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Family commits suicide, kid saved
Despite pledges, Rafi’s birthplace faces utter neglect
This is the place where once stood Mohammed Rafi’s house at Kotla Sultan Singh village in Amritsar district. The present house is now owned by a farmer. Photo by writer
Bhattal for action against ‘erring’ Cong leaders
Helpline for victims of Dowry Act misuse
Procurement of paddy, cotton made easy
Now, take samples for testing under RTI
PAP test puts candidates through ordeal
Mandi board detects market fee evasion
Malwa markets sans festive spark
Irrigation channels to be overhauled
1,022 tins of sweets seized
Rajasthan to buy fodder from state
Bathinda refinery to be ready by 2011
Passport project to start next month
MCI team inspects hospital
Eunuch’s desire to be a Haji does him in
Mock test postponed
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Law panel wants fresh survey of wakf properties
Chandigarh, October 11 Commission chairman Justice Amarbir Singh Gill has in a report submitted to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal stated that a preliminary survey of these properties was conducted when all the three states -Punjab Haryana and Himachal
Pradesh- formed one state under the Wakf Act 1954 and now half a century later, there is an urgent need to re-survey these properties. The commission’s report states that the survey report prepared by surveyors during joint Punjab does not to conform to the provisions of the Wakf Act 1954 and Punjab Wakf Rules 1960. “This very inaccuracy in preparation of the survey report and list of the wakf properties has resulted in uncalled for litigation with the farmers of the state,” the commission’s report stated. “If the list of the wakf properties published by the wakf board are re-examined, it may turn out that not only the land belonging to farmers but also a big chunk of state lands has been included in the wakf properties,” adds the report. The chairman points out that in several cases the joint Punjab survey report as well as the notification issued by the then Punjab Wakf Board does not even mention the particulars of the
wakfs. “As we know wakf is created by a person professing Islam by dedicating certain immovable properties or otherwise for pious purposes as recognised by Islam. The dedication is normally by deed in writing, including wakf-alal-aulad by which the dedicator creates interest for his progeny in the dedication, who continue as beneficiaries of the property till the successors of the
dedicator continue. The survey report did not mention anything about the dedication or details pertaining to the creation of wakfs and against such an entry the words written are “not known”,” states Gill. “The commission could obtain a part of the voluminous notification published by the board for Ludhiana. Surprisingly enough, the survey report contravenes the specific provisions of the Wakf Act 1954 and Punjab Wakf Rules 1960,” adds Gill. “The survey report as a result does not create legal title in the properties listed in the notification in favour of the Wakf Board. This government may consider the report and recommendations of the commission and initiate a necessary action it so decides,” concludes Gill’s letter to the Chief Minister. The commission’s report also questions the absolute powers vested in the board in case of disputes related to these properties. “The board and its officials can evict anyone in possession of immovable property, including agriculture property just on the basis of entry in the list.”
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Poor technology bane of cottonseed industry
Chandigarh, October 11 According to Prof Madan Kaushal, who has done extensively research in this field, there is a need to separate pieces of cotton (cotton linters), which remain stuck to the seed during ginning. Following this, it is necessary to separate hulls from the core so that oil can be extracted from it. Kaushal maintains the final cotton seed cake, which is obtained after oil has been extracted, carries 48 per cent protein and is a boon for the dairy industry. Kaushal, whose work has been appreciated by Milkfed as well as private companies, says in Punjab whole cottonseed continues to be crushed which besides resulting in less oil production also results in low quality cottonseed cake contaminated with 8 to 10 per cent cotton linters. “This despite the fact that many cotton ginners in Andhra Pradesh have installed the latest technology to process cottonseed scientifically. Even Pakistan has installed 56 machines of the latest technology”, he adds. According to a research paper prepared by Kaushal, cotton linters are exportable and their rate is between Rs 13,400 to Rs 26,100 per metric tonne. “They have manifold industrial applications and are the richest and cheapest source of raw material for production of cellulose,” he said, adding that linters have application in automobile air filters, paper and paint industry besides chemical and pharmaceutical applications. Punjab Milkfed, which has also researched the issue after a submission by Kaushal, maintains that if cotton seeds are processed scientifically, the protein content is increased from 16 -20 per cent to 40-43 per cent and fibre content is reduced to 12-15 per cent. It has also recommended that the state government should take up the issue of setting up scientific cottonseed processing plants on a “mission mode” approach so that the benefits of cottonseed and its byproducts could be made available to dairy farmers, growers and entrepreneurs alike. Kaushal says the state has lost a lot by not going in for scientific processing as was with the case of the Aditya Birla group. He said the company wanted to use cellulose for its Grasim division but due to unscientific processing gave up the project, as it did not find any market for the resultant byproduct - delinted cottonseed. He says with no industry in the cotton belt of the state producing cellulose from cotton linters, any such initiative would create immense employment opportunities.
