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Chandigarh, July 27: Punjab Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Dr. Baljit Kaur today informed that under the ongoing state-level campaign “Project JEEVANJYOT–2”, three child beggars were rescued during 11 special raids carried out across various districts of Punjab. Since the launch of this phase of the campaign, a total of 195 children have been rescued through 190 special raids conducted over the last 11 days. She added that these raids were conducted by the district-level Child Protection Teams in Barnala, Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Patiala, Sangrur, Sri Muktsar Sahib, and Tarn Taran. During the recent raids, two children were rescued in Hoshiarpur and one in Sangrur. After counselling, the child rescued in Sangrur...

Chandigarh, July 26: In a significant step towards citizen-centric governance, the Punjab Government has made available Transport department’s 30 services including Registration Certificate (RC) and Driving Licence (DL) at Sewa Kendras and through Doorstep Delivery to eliminate the need for citizens to visit RTO offices or rely on agents, said Mr. Aman Arora, Minister of Good Governance and Information Technology (GG&IT), Punjab. Mr. Aman Arora was chairing a high-level meeting at MGSIPA with senior officers and all the Deputy Commissioners to review the implementation of the recently launched Revenue and Transport departments’ services at Sewa Kendras and through Door Step Delivery. Notably, Revenue department’s six services including Deed Registration, Mutation on the basis ...

Chandigarh/Ludhiana, July 26, 2025: In continuation of the Punjab Government’s initiative to gather suggestions from industry experts for strengthening the state’s industrial policy and improving ease of doing business, Punjab Cabinet Minister Shri Sanjeev Arora today announced the formation of six more sectoral committees. He made this announcement at a press conference held at Bachat Bhawan, District Administrative Complex, Ludhiana here on Saturday.  The chairmen of the committees are as under: Rajesh Kharbanda (Sports Goods Manufacturing and Exporters Association & MD Nivia Sports, Jalandhar)- Sports/Leather Goods Committee, Ashwani Kumar (President FIEO India, Victor Forgings, Jalandhar)- Machine/Hands Tools Committee, Ashok Arora (LT Foods (Dawat Rice)-Food Processing ...

CHANDIGARH, July 25:           Continuing the war against drugs “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 146th day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 414 locations on Friday leading to the arrest of 103 drug smugglers after registration of 69 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 23,377 in 146 days.           The raids have resulted in recovery of 21.17 kg heroin, 1 kg opium, 8859 intoxicant tablets/pills/injections and Rs 1.62 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.       &nbs...

Chandigarh, July 25: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Friday asked the environmental expert committee to thoroughly examine the Bagga Kalan and Akhaara CBG plants and submit its report in a time bound manner. The Chief Minister, while interacting with the villagers from the both the village in Ludhiana, said that the expert committee comprising representatives from pollution control board, universities and others should meet the villagers and assess all the points related to setting of these plants. He reiterated that the committee and villagers will carefully examine each and every concern being raised by the local residents. Bhagwant Singh Mann said that the committee should submit the report pertaining to the plants in a time bound manner so that adequate action can be...

CHANDIGARH, July 24:           Continuing the war against drugs “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state consecutively for the 145th day, Punjab Police conducted raids at 400 locations on Thursday leading to the arrest of 85 drug smugglers after registration of 60 first information reports (FIRs) across the state. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 23,237 in 145 days.           The raids have resulted in recovery of 1.6 kg heroin, 1 kg opium, 8353 intoxicant tablets/pills/injections and Rs 8.09 lakh drug money from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.        ...

Chandigarh/Auckland, July 24: Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission Chairman Jasvir Singh Garhi met Indian Ambassador to New Zealand Dr. Madan Mohan Sethi. During this meeting, Mr. Garhi discussed with Mr. Sethi the issues of the Punjabi community living in New Zealand. He requested the Indian Ambassador to take special steps to increase trade activities between New Zealand and Punjab so that the farmers of Punjab can become more prosperous. He said that most of the people from Punjab who have settled in New Zealand are excelling in the field of agriculture. Dr. Sethi asked Mr. Garhi to send a delegation from the Punjab government to increase investment between Punjab and New Zealand.

CHANDIGARH, July 23:           With the war against drugs “Yudh Nashian Virudh” waged on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to eradicate drug menace from state completed 144 days, Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested 130 drug smugglers and recovered 2 kg heroin, 500 grams opium and Rs 62,580 drug money from their possession. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested has reached to 23,168 in just 144 days.           The operation was conducted on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav simultaneously in all 28 Police districts of the state.           Notably, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann has ask...