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RPO-BJP leader tussle rages on
Health Dept cancels licences of 15 chemists for flouting norms
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Night of Plays to be dedicated to playwright Gursharan Singh
2 city NGOs honoured for blood donation efforts
Durga Puja festivities begin
LIC to provide scholarships worth Rs 19 lakh to 3,220 BPL students
Cardiologist bags first prize
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RPO-BJP leader tussle rages on
Jalandhar, October 2 The sabha claimed that people from higher castes could not tolerate a Dalit official in a position of authority. It is pertinent to mention here that the RPO, Perneet Singh, yesterday submitted a complaint to the Police Commissioner following this tussle. He had said Kishan Lal Sharma, the BJP (youth wing) president, not only obstructed him in doing out his official duty, but also threatened him of dire consequences. Taking cognisance of this humiliation, members of Valmiki Mazbhi Sabha, the family of RPO and his supporters staged a dharna at the busy BMC Chowk this evening. They demanded that Kishan Lal Sharma be arrested at the earliest and the Inquiry Officer (IO) and Assistant Commissioner of Police-I, R.K. Sharma, be suspended as he was trying to shield Kishan Lal as he belonged to the same community. “The investigation in this case should be handed over to some neutral officer who can do justice,” said Subhash Sondhi, a protester. Protesters raised slogans against the anti-dalit approach of the BJP high command and blocked vehicular traffic for more than one hour. The police was deployed at the site to avoid any untoward incident. Talking to The Tribune, Swarn Singh, former IAS officer and father of the RPO, said this was sheer humiliation. “My son is known for his integrity and down to earth approach. How can any so-called politician at the behest of the BJP misbehave with a senior officer,” he questioned. Protesters said the Valmiki Mazbhi Sabha along with various other scheduled caste welfare unions in the region would continue their agitation till Kishan Lal Sharma was arrested. Meanwhile, RPO Perneet Singh held a blood donation camp on the premises of the passport office on the occasion of birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The sabha claimed that people from higher castes cannot tolerate a Dalit official in a position of authority
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Health Dept cancels licences of 15 chemists for flouting norms
The State Drug Controller, Dr Ajay Singla, issued the orders in this regard on September 30. Acting under various provisions of the Drug and Cosmetics Act, chemists were taken to task as did they did not maintain records of sale documents and purchase of the stock. Moreover, some of these chemists were also found of selling habit-forming drugs without obtaining mandatory licence for the sale of particular drug and salt, said district drug inspector Naresh Suri. The firms that would be prosecuted in the court for not having licences for the sale and purchase of the medicines were City Medicine Centre, Adampur; Amardeep Singh, Bhai Deep Singh Nagar, Dhan Mohalla; Mohan Medicos, Ujaala Nagar, Basti Shekh; Harpreet Medicos, Garha Road Phillaur; Gupta Medicos, opposite civil Hospital, Shahkot. Cases under Sections 18 (a) and 18 (c) of the Drug and Cosmetics Act were registered against these firms. The violators were even given time to produce required documents, revealed Suri. Licence of Kailash Medical Hall located in Fattran village has been suspended for three months and an unaccounted stock of habit-forming drugs has been withdrawn. The department has also suspended the licence of Satyam Medicos, Sant Baba Maandev Bhawan, Model House, Jalandhar for four months, revealed Suri. Others who have been penalised include VV Medicos, Dilkusha Market, licence suspended for three month and items withdrawn; RP Medicare, Ladhewali Road, licence canceled for three months and items withdrawn; Jagdambey Medical Centre, Transport Chowk, Jalandhar, licence canceled for three months and items withdrawn; Sonu Medical Hall, Nandanpur Road, Maqsudan, licence suspended for three months; Guru Nanak Medical Centre, Main Road Adampur, licence canceled for two months and items withdrawn; BR Sons, Ghas Mandi, licence canceled for two months and items withdrawn; Delhi Medial Store, Dilkusha Market, licence canceled for two months and items withdrawn; Prince Medical Store, Lamba Bazar, Noormehl Road, licence canceled for two months and withdrawn, Surjit Medical Store, Banda Bahadur, Nagar, licence canceled for a month and item were withdrawn. Gagan Anand Medical Hall, Basti Bawa Khel, licence suspended for 21 days, Raj Medicos, Mandi Road, Noormehl, licence canceled for two weeks, Sandeep Medical Hall, Banda Bahadur Nagar, licence canceled for 15 days and New Sharma Medical Complex, Transport Nagar, licence cancelled for 10 days. Illegal activity
