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Students join hands against tobacco, drugs
Chief pharmacists’ petition: HC grants status quo
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Shruti abduction
Inter-state gang of vehicle lifters busted; four held
Sangharsh Samiti to oppose proposed flyovers in Moga
Homesick, ‘missing’ boys return home
Moga MLA Jain undergoes knee surgery
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Students join hands against tobacco, drugs
Sardulgarh (Mansa), Nov 20 The first of its kind procession consisted of over 600 students and around 40 academic staff. The students carried posters, banners and placards against the menace of drugs. The principal of the school, Prashant Kumar Lal, emphasized that the procession intended to inculcate a sense of 'love for life' and added that the youth should be educated enough to energise their inner self to sustain themselves with positive thoughts. The procession started from the Ghaggar bridge and passed through the town. Abohar: Responding to the call given by the state education department, many schools in Abohar sub-division organised anti-drug seminars and rallies today. In village Gobindgarh, sarpanch Hardev Singh flagged off the rally organised by the Government High School and said drug addiction is a serious problem afflicting the youth and controlling it is a major challenge before society. Headmistress Seema Rani said competitions in poster making, slogan and poem writing were organised. Teachers were joined by the students in writing slogans on the boundary walls to caution people against drugs. Similar rallies were also organised by government schools in village Alamgarh, Kala Tibba as well as in the town. Muktsar: A large number of students from various government schools today took out anti-drug rallies across the city. The students were holding placards with slogans in their hands to give a message that the use of drugs lead to serious diseases. Some government schools even organised slogan writing competitions on the theme "Drug addiction - A social evil" and distributed prizes among them. In the evening, the education department officials under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan orgasined a play "Sarhadaan Hor Vee Ne" at the District Red Cross Bhawan against the menace of drugs. |
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Chief pharmacists’ petition: HC grants status quo
Fazilka, November 20 Giving details, the petitioner Shashi Kant, chief pharmacist at the Civil Hospital, Fazilka, disclosed that Justice Tajinder Singh Dhindsa of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, while hearing their petition submitted by their counsel Kapil Kakkar, issued a notice of motion to the Director, Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, through the principal secretaries, Department of Finance and Health and Family Welfare, for March 5, 2013. Meanwhile, status quo has been granted to seven out of the eight petitioners. Describing the interim order of the court as historic, Shashi Kant said it is grave injustice to the chief pharmacists who were being retired on the plea of keeping 906 pharmacists in diminishing cadre in 2006 when the control of 1186 subsidiary health centres (rural dispensaries) was handed over to the Zila Parishads. It is pertinent to mention here that the Punjab government, vide its notification dated October 8, 2012, allowed an extension of one year in service to all those Punjab government employees who desired to opt for the extension. The government had accordingly amended rule 3.26 of the Punjab Civil Service Rules, whereby all group A,B,C and D employees were given an extension of one year. The instructions were to be applicable in the case of those employees whose date of retirement was October 31, 2012 or thereafter. Notably, there are nearly 250 chief pharmacists in grade one and two and about 2000 pharmacists working in the health department. However, the Director, Health Services, Punjab, citing the decision of the Punjab government, issued instructions on October, 31, stating its decision not to extend the services of pharmacists by one year, since 906 of them had been kept in diminishing cadres since 2006. |
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Shruti abduction
Fazilka, November 20 Addressing the rally in local Partap Bagh, vice-president of the state unit of the Border Area Sangharsh Committee and organizer of the rally, Shakti Singh, Northern Railway Sangharsh Samiti president Dr Amar Lal Baghla, Punjab Subordinate Federation office- bearer Ram Krishan Dhunkian, Sanjha Morcha Action Committee activist Raj Kishore
Kalra, International Democratic Party president Pritam Singh and other activist Avinash Lalowali, flayed the state government for what they termed was the deteriorating law and order situation. |
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2 youths killed, one hurt in road mishap
Muktsar, November 20 The police said the deceased were identified as Jagpreet Singh (22) of Kingra village and Chirag Kumar (16) of Malout. They were returning from a wedding along with their friend Tejinderpal Singh (21). Suddenly, Jagpreet lost control over the vehicle and the Verna car (PB-54-A-0024) hit a truck parked on the road. Eyewitnesses said the bodies of the deceased were pulled out from the car after cutting open the doors. Meanwhile, the injured was referred to a hospital in Bathinda, where his condition was said to be critical. The police have initiated inquest proceedings under section 174 of the CrPC. After conducting the post-mortem, the bodies were handed over to the bereaved kin. A search was also on to trace the truck driver, who parked the vehicle on the highway. |
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Inter-state gang of vehicle lifters busted; four held
