Beijing, Some 1.3 million Chinese will compete for 18,000 civil servant posts in various government departments over the next two days, Xinhua reported. On Saturday, candidates will give exams for posts in the China Banking Regulatory Commission and for vacancies requiring foreign language efficiency. On Sunday, they will take the general exam. About 88,000 applicants are from Beijing. The city has adopted various measures to prevent cheating in the exams. For the first time, devices were installed near the exam sites to block mobile phone signals so that candidates will not be able to use them for ...
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Armed Forces were requested to prepare a comprehensive coherent policy paper on induction of Women, which has been submitted to the Ministry in August 2011. The policy paper has been considered by the Ministry keeping in view the role and responsibility of the Armed Forces in defending the nation and protecting the territorial integrity of the-country. Based thereon, a Government letter has been issued on 11th November, 2011 inter-alia laying down policy on induction and employment of women in Armed Forces as under: (i) Women Officers may continue to be inducted as Short Service Commission Officers` (SSCOs) in Branches/Cadres where they are being inducted presently in the three Service`s; (ii) Women SSCOs will be eligible for consideration for grant of permanent commission along with Men SSCOs in specific Branches in the three Services viz. Judge Advocate General (JAG) and Army Education Corps (AEC) of Army and their corresponding branches in Navy and Air Force; Naval constructor in Navy and Accounts branch in Air Force, as specified in Ministry`s letter No:12(i)/2004-D(AG)Pt.Il, dated 26th Septembet,2008;` (iii) In addition to the above, in the Air Force, women SSCOs will ...
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Chandigarh, February 2 (Doaba News Service)- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has found fault in the selection of six IAS officers from the PCS. The affected include two Deputy Commissioners. They will continue at their present postings till the fresh decision is taken to carry out selections. The officers are Gopal Krishan Singh; Dharam Dutt; Sukhjit Singh Bains; Yashveer Mahajan; Inderjit Singh and Karamjit Singh. Allowing a petition by PCS officer Parveen Kumar, the high court today quashed the combined eligibility list of the state civil services officers dated August 7, 2008. Justice MM Kumar and Justice Jitendra Chauhan also quashed notification dated August 13, 2008, issued by the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, (Department of Personnel & Training), “making appointments of the members of the state civil service of Punjab to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for the select list years 2007”. In his petition, Kumar had asserted that he was born on February 17, 1952. On April 23, 1986, he was inducted into the Punjab Civil Service (executive branch). He attained the age of 55 years on February 17, 2007, and his date of superannuation ...
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Jalandhar, February 2 (Doaba News Service)- Ignoring the guidelines of the Union Ministry of Rural Development, the Punjab Government has failed to appoint ombudsman under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) even after five months. The Union Government had asked the Punjab Government to appoint ombudsman for the redressal of grievances of the job card holders, engaged in different projects under the NREGA, in the state. In an order dated September 7, 2009, Amita Sharma, Joint Secretary (NREGA), had directed different states and Union Territories to appoint ombudsmen so that the grievances be redressed in a time-bound manner. The Union Government has also directed the states to set up offices of the ombudsmen within three months from the date of issuance of the order. The government has also said that expenditure incurred for this purpose would be met out of the provision for the administrative expenditure under the scheme. The union government had decided to appoint the ombudsmen after massive grievances arose with regard to the implementation of the scheme across the country. Talking to The Tribune, DR Karnus Raju, NREGA Commissioner, Punjab, claimed that ...
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Chandigarh, January 24 (DNS)- War against drugs in Punjab has started showing encouraging results as this border state alone accounted for 60 per cent of country’s total seizures made under the NDPS Act during the past six months. Recoveries have only been a tip of the iceberg as the malaise has penetrated the state much deeper. How many of those arrested with contrabands are convicted will depend upon judicial scrutiny of all these seizure cases. Interestingly, spurt in seizures followed announcement of a performance-appraisal system by the Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal, a couple of months ago. And many of the enterprising district police chiefs were quick to get on the bandwagon of those trying to impress the new Home Minister with huge seizures that till a few months ago were a rarity. Otherwise, not many of serious cases of heinous crime have been solved that expeditiously as have been the narcotics smuggling cases. Though aberrations and wrongful projections of performances may not be ruled out in the race to capture special cash prizes given to outstanding performers, there has been a considerable change in the attitude of the police towards drug ...
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Jalandhar, January 22 (Doaba News Service)- Hold your breath for a while. The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), which is in dire fiscal straits, wants a whooping increase of about 51 per cent in the existing tariff across the board for all consumers to meet its aggregate revenue requirement (ARR) for the next fiscal year (2010-11). For the current fiscal year, the increase in the tariff, ordered by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) was in the range of 10-12 per cent for various categories of consumers to generate a revenue of Rs 759 crore to meet its ARR. The PSEB has pegged a cumulative revenue gap of Rs 6,575 crore in the petition submitted to the PSERC for the next fiscal year and has prayed to the commission to raise the tariff accordingly to realise the amount from the power consumers. The commission has sought objections from the public on the petition. How the commission would deal with such a huge increase in the tariff, it remains to be seen. Already, there is a difference of opinion in the PSEB and the commission over the consumption of power in the farm sector. The commission had last year reduced the projected consumption in the farm ...
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Chandigarh, January 19 (DNS)- Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal yesterday asked the Financial Commissioner, Taxation, the Financial Commissioner, Development, and the Secretary, Mandi Board, to carry out a joint study to make recommendations for slashing the tax liability on cotton ginning mills. An assurance to this effect was given by Badal to a delegation of the Punjab Cotton Factories and Ginners Association led by its president, Bhagwan Bansal, at a meeting at Punjab Bhawan here today. Responding to the demand to waive the market fee and Punjab infrastructure development cess on cotton, the Chief Minister assured the delegation that the demands would be examined by the joint committee before taking a final decision in this regard. The CM also directed the Excise and Taxation Department to keep a strict vigil on the illegal buying of cotton by traders of ...
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Chandigarh, January 19 (DNS)- Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Deputy Commissioners to be liberal while considering the pending cases of the fresh applicants of 1984 riots- affected families, who could not apply for seeking relief under the 'rehabilitation package' announced by the Government of India. Chairing a high-level meeting to review the progress of implementation of the rehabilitation package to provide relief to the victims of 1984 riots here at Chief Minister's residence yesterday morning, Badal directed the Deputy Commissioners to consider all fresh cases of these applicants with an open mind so that they could be given adequate relief as per the Centre's policy. Badal directed the officers to consider suitable documents as sufficient proof of residence submitted by these claimants. The Financial Commissioner Revenue informed the Chief Minister at the meeting that the Punjab government had invited fresh applications from the victims of 1984 riots who could not apply earlier due to some unavoidable circumstances, positively by January 31, 2010. ...
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