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	ADB Approves $200 Million Package to Boost Social Services Delivery in Pakistan's Punjab Province - ADB.org
		In addition, the Punjab government will receive a TA grant of US$20 million from DFID to strengthen sector and program management and monitoring, support policy reforms, and boost social sector governance and development of local governments.
		The Punjab government will provide $5 million toward the TA's total cost of $25 million.
		But the government of Punjab is short of resources in relation to its large socioeconomic needs.
	www.adb.org /Documents/News/2004/nr2004190.asp (633 words)

	India, Bibliography
		Sikhs--Politics and Government--Chronology - Akalis--History--Chronology - Punjab (India)--Politics and Government--Chronology - India--History--Golden Temple (Amritsar) Assault, 1984.
		Sikhs--Politics and Government - Terrorism--India--Punjab - Punjab (India)--History--Autonomy and Independence Movements.
		Sikhs--Politics and Government - Akalis--History - Punjab (India)--Politics and Government.
	users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/india.htm (1040 words)

	Canada to become major trade link with Punjab,says Amarinder :: PunjabNewsline.Com :: First e-newspaper on Punjab
		The Punjab Government has posted Inspector-General of Police Suresh Arora as the new chief of the special investigating team (SIT) probing the Nayagoan rape case.
		The Punjab Chief Minister said that he urged the Punjabi NRIs to invest in infrastructure, health and education to bring rural prosperity in the State as Punjab’s villages required major investments for overall development and progress and the state government was unable to pump in huge investments due to its meager financial resources.
		He said the people of Punjab had fully appreciated that none of the state could afford to sustain the process of development without adequate industrialization and economic stabilization and could not be swayed anymore by exploiting their religious sentiments.
	punjabnewsline.com /print.php?sid=192 (1040 words)

	PRMP-Home
		The expected Outcomes, Achievements and details of Agreed Actions to be undertaken by the Government of the Punjab for implementation of the first subprogram are outlined in the
		Government of the Punjab has launched the Punjab Resource Management Program (PRMP) with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank.
		PRMP is a comprehensive, medium-term policy reform program of Government of the Punjab.
	www.punjab-prmp.gov.pk (1040 words)

	India: Punjab police: beyond the bounds of the law
		The West Bengal state government informed the Supreme Court during the hearing of the public interest petition that this was not the first time that Punjab police had launched a covert "counter-terrorist" operation in the state.
		There were many complaints about the Punjab police action, particularly as the DGP was a witness to his security men dragging the journalists out of the hall where the press conference was being held and as he took no action to stop their ill-treatment.
		After the shooting incident, the nine Punjab police officers were ordered to be kept in custody by the West Bengal police until their investigation had been completed but on request of the Chief Minister of Punjab they were released three days later.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/india/document.do?id=3D24566B3D60358B802569A500715046 (1040 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		Punjab needs a reliable data bank on human resource development and requirements in the key fields, of education, health, agriculture, industry and government to enable it plan a futuristic state contiguous to the economic map that the Congress promises to unfold in the Budget session beginning June 12.
		The PCMS Association, Punjab, said today that the move of the state government to discontinue the non-practising allowance (NPA) by allowing private practice would be a “reward to corrupt” and “punishment to honest doctors and poor patients”.
		The Finance Minister of Punjab, Mr Lal Singh, at a meeting here, said the anti-corruption drive launched by the Congress in the state had yielded positive results and the present government was taking all steps to ensure that the faith of people in the administration was restored.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020527/punjab1.htm (7330 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		Protesting against the “anti-education policies” of the Punjab Government, the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union have decided to court arrest at Matka Chowk in Chandigarh on March 17.
		The Punjab Government has reportedly ordered the dropping of a chargesheet issued against state’s Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP) D.R. Bhatti in the alleged multi-crore wireless scam.
		Only last year, a Punjab Government official was caught on February 28 for alleged killing of the national bird.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050316/punjab.htm (7330 words)

