH National Challenger Award-2015 by Union Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha in New Delhi on Sunday. He has been awarded for outstanding role in delivery of public services. Madhya Pradesh’s Women and Child Development Minister Maya Singh was also conferred award at the function. Those who have received this award include CB Bhave, Sam Pitroda, Sudha Pillai, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Nandan Neelkeni, Chanda Kochar, P Chidambaram, C Rangarajan, Deepak Parekh and Wajahat Habibullah. The Chief Secretary has been awarded for administrative efficiency in social security, women and children’s welfare, education, agriculture, food security, self-employment, skill development, financial inclusion works and in online monitoring of schemes. Madhya Pradesh has set example for empowering women and Public Services Delivery Guarantee Act. Giving committed, efficient and administrative leadership and adopting innovations, Chief Secretary de Sa has discharged his duties excellently. Madhya Pradesh has presented worthy of emulation examples in major sectors of development before other States. The State has presented a number of successful models. At the function, lifetime Achievement Award was presented to former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha. Former awardees Vijay Kelkar and NK Singh were also present on the occasion.
Trader shot at by unidentified youth
Indore: A 57-year-old automobile spare parts trader from ludhiana was shot in the thigh by an unidentified youth in Khandwa town, 140 km from Indore on Saturday evening. The incident happened when the trader Sudhir Khullar, a resident of Harnam Nagar, ludhiana had just come out of a saloon after haircut and shaving in Cinema Chowk locality at around 9.30 pm. Suddenly a youth aged around 25 years came near the trader and shot him in the leg from a pistol and fled. The bullet hit Khullar's right thigh, after which he slumped on the road. He was rushed by local residents to Khandwa district hospital, where he is stated out of danger. According to Khandwa Kotwali police station in-charge VS Sisodia, the trader from Punjab had come to Khandwa for business dealings and checked in at the Aishwarya Hotel on Friday. He was on way back to hotel on Saturday evening when the youth shot at him. Khandwa Kotwali police are scanning footage of CCTV cameras installed near the spot of the incident to track the youth.
Indian Panorama Film Festival from Mar 23
Bhopal: Indian Panorama Film Festival will be held at Bharat Bhavan from March 23 to 25. Various films will be screened during it. Entry is free. Hindi feature film Water will be screened at inaugural function at 6.30 pm on March 23. It is directed by Girish Malik and Kirti Kulhari. On the second day, March 24, Malayalam film Kanyaka Talkies directed by KR Manoj, will be screened from 10.30 am, Bengali film Bodhon directed by Ayanshu Bannerji from 1.30 pm, Marathi film Elizabeth Ekadashi directed by Paresh Mokashi from 4.30 pm and English-Konkani film The Coffin Maker directed by Bina Bakshi at 7 pm. On the third day, March 23, Hindi-Kashmir film 23 Winters directed by Rajesh Yash Jala will be screened from 10.30 am and Hindi film lisanamaya directed by Avnish Kumar Singh, English film The last Adieu directed by Shabnam Deshmukh at 1.30 am, Hindi film Ankhon Dekhi directed by Rajat Kapoor from 4.30 pm and English-Hindi film Ship of Theseus directed by Anand Gandhi from 7 pm.
Transport Minister to reach Pawai today
Bhopal: Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh will go from Sagar to Pawai in the morning of Monday. After participating in local programmes at Pawai, Singh will go to Rewa. The Transport Minister will come to Bhopal in the morning of March 24.