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11,000 litres oil, 60 quintals sweets seized
Hoshiarpur, October 14
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of the district Health Department and district Food and Supplies Department this afternoon raided the business premises of Shri O.P. Foods at Mukerian in the district and seized 11,000 litres of mustard and cottonseed oils suspected to be adulterated.

Dullo: Extreme factionalism tarnishing Congress image
Hoshiarpur, October 14
Though factionalism prevails in all political parties, but its extremity in the PPCC is not only tarnishing the image of the party in general public, but also disgusting the party workers in Punjab.

Absent teachers make DEO issue strict directions
Jalandhar, October 14
DEO (Secondary) Joginder Dass today directed the Principal of Government Boys Senior Secondary School and Girls School, Jamsher, Bhajan Kaur to sanction leave only to one teacher at a time.

11,000 litres oil, 60 quintals sweets seized
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Hoshiarpur, October 14
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of the district Health Department and district Food and Supplies Department this afternoon raided the business premises of Shri O.P. Foods at Mukerian in the district and seized 11,000 litres of mustard and cottonseed oils suspected to be adulterated.

District Health Officer, Dr Yash Pal Mitra, told this correspondent on phone that at the time of the raid some persons were refilling mustard and cottonseed oils in 15 litre tins having labels of popular brands like Parkash Mustard Oil, Arjan Cottonseed, etc.

The entire stock was seized and the godown sealed. Two samples of edible oils were being sent to the Public Analyst, Chandigarh, for testing.

Phagwara: The police raided a cold storage in nearby Khurampur village and seized huge quantity of sweets kept in the cold storage late last night.

The Health aDepartment too raided a sweet shop of at Panchhatt village and seized three quintals of rasgullas today. Food Inspector Sandeep Singh said samples of sweets had been taken and sent to laboratory for tests. Samples of burfi and rasgullas were also taken from two sweets shops in Phagwara this evening.

Nawanshahr: The team of the Health Department, led by District Health Officer Ashok Guru, conducted a raid on a cold storage on Karyam Road here and seized 60 quintals of sweets, khoya and butter, suspected to be spurious, stored by a number of confectioners of Nawanshahr and Rahon.

The team took samples of the sweets, khoya and butter and sealed the stored items. DC Gurkirat Kirpal Singh said the confectioners would be allowed to take sweets and other items stored only after receiving the report from the laboratory. If these items would be fit for human consumption, then the items would be returned to the confectioners concerned and the items found to be spurious would be disposed of and action would be taken against the errant ones.

The DC had yesterday directed officials of the Health Department to constitute teams to conduct raids on the stores of errant confectioners in the district.

The team comprising Dr Guru, District Family Welfare Officer Dr Surinder Ganger and Dr Neena seized 10 quintals of stale khoya during two raids on Jain Cold Store on Gahun Road, Balachaur, and Sandhu Cold Store on Banga Road here.

Dullo: Extreme factionalism tarnishing Congress image

Hoshiarpur, October 14
Though factionalism prevails in all political parties, but its extremity in the PPCC is not only tarnishing the image of the party in general public, but also disgusting the party workers in Punjab.

This was stated by former PPCC president Shamsher Singh Dullo while talking to mediapersons here this afternoon.

Without mentioning the name of anyone, he said some of the opportunists had somehow succeeded in capturing the key posts in the PPCC and were now trying to sabotage party programmes being carried out to oppose the anti-people policies of the SAD-BJP government. But they would not succeeded in their mission.

He had already briefed about their anti-parties activities to the Congress high command. Congress workers should not be disheartened from the prevailing circumstances in the party.

He said General Secretary of the AICC Rahul Gandhi was future of India and the Congress. He would definitely take the party to the height of its previous glory and India would become the biggest power of the world.

Referring to the hike in prices of essential commodities, Dullo said the Union as well as the state government should take effective steps to bring down the skyrocketing prices at the earliest.

Referring to ongoing the NREGA scheme in Punjab, he alleged that it had become a flop show of the Punjab Government as the latter had failed in its effective implementation.

He criticised the SAD-BJP government for its failure on all fronts. He said on account of acute shortage of electricity, many of the industrial units had either been closed or shifted to the neighbouring states.

He was accompanied by Congress leaders Jasbir Singh Pal, Ram Rattan and Pankaj Kirpal. — OC

Absent teachers make DEO issue strict directions

Jalandhar, October 14
DEO (Secondary) Joginder Dass today directed the Principal of Government Boys Senior Secondary School and Girls School, Jamsher, Bhajan Kaur to sanction leave only to one teacher at a time.

The directions came following a sudden visit by the DEO to the school. It was found that despite having two teachers each of science and computer, nobody was present on duty. He ensured that at least one teacher was to be present on duty.

He also inspected the mid-day meal scheme in the school and sought regular intervention of the principal in its implementation. The DEO also enquired about the maintenance of the school and directed the principal to ensure the timely completion of the construction works of the bathrooms and boundary wall of the school. — TNS