Dr KS Dangi appointed as HlDB chairman
Chandigarh: Dr KS Dangi, an internationally renowned animal breeding specialist, who is also known as ‘Murrah Man of India’ has been appointed as chairman of Haryana livestock Development Board (HlDB). A recipient of life Time Achievement Award from Haryana Government and a Gold Medalist of Veterinary College Hisar, completed his doctorate from USA. He is the founder president of Haryana Veterinary Council and is now vice-president of Veterinary Council of India. He has served Haryana Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department for about 15 years as Director General. Some of his achievements include successful implementation of various innovative initiatives such as field progeny testing, performance recording for identification standards, sex sorted semen, door — step delivery of breeding services including PPP mode and zero infertility livestock.
UPSC Selection Committee meet on Dec 23
Chandigarh: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has fixed the meeting of the Selection Committee for finalising the nomination of the candidate from the list of five non-PCS officers recommended by Punjab Government for the IAS cadre on December 23 at New Delhi. Punjab has recommended names of five non-PCS officers from different departments to the UPSC, including Economic Advisor to Punjab Government Ml Sharma, additional director technical education Mohanbir Singh, Medical Education Department’s Dr Puneet Girdhar, Amritsar DHO Dr Shiv Karan Singh Kahlon and Punjab State Co-operative Bank managing director KS Sangha.
panel to monitor edu in residential schools
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has constituted a 15-member committee to manage six residential senior secondary schools. Education Department spokesman said that the committee is constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister and
Education Minister in-charge higher and school education, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Education, Principal Secretary to Chief
Minister, Principal Secretaries of School Education, Higher Education, Finance and Technical Education would be the members of the committee. DGSE, DPI (SE), Deputy Commissioners of the concerned districts, project director, five educationists and any other person
who may be invited as a special invitee, would also the member of
this committee.
Chandigarh-Bandra new stoppage at Karnal
Chandigarh: The train number 22452 running between Chandigarh and Bandra would now halt at Karnal Railway station every Wednesday and Sunday at 7.20 am. Karnal MP Dr Arvind Sharma, who flagged off the train from Karnal said that with the stoppage of this train at Karnal, long standing demand of the people has been fulfilled as earlier the people of the area intending to go to Mt Abu, Anand in Gujarat and Ajmer Sharif used to face inconvenience due to unavailability of direct train to these places from Karnal. It would also facilitate the traders to bring cloth from Surat, he added.
Sirsa gram panchayats to be connected
Chandigarh: Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) scheme, all the gram panchayats of district Sirsa in Haryana would be connected through optical fiber cable within next two years. Sirsa MP, Dr Ashok Tanwar said that under this ambitious scheme of the Centre, all 334 panchayats of Sirsa would be connected to internet through broadband and in this regard Bharat Sanchar Nigam ltd has already conducted survey of all the villages. Within next two years, this scheme would facilitate the people to get their birth certificate, death certificate of family members, ration card forms, voter ID forms and other forms and documents related to Government facilities under one roof.
Over 2,500 participate in Aakash YTSE 2013
Chandigarh: Aakash Institute on Sunday organised Young Talent Search Exam-2013(YTSE-2013) which witnessed a massive participation of over 2,500 students from the Tricity schools. The exam was meant for class 7, 8 and 9 students. The objective of conducting this examination was to recognise the talent of brilliant students. `1 lakh would be awarded to topper from each class whereas students ranking second to fifth in each class would be awarded with `75,000. The students placed sixth to tenth in each class would be entitled with `50,000 each. Dr Yash Pal, Deputy Director, Aakash Educational Services limited, (AESl) said, “We received a massive response from students and schools and we intend to organise it on annually.”
Punjab police celebrates elders’ day
Mohali: Punjab Police on Sunday celebrated Elders’ day at Phase-VIII Police Station. The celebrations were held as per the directions of the State police chief Sumedh Singh Saini with senior officers of Mohali district. Police Pensioners’ Association’s president pointed out problems or grievances of retired personnel as well as of serving one, and requested the State Government to solve the problems. Function was attended by about 150 retired personnel of the district. Mohali SSP Inder Mohan Singh assured to get the problems solved.
Police arrest two for forgery, cheating
Chandigarh: Haryana Police has arrested two persons accused of forgery and cheating the Kundli branch of Punjab National Bank of `4 crore. A spokesman said that the accused have been identified as Sanjeev, a resident of Sainik Nagar, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh and Yogesh, a resident of Guru Angad Nagar, Delhi. A complaint was registered by Dinesh Mittal that Director of Tirupati Batteries, Sanjeev Dikshit, Yogesh and advocate Parihar took a loan of `4 crore from Kundli branch of Panjab National Bank by keeping the registry of their firm namely Tirupati Batteries Industries registered office Patparganj factory area, Delhi as guarantee. It was later discovered that the registry was fake. Cases were registered against the accused at Kundli police station under various sections of Indian Penal Code.