FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. XLI No. 260 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY 26, 2025 | Pages 18 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.in Even MSD couldn’t save this team: Sana P.16 Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL President Droupadi Murmu will attend a mass marriage ceremony organised by a charitable organisation in Chhatarpur district on Wednesday. Shree Bageshwar Jan Seva Samiti of Dhirendra Shastri has organised the mass wedding ceremony at Gadha village in the district, where President Murmu will be present. Two-hundred-and-fiftyone couples will tie nuptial knot on this occasion. Of 251 girls, 108 belong to tribal communities, while 143 are from other communities. The girls come from nine states -- Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN MONEY Sports Prez to attend mass marriage ceremony in Chhatarpur ESTD-1983 PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK Irani injured P.18 GIS 2025 CONCLUDES | Shah says MP will play major role in achieving goal of a developed India State secures `30.77L-cr investment mit Shah said the GIS organised by MP govt will play a crucial role in accomplishing the dream of making India the third largest economy by 2027, and a developed nation by 2047 A GIS SAW PARTICIPATION FROM OVER 200 COMPANIES REPRESENTATIVES FROM 50 COUNTRIES I want to congratulate Mohan Yadav and his entire team for putting MoUs on the ground during this two-day summit n Amit Shah Briefs NEW DELHI Sajjan Kumar gets life term A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a murder case connected to 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying his old age and illness weighed in favour of a lesser sentence instead of death penalty. CM Mohan Yadav welcomes union home minister Amit Shah in GIS at IGRMS on Tuesday. Deputy CMs Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla were also present Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL CM Mohan Yadav said that investment proposals of Rs 26.61 lakh crore were received during the 2-day Global Investors Summit (GIS) on Tuesday. If investment proposals received in Regional Industries Conclave (RIC), Interactive Session and GIS are clubbed together then the state received investment proposals of Rs 30.77 lakh crore. He was addressing press conference after GIS conclusion. He said that more than 85 Memorandum of Understandings were signed during GIS. After GIS, the government is going to scrutinise proposals and will contact investors so that investment could come to the ground level. Giving details of investment proposals received CONVENTION CENTRE TO COME UP IN CITY he CM announced to construct a convention centre in Bhopal and a sum would be allocated shortly in this regard. In future, big programmes will be held at the convention centre. He also announced that Bhopal will be developed as the most beautiful capital by taking care of its water bodies, infrastructure, road network, etc. T from different industrial houses, he said that the journey of the state will continue even after the conclusion of GIS. Underlining the pledge to create new opportunities, he said that skill development programmes will be strengthened, industrial infrastructure will be made world class and ease of doing business would be made excellent. He added that during Congress regime, industrial growth was minus. The GIS will prove a milestone and will take the state economy to new heights. To boost industrialisation, 32 types of permissions have been reduced to ten. Our Staff Reporter INDORE A 19-year-old young woman strangled her boyfriend to death with her scarf following a dispute under Bhanwarkuan police station limits on Tuesday. After the murder, she reached the police station on foot after walking for around 1.5 km. Preliminary investigation revealed that a dispute arose between the couple as the young woman wanted to leave him and wanted to return home. After a scuffle, in sudden provocation, she strangled him to death with her scarf. According to the police, the Cops sit on actor’s protection plea S Balakrishnan MUMBAI The 34-year-old actress who has filed a first information report (FIR) against businessman Shyam Sunder Bhartia, 73, and three others, on charges of multiple rape, criminal intimidation and offences under the Atrocities Act at the Kapurbawdi police station in Thane, sought police protection on Tuesday, apprehending danger to her life. According to sources, the victim,  who is now moving about in a burqa to avoid being identified, has received threats and fears for her life. However, police are yet to accede to her request for protection. In her FIR, the victim has accused Bhartia of raping her on different occasions, in Singapore, Mumbai and Delhi. Apparently, one of the co-accused in the case, Pooja Singh, videographed the rape and threatened to make the tape viral if she complained. All charges are bogus: Bhartiya Jubilant FoodWorks on Tuesday issued a clarification, in response to reports published in the media about a first