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Phagwara NC puts up
with encroachers
Allocation of Funds
Factory worker to freedom movement research fellow
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LPU expects 200 foreign students this year
Khalsa College principal presents paper in USA
Young World
Art work with a difference
Pamphlet
Propaganda
Woman robbed of ornaments, cash
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Phagwara NC puts up
with encroachers
Phagwara, June 29 The police is itself illegally occupying the council’s Guest House for the past 16 years despite being asked to move out. The office of the DSP, presently the SP office, is functioning from the Guest House, but given the power that the police wields, no authority in the council has been able to get the premises vacated. The Tribune has learnt that the Nagar Council had passed resolutions and submitted a memorandum to the Punjab DGP and the Principal Secretary, Local Bodies, more three years back to initiate the necessary steps to get the Guest House vacated. Although the new police complex, including offices and residences, is being constructed near Gurdwara Sukhchain Sahib, the police does not seem in a mood to vacate the Guest House of the Nagar Council, which always takes the active assistance of the police to remove encroachments. Another significant partial occupation which the Nagar Council has not been able to do anything about is occupation of a large portion of the council premises by City Club for the past 43 years - its lease expired in 1976. The club was paying a token rent of Re 1 to the council till 10 years ago when then NC president Kharaiti Lal Gaba hiked it to Rs 100 per month, whereas the present market rate of the area is more than Rs 1 lakh per month. Meanwhile, a democratic process was initiated by SDM Amarjit Paul to conduct elections of the City Club last year and notices were issued to about 300 defaulters of the club. Some of them approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court which has fixed July 14 the next of hearing. The SDM said more than Rs 9 lakh was still pending to be deposited by the defaulters.
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Cong councillors allege bias
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 29 The councillors of the Opposition claim that certain SAD and BJP leaders who showed their clout managed to get the largest pie from the cake. There is a buzz that most of the funds were being diverted towards ward number 45, represented by the Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Singh Bhatia. The Congress councillors are saying that Bhatia is being allowed to use funds even more than the Mayor himself. “No doubt the area was ridden with problems of water logging, bad roads and poor connectivity, but there are other wards in the city which are in worse conditions,” they have been crying. Aruna Arora, a councillor from the Opposition, says she had planned to ask for a wardwise allocation and utilisation of funds. She says she suspects an inequitable distribution of funds. The councillors said the sanction of funds had become a very prolonged process. Balraj Thakur, also a Congress councillor, said even the grants sanctioned by MPs and MLAs were being approved through Finance and Audit Committee. “The process gets delayed so much that it does not get utilised before one and a half years,” he said. Leader of Opposition in the House Rajinder Beri alleged that the councillors of the Congress were being belittled in their own ward. “Whenever there is any inauguration in any ward, leaders of the ruling party try to steal the show. The councillor is informed and invited for the event just minutes before the scheduled time. If he makes it, its fine or else they enjoy taking the whole credit,” he complained. He alleged, “Our works are always kept pending. Our files are even kept aside in the finance committee meeting. The furniture we had asked for in the councillors’ room two months back is yet to come.” MC Commissioner Viney Bublani refuted any allegations, “If ever any proposals of Congress councillors have been dropped, it is only on technical grounds. In the last meeting, all proposals were accepted, be these of the wards of ruling party or those of the opposition. I have always tried to draw a complete parallel.” On the furniture issue, he said the tenders had been passed. “The only nitty-gritty is about the design part. We may get it any time now,” he said.
