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Students, teachers also pitch in
Burning of dry waste causes pollution
With gold at Asian Games Manpreet, Gurwinder do city proud
Kin create ruckus at hospital, allege undue surgery on patient
Two more burglaries reported
Market Assn Employees Committee meets Punjab Mandi Board chairman
Computer teachers hold candlelight march, demand release of leaders
Police Commissioner orders review of old theft cases to get lead
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‘100 hours a year for cleanliness’
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, October 2 The minister, Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishor Yadav, ADC (D) Kumar Amit, ADC (G) Pritam Singh and nearly 50 employees garlanded the portrait of the Father of Nation in the meeting hall. Thereafter, they took out brooms and cleansed the floors of the complex. The DC said that he had got the campaign started in the complex since September 25. He said that various urban and rural roads and public places had been got cleaned. He said that vigorous activities as a part of the campaign would remain on till October 23. He said that the staff doing good work in this direction would be given special appreciation. SDM-2 Varinder Pal Singh Bajwa, Assistant Commissioner (G) Dr Shikha Bhagat, Assistant Commissioner (grievances) Damandeep Kaur and other employees were present. Divisional Commissioner R. Venkatratnam also administered oath to his staff in his office this morning. MC and JDA
The staff of Jalandhar Development Authority led by Chief Administrator Gurpreet Singh Khehra also took a pledge on cleanliness after which they spend two hours cleaning their office racks and almirahs, dusting all files and disposing off the waste papers. They also put posters in their office with a message, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness". Municipal Corporation also claimed to have completed their week-long campaign on cleaning the city identifying problem areas. The campaign started from in front of the office on September 25, after wherein councillors, sanitation officers, inspectors and supervisors formed three groups primarily focussing in Shastri Market. On September 26, the campaign was carried out in ward 4 and 5 around Devi Talab Mandir. The next day, councillor Varinder Sharma went to Sabzi Mandi area and cleaned it with the help of social bodies. Councillor Darshan Lal and his team cleaned the fish market spending three hours for the job. On September 28, the dumping site at Model Town was cleaned from wall to wall loading several tippers and then spraying insecticides. The next day BJP councillor Kanchan Sharma had got the New Jawahar Nagar market cleaned. About 100 safai karamcharis had cleaned the central verges and roads along Namdev Chowk, BMC Chowk and Clock Tower on September 30. The Basti areas were got cleaned during a special drive yesterday. Today, the MC safai karamcharis scrapped the biggest eyesore of the city in front of PIMS. Environmentalist from Nakodar, Gaurav Jain also pitched in for the cause. The stretch in front of Apeejay School was also cleaned but the MC staff chose to set fire on dry heaps, thereafter causing a lot of pollution. Other departments
The department of Water Supply and Sanitation under its director AK Soni carried out a cleanliness drive. The staff first took a pledge and began cleanliness of its office. The department of agriculture also took part in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Dr Sutantar Aeri, Chief Agriculture Officer, administered oath on 80 staff members. He asked the staff to counsel farmers on cleanliness during training camps being held in villages. Sainik School
The students and staff of Sainik School Kapurthala cleaned the entire campus during a special drive. The machines were deployed for pruning the grass along the huge campus. The waste including grass, polybags, rags etc were collected in 225 bags and sent to the dumping site in the town. The students took a pledge to keep the campus clean. Rail Coach Factory
A special cleanliness campaign under `Swachh Bharat Mission' was launched in Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala, which aimed at spreading awareness among its employees and their families. The campaign took off with administering of pledge on cleanliness taken to all officers of RCF and employees. Thereafter, several rallies were carried out in workshop and township area which were led by RCF officers, employees, Scouts and Guides, NCC cadets, members of several organisations and other people. The rallies marched through the workshop and campus area distributing hand bills, displaying banners and posters aiming to educate the employees and their families about the importance of cleanliness. Residents of township were encouraged to use eco-friendly jute bags. Special counter was set up for sale of such bags, which attracted a large number of buyers. Shopkeepers were counselled for doing away with polythene carry bags. To sustain the environment conservation, General Manager of RCF and other HODs planted saplings in a tree plantation drive in the township area. Punjab Technical University
To achieve the dream of making India dirt-free, National Service Scheme team of Punjab Technical University (PTU) initiated PM Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat Mission' at Khaira village here today. The campaign PTU Vice- Chancellor Dr Rajneesh Arora, Sant Baba Pargat Nath and other officers of university initiated the drive by sweeping roads of villages and also planted trees in primary school. The students of Punjab Institute of Management also held the brooms and enthusiastically cleaned the roads and sewerages of village. IT company too pitched in
