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Rat Menace
PCMS Association condemns attack on Amritsar Central Jail doctor
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Expose on Gas Agency: No case registered yet
Another Hansa-3 aircraft for aviation club
Fancy numbers fetch Rs 7 lakh to DTO
Medical students rue government apathy
GND University runners-up in youth fest
Rural areas of state
People should be made aware of cochlear implant: Expert
From Tarn Taran |
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Rat Menace
Amritsar, February 1 The growing population of rats has been devastating for the sewerage lines leaving leakages and choking drainage flow, besides contaminating the food items and other essential commodities. In its crusade, the MC has also collaborated with the area councillors and the general public as well. During a senior officers’ meet held recently, the MC chalked out a programme to locate the most sensitive points of the city, which breed rats, and put aside funds of Rs 3 lakh to purchase special anti-rodent drugs. As many as 70 councillors have been involved in this mission. The MC teams would distribute and supervise door-to-door drug distribution campaign. MC commissioner D.P.S. Kharbanda said more funds would be arranged, if required, to deal with the menace. “It is a sort of mission for us now. We lay new sewerage pipes but the rats spoil our efforts in no time. At initial stage, I have directed my team to start the campaign from the Company Bagh, Skatri Bagh, Gol Bagh and Beri Gate because we have spotted rat gorges in abundance. Thereafter, it would be taken door to door through the feedback received from the respective area councillors,” he added. Meanwhile, the reports of rat menace have emerged from Lala Wali Gali, Katra Ahluwalia, Katra Sher Singh, Chhati Khui, Kutcha Kalyan Dass Bhatia, Dharek Gali, New Golden Avenue and even from posh areas like New Amritsar, Nehru Shopping Complex on the Lawrence Road. Chief Sanitary Inspector Harjeet Singh told that sensitive areas like Kanak Mandi, Fruit Mandi, Tunda Talah would be on the priority list. “Till date 200 kgs of drug costing about Rs 40,000 has been arranged,” he said.
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PCMS Association condemns attack on Amritsar Central Jail doctor
Amritsar, February 1 Dr Suman, who was facing a charge of negligence, which allegedly led to the death of a prisoner, was brutally beaten up by four jail inmates yesterday when he joined his duty. Dr R.S. Butter, former president of the PCMS Doctors’ Association, termed the incident unfortunate while adding that this was a second incident in within two weeks. A senior doctor was attacked in Tarn Taran recently. While demanding a stern action against the attackers, the doctors threatened that they would be forced to adopt a protest path. The entire responsibility lies with the health authorities if no action was taken against the accused. They urged Health Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla to personally intervene in the matter to bring the culprits to book and ensure that no such incident occurs in future. |
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Expose on Gas Agency: No case registered yet Amritsar, February 1 District Food and Supply Controller Anjuman Bhaskar, denying the allegation, said the two parties had developed personal rivalry and were bent upon to trap each other in cases. Suresh Kumar in his complaint to Director, District Food and Supply Department, said Bhaskar had recommended the Police Commissioner to register a case against the erring gas agency on August 3, 2010. He said, however, within a fortnight of the aforementioned recommendation, the DFSC shot another letter to the Police Commissioner that may no action be taken against the gas agency following its representation to the deputy commissioner. Earlier, the complainant alleged that the dealer of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Jagdev Gas Service, supplied LPG refills in his area. He claimed that the dealer forced customers to procure a gas pipe for Rs 190 and pay Rs 60 for service before releasing a refill. “I found that the same quality of pipe with ISI mark was available at Rs 60 in the open market,” he remarked. He alleged that the gas agency did not send any person to conduct service of the gas stove and maintained that it was a brazen loot of the gullible customers. He took upon himself the task of raising voice against the malpractices of the gas dealer. He forwarded the complaints to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Bathinda office of the BPCL and District Food and Supply Controller. Subsequently, Dr Bhaskar carried out an inquiry against the dealer and found the gas agency involved in dubious practices. Suresh claimed that thereafter the gas agency’s owner let loose a surreptitious “war” against him. He claimed that his wife, employed with Punjab State Corporation Limited, was transferred to Sangrur and a false case was also registered against him. When approached, Dr Bhaskar said earlier she wrote to Deputy Commissioner K.S. Pannu to take action against the agency as it had not returned the money to the people. “Presently the gas agency had returned the money to a number of its customers and announced others to contact them to get refund besides sacking two of its employees who had indulged in the malpractice”, she said. In addition, she informed that, rural customers had been taken out of this gas agency and clubbed with the newly opened one at Attari. When contacted, Balwinder Singh Rataul alleged that Suresh Kumar out of animosity was releasing letters against his agency to defame his agency. He said two of his employees had indulged in illegal practice and they were immediately thrown out of the job.
