Cabinet approves Fazilka and Pathankot as new districts

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 27

The Punjab Cabinet today approved creation of Fazilka and Pathankot as the new districts of the state following the recommendations of the committee of Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal and Local Government Minister Mr. Tiksan Sud.

 A decision to this effect was taken here at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by the Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal this evening.

Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Punjab government said that with this decision the total number of districts in Punjab had gone up from 20 to 22. Newly created Fazilka district would consist of three sub-divisions viz Fazilka, Jalalabad and Abohar besides three sub-tehsils Arniwala Sheikh Suban, Sito Guno and Khuian Sarwar. Likewise, the Pathankot district would comprise two sub-divisions of Pathankot and Dharkalan along with two Sub-Tehsils namely Narot Jaimal Singh and Bamial. The cabinet also approved the creation of posts of officers as well as the ministerial staff for these two newly created districts according to the government norms.

The Cabinet also approved the upgradation of Sub-Tehsil Dharmkot in Moga district and Sub-Tehsil in Guru Harsahai in Ferozepur district as new sub-divisions besides giving approval for the creation of new posts for these newly upgraded sub-divisions.

The Cabinet also gave nod to promulgate ordinance for the establishment of Guru Ki Kashi Self Financed University at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda district.

The Cabinet also approved to amend the Punjab Civil Services (Executive Branch) Rules 1976 to evolve a transparent criteria for the recruitment of the PCS (EB) officers from other categories of employees like District Revenue Officers (DROs), Tehsildaars, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioners (AETCs), Block Development and Panchayat officers (BDPOs) and Ministerial Staff etc.

The Cabinet also gave go ahead to amend the various sections, sub sections and Preamble of Punjab Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2000.

The Cabinet also gave approval for the creation of the post of ex-officio Vice Chairman in the Punjab ex-servicemen corporation.

Aryans Group to organise scholarship mela

 by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 21

Aryans Group of Colleges, Chandigarh would organize Scholarship Mela on July  24 at Shivalik View in Sector 17 here. Giving this information to press, Dr Anshu Kataria, Chairman Aryans Group said that scholarship worth Rs 1 Crore would be distributed on the spot to the needy students on Merit-cum-Means basis . Students need to get prior registeration  on Helpline Number 84270-22288 to attend this Scholarship Mela.

Dr. Kataria further said that Scholarships would be extended to around 101 students for MBA, PGDM, BBA, BCA and B.Tech(Civil, Mechanical, CSE, EEE & ECE) courses. He added that those students who cannot afford to pay the tuition fees, can avail the benefit of the scholarship. The candidates must bring their academic and income documents.The scholarship amount would be between Rs.10000 to Rs.300000 per student. 

It is to be mentioned that the leading Nationalized Banks including Indian Overseas Bank and Bank of India would also remain available during the Scholarship Mela to provide the education loan support to the students.   

Dr.Kataria further said that the group is inspired by Dr.Kiran Bedi, India’s first and highest ranked woman IPS officer and at the UN and her Navjyoti India Foundation and is inspiring all the students of India to pursue higher Education. He added that students would be funded for Education with the help of Corporates, NGOs and other organisations so that they can pursue technical education which is out of reach of common-man.

Punjab Mandi Board to regularize 626 workcharge employees

 by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 19

          Punjab Mandi Board has decided to regularize the services of 626 workcharge employees, who have been working on daily wage basis since many years.

Disclosing this here today Agriculture Minister Sucha Singh Langah said that the employees who have been regularized included supervisors, helpers, plumbers, electricians, sewadar and chowkidars. He said that many of these employees had been working on daily wage basis in the department since 25 years.

He said that the employees were demanding their regularization since long. He said that the Department sympathetically considered their demand and decided to regularize their services.

Chandigarh periphery attracting engineering students from all over India

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 19

Even as the number of engineering colleges have witnessed a steep increase in Punjab it is the periphery advantage which seem to attract students to opt for colleges located near Chandigarh. This is corroborated by the fact that nearly 22,000 seats have been falling vacant in majority of the colleges in Punjab, comprising colleges and students, while those located in and around the Chandigarh are witnessing an overwhelming response from the students.

Colleges in Chandigarh have been serving the students not only from Punjab and Haryana but also the neighbouring states like Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir. Despite several private universities making inroads into the neighboring states “Advantage Chandigarh” is still a major reason for students opting for engineering colleges. The reason is not far to see as devoid of any service sector placements are hard to come, while the colleges located in the periphery have not only successfully managed to arrange on-the-job trainings but also placements in reputed firms. 

