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Organ Transplant : First Time Organs Transported From Chandigarh To Mumbai To Save Lives

Mumbai’s 51st heart transplant and fourth lung implant has saved lives of two patients who were in critical condition. But for these Organ Transplant all credit goes to Chandigarh’s PGIMER because they have transported organs to Mumbai on time. They performed the successful transport and saved lives of two end-stage organ failure patients.

It was the first when Chandigarh transported organs to Mumbai via a charted flight and within 2 hours and 28 minutes by covering 1,600 kilometers distance they available them organs.

How This Organ Transplant Got Success

A person having head injury was admitted in the Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh. His condition was very critical and he was declared brain dead in PGIMER Chandigarh. After his death, his wife consented to donate all his organs. She agreed to donate his liver and kidneys to the patients on the waiting list at PGIMER. While his corneas were sent to the eye bank, both his heart and lungs were transported to Mumbai. Her consent gave life to people who were in very critical condition.

Heart And Lung Transported To Mumbai:

Two organs were transported from Chandigarh to Mumbai for the first time via a chartered flight. The National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) facilitated the transplant procedure between the donors and the recipient. Both the transplants were conducted at the Fortis Hospital in Mulund. A 46 years driver who was suffering from a heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy and needed the heart transplant but doctors were waiting for the donor. His condition was very critical and was on a ‘supra-urgent’ list since the last 37 days. Transported heart has been successfully transplanted in him. In the same hospital, there was another case in which a 55-year-old woman from Indore was suffering from interstitial lung disease, an end-stage lung failure, and she got the lungs. She was on the waiting list for two weeks and also listed on the supra-urgent list. Both families are very happy after the transplant because now the patients are out of danger. Both families said that they will forever remain indebted to the team of doctors at this hospital for Organ Transplant.
Students Of Institute For Blinds From Chandigarh Are Not Less Than Others

Nothing can stop you to achieve your goals or you can accomplish anything if you are courageous and take risks. We always blame others for our failures but if you are a real fighter then you will be able to get your goals in any condition. Visually impaired students Institute For Blinds from Chandigarh has proven this that they can do anything. They have got very good marks in Class X exams.

About The Students Of Institute For Blinds:

Students of the Institute for Blind in Sector 26 has proven that they can find their way without eyes. There are 12 visually impaired students in this institute and all the students have passed with good grades. The institute’s topper Ritik Goyal scored CGPA 9.8 and Devashish Barua, a resident of Ram Darbar, Phase-I, who scored CGPA 9.6. The third position in the institute was bagged by three students, including Saurav, Muskan, and Suman. They all scored CGPA 8.8. Among the other students who passed Class X includes Rizwan (CGPA 8.2), Sunil Kumar (CGPA 8), Zavi Singh (CGPA 7.6), Nisha (CGPA 7.6), Manoj Kumar (CGPA 7.6), Varun and Sahil (CGPA 6.6).

Challenges A Visually Impaired Student Faces:

The topper of Institute Ritik Goyal wants to clear UPSC exams and his mother who is also visually impaired is very happy with his dedication. According to these students, their consistent studies are their mantra to success and they also said that they face lots of challenges but they love to study so they can face these challenges. Devashish said “Converting notes into Braille and then studying them is not an easy task. According to these students, they are doing well because of the motivation from teachers and support from the parents. The entire team of the Institute wants to provide every facility to these students that can make them able to get their goals. These students can not see the world but their eyes are filled with dreams that they want to fulfill. We wish them all the best for their future.
Chandigarh Will Become India’s First City To Have Women To Manage Public Parking Lots

Chandigarh will become India’s first city to have only women manage all public parking lots and this will be done under a smart parking system project. To implement, this idea and bring smart parking here Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has chosen Mumbai-based Arya Toll Infra Limited for this project.

Now soon you will be able to see women who will manage the public parking lots. Many people crack lots of jokes about ladies that they can not drive or park vehicles properly but this initiative will show that women can do anything efficiently. In this initiative around 200 women would be hired as parking managers.

Chandigarh’s Smart Parking Lots:

Chandigarh will soon be going to get the smart parking system under the joint initiative of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation and Arya Toll Infra Ltd and this will be very helpful for the residents. This project is going to amend all the 25 parking spaces and sector 17 will get multi-level parking system. This system will control traffic and also residents would be able to get parking spaces easily. There would be a new app that will help people to pay parking charges and they can also book parking space online.

