Assam Rifles recovers huge weapon cache in Manipur
Around five Jammu & Kashmir Rifles (Tulihal Battalion) of 9 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of IGAR (South) along with Bishnupur Police Commandos conducted a major search operation in Pat area of Ishok Village, Bishnupur District, Manipur over a period of two days to successfully recover a huge cache of automatic weapons.
A closely followed and validated input over a period of three months resulted in locating the weapon cache. In a two day long operation which started on April 8, the combined team of five Jammu & Kashmir Rifles along with Bishnupur Commandos recovered a massive haul of nine weapons which included three M-16 rifles, five AK-56 rifles, one A4 Rifle and one M 203 UBGl.
PM addresses 20,000 Swachhagrahis on Champaran Satyagraha’s anniversary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressed 20,000 Swachhagrahis in Motihari, east Champaran district of Bihar. The event marked the culmination of a weeklong Satyagraha se Swachhagraha campaign run in Bihar from April 3 onwards. At this event the Prime Minister also awarded 10 Swachhagrahis who have performed outstandingly in their villages.
In the run-up to this event, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, in coordination with the Government of Bihar, worked to spread the message of Swachhata. More than 10,000 Swachhagrahis from different parts of the country have been invited to Bihar, where they have been working with 10,000 Swachhagrahis from Bihar to “trigger” behaviour change throughout the 38 districts of the State and build momentum of the jan andolan further.
PM Modi said that their presence on the occasion was a great example of history repeating itself. Around 100 years after Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha, the grassroots motivators and behavior change agents of Swachh Bharat are now leading a Swachhagraha.
He said that he was confident that Bihar will also achieve the goals of the Swachh Bharat Mission (gramin). He lauded the state for having recently broken through the 50 per cent mark in terms of rural sanitation coverage, and for building 8.5 lakh toilets in the run-up week to the Champaran anniversary itself.
GAIl’s hawa badlo movement
GAIl (India) limited’s movement against air pollution — Hawa Badlo has launched an initiative wherein it will motivate the masses to take a pledge change your habit, change your habitat. Hawa Badlo movement will reach various colleges/corporate offices and fuel pump in three cities — Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore where they will educate people about the perils of air pollution in life and what all measures can be taken to improve the air quality. This is in line with Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and by pledging Indian’s will be asked to take measures for Swachh air .
Hawa Badlo movement’s main objective is to create awareness about the consequences of environmental contamination caused by human activity. It motivates the masses to inculcate friendly habits such as switching to CNG/electric vehicles, carpooling, and use of public transport. As individuals, there are multiple things one can do to save our planet, our environment and, indeed ourselves.
NDMC inks MoU for tablet-based smart classes
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been reached between New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Khan Academy of India, (KAI) aimed at improving the standard of Education in the Council’s Schools by making optimal use of Tablet-Based Smart labs. The MoU had been inked on April 10 by Chanchal Yadav secretary, NDMC and Sandeep Bapna, managing director KAI, to this effect at NDMC Headquarters in Delhi.
Chanchal Yadav said that the tablet-based smart classes would be rolled out across 28 schools of NDMC and it would facilitate about 11000 students and over 150 teachers. And added that the technology was transforming the way children were learning and NDMC had already introduced smart classrooms in its schools, which were yielding very good results.
BHEl wins India Pride Award
BHEl has been conferred the India Pride Award 2017-18 for excellence in heavy industries in the Maharatna category. The award was received by Atul Sobti, CMD, BHEl, from Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
HUDCO women’s team wins IHC TT Tournament
Dr M Ravi Kanth, CMD, HUDCO congratulated the winning HUDCO women’s table tennis teams, that secured the first and third position in the women’s doubles event. Poonam B Rajpal and Vindhyavasini Pandey won the first prize and Poonam Sharma and R Rajamma were declared second runners up. The mixed doubles team was declared the runner up and Vindhyavasini Pandey was declared the second runner up in the women’s singles category.
POWERGRID contract in Bangladesh
POWERGRID has secured Project Management Consultancy Contract for Construction of 1x500 MW HVDC Back to Back Station at Comilla North (Bangladesh) to transfer power through Surjamaninagar (India) — Comilla North (Bangladesh) with estimated project cost of Rs 1,064 cr and consultancy fee of Rs 21 cr from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh(PGCB).
Portal launch to collect essential commodity prices
Price Monitoring Cell in the Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) is monitoring the retail and wholesale prices of 22 essential food commodities on a daily basis. These 22 commodities include five items groups that is food grains , pulses , edible oils, vegetables and other food items. This is being done through 101 centres across the country.
Price Monitoring Cell analyses the price situation and gives advance feedback for taking appropriate policy measures to prevent undesired shortfall in the availability of essential commodities. To enable wider spread and coverage of area for which prices are captured and as a follow up to the recommendation of Committee of Secretaries, this department has developed and uploaded a software on its website for collecting prices of these 22 essential food commodities through crowd sourcing and stakeholder participation.