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DC tells XEN to issue eviction notices
11 schoolchildren hurt in accident
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830 nomination papers filed for Block Samiti, ZP elections
Kidnapped boy found
Paying guest accommodations make hay
Chemists' strike on May 10
Parking woes: Action initiated against seven hospitals
Hasten construction work, Mayor tells officials
Units challenge PPCB claim
CT scan machine not put to optimal use
Inter-house mathematics contest organised
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DC tells XEN to issue eviction notices
Jalandhar, May 7 The first list includes the names of three PCS officers and two police officials. Topping the list is former District Transport Officer Babita Kler, who has got transferred and was posted as Deputy Director, Local Government, at Ludhiana on November 4, 2011. However, she has been illegally occupying house number 4-A here. Similarly, PCS officer PS Gill, who remained posted as Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner, got transferred and was posted as District Transport Officer in Hoshiarpur on July 19, 2011, but has been retaining his government house number 8-A at Old Baradari in Jalandhar. PCS officer Harbir Singh, who was Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner here in addition to his charge as Estate Officer PUDA Jalandhar, got transferred and was posted as the AETC in Ludhiana on July 18, 2011. He is currently posted as ADC in Hoshiapur, but is yet to vacate his house 5-B in Jalandhar. Having remained as the ADCP in Jalandhar till July 25, 2011, SK Kalia got transferred from here as SSP Pathankot, but retains house number 30-B here. Likewise, Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh, who served as DSP in Jalandhar earlier, got transferred as SP in Phagwara on May 4, 2012, but continues to be an unauthorised occupant of house number 9-C in Jalandhar. The DC said she had directed XEN PWD BS Tuli to issue them notices, file cases against them before the competent court under Sections 4 and 7 of the Public Premises Act and recover the penal rent, licence fee etc from them as per the House Allotment Rules. She said there were several officers currently posted in Jalandhar who were putting up in private rental accommodation as the transferred officials were not leaving government houses here. Tuli, when contacted, said that he was in the process of issuing notices. As per the rules, the officers can retain government accommodation only for a period of two months after getting transferred. The period can be extended up to six months with the permission of Commissioner Jalandhar Division, who is the chairman of the Housing Committee. We are looking into all aspects and calculating the penalty due from them. The market value of each house, depending on the covered and uncovered space, is being calculated. The penalty amount is double the market rate. In some cases, the officials may have to pay up as high as Rs 40,000 a month for the overstay, he said. |
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11 schoolchildren hurt in accident
Jalandhar, May 7 The bus driver reportedly failed to notice the tipper coming out of a petrol pump there. The bus driver lost control over the vehicle and veered off the road after hitting the tipper. The window panes of the bus got smashed. A 108 ambulance was immediately pressed into service and the injured were taken to Civil Hospital Kartarpur for treatment. The 36 children on board the bus had a providential escape due to a power cut at the time of the accident. The mishap also led to the uprooting of electricity poles and snapping of power cables.
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830 nomination papers filed for Block Samiti, ZP elections
Jalandhar, May 7 In all, 739 papers have been received for Block Samitis and 91 for Zila Parishads. Phillaur received the maximum response with as many as 99 papers filed from its various block-samiti zones. The District Administrative Complex which housed offices of three ROs remained jam-packed till 3 pm, the time for filing papers. Leaders of the political parties came along with their candidates. Minister for Jails Sarwan Singh Phillaur came along Rajinder Singh Nagra contesting for the Zila Parishad elections from Wariana zone. Former MC councillor Paramjit Singh Reru filed papers from Nagiza zone falling in the Kartarpur constituency. Punjab Youth Congress chief Vikram Chaudhary also came along candidates filing papers from the Phillaur constituency. BSP leader Sukhwinder Kotli too came accompanied by party candidates from the Adampur constituency.
