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Checking sale of adulterated food items
Rakhi celebrations: Emotions run high in Central Jail
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Addict youth kills grandma, at large
5 teachers booked for cheating edu dept
NITCON to help women develop entrepreneurial skills
Flood Fury
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Checking sale of adulterated food items
Bathinda, August 24 The checking will be done to implement the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, in a big way and to ensure only pure eatable items were sold in market. According to information available, the health authorities have drawn up the plan to initiate various steps to make pure and unadulterated sweets/other eatables available to the people during the festival season. One of the steps, which have been planned by the health authorities, is that a system will be evolved to gather advance information about the sources of spurious/synthetic milk, khoya and desi ghee. This would help in preventing the same from entering the markets. The authorities are also of the view that during festival season, spurious khoya and desi ghee are made available in various parts of the state by the suppliers by way of bringing the same in trains and buses from other states. Besides, the health authorities will also intensify food sampling campaign during the festival season. However, the main emphasis will remain on milk, khoya and desi ghee as these items are sold in the markets during the season on a grand scale. In yet another step, the authorities will conduct surprise raids on the premises of “halwais” (sweet makers) to ensure that the sweets are made as well as stored in hygienic condition. District health officer Dr Raghbir Singh Randhawa said here today that the Bathinda Civil Surgeon had recently met “halwais” and asked them to cooperate with the Health Department, especially during the festival season, in bringing the black sheep, if any, in their business into the notice of Health Department. He said during first seven months of this calendar year, as many as 237 samples of milk and milk products had been collected in Bathinda district. Out of which, 32 had failed the purity test. Legal proceedings were being initiated against their makers, Dr Randhawa added. |
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Rakhi celebrations: Emotions run high in Central Jail
Bathinda, August 24 “It is the saddest day of my life as my sister came to tie a thread of love on my wrist and I had nothing to offer her as a return gift. However, I have promised her that I would mend my ways and become as good a person as she can feel proud of being my sister," said Jasvir Singh, an undertrial. "I am unable to understand what went wrong with us as my brother and I cried a lot today. Earlier, whenever I tied the thread on the wrist of my brother, we used to have lots of fun but today, we were in tears," said a sobbing Baljeet Kaur, whose brother is a murder convict. "Though I keep on meeting him frequently but today I could not control tears when he hugged me," said the daughter of a middle-aged prisoner Darshan Singh, after tying a Rakhi to her father. "Though it is my ill fate that I am in jail, it is the strength of this holy thread that I never feel alone. Even in her absence, I feel that she stands by my side to keep me away from ill wills," said Buta Singh of Bhalaiana after his sister Jaspreet Kaur tied Rakhi to him. It was not only sisters who came to meet their brothers on the festival but there were about 15 men also who had come to celebrate the occasion with their sisters lodged there. Though the visitor-prisoner meet is a routine affair at the Central Jail, the expression of emotions by the visitors and the prisoners was quite different today. Giving due respect to the people's sentiments, the jail authorities today were quite liberal towards visitors, who had been coming in queue to celebrate Rakhi with their kin since morning. The number of visitors to the Central Jail today was much high than the normal days. |
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Ultra-modern PCR to answer distress calls quickly
Bathinda, August 24 The upgradation of the system includes mounting of Automatic Vehicle Tracking System (AVTS) gadgets, which are based on the Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies, on all police vehicles. In the first phase, total 69 vehicles comprising 45 motorcycles (including 25 of the PCR) and 24 jeeps belonging to different police stations and police posts of the district, have been equipped with the technology. The system will track the vehicles by displaying their geographic position on a digital city map installed at the Emergency Response Centre located in the Police Lines here. The system would also help in identifying the nearest PCR vehicle available to the place of requirement. Further, it will also display the shortest possible route. The system would also provide the status of vehicles assigned on a particular task like whether it is on its way to the assigned site or has it finished the task and is free to take up a new one. Further, the department concerned will launch a system to record all calls received at the control room number 100 at two places simultaneously — first, at Digital Voice Logging System for central recording of all calls and second, on the Local Area Network for individual recordings. The number 100 will have five parallel lines with a team of one receiver and one dispatcher available on each line. Giving details, Bathinda SSP Sukhchain Singh Gill said, “The preparations have reached the final stage. Functioning of some softwares has already been started on trial basis. We hope the system will be inaugurated in the first week of September.” The SSP added, “Some new vehicles are also being added to our fleet. Observing the requirement, we have planned to allot one more jeep to each police station. And all these vehicles too will be equipped with the AVTS technology.” It may be mentioned that six major cities of the state — Jalandhar, Amritsar, Bathinda, Patiala, Ludhiana and Mohali — are selected under the proposed PCR upgrading project. To keep a tab over activities in these districts, the digital maps and the location of all police vehicles will also be made available on a central screen at the headquarters of the Punjab Police in Chandigarh. |
