Ths First Cabinet meeting held has taken decisions in the Interst of Punjab and created a history of its own .rather a national Records in goverance.

The Major Decision taken are as Under

DTO’s post goes,

new transport policy on anvil,and assign the work to respective SDMs/SDOs. 

Degree colleges to be set up in each subdivision

 Experts to assess quantum of farmers’ debt

   Law to rein in drug dealers

 

No Red beacons on vehicles,

except on emergency vehicles, the vehicles of the CM, the Chief Justice and High Court

End the VIP culture

and bring in a legislation on “conflict of interest”, wherein the ministers or MLAs could be unseated on being found to have business interest in their official capacity.

Commission of Inquiry to review “false” political cases and fix accountability.

Cabinet cuts liquor quota, number of vends

No state banquets

will be held (at government expense) except in honour of President , vice-president, Prime Minister , Lok Sabha speaker, governors and foreign dignitaries.

Mohalla clinic

for every 1,000 population, both in rural and urban areas.

Stays all decisions

taken by  the previous government in the last six months of its 6 months rule

Third-party audit

of SAD-BJP govt spendings, including those of urban bodies and panchayat institutions, above ₹10 crore for a project or scheme in the last three years. 

Establish a commission of inquiry

to review all ’false’ cases and FIRs registered during the 10-year SAD-BJP government with a view to ensuring justice to innocent and fix accountability of the guilty so that such things were not repeated.

NO SALE OF FARMER LAND

. A new legislation will prohibit sale and confiscation/auction of farmers’ land by lending agencies. The department of agriculture will put up the draft bill for consideration in the next meeting.

Unemployment allowance

The cabinet also approved ₹2,500 allowance for jobless youth and setting up an employment commission to regulate functioning of employment bureaus, which will be manned by specialists in all districts for carrying out surveys.

Curbs on stone laying

To be henceforth laid only by the President, Vice-President, Lok Sabha Speaker, Union Cabinet Ministers, Chief Minister, Assembly Speaker and state Cabinet Ministers. Even for major projects to the tune of Rs100 crore or Rs 200 crore, the names of Chief Minister and ministers will not be displayed on the foundation or inauguration plaques. These will carry a line saying that the project has been executed with taxpayers’ money. 

State banquets/dinners

No state banquets will be held (at government expense) except in honour of President , vice-president, Prime Minister , Lok Sabha speaker, governors and foreign dignitaries.

Free transport, Wifi

for govt schools, free textbooks . All textbooks will be available online for free downloading.

Regulator for private schools/Colleges /universities by  to setting  up a regulatory author

ity to supervise and regulate the functioning of private schools, private colleges and private universities in the state.

Benefits for freedom fighters, media .

One house to every freedom fighter at the village or town where he ordinarily resides, allocation of 300 units of free electricity every month, one out-of-turn tubewell connection, exemption from toll tax on state highways for them and accredited media persons.

Special courts  for drug peddling, corruption, NRIs and serving soldiers. 

Real estate regulator,authority in keeping with the central legislation to ensure justice and fair treatment to the common man during sale and purchase of land and buildings.

Audit of PSPCL, in the last five years will be investigated by a third-party professional auditors.

Repeal of  of Punjab Lokpal Act,

setting up of an expenditure reforms commission, setting up of military training academies and sainik schools.

Atta-dal, free power to continue.

 

Overhaul of the political, administrative and police setup in Punjab,

End the sand mining, transport, cable and liquor “cartels”

active during the previous Parkash Singh Badal government, the Cabinet decided to introduce a slew of steps and legislations.

White Paper on various omissions and commissions by the SAD-BJP government,

 MLAs and MPs will have to declare their immovable properties

on January 1 every year and asset details of all IAS, IPS, PCS and Class-1 officers would be tabled every year in the Vidhan Sabha.

33% JOBS FOR WOMEN

in all government jobs and increase their representation in PRIs and Urban Local Bodies from 33 to 50 per cent.

NO FOREIGN TRAVEL

The Cabinet banned foreign travel by ministers, MLAs and officials for two years.

HALQA SYSTEM GOES

The system of halqa incharge and use of political clout by staff in seeking transfers and favours has been ended.

DRUG TASK FORCE

A Special Task Force headed by ADGP Harpreet Sidhu, leading anti-Maoist ops in Chhattisgarh, will implement a programme to eliminate drugs.  Confiscation of Drug Dealers Property Act.

