Haryana Govt to give away awards
Chandigarh: Haryana Governor, Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki would give away awards to medal winning players, in a function to be organised at Haryana Raj Bhavan, here, on March 20. The Chief Minister Manohar lal would preside over the function and Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma would also grace the occasion.
Edu institutions must encourage eligible youth: CEO
Chandigarh: “A total of 9 lakh youth from Punjab above the 18 years of age have still not got themselves registered as voters which accounts for less vote percentage during various elections held in the state,” said Punjab Chief Electoral Officer, Karuna Raju while addressing the representatives of various universities. Raju said that the educational institutions must encourage the eligible youth above 18 years of age to get enrolled as voters. He said that the educational institutions should play an important role in this regard.
Clerks: Haryana Govt issues directions
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has directed all departments to ensure that the candidates selected on the post of clerk join their offices by March 20, 2018 positively. A spokesman said that the departments have also been asked to intimate how many candidates have so far joined their offices. He said that directions have been issued to send a report to chief secretary office through email or special messenger indicating total candidate allocated by Haryana Staff Selection Commission, number of persons joined and number not joined with reasons for not joining.
BSNl adds 12 lakh new customers
Chandigarh: Public sector telecom giant, BSNl with its unique offers and plans added 12 lakh new customers during last week. Out of which 4 lakhs were added through MNP ( Mobile Number Portability). To encourage new subscribers BSNl recently launched a “ Welcome Offer” for new customers / MNP under prepaid mobile services with 351MB free data. The validity of this offer is up to March 31. SK Gupta, CGMT Punjab Circle said BSNl is committed to deliver excellent customer services and extra benefits to our esteemed customers. For welcome offers, details may be seen at our website www.punjab.bsnl.co.in, he said.
Punjab National Bank’s EGM held
New Delhi: Punjab National Bank (PNB) held its extra ordinary general meeting (EGM) of shareholders of the bank at its head office in Dwarka, New Delhi. In a major clarification to its shareholders, bank’s top management said that they will honour all bonafide loUs. Clarifying on questions being raised on the ongoing bank fraud case investigation, PNB reassured its shareholders, customers, partners and employees on the bank’s capability and capacity to come out of this situation.
Banks to upload farmers’ data on portal
Shimla: Himachal Additional Chief Secretary Finance, Srikant Baldi has asked the banks for uploading online or offline data within a week period under Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme, else the recovery would be effected from the bank managers concerned. He said the coverage under the scheme was just 14 per cent and claims were also less. He expressed concern for not uploading farmers' data on crop insurance portal by the banks for providing crop insurance under the scheme.
Haryana reconstitutes labour Board
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has reconstituted the labour Welfare Board under the chairmanship of Ramesh Balhara of Rohtak. A spokesman said that Hari Prakash Sharma of Palwal would be the vice-chairman and labour Commissioner, Haryana, would be the member secretary of the Board.
International workshop held
Chandigarh: Aimed at moving towards a sustainable future, a novel approach was adopted by the scientific fraternity in the form of an international workshop on “Sustainable Energy Power and Propulsion.” The inaugural ceremony of the 9th iteration of this workshop took place in the Jubilee Hall- National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra on March 18. Padma Bhushan Dr VK Saraswat stated, “Sustainability means not cheating on our children and the best we can do right now is to focus on reducing the carbon footprint and espouse the area of clean energy with all our might.”
International Public Health Program at PGI
Chandigarh: The 5th five-day “International Public Health Management Development Program” (IPHMDP) from March 20-24 sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs is likely to be attended by 30-35 participants from around 20 countries. The program is entirely on no- profit basis and first of its kind in the country being conducted in government set-up. PGIMER shall be the first health institution in country to host senior officials from different countries to train in Public Health Management.
Maldivian youth delegation visits Chandigarh
Chandigarh: A 15-member youth delegation from Maldives is on Chandigarh visit from March 19-21 under the International Youth Exchange Programme sponsored by the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, informed Madhu Bala, Asstt. Programme Adviser, Ministry of Youth Affairs, NSS Regional Directorate, Chandigarh. During the three days visit, the students will visit Rock Garden, Rose Garden, RGNIYD, Sukhna lake and Cactus Garden. They will give interactive cultural performance in Punjab Engineering College (PEC) and will also interact with NSS volunteers and students of PEC.