	Prospectus
		The College has been established in March 2003 by the order of the Government of the Punjab and is in same administrative ambit as Nishter Medical College Multan, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore and King Edward Medical College, Lahore and other Government Medical Colleges.
		The Nishtar Medical College remained affiliated with the University of the Punjab, Lahore upto 1975-76, and thereafter with the Bahauddin Zakaria University, Multan, now this college is affiliated with University of Health Sciences, Lahore.
		The Quaid-e-Azam Medical College remained affiliated with the University of the Punjab, Lahore upto 1975-76, after which it was affiliated to Islamia University Bahawalpur upto 2003 and now this College is affiliated with University of Health Sciences, Lahore.
	www.pmc.edu.pk /prospectus_history.htm (7330 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Education Tribune
		Under Section X of the 95 per cent Grant-in-Aid Scheme of the Punjab Government, the fee structure of the university is to be decided by the university itself and not the government.
		The Punjab Government in a letter of the Director Public Instructions (Punjab) dated May 13 has communicated the ‘revision of fees and funds being charged by government, aided and non-aided colleges and the state universities’.
		The government has also communicated to the colleges that the budget of the colleges would be calculated on the new fee structure.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030701/edu.htm (7330 words)

	Conflict Summary
		The militants, however, were discredited in the eyes of the civilian population, and even though the state government subsequently installed lacked political legitimacy, it managed to return some degree of normalcy to Punjab - ending six years of direct central rule.
		From 1983 violence escalated markedly in Punjab, and led to the imposition of Presidential rule in October 1983.
		The violence as well as the daily death toll decreased dramatically during 1993, and by the end of the year the Punjab police chief declared that the insurgency had been defeated.
	www.pcr.uu.se /database/conflictSummary.php?bcID=228 (785 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		The Punjab Government has started contemplating disposing off the land belonging to its few jails to generate enough money for pumping the same to have new, bigger and modern jails where the facilities for the reformation of criminals could be provided.
		They demanded that the Punjab Government should make arrangements for payment of their salaries at the earliest and also transfer officials of Bacospin, who had been harassing them.
		One of the eight films to be shown in the special Punjab series beginning on December 25, "Koi Raah Disse" has been sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041219/punjab1.htm (785 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Govt may infuse capital into Punjab & Sind Bank
		Mr Chidambaram had after his meeting with chiefs of public sector banks in early June identified Punjab and Sind Bank as one of the two banks that had "slightly higher" NPAs.
		THE Government may consider providing recapitalisation support to Punjab and Sind Bank (P&SB), the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, said here on Saturday.
		From 1997, the Government has helped turn around a number of banks, including UCO Bank and Indian Bank through recapitalisation.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/06/26/stories/2005062601810100.htm (318 words)

	Khalsa College, Amritsar
		In 1890, the Khalsa College Establishment Committee was set up with Colonel W.R.M. Holroyd, Director of Public Instruction, Punjab, as president, and W.Bell, Principal of Government College, Lahore, as secretary.
		In 1872, Punjabi with Gurmukhi was included in curriculam after Attar Singh Bhadur showed 389 books written in Gurmukhi at university, establishing a point that Punjab is not just a dialect of Hindi (as Arya Samajis have declared) but with a valid literary history.
		Even the few Khalsa students who come forth from the recognized colleges of the Punjab exhibit a tendency to despise and abandon the religious and civil traditions of their fathers, instead of becoming patriotic leaders to guide their people to higher planes of enlightened usefulness.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/institutes/kcollege.html (318 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Punjab has asked the Union Government to compensate at least for three years the revenue loss to be suffered by it because of the enforcing of VAT at the initial stage.
		The Punjab Finance Minister, Mr Surinder Singla, who attended the meeting, confirming that the issue of services tax was raised, he strongly argued that the collection of services tax on telecom services in Punjab should be with the state government.
		On fiscal concession to hill states, Mr Singla, said Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and several other states had been hit hard because of this concession given to hill states.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040802/main5.htm (666 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		The Punjab Government today announced sops for Punjabi NRIs, including assurance for establishing fast-track courts to deal with their property dispute cases, matching government grant for village development projects by NRIs, at the annual convention of the NRI Sabha, Punjab, at Lyallpur Khalsa College here.
		The Punjab Government today ordered the transfer of four police officers.
		Taking up a petition filed by Punjab MLA Ajit Singh Kohar, seeking the grant of bail in a cheating and corruption case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030115/punjab1.htm (666 words)

