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Punjab chalks out
10-year crop diversification plan
Ludhiana, July 10 Addressing a press conference here today, the minister disclosed that the MoU signed with Tropicana was aimed at promotion of horticulture and a strong network of agro-processing units, waxing, grading and marketing system would be established to facilitate the farmers. He said the Punjab Agro in collaboration with Tropicana has planned to set up three big processing plants in Abohar and Hoshiapur for Kinnos and Rajpura for guava and pears. In order to provide the farmers with easy access to national and international markets, he said Internet terminals would be set up in the state. In the first phase, he said, to keep the complete record of daily rates of fruits and vegetables in all main mandis in the country, the Punjab Government has decided to set up a fully equipped multi commodities exchange terminal at Chandigarh, which would gather the relevant information and put it on the Internet for the horticulture growers. The terminal would also put on the Internet the availability of the stocks of fruits/vegetables with the farmers, so that, the traders from all parts of the country could make on line purchase. Later, the minister presided over a function at Shree Gian Sathal Mandir and distributed pensions and ration among 701 widows and announced a grant of Rs. 50000 for the committee.
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Prize distribution function at Param Institute
Ludhiana, July 10 Students of the institute also presented a cultural programme. The chief guest was the Director, Small Scale Industries Department, Mr R.C. Chopra. The programme started with a devotional song followed by skits, dances and a choreography. Pritam, Mandeep and Harpreet Kaur bagged first, second and third prizes in the fashion designing programme while in two-year diploma courses, Naam Jot Kaur, Inderjit and Sonu Guleria were given first , second and third prizes, respectively. In the one-year tailoring diploma, Ranjana, Harmeet and Pooja won the prizes. The director of the institute, Mr Amarjit Singh, and the Principal Parminder Kaur, said two new courses would be introduced from this year.
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42 NTT get degrees
Ludhiana, July 10 It was the ninth batch that received the degrees. Addressing the gathering, Ch Jagjit Singh said, “The need of the hour is to improve communication skills through IT so that the students can find good jobs. In Mohali, many IT companies have been set and that will prove to be boon as not only will they provide jobs to the students but will also help in overall development of state.” He appreciated the role of private institutions in providing good quality education to the students. He appreciated the role of convent school in helping the nation by producing good teachers. He gave a gift of Rs 50,000 to the school from his discretionary fund.
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Farewell party organised
Amloh, July 9 Principal Roshan Lal Sood, PTA chief Parshetam Dass Mittal, Mr Balwinder Singh, district adviser, Pensioners Association, Mr Ram Saran Sood, Mr Mohinder Singh and Mr Nirmal Singh lauded the services of the Principal. The students presented a cultural programme. The staff presented mementos to her. She gave Rs 11,000/- to the school and Rs 1100/- each to elementary school of Sounti and Bhambrian for development. Earlier, a farewell party was given by staff and PTA members of Government Secondary School (Boys), Amloh, to Mr Vijay Mohan, S.S. Master. Mr Zera Singh, Principal of the school, Mr Maher Singh Guru, Mr Kailash Chand Sharma and Mr Harbams Lal Pajni, president, PTA, spoke on the occasion.
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Teeth-whitening technology from USA
Ludhiana, July 10 It is now possible for each and every one of us to have the same kind of ‘pearly white’ smile and that too in an hour’s time only. This has been made possible by the state-of-the-art teeth-whitening technology from the USA, known as ‘BriteSmile Professional Teeth-Whitening’, developed by a former NASA scientist. Stating this at a news conference here today, Dr Vivek Sggar, a noted dental surgeon, specialising in cosmetic dentistry, informed that for the first time this technology would be available in the city. He explained that the technique used a combination of whitening gel and cool blue light - shone directly onto the gel-covered teeth. “The chemistry of gel and light creates a whitening effect to erase stubborn tooth stains, including the very resistant tetracycline stain. He claimed that the BriteSmile procedure whitened the teeth by an average of eight shades, and even more for individuals with darker teeth. The treatment took just over an hour, and delivered results that lasted for up to 2-3 years. Usually it would take up to 4 weeks to achieve these results with other methods.
