{"id":301290,"date":"2018-08-09T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301290"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:42:55","slug":"punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-exempts-senior-citizens-and-ex-servicemen-from-dope-test-for-issuance-and-renewal-of-their-arms-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-exempts-senior-citizens-and-ex-servicemen-from-dope-test-for-issuance-and-renewal-of-their-arms-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh exempts senior citizens and ex-servicemen from dope test for issuance and renewal of their arms licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300252 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/amarinder-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/amarinder-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/amarinder-450x420.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/amarinder.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on August 8 exempted senior citizens and ex-servicemen from the mandatory dope test for issuance and renewal of their arms licenses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was taken in response to the requests made by ex-servicemen and a group of senior citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 14pt;\">Captain Amarinder agreed after considering their track record and also they were fit cases and can be excused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #3e3e3e;\">In the month of July, the Chief Minister decided to make dope test mandatory for all the government employees in the state <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">from the time of their enrolment through every stage of their service.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 21pt; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #555555; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #555555; font-size: 14pt;\">The initiative was taken by the Chief Minister to eliminate the drug menace from Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on August 8 exempted senior citizens and ex-servicemen from the mandatory dope test for issuance and renewal of their arms licenses. \u00a0 The decision was taken in response to the requests made by ex-servicemen and a group of senior citizens. \u00a0 Captain Amarinder agreed after considering their track record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":300252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[3905,1951,4084,279,4085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301291,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301290\/revisions\/301291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}