Women Can Be Efficient Parking Coordinators:

The women attendants will manage all 25 parking lots in markets in different sectors of the city, as well as multi-level parking in Sector 17. The timing decided for their duty will be from 7.30, am to 9 pm. After 9 pm, men would manage the parking lots. Around 200 women will be hired as parking coordinators.

According to Sandeep Bhora, the project coordinator of Arya Toll Infra company that they will take care of the safety of women coordinators and for this, they will install CCTV cameras. All the parking lots would be under CCTV surveillance. They will also form an internal Whatsapp group for entire staff and if anybody is facing any type of problem then they can contact immediately and quick action will be taken.

Pink Parking Lots:

According to Sandeep Bhora, the project coordinator of Arya Toll Infra Women are able to handle all kinds of situations well and this ability makes them good managers. City beautiful is best in infrastructure, greenery and also provide safety to women. This is the reason they are going to start this kind of pilot in the Chandigarh because it is comparatively safer for women than other cities. In this parking there would be spaces designated as “pink parking spots” and they would be parking areas reserved for women drivers.

Cost Decided For The Project:

The cost has decided for this project and this joint initiative of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation and Mumbai-based Arya Toll Infra Limited that has been allotted the Rs 14.78 crore parking contract. For the last one year, the parking lots have remained without contractors, causing losses to the civic body. The specific date of the launch is yet to be announced.
Match Between India And Pakistan Was Not Just The Match

It was again the time of battle between India and Pakistan on the cricket ground. This rivalry between these two countries has claimed the supreme position in world cricket. Excitement for this match was unsurprisingly massive this time also and the credit goes to the rivalry and political issues between these two countries. The match was played in Birmingham. Everyone was so excited and praying for their country’s to win the match and prayers have been accepted. India won the match.

This Match Was Not Just The Match:

Yes, this match was not just the match because this match was between Bharat and Pakistan. There were many people who are not in favour of this match but for many people, this match was the war that has held on the cricket ground to teach the lesson to the rival country and to tell them through our game that we will not give you any chance to survive in both battle or cricket ground. India has won the match and has beaten Pakistan by 124 runs. Vintage Yuvraj has played very well. Happiness has spread all over the India and cricket lovers are celebrating this victory. We just wish our cricket team to perform better in coming matches.
Chandigarh’s Garbage Processing Unit Is Not Working To Its Optimal Capacity

Chandigarh is always known for its cleanliness and greenery then what is the reason that made it slip to the 11th position from the second position in the Swachh Survekshan Survey 2017. In the sub-category (solid waste collection and transportation), the city scored 348 marks out of 400, while Imphal, scored the highest 360 marks because of the garbage heaps. Why there is the drastic difference between the survey’s of two years and you will surely get the answer when you will see the collection of garbage that stinking so badly in Chandigarh.

The UT MC is facing problems with garbage collection and disposal due to a shortage of both manpower and equipment as well as a malfunctioning of Chandigarh’s Garbage Processing Unit.

City Has Only One Garbage Processing Unit:

City beautiful produce around 450 tonnes of garbage a day and that is not much but still, MC is unable to manage this. There is only one garbage processing plant and that is not working to its optimal capacity. According to the reports of last two months, the Jaypee plant processed only 700 tonnes of the 3400 tonnes of garbage it received. The rest 2700 tonnes of the waste was thrown to the nearby dump without thinking about the residents and about their health. These dump is resulting in the fire.

Stinking Garbage Can Cause Serious Disease:

Many residents are complaining that MC is not serious about that matter and they are not taking any action to the processing of garbage. Garbage is getting collected and stinking very badly. Residents are are saying that because of the stinking garbage people are getting skin diseases and this can also cause other serious diseases but nothing is being done to solve this problem. Around 100 tonnes of garbage are throwing in the dump without processing and this will result in the worst condition in future.

MC Has Promised To Make City Cleaner:

As the ranking of City in the Swachh Survekshan Survey 2017 was poor, so MC has promised that now they will take every required step to make city cleaner. The first step they are going to take is to distribute 2.5 lakh bins with a capacity of 12 litres each free of cost to all the residents of the city. This is going to start from World Environment Day on June 5. There will be bins of two colours and each bin will be for the different type of garbage. Green bins will be for green waste or biodegradable garbage and the blue one will be for non-biodegradable waste. One lakh bins will be distributed on June 5, and the remaining 1.5 lakh bins by June 15.

