DEO
can upgrade school
Anandpur Sahib, January
17
In a major policy decision the Punjab government has
decided to delegate powers to upgrade the schools to respective
district education officers (DEOs). Any school which wants to upgrade
its classes and has twenty students for the upgraded class can now
apply to the respective DEO.
Ministers
deputed to select Cong candidates
Chandigarh, January 17
The President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee ,
Mr H.S. Hanspal, has deputed ministers to select Congress candidates
for the post of Chairperson of block samities and zila parishads in
districts.
Probe
finds tehsildar guilty
Mansa, January 17
Mr Mohinder Singh Kainth, Additional Deputy Commissioner,
here has indicted Mr Ravinder Walia, Tehsildar-cum-Sub Registrar,
Sardulgarh for having caused Rs 1.76 lakh loss to the state. Action
against Mr Walia has also been recommended. The DC Mansa Mr SK
Ahluwalia on a complaint of Mr Jalaur Singh, State President of the
Revolutionary Coordinator Committee, Punjab, to the Chief Minister
Punjab had ordered a probe.
Panel
to review water charges
Amritsar, January 17
Municipal Councillors here criticised corruption in the
Building Department of the Municipal Corporation at a meeting of the
House today. Majority of the councillors spoke against Municipal Town
Planner B.R. Batra allegedly for being incompetent and indulging in
corruption and demanded his suspension.
Verification
of names of voters ordered
Pathankot, January 17
Taking note of the complaint filed by Mr Vinay Mahajan,
president of the Sujanpur Municipal Council, and others, Mr C.L. Bains,
State Election Commissioner, has ordered re-verification of wrongful
deletion and inclusion of the names of voters in 13 Wards of the
municipal council.
Plan to make grocery stores ration depots
SAS Nagar, January 17
The Punjab Government is formulating a policy for fair price depots to function from private grocery stores across the state. Announcing this, Punjab Finance Minister Lal Singh said that this is being done to make the operation of the ration depots financially viable and to reduce the scope of cheating.
Punjab
employees hold rally
Chandigarh, January 17
Employees belonging to boards, corporations and
cooperative institutions of the Punjab Government held a state-level
protest rally at Matka Chowk here yesterday, asking the government to
implement the decisions taken at a meeting held last year between the
Chief Minister and the representatives of the employees.
HIGH COURT
CBI
probe into appointments of Naib Tehsildars sought
Chandigarh, January 17
Acting on a petition seeking independent probe preferably
by the CBI into the alleged irregular appointments of naib tehsildars
during the tenure of Mr Sanjit Sinha — now Principal Secretary to
Punjab Chief Minister, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today
directed that a copy of the inquiry report in the matter should be
handed over to the petitioner.
Villagers
allege misuse of phone exchange
Mansa, January 17
Residents of Kotli Kalan village in the district have
complained to the Subdivisional Engineer (SDE), Telecom, Mansa, and
sent copies of the complaint to the Union Communication Minister, and
the General Manager, Telecom, Bathinda, stating that the keys of the
telephone exchange of the village remain with a private person who
connect calls to distant places without collecting any revenue for the
department.
Mann’s
posers to Nandgarh
Bathinda, January 17
Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, president, SAD (A), in a letter
to Jathedar Balwant Singh Nandgarh, Takht Damdama Sahib, has asked him
whether he supported the resolution about Sikh sovereignty passed in
1946 by the SGPC.
An apology for parks
Jalandhar
Terming a number of once-green and well-maintained patches in different localities of Jalandhar as parks may be a misnomer these days, thanks to the apathy of the local Municipal Corporation authorities towards the maintenance of public parks. Instead of lushgreen grass and a variety of flowers, these were now full with wild vegetation and attracted stray animals. |
Power bills through post offices
Chandigarh, January 17
Electricity consumers of Patiala district will not have to stand in queues anymore to deposit their electricity bills, as the Punjab State Electricity Board
(PSEB) has entered into an agreement with the Department of Posts. The consumers in the district can now deposit their bills at 133 branches of the department.
Two die as bus hits
tractor-trailer
Phagwara, January 17
Two persons, Avtar Singh (47) and Banesha Mukhia (18) were killed today when the tractor-trailer they were travelling in was hit by a bus near JCT Mill on GT Road. Six passengers of the bus sustained minor injuries.
Roadways
staff observe strike
Ropar, January 17
Punjab Roadways employees of the Nangal and Ropar depots
today observed a strike on a call of their state bodies.
Action sought against ANM
Bathinda, January 17
The civil hospital authorities yesterday asked the police to initiate action against the auxillary nurse midwife (ANM) who had aborted a foetus at Pakka Kalan village earlier this month, which had endangered the life of the pregnant woman.
Four bodies taken out of canal
Lambi (Muktsar), January 17
The bodies of Dr Balwant Singh, his son Monu, Rinku, son of Parminder Kaur (nurse) and Sukhdeep Kaur, wife of Nikka Singh, were taken out from the Sirhind feeder canal by divers, summoned by the district administration, and residents of Chunnu village today.
Sugar mill shut down
Malout, January 17
A loss of more than Rs 40 lakh has been caused to the local cooperative sugar mill, being run by Markfed, following its shut-down on January 15. The Turbine alternator was damaged due to a short circuit.
Fortis to hold
health camp tomorrow
Phagwara, January 17
The Fortis Heart Institute and Multi-Speciality Hospital, as part of its outreach programme, will organise a free multi-speciality health check-up camp in association with the Rotary Club, South East, at Anoop Hospital, Guru Hargobindnagar, here on Sunday.
3,000 donate blood
Ferozepore, January 17
A blood donation camp was organised at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Stadium by the Department of Youth Services and Sports in collaboration with the district administration and various NGOs.
‘9,000 houses to be
constructed’
Gurdaspur, January 17
Mr Raghunath Sahai Puri, Minister for Urban Development, told mediapersons here today that the Punjab Government had decided to construct 9,000 houses in the state at a cost of Rs 500 crore during the next financial year.
5.6 cr sanctioned for development
Bathinda, January 17
Mr DPS Kharbanda, Additional Deputy Commissioner, said here yesterday that the district had been sanctioned Rs 5.6 crore for development projects.
Executive engineer held for graft
Bathinda, January 17
Mr Gurmail Singh, Executive Engineer, Irrigation and Drainage Department, Punjab, posted at Mansa, was arrested by the Vigilance Bureau today from his house in Sector 8 in Chandigarh for allegedly for having assets disproportionate to known sources of income.
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Schoolchildren clean garbage
Bathinda, January 17
Students of the local Punjab Public School today removed the garbage dumped near their school themselves instead of waiting for the authorities to do so.
The students of classes IX and X cleaned the area as the requests of
residents, the school authorities and NGOs to the authorities
concerned for removing the garbage dumped at a vacant site in the
local Gopal Nagar yielded no result.
The students of Punjab Public School sweep and clean the place near their school in Bathinda on Friday.
— Tribune Photo Kulbir Beera
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Conference ends
Patiala, January 17
The three-day 19th international Punjabi development conference concluded at Punjabi University here today. Over 350 delegates from India and abroad took part in the conference in which 30 scholars presented their papers on various aspects of development of the Punjabi language literature and culture.
Camp for lecturers
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