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Nabard project for government schools
Two tantriks, woman aide arrested for befooling people; accomplice on the run
blockade at Jethuke village
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Sale of medicines without prescription prohibited
Women more prone to hypertension
Theft cases on the increase in Bathinda city
Bathinda Heritage fest
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Nabard project for government schools
Bathinda, December 7 The NABARD-aided project was started in the state around three years ago wherein the state education department identified 351 schools in the state. Of these 351, 17 schools are in Bathinda district. These 17 schools, including five new schools that were upgraded from high schools to senior secondary schools. "It is an ambitious project wherein loan from NABARD are being given to these earmarked school to raise the level of education imparted. Starting from the base itself, the grants were first given to provide adequate infrastructure and building for these schools through the public works department," said the district education officer, (secondary) Harbans Singh Sandhu. From each assembly constituency, three schools were selected after a survey conducted by the state education department. The survey was conducted on the parameters of basic condition of school, number of students studying, inadequacy of building etc. Around Rs 30 to Rs 50 lakhs have been spent on construction of each building, including the classrooms, toilets, science laboratories as well as storerooms. The money was spent on these schools in different phases. The senior secondary schools of Jodhpur Romana, Jhumba, Rampura village, Deon etc owe their buildings to the loan bought from the NABARD. Now, the education department has directed all the in-charge of these schools to submit their requirements for the machinery and raw material required for running vocational courses in these schools. |
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Two tantriks, woman aide arrested for befooling people; accomplice on the run
Bathinda, December 7 In his complaint to the police, Gagan Singh, a resident of Amarpura Basti, said the tantrik had taken Rs 6,000 from him in lieu of sending him Spain. "The complainant had applied to go to Spain, but wanted to accelerate his work. Falling prey to the superstition, he went to tantrik who took Rs 6,000 from him in lieu of giving him some special powers to go to Spain," said Romana. Acting on the complaint, police arrested tantrik Mayur Shah and Mohd Javed as well as their aide Mamta from Ganesha Basti area. One of their accomplices Sameer Miyan is on run. Mayur Shah and Mohd Javed belonged to Muzaffarnagar area of the Uttar Pradesh and have been active in the city for the past six months. During this period, they befooled around 1,000 people. The gang used to charge Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 from every person visiting them. They have been aggressively advertising themselves through print and electronic media. They have been booked under Sections 420 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code. |
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blockade at Jethuke village
Bathinda, December 7 While talking to TNS, SP Bhatia, Area Traffic Manager at Bathinda railway station, said that railway passengers remain at the receiving end due to such dharnas. Railway authorities said that few days ago, some trains were cancelled in view of the inclement weather. "I had to reach Ambala to attend my daughter's marriage but the journey is being delayed as trains are running behind the schedule on the Bathinda-Dhuri section," said Preetam Singh, a passenger awaiting his train at the railway station. Sandeep Singla, a local chemist, said he failed to board a train to Dhuri where he had to go to deliver medicines at a hospital. "Now, I am trying to hire a taxi," he said. Shopkeepers at the railway station too expressed their concern over the cancellation of trains in view of the dharna. "I failed to earn even Rs 100 due to less number of passengers today. I used to earn at least Rs 200 to Rs 300 by late in the evening.
