Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh, 30th August, 2018:   In a bid to deliberate upon Chandigarh’s digital journey and to focus on the efforts of Chandigarh Administration in bringing more and more services under e-governance, a day-long Digital India Conclave Chandigarh was held today at Hotel Taj .  Hosted by Chandigarh Administration UT in association with Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd, the conclave was participated by who’s who of Chandigarh and neighboring States.  During his welcome address, Jitender Yadav, Special Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Chandigarh Administration, who was the Programme Chair of the conclave stated, “Chandigarh has started its digital journey to bring in more transparency and speed in delivering government services by a single click, and stands at the top in the country in terms of per capita digital payment transactions with a score of 18.5 transactions per person.” “We have started the concept of eSampark centres, whereby we have been ...

Chandigarh, 30 th  August, 2018:  The Chandigarh Skill Development Mission has been making sincere efforts in analyzing Skill competencies of the Students at National and International level by continuously putting best efforts to scale up the skills of the children, thereby helping them show their potential at various Levels. For participation in the World Skill Competition scheduled to be held at Kazan, Russia, 2019, the Chandigarh Skill Development Mission selected 41 students through State Level Competitions who were facilitated By Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Sh. V.P. Singh Badnore on May 2018. These students participated in Regionals held at Jaipur, Lucknow and Bangalore. It is a moment of pride that the following 19 students have been selected to participate in the Nationals scheduled in Oct 2018. SR NO NAME OF THE TRADE WINNER INSTITUTION POSITIONS 1 Architectural Stone Masonry Dahim Yaseen Bhat Kuldeep Govt Co...

Chandigarh, 30th August 2018:  An orientation convergence meeting regarding the  Rashtriya Poshan Maah  was held under the chairmanship Sh B.L. Sharma, Secretary Social Welfare with all the line departments at U.T., Secretariat today.  The Poshan Abhiyan is being implemented in U. T., Chandigarh in order to address the issues of Malnutrition , under-nutrition, anemia , reduce stunting and  reduce low birth weight in the age group of under 6 children, Pregnant & Nursing Mothers and Adolescent Girls. During the meeting, Secretary Social Welfare outlined the details of Poshan Abhiyan and Rashtriya Poshan Maah which is to be celebrated across the U.T., Chandigarh in the month of September. He emphasized on the importance of  nutrition during the first 1000 days of the child i.e from pre birth of a child till he attains the age of 2 years. This is because the right kind of nutrition during pregnancy i. e when the child is in the womb, during ...

Chandigarh, 28th August 2018:  A complaint was received from village Hallomajra, U.T, Chandigarh regarding the murder of a baby girl of around 25 days through police station, Sector 31, Chandigarh.  Acting on this complaint the Arjun Sharma, IAS, SDM (East) ordered an inquiry U/s 176 Cr.P.C.   In this inquest, the SDM (E) constituted a board of doctors to exhume the body and to carry out the postmortem of the body.  The body was exhumed in the presence of SDM (E) and the statements of relatives were recorded. Subsequently postmortem revealed that the death has been caused by blunt force which was an impact injury on the brain of the baby girl.  The SDM (E) concluded that the death of the baby girl in Hallomajra was an unnatural one.   Accordingly suspecting foul play and murder, the SDM (E) directed the local police to register an FIR and catch the culprits responsible for causing the death of the baby girl.

Chandigarh, 27th August 2018:  Mr. Khushdev Arora a student of MA English at  Regional Institute of English, Sector-32, Chandigarh grabbed fist position  in Association of Indian Universities Inter University National Seminar, 2018  held at Lovely Professional University, Jallandhar  on 24th August, 2018 a with Ms. Sheenam Dhingra, a student of MA English, Panjab University, Chandigarh  on the topic “Higher Education in the Era of Innovation  Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Technology with a Focus on Human Values in the Age of Disruption”

Chandigarh, 27th August 2018 :  Education Department invited application in the year 2016 from Serving/Retired Bureaucrats,Doctors,Judicial Officers, Journalists,Engineers,Defense Officers,Advocates and other professionals who are interested in teaching the school students on voluntary basis once a week (for maximum one hour or one lecture) in Govt. Schools. Good number of interested Serving/retired officers/professionals conveyed their subject/field of expertise, preferred Govt. school where they want to teach and suitable time of teaching. Later on from time to time many such Serving/Retired Professionals/Officers submitted their applications and offered their services. Seeing the enthusiasm of such Professional/Officers, Education Department is again inviting applications from Serving/Retired Bureaucrats, Doctors, Judicial Officers, Journalists, Engineers, Defense Officers, Education Department is again inviting applications from Serving/Retired Bureaucrats, Doctors, Judicial ...