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Traders form Mahanagar Sangharsh Committee
Burgeoning traffic in front of Civil Hospital adds to visitors’ woes
Just 1 working day for clerical staff at DAC next week
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ADC asks revenue officials to expedite recovery
Student commits suicide
3 arrested for beating man to death
Teachers of aided schools to gherao Vidhan Sabha on March 25
Patients ‘denied’ treatment on jurisdiction issue
Police links Reru bank lockers loot case with Begowal ATM break incident
Saplings given to MCM Polytechnic College
Students show technical skills in tech fest
Badal govt forgot its poll promises while presenting Budget, says Congress
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Traders form Mahanagar Sangharsh Committee
Jalandhar, March 21 Convener of the MSC Ravindra Dhir said various traders' organisations had already launched protests against property tax a few days ago while demonstrating in their respective markets, but the MSC would start a city-level protest from Monday onwards. Also state president of the Vyapar Sena, Dhir stated that a 101-member general body and 2- member steering committee of the MSC had been formed to chalk out the programme of the agitation. Meanwhile various market association, accompanied by several members of the Dynamic Group of Councillors of the Congress, including Sharwan Grover, Sushil Rinku, Amit Dhal, Mohinder Singh Gullu and Bal Kishan Bali, observed a two-hour strike in their respective markets of Attari Bazaar and surrounding markets and burnt the effigy of the SAD-BJP government against the imposition of property tax. In the meantime, a number of other market associations declared that they would close their shops for two hours to lodge their protest against the property tax tomorrow. President of the Wholesale Chemists Organisation Rakesh Gupta and its general secretary Rishu Verma said their shops located in Dilkhusha market would remain closed from 9 am to 11 am tomorrow. Similarly Congress councillor Balraj Thakur said various market associations would close their shops in his area from 10 am to 12 noon on Friday in protest against the imposition of property tax. Besides, shops in various other areas will also remain closed as part of the chain protest for two hours tomorrow. |
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Burgeoning traffic in front of Civil Hospital adds to visitors’ woes
Jalandhar, March 21 The entry to the hospital is a tough task with various traffic bottlenecks on the road - starting from Jyoti Chowk till Basti Adda Chowk - especially in front of this institution. Encroachments by shopkeepers and roadside vendors have further reduced the road width, thus adding to the woes of the visitors. Moreover, absence of permanent traffic police personnel at the entry and the exit points of the hospital have also aggravated the problem. The road is virtually ruled by auto-rickshaws, whose drivers drive recklessly, hardly caring patients and their attendants as they do not bother to give space for the vehicles carrying Ambulances and other vehicles ferrying patients to and from the hospital often get struck in traffic jams for long hours here adding to the agony of critical patients struggling for life, claimed Surinder Singh, a shopkeeper. Neither the hospital administration, nor the district administration have given a thought to deploy permanent police personnel to regulate vehicular traffic in front of the hospital, said Surinder Mittal, a local businessman. The area shopkeepers, however, demanded that separate stoppages should be earmarked for the auto-rickshaws to pick and drop passengers, which would help in reducing the traffic congestion. The administration should slap heavy penalties on the violators, so that they did not repeat the offences, they said.
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Just 1 working day for clerical staff at DAC next week
Jalandhar, March 21 The week will begin with two-day pen-down strike announced by the State Ministerial Services Association on March 25 and 26. March 27 is holiday on account of Holi. March 28 will be the only day working in the next week as March 29 is again a holiday on account of Good Friday. The next two days will be Saturday and Sunday, with staff resuming work only at the start of the next financial year. This implies that there will be just two working days of the dealing staff now before April 1, ie tomorrow and then next Thursday. The clerical staff from nearly 22 departments, including staff of the DC, ADC and SDM offices, DTO office and employment office, would go on strike. The staff of offices outside the DAC, including Irrigation Department, Education Department and Punjab Roadways, will also reportedly remain off work on that days. Meanwhile, the union held a dharna during lunch hour today. |
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ADC asks revenue officials to expedite recovery
Jalandhar, March 21 While there are seven other districts from which the embossing fee is to be recovered, it was decided that an amount of Rs 37,74,790 be recovered from nearly 4,411 applicants of Jalandhar district, who could not then make out that they had in fact been making payment against fake challans. It is these applicants who are being considered as defaulters and are being made to pay up the fee all over again. Of the total applicants, only 299 have paid up the dues while the remaining 4,112 applicants are yet to pay up an amount of Rs 34,47,940. Divisional Commissioner SR Ladhar said nearly Rs 75 lakh had been recovered from all districts till date, which implies that the recovery from Jalandhar was comparatively much slow. In the monthly meeting with revenue officials held today, ADC Parneet Bhardwaj also expressed concern over the fact that an amount of Rs 17,61,78,495 was recoverable on account of stamp duty evasion as per Section 47A of the Indian Stamp Act. There had been a recovery of only Rs 21,60,215 on this account, that too from Shahkot last month. Bhardwaj ordered that the recoveries be made by imposing Section 48 of the Act and by way of arrears of land revenue. The only satisfactory part that came in the meeting was that the revenue collection by way of registries would definitely cross Rs 275 crore mark as an amount of Rs 265.5 crore had already been collected on this account till February 28.
