PB ADDS ‘GURU lADHO RE DAY’ IN RESTRICTED HOlIDAYS
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has included ‘Guru ladho Re day’ in its restricted holidays’ list. An official spokesperson of the Punjab government said that the Government has issued a notification through an amendment to its earlier notification issued on December 14, 2015 regarding state’s holidays. The Guru ladho Re day would be observed on October 7, 2016 (Friday) as per the new list of restricted holiday.
CHANDIGARH NOTIFIES WARD COMMITTEES OF MC
Chandigarh: Just six months before the end of the present tenure of the elected house of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh Administration has constituted the ward committees of MC and notified the same. These committees will work for the remaining six months tenure of the present house as the MC elections are scheduled to be held at the end of this year. Arun Sood, Mayor, Chandigarh, appreciating the move of Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor, Punjab, Haryana and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh said that the constitution of ward committees would ensure more Public Participation in the Municipal Corporation. He said that the constitution of new committees had been pending for long as the last committees had been constituted in 2012. These committees will operate for the remaining tenure of the current house and shall render the suggestions within its territorial limits of the councilors on the issues including Water supply, Sanitation & drainage, removal of accumulated water and public places, collection removal and management of solid wastes, Disinfection, Immunization services in Slum areas, Street lighting, Planning and maintenance of roads.
EXPEDITION TO STOK KANGRI PEAK FlAGS OFF
Chandigarh: Maj Gen Somnath Jha, COS of Headquarters Kharga Corps and Chairman local Board of Administration, Sainik School, Kunjpura, flagged-off a 38 member mountaineering expedition team comprising of 36 cadets representing various Sainik Schools of the country and two staff members to Stok Kangri Peak (6158 Mtr) in the leh region of Jammu & Kashmir on Monday. On this occasion Col YS Parmar, Principal, Sainik School, Kunjpura apprised the Chairman on various adventure activities that form an integral part of the power packed training imparted to the students in various Sainik Schools. He also informed that the present expedition to Stok Kangri Peak in leh region is being led by J S Gulia, an ace mountaineer and will be assisted by Anurag Semwal and Sameer Prusty. The duration of the expedition is 25 days tentatively. After a weeklong tough training and acclimatization at the base camp, the assault camp will be set up at 5300 Mtr at a suitable location after due reconnaissance.
CHB EASES PROCESS OF SUBMISSION OF FORMS
Chandigarh: To ease the process of submission of different kinds of application forms, Chandigarh Housing Board has announced that now onwards all the applications, whether complete or incomplete would be accepted by the Public Relation Officers of the board and the applicant would be given a receipt even for the incomplete form. The Board said as per the existing practice, the Public Relations Officers (PROs) examine the forms at the time of submission and do not accept the incomplete documents. Now to facilitate the delivery of services to the general public, the Public Relations Officers (PROs) have been instructed to accept all the applications, documents, fees etc. and they shall have a preliminary examination of the documents and if there is any obvious shortcoming, the same shall be mentioned on the receipt for the information/guidance of the applicant as well as for the information of the concerned branch. However, it is the concerned branch that shall deal with the application and take a final view on the completeness of the application & other documents submitted therewith.
Experts discuss Project on Buffalo Improvement
ludhiana: The 14th Annual Review meet of Network Project on Buffalo improvement was inaugurated at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, ludhiana (GADVASU), ludhiana on Monday. Dr. AS Nanda, VC, GADVASU welcomed the delegates from across the country and informed that buffalo is ‘Black Gold’ of the country and is third largest livestock of India ranked behind cattle and goat but the milk contribution is about 54% in the total milk produced in the country. Dr R S Gandhi, Assistant Director General (Animal Production and Breeding said that under the network project, milk improvement programme is being implemented in seven breeds of the country out of 13 registered breed of buffalo of India.
DR MEHTA TO ATTEND INT’l CONFERENCE OF SOCIAlOGY
Chandigarh: Dr Jagdish Chander Mehta, Head, Dept. of Sociology, DAV College, Chandigarh has been invited by the 3rd International Sociological Association (ISA) in the International conference on “The Future We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a better world to be held in University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria). He will to present his research paper on “Smuggling of Migrants from India to Europe Particularly U.K: Issues of Concern” in the ISA Research Committee 31 Session on Forced Migration and Trafficking in Persons in the Contemporary World: The Variables of Gender, Man-Made Disaster and Economic liberalization.