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persists in bid to raise retiring age Gill
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| Life in shadow of Pakistan GURDASPUR, March 17 — Bharial bulge on the Indo-Pakistan border comprising of more than 1 dozen villages across the river Ravi continues to be a neglected back water to this day. The bulge enclosed by the River Ujj on its north, Pakistan on its west and the river Ravi on its east has become a virtual island because of its continued isolation. Where living and dead coexist PATIALA, March 17 — Picture a cremation ground and its surroundings. Eerie silence smacking of some ghostly presence is what comes to mind. One also assumes that the grounds will be away from residential houses and will wear a deserted look. Compulsory weekly offs
for cops Shankaracharya
to open centre MP
for CBI probe into missing person case Healed
by faith? Security
to Sena chief withdrawn
Department
work streamlined
Gang
leader held
Historians
told to work responsibly BA/BSc
exams from April 4
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29 civic bodies get
administrators CHANDIGARH, March 17 — While elected presidents of eight municipal committees have been removed , the Punjab government has appointed administrators of 29 committees following the expiry of the five-year term of the elected governing bodies of these committees. The elected presidents have been removed for "alleged abuse of powers" according to official sources. Informed official sources said that allegations levelled against the presidents had been proved following inquiries held by officials concerned. In fact, the term of three committees — Nangal, Mohali and Badani Kalan — whose presidents have been removed have competed their five-year term. The Punjab Government has appointed administrators of Khem Karan, Rayya, Bhikhiwind, Ajnala. Bariwala, Dhilwan, Mahilpur, Balachaur, Shahkot, Machhiwara , Makhu, Sahnewal, Bhogpur, Nangal, Bagha Purana, Goraya , Patran, Ghagga, Khanuri, Moonak, Cheema, Dirba, Handiaya, Amloh, Bhulath, Mullanpur Dakha, Begowal, Mohali and Badani Kalan local bodies. Elections to these bodies were due to be held in January this year. But the government has came out with the plea that as per municipal rules revision of electoral rolls of these local bodies was mandatory with effect from January 1,2000, to provide the right to franchise to such voters who have become eligible voters as on January 1 this year. The Department of Local bodies has requested the State Election Commission to make the necessary revision of the rolls. This process is expected to be completed by March 31 this year. Another reason advanced by the government is the annual examination in schools during February and March and colleges in April. Obviously government feels that the holding of elections of local bodies in March or April would have an adverse affect on students preparing for examinations. However, opposition parties do not agree with the plea taken by the state government. Leaders of various Opposition parties, including the Congress, CPI and CPM say that the Government was running away from holding elections to local bodies by advancing flimsy reasons. They say the government had lost popularity in urban areas due to its various policies and it was afraid to face the urban electorate. The government was aware that the term of so many local bodies would expire in January this year and it should have ordered the revision of electoral rolls accordingly. Meanwhile, the Local
Bodies Department has introduced the contractor system in
a big way for sanitation of various cities and towns in
the state. According to information available at the
official level sanitation work has been partially handed
over to contractors in 40 cities and towns. |
Punjab persists in bid to raise
retiring age CHANDIGARH, March 17 — Notwithstanding the unequivocal no by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the proposal of the Punjab Government to enhance the retiring age of judicial officers of its cadre from 60 to 62, efforts have not yet slackened to prevail upon the government to amend the rules and raise the age of superannuation. A six-page note quoting the recommendations of the First National Judicial Pay Commission for raising the age of superannuation has been sent to the Punjab Government. The note gives nine reasons for enhancing the superannuation age. These are: The longevity of people has considerably increased; increase in the retiring age in Europe is round the corner due to demographic causes; age of superannuation in public service in certain foreign countries is 65 years; the central government while accepting the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission has raised the age of superannuation