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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SHOULD BE APPOINTED On this occasion a book titled ‘Right to know versus Governmental
Secrecy ‘authored by Dr. Shiva Sharma Additional District
Judge, Panchkula was also released by Justice A.K.Goel. Mr. Justice
Altamas Kabir laid down the foundation stone of High Court Guest
House at Chandigarh Judicial Academy. EMERGENCY LANDING OF DEPUTY CM, Sukhbir SIngh Badal’s CHOPPER
COPTER FLOWN BACK TO DELHI Giving this information, Chief Minister’s Media Advisor Mr. Harcharan Bains said that soon after the landing, Mr. Badal left for his scheduled programmes as a part of his thanksgiving trip of the Jalalabad constituency. He will be attending all the functions as per programme already announced. Meanwhile, the DGCA has allowed the helicopter to be flown back to New Delhi. The Punjab government has referred the whole incident to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Government of India, for a full scale inquiry. Preliminary reports hinted towards a technical snag with a glitch in the cyclical control of the helicopter but the government would make a formal statement on the causes only after the DGCA submits its report, said the Media Advisor. Mr. Bains said that the Deputy Chief Minister was returning from New Delhi by Bell 230 chopper, specially chartered from Prem Air by the Punjab Government for VIP flying duty. On arrival near the scheduled helipad, Pilot and Co-Pilot Col. Vishnu Rawal and Capt Padma experienced some difficulty in going ahead with the landing and decided to ascend to a higher plane for alternate landing site. As per aviation norms, they evacuated some of the fuel of the chopper before steering the helicopter to on an unscheduled landing site. The chopper landed where he had gone last night after a hectic day long thanksgiving tour of the constituency. On his arrival over the scheduled BSF helipad, there appears to have been some glitch, forcing the pilots to decide on an alternative landing site. The Copter finally soft landed at an open place in Gobind Nagar in Jalalabad on the Jalalabad-Fazilka Road. Meanwhile, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal has thanked countless well wishers who have been frantically enquiring about his welfare since morning.
The Punjab Government would construct a 10- bedded Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Sri Bhaini Sahib under National Rural Health Mission during the current fiscal. An assurance to this effect was given at a meeting of the Kuka Martyrs Memorial Trust chaired by the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal to the Vice Chairman of the trust Mr. Surinder Singh Namdhari here this morning. Mr. Badal also gave in principle approval to set up an ayurvedic dispensary in the upcoming PHC in view of the long pending demand of the local residents of the area. The Chief Minister also asked the Vice Chancellor of the Guru
Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Dr. A.S. Brar to ensure smooth functioning
of Satguru Ram Singh Chair and assured the trust that provision
of adequate funds would be made in the annual state budget by the
department of Higher Education on the regular basis as per the requirement
of the university. Mr. Badal also directed the Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana to hold
a special meeting with the members of the trust to resolve all the
pending issues relating to the beautification of Satguru Ram Singh
Park and erection of Namdhari Martyrs’ monument in Ludhiana
besides the construction of another memorial at Raikot and declaration
of 5 km area in and around Sri Bhaini Sahib and Raiana as controlled
planning area. Mr. Badal also directed the PWD (B&R) department
to study the feasibility of 4-laning of the approach road from Sri
Bhaini Sahib to link the Ludhiana-Chandigarh road. The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr.DS Guru, Secretary Housing & Urban Development Mr.Arun Goel, Secretary Health & Family Welfare Mr.Satish Chandra, Secretary Medical Education & Research Ms.Anjali Bhawara, Director Local Government Mr.SK Sharma, Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana Mr. Vikas Garg and Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr.Gaggandip Singh Brar.
The Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Financial Commissioner Taxation Mr. SS Brar to explore ways and means for the quick disposal of the pending cases of the VAT refunds. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Chamber of industrial & Commercial Undertakings (CICU) here at Punjab Bhawan this morning. Mr. Badal asked the Excise & Taxation department to carryout this entire exercise within 15 days especially in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar in the first phase and also asked the members of the CICU to cooperate with the committee to give their suggestions which could be finally incorporated in the final report to streamline the system of the payment of VAT refunds. He asked the FCT to simplify the procedure of the payment of VAT refunds and unwarranted formalities involved in the process should be done away. It was informed in the meeting by the FCT that the refunds to the tune of Rs.240 crore were pending and of an equal amount had been disbursed to the industrialists so far. He also sought cooperation from the industrialists to submit complete documents at the time of making an application for seeking VAT refund and also urged them to go for e-filling of their returns, which would not only ensure transparency and efficiency in the system but also hasten the procedure of the payment of VAT refunds. Referring to the proposal put forth by CICU regarding the use of solar power as an alternate to conventional thermal or hydro power in view of global power crisis, the Chief Minister asked the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) to conduct a study to ascertain its feasibility and economic viability before its implementation. The CICU apprised the Chief Minister that the scenario of industry especially in Ludhiana was dismal due to frequent power cuts and non payment of refunds and sought his personal intervention to save the industry especially the small and medium enterprises from such uncompetitive scenario and economic slow down. Responding to their demands, Mr. Badal directed the Punjab State Electricity Board to immediately allow the industry to install generators of the desired capacity to cope up with the prevailing situation. He also assured the members of the CICU that industry would be given priority during the relaxation norms announced by the PSEB from time to time as per the availability of power. The Chief Minister also directed the Local Government department
to immediately start the work of upgradation of existing focal points
in consultation with the local industrialists. He said that the
government had already released Rs.7 crore for Ludhiana and Rs.5
crore for Amritsar besides this a sum of Rs.25 crore would be released
soon during the current fiscal to undertake the entire programme
of upgradation in the existing focal points through out the state
on the priority. The Chief Minister assured the CICU that the Punjab government was committed to the welfare of industrialists and it would soon come up with its new industrial policy which was almost ready and hoped that it would provide much relief to them on one hand and boost the pace of industrialization on the other. Prominent amongst others who attended the meeting Financial Commissioner Taxation Mr. SS Brar, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr.DS Guru, Principal Secretary Industries & Commerce Mr.SS Channy, Secretary-cum-Director Industries Mr.VK Janjua, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr.KJS Cheema, Member Distribution PSEB Mr. KD Chaudhary and Director Local Government Mr. SK Sharma. The CICU was led by its President Mr.Inderjit Singh Pradhan and represented by Vice Chairman Medium Industry Development Board Mr.Satish Kumar Dhanda and General Secretary Mr.Avtar Singh. PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER SHOULD BE APPOINTED BY EACH DEPARTMENT-R.I.SINGH The Punjab State Information Commission and the State Legal Services Authorities of Punjab and Haryana jointly organized a seminar on RTI Act here today. Mr. Justice Altamas Kabir, Judge Supreme Court of India was the Chief Guest while Justice Tirath Singh Thakur, Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court presided over the function. While presiding over the technical session, Mr. R.I.Singh Chief Information Commissioner Punjab emphasized the need of appointing Public Information Officer by each department who should be a senior officer duly empowered and sensitized to the needs of the persons seeking information. He also said that complete transparency was required in the entire process. The Appellate Authority needs to be the Head of the Department, said Mr. Singh. On this occasion a book titled ‘Right to know versus Governmental Secrecy ‘authored by Dr. Shiva Sharma Additional District Judge, Panchkula was also released by Justice A.K.Goel. Mr. Justice Altamas Kabir laid down the foundation stone of High Court Guest House at Chandigarh Judicial Academy. INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT. PUNJAB SPECIAL CAMP TO OFFER 62 JOB LETTERS TO DEPENDENTS ON 31ST Chandigarh August 30: The Punjab Government is going to organise a special camp on 31st August at SAS Nagar Mohali to offer job letters to 62 dependents of deceased teachers and others employees of the education department for recruitment on compassionate grounds. Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, Education Minister, Punjab would preside over the camp and hand over the job letters to the beneficiaries. Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of Education Department
