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Investment
in road Most
colleges sick, says Manjit Singh
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 Branding of undertrial:
Court orders medical check-up Phone
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Drive to
remove encroachments from Nov 1 CM
clears water supply projects Science
city panel holds meeting 36
villages to have biogas plants Chief
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Adampur
byelection CHANDIGARH, Oct 26 — The two Left parties have decided to support the Congress Party during the byelection from the Adampur Assembly constituency. Senior Communist leaders who had been having consultations in their respective parties and between the two parties, feel that in order to defeat the Akali-BJP combine it was necessary to support the strongest candidate. The CPM State Secretary, Prof Balwant Singh and the CPI State Secretary, Dr Joginder Dayal, had been frequently discussing the issue. Even yesterday, they had informal discussions when they met at a function in Hoshiarpur district to mark the death anniversary of the famous Communist leader Darshan Singh Canadian. The consensus was that the left parties must work to defeat the Akali-BJP candidate, Mr D.S. Dhirowal. The reason advanced is that their national leadership had resolved to defeat the communal forces throughout the country. The party congresses of the CPM and the CPI held recently in Calcutta and Chennai, respectively, had taken this line very clearly. The Punjab Pradesh Congress President, Capt Amarinder Singh, who earned their ire by announcing the party's candidate, Kanwaljit Singh Lally, without waiting for their approval has been trying hard to persuade the Left parties to announce their support. He also wanted them to actively campaign for the Congress candidate. He even spoke to the CPM General Secretary, Mr Harkishen Singh Surjeet, twice to seek help. Mr Surjeet had directed him to talk to the state leadership. This seat was once won by Mr Kulwant Singh on the CPI ticket. He still has a sizeable influence in the area. In fact, he had defeated his own father. The two parties together could help the Congress as the election is expected to be keenly contested. The Akali strategy is simple as the Finance Minister, Capt Kanwaljit Singh, explained. "A divided Opposition is a boon. Right now there are four Opposition candidates. They belong to the Congress, the BSP and the two fledging Akali Dals. Our support base is intact. We would improve our performance this time", he asserted. But the real game in which the Akali Dal president and the Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal has succeeded is that he has been able to push a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate into the fray. Though the candidate, Mrs Widhwant Kaur, is not very strong, yet she will get a good number of traditional Congress votes of the Scheduled Castes. The Opposition has alleged that this support has been purchased by favouring the Punjab unit president of the BSP, Col C S Kamboj. His brother has recently been given a plum post of General Manager of Punjab Bhawan and also Deputy Liaison Officer in Delhi. But the Akali Dal denies this charge. All said and done, the BSP would indirectly benefit the Akali candidate. At present, the two other Akali Dals, one lead by Mr Simranjit Singh Mann and the other by Mr Kuldip Singh Wadala have fielded their own candidates. The Akali Dal (Mann) candidate, Mr Anup Singh, is said to be enjoying good reputation as does Mr Jiwan Singh of the Wadala faction. They would naturally cut into the traditional Akali vote bank. The Akali candidate, the
late Sarup Singh, had won the seat by a margin of 16,304
votes. Mr Lally had finished second. The BSP had polled
17,768 votes. Now the Akalis hope that the BSP would
repeat its performance while the Congress hopes that the
two rival Akali candidates would offset the balance in
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Wadala
complains to CEC JALANDHAR, Oct 26 — The Akali Dal (Democratic) became the second political party to lodge a complaint with the Chief Election Commissioner against SAD-BJP government ministers for sabotage and intimidation of its party workers. The party president, Mr Kuldeep Singh Wadala, in support of his allegation that the government machinery was being misused has sent photographs of vehicles with red lights being used for propaganda by various ministers of the state government in Adampur constituency to the Chief Election Commissioner also. The party has also alleged to the Chief Election Commissioner that on October 23 two ministers of the SAD-BJP government, Mr Ajit Singh Kohar and Mr Janmeja Singh Sekhon, forcibly took over the venue of the meeting at the rest house in Bhogpur and intimidated Akali Dal (Democratic) workers. Mr Kuldeep Singh Wadala said a copy of the complaint signed by the head muharrar of the police station has also been sent with the allegation that the SHO refused to register a case. Calling it a totally undemocratic style of electioneering, Mr Wadala has alleged a recent meeting addressed by a Cabinet Minister, Mrs Jagir Kaur, and Mr Balwinder Singh Bhunder, also torpedoed the Dal (Democratic) meeting by arranging loudspeakers in front of the venue. The police, he has said, was a mute spectator to this entire hooliganism. A demand for observers
