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Electrocution waiting to happen in Sector 32 colony Chandigarh, May 16 In fact,
residents of the 640-odd tenement colony seem happy extending
encroachment to the level where most of the electricity poles have
come under their boundary walls, a Tribune survey today found out. At
couple of places, houses have been extended to include electricity
poles right into their front wall. When asked how electricity poles
have been put up only couple of feet away from houses which have now
gone multi-storeyed, an official of the Electricity Department said
the department a month ago issued notices to over 25 to 30
residents. Expressing his annoyance at the encroachment, he said the
people would realise the danger only when an incident like the one in
Badheri happened. Two persons died of electrocution in the
village. Though most of the wires were covered, yet the official said
the danger of electrocution was looming large because of the people
greed for more land to accommodate growing families. Notices have
been issued and the Administration, the municipal corporation and the
Estate office have been informed about the encroachment but no action
had been taken despite the notice period having lapsed 15 days
ago. The danger of being too close to the electricity wires has been
aggravated as wires are almost at an arm’s length from the buildings
on the first and second floors. Residents of the tenements say that
as no incident of electrocution had been reported in the last 21
years, the tendency to encroach has been increasing in the absence of
timely actions. However, a section of residents says the erection of
boundary walls was justified to give protection to the people living
on the ground floor against theft and filth. They say passing vehicles
raise a lot of dust dirtying their houses and cattle too spoil their
courtyards. The encroachment has made the planning of the area go
haywire. The colony, which houses workers of showrooms, cooks at
hotels, waiters and mechanics, has witnessed a change in the economic
status of the people from jhuggi dwellers to employees with private
business. A resident said as per the original plan only one room was
allowed to be built but most of the people had made additional rooms
and it had also been allowed. The encroachment is so apparent that
because of this factor, transfer of tenements is legally not possible
as the owners do not get no-objection certificates because of this
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Naked
wire claims one more life Panchkula, May 16 According to
Mr Kulwinder, alias Bala the father of the victim, she had gone up to
stairs to the terrace on the third floor of the house when she accidentally
touched the hanging naked electricity cables. She then
rushed to the Sector 6 General Hospital, from where the doctors
referred the case to the PGI in Chandigarh. Tanu breathed her last in
the PGI. OC |
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Death in PGI: hope after 2 yrs of wait Chandigarh, May 16 On the directions of the Union Health Ministry, the Chandigarh
police today appointed Ms S.C. Sagar, Deputy Superintendent of Police
(DSP), as the nodal officer to expedite the investigations in the
case. Sources in the police said the police will ask the PGI
authorities to produce all relevant case documents, including the
report of Dr J.S. Chopra Committee. The police action follows after
the issue was taken up in the last Governing-Body meeting of the
institute in New Delhi on May 12. The Union Health Ministry had pulled
up the PGI authorities for not cooperating with the police. At the
meeting, the PGI Director had pleaded that the inquiry was yet to be
completed. The UT Administration has sought the help of the Union
Health Ministry to obtain a copy of the PGI inquiry report so as to
ascertain the culpability of the doctors in the case. The sources
said, after the patient had died on March 14, 2001, the police had
begun investigation in the case on the complaint of her husband, Mr
H.S. Tuli. The then Station House Officer (SHO) of the Sector 11
police station had recorded the statements of various doctors of the
PGI. The police investigation had held several doctors responsible for
the death. However, the police had also recommended that a
subcommittee of technical experts be constituted to probe further. In
January 2002, the Finance Secretary of Chandigarh had constituted a
committee led by the Medical Superintendent of the Sector 32 hospital,
Dr Raj Bhadhur, and the matter had also been taken up the Punjab and
Haryana High Court. The High Court had directed the police to
complete its investigations by May 31, 2002, but the police waited for
the report of the expert committee and sought a six-month extension. |
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MC’s help sought on illegal dental clinic Chandigarh May, 16 It is reliably learnt that a team of health
officials have ordered closure of five such dental clinics and issued
notices to a few others The Registrar of the Chandigarh Dental
Council, Dr G.S. Sandhu, has requested the Mayor, Mr Subhash Chawla,
to prepare a list of such unqualified people so that action could be
initiated against them . “With limited staff and resources as its
disposal it would take very long for team of doctors to prepare a list
of all dental clinics in the city so we have sought the assistance of
the MC on this issue,” said Dr Sandhu. He said the Mayor had assured
him that he would request the Councillors to prepare the list of
dental clinics in their respective wards. Dr Sandhu, said after a
complete list of the people running dental clinics was obtained from
the MC, the health department would ask for their degrees and then
begin the process of verification. “ While most of these people have
no degrees, others have obtained them from unrecognised institutes,
“ he informed. The Director Health Services, Dr C.P. Bansal, said
all such people who were practising without degrees would be issued
notices if they fail to provide relevant documents. The efforts of the
Health Department in seeking the help of the MC two years age, had
failed to evoke response from the municipal authorities. A large
number of unqualified people have been running “dental art clinics
“ and “ dental labs “ especially in the slum and rehabilitation
colonies. A large number of such clinics are located in Badheri Dhanas,
Colony Number 5 and Bapu Dham Colony. Qualified dental surgeons have
expressed their concern over such clinics as seeing the unhygienic
conditions prevailing here, they feel that patients being treated here
were at a high risk of blood borne diseases like AIDS and Hepatitis B.
