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Pb primary schools ride the radio wave
Fake Currency Seizures
West Bengal man among 2 held
Pannu: Rs 10 cr to boost job generation in dist
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Harsimrat’s ‘political’ entry irks Mann
Temple Fraud
Veteran BJP leader Arora dead
NRI murder case: Two get life term
Kidnapping case: Five booked
Accident claim: Pay up, insurance firm told
Sites for sewage ponds selected: DC
Coach Sondhi bats for wrestling academies
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Pb primary schools ride the radio wave
Ludhiana, August 27 The objective is to make education accessible to those children who cannot attend a regular school. Launched on August 7, the “learning through radio” programme of the Sarv Shikhia Abhiyan is meant for students of government primary schools.
It includes general knowledge, languages and regular curriculum. Government schoolteachers today impart lessons to the primary schoolchildren through All India Radio as an attempt to improve the quality of education
provided in the state-run schools. At 12 noon everyday, students of primary schools in Punjab have a guest - a radio set. Students tune in to the half-an-hour programme relayed from the Jalandhar station of All India Radio. “We have benefited a lot from radio since it enhances our general knowledge. We should
listen to the radio as the programmes help us immensely, just as our parents and teachers do,” said a student. “Radio is very beneficial for us. It answers our questions very well,” said another student. Schoolteachers from different districts are selected to undergo a training programme under the Sarv Shikhia Abhiyan. They are taught how to introduce subjects, content and
conclusion. Parveen, a teacher, said: “After listening to the radio for half an hour, students have improved significantly. Watching TV they can observe and listen, but for the radio they have to concentrate on the subject only by listening. Through radio we are imparting general knowledge to the students. They have been told about their regular syllabus. A revision of the same lesson, first in classroom and then on radio, will enable students to be more proficient.” Under free and compulsory education, all children in the age group of 6 to 14 are provided free primary education. In order to achieve the goal of Sarv Shikhia Abhiyan, efforts are being made to increase retention of children in schools, increase their enrolment and innovative approach in the schools. “Learning through radio” will add another positive dimension to improve the standard of primary education in Punjab. — ANI |
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Fake Currency Seizures
Chandigarh, August 27 According to sources, there has been rise in fake currency seizures this month with the first seizure of Rs 9 lakh in fake currency taking place on August 6 at Rasoolpur village near Tarn Taran. The seizure was made by the Counter- Intelligence and state’s Special Narcotics Cell leading to the arrest of Darbara Singh of Ban Tara Singh village under Khalra police station area. The sources said following this there were two more seizures in the same sector. On August 16 the 48th battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) seized Rs 10 lakh in fake currency at Narli village under Khalra police station. Two labourers, who had been engaged to bring back sacks of pears from the fields of Dayal Singh situated across the fence on the border, were caught bringing back the fake currency. The police is probing whether the farmer was also involved in the racket and has arrested two persons Bikker Singh and Jindu in the case. In the third seizure the BSF men recovered Rs 9.98 lakh in fake currency from the fields of Swaran Singh of Daunke village in the same sector. The recovery made it clear anti-national elements were throwing the money across the border and their cohorts on this side were hiding it at predestined places before it could be transferred further. In the fourth recovery Kashmir Singh alias Sodhi of Ammiwal village under Makhu police station in Ferozepur and Hazur Singh of Sarhali village in Tarn Taran were arrested with Rs 1.45 lakh in fake currency. Agencies feel the fake currency entering the country from Pakistan could be for terror activities and have started probe into whether the money was sent for any particular “assignment”. Besides this they feel money could also be supplied to smugglers as incentive as the drug trafficking in heroin has increased following bumper poppy crop in Afghanistan. Preliminary investigations have revealed the notes are also sold off in the market to destabilise the country’s economy. While most of the recovered currency was in Rs 500 denomination and of good quality, what was disturbing was that now fake currency in Rs 100 denomination was also being smuggled into the country from Pakistan. The sources said the Special Narcotics Cell in one of the seizures recovered Rs 90,000 in Rs 100 denomination.
Jalandhar, August 27 Acting on a tip off, the police laid a trap and nabbed Jaswinder Singh, resident of Sarien village along with Sujit Mandal of West Bengal from Golden Avenue locality. Lakhi
Mandal, who also hails from Bengal, is at large. According DSP Rajeshwar Singh
Sidhu, the trio was active in this part of the region for the last eight years. “They used to bring fake currency from Bangladesh and had circulated over Rs 7 lakh fake notes in Jalandhar only,” he added. A case has been
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Pannu: Rs 10 cr to boost job generation in dist
Jalandhar, August 27 This was revealed by deputy commissioner Ajit Singh Pannu while presiding over a meeting of the district development committee here. He said so far Rs 88 lakh had been spent in Jalandhar East, while Rs 27 lakh and Rs 13.37 lakh had been spent in Adampur and Bhogpur blocks, respectively. Similarly, Rs 30.81 lakh, Rs 15.16 lakh and Rs 10.38 lakh had been spent in Shahkot, Nurmahal and Rurka Kalan blocks, respectively. He said the district administration had received Rs 195 lakh under NREGA during the current financial year and the block development officers had been directed to use the amount in new projects. Pannu said the government would spend Rs 406 lakh on undertaking environment-friendly schemes and 1.25 lakh saplings on 125 hectares would be planted as part of the drive. Later, he chaired a meeting of the agriculture development committee and said the farmers were being provided uninterrupted power for eight hours and steps had been taken to defer the debt instalments of the flood-hit farmers. He said the entire livestock in the flooded areas had been vaccinated to prevent outbreak of any epidemics. He added that under the crop diversification scheme, 11,000 acres had been earmarked for the cultivation of sugarcane.
