{"id":5479,"date":"2017-09-20T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2017-09-20T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:03:50","slug":"cabinet-okays-proposal-to-invite-global-tenders-to-set-up-world-class-technology-univeristy-at-mohali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/cabinet-okays-proposal-to-invite-global-tenders-to-set-up-world-class-technology-univeristy-at-mohali\/","title":{"rendered":"CABINET OKAYS PROPOSAL TO INVITE GLOBAL TENDERS TO SET UP WORLD-CLASS TECHNOLOGY UNIVERISTY AT MOHALI"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>PROPOSED UNIVERSITY TO GENERATE 2400 DIRECT JOBS, BOOST GDP BY RS 6500 CRORE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CoM ALSO GIVES NOD TO ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chandigarh, September 20<\/p>\n<p>In a move that will help create nearly 2400 direct jobs while boosting the state\u2019s GDP by Rs 6500 crore, the Punjab Cabinet has given the go-ahead for inviting global tenders to establish a world-class Technology University at SAS Nagar (Mohali).<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet approval came at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh here on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>An official spokesperson disclosed after the meeting that the proposed university, which will focus on skill development in IT\/IT enabled services, biotechnology and related biosciences, material sciences and nanotechnology, will help also push up tax revenues by Rs.600 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals would be called from the open market by providing wide publicity where the applicants may either pay as per IT Policy-2013 or as per the proposal received from the Reimagining Higher Education Foundation. Based on the proposals received from the Foundation, an area of 50 acres earmarked for IT\/ITES, etc may be allocated for setting up the university.<\/p>\n<p>The eligibility criteria for allocation of plots in IT City, SAS Nagar for sizes varying between 3 and 25 acres has been relaxed to allow non-CMM-SEI Level 5 certification companies to set up business. Further, companies wishing to exit IT City have been allowed to surrender plots by deducting 10% of paid up amount.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Ministers (CoMs) has also given its assent to the establishment of district bureaus of employment and enterprise in all district of the state as a step towards implementing the government\u2019s `Ghar Ghar Rozgar\u2019 scheme.<\/p>\n<p>These bureaus will function as a platform to facilitate all kinds of employment opportunities for the youth, including overseas employment, skill training, self-employment, enterprise and entrepreneurship development, etc. They will also serve to co-ordinate with all the departments for the successful implementation of relevant central and state government schemes and regularly monitor the same.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been decided to set up a state level apex committee and a district governing council of the bureau to implement the &#8216;Ghar Ghar Rozgar&#8217; programme initiated by the Employment Generation and Training department.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROPOSED UNIVERSITY TO GENERATE 2400 DIRECT JOBS, BOOST GDP BY RS 6500 CRORE CoM ALSO GIVES NOD TO ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS Chandigarh, September 20 In a move that will help create nearly 2400 direct jobs while boosting the state\u2019s GDP by Rs 6500 crore, the Punjab Cabinet has given the go-ahead for inviting [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,315],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab","category-top-stories","tag-punjab-cabinet-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}