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Robbers injure sadhus, decamp with Rs
2,000 Ludhiana, June 18 The same gang was later suspected to have tried to rob a man in the nearby Aandlo village unsuccessfully. The robbers fled away after the man raised an alarm. However, he received severe injuries in the process and was admitted to the Hospital in the morning. SHO Raikot Police Station confirmed the robbery at Rajgarh, but said the incident at Aandlo village seemed to have taken place because of some personal rivalry. He said the police would reach to a conclusion only after recording the statement of the injured man, Jagdish. According to sources, the robbery at Rajgarh took place at about 2 a.m. Five robbers, armed with guns, sharp-edged weapons and sticks, forcibly entered a ‘dera’ on the outskirt’s of the village, where a number of sadhus camp for a few months. The robbers demanded money at gun-point from a sadhu who was sitting with his two disciples. The robbers are reported to have resorted to violence when the sadhu gave them Rs 18, saying that was all he had. The robbers then tied him up alongwith two other persons. They frisked the disciples and took away Rs 1,800 from them. They also broke open certain almirahs and trunks. Sources said when they were coming out, a number of other inmates of the dera, who had heard the noises confronted them. The robbers are reported to have beaten up a few of them, alongwith the injuries were not of a serious nature. The dera is frequented regularly by a number of sadhus, besides disciples who come from far off places like Rajasthan. Two of the disciples robbed today were from Rajasthan. They were reportedly not even left with enough cash to reach home. The robbers took away some torches from the dera. These were, however, later found near the village well. According to the villagers, the police arrived in the wee hours. At Aandlo village a man, Jagdish, is reported to have been beaten up by some suspected robbers. He was sleeping outside his house when the attackers assaulted him. The police is probing the motive behind the attack.
The police has registered both the cases in the evening.
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Officer, clerk booked for
cheating Ludhiana, June 18 Shingara Singh, the former BPEO, and Sukhwinder Singh, the suspended clerk, have been booked under Sections 409, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 420 of the IPC on the opinion of the DA (legal) even as allegations of the use of pressure takes by an influential politician on the police to delay the arrest were doing the rounds. The SSP, Jagraon, Mr Jaskaran Singh, confirmed the registration of the case. He said after taking the opinion of the DA(legal), a case had been registered. The Democratic Teachers Front, which spearheaded a campaign against the accused, has while welcoming the registration of the case demanded a vigilance inquiry into the scandal. According to Mr Bhajan Singh, district president of the front, an inquiry by the State Education Department had confirmed the scandal of more than Rs 9 lakh, but several blank cheques and certain other documents found during investigation indicated that there was still more bungling in the case. According to an inquiry into the allegations conducted by Mrs Inderjit Kaur Bhatti, Assistant District Education Officer, the accused were found to have ‘pocketed’ huge amount payable under different heads to the teachers in the block. Some of the amount included arrears, increments and other cash benefits given to the teachers from time to time by the state government. The inquiry officer in his report said that the accused violated all norms and rules during his tenure. The report claims that the the BPEO was not even on regular posting and held only an additional charge. He was already holding the post of a chief headmaster in the block. The report further said that he did not even had the required qualification. The scandal remained in limelight for the past one-and-a-half year. The teachers front had to stage several dharnas, including a long agitation in March and April this year, demanding the registration of a case against the accused. However, the police action was allegedly being delayed due to the intervention of an influential politician of the region. |
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‘Chief Secy’s probe a mere eyewash’ Ludhiana, June 18 Talking to a cross section of people here, it was found that they were quite cynical about the outcome of the inquiry, since nothing much was expected out of it. The general refrain remained that the inquiry ordered by the Chief Minister and being conducted by the Chief Secretary was an eyewash aimed at absolving the people