of the central government employees to 60 years and the union territories have followed suit, judicial officers after retiring at the age of 60 seek re-employment in corporations and statutory boards as law officers for a five-year term. Most judicial officers do not get full pension for want of the qualifying service of 33 years. With the passage of time judicial officers have become more mature and could be better utilised by continuing its service. There will not be any impact on employment by raising the age to 62 since judicial officers are recruited from the Bar associations. The Fifth Central Pay Commission suggested that its recommendations to raise the retiring age of government employees to 60 years, must lead to suitable readjustment of other categories of employees like judicial officers to maintain the present relativity. Besides quoting from the recommendations of the National Judicial Pay Commission, the note argues that the Supreme Court had sought the views of state governments on the above recommendations of the commission. The Punjab government had referred the matter to the High Court. In turn, the High Court by its letter No 1941/GAZ. II(5) dated January 27 recommended that the recommendation of the National Judicial Pay Commission relating to the enhancement of superannuation age of the judicial working in Punjab should be accepted. The note adds that there are about 16 vacancies of Additional District and Sessions Judges meant for promotee officers. The minimum qualification of the PCS (Judicial Branch) officers for promotion to the Punjab Superior Judicial Service to the rank of Additional District and Sessions Judges is 10 years' service with good service record. It is understood that an adequate number of officers in the PCS Judicial Branch fulfilling the twin requirements of having put in 10 years of service and having good record are not available. Therefore, some posts of Additional District and Sessions Judges are likely to remain vacant. There is huge backlog of
old civil and criminal cases in courts of Sessions and
Additional Sessions Judges in Punjab. "It is a
national priority to control the increase in the number
of old cases and to reduce them drastically. For this
purpose the services of experienced judicial officers of
the rank of District and Sessions Judges and Additional
District and Sessions Judges are required." the note
suggests. |
Gill to take up Pak
Sikhs’ case with govt AMRITSAR, March 17 — Chief Election Commissioner, Dr M.S. Gill said today that the Election Commission and Supreme Court judges in Pakistan were full of praise for India’s democratic set-up. Talking to mediapersons after returning from Pakistan, Dr Gill said he had created a history of sorts by visiting the ‘mazar’ (tomb) of Baba Bulle Shah, the great Punjabi Sufi poet. He said he was the first person to offer “chadar” at his tomb in the post-Independence era. The CEC said Sikh and Sindhis in Pakistan who met him expressed their desire to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple. He said he was pained to learn that a big country like India was not able to arrange for their visit. He felt anger when told by a journalist that they were not being given visa to Punjab as it continued to be a disturbed state. “They can be escorted from Wagah to Amritsar and sent back under a strict security vigil”, he suggested. Dr Gill said he would take up the matter with the Government of India. To a question, Dr Gill said he received a red carpet welcome everywhere in Pakistan. He said the common man in Pakistan wanted peace and good relations with India. Dr Gill said traders of
both India and Pakistan could benefit if the land route
was opened between the two countries. |
Stand-off between traders,
PSEB LUDHIANA, March 17 — Confrontation is developing here between the trade and industry on the one hand and the PSEB staff on the other over what is alleged to be highhandedness on the part of the latter. While the representatives of the trade and industry allege that PSEB staff are generally overbearing, corrupt and inefficient and always on the look out for a chance to squeeze money out of consumers, the PSEB officials say that they have to become the target of the wrath of the irate consumers whenever they try to check rampant theft of power. However, it is agreed by all that the theft of power cannot take place without the connivance of the PSEB staff. Representatives of the trade and industry allege that while the PSEB is harsh on the consumers caught stealing power, it does precious little to discipline its own staff. The immediate case in point’s in an incident which took place on Saturday when certain junior PSEB officials were allegedly belaboured and confined to a room and their official records destroyed by a group