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Chandigarh, Haryana

Haryana Chief Minister releases book on inspirational stories of MMAPUY beneficiaries

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IEP CHANDIGARH SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After losing her father at a young age, the 19-year-old Monica, hailing from the remote village Khanak never in her dreams had thought of running a small dairy unit of her own.  Thanks to Manohar Lal-led Haryana Government which not only helped Monica in setting up her own business but also instilled hope in many other young people like her to move proudly in their lives, despite facing struggles.

        While Monica is not the only blessed one for whom the State Government has paved the way for being self-reliant.  Amanpreet, another young man from Ambala, who at one point in his life was struggling to get employment, today not only proudly owns a Common Services Centre but also became a job giver from a job seeker.

Now the common thread that connects us with the inspirational stories of these young people is that they are the beneficiaries of Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana (MMAPUY), an umbrella Mission scheme of the Department of Social Justice and Department.

        While, apart from these two, MMAPUY also proved a fortune turner for Praveen Kumari, a widow from Yamunanagar who after availing of the scheme benefits started a tailoring shop at her home to proudly raise her children.

        “These stories certainly give us an insight into the transformative journey of Antyodaya families in overcoming poverty with the help of MMAPUY,” said Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal while releasing a book titled Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana- A compilation of success stories here today.

        Complied by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, this 48-page booklet has inspirational success stories of 37 MMAPUY beneficiaries residing in 22 districts of the State highlighting how this scheme has proved to be a boon for them in achieving their dreams. Besides this, the reader will also get a glimpse of the Utthan Melas.

        Notably, since 2014, the Chief Minister time and again had reiterated his commitment to making the unprivileged believe that they have the first right on their Government.  To uphold this belief, it was last year only when Sh. Manohar Lal had launched ‘Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana to increase the income of the poorest ‘Antyodaya’ families having annual income of less than Rs. 1 lakh.

        In just nine months, MMAPUY while swiftly working on its core objective of alleviating poverty by facilitating economic inclusion of the last mile citizens, the State Government not only identified actual needy families having an annual family income of less than Rs. 1 lakh but also made dedicated efforts to increase their annual family income to Rs.1.80 lakh by linking them to various loan-based, skill development and employment generation schemes.

        Under this scheme, Antyodaya Gram Utthan Melas were organized so as to ensure greater transparency and efficiency in the delivery of schemes. As per the official data, so far (as of September 7, 2022), a total of 861 Melas were organized in three phases across all the 22 districts of Haryana.

        A total of 136130 identified beneficiaries turned up, and applications of 76454 beneficiaries were approved in principle under various loan-based schemes, skill development training and employment generation schemes. Thereafter, loans of 32743 beneficiaries have been sanctioned out of which over 14000 have been disbursed as well.

        Further 436 beneficiaries have joined private employment opportunities and 908 beneficiaries have secured contractual jobs through Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam. Additionally, a total of 1185 beneficiaries have been provided with various skill, and development opportunities.

Chandigarh, Punjab

Ivy Healthcare bags ‘Best hospital network’ in Punjab award

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IEP MOHALI

Ivy Healthcare Group, Mohali has been chosen for ‘Best hospital network’ in Punjab award during Medical Excellence Awards ceremony at a hotel in Chandigarh today.

Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare gave away this prestigious award to Gurtej Singh, chairman and Dr. Kanwaldeep, medical director of the Group .

Chandigarh, Punjab

Chetan Singh Jauramajra launches eye donation campaign by pledging to donate his eyes

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IEP CHANDIGARH SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

With an attempt  to boost the eye donation movement in the state  health minister Punjab Chetan Singh Jauramajra took the  initiative by pledging to donate his own eyes.   He said that the  campaign should become people’s movement.

On the occasion of 37th National Eye Donation Fortnight, Chetan Singh Jauramajra while presiding over a state level event at Government Dental College Auditorium Patiala asked the public to come forward voluntarily to contribute towards the awareness campaign launched by the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led Punjab government to become an eye donor. On this occasion, Patiala Rural MLA Dr.  Balbir Singh and Deputy Commissioner Sakshi Sahni were also present.

Chetan Singh Jauramajra, who also holds Medical Education and Research and Elections, said that the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann would not allow state government hospitals to become referral hospitals only. It is the first priority of the Chief Minister that Punjab becomes the number one state in the country in the health sector. To fulfill this promise, many milestones have been being achieved to provide better health services to the public, he added.

The minister informed that the previous charisma of Government Rajindra Hospital and Mata Kaushalya Hospital would be restored and patients be treated on the lines of PGI by providing state-of-the-art facilities and best doctors in these hospitals.