information report against its Chairman, Shyam Sundar Bhartia (73). In the FIR, filed in Thane against businessman Bhartia and three others, an aspiring actress has levelled charges of multiple rape, criminal intimidation and offences under the Atrocities Act. Since the police did not initially register the FIR, the victim had filed a criminal writ petition before Bombay High Court which ordered the police to do the needful. In an exchange filing to the BSE, the company said Bhartia has denied all allegations leveled against him, calling them “baseless, false and disparaging, and made with clear mala fide intent”. Since police did not register the victimʼs FIR, she moved the Bombay High Court through her lawyers Mohammed Ahmed Shaikh and Sofiya Shaikh. The HC directed the Thane police to register her FIR and investigate the allegations. In the criminal writ petition, the victim has stated that Pooja Singh had formed a company called Flying Colors Pvt Ltd, on October 23, 2023 in which Singh, her daughter Mallika and the victim were directors. Pooja had said Bhartia would invest ₹50 crore in the company to produce a film and make the victim a big star. 4Continued on | P10 Proposals received to be reviewed every week: CS Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Chief Secretary Anurag Jain has said the proposals received at the Global Investors Summit (GIS) will be reviewed every week. Jain gave the information about the follow-up of the proposals received at summit in the concluding function of the two-day GIS. Jain said he would hold a meeting with the officers to review the investment proposals every month. MP has become one of the fast-developing states in the country in the past 12 years, he said. Eighteen policies have been made and the department-wise information has been mentioned in each policy, he said. Referring to the tourism policy, he has said once 28 types of permission had to be taken for investment in this sector, but now, only ten permissions are required. According to CS, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the mantra of three Ts: tourism, technology and textiles. The work is on in all three sectors. New policies have been prepared for these sectors, and investment proposals have been received at the GIS. PROPOSALS RECEIVED IN GIS Department Proposed Proposed investment in cr employment New & Renewable Energy 5.72 lakh crore Industrial Policy & investment promotion 1.4 lakh 8.616 lakh crore 6 lakh Mining 3.22 lakh crore 55000 Urban development & housing 1.97 lakh crore 2.3 lakh Energy 1.47 lakh crore 20,000 Tourism 68000 crore 1.2 lakh Science & technology 64000 crore 1.81 lakh Technical education, skill development & employment 43000 crore 51000 MSME 21000 crore 1.3 lakh Public Health & family welfare 17000 crore 49000 Higher Education 7000 crore 15,000 Horticulture & Food processing 4000 crore 8,000 Medical Education 3000 crore 9000 Aviation 1400 crore 1,000 PWD 1.30 lakh crore 4000 Adani Group 2.10 lakh crore 1 lakh 26.61 lakh crore 17.34 lakh Total INFORMATION OF TOTAL PROPOSALS Programme Investment proposals Proposed employment Regional Industries Conclave 2.34 lakh crore 2.74 lakh Interactive Session 1.82 lakh crore 1.32 lakh GIS 2025 26.61 lakh crore 17.34 lakh Total 30.77 lakh crore 21.40 lakh As MP has stable, strong govt, investors should opt for it: Shah Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said the industrialists see whether there is a stable government in any state before making investments, and since MP is under a strong regime, he appealed to all entrepreneurs to put their capital in MP. Shah made the statement at the valedictory function of the two-day Global Investors Summit on Tuesday. 19-yr-old girl kills boyfriend, surrenders Deceased was identified as Sanskar Pateriya E-paper Cinema Aruna RBI lowers risk weight on bank finance to NBFCs 4Continued on | P10 fp MUMBAI deceased was identified as Sanskar Pateriya, a native of Sagar district. He was a biketaxi rider. The accused has been identified as Krishna Sisodhiya, a native of Alot. She is a makeup artist and lives in the Tejaji Nagar area. 4Continued on | P10 Tharoor-Cong DIVORCE? S hashi Tharoor posted a selfie with Union Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal & UK's Secretary of State for Business & Trade Jonathan Reynolds on Tuesday. The post follows an apparent souring of ties between Tharoor & Congress after he praised policies of Kerala's ruling CPM-led Left Democratic Front government. 