Even though people running these dental clinics have no medical
qualification, they have put doctor before their name. “ I agree
that I have not obtained any medical degree, but having worked with a
senior dentist for two years, I have learnt everything,” says a
confident unqualified dental surgeon at Dhanas. The public notice
issued by the Registrar, Chandigarh Dental Council, had requested all
dental practitioners in the city to either get themselves registered
or inform about their previous registration and its validity so that a
proper record could be maintained. After getting the list of all
dental clinics from the MC, the health authorities are hopeful that
they will be able to stop all unqualified people from practising, as
they could become centres for potential health risk. |
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Three commit suicide Chandigarh, May 16 According to
information available, 35-year-old Swaran Kaur, a resident of Khuda
Lahora, who was admitted to the PGI last evening after she consumed
some poisonous substance, died today. According to the police, the
deceased was under treatment for depression. About six months ago, she
had attempted suicide by jumping into a well. Swaran Kaur was married
to Pal Singh, a farmer, and had two children. The police has initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC. In another case, 32-year-old, Shiv Shankar, committed suicide by setting himself ablaze after dousing himself with kerosene. The deceased was a juice vendor in Mauli Jagroan. A police official said the deceased along with his three brothers had drinks at their Mauli Jagroan house. After that he went to the first floor of the house and doused himself with kerosene. He died at the PGI this morning. In another case, Surinder Kaur, resident of Sector 14, Panchkula, who had consumed some poisonous substance, died at the PGI this morning. |
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Curb sale of property using power of attorney: Verma
Chandigarh, May 16 The Administrator asked his Adviser Virendra Singh to find a way of eliminating power of attorney sales. Justice Verma also asked the Finance Secretary to launch a massive drive throughout the city to close openings on the main roads. He said some people living in jhuggies inside government institutions have punctured the walls indiscriminately putting up small gates towards main roads which should be closed immediately. It was decided at the meeting to have an additional 57 privately-build public toilets just like those which have been built in Sector 34 along Dakshin Marg. Justice Verma also stressed upon the need for providing public amenities to the general public and taking urgent steps to enhance the green cover of the city and beautifying the roads. Justice Verma directed that designated points for setting up toilets should be identified immediately in all sectors. Staff of such toilets would also keep a watch on drinking water facilities. Justice Verma asked the municipal corporation and the Horticulture Department to immediately allot the work of beautifying the remaining eight roundabouts to private companies so that work on their beautification could be started at the earliest. The Administrator asked the Administration and municipal corporation to launch a massive drive to beautify the dividers on all the roads. He asked the Horticulture Department to identify a variety of bougainvillea for the dividers, which should have less foliage and more flowers. Regarding the toilets in the slums of the City, Justice Verma said that Municipal Corporation should maintain these toilets and Chandigarh Administration would give them the required grant to maintain them. He asked the Adviser to ensure potable water supply to slums. He said that no water supply line should go to the interior of slums as leakage in these supply lines creates unhygienic conditions and they are often punctured by the slum dwellers leading to the contamination of water. The Administrator asked the Chief Engineer to expedite the work on cycle tracks in a phased manner. The Chief Engineer informed that tenders for the cycle tracks had been floated and the tracks on four roads would be completed within the next four months. On the remaining five roads, they would be completed in the next five to six months. Prominent amongst those who were present at the meeting were
the Adviser to the Administration, Mr Virendra Singh, Finance
Secretary, Mr Karan A. Singh, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Mr
M.P. Singh and Chief Engineer, Mr Puranjeet Singh.  |
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Rape of foreigner: special notice issued Chandigarh, May 16 The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has already given a go-ahead to the CBI to coordinate with the Punjab Police and issued arrest warrants against Kohli (35). The parents of the NRI are currently residing in SAS Nagar . He is on the run ever, since the body of Hannah Foster was discovered two days after the incident. Kohli had left for India on March 18. He had fled on March 29 after receiving a phone call from his wife who was then residing with her father in Britain.