Besides this the colleges in the periphery offer several other advantages like a crime-free safe environment for the girl students. With qualified faculty and a cosmopolitan culture these colleges are being preferred over the ones located in the far off areas of Punjab. The high land of acquisition in the periphery of Chandigarh is however an issue which is acting as a deterrent for more educational groups from coming here. 

The latest to join the group of select engineering colleges having an approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is the Aryans College of Engineering. Located on the Chandigarh-Patiala Highway, near Chandigarh, the college has been granted 300 seats in Civil, Mechanical, Computer Science, Electronics and Communication and Electrical Engineering.

Talking about their latest venture Dr Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans College of Engineering, said, “We have been granted the AICTE approval and we have already set up the requisite infrastructure including the recruitment of 100 employees. Our major focus would be to produce Job Creators instead of Job seekers and we have already established the 1st incubation centre of the region by PTU. Apart from this 10 per cent seats have been reserved for the Economically Weaker Section of the society.” 

Catering to the need of the hour he added, “Placements and tie-ups with industry would be the main thrust area, which is our strength. This is area in which we pay major stress thus promising a secure future to the students.”

PM confers Krishi Karnam Award to Punjab

by Punjabnewswire4 (Balbir)
NEW DELHI JULY 16
Punjab State has been awarded the ‘Krishi Karman’ Award for achieving the highest ever food grain production in 2010-11.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Punjab government said that the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh presented this prestigious award in the presence of Union Agriculture Minister Mr. Shard Pawar to the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal at a function held here on ICAR foundation day at National Agricultural Sciences Complex. The award comprises a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of Rs.2 crore.
The spokesperson further said that this coveted award has been bestowed on the Punjab government for effectively promoting agricultural technologies and services so adopted by the farmers that resulted in significant production gains. Notable initiatives of the state government which contributed toward this significant achievement are: conservation of irrigation water through active promotion of laser land
leveling and zero tillage, setting up agricultural machinery service centers on a massive scale involving private and public sector, improvement in seed replacement rate with assured seed treatment; control of yellow rust disease of wheat; enactment of “Punjab preservation of Sub-soil Water Act, 2009 to ensure timely
transplantation of paddy” and public private partnership in Agriculture extension.
The Chief Minister was accompanied by Agriculture Minister Mr. Sucha Singh Langha, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr. DS Guru and Director Agriculture Mr. Balwinder Singh Sidhu.

Punjab offers US Police to organise joint police training programme

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, JULY 14
         Punjab offered New York Police Department and John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University, New York to organize a joint police training programme.
         A decision to this effect was taken by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal during a meeting held at Punjab Bhawan late last evening, with four-member US Police delegation comprising Deputy Chief of Paterson Police Department Mr. William G. Fraher, Inspector Adjutant Robert E. Thursland, Head Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration (CJA) John Jay College of Criminal
Justice Dr. Maria (Maki) Haberfield and Professor Michael C. Walker.
Taking part in the deliberations, Mr. Badal said that to make Punjab Police more responsive, people friendly and professionally skilled the Punjab Government intend to initiate a joint programme with New York
Police department. He said that it would provide a healthy and meaningful platform for both sides to exchange their expertise and experiences for good policing through organizing special interactions, seminars and camps. Mr. Badal said this programme would further enhance criminal investigation skills and develop people friendly
attitude in a result oriented manner amongst our cops.
         Responding positively, Dr. Maria (Maki) Haberfield assured the Chief Minister to take up this matter with higher authorities of US Police and College. She said that Police being an arm of the government was fully committed for the stability in the state, organizing such innovative programmes could prove to be an asset for creating an environment where people feel secure. She further said that during her this short visit to Punjab and interaction with high police officers, she realised that Punjab had a good baseline to achieve good Policing as the crime rate in state was already much lower than other parts of the world. She also assured the Chief
Minister of full support and co-operation to start this new venture.
         Prominent amongst those present on the occasion Jails Minister Mr. Hira Singh Gabria, Chief Secretary Mr. SC Agrawal, Principal Secretary Home Mr. DS Bains, Special Principal Secretary to
Chief Minister Mr. KJS Cheema and Director General of Police Mr. PS
Gill, besides various high officers of the Police department.

