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After Tasting Success Over Promotion Of Lecturers
Elated union now wants to expose govt ‘wrongdoing’
Nawanshahr, March 14
After their long struggle led to a successful beginning of the process of promotions of lecturers as principals, the Government School Lecturers Union, Punjab, has now decided to expose the government over the promotions of vocation masters as principals.

Shifting Row
HMV denies migration certificate to football player
Jalandhar, March 14
For a national-level football player and former HMV student, seeking a migration certificate to another  college has become a source of harassment. The incident has brought to the fore the fierce competition between colleges to reap rewards at the top level in sports. At the same time it has also opened up a Pandora’s Box on whether the well-being of a player is subservient to the glory of the institution.

Update farmers, scientists told
Nawanshahr, March 14
“Agro scientists should strive hard to disseminate latest farm techniques and literature among farmers at the grassroots level as well as tap the talent of rural masses to ensure progress in agriculture, in its true spirit.”

BKU Leader Murder Case
Farmers flay clean chit to Lopoke
Amritsar, March 14
Rejecting the clean chit handed over to former Akali MLA and district planning board chairman, Veer Singh Lopoke, by Amritsar rural police in connection with Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta) leader murder case, the union today decided to hold a two-day protest dharna in front of Inspector General of Police (border range) office on March 25.

One dead, 2 hurt in car-truck collision
Batala: One person died while two were injured when their car collided with a truck near Natt village on the Batala-Jalandhar Road last night. Balwant Singh, along with Pawan Kumar and Daljit Singh, was traveling in a Maruti Esteem car (no. HR-51D-6465) from Mehta towards Batala, when it collided head on with a truck (no. PB-08AB-9659) coming from the opposite side, near Natt village.

Residents rue poor civic amenities
Batala, March 14
After the residents of colonies belonging to the Improvement Trust made a hue and cry over lack of civic amenities, Jagdish Shawney, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) Punjab has appealed the residents to procure no dues certificate from the trust and submit the same to the Municipal Council, Batala.

Body found
Pathankot: The Sujanpur police recovered the dead body of a 14-year-old unidentified boy from the bushes near Islampur village 8 km from here today. SHO Rajinder Thakur said the body had multiple injury marks.He said the boy was hit by a vehicle in the dark on the Jalandhar-Jammu national highway.

After Tasting Success Over Promotion Of Lecturers
Elated union now wants to expose govt ‘wrongdoing’
Our Correspondent

Nawanshahr, March 14
After their long struggle led to a successful beginning of the process of promotions of lecturers as principals, the Government School Lecturers Union, Punjab, has now decided to expose the government over the promotions of vocation masters as principals.

The union thus has chalked out a programme to organise district-level ‘Sanmann Samaroh’, where it would honour the newly promoted principals from lecturer and headmaster cadres and mobilise support against the promotions of vocation masters.

Under the programme, a district-level function was organised at Anmol Palace, Banga on Sunday. Sukhdev Singh Rana, Union General Secretary, congratulated the newly appointed principals and gave a detailed account of the various obstacles faced during the long struggle for the promotions.

While accusing the state government of flouting norms as well as concealing facts from the court in granting promotions to vocation masters, Rana said now the union had been fighting legal as well as department-level battle for the reversion of the promotions wrongly granted to the vocation masters.

“There are many discrepancies in the promotions granted to the vocation masters and as per the view of the union, as many as 141 vocation masters have been granted promotions in excess to the allotted quota,” he added while exhorting the lecturers and principals to extend its wholehearted cooperation to the union in the fight against the injustice.

Newly promoted Deputy District Education Officers, Amrik Singh and Balihar Singh Bains, District Science Supervisor Kuldip Singh, office bearers of the district unit of School Lecturers Association - Amrik Singh, Rahul Chhiba, Harpreet Kaur Arora, Pritam Singh, Jasvir Singh, Pardeep Kaur, Tejinder Sharma, also spoke on the occasion.

Newly promoted Deputy District Education Officers - Amrik Singh, Balihar Singh Bains and principals - Manohar Lal (Pharala), Harkanwaljit Kaur (Rahon), Sunita Salhan (Kariha), Bimla Devi (Naura), Sudershan Kumari (Herian), Saminderjit Kaur (Daulatpur), Bhupinderjit Kaur (Banga), Ashok Sharma (Hiala), Harbhaj Ram (Ghumman), Gurmail Singh (Chak Bilga), Ranjit Kaur (Jadla), Ram Murti Bhatti (Mahil Gehilan), Charanjit Kaur (Musapur), Anil Sharda (Aur), Navin Sandesh (Balachaur), Dilbagh Singh (Sahlon), were honoured at the function.

Shifting Row
HMV denies migration certificate to football player
Kusum Arora/Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 14
For a national-level football player and former HMV student, seeking a migration certificate to another college has become a source of harassment. The incident has brought to the fore the fierce competition between colleges to reap rewards at the top level in sports. At the same time it has also opened up a Pandora’s Box on whether the well-being of a player is subservient to the glory of the institution.

Sharanpreet Kaur, a former student of BA-I of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya shifted to Guru Hargobind Khalsa College, Gurusar Sdhar under Panjab University, Chandigarh, during the previous academic session (2009-10).

