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Chandigarh, Punjab

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION ENTHUSIASTICALLY KICKSTARTS “SHAHEED E AZAM, SARDAR BHAGAT SINGH HARIYAWAL LAHER’

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IEP SAS NAGAR JULY 15, 2022

The district administration SAS Nagar along with Forest division SAS Nagar today kickstarted the ‘Shaheed e Azam, Sardar Bhagat Singh hariyawal laher’ the flagship green scheme of the Government. The function in this regard was held at City Park sector 68, SAS Nagar. Mr.Kulwant Singh,ML A assembly constituency, SAS Nagar attended this function as chief guest whereas Mr. Amit Talwar, Deputy Commissioner was the guest of honour. Other officials of District Administration, 2 Battalion of CRPF, Local NGOs, School Children were also present at the occasion along with many other participants from all walks of life.

           Disclosing this in a press communique Mr. Kanwar Deep Singh, Divisional Forest Officer said that this scheme is a celebration of 115 birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh under which fifty thousand plants will be planted in each of the 115 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the State. The concerned MLA s will be the guiding force to undertake plantations in their constituency.

           He said that today a large single day plantation drive and Van Mahautsav under this scheme was held in Mohali Constituency at City Park sector 68 Mohali. The program had a display of Forest Rakhis , an  innovative all organic product made from forest produce of by Self-help groups of Forest department in SAS Nagar District.  Thereafter a skit on environmental awareness and Bhangra was held to celebrate the Van Mahautsav .

           DFO further said that the plantation was carried out in unique manner whereby it was carried out not only at City Park but simultaneously at 50 different sites with more than 20,000 plants in the district and the same was live streamed at the event.

   MLA Mr. Kulwant Singh said that this scheme of government to increase the green cover in the State in memory of Shaheed Bhagat Singh is a praiseworthy step which will go in a long way to further increase the green cover of the state.

           Deputy commissioner Mr. Talwar informed that this season we intend to plant more than 1 million saplings in Mohali district to increase the green cover and spread the message of greenery.

            DFO Kanwar Deep Singh informed that massive plantation drives are being held through out the district during this monsoon season . The focus is to increase the green cover of district not just in forest but also outside forest areas.

Chandigarh, Punjab, Punjab

CM ORDERS COMPREHENSIVE ENQUIRY INTO IRREGULARITIES IN POST MATRIC SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME

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IEP CHANDIGARH, JULY 13, 2022

The Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday announced a comprehensive enquiry into the irregularities in the post matric scholarship scheme for nailing the guilty of this heinous crime against students of weaker and underprivileged sections.

“My government is committed for ensuring that oil and truth comes out in this scheme so that embezzlers are punished as per the law”, said the Chief Minister.

          The Chief Minister assured the people of Punjab that this enquiry will be a bear thread analysis to ascertain every lapse and embezzlement of the public money under the post matric scholarship scheme. He said that these discrepancies are an intolerable crime against the weaker and underprivileged strata of society adding that anyone found involved in this will not be spared and severest of severe action will be taken against them. Bhagwant Mann said that the barbaric embezzlement of the funds under the post matric scholarship scheme has ruined the bright future of millions of Schedule Caste (SC) students by depriving them of quality higher education.

The Chief Minister said that these irregularities were a day light robbery over the interests of the weaker sections and his government cannot sit on its hands for allowing the culprits to move freely. He bemoaned that rather than acting against the guilty, the successive Akali and Congress governments have patronised the politicians and bureaucrats who were involved in this sinister move. Bhagwant Mann said that not only this but the Akali, BJP and Congress leadership have also connived with each other to ensure that the perpetrators of this crime evade any action.

However, the Chief Minister said that now the government of common man will expose the misdeeds of these parties as the nexus of politicians and bureaucrats have extended largesse to the educational institutes for their own vested interests thereby harassing the SC students both mentally and physically. He unequivocally said that action will be definitely taken against those who are responsible for these discrepancies. “The guilty of these irregularities will be made answerable for the loot of every single penny from the state exchequer” added Bhagwant Mann.

Chandigarh, News, Politics, Punjab

Capt Amarinder rues scrapping of Mattewara Industrial Park project

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India E Post (Chandigarh):- Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today rued the scrapping of the Mattewara Textile Park project, terming it as the most regressive and short sighted decision. “You don’t throw away the baby with the bath water”, he remarked in a statement while reacting to the government decision.

    Questioning the diatribe launched against the project he clarified that the textile park was not to come up within the Mattewara forest area as was being said, but outside it. He disclosed that all environmental concerns had been addressed according to the United Nations guidelines and only then the park was approved. 