Mridul Punia, Ravinder Arya bag swimming gold

 by sportswire4u.blogspot.com (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, JULY 6
Mridul Punia won gold in the Under-17 boys 100 metres backstroke by clocking 1:14.35 in the Chandigarh Sports Department organised junior swimming championship at the All-Weather Swimming Pool in Sector 23 here today.
Amandeep Singh (1:15.13) and Sahil Savlania (1:18.35) bagged silver and bronze, respectively.
Ravinder Arya clocked 59.17 to finish first in the Under-17 boys 100 metres freestyle final. , Sahil Salvania covered  the distance in 1:00.15 to claim silver medal while the bronze medal went to  Amandeep Singh with a timing of 1:03.21.
Shubh Karman Dhaliwal bagged gold in the Under-17 girls 100 metres freestyle by clocking  1:07.31. Sahibpreet Kaur (1:16.26) and Sukriti Nehra (1:31.62) secured silver and bronze, respectively.
Results: 25m boys freestyle: 1 Rudraksh Jaswal (23.88), 2 Dhruv(24.22), 3 Adit Gupta(25.09). 25m girls freestyle:  1 Kudrat Thkhar (22.67), 2 Preena Kour(25.36), 3 Gurnoor Kour(25.43). 100 m boys freestyle(U-10): 1 Asav Kumar(1:21.06), 2 Raghvansh (1:33.52), 3 Manan Kashyap(1:53.62). 100 m girls freestyle (U-10): 1 Jasmeet Kaur(1:30.47), 2 Simrat Kaur(2:25.24), 3 Muskan(2:38.40).
 100 m Boys Freestyle(U-12):  1 Roshan Chirag(1:13.10), 2 Ranjut Singh(1:15.25), 3 Shuban Aria( 1:21.24). 100m Girls Freestyle(U-12): 1  Akansha Sethi (1:32.12), 2 Anhad Kaur( 1:33.23), 3 Barkat Singh(1:47.14). 100 m Boys Freestyle(U-14): 1 Tejinder Singh(1:11.02), 2 Mukesh Trar (1:14.62), 3 Nilesh Biswas(1:15.36). 100 m Girls Freestyle (U-14): 1  Manimehtab Kaur(1:11.20), 2 Prachi Wadhawan(1:20.29), 3 Prabhleen Bhathal(1:35.00). 100 m Boys Freestyle U-17: 1 Ravinder Arya(59.17), 2 Sahil Salvania(1:00.15), 3 Amandeep Singh(1:03.21).
100m Girls Freestyle U-17: 1 Shubh Karman Dhaliwal(1:07.31), 2 Sahibpreet Kaur(1:16.26), 2 Sukriti Nehra(1:31.62). 25m Boys Backstroke (U-8): 1   Saleh Barghamadi(27.02), 2 Siddarth Singla(32.70), 3 Anhat Singh(33.71). 25m  Girls Backstroke(U-8) : 1 Kudrat Takhar(27.36), 2 Gurnoor Kaur(30.94), 3 Parmpreet Kaur(33.85). 50m Girls backstroke(U-10): 1 Jasmeet Kaur(47.74), 2 Soumya Nayyar(54.51),3 Simrat Kaur(1:09.54). 100 m Boys Backstroke(U-14): 1 Tejinder Singh (1:26.40), 2 Rajaprithu Sharma(1:29.48), 3 Abhishek Arora(1:30.72). 100 m Boys backstroke(U-17): 1 Mridul Punia(1:14.35), 2 Amandeep Singh( 1:15.13), 3 Sahil Savlania (1:18.35). 50 m Boys butterfly(U-14): 1 Nilesh Biswas(44.49), 2 Rajaprithu Sharma(44.62), 3 Amtoj Singh (45.34).

