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Dowry claims another life
Couple killed in mishap
Graduation could get them sweeper job only
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Row over shifting of dispensary in ESI hospital
Lukewarm Response
Act against global warming, varsities told
Banks earn DC’s ire for poor services
Sarwan Singh is Phillaur market committee chief
Sartaj lights up mehfil
Dhand re-elected Bar chief
Undertrial escapes, held
957 cases solved at lok adalat
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Dowry claims another life
Amritsar, December 22 She was admitted to a hospital with more than 85 per cent burn injuries but she could not survive. A relative informed the family about the incident after which girl’s father Subegh Singh, a resident of Sundar Nagar, Meera
Kot, lodged a complaint with the police. Married to Bhagwant Singh six years ago, Ranjit was harrassed regularly by her in-laws for dowry, said the father. Though he gave dowry as per his capacity, he could not fulfil the demand of Rs 50,000, he said. “Last evening we were informed that the accused had killed his daughter by setting her on fire. She received severe burn injuries mostly on the upper part of the body,” Subegh Singh said. A case under section 304-B, 120-B IPC has been registered against husband Bhagwant Singh, father-in-law Surta Singh, mother-in-law Savinder Kaur and sister-in-law Harjit Kaur. All the accused have been absconding and no arrest has been made so far, said SHO Arun Kumar of Majitha police station, falling under Amritsar Rural police district. |
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Couple killed in mishap
Pathankot, December 22 The couple was coming from Gurdaspur on their motorcycle and going to their native village Hamraj Pur. On reaching near SSM College, Dinanagar, a truck coming from the opposite side hit their motorcycle head on. The couple sustained head injuries and rushed to a local private hospital where they succumbed
to injuries. Yoga Singh, SHO, Dinanagar, said the deceased had been identified as Kuldip Singh, a farmer, and his wife Barjinder Kaur. The driver of the trucker was arrested under section 304 of the IPC and the vehicle impounded. The bodies of the couple had been sent to Gurdaspur civil hospital for postmortem, he added. |
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Graduation could get them sweeper job only
Jalandhar, December 22 Even after pursuing education for 15 years, there has been no let up
in the plight of these young men who are forced to continue with the menial
jobs that many of their parents had undertaken. While nearly six to seven of
them are on regular rolls, there are as many in the list of the 1,212
contractual employees who are likely to be regularised after an interview some
time this week. Rajan, a graduate and a regular safai karamchari, said he had
taken up the job after his mother who was doing the same work died some 10
years back. “Since then, I have been pleading my case for upgradation so that
I could at least get into a class-III job. We have been told that there is no
such promotion channel for us despite our better qualification. The only
elevation for us is the post of a sanitary supervisor, that too, on the
seniority basis,” he rued. Since these youths can easily communicate in
English and do various mathematical calculations, they often assist as billing
clerks. Rajan said he was more often doing a clerical job. Like Rajan, there
are many like Neeraj Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Kulwinder Singh and Meenmal who too
are graduates. Bantu Kumar, who has done 10+2 and is in the billing section in
the public health section of the MC, revealed that most of the better educated
safai workers were also doing autorickshaw driving for the MC though on records
they were safai karamcharis. Since the regular employees earn a respectable
salary, they are often seen well-dressed and carry the latest mobile phone sets
in their hands. These men feel that they have been able to improve their
economic status but the social stigma of being a sewer man somehow haunts them.
“The fact that we are in a regular government non-transferable job and
there are no new regular, secure jobs available in the government offices, we
are holding on to what we already have,” opined most of them. Chandan Grewal,
president of a safai workers’ union, said the MC house had once passed a
proposal to promote the educated safai workers to better cadres. “The move
did not get an approval from the government. We are being told that the bylaws
do not permit them a better job in the MC. We are urging the officials to get
an amendment made in the bylaws,” he said. |
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Row over shifting of dispensary in ESI hospital
Amritsar, December 22 The patients of the hospital are facing problems and the space given at the first floor is inadequate and small to accommodate the patients. Further it is difficult for them to go upstairs, especially the patients suffering from some orthopaedic problem. The matter was also taken up by the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, headed by Deena Nath, also member of the hospital development committee of the ESI hospital, with the regional director. He opposed the shifting of the dispensary to the upper floor. S.C. Sud, member, local committee, alleged that the dispensary was shifted on the directions of the medical superintendent of the ESI hospital due to some “malafide” intentions of her. He alleged that there was no necessity of shifting at this stage when three out of the four rooms of the dispensary of the hospital had already been renovated and could be handed over to the authorities concerned. However, the rooms were allotted to the pharmacists who had locked the rooms on her “verbal orders”, he added. He said the renovation of the hospital, which had been going on for about three months, was almost complete. Jatinder Mander, medical superintendent of the hospital, could not be contacted even after repeated attempts. However, Y.C. Markan, DHS, said he had already directed the MS to move the dispensary to its original place. He said a letter had been dispatched to her in
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Lukewarm Response
Amritsar, December 22 The municipal corporation had offered to sell prime government school land of approximate 2,852 sq yards to tide over its financial crunch and give much-needed boost to its ongoing development projects in the holy city. The corporation had fixed Rs 30,000 per sq yard as the minimum price for
the land. MC commissioner DPS Kharbanda said since only one party Chopra Housing Developers Private Limited from Jalandhar submitted the bid, we postponed the auction. The new date for the action would be announced soon, the MC commissioner said. He said the hotel site was strategically located and about 400 meters from the holy shrine due to which the corporation expected big hotel chains and reputed real estate groups to participate in the bid. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal expressing his surprise over the auctioning of government school land by the local civic body. He immediately instructed his officials to look into the matter and give him a complete report on the issue. |
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Act against global warming, varsities told
Amritsar, December 22 Speaking at the 3-week refresher course in environmental studies at the Academic Staff College of Guru Nanak Dev University, Dr Ahluwalia, who is the head of department of geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, listed the natural and man-made factors, which are contributing to climate change. He also showed a documentary on Earth. Course coordinator Dr Renu Bhardwaj threw light on climate change and environmental threat. She talked about the impact of climate change on agriculture, weather, forests, wild life and marine life and urged the need of regulatory steps. As many as 25 teachers, participants from different colleges and universities from Karnataka and northern region have been attending the course.
