LICHFL has no merger proposal
Bhopal: The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has clarified that there is no proposal to merge LICHFL with any other entity.
In a statement, Executive Director (CC) of LIC of India, Central Office, Mumbai, said that for the benefit of all concerned, a clarification was issued that there was absolutely no proposal to merge LICHFL with any other entity and all such rumours floating in the market are not based on facts.
Nath to inaugurate Forestry Conference - 2020
Bhopal: Chief Minister Kamal Nath will inaugurate the Forestry Conference - 2020 on “Combating the threats of climate change” and “The role of forests in providing employment opportunities to the forest dependent community” in Bhopal on February 22. Forest Minister Umang Singhar informed that Indian Forest Service officers of the State cadre will participate in the conference at the Academy of Administration. The strategy of implementation of employment oriented activities through Forestry will be discussed in the conference along with the topics related to forestry management.
Additional Chief Secretary Forest AP Shrivastava has directed the forest officials to make recommendations on the basis of vision-to-delivery road map 2020-2025 on scientific basis in the conference. Recommendations will be obtained after detailed discussion by forming groups of forest officials posted in regional units on the theme “Expectations from the forestry sector”, “Contribution of forestry in mitigating the effects of climate change”, “Employment to forest dependents” and “Use of modern technology and work operation” before the event.
LED lights will replace conventional lights
Bhopal: Nearly 11 lakh conventional lights of 378 urban bodies of the state will be replaced with LED lights. The urban bodies have been divided into 20 clusters for the implementation of the scheme. These do not include urban bodies of Indore, Bhopal, Rewa, Ratlam and Ujjain.
A period of one year has been fixed for implementation of the scheme and 7 years for maintenance. Work will be done in PPP mode. Installation of LEDs will result in savings of about 50 percent in electricity consumption.
The urban bodies are divided into Sagar, Chhatarpur, Dewas, Nagda, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Pithampur, Khargone, Jhabua, Khandwa, Mandsaur, Vidisha, Sehore, Hoshangabad, Satna, Sidhi, Shahdol, Balaghat, Jabalpur and Chhindwara clusters.
The tender of 20 bodies included in Dewas cluster has been approved, with an estimated cost of Rs 42.28 crore. LEDs of about 25,000 street lights are being changed. Action is also being taken to start work soon in other sectors.
Two-day ‘Media Mahotsav 2020’ at IGRMS
Bhopal: In the series of collaborative activities of the Indria Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal with the cooperation of Rashtriya Surksha Jagaran Manch, Prajatantra, Swadesh News Group, Spandan, The Socio, BMLF, Swastha Bharat, Vivekananda Kendra and Eventruly is organising a two-day ‘Media Mahotsav 2020’ centered on ‘Bharat ka Abhudaya: Media Ki Bhumika’ on February 22 and 23 at Avritti Bhawan premises in this unique festival of culture, tradition, cuisine, entertainment and intellectual entertainment will be organised 05 chaupals (Sampaadak Chaupal, Lekhak Chaupal, Digital Media Chaupal, Paramparik Media Chaupal and Jan Samvad Chaupal).
14 companies expected to visit Sagar campus
Bhopal: Sagar Group of Institutions, Sagar Institute of Science and Technology (SISTec) Gandhi Nagar and Ratibad campus is witnessing Corporate Engagement for campus visits. Fourteen companies are expected to visit college to deliver pre-tech engagement talks and conduct interview drives in core engineering branches of Computer Science & Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication along with Civil Engineering branches.
Flipkart, Tata Motors Ltd, Mahindra Automobiles, Referrals, Firstsource, Kalash Infrastructures, Epitome
Components, Clad Metals, Quess Corp, Teleperformance, TBSS, Credera etc are amongst few corporate who will be joining the Corporate Engagement for which registrations are open online on SISTec website.
Keshavendra Chaudhary- Principal SISTec Gandhi Nagar, Jyoti Deshmukh - Principal SISTec Ratibad and Prof Prachi Shrivastava - Head Corporate Relations has expressed their gratitude to the companies for their participation.