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Chief Secretary meets Transport and Mining Department for providing sand to people at reasonable prices

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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.

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2nd workshop on PET/CT guided interventions organized by Deptt. of Nuclear Medicine concluded successfully

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IEP Chandigarh November 7, 2022

The 2nd workshop on PET/CT guided interventions was organized by the Department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER Chandigarh on the 5th and 6th of November, 2022. Spread over two days, the workshop provided a comprehensive look at PET-guided interventions to over 50 delegates from all over the country who were in attendance.

 Two International faculty, one from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) and one from Brigham & Women Hospital, Harvard University also attended virtually and shared their experiences. Various interdisciplinary lectures by clinicians, pathologists, and nuclear medicine physicians alike were held on Day 1 concerning PET guided interventions.

 First workshop on PET/CT guided interventions was organized in March 2020, with the aim of disseminating this knowledge to various centers throughout the country and help them in providing unmatched clinical benefit to their patients.  The current second workshop being held in a post covid era represents an undying effort in this very endeavor.

 Prof. Dr. Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER was the Chief Guest who inaugurated the workshop on the first day and addressed the audience highlighting the importance of nuclear medicine in today’s medical management of patients, especially the cancer patients. PGIMER provides state of the art care for patients throughout the country. Prof. B.R. Mittal, Organizing Chairperson and Head, Department of Nuclear Medicine welcomed the delegates and informed the audience about the role and benefits of PET guided interventions.  PET guided interventions constitute various novel, state-of-the-art techniques utilizing the strength of molecular imaging in patient care. He boasted that the department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER is one of the leading high-volume centers in PET-guided intervention in the world, benefitting over 1000 patients each year in establishing a definitive diagnosis and providing improved patient care. Dr. Kanhaiyalal Agrawal from AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Secretary, Indian College of Nuclear Medicine also spoke on the occasion. Dr. Rajender Kumar, Organising Secretary proposed vote of thanks.

 Dr. Rajender Kumar and Dr. Harmandeep Singh, the Organising Secretaries, along with Dr. Venkata Krishnaraju and other experienced PET/CT-guided interventionists and other supporting staff members of the department demonstrated the procedures and provided hands-on training to the selected participants. 

In addition, various in-house novel therapeutic techniques pioneered at PGIMER such as PET/CT-guided pain palliation and PET/CT-guided antibiotic injections were introduced to the delegates. The delegates were very happy for the academic feast and expressed their desire to have many more theme-based workshops/CMEs by the nuclear medicine department of PGIMER, the best and leading department of the country. 

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PGI Professor delivers Prestigious Oration and Resident Doctors win Accolades at National Hematology Conference in Kolkata

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The Indian national body on blood disorders, the Indian Society of Haematology & Blood Transfusion held its 63rd Annual Conference at Kolkata from November 3-6, 2022. Professor Reena Das, Head of the Hematology Department at PGIMER, Chandigarh was conferred the prestigious Malti Sathe Oration Award at this meeting. Dr. Das has been working in the field of molecular hematology since she joined PGI as faculty in 1996. She delivered her oration on the topic “Providing molecular diagnostic services for non-malignant hematological diseases: Trials, tribulations, and satisfactions” on November 5, 2022. Professor Das is a researcher of national and international repute in thalassemia and other red blood cell disorders as well as disorders of bleeding and clotting.Several resident doctors and students won prizes in the meeting. Dr. Charanpreet Singh, Pool Officer in Department of Clinical Haematology and Medical Oncology won the first and second prizes in oral and poster sessions for his work on the deadly but curable blood cancer “acute promyelocytic leukemia”. Dr. Harpreet Virk, Senior Resident in Hematology Department, won the second prize for her poster on flow cytometric diagnostic tests for platelet diseases, while Ms. Namrata Singh, PhD student in Hematology Department, won the second prize for her research on genetics of thalassemia. Ms. Ritika Sharma from the Hematology Department and Ms. Rozy Thakur from the Pediatrics Department were finalists in the Dr. J.C. Patel Award Paper session.In the National Hematology Quiz held on 6th November at the same meeting, the PGI team of Aishwarya Karthikeyan (Pathology), Prasanna Ethiraj S. (Medicine) and Prasanna (Pediatrics) came a very close second to AIIMS, New Delhi in a very keenly contested contest at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in Kolkata. The six final quiz teams who contested were chosen after one year of college, state and zonal level rounds among post-graduate (MD) students in institutions across India. 

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Punjab Government extends date for purchase of stubble management machines on subsidy : Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal

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IEP Chandigarh, November 6

Punjab Government has taken many new initiatives to help the farmers under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for the paddy straw management in the state. Under this series, the Punjab government has decided to extend the period of sanctions issued to farmers for purchase  of stubble management and direct sowing wheat machinery on subsidy till November 20. In a statement issued here today, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal informed that the approval period of the machines which are expiring on November 7, 2022, has been extended till November 20, 2022.Along with this, the Minister of Agriculture disclosed that the new sanctions to purchase  baler Rakes machines would be for 21 days. He said that these decisions were being taken by the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led government for the purpose of providing maximum help to the farmers for paddy straw management and direct sowing of wheat.The Agriculture Minister has also appealed to the farmers to save the environment from pollution by maximum utilisation of these schemes of the government.

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Improving adolescent wellbeing urgent global priority: PMNCH

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IEP Chandigarh, November 6

 British medical journal together with Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) has launched the first tranche of a special collection of articles arguing the global agenda for sustainable development cannot be achieved without increased focus on demographic groups left behind and specifically adolescents. The collection was launched recently at a curtain-raiser for PMNCH’s global campaign to advocate for the world’s 1.8 billion adolescents and youth, which will further drive action towards the Global Forum for Adolescents in 2023.

