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HEALTH

Medical camp held
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, March 8
The All-India Physically Challenged Association of India organised a medical camp where 219 patients, including 37 physically challenged persons, were examined by Dr Vikram Jaswal, himself disabled by polio. The patients were examined Kailashpati Mahadevpur temple here today.

Dr Jaswal informed 37 patients suffering from of physical disabilities, will later be provided with prosthetic aids and referal treatment.

ADMINISTRATION

Grant sanctioned for prison reforms
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 8
For modernising infrastructural facilities in prisons, Rs 1800 crore have been sanctioned by the Centre to the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). This was disclosed by the Bureau’s Director-General, N.C. Joshi.

Addressing a gathering of police officers at the Institute of Correctional Administration, he said the bureau had already identified priority areas of prison reforms.

He added that the bureau was shortly organising the second All-India Prison Duty Meet at Ahmedabad. Emphasising upon the need for preserving human rights in the prisons, he said the bureau had formulated a “Model Prison Manual”.

Meanwhile, a press release added that besides Mr Joshi, prison officers from Punjab, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan attended the vertical interaction course on ‘Indian prisons as an instrument of social change’. It was organised by the Institute of Correctional Administration in collaboration with the bureau.

The release said the course provided an opportunity to prison officers to discuss issues of national concern related to prison administration. The speakers included President of the Indian Society of Criminology M.Z. Khan. Bureau’s Assistant Director Dr. B.V. Trivedi, former Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Iqbal Singh and Institute’s Deputy Director Dr Upneet Lalli.

It was added that the participants stressed on the need to make the prisons self-reliant. The operational and administrative problems faced by the prison officers in managing the jails in the changing scenario were also discussed, including the issue of overcrowding in prisons.

Commissioners visit disputed sites
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, March 8
The local commissioners appointed by a court today visited the disputed site of new residential plots in Sector 15. They were there to assess if the demarcation of a residential plot allotted by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was overlapping on the road leading to EWS Colony, Sector 15.

The commissioners were appointed by the court on March 4. Members of the EWS Welfare Society, Sector 15, had filed a civil suit in a local court, seeking stay on the construction work of a plot (no. 2974) in Sector 15, in the grounds that the plot was earmarked on one of the roads leading to the colony. The court had stayed construction by the allotee of the plot on February 23.

The residents have been pleading that two metres of the road (total width is 3.6 metres) is being covered under the plot, and if construction is allowed, the road will be encroached on. ‘There are 6000 residents in the colony. If this road is blocked, there will be only one approach road to the colony, wchich is very narrow and cannot take the load of vehicluar traffic of the colony” said Mr Raj Kumar, President of the Association.

The residents said that the 3.6 metre road is even marked in the lay out plan of the Sector. While demarcating the plots, the planners made some mistake in land demarcation and area of the road was incorporated in a plot. “When the EWS Colony was established, there were seven approach roads. We have two roads now, and closure of one road could lead to problems for the residents,” said Mr Sham Sunder, Vice-President of the Association.

The two local commissioners, who have prepared the report, will submit it in the court of judicial magistrate, Ajay Aggarwal.

Banners removed by MC
Our Correspondent

Mohali, March 8
To keep a check on unauthorised advertisements, the local municipal council removed a large number of banners put up at various points in the town by some companies.

The drive which was started last night, keeping in view the Indo-Pak Test match, went on till this morning. The banners had been mostly put up by telecommunication companies which were setting up their offices in the town. The drive had been carried on the instructions of the council president, Mr Kulwant Singh.