Inbrief

Police arrest sub-inspector

Chandigarh: The Haryana Police has arrested sub-inspector Rinku for being allegedly involved in sprinkling water on the wheat bags lying in a godown of the Food and Supplies Department at Indri in Karnal district. The police are interrogating the SI and he will soon be produced in the court. A spokesman said that a case had been registered against the SI of the Food and Supplies Department under Section 409 and 420 of the CRPC based on the complaint of the District Food and Supplies Controller, Nishant Rathi, on May 31, 2015 at Indri police station. The OSD to the Chief Minister, Amrender Singh, accompanied by a team of officers, raided the godown on the night of May 29. As soon as the OSD entered the godown, two sub-inspectors fled the spot leaving behind their motorcycles but the two watchmen present there were nabbed. The police immediately took into possession the rubber pipe used for sprinkling water, motorcycles and other records.

Financial literacy & Education workshop held

Chandigarh: Dun & Bradstreet India and State Bank of India organised a ‘Financial literacy & Education’ workshop focused on the financial needs of MSMEs in Mandi Gobindgarh, in which BSE IPF was the exchange partner. The platform invited entrepreneurs, owner-managers, proprietors, partners, directors in micro and small enterprises, business division heads and senior non-finance and finance executives in medium enterprises as participants. The program was attended by over 40 MSMEs representatives across the city. The MSME Financial literacy program touched upon key MSME issues such as policy and regulatory frameworks, schemes and programmes of Central/State Govt for promoting MSMEs, financing options and modes, Banks/ FIs requirements, forms of organisational structure, benefits of registration, etc.

BVP North-2 felicitates 95 students, teachers

Chandigarh: With an objective of encouraging students excelling in different fields, Bharat Vikas Parishad (BVB) North-2 on Sunday felicitated over 95 students of Class IX and X and teachers at Sector 24 Indira Holiday Home. The students were felicitated on several parameters like education, sports, cultural, discipline and punctuality. Six teachers were also honoured on the occasion, where the chief guest was BVB National Secretary Gen. Ajay Dutta and Indira Holiday Secretary PR Aggarwal, retired IAS was also present besides President of BVB North- 2, J.K. Khanna.

CMA organises interactive session

Chandigarh: Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) organised an interactive session on “Smart and Humane Policing in Smart Cities” on Sunday at PHD Chamber here. The session was addressed by Rajbir Deswal, IPS, Inspector General/Joint Director, Haryana Police Academy. Deswal, while addressing the audience, said that smart cities face unique set of challenge that of law & Order, traffic and crime. A smart city has to be crime free, theft free and there are emerging issues of protection of the most vulnerable in the society from externally instigated religious, social or political disruptions, said Deswal.

Haryana to celebrate DIgital India

Chandigarh: Haryana Government will celebrate Digital India (DI) week from July 2- July 7, 2015 followed by the launch of Digital India Week (DIW) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from July 1. A spokesman said that the launch on July 1 would be followed by week long events of Digital India activities and e-Services which would be done in parallel at District or Village level on all the days of DI week. He said that the one main activity per day would include PM event, National Digitalliteracy Mission, launch of 10 e-Services, digital locker, Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) and Aadhaar linked Birth Registration.

Kshatriya Body demands jobs

Chandigarh: North India Kshatriya Body on Sunday demanded jobs for its new generation for their land acquired by the government after Independence in line with the proposed new land bill. This was the unanimous demand during a day-long convention of Kshatriya Rajput here, which also passed a resolution for the formation of a North India Kshatriya body in Chandigarh. The convention, which saw participation of active Rajput Khstriya organizations from Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Uttrakhand and Delhi, was inaugurated and led by Kunwar Vikram Singh, a well-known face of intelligent security and detective world. Singh said the new generation of Rajput Kshatriyas deserved their due from the government in terms of jobs for the land acquired following Independence.

IMA, Central Bank hold blood donation camp

Chandigarh: To celebrate the National Doctors’ Day and pay honour to medical fraternity, Indian Medical Association Chandigarh Chapter and Central Bank of India jointly organised a blood donation camp through Government Medical Super-speciality  Hospital Sector 16 here. Dr Sandeep Dhavan, president IMA Chandigarh informed that “Discussion Programme” is organised to discuss various aspects of medical profession such as health check-up, cure, prevention, diagnosis to promote quality medical services.

SC/ST/OBC admission counselling on July 3

Mohali: In an attempt to make the SC/ST and OBC students aware about various scholarship schemes provided by the government, a free counselling will be held on July 3 at Aryans College. Those students who want to participate in this free counselling can register by giving a missed call on 1800-30000-388. Prof BS Sidhu, Registrar, Aryans Group of Colleges said that under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plan Aryans has decided to hold this counselling for SC/ST/OBC students at Aryans campus. Sidhu said that this counselling would highlight various aspects of Scholarship including eligibility criteria, amount of scholarship, procedure to apply, etc.  He said that scholarship can be availed in  B.Tech, B.Tech (lEET), MBA, BBA, BCA, B.Ed, B.Com, BA, Polytechnic, Nursing (GNM), +1, etc courses.