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Chief Secretary asks officers to expedite work to give fillip to development in districts selected under ADP

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IEP Chandigarh, September 21

On the directions of the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to ensure holistic development of the state, the Punjab Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua today directed the officers to give fillip to  development of Aspirational Districts viz Ferozepur & Moga.

Chairing a meeting to review the development of Aspirational Districts viz Ferozepur & Moga, the Chief Secretary said that the work must be accomplished in a time bound and result oriented manner. He said that Aspirational District Programme(ADP) was launched in January, 2018 with aim of expeditiously improving the socio-economic status of 112 Districts from across 28 States in India. He said that two districts of Punjab viz. Moga and Ferozepur have been selected under this ambitious project.

The Chief Secretary said that these Districts were identified on the basis of composite index, comprising challenges faced by them in terms of poverty, poor health and nutrition, education status and deficient infrastructure.  He said that ADP focuses on five themes- Health & Nutrition, Education, Agriculture & Water Resources, Financial Inclusion & Skill Development and Basic Infrastructure. He said that a sum of Rs.18 Cr and Rs.9 Cr for various projects has been released as Reward Money for Ferozepur and Moga District respectively for securing good rank in overall category/different themes.

Chief Secretary directed the Deputy Commissioner Ferozepur and Moga to complete the projects at the earliest and within the stipulated time period. He further directed to integrate the funds received under District Mineral Foundation with allocation made to the Aspirational Districts to give impetus to the Aspirational Districts Programme. He also directed both the Deputy Commissioners to ensure completion of all projects well before the deadline

Chandigarh

JE, Accountant held taking bribes

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IEP Chandigarh, September 21

Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has arrested a Junior Engineer of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and an Accountant of Haryana Police Housing Corporation, red-handed while accepting bribes worth Rs 1500 and Rs 500 respectively. Both officials have been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

  Sharing the information here today, the spokesperson of the Bureau said that in the first case the UHBVN Junior Engineer Dinesh posted in Pundari, district Kaithal was arrested red-handed with Rs 1500 bribe. The accused was demanding illegal gratification in lieu of installing the transform on the complainant’s agricultural land.

In another case, Accountant Krishan Kumar of Haryana Police Housing Corporation has been caught red-handed taking Rs 500 bribe from complainant, a resident of Ambala City. The accused was demanding illegal gratification in lieu of passing bills of the complainant’s firm.       

  Cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act had been registered against them in Bureau’s Ambala police station and further investigation is underway.

Chandigarh

JE, Accountant held taking bribes

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IEP Chandigarh, September 21

Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has arrested a Junior Engineer of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and an Accountant of Haryana Police Housing Corporation, red-handed while accepting bribes worth Rs 1500 and Rs 500 respectively. Both officials have been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

  Sharing the information here today, the spokesperson of the Bureau said that in the first case the UHBVN Junior Engineer Dinesh posted in Pundari, district Kaithal was arrested red-handed with Rs 1500 bribe. The accused was demanding illegal gratification in lieu of installing the transform on the complainant’s agricultural land.

In another case, Accountant Krishan Kumar of Haryana Police Housing Corporation has been caught red-handed taking Rs 500 bribe from complainant, a resident of Ambala City. The accused was demanding illegal gratification in lieu of passing bills of the complainant’s firm.       

  Cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act had been registered against them in Bureau’s Ambala police station and further investigation is underway.

Punjab

BAINS HANDS OVER JOB LETTERS TO 27 CANDIDATES ON COMPASSIONATE GROUND IN EDUCATION DEPT

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IEP SAS Nagar, September 21

Following the instructions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to clear all job cases on compassionate ground, Punjab School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains today handed over appointment letters to 27 such candidates. Congratulating the newly appointed employees, the Education Minister urged them to work deligently with utmost dedication and honesty. He said that education is very important to build a strong nation and bright future. Education is the wisest way to serve the society.  He urged the newly appointed employees to make honesty an integral part of their lives.Bains said that all of you have lost your dear ones and by getting a government job in their place you have huge responsibility to serve the people with the same dedication.  He said that we all have to work together as a family to take the school education department to new heights. On this occasion, one candidate received appointment letter as Math Mistress, 6 as Clerk, 3 as S.L.A. , 12 as Peon , 4 as Chowkidar and 1 as Cleaning Worker. DPI Kuljit Singh Mahi and other officials of School Education Department were also present on this occasion.

Chandigarh

Over 14 lakh children immunised during three-day Pulse Polio drive: Chetan Singh Jauramajra

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IEP Chandigarh, September 21

          In order to maintain the polio-free status of Punjab, the Punjab Health Department under the visionary leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, in its three-day Pulse Polio drive has immunised 14,24,142 children under the Sub National Immunisation Day (SNID) drive, revealed Health and Family Welfare Minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra.

