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PIMS staff goes on strike
Tehbazari fee fetches MC Rs 4.75 lakh in festive season
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Residents burst less crackers: PPCB report
Rise in respiratory problems after Divali
MC writes to Police Commissionerate, Powercom for payment of land
north Zone Youth Festival
Cong flays govt for slow pace of paddy procurement
Dr Navjot Sidhu criticised for sting operations
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PIMS staff goes on strike
Jalandhar, November 15 While doctors at the institute suspended OPD and regular services (except emergencies), the institute’s class IV employees even held a protest at the PIMS entrance, agitating against the management for the non-payment of pending dues. In the beginning of November, too, the irked doctors (who had suspended OPD services for not having received their salaries) at PIMS had been pacified into carrying out their regular duties by the management. While they were assured by the management that they would be receiving their pending salaries for the months of July and August before Divali, they have only received their salaries for the month of July, while the salries of the rest three months are still pending. The entire staff of the institute, including medical, technical and class IV employees, has been having financial crisis due to the non-payment of dues. While there are about 160 doctors working at the institute, the total staff members are about 400. Director Principal, PIMS, Dr Kulbir Kaur, when contacted, refused to comment on the issue. While during the previous strike, the medical staff had also submitted a letter to her on the issue, she said all such applications were being forwarded by her to the management. Dr Ajay Aggarwal, Resident Director of PIMS, also refused to issue
a statement. "I do not know about the issue since I had been out of town for the past some days," he said. Notably, services at PIMS have suffered due to constant unrest among the staff for the past sometime. Some inside sources said the management had asked doctors to wait for a week or 10 days, since the management was not in a position to give them salaries before that. |
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Tehbazari fee fetches MC Rs 4.75 lakh in festive season
Jalandhar, November 15 The MC for the first time had regularised such temporary encroachments and asked its recovery staff to collect payments from shopkeepers. Those extending counters up to 5 feet were asked to pay up Rs 500, between 5 and 10 feet Rs 1,000 and from 10 to 15 feet Rs 1,500. There were separate charges levied on those tents erected along roadsides. A fee of Rs 1,500 was charged for a single tent and Rs 3,000 for a double tent. Such encroachments were considered valid only till Divali night. Asked if such levying of fee would be regularised in future, Vinay Bublani, Commissioner, MC, said, "It is for the first time that we took such a step. We will discuss its repercussions and accordingly make any such planning in the future." |
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Residents burst less crackers: PPCB report
As per the report, the respirable particulate matter (RPM) post-Divali was far less this year vis-a-vis last year. While the RPM after Divali this year was 285 mg/m3 in residential areas, it was 395 mg/m3 post-Divali in 2011. Similarly, the RPM in commercial areas was 294 mg/m3 this year as compared to 325 mg/m3 last year. The RPM, however, showed an upward trend around sensitive areas, including hospitals, this year. The PPCB had installed its equipment around the Civil Hospital a day before Divali where it was found to be 160 mg/m3, but it increased to 215 mg/m3 the next night. The same post-Divali figure was 200 mg/m3 last year. The value of RPM is much above the permissible value of 100 mg/m3. The values of nitrogen oxides and SO2 remained well within the limit of 80 mg/m3. The noise pollution, already slightly above the permissible levels, was marginally up on Divali night |
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Rise in respiratory problems after Divali
Jalandhar, November 15 But specialists actually say that there is a substantial increase in people suffering from respiratory disorders after Divali. At the Civil Hospital, the number of patients has increased by 30 per cent. Talking to The Tribune, District Tuberculosis Officer Dr Rajiv Sharma said, “There is a substantial increase in patients suffering from trouble in the upper respiratory tract. This special pattern has been noticed especially around and after Divali. Today I got as many as 100 patients
and in general there is a 25 to 30 per cent increase in the number of patients.” “While the change of season is also one of the major contributing factors to increased number of patients, the main reason for the trouble is the burning of crackers and also increased transportation around Divali,” he added. Private hospitals, too, saw a dramatic increase in the number of patients being reported post Divali. Dr HJ Singh, chest physician and bronchoscopist at Ranjit Hospital here, said, “Patients' reluctance to see a doctor on Divali day is one of the main causes of cases worsening after Divali. We have noticed that many patients who urgently needed hospitalisation on Divali, delayed their treatment because they did not want to be in a hospital on Divali. Some of the cases worsened due to that.” “Crackers and pollution have caused increased number of patients after Divali. Some of them were so serious that a bit of delay in bringing them to the hospital could even have resulted in fatalities. Increased bronchial infections in patients allergic to pollutants in the air were observed and asthma attacks were widely reported,” Dr HJ Singh said. “Some of my patients said they closed their doors and windows and stayed indoors on Divali. They were better off than the others,” he added. The experts said some basic precautions in the coming days - keeping in mind the after effects of the loved Indian festival and the change in season - might do patients a lot of good. Patients are advised to take lots of liquid, stay indoors and keep themselves wrapped in protective clothing, especially during early morning and evening
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MC writes to Police Commissionerate, Powercom for payment of land