You Have To Pay Recovery Charges For Littering:

For the first time, MC has decided that they will impose recovery charges for littering. They have decided to impose recovery charges of Rs 5,000 on residential and Rs 10,000 on commercial establishments for littering garbage in the city. This amount would be charged for additional labour and machinery required to clear the garbage.

Hope, MC will soon improve the work of Chandigarh’s Garbage Processing Unit and city will also improve its ranking in Swachh Survekshan Survey in future.
Couple Took Poison After Fight, Man Died

Fights are good for making relations strong if they are healthy fights but sometimes small arguments turn to fatal fights. Nowadays people have no patience and because of that, no one wants to listen to others and this leads to serious fights. People are ending their lives because of silly arguments. A case of suicide came into the limelight where a couple took poison after an argument between them.

What Was The Reason Of Suicide:

Sanjeev Kumar is a resident of Rampur Sanian village and on Thursday morning there was an argument between him and his wife. After this altercation they both took poison and they both were rushed to the Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi, from where doctors referred them to GMCH, Sector 32, Chandigarh because their condition was critical. Sanjeev Kumar has died this morning because his condition was not good but his wife is now out of danger.

What Did Investigating Officer Say

Mewa Singh, investigating officer, said the couple had a fight over some issue following which both of them took poison. After this husband died but the wife is out of danger. Life is precious and people are losing it by committing suicide. Always think before taking any step because these fights could be resolved but if once you will lose someone then it will be the loss of whole life.
To Make The Punjab University Vehicle Free Chandigarh Plans ‘Cycle-Dock Stations’ to the Campus
Punjab University, Chandigarh is going to make University noise free and for this, they will not allow any outside vehicle to enter the campus. They are also going to introduce Cycle-Dock Stations on the campus. This decision is taken with the collective feedback of students and blueprints are also ready for decongestion of the Sector-14 campus.

In 2015, PU student elections, a majority of students had voted for not allowing students’ four-wheelers in academic zones in Sector-14 and Sector-25 campuses. This sounds good that authorities are coming with innovative ideas to make campus clean and noise free.

Traffic Management Would Be Done Properly:

To manage traffic properly and to make university noise free they came up with some ideas and that would be implemented soon.
- Outsiders will have to park their vehicles at gate number 1,2, and 3 and e-rickshaws (paid) or buses will also be available there.
- For academic block entry would be through gate 1and who want to visit market, bank and health centres they have to go through gate 2. For residential area gate, 3 will be available.
- At gate 1 the parking capacity is 200 vehicles.
- Three entries have been proposed for academic zone i) Near Gandhi Bhawan ii) Near V-C office iii) Administrative block iv) From Ankur School’s side
‘Cycle-Dock Stations’ at PU

This facility will be available for everyone and you do not have to pay for this service. It is totally free. Anyone can pick cycle from the sites and after using these cycles they have to place them at any nearest Cycle-Dock Stations.
- PU is going to introduce ‘Cycle-Dock Stations’ in the Sector 14 campus for the future public transport.
- In PU there will be 15 sites on the campus with 10 cycles each
- XEN-1 will be carried out all the Feasibility study for implementation of the plan.
- This facility for all the campus students will be free.
- Any Student can pick it anytime and after using it they have to park it nearest ‘Cycle-Dock Stations’
- The cycle would be coloured in a different way that no student would be able to take this outside the campus.
- 10 regions are decided to make them ‘Cycle-Dock Stations’.
- PU have taken the lessons from Punjabi University Patiala to manage the traffic on campus.
- Various checkpoints and barriers to be installed on the campus.
The executive engineer will get the parking area marked with a white line. Parking will be allowed only on one side of the roads through the varsity. As of now, people on campus are parking on both sides of the roads. This is the great move and this will help to avoid noise pollution and also traffic will be managed properly.
Chandigarh Fruit Vendors Used Chinese Pouches Of Ethylene Oxide For Ripening

Fruits that are highly nutritious and they will provide lots of benefits if we include them in our daily diet but nowadays fruits vendor are using some chemicals to ripen them. To get money people are contaminating fruits with toxic and harmful health hazardous chemicals. Chandigarh Fruit vendors are found to use chemicals like calcium carbide and oxytocin in fruit and vegetable farms for artificial ripening and for increasing the size of fruits and vegetables respectively.

