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Bus passengers on Fazilka-F’pur route at receiving end
Fazilka, June 4
The 87-km long Fazilka-Ferozepur route is perhaps the only route in the state over which the Punjab Roadways has a monopoly. Private transporters have not been granted permits to ply their buses on the route. But the strike by the roadways employees has added to the woes of passengers as the authorities have discontinued plying of 20 buses out of a fleet of 35 buses attached with the Punjab Roadways sub-depot at Fazilka.

Moga surpasses target for artificial insemination of cattle
Moga, June 4
Moga district has surpassed the 100 per cent target of artificial insemination of cows in the financial year ending March 31 this year.

PSEB Class X Merit List
Abohar girls make clean sweep in dist
Abohar, June 4
All the seven positions in the PSEB class X merit list in Fazilka district have been bagged by students, all of them girls, from Abohar. They are among the 30 toppers from across the state.

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	Bus passengers on Fazilka-F’pur route at receiving end Praful Chander Nagpal Fazilka, June 4 The 87-km long Fazilka-Ferozepur route is perhaps the only route in the state over which the Punjab Roadways has a monopoly. Private transporters have not been granted permits to ply their buses on the route. But the strike by the roadways employees has added to the woes of passengers as the authorities have discontinued plying of 20 buses out of a fleet of 35 buses attached with the Punjab Roadways sub-depot at Fazilka. The demand for revocation of the monopoly of Punjab Roadways on the Fazilka-Ferozepur route has again gained momentum as the commuters have been suffering continuously. The state transport authorities had granted permits to some private traders on the route over two decades back but the strong lobby of Punjab Roadways employees did not allow them to ply their buses on this monopoly route. As per official sources, the department has suspended the plying of at least 20 long route buses including Fazilka to Chintpurni (Himachal Pardesh), Yamunanagar (Haryana), Sangria, Hanumangarh and Srigangangar (Rajasthan) Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Nangal and Amritsar, leaving the passengers high and dry. The problem has aggravated as no private buses are allowed to run on this monopoly route. The passengers have to opt for alternative means as some unauthorised vehicles have been running on the route with impunity. “It is in the larger interests of the people of the area to end the monopoly of Punjab Roadways on this route and allow the plying of private buses to provide better and competitive service to the commuters,” said Rajinder Kumar who travels daily between Fazilka and Ferozepur. Makhan Singh, General Manager, Punjab Roadways, when contacted, said, "The buses are being run frequently and there is no problem of any kind. However, the monopoly route can not be revoked at all.”
	Moga surpasses target for artificial insemination of cattle Kulwinder Sandhu/TNS Moga, June 4 Moga district has surpassed the 100 per cent target of artificial insemination of cows in the financial year ending March 31 this year. Claiming this, Dr Nazar Singh, deputy director, animal husbandry department, said as many as 1,18,884 cows had been artificially inseminated against a target of 1,05,000, which amounts to 113.2 per cent target achievement. Likewise, 89,348 buffalos against a target of 86,000 had been artificially inseminated. Adding that the OPD services rendered by the department were also 110 per cent, Dr Nazar Singh said the veterinary officials were striving hard to improve the livestock sector. He said the department had organized 22 free fertility camps and 9 healthcare camps under the Assistance to Status for Control of Animal Diseases scheme for ensuring proper healthcare facilities to the livestock. "Apart from this, we have also organized 12 general camps and 2 farmers' training camps under the ATMA scheme," he added. He revealed that the National Disease Reporting Programme was successfully launched in Moga district recently. The department was also organizing free fertility and progeny test camps in the villages to bring awareness on improving the breeds of cows and for increasing the milk yield but major stress was being laid on scientific rearing and care of the cows to realise full genetic potential in the form of milk production.
