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Major power theft detected in border belt
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Mess in education: School teachers blame
minister
Farmers blame political parties for instigating arhtiyas
Safdie to beautify periphery of Golden Temple
Enrolment in govt schools falls: Survey
Banur Bypoll
Nominee to be from Capt Kanwaljit’s
family: Ranike
News Analysis
SSA to publish books this year also
Stripping of youth in police post: DC orders probe
Majithia’s car was allowed inside jail due to rain: Report
Milkfed gets Rs 20-cr ghee order from SGPC
MCPI (United) general-secretary Jagjit Singh Lyallpuria at a press conference in Chandigarh on Sunday.
— A Tribune photograph
1,500 cement-laden wagons stranded in Pak
DEO-Teachers Row
Water submerges standing crops in five villages
Bhattal’s pat for Mattewal surprises Akalis
Renew registration, allopathic docs told
Badal mourns deaths of Chann, Dhianpuri
Couple ends life by jumping into channel
CM to meet PM over fuel price hike
Ex-minister booked for assault
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Major power theft detected in border belt
Cheecha (Amritsar), July 12 However, the question is if Rs 24 lakh penalty can be imposed by the PSEB in a single day, what will be the magnitude of the menace of power theft in the state. As many as 14 operation and enforcement teams of the PSEB from all over the state today accompanied by police parties visited every field of the village to check the load on 49 transformers that comes under 11 KV Cheecha-Mahmoodpura feeder, which was damaged by farmers during protests against the shortage of power supply. During eight-hour operation, the PSEB teams detected 139 cases of unauthorised extension of power load to the tune of 459 Break Horse Power, besides 12 cases of direct theft. Cases have been registered against Jaswant Singh, Lakhbir Singh, Avatar Singh, Kartar Singh, Lakhbir Singh, Kuldeep Singh, Bakshish Singh, Amarjit Singh, Larlok Singh, Tarsem Singh, all residents of Cheecha and Sucha Singh of Ladhowal in this regard. Chief Engineer, PSEB, Rajiv Kumar said the teams did not find even a single transformer without any irregularity. He said eight transformers had been damaged due to overload in the past few days and these transformers would not be replaced until the farmers regularised their power load. Farmers had ransacked the sub-station, besides manhandling officials, including sub-station operator Haracharan Singh and Additional SDO Khasa Prem Kumar Maini, on July 10. They were protesting against shortage of power supply. Earlier, Additional SE Amrik Singh was also beaten up on June 22 for launching drive against power theft. A senior official said the feeder was shut down as it got tripped a number of times, besides damaging of transformers due to overload had resulted in continuous power interruption in the area. After the incident, the PSEB officials here had taken up the matter with its chairman, who further raised the issue with the government that directed the district and police administration to provide security to the raiding teams.
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Mess in education: School teachers blame
minister
Jalandhar, July 12 Chopra said Dr Upinderjit Kaur had failed to provide leadership to the teachers to improve the standard of education. “We feel she is not interested in improving the education system and has been negating the effort of Badal to improve the system. She is not aware of ground realities in the education sector,” said Chopra. She even did not like to meet teachers, he added. “Our organisation held two meetings with her in the past two years and four months. And it took six months to issue proceedings of these meetings. Even after the issuance of the proceedings, no demand had been implemented,” said Chopra. On the shabby treatment to government-aided recognised schools, being the backbone of the education system in urban areas, by the Education Department, Chopra said for six years the government authorities had not allowed the aided schools to fill any of the 3,000 posts of teacher out of the sanctioned 9,600 posts. And no increase in the posts of teacher had been allowed since late 1960s when the government had started giving 95 per cent aid to these schools though the number of students had increased manifold. There were 404 high and senior secondary and 80 primary government aided schools in the state. Ninety per cent of these schools were without principals and headmasters. In fact, Chopra said the government schools were a recent phenomenon, whereas earlier only aided schools used to impart education in urban areas. There were 34 aided schools in Amritsar, 22 in Ludhiana, 36 in Jalandhar, 12 in Patiala, six at Bathinda, 12 at Moga and four at Faridkot. Whereas there were seven aided schools in Ropar, the number of government schools was only two and in Kharar there were seven aided schools and three government schools and in Nawanshahr six aided schools and two government schools. From the number of aided schools in these cities, Chopra said one could know which institutions had been providing education in urban areas. “Why was the government creating conditions to make these schools closed when academic performance of these schools was quite well,” said Chopra. There had been no increase in the grant, which is Rs 100 crore, to these schools for six years. Salary to teaching and other staff was given after delay of several months.
