by Punjabnewswire4u
CHANDIGARH, NOV 8
The
Punjab Cabinet today approved the summoning of the 3rd Session of 14th Vidhan Sabha from 17 to 21, 2012.
A
decision to this effect was taken here at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by
PunjabChief Minister Mr. Parkash
Singh Badal in CMO this morning.
Giving
the details, the spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that the
session would commence on December 17 in the afternoon with obituary
references. Financial Business if any, would be undertaken on December 18
and Legislative business on December 19. Non-official business would be
conducted on December 20 and the house would adjourn sine-die after the
proposed legislative business on December 21, 2012. There would be
six sittings during these five days and double sitting would be on December
19.
In order
to check the menace of female foeticide and impart quality education to the
girls in the state besides extending financial assistance to the poor families
in bringing up the girl child, the Cabinet gave a go ahead to the work plan for
the year 2012-13 to implement the proposed ‘Bebe Nanki Ladli Beti Kalyan
Scheme’. The scheme which was a part of ‘Measures to improve Sex Ratio’
under the 13th Finance
Commission would benefit the families having an annual income below Rs 30,000
or those covered under the Atta Dal scheme of the state government. The
scheme would be applicable to the girl child born in the state after January 1,
2011. Besides, the scheme would be applicable to all the orphan girls
found in the state after January 1, 2011. Under the scheme Rs 51.75 crore
would be spent in year 2012-13 to deposit Rs 20,000 each in Life Insurance
Corporation for 25875 beneficiaries.
The Cabinet also approved the policy guidelines and building norms for the
regularization of old as well as new marriage palaces in the state. The
regularization of the existing marriage places would be permissible up to
December 31, 2012 on payment of rationalized charges and no application would
be entertained after December 20, 2012 for this purpose. Under the said
policy, regularization of the new marriage palaces would be recommended by the
district level committee. The policy has regulated the procedure and the
entire state has been divided into seven zones for levying the Change of Land
Use (CLU).
The Cabinet also approved the creation of 21 posts of the newly set up Food
Processing department to implement the food and agro processing policy
besides giving suggestions from time to time to keep abreast the prospective
entrepreneurs about the schemes launched by National Mission on
Food Processing (NMFP). The directorate of food processing would also act
as a single window for the prompt processing and clearance of the proposals of
mega-agri projects under the industrial policy.
In order to ensure proper and efficient functioning of the Industrial Training
Institutes (ITIs) across the state and cope up with the shortage of Craft
Instructors and Senior Assistants in the Technical Education and Industrial
Training Department, the Cabinet gave a nod to take out 255 posts of craft
instructors and 33 senior assistants from the purview of Punjab Public Service
Commission/Punjab State Subordinate Services Selection Board. These craft
instructors and senior assistants would be recruited forthwith on the basis of
written test conducted by a designated agency in a transparent and fair manner
as per the departmental rules so that the shortage of technical staff at
cutting edge was taken care of. The newly staff to be required
would ensure proper implementation of National Skill Development Mission and
Skilled Development schemes of the department.
The Cabinet also decided to hold the Council of Ministers’ meeting regularly on
second and fourth Thursday every month.
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