Haryana amends Motor Vehicles Rules
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has amended the Haryana Motor Vehicles Rules, 1993 and these rules would be known as Haryana Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 2013. A notification issued by the Transport Department in this regard states that every manufacturer would file an application with the Transport Commissioner enclosing the certificate obtained from an agency specified by the Central Government under rule 126 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, for communicating the same to all the Registering Authorities in the State for registration of a new model of motor vehicle or its variants or CNl or lPG kit approval, as the case may be.
New scheme to encourage rural adolescent girls
Chandigarh: To endorse rural adolescent girl’s higher education, Haryana Women and Child Development Department would give awards to six adolescent girls from each block, who would bag first, second and third position in their Matriculation and Senior Secondary Examinations conducted by Board of School Education Haryana in rural areas of the State. The award money would be `2,000, `1,500 and `1,000 for girls acquiring first, second and third position respectively in Matriculation exam while the award money for the Secondary exam position holder would be `3,000, `2,500 and `2,000 respectively.
Badal asks Advisor to attend cremation
Chandigarh: Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday deputed his Advisor Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, Additional Principal Secretary Sandeep Hans and officer on Special Duty Sanjeev Kumar to attend the cremation of Ram Dass Sandhu, the father of his Principal Secretary SK Sandhu, who passed away on Monday at his native village Kandhala Sheikhan in Hoshiarpur. A spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office said that Badal could not personally attend the cremation due to his pressing engagements and pre scheduled meetings.
‘File rti applications with dsps’
Chandigarh: In order to check delay in providing information under RTI Act 2005, Haryana Police has appealed to the people to file their applications under RTI Act to State Public Information Officer (SPIO)-cum-Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSP) headquarters of the concerned district to which the desired information relates. A spokesman said that all the DSP headquarters in each district and district Superintendents of Police (SPs) were working as SPIO and First Appellate Authority respectively of the concerned district.