of traders and businessmen when they went to a locality for checking. The businessmen allege PSEB officials were trying to extort money from them on the pretext of checking power theft. The police has registered a case against several businessmen, including Mr Harish Khanna, President of the Ludhiana small-scale Manufacturers Association, who reportedly reached the spot after the incident to address a traders’ rally. Mr Khanna was arrested from the office of the SSP when he went to him at the head of a deputation to discuss the situation arising out of the stand-off between the traders and the PSEB officials. Mr Khanna has since been sent to judicial look-up for 12 days. Incidentally, power connections to his residence and factory were disconnected yesterday by the PSEB officials for “non-payment of the connections were later restored on the settlement of the bills according to a PSEB spokesman. Intense rivalry between various trade, business and industries organisations in Ludhiana which initially seemed to prevent them from coming together on the issue of Khanna’s arrest and the highhandedness” on the part of the authorities, appears to have now been overcome. Representatives of about 50 associations of trade and industry today gave a call for a rally tomorrow at Vishwakarma Chowk and a bandh on March 20. As Mr P.D. Sharma,
president, Apex Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Punjab,
puts it, “the entire trade and industry is against
power theft. The only point of difference is about the
methodology to be adopted to check the theft. |
Dealers sell land in names of servants KAPURTHALA, March 17 (UNI) — The detection of a fake sale deed of a property by the Kapurthala police has unearthed a scam by colonisers who do business in the name of their servants usually migrant labourers, allegedly in connivance with the Revenue Department to escape the tax net and stringent laws of Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA). Talking to mediapersons here today SSP Iqbal Singh said the police had registered a case of fraud against the local colonisers identified as Lachman Dass and his brother Vijay Kumar, Santokh Singh, Ram Pal and Karnail Singh. He said the colonisers Vijay Kumar and his brother Lachman Dass were working as property dealers in the name of their servant Krishan Lal Bhandari, a migrant labourer, to evade income tax. After the death of Krishan Lal Bhandari on August 9, 1998, a fake sale deed of one kanal 18 marlas was registered in the local tehsil office on March 30, 1999 in favour of Santokh Singh a resident of Purana Hospital locality with the help of a man who posed as Krishan Lal, identified as Krishan Sharma, the Naib Tehsildar Tarsem Singh attested the sale deed. The police came to know of the fraud through an informer. SP (Detective) Jaskirat Singh Chahal conducted an inquiry into the mysterious death of Krishan Lal Bhandari and the fake registry and sent the report to the SSP for registration of a fraud case against the accused. When the SSP sought a legal opinion from the Deputy District Legal Adviser and the Legal Adviser in his opinion report sent to SSP on July 28, 1999 remarked that no cognisable offence was made out from the inquiry report of SP (detective). The SSP not satisfied with the report, ordered a fresh inquiry to SP (Headquarter) Munish Chawla on December 6, 1999. Munish Chawla in his report submitted to the SSP on January 16, 2000, found that Krishan Lal Bhandari died of excessive drinking. Vijay Kumar and Lachman Dass when contacted admitted that they were doing business in the name of their servant, Krishan Bhandari but had no hand in execution of fake sale deed. They alleged that they were in possession of the record of large number of fake registries of a prominent coloniser of the city who enjoyed the patronage of senior officers and politicians. Kapurthala Tehsildar Rachpal Chand Sharma when contacted said he was not aware of the registration of any fraud case because of fake registry. He denied allegations of any nexus between colonisers and revenue officials and said the registration law had no provision for proof of residence of seller, buyer and witnesses. Deputy Commissioner VK Singh when contacted said he would look into this fraud. PUDA law officer Inder
Singh when contacted in his office at Jalandhar said PUDA
was facing a problem in taking action against
unauthorised colonisers doing property business in their
servants names and PUDA had brought the matter to the
notice of Financial Commissioner Revenue. |
Propertyless co-owner can’t
