IEP Chandigarh, January 4

          Punjab Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Bram Shanker Jimpa will participate in national conference on “Water Vision@ 2047” on January 5 and 6 at Bhopal. This is a first of its kind conference in which ministers of many states will participate and discuss the efficient use of water and various other aspects connected with it.      

          Divulging the details, a spokesperson said that the theme of two-day conference of 1st All India Annual State Ministers Conference is “Water Vision@ 2047”.  This important conference has been organized by the National Water Mission of the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti. During two days, various topics related to water mainly “Water Vision@ 2047”, water security in water deficit,  water surplus and hilly regions, water use efficiency including reuse of waste water/grey water, water governance and climate change resilient water infrastructure, would be discussed.

          A sub-portal called ‘JalItisha’ will also be inaugrated on this occasion. The spokesperson said that under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab Government will showcase its achievement pertaining to the efficient use of water and supply of water to every rural household at the National level. Apart from this, the ideas presented by the experts in conference will play an important role in taking decisions regarding the use of water in future.

IEP Chandigarh, January 4

Aiming to strengthen the government departments, the Punjab government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has taken various initiatives to revamp the long-neglected printing and stationery department.Due to the ever-changing technology and neglect by the previous governments, the printing and stationery department lagged behind a lot, but now the state government has planned to bring it back on track and ensure that the printing work of all government departments and institutions is done from the government press.Printing and Stationery Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said that with the advent of new technologies of printing in the era of modernity, new machinery is needed, for which the department is going to purchase new technology machines.The Cabinet Minister said that the government press at Patiala and SAS Nagar should be renovated. To raise the standard of printing, multi-color digital machines and offset machines are being purchased with an amount of Rs.1.40 Crore. More new modern machines will be purchased in the next budget session. Giving a green signal to the plan of restructuring the department, it was decided to recruit technology experts as per the need of the hour.Under the OUVGL scheme, Land of Government Press Patiala was transferred to PUDA. A proposal is being made to provide funds for the renovation of the S.A.S. Nagar Press building and for installing some new machines in both the presses.After studying the system in other states of the country in which the printing and stationery department is working better, the better model will be implemented in Punjab. All the work of the department is done as per the provisions of the Printing and Stationery Manual-1975 but in the present era the modernization of the press and the technology has advanced enough for which it has been decided to update the manual.Apart from this, the old traditional file covers have been replaced by new file covers which have the facility of writing the details of the file on the cover. This will save a lot of time. Along with this, logos were also placed on the file covers with messages against various social issues, including the anti-corruption campaign, environment conservation, boosting the literacy movement, water conservation and campaign against female feticide.

IEP Chandigarh, January 1

          Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on the first day of New year paid obeisance at Gurdwara Singh Shaheedan Sohana and prayed for peace, harmony and progress in the state and prosperity of its people.

          Greeting the people on the New Year, the Chief Minister wished a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year-2023 to Punjabis living within the state and across the globe. He felicitated the people of the state on the dawn of New Year and called upon them to work zealously for ensuring overall development of the state and prosperity of its people. Expressing hope that coming year will bring joy, peace and success for all the Punjabis, Bhagwant Mann exhorted them to make a firm pledge for emerging Punjab as a frontrunner state in the country.

          The Chief Minister reiterated the firm commitment of his government to realise the dreams of our great freedom fighters so that the fruits of development must percolate at the grass root level especially to ameliorate the lot of poorest of poor. He said that the state was on threshold to further usher in an era of overall progress and growth besides cementing the bonds of communal harmony, peace, amity and brotherhood, for which all the Punjabis must work zealously in the coming year.  Bhagwant Mann said that the time has come for us to take a decisive leap further for providing consistency to an era of all round progress and growth of the state.

          The Chief Minister called upon the people to welcome the year 2023 with the commitment to work collectively and zealously to preserve the ethos of secularism, sovereignty, communal harmony and national integration. Bhagwant Mann wished one and all a happy and prosperous 2023 and expressed the confidence that the coming year would usher in a new era of overall development and growth for Punjab. He exhorted the people to follow the path shown by the great Gurus, saints and seers to further cement the bonds of national unity, peace, love and religious tolerance.

