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Recruitment racket busted
Safai Karamcharis defer their stir till Sept 12
Infrastructure, systemic flaws hamper functioning of govt vets
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Municipal Corporation office grapples with power woes
Firm fined by consumer forum
Sarabjit Cheema performs at Lyallpur Khalsa College
Lecture held on breastfeeding
Tobacco co. had 6 firms running in different names
4 snatchers arrested
Science meet held at Government High School
Officials transferred
Officials take stock of flood affected areas Bajrang Dal activists block road Bajrang Dal activists demonstrating on National Highway in Phagwara on Monday. photo:
Ashok Kaura Legal cell office-bearers appointed Burglary attempted
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Recruitment racket busted
Jalandhar, August 12 "Our head office today got a query on the basis of the advertisement that appeared. They sounded us an alert and we immediately swung into action. After doing some preliminary inquiries at our end, we immediately got a complaint lodged with the Police Commissioner," said deputy excise and taxation commissioner Sarojini Gautam Sharda. The advertisement reads, "Permanent government job in the sales
tax department for the post of Tax Collection Assistants, qualification Plus Two, salary 18,000 per month, age 18-40 years, last date for applying August 27." The officials have said the insertions appeared twice through a Mohali-based advertising agency, once on August 6 and then on August 9, with three mobile phone numbers printed for those seeking more details. Sharda said she asked her staff to call on the given numbers in the advertisement. "The respondent on the other side told my staff (acting as an interested candidate) that his address be given so that a person could come and collect biodata from his place. He was also told to pay up Rs 300 for this extra facility," she revealed. Assistant excise and taxation commissioner-I Paramjit Singh, who has submitted the complaint, has sought an investigation into the matter by the police so that the gullible youth are not misled. He has mentioned that the advertisement had appeared on behalf of one Sujan Singh, a resident of Phase 11, Sector 65, Mohali. Police Commissioner Gaurav Yadav could not be contacted. Fake advertisements in papers
An agency had last week twice given insertions in two vernacular dailies regarding regular appointment of class XII qualified tax collection assistants for a monthly salary of Rs 18,000. Officials of the excise and taxation department said they were in for a surprise when they got to hear about advertisements having appeared, as the department currently had no plans to conduct any recruitment |
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Safai Karamcharis defer their stir till Sept 12
Jalandhar, August 12 Union representatives postponed their agitation for one month after their meeting with the Local Bodies Minister at Circuit House in Jalandhar on Sunday. Chief Parliamentary Secretary KD Bhandari, Local Bodies principal secretary Ashok Gupta and Mayor Sunil Jyoti were also present at a meeting in this regard. Talking to The Tribune, general secretary of the TWU Sham Lal said Bhagat Chunni Lal and Ashok Gupta told them they would take up the matter of solid waste project with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and till then, it would not install it at Jalandhar and other cities where it was yet to be set up. Sham Lal said the unions not only demanded the solid waste project should not be installed in Jalandhar and other cities of Punjab and its functioning should be stopped with immediate effect where it had already been set up in Ludhiana, Amritsar and Bathinda cities. Earlier, the unions threatened to restart their indefinite state-level strike from August 12 after the breakdown of their talks with Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal held in Chandigarh on August 9. The safai karamcharis had earlier held a one-day strike on August 1 but they deferred their strike till August 12 following an assurance given to them by Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) for Cooperation KD Bhandari of arranging their meeting with Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal regarding their demands. Bhandari, accompanied by Mayor Sunil Jyoti, and senior deputy mayor Kamaljit Singh Bhatia assured the safai karamcharis during their state-level rally at Company Bagh against the setting up of solid waste management projects in all major cities of Punjab. |
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Infrastructure, systemic flaws hamper functioning of govt vets
Jalandhar, August 12 While the hideous treatment meted out to cattle on the Tanda Road and Bulandpur Gaushalas had yet again brought the working of government or hired vets under question, interestingly, the only entity to provide treatment to the hapless cattle at the gaushala was yet again the PFA’s humble little unit at the police lines. Despite the presence of 76 animal husbandry vets in the district, a majority of the stray and/or domesticated injured animals make way to the PFA. While the PFA is the unofficial veterinary treatment destination for any kind of stray animals found with grievous injuries, the NGO is not even being provided with any sort of government help and funds and continues to run with government money. In the past one month, eight injured cattle from the gaushala have been sent to the PFA. The number of cattle making way through the year was much more. With the MC’s dog sterilisation project lying suspended, the PFA also is the only unit in the district to ensure sterilsation for stray dogs in the district (except the occasional do-gooder). A government vet, on condition of anonymity, said, “While there are 76 veterinary doctors in the district, strays or domestic, injured animals, even those brought to us, finally make way to the PFA. Many government doctors are unwilling to take cases. We are also an overburdened lot, who are mostly carrying out either election duties or filling out forms for schemes which have nothing to do with veterinary functions.” In most of the government vet clinics, doctors have only one or two support staff. In general, the clinics are small and lack proper infrastructure. Sources said at places, government vets were directing visitors through a tiring process of conducting various costly tests on animals or charging hefty fees to drive them away. The over 1,400 cattle at the Tanda and Bulandpur gauhalas, also, were left to the care of a doctor with a pharmacy diploma and a couple of government doctors who hardly ever visited the place. Dr JK Chopra, senior veterinary officer of the animals husbandry department, however, said, “As allocated we regularly carry out vaccination campaigns and door-to-door checking of animals in the areas allocated to us. The MC and gaushala authorities had regularly been calling us to aid treatment of the gaushala animals and we had been regularly providing them as well.” However, PFA head Chander Bushan said, “We have been getting malnourished and injured animals for the gaushala and it always comes to us when treatment has to be provided to them.” Bhushan also said mostly doctors’ work was confined to prescribing medicines, while animals languished due to malnourishment and medicines did not work. “Sensitisation in an animal-friendly approach is what doctors and the public need most of all. Meanwhile, we continue to do our work.”
