‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ on Oct 31
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided to observe Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary as the ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ (National Unity Day) on October 31. A spokesman said that the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal would be the chief guest at the ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ pledge taking ceremony to be organised for the Government officers and officials working in the Main Secretariat building and New Secretariat building at the Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh. ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas pledge’ is taken to celebrate the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to re-affirm the inherent strength and resilience of our nation to withstand the actual and potential threats to the unity, integrity and security of our country.
33 STPs set up in Haryana
Chandigarh: The present Haryana Government has, during its first two years, set up 33 Sewage Treatment Plants in the state and construction of 28 such plants is under progress. Minister of State for Public Health Engineering, Dr Banwari lal said that the State Government is committed towards providing clean drinking water to the people. During this period, drinking water facility has been augmented in 603 villages. Besides, 116 waterworks, 961 tubewells and 249 boosting stations have been set up in urban and rural areas. Also, pipelines with total length of 4,568 kilometres have been laid in urban and rural areas, he added.
Minister directs officers
Chandigarh: Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation, Manish Kumar Grover, has directed the officers to increase recovery of loans by 10 per cent in the current financial year, and prepare a list of persons with loan amounts of more than Rs 5 lakh. The Minister, while presiding over a meeting of officers of HARCO Bank and Haryana State Cooperative land Mortgage Bank limited, warned the officers that action would be initiated against those who would fail to increase the recovery. Grover said that the State Government wanted results, therefore, the officers should change their way of working. letters of appreciation would be given to well-performing officers, he added.
Haryana extends last date for transfer options
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has extended the last date for giving options of school as per preference by the teachers of Tgt and c and v categories under the new transfer policy 2016 upto October 27. A spokesman said that a decision to this effect has been taken for the convenience of teachers. Few teachers promoted from JBT to TGT Science at Directorate level had said that they were not aware whether they also have to participate in this transfer process or not. Apart from this, some of the teachers had also requested that due to some technical reasons, they
could not give their preference of schools. Keeping
all these facts in view and for the convenience of teachers, it has been decided to extend the last date for giving options of
schools, he said.
SBI donated ambulance
Chandigarh: Anil Kishora, Chief General Manager, State Bank of India, Chandigarh Circle flagged off the ambulance donated by SBI to Sahibjada Ajit Singh Free Polyclinic Trust, Perch, Mullanpur. This ambulance will be used for providing medical assistance to the residents of the nearby villages. Kishora stated that being the largest bank of the nation, SBI always stay ahead in community service and provide full co-operation and assistance to weaker and needy section of the society.
BBMB Chairman bags ‘language Trendsetter Shield’
Chandigarh: SK Sharma, chairman, BBMB awarded “Official language Trendsetter Award” for the valuable contribution in promotion and development of official language Hindi during 30th all India Official language training camp and conference held at Darjeeling, West Bengal from October 21 to 23. Besides this, BBMB also bagged “Rajbhasha Mukutmani Award” on this occasion. Anurag Goyal, Dy. Secy, PR received both the shields on behalf of the Board.
IGNITE award winner
Chandigarh: National Innovation Foundation - India (NIF), an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India has partnered with Nicklodeon, India’s leading kids’ entertainment channel to promote creativity and innovation in children. On D APJ Abdul Kalam’s 85th birth anniversary, NIF announced the names of award winners of its Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Awards — a national competition of original technological ideas and innovations of children up to the age of 17 years. Nickelodeon, with the thought of making it interesting for the kids, had the super whiz kid Shiva in Chandigarh to personally give the award letter to Madhur Gupta, a XIIth standard student from Sri Guru Gobind Singh Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh whose idea of Secured Currency Notes won him the coveted award.