338 officers get appreciation letters Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has issued appreciation letters to 338 officers and officials of the State Government for their hard work and exemplary courage exhibited by them in carrying out the relief and rescue operations during the recent floods in Uttarakhand.
In the appreciation letters to these officers from the Education, Health, Police, Information and Public Relations Department, Badal stated, “You were deputed by the Government of Punjab for an extraordinary task to carry out relief and rescue operations during recent floods in Uttarakhand. The task was indeed challenging. Punjab Government’s rescue teams were able to save many lives. A large number of stranded pilgrims or tourists were evacuated and safely brought back to their homes. This has been possible due to your hard work and exemplary courage”.
Home Dept issues clarification on IGP Mittal
Chandigarh: On the subject of press note issued by Chief Minister’s Office on Saturday regarding the posting and transfer of IPS officer RP Mittal, Inspector General of Police, a spokesman of State Home Department on Sunday clarified that Mittal has been attached with the office of ADGP-PAP till October 31, 2013. Meanwhile, the transfer orders of Inspector General of Police-Training PAP Kartar Singh have been cancelled, as he is retiring on October 31, and was inadvertently transferred.
Haryana earmarks `11 crore for Sc scheme
Chandigarh: Haryana Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department will implement schemes to provide employment opportunities to Scheduled Castes (SC) families and for insurance of livestock. A sum of `11 crore will earmarked for this purpose during the current financial year. A spokesperson said that as per the livestock census 2007, about 22.27 lakh families were rearing one or other type of livestock in the State out of which 8.86 lakh were SC families who were generally resource poor. Occupation wise, out of a total 8.86 SC families, 44 per cent exclusively depends on animal husbandry and agriculture and 56 per cent on other sectors including service sector. He said that there were 87.88 lakh livestock of various species in the State out of which 20.78 lakh were owned by the SCs.
SBoP organises cancer camp
Patiala: State Bank of Patiala (SBoP) organised a breast cancer screening camp at its head office, here in association with Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon. The camp was inaugurated by bank’s Deputy general manager Ramesh. Screening tests were done in the mobile van specially prepared for this purpose. The tests were done to detect breast cancer at early stage, which is curable. In the camp many cases of abnormality were detected and advised for further check up. A total of 80 women were examined in the camp for breast cancer.
12 new sub stations to come up at Sonepat
Chandigarh: Haryana Power Utilities has planned to set up 12 new sub stations and augment existing capacity sub stations to further strengthen the system with an investment of over `250 crore during the next two years in Sonepat, said Member of Parliament, Deepender Singh Hooda, after laying the foundation stone of a 33 kV sub station at village Bhawar near Gohana on Sunday.
He said that the Utilities have already approved construction of 220 kV sub station at Barhi, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Rai and Sector-6 Sonepat. Three 132 kV level sub stations would be constructed at Tajpur, Bhanderi and Khewra and 33 kV sub stations will be commissioned at village Khanda, Bhainswal Kalan, Bhawar, Madina and Baroda.
Book train tickets ‘on-the-go’
Chandigarh: Now you can plan your travel and book train tickets using your windows phone, Windows 8 tablet or PC. IRCTC has embarked on an application (app) journey, with the launch of the official IRCTC app. The app has been made available exclusively for windows devices. It will be available throughout the day excepting 8-12 am and 11:30-12:30 am. The app perform all the tasks already available on the IRCTC web site. One will also get some new and exciting features including visual maps of train routes,
Windows Phone live tiles lighting up as train tickets and access to saved traveler profiles from multiple devices among many others. Rakesh Tandon, CMD, IRCTC said, “We feel the app is ideal for the modern consumer who is always on the move.”
Annual meeting of NZACTA held
Mohali: leading experts in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Critical Care from North India on Sunday participated in the annual meeting of North Zone Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthiologists (NZACTA). The Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Fortis Hospital Mohali, was the host for the event. The topics discussed include recent advances in Haemodynamic Monitoring, Choice of Inotropes & Vasopressors in the current era, ECMO,
infection control in ICU, echocardiography in ICU and day-to-day common problems in ICU. Fortis doctors who were in the Organizing Committee included Dr Manoranjan Sahoo, organizing chairman, Dr Deepak Puri and Dr Ambuj Choudhary, Advisors, while the organizing secretary was Dr Ajay Sinha.
survey on retirement planning
Chandigarh: Max life Insurance, life insurers in India, has released an extensive research on ‘Retirement Planning’ in India. The research imparts insights on awareness and attitude of Indians towards retirement broadly focusing on — Indians view towards ‘retired life’ and their preparedness to meet their retirement needs.
People in North India have exhibited high optimism and an aspiration for financially independent retirement, however this optimism is barely visible in actual. While 46 per cent of North Indians intend to start retirement planning with their first income, but they actually wait for a decade and a half to make the first investment.
Cultural extravaganza ‘Rajni’ on Monday
Chandigarh: Aryans Group of Colleges will organise its cultural extravaganza “Rajni” at Makhan Shah lubana Bhawan in Sector 30 here. The chief guest will be GD Pandey, DGP cum Comdt. Gen1, PHG, Punjab and the event would start at 11 am and will continue till 1 pm on September 16.
International Coffee Festival
Chandigarh: CITCO and Chandigarh Tourism will celebrate World Tourism Week from September 27 to 30. And, International Coffee Festival would be organised as a part of World Tourism week celebrations and commence from World Tourism day on September 27 in CITCO hotels. BEAN TO COP Coffee Festival at Hotel Mountview
(HMV) and le Cafe Coffee festival at Hotel Shivalikview (HSV) is the part of festivities. The international coffee festivals will have the flavours of Coffee variants and allied menu specially crafted by connoisseurs and chefs at both at HMV as well HSV alongwith Coffee flavours from Ethiopia and Turkey, country partners in International Coffee Festival. A road show of International Coffee Festival will be flagged off by MD CITCO cum Director Tourism TanviGarg at 5 pm on September 16 from Sukhna lake.