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Farmers’ woes continue as paddy awaits lifting
The paddy awaiting procurement at the grain market in Bathinda has become a feast for pigeons. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera
Don’t harvest paddy during night: DC to farmers
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Vice-chancellor of PAU, M.S. Kang, explaining the benefits of the website launched at the Kisan Mela in Bathinda on Thursday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Location of toll plazas triggers controversy
Schools for poor children soon: CM
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal laying foundation stone of a senior secondary school at Canal Colony in Bathinda on Thursday. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera
Science teacher transferred back
Shaheed Bhagat Singh remembered
Students of the Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology performing ‘jago’ ahead of Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary in Bathinda on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Two get life term in murder case
No more rallies, carnivals at Abohar stadium: MC
Abohar lecturer elected to PU Senate
Four-yr-old sodomised
Techies protest privatisation
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Farmers’ woes continue as paddy awaits lifting
Bathinda, September 25 Farmers are a harassed lot in the
district due to the non-lifting of paddy by the commission agents and the government agencies as well. Buta Singh, a farmer of Aklia
village said more than 20,000 bags of paddy are lying in the Goniana mandi till date. Paddy worth about
Rs 1.70 crore is piled up in the grain market. Buta Singh said that commission agents were not giving their due of Rs 850 per quintal as fixed by the government. He informed this correspondent that commission agents were pressing upon them to purchase their paddy at Rs 825. Buta Singh demanded the immediate lifting of piled up paddy lying in the mandi. Daler Singh, a farmer of Kothe village, said he has harvested 10 acres of paddy and rushed the produce to the market about a week ago but has not been able to sell his produce to meet his everyday needs. He said that the delay in the payment would affect the timely cultivation of rabi crop because farmers will not be able to purchase the desired quantity of fertilisers. Talking to TNS here, Sukhdev Singh, a farmer from Bahalad Mehma village, said he had been in the market for the past 10 days and trying to reduce moisture content to bring it to the level of satisfaction of procurement agencies. He said four members of his family were looking after the produce at the market, while there was no one to care for the remaining crop in his village. Sukhdev rued that he had been shelling out Rs 200 daily in the market and still didn’t know when his paddy would be procured. Joginder Singh, another farmer from his village, came to the market three days back. According to him his paddy was okay, but he was told to dry it further to bring down the moisture within permissible limits. Similarly, Karnail Singh, who had brought 16 quintals of paddy to the market, had been awaiting procurement for the past five days. When contacted, Dipesh Singh, a Food Corporation of India official, said he had received a complaint about non-lifting of paddy and had asked its officials to speed up the process. He said though he was not satisfied with the work of other agencies, still he would ask them to expedite procurement to ensure that the farmers didn’t have to wait long for it. |
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Don’t harvest paddy during night: DC to farmers
Barnala, September 25 The DC, R.L. Mehta, also directed the combine owners to get their combines checked from the agricultural department concerned of the district. If found in order, the district officials will issue a certificate for the same. In a separate communiqué, the DC has prohibited the burning of residuals of paddy crops. The orders will remain in effect till November 15. He said the orders had been passed to check the health problems caused due to the burning. At the same time, the pollution level increases manifold. Most importantly, it deprives the soil of the essential minerals, the DC added. Mehta said any violation thereof would warrant a strict disciplinary action. — OC
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PAU launches website on cotton, paddy
Rajay Deep Tribune News Service
Bathinda, September 25 The website www.pauipmcottondss.com is in Punjabi. After the launch of the website, farmers were briefed about it through a large screen projector. Speaking about the website, vice-chancellor of the university, MS Kang said, " our scientists prepared the website which will have solution of all problems concerning cotton and paddy. This is based upon Decision Support System (DSS), with a motive to decrease the differences of the pest control methods of farmers." He mentioned that farmers could increase their profits following the resource conservation technologies, proper marketing, maintaining a viable linkage with experts. Highlighting the major problem of the Malwa farmers - blackish water and soil, Kang said that the PAU scientists had been developing relevant technologies to tackle these problems. Talking to media persons, Kang said that the university was facing financial problems and at present the total funds of the university was Rs 100 crore per annum, which should at least be doubled. He mentioned that though the Haryana Agricultural University was smaller than the PAU, it had been getting Rs 171 crore from exchequer. He also expressed concern over the agricultural land of the PAU being diverted into commercial projects. Further the officials of the PAU honoured 38 winning entries of production competition and other contests. On the occasion, Baljeet Singh Birbehman, Mayor Bathinda Municipal Corporation, Paramjeet Kaur Gulshan, Member Parliament, GS Buttar, director of the research station, Jagtar Singh Dhiman, additional director of communication, PAU, Paramjeet Singh Minhas, director of research were amongst others, who addressed the gathering.
