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Green Jobs Council, PEDA to Set Up Centre of Excellence

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India needs to add 1, 20, 000 MW of Green energy through solar power, biomass and wind power by the year 2022. Achieving this ambitious target would require tens of lakhs of trained manpower at facilities coming up on the ground at a frenetic pace.

In this connection, the Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ), an initiative of the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) will be jointly setting up a Centre of Excellence for skill development in the state, targeted at meeting an estimated demand for 15 lakh Green jobs in the region.

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Revealing this while addressing a ‘Convention on Green Growth and the Future Jobs’, organised by CII along with Chandigarh Chapter of CII Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) and SCGJ at CII Northern Region headquarters here on Thursday, Dr Praveen Saxena, Chief Executive Officer, SCGJ, said “The modalities for setting up the Centre of Excellence are being worked out. Youth from the region would be skilled at par with international standards and given certification by the government. Government certification on international standards will enable youth to find work anywhere in the world”, he added.


 
Dr Sabeena Mathayas

Dr Saxena said, “Going Green is a multi-million dollar industry with huge opportunities for jobs and creating new avenues. The country needs to add 1,20,000 MW of Green energy, through solar power, biomass and wind power. This will not only help protect the environment, but also create jobs for the youngest country in the world with an estimated 65% youth manpower in the next 10 years. The National Skill Development Council (NSDC) is working on sectors like water, waste management, transport, etc. to standardize skill practices and aligning them with international standards.”

On the occasion, a MoU was also signed between national SCGJ and JS Renewable Pvt Ltd, Delhi, under which 200 employees of JS Renewable will be trained by the Council. The training and certification will be conducted under the Recognition Prior Learning program.
 
Addressing the gathering, Dr Sabeena Mathayas, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Consultant – Standards, NSDC, said, “The industrial eco-system is changing with the adoption of eco-friendly practices. This also requires changes in the methods of training and skills imparted to workers to match skill needs and fill any skill mismatches. The Council has been working on standardizing the curriculum of skill training programs for workers to make them employable for Green jobs, which means adopting skill practices which minimize the impact on the environment”.

PEDA Executive Director Balour Singh, in his address, said, “The government is working on a mission mode to maximize the use of Green energy so as to preserve natural resources. To promote the same we need trained people who will work on the ground and Green entrepreneurs who will in turn create jobs in this sector.”
 
Abhimanyu Deswal, Co-Chairman, IGBC Chandigarh Chapter & Director, GLM Infratech Pvt Ltd, said, “With enormous amount of construction happening all across, the real estate industry needs to explore the concept of Green buildings. With emerging green economy, Green jobs will follow.”
 
Prof (Dr) Rudra Rameshwar from LM Thapar School of Management, Thapar University, Patiala, emphasised that India’s overall goal should be growth through quality jobs and investment, growth through trust and transparency and growth through effective regulation in order to start a new cycle of economic growth covering the 17 goals for sustainable development.

Minister Sidhu Fire-fights, Flags Off 11 New Tenders

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Punjab government had outsourced its fire services to God, as it were. Fire tenders were non-existent even in many sub divisional towns, where, in case of an eventuality these had to be rushed from nearest major towns, taking hours at times, to reach the scene of fire. And still, liberal grants from the central government running into tens of crores were allowed to lapse. Such was the apathy of the government towards an essential service which closely touched the safety of its citizens.

Delivery a revealing commentary on the state of affairs, while flagging off a first batch of 11 new fire tenders, one each for as many tier-1 and tear-2 towns of the state, Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu enumerated a series of steps being undertaken by the Capt Amarinder Singh led Congress government to literally douse the flames in Punjab.

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He said another 8 vehicles were on the way and will be deployed in other towns by next week to restore semblance of fire services in 15 towns of the state, initially. He complimented the officers of his department for working overtime to procure the fire tenders within a month of a decision being taken.

To broad base the fire services across the state, and to make the delivery of the services professional, a separate directorate of fire services and a comprehensive Fire Prevention Act was in the works. These, and other matters, will come up for discussion in a special meeting of the state cabinet exclusively on local government issues to be held shortly, Sidhu added.

