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Khalsa Heritage Complex opens today
Anandpur Sahib, April 13 The complex will be another jewel in the crown of this holy place where Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa Panth 307 years ago. The impressive structure of the complex emanates peace and serenity that smoothly gels with the blissful foothills of the lowers Shivaliks. The Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib is located just a hundred meters away while the famous Naina Devi temple is located on the mountain top that forms the backdrop of the complex. In its final shape -- expected to be completed in the next 12 months -- it will showcase the history of the Sikhs starting from the times of Guru Nanak till the Partition. Today teams of engineers, workers and artists were busy with officials of the Anandpur Sahib Foundation (ASF), giving final touches to the imposing structure that has been built using the very latest in technology. When a team of The Tribune visited the place, yellow sandstone floor on the pathways was being given a final scrubbing. At the gate of the complex, private security guards had a tough time telling people that they could not enter till tomorrow. Within the precincts of the complex, the ASF has set up an elaborate preview of what will be available in the museum in its final form. A group of non-resident Indians satisfied themselves by clicking photos of the preview. Ajmer Singh and his wife had come all the way from Nangal on their motorbike to see the museum. The first phase of the complex measuring about 3800 square meters will be opened tomorrow. It will provide facilities for people to set up their works in this hall, said an engineer present on site. The entire area is air-conditioned. The library shall have a special section devoted to rare books and also provide computer connectivity. The auditorium has special vents for air-conditioning at the floor-level and has a capacity of 400 and boasts of a specialised projection and sound system. Once complete the main museum shall have separate sections on the birth of Guru Nanak , his revelation, on Guru Teg Bahdaur, Guru Gobind Singh, martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev, on the Anglo-Sikh wars, the birth of the Khalsa, the Gurdwara reforms, the Guru Granth Sahib, the Battle of Chamkaur and on Banda Bahadur, among others. The Chief Executive Officer of the
ASF, Mr Dilsher Singh Kalha, who is also the Finance Secretary of the Punjab Government, this evening inspected the place before the inauguration. He told The Tribune that the latest technology was being used and said he expected that the civil works of the entire project were expected to finish by the end of this year.
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Complex opening: sants invited to check SAD
Chandigarh, April 13 Informed sources said today that invitation had been to sent sants, babas, especially those who are engaged in kar seva of various Sikh religious places in Punjab, Haryana and other places. Though no exact detail is available that how many such religious persons had been invited at the inaugural ceremony which will be performed in the presence of the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh. The number of such persons could range from 21 to 51.
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Truck unions playing spoilsport in wheat mandis
Patiala, April 13 Private companies and traders who are procuring wheat this year refuse to cut their own profit margins by obliging the truck unions operating in most of the mandis of Punjab. While transporters in Khanna and Rajpura charge anything between Rs 50- Rs 60 per quintal per kilometre for ferrying goods out of these two mandis, at all other places, where truck unions are operational, the rates are as high as Rs 75- 85 per quintal per kilometre. Since there are no truck unions in Khanna — the largest grain market of Asia, and Rajpura, the private players have set their targets for procurement from these two mandis. Even today, the entire 50,000 quintals of wheat brought in Khanna grain mandi, has been bought by private traders. "Till date, of the 2.50 lakh quintals of wheat that has arrived in this mandi, only about 1500 quintals have been procured by the government agencies. As against an MSP of Rs 650 per quintal, the farmers are getting Rs 15 to Rs 22 more than the MSP,"said Mr Harbans Singh Rosha, President of the Khanna Market Committee. In fact, the truck union at Patiala was on strike from the day the procurement process started, till yesterday, refusing to lift the stocks for the government agencies because the freight charges were not "settled". "Though the strike was finally called off yesterday, the entire wheat stock that has arrived in the mandi here, is still lying and the farmers coming now have no place to offload their stocks," said Mr Lachman Das, Vice-President of the Arhtiya Association, Patiala. As a result, as compared to 1. 