from outside the state has also been made for a fair and
free election and a strict vigil against the conduct of
these ministers is most essential, he has said. |
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Senior
Congress leaders to visit Adampur JALANDHAR, Oct 26 — Former MPs, ministers and PCC office-bearers of the Congress Party have been assigned specific areas for campaigning in Adampur. The constituency has been divided into 15 zones, each zone to be headed by a former minister. The general secretary of the PPCC who is in charge of the Adampur Assembly constituency, said here today senior national leaders including Mrs Meira Kumar, Mr Rajesh Pilot, Dr Manmohan Singh, Mr Arjun Singh and Mr Sharad Pawar are expected to visit the constituency. The Congress candidate, Mr
Kanwaljit Singh Lalli, will file his nomination papers on
November 2. |
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Branding of undertrial: Court PATIALA, Oct 26 — Judicial Magistrate Rajwinder Kaur today ordered the Nabha jail authorities to produce undertrial Tarlochan Singh, who had accused jail staff of Nabha security prison and Patiala Central Jail of branding him at Nabha prison on Divali, before the Medical Superintendent of Government Rajindra Hospital or the Civil Surgeon before taking him back to Nabha jail. The Judicial Magistrate handed out these orders after Tarlochan Singh on Monday recorded a detailed statement about the branding incident in which he said he had not been produced before the Medical Superintendent of Rajindra Hospital as ordered by Duty Magistrate D.P. Singla on October 23. Mrs Rajwinder Kaur while ordering the production of the undertrial for medical examination has ordered the Nabha jail authorities to strictly comply with the order. She also fixed the next date of hearing of the case for October 30. In his statement Tarlochan
Singh alleged that he was branded as he used to raise his
voice against Dr Harbans Singh Sarao and Dr Amarjit Singh
Sidhu when posted in the Central Jail here. He alleged
that these doctors used to take money from rich
undertrials for issuing medical certificates declaring
them as having serious medical problems. This facilitated
their stay in a hospital outside the jail. He alleged
that certain police officials had also benefited due to
this largesse on the part of the doctors. |
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Investment in road sector
"poor" PATIALA, Oct 26 — The decline in investment by the government in the road sector in the past 50 years is responsible for the poor state of Indian roads. This was stated by the Central Road Research Institute acting director, Dr S.M. Sareen, in his paper, "Some issues and strategies in road transportation", delivered at the two-day national seminar on "Road transportation issues and strategies" which concluded at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology here yesterday. Dr Sareen said the neglect on part of the planners was most marked in the case of national highways. While the allocated investment in this sector was 1.4 per cent of the total outlay in the First Five-Year Plan, it was 0.6 per cent of the outlay in the Eighth Five-Year Plan. Besides, roads in India were undersigned, underconstructed and undermaintained. He said inadequate road pavement thickness, poor road surface quality, old bridges and culverts, the existence of a number of railway crossing inhabiting smooth traffic flow on highways, the absence of bypasses to relieve road traffic from city congestion and the absence of roadside amenities were among the major problems which dogged the sector. Dr Sareen said transport problems manifested themselves in the form of deteriorating road safety, traffic congestion, defilement of the environment due to air and noise pollution, marginalisation of the less-privileged and wasteful consumption of energy. He said the road safety situation in particular was a matter of concern because of serious loss of limb or life, damage to property and allround loss of productivity. Congestion impeded movement and increased vehicle-operating cost, besides eroding economic competitiveness of the area. Dr Sareen said vehicle emissions and street noise were responsible for the rising graph of asthma headache and irritation, liver damage, nervous disorders and general impairment of health of urban populace. Further, low income groups and certain other segments