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Year-long
survey by NSSO from Jan 1
Chandigarh, December 19
The National Sample Survey
Organisation, for the first time after Independence, will undertake a
year-long situation assessment survey from January 1, 2003 to evaluate
policy impact on farmers and suggest correctional measures. The survey
is being conducted on the request of the Union Ministry of Agriculture
to look into the impact of doles to farmers, their falling returns, low
productivity and to make them internationally competitive.
Georgina
steals Chrysanthemum Show
Chandigarh, December 19
A Sector 44 resident, Georgina Roy,
here yesterday walked away with 17 prizes in the individual category of
the Chrysanthemum Show-2002 followed by the PGI with 10 prizes, Haryana
and Punjab Accountant-Generals five each, Punjab Warehousing Corporation
four and Hotel Mountview three.
From
China with love
SAS Nagar, December 19
“Chandigarh has really impressed
me and I found it to be a well-planned city”. These were the views
expressed by Ms Tan Hangping, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese
People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries at the
guest house of the Punjab School Education Board here.
Police
remand for IT Commissioner
Chandigarh, December 19
The Income Tax Commissioner
(Appeals-2), Ludhiana, Mr M.L. Dhunsa, who was arrested yesterday by the
CBI in a case of corruption, was today remanded in two-day police
custody by a CBI Special Judicial Magistrate.
Mayoral
posts: poll on Jan 1
Chandigarh, December 19
Deputy Commissioner M. Ramsekhar
here today sent a formal communication to the Secretary of the Municipal
Corporation to hold annual elections of the Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor
and Deputy Mayor on January 1. The last date of the filing of
nominations is December 28.
Poll
for ZP member on Jan 5
Chandigarh, December 19
The by-election to fill the vacancy
of a Zila Parishad member from Kishangarh and Mauli Jagran will be held
on January 5. The last date for filing nomination papers is December 24,
scrutiny will be on December 26 and withdrawal of candidature on
December 28.
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Harbhajan Singh
Halwarvi, Editor, Punjabi Tribune, who has been nominated a member of the General Council of the Sahitya
Akademi, New Delhi, for five years. He is a prominent Punjabi journalist and a well-known poet and writer, who has four books of poetry and three travelogues to his credit. He has been honoured with Shiromani Punjabi Patarkar and other awards. |
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