          This door to door drive was carried out in 12 districts of Punjab to ensure that every child less than five years of age was administered polio drops, said Chetan Singh Jauramajra while adding that Health department teams paid special attention to vulnerable areas such as brick kilns, railway stations, bus terminals, construction sites and slums.

          Appreciating the tireless efforts of the volunteers, the Health and Family Welfare Minister stated that the state health department had deployed 11,865 polio vaccination teams and they all made commendable efforts for the success of this drive. The teams during the door-to-door activity ensured that every child is administered polio drops. The Health department Punjab and World Health Organisation had deployed internal supervisors and external monitors for multi-level monitoring at various levels.

          Health department had a target of 14,83,072 and this drive has been able to achieve 96.03 per cent of its set target and health officials have been instructed to immunise the remaining children by visiting the houses. The house-to-house mop-up rounds will continue for up to five days to identify and vaccinate children who missed getting vaccinated during the drive. This drive was supported by technical partners and volunteers from WHO, Rotary and other civil society organizations.

          It is worth mentioning that the district wise performance with regard to coverage of children is as follows, SBS Nagar 100 %, Fazilka 99.58 %, Tarn Taran 99.40 %, Shri Muktsar Sahib 98.74 %, Bathinda 97.53 %, Pathankot 96.82 %, Moga 95.47 %, Amritsar 94.41 %, Faridkot 94.14 %, Shri Fatehgarh sahib 94.06, Patiala 92.66%, and Mansa 92.63 %.

Chandigarh, Punjab

PUNJAB COLLABORATING WITH WORLD BANK UNDER $215 MILLION BFAIR PROJECT: CHEEMA

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IEP Chandigarh, September 21

Punjab Finance Minister Advocate Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday said that the state has collaborated with World Bank under a $215 million Building Fiscal and Institutional Resilience for growth (BFAIR) project in which the contribution of the state will be $65 million. He said that unlike other loans this is a reform based project targetted at bring about reforms in the systems and processes of five administrative departments.

Disclosing this in a statement issued here, Finance Minister said that the project will improve systems in Finance, Planning, Governance Reforms, Local Government and Women and Child Development. He further added that the project will significantly improve delivery of the services at local level.

“The project will be implemented over a period of 5 years to bring in process and policy-based institutional reforms to enhance resilience and fiscal sustainability”, said Cheema. He also informed that $150 million assistance from the World Bank will  be available in the form of a very low cost loan wherein repayment will begin shortly during the course of the project. 

“The Punjab Government’s contribution of $65 million in this project will introduce an overarching framework by strengthening of the institutional capabilities and accountability; supporting better public service delivery and other reform measures for good governance”, said Cheema.

Chandigarh

220 posts of coaches in sports department will be filled soon, says Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer

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IEP CHANDIGARH Dhudike (Moga)/Chandigarh, September 21

Sports and Higher Education Minister Punjab Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer today said that in order to make Punjab a leading state in the field of sports, the state government will soon start process to fill 220 coaches in state besides strengthening the sports infrastructure.

The Minister, while interacting with the media after inaugurating a hockey astroturf laid at the cost of five crore rupees, said that the previous governments did not make any effort for the promotion of sports and sportspersons in the state. However, he said that after assuming Punjab government led by Mr Bhagwant Singh Mann is making all-out efforts to promote sports culture in the state. He said that besides filling up existing 220 vacancies, new posts for coaches will also be created.

The Minister said that under the Hockey Olympian Balbir Singh Senior Scholarship Scheme, a stipend of Rs 8000 and Rs 6000 per month will be given to the senior and junior players respectively who will secure the first three positions at the national level. He said that this scheme will encourage the players to participate in sports.  He said that ironically earlier governments never released funds to buy sports equipment for the players on time. 

The Minister said that for the first time in history of state, the AAP government has kept a special budget to buy sports equipment. He promised that the sports budget would be increased every year.  He also said that under the new sports policy, the state government will prepare a separate cadre for sports so that as many sportsmen can be given government jobs.

While paying obeisance at the birth place of Lala Lajpat Rai, he said that we can breathe in free air today only because of the freedom fighters. He said that the Punjab government is trying to create the dream state of martyrs.

He also inaugurated Moga Rowing and Water Sports Club Daudhar here.

On this occasion, Mr Manjit Singh Bilaspur MLA of Nihal Singh Wala Constituency thanked Mr Meet Hayer for inaugurating the hockey astroturf prepared with five crore rupees in the government college at village Dhudike.

