Minister on clean drinking water
Bhopal: Urban Development and Housing Minister Jaivardhan Singh has said that clean drinking water and sewerage management have been given prominence in urban infrastructure. He said that for this, a provision of Rs 838.19 crore has been made in the departmental budget. Singh said that assistance is being taken from world-class funding institutions along with financial resources of the central and state governments for arrangement of the desired amount needed for the construction of urban infrastructure. Loan/Grant contracts have been made of about Rs 1080 crore with the World Bank, Rs 5400 crores with ADB and Rs 525 crore with KFW. The Urban Development and Housing Minister told that works related to drinking water of Rs 2682 crore in 66 cities and Rs 925 crore related to sewerage in 19 cities of the state is in progress. Sewerage work of Rs 707 crore in 16 urban bodies on the banks of Narmada river are also in progress.
‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' flag to fly high soon
Bhopal: Soon the flag of Madhya Pradesh’s ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' will fly on top of the 18,510 feet-high Mount Elbrus of Russia. First woman mountaineer of the state to scale Mount Everest, Megha Parmar, has been made the brand ambassador of the campaign by the Woman and Child Development Department. Megha will climb Mount Elbrus on August 2 with the 'Trust Me' - 'Beti Bachao - Beti Padhao' flag. Through this campaign, she will send a message across to parents to have faith in their daughters. Megha met Principal Secretary Woman and Child Development Anupam Rajan and apprised him about the campaign. Rajan extended his best wishes to Megha to succeed in her campaign. He said that Megha has emerged as a new source of inspiration for our daughters. He said that the department will extend all possible help to her for the campaign.
DCs to get training for Panchayat polls
Bhopal: Trainee Deputy Collectors will be imparted training related to urban body and three-tier Panchayat elections at the State Election Commission on August 3. The training will start from 10:30 in the morning. State Election Commissioner Basant Pratap Singh will address the trainees.
National Informatics just 1 click away
Bhopal: The National Informatics Centre has developed a website of Chhindwada district on a new theme on which all information regarding the district is available on one click. Any person can get information related to administrative, economic, geographic, cultural, tourism, religious and statistics of Chhindwara district on this website immediately. The information can be viewed at https://chhindwara.nic.in. The information related to the district can be seen in both English and Hindi languages. This website will appear the same on all platforms like Laptop, Desktop, Mobile etc. The district map, names of departmental officials, their contact numbers and email addresses, history of the district, important website links, helpline number, photo gallery of tourist destinations have also been made available on the website. Apart from information on tourism and religious places in the district, agriculture and horticulture production, local cuisine and important festivals, information of the services and schemes being provided to the public are also easily available on the website. Arrangement of screen reader has been made on the website for the visually impaired.