Compassionate Appointment
The cabinet decided to do away with the condition of upto two children in cases of compassionate appointment family members of deceased government servants. Now number of children of the deceased government servant would not be an impediment in the compassionate appointment. However, the decision would be applicable from the date of issuance of order in this regard and it would not cover old cases.
Farmers’ Welfare Board
The cabinet decided to constituted a Fishermen Welfare Board for welfare and development of traditional and ancestral fishermen. It may be mentioned here that the Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan had announced the constitution of this board at the Machuara Panchayat held recently by him. The board would give suggestions regarding new schemes, amendment in the existing ones and in other relevant matters having a bearing of fish farmers’ welfare. The 23 posts of officers and employees required for the office of the board would be filled up by deputation from the department. The term of the board will be of three years.
E-Governance Managers
Taking yet another concrete measure toward promoting good governance the cabinet sanctioned 420 posts in Information Technology sector. These include 50 posts of e-governance manager under e-governance society, 320 posts of assistant e-governance manager at development block level and 50 posts of data entry operator at district level. This would help in more efficient implementation of e-governance projects in the state.
Majara-Tolas
The cabinet decided to electrify the Majara/Tolas and habitations having over 100 population of 2,332 electrified villages in Betul, Morena and Harda districts. This will provide electric connection to 96 thousand 320 BPL families.
Relief for Crop Loss
The cabinet decided to amend the provisions of R.B.C. 6-4 to change the arrangement for providing relief to the farmers for damage to their crops by wild animals. At present, the DFO provides the relief to such farmers in such cases. This would cause inordinate delay in provision of relief to the affected farmers. Following the decision now revenue officers would sanction the relief as per the norms fixed for relief in natural calamities. The relief would be provided from the budget of forest department. The forest department would authorize the revenue officers for sanction, drawing and distributing the relief.
Silo Bags
The cabinet decided for storage of wheat in silo bags on an experimental basis. The work would be carried out by Madhya Pradesh Warehousing Corporation on pilot basis. For this work land would be made available free of cost to the corporation and after the bags are emptied the land would again be vested in government.
Other Decisions
As per the policy of industrial promotion and increasing power generation the private sector industrial groups have started setting up captive power plants and power generation centres. As per the provisions of Vidyut Ahiniyam-2003 fee has to be paid for applying to get licence for transmission and distribution.
The cabinet decided to fix a fee of Rs. 5 lakh for applying to the Electricity Regulatory Commission for this. The state owned power companies would be exempt from it.
The cabinet decided to permanently withdraw 10 percent pension of Shri A.L. Parameshwari(retired) conservator of forest, Morena. He was found guilty of negligence of duty during the posting in a case of illegal poaching of neelgai.

Shri Khatik informed that stipends of ashram and hostel inmates have been linked with consumer price index. Now, these students will get increased stipends with rise in dearness from July.
The meeting was informed that stipends amounting to four crore 75 lakh were distributed among 73 thousand students this year. There is a programme to distribute Rs. five crore stipends to 80 thousand students. As many as 2100 students are staying in 41 Ashrams/ hostels in the district.  Minister of State Shri Khatik instructed to convert hostels having 25 and 35 student’s capacity into 50-seater hostels from the next academic session.
During review of construction works in predominantly scheduled caste areas, it was informed that 76 works costing Rs. 92 lakh were sanctioned last year.
CC Roads, Manglik Bhawans are being constructed and drinking water arrangements being made in these areas. The Minister of State instructed to complete these works by June 30. Shri Khatik also inspected under-construction hostel at Shamgarh.

Under the scheme, Village Health Centres will function as the axis. The accountability for successful functioning of a centre will rest with concerning Gram Sabha Swasthya Tadarth Samiti (Gram Sabha Ad Hoc Committee for Health). Later, a sector comprising 10-12 villages will be formed under the charge of an accountable doctor.
The sector will be accountable to a sub-division level officer will be made responsible for every development block.
Through this strategy, State and Centrally sponsored health schemes’ implementation will be carried out in accordance with physical, fiscal and quality parameters. Arrangements for incentive for excellent performance will also be made through this scheme.
The action plan for “Sampoorn Swashtya Sabke Liye” scheme will be as per specific requirements and problems of each village on the basis of health schemes and programmes being implemented by the State and Union governments.
About one lakh health workers including ASHA, ANM and anganwadi workers and members of about six lakh Village Health Committees will operate under the scheme. Training for making the scheme community-oriented will be imparted through ten thousand master trainers.