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Family commits suicide, kid saved
Ropar, October 11 The couple had furnished wrong information in the records of boating visitors. The man had mentioned himself as Jagdish Singh from Chhoti Haveli village near Ropar. However, when a police party tried to locate a man by this name in the village it could not find any antecedents. The police team took the sole survivor of the family to Chhoti Haveli village, but none of the villagers were able to identify her. “It was the child’s mother who gave details to the boating record keeper. It seems that the details given were wrong. The child is too afraid to tell anything,” said the DSP. Meanwhile, the child kept on calling for her mother and had been kept in custody of a boat rower’s family.
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Malaysian honour for Dr Khush
Ludhiana, October 11 The award was conferred by Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohammad Najib in recognition of Dr Khush’s ‘perseverance, leadership, commitment and revolutionary work in systematically pioneering and developing rice varieties that have overwhelmingly contributed towards the alleviation of world hunger’. The Academy of Science of Malaysia launched the award in 2004 in honour of the former prime minister, Dr Mahathir. One award is conferred every year covering tropical medicine, tropical agriculture, tropical architecture and engineering and tropical natural resources management. The award carries
RM 100,000, a gold medal and a citation. Dr Khush, who is known as Paddy Daddy in the world for his contribution to the rice revolution, has served at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, for 35 years. Under his leadership, the institute developed more than 320 varities of rice which are now sown in more than 60 per cent of the area under rice cultivation in the world. If Dr Borlaug is known as father of the wheat revolution, Dr Khush is credited with rice revolution in
the world. Dr Khush received Borlaug Award for achievements in breeding in 1977, World Food Prize in 1966, Wolf Prize in Agriculture from Israel in 2000. He also received an award from China in 2001. Dr Khush, an alumnus of Punjab Agricultural University, has donated the entire prize money totalling Rs 3.5 crore to his alma mater for research and teaching activities. After his retirement from IRRI, Philippines, Dr Khush is now working as Adjunct Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA.
