SFS standing in solidarity with PU Contractual Workers

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Fired PU Workers on Protest from past 50 Days, Demands End of Contract System 

Chandigarh: 20th June, 2023 : (Kartika Singh/Punjab Screen Desk):: Today a large number of students came to support protesting fired PU workers. The protest has been going on for the last 50 days. All speakers unanimously opposed the exploitative contract system and demanded regular and permanent recruitment by PU authorities.

Students raised slogans against the pro-contractors and anti-workers PU authorities.

Gagandeep, SFS General Secretary coordinated the protest and address the gathered students, research scholars and workers. 

He said that PU authorities has been following the neoliberal policies of privatization and contractualization. It has destroyed the whole essence of Public University be it the issue of workers, students and teachers. Therefore, we must resist all kinds of contractualization and privatization from all fronts. It is our duty as students to stand with PU Workers and oppose Contract System. 

Students Organizations raised the following Demands: 

Rejoin all fired PU workers

End Contract system

Regularize all PU Workers 

Student organizations also extended solidarity with PU Workers and demanded that all fired PU workers be rejoined immediately. 

SFS President, Sandeep said that PU authorities has become inhumane and not ready to end the exploitative contract system. It has caused intolerable financial losses apart from mental trauma.

Moreover, It is not only the issue of 32 PU workers, it is about the livelihood of 32 families. But PU authorities is totally indifferent to the demands of our PU workers and aggressively contractualization. Therefore, we have to fight against contractualization. We need to mobilize wider sections of our society to oppose privatization. 

Students unanimously pledged that we will mobilize students in solidarity with our PU workers. They warned PU authorities to rejoin fired PU workers immediately otherwise students will intensify the PU workers' protest. 

Speakers from workers, research scholars ASA, PSU (L) also addressed the gathering. 

PAU Alumni Mark Presence at Reunion

Wednesday: 29th March 2023 at 4:34 PM

The event saw students from diverse areas coming together 

Ludhiana: 29th March 2023: (Kartika Singh//Education Screen Desk)::

As the old students from the 1985 and 1986 batches of Forestry, College of Agriculture celebrated the alumni reunion; the event saw students from diverse areas coming together for a toast to the old memories and promises of keeping in touch in future.

As a special honour to Real Estate and Mortgage Consultant, Balwinder Singh, who came all the way from Surrey, Canada, to attend the meet, the Communication Centre presented him with PAU souvenirs and other memorabilia. Dr Tejinder Singh Riar, Additional Director of Communication and an ex-student of forestry from the same batch shared the integral role played by PAU in connecting alumni from different batches and backgrounds and fostering a spirit of camaraderie and collaboration.

 In his welcome address, Dr Rishi Indra Singh Gill, Estate Officer, PAU, emphasized strengthening the bond between all ex-students and the need to play a vital role in the prime positioning of the university. The technical session included a discussion about agroforestry followed by a walk on the college campus.

Among those present were ex-students Satnam Singh IFS, Conservator Forest, Parvinder Jamwal, Chief Manager PNB, Mr Baljinder Singh and Gurwinder Singh from MNCs, Mr Tejwant Singh from GNDU Amritsar along with alumni Dr Baljit, Dr Ravinder, Dr GPS Dhillon, Dr Rishi Gill, Dr Ramandeep Singh, working as faculty of PAU.

PAU Scientists visit Telangana to study water conservation

Tuesday 7th March 2023 at 3:26 PM

Visit is a follow-up of CM Bahgwant Mann’s visit to Telangana 

Ludhiana: 7th March 2023: (Kartika Singh//Punjab Screen)::

Underscoring the need to combat the challenge of depleting water resources in Punjab, a three-member team of scientists of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is on a visit to Telangana to study various initiatives taken by the Telangana government for water conservation and irrigation water management. Scientists comprising Dr Manmohanjit Singh, Director, Regional Research Station, Ballowal Saunkhri; Dr Sanjay Satpute, Scientist, Soil and Water Engineering, and Dr Abrar Yousuf, Scientist, Soil and Water Engineering, Ballowal Saunkhri, PAU, are on a tour to Telangana under the directions and stewardship of Dr Satbir Singh Gosal, Vice-Chancellor, PAU. It is pertinent to mention that the visit is a follow-up of Chief Minister of Punjab Sardar Bahgwant Mann’s visit to Telangana and being coordinated by Dr HS Sidhu, Dean, College of Agriculture Engineering and Technology, PAU.

