rajendra shukla to participate in india-arab summit
Bhopal: Minister for Commerce and Industries Rajendra Shukla will participate in India-Arab Partnership Conference to be held on December 14-15 in Muscat (Oman). A delegation led by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs MJ Akbar is going for the conference. Discussion on investment in Madhya Pradesh will be held in the conference. Detail discussion will be held in the two-day conference on prospects of business and economics between Oman and India. Ministers of both the countries and senior officials will take part in the discussion. Discussion will be held in the sessions in the conference on use of new technology in the changing era, renewable energy and clean technology, health, pharmaceutical industries, higher education and technology development and investment in tourism.
Industries Minister Shukla will leave from Mumbai and reach Muscat on December 13. The delegation of Madhya Pradesh includes additional MD TRIFAC, Kiran Gopal and MD, Bharat-Oman Refinery and MD, AKVN, Gwalior.
Road mishap: 1 killed, another injured
Indore: In a major road mishap, a youth was killed, while a woman sustained severe injuries. The incident occurred on late Monday night. Kanadia police after being informed about the matter reached incident site on the bypass road and found two persons lying injured on the ground. Both the injured were immediately rushed to MY Hospital where the youth identified as Faizal Farooqee, a resident of Deepalpur, died while undergoing treatment. The deceased was reportedly working as a RTO agent and also did casual modeling assignment. The condition of another injured, a lady identified as Amita was stated to be serious till filing this report.
Her identity was yet to be ascertained as she was lying in an unconscious state in the hospital. The deceased's relatives had no idea as to how this lady was related to Faizal. According to police, the incident occurred last night while the deceased along with the injured was going on a bicycle when they were hit by unidentified vehicle.
cm meets sushma swaraj at aiims, new delhi
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj at AIIMS New Delhi and prayed for her speedy recovery. It may be mentioned that Swaraj had recently underwent kidney transplantation successfully. Chouhan informed that after the successful kidney transplantation, Swaraj is recovering and shortly she will resume the office. He further mentioned that Swaraj started disposing off important works of her office soon after the operation.
‘cashless’ training to farmers
Bhopal: Instructions have been issued to provide training to farmers in Mandis for cashless transaction and launch awareness campaign. State Agriculture Marketing Board, Managing Director, Rakesh Shrivastava has issued instructions to all additional directors, joint directors, deputy directors and presidents and secretaries of Krishi Upaj Mandi Samitis. It has been said in the instructions that farmers should be imparted training considering good results of different cashless measures for continuing commercial activities without any hurdles and easy payment to farmers in Mandis after demonitisation and there should be constant campaign to make them aware. Managing director asked to take help of banks, financial institutions and managing experts for training. Daily report regarding number of cashless transaction and quantity has been sought through the instructions. Noteworthy is that State Government has extended period for free storage facilities to farmers in Mandis from December 16 to March 31, 2017.
unesco awards conservation work of mahidpur fort
Bhopal: “Award of Merit” was honoured to the conservation work of Mahidpur Fort of Ujjain district by the UNESCO. Programme to honour award will be held on December 14 at 4.30 pm at State Museum, Shyamla Hills-Bhopal. The award will be presented by the Director of UNESCO Shri Shigeru Aoyagi. Also presentation on conservation works will be given in the programme.
Minister of State for Culture (Independent Charge) shri Surendra Patwa has informed that conservation work of Mahidpur fort has been selected by the International Conservation Experts’ Committee at Bangkok from 40 entries received for Heritage Award. It may be mentioned that conservation and development work of 492 State protected monuments have been undertaken cautiously with the view of architecture and other specialty in the State.
Conservation work of Mahidpur fort has been carried out spending Rs 1 crore in two phases, in cooperation of Directorate of Archeological, Archives and Museum and World Monument Fund. The fort built in 18th century is situated at the shore of Kshipra River.
It was the part of Holkar State Indore. Here war between Britishers and Holkar State took place in the year 1817. Conservation work of security wall, tower, entrance gate and arches was carried out in Mahidpur fort.
cm expresses condolence on rajgarh accident
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed deep condolence on bus and auto accident in Rajgarh. Eleven people were killed in the accident occurred near Kishangarh Ghati and five people were injured. Chief Minister Chouhan sanctioned ex gratia of Rs two lakh to family of each deceased and Rs 25,000 to each injured person for treatment. He issued instructions to provide proper treatment to injured people.
giic delegates meet cs basant pratap
Bhopal: A delegation of GIIC (Guizhou Maritimes Silk Road International Investment Corporation) led by Changlin met
Chief Secretary Basant Pratap Singh. Representatives of Power China, China Railways, Bricks Consultant Group were part of the delegation. Chief Secretary gave assurance to delegation to extend
utmost support at Government level for smart city, urban development, irrigation, highways, bridge construction.
Discussion was held in the meeting on investment in road, energy, solar energy, water supply and industrial park. Delegation put views of the company on speedy work by the State Government, lesser paper work, PPP model, capital investment and issues of support from the government in the market. Principal Secretary to Chief Minister SK Mishra, principal secretary, commerce and industries Mohammed Suleman and other officials were present on the occasion.
transport min orders probe into rajgarh mishap
Bhopal: Minister for Home and Transport Bhupendra Singh has given the directives to conduct an enquiry regarding the bus-auto accident occurred at Kishangarh Ghat of district headquarters Rajgarh. Enquiry will be conducted by the Additional Transport Commissioner Vijay Raghuvanshi. The enquiry officer has been asked to submit the report within 24 hours. Singh has expressed profound grief over the death of people and girls students in the accident. Singh has prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed souls and strength to the bereaved families to bear the loss. Moreover, Singh has suspended the District Transport Officer Rajgarh with immediate effect. Further, he also instructed to lodge FIR against the bus operator. Singh gave directives to the district administration and police to provide immediate help to the injured and victims immediately after the accident. It may be mentioned that 11 people have lost lives in the accident when a private bus hit the auto carrying school children including 5 school girls. Five injured have been referred to Bhopal after treatment at the district hospital. Other injured are being given medical treatment at the district hospital.