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Checking female foeticide in villages
Health hazard
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Pre-medical entrance test
Pages in PMT question paper missing
World Blood Donor Day
Highest Rotary award for Mansa academician
Mansa facing staff crunch
Woman dies of burn injuries, husband held
Woman, daughter commit suicide
Cops accused of shielding accused in land grab case
Vinod Chowdhry is new chief engineer (canals)
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Checking female foeticide in villages
Bathinda, June 14 Badal, who visited several villages in the Muktsar district during the second day of his “Sangat Darshan” tour, said that the panchayats which take steps towards eradication of drug abuse and making their respective areas green would also be rewarded with special grants for development. He said that the rising incidence of female foeticide and illicit felling of green trees has already earned a bad name for Punjab. He expressed concern on the issue of declining male:female ratio and warned this would lead to various social problems if timely corrective steps were not taken. The Chief Minister stressed that the panchayats should keep a watch on the development works within their
respective areas and report to the concerned authorities incase they found any discrepancy. Badal ordered the drains department to expeditiously complete the incomplete drains. The Chief Minister said that the state government would fulfill all election promises. A master plan for development of all areas of the state has been chalked out and the work would be completed within the next two years, he added. Senior officers accompanied Badal during the tour.
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Health hazard
Bathinda, June 14 Showing some clothes, Surbhi, a resident of Green Avenue, said, “I had hung washed clothes on a string last night so that they could dry by morning. Now, the layer of ash on them is quite visible. Before getting them ironed, I have to dust them first.” “My father-in-law is just 63 years old and is facing respiratory problems. Doctors have recommended us to shift to a clean place. We don’t have enough money to bear a rented accommodation and other routine expenses. We are forced to inhale this poison,” lamented a working woman, Janaki Singla of Veer Colony. Pragati Chauhan of Paras Ram Nagar said, “This fly ash is seasonal. The localities falling in the direction in which the wind blows have to suffer.” “I had washed the terrace just two days back and I have to clean it again as it is hazardous for the children,” said Meera, a maid working at Vishal Nagar. An irked Jyoti Lata of Tagore Nagar said, “We (the couple) have been bearing with the dusty atmosphere for the last couple of years. But to save our kids, we have sent them to study at Chandigarh.” Besides, people shared other problems like the falling ash making their food unhygienic. Vishal Nagar, Tagore Nagar, Green Avenue, Veer Colony, Amrik Singh Road, Railway Colony, Janta Nagar, Partap Nagar and Paras Ram Nagar, which are located close to the thermal plant, are the worst hit. It may be mentioned that for the past couple of months, the GNDTP authorities have been repeatedly saying that it would renovate the units. On an occasion, they even had claimed to float the tenders for renovating two units. But the ground reality is quite different. Now, the paddy season has started and demand for power has increased in the agricultural sector. It would again provide them with an excuse to postpone the renovation. Meanwhile, people believe that the PSEB has been floating one excuse after the other and ignoring the fact that public health is at stake.
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Pre-medical entrance test
Faridkot, June 14 A total of 6668 candidates appeared in the test that took place at Faridkot here today. Last year, over 7000 candidates had appeared in the test. Till some years ago, over 10,000 candidates used to appear for the test. Interestingly, all the candidates were called to Faridkot to appear in the test. Centres were spread across Faridkot and Kotkapura
and some candidates had travelled for over five hours to come and appear for the test. "Holding the test centrally in the district has ensured that the whole thing went off without a hitch. Here everything is under our own control, if we had more centres we would not have been
able to oversee things properly," said Dr SS Gill, vice-chancellor, Baba Farid University. He added that local police had been coordinating with them to ensure a fair conduct of the test. However, the district police failed abysmally to control the massive traffic problems following the test. Traffic jams were witnessed on almost all the roads leading out of Faridkot. The 6,000 vehicles coming out of the district made the other traffic come to a virtual standstill for hours at bottlenecks. The police control room was contacted by several commuters but they failed to get any response. No traffic cops were posted on any of the roads despite the police knowing that so many vehicles are in the district. When contacted, the SSP SS Sodhi said, "We were all busy with the conduct of the test and could not have posted any cops on the roads. What all will the police do?"
