NRI presents book to Governor
Bhopal: An NRI from Bhopal Alok Kumar, living in Dubai, presented copies of the book titled ‘Divorce Negatives’ to Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon and discussed about them in detail along with solutions that can be found within us. The meeting took place on Saturday at the Raj Bhawan.
Alok Kumar is the State Organization Secretary of Janata Dal (United) in the state of Madhya Pradesh. State president of the JDU MP Unit Suraj Jaiswal, General Secretary Vinod Malviya and Bhopal district president Ayaaz Ali were also present on the occasion.
TCS announces winners of quiz in indore
Indore: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the winners of the Indore edition of TCS IT Wiz, India’s biggest inter-school technology quiz, held on August 19.
The winners were Shubh Badonia and Neel Goyal of The Bhavan’s Prominent International School, Indore, while Utsav Singh and Ansh Choudhry of The Emerald Heights International, Indore were adjudged as runner up.
This year, TCS IT Wiz – Indore witnessed participation from over 1000 students from class 8-12. The guest of honor Sanjay Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, along with Amitabh Tewari-TCS, Delivery centre head-Indore, distributed the prizes. The winners walked away with a trophy and gift vouchers worth Rs 60,000. They will go on to represent Indore at the National Finals in Mumbai, later this year, where they will compete with 11 other regional champions. The runners up were rewarded with gift vouchers worth Rs 40,000 along with specially designed medals. Four finalist teams also received gift vouchers worth Rs 5,000.
eyes of deceased donated to sewa sadan
Bhopal: Eyes of late Pushpa Devi Thawani (62 years) have been donated to Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital by her son Heeranand. A resident of Panchwati Colony Lalghati, late Pushpa Devi Thawani passed away on Friday. With this donation two blind persons would now get eye-sight. As many as 1,717 free cornea transplantations have so far been performed in Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital. Trustee LC Janiyani paid homage to the departed soul and expressed gratitude to the family members for this donation. Similarly, the eyes of late Savitri Devi Parwani (74 years) have been donated to Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital by her Son Daulat Parwani. A resident of Sant Hirdaram Nagar, late Savitri Devi Parwani died on Thursday.
optometrists’ training session held
Bhopal: A training session for senior optometrist of government hospitals of Sehore district have been organized by Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital on Friday. This session was organized in national eye donation fortnight being held in the state from August 25 to September 8, 2019. On this occasion, Sehore district programe manager UK Srivastava, RMO Dr Sudhir Srivastava, Project Manager of Sewa Sadan Manoj Dhavadia and Trainer Maya Gyanchandani were also present. Maya told the trainees that as per new medical practices now only enucleation of cornea is done. She also apprised of the new techniques of enucleation. She told the trainees that after death, cornea can be enucleated within 6 hours. Delayed enucleation of cornea is of no use. She further said the optometrist should not get the corneas of those deceased whose cause of death was Hapetitis B, HIV positive or Cancer.
power bill payment centres to open on holidays
Bhopal: Electricity bill payment centres will continue to function like normal working days on all the holidays, including 2 September (Ganesh Chaturthi), 10 September (Moharram), in all 16 districts of the Central Region Power Distribution Company. All the zonal offices of West, East, South and North divisions of Bhopal city circle and bill payment centres in Danish Nagar, Misrod, Mandideep will remain open on holidays like normal working days. The power consumers have been appealed to pay the bill through the round the clock cheque in the zonal office of the capital and in the ATP machines installed in Arera Colony, MP Nagar, TT Nagar, Vallabh Nagar, Govindpura, Shakti Nagar, Vidya Nagar, Royal Market, Raj Homes, Shahpura, Rachna Nagar, Bus Stand, Kotra, Bairagarh, Chandigarh, Karond, Shivaji Nagar, Sultania, Chhola and Jahangirabad in Bhopal city.
water conservation an urgent need: patwari
Bhopal: Higher Education, Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Jitu Patwari said that water conservation and promotion is an urgent need today. There is a lot of rainfall in the state. We can only conserve about 8 percent of that rainfall. More rainwater can be stored through stop dams, puddles-pits, farm-ponds and water recharging systems. Minister Patwari was addressing the Krishi Vigyan Mela at Lakshmibai Krishi Upaj Mandi Parisar at Indore.
Minister Patwari said that special efforts are being made by the Central and state government in the direction of water conservation. Public awareness campaign is being conducted for this. He said that the state government is committed to waiving loans of up to `2 lakh of all eligible farmers. Electricity bill of farmers has also been reduced from `1400 to `700. Soil health cards will be distributed to the farmers in the second fortnight of September. MP Shankar Lalwani was also present on the occasion.