The ruling BJP has taken to the streets accusing a Congress MP of insulting the Narmada. Sajjan Singh Varma, the MP from Dewas, had accused Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his family members of being involved in illegal sand mining along the banks of the Narmada, and warned that “the river knows how to deal with those who rape and exploit it”.

The preparations for procuring wheat on support price from farmers in the State have entered the final stage. Procurement will begin simultaneously in the entire State from March 15. Besides online advance registration of farmers for wheat procurement, another important feature in this connection is the process of informing farmers of the date and venue of wheat procurement. Service providers and NIC are prepared to discharge this responsibility by sending SMS to farmers in this connection and have made all the necessary arrangements for it.

Extreme biotic pressure has taken the man-animal conflict to alarming levels in the forested area stretching across Raisen, Hoshangabad and Sehore districts adjoining the state capital.

Over the last several months there have been a number of tiger sightings not only on the periphery of Bhopal but on a particular occasion recently a tiger was even sighted climbing the boundary wall of the National Judicial Academy at the southern tip of the state capital.

Bhopal : Thirty-two schemes of 34 districts of Madhya Pradesh worth Rs. 1752 crore have been sanctioned under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification scheme. Under the scheme, 395 non-electrified villages have been electrified. Besides, intense electrification has been undertaken in 13 thousand 389 villages where free connections have been given to 4 lakh 83 thousand below poverty line beneficiaries so far. Moreover, schemes of 16 districts of the state have been forwarded for approval to Rural Electrification Corporation.

Bhopal: Bureaucratic indecision has resulted in the wastage of medicines worth Rs 27 lakh. The medicines bought about three years ago were meant for the rural poor undergoing treatment at Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad government hospital.

Sources said a huge consignment of medicines, now past their expiry date, is lying in a warehouse in Harda district, about 90km away from Hoshangabad. And there is no knowing how this consignment will be disposed of.

Fishermen and fish breeders in the state are constantly getting the benefits of fisheries schemes. During the year 2011-12, twenty beneficiaries of 13 districts have been selected for fishing training under National Agriculture Development Scheme. Out of these, five beneficiaries are from Harda district, two each from Betul, Jabalpur and Chhindwara districts and one each from Seoni, Satna, Hoshangabad, Dhar, Indore, Bhopal, Mandsaur, Chhatarpur and Balaghat districts.

The work of storage of wheat procured under minimum support price scheme in the State has now reached in last phase. With maximum 7 lakh 31 thousand metric tonne procurement of wheat, Hoshangabad district is nearing the completion of task of storage of wheat in next couple of days.

Forest Minister Sartaj Singh has said that maximum number of rural people should participate in the ambitious water conservation campaign

Madhya Pradesh has become the first state to link Aadhaar, the 12-digit number issued by UIDAI, to the subsidised foodgrain scheme.

The state government thinks the new arrangement will totally eliminate fake beneficiaries of the subsidised foodgrain scheme.

MP has cancelled lakhs of bogus ration cards over the last couple of years that were proving to be a drain on the public distribution sy