Dhanbad: As the world celebrated international Father’s Day on Sunday, a young philanthropic BCCL officer, Dev Kumar Verma, who operates three schools in Katras area of Dhanbad imparting free education to coal picker children, recalled the childhood lesson of his father, a fourth grade employee of same company, who donated his ancestral house at Katras to launch the first school.

Verma, presently posted at BCCL headquarters in Koylabhavan, said, “I owe the sensitivity towards the economically deprived section of society to my father’s lessons who before joining the service as a fourth grade employee in BCCL in 1997 used to operate a betel shop in Katras and faced a lot of difficulty in educating five children including me, my two younger brothers and two sisters but never missed an opportunity to help others.”

“I established the first free of cost school , Pathshala in Katras Bazar in 2015 in my ancestral house given to us to father for launching the educational initiative and then launched two other branches of Pathshala at Premnagar Katras and Bhagabasti Katras in August 2018 and December 2018,” explained Verma.

Verma’s philanthropism is not confined to coal picker children’s education as he recently provided food grains other help to two International women footballers of Dhanbad including , Sangeeta Soren ,20, of Bansmuri village of Baghmara and Asha Kumari, 21, of Topchachi who were compelled to work in brick kilns and fields facing penury due to the lockdown.

(Praduman Choubey)

Overflowing ravine threat to railway

An earthen drainage rivulet across railway track number 6 in the Daltonganj railway station. The Telegraph picture

Daltonganj: A 2 meter wide and nearly 200 meter long earthen ravine across the railway track number 6 in the Daltonganj railway station is posing a threat to passengers and railway personnel living in the railway colony close to it.

Station superintendent of the station, Anil Kumar Tiwary, said, “Last night a male passenger who had got down from the Shaktipunj express train was on way to the Redma locality of this town but he fell in this nullah in the rain.”

The railway official said the passenger was hurt and hurled abuses at the rail officials when as a matter of fact the railways have no responsibility towards the ravine.

The railway official said the Daltonganj railway station has two entry points one from the Rotary school end and the other from the Redma side where the ravine is posing inconveniences to passengers and railway officials who have to jump over it all the time.

Sources said the ravine was all silted and during the rain over the last three days here it caused a very heavy inundation of rain waters in the location posing danger to the railway track number 6.

The civic authorities used a JCB machine to de-silt, widen and deepen it just enough for rainwater to drain out. This is posing a greater risk to passengers and officials.

Deputy Mayor of the Medinirai municipal corporation, Mangal Singh, said the issue will be looked into but he hastened to add the railways should also take some initiatives to provide some relief.

(Our correspondent)

On site vaccination in Dhanbad from Monday

Dhanbad: An on-site registration and vaccination for 18 to 44 years age category will begin in Dhanbad from Monday.

District Reproductive and Child Health Officer of Dhanbad, Dr Vikash Rana, who is also the nodal officer for Covid vaccination in the district said, "We will launch the on-site registration and vaccination for 18 to 44 years of age category from tomorrow and have fixed the target of 10 thousand vaccinations tomorrow at different sites of the district out of which 5 thousand vaccines are reserved for online booking who will be given priority in vaccination at centres while rest 5 thousand will be reserved for on spot booking."

“We have fixed a target of 3000 vaccinations on June 22 out of which 1500 will be reserved each for online booking and on spot booking,” he said.

When asked about the second dose of those who took Covaxin on inaugural day of 18 to 44 years of vaccination on May 14 Rana said that the vaccine doses of Covaxin is likely to reach within a day after which the second dose will be administered to them.

(Praduman Choubey)

Balidih police arrest 5 accused in kidnapping of businessman

Balidih police conduct a media conference with the arrested criminals. The Telegraph picture

Bokaro: Five criminals, who were absconding in the kidnapping case of a businessman on June 14, have been arrested by the Balidih Police here on Sunday.

Those arrested have been identified as Surendra Yadav, Sanyog Singh, Amira Pandit, Rahul Kumar and Anoop Mishra.

Basant Mahto had gone to seek the dues from a person Rajkumar in Kurmidih, Balidih when the criminals abducted him and demanded a ransom of Rs 1lakh from his family.

Police arrested two of them soon after the incident and safely recovered Mahto from the Badambasa forest.

Police conducted a raid and arrested the rest from Bansidih of Chas area. They have also recovered three mobile phones from their possession. According to police, the accused have a criminal history and were out on bail.

Officer in-charge of Balidih police station, Vinod Kumar, said the arrested are involved in criminal activities and used to extort money from contractors and businessmen. A few days ago, they attacked a railway contractor.

(Our correspondent)

International Cricket Stadium in Bokaro

JSCA team conducts a survey of the proposed International Cricket Stadium in Bokaro. The Telegraph picture

Bokaro: It is almost officially final that the Jharkhand State Cricket Association is all set to construct an International Cricket Stadium across 20 acres of land in Balidih area of Bokaro.

The JSCA has floated an Expression of Interest for constructing the state-of-the-art stadium having 25,000 seating capacity. The process of transfer of a required chunk of land from Bokaro Steel Plant is also in its final stage.

Chief of communication, BSL, Manikant Dhan said, "Everything is going in a positive direction, the land transfer is in process and will be completed in the next few days."

A JSCA team, which had come to conduct a survey of the land identified for the proposed International Cricket Stadium, witnessed protests from local residents on Friday. The agitators claimed that a major portion of land on which the proposed stadium is going to be built belongs to them.

However, administrative and police officials present at the spot calmed them down and handled the situation. SDO, Chas, Shashi Prakash Singh asked local residents, mostly tribal, to hand them their complaint letters and land documents so that they can inquire about it.

BSL claimed that the land chunk is in their possession and ownership.

The BSL director-in-charge has handed over a copy of the terms and conditions related to transfer of proposed land for the stadium to JSCA officials. It is being told that BCCI has approved Rs 250crore for the construction of the international cricket stadium. For which, JSCA has demanded 20 acres of land from BSL for the stadium.

(Our correspondent)