Kohli became the main suspect in the murder of Hannah after information was received that she had talked to her friends about an Asian man stalking her. The man of Asian appearance was also reported to have spoken to Hannah close to her home on two separate occasions at the end of January and end of February this year. The British police had also revealed that Hannah made a 999 (emergency) phone call but no discernible sounds were heard. The police there are also working on enhancing the sounds of the phone call. |
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Police notice for absconding cashier Chandigarh, May 16 In the notice, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the police of the neighbouring states have been requested to keep a watch on the head cashier. Sources in the police said in the past one month, raids were conducted at different places in the region but without any success. The head cashier, Raj Pal Singh
Chandoke, did not report at the office of the Life Insurance Corporation
(LIC) on April 22 and took away the money from his bank. After searching for the cashier, nervous officials of the bank informed the police in the wee hours the next morning. Even the wife of the head cashier, Mrs Tarvinder
Kaur, who is employed in a school, had assisted the police in tracing her husband. According to the police, the head cashier had put the cash in the bag and left the bank premises. After searching, the bank officials had called up the wife of the cashier at her residence in Phase 7 of SAS Nagar. The bank safe was opened in the evening after a duplicate key of the safe was procured from the Sector 9 head office of the bank. The police has registered a case under Sections 409 and 420 of the IPC on a complaint by Senior Manager of the bank, Mr Ashok Kumar
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Protesters damage liquor shop SAS Nagar, May 16 A dharna was staged by residents of the colony who raised
slogans against the administration for failing to remove the vend.
Women outnumbered men in the protest organised by Mazdoor and Colony
Bhalai Sanstha. The protesters broke the wooden khokha from where the
vend was running and a number of bottles containing liquor. Employees
at the liquor vend fled from the site seeing the anger of the women
folk. Mrs Harjinder Jawanda, convener of the organisation, said that
the affected persons had earlier approached the Estate Officer who had
got the vend removed from the colony twice. But no permanent solution
had been worked out and now the vend had been running in the colony
for the past seven months. She said though administration had made no
arrangements to provide water in the colony but provision of liquor
was very much there. She said that even children had started consuming
liquor. The owner of the liquor vend, on the other hand, has lodged a
complaint with the police saying that apart from causing financial
damage by breaking the vend and the liquor bottles the protesters also
took away Rs 4,000 from the vend as both the employees had fled from
there at the time of the protest. Mr H.S. Bhullar, SP, said that an
excise inspector had been called to study the case. Action against the
guilty would be taken on the basis of his report. |
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CHB drive targets 40 flats Chandigarh, May 16 Besides the illegal openings, garages under tin sheds built
on government land, illegally built rooms and other structures were
removed by the CHB team which was accompanied by a team of policemen.
The CHB allowed the residents time to close the illegal openings by
building a brick wall. Those who build the brick wall by the evening
were returned the gates. The rest of the gates were carted away by the
CHB. The residents had been given a of 15 days prior to notice. Some
of them had voluntarily removed the gates and controlled brick wall to
close the opening. Sources in the CHB said in the next few months all
illegal openings onto the main roads will be closed. |
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Demolition drive in SAS Nagar SAS Nagar, May 16 The jhuggis and the khokhas had come up around Phase VI and Mohali village. The drive which started late in the afternoon first removed khokhas near the Civil Hospital in Phase VI. Later jhuggis that had come up near the Kamla Market in Phase I were removed. The enforcement wing was provided police assistance to avoid any untoward incident. |
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Centenarian
celebrates 7th year of successful surgery Chandigarh, May 16 An early riser, she does not need glasses to go
through the morning paper. She prefers to live on the first floor and
walks up and down the stairs without any help or a walking stick.
