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People-oriented coop reforms on anvil
Chandigarh, March 30
It will take some more time before the Punjab Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2000, is introduced in the Vidhan Sabha enabling the grassroot people’s organisations break free from the clutches of undue controls (bureaucratic included) giving a professional touch making these socially responsive.
Mann
working for third front
Ludhiana, March 30
Mr Simranjit Singh Mann,
President, Akali Dal (Amritsar), is becoming active in national
politics and is persuading splinter groups of the Akali Dal to join
the People’s Front. The Akali Dal (Amritsar) and the SHSAD led by Mr
Gurcharan Singh Tohra have already joined the front.
Akalis
lay claim to Phagwara seat
Phagwara, March 30
The wedge in the ruling SAD-BJP
combine here has started widening with activists of the circle Akali
Jatha launching a drive in the rural areas for mobilising public
opinion for staking a claim to ticket during the next Assembly
elections.
Strike
by Nangal NFL workers
Ropar, March 30
As many as 1,800 workers of
National Fertilisers Ltd plant at Nangal struck work today against the
proposed disinvestment of the company. The strike was held on the call
of the coordination committee of unions of the NFL. The workers
gathered at the main gate of the factory and raised slogans against
the NDA government. They also sat on a dharna.
Rape
victim alleges harassment
Bathinda, March 30
A 20-year-old girl residing in a
locality of the city, who is a granddaughter of a freedom fighter who
has been honoured with a ‘Tamar Patra’ by the Government of India,
who was reportedly raped by two businessmen on the evening of March
20, today alleged that she was being harassed by the police under the
pretext of inquiry into this case.
Hope
for mentally challenged
Ropar
Gujarat Ambuja Cement Ltd. (GACL),
a private sector company, has established a school, Ambuja Manovikas
Kendra, for imparting education to mentally challenged children.
Class
IV staff take out protest march
Sangrur, March 30
Members of the district unit of
the Class IV Government Employees Union, Punjab, today took out a
protest march against the district police authorities for not doing
“justice” to them in three different cases.
MC
staff withdraw agitation
Jalandhar, March 30
The day-long parleys between the
local SAD leaders and civic officials resulted in the withdrawal of
the indefinite strike by the Drivers’ Union and the Safai Sewak
Union of local municipal corporation, who were demanding the arrest of
an Akali councillor for his alleged involvement in the beating up of
drivers and burning two MC vehicles on Tuesday.
Mahila
Morcha to meet on April 6
Phillaur, March 30
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Mahila Morcha will observe April 6 as “Rashtriya Suraksha Sankalap
Divas”. This was disclosed by the Punjab BJP general secretary, Mr
Avinash Jaiswal, while talking to newsmen here Wednesday. He said that
activists of the morcha led by its state president Ms Trishna Minhas,
Ms Gurcharan Kaur and Ms Saroj Malhotra would tie “raksha sutra”
on the hands of the jawans on the Wagah border on that day.
Spiritual
voyage from April 15
Amritsar, March 30
The first-ever spiritual voyage,
dedicated to the 400th anniversary of Guru Granth Sahib, is being
undertaken by Guru Nanaksar, Kaleran, from April 15.
Liquor
hoarding begins
Bathinda, March 30
Even as the new financial year is
just to begin and the auction of liquor shops has been completed in
the state, people have started hoarding liquor, particularly in this
region.
Mishaps
claim three lives
Hoshiarpur, March 30
Ranbir Kumar was killed on the
spot when a speeding truck collided with a parked truck at Adda Paldi,
near Mahilpur last evening. Ranbir was crushed between the trucks near
his shop where he was shifting some hardware material lying on the
road. The police has registered a case.
Plots
given to slum dwellers
Bathinda, March 30
Under the Site and Serve Plan, a
dharmshala and a school would be set up and the facilities of drinking
water and electricity provided by the Punjab Urban Development
Authority to the colony developed by it.
Painting
exhibition opens today
Bathinda, March 30
The Hastakshar Sahitya Kala Manch
and Teachers Home Trust will organise a three-day painting exhibition
of Samir Ajay Kumar on the plight of earthquake victims of Gujarat
from March 31 at Teacher’s Home. The theme of the exhibition will be
‘Prarthana’.