Some of these chemists were also found selling habit-forming drugs without obtaining the mandatory licence
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Eve teasing incident fuels residents’ anger
Jalandhar, October 2 The incident occurred at about 10 pm when certain youths, according to eyewitnesses, teased a woman traveling on an auto-rickshaw. When woman’s husband Sukhjinder Singh objected, youths dragged him out of the vehicle and thrashed him mercilessly on the road near the DAV College level crossing. Noticing all this, shopkeepers, customers and passersby assembled at the spot following which the assailants fled from the scene. The victim then informed his family members and friends in his village about the incident. After receiving the information, scores of villagers reached the spot and blocked the road. They also collected rubber tyres and wooden furniture from the nearby market and set it afire on the road. The mob also raised slogans against the police authorities demanding arrest of youths. Protesters also staged a dharna on the road thus disrupting vehicular traffic. SHO, Police Station Division No 1, Nirmal Singh, reached the spot and assured action against the youths. The police has registered a case on the complaint of Sukhwinder Singh. Though sources said certain suspects were rounded up, nobody was arrested as yet. |
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SC Commission may file case against Badal govt
Jalandhar, October 2 Verka said the Union Government had released Rs 2,300 crore for the welfare of Dalits in Punjab but the ruling SAD-BJP alliance misused Rs. 2,100 crore. Verka said he had already taken up this matter with the state’s Chief Secretary who informed him that the funds worth only Rs 200 crore were spent on various welfare schemes for the Dalits, whereas the remaining Rs 2,100 crore were diverted for other purposes. If the Badal government did not stop this practice, the Commission may think of filing a criminal case against it, he added. Verka came to Jalandhar to meet various Dalit organisations, to listen to their grievances and suggestions for the possible solution. Verka said he would start a nationwide campaign against the contractual system prevailing in the government departments from October 20 onwards. Majority of the affected persons belong to SC and ST communities under the existing contractual system, he said, adding that he would revisit Jalandhar on October 28 in connection with his campaign against contractual system. Verka said the commission would also review whether the Local Bodies across the country had implemented various welfare schemes for SCs in its true spirit. The review would be initiated from Municipal Corporation Jalandhar (MCJ) shortly, he added. To a query about the opposition of solid waste management programme by sweepers of Punjab, he said he had already sought information from the state government regarding how many sweepers would be affected with the implementation of this programme. The state government was also asked to inform about is rehabilitation plan for the affected sweepers, he added. |
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Life of courage
Jalandhar, October 2 Advocate Ashok Sharma was among those disabled persons honoured with a state award for his social service at a function held under the aegis of Social Security and Women and Child department in Mansa on Saturday. Cabinet minister Luxmi Kanta Chawla gave away a certificate of appreciation and memento for his social services. Despite suffering from post-polio paralysis in both his lower limbs, Ashok Sharma is not only self-dependent, but also helps other disabled. He has been practising in the district court in Jalandhar for over a decade. Recalling his boyhood, Ashok says he was a very active child till the age of 11 months but thereafter he had a severe polio attack and both his legs were affected. His poor parents left no stone unturned to get him treated, but he became permanently disabled. Choosing advocacy as a profession, after passing LLB with 71 per cent marks, he has now been independently practising for over a decade and earns Rs 20,000 per month on an average. A resident of the Rasta Mohalla locality, he got married to Seema Sharma in 2002. They now have two sons Daksh (9) and Hiten (6). Now Ashok not only looks after