That’s not all. In order to remain physically active, she washes her
clothes and plays with her great grand children. Her agility defies
the freckles on her face and her wrinkled hands that have stood the
test of time. Alert, active and still anxious to learn more, Kimkee
Chaufla does not like to miss the sunrises and the sunsets. About
seven years back in 1996, it was not exactly the same picture. Time
had taken its toll on her body and she suffered a terrible back
problem. This led to her being bed ridden and she started losing her
zest for life. Life for Kimkee had come to a stand still and she had
almost given up when someone guided her family to show her at the PGI.
Diagnosed in the Department of Orthopaedics, as “fracture neck
femur”, she had only one choice: operation. At 93 and with a weak
bone structure, she was more of a challenge for the doctors than a
regular patient. It was then that Professor and Head of the
Orthopaedics Department, PGI, Dr O.N. Negi, took up this challenge and
admitted her for surgery which was scheduled and successfully
performed today seven years ago (May 16, 1996). “It was a while
back, but the memory of that operation is still very clear in my mind.
It went off as one of the most successful operations although I feel
that God has been very kind”, said Dr O.N. Nagi. Its been seven
years now and Kimkee Chaufla, celebrating her century, continues to
live a normal life, just the way she always wanted it to be. |
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NCC motor
cycle rally flagged off Chandigarh, May 16 The Deputy Director-General of the
NCC Directorate, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh
Brigadier D.S. Dhillon flagged off the rally from the Sukhna lake. The
creator of Rock Garden, Mr Nek Chand, graced the occasion to encourage
the participants. The rally started off from the Wagah Border
(Amritsar) this morning, and reached here in the evening. The
participants would cover a distance of 7,450 km from Wagah to Tawang
in Arunachal Pradesh and would travel back, finally ending at
Jalandhar on June 12, this year. |
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British
Library celebrates
third anniversary Chandigarh, May 16 Mr P. Jayarajan, Head of
the Library and Information Services, British Council, India, was the
chief guest. After the welcome note by the Manager of the library, Mr
Sushant Banerjee, the centrestage was taken over by the students of
DAV Public School, Sector 8, who presented a beautiful welcome song in
the honour of the library members and the chief guest. Apart from
the formal function that was marked with the elaborate prize
distribution ceremony, there were many lighter moments in store for
the members, especially with two dynamic British Library members Dr
Rana Nayyar and Dr Pallav Ray delighting the guests with their musical
and poetic skills. The winners of various competitions organised by
the library were given prizes. Their names are in the order of
merit: Story writing (held on May 9) Six-year category: Simran from
DAV, Sector 8; Akrita Kaur from Vivek High School; and Path Vashishth
from DAV, Sector 8. Seven-year category: Sidhart Prasad from St
John’s; Abhinav Kaushal from DAV, Sector 8; and Archit Sharma from
Saupin School. Eight-year category: Aditya Vardhan from DAV, Sector
8; Rishab Sharma from DAV, Sector 8; and Manpreet from DAV, Sector
8. The event was judged by Dr H.S. Dhillon, principal, YPS, SAS
Nagar, Ms Rekha Chandra, Education Adviser to St. Kabir School, Ms
Amita Uppal, Coordinator, St Stephen’s, and Dr S. Lavasa. Painting
for kids (held on May 10) Arshit Sharma from DAV, Sector 8; Aditi
from DAV, Sector 7; and Akriti Rawat from Stepping Stones. Judges
for this contest were Ms Anu Kumar, Principal, Stepping Stones, and Ms
Mooninder Sandhu from Strawberry Fields. Debate (held on May 12) Namrita
Arora, Harinder Mohan Singh, Umang Sethi and, Dr Harsh Sharma. Jury
members comprised Mr Dinesh Kumar, Resident Editor, The Times of
India, Col. J.M.S. Hattar and Ms K.C. Rambola, Librarian, Central
State Library, Sector 17. Story Writing (held on May 13) Archana
Ohri, Deepa Singh and, Harinder Mohan Singh. The entries were
adjudged by Dr Rana Nayyar, Professor in the Department of English,
Panjab University. Painting (held on May 15) Sonyl Sareen, and Dr
Rajni Lamba. Flower arrangement (held on May 15) Mohanjit Kaur and
Simmi Malhotra. Both these events were adjudged by Ms Prabhdeep Brar,
NIIFT, SAS Nagar. |
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Marriage of a poor girl solemnised Kharar, May 16 He said apart from others, J.S. Bajwa, MD, Sunny Enclave,
Mr Charanjit Singh Walia, MD, Mata Sahib Kaur Nursing Institute, SAS
Nagar, municipal council's president Charanjit Singh contributed for
the event. Project chairman, K.S. Mundi said the couple was given a
set of double bed, a ceiling fan, two trunks, a set of utensils,
beddings, a bicycle, a set of clothes for bride as well as for groom,
a set of silver jewellery, two quilts, a sewing machine, chairs and
table, juicer and grinder, seven blankets, dressing table etc. Ms
