PUNJAB

Punjabchief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday announced a scheme Mera Ghar Mere Naam to grant proprietary rights to the people living in houses within the Lal Lakir of villages and cities. The entire exercise in this regard will be completed within two months, he said.

Channi told media persons after the cabinet meeting, that earlier this scheme was launched only for the residents of villages, which is now being extended to the eligible residents of the cities within the Lal Lakir. He said the revenue department has been mandated to undertake drone surveys of such residential properties both in rural and urban areas for digital mapping. Subsequently, all the eligible residents after proper identification and verification would be given the property cards to confer proprietary rights upon them.

The scheme was brought in earlier for villages, but it did not work out as planned. Now we will extend it to urban areas too. The revenue department will use drones for this exercise to make maps. Objections can be submitted in a period of 15 days, said Channi.

The state has joinedHimachal Pradeshat the top of states with R-value greater than the national Average.

As per the data shared by the Centre, there are six districts in Himachal Hamirpur, Kangra, Bilaspur, Chamba, Mandi and Shimla which reported an increasing trend in daily new cases during the last two weeks, of which one district recorded a weekly positivity rate of over 10%, double the limit recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Himachal is ranked third amongst states where an increasing trend has been noted in maximum districts.

The rate of infection in Haryana has been recorded at 1. However, the situation is stable at the moment. As per the latest data released by the Centre, no fresh cases of Delta Plus (AY.1) variant have been detected in the region. Out of 86, cases of Delta Plus variant that signifies Delta lineage with an additional mutation found in the country, only eight have been traced in the region four in Chandigarh, two in Punjab and one each in Himachal and Haryana in samples examined by the National Centre for Disease Control and CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology for whole genome sequencing.

Punjab Resources“>Water Resources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has released Rs 33.50 crore from the Disaster Management fund and in addition to it also approved the release of another Rs 71 crore.

Hayer said many areas of Punjab had to bear the brunt of flood. He had visited spots where Siswan and Budhki rivers damaged canals and washed out roads.

The Minister said the department has made full preparations. The situation is under control and people need not panic. The flood-affected people in the district have been lodged in relief camps, where their food and accommodation have been fully arranged.

In the last one year, steel manufacturers have suffered a big blow due to uncontrollable rise in the rates of steel. According to them, there has been 20 to 100% increase in the rates of different types of steel products since July 2020, despite a huge fall in the demand for steel.

As a result of this, every singleMSMEunit is suffering huge losses and several units have closed down their operations temporarily. If the government fails to take steps to counter the situation, it is certain that a large number of factories will close down permanently.

Thirteen years after 871 acres of land was acquired by the then government for setting up a thermal power plant at Gobindpura village in Mansa district, the AAP government today gave permission to set up a solar power plant.

The company for which the land was acquired Poena Power Development Limited has been granted permission to change the project from thermal to , including solar power generation.

ThePunjabgovernment vaccinated 16,932 persons in the age group of 18-44 years, taking the total number of vaccinated people in this group to 4,27,329.

All of them have been administered Covishieldvaccine. The entire target was met by the for this group without wasting any dose.

The state nodal officer for vaccination Vikas Garg said that priority groups in the age group of 18-44 years were formed by the state government and these were vaccinated vigorously. He said the state government had received a total of 4.29 lakh doses for this age group.

Giving details of vaccination recipients, the state nodal officer said that 3,328 people with co-morbidities, 3,326 registered construction workers and their families, 7,463 unregistered construction workers and their families, 2,485 members of Health workers families and 330 jail inmates have been vaccinated.

Procurement operations could begin in earnest as the Centre is expected to announce relaxation in specifications for lustre-loss and shrivelled grains in wheat to be procured during the ongoing rabi Marketing season.

The Punjab Government has also demanded a special package from the Centre for farmers, who have suffered crop damage because of the vagaries of weather. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has written to the Centre, requesting it to increase its share of compensation given to the affected farmers under the disaster relief fund as the state has already increased its share by 25 per cent. The government has also demanded relaxation in specifications for wheat procurement.

Most of the 166 samples of wheat, collected by the central teams from 12 districts over the past three days, have been found to have either black grains or shrivelled grains beyond the specified 6 per cent. The damaged and broken grains, beyond the specified limit, have also been reported. The results of testing of these grains came out today, confirmed a senior officer in the Fci Punjab Region Office.

The government has demanded that grains with up to 6 per cent damage, 12 per cent slightly damaged and 15 per cent broken grains be procured by the Centre, besides grains that have a complete lustre loss.

The reforms on building flexibility and reducing oversight in the labour rules, and pursuing a data driven assessment of service delivery delays are all centered around making easier in Punjab, said Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.

To ensure timely delivery of key licenses and permits, the government has begun a monthly data driven assessment mechanism under the Chief Secretary to make sure not a single license or permit is delayed beyond the stipulated period.

Against the Average assets of Rs 3.5 crore declared by the candidates since 2004, the average assets of the elected MPs and MLAs stood at Rs 11.42 crore, showing the influence of .

The organisations have analysed election affidavits of 3,547 candidates and 413 MLAs/MPs fielded during the Vidhan Sabha and Parliament Elections between 2004 and 2019. As per the report, 385 (11%) of the total 3,547 candidates and 69 (17%) of 413 MPs/MLAs declared criminal cases against themselves since 2004. Of these, 223 (6%) candidates and 32 (8%) MPs or MLAs had serious criminal cases against them.