On this occasion, Baghapurana MLA Mr Amritpal Singh Sukhanand, Dharamkot MLA Mr Davinderjit Singh Laddi Dhons, Deputy Commissioner Mr Kulwant Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police Mr Gulneet Singh Khurana, SDM Mr Ram Singh, AAP District President Harmanjit Singh among others were also present.

Chandigarh, Punjab

Meet Hayer directs Deputy Commissioners to ensure use of self-declaration instead of affidavits

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IEP Chandigarh, September 21, 2022

          Punjab Governance Reforms Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Friday directed all Deputy Commissioners of Punjab to ensure use of Self declaration instead of Affidavits while processing cases of public service delivery.

          Meet Hayer further informed that State Government had already adopted Self declaration instead of taking attested affidavits. Instructions were already issued in 2010 but it was only on papers and not implemented and was not followed by offices. During review of Sewa Kendras, it has been observed that a lot of people are coming to Sewa Kendras for Affidavit Attestations.

          From January 2022, Total 4,38,058 affidavits prepared and attested from Sewa Kendras. More than 2100 citizens are visiting daily at Sewa Kendras only for Affidavit attestations. An Officer at rank of Executive Magistrate is being deputed by districts to attest these Affidavits. During interaction with citizens, it has come to notice that at the district level including Government/Private offices and school/colleges are still demanding affidavits for various reasons like admissions, certificates, scholarships, Meter Connections, Tubewell Connections, recruitments, NOC etc.  This is not only costs money to Citizens but also involves wastage of time of the citizens as well as Government officials.

He said that the government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has clear vision to provide public services to common citizen in a hassle free manner and this step will save both time and money of the citizen of Punjab.

Dehradun

Awareness to initiate regarding proper parking of vehicles in Dehradun

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IEP DEHRADUN, September 21, 2022

The Home Guards and Civil Defence directorate will start a scheme as an initiative to encourage the public and raise awareness regarding proper parking of their vehicles in Dehradun district. The directorate aims to accustom and motivate people to properly park their vehicles in order to achieve the objective of a disciplined society.

Under this scheme, a person can send 50 photographs of his or her well parked vehicle to the WhatsApp Number 9458950814 to be rewarded with a certificate by the administration for abiding by the rules of proper parking. The commandant general, Home Guards, Kewal Khurana discussed this scheme with the director general of police Ashok Kumar who also agreed with the scheme while adding that the police will also abrogate the fine of such person on his or her next accidental traffic violation. This scheme will also be applicable for a member of his family, as per the officials.

The officials stated that besides Whatsapp, the public would soon be able to use a mobile application to participate in the scheme which will also help the administration to preserve the records of applicants under the scheme. The scheme will be started as a pilot project in the Dehradun district but later, it will be implemented across the State too.

Dehradun

Uttarakhand govt prepares plan to introduce the syllabus of National Council of Education Research and Training in Madarsas

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IEP DEHRADUN, September 21, 2022

After initiating a plan for survey of all Madarsas, the Uttarakhand government has now prepared a plan to introduce the syllabus of National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) in the Madarsas of the State. Under the plan, the syllabus of the NCERT would be first introduced in the Madarsas controlled by the Uttarakhand Waqf Board and later this plan would be extended to the Madarsas which are under Madarsa Board.There are about 1,000 Madarsas in Uttarakhand in large number of students of the Muslim community are enrolled. At present these Madarsas are only imparting religious education to the students. Confirming the plan, the chairman of the Uttarakhand Waqf Board, Shadab Shams said that the objective of the BJP is to convert the Madarsas into Smart Madarsas. He said that soon the NCERT syllabus would be introduced in 103 Madarsas which are under the Waqf board. Shams disclosed that under the new curriculum the religious education would be imparted in the first two hours only in the morning and in the rest of the time the Madarsas would operate like a normal school.The Waqf board has decided to implement the NCERT syllabus initially in 10 Madarsas in the state which include the Rehmania Madarsa of Roorkee and Usmania Madarsa in Dehradun. These ten institutes would be developed as Model Madarsas, thereafter the NCERT syllabus would be extended in other Madarsas. Shams added that tabs would also be given to the students of Madarsas and recruitment of new teachers would also be done.“Our objective is to realise the dream of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Madarsa students should have the holy Quran in one hand and a laptop in the other. We want our students in Madarsas to also become doctors and engineers. We are concerned about the future of our children and are doing every bit with a clear conscience,’’ Shams said. The chairman of the Uttarakhand Waqf board added that skill development centres would also be set up in the Madarsas to polish the youngsters of the community in different trades and provide certificates to them.