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Left out of scheme, aided schools cry hoarse
School students sensitised to legal aid
Post launch of help desk, Mansa police disposes of 2,634 complaints
Eight police districts get new SSPs in Punjab
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Strike by SSA, RMSA employees continues
SAD youth wing activists favour drive against drugs
A month on, cops clueless about missing teenagers
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Left out of scheme, aided schools cry hoarse
Faridkot, November 15 As students in government-aided schools are not eligible for the scholarship, the management of these schools is accusing the state government of adopting a biased attitude. "Instead of resuscitating these moribund schools, the state government is pushing them towards their closure," said Sewa Singh Chawla, president of the Government-Aided Schools' Management Association in Punjab. On December 1, 1967, the government had started providing 95 per cent grant-in-aid to as many as 522 private schools in Punjab. After the management at 38 schools handed over their schools to the state, 484 schools are surviving on the grant-in-aid. " Students in government-aided schools are eligible for every concession and the facility enjoyed by government school students. So there is no logic in depriving the meritorious students of these schools of the scholarship," said Manohar Lal Chopra, adviser of the school management association. As students in government and government-aided schools comparatively belonged to the poor section of society and needed financial assistance to continue their education, the government's move is devoid of any logic, said Chopra. As many as 94 students of government schools in Faridkot have been selected for the Dr Hargobind Khorana Scholarship, but no students of the government-aided and private schools have been granted the benefit. "These schools are facing the staff shortage and the scheme could lease a new life to them. Following a ban on recruitment in these schools since May 2003, over 5,500 teachers got retired, and the total strength of teachers has come down to 4,500. There is no teacher for many subjects," said Chopra. "Many schools are on the verge of closure and every year about 350 teachers in these schools are getting retirement. Presently, these schools are charging a nominal fee, so they have no money to appoint teachers on their own. The scholarship scheme could at least boost the morale of the students in these schools," he added. |
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School students sensitised to legal aid
Fazilka, November 15 Fazilka Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Vikrant Garg, who is also the district secretary of the authority and was the chief guest on the occasion, said the DLSA had been organising events in schools so as to create legal awareness and apprise students of their rights and free legal aid being offered to them. He said 22 seminars in rural and urban areas of the district had already been organised this year. “Six legal aid clinics with help of NGOs have been set up in the district to provide free legal aid to the needy and poor litigants," said Garg. He said the maiden National Lok Adalat would be organised at Fazilka district headquarters on November 23. Principal of the school Dr Ashwani Ahuja presided over the programme while the members of Bar Association, Fazilka district also attended the seminar. |
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Post launch of help desk, Mansa police disposes of 2,634 complaints
Bathinda, November 15 Quarrels between neighbours outnumbered cases of eve-teasing and other complaints. Besides, the district police also provided a major relief to owners of 113 mobile phones by finding the expensive mobile sets through its Cyber Cell. Presiding over a joint meeting of the Saanjh Committee and the police department during the ongoing Global Visitors Week, Mansa Senior Superintendent of Police Narinder Bhargava informed that to implement the concept of community policing, the district police had started a help desk service on August 1 and in a brief period of three and a half months, 2,634 complaints have been redressed, either on the same day or within one or two days. The complaints included 584 matrimonial disputes, 680 neighbourhood issues and 92 cases of eve-teasing, he added. Reiterating the district police's commitment to further strengthen the concept of community policing, Bhargava appealed to the public to help the police by providing timely information and suggestions. |
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Eight police districts get new SSPs in Punjab
Chandigarh, November 15 Mohali SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar has been shifted in the same capacity to Bathinda while Ropar SSP Inder Mohan Singh has been given the charge of Mohali SSP. Rajpura SP Bhupinder Singh has been made the SSP, Mansa, while Bathinda SSP Ravcharan Singh Brar will join as the SSP, Ropar. Mansa SSP Narinder Bhargava will be the new SSP of Hoshiarpur. Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner of Police Jaspreet Singh Sidhu will the new SSP, Jalandhar Rural, while Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Gurpreet Singh Gill has been made the SSP, Amritsar Rural. AIG Varinderpal Singh will be the SSP, Ferozepur. Ram Singh, Commissioner, Jalandhar, has been transferred as the IGP (Traffic). He will be replaced by IGP Ishwar Singh. Commissioner (Ludhiana) Paramjit Singh Gill has been transferred as the IGP, Patiala. Nirmal Singh Dhillon will join as the Commissioner, Ludhiana. The name of Sharad Satya Chauhan has been sent for posting as the IGP, Investigation, Lokpal. The other postings are: Paramjit Singh Umranangal, IGP, Bathinda; Balbir Kumar Bawa, IGP, Jalandhar; Surinder Singh, IGP, EOW; Rakesh Chandra IGP, Law and Order; Jaskaran Singh, DIG, Crime; and Yurinder Singh, DIG, Ferozepur. |
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Strike by SSA, RMSA employees continues
Barnala, November 15 District general secretary of the union Jagseer Singh said if they were not allowed by the education authorities to mark their attendance by tomorrow they would assemble at the office of the Director General School Education (DGSE), Mohali, on November 18 to mark their attendance there. He said their pen-down strike today entered its 26th day. Jagseer added that after receiving instructions from the state education authorities, the District Education Officers (DEOs) did not allow them to mark their attendance on the registers today. The employees marked their attendance on the new registers and sent copies of the attendance to the DEOs, the Deputy Commissioners and the DGSE. He said on November 18, the SSA, RMSA non-teaching employees from all districts would hold a massive demonstration in front of the office of the DGSE, Mohali, to compel the state government to accept their main demand, regular pay scales on the pattern of the SSA, RMSA teachers. — TNS |
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SAD youth wing activists favour drive against drugs
Abohar, November 15 Speaking to the media during his visit to the sub-divisional town to attend a district-level meeting of the party workers, Godara said the target to make Punjab free of narcotics by 2014 could be achieved only by putting all such workers under intelligence scanner. None should come to their rescue irrespective of political affiliations, he added. The workers were told to get ready for campaigning in favour of SAD candidates in Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections. |
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A month on, cops clueless about missing teenagers
Faridkot, November 15 Harshit Sharma (17), a student of mechanical engineering in Solan (HP), along with his cousin Adarsh Sharma (14), a class X student, went missing on October 17, a day after he reached Faridkot to meet his maternal uncle, Rajesh Kumar, a BSF sepoy. Harshit’s father Ravinder Sharma, also a sepoy in the BSF, is posted at Chhattisgarh. While Rajesh Kumar has been transferred to Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, families of the missing boys are camping in Faridkot for the last one month. Though the case is being pursued under the supervision of Faridkot Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) GS Randhwan, the Faridkot police is apparently groping in the dark. Ravinder Sharma said his son Harshit travelled to Punjab to meet his cousin on October 16 and a day after, they went missing from the residential premises of the BSF. Harshit’s mobile phone was switched off ever since they went missing, said Rajesh Kumar. “We are working on many theories to trace the boys and are even taking help of mobile phone companies to track the location of Harshit’s mobile but so far, there is no breakthrough,” said GS Randhwan. The incoming and outgoing calls were also being investigated, he added. The police believes that there was a thin chance of boys being kidnapped for ransom and that they could have travelled to a distant place on their own as Harshit had only Rs 400, which he withdrew using his bank ATM card a day before his disappearance. The police was keeping a tab on Harshit’s friend circle, said Lachhman Singh, the investigation officer in the case. |
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