Animal welfare camp held
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, April 2
The Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension, PAU, organised an animal welfare camp at Patter Kalan village in collaboration with the Farmers Advisory Service Scheme (FASS), Jalandhar, and the KVK, Kapurthala, under the Technical Assessment and Refinement Project.

A seminar on the ‘role of balanced feed on animal health and milk production’ was presided over by Dr S. S. Sokhi, Additional Director of Extension Education.

He cautioned the farmers regarding the changing scenario of agriculture and emphasised the need for diversification to overcome the present crisis. He also urged them to break the rice-wheat monoculture and grow other crops.

Dr Sokhi highlighted the deficiency diseases, which are quite evident in animals and are a result of deficiencies in the soil and fodder.

Dr R S Sahota discussed the upkeep, maintenance of records, feeding and various management aspects of dairy farming. Dr M.P. Gupta discussed the importance of vaccination and prophylaxis to check the menace of FMD and other diseases, including deworming and tick control. The other topics of agriculture and allied subjects were also dealt by different experts.

A question-answer session was held in which the farmers' queries were addressed. A team of experts, Dr Sahota, Dr Gupta, Dr Navdeep Singh, Dr Sanjeev Kumar and Dr T. S. Randhawa, treated 86 cases of buffaloes, cows and dogs.

A majority of the cases were of reproductive disorders like repeat breeding, anoestrus and metritis, medicinal cases, including mastitis, diarrhoea, skin problems, actinobacillosis and worm infestations and surgical operations like abscess and string halt. Typical cases of pica, worm infestation, undernourished and conception failure cases were also presented in the camp.

The farmers were advised to feed balanced diet, along with regular mineral mixture, and adopt correct management practices to get maximum production from diary animals. 

BVM kids celebrate Vikram Samvat
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 2
To mark the beginning of Vikram Samvat-2060, over 2500 students and staff members of Bharatiya Vidya Mandir (BVM) organised a procession here today. Students of the school were divided into three groups. The first group marched on foot. They started from Shishu Niketan and covering Fountain Chowk, Ghumar Mandi, Mai Nand Kaur Gurdwara, Maya Nagar and Rose Garden finally reached BVM School at Udham Singh Nagar.

The second group moved on bicycles covering the Kitchlew Nagar market, Sabzi Mandi of Chhoti Haibowal, Pavitar Nagar, Police Chowki of Haibowal Kalan, Gurudwara Bhuri Wala, Haibowal Chowk, Dayanand Hospital, Rajpura street, Udham Singh Nagar Market and Lions Club, finally joined the first group.

Senior students were in third group. They were on scooters. They started from Udham Singh Nagar, covering Kitchlew Nagar, Dayanand Hospital, Kundan Vidya Mandir, Dandi Swami, Old Dayanand Hospital, Bindraban Road, Bharat Nagar Chowk, Mall Road, College Road, Rose Garden and finally joined the first two groups.

Mr Goutam Gupta, Principal, told the students that the day marked the victory of King Vikramaditya over the shakas and helped Indians go free from their clutches. The road march concluded with havan and prasad distribution. 

Young lawyers stage dharna
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 2
Members of the Organisation of Young Lawyers (OYL) staged a dharna in the front of the Bar room of the old courts complex, demanding the deletion of the names of those lawyers from the voters' list of the District Bar Association(DBA) who are practicing outside Ludhiana and are the members of any other Bar association.

The members of the OYL raised slogans, “we want justice” and “delete outsider votes ”, in the support of their demands

Mr Harjasdeep Rana, chairman, Mr Sandeep Kapoor, convener, and Mr Malwinder Singh Ghumman, president of the OYL, in a press note issued here today, alleged that in every election, “outsiders” played a major role even though they had no right to cast their votes in the DBA elections.

The office-bearers of the OYL said the dharna was not against any individual, but against the system which allowed the “outsiders” to vote. They also demanded disciplinary action against candidates who seek the support of such voters.

Mr Rana and Mr Kapoor alleged that on March 10, they had given a representation to the president of the Bar association for convening a meeting of the general house but no such meeting was held. The OYL has also demanded a complete voters' list.

Advocates S.K.Bawa, Paramjit Singh Pamma, Jaspreet Singh Gill, Jyoti Saroop and others sat on the dharna. The president of the DBA could not be contacted despite efforts.