Punjab authorities, in partnership with the Indian School of Business (ISB), coordinated a brainstorming sessions higher education and business 4.0 in ISB’s Mohali campus. The aim of the dialogues was to think of a roadmap to create Mohali an Education Hub and also to accomplish a street map to its 4th Industrial Revolution in Punjab.
The sessions observed healthy discussions about the best way best to create Mohali a part of Higher Education and in this respect, the majority of the participants encouraged to tackle it within their larger ecosystem. Five topics were discussed for example — regulatory limitations, personal investment in higher education, international best practices, changing heritage institutions and institution of new private schools.
Speaking in the Dialogue, ISB Dean Professor Rajendra Srivastava advocated the necessity to urgently bring in reforms in higher education, such as the provision of greater liberty to high educational institutions. He opined that there’s a need to incorporate education skills with growth and innovation via public-private initiatives.
The Punjab government has suspended payment of compensation to farmers for not burning off stubble after complaints that a ineligible individuals had obtained the sum, an official said on Tuesday.
It’s ordered reverification of their beneficiaries who’ve been compensated Rs 2,500 per acre for not trimming off straw.
“We’re verifying the inheritance since there were some complaints which ineligible farmers might have got the damages sum,” a senior officer of the state agriculture department said.
The verification procedure is to eliminate ineligible farmers, even if any.
The officials of this earnings and farming departments will guarantee physical affirmation so as to weed out any undeserving maintain, ” the official stated.
The section would also rely on information obtained from the Punjab Remote Sensing Centre to confirm if the paddy stubble was burnt or maybe not on a specific parcel of farm property, the official added.
The choice came after the Supreme Court had requested the Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh government to provide compensation to farmers to encourage them to not wake stubble, that was attributed to be as important reasons for ecological pollution.
The government has up to now disbursed a sum of Rs 19 crore into 29,343 small and marginal farmers who didn’t resist the ban on stubble burning, according to the official.
To qualify for claiming compensation, a farmer must fulfill three requirements: his complete landholding shouldn’t exceed five acres, he’s not burnt paddy residue and that he needs to be a non-basmati harvest grower.
Punjab has estimated that it might need to disburse Rs 300-400 crore to farmers this season that haven’t burnt paddy straw as reimbursement this year.
Following a farmer submits his claim for hunting reimbursement, the panchayat secretary worried will affirm his claim and maintain a list of harvest residue burning his region.
Subsequently the sales department officials would also conduct confirmation of the farm property and paddy residue was burnt or not. The whole information pertaining to claims has been uploaded to the government portal site for disbursement of claims, the official added.
Meanwhile, the authorities in Fazilka district also has filed a case of cheating against two shopkeepers for supposedly making bogus entries of reimbursement claims on the government site.
Two computers are seized in their stores and delivered to a forensic laboratory in Chandigarh for evaluation, authorities said.