He further added that in the near future state hospitals in Punjab wot provide medical packages at competitive rates to attract foreign nationals for treatment, which in turn would promote medical tourism and this could be a good source of revenue.

On the occasion three patients namely Gulzar Kaur of village Duladi, Seema Rani of Patran and Tejo Devi from Cheeka were also present who regained their eyesight after undergoing free corneal transplants at Rajindra Hospital after the resumption of eye pupil replacement operations after a gap of nearly 10 years. While sharing their experiences, these patients have expressed special gratitude to the Punjab Chief Minister and the Health Minister and stated that that it was the health model of Bhagwant Mann’s government which has come as a saviour for them.

Elaborating the health facilities in the state Chetan Singh Jauramajra said it was the first priority of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann that Punjab became a number one state in the country in the health sector, therefore 16 new medical colleges would be set-up to provide affordable medical education to our students.

He also appealed to the doctors of the government hospitals of the state to cooperate with the government and work as a team to provide better health services to the patients with full diligence.

Earlier MLA Dr.  Balbir Singh congratulated on teacher’s day and said that once Patiala was a center for Keratoplasty (Replacement of eye pupils) but the previous governments never paid attention to it. He assured that the Punjab government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is paying full attention to health services.

Deputy Commissioner Sakshi Sahni assured the district administration would make special efforts to disseminate the message of voluntary eye donation to the common people so that the patients who have lost their sight due to any reason could get eyesight back.

Earlier to this, Civil Surgeon Dr. Raju Dhir formally welcomed the Health Minister. Director Health and Family Welfare Department Dr.  Ranjit Singh Ghotra informed about the activities being carried out to make Patiala a cataract free district by 2024. The state program officer Dr. Neeti Singla and Dr. Jitendra Kansal asked people to stay away from superstitions regarding eye donation.  Principal Dental College Dr. G.S. Maan thanked all the participants to make the function a memorable event.

On this occasion, the Health Minister also honored the Block Extension Educators (BEE) of the state, including Narinderpal Singh from Sangrur, Gautam Rishi from Barnala, Divesh Kumar from Fazilka, Ritu Mehta from Roopnagar and  Sarabjit Singh from Patiala besides eye specialist doctors of Patiala district.

On the occasion Assistant Commissioner (UT) Dr. Akshita Gupta, SDM Dr. Ismat Vijay Singh, District Urban President of AAP Tejinder Mehta, Rural President Megh Chand Shermajra, Event Incharge Angrej Singh, Director Principal Medical College Dr. Harjinder Singh, Medical Superintendent. Dr. H.S.  Rekhi, Students and health department staff were also present.

Chandigarh, Punjab

Youth should focus on sports & Stomp out drugs from state :Anmol Gagan Maan

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IEP CHANDIGARH SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Cabinet Minister Ms. Anmol Gagan Mann encouraged the wrestlers to take part in the sport by reaching out to the wrestlers in the wrestling competitions organized at villages Togan and Majri of Halka Kharar of District SAS Nagar.  These wrestling competitions were organized at Jai Baba Guga Maidi Jaharveer Managing Committee Reg.Village Toga and Majri with the support of all the residents.  Renowned wrestlers from other states including Punjab participated in wrestling competitions.  On reaching at the venue , the cabinet minister was warmly welcomed by the residents and the youth present there.  After this, Ms. Anmol Gagan Mann inaugurated the competition by making the wrestlers join hands.

Addressing the public, the Cabinet Minister congratulated the organizers for organizing such sports competition for the residents of the constituency.  She said that the demand of the residents to install tubewell at Taugan village will be fulfilled soon.  She said that approval will be received from the government soon to build five bridges in the constituency.  

On this occasion, She appealed to the youth to give more attention to wrestling and other sports, shun away from drugs, and to shine the name of their parents, region and country by becoming good sportsmen.  The cabinet minister said that wrestling is a priceless heritage of Punjab which keep the body healthy. 

 On this occasion, SDM Kharar Mr. Ravinder Singh, Ravi Rana Togan, Ankit Sidhana MD, Raghbir Singh Badala, Suraj Bhan Goyal, Sukhwinder Singh Bittu, Nitasha Joshi besides volunteers were present.

Chandigarh, Punjab

CABINET LED BY CM APPROVES POLICY TO REGULARISE SERVICES OF ADHOC, CONTRACTUAL, TEMPORARY TEACHER AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

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IEP CHANDIGARH SEPTEMBER 5. 2022

In a major employee friendly decision, the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday approved a policy for regularising services of Adhoc, Contractual, and Temporary Teachers thereby benefitting more than 9000 employees of the state government.

A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting of Council of Ministers chaired by the Chief Minister here at the Punjab Civil Secretariat- I.