involved of the corruption charges and giving them a clean chit. According to Mr Jeevan Dhawan, an industrialist, if the government was really serious about finding the truth it should have entrusted the inquiry to some independent agency. He pointed out as to how was it possible that a Chief Secretary, who is the Chief Minister’s appointee and for all purposes subordinate to him, probe into the corruption charges levelled against his (Chief Minister’s office. Moreover, Mr Dhawan observed the responsibility needs to be fixed in this case as to how were these palaces allowed to come up by the administration. Mr
G.S. Chopra, an advocate, was of a similar opinion. He pointed out, there had been some fishy deals. Otherwise how could these palaces come up when there was a law regarding the same. “Some omissions and commissions have been committed, which is quite obvious”, Mr Chopra said, while suggesting that the probe should either be conducted by the CBI or a High Court judge. Both Mr Dhawan and Mr Chopra also regretted that the administration had acted in a selective and partisan manner in choosing only three palaces for demolition. This, they observed, was done apparently to provide good reason for some favoured parties to procure stay orders as the demolitions made their case strong. This aspect also needed to be probed, they said. Radhika, a student of the Government College for Women, was more forthright. She pointed out, “what was the administration doing at the time the palaces were built”. The owners, she felt, had been taken for a ride. First they were allowed to invest huge sum of money and now their structures have been demolished leaving them high and dry. Mr Amrit Singh Virdi, a businessman, pointed out that the common man was not always aware of the laws and rules and regulations. It may the duty of the authorities both, civil and the military, to ensure that the law was not disobeyed. Agreeing with Mr Virdi, another industrialist, Mr Santokh Singh felt that the district administration rushed through the demolitions apparently to save its own skin and also shield some officers who were posted here and during whose tenure these palaces came up in violation of law. “Why is nobody raising this question?”, he asked. It is such questions that people want an answer and the answer cannot be found by the Chief Secretary, he asserted. Charu, another student, wondered how it could be possible that the palace-owners could be allowed to do business for a payment of Rs 20 lakh. She said it was clear that some people were definitely trying to play with the security of the country. She observed, no constructions should have been allowed within the restricted area. According to Mr Susheel Kumar, who runs a lucrative business in Ghumar Mandi, the administration should have been rational in its approach. He observed, there is a general impression that only a select few were targeted for benefitting others. Pointing out that the involvement and interest of some big people is suspected in the case, the probe should be conducted at least by the CBI. However, Lt Col C.S. Dhillon, under whose supervision the dump was set up, appears to be too cynical to believe any inquiry. He pointed out, “even if the probe is to conducted by the CBI, I will not expect much even then. Because everyone knows what is going to be the outcome of such inquiries”. |
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Mystery shrouds girl’s
suicide Ludhiana, June 18 The body of the girl, who had just passed her Class XII examination, was spotted by her brother last night. The postmortem conducted at the Civil Hospital today confirmed that the death took place due to asphyxia. SHO Haibowal Shanker Dass said the police did not suspect any foul play into the incident and it was almost certain that the girl committed suicide. Though no final reason that drove her to take the extreme step has been ascertained, but it was suspected that she ended her life for not succeeding in securing admission to a course of her choice. The police said she did not get enough marks in the examination. He said the police had questioned the family members, their neighbours and several other persons concerned with the incident, but no other probable reason had come up during the investigation. According to him, those questioned, expressed surprise at her act as she was known to be a cheerful and disciplined girl. According to the police, Ramesh Sehgal, a resident of Y-block in the Rishi Nagar area, he along with his wife had gone to meet someone in the evening and had left behind his young daughter, Alka and son, Vikram. For sometime, the two worked together on the computer, but later the girl went to her room. However, after sometime the boy went upstairs for some work and was horrified to see his sister hanging from the ceiling fan. A number of people of the colony gathered in the house after hearing his cries. The police did not find any suicide note or any other significant document from the house. |
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Terminated economist to
