Prohibitory action against over 1.6L people
Bhopal: Chief Electoral Officer VL Kantha Rao has said that after execution of the Model Code of Conduct, prohibitory action has been taken against 1,61,661 persons for law and security arrangement from October 6 to November 17, 2018 in the state. In the same period, 47,580 non-bailable warrants have been issued. In addition, 4,507 illegal weapons have been seized and 2,61,576 weapons have been deposited in the police stations.
As many as 18,53,437 cases have been registered for Property Defacement out of these action has been taken in 17,98,567 cases. Similarly, action has been taken in 13,44,691 cases by registering 13,79,497 cases under Government Property Defacement. In addition, 4,73,940 cases were registered under Private Property Defacement while action has been taken in 4,53,876 cases. In the meantime, 13,175 cases have been registered for misuse of vehicles.
RMNH organises Bird Watching programme
Bhopal: Regional Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Bhopal organised ‘Bird Watching Programme’ on Sunday at Ecological Park, Laharpura, Bhopal.
Total 43 students from various schools of Bhopal participated in this programme. More than 30 species of birds like Spotted Dove, Laughing Dove, Black Drongo, Greater Coucal, Red Muniya, Shikra, Gray Francolin, Green Bee Eater, Coppersmith Barbet, Pond Heron, Black Kite, Bay Backed Shrike, Rose Ringed Parakeet, Tree pie, Purple Sunbird, Kingfisher, Rufous Tailed Lark, Hoopoe, Egret, Red Wattled Lapwing, Ashy prinia etc were spotted during this programme.
Manoj Kumar Sharma, Scientist-In-charge, Manik Lal Gupata, Scientist-B, Gautam Singh Yadav, Photographer of RMNH, Bhopal were present during the programme. Sangeeta Rajgir and Mohd Khalique from Bhopal Birds NGO were the expert of the programme. During concluding session, the students were detailed about identification methods and ecological services of birds, participation certificates were also distributed to all the participants.
Traders to gift books to Guv
Bhopal: The New Market traders association will gift books to the Governor Anandiben Patel on the eve of her 78th birthday. The Governor will visit the shops in New Market and receive books from the traders at 4 pm on November 20, 2018.
Books received by the Governor will be distributed in about 800 schools of Bhopal, where there is no library or in schools lacking in books.
It is noteworthy that the Padhe Bhopal programme was organized on the Governor's appeal. The programme was organized in various schools, colleges and universities of Bhopal city on October 9 in which around 2.33 lakh people took part. This programme bagged the World Book of Records, London. This step has been taken to maintain the success of this programme and take it forward.
The Governor has appealed to dignitaries and volunteer organizations coming to gift her with books instead of bouquets.