IEP Chandigarh, October 18

JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad has been re-accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with an ‘A+’ Grade and a CGPA of 3.32 in the Second Cycle of Accreditation. The result of the assessment was declared in the 127th Meeting of the Standing Committee of NAAC held on October 18, 2022, and shall remain valid for the next five years.

While giving more information, an official spokesperson said that National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is an autonomous body funded by the University Grants Commission that assesses and accredits Higher Education Institutions in India. He said that in 2016, the University was awarded an ‘A’ grade by the NAAC in the First Cycle of Accreditation. The University was assessed and evaluated by the five-member NAAC Peer Team from October 10 to 12, 2022.

He informed that the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. S.K. Tomar has expressed gratitude towards the Haryana Governor and Chancellor, Sh. Bandaru Dattatraya for his constant mentorship and support to the University due to which it has been able to receive the ‘A+’ grade. The University is making strenuous efforts to realise the dream of Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal to make Haryana a global leader in education, he added.

The Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana, Technical Education Department, Sh. Vijayendra Kumar and Director, Technical Education, Haryana, Sh. Rajiv Rattan have congratulated the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Tomar on receiving ‘A+’ Grade by NAAC, who, in turn, extended his gratitude towards them for their consistent support. Congratulating University teachers, students, alumni and supporting staff for this great achievement, Vice Chancellor, Prof. S.K. Tomar said that JC Bose University has positioned itself among India’s elite and prestigious higher education institutions. He said that the University has made its presence on various prominent national platforms which reflects the quality parameters adopted by the University to further improve the quality of Education.

Registrar, Dr. SK Garg said that the re-accreditation of the University by NAAC with an ‘A+’ grade is a befitting award for the outstanding contribution of all stakeholders of the University. It is a distinguished achievement by the University on the quality parameters.

He further said that Dean Academic Affairs and University NAAC Coordinator, Prof. Ashutosh Dixit said that all the faculty and staff members worked day and night for preparation and presentation. The highest body of evaluation for the Universities and Colleges in the country assessed the University on seven point-scale criteria which include Curriculum Aspects, Teaching-learning and Evaluation, Research, Innovation and Extension, Infrastructure and Learning Resources, Student Support and Progression, Governance, Leadership and Management, and Institutional Values and Best Practices.

IEP Chandigarh, October 17

The State Government has decided to consider amendments in the initiative of state Govt regarding Home Delivery service of Ration to PDS beneficiaries.

Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson  from the Department of Food and Civil Supplies informed that while implementing the change in Home Delivery service, interest of all the stakeholders in the Public Distribution supply chain including Fair Price Shop owners shall be taken into account.

These submissions were made before the Hon’ble High Court by the State Counsel during hearing on the CWP filed by the Fair Price Shop owner Associations and  assured that the legitimate interests of the Ration Depot Holders as per the National Food security Act shall be taken into consideration while giving Home Delivery Service of Ration. Based upon the assertions made by the state counsel,  Hon’ble High Court has disposed off the litigation on the matter.

IEP Chandigarh

World Food Day was celebrated at the National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER, and Chandigarh on 15^th October. The theme of the year 2022 is “Leaving No One Behind”. Dr. Nancy Sahni, Head, the Department of Dietetics was the chief guest of the occasion. Dr. Sukhpal Kaur principal NINE introduced the chief guest to the audience.  The Chief Guest unfolded the theme and emphasized the importance of consuming a healthy diet to the students.

She further encouraged the students to involve the underprivileged in their celebrations. Around 150 nursing students participated in poster-making, slogan-writing, and a salad-making competition. A show-and-tell activity was also performed by the volunteers to emphasize the importance of eating home-cooked food.

 The nursing students also performed various cultural activities i.e. Natti, Bhangra, and Poem recitation.  The chief guest appreciated the participants for participating in various competitions. Prizes were given to the winners of various competitions. The event was carried out under the guidance of Principal NINE, Dr. Sukhpal Kaur, and faculty Mrs. Shabana Parveen, Dr. Ruchi Saini, and Mrs. Amandeep Saini.

