Goyal reviews progress of DFCCIL
Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal, reviewed the progress of Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Limited (DFCCIL), which was attended by all the top officials of Railways Board, DFCCIL including CRB and MD/DFCCIL, and the contractual agencies. During the meeting, the senior officials presented the current status of the project. Goyal directed the DFFCIL management team and the contractors to take all possible steps to speed up the pace of works on all the sections of the Western DFC (1504 Route km) and Eastern DFC (1856 route km).
Special trains for JEE, NEET, NDA aspirants
The State Government has demanded not to run passenger trains in the state of Bihar for the convenience of the students joining JEE Mains and NEET to be held from 01.09.2020 to 13.09.2020. Keeping this in view, it has been decided to run 20 pairs of MEMU / DEMU special trains from 02.09.2020 to 15.09.2020 by East Central Railway. Unreserved ticket counters are being opened at the stations falling on the route of these trains. Along with this, tickets for these special trains will also be available on UTS on Mobile.
Tributes to Pranab Mukharjee
Host of Congress leaders on Tuesday paid floral tributes to former President Pranab Mukharjee at the district Congress office in Dhanbad. The Congress men also observed one minute silence to pay respect to the departed soul. Members of Congress and all its frontal organisations took part in the program. District president Brajendar Prasad Singh while speaking on this occasion said, Pranab Mukherjee was a true statesman and proved that by hard work one can achieve the highest position in the country. Recalling his visit to Dhanbad as president of India Singh said, Pranab Mukjaarjee had presided over the convocation of IIT- ISM and had blessed students here.
Farewell of retired employees from BSL
A farewell ceremony was organized for the employees who retired from Bokaro Steel Plant in the month of August 2020, keeping in mind the social distancing in the conference hall located in the Ispat Bhawan of the Human Resource Development Center. The chief guests at the function were Chief General Manager (Human Resource Development) BS Popli and Chief General Manager (Personnel) Pawan Kumar respectively. Addressing the participants, Jha highlighted the safety aspects in the plant and appealed to the participants to benefit from this program. Popli gave a message to the participants to share the knowledge received in this program with their colleagues. Popli and Kumar congratulated the retired workers for their sincere service and wished them a happy life.
2 drown in Koyal River
Two people were drowned to death while crossing Koyal River with a cow near Jainagra village under Kandi police station around 45 km away from the district headquarters, on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday morning when both the youths were crossing the river with a cow and suddenly started drowning after a sudden rise in water level from Bhim Barrage. During that time, people standing on the bank of the river started raising alarm and ran towards the village and informed the people. By the time people reached, both were drowned. Later people recovered their body. The deceased persons were identified as the Komal Baitha and Setu Baitha aged group around 22-24 residents of Jainagra village.