seek injunction CHANDIGARH, March 17 — In a significant judgement which has the effect of overruling a number of earlier verdicts on the question of right of a co-owner of a property to move court for injunction, the Punjab and Haryana High Court held that a co-owner who is not in possession with any part of the property is not entitled to seek injunction against another co-owner in exclusive possession of common property. The question regarding the injunction arose on a civil revision petition filed by Mr Bachan Singh against his co-owner Swaran Singh, through a reference made by a single Judge of the High Court for decision by a Division Bench in view of conflicting judgements of single Judge on the point. A Special Division Bench comprising Mr Justice G.S. Singhvi and Mr Justice T.H.B. Chalapathi, observed that injunction relief, permanent or temporary, is very commonly sought and granted and injustice ensues from such orders. Besides it was to be considered what were the remedies available to co-owners, if the co-owner in possession abuses the joint property or otherwise infringes the right of his co-sharers. The Bench held that in all other cases, the remedy of the co-owners out of possession of property was to seek partition but not an injunction restraining the co-owner in possession from doing any act in exercise of his right which he is doing as a co-owner. The Bench, however, clarified that if by act of the co-owner in possession, the value or utility of the property is deminished, then the co-owner out of possession can certainly seek an injunction to prevent the diminution of the value and utility of the property. It was further ruled that if the acts of the co-owner in possession were detrimental to the interests of other co-owners, a co-owner out of possession could seek an injunction. As the judgement
overrules some earlier ones on the point, the Bench
directed that copies of the judgement be sent to all
District Judges of the Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh for
onward circulation to subordinate court officers. |
Life in shadow of Pakistan GURDASPUR, March 17 — Bharial bulge on the Indo-Pakistan border comprising of more than 1 dozen villages across the river Ravi continues to be a neglected back water to this day. The bulge enclosed by the River Ujj on its north, Pakistan on its west and the river Ravi on its east has become a virtual island because of its continued isolation. Comprising of the villages of Bharial, Toor, Chebe, Lassian, Cookar, Mammi Chakrangra, Tash Jattan, Rajpur Jattan, Jhoomar, Jaimpur Shahpur, Shailpur, Nika, Tash, Kajlo and Rajji Bela, the bulge it is cut off from the rest of the district during the rains when residents fall back on the BSF for meeting their needs. Mr Karnail Singh, Sarpanch, Chebe said that the BSF was kind enough to provide canteen facilities during this period and if someone fell ill it provided transport up to the primary health centre at Dorangla or Civil Hospital, Gurdaspur. The bulge itself has no civil dispensary and has been attached to the primary health centre, Behrampur. Gurbachan Singh Sarpanch, Mammi Chakranga said the bulge has no PSEB office and consumers have to go to Narot Jaimal Singh for payment of electricity bills. There are middle schools at Bharial and six primary schools in the six panchayats of the bulge. The condition of schools is far from satisfactory with many primary schools housed in one room without boundary walls. Attendance by teachers is not regular and the schools are closed during the monsoon. While wheat, rice, mustard and sugar cane are grown there is no procurement centre and farmers have to carry their produce to nearby markets on bullock carts. Buses ply only up to Jahbkara on the near side of the Ravi and the service is irregular. The residents want bus service at least up to the ferry, 5 km from Jahbkara. Talking to newsmen near the river banks residents sought erection of spurs opposite Toor and Chebe village to prevent floods. Although the Irrigation Department has sent the proposals to the Centre in this regard nothing has been done. Mr Vinod Khanna MP and Mr S.K. Sandhu, Deputy Commissioner in separate communications to the Home Ministry sought release of the funds to save the village from floods this summer. Sources said the Centre finances flood protection measures on the Ravi only at the instance of the BSF which chooses sites which protect its establishments rather than village land. Residents of Tash and Kajle are threatened by flooding in the river Ujh, which flows just 200 feet away. The population of the
area of around 2500 persons, boycotted the 1967 general
elections to draw the attention of the government towards
their demands. But in vain. |
