Bokaro: Although Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) served notices to the squatters settled around the airport here, which is being expanded into a commercial one, illegal residents continue to enter the premise from the Dundibagh area by scaling the eight-feet high boundary wall just to defecate.
The workers engaged in the construction of the boundary walls find it difficult to work amid the filth. A labour said, “After coming to work each morning, we pour mud on the excreta to stop the smell, which otherwise makes it difficult for us to work.”
The squatters use the scaffolding of the new boundary wall to enter the premises. Wilfred Kerketta, deputy general manager and the in-charge of air traffic control at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport, said, “We will take a tour of Bokaro Airport next week to assess the completion of work.”
Ranchi: The state cabinet chaired by chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday approved the state cabinet coordination department’s proposal to convene.
Ranchi: Packed in 14 temperature-controlled boxes, 16,186 vials of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived in a commercial flight of Spicejet from Mumbai around 9am on Wednesday at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport.
The vaccines, received by the state government’s department of health, medical education and family welfare, will be used to inoculate 1.31 lakh health workers of the state and nearly 35,000 Indian Army personnel, stationed in Ranchi military station and Ramgarh’s Punjab Regimental Centre.
After the aircraft landed, the boxes, containing 1,200 vials each, were loaded on a vaccination van of the state health mission and brought to the department’s warehouse at RCH campus in Namkum, 13 kilometre from the airport.