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Despite pledges, Rafi’s birthplace faces utter neglect
Kotla Sultan Singh
(Amritsar), October 11 Kotla Sultan Singh, located about 25 km from Amritsar, does not even have a single memorial to remind one that the popular singer was raised here till the age of 11. In 1936 his father, Haji Ali Mohammed, a ‘halwai’ (sweetmeat) cook moved to Lahore in search of better prospects, with the rest of the family following later. In Lahore Rafi assisted his father in his newly opened hair salon till the director of the Lahore Radio Station one day spotted him singing. He was later invited to sing for the radio and never looked back after that. Though his melodious voice inspired countless fans, Rafi’s village continues to be completely neglected by the authorities. The home where he was born was reportedly demolished by a farmer who claimed he had “bought” the piece of land after partition. A small building without any signboard outside the village, said to have been earmarked for a library in memory of the singer, is in a shambles without even a single book in it. The building is reportedly being used (or misused) by some sewer men and their families who have made it their home. Despite a lot of empty promises by political leaders to develop the village nothing has been done by either the district administration or the Punjab government. Kundan Singh, 86, a childhood friend of Rafi, lamented that pledges made by a few politicians in the past to build a suitable memorial in the name of the singer was yet to be fulfilled. “Nothing has been done here in his native village to perpetuate the immortal singer’s memory. The mango tree on which Rafi had inscribed his name before leaving for Lahore has also been cut down,” he said. Kundan produced a newspaper clipping of an item in which Amritsar MP Navjot Singh had been quoted as assuring residents of the village that he would release a grant of Rs 21 lakh for constructing a Rafi memorial there. However, the village has yet to receive even a fraction of these funds. Recounting Rafi’s childhood days in the village, Kundan fondly recalled a reunion with him in 1956 when the singer had come to Amritsar for a performance. “Rafi shared his dream of turning his birthplace into a model village during his Amritsar visit in 1956. He was even ready to take time off for a few days to speed up development in the village provided its residents showed any interest. However, his plans went awry by the villagers’ apathy,” he said.
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Bhattal for action against ‘erring’ Cong leaders
Jalandhar, October 11 “I recommend strong disciplinary action against those Congress leaders, who are deliberately defying the instructions of state Congress chief Mohinder Singh Kaypee,” she claimed. She was of the view that stringent action should be taken against the party leaders and workers, so that such incidents may not repeat in future. Bhattal was addressing mediapersons before attending the 17th death anniversary of Darshan Singh Kaypee, father of PPCC chief and MP from Jalandhar Mohinder Singh Kaypee here today. Hinting towards Amarinder, Bhattal claimed, “No individual is above the party. The party is supreme and one should follow the guidelines of the high command.” Talking on the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) deal, Bhattal claimed that the Badal government has leased out the prestigious project to its certain ‘favorites’ in connivance with a lobby of bureaucrats. She claimed that a lobby of certain bureaucrats in the Punjab government was behind the deal since long and had even suggested the proposal to the erstwhile Congress government, too. “The ruling government accepted their proposal, which we had rejected in public interest,” she revealed. The Congress would scrap the deal if it comes in power in the next elections. The party has taken a serious note of the PIMS deal and would taken legal action in this regard, she added. Bhattal also criticised the ruling alliance for its failure at every front and demanded that the CM should quit on moral grounds. She alleged that terrorism has raised its ugly head in the SAD regime. The miscreants have dared to sneak into the state in connivance of certain Alkali leaders, she added. Talking about the threat to blow off the Congress Bhawan, Bhattal claimed that the party is never afraid of such hoax calls and its members would visit the Congress Bhawan thrice instead of once a day from now onward. She, however, alleged the ‘so called’ Babbar Khalsa International, a terrorist outfit, has written threat letters on support of the SAD leaders. The Congress has taken a serious note of the threats and has demand investigation by certain central agencies to expose the actual person behind this episode, Bhattal claimed. Meanwhile, Amarinder, his loyalist MLAs and the Congress leaders stayed away from the occasion. Absence of his loyalists once again clearly showed the groupism in the state Congress. All the Congress leaders (seven out of 10), who contested the Assembly elections on party ticket, had not attended the party’s dharna lead by Kaypee against the state government on September 25. These Congress leaders were seen rubbing shoulders to mark their presence on the recent visit of Amarinder Singh on October 3.
