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Supreet tops in Class X exam with 96.8 per cent
Jalandhar, May 27
Students of Swami Sant Dass School have once again come out with flying colours in Class X examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, the result of which was declared today on the Internet. Supreet Kaur, a student from the school, has topped in the city with 96.8 per cent.

NABARD to assist in setting up of rural ‘haats’
Phagwara, May 27
In a bid to boost to industrialisation of rural areas in Punjab, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development would extend assistance for setting up “haats” or rural weekly markets.

Akhand Path at RCF
Kapurthala, May 27
For the peace, progress and welfare of the Rail Coach Factory employees and their families, the Staff Council, unions and other associations organised a “Ramayana Path” and “Akhand Path” in the factory premises today. The bhog ceremony of the path was also held.

Man arrested on murder charges
Phagwara, May 27
The Phagwara police today claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy to convert a murder case into an accident case by the killer near Khajurla village on the National Highway. The accused is now in jail.

Supreet tops in Class X exam with 96.8 per cent
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 27
Students of Swami Sant Dass School have once again come out with flying colours in Class X examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the result of which was declared today on the Internet. Supreet Kaur, a student from the school, has topped in the city with 96.8 per cent.

Sahil Sareen from Apeejay School stands second. He has scored 96.6 per cent. Sahil Agarwal from Innocent Hearts School is third with 96.2 per cent. Dhananjay Gupta from Apeejay School stands fourth with 95.8 per cent. Nidhi Midda from Dayanand Model School, Dayanand Nagar, is next in line with 95.6 per cent, followed by Preet Simar Singh Sandhu from Innocent Hearts School with 95.2 per cent.

As many as 19 students of Swami Sant Dass School have scored 90 per cent and above. The list includes Jaspreet Singh with 94.8 per cent, Urvashi with 94.4 per cent, Anjali Gandhi with 94.2 per cent, Hitesh, Tanu and Gurpreet Singh with 93.8 per cent each.

In Apeejay School, 22 students have crossed the 90 per cent mark. They include Arish Sareen and Tanvi Kaur with 93.2 per cent, Kanav Katyal with 93 per cent, Anmol Singh and Chanpreet Singh with 92.8 per cent each, Rishab Gupta with 92.6 per cent, Shubham Gupta with 92.4 per cent and Rahul Madaan with 92.2 per cent.

Eighteen students from Innocent Hearts School have got above 90 per cent. Among them are Kajal Khurana with 94.4 per cent, Sunaina with 94.4 per cent, Riza Arora with 93.4 per cent, Tulika Thakur and Sidhant Sachdeva with 93.2 per cent each, Anuja Lal and Bhavjeet Kaur with 92.4 per cent each and Tarun with 91.6 per cent.

Students of Dayanand Model School who have got meritorious ranks are Anurag Kapoor with 94.8 per cent, Palak Agarwal with 93.6 per cent, Amit Singh with 92.8 per cent, Manisha Dhir with 91 per cent, Jatin Joshi with 90.8 per cent and Nidhi Kalia with 90.2 per cent.

Kanika and Vishwesh from Shiv Jyoti Public School have got 94 per cent. Vandita stands next to them with 91.4 per cent. Kartik Sharma from Police DAV Public School has scored 93.4 per cent. Gagandeep Singh from Seth Hukum Chand SD Public School has got 93 per cent. Mayank Grover is second in the school with 90 per cent.

In Guru Amar Dass Public School, Kamalpreet Singh is first with 91.8 per cent. Puneet Ahluwalia is second with 90.6 per cent. From MGN Public School, Harsimar Singh is first with 93.6 per cent.

The topper, Supreet, aims to be doctor, for she has taken medical in Plus One. A resident of Chhoti Baradari here, her father is a lecturer in Daroli Kalan, while her mother is teaching in Banga. Sahil Sareen, too, has joined medical stream. Both his parents are doctors running a private hospital on the Sodal Road here.

NABARD to assist in setting up of rural ‘haats’
Anil Jerath
Tribune News Service

Phagwara, May 27
In a bid to boost to industrialisation of rural areas in Punjab, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) would extend assistance for setting up “haats” or rural weekly markets.

In its State Focus Paper, Punjab (2006-07), the bank has outlined its plans for the rural haat scheme.

NABARD would grant assistance of 80 per cent of the total project cost or a maximum sum of Rs 3 lakh (whichever was less) to two gram panchayats in each of the DRIP (district rural industries project) districts for setting up rural haats on a pilot basis.

A senior official of NABARD said the implementation of grant/soft-loan-based rural haat scheme through elected gram panchayats would provide communities the basic marketing infrastructure for selling farm and non-farm produce.

The bank would also facilitate the establishment of Women Development Centres in cooperative banks for better economic development of rural women and for improving credit flow to them. Some Women Development Centres are already operational in parts of the state.

NABARD is also on the path to revive the handloom sector in the state, beset with marketing problems on account of obsolete technology and conventional designs used by majority of the weavers.

The official said there was a pressing need for quality improvement in this sector for which the bank had launched a scheme for Skill Upgradation and Design Development for Handloom Weavers (SUDHA).

The scheme targets members of the Primary Weavers’ Cooperative Societies (PWCS) or registered NGOs involved in the upliftment of handloom weavers.

The sector occupies a significant place in the state’s economy in terms of employment potential and income generation.

NABARD has also launched ARWIND (Assistance for Rural Women in Non-farm Development).

As part of this initiative, rural women would be organised in compact groups for training in entrepreneurship and skill upgradation with the objective of enabling them to set up their own enterprises with credit support from banks, voluntary agencies or NGOs.

Akhand Path at RCF
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, May 27
For the peace, progress and welfare of the Rail Coach Factory (RCF) employees and their families, the Staff Council, unions and other associations organised a “Ramayana Path” and “Akhand Path” in the factory premises today. The bhog ceremony of the path was also held.

Mr Partap Srivastava, the acting General Manager of the RCF, speaking on the occasion, appreciated the efforts of employees in meeting the factory’s production targets. The local MP, Rana Gurjit Singh, the local MLA, Bibi Upinderjeet Kaur, and Mr Narottam Dev Ratti, State BJP leader participated in the ceremony. The Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner, the SSP, and the SDM were also present.

Man arrested on murder charges
Tribune News Service

Phagwara, May 27
The Phagwara police today claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy to convert a murder case into an accident case by the killer near Khajurla village on the National Highway. The accused is now in jail.

The Phagwara ASP, Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, said the accused, Sunil Kumar from Jalandhar, working as a manager in Nitco Roadways Pvt Ltd, had a money dispute with the firm’s clerk, Ashwini Kumar from Mehmowal village in Garhshanker, and in a violent scuffle on the night of May 22, the accused pushed Ashwini Kumar from the roof of a godown. The victim succumbed to his injuries on the spot. The ASP added that the accused then put the body on the highway. “We took the case as that of an accidental death since the body had been badly crushed by several vehicles,” Dr Gill said.

The brother of the deceased, Ram Saroop, in his complaint to the police doubted the role of Sunil Kumar in the case. The accused was rounded up.

The ASP said that after interrogations, the accused confessed to have killed Ashwini Kumar.