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Kidnapped boy found
Jalandhar, May 7 The police arrested a UP-based couple, who had reportedly kidnapped the boy, Abhishek, and taken him along to Ludhiana, from where he was rescued more than three months after he had gone missing. The father of the boy, Umesh Kumar, hailing from Bihar and settled here at Hargobind Nagar, had on February 27, lodged a complaint that their neighbours, Raja Ram and his wife Birja Devi, had kidnapped their toddler. An FIR had been lodged under Sections 363 and 365 of the IPC. The police today nabbed Birja Devi from Jalandhar City Railway Station. She confessed that Abhishek was with her husband at Ludhiana. A team was rushed to Ludhiana, from where the boy was rescued. Raja Ram has been taken into custody.
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Paying guest accommodations make hay
Jalandhar, May 7 Though the business of the PGs has thrived by leaps and bounds in the past decade here, neither the administration nor anyone else is clear on the money involved in this unregulated trade. Jalandhar had always been a hub of educational institutions, and with the coming up of various private educational institutions, universities, industrial units and multi-national companies (MNCs), the city has witnessed a tremendous influx of students. Hundreds of PG accomodations have come up in the surroundings of educational institutions Ladhewali, Workshop Chowk, Kabir Nagar, Maqsudan, Shahapur and various other places in and around the city. Villages around private universities in Chaheru village on the GT Road have the maximum number of such unauthorised paying guest accommodations, while more PGs are coming up at Samastipur and other villages on the Jammu highway with the coming up of on another university here. In the absence of adequate government residential accommodation, the PGs have become the most-preferred places for most of the students and office-goers. Evading different taxes as they are doing commercial activities, the PGs have been providing food and other facilities without obtaining licences from the health department. Right under the nose of the authorities, the PGs, which otherwise are indulging in commercial activity, have been enjoying the "residential status" and paying bills for the water supply and sewerage facilities at domestic rate rather than commercial ones. Moreover, they have been using domestic LPG cylinders instead of commercial ones in their kitchens, claimed Surinder Mittal, a city resident. The mushrooming of the PGs has affected law and order situation here, as hardly any PG owner has come forward for police verification of their "guests" who pay them hefty and unaccounted amount for their stay, said Sanjeev Sharma, a resident on the Ladhewali road. Expressing her ignorance of having any rules for the PGs, the Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shruti Singh said she was in the process to frame rules for the PGs with the help of the Jalandhar Development Authorities (JDA), Municipal Corporation (MC) and the police. Commissioner of Jalandhar MC Viney Bublani and JDA’s chief administrator Supreet Singh Gulati expressed their ignorance on violations by the PG owners. Interestingly, Dr RL Bassan, Civil Surgeon, however, said that the city had a few PGs and no owner had approached the health department for licence as yet. |
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Chemists' strike on May 10
Jalandhar, May 7 Over 1,500 chemists (wholesalers and retailers) across the district will keep their business establishments closed to press their demands that include no reduction in commission, amendment in the 2008 rules for chemists and pharmacists, prohibiting the entry of FDIs in this sector and lifting the ban on the issuance of drug licences etc. Addressing mediapersons, the association leaders Rakesh Gupta and Jatinder Singh Chawla claimed that the government, in an attempt to extend benefits to the multinationals, had decided to reduce their margin in the commission. Moreover, with the MNCs coming in the field their trade was going to be ruined. The association members claimed to have asked the officials of various healthcare institutions to maintain their stock to meet any emergency. |
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Parking woes: Action initiated against seven hospitals
Jalandhar, May 7 The JC had convened a meeting of the owners of all seven hospitals on whom the orders had come on February 18. The three-month deadline ends on May 18. A PIL on traffic problems arising out of parking by patients and visitors to the hospitals had been filed by a resident Kamal Kumar Aggarwal, over which the court had asked the MC officials to take action within three months. The complainant had raised the issue against Patel Hospital, Satyam Hospital, Bowry Medical Centre, Joshi Hospital, Vasal Hospital, Chhabra Hospital and Maternity Home, and Tagore Hospital and Heart Care. Owners of the hospitals had two arguments today, one that their building had already been compounded by the MC staff. Their second argument was that they had acquired vacant plots closeby for parking purposes. All of them had been asked to submit their written replies in the case. Even the petitioner Kamal Kumar Aggarwal had been called to depose on the matter. Anupam Kler said that she would study the replies of all hospitals, get physical facts verified and pass strictures accordingly.