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Pages in PMT question paper missing
Bathinda, June 14 Vice-Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Shaminder Singh Gill has accepted that pages 13 and 14 were missing from Naripjeet’s sheet that was replaced after 45 minutes after the exam started. Naripjeet, while talking to The Tribune said, “I passed my Class XII from Bathinda with 83.8 per cent marks. I was confident of making it in PMT this year, until I saw that two pages were missing from my question paper. My roll number was 575624. When I opened my sheet, I found page number 13 and 14 missing. I reported the matter immediately to the authorities”. “Rather than immediately replacing my sheet, the authorities started taking my photograph and videography. This was to check fake students appearing in place of someone else. But they actually treated me like a proxy student and gave me another sheet after 45 minutes,” she added. Naripjeet’s father Gurbrender Singh said she looked stressed out and harassed when she came out after appearing for her exam. “She told me that after reporting the matter she kept waiting for another sheet and did not attempt the sheet given to her earlier as she did not know what to do. But after about 15 minutes, she started attempting the paper as she was losing out on valuable time. She was given another sheet 45 minutes later,” he said. “She missed out on many questions because she just got 2 hours and 15 minutes to attempt her paper. I went to the university, but was not allowed to go in,” he added. Vice-Chancellor Gill said, “As soon as we got the information about Naripjeet, we gave orders to replace the sheet. Only 10 questions were missing, she could have attempted other questions well by the time”. Meanwhile, keeping in view the past scandals of fake students appearing in the PMT, the authorities took steps to prevent such incidents. The police was deployed in strength outside the examination centres and the roll number card of each candidate was thoroughly checked by cops before they were allowed to enter the complex.
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‘Donation must to check blood scarcity’
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, June 14 Several blood donation camps were organised across the city to mark the Day. Sra said, “Like every year, this time too we organised a blood camp on the Day. Our team also went to assist two such camps. One of the camps, organised near the grain market, collected 52 units. Though 100 camps are held each year, still there is a shortage of blood. We issue 700-800 units of blood each month and collect about 25 units per camp, which is not enough to meet the demand of blood.” Ajit Singh, senior lab technician with the Gupta Hospital, said, “We organised a blood donation camp today in collaboration with the Bharat Vikas Parishad Azad. We keep encouraging people to come forward to donate blood. Negative blood groups are rare and O -ve the rarest. There are only two-three per cent of people with negative blood group.” Giving information related to blood donation and availability of blood, sources said, before issuing blood it is tested for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, malaria, VDRL, cross match and anti-bodies. This is to ensure that the blood was safe for transfusion. Blood remains fresh for 96 hours and is suitable for use for the maximum of 35 days. Fresh blood is more in demand. The Aasra Welfare Society also conducted a camp here today where a donor, Vinod Bansal, donated blood for the 100th time, Ramesh Mehta for 57th time and Basant Bhatt for 46th time. The United Welfare Society also conducted a camp at Rampura Phul where 14 units were collected.
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Highest Rotary award for Mansa academician
Bathinda, June 14 The award was presented to him at the district assembly of the Rotary
International District 3090, which includes 74 Rotary clubs of Punjab, Haryana
and Rajasthan. The function was organised at the Bahia Resorts here today. At the assembly, Prem Kumar Agarwal replaced Ashwapat Rathore as the district governor by exchanging the traditional collar. Talking to
TNS, the new district governor said, “The Award was an internationally competitive award granted to a maximum of 150 Rotarians per year, who were examples of service above self. For the year 2008-09, Rotarian Sukhdev Singh has got the award for his commendable social services.” Praising Sukhdev Singh, former district governor B.S. Jaggi said, “He got the award for exemplary humanitarian service, with emphasis on personal volunteer efforts and active involvement in helping others through the Rotary Club.” Rotarians said the award was important for all of them as it recognised only 150 Rotarians from about 14 lakh members in about 14,000 clubs functioning in 207 countries all over the world. 1943-born Sukhdev Singh, said he had been in the teaching profession since 1966, when he joined as a lecturer in Economics in NMPG College,
Mansa. At present, he is the principal of Mata Gujri Girls’ College,
Sardoolgarh. He was commissioned in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in 1967 and rose to the rank of a Major due to his contribution to the cause of women’s education and youth activities. He has visited the US, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, France, Italy, Holland and attended Rotary meetings there besides having cultural exchange with citizens there. He was earlier awarded the Rotary Ratan award for meritorious services. “I joined the Rotary Club as a chartered member in 1972 and was assigned to serve the club as part of the board of directors and chairman in some community projects,” he
said. Dharminder Singh Ubha, principal, Khalsa College, Patiala, said, “He organised a number of eye check-up and surgery camps, artificial limbs distribution camps, polio awareness rallies and created awareness against female
foeticide, drug menace, dowry system and environmental pollution.” “Further, he has organised tree plantation campaigns, stationary distribution projects, blood donation camps, AIDS awareness camps, marriages of 41 poor girls and seminars for women empowerment,” he added.
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Mansa facing staff crunch
Mansa, June 14 After visiting the district administrative complex, it was found that the posts of many senior officials are lying vacant such as district transport officer and others. SDM Mansa NS Brar has been given additional charge of the district transport officer. Along with this, full time officer needs to be appointed for the post of district welfare officer as district welfare officer of Bathinda has been doing the additional duty of district welfare officer Mansa as well. Post of secretary, ZilaParishad, also needs to be filled up and the public work has been suffering. A single officer has been performing the duty of social security officer for Mansa, Sangrur and Barnala. Budhlada is the main block of the Mansa district and the posts of BDPO block development and panchyat officer have been waiting to be filled. In this block, public work has been suffering to a great extent in absence of the concerned officials. Two posts of assistant commissioner, general, and assistant commissioner, grievances, are also vacant. Ex-MLA Butta Singh and youth Congress leader Gurpreet Singh demanded the posts of all officers be filled up soon.