House for Badal

CM Capt Amarinder Singh’s predecessor Parkash Singh Badal to get free government accommodation of his choice. The previous Congress government’s policy of allowing official accommodation for former CMs had been revoked by the SAD-BJP alliance.

Action plan on SYL

The government has resolved to pursue the SYL case legally and administratively to protect the state’s waters. The Irrigation Department will formulate a proposal for the canalisation of Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers and the construction of high-speed economic corridors on dhussi bundhs.

Focus on jobs

Employment Bureaus to be set up in all districts. These will be manned by qualified professionals and specialists, including employment counsellors

Cable Authority Act

No monopolisation or cartelisation would be allowed in cable TV networks. A state-level statutory cable authority will be constituted, comprising senior mediapersons and professionals.

Reforms panel

Governance Reforms Commission to be reconstituted as Governance Reforms and Ethics Commission; to be manned by professionals.

Housing reservation,

30 per cent quota for SCs in allotment of houses, residential and commercial plots

OBC quota.

,To be raised from 12 per cent to 15 per cent for govt jobs

Relief from Toll tax,

Mediapersons to be exempted from payment on state highways

NRI Property Act.

To be enacted for safeguarding property of NRIs, having provision of eviction of tenant at 90 days’ notice.

Industrial Policy,

New one to be framed to revive industrial units. The previous policy was announced in 2013.5

 

Gurmehar Kaur.

Ananya Panda

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 7The Ramjas College violence and rape threats to Lady Shri Ram College student Gurmehar Kaur rocked the Delhi Assembly today. The ruling AAP played Gurmehar’s video clip in the House in its bid to target the ABVP and the BJP-led Central government.AAP MLA Alka Lamba said the case was yet another example of how students were being targeted for speaking their mind. “Her fault was that she raised her voice against the RSS goondaism,” she said.Leader of the Opposition Vijender Gupta’s objection to the playing of the video were overruled by Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel.When asked, a senior official of the Assembly said, “The Speaker had watched the clip in advance and found nothing objectionable.” Last year, AAP minister Kapil Mishra had played an audio recording on his phone in the House about an alleged case of snooping.

Youths throw stones at security personnel after the Friday prayers in Srinagar. Tribune Photo: Amin War

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, March 17

Protest demonstrations and clashes between the protesters and police took place in downtown Srinagar and elsewhere after Friday prayers against the killing of a girl during an encounter between militants and security forces in Kupwara on Wednesday.The protests, in response to the joint call of separatists, began soon after the congregational Friday prayers in downtown where the main mosque, Jamia Masjid, is located at Nowhatta. Masked youths displaying Pakistani and IS flags appeared on the roads and indulged in stone-throwing on police and CRPF personnel deployed in the area in strength to control law and order situation. The police lobbed teargas shells to disperse the protesters. There were no reports of any injuries to any one in the incidents so far.Demonstrations against the killing of the girl in Kupwara and the alleged arrest spree were also held by the JKLF at Maisuma in the Lal Chowk area. The clashes also took place in Sopore town of Baramulla district in north Kashmir, where the youths took to the streets and indulged in stone-throwing on police and CRPF personnel deployed in the area.Separatist leaders, Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, were kept under house arrest to prevent them from taking out any protest march.The protests were against the killing of a six-year-old girl, Kaneez, and injuries to her brother Faisal during an encounter between militants and security forces in the Kalaroos area of Lolab in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Wednesday. The police said the girl was hit by a stray bullet, about 100 m away from the encounter site. The incident took place a week after the death of a 15-year-old boy, Amir, during a gunfight in the Padgampora area of Pulwama district of south Kashmir.

She was hit by stray bullet, say police

• The protests were against the killing of a six-year-old girl, Kaneez, and injuries to her brother Faisal during an encounter between militants and security forces in the Kalaroos area on Wednesday. The police said the girl was hit by a stray bullet
• The protests began soon after the congregational Friday prayers in downtown where the main mosque, Jamia Masjid, is located at Nowhatta

There is a PROTEST AGAINST  TRANSACTION FEES AND DECREASING RATE OF INTEREST ON OUR DEPOSITS.

Let the banks also experience the public power. They are thieves. Imagine . To withdraw your own money you have to pay service charge to the Bank and you pay Service Tax on the Service Charge to the Govt. 

To this end we will observe  April 05,06,07 of 2017 as a “no transaction day with banks”.

If they don’t rollback. Let’s further keep April 24th, 25th, and 26th 2017 as “no transaction days” with Banks. We will continue this until there is no roll back on service charges. 

