Road Safety Implementation Committee’s meet on May 1
Bhopal: Meeting of Madhya Pradesh State Road Safety Implementation Committee will be held on May 1. Additional Chief Secretary Home KK Singh will chair the meeting to be held in Mantralaya at 11.30 in the morning. Additional Chief Secretaries/Principal Secretaries/Secretaries of Panchayat and Rural Development, Medical Education, School Education, Transport, Public Works, Urban Development and Environment, Finance, Commercial Taxes, Public Relations, Public Health and Family Welfare Department beside Director General of Police, Bhopal and Additional Director General of Police P.T.R.I have been informed in this regard.
Gond Painting Workshop at IGRMS
Bhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) under its popular summer series of ‘Do and learn’ educational programmes commenced the training workshop of Gond Painting of Madhya Pradesh till May 4, 2017. In this workshop traditional Gond artist Ramesh Shyam and his assistant are imparting training of this figurative and narrative visual art. The clay houses of Gond community are centre of Gond paintings. The Gond houses are the best examples of rural primitive architecture and Gond paintings represents the traditional festivals of the community. Making mural paintings on whitewashed clay walls is one of the favourite activities of women of Gond Community. With the formation of the wall, the Gond women make different design from the emerging lines, which is called 'Noodora', the beginning of each painting. Many patterns and color lines of prehistoric painting of cave human can still be seen in Gond painting. A certain sense of balance and symmetry can be observed in the pattern used, such as spiral forms along with trees, leaves, animals and human figures. In the series of ‘Do & learn’ educational programmes, registrations for the next training workshop on ‘Mask Making Art of Oraon Tribe, Jharkhand’ which will take place between 5th to 12th May, 2017.
ATM produces Rs 500 notes without Gandhi's image
Morena: Yet another case of Mahatma Gandhi's image missing from new currency notes came to light, as a man hailing in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district received illegal tender when he withdrew money from an ATM. The latest victim is Gowardhan Sharma, who received the counterfeit Rs 500 notes from an SBI ATM. A bewildered Sharma when to the security guard and showed him the notes. Then he called up on the phone numbers available at the ATM. The State Bank of India officials assured later that the notes are good but probably there was printing mistake. It said that they would be replaced after being sent to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Earlier on April 25, a resident of Sheopur had received a Rs 2000 note from which Gandhiji's image was missing.
Pay Rs 5K for failing to wake up passenger: forum
Betul: The Betul district consumer dispute redressal forum has directed the central railway to pay Rs 5,000 for not alerting a passenger who had registered for the wake-up call service. The forum presided by Virendra S Patidar also asked it to pay Rs 2,000 as litigation costs to Girish Garg, an advocate by profession. The incident took place on June 13, 2015 when Garg had boarded Coimbatore-Jaipur Superfast Express (12969) from Betul station around 2.05 PM. “I contacted customer care of the railways on number 139 and requested them to wake me up before I reach my destination Kota at 1.40 AM the next day,” Garg (48) said. The customer care executive registered my request and assured to wake me up, he said. But, he said no one woke him up. “luckily, at the eleventh hour, I woke up on my own and in a hurry alighted from the train at Kota station,” he added. “After this, I approached the consumer forum seeking Rs 20,000 from the railways for the mental harassment caused to me,” Garg said. The railways in its submission contended that their customer care does not guarantee that passengers would be woken up. Garg said the consumer forum on April 26 asked the chief manager of central railway to pay Rs 5,000 to him within a month.