99 lakh quintals of wheat procured by the government agencies, only 2094 quintals had been bought by private traders till April 11. During a visit to various mandis of the state today, The Tribune team found that private traders have simply ignored Patiala, Samana, Patran and Nabha. Though two local flour mills are purchasing wheat stocks at Samana and Nabha, the procurement is minimal as compared to the procurement being done by government agencies like the FCI, PUNSUP, Pungrain, the Punjab Agro Industries Corporation, Markfed and the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation. These government agencies are procuring almost 70 to 90 per cent of the stocks. In Samana, as compared to 1. 71 lakh quintals of wheat procured by the government agencies, 52,000 quintals had been procured by the local flour mills. "We were waiting for the government to announce a bonus of Rs 50 on the MSP, before harvesting the crop and bringing it to the mandi. But now that the Chief Minister has said that they cannot pay the bonus, we decided against delaying the sale of produce. The government should at least deal with the truck unions to ensure that private players come for purchasing our produce and give us higher rates," rued Jaswinder Singh, a farmer of Bina Hedi village, who had come to sell his 80 quintals of wheat at Nabha. Mr Randhir Singh, a farmer from Khedi Jattan village in Patiala, too, lamented that the full bonus of Rs 30 per quintal announced by Capt Amarinder Singh, on the poll eve in 2001, had not been paid. "We were paid just Rs 10 per quintal as bonus, and the balance Rs 20 per quintal is still due," he said.
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Govt turns to Markfed for new direction to agricultural economy
Chandigarh, April 13 The corporation will continue to play the assigned role, but the focus will now be more on Markfed. So, in the light of the new role assigned to it, Markfed has decided to expand its business portfolio to cover animal husbandry, poultry and aqua culture. The Chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission, Dr G.S. Kalkat, who was asked to examine the problems faced by the agrarian sector and suggest remedies, has been told by the state government to start the " cure" by actively engaging the cash-rich Markfed, one of Asia's largest cooperative organisations. Markfed will be required to invest Rs 500 crore to play a growth engine in the crisis-ridden agricultural economy. A presentation was given here today to mediapersons regarding what Dr Kalkat expects from Markfed and what it will do. Mr Himmat Singh, newly appointed Managing Director of Markfed, was also present. Suicides by farmers, their debt burden and exploitation by private agencies have become important issues in the state. In such a scenario,will Markfed be able to deliver, or the exercise will end in another experiment was a question asked repeatedly to Dr Kalkat and Mr Himmat Singh by mediapersons. The hardest hit by the crisis in the farming community are small farmers, who number about 65 per cent but own only 30 per cent of the total cultivable land holdings in the state. Dr Kalkat, former Vice- Chancellor of PAU, says that small farmers require to be shifted out from the agricultural sector. In a phased manner, they should be given vocational training to make them employable in industry or elsewhere. Besides, small farmers should be given capital investment assistance to start ventures such as dairies, poultry, fisheries and the cultivation of vegetables to increase their income to Rs 1 lakh. Dr Kalkat, who is banking on diversification in agriculture, says that now technology is available to grow high-value crops such as soyabean,moong, maize, etc. And for the marketing of such crops, Markfed, which has vast experience in marketing, can play a vital role in the disposal of such crops in the market. Moreover, investment is required to process such crops. Pakistan has set up a mill to produce ethanol from one million tonnes of maize."We can also do the same", he adds. Agro forestry in certain areas is also a viable alternative in the bet areas adjacent to various streams. The state's main concern at present is to supplement the income of a major section of the farmers and to get rid of paddy, which is has a negative bearing on vital resources such as subsoil water and the health of soil besides effecting major climatic changes in the region. Mr Himmat Singh said that Markfed was prepared to play the role of an engine of growth assigned to it by the government. He said that to meet the new challenges of effecting structural changes in the agricultural sector, Markfed would also have to restructure its business portfolio.
