PATIALA: Punjab government's financial commissioner (revenue) Romila Dubey, Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) members Varinder Singh and SPS Pal, and former chairman of the erstwhile Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) HS Brar are frontrunners for the post of chairman of the PSEEC. A tota1 of 12 candidates applied for the ...

BATHINDA: Hundreds of farmers and labourers, including women, and activists belonging to 17 organisations staged a massive dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Wednesday against the imposition of power bill and "indifferent” attitude of the state government towards their demands. Addressing the protesters, union leaders condemned the ...

PATIALA: UK. Panda took over as Director Finance and Commercial of Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited (PSTCL) on Wednesday after negotiations over his contract conditions spanning two months. Panda was offered the post in June this year, but turned it down citing service conditions. The government eventually gave in and amended ...

PATIALA: Punjab did not see many power cuts in April and May, after the state electricity board was unbundled. It has now emerged that Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (Powercom) overdrew heavily from the northern grid during the two months to meet the demand and may now have to pay ...

CHANDIGARH: Six prominent business houses have approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking quashing of the Punjab government orders of levying electricity duty on the power they sold or intended to sell to other states. They generated electricity in their independent power plants. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mukul ...

AMRITSAR: The Kisan Sangharsh Committee will hold a demonstration on May 17 against the unbundling of the Punjab State Electricity Board and the abolition of subsidy of water and electricity to farmers. Committee press secretary Harjit Singh said, "Meetings to mobilize maximum people and make the protest a success are on. ...

RUPNAGAR: A number of serving chief engineers of the erstwhile Punjab State Electricity Board are a disgruntled lot, for they cannot apply for the posts of directors of Punjab Powercom Ltd and Punjab Transco Ltd. According to a state government notification, the experience of chief engineers serving in planning, store and ...

PATIALA: With Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal accepting the demands raised by the joint forum of employees of the Punjab State Electricity Board - dissolved on Thursday after 51 years of existence -a two-day strike against the unbundling of the board was called off on Friday. The decision to end the ...

PATIALA: Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday said Punjab had beaten recession by recording the highest VAT collection in the country - Rs 8,150 crore, compared to Rs 5,000 crore three years ago. Talking to mediapersons after paying tributes to Sardar Jasdev Singh Sandhu, a former Akali minister, on ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has ordered withdrawal of 50 per cent security cover of VIPS and others facing a threat to life in anticipation of a backlash from the Punjab State Electricity Board employees in view of the bifurcation move. Of the 8,759 cops deployed on security duty, the government has ...

SUNAM (SANGRUR): Charan Dass, a retired junior engineer of the Punjab State Electricity Board, attempted self-immolation on Wednesday in protest against the Nagar Council's alleged failure to remove an encroachment by his neighbour. Dass climbed up a council water tank and raised slogans against the NC and the police He sprinkled ...

AMRITSAR: Farmers staged dharnas statewide on Wednesday to protest privatization of the Punjab State Electricity Board on the call of13 organizations. Protests were held in six divisions of PSEB including Patti, Bhikhiwind, Tarn Taran, Beas, Jandiala and Gurdaspur and 35 other sub-divisions. In Sangrur, PSEB Employees Joint Action Committee observed day-long strike ...

FEROZEPUR: The arrest of the District Food and Supply Controller (DFSC) in Ferozepur on the charge of misappropriation of paddy worth Rs 7 crore may expose a bigger scam, say the police. The interrogation of the accused is on. Ferozepur DFSC Sukhdev Singh, in December, had unearthed the paddy scam and lodged ...