Mr Sridhar Rao Deshpande, Officer on Special Duty to Chief Minister of Telangana, welcomed the PAU delegation. The PAU scientists visited various locations of lift irrigation and renovated interlinked irrigation tanks developed by the Irrigation Department under Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project and Mission Kakatiya. Besides, the impact of these projects on groundwater recharge was also shown. The team was accompanied by Mr Hari Ram
, Chief Engineer; Dr Pandit, Director Groundwater Board and other officials of the Irrigation Department. The PAU team also visited Komati Cheruvu tank, Peddarayan Cheruvu tank, Pandavula Cheruvu tank, Oora Cheruvu tank, Check dams of Kudleruvagu and Kondapochamma Sagar in Siddipet district. Check dams in Nijalapur, Kommreddypally and other MI tanks in nearby areas of district Mahabubnagar were also shown.

Later, a special meeting was organized with Dr Rajat Kumar, Special Chief Secretary, Irrigation and CAD, Telangana; and Mr C Muralidhar, Engineer in Chief, Telangana regarding water conservation initiatives taken by the Telangana government and the possibility of replicating these initiatives in Punjab.

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CHB Employees Co-ordination Committee Meeting

 Wednesday: 1st March 2023 at 11:53 AM

Now President Pawan Kumar Chauhan and General Secretary Surinder Singh

Chandigarh: 1st March 2023: (Punjab Screen Bureau)::

On 28th February 2023, a general body meeting has been held in the basement of Block C of CHB at 1:00 PM to elect the office bearers of the Chandigarh Housing Board Employees Co-ordination Committee and office bearers have been elected unanimously. Chairman Sukhpreet Singh, Vice Chairman Anand Gupta, President Pawan Kumar Chauhan, Senior Vice President Brij Pal, Vice President Raj Kumar, Convener Jarnail Singh, Co-convener Manjit Singh and Sarabjit Singh, General Secretary Surinder Singh, Joint Secretary Salinder Kumar, Press Secretary Mohinder Singh Rana, Propoganda Secretary Rakesh Kumar, Cashier Satwinder Bains and Auditor Naveen Kumar. 

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Magic of Acupuncture is rising throughout the World

Tuesday 14th February 2023 at 09:47 PM 

Dr. Inderjeet Dhingra explained the miracles of this therapy

Ludhiana: 14th February 2023 (Special Medical Feature)

After Consultaion with Dr. Inderjeet Dhingra by Punjab Screen Desk

Acupuncture is a wonderful treatment that is done with needles only,  there is no need of surgery or medicinal therapy. 

The technique of inserting needles in the human body is termed as acupuncture therapy. 

The search for this mode of therapy began by the Chinese doctors after the independence in the year 1949 and now this therapy is not used only in China but also approved in the other parts of the world. This mode of treatment started in 1958 in India by Dr. Vijay Kumar Basu in kolkata, who was a member of the the medical mission to China in 1938. He formed a committee in India in the memory of Dr. Kotnis and started teaching acupuncture to other young Indian doctors as a result of which various acupuncture centres are currently running in the different states of the country. In North India first indoor acupuncture hospital started in the year 1975 which is run by Dr. Inderjit Singh Dhingra and patients not just from punjab but also from various other states come for the treatment in this hospital. 

This therapy is based on the energy in human body which flows from one end to another in the body and is maintained in balance for 24 hours in the body. When there is disturbance in this balance of energy,  the disease state arises. Ying and yang are the two of opposite energies which are kept in balance in the human body by acupuncture therapy. There are specific meridians of the body in which needles are penetrated for different diseases which have a great effect in maintaining our body energy levels .

This mode of therapy has been recognized first in the year 1996 in West Bengal and then in 2017Maharashtra. 

This therapy has also been considered as an independent mode of therapy by the government of India in the year 2019.

Acupuncture has been proved to be very successful in treating diseases like asthma, joints pain,  cervical spondolytis,  anxiety,  frozen shoulder,  arthritis,  lung infections , insomnia,  facial paralysis, trigeminal neuralgia and many grave diseases which have no permanent cure in modern medicine.

Acupuncture has proved to be safe,  economical, successful and a permanent therapy for the diseased individuals. 

For the development of acupuncture in india, medical colleges providing degree and diploma courses will be opened in the coming years which will help the young ones to learn this therapy and provide good health to the countrymen. 

The world health organization has also recognised this therapy and has aimed towards the development of acupuncture for providing good health to the people.

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Decisive War Against Drugs

Monday:  23rd January 2023 at 4:02 PM

241 Drug Smugglers Held With 5kg Heroin and 4.90-KG Opium 

Rs 7.89 Lakh Drug Money also recovered in a week 

*On Directions of CM  Bhagwant Mann decisive actions lanched 

*Punjab Police Coommitted to wipe out Drug Menace from the state 

*Drive to arrest POs/Absconders in NDPS Act cases also 

*Witnesses significant surge as toll reaches 636

*Strict action against China Dor also

*Punjab Police Recover 11364 Chinese Dor Bundles

*Arrest 255 People in a month

Chandigarh: 23rd January 2023: (Kartika Singh//Punjab Screen)::

While crime increases rapidly under the influence of drugs, the younger generation starts degrading in many ways. Where the youth trapped in the trap of drugs reach the world of crime, anti-national elements also start taking advantage of them. If we have a look at the campaign launched by the police, many horrifying pictures come to the fore. Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has taken vigorous initiative to change this whole atmosphere.

