109 to be awarded at I-Day function

Avneet Kaur

Jalandhar, August 14

As many as 109 persons under 35 departments, including police personnel, doctors, social workers and educationists, would be honoured at the district-level Independence Day celebrations at the Guru Gobind Singh stadium tomorrow. They would receive special awards for their contribution and achievements in different fields.

Sub-Inspector Narinder Singh would be awarded for his contribution in busting gangs of notorious criminals and doing his duty with dedication. Pawan Kumar will be awarded for his work for the Kargil-affected families.

Two officers from the water supply and sanitation departments will be awarded while the list of recommendations made by the Civil Surgeon includes four doctors. Dr Amardeep Singh Duggal, Raj Kaur, Parvinder Kaur and specialist Dr Kashmiri Lal will be honoured for registering CHC Adampur under the A+ grade.

Inspector Navdeep Singh will be honoured for recovering a large amount of intoxicants from the criminals and solving the kidnapping case of a four-year-old boy Ansh.

There have been 11 recommendations made in the list under the Commissioner of Police which includes Gurpreet Singh for busting a criminal gang and recovering 3 kg of gold, sub-inspector Major Singh and Gagandeep Singh, ASI Shashi Pal and inspector Surinder Singh.

Lt Col (retd) Manmohan Singh will be awarded for his social work, while Amarjit Singh, Surinder Pal Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Pooja Minhas, HOD HMV College, Sarju and Gaurav will be honoured for their contribution to cultural and sports activities.

Members working with Amarjit Singh’s Anand NGO will also be honoured for their extraordinary contribution towards the disabled and the physically handicapped. The list includes Grace Daniel, Happy, Manu Miglani and Tejpal Singh.

The list of District Development Panchayat Office (DDPO) includes nine officials who are to be honoured for their contribution towards the development of rural areas and saving the environment. They are: Ranjeet Singh, Rajwinder Kaur, Sarwan Singh and Jaspreet Singh.

In the field of education, the recipients for the coveted award will be Surjit Lal for his participation in the electoral awareness programme launched by the administration ahead of the assembly elections.

Many NCC cadets of the Punjab Girls Battalion will also be felicitated on the occasion for their participation in the parade and other cultural activities. This includes Shabnam of KMV College, Sunaina of Trinty College, Megha of CDT Lyallpur Khalsa College and Kamal Kumar and Ankita Pandey of Lyallpur Khalsa College.

Busting ATM gang was police head’s biggest feat

Having recently hit headlines twice, Kapurthala SSP Sandeep Sharma has made it to the final list of the President Medal awardees for this year.

Sharma recently came in limelight in regard to the arrest of a three-member gang that had committed 34 ATM loots across the region in Punjab, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The gang had looted a huge amount of Rs 3.24 crore and had been indulging in this crime since 2003. It was on his recommendation that CIA inspector Inderjit Singh, who was held by the STF, had been dismissed.

The SSP, however, counts his success on his work done in the past three-four years. “When I was DCP in Ludhiana, I had managed to arrest members of five gangs, including supari killers. Gold bricks too were recovered from this gang,” he said, adding that it was a matter of great satisfaction for him for having been selected for this coveted award.