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Jassowal to have world class tennis stadium
Ludhiana, March 6 The stadium, which has over nine international synthetic tennis tracks, will soon have a grass court much like the one at Wimbledon. And that's not all, the stadium will have five deco turfs, a restaurant, mini medical centre, swimming pool, hot tub and round-the-clock monitoring security. A whopping Rs 20 crore will be spent on this project. The project is the brainchild of Harvinder Saran. Saran, a non-resident Indian (NRI)hailing from Jassowal, has spent over 30 years in Canada. He has a passion for sports, particularly tennis. His dream is to see boys and girls from his area and across the country emerge on the international tennis scene. "It was my dream to make a world-class grass court stadium equipped with all modern facilities," said Saran. A fully air-conditioned hostel for boys and girls, state-of-the-art gymnasium, sauna bath, steam bath and Jacuzzi are the other facilities that are coming up at the stadium. Saran said, "The stadium would entirely be dedicated to the development of tennis. Players shall be spending a little from their pockets in order to avail themselves of these services. "We cannot expect good results until we provide players with the same kind of facilities as their counterparts across the globe get. The country has always been full of talent, what we lack is infrastructure and by constructing this stadium, I believe, I will be able to pay back what this village and country has given me," said Saran. He further said, "I do not need any financial support from government or any other organisation, though I feel visits by senior politicians of Punjab will go a long way in encouraging and motivating young players besides giving impetus to other such ventures by NRIs thus leading to overall growth and development of Punjab.
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Pak player hones skill at Punjab village
Ludhiana, March 6 After a month-long training by the future tennis hope of Pakistan, Syed Zohair Raza and Sayed Abas Raza, now Pakistan's Davis Cupper Aqeel Khan, the number two player of Pakistan, is sweating hard at the Harvest Tennis Academy. Khan is here to get specialised and scientific tennis training. He also has some found memories of the academy as last year he registered a convincing win in the ITF Men's Futures US$ 15,000 tournament organised on the same venue. While praising the academy, he said the academy had got the best infrastructure and had some of the finest coaches in India. The Karachi born 28-year-old tennis player is the current Pakistani number two in the rating. He starting smashing the court at a tender age of nine years. He first participated in the Pakistan International Junior Championships in 1993 since then there has been no looking back for this ace tennis player. He turned professional and played his first Davis Cup match in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1998. Aqeel Khan has represented Pakistan at Davis Cup, Asian Games-2006, ITF Satellite Masters, ITF Men's Futures, and also won the Indian DSCL National Tennis Championship in 2004. At the 2006 Asian Games, he paired with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and reached the quarter-finals where he lost to eventual winners and first seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi 6-2, 6-4. Gurvarinder Sahota, director of Coaching of the Academy, stated that the main objective of the academy was to produce best players from India and from the Jassowal village in particular, to come up at the international arena. Besides Sahota who had worked for Australian Open Tennis Academy, Gaston Touzet has brought tones of experience as he has worked for Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida. Peter Skoda from Canada, Todd Clark from Australia and other Indian coaches are internationally qualified of repute both in tennis and fitness.
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PAU guard's murder case solved
Ludhiana, March 6 The police arrested Dalbara Singh alias Rinku, resident of Mullanpur, his brother Dharampal alias Bobby, Madan Lal of Basant Nagar, Bihar Colony, Partap Singh Wala and Varinder Khan alias Kala of Lalton Kalan for allegedly murdering Radhey Sham (56). They have been booked under Sections 302/34 IPC on the statement of Radhika, wife of Radhey Sham. The police swung into action and solved the murder after the statement made by Radhika, a resident of New Dashmesh Nagar, Aiyali Khurd. She had claimed that Radhey Sham had left for work on March 4 but did not come back. They looked for him everywhere. Yesterday his body was found from the bank of Budda Nullah. He was found murdered with sharp-edged weapons. Radhika had claimed that her daughter Sadhna was married to Dalbara Singh last year. On March 3, he had left her at her parents house after beating her badly. The family decided not to send her back. On March 4, Dalbara, along with his brothers Dharampal, Madan Lal and Varinder Khan, came to their house and told them to send the daughter. Radhika refused. They threatened her that if she did not send her along he would murder her father Radhey Sham. This did not scare her. She did not send Sadhna with them. Radhey Sham also left home as usual. When he did not come back Radhika got suspicious and informed the police. The police had registered a case against them yesterday.
