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STD links still erratic
French experts fail to detect snag
Chandigarh, Aug 18 — Frantic e-mails by the local Telecom Department to Alcatel Telecom Headquarters in France — suppliers of the digital trunk exchange (D-TAX) which has developed a major snag in Chandigarh — to seek help have not yielded much of a result. It is just like failed attempts by local residents to dial outstation numbers in the past one week.
DoT
may fine Alcatel
CHANDIGARH: The local telecom
department may be imposing some kind of a fine on Alcatel, the equipment
supplier, for the losses it has incurred.
Punjab
not to hike college fee
600 ad hoc lecturers to be
recruited
PATIALA, Aug 18 — In a major
policy decision, the Punjab Government has dropped the proposal to hike
fees in colleges and universities besides deciding to recruit 600 ad hoc
lecturers to fill all vacant posts in rural colleges of the state.
Sources said the state Cabinet did not approve the fee hike proposal,
feeling it would have an adverse political fallout.
Another
finance panel for Punjab
CHANDIGARH, Aug 18 — Punjab
has set up the Second Finance Commission. It has fulfilled a
constitutional obligation. This commission should have been set up in
1999. But despite reminders by the minister concerned, Mr Balramji Das
Tandon, the government dithered and delayed transgressing the period by
one year.
Alarming
rise in fatalities
CHANDIGARH, Aug 18 — As
many as 17 people die in road accidents in Punjab, Haryana and
Chandigarh every day. These deaths on roads are far more than total
unnatural deaths covered under the Indian Penal Code in the region.
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