Abohar, November 20 Interestingly, one of the members of the inter-state gang had earlier been arrested for a similar crime in 2009. Addressing a press conference here this afternoon, superintendent of police (SP) Vainer Singh Barr said the Khuyiansarwar police last week intercepted an Indigo and Bolero vehicles at the Danewala terminal on the Defence road and arrested Sukhwinder Singh Sukha of Buddha Theh, Gurdeep Singh of Rayya and Bikkar Singh of Bhura Kohna (Amritsar). Their interrogation by the CIA staff and the investigating officer revealed they had been stealing vehicles allegedly in connivance with Jaswinder Singh alias Baldev Singh of Ratangarh (Rajasthan) and Harpinder Singh Happy of Buddha Theh. The vehicles were sold in Rajasthan through another gang that comprised Avtar Singh of border town Anoopgarh, Kuldeep Singh and Baldev Singh of Gharsana. Gurmeet Singh of Shahpur (Jalandhar) had been allegedly preparing fake registration certificates. Seals and stamps of the sub-divisional magistrate have also been recovered after his arrest. The special team succeeded in recovering three Bolero, two Indigo and one Scorpio vehicles from the gang during the raids that are to be continued. Investigation further revealed that Avtar Singh used to prepare computerised documents for the gang, the police said. |
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Sangharsh Samiti to oppose proposed flyovers in Moga
Moga, November 20 Dwarka Bansal, chairman of the Citizens' Welfare Council, who is also a member of the samiti, said a meeting in this regard was held on Monday evening, in which hundreds of residents participated. All the members of the Sangharsh Samiti today gave a memorandum to cancel the proposal for the flyovers within the municipal limits to Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Dr Joram Beda on Tuesday. A separate memorandum was also given by the former councillors of the erstwhile municipal council to the district administration on Monday. The ADC who is also the joint commissioner of the municipal corporation has assured to take up the issue with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), besides bringing up a resolution in the corporation to cancel the project. Yogesh Goel, former chairman of the Moga Improvement Trust, who is also a member of the samiti, said they are not against the six-laning of the national highway but maintain that the level the road should not be raised unnecessarily because it would ruin the basic structure of all the residential and commercial buildings on both sides of the highway. Meanwhile, senior SAD leader Jathedar Tota Singh has maintained that there is no need for the flyovers within the MC limits of the city. "The projected traffic is not going to create any problems after the six-laning of the road for the next 20 to 30 years," he said. Tota Singh's son, Barjinder Singh Brar, a former president of MC, has also opposed the proposed flyovers and announced to launch an agitation if the construction work is initiated. |
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Homesick, ‘missing’ boys return home
Ferozepur, November 20 However, under what circumstances they had eloped and from where had the boys managed to get a large amount of cash which they allegedly spent on buying clothes and camera, has not yet been ascertained. According to the information available, the three boys, identified as Ismail, Robin and Amrik, all friends, had left for the school on Saturday morning. However, they did not reach the school nor did they return home following which their parents raised an alarm. Police sources said two of the boys, identified as Ismail and Amrik, were apparently upset over the frequent rebuke by their parents. Later, they decided to run away and took another friend Robin along with them. Police officials said the boys had gone to Amritsar where they visited the Golden Temple and some other places. However, after spending two days there, they felt home sick and came back on their own. Sources said before leaving, the boys had bought new clothes from a shop in Ferozepur and also purchased a camera from Amritsar. However, the source of the money is still not clear. DSP Jasbir Singh said the police was enquiring into the case. |
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Mansa teacher makes human sundial for students’ sake
Bathinda, November 20 The mathematics teacher, Kanwaldeep, has spent Rs 8,000 from his pocket to construct the sundial to arouse the interest of students in subjects like mathematics and geography. If one stands on the sundial, its shadow gives an accurate time set as per the Indian Standard Time (IST). "Unlike modern watches, there is no hour line fixed on the dial and the time of the day is read on the ellipse," said Kanwaldeep. He said that the gnomon (a person who stands to cast the shadow) is not fixed and changes position daily to get the accurate time of the day. He said the concept materialised during a science congress by the school children. There are 340 students in the school up to class X and the sundial is the centre of attraction for every child. The sundial is made of bricks and cement and children note down the time in the morning and afternoon. The teacher said it took more than two and half months to prepare the sundial and the most tedious task was to record the actual longitude and latitude of the place where the sundial was to be placed. After getting the longitude and latitude, the accuracy was attained. The teacher said that his students have been participating in various science exhibitions and recently, one of his students secured the first position in the science essay competition organised by the Punjab Government. |
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Moga MLA Jain undergoes knee surgery
Moga, November 20 Younger son of the MLA, Akshit Jain, said the doctors have informed the family that the surgery was successful but as a precautionary measure, he has been kept in the intensive care unit. "We have so far been not allowed to meet him. The doctors have said they will allow the family members to meet him from Thursday onwards," he added. |
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