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Sigh Of Relief: 37 City’s Community Centers Are Allowed To Serve Liquor

To avoid any type distraction or attraction Supreme Court ordered to ban alcohol shops within the 500 m of national and state highways. This caused hassle among the liquor vendors. Three year ago excise department banned the Liquor in the city’s community centers because MC were not paying Rs. 35000 but now they can have sigh of relief because 37 community centers are allowed to serve liquor. This is the good news for all booze lovers that now they are allowed to have drinks at community centers.

In 2016 Supreme Court ordered again to ban liquor shops and to remove signboards of alcohol vends along highways. It was done to express the serious concern about the fatalities occurs every year in accidents and most of them is because of drink driving. Alcohol cause confusion and also impairs with ability to drive, this leads to accident.

Rules that residents have to follow

Now UT excise and taxation has allowed community centers to serve liquor during functions. Of among 40 city’s community centers 37 can now serve liquor but only three centers which are located in sector 19, 27, and 28 are unable to serve liquor because they are within 500 m of state and national highways.Residents have to follow some rules and they have to pay Rs 2000 per function to acquire the license to serve liquor in functions. They have to pay Rs. 2000 directly to the excise department.

In addition to issuing licenses, they department exempted city’s community centers from paying Rs 35000 as annual liquor license fee. This will generate extra income to department. Committee formed to provide better facilities at the city’s community centers has taken the credit of this decision.
Health Department Chandigarh Going to launch Free Diagnostic Facilities At Five Centres

Now city residents can get the free diagnostic facilities in five dispensaries and hospitals. This is the initiative taken by the UT health department and further they will decide launching date in the meeting with the health secretary. Mr. Rakesh kashyap director of health services, Chandigarh, said that residents of city will get this service shortly. Previously it was decided that this facility will be provided only in seven dispensaries but now it is going to start in the hospitals that are already well equipped or have all required machinery available.

Free diagnostic facilities details

Hospitals and dispensaries having adequate facilities and manpower will start this service to provide proper diagnosis and avoid any type of problems. For instance, Government Multi-specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, civil hospitals in Sectors 22, Sector 45, Manimajra and Sarangpur are the ones where the facility will be provided.

In free diagnostic facilities residents will get basic tests, including blood, stool, urine, lipid panel and cholesterol level testing will be done free of cost. But expensive tests like X-rays, MRI and CT scan are not included in this facility.

Funds for diagnostic facilities

Authorities are already providing 48 drugs free of cost to the people. Previously funding was done by the union health ministry but now budget for drugs purchase will be via National Health Mission and they allocated around RS 2.5 crore for the procurement of drugs. Health department will get Additional funds of Rs 4 crore from the National Health Department for free drug initiative and for free diagnostic facilities.

Health department officials assure that this time they will buy sufficient drugs and there will be better availability of drugs throughout the year.
Panchkula will get All Municipal Corporation Services Online soon

Municipal Corporation Panchkula is divided into three zones of Panchkula, Pinjore, and Kalka and serving a population of about 3,72000. It is providing the civic amenities and all the municipal corporation services to the citizens of Panchkula with transparency. Civic amenities provided by Municipal Corporation are Roads, Sanitation, Street lights, Parks Solid waste management etc.Now you can get all municipal cooperation services online because they are going to put all its services on its online portal for the convenience of all the residents and other agencies.

Officials said that they are doing this for the sake of residents and their MC staff because this will save their time and money. They also informed that for all the services for which residents and other agencies are coming to the Municipal Corporation office, from now everything will be available on their online portal.

Benefits of online service:

This online service will prove to very helpful to residents, other agencies and to MC staff because now everyone can access all these Municipal corporation services from anywhere, no need to waste your time to go to the MC office. Now resident will able to put all their grievances directly through the online system.

This facility is provided for multiple works and it includes citizen’s grievances, payments to park development societies, call center, creation and uploading of MC’s monthly newsletter, approval of building plans, the issue of fire no-objection certificates, renewal of NOC, business licenses, are in the services.

IPL 2017: Kings XI Punjab Schedule, Date, Time & Venue

The season 10th of Indian Premier League has been started. The performance of Kings XI Punjab was not good in last season. In this season Glenn Maxwell is leading the squad and this has brought new hope to the team for better fortune and productive season.

Kings XI Punjab Schedule Date, Time & Venue Details

DATE	DAY	TEAMS		VENUE	TIMINGS
April 8	Sunday	Kings XI Punjab	Rising Pune Supergiant	Indore	4 PM
April 10	Monday	Kings XI Punjab	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Indore	8 PM
April 13	Thursday	Kings XI Punjab	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	8 PM
April 15	Saturday	Kings XI Punjab	Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	8 PM
April 17	Monday	Kings XI Punjab	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Hyderabad	8 PM
April 20	Thursday	Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai Indians	Indore	8 PM
April 23	Sunday	Kings XI Punjab	Gujarat Lions	Rajkot	4 PM
April 28	Friday	Kings XI Punjab	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Mohali	8 PM
April 30	Sunday	Kings XI Punjab	Delhi Daredevils	Mohali	4 PM
May 5	Friday	Kings XI Punjab	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Bengaluru	8 PM
May 7	Sunday	Kings XI Punjab	Gujarat Lions	Mohali	8 PM
May 9	Tuesday	Kings XI Punjab	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mohali	8 PM
May 11	Thursday	Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	8 PM
May 14	Sunday	Kings XI Punjab	Rising Pune Supergiant	Pune	4 PM

