MP attracting investments
Bhopal: Commerce and Industry Minister Rajendra Shukla said that Madhya Pradesh is now one among the country’s top five states in attracting investment in the last five years. Investors can now take full benefit of the state’s new amended industrial investment policy by investing in state. Shukla was addressing a session on ‘Madhya Pradesh Industrial Policy-Knowledge on awareness Post GST’ in New Delhi.
Shukla said that the entire process of land allotment for industrial purpose in Madhya Pradesh has been made online. 900 MCM water of Narmada river has been reserved for industrial use. State is surplus in power. Special opportunities for investment in the field of agriculture, textile, defence, information technology, electronics and pharmaceuticals are available in state. Most works connected with industries have been automated. Shukla told that ‘Investor MP’ portal is being launched in Madhya Pradesh soon to facilitate investors.
Man electrocuted at Khurchi
Bhopal:A 46-year-old man was electrocuted at Khurchi village under Ratibad police station area in the morning on Monday. Police said that the deceased Babulal Verma was rushed to a Verma hospital where he died during treatment.
The police were informed and based on the information a team reached the hospital and started investigation.
The body was sent for the post mortem after the preliminary investigation. A case under section 174 of the CrPC was registered and further investigation was started. The incident occurred at his farms while he was working in the morning.
bus skids off bridge
Tikamgarh:At least 20 passengers, including three women and a girl, were injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge of a dry river in the district early this morning.
The private bus skidded off a bridge near Chandpura village around 4 am and fell into the 15-feet deep gorge of Jamni river, about 75 kms from the district headquarters, Prithvipur police station in-charge Cl Parihar said.
The bus, carrying around 65 passengers, was going from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh towards Khargapur town of Tikamgarh when its driver lost control over the wheels on the bridge, he said.
As a result the bus fell into the river, which was dry, the official said. The driver and other staff of the bus fled the spot after the accident.
A seriously hurt passenger was referred to Jhansi for treatment while the other injured persons were given first aid at a primary health centre in Prithvipur town here and allowed to go home, Parihar said. The injured people included a nine-year old girl and three women, he added.
Bhopal
A 60-year old farmer allegedly committed suicide after getting a notice to pay his pending electricity bill of over Rs 9,000. The body of the farmer, identified as Dinesh Pandey, was found floating in a well at Abgaon Kala village of Harda district on Monday morning, Harda's Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said.
The farmer's son, Sanjay Pandey, said three days back the police served a local court's notice to his father, asking him to pay his pending electricity bill of Rs 9,111.
Dinesh Pandey was under stress after getting the notice and yesterday afternoon he went missing, his son said, adding that the family members and villagers spotted his body floating in the well at the village this morning.
:Abgaon Kala's deputy sarpanch Ganesh Ram Jat said the villagers found some clothes near the well. While looking around, they spotted the body in the well and subsequently informed the police.
"It is suspected that the farmer committed suicide by jumping into the well. The tehsildar and local police station in-charge were sent to the spot. The body was sent for postmortem," the SP said, adding that a detailed investigation is underway. The exact reason behind his alleged extreme step would be known after the inquiry.
Umaria
The carcass of a tiger was found on Monday in the Ghunghuti area of the district with forest officials suspecting the role of poachers in the death.
Forest Department's Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) Rahul Mishra said, "The body of a tiger, apparently an adult, was found at the foothills of a hillock under Kachnar beat of Ghumghuti forest range. The condition of the carcass suggests the tiger was killed two-three days ago.”
He said that while the carcass had been secured, forest rules forbade anyone to touch it till the dog squad arrived, in this case from Jabalpur, to help in investigations.
"Therefore it is difficult to tell whether the carcass is of a tiger or a tigress. We suspect the tiger fell victim to a live electric trap laid by poachers," Mishra said.