Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
Congress corporator and Mayor-in-Council (MiC) member Lakhwant Singh Gill has resigned from the MiC on Thursday noon on personal grounds. Sources close to Gill informed that he resigned because he was upset with the Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and other MiC members who were ignoring him during decision making occasions.
Gill tendered his resignation to Nayak. He also gave a copy of his resignation to the RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava and Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary. In his resignation, he wrote that he did not want to hold the post of MiC member any longer owing to his preoccupancy with his family affairs.
Gill was president of the Public Works department in the RMC which is said to be the significant post. However, according to information, he was looking dissatisfied for the past couple of months in spite of being the part of MiC. Some of the Congress corporators informed that Gill would give various significant inputs to the Mayor as well as the MiC members pertaining to different issues, but none of his suggestions were entertained.
Gudda is a corporator from Pt Ravishankar Shukla ward. He has been the corporator a couple of times in the past. Gill won the civic body elections and was elected as an independent corporator for the first time in 1999. Later he joined congress. During one of his terms as a corporator, he also got the opportunity to hold the key post of leader of the opposition for a short period.
Sowing of Kharif crops in 37.85 lakh hectares land
Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
The farmers of the state have so far sowed Kharif crops in about 37.85 lakh hectares land during the current monsoon season. The government has set a target to sow Kharif crops in about 48.15 lakh hectares land in this season and the farmers already completed 79 percent of the task, informed the officials of Agriculture department. The department is continuously providing all the necessary inputs including technical information regarding Kharif crops to the farmers through its field staff as well as via the experts. Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu has instructed the officials to take proactive measures to prevent occurrence of any crop disease. The officials further informed that about 4.82 lakh quintals seeds had been distributed to the farmers by far through primary agricultural cooperative credit societies, government agriculture institutes and organisation and private sector.
Shramik Sahitya award
Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
The state government will felicitate 12 selected labourers working in the industrial sector with Shramik Sahitya awards for their creativity in the four categories of the literary field that are – poetry, story, essay and memoirs. Under the Shramik Sahitya awards, the state’s Labour Welfare Board (LWB) will give Shramik Sahitya Ratna, Shramik Sahitya Visharad, Shramik Sahitya Praveen awards. Three awards would be conferred to the best female workers for their literary creativity. The interested candidates can submit their applications to the Board’s Shankar Nagar-based office by August 31, 2010. The officials of the Board informed that the government aimed to develop and encourage literary skills of the labourers by announcing awards. Only those labourers will be eligible for the awards who would be working in the industrial units that are defined in the Chhattisgarh Labour Welfare Fund Act. Although, the candidates can pick any of the subjects to write in story, poetry and memoirs categories, but the content should mandatorily have context of labour works, lifestyle and other relevant factors. The candidates who want to write essay have to express their thoughts on the topic – ‘Desh ke audyogik avum arthik vikas mein shramikon ki bhoomika’.
Contractual sanitary workers go on indefinite strike
Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
Over 2000 contractual sanitary workers of the RMC who had not received payments for the past couple of months went on indefinite strike from Thursday. When contacted, none of the relevant civic officials including RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary was available over phone to confirm about the strike while Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak said she was not aware about it and added that the RMC had started releasing the pending payments of the workers since last week.
However, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) member and president of Food, Public Health and Sanitation department Govind Mishra said the reports of workers’ strike were merely rumours. “The Commissioner called upon a meeting of sanitary contractors today afternoon and assured them that the payments of the workers for May and June 2010 would be released in a day or two. So, when the demands of the sanitary workers has been fulfilled, why they will go on strike?” he asked.
Mishra further informed that the contractors had agreed to give in written that they would disburse the payments of the workers through cheque mode. The cheque payments will be done to avoid further controversy or allegation on this issue, he said.
When pointed out that the workers’ payments of March and April 2010 were also pending, Mishra said the Commissioner had assured that the contractors and the workers that all the pending payments of previous months would be released soon. Notably, the sanitary workers are facing tough time for the past four months due to delayed payments.
The corporators say that the civic administration should release the payments of the workers timely as the sanitary arrangements of their areas would completely collapse if they would go on strike.
