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Urban Estate sans basic amenities
More jaundice cases reported
Havildar cremated
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Vajra Corps celebrates Raising Day
Narinder is Bar chief
Man commits suicide
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Urban Estate sans basic amenities
Kapurthala, March 1 The Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA) has failed to provide any outlet drain for sewerage, proper entry road to the locality and rainwater disposal system. President of the Urban Estate Welfare Society R.S. Dhillon said 717 residential plots had been allotted after a draw by PUDA in the first phase of allotment in 1999. Subsequently, several other plots were allotted but PUDA could not provide any outlet drain for sewerage. Presently, over 700 persons are living their on 100 plots allotted to them and the construction is on the other 100 plots. In the absence of any sewerage outlet drain, the residents had to suffer a lot, said Dhillon, adding that they have left with no option but to arrange pumps to dispose off the sewerage water into open plots. “Any water-borne disease may also spread due to disposing of sewerage water in the vacant plots in the absence of any other alternate arrangement,” he said. Dhillon said PUDA had also not made any arrangement like water harvesting to dispose of rainwater due to which the water accumulated in different parts of the locality, creating problems for the residents. “So much so, contrary to the plan of providing 120-ft-wide two lane road, PUDA could not provide any proper entry road to the locality. A number of trees on the proposed road are causing difficulty for the residents to reach their houses from GT road,” he added. While PUDA Chief Administrator Manisha Trighatia was reportedly on leave, its Estate Officer Harbir Singh said the work for the outlet drain for sewerage was already going on and it would be completed soon. To a query, he said rainwater harvesting system could not be installed in the locality as the plots had been allotted much earlier. “The problem of accumulation of rainwater would automatically be solved with the sewerage outlet drain,” he added. Regarding the construction of entry road, the Estate Officer said the department had already written to the Forest Department to get permission to cut the trees. “As soon as the permission is provided, the road would be widened,” he added.
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More jaundice cases reported
Phagwara, March 1 With this, the number of jaundice patients has risen to 62 in the town. Civil surgeon Avtar Singh, senior medical officer Adarsh Sood, nagar council president Malkiat Singh Ragbotra, executive officer Gurwinder Kaur Randhawa and a tehsildar visited the area today to assess the situation. A medical camp was arranged in the area and chlorine tablets were also distributed. Meanwhile, six patients of diarrhoea were also detected. |
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Havildar cremated
Birring, March 1 Hav Gajinder Bahadur Pal, serving as a driver with 61 Battalion of Rashtriya Rifles, was at his home at Birring village here during leave last week. While going back to the operational area in J&K on Monday, his transit bus fell into a 150-ft ditch. While six other Army personnel traveling in the bus were injured, Gajinder died on the spot. The accident occurred at Sad Murhie in J&K. The decomposed body was brought by Hav Kulwinder Singh to a mortuary here last evening and his last rites were performed this morning. SDM Bhupinder Singh, Lieut-Col Manmohan Singh, Deputy Director Sainik Welfare, and officials from the Public Relations Department were present at the funeral. Lieut-Col Manmohan Singh assured full cooperation to the family. He said while he was yet to get complete report from the CO in J&K, he hoped that the family would get a compensation of nearly Rs 4 lakh, a pension equivalent to the last pay drawn, a government job for his wife and free education for the three children. His father, Inder Singh Pal, a retired official from Army Postal Services, talked about his son’s valour.
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Vajra Corps celebrates Raising Day
Jalandhar, March 1 A solemn ceremony was organised at Vajra Corps War Memorial where Lieut-Gen Noble Thamburaj, General Officer Commanding (GOC), laid wreaths in the memory of gallantry soldiers who laid down their lives for the sake of country. Gen V.P. Malik, former Chief of Army Staff, and several other senior Army officers also paid homage to the martyrs. The GoC interacted with retired Army officers, JCOs and jawans and later addressed a sainik sammelan where he asked the personnel to be prepared for modern warfare concepts. He discussed various welfare schemes being implemented by Vajra Corps for the welfare of families. |
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Narinder is Bar chief
Jalandhar, March 1 Om Parkash Sharma, Ashok Kumar Sharma and Rashpal Singh Chumber have been elected secretary, senior vice-president and assistant secretary, respectively. The elections for the posts of junior vice-president, joint secretary and seven executive members will be held on March 7, said Mr Narinder Pal Singh Thind, returning officer. Prem Sharma and Rattan Dua are vying for the post of junior vice-president, while Jasvir Singh Bhogal and Parmjit Singh Chani are contesting for the post of joint secretary. There are nine contenders for the seven posts of executive members. They are Ankur Bansal, Ashok Kumar Khanna, Gurmail Singh Dhillon, Harsh Bhatt, Jaspal Singh Arneja, Jaswant Singh Sarai, Rajesh Kumar Uttam, Sanjeet Kumar Adhikari and Sidharth Aggarwal.
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Man commits suicide
Jalandhar, March 1 Victim Jaswinder Singh of Fatehgarh Sahib district left a suicide note. He reportedly stated in the note that he was killing himself as he was not happy with her wife as she allegedly had illicit relations with somebody. The police sent the body to the Civil Hospital for postmortem. Subsequently, Jaswinder’s wife Ranjit Kaur and her paramour Harbhajan Singh were arrested under Section 306 of the IPC. Jaswinder was son of a retired DSP Sohan Singh. |
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