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Outsiders rough up councillor inside House
Ludhiana, October 1 Mr Bansal raised the issue again today maintaining that the decorum of the House should be maintained at all costs. The Mayor in order to diffuse the situation told Mr Bansal that they had been issued entry passes. But Mr Bansal wanted that in case they possessed the visitors’ passes then they should sit separately and not participate in the business of the House. This infuriated Mr Gurpreet Gogi, husband of Ms Sukhchain Bassi, councillor from Ward Number 47, and Mr Bhagwan Singh, husband of Ms Ravinder Kaur, councillor from Ward 17, who came towards Mr Bansal threatening him with dire consequences. Timely intervention by some other councillors prevented the situation from taking a worse turn. Regretting the incident, Mr Bansal observed that this amounted to “gagging the voice of the opposition”. He said while the parliamentarians and legislators would exchange blows with each other in the legislative bodies, it was for the first time that the outsiders tried to intimidate a sitting councillor and that, too, in the House itself. He demanded strong action against the culprits and wanted the Mayor not to take the issue casually. Later the BJP councillors also gheraoed the Mayor demanding action against the accused. Earlier, during the meeting, the opposition BJP and Akali councillors staging a dharna on the issue of providing drinking water to the “undeclared areas”. As the general house meeting started, the opposition councillors belonging to the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal sat on a dharna inside the House. They were demanding supply of drinking water to the “undeclared areas”. The MC has been claiming to supply drinking water to 100 per cent population living within its limits. The opposition councillors have been disputing the claim since large areas remain without still drinking water. To this, the MC maintains that these are “undeclared areas” meaning unauthorised colonies which do not come under the MC plan. However, the Mayor, Mr Gill, assured the councillors that the state government was formulating a comprehensive policy about the “undeclared areas”. This did not convince the opposition councillors, who asserted that they had always been told for the past two years that the government was coming out with a policy on these “undeclared areas”. A consensus was reached in the house that the MC will lay out the pipes and augment the drinking water supply capacity by March 31, so that whenever the state government comes out with a policy, the MC will be ready to provide drinking water to the people living in these areas.
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2 NRI British MPs honoured
Ludhiana, October 1 He said they had always been helpful in solving the problems of Indians in general and Punjabis in particular living in the UK and other countries. He said the Centre and the Punjab Government had launched attractive schemes to invite NRIs to invest in Punjab, so that more job opportunities could be created. Mr Khabra said they had received a lot of respect and honour in Punjab during their visit and Punjabis living abroad were in search of opportunities to contribute for the development and welfare of India, particularly
Punjab. He said if excellent infrastructure and facilities available in other countries were provided in Punjab, many NRIs could be attracted to invest in Punjab. He said NRIs met with a lot of harassment while getting their work done in government offices and sometimes faced some problems in respect of their properties. Mr Khabra said all migrants in the UK were living in a friendly
environment and were contributing to the economic and social development of the UK and taking active part in political activities. He said this was his third term as MP and the people of India, Pakistan and the UK extended him support equally.
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Five booked for defying
DM’s order
Ludhiana, October 1 The District Magistrate recently issued a directive to all citizens to furnish such information to the police. The Kotwali police arrested Gurbax Singh, who lives in Prem Nagar, for not furnishing information to the police about his servants employed at his dhaba in Islam Ganj. He was later bailed out. The division number 8 police arrested Mandeep Singh, who lives in Jaswant Nagar at Ghumar Mandi for not informing the police about his servants employed at his dhaba. He was also bailed out later. The Model Town police registered two cases under section 188 of the IPC yesterday. The accused were identified as Sant Lal Kapur, who lives in Model Town and Randhir Singh, another resident of the same locality. Both of them had not informed the police about their servants. Harinder Singh, who lives in Abdullapur Basti, was also booked under section 188 of the IPC at the same police station for not informing the police about the tenants living in his house.
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Rally condemns lathi charge on ETT teachers
Ludhiana, October 1 Some resolutions were also passed by the employees. These included opposition to the privatisation of the PSEB. Salaries to class III and IV employees on the first of every month. The teachers and workers should not be employed on a contract basis. The teachers working on an ad hoc basis, and daily wage workers, anganwari workers should be made permanent. The termination of bus conductors and drivers of Punjab Roadways should stop and GPP interest rate should go up to 12 per cent.
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GNDEC students seek DC’s
intervention
Ludhiana, October 1 They further said that although all students had been attending the classes since September 27, most of the teachers were not coming to the classes in protest against the SGPC’s decision of suspending Prof Jha. The students said the teachers were making themselves present and forcing teachers, who were willing to take classes, not to do so.
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Aulakh chosen chief of farm technocrats’ body
Ludhiana, October 1 Dr Satnam Singh, Dr Jaskaran Singh, Dr Sushil Kumar, Dr Mukhtiar Singh and Dr Atma Singh were elected as chairman vice-president, secretary, joint secretary and finance secretary, respectively. Dr Aulakh said that agriculture technocrats had been facing a great threat in the light of changing agricultural scenario in the world. To cope with these speedily changing equations of agriculture, the government should strengthen the extension services being given to the farmers by the agricultural development officers and horticultural development officers. He also urged the state govt to fill up the vacant posts of ADO’s and HDO’s in the large interests of farming community.
