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March 6, 2002,
Chandigarh, India
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Prof Usha Datta bereaved Chandigarh, March 5 Mr Bali, 92, who is survived by four daughters, a son, was cremated in the evening. A former Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Lt Gen BKN Chhibber (retd) , top faculty of the PGI and a cross-section of the citizens was present at the funeral. The final prayers for Mr Bali will be offered at Sanatan Dharam Mandir, Sector 16-D, between 2 pm and 3 pm on March 7. |
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Silver for Ravinder Chandigarh, March 5 Sports day The 22nd annual sports day of Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, will be held tomorrow on the school premises. This event, earlier scheduled to be held on March 2, was postponed due to rain. |
CAT Chandigarh, March 5 They had filed the petition against the Chandigarh Administration through the Secretary, Medical Education College and Research, and the Director-Principal, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH). In its 22-page order, the CAT held that employees like these 52 lecturers with the GMCH were not entitled to regular employees’ annual increments, but it could not say the same about their claims regarding grant of leave and earned leave. The Bench, comprising Mr Jasbir S. Dhaliwal and Mr G.S. Maingi, further said the terms of appointment of lecturer indicated that they had been enjoying vacation, gazetted holidays and one casual leave for one month of service. It directed the respondents to consider grant of leave to contractual employees after going through rules applicable to such employees. The lecturers had pleaded that the authorities had appointed them on contract basis for a limited period at a consolidated salary. They had claimed that the law did not permit the respondent to prescribe different pay-scales for similarly placed persons with same duties and responsibilities who had the same qualifications. |
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MC, Health Dept at loggerheads SAS Nagar, March 5 The council has decided to assign the bill collection work to the octroi staff, who have been rendered idle following the scrapping of octroi by the Punjab Government. Officials of the Public Health Department said today that their employees had been doing the work of bill collection for several years and the council could not decide unilaterally to take away the work from the Public Health Department. Such a step would render the department staff surplus. They argued that the decision could only be taken by the higher authorities. However, Mr Kulwant Singh, president of the council, said that work related to the water supply, including bill collection, was being got done by the council from the Public Health Department on a payment basis. The council, he said, had the right to decide as to who should do the work in the future. With the scrapping of octroi, several civic body employees had become surplus and it was necessary to adjust them wherever possible. The decision to assign bill collection work to them would not only achieve this objective but also save a part of the council funds which went towards payments to the Public Health Department. Mr Kulwant Singh said he had held a meeting with Public Health officials yesterday and the decision of the council had been conveyed to them. The president said that Public Health officials had also been told to submit their estimates in connection with the maintenance work for the next financial year by March 31 failing which payments would be stopped to the department. He said the Public Health Department had been asked to take over three of the five tubewells sunk in different parts of the town by the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board. The tubewells were to be taken over if they gave a discharge of 7,500 gallons of water per hour. The tubewells were sunk in Phases IIIA, V, VII (two and IX. Except for the tubewell in Phase IX, the others were giving discharge below the estimated figures. It is reported that in Phases I to VII the ground water level is very low and sub-strata soil is also not proper. |
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Notice to parking contractor Chandigarh, March 5 The contractor has been asked to explain in 15 days why the cheque was dishonoured. With the issuance of the notice, the corporation has opened an option of legally prosecuting the contractor, who had earlier accused the corporation of unilaterally changing terms and conditions of the contract. Before the notice, the corporation has asked the contractor on February 22 to deposit the amount due to the company within 10 days. The notice coming in the backdrop of the contractor issuing a legal notice to the corporation for “arbitrarily” changing terms and conditions earlier, is being seen as the contract heading for a rough weather. Top corporation officials today held a meeting to decide the issuance of the notice under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. |
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F&CC meeting on
March 7 Chandigarh, March 5 The F and CC was today given an agenda of 14 items, including an offer of a company to convert leaves into wood. The F and CC members are likely to get major supplementary agenda items tomorrow. The Committee’s permission has also been sought on purchasing 100 garbage bins, a drain in Pocket 6 of Mani Majra, a tubewell in the slaughter house and its repair, purchase of portland cement, improvement of parking lots in Sectors 32 and 23, several road carpeting proposals, a tubewell in the Terrace Garden, among others. |
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55 sites auctioned Panchkula, March 5 Only 26 sites out of a total of 77 had been auctioned during the previous auction by HUDA last month. This auction had fetched HUDA a sum of Rs 22.11 crore as against Rs 8.95 crore during the previous auction. Various commercial sites — shop- cum-office with basement, semi-built-up SCOs, hotel sites, built-up booths, booth site without basement, dhaba site in industrial area were kept for auction today. The sites in Sectors 8, 11, 15 and Sector 5 Mansa Devi Complex met with a good response with the bidders fighting it out in earnest. However, sites in Sector 14 and 20 had no takers. The showroom sites in Sector 8, opposite the City Centre fetched a good price, though the final bid was on an average a mere Rs 20,000 more than the reserve price. The SCOs fetched between Rs 88.10 lakh to Rs 1 crore. Among the booth sites, it was the two booths in Sector 8 that fetched the maximum price of Rs 13 lakh. Even here, the final bid was Rs 8 lakh more than the reserve price. The SCOs in Sector 11-B fetched Rs. 1.21 crore, around Rs 3 lakh more than the reserve price. All bidders were required to deposit earnest money of Rs 50,000 for participating in the auction and a person intending to bid for more than one category was required to deposit money for each category separately before the auction. |
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