New Players in Team

In 2017 IPL auctions, Kings XI Punjab added few new players.
Rahul Tewatia
Eoin Morgan
Matt Henry
T Natarajan
Martin Guptill
Varun Aaron
Darren Sammy
Rinku Singh

Former cricketer Virender Sehwag is team’s mentor, brand ambassador and will also take part in cricket operations and strategy in this season.

No more power cuts!!Privatization of the power supply in Chandigarh
No more sitting in the dark cause of power supply. Privatization of the power supply in Chandigarh to make the city Green Capital of India. UT Administrator VP Bhadnore has envisioned it as to fulfill the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to plug the weak link between the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity and create competition in the discoms.

At present, the generation and transmission are intact but the distribution is not up to the mark. The discoms are blamed for the poor electricity in our country. Chandigarh soon to get relieved from those power cuts. Chandigarh is taking the initiative to bring multiple discoms to distribute electricity in the country.

Benefits of Privatization of the power supply in Chandigarh
- The consumers will have the freedom to choose their service provider
- Consumers could easily switch their service provider if not satisfied
- No power cuts as each provider will work at its best
- No complaint calls at centres
- Multiple distributors
- Better Supply of power
If the Privatization of the power supply in Chandigarh is done it will be a win-win situation for the residents and as well as the service providers. VP Bhadnore is already working on it to upgrade the system for public welfare. The Administrator wants to take it to another level and wishes to make the city beautiful best in the country. City Beautiful is already at a higher level than other cities but the major challenge is to take 13 villages under UT on par with Chandigarh. The UT Administration is considering every point and trying their best to solve every problem the residents of Chandigarh are facing.

To solve the peak hour traffic they have come up with an idea to restrict one-way traffic for two peak hour time in the morning and evening to smoothen the traffic of vehicles on roads. The Smart City Project is already here and the Administration is trying to implement it as soon as possible.
PGI Chandigarh Going To Get 100 More CCTV Cameras Outdoor

Postgraduate institute of medical, PGI in Chandigarh is the huge campus and because of this, it required a large number of CCTV cameras to improve the security of the campus. This time PGI is going to install 100 new CCTV cameras outdoor to check the road, parking and other sensitive areas of the campus. Control rooms for new cameras would be located at different-different locations to maintain the connectivity of camera to the other control rooms of that area. Three places are decided for the control rooms. PGI has started the tender process to buying and installing the camera. At present, PGI has 465 CCTV cameras and 370 cameras are installed indoor and now 100 new CCTV cameras are going to install outdoor.

Reasons to install camera outdoor

This move has taken to check on the footfalls that are increasing day by day in the PGI. This is impossible for the security person to keep eye on each and every incident and person. Vehicle theft is the bigger problem according to security officials of PGI. Now, most of the camera would be installed in the exit places of vehicles to check the activities.

PGI security chief officer PC Sharma said that these cameras will help patients, security staff and also help to control the traffic. In campus, approximately 11000 vehicles come daily and due to this there is the traffic problem but with the help of cameras, the control room will get to know that which area has more traffic and then security staff can go there to control traffic.
PGI Is Ready To Get Its First Organ Transplant Centre In Chandigarh
The PGI, Chandigarh, will get India’s first National Transplant Centre (NTC) soon and this center will give the country its firsts, including transport of organs across the country, full face and penile transplant. PGI is doing multi-organ transplant every year without separate OTs and ICUs that encouraged the need of separate organ transplant hospital. Proposal of 1000 Crore NTC for the organ transplant is already prepared and according to the proposal, Organ Transplant Centre in Chandigarh will be constructed at Sarangpur near the PGI on the allotted 50 acres of land.

Facilities to be provided by the Organ Transplant Hospital:
- Organ Transplant Center in Chandigarh will have seven stories and there will be two- storey underground parking.
- Different floors will be dedicated to a particular organ transplant like kidney, pancreas, lungs, heart and bone marrow.
- It will also provide air ambulance and road transport of organs.
Why there is a need of NTC:

PGI started its first organ transplant 57 years ago and after doing heart, kidney, liver and pancreas transplant, it is planning to do a Lung transplant. There is no separate OTs for the organ transplant in PGI and it is using emergency operation theaters for the same. As a result of this, doctors have to delay some emergency surgeries. This is the reason why PGI officials want to construct a separate hospital for an organ transplant that is to be called National Transplant Centre. PGI officials said that after the transplant, patients require critical care and with the separate hospital, they can provide them different OTs and ICUs.

