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Potato, basmati will be purchased from growers directly
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United We Stand
Atwal in favour of Anand Karaj Act
6 rehriwalas booked for encroachment
Camp Call
Conducting surveys not our job: Teachers
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Potato, basmati will be purchased from growers directly
Jalandhar, September 13 Talking to The Tribune, he said the two crops were chosen in view of the success achieved by some farmers who had made a name for themselves in the international market. Contract farming of the two crops adopted by some business houses and even the government in a small way had been encouraging, he pointed out. The minister said the project was mooted after hundreds of farmers in Hoshiarpur (tomato) and Jalandhar (baby corn) suffered huge losses since the companies that had entered into a contract with them reneged later on. This acted as the catalyst and the policy would be extended to other crops later on, he added. Singh said Markfed was already exporting potatoes and talks were on at an advanced stage with the farmers for basmati cultivation. Commenting on the plight of the Punjabi farmers, he blamed the central government for their miserable economic condition. The policies of the government were anti-farmer and arbitrary. The minimum support price (MSP) should be linked to the wholesale consumer price index to ensure better and remunerative procurement prices of their produce, he added. “It’s high time for the government to show magnanimity in conceding the genuine demands of the farmers because due their relentless efforts our country became self-reliant in food production,” he said. He also demanded an immediate financial package from the centre to bail out the beleaguered farmers. Earlier, he exhorted those present to spread the message of the Gurus. Those present on the occasion included federation president Karnail Singh Peer Mohammad, Baba Harnam Singh Khalsa Bhinderanwale, Bhai Devinder Singh Sodhi, Baba Daljit Singh Daduwal and Bhai Manjit Singh.
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IHRO rejects ’99 Gurdwara Bill
Jalandhar, September 13 D.S. Gill and G.S. Lamba, chairperson and coordinator, Sikh affairs, said the All-India Sikh Gurdwara Bill, 2002, drafted by Justice Kulwant Singh Tiwana and approved by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), was more in tune with the hopes, aspirations and needs of the community. This was decided in a meeting held here today, which was attended by IHRO general secretary M.S. Grewal, Major J.S. Rishi, Dharminder Singh Hambran and Inderjit Kaur. It was also decided to follow up the matter with the centregovernment. The members were of the opinion that the 2002 bill is in the larger interest of the Khalsa panth. The power of the panth has to emanate from one source and that is the combination of all gurdwaras, hence, the bill should be passed at the earliest. Having considered all previous drafts of the All-India Gurdwara bills, the SGPC had constituted a panel of legal luminaries, headed by Justice Kulwant Singh Tiwana, to finalise the legislation, they added. The panel prepared the final draft of the All-India Gurdwara Bill, 2002, and the same has now been sent to the union government. “We, therefore, urge the centre that the panel’s draft, unanimously sanctioned by the panth and approved by the SGPC, should be passed and made a law, they said. The IHRO has further called upon Akal Takht, the SGPC and SAD leadership to ask their MPs to push the bill and lobby for it in parliament. Meanwhile, the IHRO noted with concern the outbursts of Justice S.N. Srivasta of the Allahabad High Court, who had pronounced in a case before him that the Gita should be declared a national dharma. This has undermined the sanctity of the judicial system and the secular fabric of India, they added.
