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New beginning for senior citizens
Govt to build 25 stadiums
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Henry warns polluting units
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Youth hostel project to go ahead
DD set to celebrate foundation day
2 suicides in Phillaur
Four travel agents get
3 yrs RI
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New beginning for senior citizens
Jalandhar, September 10 The dream started taking shape on Friday when these youngsters descended on their village, distributed books free of cost and extended primary lessons. The group, led by Mr Monty Sehgal, a social worker and general secretary, Punjab Youth Congress, asked them to complete their worksheets by October 2, when the group would be back on Gandhi Jayanti to check the home work. The team adopted the village on a request made by Mr Harpinder Singh, sarpanch of Ramnagar village. The team promised that all qualifying persons would get Rs 200 each. The most successful would get Rs 500. “They are our roots. Our long-term objective is to provide education to all elder people who had been deprived of it,” said Mr Sehgal. “Nobody has ever thought about these old people and they have been taken for granted by one and all. I am elated to see them learning, particularly, at this stage of life. Their enthusiasm about education is unparalleled. I am thankful to Mr Sehgal and his team for the noble cause taken up by them,” said Mr Harpinder Singh. Mr Amar Chand, one of the students, said he had dreamt of becoming an officer, but could not give practical shape to his dream. “It is good that at least I am going to be literate and be able to read and write in future,” he said. Mr Thakar Singh, another newly enrolled student, said his long-time agony was that he couldn’t read the newspaper. “This is a new milestone in my life. I am almost going to start my life afresh,” he said. Mrs Kartari Devi said had she been educated she would have been able to plan the future of her children better and changed the lot of her family. “I feel that now I would be able to recite Gurbani in my village gurudwara. Education is a long term investment but, I have been devoid of it for long,” she observed. |
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Govt to build 25 stadiums
in villages
Jalandhar, September 10 This was revealed by the Punjab Local Bodies Minister Chaudhary Jagjit Singh, who inaugurated a Rs 36 lakh stadium at Gakhal village in the Kartarpur Assembly constituency here on Sunday. “The Punjab government is making special efforts to promote sports, particularly, in rural areas of the state. The government has planned to set up 25 stadiums in villages,” he said. “Indulgence of youth in sports reduces the tendency among them to have a tilt towards drugs,” he added. The minister said under the Rs 1640 crore project of the Punjab government, Government of India and the World Bank, supply of safe drinking water to residents of 126 vllages and sewerage system in 46 villages would be ensured by March 31 next year. |
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Henry warns polluting units
Jalandhar, September 10 Mr Henry, who was speaking at local Seth Hukum Chand Colony on an invitation of the welfare society, said: “We have been issuing appeals to industrialists to install water treatment plants, so that only treated and clean water could be released in rivers, drains and rivulets. “But, if anybody does not take our request seriously, he would be dealt with sternly and as per the law of the land. “Industrialists should install treatment plants for their respective industries at the earliest. Otherwise, we would be left with no option but, to take action against them.” In another function at local Reru Palace organised by the City Balmiki Sabha and the Mahila unit, Mr Henry honoured artistes who had performed during the ‘Bhagvan Balmiki Shobha Yatra’. He also announced a grant of Rs 2 lakh for the sabha. Mr Raj Kumar Gupta, MLA, and Mr Avinash Chopra, Joint Editor, Punjab Kesri Group of Newspapers, also spoke on the
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Youth hostel project to go ahead
Jalandhar, September 10 The 17-year delay for the hostel at Burlton Park Stadium was reported in these columns yesterday. The minister said neither the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation nor the Punjab Local Bodies Department had any objection over the construction. “The department of Youth Services and Sports has already got a Central Government grant of Rs. 1.25 crore. Land measuring 5 kanals and 5 marlas were leased out to the Youth Services and Sports Department but the lease was cancelled during the previous SAD-BJP regime,” the minister said. He also denied rift with Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang. “We are long-time friends. There is nothing like that,” he added. |
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DD set to celebrate foundation day
Jalandhar, September 10 Doordarshan was established in 1959 and Delhi Kendra telecast the first programme. Mr Santosh Mishra, executive producer of Jalandhar Doordarshan, said special programmes would be telecast. “We are organising a quiz on September 9 and a seminar on role of Doordarshan as public broadcaster on September 13. Two programmes, “Ajj Da Vivad,” and “Khas Khabar Ik Nazar”, on current affairs have taken DD to new heights of popularity.” Mr Govardhan Sharma, Director, said women welfare, development of children and security of the aged would get special attention in future. |
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2 suicides in Phillaur
Phillaur, September 10 A habitual drinker, he did not return home at night. His body was found
hanging by a villager. The police registered a case under Section 174 of the IPC and sent the body for the post-mortem examination to the local civil hospital. In another, Manoj Kumar (32) of Phillaur committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his house on Wednesday night due to alleged harassment by his senior officers. The family maintained that Manoj had died due to a heart attack. A suicide note named three senior officers of the National Sample Survey Organisation at Ludhiana, who had mentally harassed Manoj , so that he was forced to take the step. The three named are Jagmohan Singh, Superintendent, Arun Goel, Investigator Officer and Nishan Singh. The police, on the basis of the suicide note, registered a case under Section 306 of the IPC and arrested them. Meanwhile, family members accused the police of giving VIP treatment to the accused at the police station. They also held a demonstration outside the police station and raised slogans against the police. |
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Four travel agents get
3 yrs RI
Phagwara, September 10 Pranav Kumar Jha of Jharkhand, resident of Urban Estate, Phase-1, Jalandhar, Sumit Bhardwaj of Baltana village inZirakpur, Rajesh Kumar Moriya of Kumpa village in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pardesh and Vikas Bandhera of Zirakpur were involved in an international racket for sending youths abroad illegally. These accused were arrested by the Phagwara police on March 13, 2005, from Greater Kailash colony. |
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Lok adalat
Phagwara, September 10 The Additional Civil Judge, Mrs Manjot Kaur, said legal aid services would be provided at the doorsteps of the villagers in the subdivision. |
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