This Calcium carbide is commonly used for the artificial ripening and known as ‘masala’ among vendors. But it was found that this is a carcinogenic agent and because of that, it was banned under Food Safety and Standards Regulations 2011.

Chinese Pouches Of Ethylene Oxide Instead Of Calcium Carbide:

Previously people were using calcium carbide for ripening the fruits and vegetables. This was found after raided fruit and vegetable shops and then stopped the use of this carcinogenic agent. This time Chinese pouches of ethylene oxide are found from fruits vendors and they are using it in fruits ripening in the city. These white pouches were found in the vegetable market in Sector 26 that are being used to ripen mangoes.

The FSSAI Permits 100 parts per million For Artificial Ripening.

Food safety officials have for the first time found Chinese pouches of ethylene oxide instead of carbide for artificially ripening fruits in the city. The FSSAI permits 100 parts per million for artificial ripening. So it was not known that how much quantity these vendors in sector 26, fruit market were using because nothing was written on these packets. But there was the only label of “Made In China” on the white pouches. Immediate action was taken and these white pouches sample has been sent to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), New Delhi.
Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Going To Start Tracking System To Track Project

The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation going to bring the file tracking system and this would be very much helpful for residents or councillors because this would make them able to check the status of work in their wards on their cellphones. This tracking system would be beneficial and it would minimise the rounds to the offices of officials.

With The SmartPhones Information Are Click Away:

Nowadays everyone has a smartphone and with that, they are able to get every information easily and because of this Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh decided to start file tracking system that will help people to know at which level the file of a particular work is lying pending. When some residents ask about the status of work, the councillors call the sub-divisional officer or executive engineer or chief engineer and it becomes rather tedious for everybody to track that particular file. To save the time and to make file tracking easier, this new system will surely help.

People Would Able To Know The Development On Phone:

According to the officials, this project would be rolled out in a month’s time. Every information would be provided from the time where the estimates are prepared and sent to the officials concerned along with other details. If any objections will be raised at any level then it will be immediately available. In the previous system, there was fixed time in which councillors can get to know about the development from officers but now there would be no fixed time. This will make them available with all the information on anytime.
Body Cams And Traffic Marshal System In Mohali Is Launched On Chandigarh’s Pattern
Vehicles are increasing day by day and with that traffic violation is also increasing. Crossing the red light, not wearing seat belts, over speeding, using a mobile phone while driving, and driving the vehicle on a high beam are the commonly committed traffic violations on city roads. To control these things Mohali Police decided to follow the pattern of Chandigarh by starting Traffic Marshal System In Mohali.

Also, body cameras will be fitted in the uniforms of traffic police personnel at the nakas to enable them to film offenders who would be issued challans. Firstly this will be done on the basis of the pilot project.

How Would This Project Be Beneficial For Controlling Violations:

According to the Mohali senior superintendent of police Kuldeep Singh Chahal, this would firstly start on the basis of piolet project and after its results, it would be started in the entire city. He also said that Traffic Marshal System In Mohali will be very helpful to control the traffic violations.
- Traffic marshals will be very helpful in keeping a close watch on traffic officers as well as the people violating traffic rules.
- There are many people who use to drive their vehicles after having alcohol and this is increasing accident cases. These traffic marshals will play an important role at drunk driving nakas and to control offenders.
- Help from traffic marshals will also be sought for night check posts so that only traffic violators could be challaned.
- Cameras fitted on the uniform of traffic police personnel will keep a close eye on offenders.
Body Cameras Will Check Activities Of Traffic Police Officer And Offender

Body camera will fit on the uniform of traffic police personnel and these cameras will check all the traffic violations. It will check activities of Traffic police officer and offenders closely. Initially, the body cams have been given to traffic police officers in Mohali and Zirakpur and it would be expanded in the future. This system would help to bring transparency in traffic challan process and this leads to less corruption. Bribes that Traffic Police accept would be controlled. For people who drink and drive to inspect them Police would be provided Alco meters.