IEP Chandigarh, October 28

From now, the bus stands in Haryana will be known as Bus Ports, said Haryana Chief Minister while inaugurating NIT Faridabad Bus Port equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. The bus port has been constructed at a cost of Rs 130 crore on an area of four acres.

On this occasion, Sh. Manohar Lal also announced to name the State’s first Bus Port designed on PPP mode after Dr. Mangal Sen. After Faridabad NIT, now new bus ports will be built in Ballabhgarh, Sonipat, Karnal as well as two bus ports in district Gurugram on PPP mode.

Transport services are being provided with better infrastructure

The Chief Minister said that Haryana’s transport service is one of the best transport services in the country. The State Government is committed to providing safe, secure, economical and reliable transport facilities to commuters.

He said that the State Government is already providing better transportation services to passengers across the State. Various bus stands across the state are being renovated with better infrastructure and with state-of-the-art facilities on similar lines to the airport; the bus stand in Haryana is now being called bus ports, said Sh. Manohar Lal.

Bus port will be equipped with state-of-the-art service

Congratulating the residents of NIT Faridabad area, the Chief Minister said that in the time of 1980, he had started his social life in Faridabad. At that time there was a lack of good transport services. Understanding the problem of the common man, he then had apprised Dr. Mangal Sen ji about the situation of the NIT Bus Stand, Faridabad and today the dream of renovating this bus stand with state-of-the-art facilities has come true, said the Chief Minister.

As a gesture of tribute to him, from today this newly constructed Bus Port will be known as Dr. Mangal Sen Bus Port, NIT Faridabad, said Sh. Manohar Lal.

He said that the bus port of Faridabad NIT would be connected through the Integrated Consolidated Command Centre. Along with this, the passengers will be able to avail of facilities like online ticket booking and the current status of the bus.

Dr. Mangal Sen Bus Port, NIT Faridabad to be developed as Interstate Bus Port

Sh. Manohar Lal said that this state-of-the-art bus port would certainly provide better transport service to the common man. He said that Faridabad NIT Bus Stand is being developed as an interstate bus port. Apart from catering to the needs of the people of the nearby villages, this bus stand will also benefit the commuters travelling to and from the cities of Delhi, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. The government is now constructing bus ports while focusing on better management along with ensuring state-of-the-art services for the commuters, said the Chief Minister.

The profit graph of roadways has been increased

Sh. Manohar Lal said that the state transport is effectively fulfilling its responsibility of providing safe travel. In the earlier years, when more than 200 accidents were reported because of roadways buses, last year only 79 road accidents have been reported.

He said that along with curbing road accidents, now the profit per kilometer of roadways has also increased. Now the profit of state transport buses has increased from Rs. 27.5 per kilometer to Rs. 39.

Transport Minister expresses gratitude to the Chief Minister

The Transport Minister, Sh. Mool Chand Sharma expressed gratitude to the Chief Minister for providing a bus port equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. He shared that the construction of this bus port has been done in PPP mode. An air-conditioned gallery has been made for the passengers and a provision for comfortable chairs has also been made.

He said that modern toilets and drinking ROs would be provided for the convenience of the passengers going to their destinations. The facility of cold water, cloakroom, refreshments etc. will be available for keeping luggage and the bus port will be under CCTV camera surveillance. Apart from this, arrangements have also been made to park about 1000 vehicles in the basement for parking the vehicles of the passengers, he added.

Sh. Mool Chand Sharma said that after the formation of Haryana, there was a shortage of buses in the state in the past, but Chief Minister during his tenure has increased the number of buses fulfilling the requirement of 5300 buses.

He said that the Chief Minister has recently approved the purchase of 1300 new buses in the High Power Committee and has taken a commendable decision to provide the number of buses as per the need of the passengers.

On this occasion MLA, Badkhal Smt. Seema Trikha, MLA Faridabad, Sh. Narender Gupta, MLA Tigaon, Sh. Rajesh Nagar, MLA, Prithla Sh.  Nayan Pal Rawat and officials were present.

IEP Chandigarh, October 28

The Court of Additional District Session Judge, Yamunanagar Jagadhari has convicted a Junior Engineer in a corruption case and sentenced him 4-years’ imprisonment along with fine.

Sharing the information here today, a spokesperson of Haryana State Vigilance Bureau said that the court has sentenced the imprisonment of 3-years along with Rs 10,000 fine to Bharat Joon posted as Junior Engineer in Municipal Corporation, Yamunanagar under section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act and 4-years imprisonment with fine of Rs 15,000 under section 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act in a case registered against him in Bureau’s Panchkula Police Station in the year 2018.

IEP Chandigarh, October 28

In a crackdown against people involved in drug trade, Haryana Police has demolished an illegal house built by a drug peddler on panchayat land in Sirsa district.

