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City hotels, restaurants all set to welcome New Year in style
City is all decked up to usher the New Year in style in Jalandhar on Monday. Tribune Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Bridge not yet complete, MLA takes credit
Disability rights activists to hold march today, seek nod for law
PIMS strike: Docs say politicians have forgotten them
Doctors, students, nurses, paramedical and clerical staff of the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hold protest in Jalandhar on Monday. Tribune Photo: Sarabjit
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Chemists of Dilkusha market hold protest
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Students at mercy of elements
DEO asks teachers to chip in for buying winter school dress Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 30 While disbursal of uniform grants has been going on for the past three years, the amount has stayed the same despite a substantial rise in prices. A teacher at a government school in a village area said, "We can either keep the money aside or buy substandard uniforms for students which wouldn't be enough to provide them warmth." "While the winters are so intense the money is just enough to manage the bare minimum clothing while the government is expecting us to provide shirts, pants, shoes, socks and sweaters, all within a mere Rs 400. The students will undoubtedly have to brave the cold with clothes bought from this amount. It is callous to expect students to manage with such meagre money," he added. Another teacher teaching at a senior secondary school says, "While this amount might still be manageable for students of the primary schools, it is unrealistic to expect clothes bought for senior secondary students with Rs 400 would provide adequate protection to them. The clothes either will be substandard, hence, insufficient for the winters or they will tear too soon. The government has put us in a precarious situation and most staff members at schools are chipping in with their own money." However, even primary school teachers disagree. "Even for a small child the money isn't enough. We are receiving help from an NRI in the area, otherwise it would have been difficult for our students," said a teacher teaching in the bazaar area. DEO Neelam Kumari said, "Even three years ago the amount wasn't enough. Now, prices have raised manifolds. But it's a scheme from the centre (under the Sarv Sikhiya Abhiyan). We can only ask teachers to contribute from the welfare fund to ensure proper protection for children."
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City hotels, restaurants all set to welcome New Year in style
Jalandhar, December 30 Starting from 7 pm onwards on Wednesday, various hotels, clubs and bars in the city are opening the gates to their guests who would like to make a sizzling entry into the New Year with their exquisite preparation planned for the New Year theme party. At hotel
Raddison, enjoy unlimited drinks and music from famous Rock singers Ulrish Sebastian and Sheryll D'souza from Mumbai at the banquets from 7 pm onwards on December 31. The famous dance troupe
'Daphney Gomes', has been hired to entertain the guests. The buffet would consist of Indian, Chinese and Continental cuisines giving a Las Vegas feel to the guests! The hotel is offering all this at Rs 4,500. The hotel has also planned another celebration at their Jack Daniel's bar with an RJ at Rs 5,500 per couple. If you want to enjoy the sufi music, book your evening at Hotel Ramada where famous Sufi singer Mamta Joshi will give live performance. Also, there would be another live performance by famous Punjabi folk Singer Sarabjit Cheema in the banquets area. You can enjoy all by paying Rs 5,000 for a couple entry. With Yla as the host, Brewmaster is inviting people to spend a wild night in Vegan style with unlimited drinks and a lavish buffet for Rs 5,000 per couple. Welcome champagne, premium select bar, a gala buffet dinner spread, comprising live stations of Continental, Chinese, seafood and desserts accompanied by live band presents a memorable way to ring in 2014. The much acclaimed club for service personnel 'The Jalandhar Club' has invited famous band 'India Rocks' on the New Year eve. The guests would also get an opportunity to dance to the foot-tapping music of 'Jyoti' the famous dance group from Chandigarh. Although, the club members only have to pay Rs 100 for a raffle ticket, they would have to shell out Rs 800 per couple, who would be accompanying them as guests. While most of the star hotels have opted for belly dancers, niche menus and DJs belting out popular numbers to attract the young generation, Gymkhana Club has something different to offer - a Comedy show with a Rock Band performance. While the members do not have to pay anything extra, they would have to shell out Rs 200 for each guest they would brought in! If you are missing the mela flavour of your village, land in at Haveli and celebrate the New Year in a true Punjabi Style. Enjoy the mela like set up and the live performances of Punjabi folk music with fun stalls and rides for the children. This year, Rangla Punjab will be hosting a special evening for its guests on the New Year eve. The buffet will have a menu specially designed for this event. The outdoor section will have live food counters serving a variety of entrees and sweet dishes. A special milk and chaat counter will be arranged. The highlight of the evening is the dance floor created, allowing guests to dance till midnight. Haveli is offering all this for Rs 1,000 per adult and Rs 500 for per child. |
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Bridge not yet complete, MLA takes credit
