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20 hurt in clash at Avon Cycles
Ludhiana, April 24 Allegations and counter-allegations flowed during the day as the officials claimed that when the workers, who had recently rejoined duty after a strike, were asked to work in another part within the factory, they resorted to violence. The workers on the other hand alleged that company officials demanded their identity cards back, which they refused, and a tiff followed, leading to the clash. “When the workers were asked to work as they were sitting idle, they resorted to violence. Their allegations on turning them out are baseless,” said Mr O.S. Pahwa, MD, Avon Cycles. Among those injured are two factory officials, one police personnel and workers Vinod Kumar, Bhagat Lal, Ram Vilash, Ram, Tej Bahadur, Ram Kumar, Budhhey Raj, Lalji Pal, Hira Lal, Roshan Lal, Ram Lakhan, Tej Shri, Shiv Shankar, Ram Dhani, Ram Tiwari, Ram Parvesh. Union representatives alleged that the management had been harassing the workers who had joined duty after the strike. “They had been continually harassing workers by making them do petty jobs like washing utensils, etc. Besides, they have turned out 70 workers after they rejoined,” alleged Mr Jagdish Chand, joint secretary, Centre of India Trade Unions (CITU), Punjab. He also alleged that the management and its supporters pelted them with stones and beat the workers with rods, injuring them. “There was a clash, but it was the management who beat up the workers. How else would so many workers be injured,” he questioned. “After the recent decision by the Labour Commissioner as per which workers who had been on strike were asked to report for duty, the management had been harassing them. When we complained regarding the work other than our duty being given to workers, the management denied.” He said the union would decide its further course of action soon and would intensify its struggle.
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Teachers gun for Maheshinder’s scalp
Ludhiana, April 24 The teachers are protesting against the appointment of Mr Grewal to the post on April 21. The staff had agitated against him earlier too and the President of the SGPC, Mr Avtar Singh, had him removed on March 22. However, he has again been appointed to the same post. Ms P.K. Sekhon, Principal of the school, said, “We have been protesting against him as he talks rudely to teachers and often holds back their salaries. Last year, the teachers had observed a “black Divali” as he did not sign on the salary register. When I went on leave, I had appointed the seniormost and sincere teacher, Ms Harminder Kaur, as the acting principal. However, he removed her from the post, intimidated her and appointed Ms Inderjit Kaur Chawla, a junior teacher, in her place. However, due to her obnoxious behavior and teachers’ protests against her, the then SGPC chief, Bibi Jagir Kaur, had her suspended.” Ms Parminder Pal Kaur, a spokesperson for the staff, said now that he was back, he was making threatening calls to teachers. The teachers fear that out of vindictiveness, he might stop their salaries. “Why does he want a post in this school as it is more or less a clerical post? We want an educationist and not a politician. From tomorrow, we are starting a relay fast. Our only demand is that Mr Grewal should not be in the school.” Ms Davinder Kaur Batra, another teacher, said, “We do not know why the management has betrayed us. Mr Avtar Singh said we were like his daughters and had made us happy by removing Mr Grewal. Why then has he revoked his earlier order?” The teachers are happy that Mr Baldev Singh Mangat, president of the Government Teachers Union, Mr Charan Singh Sarabha of the Adhyapak Union, the Students Union of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College and the Parent-Teacher Association of Nankana School are supporting the strike. The teachers said they were bothered about the loss of studies the students would suffer due to the closure of the school, but they had resolved to see their fight for the removal of Mr Grewal till the finish. They will make up for the loss in studies by teaching during the summer vacation. Meanwhile, Mr Grewal has refuted the allegations. He said the teachers had no right or jurisdiction to decide who would be member of the management. The selection of members of the Trust was the prerogative of the Board of Trustees and its president. He said, “Only a few teachers are playing to the tunes of persons who are politically inimical to me. Moreover, they have no right to play with the career of thousands of students by going on strike.” He said criminal proceedings had been initiated against four teachers — Parminder Kaur, Harminder Kaur, Davinder Kaur and Chamkor Singh — for perjury under Sections 181, 182 and 120 of the IPC for making false statements in front of a government official. He said the strike was an effort to malign him. |
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Abandoned suitcase causes scare
Ludhiana, April 24 Normalcy, however, returned to the area after a police team opened the briefcase and the bag. These did not contain anything except important documents, including passport and PAN cards of a resident of Basti Jodhewal here. A police team led by DSP R.K. Sharma reached the spot and cordoned off the area. The bag was opened in the presence of area councillor Rakesh Prasher. He said the bag contained four passports, two PAN cards, registries of some properties, eight cheque books, two religious books and other
documents. From these documents the owner was identified. The bags belonged to Mr Harbhajan Singh of Basti Jodhewal. The Superintendent of Police (Detective), Mr Gurpreet Singh Toor, said the bags had gone missing from Feroze Gandhi
Market in the morning today. He had even got a DDR registered with the police station concerned in this regard. Mr Toor said the bags were restored to
the owner. Earlier, fear gripped the shopkeepers, who downed their shutters and moved to safer places. The police also covered the bags with sand bags suspecting some explosive.