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Protest over police action
Muktsar, April 13 The rally began from the railway station and culminated in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner after passing through the main areas of the city. Mediapersons from Muktsar, Bathinda, Faridkot, Abohar and Fazilka also participated. Addressing the protesters, leaders of different bodies said if the police was adopting such an attitude towards responsible people of society, the common man could not expect to be safe. They said if the case registered against the journalists was not withdrawn and action not initiated against Mr Gurpreet Singh Kataria of Malwa Public School and the erring police officials, they would intensify the agitation. Representatives of the local media also announced that they would boycott police coverage until the matter was resolved. They also said they would stay away from the official function to mark the martyrdom of the 40 Muktas to be held in the city on May 4. Those who addressed the rally included Mr Om Prakash Sharma of the Roadways Employees Union, Mr Roop Singh Bargari of BKU Ekta, former MLA Harnirpal Singh Kukku and Mr Khairati Lal of the CPM.
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Parliamentary panel for direct payments to farmers
Chandigarh, April 13 “The present system of routing the payment through commission agents should be immediately done away". This was clearly conveyed to Ms Radha Singh, Union Secretary for Agriculture, by Members.Those who spoke at the meeting included Mr M.S. Gill, Member of the Rajya Sabha from Punjab, Mr Deepender Hooda, MP from Haryana and Mr Shard Joshi from Maharashtra. The meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Mr Ram Gopal Yadav, MP from Uttar Pradesh. Mr Gill told The Tribune on the phone that all Members were of the view that there was no logic of making the payment to farmers through commission agents.“This system was highly exploitative and should be dispensed with immediately”. Mr Hooda informed the committee that the Haryana Government had given instructions to the authorities concerned not to arrest any farmer with regard to the loan case. Mr Gill and Mr Hooda urged the government to enforce the laws which were enacted following an agitation launched by late Chhottu Ram in the north India against heavy indebtedness caused because of loans advanced by “shahukars” in 1930s. What surprised the members was the information provided by the Union Agriculture Ministry with regard to the suicides by farmers in Punjab. “Officials told us that there were only two officially reported cases of suicide by farmers from Punjab and there is no other information available in this regard”, said Mr Gill. The information provided by the ministry officials at the meeting with regard to suicide by farmers in Punjab is at a huge variation from cases of suicides documented by various organisations, including the Movement Against State Repression( MASR) headed by Mr Inderjit Singh Jaijee. “I have affidavits from nearly 1,300 families of farmers, who committed suicides in certain blocks of Sangrur district from 1987 to 2005, to testify my claims regarding this tragic phenomenon”, said Mr Jaijee. The BKU says that number of suicides was in the range of 13,000. Mr Gill said he had asked officials of the Agriculture Ministry to update their information regarding farmer suicides in Punjab and to give clear picture to all concerned in this regard.
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MP’s fund: Batala, Qadian ignored
Gurdaspur, April 13 In the past three years Mr Sidhu has given just Rs 9 lakh for the two Assembly constituencies of Gurdaspur out of Rs 6 core the MP local area development fund allotted to him. It comes to just 1.5 per cent of total funds allotted to Mr Sidhu. As per data with the authorities here he has given given just Rs 4 lakh for the EOM college at Batala and Rs 5 lakh for the construction of a gymnasium hall at Qadian in the past three years. Another recommendation of Rs 2.10 lakh has been made but not been released so far. Residents and leaders from Qadian and Batala constituencies have been alleging that Mr Sidhu has deserted them as the said areas would not be included in the Amritsar constituency after the delimitation of constituencies was completed. Some of Akali leaders on the condition of anonymity alleged that the step-motherly treatment by Mr Sidhu to their constituencies would affect prospects in his party’s Assembly elections. Leaders of the Congress have been targeting them that their MP was not giving anything for the development of their constituencies. Mr Sidhu was not available for comments on the issue despite calls on his mobile phone. Mr Ashwani Kumar union minister of state for industries who is a Rajya Sabha member from the district has also been slow in utilizing his MPLAD fund. As per data here Rs 5 crore has been received from the Union government as MPLAD fund of Mr Ashwani Kumar. Mr Kumar has given recommendations for utilizing just Rs 3 crore as yet in the past three years. Rs 2 crore from the MPLAD fund of Mr Kumar was still lying unutilised The state is going to the polls in another 10 months. Ms Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder the congress Rajya Sabha member from the district and Mr Vinod Khanna BJP MP from Gurdaspur have been efficient in utilizing their MPLAD funds. Ms Bhinder received Rs 3 crore MPLAD funds out of which she has utilized Rs 2.75 crore. Mr Khanna has also exhausted all his previous MPLAD funds. This year he has received Rs 1 crore while recommendations for Rs 1.5 crore have already been made.