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Helpline for victims of Dowry Act misuse
Ludhiana, October 11 There has been a debate and arguments against the misuse or overuse of the Dowry Act in the recent past, but now this group has come out on the streets and launched a campaign seeking amendments in the Act that was being ‘‘misused to terrorise innocent husbands, their mothers, sisters and even children.’’ The activists of the Swatantra Aawaaz Welfare organisation under their
campaign-Adhoora Sach Jaano (know the true side also) have got together and launched a massive programme to help the victims of misuse of Dowry. Available on 24-hour helpline-96463-89140 and 93169-29321, the activists have already started helping the victims of the Dowry Act, who never demanded dowry but were implicated, as their marriages could not be a success. ‘‘As many as 1.25 lakh women of all ages (from elderly to teenagers) were put behind bars after couples could not strike chords. What was their fault? We are aiming to help all similar victims come out of this crisis. They suffer without any of their fault as they are also booked by the women who want to teach a lesson to their in-laws family, ’’ said Gaurav
Saini, a Mohali-based activist. Stating that already 1 lakh youths from all over India, including activists of 50 NGOs and 40 chapters of the Save Indian Family Foundation have got together, Gaurav said they were campaigning massively and demanding that the Section 489-A should be made bailable and a
non-cognisable offense. Besides, they also demanded that the Domestic Violence Act too should be made gender-neutral. He said they were counselling many victims, who were suffering from mental ailments after their sisters, mothers and other female relatives were made to remain in jail amidst criminals.
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Procurement of paddy, cotton made easy
Chandigarh, October 11 “This has been done on the direction of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal who wanted these officers to ensure that paddy and cotton was procured without any hitch in their sector and there was no shortage of DAP fertiliser for the forthcoming wheat sowing season,” said DS Guru, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister. Guru added that the RBI had sanctioned a credit reserve of Rs 12,128 crore for paddy procurement in Punjab. “Farmers would be paid through cheques. They can, however, take up to Rs 10000 as cash payment for any urgent requirements,”
he added. Giving details of the sector-wise divisions, Guru said Patiala Divisional Commissioner Jasbir Singh Bir would be responsible for the procurement process in districts Patiala Sangrur, Barnala and Ludhiana while Divisional Commissioner Jalandhar S R Ladhar would be in charge of districts Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Jalandhar and Kapurthala. Divisional Commissioner Ferozepur PS Sudan would look after districts Ferozepur, Faridkot
and Moga. SS Sandhu, special principal secretary to the Chief Minister, would be responsible for Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur and Nawashahar, while KDS Cheema, special principal secretary to the Chief Minister, would look after Bathinda, Mansa and Muktsar. Vishvajit Khanna, special principal secretary to the Deputy Chief Minister, would be in charge at SAS Nagar, Fatehgarh Sahib and Ropar. “These officers are expected to tour the mandis within their areas and be available to sort out any problems relating to paddy and cotton procurement, including its lifting, storage and payment to the farmers,” added Guru. Guru himself has been asked to supervise the entire process centrally.
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Now, take samples for testing under RTI
Chandigarh, October 11 Singh said According to the Chief Information Commissioner, Punjab, an individual is required to contact a Public Information Officer for depositing the requisite fee before taking the samples from a construction site to the laboratory for testing. This would help in bringing the transparency in the working of various government departments. The CIC said the commission was acting as a catalyst to achieve its prime objective of transparency and accountability; thus, empowering the people, especially the decision-making officers. He said while drafting one had to be very careful before seeking information and should know whether the PIO was capable of providing information with regard to the specific information sought by him. He said the state information commission, since its inception in 2005, had received 10,925 complaint and appeals during the last four years. He said of these 10,026 had been disposed off and 899 were pending for disposal with different benches of the commission as on August 31, 2009, and the average number of complaints received was about 400 per month. The total number of cases where penalty levied and cases where compensation had been rewarded was 84 and 165 cases, respectively, he added. He further informed the commission was uploading the information in Punjabi so as to create awareness among the masses in the state about their rights. He said that they were also holding meetings with people and organising seminars to educate the masses in this regard. He said they would soon organise a seminar at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Studies to create awareness among the students about the RTI Act and how could they seek information. He, however, accepted that there were some constraints in the functioning of the commission, as there was no change in the mindset of the politician. He said almost all the government departments in the state did not have digitised data of the records resulting in the delay in providing information to the people. There was also lack of proper infrastructure such as computers and electronic devices and unavailability of quality human resource in the commission, he added.
