PUNJAB

Punjab Government has named 10 government schools of the respective areas after the Olympic medal winner hockey players.

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Sharing the information, the state School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Sunday said that the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has given the approval to rename schools after the name of 11 Punjabi players of the Indian hockey team who won a bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020.

The Minister said that Government Senior Secondary School (GSSS) Mithapur, Jalandhar, has been named after Indian hockey team captain Manpreet Singh, and the school will now be known as Olympian Manpreet Singh Government Senior Secondary School, Mithapur.

There was a golden contribution of Punjab in the field of Indian Sports and it has sent the second largest contingent in Olympics in the country as 20 sportspersons were from Punjab out of total 124.

To tackle the stray animal menace, the Punjab Government is set to take the help of technology. The Government will soon be launching an e-portal on which anyone can upload the picture of stray animals roaming in their area following which the enforcement staff will take them away and rehabilitate them at the pounds and sheds available for the purpose in the State.

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This 24×7 facility will be one-of-its-own-type and is aimed at checking the increasing menace of stray animals.

Besides, the existing capacity of the cattle pounds besides the sheds at the government facilities will also be augmented with additional space to accommodate more stray animals to be caught under the special drive to free the roads and public spaces of the stray animals in the state.

The uploaded picture on the portal shall be accessed at the headquarter level, from where the same will be automatically transferred to the concerned officials for catching and taking away the photographed stray animals.

On getting the intimation, the animal catching team, along with all requisite necessary equipment and , will move to the area concerned and bring that animal to the nearest shelter, pound, and shed with prior information to that government and private facility for making all the necessary arrangements for the arriving animal.

The animal, after being lodged at the facility, would be given due veterinary care by the local veterinarian and the requisite care and management would be provided by the concerned shelter house for ensuring proper rehabilitation of the caught stray animal.

New agriculture policy to resolve problems of farmers, says Dhaliwal

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Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said the new agricultural policy to be released on June 30 this year will help solve many problems of farmers. He said the new policy was being prepared with the suggestions from farmers, agricultural experts, farm leaders, people and representatives of different sections.

Presiding over a nearly four-hour-long meeting regarding demands of the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) at Punjab Bhavan, Dhaliwal said the new policy was being prepared with the aim of boosting the agrarian economy. He said the government was exploring opportunities to export vegetables and other crops to neighbouring countries.

IIT Ropar develops device to monitor ambient temperature during vaccine transportation

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Researchers at theIndian Institute of Technology(IIT), Ropar, have developed a first-of-its-kind IoT device AmbiTag which records real-timeambient temperatureduring thetransportationof perishable products, body organs andblood, Vaccines etc.

AmbiTag is an USB-shaped device that continuously records the temperature of its immediate surroundings from -40 to +80 degrees in any time zone for a full 90 days on a single charge.

Most of the similar devices available in the international market record data only for a duration of 30-60 days. The device has a range of in-built features to customise logging intervals, time zone, and alarms.

The AmbiTag temperature data log advises the user whether the transported item is usable or the cold chain has been compromised during the transportation. This information is particularly critical for vaccines, organs, and blood transportation in the Indian scenario.

20 years of Panjab Digital Library: 6.5 crore manuscripts & counting

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For years, Sikh studies scholar Madanjit Kaurs vast collection lay stacked in a storeroom in her Mohali house. Little did she realise that the guard had been selling the priceless heritage she had collected over years, bit by bit. As age caught up, she worried about what would happen to the treasure trove of knowledge. Around this time, she came to know of the Panjab Digital Library (PDL), which had been digitising manuscripts. Realising that if whatever remained of her books, manuscripts, coins, photographs and paintings was digitised in time, all knowledge might not be lost.

PDL turns 20 this month and has digitally preserved over 65 million pages, a monumental achievement towards safeguarding Punjabs memory for future generations. Among those whose collections have been digitised are poet Harnam Singh Shan, Dr Gurdev Singh Sidhu, Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, photographer SB Durga, Giani Gurdit Singh, Bhai Sikander Singh, Kulwant Singh Musafir and many more.