of the population had to spend more time and money on transportation and undergo much discomfort and agony. There was abnormal consumption of petroleum products, pressure on scarce resources and a heavy demand on the import bill under the circumstances. Transport was the backbone of the economy and was indispensable for growth and development. He said unfortunately the country had not been able to respond effectively to the need. He said the growing population of motor vehicles, rising volumes of passenger and freight traffic, heavier axle loads, the inescapable need for better roads, uninterrupted movement and high-speed facilities would require massive infusion of funds. However, the plan outlays for the transport sector had been progressively declining over the successive five-year plans. The problem of overcrowding and congestion could be resolved through various low-cost, intermediate cost, high-cost and sophisticated solutions. The low-cost solutions would imply traffic demand measures, traffic restraint and traffic circulation measures. The intermediate or high-cost solutions included engineering measures such as widening and upgradation of roads, improvement of intersections, construction of bypasses, flyovers, bus stops, taxi stands, parking facilities and urban freeways, improvement of the existing public transport and upgradation of the bus operation management system. The high-cost solutions could include the construction of bus ways and introduction of high-speed tramways. He expressed the view that
to solve the transportation problem only a holistic
approach encompassing land-use planning, effective and
unified organisation and coordination, bold policy
initiatives, optional use of existing facilities and
appropriate choice of new technologies and transit
systems could help shape and carry urban traffic in an
environmentally safe socially compatible and economically
acceptable way. |
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Most colleges sick, says Manjit Singh CHANDIGARH, Oct 26 — The Punjab Minister for Higher Education, Mr Manjit Singh Calcutta, says the Centre and the States must share both the Plan and non-Plan expenditure incurred on education. The country as a whole has given scant regard to education. Even today decision-making is done by the Centre and its agencies with the States expected to implement the same. Several of the policy decisions involved financial commitment which the states were unable to fulfil. The recent case was in respect of upward revision of the pay scales of university and college teachers. The Centre must bear the additional burden for at least the next 10 years. In an interview with the TNS, Mr Manjit Singh said there was practically no budget for education. The States in general had only "salary" and not "development" budgets. Punjab was no exception. It is now that it was proposed that at least 6 per cent of the gross domestic product must be earmarked for education. The percentage was still low, given the need for making education accessible to one and all. Any money spent on education would mean improving human resource development. No yardstick would call this "wasteful" expenditure. The Minister, who recently attended the state education Ministers' conference in New Delhi, was disillusioned with the pace and progress of higher education in the State. May it be quality-wise, in terms of infrastructure, condition of laboratories and libraries or playfields, most of the colleges were "sick". The Centre and the University Grants Commission must, therefore, prepare special schemes to uplift these "sick" colleges. To improve the standards of education, accountability of teachers was imperative. In higher education certain priorities had to be re-fixed. Though 15 per cent of the enrolment had gone over to "open" universities, the country had not gone beyond correspondence courses. A review was called for. With expenditure on education declining in every successive Five Year Plan, states suffered a resource crunch. Higher education, he told TNS, was the bedrock of all development. The present academic system was unable to prepare students for "new challenges" to compete in the world. The white collar graduates and postgraduates, therefore, remained jobless. All this called for "vocationalisation" of the entire education system. In reply to a question, Mr Manjit Singh said there should be "uniform" syllabi and courses in all universities in the country ensuring "equivalence" of all degrees. In fact there was need to make education attractive. There had been a decline in the number of students opting for "pure science" subjects. This could affect research and development programmes in a number of fields. In view of the present lopsided aspects of higher education intake into that orbit had to be checked at the plus two level. On "free"
education to girls, he favoured waiving of tuition fee.