Kayako, an IT company based at Jalandhar, also put in an effort to promote the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan' announced by the PM. The employees of the company went down on roads and cleaned the road from their office at Midland Financial Centre till BMC Chowk. Being employees of an IT company, which gives them a world-class infrastructure, the employees said that they wanted to ensure that their surroundings are equally clean. Also, to ensure that this movement does not just get obsolete as a political note only, staff tried to motivate people of Jalandhar with slogans like, "Let's keep Jalandhar clean". The employees also mentioned that they will continue with such cleaning regimes every month so that we can actually keep our surrounding clean. The Management of Kayako, CEO Varun Shoor, Vice President Operations Raghav Arora, motivated the employees to treat the nation as their own home. |
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Students, teachers also pitch in
Jalandhar, October 2 While keeping up with the campaign across the nation, the employees, teachers and students first attended a swearing in ceremony wherein they took an oath to keep schools and office premises clean all the year through. They swore to indulge in cleaning at least 100 hours in a year to ensure cleanliness of their surroundings. Employees at the DEO office indulged in hectic cleaning activity across the office premises. Both officials and employees armed with brooms cleaned up their respective offices as well as the campus of the office. Meanwhile, at schools across the district, students were addressed by teachers and informed about the importance of clean and hygienic surroundings. While the Swach Bharat Abhiyan in government schools in the district has started on September 27 with a motivational lecture, a proper schedule has been fixed across the schools as per which a cleanliness time table has been set across educational institutes to be observed till October 31st. Speaking to The Tribune, District Science Supervisor Baljinder Singh said, "For the coming month teachers and students shall be strictly keeping the schedule as per which they shall be keeping at least one area of their school every day. One room or section of their schools has been fixed for once a week. The sections include school laboratories, kitchens, classrooms, office and play ground among other sections of the campuses." While the campaign takes care of the cleanliness part of the rooms, unsanitary situations still prevail in many of the toilets and near water taps of the schools. Speaking whether any special arrangements are being made at schools to clean up these unsanitary sections of the schools - wherever prevalent - the DSS said, "Since students can't sweep or clean toilets themselves, sweepers will be taking care of that aspect of schools. fact file
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Burning of dry waste causes pollution
Jalandhar, October 2 Waste plastic bags, broken glasses, toffee wrappers, cardboards boxes and miscellaneous household waste material were collected as part of the drive. After the army jawans started the cleanliness drive from Maqsudan, which was to be culminated at Ordnance Depot in Suranasi, jawans along with cleaning garbage and dust from the roads, jawans continued to consign the heaps to the flames. It not only caused huge pollution on the GT road, but also caused embarrassment to the country's 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Although senior officials were also present, but jawans continued to flip flop the cleanliness drive. It was only after the matter came to the notice of some senior army officials, jawans were stopped from doing the practice of burning heaps. Defence spokesperson, Naresh Vig, when contacted said, after he noticed that heaps was being consigned to flames, he immediately stopped the jawans from doing so. Vajra Corps had organized cleanliness drive in 223 Advance Base Ordnance Depot (ABOD) at Suranussi wherein various citizens contributed their bit towards cleaning the planet. As part of the programme, Colonel CR Bahadur, Commandant 223 ABOD administered the "swachchhata shapath" (Cleanliness Oath) to all combatants and civilian employees of the depot. Commandant also administered an oath to students of Kendriya Vidyalaya and advised them to adopt clean lifestyle owing to its several advantages. In addition, 500 defence, civilian employees and 150 Students of Kendriya Vidyalaya also participated and made the event a success.
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With gold at Asian Games Manpreet, Gurwinder do city proud
Jalandhar, October 2 Since two of the players, including midfielder Manpreet Singh and forward player Gurwinder Singh Chandi also hailed from the city, the excitement no new bounds. As soon as the news regarding the winning of the match against Pakistan spread around 5:30 pm, people started pouring in at the houses of players Manpreet and Chandi at Mithapur and Guru Nanakpura locality, respectively. Even as Manpreet missed the crucial penalty shoot out, his family including father Baljit Singh, mother Manjit Kaur, brother Sukhraj and nephew Mankirat Singh had no regrets and remained hooked on TV and were extremely happy at the end of historic win that has provided the team a direct entry to the team in the Olympics. Sukhraj said that he and his elder brother also had been hockey players but it was Manpreet who did the magic with his stick. "Manpreet started playing hockey when he was just eight year old. His local coach Baljit Singh mentored him in his initial years", he said. Asked about the marriage plans of the 21-year-old player, the family said that Manpreet was already engaged to a girl in Malaysia. "But he has been insisting that the marriage be held after 2016 Olympics", said Sukhraj. He said that he and his family were now heading for gurdwara to pay obeisance and seek blessings from the Almighty for his brother. While Manpreet is an employee of Bharat Petroleum, Chandi represents ONGC. Officiating secretary Surjit Hockey Society Iqbal Singh Sandhu has congratulated both the players. Jalandhar Cantonment MLA, former Director Sports and hockey Olympian Pargat Singh was in Chandigarh today. Asked what was in store for both the players, he said that they would certainly get some prize money from the Government of India as well as Punjab government. "There are notified norms for the same but I will certainly push the case for a better reward with the Punjab CM and Deputy CM. There are seven players from the state who have represented the hockey team in Asian Games. We will get the best for them", he said.