Of the 11 fire tenders one each is being moved to Jalandhar, Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Dinanagar, Dhuri, Sunam, Faridkot, Nabha, Dera Baba Nanak, Raikot and Nakodar cities. The next lot of 8 vehicles will be distributed among Jalandhar (1 more), Patiala (1), Ludhiana, Bathinda and Amritsar (2 each).

Emphasising the importance the Congress Government was giving to fire services, Sidhu said a ‘Fire Extinguishing Service Week’ will be observed every year from April 17th-21st to bring focus on the valiant efforts put in by personnel of the fire and emergency services in the state.

Elaborating on the current status of fire fighting machinery in the state, the minister said the norm is to have a fire tender for every 50,000 population. But in Punjab against the requirement of 550 fire tenders there were only 114, of which only around 50 were in proper working condition. Fire-fighters were also expected to jump into danger zones without proper fire suits. Despite the poor state of affairs, the state government criminally allowed Rs 73 crore out of the Rs 90 crore grant released by the central government for fire and emergency services in the state to lapse. Because of this non-utilization of sanctioned funds, Punjab had been placed in ‘Red Zone’ by the Union Government and the Congress government was now trying to extricate the state from that position, Sidhu added.

Surprisingly, despite high rise buildings dotting the state, the state government had the services of a lone hydraulic ladder-mounted fire tender, positioned in Mohali. The alarming situation will be reversed in the shortest possible time, Sidhu said, adding that the establishment of a separate directorate for fire and emergency services will go a long way in making a headway in this direction.
 
A host of MLAs from beneficiary assembly constituencies and senior officials of the Punjab local bodies department were present on the occasion.

Get Entire Set of New Fixed Teeth in a Day!

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Having trouble with your failing teeth at an advancing age, and fearful of social embarrassment their extraction may cause in the intervening period before getting them replaced with new set of fixed teeth ? Or, finding life miserable with your ill-fitting denture?

Don’t despair. "Fast & Fixed", a new dental treatment concept, promises to provide you a fully functional set of new fixed teeth, all in a day! Imagine – removal of failing teeth, placement of dental implants and immediate attachment of a fixed bridge, all in one day! You can eat immediately after surgery and participate in social life, as usual.

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Max Hospital, Mohali on Tuesday, claimed to have introduced the facility for the first time in the region North of National Capital Region (NCR).


 

The Department of Dentistry of the hospital also held a workshop to showcase the latest “paradigm-changing dental treatment protocol”. Well known  implantologist Dr. Praful Bali performed a live surgery at the Dental OPD  which was beamed real time for workshop delegates. Dr Bali is Director of Centre of Advanced Dental Education (CADE) & International Centre of Excellence in Dentistry (ICED). He is also Fellow of International College of Oral Implantologists (ICOI, USA).


 

Dr Gaurav Malik, Director, Dentistry, Max Hospital, explained, “Patients with considerably ‘damaged residual dentition’ are fearful of traditional implants as they have to stay without teeth for at least 6 months. Added to this they are not willing to receive conventional dentures. ‘Fast & Fixed’ offers an answer to such patients. The reason: Without any complex surgery this protocol allows the implantological team to offer fixed restorations in form of an ‘immediate fixed bridge’. What’s more, this treatment offers a quick solution to patients who cannot do without functional & aesthetic restorations for long periods due to their positions in public life”.
 
Dr Praful Bali added, "The patient is enabled to leave the hospital on the day of surgery with a fixed & appealing bridge. He or she can participate in social life again without any limitations and has instant aesthetic & cosmetic gratification along with function”.

What exactly is ‘Fast & Fixed’

The procedure uses dental implants to secure a full set of new teeth on a fixed bridge. The implants are placed in such a way that the bridge can be successfully secured even where the natural structures of the jaw have been eroded after years of wearing dentures. Traditional implants and crowns need 
bone grafting, which can be avoided in this new technique.

In comparison to traditional implants, ‘Fast & Fixed’ is less invasive. On the day of surgery, the dentist places 4 or 6 dental implants and after a couple of hours, the new teeth are be fitted over the top.

