Water level up in Bhakra, Pong dams
Chandigarh, August 18
Though water level at both the Bhakra and Pong dams in Himachal Pradesh continued to rise, the rains have receded in the hills giving hope that the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) will not be forced to release water from the floodgates of both the dams into the rivers in Punjab.
This track in Gidder Pindi village of Jalandhar district has become a virtual lifeline for people. — A Tribune photograph
Cong objects to Sukhbir’s remarks
Gurdaspur, August 18
Majha Congress leaders have criticised Sukhbir Singh Badal, president, SAD for malicious campaign against former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.
Rural dispensaries to come under health dept
Patiala August 18
If indications given by the principal secretary, Health Department, Punjab, Vijay
Kain, during his recent Fatehgarh Sahib visit and sources in the Health Department are taken into account then it is clear that the Punjab government is mulling to wind up the state-wide chain of 1,193 subsidiary health centres
(SHCs) and shift the control of these dispensaries, run by Zila Parishads, to the Punjab Health Department.
Residents of Kassuwal village in Ferozepur district have filled the railway track with sand to use it as a road. Tribune photo: Kulwinder Sandhu |
Villagers await relief
Kussuwala (Ferozepur), August 18
There was a sense of disillusionment among poor people who have been severely affected by the floods in villages of Moga and Ferozepur districts.
No dearth of funds: CM
Gidderpindi (Jalandhar), August 18
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said that funds are not a problem and people will be adequately reimbursed for their losses once the floodwaters recede.
Deaths in Army Action
Job scheme to be amended
Chandigarh, August 18
The Punjab government has decided to amend its previous policy of giving jobs on compassionate grounds to family members of only those Army personnel who were martyred while fighting in a war against an enemy country. Under the new policy, which has received nod of Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal, family members of all personnel killed while fighting external aggression or internal terrorism would be eligible for jobs on compassionate grounds.
Ex-judges of India, Pak visit jail
Amritsar, August 18
Pakistani prisoners, including women, who have been in the high-security Central Jail here even after the completion of sentence, could be released shortly after the visit of the seven-member Judicial Committee of Indo-Pak Retired Judges today.
Members of the Judicial Committee of Indo-Pakistan Retired Judges come out
after a visit of the Central Jail in Amritsar on Monday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Dharna postponed
Chandigarh, August 18
The Punjab State Aided Schoolteachers and other Employees Union has decided to postpone its demonstration that was to be held on August 24 at Sultanpur
Lodhi, hometown of Punjab education minister Dr Upinderjit Kaur.
Round-up
More dental clinics to be set up
Chandigarh, August 18
The state government has launched a massive dental health care programme for schoolchildren, schoolteachers and general public, which was first of its kind in the country, to ensure oral health hygiene in the state. It will provide on the spot dental health care services to the people at their doorsteps in the far-flung rural areas of the state through fully equipped mobile dental clinic vans.
Aug 20 holiday in Sangrur dist
Sangrur, August 18
Deputy commissioner V.K. Ohri today declared a local holiday in Sangrur district for August 20 under Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in connection with the death anniversary of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal on that day. Earlier in the day, a deputation of bank employees, led by Pali Ram
Bansal, secretary, All-India Gramin Bank Officers Association, met the deputy commissioner here and demanded holiday on August 20 under the Act.
