Punjab gk & Current Affairs January to July 2017 by Study IQ

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Punjab Current Affairs 2017 - Jan to
July

Punjab State Board of Wildlife constituted
As per the notification issued by the department of
Forests and Wildlife, the government reconstituted
the board on June 7.
The previous board constituted by the SAD-BJP
government functioned for a period of three years
and was given an extension for a year.
Punjab Wildlife Board’s decision to allow farmers
to kill Nilgais to prevent crop damage
Protests by Bishnoi community
A mobile application focusing on livestock was launched
by the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University (GADVASU)
The mobile app, ‘Precision of Dairy Farming’, has been
developed by the Extension Education Department of the
varsity to help dairy farmers get answers to their queries.
The app is being made available in two languages-
English and Punjabi.
Punjab CM
inaugurates
Partition Museum
in Amritsar
August 17 as the
‘Partition
Remembrance Day’.
Punjab CM sanctions Rs 15 crores for completion of
Jang-E-Azadi memorial in Jalandhar
Minister for Tourism Navjot Sidhu
first phase was completed in June 2017
The project, spread across 25 acres of land, was
originally sanctioned in July 2012 at a total cost of
Rs. 315 Crores
Swacch Sarveskshan 2017
Gujarat has maximum of 12 cities among the top 50 cleanest,
followed by Madhya Pradesh with 11 and Andhra Pradesh with
eight.
11 Chandigarh
Punjab
Swacch Sarveskshan 2017
Punjab’s performance
Number of cities in top 10 – zero
Number of cities in top 50 – zero
Number of cities in top 100 – zero
Number of cities in bottom 50 – five
Number of cities in bottom 100 – seven