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Mohali, July 20
A joint team of the SDM, Mohali, Jagdeep Sehgal, and the DSP, Cyber Crime, today raided the office of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) and the Sector 82 driving test track and arrested four touts, who used to allegedly take money from people to get their work done.
The four suspects have been identified as Taranjit Singh, Manish Kumar, Harjinder Singh and Yashpal Sharma. Nearly 100 licences, registration certificates (RCs), files, mobiles and a laptop were recovered from them and legal proceedings initiated.
Disclosing this, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Komal Mittal said the district administration was receiving complaints that some people were using the RTA office and the Sector 82 track and were taking money from people for getting their work done.
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Amritsar, February 3
15-year-old Kanishka Verma, a student of DAV Public School, has been declared the winner for the logo designing competition, organised by the Amritsar Smart City Limited for its ‘RAAHI’ (Rejuvenation of Auto-Rickshaw in Amritsar through Holistic Intervention) project. Amritsar Smart City project is working on a programme funded by French Development Agency, AFD, and operated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs called CITIIS (city investments to innovate, integrate and sustain) programme. Under the CITIIS programme, RAAHI project has been started to improve public transportation and to reduce pollution levels in the city.
Komal Mittal, Corporation Commissioner and CEO of Amritsar Smart City, said , “One of the many goals of RAAHI is to replace diesel-run autos with e-autos, along with charging stations that will be constructed in the city to charge e-vehicles. For this, financial subsidy and loan on easy interest rates will also be provided