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Contract system hits health services
Baldev murder: wife, paramour held
Register dowry case, demand villagers
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Fruit processing plant for Hoshiarpur
Rehri market sealed
Villagers for pillars on boundaries
3 killed in accidents
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Contract system hits health services
Nawanshahr, December 12 According to Dr I.S. Sekhawat, District Health Officer, the target of various national health programmes has fallen to 27 to 35 per cent in the district. However, the target of OPD is somehow being achieved at the rural dispensaries. Officials of the Health Department and rural service providers appointed on contract have been citing their own reasons for the mess arising out in the delivery of health services. A number of doctors and paramedical staff, who were earlier posted at the rural dispensaries, have virtually been rendered ‘idle’. They are yet to get new postings. As many as 42 rural dispensaries have been brought under the Zila Parishad in the district. These dispensaries have been handed over to the service providers. The service providers are to do six-hour duty daily and not supposed to do the emergency duty. There is no ban on doing private practice. Most of the service providers have been doing jobs in private nursing homes. The Health Department virtually has no check on the service providers as they can take no action against them but to report it to the Zila Parishad if any laxity is found in their functioning. Mr Jaswinder Singh Patti, district president, Punjab State Pharmacists Association, said the service providers had been exploiting the unemployed pharmacists, paramedical and Class IV staff. In most of the dispensaries given on contract to the service providers, the pharmacists and other staff was to be recruited by them. On the other hand, Dr Kamaldeep Singh, secretary, district unit of the Rural Medical Service Providers Association, when contacted, said the service providers had not been imparted proper training with regard to the implementation of various national health programmes. He complained of the poor infrastructure facilities and supply of medicines at the rural dispensaries. At most of the rural dispensaries, the payment of electricity bills were lying pending. The service providers had raised this issue with the Zila Parishad and the Health Department but in vain. |
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Baldev murder: wife, paramour held
Jalandhar, December 12 The DSP (Rural-I), Mr Rajeswar Singh, said truck drivers Baldev Singh and Makhan were friends. The latter used to visit the former’s house frequently and he developed illicit relations with Sarabjit. Meanwhile Sarabjit fixed her daughter’s marriage with a youth, whom Baldev did not like. He beat her up for fixing the marriage without his consent. When Sarabjit told Makhan that her husband had beaten her up, they decided to eliminate him. Makhan made Baldev got drunk on Friday evening and attacked him with a sharp weapon on the way to his home. He dragged him into a sugarcane field and cut his throat with a “daatri” and also pulled off the skin on the face. Baldev’s body was recovered from the fields next day. |
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Register dowry case, demand villagers
Pathankot, December 12 Her brother alleged that her in-laws used to torture her for bringing insufficient dowry. The matter was brought into the notice of the panchayat also. Meena was sent back to her in-laws’ house in Samancha Lari village in the Sujanpur area after the intervention of villagers. He alleged that Meena was murdered. The protesters alleged that the police was not registering case due to some political pressure. Local politicians were trying to protect the accused. Despite the fact that the protestors blocked traffic right in front of the SP’s office none of the officials came forward to clear the blockade. The villagers threatened that they would intensify the agitation in case the accused were not arrested. Police officials said they were investigating the case. |
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Fruit processing plant for Hoshiarpur
Jalandhar, December 12 With the commissioning of the plants, the farmers will be able to sell their second quality produce directly to the plants at the minimum support price. The Hoshiarpur unit will start operation soon. To enhance capacity utilisation, the processing plants will have additional facilities to process non-citrus fruits also like tomatoes, apples, muskmelon, plums, peach, guavas, etc. Talking to The Tribune, Mr K.G. Sharma, CEO, Punjab Agro Juices Ltd, said: “The plants will be the first units in the world to switch over from one fruit/vegetable to another in just four hours. The shelf life of the concentrate will be of 12 months or more, but without any additives/supplements.” Meanwhile, to promote citrus cultivation in Punjab, the Council for Citrus and Agro-Juicing has already started acquiring land on lease for developing it into a citrus orchard under the Citrus Orchard Management Programme. The citrus fruits produced in the orchards will be processed in these units. |
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Rehri market sealed
Pathankot, December 12 The rehri market was set up to house the rehris which did business from the main bazaar and Gandhi Chowk. The rehri market was inaugurated by the local Congress MLA, Mr Ashok Sharma, last Sunday. Though Municipal Committee leaders also belong to the Congress, the two have not been on good terms for the past some months. The row over the issue of rehri market took an ugly turn when the MLA in spite of opposition from the local civic body chief managed to get the hospital building allotted for the market which has now been claimed by the civic body chief as the property of the civic council. The civic body president has asked the rehri owners to get the licence from the council otherwise they would not be allowed to enter in the market. |
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Villagers for pillars on boundaries
Kapurthala, December 12 A few decades ago, there used to be cemented pillars, but those were washed away in floods. The administrations of the three districts have not bothered to re-install the pillars despite repeated requests of the villagers. In the absence of any clear demarcation signs, it is very difficult to tell where the boundary of one village ends and the other starts. It has led to encroachments and hence land disputes. The land records mention a number of common passages, however, the ground reality is different. The villagers have even started cultivating on the land that has been earmarked as common passages. Capt Mangal Singh owns 21 acres in Shero Bagha village. Almost five acres of his land had allegedly been encroached upon by someone else. Under Secretary (Revenue) Bagh Ram said no file in connection with the reinstallation of cemented pillars in the three villages had reached him. He would not be able to say anything without seeing the land record, he added. Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner, Kapurthala, Raminder Singh said nobody had approached him about the problem so far. |
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3 killed in accidents
Hoshiarpur, December 12 Protest: |
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