Briefly Region

Registration of parties for SGPC polls
Chandigarh: The Gurdwara Election Commission,Government of India,proposes to register parties intending to field candidates for the forthcoming election of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. A spokesman of the commission said the interested parties should intimate their names and address and other particulars,including that of their office bearers,and also the choice of three symbols in order of preference to the secretary of the commission.

Rs 183 cr for repair of 34 major roads
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has sanctioned Rs 183.46 crore for the repair of 34 major district roads and state highways. The roads to be repaired are in Sirsa,Fatehabad,Karnal,Kaithal,Sonepat and Mahendergarh.

Haryana plans GPS mapping of all schools
Chandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to got for Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates mapping of all primary,middle,high and senior secondary schools of all districts in the state. An official spokesman said GPS mapping of the schools was required to identify areas where new schools should be opened. All district education officers and district elementary education officers have been asked to depute data entry operators or junior programmers working in their offices to undergo one-day training at the Haryana Space Application Centre,Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University,Hisar on January 14.

IGMC gets four more PG seats
Shimla: The Medical Council of India has granted permission to the state government to start a post-graduate course in psychiatry department and DM (Super Specialty course) in the Department of Cardiology at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College,Shimla,from the coming academic session. “Two seats each have been sanctioned for the departments,” said Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal after receiving the formal MCI sanction on Thursday. The number of PG seats in the state has increased from 39 to 79 in last three years. The CM said the state had applied for two more seats in pulmonary medicine and CTVS departments and inspection of the medial college for this had already been done.

Helicopter sorties for tribal areas prioritised
Shimla: With no let-up in bad weather conditions and snowfall in tribal areas and higher reaches,the government has prioritised helicopter sorties for marooned locations in the tribal areas of Lahaul,Chamba and Pangi. The sorties are being planned as per requests received from the district administration and with priority to patients,candidates for examinations and women and children. Since January 1,at least 263 patients had been ferried to and from tribal and snowbound areas,said a government spokesperson. For locals and government employees (to and fro) journey in a season is available on a subsidised rate of Rs 1,500,while the rates are Rs 700 for patients and Rs 7,000 for general travellers.

Fire destroys property worth Rs 3 lakh
Shimla: Property worth Rs 3 lakh was gutted in a devastating fire that broke out in a three-storey building in Sanjauli locality of Shimla in the early wee hours on Thursday. No loss of life was reported. Police said the cause of fire seemed to be an electric short-circuit. The building belongs to one Charan Dass and housed a eatery,a chemist’s store and a few other shops. Three fire engines were pressed into service that took two hours to to douse the flames,said the police.