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Location of toll plazas triggers controversy
Fazilka, September 25 The stretch in a very bad shape for long period was repaired about an year back and the control of the highway was transferred to a private concern, the Chetak Enterprises Limited, on the BOT scheme. The company built toll plaza check posts at two places even before construction of the flyovers on the railway crossing. Their locations have raised a controversy. The first toll plaza on the Fazilka-Ferozepur road is located at distance of 10 km from Fazilka near Theh Qalandar village. The second toll plaza is located before Goluka turn to Guruharsahai town on the Fazilka-Ferozepur road at a distance of about 45 km. At present, there is much resentment among the residents of Fazilka, Jalalabad and surrounding areas. Those travelling on four-wheelers from Fazilka have to shell out Rs 23 as toll fee for one side trip to Jalalabad and the similar amount if they want to travel up to Guruharsahai town or Ferozepur. The residents of Fazilka have to pay Rs 46 for one side travel of 45 km, which is considered exorbitant. In sharp contrast, the residents beyond the second toll plaza living in area of about 45 km, including those of Guruharsahai town, have to pay nothing for their journey up to Ferozepur. The Fazilka residents feel that the second toll plaza has been located before the turn to Guruharsahai due to alleged political influence of the then Parliamentary Secretary Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, Congress MLA,
Guruharsahai, who reportedly succeeded in getting the toll plaza located at the place so as to benefit the residents of
Guruharsahai. The residents feel that the second toll plaza should have been built at a distance of 5 to 10 km near Ferozepur. They also maintain that such discrimination is largely due to lack of political representatives of Fazilka and Jalalabad areas. |
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Schools for poor children soon: CM
Bathinda, September 25 Chief minister said the school, to be built at a cost of Rs 3.25 crore on four-acre plot, would cater to the needs of the downtrodden and the poor and it would be completed in year's time. He said the government had prepared a scheme to provide a school each in every constituency for providing quality education to students of poor families. “The school would be named after Dr B.R. Ambedkar after he received a request from Balmik Samaj," he added He unfolded an elaborate plan for the overall development of Punjab, asserting that the state would become number one state in the country for which an amount of Rs 4,500 crore would be spent on civic amenities in the cities alone and we need people's support in this venture. He said the Bathinda Development Authority was already in place and a blueprint had been prepared to take care of sewerage, solid waste management and other basic problems of the town. Flyovers would be constructed at all railway crossings here to ease traffic congestion and an airport would also come up at Bhisiana village. The Chief Minister said an air-conditioned bus stand, with a sprawling commercial complex, would come up at the present location. Keeping in view the high incidence of cancer in the region, the government proposed to set up a major cancer hospital in the city, he added. Commenting on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's road show, he said it was mere a show of
a teenager which would have no practical impact on SAD. Working president of the SAD Sukhbir Singh Badal said top-class infrastructure would be provided in Bathinda, which is the focal point of Punjab and borders Haryana and Rajasthan. Several development schemes have been implemented to provide connectivity in the region. Later, chief minister laid the foundation stones of the buildings of Khalsa College and a community centre in Model Town. |
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Science teacher transferred back
Bathinda, September 25 On receiving the orders, the villagers called off the dharna. Earlier, the villagers did not let open the school in the morning. At 12 noon, the village panchayat received a call from the education department following which two members of the panchayat, Nahar Singh and Iqbal Singh, went to the department's office. When DEO Baljinder Singh Mann asked, they demanded that Rakesh, the science teacher, be called back to Burj Mehma. "We want Rakesh back or we won't open the school gate. We will not accept his replacement," Nahar and Iqbal said categorically. Mann spoke to DC Rahul Tewari, who in turn asked him to accede to the villagers' demand. However, he made it clear that it would not imply that such demands could be met in that manner. "This is not the way administration work," said the DC. Rakesh's transfer orders were given to Nahar and Iqbal today. Jagjeet Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) said, "We gave the transfer orders to Rakesh when he came to the school in the afternoon.” Meanwhile, the DEO said, “Following the DC's orders, Deepak Goel, the teacher who was to replace Rakesh, was sent back to Ablu village.”