Amid the ongoing decisive war against drugs launched on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Punjab Police have arrested 241 drug smugglers/suppliers after registering 173 first information reports (FIRs), including 18 commercial, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) act across the state in the last week.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill, while addressing his weekly Press Conference here on Monday, said that the Police have also recovered 5-Kg Heroin, 4.90-Kg opium, 5.92 quintals of poppy husk, and 1.95 Lakh tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids besides recovering Rs 7.89 Lakh drug money from their possession.

He said that with 13 more Proclaimed Offenders (POs)/Absconders in NDPS cases arrested in the last week, the total number of arrests reached 636 since the special drive to arrest POs/absconders was started on July 5, 2022.

Sharing monthly details on action taken against sellers trading in the Chinese Kite string, the IGP said that Police teams have recovered 11364 Chinese dor bundles after registering 234 First Information Reports (FIRs) and arresting 255 people indulged in selling this fatal kite flying string. As per the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Punjab Police will take strict action against those buying/selling Chinese kite flying string, he added.

Pertinently, Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab Gaurav Yadav had given strict instructions to all the CPs/SSPs to investigate backward and forward linkages minutely in each and every case, especially related to drug recoveries, even if they recover a meager amount of drugs.

Meanwhile, on the direction of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to make Punjab a drug-free state, extensive anti-drug drives have been launched by the Punjab Police to combat the menace of drugs from the border State. The DGP has also strictly ordered all the CPs/SSPs to identify all hotspots where drugs are prevalent and all top drug smugglers in their jurisdictions. He also directed the Police chiefs to effectively forfeit the property of all the arrested drug smugglers so that their ill-gotten money could be recovered.

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Bajra is answer to stubble burning in Punjab: Umendra

Wednesday 11th January 2023 at 04:43 PM

ADG Rajendra Chaudhary warned against western fast food 

Said millet is gluten free, high in protein and good for health

Chandigarh//Ludhiana:11th January 2023: (Kartika Singh//Punjab Screen Desk)::

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in collaboration with Kheti Virasat Mission organized a Media Interaction and Millet Lunch at Ludhiana Club today. In today's era, it was a historic event to find solutions to the problems that our society is facing related to food grains and agriculture, in which very relevant and deep things became the subject of discussion.

The Government of India sponsored the proposal for the International Year of Millets (IYM) 2023, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has also expressed his desire to call IYM 2023 a "people's movement" and for India to become a "global hub for millets". This movement is being spearheaded by PIB Chandigarh in the region. He has also organized Millet Lunch for the local media in Tarn Taran and Chandigarh to encourage the media to give more media space to Bajra and its promotion.

Discussing the health problems that have arisen in the present times, the ADG of PIB Chandigarh Mr. Rajendra Chowdhary revealed very interesting facts. He said during the conversation that “due to the adoption of western fast food culture, today's young generation is facing many health-related problems from an early age. Millets can aid in the fight against various health problems. Millets are gluten-free, high in protein, and have a low glycemic index. Thus, they can also help with weight loss.”

"Bajra is beneficial for consumers and farmers as well as for the environment," he added. He continued “Bajra requires less water and electricity to grow. Millets help in fighting against many diseases like obesity, diabetes, anemia, hormonal imbalance, high cholesterol etc., thereby enabling the consumer to lead a healthy life. Consequently, it is an excellent source of balanced nutrients.” The purpose of today's event is to create awareness among the media about millets. As a result, consumption will also increase, which will increase demand.

Special speaker at the event, Mr. Umendra Dutt, Executive Director, Kheti Virasat Mission said: “Bajra is no longer considered a fringe crop. They are in competition with the cyclical cultivation of rice and wheat. Additionally, they reduce our carbon footprint. can reduce." Discussing stubble burning, he said, “Bajra stalk is very good food for cattle.” "Farmers do not burn millet stalks because of their use as cattle feed. This could also be the answer to the issue of stubble burning in Punjab," he said.

Mr. Rasinder Singh, a Bajra farmer from Jagraon also spoke about his experiences on the occasion and said that Bajra is also an integral part of the G-20 meetings and the delegates were invited to taste it, meet farmers and start-ups related to Bajra. The true experience of Bajra will be given through interactive sessions with Dr. He also said, "On the occasion of the International Year of Millets 2023, the government's efforts to give due attention to millets are being rightly noticed, and the present meeting intends to do the same."