Mandsaur farmers demanding debt relief heckle DM, torch vehicles, indulge in stone pelting; IG says situation under control
Mandsaur farmers demanding debt relief heckle DM, torch vehicles, indulge in stone pelting; IG says situation under control
Farmers Demanding Debt Relief And Better Crop Prices On Wednesday Heckled Mandsaur Collector When He Tried To Pacify Them, A Day After Five Persons Were Killed In Violence During Their Agitation In Mandaur In Madhya Pradesh. Agencies | Updated on: 07 Jun 2017, 03:55:11 PM
Mandsaur:
Farmers demanding debt relief and better crop prices on Wednesday heckled Mandsaur collector when he tried to pacify them, a day after five persons were killed in violence during their agitation in Mandaur in Madhya Pradesh.
Unhappy with farm laws,100 BJP workers in Bharuch join Cong
The BJP workers, all farmers, officially joined the Congress under the leadership of Bharuch district panchayat’s Nabipur seat member Shakil Akuji at the party’s headquarters in Bharuch. December 27, 2020 5:30:34 am
The BJP has also formed district level teams that include senior party leader as convener and a sitting office-bearer of the district as co-convener.(Representational)
Bharuch Congress Committee president Arunsinh Rana on Saturday said 100 BJP workers from nine villages of the district have joined the Congress and extended support to the ongoing nationwide farmers’ agitations against the three farm laws.
Harsh Vardhan
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan said Monday the number of MBBS seats in government-run institutes across the country has gone up to 42,495 with the recent additions and the plan was to further increase it to 80,000 to meet the ratio of one doctor per 1,000 people as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“The health ministry is striving to achieve the WHO target of the doctor-patient ratio of one (physician) for every 1,000 by 2021. Our government has been making an honest endeavour to increase the overall availability of MBBS seats to 80,000 with the urgent aim to bridge the gap in requirement of doctors,” Vardhan said. He was addressing a ceremony to mark the beginning of the first academic session All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rajkot, to run from a temporary campus for now, through video-conferencing from Delhi.
AIIMS Rajkot begins academic session
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Rajkot : , Dec 21 (IANS) Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan virtually inaugurated the first academic batch of MBBS students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Guajarat s Rajkot city on Monday for the 2020-21 batch.
The Deputy Director informed that the institute s first academic session will be for 50 students.
Apart from Harsh Vardhan, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was also present at the ceremony held at Pramukhswami auditorium on the Raiya Road. Minister of State (MoS) for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, and state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel also attended the ceremony.
The academic session, it stated, would be inaugurated by Vardhan through video-conference in the presence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani at a ceremony at Pramukhswami auditorium on Raiya Road. MoS Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey, and state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel will also attend the ceremony. “The first batch consists of students from all over the country. They have been selected through merit in the all-India combined NEET,” Sinha said.
The state government has allotted land for the AIIMS campus at Para-Pipaliya village on the northern outskirts of Rajkot city. For the time being, the institute will function out of a section of the building of the state-run PDU Medical College.