Congress corporator and Mayor-in-Council (MiC) member Lakhwant Singh Gill has resigned from the MiC on Thursday noon on personal grounds. Sources close to Gill informed that he resigned because he was upset with the Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and other MiC members who were ignoring him during decision making occasions.
Gill tendered his resignation to Nayak. He also gave a copy of his resignation to the RMC Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava and Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary. In his resignation, he wrote that he did not want to hold the post of MiC member any longer owing to his preoccupancy with his family affairs.
Gill was president of the Public Works department in the RMC which is said to be the significant post. However, according to information, he was looking dissatisfied for the past couple of months in spite of being the part of MiC. Some of the Congress corporators informed that Gill would give various significant inputs to the Mayor as well as the MiC members pertaining to different issues, but none of his suggestions were entertained.
Gudda is a corporator from Pt Ravishankar Shukla ward. He has been the corporator a couple of times in the past. Gill won the civic body elections and was elected as an independent corporator for the first time in 1999. Later he joined congress. During one of his terms as a corporator, he also got the opportunity to hold the key post of leader of the opposition for a short period.
Sowing of Kharif crops in 37.85 lakh hectares land
Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
The farmers of the state have so far sowed Kharif crops in about 37.85 lakh hectares land during the current monsoon season. The government has set a target to sow Kharif crops in about 48.15 lakh hectares land in this season and the farmers already completed 79 percent of the task, informed the officials of Agriculture department. The department is continuously providing all the necessary inputs including technical information regarding Kharif crops to the farmers through its field staff as well as via the experts. Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu has instructed the officials to take proactive measures to prevent occurrence of any crop disease. The officials further informed that about 4.82 lakh quintals seeds had been distributed to the farmers by far through primary agricultural cooperative credit societies, government agriculture institutes and organisation and private sector.
Shramik Sahitya award
Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
The state government will felicitate 12 selected labourers working in the industrial sector with Shramik Sahitya awards for their creativity in the four categories of the literary field that are – poetry, story, essay and memoirs. Under the Shramik Sahitya awards, the state’s Labour Welfare Board (LWB) will give Shramik Sahitya Ratna, Shramik Sahitya Visharad, Shramik Sahitya Praveen awards. Three awards would be conferred to the best female workers for their literary creativity. The interested candidates can submit their applications to the Board’s Shankar Nagar-based office by August 31, 2010. The officials of the Board informed that the government aimed to develop and encourage literary skills of the labourers by announcing awards. Only those labourers will be eligible for the awards who would be working in the industrial units that are defined in the Chhattisgarh Labour Welfare Fund Act. Although, the candidates can pick any of the subjects to write in story, poetry and memoirs categories, but the content should mandatorily have context of labour works, lifestyle and other relevant factors. The candidates who want to write essay have to express their thoughts on the topic – ‘Desh ke audyogik avum arthik vikas mein shramikon ki bhoomika’.
Contractual sanitary workers go on indefinite strike
Raipur, Aug 05, 2010
Over 2000 contractual sanitary workers of the RMC who had not received payments for the past couple of months went on indefinite strike from Thursday. When contacted, none of the relevant civic officials including RMC Commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary was available over phone to confirm about the strike while Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak said she was not aware about it and added that the RMC had started releasing the pending payments of the workers since last week.
However, Mayor-in-Council (MiC) member and president of Food, Public Health and Sanitation department Govind Mishra said the reports of workers’ strike were merely rumours. “The Commissioner called upon a meeting of sanitary contractors today afternoon and assured them that the payments of the workers for May and June 2010 would be released in a day or two. So, when the demands of the sanitary workers has been fulfilled, why they will go on strike?” he asked.
Mishra further informed that the contractors had agreed to give in written that they would disburse the payments of the workers through cheque mode. The cheque payments will be done to avoid further controversy or allegation on this issue, he said.
When pointed out that the workers’ payments of March and April 2010 were also pending, Mishra said the Commissioner had assured that the contractors and the workers that all the pending payments of previous months would be released soon. Notably, the sanitary workers are facing tough time for the past four months due to delayed payments.
The corporators say that the civic administration should release the payments of the workers timely as the sanitary arrangements of their areas would completely collapse if they would go on strike.
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