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Toilets in rural schools, Aanganwaris soon
Ropar, September 8 He said the government had released funds for the construction of toilets in schools A survey of all households in the district that do not have toilets and defecate in open has already been ordered. While the scheme offers incentives for households that were below poverty line, it offers awareness programmes for households above poverty line.
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Camp on entrepreneurship ends
Ropar, September 8 The concluding day of the camp witnessed special sessions featuring industrial experts sharing modalities and various aspects of setting up small-scale units as enterprises with students. R.C. Chopra, director, SSI, delivered an enlightening talk on how to start an SSI unit with all its formalities, rules and regulations involved and technical and commercial aspects. While speaking on occasion, Planai Swamy, industry development officer, Indian Bank, informed the forum about financial support mechanisms in the form of government agencies, banks and financial institutions, which can be tapped for support by individual entrepreneurs. Gurvinder Singh Bahra, vice-chairman, Rayat and Bahra Group, said the three-day-camp had had phenomenal success in terms of imparting necessary information and training to young students. The three-day-session dwelled upon a number of issues like entrepreneurship training, philosophical and conceptual understanding about setting up enterprises and scope for individual and entrepreneurial growth.
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Lions Club honours 3 teachers
Zirakpur, September 8 The club honoured Seema from Mount View Public School, Suman Anand and Kavita from J.P. Public School. Mementos and shawls were also given to them. The club also decided to send relief funds for Bihar flood victims. The other members of the club, Vijay Arora, Satish Jindal, Mukesh Goyal and other prominent members, were also present on the occasion. |
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Pbi varsity functioning well: Sikh forum
Patiala, September 8 Recently the VC appointed Dr Malkiat Singh Saini as dean, academic affairs, who was dean, research, and head of the zoology department. Dr Saini is a known scientist and the Punjab government honoured him as the state's best scientist twice. He published 233 research papers in various national and international science journals. The forum congratulated Dr Saini and thanked the vice- chancellor for his choice. The forum also acknowledged the fact that the teachers were being promoted well in time. All heads of the departments were advised to hold seminars and conferences about the importance of Guru Granth Sahib as this year tercentenary of Guruship was being celebrated throughout the world on a grand scale. All journals of Punjabi University shall publish research papers on various themes of Gurbani. The forum appreciated these tasks suggested by the VC. Patron of the forum Dr Harpal Singh Pannu was present along with Dr P.S. Goraya, Dr Pushpinder Kaur, Dr Sukhninder Kaur, Dr Surinder Kaur, Dr Sukhwinder Kaur Baath, Dr Rajbans Singh and Dr Gurnek Singh.
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2-year-old raped; accused held
Patiala, September 8 The father of the victim Prabhu Dayal said he and his wife had gone out for work. His wife, who works as a servant in houses, returned around 12 noon. When she reached home, she saw that the girl lay unconsious and was profusely bleeding. Balbir Chand had fled from the spot. She carried the girl to Rajindra Hospital in the critical condition. The condition of the girl is said to be stable now. The police has arrested Balbir. The entire colony collected money for the treatment of the child. |
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Rural education top priority, says Kanwaljit
Patiala, September 8 Capt Kanwaljit Singh added that the teachers could play a vital role in improving the society. He gave a call to teachers all over the state to work hard in an attempt to cleanse society of its social evils, including intoxicants, use of which was particularly rampant in rural areas. He added that in an attempt to wean the youth of Punjab away from drugs, social organisations should also help the government. He said the youth should take up sporting activities. Capt Singh said the SAD-BJP government was making efforts to improve the infrastructure of rural schools and the onus was on making Punjab the number one state in rural education. The minister said the Punjab government was in the process of opening up an employment-generation department, which would keep tabs of jobs in foreign countries. He said the department would also curb the activities of travel agents who had made it a practice to fleece innocent Punjabi youth who wanted to migrate to foreign lands. Capt Singh added that the Punjab government was setting up thermal plants in collaboration with private players. |
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Surjit Singh is Fatehgarh Sahib DC