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VIGILANCE ARRESTS REVENUE PATWARI, HIS ASSISTANT FOR TAKING BRIBE RS 7,000

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IEP Chandigarh, November 4

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption, on Friday arrested a revenue Patwari Jagdev Singh posted at revenue halqa Behniwal, Mansa district and his assistant Amarjit Singh for accepting a bribe of Rs 7,000.

          Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the VB said the accused Patwari and his assistant were arrested on the complaint lodged by complainant Roop Singh, resident of village Behniwal, Mansa district. He approached the VB and alleged that the above said Patwari and his assistant were demanding a bribe of Rs 7,000 for making correction in the revenue record pertaining to his agricultural land.

          He informed that after verification of the facts and the material evidence, a VB team from Bathinda unit laid a trap and the both the accused have been arrested in the presence of two official witnesses. In this regard a case under section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against both the accused at VB police station, Bathinda and further investigation is under progress.

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VIGILANCE ARRESTS RICE MILL OWNER ANIL JAIN FOR SELLING PADDY OF OTHER STATES AT HIGHER RATES

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IEP Chandigarh November 4

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has arrested the accused commission agent Anil Jain, owner of Shri Krishna Rice Mill, Sawaddi, in Ludhiana district, in the case already registered by the Bureau against the contractors for getting labour cartage and transportation tenders in the grain markets at higher rates in connivance with officials. He was produced in court today and remanded for TWO days police custody.Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the VB said that during the arrest of accused Jain, his Innova car has also been taken into possession and one briefcase containing documents has also been recovered from the car and further investigation is in process.He informed that accused Anil Jain has been arrested in a case under FIR No. 11 Dated 16-08-2022, under section 420, 409, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of IPC and 7, 8, 12, 13(2) of prevention of corruption act registered at police station VB range Ludhiana Range in which contractors/tenderers namely Telu Ram and others are included.The spokesperson further added that in this case accused Telu Ram, former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu and commission agent Krishan Lal Dhotiwala have already been arrested and all are in judicial custody. He informed that the accused Anil Jain was nominated later on during investigation and was avoiding his arrest and his anticipatory bail application was also dismissed by the High Court.Revealing more details he said commission agent Anil Jain has also been charged with allegations of bringing Paddy at lesser rates from other states like UP, Bihar etc. in his rice sheller and was selling the same after mixing with purchased paddy of Government quota stored in his sheller. He also used to store paddy purchased by him in his own sheller in violation of the milling policy of State.He further added that Anil Jain was arrested by a VB team from his sheller at village Swaddi Kalan, after putting efforts for 6 hours approximately in the presence of police officials of police station Sidhwan Bet besides Sarpanches of Swaddi (West) and Swaddi (East) and other respectable persons of adjoining villages. He said the accused has called his family members and workers in the seller and locked himself in a room to evade his arrest. He was arrested in the presence of above mentioned responsible persons and family members after breaking the door of room.

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VB ARRESTS 5 TRUCK DRIVERS WITH VEHICLES CARRYING SCRAP WITHOUT BILLS, EVADING GST THROUGH PASSERS

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IEP Chandigarh, November 4:

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) today arrested five truck drivers along with their vehicles laden with scrap belonging to different passers (Agents) which were causing huge loss to state exchequer by evading the GST in connivance with concerned officials. In this regard, a case under section 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of IPC and 7, 7(A), 8 of prevention of corruption act have been registered at VB Police Station flying squad-1 at SAS Nagar.          Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of VB said vehicles laden with iron scrap belonging to different passers were evading GST and with forged bills or without bills and less amount bills of different states. The iron scrap was meant for consumption in the furnaces of Mandi Gobindgarh and Khanna area and the nexus was busted by the economic offences wing of VB, Punjab, he added.          He informed that the arrested truck drivers are identified as Gaurav Kumar, Ram Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Jaswant Singh and Joginder Singh who belongs to state of Haryana and Punjab. These accused would be produced in the local court and further investigation would be conducted into the matter to unearth the names of other notorious passers to which these iron scrap material belongs and the concerned furnaces responsible for causing huge loss to the state exchequer, he added.

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Punjab Government is moving in the right direction under the leadership of Bhagwant Mann: Kultar Singh Sandhwan

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IEP Chandigarh, November 4

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker S. Kultar Singh Sandhwan said that Punjab Government is moving in the right direction under the leadership of Bhagwant Mann and it is determined to bring farmers out of agrarian crisis. Addressing the gathering on the occasion of Premier Agri and Food Technology Fair at the CII Northern Region headquarters here today, Mr. Sandhwan said that due to the absence of a concrete and effective agricultural policy in the changing conditions, the crisis of agriculture has increased in Punjab and now the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is continuously trying to bring the farmers out of the crisis. He said that Punjab has played an important role in making the country self-reliant in the field of grain. He said that there is an urgent need to take the state out of the crop cycle of paddy and wheat, for which agricultural diversification needs to be adopted. In order to implement this, the Center should ensure minimum support price for crops other than wheat and paddy. He also emphasized on the need to adopt new schemes and new initiatives to bring the farmers out of various crises.The Assembly Speaker said that such fairs play an important role in imparting information to the farmers about the new initiatives and new technologies in agriculture and horticulture. Farmers can be continuously informed about new technologies by organizing farmer fairs. He said that these fairs can produce better results in rural areas. This will make it easier for the government and other industrialists to reach the farmers.Sandhwan said that the farmers of Punjab always played a leading role in the country. The farmers of Punjab had made a significant contribution in making the country self-reliant in the field of food grains with their hard work. He said that the farmers of Punjab have always adopted new technologies and techniques. Now, to make agriculture profitable, there is a need to leave the traditional crop cycle and diversify agriculture. Gardening is a good option for this.