MCC field staff, officials to submit progress of work on Google Form
Chandigarh: To ensure responsive and effective services to the citizens of Chandigarh, Anindita Mitra, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh on Saturday directed all officers and officials of MCC to submit their work progress along with photographs on a Google Form on a daily basis. The Commissioner said that this is to ensure 100% compliance of assignments given to the field staff. She said that this will not only help in record keeping but also become an important tool for submitting assignments and getting responses from the field staff. She said that this form is very simple to fill and necessary directions have been issued to the concerned senior officers to impart training to their subordinate staff. She further said that the field staff will have to fill the form and their progress will automatically be saved as a draft and the senior officers can check the field reports and assignments on their phones immediately after submission of the same. The Commissioner further said that necessary directions have been issued to all officers to fill this form during every field/site inspection/visit. Officials only need to login to their Google account before filling the form and the images of progress to be uploaded in the Google Form, she added. She said that the field staff and concerned officers will have to upload "before" and "after" photographs of work done in the progress form. She said that the Municipal Corporation is committed to extend best possible services to the citizens of Chandigarh and timely completion of projects.
Justice Verma sworn-in as Haryana Lokayukta
Chandigarh: Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatraya on Saturday administered oath of office to new Lokayukta, Justice (retd) Haripal Verma at Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh. On this occasion Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and State Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta were also present. Justice Verma, who hails from Rewari district of Haryana, had retired in April this year after serving as judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court for around seven years. Justice Verma succeeds Justice Nawal Kishore Agarwal, who completed his five-year term as Lokayukta, Haryana. Among those present during the occasion included Haryana Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan, Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, DS Dhesi, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning Departments, TVSN. Prasad, Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister and Director General, Information, Public Relations and Languages Department, Dr. Amit Agrawal, Secretary to Governor, Atul Dwivedi, Director General of Police, PK Agrawal, ADGP (CID), Alok Mittal, Judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court and other senior officers.
PUNJAB CM ORDERS SPECIAL GIRDAWRI
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday ordered the Deputy Commissioner Tarn Taran to immediately conduct a special girdawri to assess the damage caused to the crops and houses due to heavy rains which led to water logging in the nearby villages due flooding of Kasur nullah. Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also directed the Principal Secretary Water Resources to rush a high level team comprising senior officers of the department and its drainage wing to immediately swing into action by pressing into service requisite machinery and manpower for dewatering in few villages in Khemkaran area of Patti tehsil. He also instructed the team to further strengthen the flood protection works in the vulnerable areas on top priority so as to prevent recurrence of such incidents in the coming days,in case of any possibility of incessant rains in the region. The Chief Minister also asked the District Administration to keep its relief and rehabilitation teams ready to face any eventuality arising out of heavy rains.
86,204 cases taken up before 378 Benches during National Lok Adalat
Chandigarh: As many as 86,204 cases were taken up before 378 Benches of the National Lok Adalat, which was organized throughout Punjab on Saturday under the leadership of Justice Ajay Tewari, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of Punjab State Legal Services Authority. During this Lok Adalat, held through physical as well as virtual mode, various long pending matters relating to matrimonial disputes, property disputes, cheque bounce cases, labour matters, criminal compoundable cases, cancellation/untraced reports of various FIRs etc. were taken up. Apart from this, various awards were passed with the consent of the parties. As per the provisions of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, the court fee was ordered to be refunded. The active participation by Justice Ajay Tewari, proved as a catalyst in resolving a large number of cases and brought back the smile and hope on the faces of the litigants.
Haryana to have sports injury rehabilitation centre
Chandigarh: Haryana Minister of State for Sports and former hockey Olympian Sandeep Singh said on Saturday that the state's first sports injury rehabilitation centre is being set up at the Tau Devi Lal Sports Stadium in Panchkula, which will be ready before the Khelo India Games in February 2022. Chairing a meeting at the Tau Devi Lal Sports Stadium with a delegation from the Gujarat Sports Department, Singh said four new rehabilitation centres would be opened in the state soon. The delegation from Gujarat is on a visit to Haryana to study its sports infrastructure as well as training facilities. The minister said that high-level training is being provided to the players so that they could bring laurels to the country and the state. He said that at present, there are 533 coaches in the state and 200 new coaches will be recruited soon. Also, about 1,000 sports nurseries are being opened across the state to increase the interest in sports among the children. The visiting delegation said the study tour would help develop a better sports culture in Gujarat.
Blast in firecracker unit kills minor in Punjab
Chandigarh: An explosion in an illegal firecracker unit in Punjab's Rajpura town on Saturday killed a 10-year-old girl besides wounding three other children, the police said. The injured have been referred to the PGI hospital here. The fireworks unit was working in a residential locality in Sant Nagar. The blast was so powerful that it destroyed the firecracker factory besides damaging nearby houses.