Chandigarh : The Amarinder Singh government today put to an end the monopolistic practices and cartelisation in the transport sector. The government approved a new transport policy to end the monopolisation in plying of private buses by transport companies owned by Akali leaders, besides breaking truck cartels by announcing the Punjab Goods Carriages (Regulation and […]
Chandigarh, July 6 : The Department of Local Government on Thursday suspended four SEs for having allotted municipal works running into crores on single tenders in violation of department rules. The suspended SEs are PK Goel (Amritsar), Kulwinder Singh (Jalandhar) and Pawan Sharma and Dharam Singh (Ludhiana). Minister for Local Government Navjot Singh Sidhu said […]
Chandigarh : Even as nonagenarian freedom fighter Mohan Singh recently moved the High Court seeking compensation for the “brutal death” of his grandfather at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919, documents chanced upon during the digitisation of Punjab Archives show that the British had announced “liberal compensation” to the victim families of the massacre. […]
Gurdaspur : The district administration raided several unauthorised centres of travel agents and ordered the immediate closure of more than 100 of these offices. The owners now face prosecution. According to the Punjab Travel Professional Regulation Act, 2012, agents desirous of sending people abroad should register with the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office. The DC, Amit […]
Chandigarh : The state government has detected that projects worth more than Rs800 crore were allotted through single bidding in the Municipal Corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana, said Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu. It is illegal to allot projects through single bidding. “The state has 167 local bodies, besides Improvement Trusts. I have […]