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Madhya Pradesh extends term of three probe panels

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Tuesday extended the tenure of three inquiry committees set up by the State Government to probe the police firing inside J.P. Cement factory in Rewa, alleged irregularities in the old age and social security pension scheme and the circumstances leading to the death of Deputy Excise Commissioner R.K. Jain.

(According to PTI: The tenure of A.J. Jain Commission, set up in February last to probe irregularities in the pension schemes, has been extended by six months. The panel’s term had come to an end in June. The tenure of the Commission probing the September 22, 2007 J.P. Cement factory firing in which one person was killed, has been extended till December 31. The term of the panel probing the death of the top commercial tax official has been extended till February 3. R.K. Jain was arrested by Special Police of the Lokayukta on July 14, 2004 for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs.3,000. On July 15, 2004, Jain was admitted in the city’s Hamidiya Hospital where he died the same day. The Cabinet has also decided to borrow an additional loan of Rs.293 crore from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for funding the bank-aided projects in the State. )

The State Minister for Public Works Department Kailash Vijayvargiya, who briefed mediapersons about the Cabinet decisions on Tuesday, rolled out figures to establish the BJP-led State Government’s success on the investment front.

Mr. Vijayvargiya rebutted Mr. Nath’s assertion at a convention of representatives of local bodies in the State capital on Monday that Madhya Pradesh’s share in the total investment in the country was barely 1.7 per cent over the last two-year period. These are old figures relating to corporate investment in 2002-03, he said adding that the investment in this sector was 2.2 per cent in 2007-08 according to RBI.

Between the formation of Madhya Pradesh (1956) and 2003, only Rs.1,798 crore were invested in the small scale sector whereas under the BJP regime, Rs.1,891 crore were invested in the State, Mr. Vijayvargiya said.

He further added that the government has focused on infrastructure development, an area that was completely neglected during the previous Congress regime.

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