Capt Gadhok takes over command of Air Force Station
Chandigarh: Group Captain HS Gadhok has taken over the command of 1TETTRA School Highgrounds on Monday. On this occasion, a handing over parade was held at Air Force Station Highgrounds which marked the change of command. Group Captain HS Gadhok was commissioned in the Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical) branch on Sep 12, 1988. For the last 27 years, the officer has been associated with Maintenance activities on MIG-29 fighter aircraft. He has held important appointments at Operational Command and in the MiG-29 fleet starting from Engineering Officer of a Squadron, Senior Production Engineer of overhaul Division and chief of quality Assurance at 11 Base repair Depot. He has also done tenures at, Instructor at Air Force Academy and Quality Assurance at Ordinance Factory, Bhandara.
BBMB celebrates 41st Raising Day
Chandigarh: BBMB celebrated its 41st Raising Day at BBMB, Nangal Township with great enthusiasm. Bhakra Beas Management Board was constituted with the merging of Beas Projects to Bhakra Management Board on May 15, 1976. Since 1976, this day is being celebrated as BBMB Raising Day every year. On this occasion, SK Sharma, chairman, BBMB laid foundation stone of a residential colony of 96 flats to be built at Nangal. He also awarded 124 officers and officials of BBMB with Gold Medal, Silver Shield and Appreciation letters for excellent work. Gold Medal and cash prize of `5,000 were awarded to each class IV awardee. Sharma gave brief description of works being done by BBMB and congratulated BBMB work force for their exceptional diligence & dedication to the cause of nation building and highlighted recent achievements & initiatives.
Application invited from minority communities
Chandigarh: Applications have been invited from the meritorious girl students belonging to minority communities i.e. Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis studying in class XI and XII in Govt./Govt. Aided/Recognised Private schools in UT Chandigarh for Maulana Azad National Scholarship to be awarded by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs. Application form can be sent by the students directly to the Foundation by post or delivered by hand in the office of the Maulana Azad Education Foundation, New Delhi. Application form can be downloaded from the website www.maef.nic.in.
Malaria Elimination Programme launched
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has launched State Malaria Elimination Programme at Tagore Theatre here with an aim to eliminate malaria (zero indigenous cases) by 2020 to maintain malaria free status and prevent re – introduction of Malaria in Chandigarh. A book titled as “Comprehensive Strategic Framework for Malaria Elimination in Chandigarh 2016”and a comic titled “Chickoo & Malaira” jointly prepared by Dr. Gaurav Aggarwal and Dr. Richa Dewan was also launched. last year, Chandigarh had seen 152 indigenous cases while this year till April 2016, zero indigenous cases have been reported. 12 cases which have been detected by Chandigarh comprised mainly the cases from U.P (07) Punjab (02), Uttrakhand (01), Haryana (02) which indicates that these are the imported cases meaning thereby that they got infection from their respective state and reported in Chandigarh.
Superintendent designated as PIO
Chandigarh: Haryana Govt has designated Superintendent or Superint-endent (Estt.-II) of Child Welfare Branch in the Directorate of Women and Child Development, Panchkula as State Public Information Officers.
Haryana introduces facility for registry
Chandigarh: Haryana Revenue Department has introduced a facility under which the people, if they desire, would now be able to get registry through post within three days. The cost of post would have to be deposited by the applicant. A spokesman of the Department said that the New Registration System was introduced through e-Disha. He said that this facility has been added to make the functioning of these offices more people-friendly and to further enhance transparency in their functioning.
CME of psychiatrists held
SAS Nagar: A Continuation Medical Education (CME) of psychiatrists to discuss the recent updates on psychiatry was held under the chairpersonship of Punjab Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Vini Mahajan. Mahajan informed that the Department of Health & Family Welfare has decided to hold CME for various medical specialties, so that the Govt. specialists are updated with recent advances and they can also discuss the subject with the experts from PGIMER. During the CME the participants worked in groups and discussed the case vignettes prepared by the PGIMER team about identification and management of various psychiatric disorders.
Vet Varsity earn accreditation of National body
ludhiana: The National Agricultural Education Accreditation Board of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in its meeting held in March 2016 has granted accreditation to the College of Fisheries and the College of Dairy Science and Technology of the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. The College of Veterinary Science of this University had already been accredited in 2013, informed GADVASU Registrar, S Prabhakar. GADVASU was established with the mandate to promote the livestock sector through production of trained human power and need based research in its constituent fields.