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Municipal Corporation office grapples with power woes
Due to the less load sanctioned than the actual requirement, the problem of voltage fluctuation is routine in the MC office. On many occasions, the voltage problem aggravates so much that power has to be switched off on an entire floor. Notably, there are four floors in the MC office, but the offices of the civic staff are on the first, second and third floor only. "In order to ensure that at least the electrical appliances on two floors work properly, the power supply on one of the floors is switched off. This leads to a lot of troubles," said a civic official. Notably, at the time of inauguration of the new MC building in the year 2009, the corporation authorities got a load of 492 kw sanctioned for the entire office block. Later, the authorities noticed that the actual load requirement to run all electrical appliances was about 1,200 mw. "We do not have money to pay even for the security for applying for load augmentation. When we have our revenue generation system in place, we will be able to apply for the additional load," said a senior official. Meanwhile, the civic staff inside the power house of the corporation building is a harassed lot due to the absence of fire-safety equipment in a room. The civic staff sits under risky conditions inside a small room with two transformers, three generators and entire main switch panel running through the wires. "There is no fire-safety equipment inside the room. No rubber mats are provided to us to save us from electric shock," said the MC staff. Despite repeated attempts, the Municipal Commissioner was not available for comments. Fund crunch
The sanctioned power load in the corporation head office was 492 KW against the actual requirement of 1200 KW. But due to fund crunch, the civic authorities have not got the load increased from Punjab State Power Corporation Limited. Due to the less load sanctioned than the actual requirement, the problem of voltage fluctuation is routine in the office |
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Firm fined by consumer forum
Jalandhar, August 12 In his complaint, Dinesh Khanna, a resident of JP Nagar, said on February 21, he had purchased a mobile set Micromax Mobile Ninja from Mobile House at Phagwara Gate for an amount of Rs 4,400. He said the set started giving trouble to him due to some malfunction in its operating system. He said without any command it used to restart thereby causing loss of valuable time, network problem and low battery problems. The said defect caused a lot of inconvenience and the complainant was made to put unwarranted efforts to operate it. Just two days after the purchase, the complainant approached the dealer and apprised him about the defect. He said the dealer did not bother to accede to his request and tried to evade the complainant on one pretext or the other and told the complainant that the worker who can inspect the problem was on leave, so he should come after February 28. He again approached the dealer on March 1 and was told to go to the authorised service centre of the company. He was told that the company had a policy to replace the handset if it gives problem in the first week of purchase. The staff at the service centre assured him of necessary repairs with an assurance to get delivery of the set within few days. When the complainant approached the centre next day, the concerned staff told the complainant that the handset of such series was having some inherent manufacturing defect in the electronic circuit and was flooded with numerous complaints of the buyers and it could not be repaired. On March 26, the complainant received an SMS that the set had been repaired and was ready to be delivered. He said when he reached the office again to take delivery he was told that it was still having some inherent defects and would take few more days. The forum observed that from the evidence given by the complainant, it stands proven that the mobile hand set sold to him was defective. It accepted the complaint and directed the company to refund the price of the mobile set Rs 4,400 along with Rs.1,500 as compensation and litigation expenses. |
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Sarabjit Cheema performs at Lyallpur Khalsa College
Jalandhar, August 12 The occasion was marked by the presence of the member of the College Management Deepinder Singh Purewal and principal of the college Dr GS Samra. Dr Samra said the college is proud to have an artists like Cheema as its alumnus and added that college will make all efforts for the promotion of Punjabi culture. Meanwhile, the singer also visited the ECA department of Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar. “Bolda Punjab” is an upcoming movie of Sarabjeet Cheema which is based on important historical events connected with Punjab such as partition of Punjab 1984 anti-Sikh riots and reflects present situation of Punjab. He interacted with the students and was accompanied by Anisha Pooja actress of the movie and full crew of the movie. Placement drive
In a campus interview held by Larsen and Toubro, 7 students of Mehr Chand Polytechnic College were selected. Senior lecturer & placement officer of the college Sanjay Bansal said the company conducted a written test and an interview. The selected students are Paramveer Singh, Rohit Pal, Rohit Sidhu, Rakesh Sharma, Sushant Gupta, Inderpreet Singh and Deepak Kaushal from Civil Engg department. Sanjay Bansal added that the company would pay an annual package of Rs.1.86 lacs apart from free accommodation, medical insurance and provident fund. Jagroop Singh, principal of the college, handed over the appointment letters to the students and wished them good luck for their bright future. Talent hunt competition