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Tribune Impact
Amritsar, April 13 Today is the 87th anniversary of the massacre in which thousands of people belonging to different faiths were killed. Mr Paramjit Singh, Chairman of the school, said after reading in The Tribune that Bapu Shingara Singh wanted to write his memoirs, he decided to bring the students to meet him. He offered to bear the cost of publication and announced to name a new block of the school in his name. The students touched his feet to seek blessings. Though his age has made him frail, it has not affected his memory. Delighted, Bapu narrated the account and recalled that he had gone to the Bagh along with his four friends to participate in a meeting held in protest against the Rowlett Act. While his three friends died in the indiscriminate firing, he managed to escape. He saw people jumping into a well in order to save themselves from the rain of bullets. Panchrang, an organisation of painters, meanwhile, held a painting competition on freedom fighters in the Bagh. Activists of the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front led by its president, Mr Maninderjit Singh Bitta, yesterday took oath to maintain the country’s unity and integrity. They also paid tributes at the memorial today. Mr Bitta said terrorism was the biggest enemy of the country and everyone should be ready to eliminate it.
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Reinstate doctor, shift Bant Singh Jhabbar, doctors warn govt
Mansa, April 13 Dr Gurdarshan Singh Joga, who presided over the meeting, told The Tribune that they already had given a representation to the Health Secretary in this regard. He said in the first phase they would all go on mass leave if they didn’t receive any positive response from the government till Monday. At the meeting the doctors discussed new circumstances of the much-talked-about Bant Singh Jhabbar episode. In a statement here, the association said the doctors at the hospital were working under extreme mental pressure and uncertainty. They said the pressure was taking a heavy toll on their work, social and family life. The members claimed that Dr Parshotam Goyal, who had nothing to do with the treatment part of Bant Singh, was suspended “without giving any credible hearing”. He had been made a scapegoat, they alleged. The doctors claimed that if the medical record of Bant Singh was looked into carefully no fault of Dr Goyal could be found. Whatever loss had occurred to Bant Singh it was only due to his grievous injuries and precious time lost to shift him to the PGI, Chandigarh, they claimed. The board of expert doctors, constituted by the Civil Surgeon, also found Dr Goyal innocent. They said despite all this some parties raising the issue were making allegations against the doctors and “every political outfit was trying to gain maximum political mileage out of it”. They said it was already a month that Bant Singh had been shifted back to the Civil Hospital. The doctors wondered if his attendants and members of the action committee were so doubtful of the doctors why they didn’t shift him to some other government hospital in Punjab. The doctors alleged that some members of the action committee were “using the hospital as a political platform and the employees were receiving threats daily”, which had affected their morale. They also expressed apprehension of a new scandal. They said some doctors had already resigned under pressure, while others too would put in their papers if the atmosphere didn’t improve in near future. They also appealed to the Press to behave responsibly and highlight their point of view also.
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Health employees burn effigies of CM, FM
Sangrur, April 13 Earlier the protesters held a rally in the Civil Hospital complex here. They also staged a dharna for about half an hour at the local Mahavir Chowk, putting an adverse affect on the smooth plying of the vehicles. Later they held a protest march through the town and raised slogans against the Punjab Government and privatisation of the hospitals. The leaders asked the state government that they would continue their agitation till the acceptance of their demands, including withdrawal of a decision pertaining to the handing over of 1,310 dispensaries to the zila parishads. The protesters were addressed, among others, by Mr Swaranjit Singh, state secretary of the Punjab State Pharmacists Association, and Mr Amrit Garg, district president of the Pharmacists Association.
