‘review assessment of Delhi-Bathinda flight’
Chandigarh: Former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has asked the Central Government to review its assessment that the Delhi-Bathinda flight was not viable with the carrier conducting the flight, disclosing it had an average occupancy rate of eighty per cent before it was discontinued post-COVID. She also told the Punjab Government to release its partial funding share of Rs three crore per year to ensure this facility could be restarted at the earliest. Harsimrat, who had raised this issue in Parliament also, said the Centre had wrongly claimed in Parliament that the Delhi – Bathinda flight was not commercially viable due to limited passengers and low yields as well as an end to subsidy support under the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme after a period of three years.
Recruitment drive for Army from Mar 14 to April 5
Chandigarh: Hisar Military Station in Haryana will be holding recruitments for the Army from March 14 to April 5, in which youth from Rewari, Mahendragarh, Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri districts can participate. A spokesman said the complete information about the recruitment is available on the website of ‘joinindianarmy’. The admit cards will be sent to the candidates' email IDs. Those coming for the recruitment should bring their original certificates, he added.
CUPB, Niti Ayog and BSM jointly organised webinar
Chandigarh: Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (CUPB) in collaboration with Niti Ayog and Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal (BSM) jointly organized a webinar on Teacher’s Role in NEP-2020 Implementation. The programme was presided over by Vice Chancellor Prof.
Raghavendra P. Tiwari. Mukul Kanitkar, national organizing secretary, BSM, mentioned that even after Independence we were dependent on the education policy provided by British East India Company in 1835 but the dream to re-create our own indigenous education system has led the Indian government to formulate on National Policy on Education in the year 1968, 1986 and 2020. He asserted that NEP-2020 considers the need to provide value-based holistic education in the mother tongue language, offer vocational training for skill development, enable experiential and experiment-based learning to develop scientific temperament.
PGIMER’s Dermatology Dept brings laurels
Chandigarh: The Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology at PGIMER led by Prof. Sanjeev Handa has done the institute proud by winning several awards in the recently concluded national conference of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (e-DERMACON 2021) held recently from February 5-7. The entire conference was held virtually under the watch of Dr Dipankar De, Additional Professor in the department, who was the Scientific Secretary for the conference held over 4 days for a record 70 hours of scientific content in workshops.
CME and conference involving 24 international speakers and nearly 400 National faculty.
The department’s final year PGs Dr Anubha Deb and Dr Rajat, won the coveted 17th IADVL- GSK National Quiz Program after a stiff all India competition amongst more than 200 teams.