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BADAL ORDERS TO HIKE SALARY OF COMPUTER TEACHERS FROM RS.7000 TO RS.10000 PM

CHANDIGARH JANUARY 15:

Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today ordered to hike the salary of Computer teachers from Rs.7000 to Rs.10000 per month with immediate effect.

A decision to this effect was taken by Mr. Badal during a meeting with the deputation of Punjab State Computer Teacher Union led by its President Gurvinder Singh. This decision would benefit 7172 computer teachers through out the state. Mr. Badal asked the members of the deputation to inspire their fellow teachers to teach the students with dedication and sincerity because they were the nation builders.

It may be recalled that computer education as a subject has been introduced from class 6th to 12th in 4965 government schools. The state education department has decided to conduct the examination of computer subject of class 8th, 10th and 12th by the Punjab School Education Board from the academic session 2009-10.

The meeting was attended by Education Minister Mrs. Upinderjit Kaur, Chief Secretary RI Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister DS Guru, Principal Secretary Finance SC Aggarwal, Secretary School Education KBS Sidhu, OSD to Chief Minister Sandeep Hans and DPI Secondary Harcharanjit Kaur Brar


PUNJAB ORDERS MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY INTO INCIDENT OF RAID OF NAIB TEHSILDAR'S OFFICE

CHANDIGARH JANUARY 15:

Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today ordered a magisterial inquiry to look into the ground realities of the raid conducted by the vigilance department on the office of Naib Tehsildar Mullanpur Dakha in Ludhiana district last week. Mr. Badal directed to submit a detailed report within a month.

An assurance to this effect was given by Mr. Badal to the deputation of the Punjab Association of Tehsildars and District Revenue Officers led by its President Ram Singh called on him this evening. The Chief Minister also directed the state Chief Secretary to ask the vigilance department to conduct such raids on Revenue offices if necessary in future as per the prescribed guidelines laid down by the state Revenue Department.

Referring to another demand of the revenue officers, Mr. Badal asked the Chief Secretary to examine their demand to allow promotions in their cadre based on the principle of seniority cum merit as per the same procedure adopted in the case of elevation of PCS (EB) to IAS by UPSC instead of nomination. Prominent amongst others who were present in the meeting included Chief Secretary RI Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister DS Guru, Financial Commissioner Revenue Mrs.Romila Dubey, Commissioner Patiala Division Jasbir Singh Bir and OSD to Chief Minister NS Sangha


Party will contest Lok Sabha elections on development issue-Sukhbir Singh Badal

· 102 new distributaries had been approved to ensure better irrigation

Mansa, 15 January

"Party will contest upcoming Lok Sabha elections on development issue", says Shiromani Akali Dal president, MP, Sukhbir Singh Badal. He was addressing media persons after laying foundation stone of the project of restoring the capacity of Ghaggar branch canal and its distributaries at village Kishangarh of the district. He said that state is developing at a fast pace in every field, may it be the field of agriculture, industry, trade, power production and distribution, education, heath services etc. He said that an amount of Rs. 2000 Crore will be invested on settingup of central university in Bathinda.

"Project of modifying century old canal system had been started by SAD-BJP government at an investment of Rs.3268 crore to enhance the intake capacity of canals by 40 percent, of which Rs.700 crore had been invested and 102 new distributaries had been approved to ensure better irrigation facilities to the farmers", says Mr. Badal. He said that the 3200 Crore project of repairing and developing canal irrigation system in the state will be completed in two years term as Rs. 1200 Crore work is in progress at fast pace. "Canal system in state was more than a century old and negligence in repairing it results into lack of irrigation capacity. Now, with its revival its capacity will be increased", says Mr. Badal.

SAD president and star campaigner Mr. Badal addressing a public rally after laying foundation stones of RO systems in village Datewas and Gobindpura of the district Mansa said that the other major aim of the SAD-BJP government is to provide safe drinking water to every native of the state so that he or she can live healthy. To obtain this objective R.O. system would be installed in all the villages of the state by the end of next financial year. He said that these RO systems were costing Rs. 10 Lack each and will provide quality drinking water at the cost 10 paisa per litre. He said that diseases like cancer, bone problems, kidney failure etc in the area were outcome of contaminated ground water.

Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal said that Mr. Badal said that party will contest coming Lok Sabha elections on development issue. He said that government is increasing distribution capacity besides boosting the power production. Mr Badal told that 30 power grids were will be completed till March 2009. He said that Rs. 250 Crore had been invested till December in this project and Rs 200 crore will be invested in this financial year. He informed that construction work on 70 power grids is in progress.Mr. Badal said that new power grids will help in reducing burden from previous ones and thus help in helps in reducing power loss. He said that at present total power loss in state is 3.5 percent and to reduce it all the 33KV power grids of the state will be upgraded to 66KV in a year. He said that proper distribution will not only help in providing new tube well connections to farmers but also provide sufficient power to install new industries in cities and towns.

