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Wheat procurement picks up
Ludhiana, April 20 Farm experts hoped that the procurement targets would be met in the district this year. An official pointed out, the procurement had almost touched last year’s figure while there were still several days left. The farmers were also getting the due price. The average procurement prices of the wheat per quintal remained Rs 640 today. At some places some private buyers were offering a rupee or two more to the farmers as the demand has also grown. Sources revealed that all the wheat procured last year had already been distributed and there was no leftover from the previous year. With the result the godowns were empty. Moreover, the demand had also grown thus leading to the farmers getting better prices. In Ludhiana district the average wheat production this year had been 18.9 quintal per acre against the average state yield of 16.9 quintal per acre. The apprehension that the wheat production might fall due to the early ripening because of abnormal heat during November and December are also proving to be false. Experts said, rain during February and March compensated for the previous two months which led a good production. The experts maintained that the wheat production would be average only. However, it might cross the 150 lakh tonne mark this year in the state. The assessment is based on the separate surveys conducted by Punjab Agricultural University, the state Agricultural Department, the Central Agricultural Department and the State Remote Sensing Department recently. While the department of remote sensing collected the data through
satellite, other three agencies have depended on the data collected through manual survey.
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Low yield of wheat expected, says mandi board chief
Khanna, April 20 Mr Sukhsarkaria warned the commission agents and the officials of the marketing board to weigh the crop genuinely. He said if it found such irregularity then the commission agent, the official of the government procurement agency or the secretary of the market committee concerned would be held responsible. Order in this regard would be issued on Tuesday from the board headquarters in Chandigarh, he added. Mr Sukhsarkaria while expressing satisfaction over the procurement, said in all 145 mandis, 1,590 purchasing centres were working. All facilities like electricity, drinking water and tents had been provided to the farmers. He said the board had 17,235 km of link roads to repair and 10,000 km had already been repaired. The remaining would be repaired till June 30, he claimed. He said for the development of infrastructure in the mandis Rs 82 crore would be spent and Rs 30 crore had already been spent. He said all mandis of the state had been computerised. He said the board had accepted long-pending demands of commission agents and traders as one license was enough now for one notified area and the renewal period had been extended to three years from one year. The traders doing trade up to Rs 1 lakh in a year were exempted from checking of accounts. Market fee from oilseed and pulses had been waived. Commission on cotton oil and pulses had been increased from 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent and plots on reserve price were being given to the traders in newly developed mandis. On the demand to waive the R.D.F. and Market Committee fee on small flour mills, he said the government had already waived the fee on roller flour mills. Earlier, he visited the grain market along with the Deputy General Manager, Mandi Board, Mr Shamsher Singh Randhawa, and DMO, Ludhiana, Mr Shakti Parshad. Mr Sohan Singh Rosha, chairman, Market Committee, Khanna, Mr Bharpur Chand Bector, vice-chairman, Mr Nirmal Parkash Sofat and Mr Mohan Singh Pannu, secretary, were also present on the occasion.
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Colourful performance by Saraswati kids
Ludhiana, April 20 The chief guest lit the lamp followed by Saraswati Vandana — a devotional dance performed by the girls of primary classes. Various items like plays, skits, dances made the programme resonant and colourful. The performance by the students stole the heart of the parents specially when the students displayed their patriotic feelings with “Kadam-kadam pe naksh hai “. A melodious song from Beetles composed by Paul Mac Cartney. “If you miss the train I am on, ........ A hundred miles’ was a great hit with the audience. Students displayed abundant energy moving faster with the music. The function concluded with the ‘grand finale titled Nritya Natika . It depicted an ancient mythological story in dance form — a story of revenge of peacock betrayed in love. The dance was well received by the audience. Mrs Kamla Jain, principal of the school read the ‘annual report’. The chief guest gave away the prizes to the outstanding students. The function concluded with a vote of thanks by the Headmaster, Mr Parshant Lal. Donated:
An Indian NRI, residing in the Phillipines donated one water cooler to Shri Ram Rai Public School, Sekhewal Road, here today at a small function held in the school. Novelist Davinder Singh Sekha handed over the cooler to the principal. Davinder Singh advised students to plant trees so that the environment could be saved.
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Little Kingdom comes to city
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, April 20 ABVP strike:
The ITI unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Wednesday observed a stike on the campus against the government move to privatise ITIs in the state. Rajat Sood, secretary of the ABVP, and Kamal, ITI Students Union president, led the rally. They said the students would oppose the move. All student unions would protest under one banner, they said. Elected:
The Punjab Aided Schools Management Association held a meeting at Malwa Khalsa Senior Secondary School in which Mr Malkiat Singh, manager of Dashmesh Senior Secondary School, was elected president. Other office-bearers were general secretary — Rajesh Khashyap; treasurer — Shashi Bhushan and press secretary — Pawan Chopra.
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Students raise hue and cry over commerce paper
Ludhiana, April 20 They alleged that paper was not set as per the university guidelines and demanded at least 10 grace marks. Mr Deepak Dhingra, Commerce Department, Kamla Lohtia College, said the paper was not set according to the prescribed pattern. As per the university paper setting pattern, in Section A there should be six questions of five marks, of which four are to be attempted. In both B and C sections there should be five questions of 10 marks each, of which three questions are to be attempted. But in the abovesaid question paper in section A there were six questions of four marks each, of which five were to be attempted. In sections B and C there were three questions of 15 marks each, of those two were to be attempted.
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200 poor students get books
Mandi Ahmedgarh, April 20 Mr Rakha Ram Verma, patron, of the local unit said around 200 poor and deserving students were provided with books and stationery at a function held at the ashram on Sunday. Elaborating on the continuous project undertaken by the organisation, Mr Verma claimed that besides providing study material the volunteers had been giving free coaching in math and science subjects to students of various schools for the past four years.
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MA I (pol sc) paper creates confusion
Doraha, April 20 Prof Gursharan Kaur, head of the Department of Political Science, and Prof Kuldip Singh said that the paper on “western political thought” had been wrongly set as the students were asked to attempt five questions out of eight. But as per the syllabus prescribed by Panjab University for 2005 in which it is clearly stated that the students shall have to attempt any four of the eight questions. Subject teachers said the paper created panic and confusion among the students as they are not used to attempting five questions in the stipulated time in house tests. Prof Gursharan Kaur said a representation in this regard had already been sent to the university.
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Basketball team selected
Ludhiana, April 20 Girls Kiranjit Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, Harminder Kaur, Radha, Manda, Simran Sangher, Harpreet Kaur, Sarbjit Kaur, Nagma, Amandeep Kaur, Manisha and Shabda. Devinder Singh Dhindsa and Sudesh Verma will accompany the team as coach and manager, respectively. Boys Ajay Parkash, Taranjeet Singh, Ankush Passi, Richard, Paramvir, Akash, Gagandeep Singh, Jitinder, Abhimanyu Kochhar, Sanjeev Kumar, Mohit and Kamal Bajaj. Rajit has been named stand by.
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Football trials postponed
Ludhiana, April 20 The trials will now be held on April 27 at the same venue from 10 am, Mr Bajwa informed.
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