	Pakistan Alumni Net
		Government Degree College, Gojra - Toba Tek Singh, Punjab
		Government High School Turang Zai Charsadda - Peshawar, N. Government High School Ugoki Sialkot - Sialkot, Punjab
		Government Degree College, Jhelum City - Jhelum, Punjab
	www.infophil.com /Pakistan/Alumni (666 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		Even as the result of the Class V examination conducted by the Punjab School Education Board in February 2004, was duly declared by the authorities on March 31, the district education authorities have failed to issue detailed marks certificates (DMCs) to a large number of students of government schools.
		The Joint Students Front, comprising seven organisations, including the Punjab Radical Students Union (PRSU) and the Students Federation of India (SFI), today burnt the effigy of Punjab Transport Minister Mohinder Singh Kaypee at the main gate of the local Government Ranbir College in protest against the government’s “soft attitude” towards the private bus operators.
		The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) is in the grip of a power crisis with a severe reduction in power from West Bengal, forcing it to increase the number of power cuts in both urban and rural areas by one hour.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040911/punjab.htm (1601 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. The Sikh separatist movement and the Indian state: A retrospect
		It is clear that whether it was the Central Government, the All India Parties or the media, no one, even while knowing fully well the injustice done to Punjab, ever tried even to suggest that the constitutional course could be followed and the matter settled judicially.
		The Government of India Act (1919), The Simon Commission Report (1930), Ramsay Macdonald's Communal Award (1932) and Government of India Act (1935) all referred to the Sikhs as a distinct entity.
		M.A.F each and Delhi 0.2 M.A.F. The remaining 8 M.A.F were unilaterally earmarked by the Centre for Rajasthan, another non-riparian State, unconcerned with the Punjab Reorganization Act of 1966.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /052004/ahluwalia_ms_3.htm (1601 words)

	[Eco-list] Environmental monitors in five Punjab cities
		Environmental monitors in five Punjab cities The Nation, 5/6/2002 http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/today/national/lhr6.htm LAHORE (APP)_The government of Punjab is actively considering to introduce a participatory system of 'Self- monitoring and Reporting' on all the industries of Punjab from July next.
		He said Punjab government will soon clamp a ban on the burning of solid waste and in this context added that according to modern research incinerators are no more considered to be environment friendly option of disposing hospital waste.
		Minister Finance with additional charge for Environment Tariq Hameed in his brief address said the Punjab government, despite its limited resources is contributing its bit for the environmental conservation.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/eco-list/2002-June/002560.html (1601 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Punjab water imbroglio
		In 1976, the Central Government issued a notification under Section 78 of the Punjab Reorganization Act 1966, allocating the erstwhile Punjab's share of Ravi-Beas waters to the new States of Punjab and Haryana, with a small allocation to Delhi.
		Whether Punjab can now argue that the very establishment of the Tribunal was wrong and illegal is a question that will need to be considered.
		First, Punjab has been asserting its ownership of Ravi-Beas waters, but so far as one knows, Punjab has use rights over those waters; it does not own them.
	www.hindu.com /2004/07/26/stories/2004072601371000.htm (1601 words)

	Tsunami News for Punjab, India
		Ishar said that Sikhs of the island wanted that Punjab government should rehabilitate...
		The leaders from Punjab, who were accompanied by a team of MLAs from that state, expressed their condolences to the tsunami victims and assured all possible...
		Punjab National Bank said the Board of the bank had decided to donate Rs five crore to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for the cause of tsunami...
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Punjab.html (1601 words)

	ENSAAF: Fighting Impunity in India
		By the end of 2003, the State of Punjab had filed affidavits in 577 of 582 cases from the identified list; 64 of 66 cases identified by the petitioners from the partially identified list; and 47 of 97 cases identified by the petitioners from the unidentified list.
		The State of Punjab and its agencies too have not provided any meaningful information, and the Commission itself does not have an independent investigative agency to take on the task.
		Before the Supreme Court could hear the matter, armed commandos of the Punjab Police abducted Khalra on September 6, 1995, from outside of his house.
	www.ensaaf.org /nhrc.html (1601 words)

	Punjab River Waters
		As a matter of fact the differences between Punjab and Haryana are the creation of the successive Congress Governments with the policy of ‘divide and rule’ and now, since NDA Government is in office at the Centre it is high time that they should resolve this important issue at the earliest.
		It is not understood as to why Punjab Government has not filed a suit before the Supreme Court for getting this part of the Accord also implemented by the Centre.
		Inspite of this, Chandigarh was not transferred to Punjab by the Centre on the plea that Punjab is not giving 25,000 acres of Punjabi speaking villages to Haryana.
	www.sikhreview.org /july2002/current.htm (1601 words)