Sachin and Fatehdeep keep winning streak

by sportswire4u.blogspot.com (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, JULY 6
Local trainee Sachin Kumar  maintained his winning spree in the boys under-16 as well as under-14 singles pre-quarter-finals of the AITA Junior Circuit Nationals Series being conducted by the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association at Lake Club Complex and Sector 10 Tennis Stadium here today.
Seeded top in the boys Under-14, Sachin Kumar showed the exit door to Yuvraj Singh Raghuvanshi of Madhya Pradesh by 6-4, 6-2. His quarter-final encounter will be against another Chandigarh player  Dheeranush Singh Bhatti who ousted) Udayan Bhakar of Punjab in straight sets 6-2, 6-4.
After meekly surrendering the first set, unseeded Param Pun of Chandigarh staged a remarkale rally to snuff out the spirited challenge of 13th seed Shrey Gupta of Haryana to win by 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. Pun will now face eighth seeded BS Rahul of Karnataka who stopped the victory run of  Pranav Malhotraof Delhi 6-3, 6-3.
Sixth seed Sachin Kumar of Chandigarh also qualified for boys under-16 singles quarter-final. He won the first set by losing just one game (6-1) to take an early 1-0 lead against S.D. Prajawal Dev  of Karnataka. The second set was a neck-and-neck affair. They were locked 6-all  before Sachin clinched the issue in tie-breaker 7-6 (1).  Sachin's next opponent will be third seed Jude Raymond of Andrha Pradesh. Jude Raymond defeated Allen Johnson Kundan of Punjab by 6-4, 6-4.
Unseeded Jajbir Singh of Punjab stunned seventh seed CLTA trainee  Ranjeet Singh in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 and  set up a quarter-final duel with top seed and strong contender Fatehdeep Singh of Punjab who defeated Pranav Malhotra in straight sets 6-2, 6-2. Second seed Shashank Nautiyal of Delhi also easily qualified for quarter-final by beating another Delhi player  Vishu Prasad  in straight sets 6-4, 6-0.
Top seed Rimpledeep Kaur of Punjab proved too good for  A. Shameemaof Tamil Nadu  without dropping a single game in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 in the girls under-16 singles second round match. 
 In a contrasting style Snehal Umesh Mane of Maharashtra toiled to overcome Shehnaz Singh of Delhi 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Snehal will face Rimpledeep Kaur in the third round. Kavita Mishra of Punjab also struggled to beat Jaya Bhandari of Delhi in three sets 6-0, 4-6, 6-3. 
Results:
Boys Under-14 (Pre-Quarterfinals):  Sachin Kumar (CHD) bt Yuvraj Singh Raghuvanshi (MP) 6-4, 6-2, Dheeranush Singh Bhatti (CHD) bt Udayan Bhakar (PB) 6-2, 6-4, Nikhil Passi (MAH) bt V. Jeevan (DLI) 6-1, 6-1, Alex Solanki (DLI) bt Indra Patwardhan (MAH) 7-5, 6-1, Dhruv Pal (UTK) bt Dhir Gala (MAH) 6-1, 6-2,  B.R. Nishkep (KAR) bt Raswant Ravi (TN) 6-1, 6-3, B.S. Rahul (KAR) bt Pranav Malhotra (DLI) 6-3, 6-3, Param Pun (CHD) bt Shrey Gupta (HAR) 1-6, 7-5, 7-5.
 Boys Under-16 (PQFs): Fatehdeep Singh (PB) bt Pranav Malhotra (DLI) 6-2, 6-2, Jajbir Singh (PB) bt Ranjeet Singh (CHD) 6-2, 6-4, Jude Raymond (AP) bt  Allen Johnson Kundan (PB) 6-4, 6-4, Sachin Kumar (CHD) bt S.D. Prajawal Dev (KAR) 6-1, 7-6(1), Hardeep Singh Sandhu (PB) bt Rahul Singh (DLI) 6-2, 6-3, Gagan Sharma (RAJ) bt Indra Patwardhan (MAH) 6-2, 6-1, I.B. Akshay (TN) bt Pranav Suri (CHD) 6-4, 6-3,  Shashank Nautiyal (DLI) bt Vishu Prasad (DLI) 6-4, 6-0.
Girls Under-14 (2nd round):  Prabhuti Singhania (PB) bt Prinkle Singh (J&K) 6-0, 6-0,  Thanushree Palani Vale (TN) bt Mansi Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-2,  Zeel Desai (GUJ) bt Sabrina Gill (CHD) 6-7(4), 6-3, 7-5, Vanshika Sawhney (DLI) bt Aastha Malhotra (CHD) 6-1, 6-1,  Nandini Sharma (PB) bt Rutvi Jatin Shah (GUJ) 6-0, 6-0,  Jaya Bhandari (DLI) bt Saranya Nagpal (AP) 6-0, 6-3, Bhavya Wadhawan (CHD) bt T. Shrayashree 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, Rashmitha Pasula Reddy (AP) bt Nandini Gupta (AP) 6-1, 6-0, Isha Budwal (MP) bt Shreya Kalia (HP) 6-0, 6-1, Sruta Kirti Gunuganti (AP) bt Pooja Mourya (PB) 6-1, 6-0, Simran Wadhwa (DLI) bt Aastha Babasaheb Dargude (MAH) 6-2, 6-2.
Girls Under-16 (2nd round): Rimpledeep Kaur (PB) bt A. Shameema (TN) 6-0, 6-0,  Snehal Umesh Mane (MAH) bt Shehnaz Singh (DLI) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, Himani Mor (HAR) bt Saranya Nagpal (AP) 6-1, 6-1,  Tanushree Palani Vele (TN) bt Rashmitha Pasula Reddy (AP) 7-5, 6-4,  Victoria Chahal (HAR) bt Avika Sagwal (PB) 6-2, 6-1, Bhavya Wadhawan (CHD) bt Ruivi Shah (GUJ) 6-0, 6-0,  Samriti (DLI) bt B. Moulika Ram (AP) 6-1, 6-1, Prabhuti Singhania (DLI) bt Kavya Bharat (TN) 6-3, 6-3,  Vanshika Sawhney (DLI) bt Nandini Sharma (PB) 6-3, 6-4,  Anupreet Bedi (DLI) bt Bhawani Balakumar (TN) 7-6(3), 6-3, Zeel Desai (GUJ) bt Nimrat Walia (CHD) 6-3, 6-3, Pranjala Yadlapalli (AP) bt Charvi Saxena (CHD) 6-2, 6-1,  Pooja Mourya (PB) bt Sambhavi Dixit (AP) 6-1, 6-1,  Renu Sharma (HAR) bt Karishma Mehta (CHD) 6-1, 6-1,  Kavita Mishra (PB) bt Jaya Bhandari (DLI) 6-0, 4-6, 6-3,  Riya Bhatia (DLI) bt Sruta Kirti Gunuganti (AP) 6-1, 6-2.

