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MARKET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, VICE CHAIRMAN
AND 13 MEMBERS NOMINATED Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Chief Minister’s Office said that the Punjab government under Section 12 of Punjab Agriculture Produce Markets Act, 1961 (Punjab Act No.23 of 1961) had nominated 11 members in Market Committee of Jalandhar Cantt., one member in Market Committee of Faridkot and two members in Mallod in Ludhiana district. The respective notifications relating to these nominations had already been issued by the State Agriculture department. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dental Implant Centre to be setup soon at Mohali- Badal S.A.S Nagar (Mohali), December 13: Presiding over the 16th National Conference of Indian Society of Oral Implantlogy and Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Dental Council of India here at niper, Mr. Badal said that several such Dental Implant Center would be established in other Government Hospitals and Primary Health Centre in a phased manner. The upcoming Punjab Dental Implant Centre at Mohali would enable the common man to avail the facility of getting best quality implants at the subsidized rate approximately Rs 9,000-10,000 for which the Private Sector was charging around Rs. 25,000-30000 . Realizing the huge potential for implant dentistry in Punjab, Mr. Badal said that the upliftment of dentistry in the State was top priority. He said, “If teeth are lost, the taste of food is lost and finally health is lost including the quality of life.” The Chief Minister further said that the Punjab Government had laid special emphasis on the up gradation on Dental Infrastructure in the Government Hospitals. He said that 90 dental chairs with highly advanced specifications along with 20 digital X-rays costing around Rs. 4.5 crore were being purchased. He said most of this Dental equipment would be deployed in the Primary Health Centers to provide advanced dental facilities to the rural masses. Mr. Badal further said that Punjab was the only state, which was providing free full dentures by organizing dental fortnight every year in the month of November. This fortnight 67 camps were organized all over Punjab and approximately 1900 dentures were delivered. The Chief Minister said that with the advancement of Dental implant technology, the life expectancy of the teeth in the past years used to be 35-40yrs. But with lot of advancement in the field of dentistry the life expectancy had now touched 65-70 Years. A large numbers of people from Punjab were settled abroad and because of them a lot of awareness had come up in the field of dental implants in Punjab. Even patient education, conferences and lectures on dental implants have certainly helped in increasing awareness on dental implants. No doubt press and media have also brought a sea change in bringing awareness about dental implants, he added. On the occasion Mr. Badal honored several noted personalities associated with the field of in the Dentistry and Oral Implantology who had rendered outstanding contribution in their respective fields. Speaking on the occasion convener of the conference Dr. Randeep Singh Mann said that the Dentistry was a field that was advancing at a tremendous pace in the past years because of the increase in the awareness for the dental treatment, availability of expertise and also the affordability of the dental treatment. The introduction of latest dental gadgets have made the dental treatment more refined, pain free and less time consuming. Now in the era of dental implants the treatment of replacing the missing teeth with implants had become highly advanced. The dental implants have been introduced in India in the recent years only. Implant dentistry was being practiced in countries like USA, Canada, Europe and other western countries for the last three decades or so. Dr. Mann complimented the Chief Minister for his unstinted support and cooperation for the promotion of Dentistry and enhancement of oral health care in the state. In his address, the President of the Dental Council of India Dr. Anil Kohli impressed upon imparting the quality Dental Education and Patient care. He underscored the need for providing basic Dental care for the underprivileged and for the people living in the rural areas, those who did not have access to the modern Dental care services. Prominent amongest others who were present on the occasion included: Dr S S Gill, Vice Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Dr Ritesh Chandra, President, Indian Society of Oral Implantology, Dr Rama Rao, Director NIPER, Dr S P S Sodhi, Organizing Chairman, 16th National Conference, Indian Society of Oral Implantology besides delegates who attended the Conference. Addressing a large gathering of dairy farmers, Mr. Badal called upon the Punjabi farmers with small land holdings to adopt dairy farming as full time vocation. He said that the state government had chalked out a comprehensive programme to provide finical assistance as well as technical know-how to promote commercial dairy farming to facilitate the small farmers with land less than 5 acres for setting up a small unit of dairy farm with 10-20 crossbred cows and a model cattle shed in the