     Capt Amarinder regretted that the Aam Aadmi Party government, after initially deciding to go ahead with the project had scrapped it, just because some people opposed it without any justification or without any technical and scientific knowledge about the environment.

     The former Chief Minister said, the Ludhiana Textile Park was one of the seven such parks coming up across the country. This textile park was set up with the specific objective of sustainable industrialization that does not harm the environment according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9.

     He said, with such approach no industrialization can take place in Punjab, which is already scarce of land. “When Punjab is reeling under such a financial crisis and investments are not coming, such a regressive decision will further discourage the industry from coming here”, he observed, while adding, such a crucial decision should not have been taken in such haste.

      Moreover, he pointed out, the National Green Tribunal had already set up an expert committee to examine the project and objections raised from certain quarters. He said the government should have waited for its decision. 

     He also expressed surprise as to how the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann took a U-turn after supporting the project and even announced funds for further land acquisition.

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab

Prof Vivek Lal, Director PGIMER inaugurates a Clinical Simulator Lab at the Biomedical Instruments and Devices Hub (BID Hub), at PGIMER

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INDIA E POST CHANDIGARH JULY 1, 2022

Prof.Vivek Lal, Director PGIMER inaugurated a Clinical Simulator Lab at the Biomedical Instruments and Devices Hub (BID Hub), at PGIMER Chandigarh. He was accompanied by Prof. G D Puri, Dean of PGIMER, and Sh Kumar Abhay, Financial Adviser of the Institute. The Clinical Simulator Lab is a major milestone for the institute. It mimics human physiology, and many disease conditions and drug reactions can be practiced on this.

Prof. Lal highlighted the importance of the Clinical simulator and stressed that it should be utilized to the maximum, to train health care personnel as well as students. Prof. G D Puri and Prof.Joseph Mathew, the Coordinators of the Hub explained the various functions of the simulator. The sophisticated equipment will also be used for the clinical testing of indigenously developed instruments and devices. Notably, life-saving equipment such as ventilators, breathing support devices, and cardiac equipment can be successfully tested using the simulator.

Prof. Lal lauded the efforts of the Biomedical Hub in developing novel indigenous technologies, and their clinical testing. The Hub was established in 2018 and has successfully developed several innovative equipment. Notable among these are the Closed Loop Anesthesia Delivery system (popularly called Anesthesia robot), the IV-alert (to provide alarms when infusions are running low), and the Artificial Breathing Capability Device. Several others are in advanced stages of clinical testing. These include the Double Volume Exchange Transfusion Device, Cricoid Pressure Sensor Device, Gastrointestinal Impedance monitoring device, and hi-tech endoscopic needles for treating patients with pancreatic disorders.

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Punjab

PSPCL SUPPLIED HIGHEST EVER POWER IN SINGLE DAY OF 3265 LACS UNITS SURPASSING PREVIOUS YEAR RECORD OF 3066 LACS UNITS

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Complying with the strict instructions of Chief Minister S. Bhagwant Mann to provide uninterrupted power supply for agriculture and domestic sector, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) had supplied highest ever power in a single day of 3265 lacs units which surpassed the previous year record of 3066 lacs units supplied on July 1, 2021 that is an increase of 6.49%.

This year PSPCL has also successfully met highest ever peak demand of 14207 MW on 29-06-2022 at 12.15 PM by surpassing the previous year record of 13431 MW on 01-07-2021. This summer due to increased temperature, demand of power is persistently high but despite this PSPCL is providing daily 8 hour power supply to its agriculture consumers and 24 hour power supply to all other categories of consumers in the Punjab  without imposing any power cuts on any category of consumers.

Divulging further, Punjab Power Minister Sh. Harbhajan Singh informed, in view of the continuous high demand, PSPCL developed the strategy to adopt various deviation settlement mechanism measures for the reactive power management to optimize resources. He said that in order to compensate the reactive power requirement of the system, condenser mode of unit no 3 of Ranjit Sagar Dam plant, which was not being used for many  years, has now been made operational to compensate the 60 Mega Volt Amps Reactive (MVAR) requirement of reactive power in the system.

Besides this, Mega Volt Amps Reactive MVAR capacity of the system has also been increased through a special drive by the addition of 341.61 Mega Volt Amps Reactive MVAR capacity with 251 units of capacitor banks at the grid sub stations and addition of shunt capacitors of required capacity at 11 KV feeders to improve the voltage profile of the system, he added.