The Punjab Minister expressed concern over the education
system for the minorities, whose rights were protected
and guaranteed under articles 29 and 30 of the
Constitution, which should neither be tinkered with nor
diluted. |
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Phone dept directed to pay
compensation BATHINDA, Oct 26 — The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Bathinda, has directed the Telecom District Manager to pay Rs 5000 as compensation to Mr Shishen Pal Goyal for causing harassment to him by illegally disconnecting his telephone. Mr P.C. Singla, president of the forum, in his order, held that officials of the Telecommunication Department turned vindictive after Mr Goyal filed a complaint against department officials. They started harassing the complainant by inflating his bill at times and disconnecting the connection on certain other occasion without any rhyme or reason. The complainant had alleged that the department had raised illegal demands for rent and bill which were not due from him and illegally disconnected his residential telephone on flimsy grounds. In its reply, the department could neither justify the demand for rent and bill from the complainant nor could it explain the cutting of the connection. The forum also awarded Rs 1000 as the cost of the litigation to the complainant. It also directed the
General Manager, Telecom, to hold an inquiry into the
matter and submit a copy of the action taken report to
it. |
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Where business thrives at govt cost AMRITSAR: Encroachment on government land seems to have become a way of life in this holy city, which is frequently visited by VIPs. The haphazard growth of the city is the result of either political power or money power even as illegal encroachments bedevil residents. With the passage of time, the problem has aggravated further. Little attention is being paid to mitigate the problems of the residents who have been facing problems like congestion, chaotic traffic, etc. With the alleged connivance of the powers-that-be, the land mafia has spread its wings. Everything which should not be done has been done with impunity here. The mafia has already encroached upon prime land in the city under the very nose of the administration. Vegetable and fruit stalls can be seen everywhere. These stalls have even come up on the main roads which often results in traffic holdups. The "concern" of the authorities can be judged from the fact that fruit stall owners have set up shops even at traffic lights (see picture). They are not bothered about the risk to their own life and the lives of the customers while encroaching on the area around the traffic lights. The GT Road, which links India with Pakistan, has also been encroached upon at many places. Fruit and vegetable rehris can be seen on the roads, which defeats the very purpose of four-laning. Road dividers are also being misused by the land mafia while the administration is a mute spectator to such illegal activities. Apart from encroachments, the Municipal Corporation has failed to maintain cleanliness in this one of the oldest cities which is described as "sifti da ghar" (house for worth praising). Hardly has any cleanliness campaign been launched in any part of the city. Garbage removal services are virtually non-existent. Rotting garbage poses a major health hazard. The encroachments have
already resulted in a number of road accidents. |
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Fodder scam case PATIALA, Oct 26 — Former CBI Director Joginder Singh has said his forthcoming book "Inside CBI" will throw new light on the criminalisation of politics besides giving new facts about the fodder scam of Bihar. Talking to TNS after attending the installation ceremony of Mrs Darshan Malvinder Singh as president of the Inner Wheel Club (Patiala midtown), here last night, Mr Joginder Singh said only selective information about the fodder scam had been given to the public which was only the tip of the iceberg. "Whatever the public knows is the information given out by the government. However I will reveal everything about the scam in my book," said the former CBI Director. He said the book would also highlight the criminalisation of politics and try to explain how it had taken place. The perversity of the present-day politics would also be taken up in the book, Mr Joginder Singh said adding that he was not afraid of any defamation suits being filed against him. Asked whether the book
would also try to answer allegations that he had played
into the hands of former Prime Minister H.D. Dewe Gowda
while he was the CBI Director, Mr Joginder Singh said he
had answered these allegations in the book. He went on to
say that Mr Gowda had not done any favour to him by
appointing him as CBI Director as he had the requisite
qualifications for the post. |
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Drive
to remove encroachments from Nov 1 LUDHIANA, Oct 26 — Responding to the large number of complaints from villages during the sangat darshan programmes, a special campaign to remove encroachments along both sides of all link roads in the district would be launched from November 1. A decision in this regard was taken during a meeting of the district-level officers of the departments concerned held here today under the chairmanship of Mr Arun Goel, Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana. Mr Goel informed that in order to ensure that no encroachment was made along the roads again two special campaigns would be carried out every year from May 1 and November 1 when the fields were normally vacant. He said revenue officers in the district would provide demarcations and the XEN concerned, PWD, would be responsible for installing permanent pillars. The farmers would be requested not to extend ploughing beyond their limits. The SDM of the subdivision concerned would be the nodal officer for this purpose and supervise operations. The Forest Department would plant trees on the vacated land, Mr Goel said, adding that this campaign had became necessary keeping in view of rapid increase in accidents on the roads. At many places only metallic part of the roads remained for use and both the sides were encroached upon by the farmers. He appealed to farmers to
extend cooperation to the campaign which was being
launched in the interests of the public and to save
precious lives. |
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CM clears water supply projects CHANDIGARH, Oct 26 — The Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, today cleared water supply and sewerage projects worth Rs 60 crore for five towns — Fazilka, Batala, Kotkapura, Khanna and Hoshiarpur. At a meeting with senior officers of the Local Government, Public Health and Finance Departments and the Sewerage Board, the Chief Minister called for "speedy completion" of the work in hand. The Tenth Finance Commission has recommended grants to municipal committees in order to provide/augment water supply/sewerage services in different towns. The Centre has earmarked a subsidy of Rs 23 crore each for three years starting from 1996-97. Under this scheme Fazilka and Batala have been approved for water supply scheme, and Khanna and Hoshiarpur for strengthening the sewerage system. Kotkapura town has been selected for both. The Chief Minister wanted
an action plan for rural water supply of Rs 240 crore to
be completed before 2000. The Local Bodies Department is
expected to improve condition of roads and other
infrastructure. |
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Science city panel holds meeting CHANDIGARH,Oct 26 — The first annual general meeting of the Council of ‘Pushpa Gujral Science City' was held today with the Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, in the chair. The meeting passed a resolution to register the council as a registered society, after which the certificate of registration would be forwarded to the Department of Culture, Government of India, with a request to release the first instalment of Rs 5 crore to the society. Giving an account of the
project, Mr Y.S Ratra, Principal Secretary, Department of
Science, Technology, Environment and Non-Conventional
Energy, said the science city project was to be set up on
75 acres of land. |
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M.