“The informer’s head and legs will be chopped off, once he is pronounced guilty at a Jan Adalat. Their will be only one warning”, the villagers were told. Reportedly the Maoists have also started taking stock of the funds the village sarpanch’s are receiving under the MGNREGA scheme. Guha, resident of Mate village under Roopjhar was active member of Paraswada Dalam which became non-functional in 1997. Sources claim that Guha has also revived the Paraswada Dalam recruiting new members. An increased movement is also being reported from Gondia in Maharasthra and its adjoining regions in Balaghat.
Earlier on Wednesday, Maoists killed a village sarpanch in Gondia, the naxal infested area in Maharasthra, located 45 km from Balaghat. Maoist stormed the house of village sarpanch Ghanshyam Koretti (35) and dragged him out of his home. The rebels then thrashed him with lathis and took him away.
It was during a search operation that the body of the sarpanch was found on Thursday morning near Sambhu Tola village. The naxalites left a pamphlet near the body which blamed Koretti for being a police informer.

The Chief Minister said that every grain of wheat would be procured from farmers and all out efforts are being made for proper storage of procured wheat. The state government is prepared to distribute the wheat to the poor if central government permits. He said that the wheat procurement work had been going on smoothly but the shortage of gunny bags created some problems, however, the state government is tackling the situation efficiently and the farmers would have no inconvenience.
Shri Chouhan said that for development of Ujjain along with the zero point over bridge, the permission for Sevarkheri dam has also been given to ensure continuous flow of Kshipra water. The construction works related to Simhastha-2016 have been started right now. The people are extending full cooperation to the government in these works. He asked the officers and public representatives to work with utmost responsibility for this.
The Chief Minister said that the parents having only daughters would be awarded pension. Besides, arrangements are underway to cook the food for the senior citizens at Sajha Chulha. Penal action would be taken against children who ignore or neglect their parents. He reiterated the state government’s commitment and resolve to weed out corruption and the wealth and properties amassed by public servants through unfair means would be confiscated. Fast tract courts have been set up for speedy disposal of corruption-related cases, he added.
The Chief Minister gave away a cash award of Rs. 21 thousand to Ku. Diksha Junwal as incentive. She had raised a voice against child marriage and refused to get married as she was minor. The Chief Minister also gave away NSCs to girls under Ladli Laxmi Yojana.  Prominent among those present on the occasion included the Minister for Commerce and Industries Shri Kailash Vijayvargiya; Minister of State for Food Shri Paras Jain; Vice Chairman of Planning Commission Shri Babulal Jain; Mayor Shri Rameshwar Akhad; MLAs Shri Shivnarayan Jagirdar and Shri Rodmal Rathore; UDA chairman and Speaker of the municipal corporation Shri Sonu Gahalot.

Shri Chouhan said that a sports complex will be built in Rewa. He also instructed to prepare an estimate for these construction works. Earlier, Chief Minister Shri Chouhan inaugurated the college’s digital library.
Shri Chouhan said that he will always remain committed to Beti Bachao Abhiyan. Wishing state girls a golden future, he said that now 50 percent girls will be recruited in the state. Shri Chouhan exhorted people to change their mindset towards girl’s birth.
Minister of State for Energy Shri Rajendra Shukla hoped that Vindhya region will witness better development under the guidance of Shri Chouhan.
Several pending schemes of the area have been completed during the last seven years. Presiding over the function, Shri Shrikrishna Maheshwari described the Girls College as pride of Rewa.
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan released “Swarna Salila”, the souvenir brought out to mark the college’s golden jubilee.
He also gave away certificates/prizes to existing students and alumni of the college for remarkable achievements in NCC, Sports, education and other sectors.
At the function, Vande Matram was sung in chorus in the presence of Chief Minister Shri Chouhan and MoS for Energy Shri Shukla.
Girls presented Madhya Pradesh Gaan and a song focusing on schemes of Woman & Child Development Department.
Student Union president Ku. Pooja Shukla also addressed the function.
Vice-chancellor of Avdhesh Pratap Singh University Dr. Rahasmani Mishra, Laghu Udyog Nigam Chairman Shri Akhand Pratap Singh, MLAs Sarvashri Girish Gautam, Nagendra Singh, Laxman Tiwari, Abhay Mishra, Zila Panchayat Chairmen Smt. Maya Singh, Rewa Mayor Shri Shivendra Singh, Panchayat office-bearers, girl students and distinguished citizens were present on the occasion.