Organ Transplant Center in Chandigarh will also provide stem cell, cellular, and hepatocyte transplant and everything will be done under the supervision of specialized staff and it includes director, eight transplant surgeons with their own teams of experts, transplant co-ordinators, OT nurses, post-operation care nurses and housekeeping staff.
Chandigarh Transport Launched E-Tickets In CTU Buses For Local Routes

Chandigarh transport undertaking took around 1 year to launch e-Ticketing system for local routes, but now you can get e-tickets in CTU buses. Last year CTU purchased 1000 Electronic Ticketing Machines for the convenience of passengers and the staff, but unable to launched it for local routes.

This time Chandigarh transport undertaking has started the e-Ticketing system in around 50 CTU buses. UT VP Singh Badnore launched the e-Ticketing system by printing first ticket and Parimal Rai, Adviser to the Administrator, Amit Talwar, Director (Transport), KK Jindal, Secretary (Transport) and other officials was present during the occasion.

Electronic ticketing machines will provide fully informative e-Tickets in CTU buses on the spot. Tickets will have some things written on it like total amount in bold letters, distance in KM, time of issuance, bus number, ticket serial number, depot name, the number of passengers and conductor id. This system will help conductors because there is no need to maintain a trip-sheet now and all the data will available on ETM and conductor have to synchronize it with the Depot, either at the end of the day or at any time.

ETM will start on five routes:

Five routes are decided to start ETM and these routes are Delhi, Shimla, Ludhiana, Patiala, and Amritsar. All the inter-city routes will be covered firstly and then this system will introduce in city buses. The introduction of e-Tickets in CTU buses is the best step for staff as well as for passengers and it will help to save their time. On the occasion, Mr. Bandore said that administrator should take some important steps to make Chandigarh pollution free and also there should be the introduction of electric buses that will reduce pollution. He also said that to build the image of public transport there should be the introduction of double- Decker buses for bigger roads.
High-Velocity Storm in Chandigarh create turbulence in the city, causing inconvenience to the residents

The High-Velocity Storm in Chandigarh shook everyone, at one point of time it was like difficult walk against the stream of wind. You actually had to put in efforts to walk against the stream, it was continuously holding you back.

Effects of High-Velocity Storm in Chandigarh and surroundings

Chandigarh

The dusty winds left the residents of many sectors without power for many hours. Windy storm though bought a sigh of relieving from the heat wave but in turn, they had experienced long power cuts. The task became very difficult at the centres as complaints fell like a whole lot.

The power cuts were caused by the branches of trees that fell on electrical wires due to windy weather. The affected areas included Sector 23, 24, 25, 17,18, 19, 21, 22, 41, 44, 8, 7, 37, 38, 39 40, Burail and many villages.

Mohali

The strong winds lashed yesterday disrupted the water and power supply troubling the residents. The power cut was from 7 am to around 3 pm. A water treatment plant in Phase VI got burned and the pumping of water could not take place.

Panchkula

The same issue was witnessed here also over two hours of power cut yesterday due to a breakdown of the line. Experiencing the wind was still alright but the heavy rain damaged everything affecting the main grid.

Showers in Chandigarh ultimately lowers the temperature in the city, the winds approximately brought down the temperature to 5 degrees. Tricity approximately recorded rainfall of around 5.3mm. The repair work immediately started after the storm and power were recovered too many parts of the city. The traffic lights in the city also conked out as of stormy weather leading to traffic disturbances but by evening the situation was controlled as the traffic lights started working. High-Velocity Storm in Chandigarh affected the almost everyone in residential areas, markets, industries, colleges, schools, hospitals everywhere.
2017 IPL 10 Mohali Matches Schedule (Date & Time) at PCA Stadium
IPL, the Indian premier League 10^TH season is back with the bang and every cricket lover is ready to cheer for their favourite team. This is biggest cricket fest in India and everyone from a rich man to poor man and from a kid to an old person loves to watch.

In season10 of IPL 2017, there will be 60 matches between 8 teams and 10 different venues are decided across India where these matches will be played. Mohali IS Bindra stadium is one of its 10 venues and this stadium is also known as PCA stadium located in 9^th phase of Mohali, Punjab. Everyone in Mohali is eagerly waiting for the day of cricket battle on the field.

IPL 10 Mohali Matches Schedule 2017

In PCA Stadium Mohali 4 matches will be played between kings eleven Punjab (KXIP) and Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils, Gujrat Lions, and Kolkata Knight Riders. PCA stadium is home for KXIP, this is the reason that all four matches here are played with this team.
- Kings XI Punjab vs. Sun Risers Hyderabad, April 28, 2017, (8:00 PM)
- Kings XI Punjab vs. Delhi Daredevils, April 30, 2017, (4:00 PM)
- Kings XI Punjab vs. Gujarat Lions, May 7, 2017, (8:00 PM)
- Kings XI Punjab vs. Kolkata knight Riders, May 9, 2017, (8:00 PM)
Everyone in Chandigarh and Mohali who don’t want to watch this match on TV and want to enjoy the match in Mohali Cricket Stadium is eagerly waiting for the tickets and no one wants to miss the chance. We will soon update you about tickets booking.