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Protest rally by health employees
Patiala, April 13 The gathering of the health employees, who were protesting against the health policies of the state government, was addressed by Mr Sham Lal Sharma, President, Pharmacist Association, Mr Ranjit Singh, President of the Para Medical Association, Mr Deep Chand of the Class IV Association and Ms Satya J. of the Staff Nursing Association. The speakers, while addressing the gathering, said that the proposed contract system would render as surplus nearly 6000 paramedics and doctors working in rural dispensaries as there were no vacancies to adjust them. The leaders appealed to the government not to privatise health institutions.
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Punjab to tackle foot-and-mouth disease on war footing
Rajpura, April 13 Mr Kang said that Punjab has a count of approximately 80 lakh milch cattle. At least 45 lakh cattle were vaccinated last year and it is planned to vaccinate the remaining animals this year. The state is spending approximately Rs 3 crore on vaccination each year. An injection costs Rs 2 per dose to the cattle owners while the market cost was Rs 12. Mr Kang said, “We, ourselves, are to be blamed for the menace of stray cattle. People let out cattle in the open when the milk yield falls or stops. Village panchayats should provide areas for their care. We will engage the services of voluntary agencies to take care of them.” He said, “Not a single case of bird flu was reported in Punjab, yet, the state suffered a loss of nearly Rs 2 crore. Public should guard against rumours.” Member of Parliament, Ms Parneet Kaur, said concentrated efforts need to be made on keeping our surroundings clean.
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Action sought against DEO over incorrect information
Patiala, April 13 Parishad chairperson Gursharan Kaur Randhawa said Ms Mahindru had sent a report to the parishad that there were no students in about 45 primary schools dotting the Samana and Patran areas whereas the parishad had come to
know from sources that this information was incorrect. Ms Randhawa pointed out that at Seona village, to which she belonged, Ms Mahindru had said there was no student in primary classes, though there were 43 students. Ms Randhawa said an explanation had been sought from Ms Mahindru for supplying incorrect information, adding that state government officials who were absent at the meeting were warned not to play truant again. Ms Mahindru said she had not been told that important matters regarding the recruitment of teachers would be discussed at the meeting, adding that she was away to distribute prizes among Scheduled Caste students who had topped in their respective classes. She said she had supplied the information connected with student strength supplied to her by Block Primary Education Officers, adding that she had set up committees to conduct a survey of student strength in schools, a report on which would be ready by the end of this week. Ms Mahindru pointed out that an inquiry had been initiated to find those from the field staff who had supplied incorrect information regarding student strength, asserting that action would be taken against them.
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Staff posting in Mohali to be need-based
Chandigarh, April 13 Firstly, the district shall have employees posted strictly on “need- based”requirements and secondly all Class IV posts like drivers, gardeners, peons and others shall be outsourced to an outside agency. A decision in this regard was taken at high-powered meeting of the Punjab Government here today, sources said. However, there shall be no cut in the strength of the police and other crucial departments like health. In education also ,the posting will be need-based. “Residents would not face any shortage of staff and the move was to prevent over-staffing ”, said a senior functionary. Sources said the thumb rule being applied to Mohali was that nearly 50 per cent of the staff strength of Fatehgarh Sahib district would be deployed for Mohali. The norms for posting employees for Mohali cannot be kept the same as say Amritsar, said an official. The requirements at Amritsar vary hugely from Mohali. The employees in departments like Agriculture will be fewer at Mohali while the focus of the government would be on industry, housing , urban development as the district was largely an urban area. On the issue of securing Class IV employees through outsourcing, a senior functionary explained that there would be central recruiting agency that will be asked to handle the job. This is being done to ensure that there was no exploitation of employees by a private contractor and proper wages were paid to them. The Punjab Police has made demand for having more than routine number of cops in this district saying it is largely urban in nature and requires extensive policing. The density of people is greater and the nature of crime shall be very different due to high numbers of industrial labourers and migrant labourers. The government has more or less accepted the demand of the police in this regard.
