Sunday, July 30, 2000, Chandigarh, India
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BATHINDA FATEHGARH SAHIB GURDASPUR RESENTMENT: Resentment prevails among employees of the suburban subdivision of the PSEB, here against the authorities for their inability to shift the office of the SDO, (Suburban) to a safer place. According to a spokesman of the employees, the floor level of the office is about three feet lower than the road level and during rainy seasons it is often waterlogged. It becomes difficult for the consumers to pay their bills.
HOSHIARPUR MOGA PATIALA SEWING TRAINING CENTRE: The Bharat Vikas Parishad has decided to open a sewing training centre for widows and destitutes and poor women. Mr Bharat Bhushan Sirhindi, press secretary of the parishad, said the centre would be inaugurated by Seth Kulwant Rai on Sunday at Prem Dham Sarav Hitkari Vidya Mandir, Sanauri Adda. He said about 50 women will be selected for the first batch. The project convener, Ms Sukesh Jain, said after the training these women would be given free sewing machines so that they could earn their livelihood. She said the parishad would also provide free cloth during the training period. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION CENTRE: Punjabi University has decided to provide educational facilities at its extension centre at Mohali for the students of the BCA and other courses, including those who were earlier enrolled at Guru Amar Dass College, Mohali, and Arctic College, Mohali, which have been disaffiliated by the university. According to an official release, steps for creation of necessary infrastructure were underway. The admission forms for these courses are expected to be made available by the third week of August at the university extension centre, Mohali. PATHANKOT ROTARY OFFICE-BEARERS: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Rotary Club Central, Pathankot: president — Mr Ashok Gupta; vice-president — Mr Hardeep Makhan; secretary — Mr Rajiv Nayyar; treasurer — mr Ashwani Sharma; and P.R.O. — Mr Sham Chadha. PHAGWARA PHILLAUR |
AMBALA RE-INDUCT JETHMALANI: The Former President of the Bar Association of Ambala, Mr Om Prakash Malik, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, has demanded the re-inclusion of Mr Ram Jathmalani in the Union Cabinet. Mr Malik, in a release, has said as the three Shiv Sena ministers have now returned to their ministerial jobs, then there is no point in depriving the country from the services of an outstanding advocate turned politician. LIBRARY IN MARTYR'S MEMORY: A library is going to be built in Kansepur village in the memory of martyr Manjit Singh who made the supreme sacrifice at Kargil last year. According to the Acting Deputy Commissioner of Ambala, Mr Mohinder Kumar, the library is going to be built at a cost of Rs 2 lakh from the MP fund of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Devi Lal, a release said. Mr Kumar said that last year, Mr Devi Lal had announced that he would allot Rs 2 lakh each for the martyrs from Haryana so that a memorial could be built. The proposed library is a part of that announcement. The ADC said that a sum of Rs 10 lakh has already been given to the family members of martyr Manjit Singh. The Union Petroleum Minister, Mr Ram Naik, on July 26, had handed over the first LPG distributorship to the mother of martyr Manjit Singh in Barara. GREEN AMBALA CAMPAIGN: A special campaign for environment will be run here from August 4 to 14. The Commissioner of Ambala, Mr Chander Singh, will inaugurate the Green Ambala Campaign at Indra Park in Ambala Cantonment. The Acting Deputy Commissioner of Ambala, Mr Mohinder Kumar, said on Thursday that the campaign would be run with the assistance of non government organisations. On the first day, saplings would be planted in Indra Park by an NGO, Green Circle, a release said. On August5, saplings would be planted in all the schools of Ambala City and the campaign would be run in different parts of Ambala Cantonment and Ambala City in the ten-day period. SMALL INDUSTRIES CORPN: The Haryana Exporters Association suggested on Thursday that the Haryana State Small Industries Corporation should be activated. The RBI should set up a special monitoring cell to supervise the disbursement of working capital and term loans limit and financial requirement of SSI exporters. The nationalised banks were ignoring the requirement of SSI exporters, a release issued by HEA said. The HEA suggested that the Haryana Government should establish an information cell at various industrial hubs like Ambala, Panipat, Faridabad and Gurgaon to provide information regarding global tenders floated by Asian Development Bank, World Bank, UNDP and other international agencies. The meeting of Haryana Export Promotion Board should be held with the Haryana exporters every three months and all the district industry centres in Haryana should be directed to appoint an Export Promotion Officer, who should look after the export work exclusively and should be in touch with the exporters regularly to sort out their day-to-day problems, the association suggested. HISAR SONEPAT KILLED: A youth Bijender Kumar, was crushed to death by a unknown vehicle on the G.T. Road near Nangal Khurd village about 10 km from here on Friday. According to the police, the victim belonged to Nangal Khurd village. The driver of the vehicle escaped along with his vehicle. A case has been registered against him. DELIMITATION OF WARDS: On the instructions of the state government, the district administration has completed the delimitation of wards of the gram panchayat, Kharkhauda. According to sources, ward numbers 1,2,7,15,16,17 and 20 have been reserved for women and ward numbers 17 and 20 have been reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes. Similarly, ward numbers 9,13 and 19 will be reserved for men belonging to the Scheduled Castes and ward No 3 will be reserved for the Backward Classes. INSTALLATION: Mr Satish Chopra, president of the Rotary Club (Uptown) and his team were installed at a function held here on Friday. RESENTMENT: Resentment prevails among residents of the Pio Munyari area against the SHO of Kundli police station for allegedly converting a case of dacoity into a theft case. They demanded a high-level probe into the allegations levelled against him. The police also prevented the residents from appearing before the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Sudhir Rajapal, who held an open darbar here on Friday to redress the grievances of the people. YAMUNANAGAR |
BILASPUR RALLY: Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad held a rally and staged a dharna in front of the office of the Principal, Government College, here on Saturday. They later presented a memorandum to the Principal demanding restoration of 30 seats each in MA economics and M.Com classes, reduction in hike in fees, elections to students central association, removal of English as an essential subject, provisional admission to students with (RL) result later, repairs of college building and more furniture in reading room, reconsideration of subject combinations and restoration of photostat machine facility in college here. SHIMLA |
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