Where living and dead coexist PATIALA, March 17 — Picture a cremation ground and its surroundings. Eerie silence smacking of some ghostly presence is what comes to mind. One also assumes that the grounds will be away from residential houses and will wear a deserted look. In Patiala, it is different. Barring one cremation ground towards Sanauri Road, all have been engulfed by the city. No more do the fear of ghosts tremble the persons passing through cremation grounds. People take evening walks along its boundary walls and children play cricket on its premises. Population growth is the main reason and the city is expanding in all directions. The cremation grounds were far away from residential areas a few years back. Now several colonies have sprung around these. people also have common boundary walls with these. The construction around these has become so thick that the cremation grounds seem another house with greenery in it. While the fictional ghosts seems to have taken the disturbance in good spirit, residents are feeling the heat. A demand of getting the cremation ground shifted is gaining momentum, not because of fear but because of the pungent and nauseating smell emanating from the burning of bodies. People say there is paucity of space and so they do not mind living adjacent to the cremation ground. Mr Iqbal Singh, who lives near Rajpura Road cremation ground, says children play cricket and fly kites in the cremation ground without any fear but people are disturbed by the smell and scenes of mourning procession. He says the pressure of population growth is telling on the cremation grounds and people have no option but to live near these. Mr Ranjit Singh, a shopkeeper near a cremation ground in Tripuri Colony, says no one is afraid of living near the cremation ground but the smell is unbearable. When there is a marriage in the colony, the barat procession comes from one side, while a dead body, accompanied by wailing relatives, approaches from the other side, he elaborates. Mr K.S. Kang, Municipal
Commissioner, says he is aware of the problem but they
have chosen to live near the cremation grounds. The
corporation cannot do anything to shift the place unless
residents sit together to provide an alternate place and
to decide on how to utilise the earlier place, he states.
The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Jasbir Singh Bir, says the
need of the hour is vertical construction but it cannot
be enforced. |
Compulsory weekly offs for cops PATIALA, March 17 — Giving compulsory weekly offs to its employees by the Patiala Police under an innovative scheme ensures that the personnel of the force can attend to family and domestic matters in a proper manner. Weekly offs are being given after dividing the force into seven parts and a particular day being earmarked for each group. The day of leave is specific for a period of three months, following which it is advanced by one day . The list of personnel to be sent on rest are displayed at the police station level and the persons concerned do not have to take any prior permission before availing themselves of their rest day. Only the district police chief can curtail a personnel from taking a weekly off. Since the inception of the scheme after Mr Harpreet Singh Sidhu took over as Senior Superintendent of Police in June 1999, weekly offs of personnel were curtailed only for 15 days, during the Lok Sabha elections. Giving details of the scheme, Mr Sidhu disclosed that this was the first such scheme to be launched in the state. He said the Punjab Director-General of Police, Mr Sarabjit Singh, had approved the scheme and issued directions to all units in the state to implement it on the basis of the Patiala Police. Mr Sidhu said the
provision of weekly offs for police personnel had also
been recommended by the National Police Commission but it
had not fructified as was not mandatory under the police
rules. He said personnel only enjoyed the facility of
casual leave till now. |
Shankaracharya to open centre ANANDPUR SAHIB, March 17 — Swami Madhvanand Shankaracharya of Pryag Peeth will inaugurate Sri Guru Har Rai Institute of Alternative Systems of Medicines and Meditation Centre here on March 22. Addressing a press conference here today, Prof Manjit Singh, Jathedar, Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, and Chairman of the Gurmat Sagar Trust, said the function was being organised by Gurmat Sagar Trust. He said about Rs 55 lakh had been spent on the buildings of the institute and the centre. Prof Manjit Singh said besides the Shankaracharya the other top religious leaders who would be present at the inauguration ceremony included Swami Amrindera, a Jain Muni; Dr P. Chandra, a representative of Sai Baba, Mr Vishav Balson Thampu, head of the South-Asia Church, Dr A.K. Merchant of the Bahai faith; Maulana Azad Madanni, an imam; Giani Kewal Singh, Jathedar, Takht Sri Damdama Sahib; and Rabbi Kazak Malekar, head of Jews in India. He said a medical camp would also be organised from March 22 to March 26 at the institute. In this camp the patients would be treated for diseases like cancer, heart, skin and AIDS etc. Prof Manjit Singh also said a three-day International Conference on Alternative Systems of Medicines would be organised here from March 24 to March 26 by the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Hamdard University; Healthy, Holy and Happy (HHH) organisation; and Gurmat Sagar Trust, Anandpur Sahib. He said in this