IEP Chandigarh, October 17

The Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will consider the legitimate demands of the Divyang (disabled) in the state and resolve them soon. This was stated by the Minister of Social Security, Women and Child Development of Punjab Dr. Baljit Kaur during a meeting with the representatives of the Disabled Association.

Dr. Baljit Kaur said that in various departments, corporations and boards of Punjab, various issues viz. filling the vacant and backlog posts related to the disabled category, promoting the disabled employees, demands related to the disabled sportsmen category, pension demands of the disabled category, Regarding bank loans, other legitimate demands besides free wheat facilities to the ‘Divyangs’ will be resolved soon.

Notably, the Cabinet minister has scheduled the next meeting with the disabled association on November 9 to address the demands of the disabled.

The Minister also said that the Punjab Government is committed to make life easier for the disabled people in the state. She said that all the legitimate demands made by the associations from the State Government will be brought to the attention of the Chief Minister and they will be resolved soon.

The Administrative Secretary of Social Security Department Sumer Singh Gurjar, Director Madhvi Kataria, Additional Director Lilly Chaudhary, Deputy Director Santosh Virdi were also present in this meeting.

IEP Chandigarh, October 17

A delegation of five Ambassadors to different countries namely Ms Reenant Sandhu, Ambassador of India to Netherlands, Sh. Pavan Kumar Paul Ambassador of India to Russia, Dr Virender Kumar Paul, Ambassador of India to Republic to Turkey, Sh. Mohinder Partap Singh, Ambassador of India to Mongolia, Sh. Sanjeev Tandon, Ambassador of India to Togo visited Chandigarh today.

The team was welcomed by senior officers of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh at the newly rejuvenated Amrit Sarovar at Kaimbwala Village. The delegation was informed that the  Prime Minister of India had launched a Mission on Amrit Sarovar on 24 April 2022. The Mission aimed at developing and rejuvenating 75 water bodies in each district of the country as a part of celebration of Azadi ka Amrit  Mahotsav  and the target to complete the work has been fixed as 15/08/2023.

The officers of MCC further informed the delegation that the Municipal Corporation under this mission plans to rejuvenate 4 abandoned Water Bodies at Village Kaimbwala, Sarangpur, Khuda Alisher and Daddumajra. The two water bodies at village Kaimbwala and Sarangpur  have already been rejuvenated. The  work on rejuvenation of third water body at village Khuda Alisher is in progress and shall be completed by the end of this month.These water bodies will act as Rain water Harvesting structures and will raise the level of depleted ground water. They will also help in avoiding floods and will also in conserve the water. This will act as a mini Lake and recreation centre for the residents of the villages. 

IEP Chandigarh, October 17

Reaffirming the commitment to ensure planned development in the urban areas of the state, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led Punjab Government will develop a state-of-the-art Residential & Commercial Urban Estate in Ludhiana, revealed Mr. Aman Arora, Minister for Housing and Urban Development.

          Chairing a high-level meeting to review the functioning of Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) at PUDA Bhawan, SAS Nagar, Mr. Aman Arora was apprised that GLADA is in the process of acquiring around 2000 acres site at Ladowal Bye-pass in villages Bagga Kalan, Noorpur Bet, Garha and Gounspur for the development of Residential & Commercial Urban Estate.

          He directed the officials concerned to initiate the process to acquire the land for the proposed estate, while asking them that the land should be acquired through land pooling on the pattern of GMADA. The Minister was apprised that the Site Selection Committee has recommended the site and a Consultant has been engaged for facilitating the acquisition of this land.

          Taking a serious note on pendency of cases, Mr. Aman Arora categorically said that all the pendency must be cleared within a week and a mechanism should be in place to ensure service delivery in a stipulated time frame. He directed the officials to complete all the ongoing work in time ensuring no compromise on the quality of work being executed. He warned that an indifferent attitude towards work by any official won’t be tolerated at any cost and strict action will be initiated. He reiterated that providing transparent and seamless services to the public is the sole motto of the Mann Government.

          Prominent among those present in the meeting included Mr. Ajoy Kumar Sinha, Principal Secretary, Housing & Urban Development; Ms. Apneet Riyait, Chief Administrator, PUDA-cum-Director Town & Country Planning; Ms. Amarpreet Kaur Sandhu, Chief Administrator, Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority; Mr. Amrinder Singh Malhi, Additional Chief Administrator, Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority; Mr. Pankaj Bawa, Chief Town Planner, Punjab and other officials.