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300 patients examined at camp
Ludhiana, July 10 According to Dr Neeru Jindal, doctors specialising in medicine, surgery, eye diseases, ENT, skin, orthopaedics, gynaecology and children diseases conducted the medical check-up and rendered advice on treatment. The hospital also provided the facility of free laboratory tests for blood and sugar levels on the occasion. Mr Satwinder Singh Jawaddi, area councillor, inaugurated the camp. Among others Mr Pawan Diwan, senior vice-president, Punjab Youth Congress, Dr Vikram, Dr Sunil Goel, Dr Vinit Arora, Dr Pritpal and Mr Tarlok Singh Khalsa, president of Mohall a Welfare Committee, were also present at the camp.
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Sunrise Club, Jai Bhawani XI enter final
Ludhiana, July 10 In the semi finals, Sunrise Club beat Brothers XI by 44 runs
while Jai Bhawani XI defeated BBF XI by four wickets to enter the final
slated for July 17. Mr Sat Parkash Saini, secretary, Punjab Youth
Congress Sports Cell, was the chief guest today. In the first
semifinal, Sunrise Club, batting first, set a target of 198 runs before
the Brothers XI. However, Brothers XI innings folded at 153 runs. Brief
scores: Sunrise Club — 197 for 4 in 25 overs (Gaurav Marwaha 42 n.o,
Tarun 37 n.o, Salil 43 and Sukhpal 34; Ashu 2 for 380; Brothers XI —
153 all out in 19.4 overs ( Bawa 44, Jeetpal 20, Naveen 19; Mithun 4 for
47, Tarun 3 for 42 and Surinder 2 for 17). In the second semifinal, BBF
XI won the toss and opted to bat first. They made 117 runs. Jai Bhawani
XI achieved the target after losing six wickets. Brief scores: BBF XI-
117 all out in 21.4 overs ( Vaneet Sehgal 30, Chinton Sehgal 29,
Vishwajeet 19; Satinder 4 for 20, Deepak 2 for 21 and Vishal 2 for 18);
Jai Bhawani XI- 119 for 6 in 17.2 overs (Bhuvnesh 33 n.o. and Bobby 26;
Ashish Sehgal 3 for 16 and Shakun 3 for 8).
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Lotey joins as Assistant Director, Sports
A postgraduate and diploma holder in Public Relations and Advertising, Mr Lotey did Diploma in Coaching
(gymnastics) from the NIS, Patiala, in 1976 and topped the batch besides being declared the best student of the year. As a player, he secured two silver medals in the Senior National Gymnastics
Championships held at Jhansi in 1974-75. Mr Lotey joined the sports department in 1977 as sports officer and has a vast experience of coaching. A number of his trainees have earned name and fame for the nation at the national and international level
gymnastic meets. He is a qualified international judge of the Federation International De Gymnastics (FIG). The
federation had appointed him the judge to evaluate the IXth Asian Games held in New Delhi in 1982. Before joining at Chandigarh, Mr Lotey worked as District Sports Officer, Ludhiana since 1999. During his stint at Ludhiana, the city witnessed multifaceted growth as far as the creation and upgrading of sports infrastructure is concerned. The city played host to the 31st edition of the National Games in the year 2001, in addition to the opening and closing ceremony of this mega event were also held here. The relaying of the synthetic track at Guru Nanak Stadium, Astroturf at Punjab Agricultural University, construction of indoor basketball stadium, enhancement of seating capacity at the cycling velodrome at the PAU, addition and renovation of multi-purpose indoor complex and Shastri Badminton Hall and installation of flood lights at the main Guru Nanak Stadium are some of the major projects which were completed during Mr Lotey’s tenure at Ludhiana.
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