IEP Chandigarh, November 7

Students of government schools can send their designs till November 10, 2022 for the logo of ‘School of Eminence’ being established under the first phase by the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led government. It was disclosed by Punjab School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains.

The Cabinet Minister said that all the school heads have been instructed through a letter. He said that the children studying fine arts, drawing and painting in class 11 and 12 should prepare an effective and meaningful logo and send it to the head office by November 10 through concerned district offices. For this five key guiding points have also been issued for depicting good infrastructure facilities in schools, use of multimedia and other e-resources for digital education, well-equipped libraries and laboratories, sports facilities and facilities for co-academic activities.

Mr. Bains said that the first three designs will be chosen at state level and the designers would be awarded with cash rewards. He added that the first prize is Rs 5100, the second prize is Rs 3100, while the third prize is Rs. 2100. However, the state level jury will have all the rights to take the final decision in this regard.

IEP Chandigarh,  November 7, 2022

          The 15th edition of CII Agro Tech India came to a conclusion on Monday. The key message from the valedictory session of the four-day Premier Agri and Food Technology Fair was that farming is a tradition, and passion for people in Punjab. The power of research also needs to be given its due importance.

The chief guest of the session in his address Fauja Singh Sarari, Hon’ble Minister for Food Processing & Horticulture,said, “The Government of Punjab led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has taken a number of initiatives to give a major boost to agriculture through policy reforms as well as innovation and technological application at the grassroot level.

While congratulating CII on successful hosting of Agro Tech India 2022, Mr. Sarari said that Farmers and industry have been brought on one platform and it has provided and opened doors for many opportunities.He underlined the relative importance of agriculture and industry as the latter helps in value creation as well as value addition which prove to be mutually beneficial both for the farmers and industrialists.

He stated that Punjab plays a major role in nation’s food security by contributing 11.78 % in rice production and 17.57% in wheat production, therefore Punjab’s farmers need to be appropriately compensated for their hard work.

           A major aim of Agro Tech India is to create awareness on agriculture schemes of the government such as AIF ( Agriculture Infrastructure Fund), Punjab has been marching ahead in implementation of this scheme which has attracted investment to the tune of 1800 crore rupees till October 2022”    

 Talking about the initiative of the Punjab government he disclosed that Punjab is encouraging Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) with incentive which is helpful in saving of 20 % water as compared to traditional method.

CII has acted as the funnel for taking relevant information to the farmer. We need to shun the culture of educated youth wanting only white-collar jobs. The youth need to learn how to be job creators as well.”

At this stage, the dates of CII Agro Tech Indi 2024 were also announced from November 16-19, 2024.

Proposing the vote of thanks, Shri Rajiv Kaila, Chairman, CII Chandigarh (UT) and Director, marketing, Kaila Engineering Pvt Ltd and Director Horticulture Punjab, Shailender Kaur thanked all Ministries, stakeholders, the host states OF Punjab and Haryana as well as the partner state – the UT of Jammu & Kashmir.

IEP Chandigarh November 7

The Syndicate in its meeting held today, deliberated on all the agenda items and few of them are as follows. 

            The Syndicate has accepted all the recommendations made by the Board of Finance in its meeting held on dated 14.10.2022.

            The Syndicate approved Hon’ble Vice Chancellor to nominate two University Associate Professors on the Academic Council for the remaining term upto 31.1.2024 and two University Assistant Professors (one from the Science Faculty and one from other Faculties) by rotation, on the Academic Counil for the remaining term upton 31.1.2024.

            The Syndicate deferred the grant of temporary extension of affiliation to Institute of Management, C/o DAV College, Sector-10, Chandigarh, for MBA (Two Year Course) Ist and 2^nd year (60 seats each) for the session 2021-2022.

            The Syndicate accepted the minutes dated 22.08.2022 of the Committee, with regard to Faculty Strength Audit in the matter regarding break up of 1378 teaching positions.

            The Syndicate in the recommendation of the Regulation Committee dated 31.10.2022, has approved to follow the UGC guidelines in toto in context to Ph.D.

            The Syndicate has accepted minutes of the Committee held on dated 08.08.2022 to examine the placement of those faculty members in the Master Seniority list, who joined in the year 2005 i.e upto 31.12.2005   

            The Syndicate accepted the proposed honorarium on account of holding the additional charge of the posts of Registrar and Controller of Examinations, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

            The Syndicate accepted the minutes dated 17.10.2022 of the Committee, to frame templates and application forms for direct recruitment for Assistant Professor, Associate Professor.

            The Syndicate deferred to the next meeting to the adoption of Gazette notification dated 30.03.2022 of the Chandigarh, Ministry of Home Affairs notification dated 29.03.2022 and notification No.28/17/94-IH(7)-2022/5169 dated 30.03.2022 of Department of Personnel, Chandigarh.

IEP Chandigarh, November 7

Following the instructions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to improve the management of sand transportation to provide sand to the people of the state at reasonable prices, Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua held a meeting with the Department of Transport and Mining and directed strict monitoring of vehicles carrying sand.

During a meeting at the Punjab Civil Secretariat here today, the Chief Secretary said that the sand carrying vehicles (tippers/trucks/trailers etc.) should be checked by ensuring strict compliance with the instructions of the Chief Minister and if any vehicle violates the rules, strict action should be taken against the guilty. He said that the price of sand has been fixed at Rs. 9 per cubic foot, but due to the high price charged by the sand transporters, the people get sand at exorbitant rates which will not be tolerated.

The Chief Secretary authorized the XEN level officials of the Mining Department for checking the vehicles. He also warned the transporters involved in this work. He further divulged that the transport department has also been asked to find a legal way to transport sand by tractor-trolley as the use of tractor-trolley for agriculture is for a limited time twice a year during crop sowing and harvesting. With this, while the farmers will get financial help, the people will also get sand at a reasonable price.

The Principal Secretary Mining Krishan Kumar and Principal Secretary Transport Vikas Garg were also present at the meeting.