Disclosing this here today, a spokesman of the Chief Minister’s Office said that previously various appointments to ‘Group C’ and ‘Group D’ level posts in government had been made on contract/temporary basis. Some of such employees have now put in a period of more than 10 years and had given their prime years of life in service of the state. The Cabinet opined that now at this stage, to relieve these employees will be unjustified and improper.

Thus, being a Welfare State and to protect the interest of these contractual temporary employees, state government has formulated a Policy for welfare of Adhoc, Contractual, and temporary teachers and other employees in Education Department under Article 162 read with entry 41 of list-II of the Seventh Schedule of Constitution of India, to ensure that such employees do not suffer from uncertainty and harassment and to grant them a security of tenure. The state government has taken a policy decision to continue such desirous suitable Teachers, who fulfill the eligibility conditions, in service till the age of 58 years by placing them in a special cadre. This policy, which will benefit more than 9000 employees, has been framed only in relation to Group C & Group D posts of Education department, Punjab.

For regularization of services an employee should have worked on adhoc, contractual, or temporary basis for a continuous period of minimum ten years till the issuance of present policy and must have possessed the requisite qualifications and experience for the post in terms of rules, if any, at the time of placement in the Special Cadre. The work and conduct of the applicant must have remained satisfactory as per the assessment of the department/employer during the period of 10 years service.

However, the policy will not be applicable to a person who has been engaged in an honorary capacity or on a part time basis or had attained the age of superannuation or had resigned on his own or had not been retained by the Department or had been engaged on outsourced basis or is on an incentive based engagement or does not possess the requisite qualifications and experience for the post prescribed under the service rules, if any, at the time of placement in the Special Cadre or had been engaged or continues in service on account of any interim order(s), direction(s) of any Court or Tribunal; or had been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude or charges have been framed against him in a Court of Law relating to such offence.

For the purpose of grant of continuation to these employees they will be placed on a post, which shall not be a cadre post, by creating special cadre of posts. The process of placement of beneficiary employee will commence after submission of the Application Form, accompanied by all required documents, by him.  The beneficiary employees, who are being placed in special cadre posts and will be allowed to continue in service till the age of 58 years. They will be treated as a fresh appointee.

Chandigarh, Punjab

Five bridges to be approved soon for Kharar constituency : Anmol Gagan Maan

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IEP CHANDIGARH SEPTEMBER 5

Cabinet Minister Ms. Anmol Gagan Mann today declared that five new bridges will soon be approved for Kharar constituency. She was speaking at the inauguration of a wrestling competition  organized at villages Togan and Majri of Halka Kharar of District SAS Nagar.She said that approval will be received from the government soon to build five bridges in the constituency. 

          The wrestling competitions were organized at Jai Baba Guga Maidi Jaharveer Managing Committee Reg.Village Toga and Majri with the support of all the residents.  Renowned wrestlers from other states including Punjab participated in wrestling competitions.  On reaching at the venue , the cabinet minister was warmly welcomed by the residents and the youth present there.  After this, Ms. Anmol Gagan Mann inaugurated the competition by making the wrestlers join hands.

Addressing the public, the Cabinet Minister congratulated the organizers for organizing such sports competition for the residents of the constituency.  She said that the demand of the residents to install tubewell at Taugan village will be fulfilled soon. 

On this occasion, She appealed to the youth to give more attention to wrestling and other sports, shun away from drugs, and to shine the name of their parents, region and country by becoming good sportsmen.  The cabinet minister said that wrestling is a priceless heritage of Punjab which keep the body healthy.

On this occasion, SDM Kharar Mr. Ravinder Singh, Ravi Rana Togan, Ankit Sidhana MD, Raghbir Singh Badala, Suraj Bhan Goyal, Sukhwinder Singh Bittu, Nitasha Joshi besides volunteers were present.

Dehradun

Speaker orders probe in controversial appointments in Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha

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IEP DEHRADUN, September 4,2022

In a major decision the Uttarakhand Assembly speaker Ritu Khanduri has constituted a three-member expert committee to investigate the allegations of illegal appointments and promotions of employees in the State Assembly. The committee headed by former principal secretary Dilip Kumar Kotia has been asked to submit its report in a period of one month.

The other two members of the committee are Surendra Singh Rawat and AS Nayal. All the three experts of the committee are retired officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and had held the position of secretary, Personnel in the past. In another decision, the speaker has sent the Vidhan Sabha Secretary Mukesh Kumar Singhal on a long leave. He will have to remain present before the expert committee whenever required and help in the investigation proceedings. Interacting with the media persons about her decisions at her office in Vidhan Sabha on Saturday, Khanduri categorically stated that strict action would be taken on the basis of the report of the expert committee.

