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Capt Kanwaljit inaugurates cooperative bank
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Punjab cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh inaugurates second branch of the SAS Nagar Cooperative Bank at Baltana on Thursday. A Tribune photograph

Patiala, August 21
Resentment prevails among PCMS doctors working under department of health and family welfare, Punjab, who have been recently promoted as teachers in state medical colleges by the department of medical education and research.

The doctors claimed that the medical teachers were not being relieved by their parent department on the directions of health minister. The department said it had shortage of PCMS doctors in the field. The affected doctors said promotion was their fundamental right and there was also a shortage of teachers in state medical colleges. It was unjustified to retain them in the department after their promotion.

Under the same order, doctors already posted in medical colleges at Amritsar and Patiala have joined after promotion, which may affect seniority of those who are yet to join from PCMS side. As per the orders, these doctors can join after their promotion only when relieved by their parent department. Chairman of medical education wing of IMA, Punjab, Dr D.S. Bhullar has appealed to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to intervene and direct the department of health and family welfare to relieve the PCMS doctors who had been promoted as medical teachers keeping in view the shortage of teachers in the state medical colleges and threat of de-recognition by MCI.

A memorandum is also being sent to the chief minister through Daljit Singh Cheema, advisor to CM, said Bhullar.

Patiala, August 21
Deputy Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal today asserted that the standards of education in Punjab had failed drastically and that steps should be taken to improve it.

He said that this was due to the fact that governments in the past had not given emphasis on primary education in the state. He added that there was no proper infrastructure in primary schools, particularly those located in rural areas, and also there were no teachers in many schools of Punjab.

He said the government should pay attention to primary schools, otherwise the standard of education would decline even more. Atwal was here to attend a function held at Punjabi University.

He said he had appealed to NRIs to come forward and adopt some primary schools so that the standard of education would improve. He added that responding to his plea, nearly 150 NRIs had come forward to adopt primary schools in their native villages.

Fatehgarh Sahib, August 21
The local police has decided to get the polygraphy tests of four accused in a murder case. The accused also include two women, a daughter and daughter-in-law of the victim. 55-year-old Mukhtiar Singh, a class IV employee of PWD, was murdered near his house in village Khara on July 29 last year. It was suspected that his daughter, daughter-in-law and grandson were involved in the murder. A case in this connection was registered at Mulepur police station under Sections 460 and 380 of the IPC.

Police officials said the son-in-law of the victim lodged a complaint against the daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law too lodged a similar complaint against victim's daughter.

Fatehgarh Sahib SSP Kaustubh Sharma said the victim Mukhtiar Singh was found dead near his house with his hands and mouth tied with a rope.

Chandigarh, August 21
Inter-school tournament was held here today at various venues in Chandigarh schools. In football, DASSS-8 (u-19) beat GMSSS-22 by 2-0. SDPS-32 beat GMSSS-10 by 1-0 and GMSSS-23 beat MDAV-22 by 3-0.

While in u-17 football, Saupins-32 beat Shishu Niketan by 3-0. Shivalik Public School-41 beat D.P.S.-40 by 2-0, GMSSS-32 beat GHS Saragpur by 1-0 and GHS-41 beat Ryan International-49 by 2-0. In kho-kho u-17 match, SGGSSS-35 beat Chd Baptist-45 by eight points, GSSS-45 beat GMHS-41 by twelve points, GHS-46 beat St Soldier-28 and GMHS-43 beat DAVMSS-15 by eight points and an inning.

In swimming 100m (breast stroke) u-14 match, Manider Singh of GNPS got first position, Shubham of St John-26 second and Ameesh of D.P.S third, respectively. In 50 meters (free style), Amandeep of SPS-41, Mridul of GMSSS-35 and Kunwar Saini of Ryan International got first, second and third position, respectively. In 400m (free style), Akhilesh Rawat of Shishu Niketan-22 wins first position while Rishbh Rana of St Stephen’s-45 and Birinder Pal of GMSSS-35 bagged second and third position.

In swimming, Vivek Yadav of Vivek High School, Angad of Shishu Niketan and Karan of K.B.D.A.V-7 bagged first, second and third position in 50 meters butter fly. In 100m back stroke, Kunal Bhardwag of AKSIPS-41 was first, Vivek Yadav of Vivek High School and Abhey Kumar of Shishu Niketan were second and third, respectively. In archery, Sahil Knasal of Saupins-32, Ritesh of GMSSS-10 and Haresh were first, second and third in Indian round. In FITA round, Vir Singh of GHS-11 was first winner while Mandeep Singh of GSSS-Kaimbala and Tegbir Singh of Saupins-32 stood second and third, respectively.

In the compound round, Dalpinder Singh of St John’s-26 got first position while Harshdeep and Pallavdeep Singh of Saupins-32 stood second and third, respectively.

In chess competition, SPS-41 beat GMSSS-37 by 3-1, St Joseph-44 beat D.A.V-8 by 3.5-0.5, GMSSS-32 beat MDAV-22 by 4-0 and St Kabir-26 beat St John’s-26 by 3.5-0.5. 

Chandigarh, August 21
The police has arrested a resident of Sector 38 West for allegedly sodomising a boy here yesterday.

Rajesh Shukla, SHO of the Sector 39 police station, said the 11-year-old boy, a resident of Dadumajra Colony, had gone to the market late in the evening when Sumit Sharma took him to a dumping ground and sodomised him.

The police has registered a case on the complaint of the boy’s father.

Panchkula, August 21
Striking in broad daylight, at four houses in Sector 21, the burglars took away cash and jewellery worth lakh of rupees here today. All the thefts were committed between 10 am and 6 pm in the same area.

According to one of the victims Vijay Gupta at house no. 672, the thief had decamped with jewellery, a camera worth more than Rs three lakh from his home when they were not at home.

Vijay Gupta run business of transport at Chandigarh and his wife is employed at Mani Majra with an IT company. “Today we left for the work around 10 in the morning and when we returned at 6 in the evening, the locks of the house were broken,” said Gupta.

Same is the story with other families also.

Subahsh Gupta a resident of house no. 785 lost his 24 silver coins, 3 rings, gold chain and bangles along with a cash of Rs 11,000. Sameera Bajaj, a resident of house no. 2045, also reported that a gold chain, along with cash amount of Rs 11,000, was missing form her home.

Tirath Saini, a resident of house no. 587-C, also said the burglars broke in his house as well. But the jewellery they had taken away was artificial, reported Saini.

In two different incidents of burglary in Pinjore thieves decamped with cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

According to the information available, the first incident of theft occurred at the house of Vijender Singh in Himshikha Colony of Pinjore when he had gone to Amritsar. He returned today and found that the thieves had decamped with Rs 85,000 cash and jewellery worth Rs 10,000.

The other incident occurred in the Shiv Colony, Pinjore, at the house of Puran Chand, a bank employee at Baddi. He reported to the police that the incident took place when he was away to Patiala and his 10-year-old son, who was at home, had gone to the neighbourhood for sometime. When he returned home he found that the thieves had taken away Rs 50,000 cash and jewellery worth Rs 1 lakh. The thieves had also taken brass taps from kitchen and bathroom.

DSP, Kalka, Daya Nand, said a special campaign would be launched to nab the thieves. He urged the people to inform the police in case anyone was out of station so that special vigil could be kept on the house.