fight it out in court Ludhiana, June 18 Interestingly, pre-empting her move of knocking the doors of the judiciary, the PAU had already moved an application in the High Court requesting it to hear the university during the motion state of the application. The case will be heard tomorrow in the High Court as a special permission to get it heard has been attained from the court. With this development, the controversy surrounding the recent termination has turned into a legal battle. The case is of immense significance for the University as on one side the Vice-Chancellor is under fire for allegedly speeding up the termination process and on the other, panic has spread on the campus as several teachers also do not possess the requisite marks in the basic qualification. In her
application, she contested the grounds on which she was terminated. She said the authorities were misleading the public by claiming that she had concealed her marks during the time of applying. She said the University had after her application, constituted a Committee of Economists to verify her claims. She said she had improved upon her qualification by passing a course of Limited Status from a university of repute in the USA. The committee, after long deliberations had upheld her application and she was selected for the post. She alleges that ever since her appointment in 1998 she had been working hard and there had been no allegations
against her, However, the new Vice-Chancellor out of some ‘personal vendetta’ got her services terminated. She said that the Vice-Chancellor had taken action against her as she and her husband were close to a former PAU teacher who was contesting the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor. She also argues that it was strange that the Audit had objected to her selection more than three years after the appointment. She said the review committee constituted by the Vice-Chancellor to decide her termination had only one economist. She said that it was strange that when the academics had approved her qualification, the Audit which mostly deals with financial matters raised an objection. |
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Pensioners serve legal notice on
govt Ludhiana, June 18 According to the Punjab Government’s notification, dated July 21, 1998, any state government employee who retired after January 1, 1996, was permitted to commute his pension equivalent to 40 per cent of the basic pension for a period of 15 years, without any interest. Consequently, thousands of state employees, who retired after that date, had applied for the advance payment of 40 per cent pension for the next 15 years. However, it was found that the state government was actually making payment only for 10.46 years and not for 15 years. On the other hand, it had passed orders through the Accountant General, Punjab, to deduct the monthly pension for 15 years. Thus, the government was deducting extra money for a period of 4. 54 years, which would be never paid to them. Mr Hardesh Goyal, president of the society, in a press statement issued here today, has alleged that the government’s move was totally illegal and unjustifiable. He disclosed that the Punjab and Haryana High Court had directed the state government on February 17, 2000 , on a writ petition filed by Mr Narinder Pal to pay the balance amount with 12 per cent rate of interest for three years. He was also paid commuted pension for about 10 years. The court further said that the legal position of the notification was not in dispute. Mr Hem Raj Goel, a retired Excise and Taxation Officer, has alleged that he had not been paid the 40 per cent commuted pension for 15 years by the government. He had retired as Excise and Taxation Commissioner on November 30,1997. According to him,‘‘ I have received Rs 1,97,820 in two installments as commuted pension, though the orders were passed by the Accountant General Office to deduct 40 per cent of Rs 3,940, my basic pension, for 15 years resulting in a financial loss of Rs 85,860 to me.” He has served a legal notice to the government as per the notification demanding that he should be paid the balance amount of Rs 85,860 with 24 per cent interest from the date of his retirement. Mr Hardesh Goyal has appealed to all the affected retired government employees to contact the Society. The Society has taken up the case with the government and have urged the state government to rectify the mistake as it was ‘ unfair and
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Towards a handicap-free
city Ludhiana, June 18 That was the turning pointing in Mangat’s life. He attended the camp organised by the District Red Cross Society with the co-ordination of Bharat Vikas Parishad (NGO). The camp that Mangat attended was held at the block level. At the camp his degree of handicap was graded by the visiting medical team comprising the Civil Surgeon and his team of doctors. Mangat was given a tri-cycle that cost about Rs 2200 as it was realised that artificial limbs could not be fitted on him. “To be handicapped due to polio or some accident or any severe disability can be a curse for the sufferer and the handicapped person becomes a liability for the family too, and an object of pity, and humiliation. The District Administration, along with the Red Cross has been our saviour”, says Bimla Rani, who was fitted with an artificial leg, as she had lost her own in an accident.” I am very happy with my new limb as I have become mobile. It hurt in the beginning, but now I have got used to it. I do not have to face the social
