Kanchan Vasdev

But with scores of projects in areas like New Chandigarh, Mullanpur, Kharar, Kurali and Zirakpur also rushing to be completed, the crushers located in Baddi and in Haryana make a fortune by supplying sand and gravel.

The yield of the 23 functioning mines would be less than 50 lakh tonnes, or less than one eighth the demand, according to estimates by the department.

While fine sand is used for plastering the walls, the washed crusher is used for RCC roofs and for raising walls. The washed crusher is more expensive as it is considered of higher quality.

After a spot inspection, Sidhu had suspended several officials of Jalandhar Municipal Corporation. Earlier, Sidhu had raided the house of Patiala Mayor Sanjeev Bittu following a media report that he had allotted tenders for works already done at his official residence.

Officials at BBMB say if it does not rain properly this monsoon, a huge water crisis is looming over the region. In Pong dam reservoir, the level recorded on Thursday was 1,286 feet, at least four feet lower than the last year.

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said he had received over 20 threatening calls and videos from Khalistani radicals and had forwarded those to the top police officers, but to no avail.

The house was allotted in 2002, during Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s earlier tenure as CM. Amarinder had announced life-time Cabinet status to Beant Singh’s wife Jaswant Kaur.

The UT Administration is learnt to have written to Punjab government that since the house was allotted to a former CM of Punjab, the decision on getting it vacated was under the purview of the state government.

The Act, which was passed to regularise services of 30,000 daily wagers and contractual employees, however, notified by the government on December 24 itself. 

The file had gone missing on April 12 from the office of Amrit Kaur Gill, Deputy Principal Secretary to CM.

With a number of Punjab’s IAS officers heading more than one department, the state has sought from Union government an enhancement of cadre strength from existing 221 to 232.

Sources said Chief Minister Amarinder Singh took the internal communication of police from Randhawa and ensured he would look into the matter.

While SAD is humbled, AAP is down in the dumps. Starting from candidate’s choice to lack of cohesiveness in the state unit for its campaign, all the factors contributed to its nemesis.

Bhattal has been a known baiter of Amarinder. During his previous regime, she had led around 30 MLAs to sound a bugle of revolt against him. However, during this government, she has been keeping quiet.

The Commission has also been entrusted with the task of making recommendations to government departments to undertake structural reforms in various areas of governance.

Soon after he was named the Congress candidate, Hardev Singh Laddi Sherowalia had landed in a controversy when the then Mehatpur SHO, Parminder Singh Bajwa, booked him in a case of illegal sand mining.

A chemical reaction took place inside the tank, the report says, adding that the leakage was not deliberate as the owner has a distillery unit for which the stored molasses were to be used as raw material.

Sources said the government was dealing with a huge political pressure on the issue, but it would not spare anyone if found guilty.

The bankers said while cooperative banks were handed over the debt waiver the commercial banks were still waiting for that although they had completed the Aadhaar seeding of the loanees on April 30, a deadline set by Punjab government.