Advantages over conventional dental implant tooth replacement.
•    Fewer practice visits
•    Short treatment time
•    No complex surgery
•    Avoidance of  bone grafting
•    No need to wear dentures
•    Fixed cost

Craze Growing Among The Youth, Says Chanakya Boss

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One may have heard, or read, about an increasing number of central civil services officers leaving midway through their careers for more rewarding or lucrative opportunities outside of the services. But the craze for the services among the aspirants is not on the wane. In fact, it appears to be on the upswing, if the number of aspirants registering for the preliminaries is any indication.

AK Mishra, Founder and Chairperson of the highly successful Chanakya Academy Group training aspirants for civil services exams, who was in the city on Sunday, along with two toppers from their academy in the 2016 exams, Anmol Sher Singh Bedi, Punjab – All India Rank 2 and Saumya Pandey, Uttar Pradesh – All India Rank 4, to participate in a “Art of Success” seminar organised by the academy for aspiring Civil Services Exam students at their Chandigarh centre, said for the first time the number of aspirants registering for the prelims crossed the 10 lakh mark (11 lakh-plus) in the last exams in 2016.

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Mishra, who claimed that aspirants trained in his academy group accounted for 435 of 1092 successful candidates in the all India services in 2016, informed that among the aspirants who actually take the exam, the strength of females continues to be roughly one-fourth, though they are increasingly outsmarting their male counterparts in success rate and in securing top rankings in the exams.

Answering a query, he said, “From my experience, I would estimate that 30 percent of the qualifiers in a particular year qualify in the first attempt, which is considered a golden attempt. Either you get your ‘fundas’ straight in the first attempt itself, or you take more time to straighten them out, that’s what makes the difference.”

On whether students with engineering and medical backgrounds are at an advantage vis-a-vis others, he replied, “Yes, students from engineering and medical backgrounds have an advantage as far as the objective approach of the exams are concerned, not in the syllabus. Being very familiar with the objective approach to subjects, they are able to quickly grasp the humanities subjects. In advanced countries the system of examination in humanities is very comprehensive, while UPSC approach is very concise.

“Having an educationist parent/s also helps. But then all parents, whether they are educationists or not, who are supportive of, and are closely involved in the preparation process of their children, prove advantageous for their wards. I consider the success of every child as the success of the family.”

Reacting to an observation regarding more and more central civil servants opting out of the services midway through their careers, for what they consider as more rewarding or lucrative options, Mishra said, “there is increasing dynamism in the field. Change is always welcome. Having contributed their bit to the civil services, if some people feel at any point of time that they their aptitude would be better suited to another field, they should be welcome to pursue their calling. It’s an attraction of opportunity, whether it be more for professional, or for monetary gains, it should be respected.”

His advisory for central civil services aspirants: “If your strategy is right, and if you are able to receive right guidance, half the battle is won. Cracking civil services needs a diverse approach and not an in-depth study of any one subject.”

Sharing his experiences with civil services aspirants at Sunday’s seminar, Mishra said “There are several confusions, fears, myths in the minds of aspirants regarding the exams. They are not sure whether they have the calibre, or they have that factor of being extraordinary. There are also issues of time and stress management.

“But in my view all these apprehensions and fears are a result of lack of clarity regarding the exams. You need not possess extraordinary qualities to qualify for the civil services. You need to have your basics right, plan systematically, remain focussed and have confidence in your abilities. The right guidance will see you through,” he said, adding that strong corroboration of these principles of success by the two toppers, Anmol Sher Singh Bedi and Saumya Pandey, both first time qualifiers, was enough to convince the gathering of aspirants to give it a go. 

Gurneet Kaur, Centre Head, Chanakya IAS Academy, Chandigarh informed media persons that recently they had started coaching programmes for state civil services as well, for which they were receiving an encouraging response from the region.

Mirth, Laughter & Nostalgia All The Way

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There was no dearth of nostalgic moments as 50-odd law graduates from the 1994 batch of the Law Department of Panjab University Chandigarh and their teachers met, some of them after 23 years, at Marrriott Hotel on Sunday.

Organised at the behest of Vikas Chatrath, advocate practicing in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the alumni meet witnessed mirth and laughter in abundant measure as course mates shared sweet sour memories of years gone by and life in the department and on the campus.

