Jan 2020

PUNJAB   Punjab moots online home delivery of booze, with trial in Mohali Booze lovers in the state will get their favourite brand of liquor delivered at their door step. If this happens, Punjab will perhaps be the first state in the country to have online home delivery of liquor. Maharashtra had also proposed to … Read more 16.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Right to Business Act approved by Punjab cabinet  In a booster for the industry , specially the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) units, state cabinet has given approval for Right to Business Act 2020. The Act will ease the regulations required by newly incorporated MSMEs by providing enabling provision of self-declaration, besides exemption from … Read more 19-20.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Maximum claims under free health cover scheme in Punjab for dialysis   Dialysis has emerged as the most claimed package under Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana (SSBY) — the cashless universal health insurance scheme of Punjab government — pointing to high levels of prevalence of kidney disease in the state. Dialysis is the process of removing excess … Read more 17.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Punjab: Jobless youth to get Rs 1,000 skill training allowance per month Unemployed youth who undergo skill development training will also be given monthly allowance of Rs 1,000. Under the ‘Mera Kamm, Mera Maan’, a skilling and employment initiative of the Punjab government, provision has been made for giving monthly financial support, albeit … Read more 22.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   IIT Ropar conducts study to minimise losses due to floods   To minimise losses due to floods, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, has carried out mapping of some districts in Punjab that witnessed huge losses due to floods in August 2019. The researchers have carried out the study by using the microwave remote sensing (MRS) … Read more 14.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   UT writes to Survey of India for Sukhna Lake’s latest map The UT administration has written to Survey of India for the latest map of Sukhna Lake and its catchment area, which will be used in the final notification declaring Sukhna as a wetland under the Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rule, 2017. In the draft notification, the Chandigarh administration … Read more 01.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB Mohali gets its first waste plant The Mohali administration has set up its first solid waste management project at Jheurheri village in the district. Under this project, every household will be given a pair of green and blue trash cans to segregate garbage, which will be collected every day from each household in the village. The garbage will … Read more 15.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Heroin seizures rise four times in three years in Punjab, drug deaths fall   Punjab police seized 464kg heroin in 2019, which is four times more when compared to the quantity recovered in 2016. The state force also forfeited property worth Rs 24 crore of drug smugglers in 2019, against property worth Rs … Read more 08.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

Govt signs accord with NDFB, ABSU to resolve Bodo issue to redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in Assam, currently spread over four districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri. villages dominated by Bodos that were presently outside the BTAD would be included and those with non-Bodo population would be excluded The … Read more 28.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Centre objects to Punjab 2017 property forfeiture legislation The Union government has informed the Punjab government that ‘The Punjab Forfeiture of Illegally Acquired Property Act, 2017’ passed by the state legislative assembly on November 29, 2017, is not in conformity with the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and the Prevention … Read more 23.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs