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Villages to get potable water under WB project
Judge-advocates tussle ends, work resumes in Gurdaspur courts
23 km of phone lines damaged during construction work
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42 kids challaned
Insurance company told to pay up
Balmikis call for Punjab bandh
Crime Zone
Bids for sand mining fetch Rs 2.36 cr
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Villages to get potable water under WB project
Jalandhar, July 23 Dr Ashok Kumar, national trainer of the bank project, who was here to inaugurate a two-day workshop under the project, said the project stressed on the active participation of the villagers who would overlook the progress of the project and its dispensation, including quality, quantity of the water, besides the running of the machinery and upkeep of the infrastructure. The water supply and sanitation scheme, which was being undertaken under swap mode at many places recently, provides for 70 litres per person per family and each Scheduled Caste household would have to pay Rs 400 per family, while Rs 800 would be paid by general category households. In Jalandhar, 16 villages have already been covered under the scheme at a cost of Rs 6 crore, much to the satisfaction of the villagers. Work was under way in 24 other villages in the district and 40 more village panchayats had expressed their desire to be covered under the project, he added. Sarhali and Johal villages have been conferred the first and third prize, respectively, at the state level, while Dhani and Dhindsa villages have been awarded the first and second prizes, respectively, under the project execution standard. Similarly, in Kapurthala 19 villages are enjoying clean water supply while work was under way in nine villages. Bhulan Rai and Jagatpura villages have been given the first and third prize, respectively. He said all such projects after July 1 in the state would be constructed under the swap mode and all provisions related to the execution of the scheme would be explained to officials of the executing agency during the workshop. Efforts should be made to motivate the villagers to avail the benefits of the project, he added.
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Judge-advocates tussle ends, work resumes in Gurdaspur courts
Gurdaspur, July 23 For the past four days, the Gurdaspur District Bar Association, led by its president Pushkar Nanda, had been boycotting the court of Civil Judge (senior division) Rakesh Kumar. The lawyers had claimed that the judicial officer was “arrogant and generally misbehaves with lawyers, litigants and clerks.” The trouble started in February last year when Rakesh Kumar allegedly filed an FIR against Jasbir Singh, a clerk of advocate S.S. Bhagowalia. At that time, the lawyers were highly agitated over the attitude of the judge. The lawyers decided to stay away from the court of Rakesh Kumar, following which litigants were made to suffer. After days of imbroglio, things were finally settled when the then District and Sessions Judge M.S. Chowhan intervened. On July 16, advocates once again decided to boycott Rakesh Kumar’s court after the judge allegedly misbehaved with some advocates. They demanded an inquiry into the conduct of the judicial officer. The District Bar Association, in a letter to the Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court, demanded transfer of the judge and also withdrawal of his powers. With the issue threatening to snowball into a major controversy, the District and Sessions Judge K.K. Garg stepped in to douse the flames. After lengthy deliberations, the Bar finally decided to resume work in the court of Rakesh Kumar. Rakesh Kumar, when contacted, refused to comment on the issue, although he said he did not misbehave with any advocate, clerk or litigant.
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23 km of phone lines damaged during construction work
Phagwara, July 23 JTO Purshotam Lal said more than 15 complaints had been lodged against the National Highway Authorities of India staff in different police stations of the subdivision. He disclosed that a loss of Rs 1,74,05,225 was estimated to the cutting or stealing of underground telephone cables during digging for the construction of the six-laning work of the highway. Telecom officials said telephone cables worth Rs 86,84,687, Rs 67,75,815, and Rs 19,44,723 were found damaged on both sides of the highway from Jamalpur to the local Anshi Nagar locality. He said a demand notice on behalf of the Divisional Engineer (Telephones) was sent to the National Highway Authorities of India on June 10 to deposit the total losses of Rs 1.74 crore within 15 days, but nothing had been done so far. He said a report of the damage of telephone cables had been sent to the higher authorities of the BSNL to take up the matter at the higher level. However, JTO Purshotam Lal claimed that though telephone services were temporarily affected at some places, these could be restored timely.
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42 kids challaned
Jalandhar, July 23 ACP Daljinder Singh Dhillon said that underage driving was rampant in the city and was leading to a lot of accidents involving youngsters. He said the police had been organising awareness camps but had not been able to make much headway among the school authorities and the parents of such students. He said four teams had been deputed at APEEJAY School and Saint Joseph School to check the documents of the students who came to school on motorbikes and in cars. As many as 42 challans were issued to the offenders in the presence of their parents who were informed that any violation in future would invite strict action. Ironically, instead of discouraging the students from coming to the school on motorbikes in violation of the Motor Vehicles Rules, the school authorities were providing them additional parking space to such vehicles, he added. The drive would be intensified to cover other schools in the coming days, he said. |
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Insurance company told to pay up
Hoshiarpur, July 23 Bhaboria had filed a complaint against the local branch of company in which he stated that after taking a loan from a branch of Allahabad Bank, he purchased a cow and got it insured with the company for Rs 30,000. The cow died on January 8, 2009, and when he lodged a claim with the insurance company, it repudiated it on the ground that the description of the animal did not tally with the tag certificate. The consumer forum held that it has established on record from the documentary evidence that the animal bearing chip 0006D-12126 was insured with the company. The documents further prove that the animal having the description “cow, female, dehorned, TT black and white, five years, third lactation, HF chip 0006D-12126” had died. Since the tag number and description of the animal alleged to have died tallied with the cattle insured, it does not lie in the mouth of the insurance company to say that the description of the animal did not tally with the tag certificate and the claim was rightly rejected. — OC
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Balmikis call for Punjab bandh
Phagwara, July 23 Road traffic remained disrupted for about one hour due to the agitation. Led by action committee chairman Purshotam Chadha, The protesters announced a Punjab bandh on July 27 at a rally held in front of the SDM office here today. They submitted a memorandum to SDM to forward it to the Chief Minister. — OC
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Crime Zone
Kapurthala, July 23
Sonia developed extra marital affair with another migrant Rama Kant, who was also putting up in the same locality. When Chander Mandal objected to the illicit relationship, Sonia and Rama Kant hatched a plan to eliminate him. During investigations, it was found that Sonia and Rama Kant electrocuted Mandal and dumped his body adjacent to the house of Ajit Singh in Nangal Lubana village in September 2009.
— TNS Drugged tea-feeding robbers nabbed
Phillaur, July 23 The GRP staff rushed the unconscious labourers to the Phillaur Civil Hospital. According to reports, the labourers, identified as Dinkar, Kalu, Avtar and Rama, were going to their respective villages in Bihar when the robbers offered them tea. They fell unconscious immediately after taking the tea in the train. Some co-passengers saw them and got suspicious about the activities of the robbers. The GRP is investigating the matter and waiting for the labourers to regain consciousness. However, the train was detained for more than 15 minutes and could proceed for its destination only after the completion of the procedure by the GRP. — OC Powercom
SDE in Vigilance net
Jalandhar, July 23 Jalandhar VB SSP S.S. Grewal said Gurmeet Singh Minhas, posted at Adampur, had been demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 from Kuljit Singh for the installation of a new electricity meter for a long time. Acting on a complaint filed by Kuljit Singh against the SDE, a team of the bureau led by Hoshiarpur-based Superintendent of Police Balwant Singh laid a trap and caught the suspect while accepting the bribe money Rs 10,000 at his office this morning, the SSP said. Grewal claimed that even though the SDE was demanding Rs 30,000, the deal was settled at Rs 10,000. A case under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against him.
— TNS 3 arrested with liquor
Pathankot, July 23 Youth nabbed
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Bids for sand mining fetch Rs 2.36 cr
Jalandhar, July 23 Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti said 75 bidders took part in the bidding and the successful persons submitted Rs 1. 68 crore on the spot. The bids were Jalandhar (Rs 60.50 lakh), Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Rs 40. 50 lakh), Hoshiarpur (Rs 70 lakh) and Kapurthala (Rs 65 lakh). Officers from the districts concerned, besides the Mining Department, were present on the occasion.
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