SAS Nagar: The hearing on the show-cause notice issued to Mohali Municipal Council president, Rajinder Singh Rana, will be held on September 5.
The notice was issued to the MC president on the basis of a letter filed by Mohali EO Jagir Singh Thind. He had alleged that Rana had deliberately postponed a sanitation. Rana was also accused of misusing his official powers and transferring employees in the MC.
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Chandigarh: Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator SF Rodrigues today inaugurated ‘IntraLase’, an advanced approach to customised laser vision correction at Grewal Eye Institute (GEI), Sector 9.
IntraLase is a 100 per cent blade-free approach to creating corneal flap, the thin flap of tissue that the doctor folds back in, in order to perform the LASIK procedure.
“Traditionally, doctors use an instrument called a microkeratome for the creation of corneal flaps. The microkeratome is a hand-held blade that moves across the eye, cutting the corneal flap as it goes,” explained Dr SPS Grewal, MD, GEI. “The IntraLase method, by contrast, enables the doctor to create the corneal flap without a blade ever touching the eye,” Dr Grewal said.
“The list of complications shrinks with this technology. Moreover, using laser makes sure that the inherent strength of the tissues inside the eyes remains intact,” Dr Grewal said.
Eye transplant is another area where IntraLase has brought a revolution. It shapes the donor cornea button precisely, for eye transplant procedures, said Dr Grewal. The procedure costs Rs 46,000 for one eye.
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Chandigarh: Nearly two years after the Right to Information (RTI) Act came into force in the country, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has cleared the implementation of the Act in the state.
A committee of Judges had been constituted by to study the act and frame rules to govern its implementation.
Sources contended that certain provisions and clauses have been added to the original Act.
A senior High Court official MM Dhonchak has been designated the public information officer. All applications under the RTI Act will be filed with him.
The pending applications under the act will be taken up for disposal by the High Court. The High Court has also designated certain officials in the district courts for dealing with the Right To Information applications.
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Chandigarh: The District Consumer Forum has directed Chief Administrator, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), to give immediate possession of a plot in Gurgaon to a city resident who has been struggling to get the allotment for the past ten years.
The Forum has also ordered HUDA a payment of Rs 25, 000 to the complainant as compensation on account of physical and mental harassment.
The complainant, Chander Pal Tyagi, resident of Sector 37 C was initially alloted plot 585 in Sector 23 A, Gurgaon in 1981.
The complainant had made total payment as per schedule with lost payment made in March 1991. But in April 1994, HUDA informed Chander Pal Tyagi that the plot in question was not available at the time of demarcation and therefore an alternative plot of the same size was being offered in Sector 10 A, Gurgaon.
However, the actual allotment of this alternative plot remained in abeyance and finally in April 1995, the complainant was intimated that he could choose an alternative plot (no 3394A) in the same sector.
Chander Pal Tyagi accepted and in spite of repeated reminders and requests, was not given the possession of the said plot.
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Panchkula: The Haryana government should provide loans to poor farmers at not more than 4 per cent interest, said Rattan Lal Kataria, former Ambala MP and vice-president, BJP, Haryana state unit, at a press conference held at the party office in Sector 2, Panchkula, on Tuesday. The party members also demanded that the farmers of the state be provided with ample financial security in view of the spate of suicides.
“The glaring fact is that in the past three and a half years of the UPA government’s rule, around 1,15,000 farmers have committed suicide. Due to the wrong policies followed by government, the farmers had to take such drastic measures. Besides, in the NDA government, there was never a need to import wheat, rather, we sold wheat to other countries,” said Kataria in the conference.
He added that it was quite strange that the state which used to have surplus wheat, was forced to import it from other places because of the deficit.
The vice-president not only demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter, but also asked the government to come up with an answer to the Gohana episode that took place recently.
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SAS Nagar: Mohali will be facing acute water crisis for around 15 days - October 10 to 25, owing to the repair works at a railway bridge near Anandpur Sahib. The water from Kajoli will have to be stored to be pumped later to Mohali and Chandigarh. According to information, only 25 per cent of the total water being supplied presently will be available during the 15 days.
The water being supplied in Mohali through canal from Kajoli is 10 mgd and the remaining 3 mgd is being supplied from various tubewells in Mohali coming under Municipal Council and GMADA.
According to the officials of Public Health Department, the residents would be provided water for short durations. This supply will be provided for only 6 hours (2 hours each in the morning, afternoon and night) daily.
A S Kalsi, XEN, Public Health, Mohali, said that the speculation about having only 25 per cent of water supply from Kajoli is based on a similar repair work done in 2000.
He said that at that time, water was stored at Kajoli and pumped from there to Mohali and Chandigarh. He said that besides pumping water, discharge of water from tubewells in Mohali will also increase.
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Chandigarh: Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Chandigarh is being conferred upon the NLM-UNESCO Award this year for its outstanding achievements in the field of literacy programs, under the chairmanship of KL Zakir. The award comprises of Rs. 50,000 and a citation, which will be conferred by the President of India at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on the occasion of International Literacy Day, September 8.
NLM UNESCO Award was constituted in the year 1998 to encourage the institutions in the field of adult education and literacy programs. The award is presented to the selected State Resource Centre, Jan Shikshan Sansthan and University Department of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension for their outstanding work.
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Chandigarh: The members of Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) presented a memorandum to the Vice Chancellor RC Sobti, on the reduced number of attempts in internal exams for all science subjects in the university.
Earlier, the students were provided three chances to appear in the internal Science exams, out of which two chances were taken. Recently, the university reduced theses chaces to two. The SOPU members said that the decision must be revised and considered again, before being implemented.
The party members had assured the students that all their problems will be tackled and solved by the SOPU. Recently SOPU members had also taken up the issue of students residing in the boy’s hostel should share the rent, which was agreed by the authorities.
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Chandigarh: UT Administrator S F Rodrigues, will lay the foundation stone of the Entrepreneur Development Centre at the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park today. The Entrepreneur Development Centre (EDC) at the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park (RGCTP) is to come up over an area of 1.5 acre approximately. This would contain built up space for companies, which can be taken on rental basis and also modern plug and play facilities for research and development laboratories.
The plan for EDC is based on the concept that small and medium companies need space of small capacity on rental basis as they do not normally have the capacity to invest in their own campuses initially.
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Chandigarh: The report of the expert committee constituted by Chandigarh Administration to recommend organisations, suitable for setting up educational institutions was submitted on Tuesday.
The expert committee has recommended the courses in the fields of management (including retail management, financial management and other modern areas), Biotechnology and Genomics, computer science engineering, hospital administration, pharmaceutical courses and animation/multimedia schools to be run by the selected organisations such as DAV Management Society, Fortis Healthcare, Shri Vile Parle Kelvani Mandal (NIMS Mumbai), Tech Manhindra Ltd, Hitabhilashi Foundation Society in association with IL&FS and Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics.
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