stigma of being handicapped any more. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr S. S. Sandhu, said that this year they had received Rs 22 lakh. Out of that sum, approximately 1,100 handicapped people had been helped so far and Rs 14 lakh had been utilised. It has been the endeavour of Ludhiana district to become the first handicap-free district of the country with the completion of a special one-and-half-year-long programme launched by District Red Cross Society with the coordination of Bharat Vikas Parishad in the district,” This unique and noble programme, the first of its kind taken up in the country, was chalked out by the District Red Cross Society in the month of May 1998 and launched from June 1, 1998, with the holding of the first camp to identify the handicapped and take measurement of required limbs. Since then, a total of 136 camps have been organised in the whole district, out of which 108 were held in the rural areas covering 860 villages, 18 towns and 10 of them in Ludhiana city. During these camps, 3,201 handicapped were provided with artificial limbs and hearing aids at a cost of Rs 57.37 lakh. Out of the total beneficiaries, 963 were provided with hearing aids, 856 with calipers, 303 with upper limbs, 929 with lower limbs and 150 with tri-cycles. The camps were organised by preparing separate teams in each sub-division, where technical staff of the Bharat Vikas Parishad and doctors of Red Cross Society first took the measurement of the limbs and then in the next camp, the required limbs were fitted to the beneficiaries. Apart from providing artificial limbs, the District Red Cross Society also organised camps for vocational rehabilitation for handicapped to make them able to earn their livelihood. So far 73 such camps have been organised and 173 cases were registered for jobs, self-employment and training, for which efforts were being made with the help of financial institutions. During these camps by the Health Department, disability certificates were prepared on the spot for which earlier the handicapped persons used to make many visits to the offices. A new mobile workshop van has also been introduced at a cost of Rs 7 lakh for the handicapped, what is fully equipped with the latest techniques for measurement, manufacturing, fitting and maintenance of artificial limbs and audio-meters to provide service at the doorstep of the beneficiaries. |
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Doctors found absent Machhiwara, June 18 Later, talking to Ludhiana Tribune, she informed that stern action would be taken against the employees found absent. Looking upset, she said that it was unfortunate that doctors, whom people consider next to God, take things so lightly. She apologised on their behalf to the waiting patients, and assured them of better medical facilities in future. Many social
organisations have lauded Ms Josh’s action, and demanded strict action against the erring employees. Meanwhile, SMO, Dr S S Dhir has clarified that all the doctors were not absent as observed by Ms Josh. He said that while one of them had been undergoing training in Chandigarh, another was on night duty. The third one was on leave, he added. Regarding his own absence, he argued that at the time of the minister’s visit, he was attending a meeting. |
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‘Forget terrorism, promote tourism in Punjab’ Ludhiana, June 18 Though Punjab has a number of culturally-important places, pilgrimage centres, historical shrines, traditional crafts, fairs and festivals, little attention has been paid to develop these potential places of tourist interest. Rajasthan , Kerala and Himachal Pradesh still remained hot favourites of foreign tourists, who find so many interesting and adventurous things in these states. The Pushkar fair in Rajasthan attracts tourists from all over the globe. Compared to these states, Punjab has virtually nothing to offer to a foreign tourist, except the Golden Temple at Amritsar. But in spite of that, hordes of foreigners, merrily clicking their cameras outside or inside the Golden Temple are not a common sight. According to Mr N.S. Nanda, president, Hotel and Restaurant Association,
