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Now, complaints can be lodged at Gram Suvidha Kendras
Gurdaspur, July 19
Common Service Centres, also known as Gram Suvidha Kendras to provide various online services in the district, can now be used as complaint centres. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Grievances decided to let people register their complaints against bureaucrats through these CSCs by paying nominal charges.

Nurses’ duty room given to doctors
Patiala, July 19
The staff nurses at Rajindra Hospital will not be allowed to use duty room anymore. They have been given a glass room at the extreme end of the emergency ward instead. The new room does not have attached restrooms.

Sarpanch,12 others booked for grabbing land
Phagwara,July 19
The police has booked 13 persons, including a village sarpanch Balwinder Singh and one unidentified person, on the charges of hatching a conspiracy and grabbing land measuring 16 kanals 8 marlas by preparing fake documents and registering the sale deed.

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	Now, complaints can be lodged at Gram Suvidha Kendras Tribune News Service Gurdaspur, July 19 Common Service Centres (CSCs), also known as Gram Suvidha Kendras to provide various online services in the district, can now be used as complaint centres. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Grievances decided to let people register their complaints against bureaucrats through these CSCs by paying nominal charges. The All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT), a venture of the Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, has established 270 CSCs across the district. These CSCs, managed by a village-level entrepreneur (VLE), provides more than 400 services such as preparing driving licences, birth and death certificates, payment of electricity and mobile bills, phone recharges, police clearance certificates and permission to use loudspeakers. Besides, educational benefits like access to computer courses of IGNOU and AISECT and banking services like deposit and withdrawal from SBI accounts can also be availed. Officials claim that this service, which is called G2C (Government to Citizen), will help people, who normally are wary of complaining against public servants. A portal publicgrievancespb.gov.in is established where people can lodge their complaints by paying a nominal fee of Rs 10 per complaint. Several nationalised banks such as Punjab National Bank, Punjab Gramin Bank, Bank of India, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of India have also come forward to give more facilities to these CSCs which are also known as mini suwidha centres. People availing direct cash subsidies can now avail benefits through these centres. They can also open saving accounts in these CSCs. Sanjeev Sarpal, state coordinator, AISECT, said all the 1,674 villages in the district had been interconnected for better facilitation of services and all the 270 CSCs had become operational. Each CSC is computerised and has a direct link to the Chandigarh-based State Wide Area Network (SWAN) which monitors all these centres.
	Nurses’ duty room given to doctors Patiala, July 19 The staff nurses at Rajindra Hospital will not be allowed to use duty room anymore. They have been given a glass room at the extreme end of the emergency ward instead. The new room does not have attached restrooms. A nurse said the Medical Superintendent had used the doctor's room for the installation of X-ray machine and their room had been given to the doctors. “We have to rest and also change our uniforms at night. But since we have been directed to use that particular room now, we are feeling unsafe. Sometime back, a thief had broken into the room. We will now have to go to other wards for using restrooms during night hours which is unsafe,” she rued. — TNS
	Sarpanch,12 others booked for grabbing land Our Correspondent Phagwara,July 19 The police has booked 13 persons, including a village sarpanch Balwinder Singh and one unidentified person, on the charges of hatching a conspiracy and grabbing land measuring 16 kanals 8 marlas by preparing fake documents and registering the sale deed. An accused posing as Pal Singh, owner of the land, who died in 1983 in Bikaner sold the land to co-conspirators. SP(D) Rajinder Singh said a complaint was lodged by Sukhdeep Kaur, resident of talwan village, in this regard. The police started a detailed investigation. He said twelve accused were identified as Balwinder Singh, Jarnail Singh,Lakhbir Singh,Shamsher Singh,Bhinderjit Singh, Hardip Singh,Santokh Singh,Kashmir Singh, Satwinder Singh,Harwinder Singh,Harinder Singh,Janak Singh.The unidentified person appeared before the registrar posing as Pal Singh and signed the sale deed. SP Rajinder Singh said though no arrest has been made till so for, but the accused would be nabbed soon. A case was registered under Sections 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120b of the IPC.
	960 kg poppy husk seized Phagwara,July19 The police succeeded to bust a gang of drug peddlers and arrested one of the gang member identified as Dharminder Kumar alias Bhinda of Bilga. The police seized a Tata-407 from which 30 bags containing 960 kg of puppy husk were recovered near Sanghowal village. SP(D) Rajinder Singh said three other accomplices identified as Gurpreet of Bilga and Surjit and Kali of Mehatpur managed to escape. A case under Sections 15, 25, 61 and 85 of the NDPS act was registered. — OC