Punjab School edu dept starts filling 3,142 posts
Chandigarh: Under the Punjab Government's Ghar Ghar Rojgar Yojana, the School Education Department has started the recruitment process for 3,142 new posts. Spokesperson said that applications have been invited to fill up 2,392 posts of master cadre in the border area alone. As many as 899 teachers are being recruited in the master cadre in English, 595 in mathematics, and 518 in science. Another 380 posts are being filling in English as backlog. All these posts are related to the border area.
Pvt School to govt: consider closure of schools
Chandigarh: Opposing the Haryana Government’s decision to shut down all schools till April 30 in the wake of COVID surge, the Federation of Private Schools Welfare Association on Tuesday maintained that the situation of COVID-19 in Haryana is not so terrible for schools to be closed down. Federation president Dr Kulbhushan Sharma said that in case the parents agree to send their children to schools, the Government should not have any problem in opening schools with their consent since most of the parents are, in fact, in favour of opening the schools.
Punjab appoints 50 specialist doctors
Chandigarh: In a major fillip to the state’s health infrastructure, Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Tuesday handed over appointment letters to 50 Medical Officers (Specialist). Of these, 12 are Medicine Specialist, 21 Anesthesia specialist, 13 Pediatricians, four chest and TB specialists. The Minister said that every effort is being made to achieve the goal to provide jobs to the unemployed youth of Punjab. Health Department has completed recruitment to more than 7,000 posts of paramedical and other staff including medical officers from the year 2017 to 2019 while the process to fill another 3954 posts is underway.
UHBVN to redress consumers’ grievances
Chandigarh: The proceedings of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam to redress the grievances, hearing of old and new complaints would be held in the office of XEN ‘OP’ Division Panchkula, Power Colony Industrial area phase-II Panchkula on April 16, 2021, from 10 am to 4 pm. Spokesperson said that the proceedings of the Forum would be chaired by Consumer Grievances Redressal Forum (CGRF) Chairman and he, along with the members of the Forum, would hear all grievances or complaints of consumers like billing problem, voltage complaints, problems in metering, among others.