Global handwashing day at Mahilong today
Ranchi: World Handwashing Day will be organised at ideal village Mahilong, selected by Rajya Sabha member Mahesh Poddar on Saturday. An awareness camp along with a painting completion will also be organised at Mahilong Middle School. A six member team of Fine Arts Society in BIT Mesra will also give training of painting to at least 10 children. The programme is being organized by Ratract Club of Ranchi with technical support of UNICEF Jharkhand
Worker dies at BSl
Bokaro: A contract worker died in an accident inside the Bokaro Steel Plant (BSl) on Friday. Jhabu Mahto (51) was contract worker (of M/s Jyoti Construction) at BSl, working at Hot Strip Mill (HMS), II died in an accident while he was on duty, said a PR official. "The incident occurred at around 10 am in the Reheating Furnace No.-1 area of HMS”, added the official. A committee has been set-up to ascertain the cause of the incident. The next of kin of the deceased has been given offer of appointment by BSl. BSl management mourns on the sad demise of Mahto in the unfortunate incident.
‘Govt schools to get new bench-desks soon'
lohardaga: In all the Government schools the bench and desks would be purchased soon. For that an amount of Rs 1.98 crore has been released for as many as 375 schools through the account of school management committee, said DSE-cum-DPO Renuka Tigga. It was told that the benches and desks would have to be bought with the estimate of 4000. In Kairo block Rs 19. 79 lakh was given for 35 schools, in Bhandra block 25 lakhs was given for 46 schools.