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Local students on big firms’ radar
Ludhiana, March 6 Director Punjab College of Technical Education Dr K.N.S.Kang said six of his college students were recently absorbed by Trident group offering annual salary package of Rs 6.6 lakh each. He said companies showed keen interest in getting best students. "The average package of each student is Rs 3.3 lakh and above. We are holding 5-6 interviews in coming 10 days and are hopeful that our students will come up to the expectations of reputed industries", said Dr Kang. Dean, Campus Training and Placement Cell, Ludhiana College of Engineering and Technology, S.P.Sharma said they had got tremendous response in recently conducted job fair. The college had offered the minimum package of Rs 10,000 a month. "The Reliance Life Insurance, Kotak Securities, etc have absorbed the students between Rs 1.2-Rs 2.5 lakh salary packages, which is definitely a good beginning. The job fairs provide a common platform for industrial recruitment of engineers and management professionals and they facilitate the industry-institute interaction", he said. The companies showing interest include Trident, Emson Gears, Osho Forge, Kalsi Solutions, Reliance Life Insurance, Kotak Securities, Saubhagya Sales, G.S.Auto International, EXL, Bonn Foods, etc. Some of the local companies are also offering handsome salary packages. The job and placement officer at GNIMT Ritesh Singla said their maximum package went up to Rs 3.5 lakh (ICICI) per annum. He said the recruitment process was still not over and companies were absorbing students in huge numbers. "The students who are not adamant to be in Ludhiana alone, get better opportunities. They are offered good salary packages", he added. Ramanjot Singh, a fresh MBA pass-out, said if a student was clear in his/her mind about doing job anywhere, there are better options ahead.
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Vandalism at Hospital
Ludhiana, March 6 In a meeting of the CMCH administrators, held on the hospital premises today, a resolution was adopted to deplore the act of lawlessness by the relatives of the patient who had taken the law in their own hands to cause damage to the hospital property and manhandle the doctor and para-medical staff. The medical superintendent of CMCH, Dr Rajesh Paul, said, "Even when a patient dies, despite all necessary medical care and attention by hospitals or other medical institutions as also the medical practitioners, no one has any right to destroy hospital property and disrupt services just for the sake of getting their hospital bill waived or for some other ulterior motives." Taking a serious view of such incidents, which were bound to have far-reaching repercussions in delivery of medical services to critically ill patients, CMCH director Dr John Pramod said service to the mankind was the prime objective of doctors. "In particular, the CMCH often admits patients in critical and hopeless condition referred by nursing homes and practitioners. But in the recent days with rise in incidents of hooliganism and violence by the relatives or friends of the patients, the medical fraternity is afraid of admitting and treating such complicated cases." He added that under no circumstances should people be allowed to take law in their hands. Common sense should prevail and the police and politicians should rise to the occasion by opposing and criticising acts like damage to hospital property and assault on medical or nursing personnel. Proper inquiry should be carried out by the police along with the involvement of the civil surgeon, professional bodies like the IMA and medical experts before arresting a doctor. Meanwhile, Dr Surendra Gupta, secretary of the local branch of National Integrated Medical Association (NIMA) has said the association was deeply hurt due to the unruly behaviour and mob violence against the doctors and staff at Sri Krishna Charitable Hospital here on Sunday. Dr Rajesh Thaper, president, NIMA, said role of the authorities had further added fuel to fire. To express solidarity with the fellow colleagues and force the authorities to stop unilateral action against the medical professionals, the association has decided to organise a protest rally at Mini Secretariat on March 7, he informed.