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NRIs flock back home for dental treatment
Ludhiana, April 24 This was stated by Dr Vikas Jindal, a senior periodontist in Christian Dental College, here and a specialist in saving shaky teeth and restoring the aesthetic look of the face. He recently performed an unusual surgery which even dentists based in the UK and the USA were finding difficult to venture into. According to Dr Jindal, one of his patients from the UK, Dr R.K. Calay, a senior faculty of the School of Aerospace,
Automotive and Design Engineering at Hartfordshire University,UK, was facing a chronic problem with her teeth.Dentists there were apprehensive to handle her complicated case. Having got in touch with the city dental professional on the Internet, she specially came to Ludhiana for the planned surgery. During her two weeks' stay here, she got herself operated upon for her shaky teeth. There was a massive bone loss in the jaw with the roots of a couple of teeth giving rise to a tunnel in the bone for the flow of pus. The tunnel was successfully cleaned and a new bone was grafted in place. The new bone is now on way to become as strong as the natural bone, thereby strengthening the shaky teeth and giving Ms Calay back the much-needed aesthetic look she had been longing for during the past few years. In an interaction with mediapersons, Ms Calay exuded confidence and satisfaction at the treatment. She paid rich tributes to the progress the country had made in the field of dentistry. Ms Anju Bhatia, a woman industrialist of the city, also dwelt on the super-fast specialist treatment offered by Dr Jindal to her UK-based confectioner brother Mr Raj Bhatia, who was here for just two days. During his short trip, he got a new set of teeth from Dr Jindal. Mr Bhatia flew back home a satisfied and happy man. Dr Jindal informed that he had launched his official website www. dentistryindianchapter.com wherein he had a group of specialists who could provide super-specialist dental treatment to people, including NRIs and foreign nationals.
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Cong govt real saviour of
farmers: Galib
Ludhiana, April 24 He said that with the provision of bonus the farmers would be directly benefited to the tune of Rs. 550 crore. Mr. Galib made these observations while discussing the progress of procurement operations with the representatives of farmers and arthiyas at Jagraon mandi today. Mr. S S Gill, SDM, was also present on this occasion. The former MP said that the provision of bonus would help in improving the financial condition of the debt-ridden farmers of the state and it was the just demand of the farmers for which the CM had pleaded successfully with the Centre and ultimately got the announcement made. He also expressed his thanks to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for taking favourable decisions for the uplift of the farmers and had accorded top priority to the agriculture sector in the Union Budget. Mr. Galib said that the PM had also announced many concessions/ projects for Punjab since he had taken over as PM. He hoped that the Prime Minister would also accord priority to announced special package for waving the loans of Punjab farmers, for which Capt. Amarinder Singh was making all out efforts. Referring to the plan of the state government chalked out to fulfil all the promises made with the people in the election manifesto, Mr. Galib said that as promised free power costing to Rs 439 crore for the tubewells of the farmers have been made free after fully strengthening the economy of the state. He also claimed that the farmers in the state were fully satisfied as the Congress Government had ensured the smooth purchase of the all rabi and kharif crops of the farmers and no farmer had to stay in the mandis even for a single night, whereas during the rule of SAD-BJP Government, the farmers had been looted in mandis. Mr. Galib also informed that the government had also chalked out a comprehensive programme for the diversification of agriculture and many big companies are coming to set up agro processing units, which would enhance the income of the farmers. Mr. Galib asked the officers of the procurement agencies to ensure the smooth purchase and keep the proper record of the procurement by the agencies, so that each and every farmer could avail the benefit of the bonus.
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LIT blames slums on police
Ludhiana, April 24 Stating that they had asked the city police chief to provide security to the anti-encroachment squad a number of times, LIT officials in their reply to the PSHRC said the SSP had refused to do so on some pretext or the other. The chairman of LIT, in an eight-page reply to the commission through his counsel, lists the dates when they had asked the SSP to provide them security. He stated that a trust Junior Engineer had lost his life five years ago, when he had gone to remove encroachments without a police force and was attacked by an alleged encroacher. The letter states that at least 50 policemen, along with anti-riot equipment, a tear gas squad and mounted police is required for removing encroachments. Until the police assistance is provided, the Trust would not be able to remove the encroachments. So the complaint should be dismissed. Residents of SBS Nagar had approached the PSHRC for redressal of their problem after knocking at the doors of LIT went in vain. Claiming that slumdwellers had made their lives miserable by using public parks as toilets, littering garbage and drawing electricity through kundi connections, the residents in their complaint to the commission had stated that there was no official action against them despite protests by them. They had claimed that their they had purchased land at skyrocketing prices in the colony developed by LIT but they were forced to live in a bad environment. They claimed that the slums had mushroomed on open spaces meant for parks in the area. The residents said jhuggis had sprung up in the area around seven years ago. These were razed earlier but came up again thanks to political patronage. Around 500 jhuggis had come up on the area and after the city centre project started, more migrants came and erected shanties. Needless to say they were creating problems for them by drawing electricity through kundi connections thereby increasing the load on the power supply. Moreover, public parks were being used as open toilets by them.