Punjab doubles allowance of drivers

 by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 6

The Punjab government has decided to revise special Pay/Special Allowance to the drivers working in the Departments/Offices other them Secretariat Offices.         

According to an official spokesman the departments have been asked to identified that such drivers working in the departments/offices and other than Secretariat Offices, who were working after working hours, holidays and Sundays. 
The Allowance of such drivers have been revised from Rs. 300/- to 700/- from 5-9-2008 and from Rs. 700 to 1400 from 1-10-2010.  The special allowance is not to be paid to the Drivers who have retired before 5-9-2008 or expired or not in services from any other reason. The staff car drivers posted in projects where Project Allowance is admissible would not be granted this allowance.

Punjab Govt to ensure ban on affidavits for 89 services

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, JULY 3

The Punjab Government has issued directions to the all Deputy Commissioner and Sub Divisional Magistrates to properly ensure compliance of ban on Affidavits for 89 services as finalized by the Government.

Disclosing this here today a spokesman of Punjab government said that Punjab government had done away with submission of affidavits in all those cases where it was not legally mandatory to provide relief to the common masses, who had been spend lot of money and energy for preparing these affidavits. He said that ban on affidavits was one of the major recommendation of Punjab Governance Reforms Commission setup at the initiative of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal. The spokesman said that it had come to the notice of the State Government that different districts were not brining to the knowledge of common people the 89 services for which affidavits have been banned. He said that directions have been issued to the all Deputy Commissioners, SDMs to display 89 services at different prominent places in District Administrative Complexes, SDM Offices, Tehsil Offices, Suwidha Kendrayas, District Courts and other public places for the information of the public so that no body could fleece them for unnecessary affidavits. He said that DCs and SDMs have been asked to conduct surprise checks to ensure that all District Offices were complying with the directions regarding waiver of affidavits.

The spokesman said that after thorough deliberations with the officers and representatives of public, this list of 89 services had been approved. 