Jalandhar, December 30 People crossing the site have been commenting that it was rather too early to put up any hoarding of the sort. "Had the bridge been constructed or would have been near completion such a hoarding would have been justified. This is just a beginning in the direction," said Subhash Sharma, a resident of the area.Bhandari said it was not he but a few of his supporters who had got the hoarding installed. "Once acquisition is done and the project has fallen on track, I do not think there is any hurdle pending," he said.The issue had become a matter of prestige for Bhandari, who has contested Assembly polls on the same plank twice in 2007 and 2012. His opponents had been taking a dig on him that he has been unable to resolve the problem of thousands of people residing on either side of the crossing at Brij Nagar who had to wait for long to pass by.So far, only a bigger hurdle of land acquisition for the construction of RUB has been resolved with the amount disbursed to the six property owners at the site. The acquisition had become a problem as the fund-starved MC had been claiming for the past three years that it did not have funds to go on with the project. Mayor Sunil Jyoti said tenders of the work would be soon floated. "The PIDB gave us Rs 18.13 crore for acquisition. Registry has been done in the name of the MC. Now, we are awaiting Rs 8.46-crore grant," he said. |
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Disability rights activists to hold march today, seek nod for law
Jalandhar, December 30 Holding a meeting in this regard, the Punjab Disabled Rights Group (PDRG), PARIVAAR, Spinal Cord, Physically Handicapped, Blind association, Deaf and Dumb and multiple disability groups joined under the state banner of the Punjab Disabled Rights Group expressing their dismay over the inordinate delay in introducing the Right of Persons with Disabilities in the parliament. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of rights activist Amarjit Singh Anand who represented the state in the draft consultation of the new law. While the Mental Health Bill has been introduced in the parliament, the bill replacing the Disability Act, 1995, is yet to be introduced. While the disability groups across the country will be holding marches in this regard, the Jalandhar protest would be a part of the national plan to garner support for the bill. Activists said they would be approaching all major political leaders to ensure that the bill was passed. As a mark of protest, Jalandhar activists will be walking the city streets and will march towards the residence of MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee and Divisional Commissioner, Jalandhar, on March 31. The march will start from 3 pm. Those present on the occasion were Anjalai Dada, Anuj Dada, Dr Kuldeep Singh, Arvinder Singh, Deepika Sood, Meenu Shah, Atma Ram Bharti, Manmohan Singh, Sunita Nayyar among
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PIMS strike: Docs say politicians have forgotten them
Jalandhar, December 30 A message from the office of Jalandhar cantonment MLA Pargat Singh informed doctors (through a SMS) that their salaries would not be released today and they would have to wait for some more time. The Congress representatives, however, did not even arrange a meeting of a delegation of doctors with PM Manmohan Singh today during his visit to inaugurate the Cancer Hospital at Mullanpur, as promised earlier. Talking to The Tribune, the PIMS doctors said, "We have been conveniently forgotten. All the politicians who came up with big promises are nowhere to be seen anymore." MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, when contacted, said, "I had promised the doctors of the PIMS that I will hold a meeting with the Union Minister of Health, Santosh Chaudhary, and PPCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa. I did that. I had reminded the PPCC chief about the same at the Jor Mela as well. After that we haven't talked so far." Reacting to queries whether hadn't he, like the others, left the doctors in a lurch, Khaira said, "I won't abandon the issue. I will hold a dharna outside the PIMS gate on January 7 for the doctors." Meanwhile, the PIMS management meeting - which is slated to come up with some big decision on the ongoing crisis - remained a hushed affair as the management members remained unavailable despite repeated efforts to contact them. |
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Chemists of Dilkusha market hold protest
Jalandhar, December 30 Led by representatives of different shopkeepers and merchants, the wholesale chemists also staged a dharna for an hour in the market in support of traders' demand of reducing the property tax on all commercial buildings and charging it at par with industrial buildings. Addressing the dharna, Rakesh Gupta and Rishu Verma, president and general secretary of the Wholesale Chemists Organisation, respectively, criticised the state government for their anti-trader policies. |
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Aam Aadmi activists end 10-day-long fast
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 30 Bhandari assured them that he would work towards getting the property tax rolled back which has recently been levied by the state government. Two AAP volunteers—Kamaljeet Singh (38) and Joginder Singh Multani (55)—were on a ten-day-long fast against the property tax in Company Bagh Chowk. The newly constructed party is getting maximum response from Jalandhar as compared to other districts as there has been a 500 per cent rise in the party membership in the last 20 days. The enrolment process was being run by the members of the AAP party at the fasting venue from the last few days.
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Jalandhar, December 30
Despite assurances to doctors that within a week their problems will be sorted out and the cloud on the salary issue lifted, the fight for the rights of the doctors and staff of the Punjab Institute for Medical Sciences, seemed a lost cause today, as none of the politicians backing them a week ago sent in a word of assurance or news.
