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Badal village abuzz with activity

Posted on Monday, 5 March 2012 by Punjabi Articles


Chief Minister pays obeisance at Talwandi Sabo, attends akhand path at his residence

With all eyes on March 6 when the election results will be declared, the native village of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is once again abuzz with activity.

Parkash Singh Badal, his son Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Bathinda MP, are camping at their palatial house in Badal village.

The family had gone on a holiday after spending a few days in Delhi. Sources said senior party workers of Lambi and nearby areas were calling on the CM’s residence to discuss political matters.

Unwilling to go by the exit polls that give the Congress an edge to form the next government, the Chief Minister claimed that the results would go in favour of the SAD-BJP alliance.

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Guru Kashi University’s maiden youth festival concludes

Posted on Friday, 2 March 2012 by Punjabi Articles


The two-day youth festival at Guru Kashi University came to an end here today. Interestingly, this was the first time the university had organised the youth festival.

Dr JS Dhaliwal (chancellor, GKU) was the chief guest on the occasion. He congratulated the staff and students for their efforst and performances.

Gurmeet Singh, Sub-divisional Magistrate, Talwandi Sabo, and Tehsildar Gurjeet Singh were the guests of honour.

Day 2 of the festival was marked by one-act plays, mime, mimicry, speech, poem recitation, fancy dress, folk dance and folk orchestra competitions.

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Groundbreaking work, no plants yet

Posted on Thursday, 5 January 2012 by Punjabi Articles

The SAD-BJP government may miss by a couple of years the deadline it set for delivering ‘surplus power’, but the new plants launched are a major initiative in years. Meanwhile, it met the demand through market purchases at a huge cost


The Shiromani Akali Dal promise was simple. It would make power availability in the state surplus to the requirement. The SAD-BJP government is now close to the end of its tenure, and the promise is nowhere near being delivered.


But there is a positive too. The government may have failed to keep the 2007 manifesto promise.


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THREE-DAY-LONG PROCESSION BEGINS FROM AKAL TAKHT

Posted on Monday, 29 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


 The three-day-long colourful Nagar Kirtan, a Sikh religious procession, began here from the highest Sikh Temporal seat Akal Takht marking the 305th year of compilation of the Guru Granth Sahib.

Earlier, Jatehdar Akal Takht Gyani Gurbachan Singh performed Ardas or prayer as per Sikh rituals in the presence of nearly 50,000 Sikh devotees before the beginning of the procession in the marbled periphery of the Golden Temple. There was a big cavalcade with the Nagar Kirtan when it was passing through the city's streets and was accorded rousing welcome at various places in the city.

Gyani Gurbachan Singh on this occasion said that tenth Singh Guru Gobind Singh had compiled the Guru Granth Sahib after inserting religious discourse scripted by ninth Sikh master Guru Teg Bahdur.
Read More:http://www.punjabmailonline.com/Punjab%20News_news2.aspx#52636

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New thermal power plants to start generation from next year

Posted on Wednesday, 24 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


The three new supercritical thermal power plants with the total installed capacity of 3920 MWs coming up in various places in Punjab would begin generating electricity next year with the first unit of the Talwandi Sabo project of the Vedanta likely to be commissioned in November 2012.

GS Chhabra, Director (Generation) of the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) today said the second and third units of the 1980-MW Talwandi Sabo project were slated to be commissioned in February and May 2013, respectively.

A meeting of the coordination committee has been convened on August 25 to discuss the progress in construction of the project.

Chhabra said that the first unit of the 540-MW Goindwal Sahib thermal power project being constructed by the GVK Group would be commissioned in January 2013 and the second in April 2013.
The 1400-MW Rajpura Thermal Plant being built by the L&T Group would be commissioned in 2014 with its first unit going to stream in January and the second in May.

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No new thermal plant before 2012

Posted on Thursday, 18 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles



No new thermal power power plant in the state, including those at Talwandi Sabo, Rajpura and Goindwal Sahib, will be commissioned before November 18, 2012.

The Union Ministry of Power has said this in a reply to a query by Lok Sabha MP Ravneet Singh Bittu. Union Minister of State for Power, KC Venugopal has stated that as per the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), the first unit of the 3660 MW thermal plant at Talwandi Sabo will be commissioned on November 18 next year, the second unit on February 8, 2013 and third unit on June 10, 2013.

Similarly, the first unit of the 2270 MW thermal plant at Goindwal Sahib will be commissioned on January 31, 2013 and the second unit on April 30, 2013. The Rajpura thermal power plant of 2700 MW capacity will have its first unit commissioned on January 17, 2014 and the second unit on May 17, 2014.

"These figures translate into the fact that Punjab cannot be a power surplus state. As all these thermal plants are being set up on build-own-operate (BOO) basis, neither the state government nor the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has spent a single penny on these projects," Bittu said.

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