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Kin create ruckus at hospital, allege undue surgery on patient
Jalandhar, October 2 While the kin's relatives and associates created a furore at the hospital for more than an hour, the situation was brought under control only when police arrived at the spot and the affected party was itself pacified by the hospital authorities that they were willing for any tests to be conducted on the patient to ascertain no undue surgery had been conducted. Nhaijar Giri (50) a resident of the Santokhpura area had been admitted to the hospital three months ago with an injured knee. While his knee-bone had been protruding, the kin said the hospital authorities fixed a rod in his leg through surgical procedure but following pain again in his leg a few days ago, they were told some nuts had not been put in his leg. The patient's son Bicky said, "While they had told us a couple of screws in the leg had been forgotten, last night when the authorities were shifting him from the ICU to the general ward, we saw there was an incision in the right side of my father's stomach. We were told nothing about the incision and when we went to the authorities, they refused to listen to us." The hospital authorities, however, termed the allegations of the patients' kin as baseless and said the patient's kin could get a scan conducted at any hospital in the country and check for themselves whether there was anything wrong with the patient's body. Dr. Pooja Kapur, child specialist and owner of the hospital said, "The entire procedure was a part of the treatment of the patient and they can get a scan from any hospital to determine whether there is anything wrong, we will pay for it. The particular incision has been made to graft a tiny part of the pelvic bone (through surgery) on to the patient's femur. Since a piece of the knee had been missing owing to the accident, the incision was to facilitate a knee graft." "The entire confusion has been caused due to misunderstanding by the patient. While the patient was tense, they did not even ask the doctor about the issue and drew conclusions for themselves," she added. Bicky, the son of Nhaijar, said, "We only want that a report should confirm that no shady operation had been carried out on my father and proper treatment of his should be pursued from here on." Bicky's mother Sita Devi alleged that the hospital authorities had misbehaved with her. The authorities, however, denied this.
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Two more burglaries reported
Jalandhar, October 2 Last night a media office and a deed writer office were burgled by certain unidentified miscreants, situated opposite to the Deputy Commissioner's (DC) office. Notably, these two offices were also situated near to the Inspector General (IG) Jalandhar's office, still the miscreants managed to give slip to the high security area.
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Market Assn Employees Committee meets Punjab Mandi Board chairman
Jalandhar, October 2 Johal said even as 50 per cent of the employees in the committee had retired, the recruitment of new employees was essential. He said the demands on which the committee employees received assurance on the occasion included removal of the anomalies in the scales of oxen recorders, mandi surpervisors- regarding which a case had been sent to the state government; filling of empty posts in market committees across the state, Punjab; issuance of letter regarding the allowance of tractor drivers, an additional salary in lieu of RDF, among others.The union has asked for the release of letters regarding these demands within 10 days. Chairman S Lakhowal, IAS Deepinder Singh ordered Chief General Manager (finance) staff officer (general) to promptly act on the complaints. —TNS
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Computer teachers hold candlelight march, demand release of leaders
Jalandhar, October 2 While the computer teachers had been struggling for their rights for a long time, they have met various ministers and officials of the education department and recently also held hunger strikes and fast unto death to air their demands. While the teachers also held traffic jams and jail filling drives under the protests had been going on, recently a number of computer teachers had been jailed. While the computer teachers across the state had been fighting for their associates to be freed from jails for the past two weeks, they also received support in this demand from various political parties and other employees' unions in the state. Notably, while hundreds of computer teachers were released following the ensuing pressure on the government. The government has also assured the teachers of reviewing their other demands like provision of pending arrears in court cases, cuts in EPF and restoring increments. However, many of the leaders of the union - Computer Teachers Front Convener Gurvinder Singh Tarn Taran, Baljinder Singh Fatehpur, Gurvinder Singh Bajwa, Parminder Sivia among others - have still not been released from jails. During the march today, computer teachers demanded the unconditional release of the jailed leaders of the union, failing which they said they would intensify their agitation. They also demanded that they be merged with the education department. They said if the government still does not pay heed to their demands then it should be prepare to fill the state's jails with over 7,000 computer teachers.
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Police Commissioner orders review of old theft cases to get lead
Jalandhar, October 2 Police Commissioner, Yurinder Singh Hayer said, he has appointed Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, J Elanchezhian as the nodal officer to deal with the menace. "ADCP Crime will review all the pending theft cases reported in the jurisdiction of city police in the last three months. Officer will inquire the status of the ongoing investigation into these unsolved theft cases and will make serious efforts to bring the thieves behind the bar" Singh informed. Singh said, he had also directed all the Station House Officers to keep strict vigil over thieves adding that SHOs were strictly told to conduct fair and speedy investigation into theft cases so that justice can be delivered to the residents. He also said that police would also review high profile robberies reported in the past. It is to mention here that city has been witnessing continuous thefts and police is struggling hard to solve these incidents. Majority of the past theft incidents are lying untraced. Even the investigation into the some of the high profile theft cases, including at Punjab and Sindh bank branch and General Post Office, is lying in limbo.
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Jalandhar, October 2
Jalandhar, October 2
Jalandhar, October 2