	North : Punjab : HindustanTimes.com
		Talking to mediapersons here, he said the indifference of the bureaucracy towards people’s problems and implementing the policies and programmes of the government was a major reason for the Congress’ debacle in the Lok Sabha election.
		If a list of Patiala Municipal Corporation is taken to be true, certain high-ups in the state government, local body and others not only ignored a large number of encroachments effected in the city during Lok Sabha elections, but also recommended to MC officials to allow the same.
		Lauding Congress president Sonia Gandhi for “sacrificing” the post of Prime Minister, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today sought to equate her with Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/376_0,000900010001.htm (1601 words)

	::: Welcome to Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Official Website :::
		The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) was set up by the Government of Punjab as an autonomous body with the mission to “develop IT as a major sphere of economic activity, and promote its use in the public and private sectors for increasing efficiency and competitiveness”.
		The Chief Minister wants PITB to be the driving force in creating Software Technology Parks and in implementing e-Governance and e-Government policies and projects throughout Punjab.
		The vision of the Chief Minister Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, is to make Punjab the hub of information technology and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) be the leading IT organization in promoting economic growth in IT and IT enabled services sector.
	www.pitb.gov.pk (1601 words)

	Remand of Hawara unlikely to be shifted to Punjab
		The Chandigarh Administration has received an informal request on behalf of the Punjab Government, pending CBI is approval.
		Jagtar Singh Hawara is undergoing the trial in the Beant Singh assassination case, which involves the Punjab Government, UT Administration and also the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
		Chandigarh, Punjab (KP) — After the rearrest of the eminent Babbar Khalsa militant Jagtar Singh Hawara, the Punjab, UT and Delhi Police competed to keep his remand under their respective controls.
	www.panthic.org /news/125/ARTICLE/1828/2005-10-02.html (1601 words)

	Rawalpindi - Wikipedia
		Pursuant to the recommendations of the Barani Commission, the Government of Punjab established Barani Agricultural College, Rawalpindi which was later upgraded to the level of the University in 1994.
		Rawalpindi is located in the Punjab province, 275 km (171 miles) to the north-west of Lahore.
		In the 1970s, the Government of Pakistan constituted a Barani Commission to review and recommend measures for the development of rainfed agriculture and uplift of the poor masses through education, research, and development of technology, and manpower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rawalpindi (1601 words)

	THE UNIQUE SPIRIT OF SIKHSIM
		Punjab's irrigation canals had become the dumping grounds for bodies of disappeared citizens as well as of executed militants, and the state government of Rajasthan to the south formally complained of dead bodies floating down from Punjab.
		Punjab is the historic home of India's Sikh population, a religious minority forming approximately 2% of the nation's population.
		The citizens of Punjab were caught in the vicious cat-and-mouse game played by the police and security forces, whose "catch and kill" strategies eventually did severely weaken the guerilla organizations, but not without a heavy civilian toll - the extent of which is only now being fully brought to light.
	www.panthkhalsa.org /humanrights (8895 words)

	South Asia: Punjab
		The creation of the state of Punjab in 1966 was designed to give Sikhs a state in India where their religion and language would have local dominance.
		When independence was achieved and the partitioning of the Punjab occurred in 1947 (see Partition, 1947), most Sikhs fled to the Punjab area of India.
		In India's Punjab, radicals in the Sikh community organized a secret government and began a revolution in 1987 to establish an independent Khalistan.
	www.cet.edu /earthinfo/sasia/punjab/PJtopic6.html (1524 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		The Marxist Communist Party of India, CPM (Punjab), CPI (ML) and the All-India Forward Block called upon the people of the state to oppose and fight against the policies of the Centre and the state government at a convention here today.
		Getting poor response from the Punjab Government to solve their problems, teachers and other employees of the aided schools in Punjab today approached the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, president, Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, to intervene in the matter.
		Candidates seeking admission to the Army Institute of Law, Mohali, under the “Punjab resident” category for admission to the five-year law course have alleged discrimination and ignoring of merit by the institute’s management in selection process.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050814/punjab.htm (1090 words)

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