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PAP test puts candidates through ordeal
Jalandhar, October 11 The candidates, who had been told to turn up at 7 am, were allowed to enter the various examination centres only two hours later. Even then the question paper was distributed to them at about 1 pm and test was over at 2:00 pm, though the time given to solve the paper was one hour and 15 minutes. Most of the candidates came to the city last evening to avoid being late for the test the next morning and had to put up for the night at the train station, bus stand, gurdwaras and even under rail overbridges. Due to a sleepless night they had difficulty in solving the question paper. The police authorities concerned had failed to check whether proper arrangements were in place at the various examination centers to conduct the test. The test centers were set up at seven educational institutes for the over 10,000 candidates who had already cleared their physical exam out of nearly 60,000 aspirants. “We spent the night in one of the city’s gurudwara. We expected we would be free by 10:30 in the morning as the test’s duration was only one and a half hours”, said Virsa Singh, who came with his son from Sarai Imanat Khan, Amritsar. He said they had to go without breakfast and lunch till 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Baljit Singh from Garhdiwala, Hoshiarpur, narrated a similar ordeal, saying he was forced to spend the night at the train station. Bakshish Singh from Talwara said he had to stay at the city bus stand along with his son. There was great resentment among the candidates over the Punjab Armed Police’s handling of the entire exercise. “Instead of asking thousands of youth to turn up here the PAP should have made arranged for conducting the test in other places in the state”, remarked one of them who had come all the way from Muktsar. Some candidates rued they ended up spending Rs 1,000 or more on the cost of transportation and lodging.
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Mandi board detects market fee evasion
Amritsar, October 11 In case of an evasion of market fee, the accused commission agent, it was learnt, was to pay penalty at a rate of 10 times of the evaded market fee amount along with the same amount of Rural Development Fund (RDF) coupled interest at the rate of 18 per cent per annum in case, the RDF payment was delayed by the agent, as per the provisions of the Section 23 of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Market Act 1961. The buyer has to deposit an amount at the rate of 2 per cent on the sale and purchase of agriculture produce on advolarm basis along with a leviable RDF at a rate of 2 per cent. Board Deputy General Manager Jagtar Singh Sanghera said the firm had resorted to false billing, even as, originally, it was laible to pay the market fee Rs Rs.7.32 lakh plus same amount of the RDF. After detection of evasion, the firm was, however, made liable to pay an amount of Rs. 89.64 lakh. “As per procedure, we have already sent demand notices to the firm. In fact, it was a case of bogus billing,” Sanghera said. On the other hand, the board authorities have detected evasion of market fee worth over Rs 2 crore in markets of Nakodar, Kalanaur, Deenanagar, Batala and Kapurthala during the assessment of different commission agent firms. “In this case, we have sent assessment notices to the firms concerned and further investigations are on,” Sanghera said asserting that the “black sheep” within the department, if any, would be dealt with sternly. ”No body, will be spared if found conniving with the evaders,” added Sanghera.
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Malwa markets sans festive spark
Bathinda, October 11 The reasons are several-meltdown, lack of monsoon, power cuts etc. Be it owners of the cloth markets or durable goods shops, all resent that the hope of markets recovering from recession is subsiding with the each passing day, as money is yet to reach in hands of the consumers. “The markets have not been doing well for over the past one year. We pinned high hopes on festivals, but it also failed to give us respite,” trades said. “The markets in the region depend entirely upon agriculture activities,” said president of the Beopar Mandal, Bathinda, Rajinder Raju adding, “Malwa is a completely agriculture-based economy and for several reasons, like farmers still engaged in produce-selling activities, row between sellers and government, the money is yet to reach hands of the buyers. That, in turn, is proving detrimental to the business activities.” Secretary of the Beopar Mandal, Bathinda, Somnath Bansal said the last year had not been favourable for the traders. “Earlier, business activities here suffered a blow to some extent due to meltdown. Later, we reeled under power cuts. The weather had also remained harsh- forcing the customers to remain indoors,” Bansal said. “As if these were not enough, the festival season has come before the paddy reaching the markets, which is some 25 days ahead of its normal time. In the whole, all went against the traders.” Echoing similar sentiments, president of the Wholesale Cloth Merchants Association, Bathinda, Sat Pal Goyal does admit that from the last two to three days, there has been an increase in trade. “But it will not help in recovering the loss, as Diwali is after just six days,” he added. “The peak season has gone,” Goyal said.
