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Johar’s stock
with government falls?
Ludhiana, January 25
The Punjab Government has asked Higher
Education Minister Harnam Dass Johar to preside over the Republic Day function
at the subdivision level in his own district while ministers junior to him have
been asked to preside over functions at the district levels.
Truce on, but CLP
crisis simmers
Chandigarh, January 25
Though both loyalists and dissidents in the
Punjab Congress have accepted the “truce” ordered by party President Sonia
Gandhi, the crisis continues to smoulder over the issue of status quo both in
the Council of Ministers and the Pradesh Congress Committee.
2004 special year
for Sikhs
THE year 2004 may go down in the
history of Sikhs as a very important year that might mark the onset of the
much-talked about revivalism among the Sikhs. Several centennial celebrations
will mark the occasion.
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BJP forms coordination panel
Hoshiarpur, January 25
To coordinate with the Shiromani Akali Dal
and other political parties in the forthcoming Lok Sabha poll, Mr Avinash Rai
Khanna, president, BJP unit of Punjab, has constituted a coordination committee
of the state BJP. Mr Balramji Dass Tandon, a former minister of Punjab, has been
appointed its convener.
Give LS ticket
from Sangrur to Barnala, say supporters
Sangrur, January 25
In an important political development in
the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a large number of supporters of the family of Mr
Surjit Singh Barnala today passed a resolution to allot the SAD Lok Sabha ticket
for the Sangrur parliamentary constituency to Mr Surjit Singh Barnala or to any
other candidate of Mr Barnala’s choice, and allotment of the ticket to Mr
Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, the secretary-general of the SAD, from the Patiala
parliamentary constituency.
Rs 146 crore Ghaggar scheme
to take off
Patiala, January 25
The Congress is set to woo the people
living alongside the Ghaggar river which has a 105-km-long tract in this
district out of its total length of 242 km by taking credit for the passing of
the Rs 146-crore project by the Central Water Commission (CWC). The project aims
at strengthening the banks of the Ghaggar as well as other riverines posing
threat of flood in the region during the monsoon season.
Scam in purchase
of chlorination plants
Ropar, January 25
The initial inquiry into the purchase of
chlorination plants at exorbitant prices by various municipal council and
corporation of the state has established a scam involving higher officials of
the Sewerage Board and councils.
SSP justifies
suspension of SDM’s gunman
Sangrur, January 25
Mr Gurinder Singh Dhillon, Senior
Superintendent of Police (SSP), Sangrur, in a press note here today, said that
Constable Major Singh, gunman of the Malerkotla SDM, had been suspended on the
recommendation of the Moonak DSP for breaking the security cordon of the Punjab
Chief Minister on January 17 last at Kuka Memorial Guest House in Malerkotla.
Thermal plant
dykes causing waterlogging in fields
Ropar January 25
Residents of Ranjitpura village, about 10
km from here are facing an acute problem of waterlogging in their field. Norms
were reportedly violated during the construction of the stage two fly ash dykes
of Ropar Thermal Plant.
SGPC warns Ropar
admn on boundary wall
Amritsar, January 25
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
yesterday warned the Ropar district administration that interference in the
construction of the boundary wall of Takht Kesgarh Sahib, Anandpur Sahib, would
not be tolerated.
Jalandhar to
have gas through pipes
Jalandhar, January 25
Jalandhar is all set to become the first
city of Punjab to introduce the gas-on-tap system through underground pipelines
for residents for which a memorandum of understanding (MoU) will be signed by
the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, and senior officials of
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) here on January 31.
Water wastage
through tap-less outlets
Amritsar, January 25
According to a survey by an non-government
organisation 44 water points in the walled city in ward 11, 12 and 13 were
allegedly tap-less.
 Unemployed youth
protest against freeze on jobs
Bathinda, January 25
Activists of the Berojgar Aadhyapak Front,
Punjab, today burnt copies of the memorandum in protest, after some Congress
leaders refused to receive the same when they had gone to the residence of local
Congress MLA Surinder Singla.
Activists of the Berojgar Adhyapak Front, Punjab, during a rally at Bathinda on Sunday.
— Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera
Memorial park in
bad shape
AMRITSAR: M.L. Dhingra Park
developed by the Amritsar Improvement Trust presents a picture of neglect. The
poor condition of the park speaks volumes for the callous attitude of the
Improvement Trust and the Municipal Corporation towards its maintenance.
Hazardous
passage in road divider
Amritsar, January 25
A traffic hazard has been created by the
municipal authorities by allowing a part of the road divider at the Majitha road
to be broken to allegedly facilitate vehicles’ entry to a newly constructed
petrol station owned by a kin of the district president of the ruling party.
65 organisations
honour Sunil Jakhar
Abohar, January 25
Representatives of 65 social, religious,
educational and traders’ organisations honoured Mr Sunil Jakhar, MLA, for
getting the cremation ground for animals shifted from Shivpuri to Killianwali.
Patwari gets 18-month RI
Ropar, January 25
The Special Judge here, Mr S.K. Goel, in an
order passed last evening sentenced Kuldeep Singh, a patwari, to 18 months’
rigorous imprisonment and imposed on him a fine of Rs 1,000 under the Prevention
of Corruption Act.
2 held for betting on cricket
matches
Amritsar, January 25
With the arrest of two persons, the
district police busted a gang involved in betting on cricket matches today. The
police has seized Rs 84,000, two mobile phones and documents related to the
crime.
Cop, 2 others
held for snatching
Amritsar, January 25
The local police has arrested three persons
— an excise staff policeman and two men of a local contractor — for
allegedly snatching a camera and wristwatches from Kaka, a resident of Gurbaksh
Nagar here.
Change in course name hits
students
Patiala, January 25
The change in nomenclature of the MD
radiology course of Government Medical College here to MD radio diagnosis in
1983 has proved costly for a number of students who have acquired their
post-graduate degrees in the course after 1983.
 Where students
long for
benches, water
Kharar, January 25
“My school should have big playgrounds,
marble chip floors, flowers and green plants all over, benches and a water
cooler. But we are made to sit on jute mats. I don’t like it,” says
11-year-old Shanker, a student of Class V at Government Elementary School-3 at
Kharar. His father is a government employee and mother a maid.
A class in progress at Government Elementary School-3 at Kharar. — Photo by Parvesh Chauhan
Diploma nursing
students to have separate mess
Amritsar January 25
Simmering differences between the degree
and diploma nursing student in to the fore on Friday when nearly 40 BSc nursing
students protested against the poor quality and of food served on the hostel
premises.
 300 students
awarded degrees
Talwandi Sabo, January 25
As many as 300 students of the local Mata
Sahib Kaur Girls College, who passed their bachelor courses in Arts, Commerce
and Computer Application streams in the academic year of 1999-2000, 2000-2001,
2001-2002 and 2002-2003 were awarded degrees in the first ever convocation of
the college here yesterday.
Jathedar, Takht Shri Damdama Sahib, Giani Balwant Singh Nandgarh confers a degree on a student at the convocation of Mata Sahib Kaur Girls College at Talwandi Saboo on Saturday.
— Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera
Consultants named for gas
plants
Patiala, January 25
The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB)
has appointed Tata Consultancy as consultants to evaluate its proposal to set up
two gas-based power plants at Bathinda and Doraha in Punjab.
Rice millers
urge govt to buy levy rice
Fazilka, January 25
There is widespread resentment among about
40 rice millers here and of the nearby Ladhuka areas whose levy rice is not
being purchased by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) due to some alleged
discrepancies in the purchase records of rice millers of Ferozepore district
detected about a fortnight ago.
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