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PUNJAB Punjab notifies affordable colony policy; focus off MC limits The Punjab government has notified the ‘Affordable Colony Policy, 2020’ to facilitate affordable housing for people of lower and middle income groups in the state. The policy is mainly applicable outside the municipal limits but it also covers projects within the municipal limits that have … Read more 04-06-2020 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB App for school students on cards The Punjab Government is all set to launch ‘Educare App’ within a fortnight. The mobile-based app will have chapters, assignments and quizzes for pre-primary to Class XII students on a single platform. As a result, students of around 19,500 government schools would get access to classroom … Read more 27.06.20 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Punjab CM for reopening of Kartarpur corridor Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said he is for the reopening of the Kartarpur corridor with adherence to the physical distancing norms amid the Covid-19 pandemic. His statement came two days after Pakistan conveyed its readiness to India to reopen the Kartarpur corridor on the occasion of the death … Read more 24.06.20 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Punjab policy on kids’ health: Panel soon Punjab social security, women and child development minister Aruna Chaudhary has directed her department to form a sub-committee to come up with a comprehensive policy to improve the healthcare and education of children aged up to 6 years. The policy should recognize the synergistic and interdependent relationships between the health, nutrition psycho-social and … Read more 18.06.20 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Amid crisis, Punjab takes Rs 19,000 cr hit in revenue While Punjab has been hit hard by the Covid-induced economic crisis this year, the state’s revenue collections fell by a whopping Rs 19,200 crore in the last financial year. This has been revealed in the detailed key financial indicators for 2019-20, which have been … Read more 28-29.06.20 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Ordinance gives farmers alternate trade channel’ Ordinance ‘Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion & Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020’, promulgated by the President on Friday, purportedly aims at giving more freedom to farmers and widen their market network outside friendly neighbourhood mandis by abolishing inter-state barriers. It provides farmers and traders an alternate trade channel with freedom of choice … Read more 11-06-2020 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Area under cotton crop crosses 7-year high in Punjab The area under cotton in Punjab, which is the state’s second biggest kharif (summer sown) crop, has touched a seven-year high this season. According to the Punjab agriculture and farmers welfare department, cotton acreage stood at about 4.80 lakh hectares recently, surpassing the seven-year high of 4.45 lakh hectares in … Read more 10-06-2020 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Punjab to lose Rs 3,600 crore under ‘one-market’ agriculture regime The Centre’s ordinances aimed at enabling a seamless national agriculture market will burn a hole of Rs 3,600 crore annually in Punjab Mandi Board’s pocket, which, in turn, will affect the development of rural infrastructure in the state. While Rs 1,813 crore was collected as marketing fee, and … Read more 09-06-2020 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Punjab looks to bring 25% paddy area under DSR The Punjab government is aiming to use the direct-seeded rice (DSR) technology for sowing paddy in nearly 25% of the area under the crop to help farmers cope with labour scarcity. Farmers across Punjab are estimated to cultivate paddy on around 27 lakh hectares, of … Read more 08-06-2020 Daily PPSC Current Affairs
PUNJAB Punjab’s power subsidy bill now at Rs 16,400 crore Even as the average cost of power for Punjab consumer in 2020-21 has come down by 18 paise a unit, the state’s subsidy bill for the current fiscal has risen to 53% of the annual revenue requirement (ARR) of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited … Read more 05-06-2020 Daily PPSC Current Affairs