She said that any type of indiscipline and irregularity is not acceptable to her as speaker and that she is ready to take strict measures for reforms in Vidhan Sabha in the greater interests of the people of the State. Khanduri accepted that recent disclosures and media reports have tarnished the image of the Vidhan Sabha and she would adopt every possible measure to restore it. She said that the expert committee would investigate the appointments made in the Vidhan Sabha in two phases, in the first phase the appointments done from the year 2012 till date would be investigated and in the second the appointments from the year 2000 to 2011 would be scanned.

The regulations of Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha were formulated in the year 2011, prior it the provisions of Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha regulations were applicable. In a clear message that she means business, the speaker said that impressed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she decided to come to public life and has made his quote ‘ Na Khaunga Na Khane Dunga’ her guiding principle

Dehradun

Uttarakhand CM appeals all students to take forward river of sacred knowledge among the masses

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IEP DEHRADUN, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Uttarakhand Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in the 40th Gyan Deeksha ceremony in Dev Sanskriti University, Haridwar on Saturday. Greeting the students on the occasion, the CM hoped that all students would take forward the river of sacred knowledge among the masses. He said that the whole world is looking towards India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the International Yoga day is an example of this.

The CM exhorted the students to take a pledge to serve the people and make a new India. He said that we all have a golden opportunity to write the Amrit Kal of the country in the next 25 years. Dhami said that everyone would have to contribute to fulfil the dream of new India as envisioned by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Remembering the founder of Gayatri Pariwar, Sriram Sharma Acharya, the CM said that there are very few people like him who have changed the lives of millions of people in the world with their ideas. He was a harbinger of mass awareness in the society, he said.

The Chancellor of the Dev Sanskriti University Pranav Pandya attended the programme in online mode. He said the ceremony would provide a new life to the students and is an opportunity to instill spiritualism in them. Pandya said that apart from curriculum the university also teaches ways to live life. The Vice Chancellor (VC) of the university Sharad Pardhi, Pro VC Chinmay Pandya, students and their parents were present on the occasion

Dehradun

Uttarakhand ranked second in India in category of safety for senior citizens

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IEP DEHRADUN SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Adding another feather to its cap with professional policing, Uttarakhand has been ranked second in India in the category of safety for senior citizens. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) crime in India 2021 report, Uttarakhand is a very safe State for senior citizens. With a crime rate of less than 0.8, Uttarakhand has secured second position in the nation after Assam in this category. According to the Uttarakhand police, there were a total of seven cases registered of crimes against senior citizens in the State during 2021. The national average in this regard is 24.5.

The director general of police Ashok Kumar said that the Uttarakhand police is committed to ensuring the safety of life and property of senior citizens. The officers incharge of all the districts have been directed by the DGP to take necessary measures for ensuring the safety of senior citizens and their rights. It is pertinent to mention that apart from being ranked second in safety for senior citizens, Uttarakhand has been ranked first for recovery of stolen items with 68.7 per cent recovery rate in the NCRB report. The State police’s recovery rate of 68.7 per cent in theft cases is more than double the national average of 30.2 per cent. In the NCRB report, Uttarakhand police is followed by Tamil Nadu with 64.8 per cent and Himachal Pradesh with 55 per cent recovery rate.

Chandigarh, Haryana

MCF and Wakf Board officials arrested caught taking Rs 80000 bribe

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IEP CHANDIGARH AUGUST 31, 2022

Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has arrested two officials posted in Municipal Corporation Faridabad and Waqf Board, Bhiwani red-handed while accepting bribes worth Rs 50,000 and Rs 30,000 respectively. Both 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, SVB team has caught Taxation Clerk of MCF Taxation branch Kanhaiya Lal accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from the complainant in lieu of reducing the property tax from Rs 26 lakh to Rs 7 lakh. 

                    After the Taxation Clerk sought bribe, the complainant, a resident of Sector 32 Faridabad filed a complaint with the Vigilance Bureau. The SVB acted promptly and conducted a raid and caught the accused official red-handed while accepting the money from the complainant.

                    The spokesperson further said that in another case Nafish Ahmed, Rent Collector, Waqf Board, Bhiwani has been caught red-handed by the Bureau while accepting bribe of Rs 30,000.

                    Complainant, a resident of Loharu in Bhiwani told that accused Rent Collector was demanding bribe to settle a land issue, which was leased to him by the Board. The accused told that the land leased to him has been converted into commercial and now Rs 4.5 lakh has to be deposited in the Waqf Board for a revise map. Accused had already taken Rs 15,000.

                    After the complaint, the Vigilance team laid a trap and arrested the accused Rent Collector taking a bribe of Rs 30,000.

                    A case has been registered against the accused under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Further investigation is underway.