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Another Hansa-3 aircraft for aviation club
Amritsar, February 1 Pannu said besides Hansa-3 aircraft, the club is already having one Cessna 172 aircraft and one twin engine beach craft for training purposes. “It is because of the good performance of the club that the government has allotted another aircraft. A large number of students from North India have been availing the facilities of aircraft training at the club. Even the students from North-East states have been availing the training facilities here. |
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Fancy numbers fetch Rs 7 lakh to DTO
Amritsar, February 1 In the series, 0001 went to Karan Galhotra of Chandigarh, who paid Rs 1.8 lakh for the fancy number. Last year, 0001 under PB-02-BG series was auctioned at Rs 2.5 lakh. In 2009, Palwinder Singh had paid Rs 4 lakh for the number under BD series. People involved in transport business are of the view that these auctions must be held in the open to make it more transparent and to increase public involvement. Like previous years, No 0077 remained the next more popular number as it made the department richer by Rs 78,000. No 0007 fetched Rs 51,000 as against Rs 52,000 last year. No 0002, which was sold for Rs 1 lakh last year, was auctioned for just Rs 25,000. Similarly, 0003 was purchased for
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Medical students rue government apathy
Amritsar, February 1 “Out of the past seven months, doctors received stipend for only three months,” said an intern of the GMC here, while claiming that the conditions are no different in other government-run medical and dental colleges in the state. According to estimates, there were around 400 interns and 200 postgraduate students, who were getting Rs 4,500 as their monthly stipend. “The government has adopted ignorant attitude towards our demands. We eagerly wait for our monthly stipend but every time the authorities tell us that funds have not been received from the government,” said another intern. “Moreover, our monthly stipend is much lesser than that of a class IV employee working in the same institution and still we do not get this nominal amount on time,” said another doctor.“We are being deliberately ignored by the government,” alleged a postgraduate student. Meanwhile, Dr SS Shergill, Principal, GMC, said: “We will release stipend as soon as we receive funds from the government.” |
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A date with jail inmates
Amritsar, February 1 They found a woman from Pakistan requiring Rs 2 lakh to get out of the jail. “Students pledged to save from their pocket money to see the woman free,” said Father Roby. “We also came across an educated woman, who is ready to teach the children. She asked for some books, which we will do it after taking the permission of the authorities,” he said. Basant fest The students of Global Institutes, Amritsar, celebrated Basant cultural festival. The celebrations began on a musical note. Baljit Singh (ME), Lovepreet Singh (ME), Gurmeet Singh (MBA), Gagandeep Kaur (MCA) and Tejinder Kaur (ECE) stole the limelight with their melodious songs. Mimicry by Mandeep Singh (ECE) was simply hilarious. Saurav and Guriqbal‘s poems, with their sensitive theme, struck an emotional chord with the listeners. Solo dance by Sagar (ME) and rap by Yogesh (ME) exploded the stage with unmatched beat and mesmerizing movements of the dancers. Students from different streams enthusiastically took part in “Tug-of-War”, “Matka-Fod” and kite flying events. Lecture on AIDS Department of Life Science of BBK DAV College for Women organised a lecture by Dr Pushpa Devi, Head Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College, Amritsar. The topic for the lecture was ‘HIV AIDS’. Dr Pushpa Devi spoke extensively about symptoms and treatment. HIV I virus is more prevalent in India as compared to HIV II which is usually found in China. HIV Positive level in Amritsar has risen to 6.88 per cent. Science Fair With an aim to popularise basic sciences and increasing scientific knowledge, a National Science Fair named as “Eureka” was organised at DAV College, Amritsar. Dr PK Patti, Chairman, Department of Biotechnology, GND University, was the chief guest on the occasion. Dr Patti highlighted the need for spreading scientific knowledge among the students and laid special stress on current environment and health related problems. Earlier during the fest, students from various schools and colleges of the city participated in various events like model presentation, poster presentation and online quiz. |
