Appointment letters given to counsellors
Chandigarh: Punjab Technical Education and Employment Generation Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday handed over appointment letters to the newly-recruited counsellors. Congratulating, Channi asked them to reach to the youth at ground level and hold career counselling camps at micro level.
Punjab food teams seizes adulterated desi ghee
Chandigarh: Timely action by Mansa’s food safety team prevented a desi ghee adulterator from supplying spurious content hidden carefully in a milk tanker. The state Food Safety Commissioner KS Pannu on Wednesday said that on a tip off, Mansa food team inspected a dairy at Bareta Mandi along with CIA staff, and found 59 quintals of suspected desi ghee being prepared by mixing inferior desi ghee under the brand named Aneek. A strange material or chemical was also found on the spot which was being mixed with ghee to make the final product.
Appointment letters given to 63 dependents of PSPCL’s deceased employees
Patiala: Punjab Power, New and Renewable Energy Sources Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar on Wednesday handed over appointment letters to 63 dependants of deceased employees of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) in Mohali, including six LDCs, and 57 candidates of class-IV different categories. Kangar said that PSPCL has already given employment to 782 dependants of deceased employees of the corporation from April 2017 to December 2018.
Khelo India: Punjab emerges overall champion in U-21 shooting
Chandigarh: Punjab’s shooters have done the State proud in the ongoing ‘Khelo India Youth Games’ being held at Pune. In under-21 category, Punjab shooters have been crowned overall champion. The state on Wednesday bagged four medals with inclusion of one gold, one silver and two bronze, all in U-21 category of shooting. With this, the count of the medals won by Punjab has gone up to 57 which comprised of 19 gold, 15 silver and 23 bronze, said the State sports manager in the Games Gurlal Singh Riar.
Centre for Social Work, Don Bosco initiate child friendly city initiative workshop
Chandigarh: A child friendly city initiative capacity building workshop was conducted by the Panjab University’s Centre for Social Work and Don Bosco. SLSA member secretary Mahavir Singh was the chief guest at the program who opined that children need to be protected from every risk in the society.
PU VC visits various departments, institutes
Chandigarh: Panjab University’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Raj Kumar has visited University Institute of Fashion Technology (UIFT), Department of Microbiology, Department of Art History and Visual Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts and Dr SS Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology (UICET) in the last two days. The Departments made presentations about the courses offered, thrust areas, research outcomes, placements, etc to the VC.
Training prog for effective use of IT platform ‘Kaushal Bharat’
Chandigarh: Punjab Skill Development Mission on Wednesday hosted a training programme on new ERP Portal developed by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR). NIRD&PR, DDU-GKY wing director (M&E) Shankar Dutt Kabdal gave presentation regarding a single common ‘Kaushal Bharat’ IT platform and ERP system for ensuring effective project implementation and monitoring of DDU-GKY projects in Punjab.
Free medicines for patients in HP govt health institutes
Shimla: All the government health institutes in Himachal Pradesh are providing free medicines and other products such as needles, bandages etc under Mukhya Mantri Nishulk Dawai Yojna. As many as 330 free medicines and consumables are being provided free of cost in the district hospitals and medical college and hospitals, 216 medicines in the civil hospitals and community health centers, 106 in primary health centers and 43 medicines in sub-health centers. Anyone can register a complaint on toll-free number 104 in this regard.
Himachal reaches elimination stage of leprosy
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has reached the elimination stage of leprosy as prevalence rate is less than one case per 10,000 population. All the districts are low endemic in the state, said the state’s Additional Chief Secretary (Health) RD Dhiman while presiding over state coordination committee meeting on leprosy case detection campaign on Wednesday.
He said that Sparsh leprosy awareness campaign will be started on Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom day January 30 which would culminate on his 150th birth anniversary on October 2, 2019.
Punjab VB nabs ASI for taking bribe
Chandigarh: Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Wednesday nabbed an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) posted at police station Urban Estate Phase-2, Patiala, red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs 10,000. Spokesperson said that ASI Sheeshpal was nabbed red handed on the complaint of one Surjeet Singh of Guru Nanak Nagar, Patiala who alleged that the accused ASI was demanding Rs 30,000 to exclude his family members regarding a complaint case lodged by his wife.