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Police recovers abducted boy
Mandi Gobindgarh, October 1 The police patrol party, led by ASI Amarjit Singh, spotted the man with the boy near Om Parkash Bansal School, near Bhakhra Canal. Head Constable Major Singh nabbed the kidnapper, who was identified as Chandan Kumar, son of Sukhdev Rai, a migrant labourer from Bihar.
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Workshop for judicial
officers
Ludhiana, October 1 A three-day workshop attachment course for the newly appointed PCS officers of the (Judicial Branch) Commenced at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur here today. Forty one Judicial Officers, including 12 women officers from different parts of the state are attending the course which has been designed to give them an insight into functioning of the criminal investigation procedures because acquainting the, with the multifarious role of police in criminal justice system. In his inaugural address to the participants, Dr
G.S. Aujla, ADGP training-cum-Director Maharaja Ranjit Singh., Punjab Police academy, Phillaur
emphasised that the police and the judiciary being the most important cornerstones for the justice dispensation set up share the joint responsibility of pursuing the quest for truth and justice fairly, impartially and objectively so that the confidence of the law-abiding citizens in the established law of the land may upheld and maintained. Dwelling on the need of developing a holistic viewpoint towards justice, Dr Aujla drew the attention of the participating officers towards the loopholes and limitations in the system and urged them to take up the onerous challenge of making the system sensitive and
responsive towards the sufferings of the common man. Mr
P.S. Khabra and Lord Tarsem Singh Kang, both sitting members of the British House of Common and house of Lords respectively, Whose personal visit to the Academy coincided with the inaugural session for the course, also interacted with participating Judicial Officers and shared
perceptions regarding the functioning of the British Judicial system with them.
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Department of Posts celebrates 150th anniversary
Ludhiana, October 1 The exhibition showcased the postal stamps released since 1854. Some of these were impressive and attractive. A number of people visited the exhibition. The Philatelic Bureau had not only displayed the stamps released during the last 150 years, but had also showcased the stamps on various themes like the women on India stamps, Indian Tourism, Hindi writers and Bharat Ratna winners. A stamp on MC Chagla was also released on the occasion. Besides a book on ‘A Guide to Art of Stamp Collecting’, written by Mr Yashpal Bangia, a former employee of Department of Posts was also released at the function. Speaking on the occasion, Ms Bansal pointed out that the Postal Department had been providing untiring service during last 150 years. She observed, the Postal Department was concerned with each and every individual was concerned with it. She said, the postal department had kept due pace with the latest technology. she said, the department had also launched several other services and were still being considered to be most reliable and credible.
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Writer to be honoured
Ludhiana, October 1 Dr Dheer, a doctor by profession, started his literary journey in his early twenties with the publication of a Hindi short-story collection “Dharti-Ro-Pari”, which was given state award by the Bihar Pragatisheel Lekhak Sangh in 1958. Since then he has won more than 24 recognised national and international awards for his contribution to Indian literature. Dr Dheer was given Shiromani Urdu Sahitkar Award in 1997 for his contribution to Urdu fiction. Another prestigious honour of “Sahitya Shree” was conferred upon him by Rashtriya Hindi Sahitya Parishad in 2001 for his contribution to Hindi literature. He was honoured with International Peace Award on his English short-story collection”Bonds of Love” by Peace University, Toronto, Canada, in 1987 for promotion of peace and universal brotherhood. Dr Dheer is also popular in literary world of Pakistan, and has been awarded “Qartas-e-Aizaz”, a prestigious literary award of Pakistan, presented to a writer for extraordinary achievements and contribution to Urdu literature in 2003. After Partition this award has been bestowed on only three Indian writers.
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Sarv dharam conference on Oct 6
Ludhiana, October 1 The circle with its headquarters at Ludhiana, is a socio-cultural organisation that endeavours to promote the ideas and ideals of Swami Vivekananda to enable the young to inculcate and imbibe the spirit of love and compassion, spirituality, postitive patriotism, broad outlook, unshakable strength and self-confidence.
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Healing touch prayers from October 6
Ludhiana, October 1 The mission has already been running an hour long camp daily morning for the last four months four days a week. Dr Balwant Singh said that a number of patients attending this one-hour shabad gayan camp in the afternoon had improved. Ms Amandeep Kaur a 24-year-old girl said she had got relief to her brain problem. “I was on regular medicines and was not even able to talk and walk properly at times. Since I started attending the afternoon healing camps, I have no problems in speech and have very less problems in walking.” Another patient, Ms Surinder Kaur (50) said that she was suffering from advanced breast cancer. She said, she had taken treatment from oncologists but after attending the camps she started feeling better.
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One held for illicit distillation
Jagraon, October 1 In another incident ASI Jasmer Singh arrested Gurpreet Singh of Gobindgarh from Raikot and recovered 160 litre of lahan and booked him under the same offence at PS Raikot. Power theft:
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Service tax to stay
Ludhiana, October 1 During the talk, organised by the Rotary Club of Ludhiana, North, Mr Purhoti maintained that an impression had been created that only the manufacturers were being asked to pay the tax. He pointed out, while the service tax was started in 1994, when it was imposed on the telephone services, no 71 services have come under service tax net.
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