State witnessed high political drama on Friday as the Champai Soren government on Friday carried out its first cabinet expansion with induction of eight ministers, amidst last minute dropping of the name of Latehar MLA Baidyanath Ram—the ninth probable ministerial candidate.
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Since January, three major instances of underage helpers from villages in Jharkhand’s Simdega district being ill-treated by their NCR employers have come forward
Gumla: Congress MLA from Simdega, Bhushan Bara, has adopted Karangagudi, a remote village which is extremely backward but a rich hub of sporting talent and has produced as many as seven international hockey players.
Addressing a function at Karangagudi to felicitate three women international hockey players on Saturday, Bara announced his decision to adopt the village, located in Kersai block, about 32 km away from the Simdega district headquarters, and promised to take up all-round development work.
The three players Sangeeta Kumari, Beauty Dungdung and Sushma Kumari were part of Team India which played a six-match series at Santiago in Chile recently. They had scored 10 goals of the team s 18.
Gumla: As many as 150 workers in Congress’s Simdega unit on Friday staged a demonstration against the district administration, claiming that its officials do not invite MLAs in government functions and do not respond to their calls. In Simdega, there are two Congress MLAs Naman Bixal Kongari from Kolebira and Bhushan Bara from Simdega.
“The authorities from different departments organize public functions to distribute assets among beneficiaries but the MLAs are never invited,” Anup Keshri, the Simdega district president of Congress committee, said. “Senior engineers posted in the district even don’t think it is proper to answer our MLAs’ calls,” he added.