Electricity will be in private hands by the end of the year, bid documents will be released next month. All preparations have been made to complete the privatisation process of the Chandigarh electricity department. The UT administration will issue the bid document by November end. UT Administrator’s advisor Manoj Parida had held a meeting with […]
Corona examination of patients coming to outpatient department (OPD) has started in Government Multi Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, on Tuesday. Now, a patient will not need to undergo screening in flu clinics for Covid. For this purpose, the hospital administration has created four separate counters in the new OPD. Three counters are in the […]
Panjab University (PU) may get a permanent registrar in November. There are many contenders for this post who are making recommendations from their respective levels. The post is for three years. The chair became vacant after Prof Karamjit Singh, ex-registrar, became the vice-chancellor of Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University. A month ago, […]
Panjab University (PU) is coming up with an entrepreneurship, employability and innovation hub at its campus, under the Rashtriya Uchchattar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) 2.0. The hub will help nurture startups based on engineering technologies and interplaying areas in pharmaceutical, biological, physical and chemical sciences as well as from social sciences, IT and management sectors, stated […]
Haryana government has made significant changes in the process of getting a new family identity card. Now only one member of the family will need to go to the Common Service Centre and get the identity card made. The whole family does not need to go now. The member visiting the Common Service Centre should […]
The central government has approved setting up two oxygen plants in Chandigarh. One plant would be set up at the Civil Hospital, Sector 48, being run by the GMCH, and other will be built on the premises of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32. Administrator VP Singh Badnore thanked Prime Minister (PM) Narendra […]
Major farmer federations with over 500 constituent organisations met today at Gurudwara Rakabganj, New Delhi, and announced an all India road blockade on November 5, 2020. The farmers’ bodies, including the entire working group and state chapter representatives of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) and the federations led by farmer leaders Balbir Singh […]
After the recruitment exam in UT administration, around 3,000 applicants are waiting for the typing test, which has not been held due to the pandemic. Candidates who have passed the examination are demanding to conduct the test for the past several months. SK Jha, Secretary, Department of Personnel, says that the department is making efforts […]
The Education Department has sent a detailed advisory on the opening of schools to the heads of private and government schools. Students from class 9 to 12 will attend the school from November 2 with the permission of parents. The Education Department has also ordered senior officials to conduct inspections in schools. School in Chandigarh […]