Proposal to set up food processing units get nod
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government has approved the proposal of Rs2.18 crore, for setting up five units of food processing units and the upgradation of technology or modernisation in these units. The grants have been approved by State level Empowered Committee in its 7th meeting, held under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Secretary, DS Dhesi, to discuss the cases for consideration of grant-in-aid under the centrally sponsored scheme, National Mission on Food Processing. These Food Processing Units deal in the field of pasta, macaroni, rusk, cookies, pasteurised milk, cheese, curd, butter, lassi, bakery products and processing of sesame seeds.
Himachal’s ICFAI varsity launches UG-PG
Chandigarh: ICFAI University, Himachal Pradesh, launched its Under Graduate and Post Graduate programmes at Chandigarh on Thursday. Chief Guest of the occasion, Vivek Atray, Deputy Commissioner of Panchkula, formally launched the Prospectus of UG-PG programmes offered by the ICFAI University. Speaking on the occasion, Dr OP Bajpai, Vice Chancellor, said students pursuing UG-PG programmes of ICFAI University, Himachal Pradesh, have to undergo a unique internship programme at various companies in India, hence they would get benefit in providing hands on live project experience and later help in placements also.
PGI Dermatologists win IADVl-GSK Quiz
Chandigarh: In the recently concluded National Conference of Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and leprologists (Dermacon-2015) held in Mangalore, from 12-15th February, residents of the Department of Dermatology at PGI, Chandigarh Dr. Sonali Bhat and Dr. Anuradha won the National IADVl-GSK Quiz contest and made the Department & Institute proud. Dr Vinay K, Senior Resident in the same department received the Prof G Senthamil Selvi award for the best published work in mycology for the year 2014-15. Prof Sanjeev Handa, Head of the Department was awarded the prestigious Prof lK Bhutani award for his contribution in teaching and research in the field of Dermatology. This award is named after late Prof lK Bhutani, ex-Director of AIIMS, New Delhi.
Seminar on Goods & Services Tax organised
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh branch of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), on Thursday organised a seminar on “Goods & Services Tax – Road Map Ahead”, to educate the Chartered Accountants, Traders, Industry and other stake holders about the proposed contents of Goods and Services Tax. The seminar was attended by more than 250 CAs and representatives of Traders and Industry. Speaking on the occasion, CA Uma Kant Mehta, Chairman Chandigarh Branch, emphasised upon the need of coordination between Chartered Accountants and traders so as to overcome all the difficulties in the implementation of the said Act and to educate the stakeholders to get benefit of it and how to comply all the provisions of the Act with ease.
Elections at KUTA begin
Kurukshetra: Kurukshetra University Teachers Association (KUTA) elections started with 44 nominations submitted by the teachers to the Returning officer’s office on Thursday. Briefing the media, RO Davinder Sachdeva said that 7 teachers filled nomination for Presidentship, 3 for Vice President, 4 for secretary, 3 for Joint Secretary and 25 filed for executive council. The election will take place on 2nd March and result will be announced same evening. Parmesh Kumar, Ex Secretary KUTA and one of the candidate for the post of President said his agenda includes to make Kurukshetra University a central university in the state.
Scouts & guides training camp concludes
Chandigarh: The four-day Hindustan Scouts and Guides Camp “Praveshika” concluded at KBDAV, Sector-7. Madhu Bahl, State Commissioner of Hindustan Scouts & Guides, said discipline and good values are the basic habits to be imbibed in the students. Scouts and Guides of respective schools shall act as ‘Team leaders’ for the rest of the school students, so that Discipline shall be prevailed among all students. live demonstrations of the discipline and commands were part of the valedictory function. The participant Scouts & Guides and team leaders were distributed commendation trophies along with certificates.
Hyundai launches 4S Fluidic Verna
Chandigarh: Hyundai Motor India ltd, launched the all-new 4S Fluidic Verna here in Chandigarh on Thursday. First introduced in the year 2006, The all-new 4S Fluidic Verna will set yet another benchmark in the mid high sedan segment. The new 4S fluidic Verna is equipped with powerful yet efficient powertrain and is available with a choice of 2 petrol (Gamma 1.4 & 1.6 MPI VTVT) & 2 Diesel (U2 1.4 CRDi & U2 1.6 CRDi VGT) engines. The engineering excellence is achieved by the adoption of technologies like VGT, VTVT, and electronic throttle control, piston with diamond coating making the powertrain powerful and efficient. The all-new 4S Fluidic Verna builds on the car's characteristic levels of interior comfort, cabin versatility, practicality and boot capacity.
PVR introduces Swachchh PVR Drive
Chandigarh: To provide clean cinema chain in India, PVR has adopted the Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan as Swachchh PVR Drive/Clean PVR Campaign across all its multiplexes. Gautam Dutta, CEO PVR ltd said the 45 day campaign is conducted across 44 cities with an inclusion of approximately 3,000 PVR staff in all 104 multiplexes. He added that Punjab saw good Swachchh drive last year, where Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, took the lead at the State-level PVR. On 17 February, Clean PVR Campaign witnessed the enthusiastic PVR staff coming out of their corporate offices cleaning with brooms and mops and taking the initiative to make Punjab a cleaner and healthier State.
MCM organises session on Women’s Safety
Chandigarh: MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh organised an interactive session on ‘Prevention of Crime against Women’ in collaboration with Chandigarh police. The session began with the demonstration of newly launched women safety application Smart 24X 7 by Bhupinder Saini, the brain behind this app which was followed by an awareness session regarding iclik, an innovative complaints logging mechanism, by Urjvala Goel, DSP, Chandigarh Police. Inspector Harjeet Kaur deliberated upon crimes against women and their prevention and familiarized the students with their rights as women. An invigorating interactive session then followed with Sukhchain Singh Gill, SSP, Chandigarh Police, Gill said, “Women are storehouses of compassion, mutual tolerance and sacrifice. If somebody tells you that you are weak, don’t believe it.” He also answered various queries of the students.
ACME to invest Rs600 crore in Punjab
Chandigarh: ACME Group, leading solar power player in India, on Thursday announced that it has emerged as the largest developer for successfully securing 74 MW of solar PV power projects under the Punjab State Solar PV Tender of 250 MW capacities, issued by Punjab Energy Development Agency. As per the RFP document, ACME would be signing two PPAs of 24 MW and 50 MW capacity, at a tariff of Rs7.16/ kwh and Rs7.06/ kwh respectively. Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, Founder & Chairman, ACME said, “We take pride in announcing our partnership with the Punjab State Government as the largest solar power developer in the State and help them in their endeavor to fuel the Solar Revolution in the country.” This project would entail an estimated investment of Rs600 crore.