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Factory worker to freedom movement research fellow
Jalandhar, June 29 Chiranji Lal Kangniwala, a man in the sixth decade of his life, has silently been researching untold and unwritten facts of the Indian freedom struggle for the past two decades. He was born in a lower middle-class family at Kanganiwal village, near here. Kangniwala, who was a small-time factory worker before becoming a research fellow and then eventually a writer, has done extensive research on the Ghadarites of the Doaba region. Unearthing new facts about the lives of Ghadarites and the Ghadar movement, he has written three books on the lives of prominent Ghadar Party members of the region. Besides, he has also compiled a book that throws light on the contribution of the Ramgarhia community of Punjab in the freedom movement. Talking about his roots, he said, “After doing jobs in various factories in the city, I joined a factory which was owned by a person who hailed from the Ramgarhia community. He always wanted to launch a magazine addressing the issues and history of the community and offered me a job to contribute to it. We started a magazine in 1993. “In 1996, he expressed a desire to publish a book on the role of Ramgarhias in the freedom struggle. That was the turning point in my life. I visited thousands of villages to know the tales regarding such freedom fighters. It was only after researching the subject for four years that we compiled life histories of hundreds of Ramgharia freedom fighters. We published the book in 2000, but only after the death of the factory owner whose dream it was,” added Chiranji. Thereafter, he wrote a book on another Ghadar Party member Dr Udham Singh Kasel, who established the Centre for Indian Freedom Fighters in Kabul and developed contacts with the major world powers of the time. He was later imprisoned in the Andaman jail. Lal’s third book was based on the life of Bhagwan Singh Dosanjh, who was an active member of the Komagata Maru Defence Committee in Canada and later participated in Jaitu Ka Morcha and organised a Shaheedi Jatha during the morcha. Lal is currently working on his fourth book which will talk about the unwritten facts of the life of Master Mota Singh, who was a leader of the Babbar Akali Movement of the 1920s. |
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LPU expects 200 foreign students this year
Jalandhar, June 29 In a press note, LPU officials claimed that they expected to have at least 200 foreign students to be admitted in different programmes this year.
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Khalsa College principal presents paper in USA
Jalandhar, June 29 The conference “Rising to 2020 challenges” was held in Harrisburg, the capital of Philadelphia state. Governor Edward G Reynold presided over the event and 352 participants from all over the world presented their papers. Dr Parminder Kaur shared her views on the topic “Constructivism in higher education”. Dr Parminder Kaur, through her paper, shared the rich cultural heritage of India and its contribution in inculcating value-based education. — TNS |
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KMV girls shine on merit positions
Kusum Arora Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 29 Gurleen stood first in BA-I (English honours) and secured 452 marks out of 600; Rinkle another student from BA-III (English honours) completed her hat-trick this academic year and bagged first position in the varsity. Several other girls from the college also bagged top merit positions in the university. Talking to The Tribune, Gurleen said despite being a science student till class XII she opted for English Honours instead of a career in science. “I enjoy reading English literature, short stories, plays and more importantly I was always attracted towards phonetics,” she added. The topper is also fond of writing poetry and feels that taking up this three-year degree course in English honours would help her bettering her skills. “Apart from the English honours, I’m also pursuing a course in French and an add-on course in computers,” she said. While Rinkle from BA-III (English honours) secured 1447 marks out of 2,000. She secured first position for three consecutive years in the university. “I have already filled my forms for an MA in Social Sciences from GND varsity. I am looking forward to the counseling session in the first week of July,” she said. The topper has further aimed to become an IAS officer. “A lecturer told me about the good subject combinations after completing social sciences. I would be soon joining some coaching classes for IAS soon,” she added. Another student, Navdeep of BA-I (English Honours) stood third in the varsity and secured 389 marks out of 600. While Isha and Gurjinder from B.A-III (English Honours) secured third and fourth position in the university by securing 1362 and 1361 marks out of 2000, respectively.
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The honest theatre
Jalandhar, June 29 As “Baccha Hai Bhagwaan”, a tale of exploitation meted out to children, told by children, ended, Neeraj Kaushik came on to the stage and announced the proceedings would resume with “Navrang” (written by him) in a few minutes. The place was fit to accommodate nothing better than a seminar or a lecture, you could see. The light and sound were barely serving the purpose. The entrance to the auditorium doubled as wings, some rangkarmis placed a chair and a table on the stage. Kaushik sat down with his feet on the table, hands on face in Manoj Kumar style. A group of actors came on to the stage, circled Kaushik, started laughing and then stopped, standing with their faces towards the unpainted wall of the stage. An actor (Ashok) standing right at Kaushik’s back resumed laughing and an already disturbed Kaushik told him to “band karo bakwaas”. As it turned out, Kaushik played Aman Kumar, a once glorious playwright who refused to write anymore and Ashok played Patra - a character. Aman, an escapist, was running away from writing, from the characters who had made him the man he was and Patra had come to seek revenge on him for abandoning them. On the surface, the play was just a conflict between an elusive playwright and his abandoned patra(s) who wanted to live. But the conversations got eerie with every passing second as Patra laid bare Aman’s guilt, hypocrisy and escapism. Aman’s character was an interplay of Aman-the-escapist and Aman-the-conscientous, an ordinary man. Aman-the-escapist drove out his characters because they were more talented than him, didn’t respect him enough. Aman-the-conscientous drove them out because he couldn’t let his plays become political mouthpieces or see his art degenerate. So in the end, Aman chose to part with all his “rangs”, his characters, because “ek dishaheen natakkaar se natakkaar na hona accha hai.” The revengeful Patra also parted, leaving Aman all alone to grapple with his guilt and to scream at his family (Mansvini played his daughter) when he couldn’t quite get back at himself. You could say, through Aman, the play presented the dilemma of the city’s theatre scene. Ashok and Kaushik put up intense, absorbed performances, Kaushik’s scared playwright eyes talked too well.