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Birmi going it alone yet again
Ludhiana, April 24 After his April 16 rally was cancelled because of the sabotage from within the party, Mr Birmi is putting in extra efforts that the April 30 rally is a grand success. Mr Birmi was quite upset and disappointed over the cancellation of his earlier rally. But the Chief Minister visited his home on April 16 and explained him the reasons for the “postponement” of the rally with an assurance that he would himself be attending the rally along with the PCC president, Mr Dullo, on April 30. Mr Birmi’s rivals worked overtime to ensure the cancellation of the April 16 rally. They are trying it once again. However, this time the Chief Minister and the PCC president have been quite categoric that they would be attending the rally come what may. They have also asked the party legislators and ministers of the district to ensure the success of the rally. They pointed out, it was the party rally and not Mr Birmi’s personal function. Most of the Congress leaders in the district have maintained a distance from the preparations of the rally. Most of them are not making their symbolic presence felt with an apparent motive of conveying the message to their supporters as what they should do. Mr Birmi on his part has made it a point to use all possible sources to ensure a good turnout. Mr Birmi on his part is learnt to have send the formal invitations to his party colleagues, including ministers and legislators to ensure the success of the rally.
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Johar to contest from
Ludhiana (W)
Ludhiana, April 24 In a press note issued here today, the junior Johar said an impression was being created that Mr Johar was not keeping good health and might opt out of the elections. “This is baseless and false...Mr Johar is keeping sound health, has a daily walk of 5 km and keeps on moving around in his Assembly segment, besides supervising the functioning of the all-important Department of Education,” Mr Ajay Johar said. Mr Ajay Johar said he had no plans of contesting the next elections as his father would be contesting.
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Two motorcyclists hurt as bus overturns
Mandi Ahmedgarh, April 24 A major tragedy was averted as the bus did not ram into a gas godown which was located a few yards away. Had it barged into the godown, a major mishap could have taken place. The injured have been identified as Sher Singh and Gagandeep. Sher Singh is recuperating at Sood Hospital while Gagan, who has a serious head injury, has been admitted to Hind Hospital. The police said the bus (PB-13M-2469) was going from Chappar village to Ahmedgarh. While one of the motocyclists was coming from the gas godown near the spot, the other was coming on the opposite road. Seeing both of them, the driver lost control and the bus overturned. Passengers of the bus also received minor injuries. The driver fled the spot with all documents pertaining to the bus.
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Gill elected vice-president of Mayors’ body
Ludhiana, April 24 Mr Gill was conveyed about his selection through a communique by council chairman Manorama Dobriyal Sharma yesterday. The AICM is an association of elected representatives of the municipal corporations and is actively engaged in interacting with both provincial and Central government agencies to safeguard and protect the interests of local bodies across the country. The council is also entitled to have access to international cooperation through national government as permitted by law. The Mayor said he would try his best to do justice to the faith posed in him and would serve with full devotion and integrity. Mr Gill said besides acting as a watchdog for the interests of the local government bodies across the nation, the AICM had been raising concerns and issues related to required amendments to the Model Act from time to time. “Before my elevation to the post I have been attending their conferences and conclaves and was impressed with the way in which the elected Mayors of all cities in India use to rise above political affiliations to take up public causes, ” said Mr Gill. Meanwhile, the Mayor’s appointment has also been widely hailed by party workers and councillors. “It a rare honour for all of us because now at the national level we would have now more say on matter related to the civic body and we are sure that Mr Gill would leave no stone unturned in meeting the expectations of the members of council,” Congress councillors in the House said while congratulating Mayor at his residence last
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Councillor, 3 others booked
Khanna, April 24 According to information, Pooja was married to Gaurav in 2001. There had been reports of beating and maltreatment to her and Gaurav had sought an apology for it. As per Pooja, on April 21 she was beaten up mercilessly and locked in a bathroom after getting administered some sedative in the guise of a medicine. She somehow managed to escape and reached a hospital, from where she informed her family about the incident. She said she was also threatened in the hospital.
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Biz Clips Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, April 24 Summer collection: Monte Carlo has launched its spring summer collection. The new range has collection for men, women and kids. It has been designed and created by using soft, earthy and summer colours and materials, said a press note.Holiday
package:
Ebony retail holdings have announced an assured holiday package with every purchase of Rs 5,000. The company said customers could choose from 50 resorts at over 30 locales to spend their holidays.
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