conference nearly 140 delegates from different parts of
the country and some foreign countries like Italy, USA,
Mangolia, Mexico and Nepal would take part. |
MP for CBI probe into
missing person case HOSHIARPUR, March 17 — Mr Charanjit Singh Channi, MP, has urged the state to order a CBI probe into the disappearance of Mr Rajinder Mohan, a resident of Guru Nanak Nagar, here. In a press note today, he said Mr Rajinder Mohan had been missing since January, 1992. This was brought to the notice of the city police on January 13, 1992. He said it was a matter of regret that an FIR regarding the disappearance of Mr Rajinder Mohan was lodged by the police after a gap of two years in 1994. He said the delay appeared to be intentional and the reasons for the same needed to be investigated. Mr Channi said the mother of Mr Rajinder Mohan filed a writ in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 30, 1997. The court directed the state to locate the son of the petitioner and conclude the investigations within two months. He said in February this
year the police claimed that Mr Rajinder Mohan had been
killed. This had further increased the agony of his
parents who wanted to know who was responsible for the
killing of their son and why. |
Healed by faith? LUDHIANA, March 17 — Belying all scientific truths, hundreds of persons suffering from serious ailments are converging at the Model Town “Janjh Ghar” to attend a camp organised by the “Sarb Rog ka Aukhad Naam Mission” and have also claimed relief from agony. The five-day camp, which began on March 15, is being organised by the founder of this mission, a former Financial Commissioner of Punjab, Mr Hardial Singh. Patients with various ailments, including different types of cancer, loss of memory and heart disease, claimed that they have been cured after attending the camp. The patients attending the camp have to recite Gurbani from 4 a.m. in the morning till 8 p.m. at night. “It is basically faith healing. The gurus had professed that single minded devotion towards almighty alone would ensure deliverance from all ailments. It is this concept which has been successfully put to use here”, Mrs Harmeet Kaur, a regular visitor to the camp and Principal of Ramgarhia Girls College said. Patients from all over the state, including a few non-resident Indians are also attending the camp. Depending on their health, the patients were seen either sitting or lying down and continuously chanting hyms at the camp. The mission has been
organising two camps every year since 1993, in Ludhiana
and annual camps have also been organised in Sangrur,
Patiala, Amritsar and other districts of the state. These
camps have also been organised in the USA, the UK and
Canada. |
Ex-servicemen’s plea
to SGPC LUDHIANA, March 17 — The Indian Ex-servicemen League, (Punjab and Chandigarh) today asked the SGPC leadership to assert itself as a supreme body of the Sikhs to restore the dignity of the community. In a statement issued
here on Wednesday Col C.S. Dhillon, said that the haste
with which edicts on “langar and jantari” were
issued by the Jathedar, Akal Takht, had sown seeds of
dissension among rural masses. |
Security to Sena chief withdrawn PHILLAUR, March 17 — The Punjab police today withdrew all five gunmen and a Gypsy provided to Punjab Hindu Shiv Sena President Surinder Dogra. Mr Dogra told this correspondent here today that this had been done without assigning any reasons. It is learnt that the
gunmen have been withdrawn due to Mr Dogra’s
involvement in detaining the Delhi-Lahore bus near Goraya
on March 4. |
Department work streamlined LUDHIANA, March 17 — For the convenience of visitors to the mini-secretariat, the working of different branches in Deputy Commissioner’s office has been completely revamped so that each branch will deal only with a particular type of work. Giving details in a press release here yesterday, Mr Arun Goel, Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana said that under the new directions the work relating to the Arms Act, i.e arms licences and licences for dealership would be dealt with by the LPA Branch. Similarly work pertaining to all types of NOC’s and licences except mentioned above would be dealt with by the miscellaneous branch, all type of certificate needs by the general public under the signature of Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana would be dealt within the Civil Defence Branch and all documents requiring countersigning by the Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana, would be dealt with by at the Peshi Branch in the DC Office. With this re-allocation
