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Raj Kumar Verka
Dr. Raj Kumar Verka is an Indian politician and a member of Bhartiya Janta Party. He is a Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) and represented Amritsar West as Indian National Congress member. He was also vice chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes. Early life He belongs to Valmiki Community. Political career Verka first successfully contested Punjab Legislative Assembly from Verka constituency in 2002. from 2002 to 2004 he was chairman of Punjab Information technology corporation, further from 2004 to 2007 he was a Chief Parliamentary secretary. In 2012, he was elected from Amritsar West. Verka was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) water canal unconstitutional. He was elected for his third term in 2017 from Amritsar West Assembly constituency. He was the cabinet minister of the Congress party in the Punjab governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amritsar
Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha region of Punjab. The city is the administrative headquarters of the Amritsar district. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Amritsar is the second-most populous city in Punjab and the most populous metropolitan region in the state with a population of roughly 2 million. Amritsar is the centre of the Amritsar Metropolitan Region. According to the 2011 census, the population of Amritsar was 1,989,961. It is one of the ten Municipal Corporations in the state, and Karamjit Singh Rintu is the current Mayor of the city. The city is situated north-west of Chandigarh, 455 km (283 miles) north-west of New Delhi, and 47 km (29.2 miles) north-east of Lahore, Pakistan, with the Indo-Pak Border (Attari-Wagah) being only away. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Commission For Scheduled Castes
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes is an Indian constitutional body under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India established with a view to provide safeguards against the exploitation of Scheduled Castes and Anglo Indian communities to promote and protect their social, educational, economic and cultural interests, special provisions were made in the Constitution. Article 338 of the Indian constitution deals with National Commission for Scheduled Castes. Article 338 A deals with National Commission for Scheduled tribes. History Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes The first Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes was set up in August 1978 with Bhola Paswan Shastri as chairman and other four members. Members of the commission includes a chairman, a vice chairman and four other members. It was set up as a national level advisory body to advise the government on broad policy issues and levels of de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Amritsar District
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Former Members Of Indian National Congress From Punjab
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandigarh
Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which also includes the adjacent satellite cities of Panchkula and Mohali. It is located 260 km (162 miles) north of New Delhi and 229 km (143 miles) southeast of Amritsar. Chandigarh is one of the earliest planned cities in post-independence India and is internationally known for its architecture and urban design. The master plan of the city was prepared by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, which built upon earlier plans created by the Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and the American planner Albert Mayer. Most of the government buildings and housing in the city were designed by a team headed by Le Corbusier, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry. Chandigarh's Capitol Complex—as part of a global ensemble of Corbusier's buildings—was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundar Sham Arora
Sundar (Devanagari: सुन्दर) is an adjective signifying attractive, beautiful, good, handsome or nice. It has its origin in Sanskrit language. The word is also used as names of people by speakers of languages branching off of Indo-Aryan languages. Given names *Delhi P. Sunder Rajan, Indian violinist * Sundar C., a South Indian film director and actor *Sunder (actor), an actor of Punjabi and Hindi films *Sunder Lal Hora (1896–1955), Indian ichthyologist * Sunder Lal Patwa (1924–2016), Indian politician * Sunder Nix (born 1961), American sprinter *Sundar Pichai (born 1972), CEO of Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. *Sundar Popo (1943–2000), a chutney artist from Trinidad and Tobago *Sundar Raj Indian actor * Sunder Ramu, an Indian film and stage artist * Sunder Singh Bhandari (1921–2005), Indian politician Middle names *Braja Sundar Mitra *Ramendra Sundar Tribedi *Sadhu Sundar Singh *Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy (alternately spelled as Shyam Sund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurpreet Singh Kangar
Gurpreet Singh Kangar is an Indian politician from Punjab, India. He was a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly and was also a minister in Second Amarinder Singh ministry. He had won the assembly election as a member of Indian National Congress. He joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 4 June 2022 along with Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Sundar Sham Arora, and others at the party office in Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kangar, Gurpreet Singh Punjab, India MLAs 2017–2022 State cabinet ministers of Punjab, India Former members of Indian National Congress from Punjab Living people 1966 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Punjab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balbir Singh Sidhu (politician)
Balbir Singh Sidhu is the former member of Punjab Legislative Assembly and was ex Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Labour in Punjab Government. Career He joined the Indian National Congress in the '90s and served as Joint Secretary, Vice president, and Senior Vice president of the Punjab Youth Congress Committee. He was also appointed in charge of Congress during Lok Sabha election 1999 in Punjab. In 2007 Punjab assembly election he won from Kharar Assembly constituency by defeating Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Jasjit Singh. Again won from S. A. S. Nagar Assembly constituency in 2012 and then in 2017 elections. He joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 4 June 2022 along with Raj Kumar Verka, Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Sundar Sham Arora, and others at the party office in Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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