MC ORGANIsES FREE MEDICAl CAMP AT DADU MAJRA
Chandigarh: Municipal Corporation Chandigarh organised a free medical camp at Civil Dispensary, Dadu Majra on Monday during which 508 patients were examined. The camp was inaugurated by B Purushartha, Commissioner Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh in presence of Arun Sood, Mayor and area councillor, Satparkash Aggarwal. Purushartha said that one mega camp for Safai Karamcharies and Sewer workers shall be organised shortly. Free medicines were also distributed in the camp.
VIJAYAWADA DElEGATION VISITS MC CHANDIGARH
Chandigarh: A 42-member delegation of Vijayawada Municipal Corporation, led by GV Ramana Rao, Deputy Mayor and G Hari Babu, floor leader visited the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh on Monday. Arun Sood, Mayor, welcomed the delegation with B Purushartha, Commissioner. Ramana Rao said that the study tour aims to study the best practices including maintenance of roads, Water Supply system, Sewerage Treatment Plants, Solid Waste Management in Chandigarh.
sbi INTOUCH BRANCH AT ElANTE MAll, CHANDIGARH opens
Chandigarh: Anurag Agarwal, Home Secretary, Chandigarh and Venkatesh S Bharadwaj, General Manager, State Bank of India, Chandigarh Circle inaugurated sbiINTOUCH Branch at Elante Mall, Chandigarh. The branch is a step towards digitisation of banking industry. Customers can open their accounts, get their debit cards and many other services by just operating the respective machines installed in the branch, by themselves.
CM CONDOlES DEATH OF SENIOR JOURNAlIST
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal has expressed grief over the passing away of former Editor of Dainik Tribune Vijay Sehgal. In a condolence message, the CM described him as a seasoned journalist who will be long remembered for upholding the ethics of journalism. He said that it would be difficult to fill the void created by his sudden passing away. The Chief Minister conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the members of the bereaved family and prayed that the departed soul might rest in peace.
YOGA ORIENTATION PROGRAMme FOR YOGA EXPERTS
Chandigarh: As a part of the upcoming National level International Yoga Day celebrations to be held on 21st June in Chandigarh, a yoga orientation program will be conducted for certified yoga instructors and experts from 11th to 13th May, at the Cricket Stadium in Sector-16, Chandigarh from 6:00 am to 7:00 am. The orientation program is being conducted for yoga experts who have been teaching yoga in schools, colleges and institutes. The experts would be imparted training as per the 45 minutes yoga protocol, which has been chalked out by the Ministry of AYUSH. Post training these yoga experts would conduct yoga workshops from 21st May for people of all ages at public places like schools, colleges, institutions, parks, offices etc.
SURENDRA NIHAl SINGH AT PU COllOQUIUM
Chandigarh: Eminent Journalist Surendra Nihal Singh would deliver the Panjab University (PU) Colloquium on May 11 at PU. He would speak on the topic of “Indian Politics: The Tipping Point” at 3 pm at the ICSSR Hall. Better known as S. Nihal Singh, he has earlier served as Editor of The Statesman and The Indian Express. PU Vice Chancellor Prof Arun Kumar Grover would preside over the public lecture.
‘WE’ Group Celebrates Mother’s Day
Chandigarh: ‘WE — A group of Indian contemporary Women Artists-Chandigarh’ celebrated “Mother’s Day” along with all the members of the group at Punjab Kala Bhawan, Sec-16-B, here. The mother’s day program was started with the beautiful classical dance of kathak dancer Shruti Gupta, who is also “limca Book of Records” holder for the kathak dance at the highest altitude of 17,198 feet. She enthralled the audience by her performance of kathak dance that was based on the eternal love of mother.
State Bank of Patiala organises Felicitation Function
Patiala: State Bank of Patiala organised Felicitation Function at Head Office Patiala to felicitate the winners of Basant Utsav Campaign which was earlier launched by the bank earlier to give boost to personal segment products i.e. Home loan, Home Top Up loan, Car loan, Gold loan, Pension loan & Personal loan. The bank had waived full processing charges on the products covered in the campaign which was a success and the bank had sanctioned loans to customers more than 17300 amounting to Rs 1030 crores. The function was presided over by Managing Director, SA Ramesh Rangan and attended by all the CGMs, GMs, DGMs, AGMs and other officials of the bank. The total attendance of bank employees was more than 400 and more than 200 employees were felicitated with Trophies and Merit Certificates during the function.
Workshop to brush-up parents’ English
lUDHIANA: A workshop for parents on “Multilingualism for Child’s Development’ was held at Disneyland Playway School (Alpine Senior Sec. School) Ghumar Mandi. It was organised by BetterThink, the English language Division of Top Careers & You (TCY), ludhiana’s edtech company. Present on the occasion were Rajeshwari Dhir, the school Principal, teachers and students and their parents, especially mothers. It was emphasised by English language experts at the workshop that a child should be able to speak more than two languages for his complete mental development and English being the global language assumes great importance in addition to his mother-tongue. Parents play a very important role in this respect.