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Spl wing to export farmers’ produce, says Kanwaljit
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Spinal injury centre to open in Feb
Post haste: Office downing shutters before time
Team up against social evils, Chawla tells students
Batala BJP chief hurt in attack
Youth Fest
Phoren Dreams
Rich tributes paid to Lala Lajpat Rai
Price panel chairman visits grain markets
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Spl wing to export farmers’ produce, says Kanwaljit
Jalandhar, November 18 This was stated by Punjab cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh while speaking at a function organised here on Sunday to launch the “Mai Bhago Istri Shakti Scheme” at a state-level function organised on the occasion of 54th cooperative week. The scheme is aimed at providing more economic autonomy to the women in the state. The minister said approval from the union government had already been taken to export these items. Launching the scheme, the cooperation minister said the government aimed at empowering women by providing more financial independence to them. He said the cooperative department dedicated the day to women empowerment to help generate women
entrepreneurs. Capt Kanwaljit Singh said the scheme was so innovative that it would not only empower women financially but would also generate self-respect among them and ultimately lead to a social transformation where women would have a greater say in the day-to-day affairs. Under the scheme, women societies would be formed which would not only become income generators but would also act as leadership motivators for them. These member societies, totalling 11, would be formed at the village, district and state levels.
The minister said regular inspection of the work of women societies would be carried out annually and the topper would get a reward of Rs 5 lakh which would be given at a state-level function. He said although a constitutional provision had been made for reservation of 33 per cent posts for women in panchayats, block samitis, zila parishads and other institutions, they were not implemented in its real sense. He said the cooperative department would now make efforts to help in developing leadership qualities among women, thereby paving the way for implementation of these provisions. Capt Kanwaljit Singh also said a food processing park at Ludhiana would come up in next one-and-a-half years. Speaking on the occasion, local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia said the cooperative movement was a people's movement which led to inclusion of people in the government. He hoped in the coming days, the movement would gain momentum in the state given the
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Day after, parents say girl wasn’t stressed
Ashok Kaura
Phagwara, November 18 The post-mortem examination has been conducted by medical officer Dr Baldev Raj, but due to the death under suspicious circumstances the viscera has been sent for a chemical examination to Khara Lab to find out the exact cause of death, according to senior medical officer Dr Kailash Kapoor. The body has been handed over to family members of the deceased. Lovely Educational Institute had hired 10 flats in the Handa Complex opposite the general bus stand where 102 girl students were staying. It is learnt that several hostel students had fallen ill due to viral fever in the past due to lack of proper sanitation facilities. The students were undergoing treatment for the same from various doctors of the town last month. No injury marks were found on the girl’s body but some blood was found oozing from her nose. She was immediately brought to Gandhi Hospital, where she was declared brought dead. Ashok Kumar and Ramesh Rani, parents of the deceased, say hostel warden Renu informed them about bad health of their daughter on the phone and they immediately left Faridkot for Phagwara. They claim that their daughter was not under any mental stress ad had come back from her home in Faridkot last Monday only. The police is awaiting the chemical examination report of the viscera, DSP H.P.S. Khakh said.
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Spinal injury centre to open in Feb
Mohali, November 18 This was decided at a review meeting chaired by Punjab chief secretary Ramesh Inder Singh on November 16. “The centre is ready in almost all its aspects. Only a small part of the construction is to be completed. The first phase of the centre would be functional in February,” he said. The super-speciality centre for spinal injuries would cater to patients from across the region. “In the first phase, the centre would include other than an OPD, an operation theatre and IPD facilities to accommodate 18 patients. The ICU, recovery rooms are ready,” said Dr Raj Bahadur, project director. The centre, spread over five acres in Sector 70, would be the second institute of its kind in North India. One such institute is already functioning at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. Singh said initially the centre would draw staff from the PGI and the Government Medical College and Hospital Sector 32, Chandigarh. Dr Raj Bahadur, head of Department of Orthopaedics, PGI, added that the Punjab government would sign an MoU with the PGI so that medical staff of the hospital could be shared with the centre on a rotation basis. He said staff at the centre would soon be employed. “We have also been given the go-ahead to procure furniture and other equipment for the building,” said Dr Bahadur.