          The spokesman revealed that affidavits have been waived in the 89 services including for issuance of  certificate of  Nambardari,  Un-married Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Duplicated Registration Certificate, Duplicate  Licence, Cancellation of Higher Purchase Agreement, Sanction of Aides under National Horticulture Mission. and National Agriculture Scheme, Release of subsidy on agriculture tools, for handicap scheme,  sanction of loan under Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY), declaration for condonation  of shortage of lectures  by college students, sanction of grant under Shagun Scheme, issuance of Backward area certificate, Rural Area certificate, Kandi Area Certificate, SC/BC certificate, No Due Certificate regarding Loan against land, Freedom Fighter Certificate, Dependent Certificate,  for addition or deletion of name in Ration Card, issuance of New Ration Card, Registration of Marriage, Registration of document, No Objection Certificate from both the Party in case of joint property, sanction of Tubewell connection under priority category, declaration  at the time of admission of students, Issuance of Duplicate Ration Card, Counter signatures on translated copies of Ration Card, Sanction of Licence for new fair price shop  (Ration Depot)  or duplicate copy of the same, issuance of Licence for Brick kiln or Duplicate copy of the same, Issuance of change of land use as per master plan , Regarding Change of Title in case of water connection , change of name regarding House Tax, for waiver of House Tax, for Commercial Electricity connections, amendment in Birth or Death  Certificate, Late registration of Death and Birth, Permission for construction of basement, regarding non- litigation in case of property, regarding Construction as per approved Building Plan,  regarding completion Certificate of building, regarding vacation government land, issuance of Survivors Certificate or Succession Certificate, NOC of  marriage palaces,  NOC of video Parlour, Title of Printing Press /Newspaper, Regarding Character certificate (Media  related), Issuance  of Residence Certificate and sanction of benefits under family planning scheme.

          Similarly, no affidavit required would be required for issuance of Police Clearance Certificate, Release of Subsidy in Schemes of Fisheries Department, digging up of new pond, renovation of old pond, for providing feed and food to fishes, for providing 16 Marla free of cost land for setting up of new Tubewell, sanctions of Ex-India leave, sanctions of Final  Payment of GPF and Medical reimbursement, issuance of Surviving family member Certificate, employment on compassionate ground, availing of leave travel concession, sanction of proficiency step up under assured progression scheme, sanction for approval for higher education, Issuance of NOC for Passport by an employee, declining of promotion by an employee,  sanction of GPF/CPF advance to the employees, joining of an employees  after availing long leave, sanction of pension after retirement, All other matters regarding GPF of employees, Allotment  of residential houses the employees appointed on contracted basis, sanction of advances of House building  and vehicles, sanction of Ex-gratia and other benefits on the death of an employee, Regarding voluntary retirement, reimbursement of Medical bills to the retired employees, at the time of clearance of probation period by an employee, declaration before joining government services, declaration of Inter-district transfers, Permission to sale after conveyance deed (NOC)  by allottee, transfer of Plot/House/Commercial site (before CD) by allottee, Issue of Conveyance Deed: No due Certificate and Copies of documents: for duplicate copies of documents, issue of re-allotment letter/transfer of ownership letter, issue of permission to mortgage, issue of Certificate of Registration as an Estate agent, Issue of Certificate of Registration as promoter, Permission for professional consultancy and STD services in residential houses.   

The spokesman said that  services for which affidavits were being taken as being mandatory included  Issue of Passport, regarding sale/purchases of ammunition, regarding titles of Magazines/Newspapers, Issue of new or renew of the licences for pesticides and seeds, regarding sale/purchase of vehicles, regarding Primary enquires of Panches/ Sarpanches , registration of Society under Society Registration Act, 1860, Regarding  M.P. LAD  scheme, Loan from different banks, regarding Direct Loan Scheme, Regarding National Sweeper Employees Scheme, Regarding National Scheduled Caste Finance Schemes, for setting up of agencies under small saving scheme, Regarding permission to the concerned owners for cutting in closed areas under   Section -4  of five year felling programme, regarding approval of diversion of Forest Land under F.C.A.1980 from the concerned user agency, permission to sale after conveyance deed (NOC) by purchaser, by GPA/Sub-GPA of purchaser, indemnity bound by purchaser, transfer of plot/house/commercial site  (before CD) by purchaser, by GPA/Sub-GPA of purchaser, indemnity bound by purchaser, Issue of Conveyance Deed. No due certificate and copies of documents: for C.D. through GPA and permission to change of ownership as a consequence of death of owner of Plot/House/Commercial Site.

Semi-finalists spotted in KVFC Soccer

by sportswire44.blogspot.com (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, JULY 2
Rajeshwar Football Club  will face Mohali Football Club and Chardi Kalan Football Club will  cross swords with Durga Public School in the semi-finals of the Kendirya Vihar Football Club organised football tournment at the Sector 17 Football Stadium here.
The semi-finals will be played at 10 a.m while the final is slated for 5.30 a.m.
In preliminary round matches,  KVFC-A beat United- 45 by 2-1;  Chardi Kalan FC ekedout a narrow 1-0 win over Gursewak DMC; KVFC-B prevailed over Youngsters-27 by 2-1;  Rajeshwar blanked United-43 4-0 and MFC got the better of Tricity fc 3-2
In quarter-final matches, Mohali FC blanked  MCA 4-0; Chardi Kalan FC ousted KVFC-A 2-0; Durga Public School defeated KVFC-B 2-1 in sudden death and Rajeshwar FC beat Red Devils 2-0.