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United We Stand
Batala, September 13 “A group of 21 teachers, who had courted arrest in the second phase of the agitation at Chandigarh, have been sent to Burail jail,” said Pawan Sharma, Gurdaspur president of the PCCTU. Sharma added that the apathetic attitude of the present government towards the genuine demands of the teachers had resulted in the prolongation of the agitation, causing irreparable loss to the students. He said that the agitation would continue till the government agreed to negotiate the settlement of the demands with the teachers. BUCC secretary Aswani Kansra has appealed to the teachers to take the students into confidence regarding their demands and explain the stand of the teachers vis-à-vis the adamant stance of the government. He also appealed to the CM to intervene and expedite the settlement of the teachers’ demands. Campus rallies, dharnas
Phagwara: Teachers of the non-government affiliated colleges observed a strike after taking two teaching classes in their respective institutions. Campus rallies and dharnas were held in protest against the arrest of their colleagues at Chandigarh and non-acceptance of their long-pending demands yesterday. The strike was observed in response to a statewide call by the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU). The members of the PCCTU have been agitating since Teachers’ Day, according to senior union leader Jaswant Singh Gandam. He accused the government of stifling their democratic right of holding a peaceful protest. He alleged that the government was neither accepting genuine demands of college teachers nor letting them hold peaceful protest. He rued that it was for the second time that 21 teachers were arrested and jailed at Chandigarh yesterday. Earlier, the same number of teachers had been arrested on Teachers Day as they were holding a peaceful protest against the state government. Gandam said demands of 95 per cent grant-in-aid and pension-cum-gratuity had been hanging fire for the past 15 years. “Successive governments had betrayed teachers as they did not implement these demands even after incorporating them in their poll manifestoes,” he alleged. “Owing to curtailing the grants, teachers in many colleges, especially the rural colleges, were without salaries for over a year,” he regretted. “The Badal government, which flaunted itself as a rural-friendly government, should come forward for bailing these colleges out of a deep financial crisis by maintaining the level of grants at 95 per cent as per its poll promise,” he pleaded. “By granting pension, the government would provide social security and dignity to teachers in old age,” he remarked. |
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Atwal in favour of Anand Karaj Act
Phagwara, September 13 Awal said MPs of all political parties should work for ensuring better discipline in the house. He disclosed that a special meeting of Common Wealth Parliament Association would be held from September 20 to 30 at Delhi, in which representatives of 54 different countries will participate. An international level meeting of Inter Parliament Union would also be held in Geneva from October 8 to 10, he added. Earlier, Atwal distributed funds for development of villages in Phagwara. SDM Amarjit Paul was also present on the occasion. Devp funds
NAWANSHAHR: Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal distributed cheques amounting to Rs 11.35 lakh among 10 villages and gave Rs 5 lakh to the municipal council, Banga, as the first instalment for development works out of the MP Local Area Development Fund at Banga on Thursday. |
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6 rehriwalas booked for encroachment
Batala, September 13 On receiving information, improvement trust employee Sukhwinder Singh reached the spot and requested these persons to remove their rehris immediately. On this the rehriwalas allegedly abused and beat him up. He went to the city police station and filed a complaint against them. |
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Camp Call
Phagwara, September 13 The schedule for the rest of the camps is as follows: Gurdaspur and Sangrur (September 26), Hoshiarpur and Barnala (September 27, Kapurthala and Ludhiana (September 28), Moga and Jalandhar (October 4), Faridkot and Mansa (October 5), Ferozepur and Mukatsar (October 9), Ropar, Mohali, Bathinda and Nawanshahr on October 10. New farm technology
Nawanshahr:Dr Bahadur Singh Kang, deputy director (Training), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Langroya, in a statement here today said the kendra had chalked out a programme to impart training to farmers, farm women and unemployed rural youth. The programme aimed at equipping them with the latest knowhow and techniques in the cultivation of different crops and subsidiary occupations for making agriculture a lucrative venture. Special training courses for poultry farming (September 18 to 27), mushroom cultivation (September 19 to 27) and bee-keeping (October 3 to 11) would be organised by the kendra, he added. |
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Conducting surveys not our job: Teachers
Nawanshahr, September 13 Though the chief secretary has circulated these orders to all the deputy commissioners, the employees of the DC and SDM offices in the district have been harassing the teachers by making phone calls regarding putting them on duty for conducting a “survey of unemployed youth”, “kanak-dal” etc. Rakker, while talking to The Tribune, claimed the ADC assured the deputation that the teachers would not be deputed on survey duty. — OC
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