The weakening support base of the Narmada Bachao Andolan in Maheshwar project affected area is also reflective of the fact that the anti-dam activists had to shift the base from Mandleshwar to Khandwa long back.
We strongly refute the allegation of the Narmada Bachao Andolan about its claim on submergence and reiterate that no villager in the submergence affected villages would suffer on account of filling of water level in Maheshwar dam reservoir up to 154 meters.
We want to reassure the villagers that filling of water in the reservoir of Maheshwar dam would be commenced in the presence of competent body to be constituted by both the central and the state governments and it would be ensured that the project affected villagers are not denied of their legitimate claims.
The tariff of the electricity of the project is a subject matter which will be decided by the MPSEB, Regulatory commission and the company. The tariff is a function of the total electricity generated from the project.
The claim of the Narmada Bachao Andolan that supply of water to Indore city under Narmada Phase III is not dependent on Maheshwar project is also grossly incorrect and far from reality.
In fact Maheshwar project will prove to be lifeline for water supply to Indore city as supply of 360 mld water to Indore city would be possible only after filling of Maheshwar dam reservoir up the required level and any delay in filling of water in Maheshwar reservoir will only aggravate water crisis in Madhya Pradesh’s largest city Indore.
The Narmada Bachao Andolan has always misguided the people, the judiciary and the government by spreading misinformation through false and fabricated reports. This has been proved by the supreme court for the second time when they rejected the review petition of the Narmada Bachao Andolan on Omkareshwar project only a day before this rally.
We also demand a thorough inquiry into source of the funding to the NBA for organizing rallies and demonstrations which have not only led to cost escalation of a developmental project like Maheshwar project but also deprived people of the state of precious power and electricity.

The Chief Minister said that the state government is committed to ensuring 24-hour power supply to the people. He said that power plants are in different stages of construction at other places also. Along with public sector the state government is inviting private sector also to locate power plants in the state. He informed that the B.L.A. had signed an MoU in year 2007 with the state government for establishment of this power plant. He hoped that two units of 45 MW capacity each would be synchronized in 2013 and 2014, respectively. He said that 35 percent of the power generated by this plant would be available to the state.
Shri Chouhan said that the state government has paid special attention to augmenting irrigation potential apart from giving a boost to farm output by maximizing power generation. He said that all out efforts are afoot in this direction. He said that this year Madhya Pradesh has left Punjab behind in wheat production. The state already leads the country in sugarcane and pulses production.
Home Minister Shri Umashankar Gupta said that the state government has paid equal attention to social welfare and infrastructure development. The enactment of Public Services Delivery Guarantee Act has ensured delivery of public services within specific time limits. The MLAs also expressed their views.
The C.M.D. of B.L.A. Shri Anup Agrawal and Shri Ashish Agrawal threw light on the salient features of the plant.  The Chief Minister sanctioned Rs. two lakh for treatment of a girl Yogita who is suffering from Thalesimia after reading about her in a news paper.

