Jan 2020

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 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 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   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   Punjab to use track and trace system to control liquor flow   To control the production and protect revenue, the Punjab government is all set to implement IT-based track and trace system. The move aims at putting a check on illegal sale of liquor in the state, which rob the exchequer. Once implemented, the system … Read more 12-13.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   15th Finance Commission gives Rs 7,659 crore revenue deficit grant to Punjab The 15th Finance Commission headed by N K Singh has recommended a revenue deficit grant of Rs 7,659 crore to cash-starved Punjab for the financial year 2020-21. After Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, Punjab is placed third in terms of the amount of revenue deficit grant among 14 states. The Finance … Read more 11.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

  PUNJAB Punjab bans movie on gangster, books producer Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh  banned the movie, ‘Shooter’, based on the life and crimes of notorious gangster Sukha Kahlwan for allegedly promoting violence and police booked its producer K V Singh Dhillon and others. The FIR was registered under Sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause … Read more 10.01.20 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

PUNJAB   Punjab govt postpones distribution of free smartphones to March end Punjab government  said it will distribute free smartphones to the youth in the state, one of its key poll promises, before March 31. The Amarinder Singh government had last month announced that it will start distributing the phones from the Republic Day. The state government had announced … Read more 07.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Punjab allows maternity leave to surrogate as well as commissioning mothers   Punjab government has decided to provide maternity leave with full pay upto 180 days or 26 weeks to female employees who want to have child through surrogacy as well as to those female employees who would bear the child of another woman. The decision has been … Read more 05-06.01.20 Punjab (PPSC) Daily Current Affairs