Jalandhar, November 15 The police had asked for a land measuring 2 kanal 10 marla at Paragpur for setting up a police chowki about three years ago. The MC had finalised the sale in a House meeting on October 30, 2009, for an amount of Rs 4.8 crore. A similar proposal had also been received from the Powercom, which had demanded a piece of land measuring 4 kanal at the same site for setting up a power house. This proposal, too, had been cleared by the House in the same meeting, wherein an amount of Rs 7.68 crore had been cleared. Three years later, neither of the two departments has made any payment. There has been no headway on the purchase also. Mayor Sunil Jyoti said at the time when the MC was reeling under acute financial crisis, he had demanded clarity from the two departments. "If the Police Commissioner and Powercom authorities are unwilling to proceed, at least some other buyers could be considered and some income could be generated," he said. The Mayor is also proceeding to Chandigarh tomorrow for demanding excise dues to the tune of Rs 16 crore. He is contemplating meeting party (BJP) leaders to demand funds for pending development works in the city. |
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Training for cancer awareness drive begins
Jalandhar, November 15 As per the "projected" promises, these surveys will ensure speedy treatment of cancer patients through a better trained paramedical staff, who will spread awareness about the disease and will be competent in detecting it through better knowledge of the symptoms. Blocks officers and community health centres (CHCs) staff from across the district as well as senior medical officers (Civil Hospital), nursing school principal and teachers participated in the training programme. During the inaugural session of the programme, Civil Surgeon Dr RL Bassan exhorted various district officers to give effective lessons to their subordinate staff, including paramedical, lady health visitors (LHVs), supervisory staff, auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs) and ASHA workers so that they could properly conduct door-to-door surveys and awareness campaign regarding cancer in the district. Dr Shiv Dyal Mali, district welfare officer-cum-district project nodal officer gave in-depth knowledge regarding the cancer awareness campaign to the officers present. As per the survey, information regarding suspected cancer patients, confirmed cancer patients and number of cancer deaths so far shall be provided. The representatives of various other nursing schools were present. |
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Multilingual mushaira for communal harmony held
Jalandhar, November 15 Renowned poets of the country Raja Sirsavi, Sardar Panchi, Saba Jamali, Dr Khushbir Singh Shad, Dr Veena Naqvi, Dr Naseem-ul-Zafar, Darshan Darvesh Parvaz, Aayaj Rasool Nahki, Kashish Hoshiarpuri, Shamsheer Ghaji, Sayyad Jhanjhat and GS Aulakh recited their creations at the mushaira. Syed Yaqub Husain Naqvi, front's president, Balbir Singh Seechewal, environmentalist, Gurmel Singh Parmar, Senior Divisional Manager, LIC, Jalandhar, Virendra Sharma Yogi, PPCC secretary and SM Singh, founder chairman of NGO Dishadeep, were among the dignitaries present on the occassion. Naqvi, who shifted to Jalandhar from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh (UP) a few decades ago, has been holding the mushaira for the last nine years. Saying he had received immense affection from Punjabis since he shifted to Jalandhar, Naqvi added that he wanted to reciprocate in the same manner and that was why he decided to hold an annual mushaira for strengthening communal harmony. |
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north Zone Youth Festival
Jalandhar, November 15 Speaking on the occasion, Dr Sucharita, principal of the college, expressed joy and said hard work and the quest to-be-the-best attitude had helped the college sustain its position at the peak. The college had won the first position in Indian group song, on-the-spot painting, rangoli, mime, folk dance, classical instrumental percussion, classical vocal, western vocal solo, one-act play, classical instrumental non-percussion, collage, folk orchestra, cartooning and poster making. It won the second prize in installing, geet/ghazal, western group song, mimicry, clay modeling and on-the-spot photography. The third prize came for skit and classical dance. |
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Rift between BJP leaders comes to fore
Jalandhar, November 15 The situation got worse late last evening when some supporters of Bhagat Chunni Lal tried to ransack the house of Pardeep Khullar, who has been supporting Sampla. Khullar had alleged that Agnivesh, alias Lucky, supporter of Sampla, had come to his residence in New Shastri Nagar and threatened him. Lucky had levelled similar allegations
against Khullar. The matter was finally resolved today on the intervention of party leaders, including Ravi Mahendru and Kamal Sharma, at Circuit House in the presence of ADCP-II Gaganajit Singh. Differences between Sampla and Bhagat
started way back as both were in the race for party ticket for Jalandhar (West) constituency. |
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Cong flays govt for slow pace of paddy procurement
Jalandhar, November 15 A former Congress MLA, Sukhpal Khaira, alleged that there had been a large number of complaints by farmers of distress sale of their paddy crop from across the state. He stated that farmers were forced to sell their paddy at Rs 100 per quintal lesser than the fixed minimum selling price (MSP) of Rs 1,280. Owing to poor paddy procurement arrangements, farmers were also forced to sell their yield in the neighbouring states of Haryana and Rajasthan. By doing so, the state suffered loss of hundreds of crores of revenue that was to accrue from 2 per cent rural development fees and 2 per cent of agricultural marketing fees, he added. Khaira said farmers were forced to stay for unusually long periods in the mandis across the state as their crop was not being procured and thereafter not lifted on time. Even now there are large dumps of paddy in virtually all the mandis of the state. |
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Dr Navjot Sidhu criticised for sting operations
Jalandhar, November 15 Dr Sidhu had caught Surjit Singh, a government doctor, allegedly practicing at a private clinic in Ropar last week. In an emergency meeting of the district unit of the association, its
president Dr Harish Bhardwaj and secretary Dr Vijay Joshi condemned her actions saying Dr
Sidhu was overstepping her authority. The representatives of the association stated that the government departments concerned, including the Vigilance Bureau, might be asked to conduct such raids, but the law did not authorise any politician, including the Health Minister, to conduct such raids or sting operations. Dr Parminder, Dr Arun Verma, Dr Sukhwinder and Dr Satinder Bajaj were present in the meeting. |
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