Fatehgarh Sahib, September
8 The press release stated that six IAS officers and one PCS officer had been transferred and posted in Punjab.
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Haphazard parking creates ruckus in Ambala Cantt
Ambala, September 8 Haphazard parking makes it difficult for a person to cross the street. The shopkeepers and residents alike are making no efforts to help improve the situation. Many shopkeepers have even encroached upon the public land. While the district administration is making efforts to improve the situation, the residents are apparently not supporting them. Talking to TNS, SP Sibash Kabiraj stated that they had stepped up on this front and were making all efforts to improve the situation. “We have appointed traffic marshals and have also deployed more traffic personnel to curb the traffic menace,” he said. A few shopkeepers keen to see the problem resolved have even written to the administration demanding strict action against those encroaching the land. Manoj Kumar, a shopkeeper, said, “The streets are 16 feet wide on which people have encroached another 6-7 feet. How will anyone pass on these streets?” Manish Malik, a cloth merchant, stated that the market constantly remains crowded and the streets, which are encroached upon, discourage customers from entering these lanes. The police is now planning to introduce the system of yellow line, where anyone found parking his car outside it will be challaned. However, the administration needs to take stringent measures to control this menace.
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Consumer Forum Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 8 The forum directed the society to handover the physical possession of the plot in Kansal village that was allotted to the petitioner. The petitioner, Veena Rani, was the member of the society in Sector 30. She was supposed to be given 10 marla house measuring 220 square yards in Kansal village for which she deposited Rs 20,000 as encashment money. Thereafter she was allotted a plot. Veena, a resident of Patiala, deposited Rs 1,80,000 when the society demanded the money. Subsequently, allotment letter was issued but physical possession of the plot was not given to her. On inquiring for the same the society told her that she would be intimated, but the allotment was still not given to her. The society argued that the petitioner has not deposited the amount to the tune of Rs 20,000. The forum said that the counsel for the society could not point out any document on file to suggest if the price of the plot in dispute was more than Rs 2,00,000. The forum found several discrepancies in the working of the society on scrutiny. The forum, headed by Jagroop Singh Mahal, observed: “In these five years, the society never demanded any such amount from the complainant and never informed her about the said arrears.” Besides, no notice was given to her, nor she was heard before the plot was cancelled. The public notice issued in the paper does not mention the name of the complainant as a defaulter. It does not even mention as to what amount is due from her.” Airline penalisedThe District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed MDLR Airlines to pay Rs 10,000 compensation for deficiency in service to a resident of Sector 33. Vinod purchased a return ticket from Kolkata to Chandigarh for Rs 12,300 from MDLR Airlines through Aadish Tour and Travels. He reached the airport to report two hours prior to the scheduled time. He claimed that he had to wait for the flight for about five hours as the flight was delayed without any reason. Thus, the airlines should have provided meals during the delayed period and also informed him regarding the delay. He further alleged that the flight landed at New Delhi Airport at around 10 pm, whereas the flight was supposed to fly to Chandigarh from Kolkata. Thereafter, the airlines arranged for an ordinary bus from Delhi Airport to Chandigarh. The airlines didn’t accept the summons. The forum held that the delay in the flight from Kolkata to Chandigarh, besides causing harassment, also landed at the wrong place. “Even no alternative arrangements were made by the travel agents for an alternative flight from Delhi to Chandigarh and rather it refused to refund the fare paid for air ticket from Delhi to Chandigarh, for which it did not render any service.”