his wife, two sons and mother Susheela but also helps the needy members of the society, under the aegis of the NGO Helpline, founded by him in 1997. Seema Sharma feels proud of being his wife. Disability is not a curse for him, she adds. Not only that, he also set up Viklang Marriage Bureau (VMB) for facilitating handicapped persons in finding suitable life partners in 2009. Though a girl without any disability came forward to marry him in 2002, he had faced rejections many a time, sometimes even by disabled girls. Advocate Ashok Sharma says he had set up the VMB where the data of disabled persons was collected. Information of those normal persons was also gathered who voluntarily expressed the willingness to marry disabled people. The motto of the VMB will be “Your best match at no cost.” Also a former senior vice president of the District Bar Association (DBA), advocate Ashok Sharma says interested persons may contact at their head office 289/6A, Central Town in Jalandhar or might also e-mail their information at
shoksharma1331@yahoo.in. For a cause
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Night of Plays to be dedicated to playwright Gursharan Singh
He was the senior trustee of the committee, which is known as a platform for various leftist movements in the city. A decision in this regard was taken during a meeting of the committee members at the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall in the city. The four day long Ghadari Mela would begin from October 29 and conclude on November 1. On this occasion rich tributes were paid to thespian Gursharan Singh by the vice president of the committee, Naunihal Singh along with its various members. Convener of the cultural wing of the committee, Amolak Singh said that Gursharan Singh was a pillar of the theatre world and he had left a void, which would be hard to fill. “He had a major role to play in the launching of the annual ‘Mela Ghadari Babeya Da’ at the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall (DBYH) in the city. Such was his love for the social movements that he attended and directed many plays on several path-breaking subjects in all the nineteen annual ghadar fairs till date”, said Amolak. Gurmeet Singh coordinator of Ghadar Shatabdi committee of DBYH said that these days all the committee members were busy planning the 100th year celebrations of Ghadar Party scheduled for 2013. “We were planning major theatre fests with Gursharan Bhaji for the 100 year celebrations. He was eagerly looking forward to direct some of his legendary people oriented plays for the audience”, he added. The theatre lovers and his followers vividly recalled the subjects of his plays held at the DBYH. From the dark period of emergency to Operation Blue Star, social themes, operation Green Hunt and the present corrupt governments, he was a man who knew how to give voice to the common man. The members from the DBYH highlighted that he directed as many as 170 pro-people plays till date. He was phenomenal in keeping theatre alive even during the emergency period as social activities were banned in the country. “During those days he directed a plays like ‘Kevat Kode tute taal’ which means ‘How to break the thick wall of lies’, another famous play was ‘Parakh’ which spoke about the societal pressures, ‘Tu khud khusi karenga, asi shaheed hovange’ was another witty play on the naxalite movement”, Amolak added. Ghadari Mela
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2 city NGOs honoured for blood donation efforts
Organised by the Punjab State AIDS Control Society on the occasion of National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, the event saw city-based NGOs PAHAL and Citizen Welfare and Protection Council (CWPC) being honoured. While PAHAL has organised about 400 camps since its establishment in 1996, CWPC has organised as many as 57 camps since its inception in 2000. As many as seven donors of Pahal were honoured. While Naresh Beri and Karanti Kumar Shangari were honoured in the forty-plus category, for 100 and 90 donating blood 100 and 90 times, respectively. President of PAHAL Prof Lakhbir Singh said the NGO was honoured for the mobilisation of more than 930 units of blood in the recent year. He said the number included only the units donated during the voluntary blood donation camps by blood bank run by the civil hospital. The overall number of units mobilised by PAHAL during the last 16 years were 38,000, he said. Talking about the state of blood donation, he said, “The Rs 25 amount for refreshment (provided by government blood banks) is too small for voluntary blood donors, at least Rs 100 is needed per unit. He