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From NRI facilitation centre at IGI airport to NRI Milnees, CM Mann’s initiative facilitates Punjabi diaspora

From NRI facilitation centre at IGI airport to NRI Milnees, CM Mann’s initiative facilitates Punjabi diaspora

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Meanwhile, the state government launched NRI meeting programmes or NRI Milnees, which were organised in five districts of the state to hear the grievances of NRIs, such as land disputes, family/marriage-related and other different types of disputes directly. Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has taken several steps to facilitate the Punjabi diaspora across the globe. Among them, the most important is the inauguration of a state-of-the-art NRI facilitation booth named ‘Punjab Help Centre’ at Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. According to the CM Mann, Punjab is the first to launch such an initiative and reflects the state government’s strong commitment to support and facilitate the NRI brethren. “There are many Punjabi NRIs who face a lot of difficulties while travelling. Sometimes, they miss flights, lose their luggage and more… Today, we have opened the Punjab help centre on Terminal-3. If anyone faces any difficulty in departure, then they can come here for assistance,” Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann had said after the inauguration of the facilitation centre at …

Now facilitation centre in Jalgaon to ease nomination process for independent candidates | Pune News

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As much as a democracy needs citizens to elect their leaders, it also needs a diverse set of candidates, apart from those backed by national parties, to contest elections. With this in mind, the district collector’s office in Jalgaon started a nomination facilitation centre which assisted people in filling nomination forms. “Several people want to contest elections but sometimes complications are daunting to the aspirants and they are apprehensive of forms being rejected over the smallest error,” said Ayush Prasad, district collector of Jalgaon. “This is a big concern for potential candidates who are not backed by major political parties which hire lawyers and have well-oiled machinery to facilitate the nomination process.” To ease the nomination process and make it more accessible with digitisation, a nomination seva kendra was started, where the four step process was carried out in four rooms. Explaining further, Prasad said, “The Election Commission does not expect a pre-scrutiny of nomination forms so that nobody is denied the right to file a nomination. So we were already careful about not scrutinising …

India Opposes China-Led Investment Facilitation Proposal At WTO: Here’s Why

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Last Updated: February 28, 2024, 09:11 IST Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) A logo is seen at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters before a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, October 5, 2022. (Reuters File Photo) India opposes China-led proposal on investment facilitation at WTO, deeming it non-trade issue. Officials cite violation of consensus-based decision-making India is opposed to a proposal led by China on investment facilitation at the WTO, stating that it is a non-trade issue and falls outside the mandate of the global trade body, an official said on Tuesday. A China-led group of over 120 countries are pushing for the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFD) proposal to become part of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). These nations want to figure the issue in the 13th ministerial conference (MC) here. The four-day meet started here on February 26. “India believes that the WTO should deal with issues related to trade and this is a non-trade issue and India is against bringing this into the WTO framework,” the official said. The group …

India opposes China-led investment facilitation proposal at WTO, terms it non-trade issue | India News

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India is opposed to a proposal led by China on investment facilitation at the WTO, stating that it is a non-trade issue and falls outside the mandate of the global trade body, an official said on Tuesday. A China-led group of over 120 countries are pushing for the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFD) proposal to become part of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). These nations want to figure the issue in the 13th ministerial conference (MC) here. The four-day meet started here on February 26. “India believes that the WTO should deal with issues related to trade and this is a non-trade issue and India is against bringing this into the WTO framework,” the official said. The group wants to bring the proposal through annexure-4 of the WTO under which the proposal would be binding on only the signatory members and not on those who are opposed to it. India’s concern emanates from the fact that proponents of IFD should not be attempting to bring a “non-mandated, non-multilateral issue” to the formal process in …

I&B Minister announces setting up of CBFC facilitation office in Chandigarh

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Union Minister for I&B Anurag Thakur. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday announced the setting up of a regional facilitation office of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in Chandigarh. At the closing ceremony of the Chitra Bharati Film Festival in Chandigarh, Mr. Thakur said filmmakers of the region would get the facility of screening of their films and submission of cuts/modifications, without having to go to either Delhi or Mumbai to get the CBFC certificate for their films. He said the move would further strengthen the Punjabi film industry. Stating that every year, more than half of the 2,500 films in the world were being made in India, the Minister said: “from feature films to documentaries and short films to serials, Indian cinema today is capturing every colour of life on its canvas and making local stories global. It therefore does not matter what language a film is being made in, as long as the content is interesting, it will always have takers.” “I …