IEP CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

More accolades for PGIMER as Prof Ashish Sharma, Head, Deptt. of Renal Transplant Surgery, PGIMER  and his student Dr. Dev Parkash Choudary awarded 2022 INTERNATIONAL TRANSPLANTATION SCIENCE MENTEE-MENTOR Award  in the ongoing international conference by the highest scientific body in the field of transplantation at Buenos Aires, Argentina.The purpose of this award is to foster the training of new young investigators and promote research in the basic science of transplantation. The award was given based on their original research carried out at PGI in the field of preservation of deceased donor kidneys. The traditional method of preservation of deceased donor organs involves keeping the organs on ice whereas there has been recent interest in keeping these organs on a machine which can keep the organs at body temperature.PGIMER Chandigarh is presumably the only institute in India to have such a facility for preserving donated kidneys at body temperature. This method also allows assessment of damage caused to these kidneys if any during organ donation and retrieval process. If this assessment is not available, kidneys were routinely discarded in the past but this technique has allowed PGIMER to assess and transplant these kidneys.PGI also routinely utilises kidneys donated after cardiac death and when compared to brain death, there is always a chance of organs sustaining damage during the process. The findings of the research presented at Buenos Aires also showed that kidneys preserved by this technique has better kidney function at 1 year post transplantation.

IEP Chandigarh, September 16

Haryana Police has arrested two persons on the charges of evading GST worth about Rs 75 crores from Hansi. Both the accused who were involved in creating fake firms and invoices have been sent to police custody.

                    While stating this here today, a Haryana Police spokesperson informed that arrested accused have been identified as Shubham, a resident of Shakur basti, Delhi and Deepanshu alias Monty of Mundka, Delhi.

                    Police has also recovered PAN cards, Aaadhar Cards, ATMs, two laptops, mobile phones, a note-counting machine, blank cheques, hard disk etc from the possession of accused.

                    Primary probe reveals that both were involved in creating fake firms and generating fake invoices without actual supply of goods. For this, both used to evade GST through fake firms by taking Aadhar cards, PAN cards of innocent people. They had created about 35 fake firms and the value involved in fake invoices issued by them is nearly Rs 75 crore.

                    A case has been registered and a thorough probe to ascertain the involvement of others is underway.

IEP Chandigarh September 16

 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau, during its campaign against corruption, on Friday registered another corruption case pertaining to allotment of residential plots in the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) under locally displaced persons’ (LDP) scheme against Boota Ram now Executive Engineer, Jagdev Singh Executive Engineer (XEN), Inderjeet Singh Junior Engineer, LIT, Mandeep Singh Junior Engineer of Municipal Corporation Ludhiana and Kamaldeep Singh, a private person, resident of Model Town Extension, Ludhiana. In this case Jagdev Singh XEN, Inderjeet Singh and Mandeep Singh (Both JEs) and Kamaldeep Singh have been arrested.

Disclosing this here today, the spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau (VB) said during investigation of case registered under FIR 8, dated 14.07.2022 under section 7, 7A the Prevention of Corruption Act and 120-B of IPC at VB Police Station, Economic Offences Wing, Ludhiana, it has been found that officials of the LIT with corrupt practices and in connivance with others had allotted residential plots to unauthorised persons under the LDP scheme.  Though some of the allottees had already died but their plots were reallotted by the LIT officials to unauthorised persons violating prescribed rules and took huge bribe money from the beneficiaries.

Giving details he further informed that during this probe it has come on record that plot No 1544-D, in Model Town Extension, Ludhiana was allotted to a private person Kamaldeep Singh violating the rules. In this case Inderjeet Singh JE, Boota Ram Trust Engineer and Jasdeep Singh XEN, Mandeep Singh JE MC Ludhiana had prepared false/fabricated reports to the LIT regarding non availability of water and sewerage facilities in the above said locality.

With an aim to favour the allottee, the above mentioned officers/officials had waved off a non-construction fine amounting to Rs 27 lakh without getting approval from competent authority whereas it was required to be charged from the allottee thereby causing huge financial loss to the state exchequer.

The spokesperson further added that earlier to this a similar case under FIR No 09 under section 7, 7A, 8, 12, 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and under section 409, 420, 467, 471, 120-B of IPC had already been registered at VB Police Station, Economic Offences Wing, Ludhiana for allotment of plots under LDP scheme by getting huge bribes from the beneficiaries.