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Art work with a difference
Jalandhar, June 29 A dotted tree flanked by hand imprints, three circles with kids riding in them, an orange music concert with a lead performer with exploding hair and a sea of black, drowning devoid-of-music people in front of it, was what followed. Images by kids, the eldest of them a teenager, fit to give competition to an art gallery. This art workshop with a different titled “Peace was colours”, was organised at Virsa Vihar here from June 16 to 27 by artist Amit of Easel Arts. Children of the junior and senior categories were given lessons in painting, cartooning, landscaping, calligraphy and mobile animation etc. at the workshop. Talking to The Tribune, children agreed this was better than the stuff at school. Dhriti (Class VI) said she liked mask making and mobile animation the most, while Rishika (Class II) said she loved painting and drawing. “It’s better than school here as we are paid individual attention,” quipped Gaurav (Class V). Amit said, “Parents expect too much from kids. Being less result oriented can also bring great results. That’s what I want to prove.” The workshop ended with an exhibition of the art works made by kids on June 27. |
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DSWO allures youth to join Army
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 29 This is what will strike your mind once you go through a recently released pamphlets in English by the District Sainik Welfare Office (DSWO) which states. “Join Army as officer and retire as lakhpati”. The message is aimed at wooing youngsters towards National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, after class XII. Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti has also joined hands with the DSWO and has plans to distribute similar pamphlets in Punjabi too. “It is our earnest desire that the maximum number of youth from Punjab should join the NDA, Khadakwasla. We are in the process of printing the pamphlets,” he said. The pamphlet highlights how the job as an army officer can actually be a lifetime opportunity. From getting a minimum pension of Rs 33,000 per month, an equal job status to that of an IAS officer, minimum qualification of class XII, no reservation and no quota to the starting salary of Rs 27,000 it makes one think for a while. DSWO Deputy Director Lieut-Col Manmohan Singh said through the pamphlets the prospective students would get a fair amount of idea as to why should they join the armed forces. Even the incentive scheme of the Punjab Government of providing Rs 1 lakh per year during training at the NDA, Khadakwasla, is also highlighted. The DSWO has been conducting free of cost rural nodal school scheme where prospective students from government schools after class XII are enrolled for pre-coaching classes.
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Woman robbed of ornaments, cash
Kapurthala: Two masked, motorcycle-borne robbers robbed a woman of gold ornaments amounting to Rs 3 lakh, a mobile phone and Rs 6,000 at Jabowal village, near Begowal, today.
Victim Daljit Kaur of Begowal, in her complaint to the police, stated that she was going to Sarupwal village along with her daughter to meet her relatives on a Moped when the robbers waylaid her on the Jabowal-Sarupwal road and robbed her belongings threatening her with sharp-edged weapons. When she tried to cry for help, they threatened to kill her daughter and fled away towards Begowal. A case has been registered. — TNS Sewing machines stolen from school
Phagwara: Miscreants struck at Government School in nearby Jagatpur Jattan village on Sunday night and took away valuables, including dozens of sewing machines. The police has registered a case. — OC 2 cops arrested
Phillaur: Residents of Saifabad village nabbed two assailants while the third escaped in a car, who had attacked and wounded Harbans Lal yesterday. Harbans Lal was admitted to the Phillaur Civil Hospital. The nabbed assailants were handed over to the police.It was learnt that the assailants were police employees posted in Jalandhar and had come in plain clothes. Personal enmity was said to be the cause of attack. — OC |
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