Bansal points at Centre on PU crisis
Chandigarh: With Panjab University facing severe financial crisis, former Union Minister and ex-Chandigarh MP, Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday came down heavily on the Union Government for the grossly inadequate grant for PU in the year 2017-2018. He condemned the move by the Central Government and said that it is just a move to strangle PU and just another ploy to force PU to increase the fees again. The MHRD has agreed to give Rs 207.80 crore to PU this year against Rs 197.73 crore released for 2016-2017. He said the grants have come with certain unjust conditions. The Union Ministry has refused to pay for the previous deficit of the university which amount to Rs 36 crores. The Ministry has also asked the university to meet the deficit on their own. Clearly it is an indirect strategy to force the university to increase the fee, he added.
SBI organises builders meet
Chandigarh: A builders meet was organised by SBI on Wednesday at their local head Office in Sector – 17 here. About 25 prominent builders and real estate developers of the tricity participated in the discussions. A talk on the Real Estate Act and on the proposed GST was also arranged. Amongst other things, PMAY scheme and Builder Finance were the topics which were explained and discussed in detail. The meet was presided over by the chief general manager.
Vijaya Bank organises mega car loan day
Chandigarh: Vijaya Bank, Chandigarh organised mega car loan day to ensure that customers get advantage of hassle-free attractive interest rate loan. Vijaya Bank, a public sector bank has shown an outstanding performance in the last financial year and its net profit rose 96.56% to all time high of Rs 750.48 crore, while its retail advances grew 24.33% to Rs 29,335 crore. In its pursuit of excellence especially under retail segment, this event was held in Chandigarh Region comprising of branches of Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
Technical training session for cops held
Chandigarh: Infosys Chandigarh Development Center, under the guidance of Tajender Singh luthra, Director General of Police, Chandigarh, organised a soft skills and technical training session for 70 police officers from across the tricity on Wednesday. The workshop was inaugurated by Eish Singhal, IPS, Senior Superintendent of Police - UT Chandigarh. Inspector Jaswinder Kaur, ClI-RTC who was also present at the session, stressed on the importance of communication skills and working knowledge of computers to perform day-to-day activities in the Police department efficiently.
cbi celebrates International Yoga Day
Chandigarh: Central Bank of India celebrated third International Yoga Day in the compound of zonal office, Chandigarh. Yoga Guru Naresh Kumar Sharma and Devraj Tyagi from Archaryakul Chandigarh, Sector 16, gave tips to bank staff on how to perform yoga. Yoga Guru also explained the benefits of yoga in day to day life and persuaded the bankers to implement yoga to keep themselves healthy.
Shimla Mayor call on Chief Minister
Shimla: Newly elected Mayor of Municipal Corportion of Shimla, Kusum Sadret and Deputy Mayor Rakesh Sharma along with MlA Shimla, Suresh Bhardwaj met Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday. They discusses civic issues of the State Capital.