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CM’s Diwali Gift: Master cadre finally gets status and scale
Honour sought for man who nabbed a snatcher
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3rd robbery in police quarters in 2 months
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CM’s Diwali Gift: Master cadre finally gets status and scale
Jalandhar, October 16 Rallying in favour of their demands for a long time, overjoyed members of the Master Cadre Union, Punjab, declared that the CM had accepted their prime demand of better status and pay scales, at a meeting that went late into the evening at the CM’s residence in Chandigarh on Saturday. Addressing the media at a press meet here today, union president Gurpreet Singh Riar said, “Acknowledging our prime demand regarding scale and status, the CM issued instructions to release a notification regarding the implementation of pay band 10,300 - 34,800 + 5,000 (grade pay) at the meeting yesterday.” Thanking Punjab Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan for his efforts, Riar also said, “Assurances were also provided for the 3,746 promotions for the post of lecturers by 31 October and of 350 promotions for headmasters by the first week of November.” While the cadre had been demanding better pay scales irked by the anomalies in pay scales - vocational teachers and computer teachers (with matric + diploma qualifications) were getting better grades than masters (with qualification of graduation + B.Ed.), the move has brought cheer to this cadre of teachers in the state who had been rallying for these very demands of theirs since December 2010, for pay anomalies which had begun back in 1996. Their grade pay of Rs 5,000 will be implemented from January 1, 2012.
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Honour sought for man who nabbed a snatcher
Jalandhar, October 16 The incident occurred last night near Sodal road, when the couple, Harish, a photographer, and his wife, were on their way to wards Doaba Chowk from Sodal Road on a motorcycle. As the couple reached near Doaba Chowk, motorcycle-borne miscreants, who were following them snatched the purse of Harish’s wife riding pillion with him and fled from the spot. After chasing the accused for a few minutes, Harish finally rammed his motorcycle into their bike and both the accused fell down. Harish was able to catch one of the miscreants while the other one fled. Area residents also beat up the accused before handing him over to the Division No 8 police. A case under Section 379 B of the IPC has been registered against the accused, identified as Sandeep Kuma alias Sunny of Preet Nagar locality here. |
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3rd robbery in police quarters in 2 months
Gurdaspur, October 16 What is disturbing the top brass is that this is the third robbery in the colony within the last two months. Last night, a group of robbers managed to make their way in to the third-floor flat of Rachpal Singh through a ventilator. At that time, the cop and his family were away to their native land. When the family returned to their flat in the early morning, today, they found that the robbers have robbed Rs 40,000 and some gold ornaments from them. Rachpal called the Rachpal said Harjit Saini was in an inebriated condition when he reached his residence-a claim which was vehemently denied by the Additional SHO. Rachpal then called the DIG (Border range), Ram Singh, who in turn sent in some officers to sort out the matter. However, matter between Rachpal Singh and Saini flared up to such an extent that the former parked a car in front of the officer’s car following which Saini could not move out of the residential area. “ Saini, who was drunk, got infuriated and aimed his pistol at me and some of my colleagues, including Tasveer Singh.” Tasveer Singh is also a police officer whose flat |
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