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Voter ID card correction campaign riddled with problems
Jalandhar, June 29
The ongoing voter ID card correction campaign is riddled with problems owing to which the residents and public representatives are feeling quite harassed. The most common problem is that division of work has not been done colony-wise owing to which residents of these colonies have to wander around in two to three booths to check as to which BLO do they fall under.

Five killed in mishaps
Amritsar, June 29
Rajwinder Kaur, her two sons Manpreet Singh and Prince were run over by Howrah Mail on Tuesday evening. The police handed over the bodies to the family after the postmortem on Wednesday.

Families against marriage; lovers commit suicide
Phagwara, June 29
A young couple committed suicide on Tuesday as their families were against their marriage. The boy reportedly committed suicide in Phagwara while the girl ended her life in Uttar Pradesh in wee hours on Tuesday, the police said.

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	Voter ID card correction campaign riddled with problems Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service Jalandhar, June 29 The ongoing voter ID card correction campaign is riddled with problems owing to which the residents and public representatives are feeling quite harassed. The most common problem is that division of work has not been done colony-wise owing to which residents of these colonies have to wander around in two to three booths to check as to which BLO do they fall under. The most affected are the residents of Bank Enclave and Garden Colony areas where the job has been segregated in three booths each, which fall two to three kms apart. “There are three booths for the residents of Garden Colony in SD Senior Secondary School, Sarvhitkari School and Rabindra Day Boarding. Each of these booths cover 30 to 50 houses of the colonies, forcing the residents to just move about in these earmarked places for correction in voter list or even fresh registration”, claimed Balraj Thakur, a Congress councillor adding that he had already given a written complaint on the matter. President of Model Town Market Association Manoj Arora too claimed that the Model Town area was split into three booths. “There is so much confusion that the residents keep on asking me as to which booth they need to go. And sometimes even we are not clear on this. The biggest problem in my area is that it is a posh colony and the residents do not move out to booths for the job. Instead, we have to push them out to get the work done. For this, the administration must ensure regular door-to-door visit”, he discussed. Joginder Singh Tony, another councillor, too laments, “The BLOs are not going door-to-door without which proper results could not be expected”. ADC Sarojini Gautam Sharda clarified, “The current campaign is not meant for door-to-door survey. That will come at a later stage.” Regarding colonies being split into three booths, she said that there could not be more than 1200 voters for one booth. “May be the number of residents in these colonies is more than this limit”, she explained.
	Five killed in mishaps Tribune Reporters Amritsar, June 29 Rajwinder Kaur, her two sons Manpreet Singh and Prince were run over by Howrah Mail on Tuesday evening. The police handed over the bodies to the family after the postmortem on Wednesday. They were run over by the train at Butari railway station near Khalchian last evening. They were returning after visiting a fair of Kale Peer. Rajwinder’ husband Jaspal Singh is in the Army and posted in Jammu and Kashmir. Batala: Vijay Kumar was killed and his wife and daughter sustained serious injuries in an accident on the Batala-Quadian road on Tuesday. Vijay was riding a motorcycle, which was hit by another motorcycle driven by Varun Kumar. The police arrested Varun under Sections 394 A, 279, 337, 338 and 427 of the IPC. Varun was later released on bail. Nakodar: Eleven-year-old child Amit was crushed to death by a speeding car near Ahllowal village on Wednesday. According to the eyewitnesses, driver of Indigo car fled away and they weren’t able to note the car number. A case under Sections 304 (A) and 279 of the IPC has been registered against an unidentified person.
	Families against marriage; lovers commit suicide Our Correspondent Phagwara, June 29 A young couple committed suicide on Tuesday as their families were against their marriage. The boy reportedly committed suicide in Phagwara while the girl ended her life in Uttar Pradesh in wee hours on Tuesday, the police said. Reports said, Parveen Kumar of Jalandhar, a student of B-Tech in Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, fell in love with a UP girl, Sweety, at the university. However, the families of both the boy and the girl did not allow them to marry. Disappointed, Parveen came from Jalandhar to Phagwara and stayed with his friend, Himanshu, in local Lambi gali. SHO City Amrik Singh Chahal said the boy and the girl remained in touch through their mobile phones till late Monday. The boy committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan in Phagwara, while the girl ended her life by consuming poison. The police has registered a case and handed over the boy’s body to the family after the postmortem.
