38 INDOOR SPORTS HAllS to come up in RURAl Haryana
Chandigarh: Haryana Government plans to set up 38 indoor sports halls in 19 districts of the State to provide facilities for indoor sports in rural areas, Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij said on Thursday. He said sports equipment would also be provided in these halls. The Minister said that these indoor halls would be set up in the already constructed rural sports complexes as each such complex is built over an area of 6.5 acres. He said that the sports scheme of Central Government has ten sports, but keeping in view various games being played in different parts of the State, it has been decided to add two more games of Kho-Kho and Weightlifting to it. So far 126 blocks have been indentified in 21 districts of the State to organise competitions in rural areas. New stadia would be constructed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) to generate employment opportunities.
HARYANA SEEKS TIME TO REPlY ON KIKU SHARDA’S PlEA
Chandigarh: Just about a fortnight after comedian Kiku Sharda claimed that the FIRs against him were liable to be quashed as Dera Sacha Sauda was neither a “religion” nor was accorded recognition as a religious sect, Haryana and other respondents sought time to file a reply in the matter. Taking a note of the request, Justice Rajesh Bindal adjourned the hearing in the case till March 10. Booked by the Haryana Police for hurting religious sentiments, Sharda had earlier contended that Dera Sacha Sauda was neither a religious organization “by any definition” nor as per its own claims on its official website.
PROGRAMme TO INTEGRATE NE STUDENTS
Chandigarh: Centre for Human Rights & Duties, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh in collaboration with State legal Services Authority, Chandigarh organized sensitisation programme to integrate the students of North Eastern States of India with the rest of India. Nearly 85 students from different departments of Panjab University and affiliated colleges attended it.
ROADSHOW TO PROMOTE SCIENCE IN DAIlY lIFE
Chandigarh: Institute of Nano Science & Technology (INST) organized a roadshow on 3rd February at Sector 17, Plaza area as a satellite event ushering the 18th Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) meeting, “National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-18)” to be held during 5th -7th February. The purpose of this event was to foster scientific temperaments among the common people. INST’s students with the help of the scientists demonstrated simple yet very useful experiments to promote the scientific awareness in general public. A large number of enthusiastic school and college students also visited the roadshow and keenly followed the experiments displayed by the leading scientists from Tricity area. Ashok K. Ganguli, Director-INST said “the event is first of its kind in India, where top level scientists interact with the general public and explain the role of chemistry in daily life”.
Verification of Digital Ration Cards in HP starts
Shimla: The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs of Himachal Pradesh has taken up the work for computerization of various works of Targeted Public Distribution System under e-PDS project. The work on digitization of ration cards based on the detailed information of the families as per Aadhar card number has already been taken up. The digital ration cards would soon be provided after the verification and de-duplication to the consumers. A Spokesperson said that most of the ration cards had been digitized and the work on addition/deletion had been started from February 1 based on the claims and objections of the people. The lists of the ration card holders would be made available at panchayat ghars in rural areas and at fair price shops in urban areas for verification. The process would last upto February 29 and the consumers could make a free call on toll free number 1967 for further details.
2-Day Panchkula Art & literary Fest from Saturday
Chandigarh: Panchkula literature Festival (PlF) rechristened as Panchkula Art and literary Festival (PAlF) will be held on February 6 and 7 at the Hotel Holiday Inn in Sector 3, Panchkula. Reekrit Serai, Founding Director of PAlF and MD of Rumour Books India, said, “In its third year now, over a 100 panelists of repute have attended till date, including bureaucrats, politicians, bestselling authors, actors, artistes and entrepreneurs. Diwan Manna a multifaceted, globally renowned personality in the field of Art is the Chief Partron for Panchkula Art Fest. Another ‘first’ that is being introduced into this year’s lit fest is the Panchkula Biz lit Fest with the objective to promote reading, imbibing business literature. Those expected to attend include Raghu Rai India’s ace photographer, Avirook Sen, Author of the book Aarushi on the infamous murder case, Anu Hasan, a noted Tamil actor and niece of versatile actor Kamal Hasan, and Jerry Almeida, who has signed a Rs 12 crore book deal for a series of ten ‘Karma Kurry’ books with Jaico publishers. Kishwar Desai, whose novel The Sea of Innocence has been published in India, UK and Australia will be among the speakers at the fest.
CHANDIGARH INSPECTS lABS OF SCHOOlS, COllEGES
Chandigarh: Tapasya Raghav, SDM(E), U.T., Chandigarh along with Sunil Chaudhary, Drug Control Officer and other officers inspected the laboratories of the schools and colleges in the city. labs of St Kabir Public School-26, Strawberry High School-26, Sacred Heart Sr. Sec. School-26, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College-26, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College for Girls-26, Sri Guru Gobind Singh School-26, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Pharmacy College-26, were checked and finding irregularities in the usage of Acid/corrosive substances the Head of the Institutions and Principals have been directed to maintain proper stock register as mandatory and send the fortnightly report henceforth to the office of the SDM(East), UT, Chandigarh.
Self certification to benefit 14l power consumers
Chandigarh: With the elimination of “Inspector Raj” by introducing self certification scheme in Power Department, as many as 14 lakh consumers would be benefitted per year in Haryana. An official spokesman on Thursday said that Haryana is the first state to introduce such self certification upto 33 KV voltage level for both the existing as well as new installations. At present all the existing as well as new electrical installations are required to be inspected by the office of the Chief Electrical Inspector or engineers of the state Discoms. The owners of electrical installations of voltage upto 33KV level would now get their installations tested and inspected by the authorized Chartered Electrical Safety Engineers for ensuring observance of safety measures in their installations and issue self certification report. The spokesman said that for convenience of electricity consumers and streamline the process of self certification, the government will authorize more than 500 Chartered Electrical Safety Engineers throughout the state. Self certification scheme will speed up the process of the release of new electricity supply connections to consumers.
Governor releases poetry book by IAS officer
Chandigarh: Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki released a book of poems ‘ Mann Mukur’, written by Dheera Khandelwal, Additional Chief Secretary, Technical Education and Women and Child Development. Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi was also present on the occasion.