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High Court to forgo 15-minute break
Chandigarh, September 8 More than willing to put in those extra minutes, the judges also decided to give the advocates the option of appearing before the Bench after 4 pm. Now cases of only those advocates, who are willing to stay back, will be taken up after 4 pm. It is believed that the judges unanimously took the decisions, even though these are expected to cause considerable hardship to them. The judges are already overworked, with each Bench, on average, disposing of anywhere between eight and 10 regular cases, besides taking up urgent and motion cases. The 15-minute tea break in the first session lasting from 10 am to 1 pm was considered essential by many judges because it not only gave them time to refresh themselves, but also for medical purposes. Meanwhile, the Bar this afternoon suggested ways and means of increasing the working hours by 20 minutes, instead of half an hour as recommended by Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and other high court judges. The Bar, after holding a meeting, suggested five minute reduction in the lunch break. They were of the opinion that the break could be held between 1 pm and 1.40 pm, instead of 1.45 pm. The members suggested that an additional 15 minutes could be gained by staying back till 4 pm, instead of 3.45 pm. Expressing resentment over the move to increase the court timings till 4.30 pm, the Bar had earlier claimed that the lawyers were already overworked and it would not be possible for them to take additional burden. They had further claimed that their day started early and they had to meet the clients in the evenings. As such, an increase in timings was not acceptable to the Bar. Describing the Bar as an essential component of judicial functioning, it was added the members could have given their inputs to sort out the matter, had they been consulted prior to the decision to increase the timings.
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Defence secy directed to release disability pension to ex-Major
Chandigarh, September 8 The contempt petition arose due to non-compliance in letter and spirit of the high court order dated May 3, 2001, vide which the central government was directed to release disability pension by holding that the petitioner had suffered the disability of 20 per cent, while on military duty. As the petition came up for hearing, ex-Major Bachan Singh of Territorial Army (TA) through his counsel Lt-Col Naresh Ghai submitted that the authorities had paid a pension of only Rs 500 on the basis of disability element. But they had not paid the in-built service component of disability pension on the plea that a TA officer had not put in 20 years of military service at the time of retirement.
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Six get 6-month jail in assault case
Chandigarh, September 8 According to the prosecution, Jagtar Singh, Balbir Singh, Sukhvinder Singh, Avtar Singh, Ashwini Kumar and Kuldeep Singh had allegedly assaulted V.K. Sharma after calling him to his shop in Sector 47 on September 11, 2002, on the pretext of resolving some dispute. A resident of Sector 47, Sharma complained to the police that the accused beat him up leading to grievous injuries. A case under Section 307, 323 and 506 of the IPC was registered. The defense counsel, advocate A.P.S. Guliana, argued that the one of the accused was not in town when the incident took place. Water shortage: The lawyers and court staff faced a lot of inconvenience as there was no water supply at the district courts today. Even the litigants had a tough time. Talking to The Tribune, a litigant, M.K. Sharma, said, “I was in the courts complex the whole day as I had to get my statement recorded in a case. Since water was not available, I had to purchase a bottle of mineral water.” President of the District Bar Association N.K. Nanda said: “We have been requesting the administration to provide basic amenities in the courts complex. In fact, an order was passed by a local court here that there should be continuous supply of water and electricity here.”
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Orders on recovery officer’s salary stayed
Chandigarh, September 8 The ministry of personnel public grievances and pension raised Gurnam’s pay scale from Rs 6,500 - Rs 10,500 to Rs 8,000 - Rs 13,500. At the time of the grant of this pay scale a formal undertaking was taken from the applicant that if the scale was withdrawn the applicant would refund the amount. Taking note of the application, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) asked the director of forensic scientific directorate of forensic science, debts recovery tribunal, to take up the case of applicant and take decision on it in three months. CAT further observed: “Needless to mention that if the case of appearances finds favour with the competent authorities, no recovery is to be made and if the decision is not in favour of the applicant recovery is to be made in easy instalments. However, till such a decision is taken, no recovery is to be made from the applicant.” Gurnam joined service as assistant in the BPRD, which is an attached office of Ministry of Home Affairs. He was promoted as section officer in the pay scale of Rs 2,000 - Rs 3,500, which was revised to Rs 6,500 - Rs 10,500 and posted to Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Kolkata. He was then transferred to CFSL in Chandigarh. It was then the ministry of personnel public grievances and pension granted non-functional scale of Rs 8,000 - Rs 13,500 to section officers working in central secretariat service on November 13, 2003. Thereafter, on the basis of recommendations of the committee constituted by the respondents, section officers, including the applicant, were granted the non-functional scale with effect from October 3, 2003. Subsequently, the scale was withdrawn on May 25, 2004 and his salary was fixed to Rs 6,500 to Rs 10,500. Gurnam was further asked to refund the amount of Rs 33,387.
