AMRITSAR
Nominated: With a view to give representation
to each region, three more members have been
nominated as special invitees to the newly-formed
College Development Council of Guru Nanak Dev
University by the vice-Chancellor, Dr H.S. Soch.
According to Dr S.P. Singh, secretary and Dean of
the council, these members are: Principal Ashok
Kumar, president of the Federation of Principals
of privately-run affiliated colleges of the
university, Dr Dev Ichha, Principal of D.A.N.
College of Education, Nawanshahr and Mr Sutantar
Kumar, Principal of A.B.College, Pathankot.GURDASPUR
Suspended: Mr Paras Ram, Inspector, FCI,
Kahnuwan area, has been placed under suspension
for being absent from the grain market at
Kahnuwan. He was suspended when the Deputy
Commissioner, Mr S.K. Sandhu, accompanied by the
District Manager, FCI, and the District Food and
Supplies Controller, visited the grain market on
October 7 to review the procurement of paddy. As
many as 14 ahrtiyas' licences at various
procurement centres in the district have been
cancelled due to various irregularities.
Fiftyseven ahrtiyas have been given show cause
notices and Rs 7,000 has been collected as fine
from various ahrtiyas.
HOSHIARPUR
Closure: Keeping in view the safety of
public, Mr Iqbal Singh Sidhu, District Magistrate
here, has issued orders once again to close
Paradise Palace, Kamal Palace and Royal Marriage
Palace in the city for a further period of two
months for not observing the safety norms
prescribed by the government for marriage
palaces. These orders will remain in force up to
December 10.
Meeting:
A district-level meeting of the Punjab PWD
Workers Union was held under the presidentship of
Mr Vijay Kumar Sharma here on Tuesday. The
meeting urged the state government to release the
DA instalment for January along with the salary
for October and not to postpone its payment for
another month. It demanded the release of the DA
instalment for July immediately.
JALANDHAR
Speed post: A Rs 4 crore target has been
fixed for the speed post business in Punjab
during the financial year 1999-2000 against the
target of Rs 2 crore during the previous year.
This was stated by Col Tilak Raj, Chief Post
Master general , Punjab circle, Chandigarh, while
addressing a speed post customers meet here on
Tuesday. He said the head post office here would
be fully computerised by December for providing
prompt services to the customers. Similarly, the
grain market post office in the city is also
being computerised.
LUDHIANA
Dharna: A large number of cartwheel pullers
and members of the Punjab Pradesh Congress
Committee on Tuesday staged a two-hour-long
dharna outside the Tehbazari Department of the
municipal corporation against the impounding of
cartwheels by the corporation. The dharna was led
by Mr Parminder Mehta, senior Youth Congress
leader and a member of the PPCC.
Charter of
demands: The local Urban Estate Residents
Welfare Society, in a charter of demands
submitted to the SSP, Ms Gurpreet Deo, at the
dastak meet organised at Dugri on October 10, has
demanded better policing in the area. It has
asked for regular nakas and barriers on the
outskirts of the Urban Estate and regular day and
night vigil. The society has also demanded that
the antecedents of migratory labour and masons
should be verified.
Pulse polio
campaign: A special pulse polio campaign and
a panch sammelan was organised at the Primary
Health Centre, Pakhowal, by Dr Santosh Kataria,
SMO, Department of Health and Family Welfare,
Pakhowal. The camp was inaugurated by Mr Jagdish
Singh Garcha, MLA.
NAWANSHAHR
Elected: The following have been elected
office-bearers of the local unit of the Municipal
Subordinate Employees Union: Chairman — Mr
Madan Lal Bhucher; president- Mr Jagdish Ram
Bali; Senior vice-president — Mr Prem Lal
Khosa, Junior vice-president — Mr Major
Singh, general Secretaries — Mr Akshay Kumar
and Mr Tilak Raj Sharma; Joint Secretaries —
Mr Rajinder Pal Singh and Mr Gobind Ram; and
Treasurer — Mr Ashok Kumar.
Erratic
supply: Residents here have been facing a lot
of inconvenience due to the erratic supply of
cooking gas cylinders by a local gas agency. They
complain that the agency does not follow the home
delivery system and they have to face a lot of
difficulty in getting cylinders. According to
them, the gas cylinders are underweight and they
do not get a discount of Rs 5 for taking delivery
from the godown.
Dental health
care: A state-level function under the
intensive dental health care programme was
organised on Tuesday by the Health Department
(Dental wing), Punjab, at Balachaur, about 20 km
from here. Dr G.S. Preet, Director, Health
Services, Punjab, said a sum of Rs 12 crore had
been earmarked for providing quality medicines in
the current financial year out of which medicines
worth Rs 6 crore had been purchased by different
committees. Dr Nasib Chand Mann, Additional
Director, Dental Health Services, Punjab, said to
create an awakening among the masses, as many as
482 dental care camps had been organised at which
more than 10 lakh patients had been examined and
13,000 dentures costing Rs 5 crore, had been
given free of cost.
PATIALA
Promoted: Mr Subhash Bansal, Superintending
Engineer, Technical Audit, has been promoted as
Chief Engineer of Stores and Disposal, Punjab
State Electricity Board, according to a PSEB
press note. 
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