MP Cabinet fixes tendu rate

Bhopal, Feb 22 (UNI) The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet today decided to fix Rs 450 as the rate per standard sack of tendu leaf for 2007, sources said.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made such an assurance at a recent 'van (forest) panchayat' here. The earlier rate was Rs 400.

Inspection, admission and construction matters pertaining to private Bachelor of Education colleges would be henceforth looked after by the Higher Education Department instead of the School Education Department.

Twenty-three posts of 'naib tahsildars' were sanctioned, as also 200 Ayurvedic physicians' posts for primary and community health centres under the Rural Health Mission. As many as 236 medical and paramedical posts were created for government Ayurvedic colleges and 120 teaching posts approved for such colleges.

Rule 9(1) of the Madhya Pradesh Civil Service Rules, 1966 was amended. The maximum pension limit was also raised.

UNI