CAPT CONDEMNS SMEARING OF INK ON KEJRIWAl
Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday condemned the smearing of ink on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by a woman at a function in New Delhi. He said such acts are highly condemnable and unacceptable in a democracy. “If somebody has some difference of opinion or does not agree he or she has no right to indulge in such acts” he said in a statement here. The former Chief Minister said all such acts whether hurling a shoe or smearing ink on someone are all signs of intolerance which must not be encouraged at any cost for petty partisan reasons.
OBC CERTIFICATES THROUGH EDISTRICT PROJECT
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has ordered to issue Other Backward Classes Certificates through eDistrict Project. A spokesman of Punjab government said that people belonging to OBCs are extended benefits by Government of India/ Institutions working under GoI. He said that this decision has been taken by the Government of Punjab to simplify the process of issuing these certificates, thereby rendering big relief to the people.
GOVERNOR RElEASES SUPVA CAlENDER
Chandigarh: Haryana Governor, Kaptan Singh Solanki released the Calendar, Diary and Conference Pad-2016 of State University of Performing and Visual Arts (SUPVA), Rohtak at Haryana Raj Bhavan, here on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, the Governor hoped that the University would excel in the field of Performing and Visual Arts. Those present on the occasion, included Additional Chief Secretary, Technical Education, Dheera Khandelwal, Secretary to Governor Neelam P. Kasani and Vice Chancellor of SUPVA, Ashvini Sabharwal.
PCCTU lAUNCHES AGITATION
Chandigarh: Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU) has launched agitation to press for acceptance of its demands. PCCTU will start agitation with a two hour dharna on January 19 and district level rallies will be organized on February 5, 12 and 16. PCCTU is demanding withdrawal of circular by which HRA and medical allowance of teachers have been reduced, scrapping of API, clearance of backlog of salary grants, creation of posts of professors in aided colleges in Punjab and implementation of pension scheme, scraping of API and extension of retirement age to 65 years in Chandigarh. Prof. Jagwant Singh, President of PCCTU said teachers have been forced to go on agitation as Government has not met the assurances given by Surjit Singh Rakhra, Minister for Higher Education.
NAREDCO REGRETS UNITECH DIRECTORS’ JAIl
Chandigarh: National Real Estate Development Council (NARDECO) has regretted the arrest of UNITECH directors for a day before they got bail and reiterated its request to the government to strengthen the housing sector governance foolproof so that developers strive for quality construction and delivery by the deadlines. NAREDCO President Parveen Jain said some breathing space must be given to developers who are not able to give timely delivery of flats or office space due to unforeseen reasons which include labour problems, irregularities in supply even leading to non-availability of raw materials at times, policy and guidelines from government from time to time, e.g., limitations to the use of underground water, banning of concrete from the crushers and challenges rising from sand querying, delays relating to completion of local formalities, etc.
RAKESH TUlI TO DElIVER lECTURE ON GENOMICS
Chandigarh: JC Bose Fellow & Senior Scientist Prof. Rakesh Tuli will deliver the 29th Panjab University (PU) Colloquium lecture on January 20 at SS Bhatnagar Auditorium in PU Campus, Chandigarh. The topic of lecture will be "Genomics for Designing Future life Forms" PU colloquium is open for public. Genome is an amazing self-duplicating, self-programming and self-correcting molecule that hold the secrets of life forms. Several studies in this direction appear to mark only the beginning of change that life will see in the coming decades. Dr. Tuli will elaborate upon some of the recent technologies like "genetically modified crops" that are at the threshold of transformational technologies, like "genomically edited crops".
KINGS COllEGE TAUNTON FORAYS INTO INDIA
Chandigarh: King’s College, Taunton an independent co-educational secondary day and boarding school in Somerset, England, a school with 135 years of educational history, has joined like-minded educators in India to form the first ever British Partnership school in the country. Announcing the launch, King’s invites applications for the 2016 session from the students of Chandigarh. King’s College India, NCR Delhi, Rohtak is scheduled to open in August 2016 for children in years Standard 1 to Standard 8. However, the admission process has begun and the school is taking enrolments for children aged 6 to 13, mirroring the UK Prep-school system.
4.12l BPl FAMIlIES GIVEN lPG IN HARYANA: KAMBOJ
Chandigarh: Haryana Food and Supplies Minister Karan Dev Kamboj said that 4,12,804 families holding Below Poverty line (BPl) ration cards have been provided with the facility of lPG whereas earlier they were using Kerosene for cooking. Kamboj said that under Public Distribution System, the central government provided seven litres of Kerosene on each ration card of BPl family. Now after being provided with lPG, the BPl families would not get kerosene as they would be able to use lPG for cooking. The Minister said that those BPl families to whom so far the facility of lPG could not be provided would continue to get seven litres of Kerosene. The Central Government provides Kerosene on quarterly basis and 22,104 kilolitres of Kerosene has been allotted from January to March 2016.
HARYANA TRANSFERS THREE IPS OFFICERS
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has issued transfer and posting orders of three IPS officers with immediate effect. B. K. Sinha, Additional Director General, State Vigilance Bureau, Panchkula has been posted as such at Recruitment Training Center (RTC) Bhondsi with additional charge of Additional Director General, State Vigilance Bureau, Panchkula. RC Mishra, Additional Director General, State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon has been posted as Additional Director General, Home Guards, Haryana, Chandigarh with additional charge of Additional Director General, State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon. Pankaj Nain, Superintendent of Police, Karnal has been given additional charge of Superintendent of Police, Commando, Newal against a vacant post.