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Prof. PS Jaiswal, presently Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Prof. Nishtha Jaiswal and Prof. VK Bansal, were honoured by the students, who had studied law during 1991-1994 and are now well established in their respective fields.

After a round of introductions, there was an intermingling of the batch mates and teachers and rekindling of old memories. Vikas Chatrath informed the meet that this was the 4th meet of the batch and they are planning to work together for social causes for which a roadmap is being finalised.

Subhash Chander, who runs a law firm in Canada, offered to host the next alumni meet of the batch in Canada.

Cake-cutting, group photography and a sumptuous lunch rounded off a memorable afternoon of fun and frolic.

 

 

Get Guaranteed Clarity to Right-fit Stream, Program

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They assert they are not “agents” paid by universities, or a “higher education fair company” , or an “immigration company”, or a “coaching centre” for such tests as SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, IELTS, or TOEFEL. They describe themselves as a group of trained, qualified, experienced education counsellors and psychologists who share a passion for mentoring students from class 8 through class 12 (as well as from first-year through 3rd /4th year of undergraduate education) to ensure they make “best-fit” education and career choices for themselves across the world, including in India.

Meet the crack team of eduVelocity Global, which claims to offer 35-plus years of collective experience of working with schools across India and hundreds of universities across the US, Canada, UK, European Union, Australia, Singapore, and elsewhere, ranging from private international universities, to public sector international universities, to small and large public and private engineering, medical, business and liberal arts institutions.

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Interacting with media persons on the occasion of “Jubilation 2017”, the passing out celebrations of the third batch from its Chandigarh Centre in Elante Offices, held in Hyatt Regency, on Saturday, eduVelocity Global founder and Managing Partner Vinu Warrier and Director, Admissions and Counselling, Punita Singh said “We do not straightaway put a platter of universities before a student. We first assess the aptitude of a student through a structured test and then try to deeply understand the student’s personality and interests. Thereafter, we try to match these with the best possible programs suitable for them in a clutch of universities for them to choose from before putting them through our detailed program.

“We guarantee results. Our success rate is 100 percent – to date, every single student who has applied through us has received admission offers, and more than 80 percent of them have offers of merit-based scholarships, be they academically average students or school toppers”, they added.

Announcing the performance of its Class of 2017, Warrier said, “For the fall 2017 university admissions season, our students have received admission and scholarship offers from over 250 top-ranked universities from eight countries.

“Our Class of 2017 were accepted at universities ranging from such Ivys as Cornell and Brown, to such highly selective privates as Stanford, Caltech, and Johns Hopkins; to such “public Ivys” as University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill, UW-Madison, and University of Illinois Urbana Champagne. Among world ranked Canadian universities the offers have come from University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and McGill. Several G8 universities in Australia, universities like Leiden in Europe, as well as universities across the UK have also offered admissions to our students. We also helped our students generate more than two and a half million US dollars in merit-based scholarships”, he added.

“From engineers and computer scientists, to astrophysicists, film makers, healthcare leaders, psychologists, actuarial scientists, international policymakers, creative writers, and even a kinesiologist… our Class of 2017 includes undergraduate and graduate students with an amazing diversity of interests and backgrounds, personalities and personal aspirations about shaping global careers for themselves. Yet, what they share in common, today, are multiple admissions and scholarship offers from the overseas universities that best fit their dreams about tomorrow,” shared Punita.

Explaining the methodology adopted by eduVelocity, she said, “Besides our long term and one-on-one mentoring to help students ea admissions to, and scholarship offers from world renowned programs and universities, they also go through psychometric testing, assessment and counselling. Career counselling, life skills development, stream selection, program selection and personality and profile development are some of the other inputs which help them find their way through the cobwebs in their mind and move towards clarity.”

Sharing her experiences about the batch of 2017, Punita Singh said, “I saw these kids come to us seeking clarity and charting a secure academic path. Students get the classic undergrad education experience apart from choice and flexibility towards myriad experiences that helps them get clarity about their career choices. What plays a key role for a successful decision is – choosing the best-fit university, based on a diverse academic and co-curricular background.”