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Shivratri celebrated with fervour
Ludhiana, March 6 People accompanied with their children and grand-children went to various temples of Lord Shiva to seek blessings. Small children had put-up stalls of flowers, sweets, fruits and bel patras outside these temples. There was a good sale of milk packets as offering milk to Lord Shiva on Shivratri is considered pious. The snake-charmers were seen sitting at many places, too. Stalls of chhabils (sweetened-water) and prasad were put up at Ghumar Mandi, Dandi Swami road, Kailash Chowk and Model Town etc for the devotees. The priest at Banke Bihari temple, Ghumar Mandi, said it took two days to decorate the temple with fresh and dry flowers. He said devotees offered milk and fruits in bulk on the day of Shivratri. "We distribute these offerings to the needy and poor", he said. Shobha yatras were also organised in many areas of the city last evening in which children as well as youngsters took part in enthusiastic manner.
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Lok adalat to dispose of 15,000 challans
Ludhiana, March 6 Traffic violators, whose important documents were lying in the record rooms, are most likely to get back their documents along with a heavy concession in the compounding fee. The traffic police, PCR men and employees of the Punjab Police posted in different police stations remained busy in ensuring the service of summons to the concerned persons. For the convenience of the people, special enquiry centres would be set up at each floor of Judicial Complex where the lists of all pending challans would be made available. The effort is to ensure that no one faced harassment and returned empty handed, claimed Chairman of the Legal Services Authority-cum-Sessions Judge G.K. Rai.
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Kalpana Chawla’s Birthday
Ludhiana, March 6 Parbhakar called up Kalpana’s father three months ago. Parbhakar’s conversation with Kalpana’s father moved him. Thus, he decided to pay tribute to Kalpana by etching the wax statue that would be displayed at local Hardy’s world. ‘‘Through this statue, I want to convey the message that female foeticide was a crime. By doing so we were snatching brilliant girls like Kalpana Chawla, who would do India proud. I want to tell people not to kill girls on Kalpana’s birthday tomorrow. I hope my message gets heard, ’’ Parbhakar added. ‘‘Had her parents killed her, we would have lost a gem. If parents let girls survive they are surely going to bring us glory,” he remarked. He added that he wanted to invite Kalpana’s father for unveiling the statue tomorrow, but, when he talked to him, he seemed too distressed thus he decided to postpone the formal occasion. After putting in many hours of work everyday, Parbhakar completed the statue in three months time. He was giving final touches to it till today. To make it look real, he got prepared a NASA astronaut’s dress and made it wear that. Parbhakar was into chemical business till six years ago before he underwent a bypass surgery. Doctors told him to stop working. It was a visit to Wax Museum at London that he rediscovered himself and returned with a mission. He started making statues and has nearly 25 wax statues of eminent personalities to his credit. As many as 15 statues, including that of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Mother Teresa, Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are exhibited at a local water park.
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No succour to small units in Budget: Chopra
Ludhiana, March 6 “Neither the finance minister has given any relief to the sagging economy of small units nor the government had taken any step for bringing down the steel prices,” said V.P. Chopra, president, federation of the Punjab small industries association. Industry representatives also said despite agitation spearheaded by the small-scale industrial units and also a meeting with the union steel minister, no respite came for the small- scale industry. The allocation of iron and steel items to this sector in the past three years too has declined considerably. Against an allocation of 12.89 lakh metric tones in 2004-05, the quantity came down to 8.31 lakh in 2005-06 and has further declined to 4.92 lakh metric tones in 2006-07, Chopra said. Mentioning the steps taken by the government for controlling the cement rates, industry leaders said increase in cement prices was taken seriously and cement producers were even issued a warning to restrain from resorting to unfair practices. Even in case of pharmaceutical, the government has put up a regulatory forum. The government should have taken a similar view in case of steel rates too;
steep rise in steel prices affects not just the industry but also common man,
said industrialists.