Punjab, some of the other places in the state which could be developed to make them more attractive for tourists are Harike Pattan, Sheesh Mahal and Baradari at Patiala, the Roza Sharif and the Aam Khaas Bagh at Sirhind, Ranjit Garh Fort and the forts in and around Ludhiana, Sanghol, the Wagah Border and Mudki. And following the example of the development of a Budhist circuit around Sarnath, the idea of creating a pilgrimage circuit comprising Roza Sharif, Ram Tirath and the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Muktsar famous, for Maghi, Talwandi Sabo famous for Baisakhi and the birthplace of the Khalsa, Anandpur Sahib, should be given a serious thought by the authorities concerned, according to Mr. Nanda. Punjab, being the gateway for Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, tourist circuits linking Chandigarh, Bhakra, Ropar, Anandpur Sahib, Amritsar, Goindwal, Ferozepore, Muktsar and Ludhiana should be created to increase the tourism potential of the state, he opines. But he laments the fact that although the hotel and tourism had been declared as a full-fledged industry vide a notification in March 1996, the promised incentives, including charging of power tariff at par with industrial units, had not been given so far. Hotels were still paying power bills at commercial rates. There are some other steps also which he thinks, can be of great help in promoting tourism infrastructure in the state. Firstly, the tourism policy, which has been hanging fire for the past three years with the Ministry of Finance, should be approved at the
earliest. Secondly, the government must develop and renovate all tourists resorts and religious places and provide enough facilities there with the refrain that, “Where there was terrorism, now there is tourism”. Thirdly, he said, the government should, apart from providing all relevant and necessary information at international airports to tourists, start a weekend train from New Delhi to Amritsar for the benefit of religious tourists. To promote hotel construction in the state, term loans should be given at reasonable rates of interest. The Improvement trusts, PUDA and other government agencies should give land at reasonable rates. House Tax should be charged on actual rent and not on room tariff which consists of all facilities and amenities. Also, all big havelis and old government buildings of the Raj period should be converted into Heritage Hotels as was being done in Rajasthan. Fourthly, an advisory committee, comprising officials of the Tourism Department and travel industry should be constituted and due representation given to the Hotel and Restaurant Association. A comprehensive master plan must be made and a Tourism Development Board should be set up, he added. A branch of the Punjab Tourist Information Centre should be opened at Ludhiana and a five-year tax holiday for new hotels, restaurants and tourists resorts should be announced. Subsidy for new hotels should also be increased from Rs 25 lakh to 75 lakh, he opined. |
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Hundreds of city telephones out of
order Ludhiana, June 18 Mr Varun Mittal, a BSNL subscriber of Bharat Nagar Chowk complained to The Tribune that he had been getting nuisance calls from several people after every 10 seconds and each time he picked up the phone, line was connected to several other lines. He said,”I am getting calls, which are not mine. When I pick up the phone, the other person complains that I had made the call. The bell remains ringing continuously for hours while there is no dial tone in the phone at times”. Another subscriber, Mr Nitish Kumar at Bhadaur House said,” My phone is working, but I have not been able to get through to even a single number since morning. Sometimes, the other number is engaged while other times there is no response from the other side. I am facing a lot of problems as most of my work is done through the telephone”. To add to the woes of the subscribers, the attitude of the BSNL officials remains indifferent and at times rude and arrogant. “I have lodged many complaints with the department, but to no avail. The officials are not only unconcerned but also rude”, said Mr Dimple, a subscriber from Industrial area. It is not only within the city limits that the telephones have gone out of order, the rural areas have been equally hit. Several complaints by residents of rural areas like
Lalton, Ayali Kallan, Jodha and some other villages had also been facing similar problems of ‘dead’ phones. Mr
V.S.Srivastava, General Manager, Telecom, while talking to Ludhiana Tribune said the problem had arisen due to the cutting of cables in many areas. “The problem, particularly in Randhir Singh Nagar, has been solved and the cables have been restored”, he said. The General Manager also assured that cables would be restored in Bharat Nagar and other areas by the evening. |
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Rs 5.62 crore for development Fatehgarh Sahib, June 18 Giving details about the amount to be spent on various schemes for Scheduled Castes and economically weaker sections of the society, he said Rs 50 lakh had been earmarked for the Shagun Scheme, Rs 69 lakh for giving scholarships to Scheduled Caste students up to Class V whereas Rs 71.28 lakh had been released as the first
installment for various types of pensions in the district. He said Rs 24.26 lakh had been released for anganwari centres, Rs 1.85 lakh for the 15 mahila mandals as seed money and Rs 8.64 lakh as subsidy for horticulture, animal husbandry, dairy, fish farming and various self-employment schemes. Rs 4.58 lakh had been earmarked for the Swarn Jyanti Self-Employment Scheme. |