state. The Chief Minister also announced that government would spend Rs. 62 crore for the insurance scheme of animals recommended by the Punjab Farmers Commission in next five years. Expressing concern over the poor quality of buffaloes Mr. Badal also called upon PDFA to setup a Breading Center to produce healthy - disease free animals of good quality and assured full support by the government. Lauding the roll of PDFA, the Chief Minister said that with their collective efforts of the members of the association, a new era of commercial dairy farming had been initiated in the state. He appreciated the achievement of the Association and assured fulsome support and cooperation of the state government. Animal Husbandry & Dairy Development Minister, Punjab Mr. Gulzar Singh Ranike, in his address invited the farmers to avail facilities of training offered by Dairy Development Department and GADVASU, Ludhiana at their training centers. He also assured that the joint efforts of the farmers and Animal Husbandry Department for the animal vaccination would soon launch a campaign in the State to control of Brucellosis and IBR diseases. He said that a project for development of buffaloes was being implemented shortly under which facilities of Artificial Insemination in buffaloes would be provided at the doorsteps of the farmers. In the beginning 600 Integrated Buffalo Development Centers would be setup to cover 3000 villages in the state, the government had earmarked Rs. 60 crores for this project, added the Minister Dr. G.S. Kalkat, Chairman, Punjab State Farmers Commission, in his address emphasized the need to control incidences of Brucellosis and IBR diseases in milch animals, which are major causes of financial loss to the farmers. He urged the Government to facilitate the PDFA for importing sexed semen to ensure sufficient availability of female cows in future to set up more commercial dairy farms.
Earlier, Mr. Badal flagged off two Mobile Veterinary Vans dedicated by the PDFA to the dairy farmers of Punjab. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a letter sent to the PM Dr Manmohan Singh, PCC Chairman S. Jaswant Singh Chhapa rued that it was ironical that Amritsar was being deprived the heritage status even as other cities of the country, which were not as old as Amritsar was, have already been accorded the heritage status. "So what is preventing the government from according the status to Amritsar which deserves even more,” he asked the GOI. He said that Amritsar city houses 10.03 lakh people (2001 census), 3000 more than the technical requirement for shifting it from Category B to C, the category which lists 28 cities on the basis of their religious, historical and tourist importance. These cities have got greater financial contribution on the patter of 80:20 to develop their infrastructure, S Chappa lamented. Making a forceful demand for declaring Amritsar a heritage city, the PCC Chairman further said that the historic city houses a pride of places which Harmandar Sahib and Jallian Wala Bagh enjoyed in the world, with top international leaders making time to offer prayers and visits there. About two lakh devotees daily offer prayers at the Golden Temple. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a statement issued here, Mr. Badal said that the State Government had always been accepting the electricity consumer’s genuine demands and relaxing norms whenever required. The Chief Minister informed that inspite of lesser rains this year, Punjab had been able to surpass the targeted paddy this year due to far more numbers of tube-well connections released by PSEB to meet with the demand of water for paddy. He said that so far PSEB had released 52889 tube well connections this year. The extra preparedness resulted into not only achieving higher level of production of paddy but also contributed significantly in terms of 141.79 lac MT of paddy to the National Food Pool. The Chief Minister said that the Gram Panchayats which had common land for irrigation have been allowed more than one tube well connection on priority to facilitate irrigation of their land. He said that some of the panchayats have a large holding and this decision would help them in getting their land properly irrigated which would augment their incomes used for development of villages. Mr Badal further said that Punjab Government had been paying special attention to farmers of the water-logged areas especially in the Malwa Belt. He pointed out that 24000 Tubewell connections have been released in this area to combat menace of water-logging (SEM) The Chief Minister added that as demanded by farmers during meeting with various Kissan Unions, the State Government had directed Punjab State Electricity Board to reconcile theft cases during paddy 2009 and charging on actual basis. He revealed that the Board had taken decision in this regard and it had been conveyed to all Zonal Chief Engineers to be implemented with immediate effect. The Chief Minister also informed that the Punjab Government had also allowed Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) to Agricultural Tubewell Consumers @ Rs.1000/- per BHP in addition to security of Rs.200/- per BHP for getting their motor loads authorized by PSEB.
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