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Bansal’s bail plea adjourned to Sept 18
Chandigarh, September 8 Ravinder’s counsel had moved the bail petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The order is to be pronounced on September 16. The defense counsel had moved Bansal’s bail petition on September 3 while the arguments on the petition were held on September 6. Meanwhile, another accused, Rajiv Gupta moved a bail application on Saturday which was adjourned to September 18. It was mentioned in the bail petition that Rajiv was a real estate consultant and had nothing to do with the alleged offence. It was also stated that the investigation concerning Rajiv was complete. Furthermore, it was mentioned that Rajiv would not tamper with the evidence of the prosecution and no useful purpose should be served by further incarceration of the petitioner. Another application was moved by the defense regarding the recovery of Rs 2 lakh from Prakash Ram’s house which again was adjourned to September 18. The application stated that the CBI had seized the money from Ram Rattan’s house and not from Prakash Ram’s. It is pertinent to mention here that the premier investigating agency had conducted raids at the residences of Rajiv Gupta and Prakash Ram on August 31. The CBI had claimed to recover Rs 2 lakh from the house of Prakash Ram, a clerk of former law officer Sanjeev Bansal. The application stated that the money was recovered from Ram Rattan’s house. Both Prakash and Bansal are residents of village Nadha.
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CFA, Mohun Bagan set up title clash
Chandigarh, September 8 CFA's first goal came in the 13th minute. A long shot into the box confused the IFA defenders. With sun falling in the eyes, IFA custodian Nabin Dhar had also advanced. As the defenders slowed down the game, CFA's speedy striker Gagandeep Singh headed the ball in to give his team the lead. CFA's second goal was scored by Lalnunthlunga. In the second half, Nabin Dhar made an outstanding save. Shenaz, who later got injured, sent a pass to Aman whose thundering shot was saved by Nabin who dived full length to his left to thwart the CFA's move. Earlier, Mohun Bagan Sail Football Academy dished out excellent football as they defeated St Stephen's Football Academy of Chandigarh by 3-0 in the first semifinal. All goals came in the second half. St Stephen's Academy put up a formidable resistance to deny Mohun Bagan a goal in the first half. Twice their goal had a narrow escape. Mohun Bagan launched their first dangerous move in the 23rd minute that resulted in a corner kick award. Sana's curling kick hit the bar and Paresh Sardar pounced on the rebound but his shot sailed over the bar. After a goalless first session, Mohun Bagan started asserting themselves more and scored three goals without reply and sailed into the final. In the 50th minute, Paresh Sardar launched a move and gave a cross to Amit Kumar whose shot went over the bar. St Stephen's goal fell in the 60th minute. Paresh Sardar sent a measured cross from the right, and Pritam Singh converted it with a timely header. Mohun Bagan got their second goal in the 71st minute. Third goal was the result of defencive lapse on the part of Stephen's Academy in the 87th minute. Tuesday's fixture (final): Chandigarh Football Academy vs Mohun Bagan Sail Football Academy at 3.30pm at Sector 17 Football Stadium.
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‘Coaches must visit schools to tap talent’
Chandigarh, September 8 “Football was a hobby when I was a kid, which transformed into a passion and now I am enjoying it as my profession. I have seen all the stages of the game right from being a starter to a professional player to a coach and I feel coaching is the toughest of all,” he says while sipping tea. On asking about coaching in Germany he says, “The job of a coach is not only to give coaching and go for scouting, but to visit schools, talk to the teachers about the problems of the players, organise tournaments and watch other tournaments to look for the talented players.” “These junior players have talent, but it is the job of a coach to get the best out of them. The players in India don’t have strong body compared to other country’s players and hence should be encouraged to go to fitness centre,” quips Kuenh. According to him, coordination is of utmost importance and he is focusing on balancing and rolling the football while coaching the squad. He is also working on the techniques of the players. “This is my second time with these guys in India and I enjoy their company. The respect and faith extended by them is unprecedented,” he signs off hurrying towards the team to congratulate them while everybody perceives him one among all.