During today's visit Mr. Badal initiated the development work of increasing the capacity of Sunam distributary system by 20 percent and project of restoring the capacity of Ghaggar branch canal and its distributaries. These projects will cost Rs 4.17 Crore and 17.06 Crore respectively. With the restoration of capacity of Ghaggar branch canal and its distributaries 110 villages of Mansa, 258 villages of Sangrur and 53 villages of Patiala district will be benefited. Whereas, 20 percent increase in Sunam Distributory will benefit 20 villages of Budlada and Sunam constituency.



3 CHAIRMEN AND 12 VICE CHAIRMEN NOMINATED IN 13 MARKET COMMITTEES
5 MEMBERS DISTRICT PLANNING COMMITTEE AMRITSAR NOMINATED

CHANDIGARH JANUARY 15, 2009

The Punjab Government today nominated three Chairmen and twelve Vice Chairmen in 13 Market Committees besides five members of district Planning Committee Amritsar.

Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Punjab government said that these Chairmen and Vice Chairmen had been nominated under Sub Section (1) of Section 16 of Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961. The respective notifications relating to these nominations had been issued by the State Agriculture department.

According to these Notifications, Mr. Hardev Singh and Mr. Darshan Singh have been nominated as Chairman and Vice Chairman of Market Committee Attari in Amritsar district. Mr. Gurjit Singh and Mr.Sarbjit Singh Mangat have been nominated as Chairman and Vice Chairman of Market Committee Doraha in Ludhiana district and Mr. Ashok Jerath as Chairman of Market Committee Fazilka in Ferozepur district. Likewise Mr. Kudeep Madan, Mr. Ashwani Kumar, Mr. Raman Kumar, Mr. Sanjiv Kumar, Mr. Mohinder Kumar and Mr. Inderjit Gupta have been nominated as Vice Chairmen of Khamano in Fatehgarh Sahib district, Kurali in Mohali district, Samrala in Ludhiana district, Sadik in Faridkot district, Mour and Bhucho in Bathinda district respectively.

Mr. Chamkaur Singh Brar, Mr. Satpal Singh, Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mahajan and Mr. Surinder Kumar have been nominated as Vice Chairmen of Market Committees of Kotakpura in Faridkot district, Rampura Phul, Rama Mandi and Sangat in Bathinda district respectively.

Meanwhile the Punjab government had nominated Mr. Anwar Masih, Master Preet Singh Barlash, Mr. Bawa Singh Gumaanpura, Mr. Sardul Singh Sham and Mr. Manmohan Singh Verka as members of the District Planning Committee Amritsar.


CANADIAN IMMIGRATION MINISTER SEEKS PUNJAB'S COOPERATION TO CHECK ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

CHANDIGARH JANUARY 15:

A high powered delegation led by Canadian Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney today called on Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal and sought cooperation from the Punjab government to address the issues of fraudulent visa cases that had created a major problem for both Canadian as well as Indian Government.

Expressing concern over the issue, Mr. Badal assured the delegation that Punjab Government would extent its fulsome support and cooperation to evolve a permanent solution to curb this illegal practice. The Chief Minister directed the State Chief Secretary to coordinate with the visiting delegation and chalk out detailed modalities to resolve this issue in a time bound manner. Mr. Badal was apprised in the meeting that few owners of marriage palaces were involved in arranging fake marriages in connivance with travel agents/immigration consultants to provide photographs of marriage in support of proof for the purpose of Canadian visa to illegal persons.

Taking part in the deliberations, Mr. Badal assured the visiting Canadian Minister that State Government would take stringent action against the erring travel agents involved in the exploitation of women in getting them married with the persons intended to seek Canadian Visa which ultimately result in broken marriages.

The other areas of interest taken up by the delegation included diversification of agriculture, trade, education besides initiating programmes to impart skill development training through technology transfer to enable our youth to be gainfully employed in Canada. Mr. Jason Kenney informed that Canadian Government was also keen to seek help from the Punjab Government for setting up high schools with certification from educational institutions of British Colombia in Punjab. He also informed that the agriculture was another thrust areas in which his government was also keen to work together with Punjab for mutual benefits as Punjab had a proven track of agrarian economy in India. He also offered to begin joint study/research programmes to be undertaken in this regard to enhance the productivity of agricultural crops both qualitatively and quantitatively besides initiating steps towards diversification of agriculture which was the need of the hour.

Assuring whole hearted support in the areas of bilateral interests on behalf of the Punjab government, the Chief Minister offered to provide the services of highly skilled technically youth to Canada as per their requirements after all the requisite security and immigration clearances. He said our vibrant young farmers had a knack of farming in their blood as heritage profession and had already done marvels in our state and still they had unbounded abilities and capabilities to do wonders, which could be replicated in Canada too.

The other members of delegation included Param Gill, Tim Uppal and Ed Fast (all MPs) and Director Alyhtihan Velshi. The meeting was also attended by Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Mr. D.S. Guru and Special Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr. K.J.S. Cheema.