	PSEB Class X Merit List Abohar girls make clean sweep in dist Our Correspondent Abohar, June 4 All the seven positions in the PSEB class X merit list in Fazilka district have been bagged by students, all of them girls, from Abohar. They are among the 30 toppers from across the state. Not only this, Abohar leads again in recording the highest number on the merit list in the undivided Ferozepur district as well. Gurkiran Kaur of Divine Light Public School here has got the overall 12th position in the merit list by getting 616 marks. Pooja Bishnoi and Ishita of Genius International School, Sarita of Navyug School, Aastha of Flower Valley School, Deeksha of Anmol Public School and Sukanya Chaudhary of Amrit Model School have figured prominently in the top 30. Interestingly, all the merit holders are from private schools here. This sub-divisional town had earlier maintained the lead in PSEB class XII results. In all, 14 students of Fazilka district figured in the list, 13 of them belonging to the educational institutions based at Abohar. Reeza Makkar, a student of DAV Collegiate School, had got the 5th position in class XII science stream.
	Bathing in canal proves fatal for three youths Our Correspondent Abohar, June 4 Three youths were drowned while taking bath in the Karni branch of Gang (Bikaner) canal near village Dhaban in neighbouring Sriganganagar late last evening. As per the information, Gauravdeep Malethia of Sangria, Rohit Kasnia of Saliwala and Sandeep Dhaka of Ratanpura village had come to meet their friend Surinder Kumar Meghwal in village Dhaban. Even as none of them had received any training in swimming, they decided to take bath in the Karni branch canal near 26RD headworks at about 7.30 pm yesterday. As they shouted for help, some farmers rushed but they could rescue only Surinder Kumar, a local resident. Later at about 9.30 pm, the body of Rohit Kasnia was fished out. The three were doing their B.Ed at Gramothan Vidyapeeth. In another incident today, two minor boys, identified as Sunil Kumhar (12) and Bhagwana Ram Naik (15), drowned in Indira Gandhi canal, near burji number 465, as they slipped while trying to fetch water. Irrigation officials in Sriganganagar and Abohar have cautioned the youths against beating the heat by jumping into the canals that have become deeper after the desilting during the last two months.
	Legal notice not served by name: DC Moga, June 4 Referring to the news report "NRI slaps legal notice on ex-DGP, Moga DC" published in these columns on Tuesday, the Deputy Commissioner-cum-Collector Arshdeep Singh Thind has stated that the notice has been served on him by "designation" and not by "name". India-born Canadian citizen Jagdev Singh Gill, who was recently acquitted by the district and sessions judge Karamjit Singh Kang in the murder case of former Congress MLA Nachattar Singh Gill, has slapped legal notices on ex-DGP Paramdip Singh Gill, Collector of the Moga district and Bhupinder Singh, SP (D), presently posted at Khanna for registering two false criminal cases of a similar nature against him with malicious intent. The DC further clarified that he was not posted at Moga when these cases were filed against the Canadian citizen. — TNS

17-yr-old girl abducted from her kin’s place
Tribune News Service

Moga, June 4
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped by two youths from her relative’s house in Dala village in the district, police sources said here today.

In a complaint lodged with the police, Gurmeet Kaur, mother of the girl, stated that she along with her daughter had come to her parental house at Dala village from laws Machhike village a few days back to stay with her parents.

Two youths, identified as Kuldip Singh and Sukha Singh, both residents of Machike village, forcibly entered their house and kidnapped her daughter who is studying Class XI in a car and fled from the spot.

The accused were still at large and the girl was yet to be rescued, police sources informed.

It may be mentioned that a few days back, another 17-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped from Khosa Randhir Singh village under Kot-ise-Khan police station when she was returning from school.

In yet another incident a week ago, a Class IX student of Talwandi Malhianwala village was also kidnapped while returning from school.

Police is yet to trace these kidnapped girls.

Meanwhile, taking a serious view of the increase in the number of kidnapping cases involving minor girls in the district, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surjit Singh Grewal has constituted special teams to recover the girls and instructions have been passed on to the SHOs to increase patrolling in vulnerable areas.