We can also plan out in such a way that we do our important transactions on the days preceding these days. PRESUME that these days are listed “Bank Holidays”!

Keep spreading this message every 5 days to all ur FB , mails and W App contacts.

It is difficult but not impossible. Or else banks will keep on adding various  new charges every now and then. RBI Governer is a puppet and has no control nor does he understand the economics. 

 

This protest is for our benefit to force banks to rollback all new charges.  

Let’s come together and show the POWER OF UNITY.

Arzan JG

Edited by Vinu – for the 

POWER OF ONE!

Hoshiarpur, March 15

Jasbir Singh, a soldier of 10th Battalion of Sikh Light Infantry, living in Ambala Jattan village, had left for home from the Indo-China border on February 26 but has not reached home.On February 26, Jasbir had called home to inform that he was about to depart from there. On February 27, a JCO informed the family that Jasbir had left along with 11 other jawans but went missing after he got down from the vehicle on the way to drink water.Jasveer’s wife Kamlesh Kumari, father Hukum Chand and village sarpanch Harbhajan Singh Dhatt have requested the Army and the Defense Minister to help locate him at the earliest. — OC

Hoshiarpur soldier goes missing near India­China border

Lance Naik Roy Mathew

New Delhi, March 3

A “sting operation” by a website is being blamed for having triggered a series of events that led to suicide by Lance Naik Roy Mathew, 33.Posted at Devlali, near Nashik, he was found dead yesterday in an abandoned barrack at the military station which is the artillery centre of the Army. He had been missing since February 25 and was being treated as “absent without leave”. (Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)Mathew’s battalion is presently on field firing practice in Rajasthan and he formed the “rear party” — some soldiers staying back at “other designated stations”.A press note said the probe revealed the death “may be a result of the series of events triggered by media personnel managing to videograph the deceased by asking leading questions on his duties as a buddy (‘sahayak’) without his knowledge”. The video has been removed from the website.It was “very likely”, said the ministry, that the “guilt factor of letting down his superiors or conveying false impression” pushed him over the edge. The Army has denied that Mathew was questioned after the video; as the soldier’s face was masked, so he could not be identified. But sources say he did send a one-word SMS to an officer saying “sorry” last Saturday.The soldier’s family approached the police as his phone had been switched off since February 25.  — TNS

Truce violation: The LoC Trade Centre wall damaged in Pakistani mortar fire at Chakan da Bagh in Poonch district. PTI

Amir Karim Tantray & DK Sudan

Tribune News Service

Jammu/Poonch, March 14

After targeting the LoC Trade Centre at Chakan da Bagh in Poonch on Sunday, the Pakistani army rained mortars on it again on Monday.One shell landed on the building situated near the LoC in Poonch on Sunday and four shells struck it on Monday, which damaged the roof of the administrative block. The Pakistani army used 80 mm and 120 mm mortars to target the trade centre. The Indian Army retaliated in an equivalent manner.The shelling has frightened employees as well as locals.“Since the trade centre has been targeted, employees as well as local residents are living in deep fear. The shelling has halted the trade as no truck crossed the LoC today. We tried to resume the trade by taking a truck up to the LoC but there was no response from the Pakistani side,” said Tanvir Ahmed, Trade Facilitation Officer at the Chakan da Bagh Trade Centre, Poonch.From Tuesday to Friday, around 100 vehicles from the Indian side cross over to the Pakistani side daily while 40-50 trucks enter India. Though there are 21 items on the list of trade, these days fresh fruits and spices are being exchanged between the two sides.The tension has also led to the suspension of cross-LoC bus service ‘Rahen Milan’ for a week. It will be resumed only after the situation improves, Ahmed said.

Navy conducts maiden firing of anti-ship missile from Kalvari submarine

The Scorpene class submarines ‘Kalvari’. File photo courtesy: Mazgaon Dock Limited
Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 2
The Navy on Thursday successfully conducted the maiden firing of an anti-ship missile from the first of the indigenously built Kalvari class submarines, during a test firing in the Arabian Sea.
The missile successfully hit a surface target at extended ranges during the trial firing, held in the morning. This missile launch is a significant milestone, not only for the Kalvari, which is the first in a series of Scorpene class submarines being built in India, but also in enhancing the Indian Navy’s sub-surface warfare capability.
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All six Kalvari class submarines being built in India will be equipped with this anti-ship missile, which has a proven record in combat. These missiles will provide the submarines the ability to neutralise surface threats at extended ranges.