Hard-fought wins for Yash, Sumit and Harshit

by sportswire4u.blogspot.com (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, JULY 2
Yash Vardhan Singh (Haryana), Sumit Pal Singh (J&K) and Harshit Sharma (Delhi) registered hard-fought victories in the boys under-16 singles second round qualifying round matches in the CLTA-AITA National Series Tennis Tournament at Lake Sports Complex and Sector 10 Tennis Stadium here today. The winners were extended to tie-breaker before just managing to win and move into next round.
Yash Vardhan Singh  accounted for Aakash Goyal (Raj) 9-8 (5) while Sumit Pal Singh (J&K) edged past Samrat Rana (Chandigarh) 9-8 (5). Harshit Sharma (Delhi) pipped a fighting Jagmeet Singh (Haryana) 9-8 (4).
Rajasthan's Kamal Maderna who trains at CLTA ousted Anmol Gupta (Delhi) 9-6 and another Chandigarh player Param Pun outplayed Jeychandran Dennis of Maharashtra  9-2,
 Results (qualifying, 2nd round):
Boys Under-16: Kamal Maderna (Chd) bt Anmol Gupta (Delhi) 9-6, Yogesh (Delhi) bt Chandan Agnihotrai (Chd) 9-2, Utsav Patel (Guj) bt Santbeer Singh (Chd) 9-3,Shrey Gupta (Haryana) bt Rohit Kumar (Haryana) 9-5, Vikas Beriwal (Haryana) bt Mohit Kumar (Haryana) 9-3,  Waiga Arya (Haryana) bt Ishan Kakkar (Punjab) 9-5, Birguman Singh (Chd) bt Abhishek Sardana 9-4, V Jeewan (TN) Adhayana Bau (Chandigarh) 9-3, Dheer Anus Bhatti (Chd) bt Sethiak Shyam Kumar (Punjab) 9-0, Yuvraj Singh (Haryana) bt Pandoh Aman (JK) 9-0, Durgesh Aggarwal (UP) bt Anand Goyal (Punjab) 9-0,  Sahil Bhutwala bt Yashdeep Singh (Delhi) 9-2, Rohan Punj (Delhi) bt Sajender Singh (Delhi) 9-2,  Ramdoss Preet Kumar (TN) bt  Harsh Arya (Haryana) 9-2, Shivam Dalmia (Delhi) bt Harshit Gupta (Delhi) 9-2, Vikrant Dahiya (Chd) bt Abhinav Kapoor (UP) 9-2, Shaaj Dave (Guj) 9-4, Sumit Pal Singh (J&K) bt  Samrat Rana (Chd) 9-8 (5),  Chinmay (Delhi) bt  Parasdeep Singh Virk (Haryana) 9-1, Danish Siddique bt Nihit Rawal (Chd) 9-5, Rahul Khapra (Haryana) w/o Simran Pal Prabh (Chd), Harshit Sharma (Delhi) bt Jagmeet Singh (Haryana) 9-8 (4), Yash Vardhan Singh (Haryana) bt Aakash Goyal (Raj) 9-8 (5), Barun Gill (Chd) w/o Nikhil Sandhu (Pb), Mayank Yadav (Delhi) w/o Ajay Dhruv Puniani (Chd), Mayuk Rawat (Utrakhand) bt Manjot Singh (Chd) 9-3, Sultan Singh Atwal (Punjab) bt Jai Dosajh (Chd) 9-0, Param Pun (Chd) bt Jeychandran Dennis (Mah) 9-2, Mohit Bhardwaj (Delhi) bt Vir Singh (Delhi) 9-0, Surya Prasad (Kar) bt  Rashil Yadav (Haryana) 9-2, Digvijay Ahalawat (Haryana) bt Dhruva Arya (Haryana) 9-0.
Boys U-14 (qualifying, 2nd round): Mridul Kharkwal (UP) bt Harnoor Khosa (Punjab) 9-4, Ankush Mishra (Pb) bt  Rustam Dahiya 9-3, Chirag Dahiya (Har) bt Sahishnu Sharma (JK) 9-7, Anuj Malik (Har) bt Nitish Kumar (Delhi) 9-5, Ankit Rao (Haryana) bt  Ankrish Khanna (Chd) 9-0, Saarthak Jain (JK) bt Aniket Khosa (Chd) 9-3, Preet Singh (Delhi) bt Chiraz Singh (Chd) 9-8 (4), Rishab Sharda (Chd) bt Shreya Chopra (Chd) 9-1, Atishay Jain  bt Raghav  Chadha (Chd) 9-0,  Amanjot Dhindsa (Chd) bt Anchit Gupta (Chd) 9-3, Abhishek (Delhi) b Vaibhav Rattan (Chd) 9-3, Deepak Bhatt (Mah) bt  Rohit Rawat (Utrakhand) 9-6, Lakshay Pasricha (Delhi) w/o  M Nargeta (Chd), Mohit Bhatt (Mah) bt Arshdeep Singh (Punjab) 9-3, Arun Kumar Singh (Chd) bt Rishab Khanna (Chd) 9-5, Siddharath Basnet (Sikkim) bt Vishavit Baidwan (Punjab) 9-0, Mritunjay Badola bt Rahul Verma (Chd) 9-0, Saurabh Prashar  (Chd) bt Neeraj Yashpaul (Chd) 9-0, Krishna Rajput (UP) bt  Jaideep Singh (Punjab) 9-1, Sagar Bains (Chd) bt  Tegbir Singh Chawla (Chd) 9-0, Amit Beniwal (Haryana) bt Nikhil Kundu (Haryana) 9-3, Sahaj Somani (Del)  bt Jagjit Singh (Chd) 9-3, Angrej Shopal (Chd) bt Manvir Sohi (Pb) 9-0, Sarang Sandal (Chd) bt Himanshu Mor (Har) 9-6. Chaitanya Chauhan (Delhi) bt Nitin Dhir (Chd) 9-0, Rupesh Khokar (Haryana) bt  Adita Gupta 9-0, Gaurang Mehta (Delhi) bt Sachit Malhotra (Chd) 9-2, Digvijay Partap (Haryana) bt Rajdeep Singh (Punjab) 9-1, Raunaq Singh Marwah (Har) bt Yuvraj Singh (Chd) 9-2.