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Anmol, Tanish, Mehak win healthy baby contest
Ludhiana, March 6 Compering the function Dr Rajinder Gulati, in charge of the department of paediatrics, said such functions helped in imparting education through competition. The chief guest on the occasion was HJS Khera, district governor of Lions Club and the function was organised in collaboration with Lions Club, Ludhiana Decent. Dr A. K. Handa, nodal officer for the healthy baby contest, said that about 120 children participated in the contest and were divided into three age groups. In the 0-6 month age group, Anmol, Khushboo and Naginder stood first, second and third, respectively. Their mothers Mamta, Rajni and Promila were also awarded as the most aware mothers in this group. In the 6-24 month age group, Tanish, Harshit and Sukhmanpreet were ranked first, second and third, respectively. Their mothers Rachna Devi, Bimla and Kulwinder were also felicitated for being the most aware mothers in this group. The third group of children with two to five years of age witnessed Mehak, Vishnu and Gurpreet Kaur emerging as top three in that order. Their mothers Sunita Devi, Rachna and Tarndeep also received awards of most aware mothers in this group. In the course of programme, informative health talks on ante-natal care and infant feeding were delivered by Dr Neelam Bhatia and Dr Rajinder Gulati. Among others present at the function were Yashpal Bangia, president, Lions Club, Ludhiana Decent, G.S. Panchi, zone chairman, Prem Grover, past district governor, J. M. Puri, treasurer, Lions Club, Ludhiana Decent and Dr Rajinder Mittal.
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Release grant for pensioners: Maur
Ludhiana, March 6 He said non-release of the pension grant had brought 2,700 pensioners on roads. Maur further said it was obligatory for the Punjab Government to release the grant. The employees of the PAU were running from pillar to post to get their dues. They had organised a series of relay-fasts from February 22 and held various protests but to no avail. Maur appealed to the authorities to make provision for the pension funds in the PAU budget for the year 2008-2009 keeping in view of the enhancement of salaries and other benefits by the pay commission to be announced in the near future.
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Army men trained in dairy farming
Ludhiana, March 6 The course was attended by executives from different military dairy farms of the country (Hyderabad, Secundrabad, Agra and Meerut), along with the instructor B.K. Malhotra. The training course focused on dairy farming and its scientific management. Along with this, a visit to the farm power machinery, department of the PAU, was also undertaken to acquaint them with the latest farm tools. Special lectures on culture sensitivity testing, value addition of milk, poultry rearing were also arranged on their request. The major expenditure in dairy farming was on feed and fodder and trainees were guided to ascertain the availability of green fodder to the animals throughout the year. Fodder preservation methods and latest herbicides/pesticide application on the fodder were also dealt with.
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Residents fume over stray dog menace
Ludhiana, March 6 G.S. Middha, a resident of the area, said the population of stray dogs had grown manifold. The dogs
near Dugri Bridge, who were feeding on leftovers from the meat shops, had turned ferocious and were biting people. As most of their victims were labourers, they had to spend huge amount in getting themselves vaccinated against rabies. They were not in a position to go to the civil hospital, said Middha.
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War against price hike
Ludhiana, March 6 Over 250 wire drawing units have decided not to purchase steel from induction units and rolling mills. "An increase of over Rs 6,000 per metric tonne has taken place within the past 10 days itself. Local furnace units and rolling mills have formed a cartel. After large steel producers, local manufacturers, too, are giving us a similar treatment by effecting undue hike in steel rates. Protesting against this, we will not buy steel from them at least for another 15 days," Badish Jindal, general secretary, Wire Drawing Association of Punjab, said today. The wire drawing industry took the decision after local producers increased rates by Rs 2,000 per tonne today itself. Industrialists said furnace units and rolling mill owners here had steeply increased their conversion charges and were now resorting to repeated hikes citing one reason or the other.
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Anaha offers hallmark jewellery
Ludhiana, March 6 Addressing a press conference, Karanvir Singh, chief executive, Anaha, said hallmarking, a certification of the purity of gold by a government-approved agency, guaranteed purity n jewellery as per marked. "The customer is assured maximum return on resale of hallmarked jewellery at any point of time."