IEP Chandigarh, October 17

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan today took a unique initiative and honored the farmers of different districts of the state during a simple but impressive function at the Vidhan Sabha for not burning wheat and paddy stubble from past several years . On this occasion, farmers who are sowing direct paddy were also honoured.

In this ceremony, 18 farmers from Faridkot, 13 from Moga, 10 from Sangrur, one from Rupnagar ,10 from Gurdaspur, 7 from Ludhiana and Barnala were honored. Addressing the farmers on this occasion, Mr. Sandhwan said that he himself is feeling privileged by honoring the farmers who are farming by following the path shown by the Gurus because these farmers are doing a great effort for the society. He said that this is the first kind of event in the Vidhan Sabha, in which people got an opportunity to sit together and discuss the ideas for the protection of environment . On this occasion, he also appealed to the Punjab government to provide maximum help to the farmers for doing environment-friendly farming.

While addressing the farmers Environment Minister Mr. Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayar, fully appreciated this unique initiative of the Speaker, Punjab Vidhan Sabha and expressed hope that this program will serve as a guide for the farmers of Punjab. He said that the Punjab government is trying very seriously to solve the paddy straw problem and efforts are being made at all levels but, is not possible without the cooperation of farmers. He urged the farmers to plant more trees to protect the environment.

On this occasion, around 100 farmers were awarded certificates by Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhawan, Environment Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayar and Chairman of Privileges Committee of the Vidhan Sabha ,Kulwant Singh Pandori. On this occasion, President of Bhai Ghanaia Cancer Prevention Society Faridkot Gurpreet Singh Chandbaja, Baba Gurmeet Singh Khosa Kotla, Manpreet Singh Mani Dhaliwal PRO, Chief Agriculture Officer Faridkot Karanjit Singh, Yadwinder Singh ADO, eminent entrepreneur Mintu Dhurkot Ransih were also present.

IEP Chandigarh, October 17

Punjab Government led by Chief Minister Mr Bhagwant Mann today urged the Government of India to resume domestic flights from Adampur (Jalandhar), Pathankot, Sahnewal and Bhatinda airports.Presenting the case strongly, Principal Secretary Civil Aviation Mr Rahul Bhandari, who attended an interactive session held with States / UTs on Udan, KrishiUdan, Aviation Security,  Developments of Airports, Greenfield Airports, Heliports and Water Aerodromes here today, said that these airports were part of Regional Connectivity Service of Government of India. He said that during the Corona crisis the services from these airports were stopped. However, Mr Rahul Bhandari said that this has given a major blow to air connectivity in the region thereby creating lot of inconvenience to passengers.The Principal Secretary said that this must be reversed and the GoI must immediately resume flights from these airports. He said that this will help in saving time, money and energy of people besides ensuring direct air connectivity across the country. Mr Rahul Bhandari said that it will also give major fillip to the economic activity in the region.Flagging another issue, the Principal Secretary urged the GoI to expedite the work on construction of civil terminal at Halwara airport. He said that the land for it has already been given by the Punjab government and work on this ambitious project to be completed at Rs 46 crore has already began. Mr Rahul Bhandari said that the need of hour is to speed up the work for it’s early completion.Dwelling on another issue, the Principal Secretary bemoaned that the terminal of Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport Chandigarh has been constructed on land falling in Revenue district of SAS Nagar, Mohali but unfortunately the name of Mohali is missing from airport’s name. He apprised the GoI that Punjab Chief Minister Mr Bhagwant Mann has already lodged a protest for not including name of city Mohali in the name of this airport adding that this legitimate demand should be looked into. Mr Rahul Bhandari said that this will fulfil the long pending demand of the Punjabis. The Principal Secretary also sought more international flights from this international airport. He said that already more than Rs 450 crore has been spent on the facelift of this world class airport. Mr Rahul Bhandari said that the starting of more international flights will help the NRIs brethren from Punjab to stay connected with their roots adding that people from not only Punjab but states of Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and others too will be benefitted from it.