Such blockades slash our earning," said Pappu, a tea vendor. Railway officials said the Ganganager to Ambala, Bathinda to Ambala passenger trains and express train from Ganganager to Ambala had been cancelled this evening. Passenger trains, including Dhuri-Bathinda, Ambala to Bathinda, Ambala to Ganganager, and express trains from Haridwar to Ganganager, Delhi to Bathinda and Ganganager to Ambala have also been cancelled. Further, many goods trains have been cancelled on the Bathinda-Dhuri section. Fact file
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Armed Forces Flag Day celebrated
Bathinda, December 7 Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) SS Mann, Deputy Director, Sainik Welfare, told the gathering about the importance of the Armed Forces Flag Day. Speaking about the funds collected, it was utilised for the welfare of ex-servicemen and the Veer Naris besides the dependants of the martyrs
who sacrificed their lives for the sovereignty of the country and protection of the countrymen. He also appealed to the people to donate funds liberally and urged the ex-servicemen to inform people about the importance of the Armed Forces Flag Day. Mann said during the previous financial year, the District Sainik Welfare Office here had collected Rs 4.12 lakh for the Armed Forces Flag Day Fund. He said every year, they received about one lakh flags from the Directorate of Sainik Welfare, Punjab, which they further distribute among various government departments and offices, including district education office, district transport office, SSP office and DC office. During the financial year 2010-11, the District Sainik Welfare Office here distributed Rs 1.22 lakh out of the Flag Day Fund, among 18 beneficiaries, including destitute women, war veterans and war widows living in penury. Besides, financial aid was also given to the soldiers who don't get pension as well as sick or handicapped soldiers. During the current financial year (2011-2012), the district office has distributed about Rs 68,000 among 11 beneficiaries so far. |
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Sale of medicines without prescription prohibited
Bathinda, December 7 All the drugs that fall under the Schedule H of The Drugs and Cosmetics Act cannot be sold without a valid prescription. The additional district magistrate also ordered for maintaining a register to record the sale and purchase of drugs. An executive magistrate, deputy superintendent of police or any official above this rank can check the register any time. In a separate set of instructions issued today, the additional district magistrate has directed all the cyber café owners and STD/PCO owners that no one should be allowed to use the utilities at these two places without taking the details of a user’s identity. All have been directed to maintain a register to record the name of the user, his or her address, telephone number and a proof of identification. The entire activity of the user should be tabulated in the server’s log and this record would be available in the main server for at least six months. The owners of these business establishments have been directed to immediately alert the police if they found someone’s activities doubtful and the data about his or her activity should be kept safe. The people in the district have also been disallowed from digging up kachchi khuhi (unlined well) without seeking permissions of the executive engineer, Public Health Department, Bathinda, or the executive engineer, Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board. Even the use of olive army uniform for other purposes has been prohibited. The use of military-colour jeeps, motorcycles and other vehicles has also been banned. The orders will be applicable from December 7 till February 6. |
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Pharmacists to go on mass leave
Bathinda, December 7 This decision was taken by the Sangharash Committee Punjab State Pharmacists Association that gathered here today for participating in the state-level protest rally and dharna, organised outside the local Mini-secretariat. Swaranjit Singh, co-convener of the Sangharash Committee, said pharmacists would hold dharnas at the hospitals and health centres across the state on December 12 while on December 13 they would gherao residences of ministers and on December 14 they would hold dharnas at sub-division level. On December 15, effigies of the state government would be burnt at district headquarters while on December 17 they would hold a massive rally at Ludhiana, he added. Meanwhile, hundreds of pharmacists, by taking mass casual leave today, from all districts of the state participated in the rally here and raised slogans in support of their demands and against the state government. They also took out a protest march from the Mini-secretariat to the Fauzi Chowk here and blocked road traffic symbolically in front of the main gate of the bus stand for some minutes. Their demands, include pay-scale of Rs 10,300-34,800 with Rs 4,800 as grade pay for pharmacist, Rs 15,600-39,100 with Rs 5,400 as grade pay for chief pharmacist grade II, Rs 15,600-39,100 with Rs 6,600 as grade pay for chief pharmacist grade I, senior pharmacy officer designation for grade II chief pharmacist, chief pharmacy officer designation for grade I chief pharmacist and pharmacy officer designation for pharmacist, district pharmacy officer designation for chief pharmacist grade I posted at Civil Surgeon office, creation of deputy director (pharmacy) post at state level and creation of new posts of pharmacist at hospitals and health centres as per requirement. The Sanghrash Committee leaders said they had met the Cabinet sub-committee and the Punjab Chief Minister twice each, but no concrete result had come out. They also said many of their demands had already been accepted by the state government but it was still adopting dilly-dallying tactics in the implementation of the same. Among others who were present or addressed the dharna, included Shamsher Singh Kohri from Amritsar (Convener), Ravinder Kumar Luthra from Ferozepur (Convener), Swaranjit Singh from Sangrur (Co-convener), Jaswinder Singh Patti from Nawanshahar (Co-convener), Ravinder Kumar Goyal (Bathinda), Major Singh (Patiala), Balwinder Kumar (Jalandhar), Sunil Dutt Sharma (Ropar) and Sham Lal Sharma. |
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Women more prone to hypertension
Bathinda, December 7 The authorities have termed the starting of the survey and check up a soft launching as the main launching will be done either by the Chief Minister or the Principal Secretary (Health) in a fortnight. In the first phase, the survey-cum-check up of the rural population (above the age of 30 years) in the district will be conducted by January 15 while the work for the survey-cum-check up of urban population will start after that in the second phase. As part of soft launching of the survey-cum-check up of the rural population, the houses in six villages (one each from six health blocks) were covered yesterday. The names of the villages are Dunewal (Sangat block), Natt (Talwandi Sabo), Har Rangpur (Nathana), Gill Khurd (Ballianwali), Amargarh (Goniana) and Neor (Bhagta). The Civil Surgeon (CS) Dr Iqbal Singh said here today that during sample survey and check up of six villages an interesting fact had come to light that more women, as compared to men, had been found to be suffering from diabetes and hypertension. As per the survey, above 60 years of age, 21 percent female and 12 percent male had been found suffering from diabetes while 33 percent female and 19 percent male had been found suffering from hypertension. The CS further said in the case of below 60 years of age, 11 per cent women and five percent men had been found suffering from diabetes, and 12 per cent women and eight percent men from hypertension. In the case of cancer patients (below the age of 60 years) 0.07 percent male and 0.16 percent female had been found suffering cancer and above the age of 60 years, .50 percent and .34 percent female had been found suffering from cancer. During the survey about 1320 houses, having 6519 persons, in six villages were visited by the health teams. Among the 6519 persons there were 3334 male and 3185 female. Among the women there were 50 pregnant ladies. Each health block has been divided into sectors while each team comprising of four members, including ANMs and ASHA workers. |
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Theft cases on the increase in Bathinda city
A section of area residents, while talking to the TNS said that police hardly extend any helping hand to trace the culprits behind theft or vehicle lifting cases. Sushil Kumar, a resident of Model Town, Phase-1 said that a jeep was stolen from outside his house more than two months ago. “We lodged a complaint with the police and also got a case registered. We suspected house of a local resident into the theft but police officials express their helpless in arresting the accused,” Sushil said. He said that there is a rise in the number of accidents around his residence but nothing has been done by the police. He pointed out that a two-wheeler and costly material was stolen by thieves from the model town area few days ago and the police is clueless. Senior police officials said that they are lagging behind due to the lack of a dog squad which proves instrumental in cracking theft cases. “In my 33 years of police job I have never seen a theft case being cracked with the help of forensic experts. The experts would hardly collect details from the spot and usually cite reasons of inadvertent tampering of finger prints by theft victims,” said a police station in-charge at Bathinda. A forensic of Punjab police inspector Krishan Kumar said that the forensic experts collect foot and finger prints from the spot and send the same to laboratory in Phillaur which helps in tracing the theft cases. Kotwali SHO Jagdeesh Lal said that they on their sources and area residents to crack the theft and vehicle lifting cases. Though there is a rise in number of thefts in city but continuous patrolling and nailing of the culprits help reducing such incidents. He said that there is a need of dog squad which helps in tracing the theft cases. |
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National Games
Bathinda, December 7 Students Chetan Veer Kaur, Simran Dhillon and Simran Gill were members of the winning handball team, while student Bikramjit Singh had participated in handball under-17 age group. The 57th national school games were held at Durg Bhalai area of Chhattisgarh from November 29 to December 3. In the under 19 weight lifting, students from Punjab won in all the seven weight categories. Of the 14 total medals won, ten have been bagged by the students from Bathinda district from private and government schools. These include seven gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal. |
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Bathinda Heritage fest
Bathinda, December 7 The walk in the form of a rally would start from the Gurudwara Haji Rattan at 10 am. All schools and private clubs have been invited to present their respective tableau on the topics of patriotism, drug de-addiction, culture, history and female foeticide. Top three tableaux would be given cash awards. The winner of the first position would be given Rs 11,000, second would take away Rs 5100 and the third would be rewarded with Rs 3,100. The founder of the Khalsa Heritage Foundation, Harvinder Singh Khalsa said the fest this year would be dedicated to the legendary singer Kuldeep Manak, who belonged to Jalal village of Bathinda district. He added that singers like Bir Davinder, Davinder Brar and Balbir Chotiya would be a part of the mega event. |
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Bathinda, December 7