4See also | P9 STATE WILL MOVE FORWARD EVERY MONTH: CM hief Minister Mohan Yadav said the GIS would boost the confidence of the investors. There are ample opportunities in the agriculture sector, and the state will move forward every month in regard to investment, he said. Such summits will also held in some big districts to strengthen MP’s economy. He said all the three new rules to set up industries would be implemented. C Because MP has efficient government and permanent policies, it will be the top achiever in the country in the coming days, he said, adding that the administration is always ready to work two steps forward. “One govern- Mess food: Over 100 students fall sick at IGNTU IANS BHOPAL As many as 100 female students at the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak, in Madhya Pradesh's Anuppur district fell ill after consuming "contaminated" food in their hostel mess, officials said on Tuesday. However, none of the students are in critical condition. Resident doctors at the university's medical facility have examined the students and provided initial treatment. Anuppur District Magistrate Harshal Pancholi told IANS over the phone that a team comprising the Chief Medical Officer and senior administrative officers visited the university campus. ment can hardly work for development, so the Team India consists of all states, and such summits boost development work,” he said. MP will work for putting India ahead in industrial sector and become a state that will further the country’s growth, Shah said. Most of the MoUs inked at the summit are set to be translated into reality, and many supporting industries will come up, he UNION CARBIDE WASTE DISPOSAL SC asks authorities about precautions PTI NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked authorities to apprise it about the precautions taken for disposal of hazardous waste of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in Pithampur area of Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district. The observation came from a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih after a plea concerning disposal of the waste was mentioned before it for urgent listing. The apex court had on February 17 sought responses from the Centre, the Madhya Pradesh government and its pollution control board on the plea which raised the issue of alleged risk to the life and health of residents of the villages situated within one km radius from the disposal site. While mentioning the matter for urgent listing, the petitioner's counsel said the Madhya Pradesh High Court had on February 18 allowed the state to carry out a trial run of the disposal of waste from February 27. 4Continued on | P10 GREEN INNOVATION: IIT team uses food waste to make stronger concrete Our Staff Reporter INDORE Globally, about one-third of food ends up as waste. The decomposition of this waste results in emission of about 4400 million tonnes of CO 2, equivalent to 8 per cent of global carbon emissions. But what if the food scraps are used to make concrete more robust and sustainable, reducing CO 2 emissions? The process can reduce up to 20% of CO2 emissions from the construction industry, one of the highest contributors of greenhouse gases in the country In a green innovation, a team of researchers from IIT Indore has demonstrated that addition of food waste along with selected non-pathogenic bacteria can double the strength of concrete, improve durability, repair cracks and help with CO 2 capture, along with cutting down the cost of concrete. The research team, which consisted of Prof Sandeep Chaudhary, Dr Hem Chandra Jha, Dr Akshay Anil Thakare, Shivam Rajput and Dr Sanchit Gupta combined its expertise of civil and bio engineering to develop this process. The research team estimates that the final form of their process can reduce up to 20% of CO 2 emissions from the construction industry, one of the highest contributors of greenhouse gases in the country. Chaudhary said, “When food waste decomposes it generates CO2 .” 4Continued on | P10 said, adding that MP has land, labour force and skilled workers. Nevertheless, once it was called a ‘Beemaru State (ailing state)’ but now, it is categorised as one of the fast-developing states in the country, Shah said. In the past 20 years, the number of road networks, airports, IITs, IIMs, and NIFTs has been increased besides there are mines in the state which has also become cotton capital. 4Continued on | P10 NURSING SCAM: HC orders govt to submit list of officers Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The High Court, on Tuesday ordered the state government to submit list of all those responsible officers of Indian Nursing Council (INC), MP Nursing Council (MPNRC) and MP Medical Science University (MPMSU) for giving recognition and affiliation to nursing institutions and ineligible colleges. After the order of the High Court, those officers may have to face major action who were posted as Nursing Council Chairman (Director Medical Education), Registrar, Council Member, University Registrar, Member of University Executive Council, Vice Chancellor, Inspector etc. during the period of giving recognition to ineligible colleges. All other nursing cases were heard along with the PIL of Law Students Association President Vishal Baghel. During the hearing, Justice Sanjay Dwivedi and Justice Achal Kumar Paliwal of the High Court's Special Bench have ordered the government to present the list in the next hearing. The High Court, on Tuesday has directed that if the report is not submitted till the next hearing, the responsible officers will have to appear in the court. 4Continued on | P10