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Meghalaya CM urges officials to achieve targets

Shillong, Mar 13 (UNI) Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang has urged his officers to ensure achievement of maximum targets during the the current financial year as well as during the 11th Plan period.

Mr Lapang, who held a closed-door meeting yesterday with his cabinet colleagues and senior officials, stressed that efforts should be made by the government to find out ways to disburse the salaries of the school teachers who have been working without pay for many months.

He also urged the various departments to prioritise the areas of development so that the government could take up the works effectively and timely.

Mr Lapang also discussed on the proposed projects in different sectors to be taken up in the next financial years, especially being the beginning of the 11th Five Year Plan.

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Children-given polio drops in capital

New Delhi, Mar 11 (UNI) Lakhs of children below five years of age were administered polio vaccine at 7500 Polio booths across the capital today. Around 30,000 workers and employees of the Health Department were pressed into service from 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs to ensure maximum reach. Stalls had been put up up at Railway Stations, ISBTs, Public places, including Appu Ghar, major temples, Metro Stations, Millennium Park, Zoo and Mc Donalds outlets. The drive was preceeded by a weeklong.....

Over 100 students expelled in Board exams

Shillong, Mar 13 (UNI) Over 100 students appearing for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations have been expelled in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district for using in unfair means during the ongoing examinations. ''We have expelled more than 100 students for using unfair means to qualify the exams,'' state's West Garo district Deputy Commissioner P Sampath Kumar told UNI here over the phone from Tura today. Mr Kumar said most of the students in the plain belt areas.....

Millions of tiny tots given anti-polio vaccine across nation

New Delhi, Mar 11 (UNI) Millions of tiny tots were administered polio vaccine across the country today as part of a nationwide drive to eradicate polio. The drive was organised in the entire state of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra&Nagar Haveli, Gujarat, Punjab and selected districts of Assam ( Cachar, Hailakandi, Karimganj, Dibrugarh and Tinsukhia), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu, Kathua, Rajouri and Udhampur), Jharkhand ( Deoghar, Dumka, Godda, Pakur and Sahibganj), Rajasthan (Alwar, Bharatpur, Dhaulpur, Jalore and Sirohi), Uttarakhand ( Dehradun,.....
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