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Student commits suicide
Phagwara, March 21 Rajiv went to his room late last night and committed suicide after bolting the door from inside. He was found dead early this morning when some of his classmates knocked the door of his room, which was bolted from inside, and got no response. Ultimately the door was broken and the Rajiv was found lying dead. The police has registered a case, kept the body of the deceased in the mortuary of the Civil Hospital and informed his father Romana Shah, residing in Nainpura in Bihar. |
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3 arrested for beating man to death
Jalandhar, March 21 While the incident had occurred on March 16, the victim Vinod Kumar Pinku, auto-rickshaw driver, reportedly succumbed to his injuries at the Civil Hospital today. The police has arrested all the three accused - Balwinder Sharma, his brother Davinder Sharma and Vikram Chohan - and booked them under Sections 323, 341, 506 and 302 of the IPC at the Division No 5 police station. Pinku is said to a friend of the three accused. Balwinder and Davinder had been reportedly pestering him to support them in a court case pertaining to their elder brother, lodged in jail, to which the victim kept on showing disagreement. The ACP (West), RPS Sandhu, said while other sections had been imposed on the accused earlier, Section 302 was added today after Pinku's death.
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Teachers of aided schools to gherao Vidhan Sabha on March 25
Jalandhar, March 21 Members of the union said the government’s consistently lackadaisical approach on the demands of aided schools has forced them to make the move. President of the union Arvind Bains said the pro forma prepared by the government regarding the takeover of aided schools was incomplete and would cause further delays in the approval of their long-pending demands. District general secretary Kamal Sharma said the government had always meted out stepmotherly treatment to aided schools. Press secretary Manish Aggarwal said the government had consistently been delaying acceptance of demands
on the issues regar-ding grade pay, reforms, house rent allowance, medical allowance, salaries of primary schools' teachers, etc. Saying the merger of aided schools with government ones was the only way out to these problems, union members said they had waited long enough and the move to ghearo the Vidhan Sabha int Chandigarh would be their last ditch effort to make the government accept their demands. Members, teachers and block heads, all promised their total support for the upcoming agitationand said all staff members of the aided schools would be present to support
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Patients ‘denied’ treatment on jurisdiction issue
Jalandhar, March 21 The health officials of Phillaur, Nakodar and areas surrounding Phagwara that fall under the jurisdictions of Jalandnar district have lodged their resentment against the authorities of the Civil Hospital, Phagwara, for not entertaining their referral cases for a long time. Health official during their meeting with the Civil Surgeon, Jalandnar, Dr RL Bassan, alleged the Phagwara hospital authorities were denying treatment to the needy patients referred by them just because they were registered with health institutions falling in Jalandhar district. This indifferent attitude of the Phagwara Civil Hospital authorities had been putting life of scores of critical patients in danger as their attendants had to rush them either to the Civil Hospital, Jalandhar, or some private hospitals, the health officials said. Dr Bassan while talking to The Tribune, said he would take up the issue with the Phagwara Civil Hospital authorities on priority basis. He also added that if needed a correspondence in writing would be made to the Senior Medical Officer of the Phagwara Civil Hospital. The Civil Surgeon also advised his colleagues to maintain their cool while treating patients, especially, elderly persons and politically influential people. The medicos were also asked to be in touch with the senior health officials at Jalandhar through Internet and send the daily report to the head office via email. Moreover, the health officials were also directed to prescribe generic and low cost medicines to the patients and display the lists of medicines available in their respective hospitals.
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Police links Reru bank lockers loot case with Begowal ATM break incident
Jalandhar, March 21 The robbers used gas cutters in both the incidents. Also both the bank locations chosen by the miscreants are semi-rural wherein security vigil often remains a problem. The staff from the IT cell of the police working under the ADCP, Special Branch, went to Nangal Lubana village in Begowal where an Axis Bank ATM had been broken using gas cutters and an estimated amount of nearly Rs 9 lakh was looted. The robbers, who had struck at Punjab and Sind Bank in Reru village, broke 38 lockers and decamped with jewellery and cash worth crores of rupees . Since the residents of the area had already reached the site to check the status of their lockers prior to the cordoning of the area and visit of the forensic experts, the police also could not get any vital evidences by way of finger prints. There were no mobile phones, weapons or any other items left behind by the thieves. The ADCP, Special Branch, Daljinder Singh Dhillon, and ADCP, Crime, Harpreet Singh Mander, with the IT staff are already on job to look for vital leads in the case through Begowal case.
