Punjab Government on Wednesday assured that it would not spare anyone involved in the food grain scam under the Atta-Dal scheme, in which disciplinary proceedings had already been initiated against all the 22 officials found guilty of misappropriation so far.
The assurance was given by the State Health and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Brahm Mohindra, while speaking on behalf of the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, after Congress MlA Brindermeet Singh Pahara sought the Government’s attention towards the food scam.
Mohindra made it clear that no misappropriation of food articles, meant for distribution amongst the deserving poor under the New Atta Dal Scheme, would be tolerated.
He informed the House that action was being taken against all the 22 officials found guilty in the finding report of the Enquiry Officer, including Deputy Director - who has been reverted to the rank of District Controller, and District Food Supplies Controller.
Mohindra informed that the inquiry into the matter was ordered following a complaint regarding diversion in the distribution of wheat under the New Atta Dal Scheme in different Centres of Amritsar.
Punjab to strictly comply to Raavi font in all e-governance transactions To ensure smooth e-governance transactions, Punjab Government on Wednesday announced to enforce strict implementation of the Unicode compliant Raavi font in all official matters.
Announcing this, State Health and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Brahm Mohindra clarified that the standardisation of character encoding was mandated as per the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s notification, and the same shall be strictly implemented across all government offices, Boards, Corporations, Commissions, etc.