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GND University runners-up in youth fest
Amritsar, February 1 D Puranddeshwari, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, awarded this trophy to Dr Jagjit Kaur, Director, Youth Welfare of the Guru Nanak Dev University. Damodar Raj Narsimha, Minister for Higher Education of Andhra Pradesh, and Beena Shah, general secretary, Association of Indian University, were also present. Dr Jagjit Kaur said about 900 student-artistes from 62 universities participated in this festival. She said 14 teams from Guru Nanak Dev University participated in categories of music, theatre, fine arts and literary. Meanwhile, the university also annexed literary trophy along with overall runners-up trophy. Vice-Chancellor Ajaib Singh Brar and Registrar Dr Inderjit Singh congratulated Dr Jagjit Kaur and students for the achievement. |
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Rural areas of state
Amritsar, February 1 The Punjab chapter of this all-India level provisional report, known as ASER (annual status of education report), prepared by the NGO Pratham, was released officially by the Punjab Education Minister, Sewa Singh Sekhwan, here on Sunday. The report has endorsed that in government schools, in rural areas of Punjab, the learning level of the student especially in basic maths has been observed to be among the highest in the country, very close to Kerala and Himachal Pradesh. The basis of the report, prepared for the period between 2008 and 2010, was that rural schoolchildren in different states, studying in Class V and up to Class VIII, were asked to do a series of simple mathematical calculations pertaining to subtraction, division and calculating areas etc. The all-India figure for the percentage of children able to do division sums correctly in Class V was 53.4 per cent whereas in Punjab this figure stood at 70.8 per cent, the report found. The Education Minister said that though improvements had been over the past three years in children’s basic learning abilities, the quality of education needed to be improved to match global standards. “We have designed the education programme in such a way that the RTE (Right to Education) Act should be fully implemented in Punjab till 2013.”
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People should be made aware of cochlear implant: Expert
Amritsar, February 1 The surgery helps a patient acquire hearing ability and subsequently with the help of speech therapy, they can speak also. “But it is possible only when hearing disability gets detected as early as possible after the birth of the child,” he said. “Due to lack of awareness and high cost of implant, only two per cent patients received cochlear implant. Lack of surgeons also contributes to a lesser number of operations in a year,” said Dr Gupta. According to some estimates about 7500 implants have been done till now even as this technique arrived in the country about 16 years ago. Meanwhile, at the camp 125 patients from Amritsar, Batala and other neighbouring parts of the city were checked during the camp. Four patients were detected with the need of the cochlear implant. As far as the high cost factor is concerned, Dr Gupta said NGOs should come forward for the help of such children whose families could not afford the cost of the implant. “The government should also formulate some policy for cochlear implantation for the children suffering from deafness and dumbness,” he said.
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From Tarn Taran
Tarn Taran, February 1 A large number of devotees in a meeting here elected Padda as president and authorised him to elect the body for the gurdwara. Padda announced to donate Rs five lakh to purchase land for the gurdwara. Sports meet Tarn Taran, February 1 The SSP gave away the prizes to the winners. Speaking at the event, he stressed the importance of sports. ‘Abolish post of DGSE’ Tarn Taran, February 1 Dhillon, addressing a meeting of the district unit of the organisation here today, said the present DGSE had created a panic among the teachers and hadn’t done anything positive for the department. He said the DGSE had formed his own “army” of thousands of teachers who don’t teach. |
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Amritsar, February 1
