‘lowest tariff Solar power plant a record’
Bhopal: Union Minister of State (Independent charge) for Energy, New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal said that achieving the lowest tariff of Rs 2.97 for the world's biggest 750 MW solar project to be set up in Gurh tehsil of Rewa district is historic. He congratulated Commerce, Industry, Employment and Mineral Resources Minister Rajendra Shukla over phone in this connection. Goyal said that this is a matter of pride for the state and for the country. Terming this a big achievement for the State, he said that the tariff achieved through tender is quite lower than the achieved minimum tariff. Goyal said that this was the first project to have achieved such a minimum tariff. He expressed the hope that the project apart from being certified as development process model, other national institutes will also follow the development process of the project. At least 20 national and international companies will participate in the tender process of the first phase of setting up of the 750 MW capacity solar project in Gurh tehsil of Rewa district. Out of these companies, six are foreign companies and 14 are swadeshi companies. After the selection process, the successful developers will be selected of which include two national companies Mahindra Renewal and Acme Energy and international company Sole Energy.
BHEl ladies Club participates in tree plantation drive
Bhopal: In a massive tree plantation programme organised at Jawahar Bagh, members of BHEl ladies Club led by President Pratibha Thakur, took part in the programme planting fruit bearing saplings. On this occasion all vice-presidents of the club were present. Officials of Town Administration and Horticulture were also present in the programme.
Thakur in her address said that we all shall endeavor to plant more and more number of saplings as possible for protection of the environment and society in general. She also said that the temperature around the township of BHEl is fairly moderate as regarding the exterior area due to the effervescent greenery in the area.
Siddh Bhau ji inaugurates 86th Free Urology camp
Bhopal: Siddh Bhau ji inaugurated 86th Free Urology camp held at Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, Sant Hirdaram Nagar on Sunday. As many as 593 patients have registered their names for treatment. These include 385 male and 208 female patients. This camp is jointly organized by Jai Shiv Shakti Health and Education Foundation Bangaluru and Jeev Sewa Sansthan. Deepak Jhangiani, Naresh Himthani,Trustees Mahesh Dayaramani,Hero Gyanchandani,l.C.Janyani,Hero Keshwani,Tulsi Adwani,Tejumal Dhanwani and Dada Ramchand Himthani were main amongst diginataries who were present on the inaugural session of the camp. District and place wise breakup of patients is as follows. Maximum 258 patients came from Bhopal district. Similarly 84 from Sehore, 51 from Shajapur ,32 from Vidisha, 47 from Raisen, 30 from Rajgarh, 18 from Hoshangabad, 19 from Harda, 6 from Indore, 8 from lalitpur, 6 from Chhindwara, 3 from Sagar and one each from various nearby towns and cities and got their names registered for treatment. Surgeons and physicians have started investigating their ailments and diseases and required X-ray, Sonography and other Pathological procedures.
District admin sleuths raid water pouches manufacturing factories
Indore: The sleuths of the district administration under its ongoing drive Rs Operation Visuddh', here today raided water pouches manufacturing factories, seized and damaged thousands of pouches. According to report, a team of the district officials led by SDM Neeta Rathore today raided a pouch making factory at Palra Patthar Mundla village and came across grave anomalies being adopted by water pouch manufacturer. A thorough inspection of the factory revealed that the pouch manufacturer did not have any valid license for the same. Besides, these pouches also did not have batch numbers and dates inscribed on it. The factory here manufactures pouches of New Drop water During the course of raids, the officials seized over 50,000 water pouches. In a similar action, the district officials raided another water pouch manufacturing factory of Malhaar Beverage at Paalra Patthar Mundla and damaged about 12,000 water pouches following irregularities. The district administration also collected water sample from this factory and it would be sent for clinical testing to ascertain its purity. During raids, the district administration officials were accompanied by officials of food and weight department.