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Workshop on techno entrepreneurship
Ludhiana, March 6 On the occasion, the key resource professionals were Dr S.B. Singh, former principal, GNDEC, Dr M.A. Zahir, director, Synetic Business School, D.L. Sharma, president and executive director, Vardhman Textiles, and Dr Sandeep Kapur, associate professor, PAU. In the first session, Dr S.B. Singh presented lecture on techno-entrepreneurs opportunities and challenges in the new global environment. He inspired students to become entrepreneurs for which right attitude and hard work was essential. In the second session, Dr Zahir delivered a lecture on the role of human resource management in developing competitive advantage. He stressed on human resource practices to gain competitive advantage. He said human resources of organisations played a vital role in achieving organisational excellence. D.L. Sharma threw a light on the leadership process. According to Sharma, there was a need of balance between management systems, technology and leadership. He said leadership might be used as competitive advantage by the techno-entrepreneurs. Dr Sandeep Kapur co-ordinate the open session in which students evinced keen interest and raised several queries related to entrepreneurship. These queries were responded to by the panel of experts. Jagdish Singh Garcha, former minister for technical education, Punjab, member of the managing committee of the college, appreciated the effort to motivate the students for entrepreneurship. He also emphasised that they would do everything possible to provide quality education to college students. Seminar was attended by at least 300 students and the faculty members. This seminar was also attended by Surinder Singh, chairman, Institution of Engineers, Ludhiana centre, along with other executive members and J.S. Kular, director, STEP. Dr V.K. Sharma, college principal, thanked the speakers for delivering their talks and interacting with the students. He also thanked his faculty and staff for making efforts for organizing the seminar-cum-workshop.
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“Jhankaar-2008” at PU
Ludhiana, March 6 At least 22 teams from various states took part in folk dance competitions. Team members were Satvir Singh, Damanpreet Singh Gursimratpal Singh, Surinder Singh, Gurbax Singh, Maninder Singh, Amandeen Singh, and Gurvinder Singh. Team was trained by Gurjeet Singh Cheema
(coach) and Ustad Ravi Kumar (drummer). Amit Jagga was the playback singer. Gursimratpal Singh was adjudged the best dancer. The GNIMT’s Bhangra team had twice won third positions during the North-zone inter-varsity youth festival and bagged championship thrice during the
Punjab Technical University youth festival. Col H.S.Singha, GNIMT director,
congratulated the team and their faculty in charge Tripat Deep Singh Dua.
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Pallavi tops PTU exam
Ludhiana, March 6 Pallavi Rai stood first in the examination by securing 90.8 per cent marks while Sarika Goyal (MCA, IIIrd semester) stood fifth with 87.28 per cent marks. Dr Vijay Asdhir, director of the institute, and P.P.S. Grewal, president of the institute, said.
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Public health fair tomorrow
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 6 According to Dr K.C. Goel, district health officer (DHO), Sangrur, over 50 officials, under the supervision of SMO Dr K.S. Khurana, had launched a personal contact programme to apprise people of various facilities being provided by the state government at the health fair. About 50 disabled persons have been identified, who would be given artificial limbs and other equipment at the fair. The DHO called upon office-bearers of various social organisations to make residents of their respective areas aware of the significance of the event and persuade them to avail themselves of free facilities. Diagnostic tests, including ECG and X-ray would be conducted, said the DHO.
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425 examined in medical camp
Ludhiana, March 6 The camp had experts from the fields like medicine, paediatrics and ENT. The team of doctors included Dr Anita Chandy, Dr Shweta Kundra, Dr Ashish Varghese and Murari Lal. Dr Madhulika Johnson and Dr Maureen Kiran from the department of RHOP coordinated the activities at the camp. The chief guest, Vijay Kumar Chopra, chief editor, Punjab Kesari group, appreciated the efforts of CMCH while Chander Mohan Jaiswal, president of Qaumi Ekta Council lauded the role of CMCH towards this noble task.
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CMCH to organise lectures on critical care
Ludhiana, March 6 According to Dr John Pramod, director, CMCH, the event was being organised in view of the tremendous response generated by the critical care lectures held last year.
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Punjab annex softball titles
Ludhiana, March 6 According to P.N. Passi, honorary secretary, Punjab Softball Association, teams from Punjab outperformed their opponents to emerge champions. In the men's final, Punjab proved too good for Andhra Pradesh whom they outnumbered 13-4 to win the title while in the women's section, Punjab romped home victorious without being challenged in the final by Madhya Pradesh 13-5. Passi joined the other office-bearers of the association in congratulating the members of the Punjab squads on this achievement.
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