Veena Gupta, president, Innerwheel club, was present on the occasion. |
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Kharar phone subscribers to pay more Chandigarh, May 16 BSNL today announced the reduction of metering
pulse from fixed line to cellular mobile numbers from present 30
seconds to 60 seconds for subscribers of Chandigarh, SAS Nagar and
Panchkula only. For the subscribers of the Kharar exchange, the pulse
would remain 30 seconds only. New pulse would change from present 180
seconds to 90 seconds for call to fixed, cellular and Wireless in
Local Loop (WLL) phones. |
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Scribes condemn police action Chandigarh, May 16 Condemning the
incidence, the union said it was highly disturbing that police
personnel present at the scene not only pushed and abused
mediapersons, but also beaten them up. The whole incident happened in
the presence of the Union Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, and the
Higher Education Minister of Punjab, Mr Harnam Das Johar. The union
has demanded immediate action against the police personnel,
responsible for the act. |
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Fungus in Coke bottle SAS Nagar, May 16 The proprietor of H.S. Departmental Store in Phase V, Mr Harjinder Singh, said he had supplied bottles of soft drink to a customer for a function. The customer later returned those bottles which appeared to contain impurities, including those bearing the Coca Cola trademark. He said it appeared that there was some fungus in a bottle with the Coca Cola mark on it.
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Funeral van given Panchkula, May 16 This was the second vehicle that has been purchased by
the Mata Mansa Devi Sewak Dal Dharmarth Evm Bhandara Committee. Mr
Goyal appreciated the selfless services being rendered by Mansa Devi
Sewak Dal to the society. |
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Tribune employee bereaved Chandigarh, May 16 |
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J.S. Rahi is Lions Club’s
zonal chairman Chandigarh, May 16 The District Governor, Mr
R.K.Mehta, made the announcement. Mr Rahi, as president of the club, got a shed constructed at cremation ground in SAS Nagar. He organised four medical, three blood donation and two eye check-up camps. |
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Save Sukhna Debate The session will be
attended by Mr Ishwar Singh, Deputy Conservator of Forests-cum-Chief
Wildlife Warden, UT, Chandigarh, who will give details of the
conservation and afforestation measures taken by the Administration in
the catchment areas of Sukhna lake. |
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Case for indexing rents MR SAPANDEEP SHARMA has hit the proverbial nail on the head when he says (Chandigarh Tribune, May 6, 2003) that to checkmate delaying tactics by briefless lawyers, the tenants should be made to choose between ejectment and market rent on the first date itself. Lest the landlords exploit this provision, he rightly suggests that the market rent can be worked out on the basis of consumer price index for urban non-manual employees. There is no way otherwise how the courts can drastically reduce the ever-increasing number of rent cases. We need to have built-in provisions for summary trials and special courts and a beginning can be made with senior citizens, widows, Army personnel, etc who have neither the stamina nor the time to pursue long-drawn cases. There are press reports that Judges are bearing six times the normal load. In the Punjab and Haryana High Court, for example, there are two lakh pending cases. Many times the cases are decided after the death of the litigant. Sometimes his grandchildren face the judgement. What to say of an increase in the sanctioned strength of Judges, even sanctioned posts are seldom filled. There are just 28 Judges against the sanctioned strength of 40 in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Similarly more than one-third of the posts of subordinate judges are lying vacant in Punjab and Haryana. Prof Harbinder
Mahajan
Ban mental stress Apropos the articles in
Education Tribune (April 29, 2003) regarding corporal punishments and
the fear at the hands of those who are supposed to be care-givers
(teachers), I wish to draw the attention to the mental trauma of
parents as well as students for the burden of homework. New age
teachers are only meant for reading chapters in the class. All left is
meant for the parents to do and get the child ranked high in the
teachers’ remarks. The focus is not on the child but the prestige
that the name of the institution he/she goes to carries. In an age
where we talk about the rights of pets, we should have banned the
mental stress besides corporal punishments, which is doing as much
damage to the child’s psyche if not more. Chitra
Chopra Be kind to animals It is really heart-breaking to
learn how trainee doctors at veterinary hospitals in Himachal Pradesh
inject hapless cows repeatedly in the rectum. It shows the height of