Appreciating their counsellors and mentors for bringing in them clarity and sharpness about their interests, and compatible careers and programs, and the help extended by them in professionally handling the maze of paperwork, the students, who interacted with the media persons, said they would be getting into their newly chosen programs in a positive and confident frame of mind.

For more details, please visit: www.eduvelocity.in

Sec 39 Plants Lemongrass To Fight Mosquitoes

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Sanjeev Kochhar
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A green belt on the outer periphery, and running across Sectors 39 to Sector 47 along the Outer Dakshin Marg, may be a rich source of oxygen to the lungs, but people living in the vicinity are also having to face the side effects of the dense tree cover – a battle with bugs and mosquitoes. With the mosquito breeding season having set in, and the health authorities gearing up for the spread of vector borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya, the lady councillor for ward No. 9 comprising sector 39 and 40, Gurbax Rawat, has started giving shape to an innovative idea in an effort to try and blunt the impact of these diseases.

On Saturday, she invited Mayor Asha Kumari Jaswal to launch a drive to plant lemongrass, a hardy grass with medicinal and other natural properties like being a  bug and snake repellent, all along the inner periphery of the green belt, abutting the first row of houses in Sector 39-D. As the Mayor ceremonially planted the first lemongrass sapling, 100-odd residents, gathered on the occasion, took turns to plant a few hundred more plants in a row. According to Gurbax Rawat the forest department had given them 2,000 saplings of lemongrass free of cost and she planned to involve residents to plant these along the green belt in Sector 39 and 40.

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The program was initiated by an NGO – Safe Life Foundation – in collaboration with the residents welfare association of Sector 39-D. To what extent the plantation will help reduce the menace of bugs and mosquitoes will be known in due course, but the thought itself was appreciated  by all, including the Mayor.

She was seen asking her close supporters and another councillor Ravi Kant Sharma, who was also present, to plant lemongrass in their respective areas.

Maintaining that she was the Mayor equally for all citizens first, and her political affiliation came later, she appealed to all residents and councillors to unitedly work for common good of the city, forgetting all extraneous considerations.

Transradial Angioplasty Is The In-Thing; Now Walk In & Walk Out

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Sanjeev Kochhar
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The fact that 63 percent of all cardiac interventions happening in North India are done using the transradial approach (inserting a stent through a puncture in the wrist) is proof enough that the simpler and safer “walk in & walk out” procedure has relegated the traditional transfemoral approach (inserting a stent through a puncture made in the groin area) to near oblivion.

Dr RK Jaswal, Director, Cardiology, Fortis Hospital, Mohali, who has been pioneering this new approach to angiography and angioplasty since 2002, with more than 20,000 procedures under his belt, says after 15 long years of documented excellent results it is now the recommended technique for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in acute coronary syndrome as per European Society of Cardiology guidelines.

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He says as compared to the groin rupture approach, the wrist rupture approach is much less painful, costs less (since it is a quicker procedure requiring much less stay in hospital), chances of complications are near negligible and success rate is much higher. With continuous advancements in stent technologies, angioplasty, especially transradial approach, has become a rage internationally. The world is increasingly shifting from open heart surgery to angiography, he added.

Dr Jaswal, who is now sharing his expertise in transradial approach to angiography and angioplasty with other cardiologists of the region in regular workshops, on Friday, presented before media persons a South African cardiologist, Dr Jameel Moosa, whom he has trained over the last two weeks at the Fortis Hospital Mohali under an international sponsored programme. Dr Moosa confided that back home he prepared to try out the challenging transradial intervention on his patients a few times, but each time had to fall back on the traditional transfemoral approach due to lack of confidence.

Acknowledging that the transradial approach to angioplasty was the way to the future, he admitted that two weeks spent with the pioneer in this field, Dr Jaswal, he was feeling confident of taking transradial intervention forward in South Africa for the overall benefit of cardiac patients.

Recollecting his experience of performing his first angiography and angioplasty using the traditional approach on a woman patient way back in 1997, Dr Jaswal said the lady’s words were still vivid in his mind. “She confided in me that she had handed over all the keys of the house, and all her personal belongings, to her family, apparently doubtful she will ever be able to return home alive. That was the kind of fear in the minds of people then,” he said.

