Executive Director of BHEL, Bhopal bagged "Enertia Award-2010 for Individual Achievement in Hydro Poower Sector". The announcement was made the other day by Professor AG Iyer, Editor In Chief & founder member of Jury for the awards.

Central Region Electricity Distribution Company said to filed officers that in Rabi season maintenance of electricity lines and transformers should be done and its the priority of Company to ensure quality electricity supply.

A target has been set in Madhya Pradesh to supply 24-hour power to the rural areas by the year 2013. The state government has signed MoUs with 28 private companies for generation of 40 thousand megawatt power with a view to meeting this target.

Concerted efforts are being undertaken in Madhya Pradesh for increasing power generation. For this purpose, various schemes and projects are under construction in different phases due to which power generation in Madhya Pradesh will go up by 5,486 by the year 2013-14.

Village Kutkipura in Berasia tahasil of Bhopal district has ushered in a revolution by generating electricity by human waste. The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan dedicated to people a 5 kw bio electricity generation plant set up at a cost of about Rs. 22 lakh in this village which would generate electricity by human waste.

The state government has agreed in principle to install third-generation and ultramodern LED lights in the areas under all the municipal corporations in the state. For this, open tenders will be invited from various agencies and the agency quoting best rates will be assigned the job.

Edifice of State appears to have developed cracks as not only roads are dilapidated but during peak hours there is acute shortage of electricity also.

Milind Ghatwai

A day before the Bhopal gas tragedy completes 25 years, the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) claimed that chemicals dumped in the Union Carbide plant continue to contaminate land and groundwater.

Special attention is paid on the conservation of energy along with electricity generation by the government in the view of heavy crisis of electricity in all over the country. In this series, Energy Conservation Award was given to the Industries and other voluntary organisations earlier for the conservation of energy.

Heavy rain today caused traffic jams and water logging in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar and Narsinghpur districts where rivers were in spate.

Rain water entered several low-lying areas in Sagar and Narsinghpur towns. Affected people were shifted to schools and choultries. A large number of 'kutcha' houses reportedly collapsed in the two towns. Several trees were uprooted in rural areas.