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10 Pak prisoners repatriated
Amritsar, April 13 The repatriated persons include Faiz-ur-Rehman, Syad Habib Ullah Bukhari, Mohammad Zakaria Khan, Mohammad Abid Usman, Shabir Ahmad, Naim Akhtar, Jehlam, Tazamal Hussain, Mohmmad Izaz and Babar Syad. Talking to mediapersons, Shabir Ahmad said he wanted to visit Ajmer Sharif but was caught while illegally crossing over to India in Rajasthan. He said though the court imprisoned him for three months, the authorities released him after seven years. He said there were about 44 more Pakistani prisoners languishing in various jails of Rajasthan despite the completion of their imprisonment. Babar Syad said he was fond of Indian movies. He was caught in 1996 and was imprisoned for six months but was released after over nine years. Shafi-ur-Rehman said he had entered India with a fake visa through Samjhauta Express at Attari where he was nabbed by the customs authorities.
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Foundation Day celebrated
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 13 People from all walk of life including Dr Harbans Lal, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Ms Jaspreet Talwar, Deputy Commissioner, Mr Varinder Kumar, SSP and other officials attended the celebrations. This day was celebrated as development-cum-social awareness day and the gathering there was administered an oath to fight social evils like female foeticide, drug addiction, dowry and the growing menace of pollution. On this occasion, more than 100 families were given cheques under the Ashirwad scheme for the marriage of their daughters. Cheques amounting to Rs 1 crore were distributed to poor families for constructing toilets. Ration worth lakhs of rupees was distributed to 150 families below the poverty line by Shaheed Rajiv Gandhi Vichar Manch. Addressing the gathering, Dr Harbans Lal said that it was the Congress party government which always initiated development of this district. He said that after giving district status to Fatehgarh Sahib, former Chief Minister Beant Singh undertook the development process on a war footing. Ms Prem Lata, President, Distt Mahila Congress, Mr Sandeep Verma, Mr Gurvinder Singh Dhillon, Chairman, Block Samiti, Bassi Pathana, Ranjit Singh, Chairman, Market Committee, Sirhind, Harinder Singh Kang, Chairman, Sadhu Ram
Bhatmajra, President, Block also addressed the gathering.
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Homage paid to Jallianwala Bagh martyrs
Amritsar, April 13 Prominent among those who paid homage were Kerala Governor R.L. Bhatia, Union Minister Mahavir Prasad, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Shamsher Singh Dhullo. A two-minute silence was observed at 4pm, the time when Brig-Gen R E H Dyre ordered his troops to fire on peaceful
demonstrators protesting against the British rule at Jallianwala Bagh killing hundreds of innocent persons, including women and children.
— UNI
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Hans sings for a cause
Nawanshahr, April 13 Hans Raj Hans mesmerised the audience with his Sufi
gayaki. He started his presentation with Shah Hussain’s song “Sun fariyad peeran de
peera” and continued to hold the audience spellbound. Mr Parkash Singh, Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Krishan Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, and Mr Arun Pal Singh, SSP, were among those present on the occasion.
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Dastar divas held
Amritsar, April 13 Mr Jaswinder Singh, president of the
APKF, said the motive behind organising dastar divas was to encourage Sikh youths to wear turban.
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Fire in textile mill
Bathinda, April 13 Sources said the Fire Brigade received a call at about 8.30 in the morning about the fire at the factory. Two fire engines were rushed to the spot and another was called from the NFL unit to control the fire that could be extinguished in the afternoon. The exact reason of the fire was yet to be ascertained.
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Accomplices of Pak spy arrested in Hisar
Jalandhar, April 13 The accused have been identified as Shashi Bhushan, Kali Bhushan and Yogesh Kumar, all residents of Hisar and belonging to the same family. The police said Yogesh was a son of Shashi Bhushan. It denied having made any important recovery from the alleged accomplices of the accused. The names of the accused surfaced after interrogation of the three spies. Police officials claimed that the Pakistani national, Ataullah Munim, alias Sameer, a resident of Sargodha, used to live at the residence of his three accomplices in Hisar and operate from their house.
