Mango festival at NABARD
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is going to organise a State level mango festival for the first time in Jharkhand at its regional office situated in Ranchi. The event will take place on 6th and 7th of July. The event aims to showcase different varieties of mangoes derived from the orchards of tribal communities across Jharkhand. The fruits going to be showcased at the event are grown completely out of organic inputs without any use of chemical fertilizers or carbide compounds. The event is the reflection of the success of WADI projects launched by NABARD to provide improved livelihood to the people of Jharkhand. NABARD till date has approved 41 projects across 24 districts of Jharkhand encapsulating around 28000 tribal families.
Super market at Angadha
DDC, Ranchi, Sashi Ranjan called for a meeting on the establishment of ‘Super Panchmart’ in Angadha. In the meeting he told that in association with JSlPS the administration is going to establish a super market which would render employment opportunities and raise the standards of living of the people. Grocery, vegetables, medicines, etc. would be sold at the mart and most importantly the whole super market will be managed only by female staff. This is a big step towards rendering job opportunities to women. The working staff initially would be trained at Big Bazar and Reliance Mart. The meeting was also attended by DRDA director, Sangita lal, NEP Director, Shripati Giri, Manager of Big Bazar, Head of Reliance Mart and other concern members of the project.
World Population Day
On the occasion of world population day a campaign to spread awareness with respect to family planning has been initiated by Civil Surgeon Ranchi Dr. Shiv Shankar Harijan. To reach out to people both in urban and rural areas and inform everyone about the Family Development campaign the awareness mission has started from 27th June and will continue till 10th July. Survey reports are being prepared and the advertisement of family planning program is at great pace. Population control awareness campaign will be held from 11th July to 24th July.
Hyderabad-Raxaul train
The Hyderabad-Rauxal-Hyderabad Special train is scheduled to make a total of 26 trips from 2nd August to 25th October this year. Train number 07005 Hyderabad-Rauxal will run on Thursdays departing at 21:30 from Hyderabad and reaching Rauxal at 17:30 whereas train number 07006 Rauxal-Hyderabad will run on Sundays departing from Rauxal at 1:30 and arriving Hyderabad at 23:15. Both these special trains would make their stoppages at Secundrabad, Kazipet, Nagpur, Gondhiya, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, Jhasugura, Raurkela, Ranchi, Muri, Bokaro Steel City, Gomo, Gaya, Kiul, Jamalpur, Barauni, Samastipur, Darbhanga and Sitamadi.