S. Bal CHANDIGARH, Oct 26 — Dr M. S. Bal has been appointed member of the economic and planning cell of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee by the president, Capt Amarinder Singh. A PPCC press release
issued by the chairman of the cell, Mr R. R. Bhardwaj,
said a perspective paper "Punjab 2000-2050" was
being prepared. |
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Journalist
bereaved AMRITSAR, Oct 26 — Mr Uttam Chand Sethi, father of Mr Ashok Sethi Correspondent, The Tribune, died here this morning after a prolonged illness. He was 86. He is survived by three sons and a daughter. Mr Sethi was closely
associated with a number of religious, social,
educational and sports organisations. |
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Karamchari
dal's charge on graft FEROZEPORE, Oct 26 — The president of the Punjab State Karamchari Dal, Mr Hari Singh Tohra has alleged that corruption has touched a new high during the rule of the SAD-BJP combine. Talking to this reporter here today, he regretted that the government had failed to check corruption. Later, addressing a dharna, staged in front of the office of the Ferozepore Divisional, Commissioner, he threatened to intensify the struggle, if the employees' demands were not accepted by the government. Mr Tohra added that the dal planned to stage dharnas in front of the divisional commissioners' offices at Jalandhar, Faridkot and Patiala on November 6, 9 and 16, respectively. He demanded the removal of
anomalies in pay scales, release of DA instalment the
regularisation of ad hoc employees, technical grades for
field employees and promotional benefits for all
employees who had put in four, nine and 14 years'
service. |
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Boy
killed in road mishap NAWANSHAHR, Oct 26 — Gurjinder Singh (15), a student of class IX of Government Senior Secondary School, Asmanpur, was killed here at Chandigarh Road, when a Contessa car hit him at around 9.20 this morning. According to eyewitnesses, the car, after crushing the boy, did not stop. Some persons, however, noted down the number of the car and informed the police. The police has registered
a case under Section 304-A of the IPC against the
occupants of the car bearing number PB-11-G-0018. |
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Rice
millers not to unload paddy MALERKOTLA, Oct 26 — Rice millers here have decided not to unload paddy of agencies in their shellers. This decision was taken by the millers due to the "non-cooperative" attitude of the local truck union. It was on Saturday that the rice millers had asked the Truck Union to send trucks for transporting rice to the local railway station. The rice was meant to be despatched to Gujarat by a special train. But the truck union refused to give the trucks for the purpose and asked the rice millers to book their trucks directly for Gujarat. According to Mr Darshan Jain a spokesman of the Rice Millers Association Malerkotla. The rice millers transported the rice to the railway station by their own trucks but their trucks were gheraoed by the truck union and were not allowed to go to the railway station. Meanwhile Mr P.M. Dass,
DIG, Patiala, Range, has instructed the police to end the
deadlock between the rice millers and the truck union. |
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Plea to overhaul education
system AMRITSAR, Oct 26 — The All-India Citizens' Committee has demanded the overhauling of the education and administrative systems. Addressing a meeting here yesterday, the secretary-general of the committee, Mr Pramod Arya, said the administrative set-up should decentralise power at the gram panchayat level to facilitate the rural masses. Mr Arya advocated the
enforcement of a liberal and uniform three-tier
Panchayati Raj system apart from giving financial and
judicial powers to panchayats. |
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"No
shortage" of fertilisers LUDHIANA, Oct 26 — There is no scarcity of fertilisers like DAP, NPK, superphosphate and potash in Punjab. This was stated by Mr Gurdev Singh Badal, Agriculture Minister, Punjab, here yesterday. The minister said the
farmers could buy manures from cooperative societies, the
Agro-Industries Corporation, IFFCO or private dealers. He
cautioned against dealers selling manures of inferior
quality.
