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Railway supdt held on graft charge
Sewer water woes in Civil Station area
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8 pc of villagers over 30 yrs diabetic: Survey
regularisation of unauthorised colonies
Mid-day meal cooks undergo skill enhancing course
Doctors offering discounts
Stray cattle menace claims biker’s life
Students warned against ragging
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Railway supdt held on graft charge
Bathinda, July 13 It is learnt that the accused had sought Rs 40,000 to help Parkash Chand, a gateman from Mal Kot in Ganganagar (Rajasthan), in getting his daughter employed with the Railways. Parkash Chand had applied for a job for his daughter under the Liberalised Active Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed Employment for Safety Staff. Under the scheme, the safety staff of the railways could voluntarily retire from service at the age of 57 and could get their wards recruited after due recommendations and meeting the minimum qualifications prescribed for the job. Parkash said he made several rounds to the office of the accused and repeatedly pleaded before him that he was quite poor to afford the amount being sought. However, the superintendent allegedly refused to relent and did not forward his file. Irked over this, Parkash approached the senior VB officials. The matter was further brought to the notice of the SSP, Vigilance, Sukhdev Chahal. The SSP deputed a team under the supervision of DSP Janak Singh to handle the case. The complainant was told to bargain with the accused and it was finally agreed that Rs 25,000 would be paid by the complainant to the accused at the railway office here today. However, the VB officials nabbed the superintendent while taking bribe, in the presence of government officials who were brought by the VB as witnesses in the case. The accused was brought to the Vigilance police station where a case under Sections 7 and 13 (2) 88 of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against him. DSP Janak Singh said the accused had been working in the Railways for around 30 years. He added that it was after nearly six years that an official of the Railways was arrested by the VB. Fact file
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Sewer water woes in Civil Station area
Bathinda, July 13 The assistant commissioner, Kamal Kant Goyal, said the sewer water had accumulated as the work on de-silting the arterial sewer was under way. “The work is in progress on the GT Road, for which we had to plug certain points. The plugs will be removed tonight, after which sewer water will recede,” he said. Last week, the department had de-silted the sewer near the local grain market. After completing the work on the GT Road, it will take up work on de-silting the main sewer on the Mall Road. The assistant commissioner added that since there were several technical aspects to be taken care of, the work on complete de-silting of the sewers was taking time. |
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8 pc of villagers over 30 yrs diabetic: Survey
Bathinda, July 13 Nursing students and multi-purpose health workers posted at different urban health centres have been put on the job of conducting the survey. They have been provided with kits meant for testing levels of blood sugar as well as blood pressure. Everyone in the district, who is above 30 years of age, is being tested for the two diseases. The round of testing in Bathinda city is expected to be completed by July 31. The other urban bodies in the district will be taken up later. Earlier, the study conducted in rural areas of the district found around 8 per cent of the examinees as diabetic and 9 per cent hypertensive. Around 3.9 lakh people were screened. The data was collected from all 285 villages in the district, starting from December 29, 2011, till August 2012. Of the population of 13 lakh in the district, around 6 to 7 lakh persons live in the rural areas and the survey covered 3.9 lakh people who were above 30 years of age. Bathinda is among the 100 districts in the country where the project has been launched. District Health Officer Raghubir Singh Randhawa said emphasis would be laid on sensitising patients to the importance of doing physical exercise, controlling stress as well as taking balanced diet. The patients detected would be treated and counselled at the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) centre being run from the premises of the Civil Hospital, Bathinda. |
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regularisation of unauthorised colonies
Bathinda, July 13 The camps are being held under the administration's campaign to create awareness on regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the district. In a press statement issued here, Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav stated that officials of the Revenue Department, Municipal Corporation, Bathinda (MCB), and the Bathinda Development Authority (BDA) would conduct such camps in all the unauthorised colonies. The BDA has been vested with the powers to regularise the colonies situated within the municipal limits of Bathinda city, municipal committees of different urban bodies as well as those lying outside the limits of civic bodies. The officials would also create awareness on regularisation policy. |
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Mid-day meal cooks undergo skill enhancing course
Bathinda, July 13 The principal of the institute, Kamal Piyush, said, "The skill certification programme is aimed at enhancing the skills of the already-employed persons." The course aims at turning the mundane task of preparing mid-day meal for the students into an interesting one. The mid-day meal scheme is run by the Government of India under its Sarv Siksha Abhiyaan project. During the course, the cooks were trained on how to prepare food in a more hygienic manner, keeping the food safe, cleaning the machines and utensils used for food production, work management, food management, food presentation, maintaining hygiene, utilising the leftovers, right temperature for storing different food items, etc. This is the second year the institute has hosted the programme. Last year, the institute had trained as many as 381 mid-day meal cooks, in the batches of 25-30. "Last year, we had conducted the classes during vacations. This year too, we had planned to do the same but it didn't materialise," said the principal. Apart from learning the nuances and tricks of kitchen, food and time management, the cooks also get a certificate and a stipend of Rs 1,200 at the end of the course. "This is a Central scheme and we compensate those undergoing the course for the loss of their wages. The payment is made at the rate of Rs 200 per day," said Kamal Piyush. |
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Doctors offering discounts
