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Electricity to soon reach all Odisha villages: Goyal

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Power Minister Piyush Goyal

Bhubaneswar: Union Coal and Energy Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said Odisha villages which remain un-electrified would be provided electric supply within the next one-and-half years.

Goyal, who attended a review meeting of the power sector with state government officials on Thursday, said about 4,000 villages or 50 lakh households were yet to have electricity connection even after so many years of Independence.

The union minister said all the villages would be electrified under two central schemes — Integrated Power Development Scheme and Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana.

Goyal on Friday also met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who apprised the former about the problems, including law and order and land acquisition, for electricity connection to villages in the state.

Stating that the agricultural electricity consumption of farmers is just two percent in the state, the minister said a separate dedicated line would be ensured to supply electricity to the farmers of Odisha.

Goyal asked the state government to set up a large solar power project, citing inadequate presence of solar energy facilities in the state.

He said the state government has identified three locations for pumped storage hydropower plants.

Speaking on the health sector, the minister informed about the Centre’s plans to set up eight new medical college and hospitals in the state in the coming days.

The Centre has proposed eight medical colleges in the state. While three would be set up by public sector units, five would be funded by the Centre, allotting a 75 percent share, said Goyal.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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