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Farmers blame political parties for instigating arhtiyas
Ludhiana, July 12 Asking the Chief Minister to direct the authorities to initiate the process for the implementation of the decision in letter and spirit, the Punjab Kisan Union, led by SAD leader Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, has announced a statewide protest from July 15. Talking about the standoff between arhtiyas (commission agents) and the government over the issue, Baldev Singh Latala, senior vice-president, Punjab Kisan Sabha, alleged that political leaders, irrespective of their allegiance, had been instigating commission agents. “None of them is concerned with the survival of the farmers. Instead they have been trying to poison relations between them,” rued Latala, regretting that certain Congress-backed kisan outfits, instead of impressing upon the government to implement the decision, had supported the movement of commission agents. Latala urged the government to implement the decision to make direct payment of agricultural produce to peasants. BKU general secretary Bhupinder Singh Maheshwari said the issue had been given a political colour to satisfy the vested interests of a few political leaders who, by creating a rift between farmers and commission agents, intent to solve their own political purpose. He said, “We will agitate if the government does not implement the decision to make direct payments to the farmers with immediate effect”. The kisan unions have chalked out a detailed plan of the series of protests to be held all over the state. The protest dharnas will begin from July 15 from Ropar and Ferozepur, followed by similar protests at Khanna, Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Faridkot, Jagraon, Amritsar and Sangrur on scheduled dates. Commission agents have been on strike since July 1 to protest direct payment to farmers by procurement agencies. The government has notified that procurement agencies will make direct payment to farmers through online bank transfer into their accounts. No purchase of maize, sunflower or even wheat brought by farmers has been made since July 1. The commission agents have also threatened to oppose the SAD in the ensuing Assembly by-election in case the decision was not revoked.
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Safdie to beautify periphery of Golden Temple
Chandigarh, July 12 A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with a delegation of architects led by Safdie at the Chief Minister's residence this morning. Safdie informed the Chief Minister that he would make a presentation on the concept and layout to undertake the beautification of the surroundings of Sri Harmandar Sahib from the Jallianwala Bagh complex to the temple site soon. He said the existing approved plan of the beautification of the corridor project around the Golden Temple would also be part of this plan. Safdie pointed out that since the Golden Temple was one of the most sacred religious places of the world where people of all faiths converge to pay obeisance, it was also the most preferred destination of religious tourism. Safdie added he would also utilise the services of noted Lebanese landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic for planting rare species of trees and shrubs to be brought from parts of the world to accentuate the mystic aura and serenity. The Chief Minister asked Safdie to complete the project in two years and assured to make funds available for the project. Badal also reviewed the progress of the KHC and asked Safdie to develop an additional 60 acres around the complex for landscaping and scenic beauty of the centre in the foothills of the Shivalik Range. Safdie assured the Chief Minister that the KHC would be dedicated to the nation on Baisakhi, April 13, 2010.