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Irrigation channels to be overhauled
Chandigarh, October 11 He said under the Upper Bari Doab System (UBDC), the water courses would be constructed at a cost of Rs 243 crore and would cover 210 villages. An amount of Rs 38.03 crore has already been spent on this project so far. Work on the construction of Kotla Canal System has been completed and Rs 78.24 crore has been spent to construct water courses of 25 villages of Sangrur, Mansa and Bathinda districts and 62,000 farmers would benefit from this scheme. On the Eastern Canal System, Rs 73.26 crore has been spent to construct the water courses of 10 villages of Ferozepur district, which would benefit 11,000 farmers. Similarly, under the Sirhind Feeder Phase, 2 canal system, Rs 407.03 crore would be spent to construct water courses of 325 villages of Mukatsar, Faridkot and Ferozepur, which would benefit to 8,32,000 farmers. Rs 51.85 crore has been spent under this scheme so far. The minister further said the water courses of Bathinda branch phase-2 canal system would also be constructed at a cost of Rs 238.18 crore and it would cover 195 villages of Sangrur, Barnala, Bathinda and Mukatsar and 5,65,000 farmers would benefit with this scheme. As much as Rs 49.02 crore has been spent on this project so far.
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1,022 tins of sweets seized
Fazilka. October 11 Sikri while briefing mediapersons said approximately 15,330 kg of rassogullas and chum-chum were stored in these tins. He said these sweets belonged to 4 sweet sellers of Mandi Arniwala of Fazilka subdivision about 22 kgfrom here on Malout road. According to Kumar these samples were sent to the food testing laboratory of the Health Department at Chandigarh through a special official. He said the report of the test lab shall be received in about 3 days. After the receipt of the report the sweet would be released if found fit for human consumption. Alternatively, they would be destroyed if found substandard and the owners of sweets would be booked under the law. Till then the sweets would remain sealed in the cold store.
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Rajasthan to buy fodder from state
Bathinda, October 11 A team of five officials from Rajasthan, headed by Jodhpur assistant collector Parameshwaran, have reached Punjab to get a suitable price for the fodder. After visiting Abohar, the team today reached Bathinda, where they had a meeting with private sellers as well as officials of the market committee. The Rajasthan delegation admitted that the stock of dry fodder for their nine lakh cattle was just enough for a couple of months. “To meet future requirement, we have been meeting sellers to get their rates. After analysing all the details (availability of product and the rates demanded), we will place the orders,” the officials said. Parameshwaran said, “We have planned to visit about 15 markets in the state. However, before finalising the deal, we will definitely avail the option of inviting tenders. The Punjab administration would be urged to facilitate the arrangement.” The officials said they were willing to purchase dry fodder at Rs 300 per quintal, whereas sellers in Bathinda were demanding more than Rs 400 per quintal. “That is why we have decided to visit various parts of the state to get the best price,” they added.
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Bathinda refinery to be ready by 2011
Phulokhari, October 11 Claiming to have completed more than 44 per cent of the total construction work, officials said the 9 million metric ton oil production capacity refinery would be commissioned by mid-2011. To take a first-hand account of the progress report, the board of directors and the chairman of the HMEL today, for the first time, held a meeting at the site. After the meeting, chairman of the HMEL Arun Balakrishnan disclosed to the media that out of the total estimated investment, about Rs 5,300 crore had already been invested in the project. Balakrishnan further informed that the company that at present had been getting a sales tax exemption of around Rs 250 crore from the Punjab government had asked for additional fiscal incentives of Rs 2,500 crore. About the response of the state government over the issue, he termed it as positive. However, he maintained that the Punjab government should match the incentives given by other states like Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh to the refineries. Speaking further, Balakrishnan said, “We are also looking at achieving over 25 per cent market share once the refinery is fully commissioned. It will also help in increasing the supply of our products in the northern markets, which was suffering till date.”
