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Regularisation of illegal
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Cheating case against former DTO comes to a naught!
Punjab State School Sports inaugurated
Robotics workshop held on Giani Zail Singh campus
MBBS students given warm welcome
Senior Citizens’ Day Celebrated
Cops Club win U-14 cricket match
Students bag placements
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Regularisation of illegal
colonies Megha Mann Tribune News Service
Bathinda, October 7 The equally busy network across the state led to crashing of the server of the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) and its respective agencies. All the MCB teams worked till around 8 pm in the evening accepting applications and regularising properties. A power breakdown in the areas of Adarsh Nagar and Parasram Nagar left people standing in queue growing impatient. "We have been standing here since 4 pm, but the officials refuse to accept application on one pretext or the other," said an irate area resident, Suresh Kumar at the Parasram Nagar camp. Till 4 pm, the MCB camps had received 255 applications and collected over Rs 67 lakh as regularisation fee. Meanwhile, five more colonisers applied for regularisation of colonies today. Two each reported at the camps held at Adarsh Nagar and at Mansa road opposite Roshan Lal Oil Mil while one applied at the Prajapat Dharamshala camp. For poor visibility at Prajapat Dharamshala late in the evening, the camp there was shifted to the MCB office on the Mal Godam road. Municipal commissioner Vipul Ujwal said the MCB teams would collect applications till the last applicant was entertained. He added that by afternoon, 2,100 applications had been received during the over month-long drive and over Rs 5.20 crore had been collected. MCB camps were on till the time of filing of the news report. As per information available, the Bathinda Development Authority (BDA), which consists of districts of Bathinda, Faridkot, Fazilka, Mansa and Muktsar, had received as many as 3,028 applications for regularisation of properties till afternoon. Bathinda took the lead with 686 applications and a revenue collection of Rs 6.14 crore. In Faridkot, 666 applications were received and Rs 2.5 crore in the form of revenue was collected. In Muktsar, 783 applications were submitted and revenue amounting to Rs 1.56 crore was collected. At Mansa, 438 applications were filed and Rs 94 lakh was collected. Technical glitches galore
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NRHM employees go on pen-down strike
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, October 7 On September 24, members of the NRHM Employees Union had held a rally at Mohali wherein the Deputy Commissioner, Mohali, had assured them of arranging their meeting with the Chief Minister, Punjab, in a couple of days. However, 15 days have passed since the assurance came by and the government was still dilly-dallying on the issue, claimed the union members. The union has now taken the agitation route seeking an audience with the Chief Minister. The district president of the union, Parminder Pal Singh, said they would be forced to intensify their agitation if the CM does not give them an audience soon. They would hold protest march at all district headquarters. Besides, they would make people in villages aware of the anti-employee policies being pursued by the Punjab Government. The union is demanding regularisation of the entire staff working under the NRHM scheme. Till the time the NRHM staff members are regularised, they should be paid on the basis of equal work, equal pay. Among the other demands of the union are facilities as per the service rules of the Punjab Government and release of the salary of two months, which was deducted in view of the union's agitation against the government. Among those present on the occasion included Manphool, Keshav Kumar, Kulwant Singh, Rajpal Kaur, Gayitri Mahajan and Sukhwinder Kaur.
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Cheating case against former DTO comes to a naught!
Bathinda, October 7 The case was registered around two months ago and those arrested by the police have already managed to get bail. The investigating officer in the case, DSP (D) Ranjeet Singh, said he had sent the case file to the office of newly appointed SP (D) Naveen Singla. The SP, when contacted, said he was yet to look into the file. It may be mentioned that the police had arrested the former DTO, Bhupinder Mohan Singh, in August for illegally selling fancy numbers from the old series starting with PNB, PUT, PIB, PAW and PCW and pocketing huge amounts of money from buyers. Those seeking fancy numbers for new vehicles were issued registration numbers from old series despite the fact that such numbers (old series) were already issued for other vehicles. The police had claimed to have taken the records from the office of the DTO into its possession along with some other important files. The police had arrested the accused DTO, who managed to get bail after spending a few days in jail along with a middleman. Earlier, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ravcharan Brar claimed that in-depth investigation would be done in the case and more arrests would be made. But so far, those booked by the police are still absconding. Also, the new vehicles continue to ply on the city roads without any check. The former DTO and an agent Rajeev Mittal were arrested while data entry operator Baljeet Singh, middleman Gaganteshwar Singh, DTO office clerk Raman Kumar were booked by the police who could not be arrested so far. A case against them was registered at the Civil Lines police station. There was reportedly no effort initiated by the police to nab the other accused in the case. Police sources said Gaganteshwar, a non-practising lawyer from an influential family, Raman Kumar and Baljeet are trying to get stay on their arrest by using various legal ways. The police said ultimately, the absconding accused would have to surrender or they would be ordered by the court to join police investigations. RC Scam fact file
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Punjab State School Sports inaugurated