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Ludhiana all out for 238 in 94.3 overs
Chandigarh, September 8 Ludhiana District at one stage were tottering at 111 for 7 at lunch being unable to break the web of Chandigarh spinners Left Arm Spinners Naresh Gogyan 3/43, Gurinder Singh 2/50 and Off Spinner Gaurav Gambhir 2/80. Thereafter, Gitansh Khera who was standing like a rock amongst the ruins found an able partner in Gagandeep Dhand and both of them started the repair work by stitching a purposeful eighth wicket stand of 86 runs. In the process, Gitansh Khera who had come one down completed a stroke filled century (104) that was embellished with 11 well-timed boundaries off 254 balls. Gagandeep Dhand gave him admirable support and scored a sedate 37. The duo kept the trio of rampaging Chandigarh Spinners in check and in turn took the team to a respectable total of 238. Chandigarh at the close of play was 19 for no loss of 5 overs. Brief Scores : Ludhiana- 238 for all out in 94.3 overs Gitansh Khera (104), Gagandeep Dhand (37), Karan Goel (27) Naresh Gogyan (3/43), Gurinder (2/50), Gaurav Gambhir (2/80) Chandigarh- 19 for no loss in 5 overs. In the second match played at PCA Stadium, Mohali, Patiala won the toss and elected to bat. They kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. However, Pankaj Dharmani went on to score an unbeaten 62 while Amitoz Singh scored 40. In reply, Mohali made a healthy start and ended the day at 80 without loss in 20 overs with openers Sunny Sohal and Ishan Dogra remaining unbeaten on 32 and 35, respectively. Brief Scores : Patiala: 246 all out in 73 overs Pankaj Darmani 62 not out, Amitoz Singh 40, Kunwar Raina 35, Tanmeet Bawa 27 Jaskaran 4/71, Varun Khanna 3/41, Manpreet Gony 2/46 Mohali: 80 for no loss in 20 overs Sunny Sohal (32 not out), Ishan Dogra 35 not out In the third match played at Amritsar between Amritsar and Minor District Zone A, Amritsar won the toss and scuttled M.D. Zone A for 87 in 22 overs. Replying Amritsar went hammer and tongs after the Zone A bowlers and blasted the score of 349 for 5 in 71 overs by the close of play. Brief Scores : M.D. Zone A 87 all out in 22 overs Perminder Walia 28, Harikishan Kali 18, Bharat Loomba 6/33, Tarun Sharma 2/45 Amritsar 349 for 5 in 71 overs Chandan madan 113, Harman Bajwa 95 not out, Manish Bhatia 74, Nakul Chopra 2/30, Rajbir 2/62. In the fourth match played at Jalandhar between Jalandhar and Zone B, Zone B won the toss and elected to bat. They were bowled out for 190 of 69.3 overs. The highlight of the innings was a sixth wicket stand of 58 runs between Amrinder Singh’s 58 and Amrinder Brar’s 32. In reply, Jalandhar were 80 for 1 in 38 overs at the end of play. Jalandhar lost their opener Robin without run on the board. Therafter, Satpal (37) not out and India Under 19 player Taruwar Kohli (35) not out were involved in an unfinished stand of 80 runs for the second wicket. Brief Scores : Minor District: 190 all out in 69.3 overs Amrinder Singh 58, and Amrinder Brar 32, Rohit Jassal 26, Krishana 22, Rahul Kumar 4/43, Surinder 2/36, Navdeep 2/42 Jalandhar: 80 for 1 in 38 overs. Satpal 37 not out, Taruwar Kohli 35 not out, Jatinder 1/17
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Badminton tourney from Sept 17
Chandigarh, September 8 The Championship will be held for under-10, under-13, under-16, under-19, masters 35plus, veterans 45plus and senior veterans 55plus categories. Over 400 players are expected to take part in the tournament. The last date of submitting the entry forms is September 14. |
Youth on mobike run over by truck
Chandigarh, September 8 The truck driver escaped from the spot. The police has registered a case under Sections 304-A, 379, 337 of the IPC.
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