Jamshedpur: The Jamshedpur Women’s College (JWC) will conduct a five-week-long leadership programme for rural women in the state aspiring to contest the panchayat polls. The programme will commence from March 26 and the participants would get free accommodation and food, the JWC said.
Principal Shukla Mahanty said that the idea is to empower candidates with the knowledge about the duties of the elected members and to augment their leadership skills.
Iterating that 50% of the seats in the three-tier panchayati raj system are reserved for women, the principal said panchayat bodies are the basis of the pyramid of the elected democratic bodies of the country with Parliament being the apex institution.
JAMSHEDPUR: Answering to long-pending demands of the people of Jamshedpur, the East Singhbhum district transport office (DTO) on Friday made it mandatory for bus and auto drivers and helpers to wear uniforms from March 1.
District transport officer Dinesh Ranjan said, “Auto drivers will have to wear blue safari suits while bus drivers and helpers will wear khaki safari suits. They will also have to wear badges displaying their names and mobile numbers.”
Ranjan said the uniform will be compulsory for inter-city and interstate bus drivers and helpers.
Ranjan further informed all buses and auto-rickshaws will have the names of the drivers, licence details and Aadhaar numbers pasted on them, which will be signed by the administration and countersigned by the union in-charges. He also said all transport unions have agreed to the new rules.