Vigilance nabs 12 officials in bribery cases
Chandigarh: Punjab State Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption, has been able to nab 12 officials red handed accepting bribes in 9 different trap cases during July. This includes 6 police personnel, 3 employees of revenue department and 3 belonging to other departments. Chief director-cum-ADGP vigilance bureau BK Uppal said the VB has put up its best efforts to stamp out corruption amongst public servants and others in every sphere during the period. The Bureau had submitted challans pertaining to 12 vigilance cases in various special courts in the last month. Apart from this, 7 vigilance enquires have also been registered to thoroughly probe the corruption cases against public servants. 2 criminal cases have also been registered after through probe, he added.
More than 450 people pledge organs at Fortis
Chandigarh: Fortis Hospital, Mohali organised an awareness event to promote the noble cause of organ donation at Elante Mall, Industrial Area here. More than 450 visitors pledged their organs by filling up forms and become the proud organ donors on this occasion. Balbir Singh, India’s Olympics legendry hockey star, was the special guest on the occasion. The event was part of the commitment towards the cause of creating awareness around the loss of lives that happen for the want of organs.
The objective of the same was to generate a dialogue about the cause of organ donation.
Canadian HR body ties up with Mohali based SBMC
Chandigarh: Canada based Chartered Professionals in Human Resources (CPHR), has entered in a tie up with SBMC Mohali. This is the first time that HR association of British Columbia & Yukon, Canada has recognised any training & testing partner in India. A two-member delegation visited campus to address the students on various aspects and scopes of HR training in Canada. Stephanie Milliker, Trainer, CPHR, ‘The demand of HR Professionals has increased globally. This tie up will allow Indian students to have bright chances during job interviews in Canadian companies with saving their time and costing.’ Rahul Venkatesh Singla, CEO, SBMC said that there are currently over 130,000 HR professionals in Canada and their median HR salary in 2018 is $63,400.
Pathlab made functional at Kotla village
Rajpura: A Pathlab was made operational at the Government Subsidiary Health Centre, Kotla (Rajpura). Earlier the villagers had to visit the nearest town of Rajpura, 15 kms away for consultation & medical tests. This lab will provide all pathological tests at highly subsidised rates. The Health centre has a doctor & pharmacist available five days week from 8am-2pm, said Athar Shahab, Chief Executive Nabha Power limited while dedicating this lab to the village. NPl has been very active in carrying out development works in 50 villages under its CSR programme. Earlier the company spent Rs 25 lakh to renovate the existing Government Subsidiary Health Centre and the Anganwari centre.
SBI launches MOPAD
Chandigarh: State Bank of India has launched the latest customer friendly digital initiative of the Bank-the MOPAD (Multi Option Payment Acceptance Device). Under this, the customer will be able to make payments through Cards, Bharat QR, UPI and SBI Buddy (e-wallet) on a PoS terminal. This initiative aims at providing digital convenience to customers and ease of doing business for merchants at the same time. This product takes forward Bank’s objective of “Cash ki Aadat Badlo”.