Command Area staff body holds meeting
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Command Area Development Non-Gazetted Employees’ Coordination Committee of the Water Resource Department held a State-level executive body meeting here on Sunday. Department Additional Director Manoj Kumar Das inaugurated the meeting, which was attended by several workers of the body from various zones. The committee members demanded a 10-point charter of demands, including Cadre Rule for the department’s employees, gradation of all employees, fill up of various vacant posts through promotion, opening of command area zone in each district, etc. Committee President Ramachandra Sahoo presided over the meeting.
Yamaha Motor opens training school for youth
Bhubaneswar: The India Yamaha Motor Private ltd on Tuesday opened the first Yamaha Training School in the State at the premises of the Gram Tarang Employability Training Services Private ltd (GTET), a social entrepreneurial outreach of the Centurion University here to encourage economically-weaker youths to become self-reliant. The school aims at creating a ‘Centre of Excellence’, where the youths will receive two-wheeler technical training that will enable them to become expert two-wheeler technicians. Upon successful completion of the course, the students would receive a certification by the Yamaha Technical Academy at Silver level, said Yamaha Motor India Sales MD Masaki Asano.
Insecticides (India) targets Rs16 cr turnover
Bhubaneswar: Delhi-based Agro chemicals manufacturer Insecticides (India) ltd (IIl) is eyeing a business of Rs16 crore in the State in the current fiscal and Rs1,200 crore for the entire country. The corresponding figures for the last year were Rs14 crore and Rs864 crore, respectively. IIl MD Rajesh Aggarwal told reporters here, “We offer a wide range of insecticides, fungicides and weedicides and our products are receiving good response in Odisha.” The company would launch its first bio product in the State, he said.