nobody would need to go into more than one branch for a
single job work. |
Gang leader held JALANDHAR, March 17 — The local police has arrested the chief of a gang of thieves, known for stealing in power transmission wires and looting of money from people living in isolated places in the city. Four members of the gang were arrested last week. Mr Gaurav Yadav, the Senior Superintendent of Police, said Piara Singh, a resident of Riasi in Jammu and Kashmir and the chief of the gang and his accomplice Abdul Kareem, also a Riasi resident, were nabbed from Jala Singh near Kartarpur this morning. The gang had stolen a large quantity of transmission wire worth Rs 2.5 lakh from Naugaja village on the intervening night of March 10 and March 11. Muneer, another member of the gang was still at large, he added. In another case Mr Balwant Bajaj, a Head Draftsman in the local Municipal Corporation, was caught by Vigilance Bureau officials while taking Rs 2500 as bribe from a Khurla Kingra resident. Ms Gurpreet Deo, the Superintendent of Police, said the accused took the bribe for clearing the map of Mr Puneet Sehgal, the complainant. The bribe amount was recovered from the pocket of the accused, said Ms Deo. A case under the Prevention of Crime Act has been registered against the accused. In yet another case
Surinder Singh, a resident of Raunta village near Shahkot
has been arrested for defrauding Rs 75000 from Kulwinder
Singh in the name of sending him abroad. A case under
Sections 406/420/120-B of the IPC has been registered. |
Historians told to work
responsibly PATIALA, March 17 — The Vice-Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh University, Dr S.K. Gupta, said today that Indian historians were required to work with a greater sense of responsibility to shift the biases, prejudices, motives and complexes and unfold Indian reality as one separates chaff from the grain. In his presidential address at the opening session of the Punjab History Conference organised by the Department of Punjab Historical Studies of Punjabi University here, Dr Gupta said the moral, social, cultural, economic and political ideals of historians should be alert to the discriminations that had to be made between acts which deserved sympathetic understanding and those which were reprehensible. “What we ought to cherish as a part of our heritage and what we feel ashamed of both deserve our attention as historians”, he said. Punjabi University Vice-Chancellor Dr Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia in his inaugural address said there were various unresolved historical paradoxes relating to Punjab’s history that needed to be addressed by modern historians, particularly the stereotyped, conventional theory of Partition that blamed the divide-and-quit policy of the British and the intransigence of the Muslim League for the vivisection of India in 1947. Dr Mohinder Singh of
Kurukshetra University in his presidential address in
Ancient section presented a case study of the settlement
pattern of Gurgaon district in Haryana. Dr Bhagat Singh,
president of the Punjabi section, highlighted the
resources to be tapped and traps to be avoided in the
writing of history of Punjab. Dr Kirpal Singh Kapoor,
while delivering the presidential address of the Medieval
section said it had been the current trend among scholars
in India to ignore the Persian sources and link
everything with ancient India without taking notice of
centuries of Muslim rule. “This is not possible in
the case of Punjab history”, he added. |
BA/BSc exams from April 4 AMRITSAR, March 17 — The annual BA/BSc and B Com examinations, to be conducted by Guru Nanak Dev University will commence from April 4. The roll numbers and date-sheets have been sent to all eligible candidates, according to official sources. The university will
introduce a course of M. Tech in micro-electronics from
the academic session 2000-2001. This decision has been
taken under an MoU signed between the university and Semi
Conductors Limited, S.A.S. Nagar. |
Law graduates awarded
degrees AMRITSAR, March 17 — Mr Rajmohinder Singh Majitha, member of Parliament, while addressing the first convocation of the Law College, Guru Nanak Dev University, advocated for free legal aid for the poor and the downtrodden. He said the poor were denied justice because of lack of adequate legal aid. They were unable to engage lawyers to pursue their cases in courts. Dr H.S. Soch,
Vice-Chancellor, presided over the convocation and
awarded degrees to more than 100 law graduates. |
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