The apex court dismissed the review petitions filed by the NBA saying that the May 11, 2011 judgement “does not suffer from any mistake” and “no ground is made out” for review of the September 29, 2011 order by which it had declined to expunge the adverse remarks against the NBA in the verdict.
While dismissing the petitions seeking review of the May 11, 2011 judgement, a bench of justices R M Lodha, Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan on May 3 said, “We have carefully considered the review petitions and the available material.
The above judgement does not suffer from any mistake apparent on the face of the record warranting any review.”
Disallowing the NBA’s plea against the September 29, 2011 order, the bench said, “We have carefully considered the review petitions and the available material. No ground is made out for the review of the said order.”
The NGO had sought review of the verdict by which the apex court had quashed the February 21, 2008 order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court treating every major member of a family as a separate unit allotment of land for  rehabilitation.
The NBA had also sought reconsideration of the apex court’s September 29, 2011 order by which its application  against the May 11, 2001 verdict containing adverse remarks for misleading a three-judge bench was dismissed.
The court had lashed out at the NGO for making false statements in the affidavit for securing favourable order and had also asked other courts across the country to be cautious in examining NBA’s petitions.
The apex court which had examined the NBA’s applications for expunging the remarks, had disposed them by modifying its  observations in the September 29 order.
“We reach the inescapable conclusion that the NBA has not acted with a sense of responsibility and not taken appropriate pleadings as required in law.”
“However, in a PIL, the court has to strike a balance between the interests of the parties. The court has to take  into consideration the pitiable condition of oustees, their poverty, inarticulateness, illiteracy, extent of backwardness, unawareness also.
“It is desirable that in future the court must view presentation of any matter by the NBA with caution and care  insisting on proper pleadings, disclosure of full facts truly and fairly and should insist for an affidavit of some  responsible person in support of facts contained therein,” the bench had said in its 14-page order.
The bench modified its remarks in which it had said in case it (court) has any doubt, it could “refuse to entertain  the NBA”.
The bench considered the “remorse” expressed by the counsel on behalf of the NBA that “it ought to have acted with more responsibility”.

The Chief Minister inspected Patan, Shahpura and Belkhdi branch canals of left bank canals, the distribution canal of Mohan Tar and the canals and minor canals linked with them.
Shri Chouhan talked to the farmers in the area and assured of arrangements to ensure irrigation water from Bargi dam canals for their fields. He directed the officers to ensure channeling of water to the fields from every canal of Patan-Shahpura by ensuing Rabi season. He said that this is a major issue bearing on farmers’ interest which broods no delay or laxity. He assured that funds would be no impediment in this work.
The Chief Minister directed to immediately start the cleansing and repairs of the canals in Patan-Shahpura area and to speedily complete the ongoing works. He instructed that the farmers must get irrigation water before Rabi sowing operation.
Before inspecting the Bargi canals the Chief Minister apprised himself of the irrigation potential, repair and construction works of the left bank canals, through power point presentation. He issued necessary instructions to the concerning engineers for chalking out a time bound programme for this work.
The Chief Minister was accompanied by Home Minister Shri Umashankar Gupta; Minister for Animal Husbandry Shri Ajay Vishnoi; Minister of State for G.A.D. Shri K.L. Agrawal; MP Shri Rakesh Singh; MLA Smt. Pratibha Singh; Vice Chairman of NVDA Shri Rajnish Vaish and other officers concerned.

The Chief Minister said that the proceeds of taxes are being spent on development and welfare works. The state government has taken effective measures for welfare of weaker sections of society including rickshaw pullers, hand cart pullers, street vendors and roadside petty businessmen. He asked the Corporators to identify the children having heart ailments and the government would arrange their treatment.
Lauding the efforts being made by the municipal corporation to protect Narmada from pollution he said that the sewer from all the cities and towns along the banks of Narmada would not be allowed to flow into it without treatment. The Mayor informed that the Rs. 158 crore Asian Bank aided scheme under Project Uday would facilitate water supply two times a day in the cityThe Chief Minister assured a widow, Mudra Barman that the treatment of her daughter would be done on government expenditure. She had come to the Chief Minister with an application seeking assistance for treatment of her daughter. She has a heart ailment. The Chief Minister asked the Collector to make arrangements for the girl.

Rajkumar started pressurizing her. Ironically, the niece for who the woman had taken loan too refused to repay the money. Rajesh Soni, the husband of the deceased, claimed Rajkumar had threatened his family members a day before at the behest of their relative Mahendra Soni who had fraudulently sold off ancestral property to Sunil Bery. The 85000 sq ft property now is worth nearly Rs 1.25 crore. It was granted to his ancestor Goreram Soni by the Holkars in 1932, claimed Rajesh. Investigating officer sub inspector Baig said that no suicide note was found and the police just have the dying declaration to go by. There is abetment of suicide but no case has been registered thus far as there is discrepancy in dying declaration and statement given by husband of deceased.

