Tree plantation drive held
Chandigarh: A tree plantation drive was undertaken by the Engineering Department at Leisure Valley, Sector-51 here wherein Manoj Parida, IAS, Adviser to the UT Administrator was the chief guest and Ajoy Kumar Sinha, Finance Secretary was guest of honour. It was informed that these saplings were planted in lieu of 541 trees, which are likely to be axed on account of construction of Fly over at Tribune Chowk and 25 trees are to be re-transplanted. There is a proposal for planting 2799 saplings in lieu of trees to be axed at various locations. The drive began by planting saplings today at Leisure Valley, Sector-51 wherein 787 saplings will be planted. Thereafter, 958 saplings at Palm Garden, Sector 42, 4811 saplings at Garden of Spring, Sector 53 and 643 at Purv Marg will also planted in future.
DC reviews preparations for Independence Day
Chandigarh: The UT Deputy Commissioner, Mandip Singh Brar reviewed the arrangements for smooth celebration of 73rd Independence Day- 2019. The discussions centered around arrangements of security, parade, tableaux awardees, etc. It was decided that a special checking drive will be organised at different areas of the city. Close vigil will be maintained at the strategic locations like markets, bus stands and hotels. As per the programme, the flag hoisting ceremony would take place at Parade Ground where Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore will unfurl the National flag. After the flag hoisting, Units of the Army, Police, Home Guards, NCC, NSS, and Scout and Guides would take part in the march-past. Besides this, the cultural items on patriotic and national themes with a colourful pageantry shall be presented by the students of various school.
Scheduled Castes Alliance to meet UT Admin
Chandigarh: Alleging increasing discrimination against the Scheduled Castes community in the region, Paramjit Singh Kainth, president, National Scheduled Castes Alliance criticized the decision of Chandigarh Administration for not appointing any non-official member of the Scheduled Castes community to the Administrator’s Advisory Council. Kainth said, “We will be meeting the Administrator VP Badnore regarding this issue. Chandigarh has a considerable population belonging to the SC community (As per the Population Census 2011 data Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 19.1% of the population) and hence it requires a reasonable number of representatives of the community to be a part of the council, he added.
EVP activity from Aug 16
Chandigarh: Punjab chief electoral officer Karuna Raju has ordered special summary revision of photo electoral rolls from August 16. A spokesperson said, as per directions of Election Commission of India, special summary revision of photo electoral rolls with reference to January 1, 2020 as the qualifying date program would be undertaken. To improve the health of electoral roll, the electors verification programme (EVP) and house to house verification by BLOS will be carried out before starting the revision activities. The EVP activity will be undertaken from August 16 to 30.
ARD PGIMER clarifies stance on NMC Bill 2019
Chandigarh: After recent meeting with Union Government Addl. Sec. Health and Family Welfare, Arun Singhal, the Association of Resident Doctors, PGIMER has said that they have no plans of resorting to any protest regarding the NMC Bill in the coming days. We hope that the regulations framed out of this bill consider our recommendations that have already been communicated to the Ministry in the meeting, the ARD said.
CII Northern Region Conference held
Chandigarh: OP Dhankar, Haryana Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Dairying and Animal Husbandry, emphasized on the potential of Haryana to become a peri-urban agri and dairy hub in the region. Dhankar was speaking at the CII Northern Region Conference on Food Processing and Dairy at New Delhi. Having proximity to Delhi-NCR, Haryana Government sees great potential to provide direct selling platform to farmers with an aim for zero-wastage with its recently launched ‘Haryana Fresh’ initiative, said Dhankar. He mentioned the importance to balance quality with branding and marketability when it comes to food and dairy industry.
Talk on breastfeeding practices held
Chandigarh: A talk on breastfeeding practices with girls and teaching staff was held at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 here. The talk was given by Dr. Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Senior Consultant, Neonatology and Dr. Rabia Kapur (PT), Lactation Consultant at Mamma Mia, Fortis Hospital Mohali. The World Breastfeeding Week is observed from August 1 to 7 every year. The talk lasted an hour and various myths brought out during the discussion were dispelled by the doctors.
KCC chief hails abrogation of article 370
Chandigarh: Bhupinder Singh Mann, ex -MP Rajya Sabha, national president of BKU and chairman of All India Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi felicitated him on behalf of the KCC for taking strong and decisive step on Jammu & Kashmir. He said, "Our visionary Kisan leader, Late Sharad Joshi had advocated abrogation of Article 370 long back. We hope and wish that this step will bring peace in the region, push development and generate employment for their youth.”
Police filed challan against three persons
Chandigarh: After the intervention of the Punjab State Scheduled Castes' Commission, Firozpur Police has finally filed the challan against three persons in the case pertaining to the abduction of two minor girls in Ferozepur district. Gyan Chand Diwali, member of the Commission said, the father of the victim girls had approached the SC Commission and filed a written complaint that the opposite party was constantly exerting pressure on him to strike a compromise in this case and not to pursue this case any further. The SC Commission took serious cognizance of this case and summoned detailed report on this issue from the SSP Ferozepur. SSP Ferozepur has submitted its report to the Commission. According to it, police has completed the investigation in this case and filed challan in the court against three persons namely, Jinder Singh S/O Tarsim Singh, Karamjit Singh S/o Baldev Singh and Ashu S/o Jinder, he said.