PSPCL to release pending salaries by today
Patiala: Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) chairman-cum-managing director Baldev Singh Sran on Wednesday informed that due to financial crunch, the PSPCL has released payment of salary or pension to its serving or retired employees and officers in installments. The first installment of salary was released to 12,913 employees on November 30 amounting Rs 26.27 crores and Rs 69.77 crores as pension released to 43,348 pensioners on December 2. On December 4, Rs 50.51 crores has been released to 13,142 employees for their salaries. “Payment to rest of PSPCL employees, officers or pensioners will be released by tomorrow, since the Punjab Government has released Rs 200 crores against pending subsidy,” said Sran.
BBMB surpasses CEA’s generation target
Chandigarh: Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) on Wednesday surpassed generation targets of 9,470 million units, fixed by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) for the financial year 2019-20, by generating 9473.20 million units of energy at 6 am on Wednesday. This has been possible due to judicious operation of reservoirs as well as efficient operation and maintenance of the generating units with one of the highest plant availability, said the BBMB chairman DK Sharma. He said that cumulative machine availability of BBMB’s generating units during April 2019 to November 2019 was 98.62 percent and transmission availability was 99.84 percent. Sharma congratulated BBMB’s all employees for their untiring efforts to maintain excellence in irrigation and power sectors.
AAP appoints new Majha zone presidents
Amritsar: To broad base the party’s organizational structure, Punjab unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday appointed six new halqa presidents in Majha zone. Young party leader Ranjit Singh Cheema was appointed district vice president, while Gurdev Singh Lakhna was appointed Tarn Taran president. Announcing this, party’s Majha zone president and state core committee member Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal said that Manjinder Singh was appointed Khadoor Sahib halqa president, Dr Kashmir Singh Sohal (Tarn Taran), Saurab Behal (Pathankot), Subhash Verma (Sujanpur), Amanndeep Kumar (Attari), Nishan Singh Bolewal (Hargobindpur), and Jasbir Singh Sursing (Khemkaran).
Bajwa lauds GNDu for Swachchh Campus Award
Chandigarh: Punjab Higher Education Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa on Wednesday congratulated Amritsar’s Guru Nanak Dev University(GNDU) for bagging top position amongst multispecialty government universities across the country having big campuses based on a national level competition conducted by Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under Swachh Campus Ranking-2019. GNDU outnumbered more than 400 public universities across the country.
Work on updating voter list from today Chandigarh: As per Haryana State Election Commissioner’s directions, the work of updating and amending voters' lists of all the wards of Gram Panchayats Saiya Khera, Sonipat district, and Rangri Khera, Sirsa district, will be done from December 5 on the basis of the latest assembly electoral lists. Spokesperson said that the work of the draft voter list will be done by December 10, and claims and objections will be sought after initial publication of draft voter list on December 11. The last date for receiving claims and objections is December 17 till 3 pm, and the final publication of voter lists will be done on December 30.
Mount Carmel School holds Founders’ Week
Chandigarh: Under the aegis of the founders and directors of Mount Carmel School, Dr Earnest Charles J Samuel and Dr Annie Charles Samuel along with the principal Dr Parveena John Singh, Mount Carmelites brimmed with enthusiasm and elation at Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh, to celebrate the 32nd Founders’ Week which was held over two days — for pre-primary and junior wing on one day and for the seniors on the other. Kinjal Chandel of Class X-B got the Best All Round Student of the session award 2019-20.