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Model Town or just a
town? Well, wanna see a village fair without really visiting one in a rural setting? You must be thankful to the shopkeepers for saving your precious time and providing a rural fair in an urban setting, right in the city itself. Never mind if you cannot enjoy a leisurely stroll down a pavement with kids in tow. Just look at those beautiful flower-vases and exotic ashtrays. Buy a piece or two of what you like. But never ask a shopkeeper as to why has he arranged his wares on pavement in such a way that you can not think of putting your foot on it. How else could you hope to experience the thrill of a village fair if he had not done that. Arn’t there the men from the tehbazari department of the Municipal Corporation who always complain of dry palms which need to be regularly greased and all that. Part of your thanks must also go to these men with itchy palms, without whose active but behind the scene participation, you would have been deprived of enjoying the thrill of a rural fair. Outside the park in the market , you would find heaps of rubbish here and there lending authenticity to the village-like scene. Well done, indeed. But it would be wrong to give all the credit to the shopkeepers alone. There are a number of nursing homes in the Model village (town), which are also contributing to the setting in their own way. By extending their constructions beyond permissible limits, they have also expressed their interest in imparting it a rural look. For the real touch, they have deliberately not made any provisions for parking in the absence of which you can see a whole lot of vehicles on the road. One of the nursing homes has even put up a beach-umbrella on the road in front of it, which coupled with the rehris and a balloon-wallahs on the other side of the road, make a fair-like selling.
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Tohra rules out unity
move Ludhiana, June 18 He said the ‘panthic morcha’ was about to take final shape and a formal announcement would be made to this effect in the next couple of days. The delay was caused because some groups were demanding more than due representation, which was disproportionate to their mass base, he added. Addressing mediapersons after the party district conference at Gurdwara Gau Ghat here, Mr Tohra made it clear that the unified ‘panthic morcha’ would have no truck with either the SAD(B)-BJP combine or the Congress. “We can make some kind of electoral adjustment with BSP and other non-Congress political parties and in the absence of such adjustment, the morcha will field its candidates on all assembly seats in the coming elections.” The SHSAD president charged Mr Badal, his friend-turned-foe, with digressing from panthic philosophy and religious traditions. “Mr Badal had not only put all issues related to Punjab on the back burner, but had caused immense damage to Sikh institutions.” He said the influential ruling party functionaries, including the chief minister were making use of government machinery and the top-heavy police and bureaucratic set up in order to fill their personal coffers. Describing the chief minister as a dictator, Mr Tohra observed that under the leadership of Mr Badal, the SAD-B had been reduced to a puppet. The party working committee and the political affairs committee, which incidently has been set up in an unconstitutional manner, had no say in the party working and it was Mr Badal’s one-man show all the way. Mr Tohra was critical of the indifferent attitude of the government towards the prevailing recession among trade and industry in the state. While the economy was facing an unparalleled crisis, the ruling party was busy doling out massive grants from the exchequer to make political capital, he alleged. Earlier, the district conference of the party, presided over by Mr Tohra, condemned yet another increase in power tariffs and demanded its withdrawal in the wake of the severe financial crunch being faced by the small scale industrial sector and other categories of consumers. It also called for putting an end to the requirement of NOC for extension of load or new power connections. Focussing on other problems of trade and industry, the party urged the government to bring parity in sales tax, excise duty and other local taxes with neighbouring states and to streamline and simplify the taxation structure to save the industry and trade from unnecessary harassment. |
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Youth urged to fight social
evils Ludhiana, June 18 The fierce faction fighting in the party once again came to the fore when DYC functionaries were forced to hold the meeting at an open space in front of the Congress Bhavan, which was locked despite the fact that a written intimation about the meeting was sent well in time to the District Congress Committee. Irate DYC workers alleged that this was deliberate action on the part of DCC office-bearers to sabotage the meeting. Mr Pandey charged the Chief Minister Punjab, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, with discriminating against the constituencies represented by the Congress in sangat