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Passport project to start next month
Amritsar, October 11 Meanwhile, the procedure of issuing passports will remain with the passports offices. He said the proposed plan to take off from the next month would initially be implemented in Chandigarh and
Bangalore. Following its success in the two cities the service would be replicated in other passport offices of the country, including here. He said for the benefit of the public the government had done away with various rates for applying of passport under its Tatkal passport service and for lost and damage passports. Instead a uniform rate of Rs 1,500 has been introduced for the all these categories under which all papers had to be submitted within a week of submission of application under the Tatkal
service. Sodhi said the people working with the government would be issued passports before verification of the police provided they submit a no-objection certificate from their offices.
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MCI team inspects hospital
Patiala, October 11 The team visited the wards of the Government Rajindra Hospital, its outpatient departments and the wards of the gynaecology department. The team had taken note of the lack of modern medical equipment in some of the departments of the hospital, which is attached with the medical college. The team also held a meeting with the principal of the medical college, Dr Surinder Singh. It had last time taken a serious note of the shortage of teaching staff in the college. It had desired that the vacant posts of the teaching faculty be filled up immediately or else the medical college could face disaffiliation for the MBBS course. The principal said the team were satisfied with the facilities available in the college and the hospital. He said certain machines, like the CT scan and X-ray machines, had been installed in the hospital sometime back. He said the faculty position in the college had improved compared to last year. The MCI team was headed by Dr Ram Parkash from Delhi, Dr SK Shukla from Allahabad, and Dr Sanjay Gupta from Delhi.
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Eunuch’s desire to be a Haji does him in
Ludhiana, October 11 Member of the State Haj Committee Mohd Usmaan, while talking to The Tribune, said he would take up the issue with the Central Haj Committee that the candidature of Aslam be rejected and he should be banned from going to
Haj forever. As the Muslim laws do not allow a eunuch or a woman to go on Haj without a male guardian, Aslam showed himself as a man in his application to the Regional Passport Office. During an inquiry before issuing of a passport, the police found out that Aslam was a eunuch. They also found that he already had a passport in the name of Guddi Mahant, thereby showing him as a woman. But his desire to be a Haji forced him to show him as a man. Meanwhile, the police has registered a case under Section 420/467/468 and 47 of the IPC against the eunuch.
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Mock test postponed
Nawanshahr, October 11 The test would be conducted on October 22 and 23, informed district science supervisor Balihar Singh Bains, adding that for further details the school heads belonging to different districts should contact their respective district education officers or the district science supervisors.
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Four members of a family, including a couple and their two children, jumped to death into Sutlej here today.
The couple hired a boat for boating around 11 am and paddled into the middle of the river with their two children. First they threw the children into the water and then jumped themselves. While lifeguards on duty managed to fish out the couple’s four-year-old daughter from the water, the other three were missing till filing of this report.
Malaysian honour for Dr Khush
Kotla Sultan Singh
(Amritsar), October 11
team of district health officials on a tip-off from the CID, here have seized 1,022 tins of different sweets stored in a cold store located at Malout road on the outskirt of the town.
In the presence of Ferozepur Civil Surgeon Dr. Dalip Kumar, District Health
Officer Dr Rakesh Sikri along with Senior Medical Officer Civil Hospital Dr YK
Gupta and other health officials and the police party took about one dozen
samples of different sweets of different lot numbers kept in about 1,022 tins
covered with polythene.
Phulokhari, October 11
