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Kalia calls Gupta corrupt
Kisan protest on Thursday
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Khalsa College staff stage dharna
2,000 phones dead
Power board starts VDS
Funds for ayurvedic bodies cut
Services Club members for order
Travel agent booked
Couple booked for cheating
Youth fest concludes
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Kalia calls Gupta corrupt
Jalandhar, November 13 Mr Kalia alleged here that Mr Gupta was constructing two houses at Windsor Park with the money gathered through questionable means. Mr Gupta had also constructed several shops at Charanjit Pura residence without getting any map passed from the Municipal Corporation, he added. The BJP leader further said only Rs 4.5 crore had been spent by the state government in the Central constituency between 2002 and November 2006. Mr Gupta should not include the money spent by the Jalandhar corporation in the constituency. On the contrary, Mr Kalia said the previous government had spent Rs 125 crore for constructing medical college in Jalandhar and Rs 10 crore for the renovation of the Civil Hospital building. He reiterated that all 23 voters with their address as his residence were genuine as all of them were his relatives. Meanwhile, Mr Gupta termed the allegations as baseless and said that there was no immovable property in his name at any where. The house at Charanjit Pura was in his wife’s name and she was constructing only a single house not two at Windsor Park after selling the former about one and a half years ago and for that she had to borrow money.
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Kisan protest on Thursday
Jalandhar, November 13
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Khalsa College staff stage dharna
Amritsar, November 13 Expressing anguish over the attitude of the college management regarding deduction of one-day salary of non-teaching employees, Mr Mandeep Singh Bedi, president, Khalsa College Non-teaching Employees Union, said the agitation would be intensified if their demand for the restoration of the salary was not fulfilled. Raising slogans against the Principal, Mr Bedi said the agitation would be joined by teaching staff. When contacted, Mr Daljit Singh, Principal, said the salary was deducted as per the decision taken by the managing committee. He said the committee had deducted the salary as per the policy of no work, no pay. He said the arrears to be paid to the employees were to be decided by the managing committee. |
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Swami Ram Dev yoga camp from November 16
Amritsar, November 13 The chief organiser of the camp, Mr Jugal Kishore Sharma, said a “pandal” was being set up to accommodate 20,000 persons. Only persons with entry pass would be allowed entry. Swami Ram Dev would be accompanied by 40 doctors, who would maintain the health record of participants. The yoga programme would be telecast live on Aastha TV channel daily. Swami Ram Dev would pay obeisance at the Golden Temple and Durgiana Temple and would also lay wreaths at the Jallianwala Bagh and would also witness the beating-retreat ceremony. He would also interact with students of DAV College and meet jail inmates for a special session in the Central Jail.
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Rare honour for Comrade Parduman
Amritsar, November 13 The award will be given at an annual conference of the Social Security Association of India to be held at India International Centre, New Delhi, on November 20. The award would include a medal of merit for his outstanding service. Owing to his efforts, nearly 35 lakh retired workers or in case of death their families are enjoying the benefits of pension. In the eighties, he conceived an old-age, disability and survivors’ pension scheme for industrial workers who are members of the EPF by partial conversion of provident fund. He put his proposal before the Central Board of Trustees. The board accepted the proposal and eventually the Government of India promulgated the pension scheme for 40 crore private and public sector employees on November 16, 1995. On November 23, 1996, on the completion of one year of the scheme, he was hailed as Father of the Pension Scheme by Mr P.A. Sangma, the then Labour Minister, and Dr D. Mishra, Secretary, Government of India, Department of Labour. Peeved at the fact that not enough was being done for development and extension of social security in India even by the trade unions, he mooted the idea of forming a non-government organisation, which was to be a non-partisan organisation. At his initiative and with the help of Mr R.K.A. Subrahmanya, a former Chairman of the Central Board of Trustees of the EPF, the Social Security Association of India was formed in 1991. The association was inaugurated by Dr Manmohan Singh, the then Finance Minister. He continued to be founder-president of the organisation. He gave up this office two years back. The governing body of the association elected him as Emeritus President for life. Comrade Parduman Singh was born on March 7, 1924, at Jehlum (now in Pakistan). He was educated at various district headquarters in Punjab due to regular transfers of his father, Mr Ram Singh, who retired as the ADC. He graduated from Government College, Lahore, in 1944.
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2,000 phones dead
Jalandhar, November 13 According to a press note of the General Manager, BSNL, the phones will be activated soon.
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Power board starts VDS
Hoshiarpur, November 13 This was stated by Mr Harbhajan Lal, Deputy Chief Engineer, PSEB, Hoshiarpur circle, in a press note today. He said during this period the consumers could get their unauthorised load regularised without paying any penalty. The consumers would be charged security and service connection at half rates. He appealed to the consumers to avail the benefit of this scheme after declaring their load with the subdivision concerned. |
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Funds for ayurvedic bodies cut
Hoshiarpur, November 13 As many as nine posts of District Ayurvedic Officers, 15 of Senior Ayurvedic Physicians, 139 of Ayurvedic Medical Officers, 22 of Unani Medical Officers, 105 of pharmacist and 184 of midwives are lying vacant as against the 14, 17, 501, 36, 559 and 530 sanctioned posts, respectively. There is a shortage of medicines in all ayurvedic hospitals and dispensaries in the state. |
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Services Club members for order
Hoshiarpur, November 13
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Travel agent booked
Hoshiarpur, November 13 According to the police, Dharam Singh of Raia had alleged that the travel agent took Rs 9 lakh on August 15, 2005, for sending him abroad, but he neither sent him abroad nor returned the
money. Couple booked for cheating
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Couple booked for cheating
Kapurthala, November 13
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Youth fest concludes
Amritsar, November 13 The “B” Division Trophy of this zone went to the Shaheed Darshan Singh Pheruman Memorial College for Women, Rayya. The SN College for Girls, Amritsar, was runners-up, while Sikh Nation College, Qadian, finished third.The four-day zonal festival concluded this evening in which more than 1,000 students from affiliated colleges of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran participated. |
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