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ETT teachers demand jobs, get police lathis
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Gurdaspur’s dabbawalas a hit with public
Price rise issue gathers more heat
Fake driving licence racket unearthed
Gang of bike-lifters busted, four arrested
Non-teaching staff on dharna
Netaji’s 114th birth anniversary
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ETT teachers demand jobs, get police lathis
Kapurthala, January 22 The district police resorted to a mild cane charge on the protesters, injuring two persons, while one fainted at the spot. SSP Ram Singh, however, denied any cane charge on the protesters. He claimed that the protesters had blocked the road leading to the Civil Hospital and were causing inconvenience to the general public near the
railway station. Keeping in view the public inconvenience, the protesters were removed from the site, he added. Efforts to contact the Education Minister proved futile till late in the evening. Eyewitnesses said that scores of ETT union members from across the state had assembled here to demand acceptance of their demands. The protesters assembled at Kachehri Chowk and marched towards the
minister’s residence raising anti-government slogans. A police party led by DSP Bahadur Singh and the Illaqa Magistrate reached the spot and resorted to mild cane charge. Two protesters sustained injuries while being chased by the police. Gurpreet Singh, district president of the union, fainted while being chased by the cops. |
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Jurisdiction row delayed search operation
Ashok Kaura
Phagwara, January 22 The Phillaur police claimed that the mishap occurred in the jurisdiction of the Ladhuwal police, while the Ladhuwal police claimed the opposite. More than 300 residents of Phagwara, who rushed to the Sutlej after a wait of 20 hours, registered their protest against the police, which denied its responsibility. Meanwhile, Phillaur SDM Pritam Singh, while talking to The Tribune, said though the mishap occurred in Sadar Ludhiana jurisdiction, the Phillaur administration had been cooperating on humanitarian grounds. Phillaur DSP Kamaljit Singh Dhillon was not available for comments. Later the Ladhuwal police arranged 10 divers to locate the bodies of the youths, but could not succeed till the filing of the reports on Friday evening. This correspondent visited the site and observed that the bodies might have been washed away. Two young boys of Phagwara were drowned in the Sutlej while performing the Saraswati puja on Thursday evening. Reports said thousands of devotees, including migrant labourers, along with the idols of Goddess Saraswati came to the Sutlej for “murti visarjan” after Saraswati puja on Basant Panchami yesterday.
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Gurdaspur’s dabbawalas a hit with public
Gurdaspur, January 22 The tiffin culture, of food prepared by housewives and then delivered at offices of employees and students staying as PGs, has become a fad in this town. With every passing day, more and more residents are calling tiffinwalas to their workplaces. Neelam, who works in a telecom company and also has to take care of her baby, does not have time to prepare lunch. She relies on Jagtar, a delivery boy, to supply lunch for her husband Roopesh, who works as a clerk at the railway station. All she has to do is to ring Jagtar on his cell phone and the dabba is delivered at his workplace. That’s how the system works. The same tiffin is taken back by Jagtar in the evening and handed over to housewives like Ranjeet Kaur, who prepare the meals. Gurdaspur has about 100 housewives operating from the Byzantine lanes of the town, preparing dabbas for their clients. Ranjeet Kaur, who lives in the Civil Lines area, says, “Most of my clients are PG students who have come from nearby towns. I have at least 30 such customers who prefer to have meals prepared by me. Some government employees, who come from nearby towns like Batala, also call me around 11.30 am for their lunch boxes. Every tiffin costs Rs 35. I supply them with two vegetable dishes, five chapatis and salad. Salad depends on the availability and prices of vegetables like tomato. These days with the prices of tomato hitting the roof, I have no option except to provide radish to my clients.” Vijay Sharma, a laboratory technician, whose clinic is located near the Civil Hospital, says, “These tiffinwalas present a unique blend of joint effort, competence and punctuality. The service is immaculate even on days of extreme weather conditions.” Students staying in hostels and employees coming to the town from nearby areas want fresh home-cooked food. And that is what Gurdaspur’s 100-odd housewives assure them of. |
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Price rise issue gathers more heat
Amritsar, January 22 They also blocked traffic at the Bhandari Bridge leading to severe traffic jam for about an hour while the labourers of small-scale power loom industry observed one-day strike. Dr Joginder Dyal, member, central committee, CPI, speaking on the occasion revealed that the Left parties, including CPI and CPM, would hold “satyagraha” during which they would launch “jail bharo movement” on March 5 followed by a massive protest rally in New Delhi against the inflation on March 12. Talking to The Tribune, Dr Dyal criticised the recommendations made by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Local Bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia on resource mobilisation with an eye to generate more revenue. “Only common man, who is already reeling under inflation, would be burdened by recommendations made by the Sukhbir-Kalia committee, which has proposed imposition of property tax apart from additional resources from VAT,” said Dr Dyal. He said the committee had not spared a single thought for stopping non-productive expenditure such as incurred on providing security covers to so-called VIPs, besides Rs 30,000 crore black money generated in the state annually. Dyal also sought scarping of amendments made to the Essential Commodity Act that led to forward trading and opening retail fronts for big corporate houses that was the biggest reason responsible for price rise. He said the UPA government had failed to control the price rise. Meanwhile, speaking on the occasion, Bant Singh Brar, state general secretary, AITUC, demanded setting up of the Food Security Act for ensuring proper food for poor and downtrodden families. He said food production had decreased all over the country while no valuable research was being done on agriculture front to increase the food grain production. Activists of the CPI and CPM raised slogans against the state and Central government, which had failed to control the price rise. Vijay Mishra, president state unit of the CITU, and Amarjit Singh Asal, district secretary of the CPI, also spoke.
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Fake driving licence racket unearthed
Hoshiarpur, January 22
Some policemen in plain clothes were sent to the house of Sarabjit Sharma, son of Gurdit Sharma, as decoy customers for getting a driving licence. After receiving a signal from them, the police raided the house and arrested him. It seized two computers, two printers, one monitor and other related equipment. The sources further said that Sarabjit used to prepare fake driving licences within 15 minutes and sell the same at Rs 500. A case under sections 420, 465, 467, 469 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Sarabjit Sharma in the city police station. |
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Gang of bike-lifters busted, four arrested
Nawanshahr, January 22 Two of the four accused, Mandip and Amit Kumar, have been brought on production warrants. Their accomplices, Anil Kumar Mehta and Charanjit Singh, are still at large. The police has recovered nine stolen motor cycles from their possession. The accused used to steal motorcycles from crowded religious places like Chintpurni, Jwalaji (Himachal Pradesh), Roza Mandali in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district. Then they used to sell the stolen motorcycles to Randhir Singh, who runs a spare parts shop at Jalandhar, and Om Parkash, who runs a meat shop at Jalandhar. Both of them used to change the number plates and sell the motorcycles in Punjab and UP. —
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Non-teaching staff on dharna
Jalandhar, January 22
General secretary Madan Lal Khullar said the SAD government had failed in fulfilling their long-pending demand of issuing a notification regarding the Sixth Pay Commission from January 1, 2006. “The government is giving us step-motherly treatment. If the teaching faculty can be given new pay scales then why not the non-teaching staff of the colleges,” asked Khullar. Nawanshahr: The non-teaching employees of the local BLM Girls College today held a dharna and rally in front of the office of the principal for two hours to protest against the alleged dilly-dallying attitude of the state government towards their long-pending demands. |
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Protesting members of the Unemployed Elementary Teachers Training (ETT) Union, Punjab, have to face lathis of the police when they tried to protest outside the residence of Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur here today.
