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C-form: Traders seek another date extension
Social worker’s battle with odds
Sent away by bride, groom takes home another
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AISAD’s Lambi candidate after Dec 30
Octroi continues on power supply
Ramgarhia College staff on strike
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C-form: Traders seek another date extension
Jalandhar, December 22 The BJP Beopar Morcha has also urged the Punjab Government to abolish the Central Sales Tax (CST) as per its repeated promises. The government, according to the morcha, had assured traders of abolishing the CST gradually within a stipulated period of three years from the implementation of the VAT system in 2005. “Though it is good that the government has extended the date for submission of C-forms, it will be a next to impossible for traders and manufacturers to collect forms from other states within the stipulated period. Secondly, the government has not honoured its promise on gradual abolition of the CST. We feel to cheated and believe that the government is dragging its feet over the issue,” said Ravinder Dhir and Vivek Khanna, president and general secretary, respectively, of the BJP Beopar Morcha. Vipin Prinja, Parveen Handa, both office-bearers of the morcha, and Ashok Gandhi, vice-president of the BJP, said the current precondition for getting sales tax number in case of those industrialist and manufacturers having sale of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, respectively, had become obsolete as it had been fixed years ago. “Now cost of inputs has increased manifold, but the condition remains the same. This is causing a lot of problems for traders and manufacturers. The limits should be fixed afresh at Rs 10 lakh for industrialists and Rs 20 lakh in case of manufacturers, if the government wants to save trade and industry,” they said. |
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Social worker’s battle with odds
Jalandhar, December 22 Admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Hospital, New Delhi, for the past 20 days, he has been detected to be suffering from multiple myeloma, showing cancerous growth in one of the spinal vertebrae. But talking from the hospital, he seems unfazed. “I am being administered radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which will continue for another three to four months. Doctors have also said I may undergo bone marrow transplant at a later stage, if required,” he said determinedly. Narrating how it all began, Mr Lakhbir recollects: “I had gone for a walk and exercise on November 18. On return, I sneezed. But it came with such a force that I fell down with a jerk around the hip and started sweating. I was conscious and called for ambulance, which took me to Dayanand Medical Hospital here. I remained admitted there for 13 days during which my blood sample showed a myeloma band indicating cancer. I was then referred to the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Hospital.” Due to his social involvement and motivational spirit, Mr Lakhbir has won a lot of support from within his circle at the time of need. The staff and students of DAV College, where he is serving as Lecturer of Punjabi, has held a “havan” for his well-being. His fellows and those serving as volunteers with his NGO had accompanied him to Delhi when he was shifted on December 1 and since then he has received many calls and messages from his well-wishers, he said. Being involved in a number of many blood donation activities, holding awareness seminars on AIDS and cancer, tree plantation drives, distribution of free books, stationery and uniforms for needy schoolchildren, his efforts have also been recognised a number of times. He is the recipient of the prestigious 12th Red and White Bravery Award for Social Act of Courage by the Punjab Governor in 2004 and appreciation award from the Governor on Republic Day, 2005. He has also been closely linked to media. He took The Tribune team last year to Kala Khera village in Kartarpur, where his NGO had been working on AIDS and cancer awareness. The village has lost as many as 11 lives due to AIDS and almost as many to cancer in the past eight years. Moved by the sorry state of affairs, he held various counselling sessions for the families who lost their bread-winners and tried to raise money for them. He had also recently held a free physiotherapy camp for spastic children. Owing to his zealous approach, he is also a member of various district boards and societies, including the Punjabi Bhasha Academy, the Indian Red Cross Society, the District Literacy Samiti, the Punjab State Blood Transfusion Committee, and the Advisory Committee for Welfare of Handicapped Persons. But he has a regret that in his hour of need no one from the administration has called him up to enquire about his health so far. |
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Sent away by bride, groom takes home another
Phagwara, December 22 The shock came when the “barat” reached the gurdwara for the “Anandkaraj”. The shortcomings were noticed by the bride’s maternal uncles just before the “Anandkaraj”. The girl had been living with her brother after her parents died about two years ago. She was engaged to Joginder Singh from Jagatpura village of Nawanshahr with the consent of her elder sister’s sister-in-law and the girl was made aware of the limp. But the girl hid the fact from her maternal uncles. The marriage was fixed for yesterday. The maternal uncles pointed out the shortcoming to the bridegroom’s family. Following this, they entered into an altercation. The two sides continued arguing even at the local police station. At last, the bridegroom and baratis left without the bride. A written agreement was reached between both parties not to sue each other in court and the dowry goods were returned to girl’s family in the presence of the police. Interestingly, the bridegroom later got married to another girl from Jandiala at the same gurdwara. |
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AISAD’s Lambi candidate after Dec 30
Jalandhar, December 22 Meanwhile, the party has asserted that it will do its best to forge a united front with the Akali Dal (Longowal), Akali Dal 1920, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), the CPI-CPM, and the Lok Bhalai Party (LBP) to defeat the Congress and the SAD-BJP combine. “We have already announced our candidates for 19 Assembly and one Lok Sabha constituency and we will announce our candidate against the SAD president Parkash Singh Badal after our ‘Lahore Durbar’ meeting to be held at Ferozepore on December 30,” said AISAD president Jaswant Singh Maan. He said the AISAD was “persuading the BSP to join its policy, programme and election manifesto, to be announced by it in first week of January”. |
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Octroi continues on power supply
Jalandhar, December 22 PSEB officials confirmed that while octroi had been abolished on all articles being brought to the city through nakas, power supply still was not exempted as it just became a good, easy means of income for which no barricade was required. The city residents have recently started opposing the move . Mr Naresh Thatai, executive member, BJP,Sports Cell, Punjab, and Mr Surinder Anand, District Vice President, BJP ,Sports Cell, have gone a step ahead as they have alleged that the Capt Amarinder Singh -led government had been defrauding people living in the cities by charging octroi illegally. They have demanded that levying octroi on electricity be stopped. They have also demanded that the octroi collected on bills paid after abolition of the tax be refunded to the consumers.
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Ramgarhia College staff on strike
Phagwara, December 22 The protesters staged a dharna and held a rally on the college campus. They raised slogans against the government, said Prof Kashmir Singh, district president of the PCCTU. Prof Kashmir Singh said Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had convened a meeting of a committee headed by Rajinder Kaur Bhattal in Chandigarh to discuss the issue of pension and gratuity for teachers. The committee had sought two days’ time but no progress had been made in spite of assurances from the committee, he added. |
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