cruelty, insensitivity and apathetic attitude of the management
towards animals. Even attendants often adopt inhuman methods towards
sick and dying animals. One should not forget that animals are part
and parcel of human life and these are, now, considered as wealth of
the nation. It is not out of place to mention here the experience of
a famine that occurred in the state of Orrisa in 1956, where poor
farmers died out of hunger along with their cattle. But even the idea
— as suggested by the foreign media — never struck in their mind
to take the flesh of cows and cattle just to save themselves from
starvation. The events were telecast in major parts of European
countries and the people were amazed and surprised at the kind and
human attitude of Indian farmers. The trainee doctors should,
therefore, refuse to undertake such experiments on live animals,
particularly cows, as it gives them severe pain, suffering and
ultimately death. Nirmal Kaur Revive camping site This
is with reference to a news item in Chandigarh Tribune dated April 19,
2003, under the heading ‘More facilities at Lake Club’. No efforts
have been made either by CITCO or by the Tourism Department of
Chandigarh Administration to revive the camping site near the lake.
Several years ago, a camping site was earmarked near the lake, and in
the Chandigarh map there is a mention of this, too. Chandigarh
Industrial Tourism Development Corporation several years ago started a
camping site near the lake and tents were put up there by CITCO and
tourists stayed there. After about two years, this camping site was
taken up the Central Reserve Police Force and they erected structures
there. Several letters were written by me to the higher authorities of
the Chandigarh Administration for getting this camping site vacated by
the police force. More than two years ago this site was vacated. I
request the new Administrator of Chandigarh, Justice (retd) O.P. Verma,
to get the camping site revived. Narinder Singh
“International” Penny wise pound foolish The silent
majority strongly appreciates your editorial “Can’t recover? Write
off”. It shows that the inefficient and corrupt working of our
administration. What action does the Finance Ministry proposes against
those who were required to recover Rs 92,000 crore as tax arrears but
could not recover there? Our financial experts are penny wise and
pound foolish. They will find ways and means to tax the common man —
increase service tax from 5 per cent to 8 per cent, and also raise the
basic telephone tariffs — but they have turned a blind eye to the
wasteful expenditure of the tax payer’s money. When a king honours
tax evaders, an honest tax payer feels cheated. I must share my
practical experience with you. When I insist on paying more tax, many
persons counter me with the observation that all this shall be wasted
by the leaders with a single stroke of their pen. True and
practically, the Income Tax Department does not take any action
against those who do not file their returns but it definitely doubts
the ones who file returns diligently. Om Datt Sharma |
One held for abducting
girl Panchkula, May 16 The boy and the girl were arrested by the police from Sector 4
market this afternoon. According to the police, mother of the girl,
Surinder Kaur, had filed a complaint with the Pinjore police station
alleging that Brijesh in connivance with Darshan and one another
person had abducted her daughter after luring her on May 12. A case
under Sections 363, 366 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code has been
registered against them with Pinjore police station. NARROW
ESCAPE:
Two van occupants had a narrow escape in an accident involving four
vehicles on the busy Kalka-Ambala highway near Chandimandir, here
today. A Vagon-R Van (HR-14A-0700) rammed into a stationary vehicle
on the highway after being hit by a truck (HR-38A-2587) from behind
which further was hit by another truck (HR-37A-0930) from behind. A
car occupant Dr Yash, sustained minor injuries in the accident. The
drivers of the accidental vehicles are said to have fled from the
scene after the accident. A case has been registered with the
Chandimandir police station in this regard. FOUND DEAD: A former
Haryana Red Cross Society driver — Mr Shamsher Singh — was found
dead adjacent to the Sector 6 General Hospital under mysterious
circumstances, here today. According to the police, Shamsher Singh
was a former driver with the government hospital and was also
dishonoured by his parents from their property sometime back. Later he
was shifted to the Red Cross Society and was later sacked. His wife
and a daughter (7) was living with his mother in Sector 30 in
Chandigarh for a long time. After taking the body into its
possession, the police has started inquest proceeding in this
regard. CHANDIGARH The
President of the mandir association lamented that the police had not
bothered to provide security at the mandir despite repeated
requests. FATAL MISHAP: Navdeep Singh, a resident of Chandigarh, died
when his car was hit by a truck near Zirakpur here this evening.