Chouhan’s state plane had taken off from Bhopal in the morning at 8 am. By afternoon, the DGCA emailed to the state aviation department its decision to ground the entire fleet of the MP government comprising two planes and two helicopters till further order. The decision had been taken on Thursday but was not formally conveyed to the MP government.
Madhya Pradesh is first state in the country to have received such an order from DGCA.
The authority has cited serious violation of safety norms, especially those mentioned in the Section 3 rules of Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) rules. The rules mandate minimum requirements for undertaking aircraft operations with aircraft owned by state governments/ public sector undertakings of central/state governments.
Insiders claim DGCA order (dated May 10) was deliberately sent a day after Chouhan landed in Delhi in the state’s aircraft.
The order was sent via email at 2 pm on May 11 with the signature of union aviation minister Ajit Singh, said sources.
DGCA claimed that the order was based on report submitted by its inspection team which detected several flaws during the safety audit of the MP government’s fleet.
The regulatory body also stated that the explanation submitted by the MP government to its previous notices were ‘unsatisfactory’.
The state aviation department has written aletter to the DGCA expressing surprise over its order and sought further clarification in the matter. “We have sent a letter to DGCA seeking more specific reasons on its stand. We have already rectified most of the shortcoming the inspection team had earlier pointed out to us” says Manoj Shrivastava, principal secretary, aviation.
The state aviation authorities also expressed surprise over the DGCA action. “It says violation of rules.

There are two passports in the name of A N Mittal. While one is a UN passport issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the other is a regular passport issued by the Indian Government, they said.
According to rules, when an additional passport is issued to a person, the regular passport has to be deposited with the government. Keeping two passports at the same time is a criminal offence and a case can be registered against the person under the Passport Act.
The raid on Mittal’s and Junior Auditor Ganesh Prasad Kirar’s residences were conducted by Lokayukta, during which assets worth over Rs 100 crore were unearthed.
Police have sent teams to Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh to probe the illegal deals, in which, Mittal is said to have been involved.
Rs 38 lakh cash, foreign currency including 3,000 Euros and 1,000 Australian dollars have been recovered from Mittal’s house, police said.

Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Wednesday offered Bollywood star Aamir Khan to become brand ambassador of the state government’s save girl child campaign.

Talking to newsmen, Chouhan said he would love to have Aamir Khan as brand ambassador of the campaign but it is for the actor to take a final call.

The CM also lauded Aamir’s ‘Satyamev Jayate’ reality show that took up the theme of female foeticide and became a major hit. Singh said he would extend invitation to Khan to the state and take his help in creating awareness against social evil of the female feticide.

“If Aamir Khan agrees, he will be made brand ambassador of the save girl child Campaign in the state”.

Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday criticised the Shivraj Singh government’s move to hold Mandi president elections indirectly.

In a statement, he said that anger against the government is rising due to its anti-farmer policies and to escape from this, the State government is trying to change the process for electing presidents to Mandis.

“The Congress is totally opposed to this change,” Digvijay said. He appealed to the governor Ram Naresh Yadav not to sign the ordinance giving effect to the new system and demanded that elections for Mandi presidents should be held under the old system.

“Our aircraft are operating normally and we have not received any orders from DGCA to stop operations of our aircraft,” Manoj Shrivastava, Principal Secretary (Aviation), told reporters.

In fact, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today left for Delhi in a state government plane, he said.

DGCA had last month raised some queries about the operation of the government’s fleet. All the questions had been answered satisfactorily, he said.

As of now there is no order from anywhere to ground the fleet of two airplanes and as many helicopters, Shrivastava said.

Yesterday, there were reports that Directorate General of Civil Aviation had grounded the entire fleet of Madhya Pradesh government for “serious violation of safety norms”.

The action came after the DGCA carried out safety audit of the state government’s fleet of two airplanes and two helicopters and its separate aviation department.

This was part of a process of audits DGCA is currently carrying out in 24 states and state-run entities like Coal India and ONGC which have such departments and aircraft.

Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan will hold discussion with Deputy Chairman of the commission Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia at 3.30 pm on May 11 following which both the Plans will be finalised. Finance Minister Shri Raghavji and state’s senior officers will also be present on the occasion.

Minister Shri Gaur also took stock of various other works in Gwalior city. Urban Administration Minister Shri Gaur inspected city’s theme road via Gandhi Zoological Park, Jayendra Ganj and Achaleshwar Road. Impressed by the beauty of the theme road, Shri Gaur also had a photograph of himself snapped sitting at a bench of Photo Point in front of MLB College. He reached Gudhi-Gudha Naka and inspected ongoing works for construction of four-lane road and widening works of the Gole Ka Mandir crossing.