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Maid foils dacoity
Amritsar, April 13 Mr Amrik Singh Chatha, owner of the house, told The Tribune that three unidentified persons armed with revolvers injured his wife, Ranjit Kaur, who is president of the All-India Women Conference. They entered the house on the plea of checking the electricity meter and forced their entry into the house when the driver, Makhan Singh, went to bring the keys of the meter box. The miscreants first entered the room of their grand-daughter threatening her not to raise the alarm. They then attacked Ranjit Kaur who entered the room from the adjoining room and tried to raise the alarm. Meanwhile, Mr Chatha said his maid servant, Packo, managed to sneak out of the house to alert the neighbours. Listening to her cries, their neighbour and retired police officer, Mr Kabal Singh, rushed out and raised the alarm. Sensing that they would be caught, the miscreants fled the spot on a two-wheeler. Senior police officers rushed to the spot. After recording the statements of the victims, they prepared sketches of the armed youth. A case has reportedly been registered.
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2 vehicle thieves arrested
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 13 The police has recovered 11 stolen vehicles from them and hopes to get 50 more vehicles. Those arrested have been identified as Sachin Kumar and Birjesh Kumar of Faridabad. Addressing a press conference here today, SSP Varinder Kumar said the police had got information that a gang involved in theft and sale of vehicles was in the district. Nakas were put up at entry and exit points and the police took two suspicious persons in custody during checking at the Madhopur Chowk naka on the GT Road at Sirhind. During preliminary interogation, they revealed their identities and admitted that they were members of an eight-member gang involved in stealing and selling vehicles. He said the other gang members were identified as Rakesh Kumar and S. Setia of Faridabad, Vijay Kumar of Rohtak, Kuki of Karnal, Chinku of Meerut and Deepak of Kaithal. The police recovered three Sumos, three Qualises, three Mahindra Max Jeeps and other vehicles. The two persons arrested were produced in court, which remanded them in police custody till April 17.
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Abduction of two sisters alleged
Hoshiarpur, April 13 According to police sources, Saroop, a son of Mr Amar Singh of Ajjowal, stated in his complaint to the police that his two daughters, Vijanti (17) and Mito (14), had been working at Jain Farms, Chohal. On March 19, the two sisters went to the farm but did not return home. He alleged that Nandu Bhaia and Nand Lal Bhaia, in connivance with Ravi Jain, owner of the farm, had abducted them. A case has been registered.
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Pbi varsity, US university sign MoU
Patiala, April 13 Both universities affirmed their desire to collaborate extensively on projects of joint value in future with the goal of bringing two institutions together to create a global partnership that will be of significant value to their students, faculty, staff and supporters. The MoU was signed by the executive heads of both universities, Mr S.S Boparai and Mr Joseph E. Tim Gilmour. A brief and simple ceremony in this regard was held at Punjabi University’s guest house here today. It is the third MoU Punjabi University has signed with different universities to bring itself into the international picture.
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Pbi varsity to hold SLET on May 14
Patiala, April 13 According to a press note, the handbook of information containing forms will be available for sale from April 17 at the Punjabi University Information Centre. Candidates with at least 55 per cent marks in related post graduate degree are eligible to apply. Further information can be sought on telephone number 0175-30463331-32.
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School students to be medically examined
Hoshiarpur, April 13 Dr Manjit Kaur, Civil Surgeon, Hoshiarpur, stated in a press note here yesterday that medical check-up of at least 1,79,434 school children would be done in Hoshiarpur district under this scheme. As many as 94,263 students will be from primary schools. If any student is found suffering from some disease, he will be referred to the government hospital, community or primary health centre concerned for treatment. She has further instructed the dental surgeon and the ophthalmic officer to oversee dental and eye examination. Dr Ajay Bagga, in charge, school health programme, said medical check examination of 2,26,840 students from 1415 schools had been conducted during 2005-06 as against a target of 199044 students in the district. Around 28.97 per cent of the students were found suffering from various ailments.
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UK teachers visit schools
Nawanshahr, April 13 They also interacted with students and teachers. A cultural programme was organised at the schools to enable the teachers to have a glimpse of Punjabi culture. Ms Anne James, leader of the group, said the understanding of the culture of Punjab would help them understand the ethnic and personality traits of students of Punjab origin.
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MA exam postponed
Amritsar, April 13 A university press release said here today that the venue and fresh date-sheet would be notified later.
— OC
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Playwright’s death mourned
Amritsar, April 13
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