Haryana CM administers oath to HERC member
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal administered the ‘oath of office and secrecy’ to newly appointed Member of Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC), Naresh Sardana here. Manohar Lal congratulated Sardana, his family members and well wishers for him being appointed as member of HERC, said a spokesman. He said that applications for filling up the post of member, HERC were invited through advertisement in newspaper in the month of January. The State Government had constituted a Selection Committee under the chairmanship of Justice Permod Kohli (Retd.) with Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi and chairperson, Central Electricity Authority Prakash Mhaske as members of the selection committee. The appointment is based on the recommendations made by the Selection Committee in its meeting held on May 5, the spokesman said.
Haryana CM announces grant of Rs 1 cr for DCs
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal has announced that the State Government will grant an advance upto Rs one crore to each Deputy Commissioner of the state. This advance would be utilised to meet out the emergent requirement of payment of wages, honorarium etc to the employees engaged on contract basis under centrally and state sponsored schemes in case the departments do not receive funds or grants on time from the central or state government for one reason or other, said an official spokesman. The funds would be released from contingency funds of the state.
to act against erring officers: SC commission
Chandigarh: The Punjab State Scheduled Caste Commission has ordered the state Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Education and Research Department) to act against the erring officers or officials Guru Ramdas University of Health Sciences for non-registration of course on official website, thus, depriving eligible candidate to avail post matric scholarship. The Commission ordered to act against the erring officers or officials of Guru Ramdas University of Health sciences Amritsar and Officers/Officials of Director, Medical education and research department for causing hindrance for the eligible SC students to avail post-matric scholarship by not registering the course on the dedicated portal to give post-matric scholarship to the SC students under Government of India scheme.
Punjab announces subsidy for farmers
Chandigarh: To further strengthen the dairy farming sector, cattle rearers in the state would be provided subsidy to buy up to 20 cattles from existing ten for which funds amounting to Rs 20 crores have already been released, said the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development Balbir Singh Sidhu. He expressed confidence that with this decision the farmers would get further financial support thereby making the dairy farming more viable and sustainable. Sidhu said that Schedule Castes would be getting 33% subsidy.
Haryana Police personnel deployed in village Tibbi
Chandigarh: As a precautionary measure, Haryana Police has deployed police personnel under the supervision of a DSP rank officer in village Tibbi of Bhuna in Fatehabad district where members of a community of upper caste had set a stockyard of other community on fire. A spokesman said that as soon as the incident was reported, the Superintendent of Police, Fatehabad Vijay Pratap Singh himself visited the village and took stock of the situation and gave necessary instructions to the police officials. It was informed that a calf died due to incident of fire. Police is taking action after recording the victim's statement in the case and the culprits will not be spared at any cost. At present, the situation is normal in the village. Police force has been deployed to prevent any kind of untoward incident. Bhuna police station in-charge has also been directed to patrol the village continuously, the spokesman said.
Online leave submission and approval on HRMS
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided to implement online leave submission and approval system in Human Resource Management System (HRMS) to facilitate its employees. For this, the State Government employees would have to apply online on employee portal for leave application. A spokesman said that all departments have entered data of their employees on HRMS, which included personal information of each employee like Service Book, Annual Confidential Reports, promotion, leave, transfer details and others. Now, it has been decided to implement online Leave submission and approval system through Intra Gr. Portal, with effect from April 1, 2019. He said that employee can submit any type of leave application online on the employee portal. Reporting officer can approve or reject the leave application on the same portal.
Hry enhances DA
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has enhanced rate of dearness allowance (DA) for State Government employees, pensioners and family pensioners from 9 per cent to 12 per cent with effect from January 1, 2019. A spokesman said that the installment of Dearness Allowance payable under these orders would be paid in cash to all State government employees with salary for the month of June, 2019 to be paid in July, 2019. A letter to this effect has been issued today by the Finance Department to all the Heads of Department,
Commissioners of Divisions, Deputy Commissioners and Sub Divisional Officers (Civil), the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh.
Council for Science & Tech invites applications
Chandigarh: Haryana State Council for Science and Technology has invited nominations to confer Haryana Vigyan Ratna Awards and Haryana Yuva Vigyan Ratna Awards for calendar year 2019 to the eminent scientists for their outstanding contribution in the field of Science and Technology . The nomination should reach the office of the Council by July 31.
Haryana Speaker nominates MLA
Chandigarh: Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker, Kanwar Pal has nominated Naseem Ahmed, MLA to serve on the Committee on Local Bodies and Panchayati Raj Institutions as Special Invitee with effect from May 28,2019 for the remaining period of the year 2019-20.
One day workshop with industrialists to be held
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh State Biodiversity Board (HPSBB) in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) is organizing one day workshop cum dialogue with the industrialists on 31st May at Baddi, District Solan. Additional Chief Secretary, Environment Science and Technology R.D. Dhiman will be the Chief Guest. A spokesperson of HPSBB said here that this Industrial Dialogue cum Bioresource Conference will be attended by big industrial houses and they would be apprised of the scenario on biodiversity, its importance, need for its conservation and sustainable use of its components. He said that this conference will be attended by more than100 representatives of industrial houses based on bioresources.
HP Quality Control Cell inspects growth works
Shimla: Additional Principal Secretary-cum-Chairman of Quality Control Cell in Chief Minister Office Sanjay Kundu along-with its Members Chief Engineer B.S Rana, Superintending Engineer Deepak Sharma, Assistant Engineers L.K Sharma and Devesh Thakur inspected and reviewed the various developmental works being undertaken by the Municipal Corporation Shimla. They inspected Craignano water tank, Craignano-Dhali bypass pipeline,
STP Dhali, Sanjauli-Ridge pipeline, Sanjauli water tank, Knowlswood water tank, Challenge fund Building (Near Lift), Garbage treatment plant Bhariyal, tarring and mettling work (from Deepak Project to Chakkar) and gave necessary direction for improvement. Kundu directed the executing agencies to maintain quality and to resolve all pending issues. He said that quality control team would again inspect the roads and buildings construction works in the coming days and submit the report along with its recommendation to the Chief Minister.
One killed in factory blast in Fatehgarh Sahib
Chandigarh: One person was killed and at least four injured in a blast in a factory furnace in Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib district. The blast occurred in Kharodi near Sirhind late on Tuesday night, police said, adding that the deceased was identified as Rashid. At the time of the incident, 8-9 people were working near the furnace and many of them were injured, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Fatehgarh Sahib) Jaswinder Singh said. He said the injured were taken to a hospital in Chandigarh. The police is investigating the exact reason behind the blast, Singh added.