Wednesday,
December 11, 2002, Chandigarh, India
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BATHINDA FAZILKA NO SALARIES: Three women cooks of Government Girls Secondary School hostel here have not been paid their salaries for the past four months. Mr Shashikant, senior vice-president of the All Employees’ Coordination Committee and Mr Harbhajan Singh Khunger, general secretary of the Punjab Subordinate Services Federation, Ferozepore, on Tuesday urged the Education Department authorities to release the salaries of the cooks. HOSHIARPUR KAPURTHALA
LUDHIANA KRISHNA UTSAV: Shri Mahadev Sewa Dal organised its third Krishna Utsav in Tulsi Ram Dharamshala on Monday. A 'parbhat pheri' was also taken out in this connection from Sanglan Wala Shivala. Members of the Mahila Sankirtan Mandal chanted hymns. Among others who chanted hymns at the smagam were Kamlesh Paruthi from Delhi and Lalita Sakhi and Rajesh Arora from Vrindavan. Those who attended the utsav included Mr Pardip Kumar, Mr Ashok Goyal, Mr Devinder Jain, Mr Hazari Lal Malhotra, Dr Shiv Sharma, Mr Devinder Rasia, Mr. Gulshan Sharma, Mr Charanjit Sharma, Mr Sunil Manga, Mr Badri Nath, Mr Vinod Sharma, Ms Veena Malhotra and Ms Saroj Verma. Several prominent citizens were honoured on the occasion. SATSANG: The Hare Krishna Prachar Samiti organised a satsang at Shri Radha Kunj Bihari Mandir on the Tibba road on Sunday. Bhagat Tarsem, Ved Kathuria and Ashok Bhandari gave discourses. Among those present on the occasion were Mr Vikas Chopra, Mr Raj Kumar, Mr Gautam Dev, Mr Vinod Kumar and Ms Anita
Bhandari. RELIEF DISTRIBUTED: Relief in the form of ration and woolen clothes was distributed among 621 widows at a function organised by the Shri Gyan Sthal Mandir Committee on Sunday. Marriages of two girls were also solemnised on the occasion. Mr Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Manager, Airtel, was the chief guest. Mr Jagdish Bajaj, president, Shri Gyan Sthal Mandir Sabha, presided. TRAINING
PROGRAMME: The Ludhiana unit of the Food and Nutrition Board, Department of Women and Child Development, Community Food and Nutrition Extension Unit, Government of India, is organising a five-day training programme in nutrition education for trainers on the Punjab Agricultural University campus from December 17 to 21 for the benefit of the CDPOs, lady health visitors, medical officers, district programme officers and supervisors connected with nutrition and health promotion activities. The objective of this programme is to update their knowledge on Food, nutrition and health-related issues so that the same may be utilised by them during their field activities to combat malnutrition. Some other relevant activities — video film on nutrition topic, mini exhibition, diet display of pregnant and nursing mothers and low-cost recipe demonstration, particularly on local base food availability would also be conducted. MANSA PATHANKOT POPPY HUSK FOUND: The police here has arrested Kanshi Ram of Dabra Gwalior (MP) and found 8 kg of poppy husk from him. A case under Sections 15, 61, 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered. PHAGWARA SAMRALA DEAD: Subedar Karnail Singh, Superintendent, Sant Kirpal Singh Sewa Panthi School, died due to the heart attack on Monday. SPORTS MELA: A sports mela will be organised by the Malwa Sports Association, Samrala, from December 20 to 22 in Malwa College, according to Mr Jagjiwan Singh Kheernian, cashier of the Sports Association, here on Tuesday. |
AMBALA TEST: A rehearsal test for students who are going to appear in the class X CBSE examinations was conducted by the Chandigarh centre of PIE Education, here on Tuesday. More than 2,000 students took the test at eight different
centres in the city. PIE Education is one of the leading training institutes for
IIT-JEE tests. The institute has completed one year in the city.
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BILASPUR DHARAMSALA RESERVATION FOR OBCs: The President Him Jan Morcha, Mr Romel Singh Wadia, has demanded 27 per cent reservation for OBCs as recommended by the Mandal Commission. Mr Dhumal’s statement that there were only 15 per cent OBCs in Himachal Pradesh was an incomplete piece of information. He said how could the Chief Minister give this figure when no census on the basis of caste had been undertaken in the country. SHIMLA PRESS WORKERS DHARNA: Workers of the Government of India Press,
Tutikandi, will stage a dharna on December 11 outside the state secretariat along with their families. The press workers have the support of the CITU, AITUC and the
INTUC. |
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