appealed to Punjabis to come forward to join Voluntary blood donation campaign to improve it from 4 per cent to at least 1 per cent of Punjab’s population to ensure 100 per cent voluntary blood to recipients. He also discouraged professional donors.” Speaking about the state of voluntary blood donation in the city, CWPC president Prof Anoop Watts said, “Presently, voluntary blood donation in the city is in dire need to be strengthened. While government’s target for voluntary blood donation is 100 per cent, only 50 per cent of it has been achieved so far. Myths about blood donation abound. People think blood banks are full and there is no need for more blood to be donated. They also still think that blood donation causes weaknesses and ailments.” PAHAL is celebrating the National Voluntary Blood Donation Week. Awareness talks, rallies, voluntary blood donation camps and other activities would be held in colleges and schools. On Saturday, a blood donation camp in a joint effort by NGO Bowri Memorial Education Trust and the Innocent Hearts Group of Institutes, was organised at the Innocent Hearts Fields, Loharan, in which 66 young boys and girls donated blood. |
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Durga Puja festivities begin
Jalandhar, October 2 While on the occasion of Shashti today, the idol of Maa Du’gga (as she is fondly referred to, by doting Bengali masses), would be set up with a puja accompanying it, the real action will begin from Monday. Shashti is followed by Saptami (on Monday), Ashtami, Navami and finally Bijoya Dashami - the day when the idol is immersed in a river. Speaking on the occasion, Mamta Ganguly, a member of the Jalandhar Kali Bari Association, says, “We are all set for the pujo today. For the coming three days, there will be the ceremony of Anjali in the morning (flowers hurled on idols along with mantras that adults and children chant after a purohit) and prasad would be distributed among all after the pujo. There would be a meal of khichudi, pulao, five kinds of fried vegetables (called bhaja in Bengali) and a delicious Bengali chutney.” Speaking about the festival, Rituparna Datt Roy says, “The pujos and festivities on the three days are accompanied by competitions through the day and cultural programmes in the evening. The competitions include cultural contests like playing of shankhs etc. The charming custom of the beating of dhaks along with dhunichi (a custom of burning incense, which also has coconut fibres and sulphur as ingredients) is also an essential part of the celebrations, because it sets the atmosphere for the pujo. There’s a lot of sound and beats, typical characteristics that accompany the Durga Puja. Dhunichi also signifies the cleansing of the environment.” A shondi pujo (midnight worship) on the night of Ashtami is also an important element of the pujo. The bedecked Durga idols are immersed on Bijoy
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LIC to provide scholarships worth Rs 19 lakh to 3,220 BPL students
Jalandhar, October 2 The Senior Divisional Manager of LIC (Jalandhar division), Gurmel Singh, said, “Rs 600 will be given to each of the 3220 students of the city and surrounding areas studying from Class VIII to XI as half-yearly scholarship.” The scholarship will be provided under “Shikhsha Sehyog Yojana” to the children of those BPL families, whose head had got him or herself insured under “Janashree Beema Yojana (JBY)”. According to the information, the insured person has to pay just Rs 100 per annum and Rs 100 would be paid by an NGO. Apart from giving scholarship to students of the insured BPL families under JBY, Rs 30,000 is paid to the family on natural death of the insured person. A sum of Rs 75,000 is paid on death or total permanent disability due to accident and Rs 37,500 is paid on partial disability. As many 38,500 heads of BPL families have insured themselves under JBY. Of them, 3,220 BPL families have their children studying in Class VIII to XI, said PRO SM Singh. Various functions will be held throughout October in various parts falling under Jalandhar district to distribute scholarship to the students belonging to those BPL families whose heads had got them insured under JBY. |
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Cardiologist bags first prize
The prize carries a decoration and cash award named after a great cardiologist Dr G Pandian of the US. The conference was attended by more than 1,000 delegates from all over the world. Dr. Nipun’s case study presentation was adjudged the best among all other participants, informed his father Dr Vijay
Mahajan. |
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