In this case investigation was being carried out against the officials of LIT which included Raman Balasubramanium, former chairman LIT, Kuljit Kaur EO, Ankit Narang SDO, Parveen Kumar sales clerk, Gagandeep clerk and Sandeep Sharma PA to former chairman. Among the above mentioned accused Sandeep Sharma PA, Parveen Kumar Clerk and Kuljit Kaur EO have already been arrested and lodged in judicial custody. Others were avoiding arrest as further investigation was under progress, he added.

IEP Chandigarh, September 15

          Aiming to generate maximum employment for youth of Punjab, the Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua has emphasized on speeding up the recruitment process of over 26, 000 government jobs in a meeting with the top officials of various departments.

          He said that the government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is creating many employment opportunities for the youth of Punjab from day one after forming the government.  In order to prevent the youth from going abroad in absence of employment, the Chief Secretary squarely instructed to all departments to complete the recruitment in a time-bound manner to achieve the goal of providing employment to maximum number of youth in Punjab as desired by the CM Mann.

          He said that special attention should be given to the completion of the recruitment process in all the departments in time so that maximum number of boys and girls can be given employment opportunities. He unequivocally directed concerned officials to ensure that the entire recruitment process should be carried out in a transparent manner.

          During the meeting, the Chief Secretary was informed that the recruitment process is going on for 26,454 posts in different 24 departments. Among the departments where the recruitment is underway includes Home Department (Police), School Education (Teacher Recruitment), Health, Power, Technical Education, Finance Department, Rural Development, Cooperative Department and Water Supply Department.

          The Chief Secretary said that with the new recruitment, where young men and women will get employment, the performance of the government will be nourished at the administrative level as well. With the new recruitment, government work will be done more efficiently and swiftly.  The Chief Secretary asked officials to resolve any issue pertaining to employment process on the spot and also asked the officers for timely recruitment.

IEP Chandigarh September 14, 2022

     Prof. Dr. M.S. Sandhu, Head, Deptt. of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGI, Chandigarh  and Prof. Paramjeet Singh, Professor, Deptt. of Radiodiagnosis were both honoured by the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association”  (IRIA) National  body on Teachers Day 5^th September, 2022 in  recognition  of their outstanding services  and in recognition of their hard work, dedication and teaching over last more than 3 decades.

     Prof. M.S. Sandhu is a Senior Professor at PGI working in the Higher Administrative Grade. He has over 35 years of teaching, research and work experience. He has over 225 Research Publications/Presentations/ Chapters in Books.  He is the current President of the Chandigarh Chapter of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA) and also the Current President of the North India Chapter of Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR). He has previously been honoured with a Fellowship of the Indian College of Radiology in view of his outstanding services to the field of Radiology.  He has been awarded a Certificate of Completion of Specialist training by the Royal College of Radiology, London, UK.  Prof. Sandhu has also been awarded the Dr. M.L. Aggarwal Oration by the Indian College of Radiology and Imaging.

        Prof. Paramjeet Singh who is the senior faculty in Neuro Radiology Section is convener of DM Neuro Radiology course,  has over 30 years research, work, and teaching experience. He has published over 180 research presentations/ chapter in Books. He is former President of Chandigarh Chapter of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association and also former President of Chandigarh Chapter of ISVIR. He has previously  been awarded a certificate of Completion of specialist training by the Royal College of Radiology, London, UK. He has been honoured with a Fellowship of the Indian College of Radiology in view of his outstanding services to the field of Radiology.   He has also been awarded the Sir JC Bose Oration by IRIA, and  is former President of the Indian Society of Neuro Radiology.

IEP CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In pursuance of its commitment towards imparting quality educational and training opportunities to the ENT surgeons across the country,  the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), PGIMER, Chandigarh is conducting a three day Surgical Skills Workshop in collaboration with the Department of Anatomy, at the institute.

The workshop starting from today till 17th of September 2022 intends to cover all the subspecialties of ENT and includes the 18^th Temporal Bone Dissection Workshop, 13^th Hands on Cadaveric Head and Neck Dissection Course and 13^th hands On Cadaveric Basic and Advance FESS (Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery) Course.

The programme includes lectures on the various aspects of the different advanced ENT Head and Neck Surgeries by faculty of the Department of Anatomy followed by live demonstration of the nuances of the procedures by the experienced faculty from the departments of ENT, Plastic Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery. The delegates will then be given the opportunity to dissect and operate on the cadavers.

The workshop is being attended by around 30 delegates and 30 ENT residents from all over the country. The participants will also be judged on the basis of the finesse of dissection and prizes will be given to the best dissectors in all the categories