She had been availing free education and sports facilities at the college.

Talking to The Tribune, she said it was one of her coaches who harassed her for no fault of hers. “After this incident, I decided to shift my college. However, I was not aware that it would land me in unwarranted trouble,” she said.

The football player, despite approaching the college authorities, returned empty handed as she was told to pay the amount of money spent on her by the college authorities.

Even repeated meetings of the girl with the lecturers of the Sports Department went futile. “The college authorities demanded an approximate sum of Rs 1 lakh and then seek migration. Whereas there is no such rule which prohibits a student from migrating to other university”, she said.

“It has been months since I have been running from pillar to post to get a migration certificate. Two other football players of college had also migrated to another university along with me. While they were given the migration certificate, I was denied for no fault of mine”, she quipped.

Inderjeet Singh, Registrar of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, said a student was free to migrate to any university. “The college authorities should not harass the student in the name of migration. Instead they should help the student on moral grounds. I would personally look in to the matter and help the student in every possible way,” he maintained.

Meanwhile, HMV Principal J. Kackeria said the student should have informed the Head of the Department of Sports regarding the alleged tussle.

“The college spends a massive amount of money for the benefit of the players. And in return we also seek that the student plays well for the institution. It will be virtually difficult for us if students keep on shifting to other universities like this,” she added.

Kackeria assured that she would personally look into the matter and talk to both the coaches regarding the actual cause. “I will take appropriate action later,” she added.

Update farmers, scientists told
Our Correspondent

Nawanshahr, March 14
“Agro scientists should strive hard to disseminate latest farm techniques and literature among farmers at the grassroots level as well as tap the talent of rural masses to ensure progress in agriculture, in its true spirit.”

This was stated by the Chairman, Punjab Mandi Board, Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, while addressing a gathering of farmers after inaugurating the Regional Kisan Mela organised by PAU, Ludhiana, at the Regional Research Station for Kandia area (RRSKA), Ballowal Saunkhari in the district here on Thursday.

He exhorted the agro-scientists to make farmers aware about the judicious use of the natural sources like water and soil to make agriculture a cost-effective and lucrative venture.

Dr. Manjit Singh Kang, Vice Chancellor, PAU, in his address, said the Kandi area comprised 10 per cent of the land area in the state and was plagued by problems like erratic rain fall and soil erosion.

Keeping in view the prevailing climatic conditions in the Kandi area, PAU scientists had been focusing on evolving specific farm technologies.

The climatic conditions in the Kandi area were conducive for growing of fruit crops like mango, guava, galgal, citrus, ber and amla etc. and a number of functional recommendations had been made for the farmers of kandi area, said the VC while exhorting the farmers to develop habit of reading farm literature published by the PAU and keeping in touch with the PAU’s kisan melas for the latest know-how in farm techniques.

BKU Leader Murder Case
Farmers flay clean chit to Lopoke
Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 14
Rejecting the clean chit handed over to former Akali MLA and district planning board chairman, Veer Singh Lopoke, by Amritsar rural police in connection with Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta) leader murder case, the union today decided to hold a two-day protest dharna in front of Inspector General of Police (border range) office on March 25.

Intensifying the agitation against police department, the BKU would declare their further plan of action on March 27.

Besides Lopoke, Sarabjit Singh Lodhigujar, Block Sammittee Chairman and Kulwinder Singh Sodhian, is the other two who were given the clean chit. The police have also got the warrants to nab suspended SHO Rashpal Singh and others who were absconding after the incident.

In a joint statement to the press, Sukhdev Singh Kokri Kalan, General Secretary BKU and Hardev Singh Sandhu, National president Kisan Mazdoor Sabha pointed out that the clean chit to them clearly shows the patronage of SAD government to the culprits.

They alleged that the four farmer leaders Sukhwinder Singh Sukha, Jarnail Singh, Heera Singh and Balkar Singh who were also injured the brutal attack were not involved in the investigations by the police. The organization had to move in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Ajnala against this attitude of police department.

It is pertinent to mention here the Amritsar rural police have arrested seven persons involved in the crime while raids were being conducted to nab the remaining accused.

Gurmit Singh Chauhan, SSP had stated that the police did not find any evidence against the Akali leader as suspected by the farmer leaders in the statement to the police.

One dead, 2 hurt in car-truck collision

Residents rue poor civic amenities

Batala, March 14
After the residents of colonies belonging to the Improvement Trust made a hue and cry over lack of civic amenities, Jagdish Shawney, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) Punjab has appealed the residents to procure no dues certificate from the trust and submit the same to the Municipal Council, Batala.

The improvement trust wants to transfer these colonies for maintenance to the municipal council. The residents had to raise their voice as the improvement trust failed to maintain the civic amenities like sanitation, roads, sewerage and water supply. The trust authorities said the MC was charging house tax from the properties of such colonies as such it was council’s duty to maintain these colonies. — OC

Body found

Pathankot: The Sujanpur police recovered the dead body of a 14-year-old unidentified boy from the bushes near Islampur village 8 km from here today. SHO Rajinder Thakur said the body had multiple injury marks.He said the boy was hit by a vehicle in the dark on the Jalandhar-Jammu national highway.