Rs 40-cr tenders for road works

Chandigarh: The MC on Friday floated Rs40-crore tenders for recarpeting and maintenance of roads. The MC will undertake major and minor works on 105 roads. Recarpeting work will be undertaken on 61 roads, while repair and maintenance work will be carried out on 44 roads. Some roads will be widened too. Roads in Ram Darbar and Sector 56 will be among those to be recarpeted. TNS

Four test covid +ve in Amloh

Fatehgarh Sahib: Tension gripped Amloh town as four close contact of a Covid positive patient, who is the president of the Amloh Bar Association, including his eight-year-old grandson, a maid and two tenants. They have been shifted to Gian Sagar Hospital. The bar association president has been moved to Rajindra Hospital in Patiala as his condition was critical. Anand Sagar Sharma, Amloh SDM, said the area had been sealed and sanitised. OC

Awareness drive against drugs

Fatehgarh Sahib: Amneet Kondal, SSP, launched an awareness drive to eradicate drug menace in the district to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. She administered an oath to police officials to wage a war against the drug abuse. OC

Official gets addl charge

Chandigarh: Rajiv Tewari, Assistant Controller (F&C), Chandigarh Housing Board, has been given the additional charge of the Director Public Relations (DPR), thereby, relieving Navjot Kaur, Director, Social Welfare Department, of the additional charge of the DPR. TNS

CCPCR gets new Chairperson

Chandigarh: The UT Social Welfare Department has appointed Harjinder Kaur as the Chairperson of the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights. The term of the Chairperson will be for a period of three years from the date he/she assumes the charge. TNS

SSP addresses Patiala students

Patiala: Senior Superintendent of Police Mandeep Singh Sidhu addressed students of Aryans Group of Colleges during a webinar on ‘drug abuse and illicit trafficking’. Sidhu talked about depression, peer pressure, unintentional dependency of medicines and lack of self-control. TNS

Address industry issues: SAD to govt

Patiala: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders, in a memorandum that was addressed to Governor VP Singh Badnore and submitted to DC Kumar Amit on Friday, demanded the state government to resolve matters concerning the industry and trade in the region. The letter written by NK Sharma, president, trade and industry wing of the party, read: “The industry and trade sector in the state are going through unprecedented crises and grappling with low supply of raw material and labour shortage.” TNS

Battery-swapping facility launched

Chandigarh: VP Singh Badnore, UT Administrator, and Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel, inaugurated a state-of-the-art battery-swapping station for electric vehicles at M/s Kapoor Service Station, an Indian Oil retail outlet in Chandigarh, through a virtual event held here on Friday. Indian Oil has partnered with M/s SUN Mobility to set up battery-swapping stations at select fuel stations in identified cities. Pradhan commended the efforts of Indian Oil and SUN Mobility in pursuing the innovation. He hoped that the tie-up would energise the EV markets in India. “The EV opportunity is so big that every player in the eco-system will benefit from it,” he said. TNS