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Enrolment in govt schools falls: Survey
Chandigarh, July 12 According to a survey of the state by the Economic Adviser to the government, 38.70 lakh students enrolled in 2006 and decreased slightly to 36.87 lakh in 2007. The survey says so-called public schools, which have mushroomed in an unorganised sector, also attract a sizable number of students. However, the survey has not given figures of students attending private schools, saying these were not available. However, out of a total enrolment of girls in schools, there has been a slight increase. While girls accounted for 45.97 per cent in 2007, they comprised 46.10 per cent of the total percentage one year earlier. But the enrolment of Scheduled Caste girls has seen a slight decline in the six to11 years age group though in the age groups of 11-14 and 14-18, there has been an increase in the enrolment in this category. The drop-out rate in government schools has increased between 1999-2000 and 2005-06. According to the survey in classes I to V while the drop-out rate in 1999-2000 was 22.17 per cent, it increased to 23.66 per cent in 2005-06. There has also been an increase in the classes I to VIII group where the drop-out percentage has increased from the earlier 29.85 per cent to 32.98 per cent. In the classes I to IX group, the drop-out percentage has increased from 35.54 per cent to 46.02 per cent. There has been only a slight decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio in schools. The pupil-teacher ratio was 42 per cent at the primary level, 32 per cent at the middle level and 23 per cent at the senior secondary level in 2007 compared to the ratio of 43 per cent at the primary level, 28 per cent at the middle level and 26 per cent at the senior secondary level. Enrolment in colleges in the state has also decreased from 2.67 lakh in 2006 to 2.53 lakh in 2007. In 2007, the category-wise distribution of total enrolment in arts and science colleges was 79.61 per cent, teacher training institutes 2.45 per cent, medical colleges 4.98 per cent, agriculture colleges 0.43 per cent, engineering colleges 12 per cent, veterinary colleges 0.18 per cent, physical education colleges 0.28 per cent and oriental colleges 0.06 per cent.
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Banur Bypoll Rajmeet Singh Tribune News Service
Dera Bassi (Mohali), July 12 After wining the Patiala parliamentary seat in the recent general election and also narrowing the margin of the SAD to around 8,000 votes in Dera bassi segment, Congress candidate Deepinder Dhillon is hopeful of further cashing in on the anti-incumbency factor. But it is not going to be a cakewalk for the Congress either. Also, after Sukhbir Badal's inclination to opt for a comparatively-safer Jalalabad seat, the challenge for the Congress has become all the more tough, be it from someone from Capt Kanwaljit Singh's family or NK Sharma, a confidant of Badal Junior. An analysis of the recent general election when compared with the result of the Banur Assembly election in 2007 indicates that the Congress did make inroads into the SAD domain here. But having a comfortable position seems to be a far cry. But choice of the Akali candidate could make all the difference. Political pundits say that with a sizeable Hindu population, the chances of a non-Sikh candidate could turn out to be a major attraction for the targeted vote bank. In the 2007 assembly election, Capt Kanwaljit Singh had won with a huge margin by defeating Congress candidate Rakesh Sharma by a margin of 42,651 votes. In the 2009 general election, the SAD candidate, Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra, polled 9,000 more votes than Congress candidate Preneet Kaur from the Dera Bassi assembly segment. And from the Assembly polling stations of Zirakpur, Dera Bassi, Lalru and Banur, the SAD candidate had won with a triple margin. Only a few polling stations in Banur villages, the Congress candidate scored a good margin. In the 2009 Lok Sabha election, SAD had won from 26 polling stations while Congress scored a lead from 19 polling stations. In Dera Bassi, out of 76 polling stations, SAD had won from 49, as compared to 23 of the Congress. In Zirakpur area, SAD continued to have the lead as in general election. After the death of former Cooperation Minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh, there was not a single senior leader from SAD who could campaign for the party in Dera Bassi segment. Still, SAD continued to yield votes. (With inputs from Rajiv Bhatia)
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Nominee to be from Capt Kanwaljit’s
family: Ranike
Anandpur Sahib, July 12 Addressing mediapersons at Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, Ranike said it was for the family to decide whether Bunny would contest or his mother. He claimed the SAD-BJP combine would win all the three seats in the forthcoming Assembly by-elections. On the occasion, Ranike said a special animal husbandry project had been charted out to promote self-employment. Under the scheme, he said, Plus Two passouts to graduates would be imparted training and helped to get loans from nationalised banks at 3.5 per cent lesser rate of interest. The range of this loan would be from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 1 crore.
