|
|
|
|
|
Trucks stranded on NH
Ashwani Grover elected as MC chief
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
‘Youth Akali Dal to get more than 20 party tickets’
PADB chairman, staff smell rat
Vet inspectors begin protest
Raising Day celebrated
Tributes paid to Ambedkar
|
|
Strike by excise & taxation staff
Abohar, December 6 The inter-state offices located near village Kallarkhera on Sriganganagar-Abohar road, Seetogunno and Rajpura villages on Hanumangarh-Abohar road wore deserted look as the staff working at the barriers renamed as “information collection centers” remained out for more than four hours during the peak-hour time and shouted slogans against the state government. The drivers and conductors had to wait making part of the long queue. Some of them said they were transporting imported material from Kandla port in Gujarat while others were to supply fresh fruit besides other commodities to different parts of Punjab and neighbouring states besides Chandigarh UT. The protesting staff said the department was contributing more than 75 per cent revenue in the state exchequer besides checking evasion of taxes but the state government had not treated them at par with other departments while revising grades and allowances. The service conditions at the barriers too were not up to the mark as the state goverment had not so far developed permanent office complexes besides other infrastructure. |
|
|
Ashwani Grover elected as MC chief
Ferozepur, December 6 State general secretary
(BJP) Kamal Sharma, former state BJP president Brij Lal Rinwa, Sukhpal Singh Nannu Chief Parliamentary Secretary ( Revenue), D P Chandan vice-chairman Small Traders Board besides other senior BJP leaders were present on the occasion. In today’s meeting, out of the total strength of 25
councillors, barring two, all were present who unanimously supported the move to elect Grover as the next president. It took a lot of effort for the BJP leaders to cajole its own councillors to support the move to elect Grover as a section of them owing alliance to a particular group within the party were not keen on the same. The election was necessitated after the previous President Davinder Kapoor submitted his resignation few days back. Kapoor had assumed the charge as president MC last year under a compromise formula evolved by the BJP leadership under which Kapoor was made president for a term of eighteen months which had expired on November 4, 2011. A section of the BJP leadership wanted Kapoor to continue for rest of the term, however, he had to eventually resign as per the arrangement worked out by the party earlier. After assuming charge, Grover said that his first priority would be to improve the sewerage system and cleanliness in the town. Grover exhorted the residents to deposit their tax arrears due towards the MC. |
|
|
‘Youth Akali Dal to get more than 20 party tickets’
Bathinda, December 6 To a query, national senior vice-president of the YAD Gurpreet Singh Malooka said here today that this time the YAD would get five to six party tickets more as compared to the previous Assembly elections. He said the party had given about 16 tickets to the YAD for February 2007 Assembly elections. However, the names of the seats could not be disclosed at this stage, he
added. Malooka was interacting with the media persons after releasing the list of office-bearers and members of the working committee of the Bathinda district unit of the
YAD. He said the list, contains the names of 142 office-bearers and working committee members, including senior vice presidents, general secretaries, vice presidents, secretaries, organising secretaries, propaganda secretaries, and press
secretary. Malooka said while preparing the list of office-bearers loyalty towards the party and hard work had been made the criterion. He said he expected that they would play a major role in the ensuing Assembly elections. He also said the Congress would not stand anywhere in front of the
SAD-BJP's development agenda as the Congress had no poll issue. With regard to Capt Amarinder Singh's statements against the SAD leaders, Malooka said the Congress leadership was in a frustration mood as the vote bank of the Communists, which had earlier remained with the Congress, was now with the
'Sanjha morcha' of Manpreet Singh Badal. He also said the YAD would do extensive work for eradicating the social evil of drugs. He said the YAD would not extend any type of help to the person who would be found indulging in drug-trade. Rather it would suggest the police to initiate stern action against him, he added. |
|
|
Farmer suicide
Abohar, December 6 Marahad along with PADB Employees Union president Mehanga Singh reached here, on a fact-finding mission today, after going through the reports about the unfortunate incident. He said the bank staff had shifted the victim immediately to the Nehru Memorial Civil Hospital yesterday but he died. Rejecting the allegation that bank officials had promised to get loan worth Rs 50 crore sanctioned, Marahad said maximum limit for sanctioning the loan was Rs 16.50 crore. Infact, he claimed, deceased Vinod Kumar Yadav had availed of loan thrice and repaid it promptly. There appears to be some deep-rooted conspiracy behind the suicide and hand written note to implicate the bank officials, he alleged. The PADB Employees Union president Mehanga Singh also described it “conspiracy hatched by some miscreants” who had used Vinod Kumar Yadav to meet vested motives. The incident had demoralised our staff, we will meet the higher officials to demand fair and transparent investigation, both said. Meanwhile the police have registered a case under Section 306A against two officials of the local branch of the agricultural development bank. |
|
|
Lambi, December 6 Activists of the association shouted a number of slogans against the state government and the police for using brutal force on them, when they were lodging a “peaceful” protest outside the CM residence in Badal village. During the scuffle broke out between the police and the protesters, as many as 138 protesters were arrested, when they were demanding pay parity with the staff of state health department and to get promotions, just like other government departments. They also announced to boycott annual Charik Animal Fair to be held in Moga on December 10. — TNS |
|
|
Ferozepur, December 6 On the occasion, Ravinder Kumar Awasthi, District Commandant, took salute from the PHG contingent and addressed the officials, jawans and PHG volunteers. Awasthi said that under command of its Commandant General PHG and Director Civil Defence, G D Pandey, the PHG department was undergoing a massive modernisation drive under centrally sponsored scheme, Awasthi also told that sanction had been given by the state government to fill 292 vacant posts in the department regarding which necessary action was being taken. While congratulating the officials and the jawans for maintaining the high decorum and service standards of the force, he exhorted them to put in their best efforts in maintenance of law and order besides other logistical security duties entrusted to the force. — OC |
|
Abohar, December 6 In the neighbouring Hanumangarh, Bahujan Samaj Party local unit president Jaspal Verma was joined by Nand Kishore Pappi, Amar Singh Dhosiwal, Inderaj Chopra and many others in garlanding the portrait of the architect of the Constitution at a well attended function. — OC |
|
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | E-mail | |
vehicles were stranded on the National Highway -15 and State Highway in the sub-division as the Excise and Taxation department staff observed strike for second day on Tuesday.