	Insurance firm pays for cheating customer Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, June 29 Aviva Life Insurance Company was found guilty of investing Rs 4.38 lakh of its customer, Narinder Singh, in life insurance policies without his consent. The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum directed the company to refund the amount along with 6 per cent interest from the date of withdrawal within 30 days to Narinder Singh, the complainant. The company was also told to pay Rs 20,000 as compensation. NRI Narinder Singh, a resident of Maiditta village, SBS Nagar, in his complaint filed with the forum, had alleged that the insurance company ignored his instructions not to invest his money in a single premium policy where market risk was involved. The agent of the company had promised him to invest his money in fixed deposit and that the amount would be doubled in three years. The agent had got his signatures on some blank papers. But when the complainant came back to India in 2007, he received four policies (RSG 1457490, RPG 1459303 and RSG 1459428) and was shocked to know that the investment of the amount was not done in accordance with his directions. The company in its reply denied the allegations and said the complainant had signed the proposal form himself and given relevant details. The company also denied taking signatures of complainant on some blank forms. LN Sharma and VK Khanna, president and member of the forum, respectively, after hearing the arguments and perusal of the documentary evidence, found that the company was guilty of cheating the complainant.
	BSF, Pak Rangers hold meeting Amritsar, June 29 Officers of the Border Security Force and Pakistan Rangers held a day long monthly meeting at the Indian side of the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post (JCP) here today. A six-member Pakistan Rangers team, led by Deputy Sector Commander Nadeem Rehmat Ullah Khan, arrived here in the morning. Sources in the BSF said officials from both the countries deliberated over beginning of joint patrolling, prevention of smuggling of narcotics and ammunition, repair and painting of pillars depicting boundaries of both nations. They also discussed ways to immediately deport civilians who cross the International Border (IB) out of ignorance. They also gave their views over clearing the IB of wild growth of vegetation. In the evening, the visiting delegation returned to Pakistan. — TNS
	Relaxation in promotion eligibility of agriculture sub-inspectors Agri technocrats oppose govt’s proposed move Amaninder Pal Tribune News Service Jalandhar, June 29 Agriculture technocrats of the state are up in arms against the proposed move of the Punjab Government for relaxing the criteria of minimum professional experience required to promote agriculture sub-inspectors (ASIs) to agriculture development officers (ADOs). The state Agriculture Department has reportedly mulled over to decrease the minimum experience limit required for the promotion from 20 to 10 years. The proposed move has invited criticism from technocrats, who put forth a rationale that how could a non-technical person be given a pure technical posts. It is pertinent to mention here that a 4-year BSc (Agriculture) degree was the minimum qualification, mandatory to become an ADO compared to the ASPs, who needed to pass matriculation and one-year certificate course. Against the proposed move, the technocrats of the Agriculture, Horticulture, Soil Conservation and Animal Husbandry Departments from across seven districts of Jalandhar division jointly organised protest here on Tuesday, under the banner of the Agriculture Technocrats Action Committee (AGTAC). Dr Avtar Singh Othee, general secretary, AGTAC, said the move had exposed the deep-rooted anti-agriculture stance of the decision makers. “Declining profitability and global recession has led to increasing suicide rate in the state. In such a scenario, technique intensive agriculture is the only alternative to make agriculture profitable,” said Othee. He questioned, “Would the non-technical staff, ASPs, with only 10-years of experience be able to introduce such high-end modern techniques in agriculture practices?” Even then, if the government is adamant to have its way, a separate cadre of ASPs should be created and their promotions should be made within that cadre, added Dr Othee.