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  • Four students killed as speeding car crashes into stationary trucks in Rajasthan

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: Five people were killed and another was injured when a speeding car crashed into two stationary trucks in the Sadar police station area of Tonk district, police said on Monday.

    The vehicles were parked on the Jaipur-Kota National Highway.

    Four students sitting in the car were killed and one was injured.

    A watchman who was sitting on a cot near the trucks also got killed, police said, adding that the accident that took place late Sunday night.

    The deceased have been identified as Roshan, Suraj, Shreyans alias Gyaneshwar, Abhishek and Mohammad Sadiq.

    The students were residents of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

    Rishabh, who was injured in the accident, was sent to Jaipur for treatment and is reportedly stable.

    A case has been registered against the car driver on behalf of the relatives of the deceased watchman, they said.

    The post-mortem will be conducted after the arrival of their families, they added.

    JAIPUR: Five people were killed and another was injured when a speeding car crashed into two stationary trucks in the Sadar police station area of Tonk district, police said on Monday.

    The vehicles were parked on the Jaipur-Kota National Highway.

    Four students sitting in the car were killed and one was injured.

    A watchman who was sitting on a cot near the trucks also got killed, police said, adding that the accident that took place late Sunday night.

    The deceased have been identified as Roshan, Suraj, Shreyans alias Gyaneshwar, Abhishek and Mohammad Sadiq.

    The students were residents of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

    Rishabh, who was injured in the accident, was sent to Jaipur for treatment and is reportedly stable.

    A case has been registered against the car driver on behalf of the relatives of the deceased watchman, they said.

    The post-mortem will be conducted after the arrival of their families, they added.

  • CM Gehlot approved the formation of 59 new Village Service Cooperative Societies in Rajasthan

    The Ashok Gehlot government of Rajasthan has approved the formation of 59 new village service cooperative societies in the state. These 59 new Village Service Cooperative Societies have been formed in gram panchayats of 17 districts of the state. About 30 thousand farmers are associated with them. Villagers have been demanding them for a long time. The farmers of these areas will benefit from the formation of new cooperative societies.

    Cooperative Registrar Muktanand Aggarwal informed that out of these 8 cooperative societies have been formed in Pratapgarh district and 7-7 in Banswara and Jaipur districts. At the same time 6 committees have been formed in Churu, 5 in Tonk, Sirohi and 4-4 in Bundi. Apart from these, 3-3 committees have been formed in Barmer, Rajsamand, Nagaur. While 2-2 in Bikaner and Chittorgarh and 1-1 new committee has been formed in Sikar, Jalore, Ajmer, Alwar and Jhunjhunu.

    Cooperative registrar Muktanand Agarwal says that every village panchayat in the state should have a village service cooperative society, steps are being taken continuously by the cooperative department. With the formation of village service cooperatives, the structure of cooperatives will be expanded at the gram panchayat level. With the formation of these new Village Service Cooperative Societies, farmers will get facilities like loan facility, fertilizer seed and e-friend in their Gram Panchayat itself.

    According to the Cooperative Registrar, the formation of cooperative societies will benefit the common people from the work being done by the cooperative society. At the same time, the member farmers associated with the cooperative committee will also get the benefit of the facilities being provided by the committee. At present there are more than 6 and a half thousand village service cooperative societies.