The department of fashion design of the Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organized a talent hunt competition. The competitions were for rangoli, phulkari and flower arrangement. The students were awarded with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and consolation prizes. Principal Dr Rekha Kalia Bhardwaj appreciated the work done by students. International Youth Day
Pahal in collaboration with SD College, Jalandhar, organised a programme to observe International Youth Day 2013. Kiran Arora, principal SD College, said youth is the only ray of hope in the modern scene of our country. Prof Lakhbir Singh, president, 'PAHAL' said India is attraction for developed nations because of large number of young population. We need to turn the youth from consumers’ culture to development oriented. Prof Geeta Kahlon conducted the program. |
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Lecture held on breastfeeding
Jalandhar, August 12 Assistant professor Dr Jatinder Singh in his lecture emphasized on the theme ‘Breast is Best’ and appealed the audience to spread the message among masses. Visual documentaries were also shown to the audience. The Colostrums (thick milk secreted after delivery) is very important for the newborn and has the capacity to fight with diarrhea, pneumonia and other diseases. An interactive session between mothers and doctors was also held, during which Dr Singh advised that working mothers can store their breast milk in refrigerator for 12 hours and that could be spoon-fed to newborns. Anti-natal mothers should take guidance from their gynecologist, on correct method of breastfeeding, he said. Mother’s milk has the best nutrition level and no water and no water is needed to be given to babies as there is 88 percent of water in mother’s milk. Bottle feed should be avoided because it can cause problems, rather spoon feed is recommended. The medical superintendent Dr SK Bansal said, “Awareness on breast feeding is very important as mother’s milk plays a major role in brain development, which has been established over various studies also. It has also been found that IQ level of children who are breastfed is comparatively better than those of bottle-fed.” |
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Tobacco co. had 6 firms running in different names
Jalandhar, August 12 Of these companies, Sri Maha Kali had registration certificate in the name of sketch pen manufacturing business, while it was actually a factory of cigarette filters. Another company Inayat was registered for polypropylene cells but was making cigarettes. The department has issued notices of Rs 75.32 lakh, 1.5 crore and Rs 60 lakh. Officer said raids were conducted on July 5-6 midnight. “We were told that the operations start midnight, so raids were held at that time. We found that the factories were being run from houses with no signboards at all,” the PCS official added.
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4 snatchers arrested
Jalandhar, August 12 Ramesh was today held with 130 gm of intoxicating powder, while Mohit was arrested with 152 gm of drug powder. Both were accused in incidents of theft at Golden Avenue and Urban Estate. The third accused Ajay Kumar of Kala Sanghian was carrying 160 gm of narcotics, while the fourth one Harkirat Singh of Hoshiarpur was arrested with 1 kg of poppy husk. |
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Science meet held at Government High School
Jalandhar, August 12 As the year 2013 is declared the ‘International water cooperation’ year by the UNO, students read papers on the issues such as ‘International water co-operation and possibilities’ as well as deliberated upon the various aspects of water conservation, pollution and depletion of water resources with help of charts and slides. The meet was supervised by DEO Neelam Kumari and district science supervisor Baljinder Singh and EDUSAT coordinator Jagtinder Sohal. Sanjay Kumar, Government High School (boys), Mehtapur, stood first; Praveen Kumar, Government Middle School, Fazalpur; Rajdeep Kaur, Government Senior Secondary School, Sanghowal; Ranjana, Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Shahkot and Sandeep Kaur, Government Senior Secondary School, Talhan, stood second. Lecturers Kanchan Marwaha, Charanjit Singh and Kashmir Singh were judges of the event.
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Officials transferred
Phagwara, August 12 According to the orders issued by the Health Department, Dr Balbir Singh Dhillon has been transferred from Training Institute Amritsar to District Hospital Amritsar, Dr Ranjit Butar from Distt Hospital Amritsar to District Family Welfare Officer Amritsar, Dr Sushma Sondhi from Distt Family Welfare Officer to Training Institute Amritsar, Dr Manjit Krishan Bhalla has been transferred from SMO Sadique (Faridkot) to SMO Zand Sahib in District
Faridkot.
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Kashmir and Pakistan’s repeated attempts to breach international protocol of borders and firing upon Indian soldiers on Indo-Pak Border. The protesters were led by convener Shiv Saini later submitted a memorandum to the officials.
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Jalandhar, August 12