SGPC passes Rs 1,138-cr budget, allocates Rs 855 cr for gurdwaras

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The SGPC unanimously passed a budget of Rs 1,138 crore for the fiscal 2023-24 here today. It recorded a hike of Rs 150 crore (around 15 per cent) in comparison to the last years budget of Rs 988 crore.

Out of Rs 1,138 crore, Rs 855 crore would go to various gurdwaras as grant. During the next fiscal, the SGPC will pay over Rs 500 crore as salary bills for the entire staff of gurdwaras, Education and healthcare institutions, Rs 87.33 crore for serving langar and Rs 60.36 crore for karah parshad to be distributed among devotees. Similarly, Rs 24 crore has been kept for constructing serais

Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Balbir Singh on Sunday said that the government would soon introduce Emergency Response System based on coordination of Private and Government Hospitals to attend to the patients in critical need.

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He said that top priority would be given to the Emergency Response System which includes setting up a strong Network of more than 1400 ambulances of private and government hospitals, deputation of advanced life support ambulances in all Government Hospitals situated on highways in the state, blood donors’ directory, etc.

Terming the Farishtey scheme another step towards saving lives of accident victims in golden hours, the Minister appealed to all the residents to equip their vehicles with first aid kits besides rushing the victim to the nearest hospital.

Indias largest bio-energy plant dedicated to people

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In a major move to prevent states farmers from burning stubble besides giving a push to the ex-situ management of stubble in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, along with Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri, on Tuesday dedicated Indias largest Bio-Energy plant, constructed at a cost of Rs 230 crore over 20 acres of land.

The Chief Minister said it will contribute to an annual reduction of 1.50 lakh Metric Ton of pollutants and 20,000 MT of fly ash currently produced due to paddy straw burning. This unit will also give EMPLOYMENT to 1000 youth and affect more than 5,000 families, he said adding that the acreage of enriched from Biomanure will be 2,150 acres.

The CBG plant is a step in achieving objectives of the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme, which was launched by Government of India in October 2018 to establish an ecosystem for production of CBG from various waste or Biomass sources in the country.

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh assured a farmers delegation that he would soon meet the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to raise their demand for further revision in compensation against land acquired by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Bharatmala Pariyojana.

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The farmers have rejected the meager compensation awarded by the District Revenue Officers (DROs), who have been designated as CALAs (Competent Authority for Land Acquisitions).

The issue relates to 25,000 hectares of land in 15 districts across the State. The land is under process of acquisition for the project covering multiple expressways, viz Delhi-Jammu-Katra, Jamnagar-Amritsar, Ludhiana-Ropar, Bathinda-Dabwali, besides bypass for Jalandhar and Ludhiana.

Punjab Govt to hold Pind-Sarkar Milnis for villages holistic development

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To give a boost to the development works in the states villages besides making the people at the grass-root level an active partner in the governments decision-making, Punjab Government will organize the Pind-Sarkar Milnis (village-government meetings), on the lines of Kisan-Sarkar Milni programme.

Announcing this, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said that thesemilniswill be organized at district headquarters in Majha, Malwa, and Doaba regions of the State.

In thesemilnis, the panchayats will apprise the officers about the development works to be started in their villages, said Mann while asking the Rural Development and Panchayats Department to make elaborate arrangements for making this event a huge success.

The Chief Minister said that thesemilniswill be organized twice a week in the Malwa region of the State, and once in a week in Doaba and Majha regions. This will help in resolution of pity issues of the villages that are pending at the level of the officers and have been hitherto not resolved. The Government will also solicit views of the panchayats that have taken path breaking initiatives to develop their villages on scientific lines, he said.

Envisioning that like Kisan-Sarkar milni this scheme will go a long way in transforming the villages of the state into development hubs, Mann said that Kisan-Sarkar Milni had already proved useful for resolving the issues faced by the states farmers. Village-Sarkaar Milni will go a long way in further ensuring holistic development of the villages, he added.