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Woman dies of burn injuries, husband held
Mansa, June 14 According to police sources, the deceased was allegedly set on fire by her husband on June 9. She was admitted to the local Civil Hospital with 85 per cent burns and later was referred to Rajindera Hospital, Patiala, in a critical condition. SHO Mansa city Sulakhan Singh said that the police had recorded her statement in the presence of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Dimple Wallia. In her statement, she alleged that her husband had thrown kerosene on her and set her on fire. Mansa police had registered a case under section 307 of the IPC against her husband and he was arrested. The SHO said the police had registered a case under section 302 of the IPC against him. She is survived by three kids.
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Woman, daughter commit suicide
Fazilka, June 14 According to the FIR lodged with city police Fazilka by Jeet Singh, a palledar (labourer) in Punsup, his teenaged daughter Sunita (16) had an affair with a young boy Chhinder Singh, a driver, who was living in front of their house on rent for quite some time. This led to tension between the two families. Locals intervened into the matter. Resultantly, Chhinder Singh and his family shifted their residence from Madhav Nagri to Radha Swami Colony in the town. However, Chhinder Singh, his mother Rajji and maternal uncle Satpal, who was living near their house, reportedly taunted Rajinder Kumar, brother of Sunita regarding affair with Chhinder Singh. Rajinder revealed this to her mother several times. This reportedly agonised Banso (40) and Sunita. In tormented state, both the mother and her daughter took the extreme step. They consumed poison today in the absence of Jeet Singh and his son Rajinder at home. Both died after consuming poison. The city police, Fazilka, have registered a case under section 306 of the IPC on the statement of Jeet Singh against Chhinder Singh and his mother Rajji and maternal uncle Satpal.
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Cops accused of shielding accused in land grab case
Barnala, June 14 Kulwant Singh, the complainant, said that police registered a case against some of the accused but they have not been booked. Due to the casual approach of the police, the complainant has questioned the credibility of the district police. He said that he purchased the land three years back at Karamgarh and Sanghera along with 51 kanal, 24 marlas of land and the mutation was sanctioned in his name. The complainant further stated that he gave the land on lease to Jaswant Singh, a resident of Sanghera till May 2009. However, when he asked the lessee to give the lease money, Jaswant Singh bluntly refused and ousted the owner from the land. Kulwant Singh alleged that Jaswant Singh in conspiracy with Sukhpal Singh, resident of Bhadalbad, Kuldeep Singh, resident of Kuthala, Jeet Sing, resident of Sanghera, Gurmeet Singh, resident of Thickriwal the land to Lakwinder Singh, Varinder Singh and Manpreet Singh, resident of village Ablowal, the district of Patiala. The accused stated that police let off the accused and registered a case against the innocent persons who have no concern with this case. Kulwant Singh stated that the Tehsildar, who registered the deed, the deed writer, who drafted the sale deed, patwari, who supplied the copy of ownership of the land and the person, who got the land on lease, and the persons who purchased the land are also conspirators but are roaming free. The complainant proclaimed that he would go to the court and further disclosed that he will prefer taking up the matter to the senior officials as regards the working of Barnala police. The SSP, Barnala, when contacted on phone, said the matter is under investigation but he can furnish the details only after consulting the records of the case.
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Vinod Chowdhry is new chief engineer (canals)
Ferozepur, June 14 Chowdhry, who was earlier posted as chief engineer (Drainage), had played an active role during the floods last year in the state. He got the breach in the Dhussi bandh plugged in a short time, which saved the border district of Ferozepur from immense damage. Disclosing this, Janmeja Singh Sekhon, irrigation minister said that Chowdhry has been posted as CE (Canals) due to his vast experience and excellent track record. Sekhon also said SM Singh has been posted as managing director, Punjab Water Resource Management Development Corporation. He also said that all the major canals in the state were being relined and distributaries were repaired to supply irrigational water to the tail-end areas.
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Thanks to the years old fly ash menace, the residents of this city are forced to lead a miserable life. The main source of the menace are the chimneys of the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP), which have continuously been emitting a white smoke full of coal particles.
“India is facing an acute shortage of blood and to fight it out, only one thing can be done — more volunteers should come forward to donate blood,” said Inderdeep Singh Sra, in-charge of the Blood Bank, Bathinda, on the occasion of the World Blood Donor Day today.
The highest Rotary international honour — Service Above Self Award — was today awarded to Prof Sukhdev Singh of
Mansa. The award was presented to him at the district assembly of the Rotary
International District 3090, which includes 74 Rotary clubs of Punjab, Haryana
and Rajasthan.