Punjab said that the State Government has fulfilled the promises
made to the teachers to initiate the fresh recruitment and promotion
processes and to provide jobs on priority basis to the dependents
of departmental employees who died in harness. In this regard a
special camp was being organised on Monday 31st August at 11.00
am in conference hall at Punjab School Education Board SAS Nagar
Mohali to present 51 job letters to category-III employees including
3 clerks besides 11 beneficiaries belonging to Master cadre, he
said. WHIRLWIND DEVELOPMENT LOADED 'THANKSGIVING’ TOUR OF SUKHBIR MESMERIZES JALALABAD VOTERS • TERRORISM WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO RAISE ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN PROMISES SUKHBIR Chandigarh, August 29 They expected fast development when they voted Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal to Vidhan Sabha with highest ever record margin but they never expected that development to be so fast. Sukhbir Singh Badal's maiden thanks giving visit to his constituency, Jalalabad bowled over voters of this border area as the Deputy Chief Minister came to fulfill his commitment to usher an era of overall development with the first package of more than 30 projects worth Rs. 30 Crore relating to Link roads, Schools, Colleges, Power and his dream project Suvidha Centre. The Jalalabad town today got Government Girls College where as government school was inaugurated in village Dhandi Qadim. The villagers of village Kiriyan Wali thanked Deputy Chief Minister profusely as Chief Minister inaugurated Water Supply Scheme for the village where as students of Ghubaya were thrilled as Mr. Badal inaugurated a new Government School. Similarly, Water Supply project was inaugurated in Dhandi Khurd. The Deputy Chief Minister laid the road map of development of
this backward border area as he laid the foundation stone of Links
roads in Jhangar Bhaini, Mahatam Nagar, Shama Khan Ka, Hauj Gandhar,
Sohna Sandar, Mohkam Araian and Tiwana. The dream of having RO system
in every village of Jalalabad constituency leaped further as Mr.
Badal laid the foundation stone of Water Supply Scheme in Jamna
Basti Jalalabad. Similarly, people of Gobind Nagar, Jalalabad welcomed
the Deputy Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of underground
sewerage system for this locality. The Deputy Chief Minister directed the Deputy Commissioner Ferozpur to divide Jalalabad constituency in 10 segments, organize multi-departmental camps and provide on the spot old age pension cards, blue cards for Atta-Dal scheme and distribute Shagun scheme cheques to the beneficiaries. Promising to personally monitor the development of this region, Mr. Badal said that he would visit this constituency every month for on the spot physical verification of progress of development projects being reported to him. Mr. Badal said that people would soon see the fructification of development policies initiated by SAD-BJP government. Besides completion of four thermal plants having combined capacity of 7000 MW, Bio Mass plants with capacity of 1000 MW, all major roads in the state including Patiala-Bathinda, Chandigarh-Jalandhar, Chandigarh-Ludhiana would be four lanned. He said that he personally went to the Union Minister and got 5 National Highways sanctioned. Mr. Badal said that work on 47 ROBs was being put on fast track besides launching series of measures to provide door step service to the citizens of Punjab. Mr. Badal said that the first Suvida Centre with ISO certification been inaugurated tomorrow at Abohar and a cluster of every six village would have such Suvida Centre within next 18 months. Mr. Badal said that Jalalabad is all set to be included in Gunnies Book of Records with every village of this constituency having the facility of RO system or ultra filtration system. Later speaking to media persons, Mr. Badal said that his government
was committed not to allow terrorism to raise its ugly head in Punjab
again. He said that as a Home Minister of the state he was keeping
a close watch on all developments and police would maintain rule
of law at all cost. Mr. Badal said that he had already requested
Union Home Minister to enhance the grant to Punjab Police under
modernization plan so that state police could be equipped fully
to meet any challenge posed by anti national forces. Mr. Badal said
that there would not be any let up in drive against anti national
elements involved in narcotics trade. HIGHLIGHTS
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The Punjab Deputy
Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir SIngh Badal landed safely at 9. 50 this
morning, some distance away from the scheduled BSF helipad in Jalalabad.
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