‘Small sized cabinet SHOUlD BE COMPlIMENTED’
Chandigarh: Media Advisor to Haryana Chief Minister, Amit Arya on Thursday described the statement made by Congress MlA Karan Singh Dalal raising question on the legality of the present State Government just an attempt to grab the media headlines.
In a statement issued here, Arya said in fact the Government of Manohar lal should be complemented for maintaining a smaller sized Council of Ministers than permitted by the Constitution. He said a futile and needless effort has been made to raise an issue that the State Government is unconstitutional if the size of the Council of Ministers is less than 12. This mis-interpretation and wrong reading of the Sub Article 1A of Article 164 has been made by reading the Proviso in isolation of the very first sentence preceding the Proviso. He said any person well conversant with Constitutional matters or understanding of legal drafting would understand the fact that the Proviso only explains the main part by way of a qualification. The Proviso cannot shift to a different topic in isolation.
Punjab CM mourns demise of Hockey champ Dhillon
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday expressed profound grief and sorrow over the sad demise of international hockey champion of yesteryears Niranjan Singh Dhillon, who passed away on Tuesday night. In a condolence message, the CM lauded the outstanding services of the deceased Olympian to the nation and said that the sports fraternity would ever indebted to him for his enormous contribution in taking the hockey to new heights at international arena. He expressed his heartfelt sympathies with the members of the bereaved family especially his son, journalist. Tirath Singh Dhillon. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Revenue and Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia also condoled the passing away of Dhillon. Advisor on National Affairs and Media to the Chief Minister Harcharan Bains also mourned the sad demise of the Olympian and shared condolences with the family in this hour of grief.
Free education for deceased employees’ children
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has in principal decided to continue the facility of free education to the children of deceased Government employees. A Government spokesperson said free education would be imparted with subject to certain conditions. He said if the spouse of the deceased employee before his/her death has been working in Government institutions, boards/corporations/tribunal/commission, semi-Government, cooperative and municipal organisation on regular basis then the children of the deceased employee would not be eligible for free education. He said in case after the death of an employee any of his family member has been given class A or B job, in that case also the children of the deceased employee would not be eligible for free education under the scheme. “The children would get free education in case the family member of the deceased employee has been posted on class C or D job” he added.
Punjab amends syllabus of pcs departmental exams
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has amended the syllabus of departmental examination for PCS (Judicial) as per the recommendations of Punjab and Haryana High Court by issuing a notification. According to the notification, Paper-3 Constitution law of India and Paper-4 Punjabi have been abolished as the candidates who has passed Matriculation with Punjabi subject need not to be appear in Punjabi paper of departmental examination of PCS (Judicial Branch).
Min expresses concern OVER WORM-INFESTED mdm
Chandigarh: Haryana Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Kavita Jain has expressed deep concern over the case of detection of worms in mid day meals which was served to children in an Anganwadi centre in Bhiwani on December 16. She issued directions to take immediate action against the defaulters and submit a detailed report including information like food supplies for mid day meals so that in future such happening does not play havoc to lives of children.
Haryana CM greets Capt Abhimanyu
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar lal on Thursday greeted Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu on the occasion of his birthday and wished for his long life. On this occasion, Education Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma, Public Works (Building and Roads) Minister, Rao Narbir Singh, Minister of State for Cooperation, Bikram Singh Yadav, MlAs Santosh Sarwan and Tejpal Singh Tanwar, OSD to Chief Minister, Jawahar Yadav, Additional Chief Secretary, Excise and Taxation Department, Roshan lal, Co-Incharge, BJYM (Media), Yashvir Raghav and other dignitaries were also present. Earlier, a yajna was also performed at the residence of Capt. Abhimanyu.
Strict action against fertiliser hoarders
Chandigarh: Stern action will be taken against hoarders and black-marketers of fertilisers in Kaithal district to ensure availability of fertilisers to the farmers, Deputy Commissioner, KM Pandurang said after conducting surprise raids in fertilisers godown on Peoda road, Model Town and Shergarh road. He said district administration has constituted various teams of senior officers for regular checking of fertilisers godowns to ensure availability of fertilisers to the needy farmers. The farmers have been assured that artificial scarcity of fertilisers would not be tolerated at any cost and defaulters would not be spared, he added.
‘Haryana govt has failed to tackle urea crisis’
Chandigarh: Kiran Choudhry, leader of the Congress legislature Party (ClP), has flayed the Manohar lal Government for what she called its miserable and total failure in tackling the issue of acute shortage of urea in the state and check its rampant smuggling to Delhi from Haryana. “Good that Agriculture Minister, Om Prakash Dhankar, has finally woken up from his slumber and contacted the Central Government to rush in additional supplies. But all through he has been telling the media that there is no shortage of urea at all. It is only after farmers resorted to rail roko agitation that the government has got into action. Mr Dhankar’s late and knee-jerk reaction confirms the fact of shortage and nails his lies on this issue”, she said in a statement here.
HPAS, Allied Services INTERVIEWS postponed
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission has decided to postpone the interviews of Himachal Pradesh Administrative Services (HPAS) and Allied Services due to inclement weather and administrative reasons. Now, the interviews would commence from January 27 to February 7, 2015. The revised interview schedule would be uploaded on the official website of the Commission. The foundation training course of new recruits of HPAS and Allied Services. would start from April, 2015 at Himachal Institute of Public Administration, Fair lawn.
Shradha, Shivam win ‘i-genius Young Singing Stars’
Chandigarh: Max life Insurance and Universal Music India, concluded its ‘i-genius Young Singing Stars’ as Shradha Shreya amongst seniors and Shivam Ahuja from juniors emerged as the winners. Both won an album contract with music company while eight finalists won ‘single song’ contract with Universal Music Group.
HCAH launches ‘at Home’ Cancer Care Services
Chandigarh: To reduce the troubles of cancer patients and their family members, Health Care At Home (HCAH) has launched at home cancer services. HCAH provides all types of chemotherapy to cancer patients through its specialised Onco nurses. The HCAH nurses are adept at administering adjuvant drugs and are experts at symptomatic management and pain relief management.