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News Analysis Prabhjot Singh Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 12 Manpreet was criticised by the Opposition for budgetary proposals and failure to suggest ways to meet the deficit of Rs 4,233.92 crore. His word to meet the deficit through market borrowings may not have gone well with economists as he had admitted in the Budget speech that mounting debt was becoming unsustainable. Did he have options other than new taxes ? Yes, suggest experts. He could have taken a leaf out of four-time Finance Minister Balwant Singh’s book who taxed foodgrains in 1967-68. The then Union Finance Minister Morarji Desai was unhappy that a new state like Punjab, after 1966 reorganisation, was taxing the Centre. Since the purchaser of foodgrains pays the tax and the Union government was the biggest buyer of foodgrains for the Central pool, it was an indirect tax on the Centre. Despite pressure from the Centre, Balwant Singh did not relent. The net result that is in 2008-09, Punjab earned Rs 440.30 crore from paddy and Rs 442.83 crore from wheat as purchase tax paid by the Centre. Manpreet could have proposed a special food security tax to be paid by the Centre for foodgrains procured from the state. Even 5 per cent tax would have got the state an additional annual Rs 1,000 crore. With the Opposition favouring a maximum aid from the Centre, the state had a strong case to back the decision of new tax on the Centre, for which foodgrains are produced at a detriment to soil and underground water, besides power subsidy involved. After initial reluctance it would have been approved. Manpreet had 23.09 per cent of his Plan Budget for transport, including allocation for better roads and flyovers. There has been a huge increase in the number of vehicles in Punjab. Roads are not enough for motor vehicles, what to talk of a new generation of vehicles. All cities and towns are facing problems of the movement of vehicles and parking. Registration of vehicles, road tax and parking fee are other areas that could generate more revenue. After the Beijing Olympic Games, China taking the lead, drastically increased tax on vehicles to contain congestion on roads and check carbon and gas emission from vehicles adding to the pollution. If Balwant Singh could create sources of revenue to help the state build a network of roads linking villages with grain markets, another innovative scheme could help check a slide in the fiscal health of the state. Balwant had conceptualised the Rural Focal Point scheme. Now when the debate on Budget veered mainly round the Centre-state financial relations, many old-timers may have remembered Balwant for setting the ball for financial autonomy of the states rolling. Three kinds of mafia figured in the debate- land, sand and liquor. A check on these mafias could generate some fiscal relief for the state is another source that needed the Finance Minister’s attention.
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SSA to publish books this year also
Chandigarh, July 12 Responding to an attention notice by MLA Capt Balbir Singh Bath on the last day of the Budget session today, Dr Upinderjit Kaur said the authority would publish the books which had to be distributed to general category students of classes I to VIII in government schools across the state, while the rest would continue to be printed by the Punjab School Education Board. Bath had alleged that there was something amiss in the printing of the books by the education board. He said the same textbooks when published by the SSA Authority had saved them over Rs 5.5 crore. Till last year, the board was publishing all textbooks used in government schools. Other than the
SSA, the board printed books for the Social Welfare Department which distributed these to SC students from classes I to X in the schools. The board also printed books for non-government schools. Following a host of instances when the books published by the board were delivered late to schools (sometimes after the first trimester) the SSA Authority sought permission to get its own books printed for its students. “The experiment was undertaken as a pilot project and has yielded very good results,” said the Education Minister on the floor of the House. Compared to what the SSA paid the board for getting its books published, the SSA was able to save over Rs 5 crore by getting its own books printed. “The quality of books produced by the SSA were also much better than those printed by the education board,” admitted Dr Kaur. She added that the department has undertaken an inquiry into the publication of books by the board.
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Stripping of youth in police post: DC orders probe
Jalandhar, July 12 Pannu said had asked Sub-Divisional Magistrate -II Tanu Kashyap to look into the matter and report . No time frame was fixed for the completion of the inquiry, he added. Earlier SSP RK Jaiswal wrote to the DC to order a magisterial inquiry into the matter. While the inquiry is yet to be initiated, the police has already given a clean chit to the cops in front of whom youth Vishal had been stripped and beaten up at bus stand police post under division number six. The SSP claimed Vishal was merely showing his wounds to the cops present at the police post and no harm was done to him by any cop, yet he sent two cops , including head constable (HC) Balraj Singh and munshi Narendra Mohan to the Police Lines
. Jaiswal said they were shifted to so that they could not use influence to affect the inquiry. The SSP said Vishal was produced before a duty magistrate on Sunday where he stated he was not stripped and beaten up at the police post. To a query, he denied he had given this statement under pressure of the police. SHO of police division concerned Sakattar Singh claimed that Vishal had a dispute with Rajesh, a tea vendor near the police post, on Saturday. Rajesh and his friends brought him to the police post alleging Vishal had beaten him with an iron rod. Vishal accused Manga at the police post that he had also been beaten up and removed his clothes to show his injury marks to the cops there , the SHO claimed. Why was not Vishal sent to the civil hospital for medical examination, the SHO did not answer.