Bathinda, October 7 Additional Education Officer (sports) Pavittar Kaur said the tournament was being organised by the Sports Department of Punjab. In the Under-19 competitions, as many 1,100 students from 22 districts across Punjab were participating, she added. She said while the competitions in the boys’ category would be held at the Multipurpose Sports Stadium and DAV College, the competitions in the girls’ category would be held at the St Xavier’s School. Basketball competitions for both the categories would be held at Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Pavittar said. Also present during the inauguration ceremony were coach of the Indian kabaddi team Harpreet Singh Baba, Prof Surjit Singh, district kabaddi coach Harjinder Sigh, District Sports Officer Karam Singh Sandhu, Mandeep Kaur, Nazar Singh, Hardeep Singh, Sher Singh, Karamjeet Singh, Randhawa Singh and teachers and principals of several other schools. The results
Kabaddi circle style boys’ category: Gurdaspur beat Muktsar 41-25, Sangrur beat Mohali 43-20, Patiala beat Kapurthala 32-30, Ludhiana beat Moga 30-14, Jalandhar beat Ferozepur 30-18 and Faridkot beat Mansa 25-20. Kabaddi circle style girls’ category: SBS Nagar beat Amritsar 54-15. Bathinda and Fazilka were declared winners without playing as their opponents were not present. Bathinda was to play Pathankot and Fazilka was to play Ropar. Basketball boys’ category: Hoshiarpur beat Moga 59-25 and Mansa beat Patiala 54-44. Basketball girls’ category: Amritsar Wing beat Ajitgarh 48-6 and Amritsar dstrict beat Roopnagar 46-7. |
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Robotics workshop held on Giani Zail Singh campus
Bathinda, October 7 After the workshops the campus also organised zonal rounds of Robotryst-2014 by Tryst-IIT Delhi and IRC Techfest to be organised by IIT Bombay. As many as 38 teams comprising 154 students from different colleges participated in the event out of which seven teams have qualified for IIT Delhi and two teams for IIT Bombay. The final round of vision robotics and mobile robotics will be held at IIT Delhi in March 2014 and the winning team will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. The final rounds of grid-solving robot would be held in IIT Bombay. The final round at IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay will include winners of all the zonal centres. The workshop was organised by Prof SP Singh Johal, Prof JS Tiwana, Prof Neeraj Gill and Prof Jyoti Rani. Student co-ordinators were Rajat Garg, Sukhdeep Singh, Bhavna Aggarwal, Sonali, Brinder Singh, Rahul, Mandip Singh, Manpreet Kaur, Gurpiyar Singh and all the committee members. Campus director Dr Jasbir Singh Hundal appreciated the efforts of the Robotics Club and encouraged the students to take part in such workshops. He said such workshops should be conducted in all fields of engineering in order to fill the gap between industry-institute curriculum. Faculty members at international events
Two faculty members of the campus, Assistant Professor Rajesh Gupta and Dr Balwinder Singh of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, presented papers from their research work at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Science (ICIEMS 2013), held at Shanghai, China, recently. A total of 142 delegates from 32 countries, including France, Switzerland, Lotivia, China, India, Malaysia, Cambodia, USA, England, Thailand and Russia presented their papers at the two-day conference. As an expression of respect towards their research, the conference organisers offered Prof Gupta to chair the morning session and Dr Singh to chair the evening session of the conference. While Prof Gupta presented his paper, ‘Solving MCDM problem using Promethee with non crisp data’, Dr Singh presented a paper on ‘Effect of Process Parameters on Dimensional Control of Mild Steel Processed by Surface Grinding Process’. |
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MBBS students given warm welcome
Bathinda, October 7 Another highlight of the function was Mr and Miss Fresher contest. Yuvika Sani won the crown of Miss Fresher, while Abhishek was adjudged Mr Fresher. Mr and Ms well dressed title was won by Priyansh Kamboj and Kirti Nagpal. Winner for Mr and Ms Talented award was Tushal Gandhi and Akshi, respectively. Chancellor, Adesh University, Dr H S Gill presided over the function. Principal Dr Harkiran Kaur welcomed the guests. Vice-Chancellor Dr GPI Singh was the guest of honour. Dr Gurpreet Singh Gill, faculty of cultural committee, Dr Jaswinder Kaur, Dr V K Dubey, Dr Monika Gupta and Dr Khushdeep Arora and students’ council 2013 were present on the occasion. Dr Manraj Kaur Gill, Prabhjeet Kaur, Dr Rajiv Mahajan, A K Maria and Dr Vijay Suri were the judges of the various contests.
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Senior Citizens’ Day Celebrated
Bathinda, October 7 Advocate Ram Ji Dass Bansal read out the Senior Citizens Act 2007. He also detailed the various
other schemes available for senior citizens in the state and Union Government departments. Speaking at the event, president of the council D S Mastana said the United Nations Organisation (UNO) had conducted a survey in 91 countries to study matters related to the senior citizens. As per the results of the survey, India stands at the 73rd place, while Sweden stands at the first rank. The council members had decided to visit Sweden to see the facilities available to senior citizens and try to replicate the same in India, he added. Women members presented gidha under the chairman of culture committee, Satwant Kaur. |
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Cops Club win U-14 cricket match
Bathinda, October 7 DMW Academy won the toss and elected to bowl first. Cops Club’s batsmen went back to the pavilion with 135 runs on the scoreboard in 39.3 overs. Monik’s knock of 20 runs in 35 balls remained the highest individual score of the team. DMW Academy’s Ali scored 47 runs in 82 balls, but in vain as the team lost the match by mere two runs. The team was bowled at a score of 133 runs in 26.5 overs. The second highest scorer of the team was Manoj who scored 14 runs in 30 balls. While the man of the match title went to Ali, the catch of the match title was taken by Manik of Cops
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Students bag placements
Bathinda, October 7 Harshdeep Sharma, Lovepreet Singh, Baljinder Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Akash Garg, Gurcharan Singh, Upinder Singh, Gurdev Singh and Anmol Bharti Jindal have been selected as the diploma engineer trainees. The students were handed over their placement letters by the principal of the college, Yadwinder Singh. He said the students were offered a package of Rs 2.40 lakh per annum. |
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