Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as the hub of swine flu this season with the city claiming seven lives in a single day.
This is perhaps the highest figure of casualties reported in one day in the country so far in 2010.
What is cause for concern is that while the national average of deaths is only 5.28 percent, that of Madhya Pradesh is a startling 38 percent.
Run-down on the cases in the state
To remedy pilferage and corruption in the public distribution system (PDS), Madhya Pradesh has decided to introduce a pilot scheme to deliver cheap foodgrain on the beneficiaries' doorsteps.
The scheme will begin on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2 in a tehsil in tribal-dominated Mandla district.
After a three-month gap, swine flu resurfaced in Madhya Pradesh and has claimed three lives this month, a top Health Department official said on Wednesday.
Twenty-two positive cases of H1N1 virus have also been reported in the state.
"Two persons in Jabalpur and one in Indore died of swine flu this month and 22 others were suffering from this disease," Health Department Joint Director B M Ch
Bhopal, Aug 17:
It is a tough task to provide good low-cost food to poor persons in these times of dearness. In view of this, Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur has instructed to provide full food to poor persons at the rate of Rs 5 per person through urban bodies.
The business of Madhya Pradesh state Cooperative Dairy Federation has increased by 13.6 per cent during the year 2009-2010 comparing to the year 2008-09. The Milk Unions associated with the Federation at Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior and Jabalpur did a business of Rs 540 crore during the year 200-09 while the volume of business has gone up to Rs 614 crore during the year 2009-2010.
Proposals will be sent to the state government for giving compensation for 17 thousand quintals of soyabean seeds lying stocked with seed production cooperative societies. This decision was taken at a meeting of Board of Directors of Seed Production and Marketing Federation which was chaired by Cooperative Minister Shri Gaurishankar Bisen.
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd - the company which carried out disposal of 33.32 tonne of lime from the now-closed plant of the Union Carbide Corporation India Ltd (UCIL) in Bhopal where a gas leak killed thousands in December 1984 - today denied that it currently has any toxic waste lying for disposal at the industrial area of Pithampur.