Survey
to assess damage to wheat
Bathinda, March 30
The state government has
announced that special girdwaris will be made to assess the loss to
the wheat crop, which has been damaged by the hailstorms that lashed
the region during the past few days.
Abohar
MC budget passed
Abohar, March 30
It took the local municipal
council just half-an-hour to perform the ritual of passing the annual
budget of Rs 8.54 crore for next financial year beginning April 1, at
a special meeting held last evening. The president of the council
ignored the protests from some members against the alleged leakage of
the budget proposals which delayed the meeting by a week.
472
crore annual credit plan
Bathinda, March 30
Mr Jaspal Singh, Deputy
Commissioner, yesterday launched the annual credit plan (ACP) of Rs
472.29 crore for the year 2001-2002.
Husband
summoned in dowry case
Pathankot, March 30
Mr Bhajan Ram, Subdivisional
Judicial Magistrate, following a complaint of Ms Santosh Kumari, has
summoned her husband Thakur Dass and father-in-law Prem Chand for a
criminal breach of trust of dowry articles and for cruelty towards the
complainant under Sections 406, 498-A and 34, IPC.
Woman
held for fraud
Nawanshahr, March 30
The Rahon police has arrested
Santosh, alias Shhindo, wife of Gurdeep Chand of Mahaddipur village
for allegedly duping Rajinder Kumar of Kotbadal Khan (Nurmahal)
village of Rs 6.50 lakh on the pretext of sending him to the USA.
Pak
intruder held
Fazilka, March 30
A Pakistani intruder was nabbed
by jawans of the BSF at Mauzam checkpost here on Wednesday night while
he was moving suspiciously near the Indo-Pakistan border inside Indian
territory, according to a delayed report. The youth had been
identified as Abdul Rehman of Gurjan village in Punjab province of
Pakistan.
Medical
admissions mired in controversy
Ludhiana, March 30
The counselling for admission to
various post-graduate courses in various medical colleges of the state
affiliated to the Baba Farid University of Medical Sciences, Faridkot,
has been mired in controversy with Dayanand Medical College and
Hospital (DMC), one of the leading post-graduate institutions of the
state, staying away from the admission process, including the
counselling.
Teaching
work hit in primary schools
Patiala, March 30
Teaching in primary schools in
the state has virtually been disrupted with primary teachers busy in
supervising examinations in secondary schools since March 12 besides
evaluating answer books of their own schools.
Varsity
laments cut in govt grant
Amritsar, March 30
Guru Nanak Dev University senate
unanimously approved the budget estimates of Rs 5487.46 lakh for
2001-2002 showing a deficit of Rs 1123.32 lakh. The Finance Committee
and the syndicate had accorded their concurrence to the budget
estimates. The senate also approved the annual report showing overall
development of the university for the year 2000.
Minority
status to SGPC colleges hailed
Phagwara, March 30
As many as 60 members of the SGPC
last night hailed as historic and revolutionary the decision of Punjab
Government to accord minority status to professional institutions
being run by the SGPC and thanked the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr
Parkash Singh Badal and former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur under whose
tenure as SGPC president the resolution was adopted by the SGPC
general house.
Medical
slip to give the slip
Mansa, March 30
An impersonator was caught in the
examination centre of the local Government Senior Secondary School on
March 21. The impersonator appeared in the Social Studies paper of
matric examination in place of Hardarshan Singh, class IV employee in
the Education Department.
Proposed
service tax ‘unconstitutional’
Jalandhar, March 30
Terming the proposed 5 per cent
service tax on hire, purchase and leasing transactions in the union
Budget as unconstitutional, the Punjab and Haryana Finance Companies
Association has demanded that the BJP-led Central Government should
withdraw the proposal.
Power cuts on steel
industry go
Patiala, March 30
The PSEB today removed restrictions on the steel industry by doing away with cuts imposed on alternate days on arc and induction
furnaces. The board had classified the steel industry into two groups and decided to give electricity to both groups on alternate days as it was overdrawing from the Northern Grid due to a reduction in availability in view of low generation.
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