14597 farmers to get 26 99 cr loan waiver

The Punjab Government launched the loan waiver scheme for landless farmers and labourers on Friday under which 14597 farmers of Kapurthala district will get the benefit worth around Rs 2699 crore After taking part virtually in a state-level function at Roopnagar Deputy Commissioner Kapurthala Deepti Uppal officials of the Cooperative Department Anup Kalhan chairman district planning board Kapurthala Rajinder Kaura vice chairman market committee Manoj Bhasin chairman Kapurthala Improvement Trust block Congress president Amarjeet Singh and block samiti member Gurdeep Singh distributed loan waiver certificates to the beneficiaries from all four assembly constituencies Addressing farmers the Deputy Commissioner said from Kapurthala Assembly constituency 2823 farmers will get loan waiver of Rs 533 crore whereas in Bholath 4018 farmers will get benefit up to Rs 716 crore Besides that 5884 farmers from Sultanpur Lodhi will receive benefit of Rs 1065 crore and 1872 farmers from Phagwara will get benefit of 385 crore Prominent amongst present at the occasion were Sukha Singh deputy registrar Gulzar Singh district manager Neeraj Kumar DDPO Baljinder Singh Harpreet Kumar and Seema Rani all assistant registrarsAvail RTI NRI services at suvidha kendras nowIn a bid to widen the ambit of government services amid the pandemic RTI and NRI-related services have been linked with suvidha kendras Apart from these services on-the-spot birth and death certificate issuance schemes for birth and deaths at private hospitals were also started from suvidha kendras Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner Deepti Uppal made this declaration here adding that as many as 20 suvidha kendras were being run in Kapurthala at present At the kendras over 332 services are being provided to the people She said with NRI-related services being linked to suvidha kendras NRIs do not need to go to Chandigarh now They can deposit their documents at the local suvidha kendras and wont have to make that extra trip She said the RTI portal wwwrtipunjabgovin was also being started to implement the Right to Information more effectively She said now anyone seeking information will only have to apply via online portal and the information would reach themKavi darbar in memory of Charan SeechewalA special kavi darbar poetry event will be held at Nirmal Kutiyan on the banks of Kali Bein at Sultanpur Lodhi in the memory of acclaimed Punjabi poet Charan Seechewal who recently died due to a heart attack Charan Seechewal a retired Air Force officer had penned over a dozen books The books written by him include Chupp Di Awaaz Kaveri Loel Di Kuhoo Ghuggi Da Virlap Sacche Paatshah among others He also penned many children books He has played a special role in Punjabi literature The event to be held on August 22 from 10 am to 2 pm shall commemorate his literary legacy while paying tributes to him TNS