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36 villages to have biogas plants LUDHIANA, Oct 26 — In order to tap more non-conventional energy resources, biogas plants using night soil will be set up in 36 villages in the first phase at a cost of Rs 3.50 crore. The scheme will then be extended to other villages in a phased manner. This was announced by Mr Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, Punjab Medical Education Minister, while addressing a function after laying the foundation stone of a plan costing Rs 10 lakh at Sahnewal last evening. Mr Grewal said 90 per cent subsidy would be given by the state government on these plants and only 10 per cent had to be contributed by the organisations/villages concerned. This 60 cubic metre capacity plant would be completed within three months. He informed that with the execution of 36 plants, the state would generate additional 520 kv of power. Mr Grewal further said the Punjab Energy Development Authority (PEDA) had also decided to set up 108 micro-hydel electrical units on different canals in the state. He said apart from this work on eight hydel projects on canals in Ludhiana district had already been taken up which was near completion and 10 mw power would be generated from these eight units. Mr M.S. Sekhon, Director, PEDA, said the work on night soil-based biogas plants had already started in five villages. Among others who addressed
the function were Mr Krishan Lal Gupta and Mr Anupam
Nanda, project officer. |
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Sufi
seminar from Oct 31 JALANDHAR, Oct 26 — A two-day seminar on Sufism is being held at Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, from October 31. The seminar will focus on the social and historical contexts of Sufi thought and practice and its relevance in present times. Mr B K Srivastava, Commissioner, Jalandhar Division, and adviser of the organising committee, said it was time Sufi traditions which glorified spiritual ecstasy were highlighted. According to Mr Srivastava, eminent scholars from all over India will present their papers on various aspects of Sufi thought. The seminar will be followed by all-India mushaira on October 31. A special documentary on
Sufism will also be shown during the seminar. |
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Chief Secretary denies charge CHANDIGARH, Oct 26 — The Chief Secretary of Punjab, Mr R.S. Mann, today deposed in the court of the Judicial Magistrate, Mr Jagnahar Singh, to reply to the allegations levelled against him by Mr V.K. Jain, a former superintending engineer of Punjab. Mr Mann denied the charge that he had illegally, arbitrarily and in a vindictive manner issued orders for the pre-mature retirement of Mr Jain of September 25. During his one-and-a-half hour cross-examination, Mr Mann refuted the charge that Mr Jain had suffered mental torture and his reputation was lowered in the eyes of the public due to his pre-mature retirement. The Chief Secretary also denied that he was denied promotion to the post of Chief Engineer due to illegal conduct of the defendant while processing his case. Mr Jain had claimed damages to the tune of Rs 11 lakh from Mr Mann. In his suit for damages he
stated that Mr Mann had passed orders of his pre-mature
retirement contrary to the commendations made by an apex
body constituted by the state government. |
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Workshop
on open education CHANDIGARH, Oct 26 — A three-day workshop for the development and promotion of the open learning system organised by the Punjab School Education Board in collaboration with the National Open School, New Delhi, began here today at Kisan Bhavan. Mrs S.K. Sandhu, Secretary, School Education, Punjab, inaugurated the workshop. Prof M.B. Menon, Chairman, National Open School, New Delhi, while delivering the keynote address, said that there was a need to open more open schools in the country to impart basic, elementary and secondary education in the countryside. He said that a national consortium has been set up to inter-act with state open schools. Mr Jiwan Tewari, an
eminent educationist, said that the open school system
ought to be an autonomous institution. Dr G.S. Sidhu,
acting Chairman of the Punjab School Education Board,
said that the recommendation of the workshop would be
implemented. |
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