retd Justice Jindal now Punjab VAT Tribunal chairman
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has appointed Justice AN Jindal (retd) as chairman of the Punjab Value Added Tax Tribunal. He will exercise the functions as stated in the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005. Spokesperson said that the jurisdiction of the Tribunal will extend across the State. The appointment of the chairman of the tribunal shall be for a term of three years or till he attains the age of 67 years, whichever is earlier.
Punjab brings laurels in baseball
Chandigarh: Boys and girls brigades of Punjab School Baseball teams of Under-19 categories on Thursday shot to national glory by clinching silver and bronze medals in national school games at Rajasthan. Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema has extended heartiest felicitation to the winning teams, coaching staff and their parents and teachers. Deputy Director of Education Department (Sports) Sarabjit Singh Toor said that boys bagged silver whereas girls grabbed bronze medal in baseball event of national school games.
surprise checks on 800 schools to check late lateefs
Chandigarh: Special teams conducted surprise checks on 800 schools across the State with the aim of ensuring punctuality and discipline in the schools. Three circles — Jalandhar, Faridkot and Nabha (Patiala) — were visited by the special teams at the same time. During special checking, total 41 teachers were found absent while 62 teachers were late whereas 39 teachers were found long-time absentees.
Pending post-matric scholarship amount released
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has released pending amount of Rs149.53 crore for post-matric scholarship scheme for 2013-14. This amount includes students’ maintenance allowance and fee of institutes or colleges. Welfare Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike said that Rs10.98 crore has been disbursed to medical colleges, Rs74.92 crore to technical institutes, Rs40.85 crore to DPI (colleges), Rs15.66 crore to DPI (school), Rs2.78 crore to Director Technical education ITI and Rs4.34 crore to SCERT or other States. He said that till date there was no financial pendency with the welfare department for session 2013-14.
Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2014-15 kicks off
Chandigarh: Tata group have announced the commencement of the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2014-15, a joint initiative with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), a quest for India’s most promising early-stage social enterprises. The endeavour of the challenge is to create an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship and encourage sustainable, scalable and measurable social impact. Business plans can be submitted online, by logging onto www.tatasechallenge.org.
Discovery Kids launches its biggest series
Chandigarh: Discovery Kids will present its biggest launch of the year Kisna. It is the story of an adventurous and amusing young boy from Anandnagri and his adversary the wicked Raja Durjan of Andhernagri. Kisna will premiere on October 19 and will air every day at 2 pm and 6 pm on Discovery Kids.