AICTE permits Aryans Group to start engineering college

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, JULY 2
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has given approval to Aryans Group of Colleges yesterday to start an Engineering College from this academic session (2011-12). Aryans College of Engineering (ACE) has been allotted total 300 seats in Civil, Mechanical, Computer Science, Electronics & Communication and Electronics & Electrical Engineering.
Dr.Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group said that "it took us one year to complete the process of land acquisition, Construction of building and creating other paraphernalia".  He further said that around 10% seats have been reserved for economically weaker section of society which would be selected by Navjyoti India Foundation which is an NGO led by Dr.Kiran Bedi.
These students would be funded for education by Aryans with the help of Corporates, NGOs and Banks.
Dr. Kataria added “Most of the engineering colleges in this region are focusing on placements & we are also not ignoring this but at the same time our major focus would be to produce Job Creators instead of Job seekers. With that intention, we have already established the 1st incubation centre of the region by PTU”.
Dr..D.P.Singh, Director, Aryans Group said that after the great success of existing colleges of Aryans, we decided to come up with an engineering project to impart quality of education to the students. He further said that the main motivating factor to start an engineering college is the feedback of our existing students only.
It is to be mentioned that Aryans 20 acre campus is in Village Nepra/Thuha, between Banur & Rajpura, Chandigarh –Patiala highway, near Chandigarh. The Group is already running MBA colleges, BBA/BCA College and B.Ed College. The Group has recently been awarded the Best Upcoming B-School of North India by the renowned Magazine "Business and Management Chronicle". Dr. Kiran Bedi (First Women IPS) awarded ABS as Best Upcoming B - School of North India in the Times Research Education Excellence Awards Ceremony 2010.ABS has also been ranked 48th among top Pvt. B Schools in India by Dainik Bhaskar.
It is to be mentioned that out of 1062 colleges who applied for AICTE approval to start the colleges, only around 400 colleges were approved.
India has around 1.3 million students enrolled in around 3,200 engineering colleges, and produces nearly 5, 00,000 engineers a year. With the huge shortage of engineers in India, basically in Civil and Mechanical streams, the government is considering allowing engineering schools to admit more students in an attempt which will add around 200,000 seats in graduate courses and that seeks to address a growing shortage of engineers in the country.