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Post haste: Office downing shutters before time
Phagwara, November 18 The service window for the Speed Post is being closed here before 7 pm for the past several days. Moreover, the main gate of the post office was locked from inside before schedule time. Talking to The Tribune, Phagwara postmaster Baldev Arora said, “Actually, no train service is available after 7 pm and all mails booked after it lies pending for the next day. So, we started closing service before 7 pm.” He disclosed that he had written to the divisional office to change the timings for the Speed Post services in Phagwara office. Interestingly, timings have been changed without any formal permission. During investigations it was found that several trains bound for Delhi, Howrah, Mumbai, Amritsar and Jammu passed through the town till midnight. So shutting the window after 7 pm doesn’t make much sense. Notably, the government had started the service to compete with the private courier companies.
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Team up against social evils, Chawla tells students
Hoshiarpur, November 18 She advised the students not to indulge in intoxication and fight against social evils like dowry and female foeticide. Expressing anguish over the skewed sex ratio in the state, she said effective steps are required to put a curb on the menace. She also appealed to the students to take vow that they would not receive or give dowry in their marriages. The health minister said the state government had already lauched a major campaign against drug abuse. Banned drugs more than Rs one crore have been recently seized. Besides, a drive has also been initiated to check the sale of synthetic milk and its by-products. Huge quantity of adulterated khoya, cheese and milk had been seized during the recent festival season, she claimed. As many as 225 NSS volunteers and staff of the college donated blood on the occasion.
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Batala BJP chief hurt in attack
Batala, November 18 The attackers, identified as Navtej Singh, Moti, Ladi, Randhir Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Aman and Harnam Singh, were armed with revolvers, knives and other weapons. The BJP leader was returning after paying obeisance at Gurdwara Sat Kartarian in connection with the welcome show of Vivek Sharma who was elected president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Punjab
yesterday. Talking to mediapersons here today, SSP R.N. Dhoke said Mahajan was attacked because of some old enmity. A case under sections 392, 307, 336, 324, 148 and 149 of the IPC, and 25/27 of the Arms Act was registered at city police station. No arrest has been made so far. |
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It’s play time
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 18 At the second stage, the student artistes showed their aesthetics sense in the competitions of classical vocal and shabad/bhajan. Similarly, the competitions of painting (landscape), painting (still life), sketching, cartooning, poster making, collage, clay modelling and installation were held at the third stage. The university spokesman said giddha, group song (Indian), group shabad/bhajan and vaar singing would be held tomorrow.
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Travel agent couple booked for duping youth
Our Correspondent
Hoshiarpur, November 18 Notably, Mohinder Pal has been declared proclaimed offender in a cheating case registered against him in Garhshankar police station under sections 406, 420, 506 and 120 B of
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Rich tributes paid to Lala Lajpat Rai
Hoshiarpur, November 18 “Every countryman should remember the sacrifices of freedom fighters,” said Sud. He appreciated the role of the NGO in the field of education and social service and announced a grant of Rs one lakh to the society from his fund. Chairman Balwant Singh Khera and general secretary of the society Tara Singh Hundal also spoke on the occasion.
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Price panel chairman visits grain markets
Tarn Taran, November 18 Welcoming the rising of wheat MSP to Rs 1,000 per quintal the farmers rued that the cost of labour had gone up and the Punjab State Electricity Board had also increased the burden on them by collecting Rs 25,000 for replacing burnt transformers. |
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The cooperative dept will establish an export wing for sending vegetables and other items being produced by Punjab farmers to foreign countries and for the products made by Markfed, Milkfed and other institutions.
Hoshiarpur, November 18