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Majithia’s car was allowed inside jail due to rain: Report
Ludhiana, July 12 In the report submitted to Jail Minister Hira Singh Gabria, the jail authorities have stated that when Majithia arrived to meet SAD councillor Simarjit Singh Bains in the Central Jail yesterday, it was raining. To protect the VIP from rain, his vehicle was allowed inside the premises, said the report. Confirming the development, Gabria said officials said due to rain iron gates were opened for the leader. The car was taken outside soon after he got out of it and the gates were locked again, he said. Gabria had sought a report from the jail authorities when he learnt that jail rules were bent for Majithia. Majithia visited the jail yesterday and met Bains for 15 minutes. His car was taken inside the jail premises beyond a point where no vehicle is allowed. The gates are never opened. For allowing entry to inmates and jail staff, the smaller gate is opened. Meanwhile, SGPC member and elder brother of Simarjit Singh Bains, Balwinder Singh Bains has alleged harassment by the jail authorities. Balwinder alleged he was treated inhumanly inside the premises. He was not given clean water to drink. He even said his life was at risk inside.
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Milkfed gets Rs 20-cr ghee order from SGPC
Chandigarh, July 12 Disclosing this here today, Managing Director, Milkfed, VK Singh said this order was an acknowledgement of the consistent quality maintained in the production of desi ghee that was being supplied regularly to the SGPC for more than two decades. He said during the last financial year 2008-09, this order was to the tune of Rs 12 crore. He said Milkfed Punjab was also regularly supplying desi ghee to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and recently got a supply order of 45 MT to be supplied in July 2009. Singh said desi ghee of Verka brand was very popular in Punjab and neighbouring states like Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, particularly because of its assured quality. Giving details of the export market of desi ghee, Singh said Milkfed had also captured a substantial market share in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Muscat, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea and Malaysia etc.
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Marxists against increase in pay of MLAs
Chandigarh, July 12 MCPI (United) general-secretary Jagjit Singh Lyallpuria, while briefing newsmen after a three-day central committee meeting of the party here today, said the legislators had put a needless burden on the state exchequer by this act. Lyallpuria said the committee had also reviewed the political situation after the Lok Sabha elections. He said, while the party welcomed the defeat of hindutva forces, it felt that the Manmohan Singh government was not representative of the people of the country. “The government is anti-people and anti-poor and it is necessary for all secular, left and democratic forces to unite, to put up a united fight against the government,” he added. The MCPI delegates also discussed the central budget. They expressed grave concern that the UPA government had not addressed the issue of power and drinking water for the vast masses. Similarly, there was a need to take back the “unjust” hike in petrol and diesel in order to arrest the rise of further inflation.
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1,500 cement-laden wagons stranded in Pak
Amritsar, July 12 Cement exporters based here have been up in arms against the Indian Railways for not allowing the cement cargo to reach the Indian territory as they have invested more than Rs 80 crore for bringing cement in India to meet the shortage. A delegation of Indian importers made a forceful representation of divisional railway office in Ferozepur for the early clearance of the cement cargo so that cement could reach the Indian territory at the earliest before the onset of monsoon. The spokesman of the importers said the senior operating manager of the Railways has assured them that early action would be taken to clear their cargo. He said the ministry of external affairs has issued guidelines to the Railways to keep a zero balance of the wagon on every 10th, 20th and 30th of the month without any backlog and the Railways was adhering to the directives of the ministry. The spokesman of the cement exporters fearing that the rains may spoil the cement stock loaded on dilapidated and outdated Pakistani railway wagons want immediate interchange to save several crores rupees in the high-stake cement business. Meanwhile, the exporters have also approached the railway ministry in Delhi and sought the intervention of the External Affair Ministry to allow one-time relief to bring the cement into India.
