Education
Satya Pal Singh takes charge as HRD Minister of State
New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) Former Indian Police Service officer Satya Pal Singh on Monday took office as the new Minister of State for Human Resource Development, replacing Mahendra Singh Pandey.
Singh was among the nine persons inducted in the Union council of ministers on Sunday at a swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
A 1980-batch Indian Police Service officer, Singh has been the Police Commissioner of Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur and Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order and Establishment, Maharashtra.
After taking voluntary retirement from service, Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014.
He is a Lok Sabha member from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh.
–IANS
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Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.