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Amritsar
PUNJABI PLAY STAGED: Silver jubilee show of Punjabi play ‘Payedaan’ was stated at Punjab Naat Shala here on Sunday. Story of the play revolves around a girl child who works as domestic held for a middle class family.Batala
SADHU KILLED: A Sadhu was allegedly shot dead by three persons at Balpurian village under the Sadar police station on Saturday, the police said on Sunday. Dalip Singh (85) was fired upon when he was coming out of his house . He died on the spot. The accused also chopped off his arm which was found near the spot. The police has rounded up the three persons in this connection. DERA BASSI
JOINS CONGRESS: More than 12 panches and workers of the SAD, Dera Bassi block, joined the Congress and expressed their solidarity with Ms Preneet Kaur, a Congress candidate for the Patiala parliamentary constituency. Ms Harbansh Kaur, Sarpanch, Gajipur village, three village panches along with 24 SAD workers joined the Congress on Monday. The group was welcomed by Mr Krishan Pal Sharma, a member of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, and Mr Amrit Pal Singh, president, Dera Bassi Municipal Council. Jalandhar
ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of Punjab Chapter of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics: President — Dr Hira Lal Khanna; secretary — Dr Anil Sud; vice-president — Dr V K Ahuja; treasurer — Dr Rajidner Gulati; joint secretary — Dr Abha
Sharma.
Ludhiana
FAREWELL FUNCTION: The Arts Department of Guru Nanak Girls College, Model Town, Ludhiana, held a farewell function on Monday for the outgoing students. The function was presided over by the college Principal, Dr Charanjit Mahal. Solo songs, dances, choreography etc were the main attraction of the function. The winners of Ms Farewell contest were: Sandeep (Miss Farewell), Ms Diviya (Ist runners up), Rishu (IInd runners up); Nisha (Miss Beautiful Smile); and Prabhjot (Miss Beautiful Costume). Dr Mahal crowned the winners and wished the outgoing students good luck.PATH PERFORMED: As per its tradition Guru Nanak Girls College, Model Town, Ludhiana performed a path of Sri Guru Granth Sahib from last Saturday to Monday. Students and staff of the Music Department recited shabads. The principal, Dr Charanjit Mahal, addressed the students and urged them to work hard. HOMOEOPATHY CAMP: The Anand Marg Universal Relief Team and the Lal Bahadur Shastri Social Forum jointly organised a free homoeopathic medical camp at Anand Marg School, Civil Lines on Monday. About 850 patients were examined and given medicines by doctors. The camp was inaugurated by Mr Jasvir Singh Jassal, general secretary, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. The Senior Deputy Mayor Mr Prem Mittal, was the chief guest. FAMILY PLANNING CAMP: A family planning camp was held at Mohan Dai Oswal Memorial Hospital in association with Civil Hospital on Sunday. The camp was inaugurated by the Health Minister, Mr R.C. Dogra. Mr Dogra appreciated the hospital management for providing state of art treatment and services to the patients in the region. As many as 33 operations of tubectomy were performed during the camp and patients and motivators were given free blankets. The operations were performed by Dr Veena Jain, Head of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, at the hospital, and Dr Manorama, District Family Planning Officer, Civil Hospital. SURGERY CAMP: A free surgical camp will be organised at Mohan Dai Oswal Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation on March 20. Dr Satish Jain, Medical Director of the hospital, said surgical patients would be examined free of cost. Patients registered in the camp would be offered operations of all types of hernia, appendix, gall bladder stones, piles, hysterectomy, prostatectomy, renal stones and thyroid operations free of cost. Mandi Gobindgarh
MEDICAL CAMP: The two-day eye operation and check-up camp organised by the Lion’s Club at Civil Hospital concluded here on Monday. About 524 persons were checked up during the camp. Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner, said the district administration with the cooperation of NGOs was organising medical camps every month in four blocks of the district. Twenty such medical camps had been organised so far. He appreciated the local Swami Vivekanand Sewa Samiti, who has donated an eye-operating microscope costing around Rs 2,70,000 to the hospital. On the second day of the camp 112 patients were operated upon by a team of doctors led by Dr Sanjeev Kumar. The patients were provided medicines free of cost. Club president Jagmail Singh Mathardu thanked the guests. SENIOR CITIZENS: The Senior Citizen and Welfare Society at a meeting chaired by its chief Chanda Singh, Mandi Gobindgarh, has sought restrictions on the entry of heavy vehicles in to streets and bazaar of the town for loading and unloading during the opening and closing timings of schools. They demanded a sub-way to reduce heavy traffic on the GT Road. They also expressed concern over dumping of garbage behind the residential quarters of the hospital staff, which emitted foul smell and posed danger of disease. MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS: A general House meeting of the Punjab Municipal Engineers Welfare Society was held at Mandi Gobindgarh under the chairmanship of the president Er Khosla on Monday. The association demanded from the government to fill up the vacant posts of AMEs, MEs by promoting engineers working in the Municipal Councils for the past 30 years. It also demanded that the posts of superintending engineers and chief engineer be created in the Local Government Department. It also demanded that conveyance allowance be given to AMEs and JEs of municipal councils. The local Government Minister was requested to give time to the association for hearing its demands.
Phagwara
TRAFFIC SAFETY WEEK: To observe Traffic Safety Awareness Week a function was held on Sunday on the premises of truck union where DSP Jaspal Singh underlined the need of reflectors on vehicles, pollution check and not driving while drunk to avoid accidents. Traffic in charge Santokh Singh also spoke. Several Councillors attended the function.
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