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DEO-Teachers Row
Tarn Taran, July 12 The dispute began about six weeks ago when DEO Sunita Kiran, on her visit to the Government Elementary School, Goindwal, had allegedly threatened the staff of the school following which a woman teacher had fallen down unconscious. Later she had to be admitted to the Civil Hospital. When the teachers were protesting against the DEO, she lodged a complaint against 20 teachers with the police for interfering in her official duty. The suspects in the case included eight leaders of a teachers’ organisation. Four leaders were suspended by the Education Department. A meeting of the district unit of the Adhyapak Sangarash Committee (ASC) was held here on Friday to discuss the suspension of the four leaders. The ASC decided to organise a dharna in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner on July 17 and intensify the agitation if the department failed to do justice to the agitating teachers.
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Water submerges standing crops in five villages
Sangrur, July 12 The paddy crop is reportedly under 1-ft to 2-ft-deep water and if the water is not drained out in a day or so, the standing paddy crop may get damaged. The water has been entering standing paddy crop continuously since yesterday from the Dhuri side. It is also reported that to save the standing crops, in a couple of villages link roads have been broken at two or three places so that water may pass out. SHO, Sadar police station, Devinder Singh and the Bhawanigarh Naib Tehsildar also visited the affected areas to take stock of the situation. Devinder Singh said due to overflow of water in a drain, water entered the standing crops in thousands of acres. He said keeping in mind the safety of villages, the Bhawanigarh Naib Tehsildar had allowed villagers to break the link roads at two or three places.
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Bhattal’s pat for Mattewal surprises Akalis
Chandigarh, July 12 Initiating the debate on the budgetary proposals, Bhattal not only described the Budget as empty and directionless, but also blasted the government for its failure on all fronts. The only saving grace for the ruling party, she commented, had been Mattewal, who had been defending their cases single-handedly. She also referred to the presence of Mattewal on the previous day when only non-legislative business was taken up. The Advocate-General enjoys the status of Cabinet minister and can be His praise by the Leader of the Opposition may be unprecedented in the annals of the state legislature.
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Renew registration, allopathic docs told
Patiala, July 12 It is perhaps for the first time that the Punjab Medical Council has started the process of the renewal of the registration of its members after its revival by efforts of the state branch of MCI. President of the academy Dr DS Bhullar has welcomed the decision of the council, which has emphasised for the renewal of the registration of its members every five years as well as compulsory continued medical education programme as per the notification issued by the MCI. He said the process of renewal of registration was in fact necessary to update the medical register maintained by the state medical councils to know the exact strength of the existing registered doctors and to delete the names of non-existing doctors, who had since expired or migrated to other states which were originally under the jurisdiction of the Punjab Medical Council
(PMC). It is to be mentioned that the process of renewal of registration was being opposed by the allopathic doctors due to some misunderstanding and the PMC had clarified in its meeting on June 13 that it was renewal and not the re-registration of the doctors under the council.
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Badal mourns deaths of Chann, Dhianpuri
Chandigarh, July 12 In a condolence message, the Chief Minister described Chann as a stalwart for bringing social awakening, whose writings gave a new dimension in strengthening the value systems in the society. He said the outstanding service of Chann for the promotion of Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiyat would be remembered by one and all. He also mourned the death of Dhianpuri whose acumen of rare wit and satire had earned him name and fame in literary circles. He always penned poetry and prose in the idiom of the common man, which made him a prolific writer, who had an urge to express the agonies and miseries of the disadvantaged sections of the society in a satirical manner. Badal said with the two deaths, Punjab and the literary world had been bereft of the invaluable services they had rendered for the enrichment of the Punjabi language, literature and culture throughout their lives.
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Couple ends life by jumping into channel
Nangal, July 12 The boy has been identified as Tarun
Sarkar, a Delhi resident from a voter ID card recovered from his belongings, which mentioned his age as 20 years. When people standing nearby ran to rescue the two after they jumped into the channel Tarun reportedly threatened to “embrace” them and drown them with him. Among the couple’s belongings that the police recovered on the channel’s banks were two travel bags containing laptops and mobile phones. The cops were still searching for their bodies in the water till the filing of this report.
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CM to meet PM over fuel price hike
Ludhiana, July 12 He said the hike in the diesel prices had burdened the state exchequer with an additional Rs 70 crore per year. The government had not been passing on this burden to people by deciding not to raise bus fares in the state, he said. “It is surprising that the crude oil prices has fallen in the international market, but the Central government has hiked these,” he added.
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