darshans. He said political considerations in the distribution of development grants was worst kind on undemocratic act of the Chief Minister and the ruling party. Speaking on the occasion, the DYC president, Mr Parminder Mehta, maintained that the state government were misguiding the people about the financial condition of Punjab. While the Union Minister of State for Finance had recently said that financial situation was grave, the Chief Minister was all along claiming that state was in the best of financial health in order to cover up the acts of omission and commission of his government. The meeting called upon the civic body to enforce, without further delay, its proposal to provide free water supply and sewerage facility to the city population and further not to bow to the pressure tactics of the BJP as far as development projects in the city were concerned. Mr Mehta announced that the DYC would organise ward-level camps to intensify its campaign against social evils within one week. Prominent among those present in the meeting were Mr Sarbjit Singh
Bunty, Mr G.S. Arora, Mr Pankaj Sood, Mr Kewal Arora, Mr Arun Atri, Mr Varun Mehta, Mr Sabhajit
Pandey, Ms Sunita Virk, Ms Surjit Kaur and Mr Inderjit Parmar. |
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Valmikis seek law against
sacrilege Ludhiana, June 18 Mr Dhanav disclosed that on May 12, 1998, the Prime Minister, had promised them to formulate a special law against defaming Maharishi Valmik. However, nothing has been done so far. The sansad demanded that there should be at least one member in the Film Censor Board of India to scrutinise the movies to ensure that they are not defamatory statement. They also demanded that the custody of the Valmiki Tirth at Amritsar should be handed over to the sansad as they had emotional attachment with the place. Currently, it is being managed by a trust headed by the Deputy Commissioner. The deputation which met Mr Paswan included Mr Chanderpaul Anarya, Mr Bhim Singh Anarya, Dr Dev Singh Asur, Mr Laxman Dravid, Chaudhary Yashpal, Mr Pyare Lal Anjan, Mr Nand Lal, Mr Randhawa and Mr Ram Lal Adival representing different states of the country. Mr Paswan reportedly announced the nomination of 22 members of the sansad to the Telephone Advisory Committee. |
2 held for opium
smuggling Ludhiana, June 18 Two male members of the gang have been arrested while the police was conducting raids to arrest other persons involved in smuggling. The use of the women and children in the illegal activity was a recent phenomenon in the city, the police said. According to Mr Warryam Singh, in charge CIA wing, the two arrested persons were Nachattar Singh and Malhar Singh. They used to smuggle opium in liquid form from Dattagunj in Uttar Pradesh. They used to take women and children, mostly their relatives, in taxi to Dattagunj and bring opium in liquid form to the district. This help them clear several check-posts en route as the women and children were not frisked by the police. The police has recovered about 4 kg of liquid opium. It said it got a tip-off from officials of a hospital in Machhiwara where a man who had fallen ill after consuming an overdose of the liquid opium was admitted in serious condition. The police claimed due to its crackdown on the drug traffickers, they were inventing new methods of carrying on the activity. Earlier, a gang was arrested by the city police which used improvised ‘thermos bottles’ to smuggle the drug. Another persons trying to smuggle opium into the city through an improvised tool-box of his scooter was also nabbed recently. Police sources said the use of women and children as carriers was a disturbing phenomenon. It could increase problems for the police to check the menace of drug trafficking. |
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Chemist held, drugs seized Khamano, June 18 It seized 18 bottles (1800 ml ) of Fancy Drill, two boxes of Parvon-SPAS, 1900 tablets of Lomotil, 10 bottles (1000 tablets) of Phenotil, 200 tablets of Nitrazepam and 100 capsules of Hypnomax. The accused, who is sarpanch of Shamashpur village, has been booked under Sections 22, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Earlier, the DSP and the SHO of Khamano had informed the Deputy Commissioner, Fatehgarh Sahib, about the open sale of drugs in the area at a sangat darshan held at Mansurpur village. |
Anti-WTO rally on June 21 Ludhiana, June 18 This was disclosed by Mr Bant Brar, after presiding over the district level meeting of the preparatory committee, he said that the rally would be held at the Grain Market. All the preparations had been completed for the rally. About 50,000 workers, farmers and labourers were expected to participate in this state-level meeting. |
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