According to the information, the deceased along with his friends,
Subash Bhardwaj, Kamaljeet and Rajesh Kumar, were going towards
Rajpura when the accident took place. The other occupants were
discharged from the GMCH after the first aid. The driver of the truck
fled from the spot. LALRU According to Mr Balwinder Singh, DSP, Karnail Singh
of Bhauni village in Ropar district was arrested by the police at a
naka in Basaoli village. He was carrying 26 kg of poppy husk. In
Kurli village, Mr Karan Sher Singh, SHO, Lalru, nabbed Baldev Singh of
Hoshiarpur village while he was carrying 26 kg of poppy husk. After
registering case against the two, the police produced them before a
court in Rajpura where they were remanded in police custody for five
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SCL, PTU sign MoU SAS Nagar, May 16 In a press note released here on Wednesday Mr S.K. Ambardar,
Deputy General Manager, Strategic Planning and Coordination, said that
as part of the MoU, SCL had agreed to extend its facilities for
imparting industrial training to students pursuing microelectronics
course in various technical institutes while PTU would consider
recognition of the VLSI courses being offered by SCL. He said another
area identified for cooperation was the ‘Distance Education’ in
print and electronics media which SCL would offer with the help of PTU.
PTU and its affiliated colleges would be nodal points for SCL to
conduct these courses. Both had also agreed to jointly take up
projects in design and fabrication of VLSI circuits, electronic
systems, embedded systems, business process re-engineering,
e-governance and management consultancy. |
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Chitkara Institute gets ISO certification Chandigarh, May 16 Duly approved by the AICTE and the Punjab
Government, this ISO certification accredits the education system
followed at Chitkara Institute. TATA Infotech education services
division was the consulting body for developing and implementing the
quality management systems at the CIET. Senior consultant, Mr A.
Chauhan, said it was a commendable feat, as the institute had achieved
this coveted certification in the very first year of its inception.
This achievement comes within a week of the declaration of the PTU
results for the first semester. Students of the Chitkara Institute
bagged the first three positions overall. |
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MARKET PULSE Chandigarh, May 16 Maxima’s gold collection Maxima has introduced a rare collection of gold watches with over 75 variants priced in range of Rs 450 to Rs 1080. The gold-plated watches are creatively designed to compliment the whole dressing of the wearer, claims the company. The new promotional campaign for this collection features the likes of actor Saif Ali Khan and model Yana Gupta.
Red Tape Mirz Tanners the manufacturers of Red Tape, has launched its latest signature line of “outdoor collection”. The “outdoor collection”, is a range of semi-formal and casual shoes. This new range is a blend of good quality leather, innovative styling and craftsmanship.
Bajaj Auto Bajaj Auto today launched their new goods carrier, GC 1000. Speaking on the occasion, Mr C.KJ. Rao, General Manager, Bajaj three-wheelers, said the vehicle was powered by a 416 cc, 8.5 bhp fuel-efficient diesel engine. |
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Home loans’ exhibition Chandigarh, May 16 The customers can get their loan within 72 hours of applying with free personal accident insurance policy. Builders and developers in Chandigarh, including New Generation, Model Enclave, Dee Ess and Shivalik Enclave, have displayed models of properties in the exhibition. |
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