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Hasten construction work, Mayor tells officials
Jalandhar, May 7 The first issue raised was about dumping of concrete waste at a vacant commercial plot of the Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT). Huge mounds of waste were reportedly dumped by cart drivers from adjoining colonies, including Qila Mohalla and Rasta Mohalla. The Mayor called the JIT head draftsman at the site and asked him to ensure construction of a boundary wall so as to keep a check on the nuisance. Ward No. 18 councillor, who also happens to be the sister-in-law of ex-Mayor Suresh Sehgal, complained to Jyoti about growing heaps of garbage dump in the colony at which he told Assistant Commissioner Ved Vyas to get a covered dump constructed at a conducive site. — TNS |
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Units challenge PPCB claim
Jalandhar, May 7 On behalf of the Prime Leathers and Fibertech Leathers, Gaurav Sood claimed that untreated waste of their tanneries was being sent to the treatment plant. Notably, yesterday, the PPCB chairman, Ravinder Singh had issued the orders to seal the drums of the five tanneries, which were into wet tanning operations notwithstanding the fact that the tanneries were situated in Dry Leather Complex. "We have documents from the departments concerned to substantiate that no pollution norm was being violated by us," claimed Sood. Despite repeated attempts, the PPCB chairman Ravinder Singh was not available for comments.
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CT scan machine not put to optimal use
Jalandhar, May 7 The machine that was made operational in October last year is reportedly being handled by two radiologists only against the recommended strength of five. Moreover, the hospital also lacks skilled analysts, who could prepare the reports after going through the images clicked in the machines, thus delivering the CT reports in time. Sources in the hospital revealed that the machine had arrived in June and was installed in October. In the initial days, there were five to seven scans on a daily basis, while the number has gone up to 20 at present. The number of patients requiring CT scans has gone up, as the rate of scans for different body parts in this government-run-hospital is almost two to three times less than the charges of private scanning centres and hospitals in the city. In an effort to provide medicines (to be administered or injected to the patients during CT scan) at affordable prices, the hospital management has even asked the Jan Aushdhi Centre to keep the drugs (contrasts) for the needy. The medical superintendent, Dr Renu, however, said there was no shortage of radiologists, but admitted that for want of skilled analysts, the accurate and prompt reports of the CT scan could not be delivered to the patients.
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Inter-house mathematics contest organised
Jalandhar, May 7 Felicitation ceremony Award ceremony was held in Bawa Lalvani Public School, Kapurthala on Satuday. The winners of the GK olympiad were applauded during the ceremony. 184 students appeared in the competition. Poorva Prashar of grade seven secured the second rank at the national level. Talent search examination National Level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE) 2013 was organised by the Unified Council, in which 42 students of Bawa-Lalvani Public School, Kapurthala, from grade two to nine partcipated. From total of all participants, four students brought laurels to the school. Principal Jaspal Gill, congratulated and appreciated the students for their success. Drawing and painting competition Sahodaya inter-school drawing and painting competition was organised at the DIPS Nurmahal. Students from different schools participated in this event and showed their talent. Prizes were given to the winners by the director of the DIPS institutions, Lakhwinder Kaur. French classes conclude Under the aegis of KMV School of Communications and Foreign Languages, Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, a batch of French students completed their course in Basic French Language. Principal, Dr Atima Sharma, congratulated Dean Seema Jain for organising the classes. National Bhavna Diwas Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (KMV) celebrated National Bhavna Diwas with great zeal and enthusiasm. As many as 2,000 students and teachers clad in white khadi took part in this celebration. Principal Atima Sharma said this celebration was a way of paying a tribute to those who have laid down their lives for motherland.
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Jalandhar, May 7
Jalandhar, May 7
Jalandhar, May 7