IEP Chandigarh, January 1 

Health assessment initiative wellness@work was launched by Syenergy Environics today . Ajay Poddar, founder & MD said that health assessment is done with the help of a US FDA approved diagnostic software which measures over 30 parameters including lifestyle score, vascular score, autonomic nervous system score, body composition analysis, risk screening for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and thyroid dysfunction, digestion and gastric function.

IEP Chandigarh, December 31   

       The Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is constantly striving for the welfare of every section of the state. Working in this direction, Minister of Labour, Investment Promotion, Tourism and Cultural Affairs and Grievance Redressal, Ms.Anmol Gagan Mann said that during the last 9 months of government, many important decisions have been taken to raise the standard of living of the working class and in favour of their interests.          Giving more information in this regard, the minister said that the state government has increased the minimum wages of unskilled workers from Rs.9192 to Rs.9907, while the minimum wages of semi-skilled workers has been increased from Rs 9972 to Rs.10687. Apart from this, the wages of skilled workers have been increased from Rs 10869 to Rs 11584 and the wages of highly skilled workers have been increased from Rs 11901 to Rs 12616.          She mentioned that a total amount of Rs. 71.01 crore has been released to 53731 construction workers under various labour welfare schemes through the Punjab Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board.          She said that 6.42 lakh live construction workers have been registered with the Punjab Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, who can avail the benefits of the board’s 17 schemes.          The minister also shared the information that recently the Punjab Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board contacted the Government of India and connected the board with the e-KYC service. This will enable the beneficiary’s details to be authenticated/verified by fetching them from the Aadhaar database through their Aadhaar number during registration. This process will make the registration/renewal process efficient, accurate and better and the needy construction workers will be able to avail the welfare schemes of the board easily.          Apart from this, she said that a mobile app “Punjab Kirti Sahayak” has been launched with the aim of providing great convenience to the construction workers. She said that with this mobile app, the construction worker need not go to the Suvidha Centre, instead, he/she can get himself registered using his mobile phone and take advantage of the welfare schemes of the government, saving him from the loss of his daily wages.          The Labour Minister said that a total amount of 4.62 crores has been distributed to 2378 workers under labour welfare schemes in the current financial year through the Punjab Labour Welfare Board. She said that in the future too, pro-labour decisions will be taken by the state government for the welfare of the working class.

IEP Chandigarh, December 31

Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is doing every possible effort to prevent depletion of groundwater. Under this series, the Punjab Government has decided that ground water is prohibited for use in construction works, Horticulture and urbans development activities.Disclosing here, issuing a Press statement, Local Government Minister Dr. Inderbir Singh Nijjar said that for  Horticulture, Agriculture and others Urbans development activities like industrial field, construction works, fire services and roads cleaning work should be only re-use Waste Treated Water.Dr. Nijjar said that all the buildings having discharging of minimum 10,000 L and above should be recycled system and recycled water could be used for horticulture and all other activities.Cabinet Minister said that all Municipal corporations and Municipal councils provide facilities of supplying Treated Waste Water to Construction agencies through Tankers/Lorries against a fixed, pre-determined charge by the ULB’s at the STP sites immediately. The Urban Local Bodies to encourage use of Treated Waste Water in various development works executed by them is the requirements of time,he also added.He said that Municipal Corporation and Municipal Council to explore the feasibility for providing additional filling stations by laying pipelines upto other major points of construction. Funds for such proposals may be made available from ULB’s own budget/State Schemes,he added.Minister further said that Municipal Corporation/ Municipal Council should endeavour to achieve utilization of at least 20 percent TWW for recycling/ re-use as this is a pre condition for ULB’s to become water plus and attain 5 Star/7 Star Garbage free cities under swach Bharat Mission-Urban.Cabinet Minister has directed to All Commissioners, Municipal Corporation & ADCs shall be ensured to send quartly report to government at the end of every quarter indicating the quantities of Treated WasteWater used.