Peace and law & order to be maintain at all costs

Chandigarh , March 28 -The Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal said here today that peace in the state will be maintained  at all costs and no one will be allowed to take law in his own hands. “We are committed to maintaining peace and law and order at all costs.“ said the Chief Minister.
      Mr. Badal also appealed to the people to maintain peace and communal harmony. The government respects the sentiments of all sections of the people and their rights to express their views in a legitimate and peaceful manner, nothing should be done to endanger the hard earned atmosphere of peace and communal harmony in the state. The people of Punjab have made great sacrifices for this cause and the government is determined to deal firmly with any possible attempts to disturb it,” said the chief Minister in a statement here.

  New Delhi, March 20-Punjab Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal today called on the Union Rural Development Minister Mr Jairam Ramesh and demanded that the Union government must include atleast one road of the state to each village, constructed with the state fund under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) for up gradation.
In a meeting with the Union Minister at his office at Shastri Bhawan, the Chief Minister said that the decision was need of the hour as it would give necessary impetus required for uplifting rural road network in the state. Mr Badal also urged the Union Minister that owing to the problem of the land in the state and the policy of the State government to not even acquire an inch of land without the express consent of the farmers the state was being deprived of funds for constructing the roads under the PMGSY as the minimum

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Non-passing of the budget of SGPC by march 31st would create financial chaos and adversely affect the working of more then Gurudwaras falling under its jurisdiction- CM

NCTC was designed by the UPA government to usurp the powers of the state governments which could not be tolerated- Badal

New Delhi, March 20-Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today called on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Mr P Chidambram separately to impress them for immediately calling the session of Shiromani Gurdara Prabandak Committee (SGPC) to avoid any sort of financial crisis in the ‘Mini Parliament’ of the Sikhs.

The Chief Minister during his meeting with Dr Manmohan Singh at his official residence in 7 Race Course Road and Home Minister Mr P Chindambram at his office in North Block apprised both the leaders that the maiden session of the SGPC was significant as election of the Office bearers of this highly revered organization is to be done in it. He said that if the office bearers of SGPC were

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* LPU Chancellor Mr. Ashok Mittal flagged off the run

* More than 5000 Men-Hostellers ran for destined run for the cause of health awareness

*Marathon Over-All Trophy won by Boys Hostel-5 C

* 53 other prizes were distributed to participating Students and members of Hostel Staff

*Massive arrangements for Route Direction, Medical and Security needs were maintained

Jalandhar: Under due consideration towards the health and fitness of LPU Hostellers, the Division of Residential Services of Lovely Professional University arranged today a  Mega-Run of 5 Kms, from the Basket Ball Ground to finish at BH-I, covering Maheru Road, Village Hardasspur, Sports Stadium & Entire Campus Area.

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REVIEWS THE ONGOING NABARD PROJECTS IN THE STATE

CHANDIGARH,MARCH 17:Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal asked the Chief General Manager of NABARD Punjab Region Mr. Krishan Jindal to completely utilize the sanctioned funds under various schemes within stipulated time to avoid any lapse of these funds.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Minister's office said that Mr. Badal was presiding over a high level meeting with the team of NABARD led by Mr. Krishan Jindal here today and reviewed the report prepared by NABARD about the under utilized funds. The other members of the NABARD's team included General Manager Mr. DC Sharma and AGM Mr. RR Badyal. Mr. Jindal briefed the Chief Minister about the possibility of drawal of RIDF loan of around Rs. 130 crore from NABARD under the ongoing projects

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March 16, 2012: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister raised demand of the State for Special Grant of Rs. 62.42 crore on account of share of Punjab Government in Shahnehar Major Irrigation Project with the Planning Commission of India by writing a letter to Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Vice Chairman, Planning Commission of India today.

Chief Minister said that the share of Punjab in Shahnehar Project had been pending for the past four years which was being allotted by the Planning Commission of India to the Punjab Government but had not been transferred to the State of Himachal Pradesh. He said that the special grant of Rs. 62.42 crore was the remaining central assistance admissible to the State with effect

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March 16, 2012:Chief Minister, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal described the Union Budget presented today by the Union Finance Minister, Shri Parnab Mukharji as anti-people, anti-poor, anti-farmers, anti-employees, anti-workers and above all directionless. He said that not a single section of the society have been given any relief in the budget. No step has been taken to reduce the galloping prices but increase in Service tax, Excise duty would result in further price rise thereby crushing the poor people further from onslaught of rising prices. Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal said that to raise minimum income tax limit from Rs. 1.80 lac to Rs. 2 lac was mockery as there has been hike in emoluments in last few years of the employees and other people and also the rising inflationary trends. He said that the prices of almost all commodities will go up.

Chief Minister said that indication by the Union Finance Minister about

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On 13 January, 2012, India reached a major milestone in the history of polio eradication - a 12-month period without any case of polio being recorded. This date marks the unprecedented progress in India and is an endorsement of the effectiveness of the polio eradication strategies and their implementation in India.

·         Cases in 2011                            1 (last case 13 January 2011)

·         Cases in 2010                           42

·         Cases in 2009                          741

·         Cases in 1995                          50,000

·         Cases in 1985                          150,000

·         Last wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was on 13 January 2011, Howrah, West Bengal.

·         Last wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) case was on 22 October 2010, Pakur, Jharkhand .

·         Last wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) case was on October 1999, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.

·         Last positive case from monthly environmental sewage sampling (conducted in Delhi, Mumbai and Patna)  was on November 2010, Mumbai.

    Number of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) doses administered in 2011 was 900 million.

·         Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, the incidence of wild poliovirus has reduced by 99 per cent – from 350,000 children paralyzed or killed annually in 125 countries in 1988 to 649 cases reported in 17 countries in 2011 (as of 14 February, 2012). In 2006, the number of polio-endemic countries (countries that have never stopped indigenous wild poliovirus transmission) was reduced to four – India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

·         One of the three types of wild poliovirus – wild poliovirus type

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Dr. K. Parameswaran

One of the leading humor writers in Malayalam – Shri N Goplakrishnan – has defined a cardiologist as one who writes letters only on post “cards”! He describes himself as one of the leading cardiologists in his home town!

            There is a little magazine in Malayalam called “Innu” (meaning “today”) which is published only as a letter card. It has now entered the 30th year of its publication, with the letter card being posted more than 10,000 subscribers all over the world!!

            Here follows a collection of facts concerning the post card, the letter card and the art and science of Deiltology.

The Post Card

            In official terms, the post card can be defined as a type of open communication written on a card of prescribed size. The common dimensions of the card are 14  × 9 cm.

Post cards are commonly available in two varieties – either as a single card for just sending a communication or as a set of two attached cards – one for the outgoing communication and the other for the receiver of the card for immediately sending a reply. The replier cannot delay the return communication since the card has already been paid for by the initiator of the correspondence!

One of the little known information about the post card is that they

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