Bathinda, July 13 Doctors across the city are offering discounts on surgical procedures, reduced rates of vaccine and other services to "attract patients" at any cost. "While the offer of packages for diagnostic purposes in diseases has been known for a long time, the practice of giving subsidy or discounts is a matter of concern for the profession," said a city doctor preferring anonymity. He added that such advertisements are often misleading and instead, the patients are over charged under the garb of hidden costs. One such centre on the Mall Road has not only been offering "discount" on medical procedures, but also offered to pick the patient from home "free of cost" when inquiries were made over the phone. President of the Bathinda chapter of the IMA, Dr Shiv Dutt Gupta said such pamphlets were not in his knowledge. When pressed for an answer, he said, "Aap keh rahi hain to hoga hi. (If you are saying, it must be there)." As per the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations 2002 Code of Medical Ethics, section 7.12, an institution run by a physician for a particular purpose such as a maternity home, nursing home, private hospital, rehabilitation centre or any training institution etc. may be advertised in the lay press, but such advertisements should not contain anything more than the name of the institution, type of patients admitted, type of training and other facilities offered and the fees. Nine years ago, in 2004, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) had taken strict action against a Ludhiana-based doctor couple that had issued advertisements promising childless couples that they could bear babies. "We issued a strict warning to the doctor couple and even wrote to the MCI requesting that the doctors should be barred from practicing. We had even revoked their membership for six months after which they tendered an apology in writing. IMA's action was a warning for all such doctors," said Dr OPS Kande, who was the
president, IMA, Punjab, in 2004 and the complainant in the case. A member of the Punjab Medical Council (PMC), Dr Kande said action should be taken against doctors who indulge in such unethical practices. He said there was an urgent need to repeat such action in order to instill ethical practices in the young medicos. |
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Sweet taste of success after 100 yrs of hard work
"We are content with what we sell. We prepare in the morning and by evening, the entire stock is sold. We are hardly ever left with anything for the next day, unlike the other sweet shops in the city," says Vivek, who currently looks after the shop. When Vivek's grandfather, Pandit Jethu Ram, came to Bathinda from Rajasthan, he had little finance but a lot of talent. He set up a small shop near the Qila Mubarak in 1914 and started preparing and selling 'namakpaare' and 'shakkarpare' to the residents of the city. The shop was then taken care of by his son Jai Shiv Sharma and now Jethu's grandson, Vivek. Over the decades, the boundaries of the city stretched but the fame of the shop refused to die down. For all these years, the shop has been selling only a small variety of sweets which sell as hot cakes. "We are content with what we make and sell. We have three workers in the shop and have a base of faithful customers. Those who are the real patrons of our shops can taste the sweets and tell whether it is from our shop or not," says Vivek. So much is the contentment that they sometimes turn down contracts for preparing boxes of sweets for marriages. "We want to focus on our daily customers rather than on big orders. If we get busy with marriage and party contracts, we will lose our loyal customer base," he adds. "The reason behind the popularity of the shop is that we never compromise on the quality of the ingredients and condiments that we use for preparing sweets," he adds. Rate card
Mutton: Rs 130; chicken: Rs 100; kadhi pakoda: Rs 40; matar
paneer/chhole paneer: Rs 40; roti: Rs 5; daal: Rs 40; stuffed naan (with raita and salad):
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Stray cattle menace claims biker’s life
Bathinda, July 13
The bulls were running on the road and the scooterist collided them and was seriously injured after falling from the scooter. The injured was rushed to the Civil Hospital from where he was referred to another hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The local residents, who were in panic, accused the officials of the Municipal Corporation of not taking the matter of stray cattle seriously. They also accused the state government of making false promises to make the the city more beautiful than Paris. "All promises are hollow as people continue to lose their lives in road accidents," said Raj Kumar, a resident of Haji Rattan. A section of the shopkeepers and local residents said they would protest against the attitude of the corporation officials, and the district administration for not listening to their problems. |
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BJP Mahila Morcha elects its working committee
Bathinda, July 13 Thanking all the members of the BJP Mahila Morcha for their dedication towards the organisation, she assured them that they stood together not only as a party but also as a family. Anita Arora, Prem Bansal and Bhupinder Kaur were named the district vice-presidents, Vijay Sharma was named the district general secretary. Parveen Singla, Manju, Parminder Kaur, Sarla Sharma and Surdarshan Sethi were named the secretaries. Simple was named the cashier of the organisation.
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Students warned against ragging
Bathinda, July 13 Principal Dr Harkiran Kaur's aim was to sensitise the students towards the menace of ragging, the existing laws of government and the rules of the Medical Council of India (MCI) to tackle the same. She claimed that the Adesh campus was a no ragging zone with year round anti-ragging surveillance by the central anti-ragging committee. The principal reminded the students of various anti-ragging policies on the campus. Dr Harkiran Kaur said that a fair warning has been issued to the students to comply with it strictly. She stressed that deviant behaviour is closely associated with alcohol and intoxicants, and their use on campus will be strictly dealt with. Action will be taken according to the provisins of the law, she said. |
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Students informed about career options
Bathinda, July 13 He shared that the educational group has five national campuses, two universities, a skill development centre and two international campuses (UK & USA). Keeping in mind the demands of the job market, the group is offering M.Tech, B.Tech (civil, mechanical, ECE, CSE), MBA, MCA, BBA, BCA, B-Pharmacy and polytechnic diploma courses. |
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College canteen inaugurated
Bathinda, July 13 Principal of the college, Vijay Goyal, shared that till a couple of years back, the college had separate canteens for girls and boys but the canteen for boys was made into a joint one about two years back. He added that the college management took the decision to build a separate canteen for girls to ward of anti-social elements from the college premises and ensure a safe environment for the college students. Present at the inauguration ceremony were Prof Gurjit Singh Mann, Prof Sukhdev Singh, Prof Jyoti Prakash and Prof Roshan Singh, among others.
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