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Wheat farmers fear heavy losses
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 23 A visit to villages in Sangrur and Ludhiana districts revealed that wheat crop standing in thousands of acres had been affected adversely. Besides suffering losses due to decrease in the grain size, the cultivators would experience thrashing on account of microbial deceases and weeds. The insecticides have also failed to show effect in some cases. Larges patches of dried-up crop were seen in Jandali Kalan, Chhapar, Latala, Barundi, Rangoowal, Jurahan, Jartoli, Seelon Kalan and Jartoli villages. Mr Balbir Singh of Dehliz village said a major portion of the crop standing in his fields had dried up. “The crops standing in low-lying fields that had been watered prior to recent rains had dried up due to suffocation of roots for want of oxygen as water had clogged the soil,” explained Mr Balbir Singh. He apprehended that the yield would fall at least by 20 per cent due to decrease in grain size. Referring to information received through farmers of the area, Mr Baldev Singh Latala and Mohinder Singh Seelon, general secretary and president of the Zamhoori Kissan Sabha, said “tela”, a decease caused by a microbial organism and infestation of fields by philarus minu, a weed called “guli danda” in local dialect, would decrease the yield to a great extent. In some cases, effect of spray of insecticide was diluted by showers. Mr Santokh Singh, a farmer of Phalewal village, said he had suffered crop loss in at least five bighas allegedly due to poor quality of insecticides. Mr Gurmeet Singh, Agricultural Development Officer, has forwarded his application to the higher authorities for necessary action. Mr Santokh Singh had purchased insecticide from a dealer at Sarinh village.
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Denied holiday, students observe protest
Ludhiana, March 23 The agitating students marched from Students Centre in the PAU campus to Gate No 2 and squatted for some time on Ludhiana-Ferozepore National Highway where a torchlight procession was held in the memory of the three martyrs. An effigy of the government was also burnt. Activists of several unions, including Mr Gurser Singh (PAU), and Mr Tanvir Singh Dhaliwal (LSU), lambasted the state government, charging it with showing disrespect to the great martyrs by not announcing a gazetted holiday on their martyrdom day. The speakers vowed to uphold the ideals of Bhagat Singh and his colleagues and to ensure that such valiant freedom fighters were not forgotten by the countrymen.
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Canadian delegates visit PAU
Ludhiana, March 23 Dr Boisvert said her organisation was exploring opportunities for scientific collaboration with other institutions in food processing, biotechnology, sustainable energy and environment, bio-pesticides, bio-fertilisers and biomass utilisation. “We are here to create awareness among Indian scientists of Canada as a prospective partner in agriculture science and technology,” she said. Briefing about the agricultural science in Canada, she said it contributed 8 per cent towards the GDP of the country and offers 1/8 of the total job opportunities. “The government invests $6 billion in research and development every year. This is 1.87 per cent of the GDP,” she revealed.
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Doraha institute students visit Nestle unit
Tribune Reporters
Ludhiana, March 23 Sukhdarshan Singh Chahal and J.S. Saini explained the manufacturing process. Interacting with students, Mr Chahal said the company purchased milk from the nearby areas. Prof V.J. Rai and Prof Shivani Bector accompanied the students and thanked the management for giving the opportunity to young students to acquaint them with the production. Seminar:
Under the auspices of the Punjab Educationists’ Forum for Peace and Development, senior educationists from Punjab will discuss the pros and cons of privatisation of higher education in the state at a seminar to be held at Khalsa College for Women, Civil lines, on March 25.
It is being held under the patronage of Prof Prithipal Singh Kapur, former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Principal Tarsem Raj Bahia, forum president, will deliver the keynote address. Extension lecture: The speakers were Pankaj Sharma and Harmeet Dhillon, area manager, Aviva Life Insurance. Doraha Songs, skits, modelling, choreography and farewell speeches marked the occasion. Jagwinder Singh of BA-III was declared Mr Farewell, Gagandeep Singh first runner-up and Devinder Singh second runner-up. Jugraj Singh was declared Mr Decent and Kamaljit Kaur of MA (Punjabi) Miss Farewell. Prof Jagdev Singh Grewal (retd) and college committee member Adarsh Pal Bector were present on the occasion. Annual function: College Principal Dr Narinder Singh said Dr S.P. Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, would be the chief guest. Apart from conferring degrees on students of MCom, MA (Punjabi) MA (political science), BCom, BA and BCA, those excelling in various academic and co-curricular activities would also be honoured. Mandi Ahmedgarh PPSC member Amrjit Singh and Nustrat Akram Khan Bagga were guests of honour. As many as 170 students received prizes. Of these, 120 students were honoured for excellence in academics, 30 for sports, 15 for cultural activities and five for social service. Prominent among prize winning sportspersons were Monika Vaid, Mohd Imran and Mohd Faruqi. Gurpreet Kaur and Manpreet Kaur (academics), Simranjit Kaur, Gurmeet Kaur, Mohd Nasir and Yakoob Khan (NSS), Pardeep Kaur and Sandeep Kaur (cultural activities) were also felicitated. Mr Garcha asked students to work with perseverance and make their dreams come true. He urged girl students to become self-reliant so that they could carve a niche for themselves. The college’s annual report was read out by in-charge of the ST Cultural Society C.P. Dua. College management committee general secretary Arvind Malhotra welcomed the guests. Principal Mansha Ram, Land Mortgage Bank Director Sukhwant Singh Tillu, SAD unit president Jagwant Singh Jaggie and BJP leader Seeta Gogna were also present.