He went on to say that hearing about the pain and discomfort during and after the traditional transfemoral angioplasty, and the then prevailing high post operative mortality rate, patients used to shy away from the intervention. After angiography by this approach, the patients were required to lie motionless in a hospital bed for over six hours and after an angioplasty for 18-20 hours, which resulted in severe back aches, especially among the elderly. Since the puncture in this approach had to be made right in front of the hip joint, slightest movement of the hip joint post intervention used to result in complications like bleeding. Since the groin area is the dirtiest part of the body, susceptible to infections, risk of post intervention infection was also high, he added.

The duration of the transradial intervention being much shorter, and patient being able to move about shortly after the procedure, has made this approach to angioplasty much sought after by patients, he claimed, adding that in the last 15 years he has hardly come across any  case of post intervention complications. “When we were using the transfemoral approach, there was hardly a day when we were not required to rush to hospital to attend to post intervention complications, he said.  

May Be Fast-tracked; Centre Likely To Bear Cost

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The proposed Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, which promises windfall of development for Punjab, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, may soon be put on the fast track with Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday holding discussions with the three states to iron out issues of alignment of the road and footing the burden of land acquisition costs.

In the meeting, held in New Delhi, with Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal and Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh, Gadkari is understood to have assured the states that in view of financial constraints being faced by them, his ministry will find a way to save them the costs, so that they could instead utilise government land along the proposed expressway for establishing logistic hubs, industrial parks, etc.

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He suggested formation of a group comprising revenue secretaries from the three states as well as the central government to study and recommend modalities for the land acquisition process.

Favouring the alignment of the expressway via Pathankot into Amritsar to Tarn Taran to Moga to Barnala and Samana before moving into Haryana, Capt. Amarinder Singh said this will go a long way in boosting industrial development in these laggard areas. He also appealed to the Union minister for the Centre to foot the entire land acquisition costs for the expressway in the light of Punjab’s poor fiscal health.

Pointing out that though the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had invited bids for appointment of a consultant to conduct feasibility studies and prepare a DPR for the proposed expressway, the process was going on at a slow pace, the chief minister urged the Union Minister to get work on the proposed expressway expedited.

100 Wells to be Sunk on Vedic River’s Path Flow

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Whatever the chances, the Haryana Government, led by Manohar Lal, appears to be determined to leave a mark by reviving the Vedic period Sarasvati river. Taking the agenda another step forward, Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board (HSHDB), constituted by the state government in 2015, on Thursday, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the public sector Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in New Delhi for restoration and research work on the Sarasvati river.

The MoU was signed in the presence of Chief Minister Manohar Lal and Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan.

As part of the MoU, among other things, ONGC will develop 100 wells on the believed flow path of Sarasvati river. WAPCOS Limited, a “Mini Ratna-I” and “ISO 9001:2008” accredited public sector enterprise under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Water Resource, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, will conduct an advance survey for this purpose.

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Appreciating the state government’s efforts in restoring the revered, but now extinct, river, Union minister Pradhan said ONGC will initially bore 10 wells on flow path of Sarasvati river. Subsequently the number of wells would be increased to 100, he added.
         
Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Manohar Lal said the main purpose of setting up the Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board was to restore the Sarasvati river and its ancient sites with a view to developing the area as a major global attraction for religious tourism.

Among others present were HSHDB Vice-Chairman Prashant Bhardwaj, Secretary in the Union Ministry of Oil and Natural Gas K.D. Tripathi, ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Dinesh K Sarraf and Haryana Cultural Affairs Principal Secretary Sumita Misra.

HSHDB’s Mission

•    To initiate, promote and support research in the field of Sarasvati Heritage.
•    To assist in the preservation and restoration of Sarasvati Heritage.
•    To raise awareness about richness and importance of the Sarasvati Heritage.
•    To develop Tourism, and a Cultural corridor, along the course of Sarasvati Heritage Area paleochannels (remnants of an inactive river or stream channel that has been either filled or buried by younger sediment).

HSHDB website : http://hshdb.in

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