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Shaheed Bhagat Singh remembered
Bathinda, September 25 Professor Jagmohan Singh, nephew of the martyr, also attended the programme. Speaking on the occasion, he threw light on the ideology of Bhagat and his comrades. He highlighted the fact that Bhagat Singh had studied around 180 books in the span of four years that turned him into a philosopher. Jagmohan, who heads the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Tath Khoj Committee, expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that the martyr was portrayed as a bomber and not as a scholar. The students of the college presented the items based upon the philosophy of the martyr. The choreography team led by Lakhwinder Singh, a student of the college, mesmerised all. Gidha and Bhangra were also performed by the students based on the 'boliyaan' recited in the memory of the deeds of the martyr to achieve freedom for the nation. A play titled 'Main Bhagat Singh' was enacted by Kirti Kripal and his team from the Natyam Manch, Jaito. The play depicted problems prevailing in a society and also highlighted that how a poverty-stricken child, deprived of quality education dreamt of becoming Bhagat Singh. |
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Two get life term in murder case
Bathinda, September 25 On the basis of evidence produced before the court, the courts found Deepak Kumar and Jalbir Singh, both residents of local Awa Basti, guilty and were convicted for the murder of Manoj Kumar. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment and each fined for Rs 3,000. Both the accused were punished with 10 years imprisonment on the charges of abduction also. According to the proceedings of the case that on March 11, 2006, Rampal Singh, father of deceased Manoj Kumar, had lodged a report with Kotwali police in Bathinda that his son had gone along with two persons of Bathinda on March 11, 2006 but did not return home. On March 14, 2006, the police recovered a body spotted by a villager from the canal, which was identified as of Manoj Kumar. The deceased's hands and feet were tied and rope was found around his neck at that time. The police, after getting suspicious, arrested Deepak Kumar and Jalbir Singh at a naka put up near Giani Zail Singh Engineering College in Bathinda. The police also recovered Rs 10,000 from the accused persons looted from the deceased. The police, after interrogation of the duo, also traced the knife used in the murder and blood stained clothes of the deceased. The accused had confessed to have committed murder for want of money.
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No more rallies, carnivals at Abohar stadium: MC
Abohar, September 25 President Shiv Raj Goyal had earlier stated that the Chief Minister would be requested to make special allocations as the MC was under debt of Rs 9 crore allegedly due to "wrong policies" adopted by the previous Congress-led council. The MC, in its second meeting, accepted the plea of the sports associations that permission for using the renovated Nehru Stadium for carnivals or rallies should not be granted in future. It was also decided that equipment to update the sanitation department be purchased, increase the charges for using the municipal town hall by 100 per cent and develop a market on the municipal land near the police complex. The meeting also ended the rumours that the council would not initiate any action against 27 colonies in the town that had been notified as illegal as it resolved that the colonies would not get water and sewerage connections. The policy will be reviewed only when the colonisers/buyers of plots paid the development charges as per the rules framed by the state government. |
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Abohar lecturer elected to PU Senate
Abohar, September 25 Sandhu, a senior lecturer in the local DAV College, perhaps happens to be the first contestant from Ferozepur and Muktsar districts, who has won from the constituency. He has also polled highest number of votes among the first-timers. |
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Bathinda, September 25 According to information available, Charanjeet Singh (15) and Vicky (10) lured the victim playing in the street and allegedly sodomised him. When the child complained to his family members they took him to the civil hospital at Goniana, where doctors confirmed the charge. Receiving complaint from the family, the Nehianawala police registered a case against the two boys. — TNS
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Techies protest privatisation
Barnala, September 25 Addressing the rally, state leader Nav Kiran said the state government was bent upon privatising the education, which would deprive the poor but meritorious students of vocational and technical education. They would not be able to afford the fees charged by the private institutions and would be forced to leave their studies. The union demanded from the state government that it cancels the orders of transferring the government educational institutes into the private hands.
— OC
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Jail inmates fight, one hurt
Bathinda, September 25 |
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BKU leader cremated
Abohar, September 25 He was seriously injured in a road mishap yesterday and had succumbed to his injuries late at night in a hospital at Sriganganagar.
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Cursed by untimely rain and subsequent failure to satisfy government agencies on the quality of their produce, a section of farmers has been awaiting purchase of paddy for the past over 10 days at the Goniana grain market here.
Kisan Mela
Bathinda, September 25
Students of the Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology celebrating the 101st birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh organised a cultural programme titled
"Inquilab..ek adhura Supna" on the college premises on Wednesday evening.
Abohar, September 25