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Harsimrat’s ‘political’ entry irks Mann
Amritsar, August 27 Commenting on media blitz to promote Sukhbir’s wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal at the expense of the government-run Punjab Pollution Control Board, Mann said, “If the Badal family was so concerned about environment it should take up the issue of industrial effluent being thrown into the rivers at Ludhiana.”
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Temple Fraud
Batala, August 27 Giving details, SSP Naresh Arora said Sharma’s son Chander Shekhar got a case registered alleging that Yog Raj Sharma, Surinder Sharma, Ram Parkash Sharma and Vinod Kumar had kidnapped his father. He said during investigations it was found that Girdhari Lal was a former president of the Bhagwan Parshuram Mandir Committee and had “forged” accounts. However, to evade any legal action, he went missing from his house. Arora said during this period Girdhari Lal used to talk to improvement trust’s clerk regarding his pension bills. It was there the police got a lead and after tracing the phone calls came to know that they were being made from an STD booth at Hardwar railway station. He said a team headed by SHO Kapil Kaushal was sent to Hardwar to locate Girdhari Lal and he was found to be residing at Shanti Kunj Ashram. — OC
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Veteran BJP leader Arora dead
Amritsar, August 27 Arora, who had more than 50 long years of association with Vajpayee, had been the main pillar of the party in Punjab and was described as “Bishampitamah” and the kingmaker in the party. Earlier, the secretariat
of the former PM offered condolences to the bereaved family. During his five decade-long political career, Roshan Lal was instrumental in keeping the BJP flock together and was involved in inquiring into the defeat of Lakshmi Kanta Chawla in 2002 elections, which had led to lot of heart burning in the party as senior BJP leaders had played a key role in her loss to the Congress candidate. Wreaths were placed on his mortal remains on behalf of the former PM and and the leader of the opposition. Among those who laid wreaths included state health minister Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, minister for medical education Tikshan Sood, mayor Shwet Malik and senior local BJP leaders Dr Baldev Raj Chawla, Om Parkash Kalia, Sat Pal Mahajan and a number of councillors. Roshan Lal is survived by three sons and a daughter, besides number of grand and great grandchildren. |
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NRI murder case: Two get life term
Jalandhar, August 27 The accused, Jasbir Singh (25), a resident of Mora Wali village in Hoshiarpur, and Gurmeet Singh (24) of Virkan village, near Gorya, were earlier arrested along with their 10 accomplices for hacking an NRI
Mohan Singh of Phillaur to death on the busy GT Road near Phillaur in August, 2005. Two co-accused in the case, Inderjit Kaur and Sukhjeevan Singh, had been declared proclaimed offenders (POs) by a court. The NRI Mohan Singh and his relative Gurdev Singh, a resident of Phillaur, were attacked by the assailants on the highway when they were returning from Ludhiana after constructing a boundary wall on a chunk of land. In the attack, Mohan Singh was critically injured and was rushed to DMC, Ludhiana, where he died. The district police had registered a case under sections 302, 334, 148, 129 and 120 of the IPC
against Jasbir Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Inderjit Kaur, Sukhjeevan Singh, Rajwinder Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Palwinder Singh, Hardeep Singh, Sukhjeet Singh and Kulwant Singh at Phillaur police station. |
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Kidnapping case: Five booked
Kapurthala, August 27 The agent alleged that Avtar, Makhanjit, Gurpreet, Rajesh and Sandeep had kidnapped him at pistol point three years ago. He was taken to Jalandhar in a car where he was forced to sign some blank papers, he alleged. Babla said he had not lodged a complaint earlier apprehending danger as the accused had the backing of some political leaders. — TNS
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Accident claim: Pay up, insurance firm told
Hoshiarpur, August 27 According to information, Darshan had lodged a complaint with the forum that the company had failed to settle his vehicle’s accident claim. He said his Mahindra pick-up vehicle, which was insured by the company, met with an accident and was totally damaged. He added the company repudiated the claim on the ground that the vehicle did not possess a fitness certificate at the time of accident. The forum held that there was no nexus between non-possession of a fitness certificate and the accident which took place due to stopping of a bus in the middle of the road. It added that a fitness certificate was relevant only if the vehicle was unfit to be plied on the road and there was no breach of the contract. So the company did not justify its repudiation of claim and was ordered to pay the amount. |
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Sites for sewage ponds selected: DC
Hoshiarpur, August 27 This was disclosed by DC NK Wadhawan while presiding over a meeting today to review the progress of works being undertaken at the Kali Bein. He told the SDMs to give “khasra” numbers of the land selected for undertaking the construction and asked them to identify a place for setting up a treatment plant.
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Coach Sondhi bats for wrestling academies
Phagwara, August 27 District Wrestling Association president Bharpur Singh Bhogal, secretary Hari Mittar Bilga, besides Phagwara SDM Amarjit Pal were among those present at Phagwara railway station to receive and welcome the international wrestling coach. Later talking to journalists at his residence, Sondhi stressed the need for establishing wrestling academies at the district level on the Haryana pattern to promote wrestling. Coach Sondhi also stressed that mud akharas should be replaced by mat akharra on which international standard wrestlings were being performed. — UNI
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