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Uniforms given to poor students
Ludhiana, March 23 The forum secretary general, Dr Shiv Gupta, and president Sushil Malhotra stated that about 200 students were given free uniforms. Next week more uniforms will also be distributed in the EGS school, Fauji Mohalla, and Haibowal Road, Ludhiana. The Education Minister appealed to NGOs to come forward for such social welfare projects.
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Renovated blood bank inaugurated at CMCH
Ludhiana, March 23 Dr Charles said the CMCH was the first medical institution in North India to have started a 24-hour blood bank service way back in 1960 with the concept of obtaining blood from voluntary donors. According to Dr Dhanoa, in charge of the blood bank, the renovated facility had been set up in accordance with the international standards and guidelines. The concept plan of the new blood bank was approved by Dr Graeme, a transfusion services expert form New Zealand. The complex has a special bedded room, with separate pre-transfusion and post-transfusion rooms and a room for attendants of the donor. The bank has a laboratory, a component room, a seminar room, a representation room and a distribution counter. Dr Dhanoa said the blood bank would provide blood components therapy, along with packed red blood cells, platelet concentrate, fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate, among many other components. All necessary tests to ensure safe blood would be conducted in the blood bank which had been fully computerised to ensure faster report generation, he added. “The upgraded facility will help the upcoming bone marrow facility in the CMCH,” Dr Dhanoa added.
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One-third of world TB patients in India
Ludhiana, March 23 Making these observations, Dr Rajinder Gulati, head of the Paediatrics Department at ESI Model Hospital here, remarked that the 1990 World Health Organisation (WHO) report on the 'Global Burden of Disease' ranked TB as the seventh most morbidity-causing disease in the world, and expected it to continue in the same position up to 2020. This is deplorable when one considers that various cost-effective tools that can cure tuberculosis, have existed since the 1960s. TB has the dubious distinction of being the most persistent scourge of humankind. He said worldwide statistics are staggering--- in 2001, the WHO estimated that 1.86 billion persons were infected with tuberculosis. Each year, 8.74 million develop tuberculosis and nearly 2 million die. "This means that someone somewhere contracts TB every four seconds and one of them dies every 10 seconds. The global community woke up to this disease when, in 1993, WHO declared TB as a global emergency." The situation, Dr Gulati added, is more complicated when one considers countries such as India where TB disproportionately affects the young. India accounts for one-third of the global TB burden, with 1.8 million developing the disease each year and nearly 0.4 million succumbing to the disease every year. A new strategy to fight one of the world's leading killers (TB), has been recently launched by WHO. The new 'stop TB strategy' addresses the current challenges facing countries in responding to TB. The action plan envisages ways to continue scaling up TB control activities while also addressing the spread of TB and HIV co-infection and multi drug-resistant TB
(MDR-TB). Both the TB and HIV (in Africa) and MDR-TB (in eastern Europe) are seriously hampering global control efforts to reduce the mortality caused by TB every year. Focusing on implementation of 'Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme'
(RNTCP), an application of the WHO-recommended 'Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course' (DOTS) strategy to control TB in India, Dr Gulati commented that the programme has been taken up with the objective of curing at least 85 percent of new sputum positive TB patients and detecting at least 70 percent.
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DMCH docs visit
Pakistan
Ludhiana, March 23 The team comprised Dr H.S. Bains, Associate Professor, Dr Deepak Bhat, Assistant Professor, Dr Nardeep and Dr Harsh, both residents in the Department of Paediatrics at the DMCH. During the conference, attended by medical professionals from all over the world, Dr Bains presented two papers while another was presented by Dr Bhat. The presentations made by the DMCH paediatricians were appreciated by the faculty and delegates. Dr Balvinder Singh, a paediatrician from Muktsar, was also a member of the visiting team. Both
consultants of the DMCH were honoured at the conference by the
president-elect of Pakistan Paediatric Association — Prof Mumtaz
Hassan. In addition to participating in the deliberations of the conference, the doctors had visited various Sikh shrines in Pakistan, including Nankana Sahib, Dera Sahib, Panja Sahib, Sacha Sauda and Bal Lila Sahib. According to Dr Bains, the visit was extremely useful academically, as well as for the purpose of strengthening the bond of friendship between the people of the two countries.
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DMCH camp for
abdominal diseases
Ludhiana, March 23 The camp was organised by the DMCH in association with the Rotary Club of Raikot. Around 160 patients were examined during the camp. Dr Chhina cautioned the patients against seeking treatment from quacks as they tend to prescribed steroids, which, by reducing the immunity of the body, caused more harm than good. He remarked that the risk of infection of either hepatitis-A or hepatitis-B, most common liver diseases prevalent in India, could be easily prevented by vaccination. During the camp, blood tests and other laboratory tests, free of cost, were arranged by the Rotary Club. Ultrasound diagnosis was conducted by Dr Gursharan Singh from the Department of Radiology at the DMCH. Medicines were also distributed, free of cost, to poor and needy patients at the camp. The patients who were examined at the camp, a majority were suffering from acid peptic diseases, alcoholic liver diseases, and hepatitis-B and C infections.
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Cricket tourney from April 8
Ludhiana, March 23
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