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Banks earn DC’s ire for poor services
Hoshiarpur, December 22 Presiding over the meeting of District Advisory Committee arranged by a leading bank for reviewing the ongoing work of all the banks here today, the DC said his office was receiving complaints in this connection regularly. He asked the branch managers of all the banks to improve their service in providing fresh loans to those farmers previous loans of whom had been waived of by the government. They should strictly
follow the instructions given by the government, said Wadhawan. He kisan cards worth
Rs 956 crore had been issued to 88049 cardholders in the district up to September 30, 2008. More than 2,500 self-help groups had been constituted. He emphasised to increase loans in agriculture sector. Loans worth Rs 665 crore had been disbursed during the first half of current financial year by the banks in the district of which Rs 495 core in agriculture, Rs 30 crore in non-farming sector and 140 crore in priority and service sectors. M S Nijjar, assistant general manager, Punjab National Bank, said an amount of Rs 8,001 crore had been deposited by the people up to September 30, 2008 in various bank branches of the district as against Rs 6772 crore during the corresponding period of last year. Loans worth Rs 2532 crore had been given as against Rs 2143 crore during the same period. |
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Sarwan Singh is Phillaur market committee chief
Jalandhar, December 22 Accompanied by his supporters and friends, he reached the office of the committee and was garlanded by officials and escorted to his office. This is his second stint as chairman since he also held the same post in the previous Akali government. He is a confidant of social security minister Chaudhary Swarna Ram. Former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur, Markfed chairman Jarnail Singh Wahid and Banga MLA Mohan Lal were present on
the occasion. Swarna Ram and Mohan Lal thanked the Chief Minister for appointing a leader with a solid grassroot standing, who will work for the greater development of the area.
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Sartaj lights up mehfil
Nawanshahr, December 22 Prof. Satinder Sartaj, a budding artist, mesmerised the audience with his unique, self-composed vocals in chaste Punjabi drenched with the simplicity of rustic rhetoric. Sartaj started his performance with a song dedicated to the memory of great martyrs. Paying homage to martyrs he presented a song - “Rasse chum ke apne hathi phahe len wale bande aam nahin hunde, jadon pata hove seene hone chhalni, mohre ho ke goli khan wale bande aam nahin hunde” He then presented a simple prayer to the almighty - “Sai we sadi fariyad tere tain”. Then he enthralled the audience with his songs like - “Motia, chameli, sron, ful kesu, kachnar de, tere layee khetan vich ugayade”, “Jadon hon na dilan vich rang chavan de, siran da ratta salu ki karu”. Sartaj presented songs like - “Je na rahi hariyali tan ki karna takhtan nu, bhai we aare waleya na cheer darakhtan nu” to give a message of ecological balance. — OC |
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Dhand re-elected Bar chief
Amritsar, December 22 Dhand defeated his opponent advocate Bhagwant Singh Sialka by a margin of 165 votes. He polled 571 votes while Sialka managed to get 306 votes in the election. Among others, who were elected, include Mukesh Nanda, Kuljit Singh Bal as secretary and joint secretary, respectively, while Kashmir Singh Buttar was elected vice-president unopposed. Dhand said the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, during his visit, had assured the advocates that the new chambers for the lawyers would be constructed soon at an appropriate
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Undertrial escapes, held
Nawanshahr, December 22 He had been brought here from the Ludhiana Central Jail for producing before a local court in connection with a case registered against him under section 382 of the IPC in 2004. The
SHO, city, said after receiving information of the undertrial’s escape, he immediately put up nakas and within two hours the accused was nabbed from the local Sloh Road by head constables Manjit Singh and Satnam Singh. Cases of burglary, snatching, etc, had already been registered against him, the SHO said. |
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957 cases solved at lok adalat
Nawanshahr, December 22 Besides, as many as 1,011 cases pertaining to the revenue department and 186 cases pertaining to the transport department were also
settled. — OC |
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