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Addict youth kills grandma, at large
Bathinda, August 24 According to information available, Gurpreet Singh, the accused youth, was a child when his parents died in a road accident. Since then, he and his sister were living with their grandmother Surjeet Kaur. About a couple of years ago, Gurpreet allegedly got hooked to drugs and developed an illicit relation with a woman, who was a mother of two. Repeated attempts of his sister and grandmother to convince him to mend his ways fell on deaf ears. Sometime back, his sister got married and left her grandmother’s house. Irked over Gurpreet’s immoral character, Surjeet Kaur sent him out of her house. Alone, Surjeet used to visit her daughter Naseeb Kaur, who was married and lived nearby. Late last night, Gurpreet went to his aunt’s place and feigning innocence, he urged his grandmother, who was there, to go home with him and give him food. She acceded to his request. However, Gurpreet, who had apparently planned to kill his grandmother, called his friend Gobind Singh there. Both strangulated the old woman and decamped with cash, ornaments and some documents related to Surjeet Kaur’s property. The police received the information when Naseeb Kaur visited her mother’s house this morning and found her body lying on a bed. Recording the statements of neighbours and Naseeb Kaur, the police booked Gurpreet Singh and his friend Gobind Singh under sections 302 and 34 of the IPC. However, the accused were at large till filing of the report this evening. |
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5 teachers booked for cheating edu dept
Bathinda, August 24
Recruitment was done. However, some time later, an objection was raised over recruitment process.
Acting upon it, the department concerned probed the matter and found that about 14 persons submitted fake documents regarding their teaching experience to get weightage in the selection. Taking a notice of the misdeed, the department concerned had terminated all of them through speaking orders in 2009. However, the termination orders were challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court by the teachers through two different writ petitions. Considering one of the writ petitions, the High Court directed the department concerned to conduct a deep investigation into the matter through a committee. However, during the investigation, the committee too found the accused guilty of getting jobs through fake certificates. Giving details, the DEO (Elementary), Bathinda, Malkit Kaur said the report of the committee was submitted to the High Court and after getting directions from there, she (as a representative of the department) lodged a complaint against the five teachers in question. Acting upon the complaint and the copy of the High Court’s direction, the Civil Lines police today booked the five accused, namely Rajinder Kaur, Sonia, Renu Bala, Avinash Rani and Ratinder Kaur under sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC. Civil Lines SHO Buta Singh said he was personally investigating the matter and after which, the arrest would be made. |
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NITCON to help women develop entrepreneurial skills
Bathinda, August 24 The programme is being organised at the district employment office here for the women with science and technology background. About 25 women will be selected for the programme. Chief manager of the NITCON, Bathinda, Vijay Arora said the programme would help the women start their own ventures instead of seeking jobs. Arora said opportunity guidance in various aspects, like computer, information technology, food processing, hosiery and textile, would also be provided to the participants of the programme. |
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Dist basketball tourney
Abohar, August 24 While giving details, he said the teams led by the GD boys emerged winners in the under-14, 17 and 19 categories. The winning teams also had players from Assumption Convent School and LRS DAV Senior Secondary School. The participating teams in the tournament had arrived from drom different places including Fazilka, Jalalabad and Zira sub-divisions. DSP Talwinderjit Singh gave away the prizes to the winners and exhorted them to keep it up. |
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Flood Fury
Ferozepur, August 24 Talking to the TNS on phone, Badal said he along with his colleagues and officials concerned had been monitoring the situation constantly and all the measures were being taken to save the life and property of people. “Though the water level has been rising in different rivers flowing in Punjab and the situation has started causing fear to the people living in the nearby villages and cities. An army of officials concerned has been pressed into service to take appropriate measures so that there must be minimal damage to the people in the affected areas,” claimed the Deputy Chief
Minister. Sukhbir pointed out that he had also appealed to the people to extend full cooperation to the officials concerned, who had been camping at the vulnerable spots so that the weak points of rivers could be strengthened to withstand fast and heavy flow of water. He added that he had also directed his party members to remain available to the people, who confronted any problem due to flood-like situation. |
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The district health authorities have drawn up a programme to check preparation and sale of adulterated, spurious and synthetic food items, especially khoya and desi ghee, during the ensuing festival season.
Atmosphere at the Central Jail, Bathinda, was emotive today with visitors meeting their siblings and celebrating Raksha
Bandhan. 