Sharing the information here today, a Haryana Police spokesperson informed that a joint team of police and civil administration demolished the illegal construction raised by drug peddler Nirmal Singh, a resident of village Ganga in Sirsa by rolling bulldozer on the premises.

Nirmal had built a house on illegally occupying about 200 yards of Panchayati land, which was demolished with the help of local administration.

He informed that three cases were registered against him in Sadar Dabwali police station under the NDPS Act while one case under the Excise Act. Apart from this, a case under NDPS Act is also registered against him at Gidderbaha police station of Punjab State. Presently, he is lodged in District Jail Sirsa.

Police is taking stern action against miscreants and drug traffickers and in the last few days several properties acquired through ill-gotten means by such elements have been demolished. Such action on drug peddlers and other miscreants will continue in future also, he added.

IEP Chandigarh, October 28

Under the leadership of the Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann, following the efforts of the Punjab government to ensure the disposal of plastic waste and its use in development works, Bathinda Municipal Corporation started the work of constructing roads from plastic waste in a unique initiative.

Local Government Minister Dr. Inderbir Singh Nijjar, while giving this information, said that with the introduction of the use of plastic in road construction by the Municipal Corporation Bathinda staff, an effective solution to plastic waste has also been found and the cost will also be reduced. He said that Jujhar Singh Nagar Road at Bathinda from Bajwa House to Main Street and street no. 3- A road has been constructed using plastic waste at Jujhar Singh Nagar. Apart from this, the road has been constructed using plastic at street number 3 B Jujhar Singh Nagar.He said that 1000 running feet long road has been constructed using 8 percent plastic waste in bitumen.

Local Government Minister said that by using plastic for the construction of roads, there will be success in solving the problem of plastic waste, which will make the environment clean and pollution free.

 He said that by using plastic for construction of roads, the roads will be made of better quality than before. Along with this, the cost of road construction will also reduce. He said that its immediate results are satisfactory. Soon in other committees/corporations will also use plastic for road construction, he added.

IEP Chandigarh, October 27

          On the directions of Minister of Social Security, Women and Child Development Department of Punjab Dr. Baljit kaur, department has conducted a survey and identified 90,248 deceased beneficiaries of various pension schemes. With this step, state treasury will be richer by 13.53 crore per month.

          Divulging the detail, Cabinet Minister Dr. Baljit Kaur said that a survey of 30.46 lakh beneficiaries of Punjab has been conducted. On completion of this survey, 90248 deceased beneficiaries have been identified.By identifying the deceased beneficiaries, Punjab government will save 13.53 crore per month and 162.36 crore annually.

The Minister said that with the identification of 90,248 deceased beneficiaries, financial loss of the government has stopped as well as the amount will be spent to help other needy people.

The Cabinet Minister said that the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) scheme will be implemented to pay the pension to the beneficiaries. The pension will be disbursed to the beneficiaries through business correspondence deployed by bank.

          To implement the scheme, first two pilot projects will be started soon in district Sangrur and Sri Muktsar Sahib.

IEP Chandigarh, October 27

To save the people of Punjab from disputes and litigations during the purchase and sale of property, Finance Minister Advocate Harpal Singh Cheema and Revenue Minister Bram Shanker Jimpa while chairing a high-level meeting on Thursday decided to reduce the NOC process from 21 days to 15 working days.

During this meeting held here at Punjab Bhavan, on the suggestion of Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, it was also decided that NoC would be issued in 5 working days under Tatkal for the convenience of NRIs and other such persons who need it in a short time span. The Finance Minister said that under Tatkal, NRIs or those persons who could not spare more time, would be able to get this facility in 5 days by paying some extra fee.

Meanwhile, the Cabinet Ministers also decided to provide login ID and password to the sub-registrars of the revenue department to check the originality of the NOC at the time of registration. This will help in fixing the responsibility of the concerned officer in case of any registration done using a fake NOC. This would also help in expediting the process of registering criminal cases against the frauds.

In the meeting it was decided to issue new licenses of Deed Writers for the convenience of the people. Along with this, it was also asked to ensure that every Deed Writer should display the instructions issued by the Punjab Government from time to time for the information of property sellers and buyers, and the concerned Tehsildars to ensure the same by conducting random inspections.

During the meeting, it was also decided that the list of all authorized colonies across the state will be published on the departmental websites of Revenue, Housing and Local Government to make people aware of the authorized and unauthorized residential colonies.

The Finance Minister directed the senior officials of the Revenue, Housing and Local Government Departments to submit suggestions for resolving other issues being faced during the property registration process in the next meeting so that immediate decisions could be made for the convenience of the people besides speeding up the real estate growth in the state. He said that under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab government is committed to making the operations of all the departments simple and transparent.