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Saplings given to MCM Polytechnic College
Jalandhar, January 21 Besides sensitising students about the importance of the day, forest officials gave over 50 saplings of different species to the college to be planted on its premises. Division Forest Officer, Jalandhar, Vishal Chauhan while addressing the gathering highlighted various aspects of forests and talked about the depleting green cover, which has been playing a part in global warming. Chauhan said over 30,000 saplings had been planted at various places in and around the city under the Ft-23 project undertaken by the state government in Jalandhar. Apart from this, he said, 'khajoor' trees had been planted along the national and state highways passing through the district to add to the beauty of these roads. Chauhan said the department had launched a drive, ‘Green Jalandhar’, to add to the existing forest cover of the city. He said the project had been taken up with the assistance of the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation.
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Students show technical skills in tech fest
Bhara Polytechnic College, Patiala, clinched the overall trophy and got a cash prize of Rs 25,000. Results Science fiction essay writing competition Polytechnic level: First prize (Rs 2,000) - Tarandeep Singh of Pt JR Govt Polytechnical College Hoshiarpur Engineering level: First prize (Rs 3,000) - Ashish Naskar of the Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Gharun Camp, Mohali; second prize (Rs 2,000) - Harmeet Singh of the Beant College of Engineering, Gurdaspur. Quiz competition Polytechnic level: First prize (Rs 5,000) - Bhavika and Anurag from Mehar Chand Polytechnic; second prize (Rs 3,000) - Khushboo and Vishali from Pt JR Polytechical, Hoshiarpur; third prize (Rs 2,000) - Deepak and Kaushal. Engineering level: First prize (Rs 5,000) - Gayan Inder and Mandeep Singh of NIT, Jalandhar; second prize (Rs 2,000) -Sujit J Patil and Millind Sharma of NIT, Jalandhar; third prize - Sandeep and Rahul from the CTIEMT. 'Ad Mad' show First prize - Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib. Cartoon-making competition Polytechnic level: First prize - Kushboo Sharma from Pt JR Polytechnical, Hoshiarpur. Engineering level: First prize - Pravjit Kaur of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib; second prize - Gorveen Kaur of Ludhiana College of Engineering. Automobile show Polytechnic level: First prize - Brij Raj and Kuljit Singh of the CT Engineering College. Engineering level: First prize: Rohit Sharma, Anmol Agrwal and Akil Kumar of Chandigarh Engineering College; second prize - Kashsik Malik, Amit and Nitan Sharama of the Ambala College of Engineering. Software show Polytechnic level: First prize - Guru Nanak Polytechnic College, Ludhiana; second prize - Mehar Chand Polytechnic College, Jalandhar; third prize - Guru Nanak Dev Polytechnic College, Ludhiana. Engineering level: First prize - Rayat Bhara College of Engineering and Biotechnology for Women; second prize - CTIEM, Jalandhar.
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Badal govt forgot its poll promises while presenting Budget, says Congress
Jalandhar, March 21 Sharma, who was accompanied by district Congress urban president Arun Walia and senior vice-president Kanwal Sachdeva, said, "Forget the Badal government's tall promises, it has even failed to fulfil its poll promise of increasing the old age and widow pension from Rs 250 to Rs 600." He said, "The Sheila Dikshit-led government is providing Rs 1,500 as the old age pension whereas the Badal government is just giving Rs 250 as the old age and widow pension. The ruling Akali Dal had made promise in its manifesto that the pension would be hiked to Rs 600 but it forgot its manifesto during the presentation of the budget in the Assembly on Wednesday." He said, "Various types of taxes and electricity tariff has been hiked, and that too retrospectively, which has put an extra burden on Punjabis, who are already reeling under the spiralling prices of almost all the essential commodities." The Congress leaders flayed the Badal government for failing to "provide salaries to employees of various departments". Walia said a large number of Congress workers would go to Chandigarh to participate in the charge-taking ceremony of Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa as Punjab Congress president.
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areas in protest against the imposition of property tax by the SAD-BJP government, various trader organisations of the city joined hands and formed a Mahanagar Sangharsh Committee (MSC) today to start a city-level indefinite agitation.
Pulling up all circle revenue officials for not making recovery in Rs 2.75 crore scam unearthed in the office of the Divisional Commissioner last year, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Parneet Bhardwaj today asked them to recover the amount from the defaulters at the earliest.
Jalandhar, March 21
The Punjab State Aided School Teachers and Other Employees Union today held a meeting at Sain Dass School here today announcing that they would gherao the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in Chandigarh on March 25.
Students of over 150 engineering colleges participated in competitions such as display of working models, quiz and science fiction essay writing in a festival titled
'INNO TECH-2013' organised under the aegis of Pushpa Gujral Science City (PGSC).
Kapurthala, March 21