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Indian Express
18-07-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Punjab govt setting up 22 committees to advise it on new industrial policy: Minister Sanjeev Arora
Punjab Industries Minister Sanjeev Arora Thursday said the state government was in the process of setting up industry-specific committees to advise it on shaping up a new industrial policy. A total of 22 committees comprising industrialists will be formed, he said, adding each committee will comprise 8 to 10 members with its chairman. The tenure of these committees will be for two years. 'These committees will advise the government for any requirement they need in their respective sectors. They will advise the government about what changes they require in the policy,' said Arora. Arora said the committees will be asked to give their first report within 45 days. 'We will seek their comments to make new industrial policy a reality. We want to come out with the new policy as soon as possible,' said Arora. These committees will be constituted for the textile sector, IT, sports goods, , bicycle industry, auto and auto components, heavy machinery, electric vehicles, renewable energy, food processing, steel, chemical industry, tourism and hospitality, film and media, pharmaceuticals, retail and manufacturing among others, he said. Replying to a question on some textile industrialists from Punjab investing in Madhya Pradesh, Arora said no industry is moving out of the state. 'They have future expansion plans. If any industry has future expansion plans, these can be for going there where raw material is available, and a port is near for import and exports.' 'Nobody is shutting here. They are expanding here as well,' he said. On July 7, MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav had met local industrialists in Ludhiana and had then said that his state received investment proposals worth Rs 15,606 crore from Punjab industrialists. To a question on industry complaining about unscheduled power cuts, Arora said they regularly take up this issue with the state-owned power utility — Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. 'We do not have a shortage of power. Rather the PSPCL is looking for customers for sale of electricity. But somewhere there are transmission problems. Sometimes grids get overloaded. All these are issues being taken care of. In the last 6-8 months, new grids have been set up and upgraded. 'We assure that this problem will be solved,' he said.
Indian Express
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
PSPCL contractual staff go on strike, regular staff adopt ‘work-to-rule' against govt's failure to implement demands
Nearly 5,500 contractual employees went on strike, and regular employees of the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) adopted 'work-to-rule' action on Monday to protest the Punjab government's alleged failure to implement long-pending demands. Under the 'work-to-rule' policy, PSPCL's regular employees have decided not to attend to phone calls after their eight-hour work schedule and have refused to undertake any overtime, which they had previously agreed to do to manage increased workloads. Employees have given the 'work-to-rule' call under the banner of the PSEB Employees Joint Forum, Bijli Mulazam Ekta Manch Punjab, Association of Junior Engineers, Grid Sub-Station Employees Union (Regd. No. 24), Powercom/Transco Pensioners Union AITUC, and Pensioner Welfare Federation Powercom and Transco. The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) Engineers Association has, however, not joined this protest. Union leader Gurpreet Singh Mahidudan in Ludhiana said that employees' union members submitted memoranda to the executive engineers of their respective subdivisions across the state on Monday. Union leaders said that during their last meeting with Punjab Power Minister Harbhajan Singh on June 2, several of their demands were accepted in principle, but no official notification has been issued to date. The protesting contractual employees are demanding compensation for the families of those who died in the line of duty, a job for the next of kin in such cases, and regularisation of their services. Pensioner leaders Kewal Singh and Dharminder Kumar said, 'Under the call of Central Trade Unions and the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE), power employees would also participate in a nationwide strike on July 9.' 'The strike will press the government to withdraw the Electricity Amendment Bill 2025, scrapping of the proposed four labour codes created after ending 44 existing labour laws, implementation of the Old Pension Scheme, and reversal of the privatisation of government electricity companies, among other demands,' they added. On July 3, contractual employees and their families will stage a massive protest at the PSPCL head office in Patiala. 'Over 400 employees have died on duty in line of duty over the years, and their families are yet to be compensated. Several others have been injured. We get a meagre of Rs 10,000 per month. Hence, we, along with our families, will hold a dharna in Patiala on July 3,' said Balihar Singh, president of the Contractual Employees' Union.
NDTV
04-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
"Prevailing War Threats": Cantonment In Punjab Preps For Blackout Drill Amid Tension With Pakistan
New Delhi: All lights will be switched off at the cantonment area in Punjab's Ferozepur tonight for half-an-hour from 9 pm to 9.30 pm in a blackout exercise amid heightened tension with Pakistan. To ensure the blackout exercise can be carried out successfully, the Ferozepur Cantonment chief executive officer asked the deputy commissioner and the station headquarters for "support and cooperation". The officer asked the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) to cut electricity at the exercise's scheduled time. "You are requested to ensure adequate security arrangements during this period, given the total blackout," the Cantonment Board officer said in a letter. "This rehearsal aims to ensure preparedness and effectiveness in implementing blackout procedures during prevailing war threats," the officer said. A man on a battery rickshaw with a loudspeaker drove around town and announced about the planned blackout tonight to civilians in the cantonment neighbourhood. Tension is high between India and Pakistan after terrorists with cross-border linkages killed 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam last month. India has banned all Pakistani visas and suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, among other measures, as a response to the neighbouring country's policy of sending terrorists to attack Indian forces and civilians in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani forces have also violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) many times in the last few days. Indian forces have responded with effective fire. India launched an airstrike on a terrorist camp in Pakistan's Balakot in February 2019 after a Pakistan-linked terrorist killed 40 Indian soldiers in a suicide bomb attack in Pulwama. In 2016, Indian special forces carried out a surgical strike against targets in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) across the Line of Control in response to the killing of 19 Indian soldiers at an Indian Army camp near Jammu and Kashmir's Uri.
