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DEO launches website to lessen teachers’ woes
Man murdered in Gidder village
Govt staff dwell upon RTI Act at seminar
Table tennis championship begins
Kabaddi tourney concludes
Seminar on physics commences GZSCET staff stir
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Grants for disability
rehab centre
Bathinda, November 18 The centre benefits the disabled persons of Malwa belt. The renovated and furnished centre was inaugurated on January 13, 2008, by the deputy commissioner and the president of District Red Cross Society, Rahul Tewari. However, after some months, the centre started facing financial crisis. Due to this, even salaries to the staff could not be paid for several months during the last financial year. Non-payment of salaries reportedly compelled some staff of the centre to leave their jobs, which led to the closure of the centre. Confirming the sanction of grant, an official dealing with the matters relating to the centre told The Tribune today that the centre would receive it within a week. He said Rs 1.5 lakh would be utilised for releasing pending salaries of the employees. He added that the staff (Physiotherapist, technician), who had left their jobs, had also been asked to join their duties. Meanwhile, the remaining sanctioned posts of moulder and speech therapist were being advertised. On behalf of the centre, the Department of Women and Child Development (Social Security branch), Punjab, recently wrote a letter to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi, seeking grant-in-aid of Rs 1.63 crore for the year
2009-10 under the scheme for purchase/fitment of aids/appliances. The aids and appliances include artificial limbs, calipers, tricycles, wheel chairs, crutches, hearing aids. |
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Graft charges
Moga, November 18 Punjab DGP PS Gill dismissed both of them from service under Article 311(2)(b) of the constitution of India, late in the evening on Wednesday. Earlier, they were suspended from the service by the SSP, last evening. However, they were yet to be arrested at the time of writing the news report. A few days back, head constable Jaswinder Singh posted in the Baghapaurana police station of the district was also dismissed from the service for
his alleged connivance with narcotic smugglers. A spokesman of the Punjab police while claiming that the drive against narcotic smugglers would continue
said that any black sheep colluding with anti-social elements would not be spared. As per the details available, an FIR has been registered against the SHO on the directions of the SSP Ashok Bath under sections 409, 221, 120-B of the IPC and sections 7, 13(2) and 88 of the Prevention of Corruption Act in the Kot-ise-Khan police station, last evening. The investigation has been handed over to Gurdarshan Singh, the DSP of Dharamkot area. As per the FIR, the SHO has been allegedly accused of taking a bribe of Rs 5.50-lakh from two drug smugglers Chuhar Singh and Karaj Singh, both residents of Daulewala village for helping them to run away from the spot on September 5, 2009 when he stopped a truck during a 'naka' from which 32 bags of poppy husk were recovered by him. The owner and driver of the truck were arrested from the spot while two others ran away from the spot. However, the SSP in the FIR against the SHO claims that Hastir recovered 40 bags of poppy husk instead of 32 bags from the truck and allegedly took Rs 5.50-lakh from Chuhar Singh and Karaj Singh who were also travelling on the same truck to run away from the spot. When contacted, Rajesh Hastir denied all the allegations and said that the DSP himself was present on the spot during the 'naka' at that time and he had put in his signatures on all the papers related to the recovery of poppy husk from the truck. "I had merely assisted the DSP in the naka," he said. He further said that actually 32 bags of poppy husk were recovered, which had been shown in the FIR and all records related to the case file. "The owner and driver of the truck were also interrogated in the interrogation centre at Amritsar where also 32 bags of poppy husk had been shown in the official record," he added. Further, adding that he had been framed in a fabricated case on the complaint of the two accused persons already wanted by the police, Hastir alleged that he had become victim of a deep-rooted controversy of the powerful lobby of drug smugglers who had manipulated with higher-ups in the police under the influence of certain politicians in power. Meanwhile, additional SHO of Kot-ise-Khan police station Sajjan Singh has been asked to officiate as SHO till further orders. The SSP office had not issued any orders of a regular posting of the SHO at the time of writing the news report as confirmed from the district police control room. |
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Home secy inspects Wakf properties in city
Bathinda, November 18 The Home Secretary, along with a huge cavalcade of state and district level officials, including the Chief Executive Officer of the Waqf Board, Punjab, Khushi Mohammad, visited various locations in the city but it was all kept a secret. When contacted at the local Circuit House, Ganta said, “I am conducting an investigation which is supposed to be secret. So I am not authorized to divulge its details as the report is to be submitted to the state government only.” However, highly-placed sources in the administration informed that he was in the city to inspect the locations owned by the Waqf Board. Seeking anonymity, the officials said, “The Home Secretary quietly visited various sites which were encroached upon by some individuals. He inspected the sites along the Bathinda-Rewari railway track, some streets of Deep Singh Nagar and a chunk of land located at the rear of a huge residential colony at Dabwali road.” “After visiting the sites, he ordered the officials of the Wakf Board to submit the whole (sale and purchase) detail of property belonging to the Board by November 25. He has also sought a list of property in the possession of the Board along with those, which were encroached upon by private persons,” the sources added. |
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DEO launches website to lessen teachers’ woes
Bathinda, November 18 Giving credit to Surinder Pal Kaur, former DEO (Secondary) of Bathinda, Mahinder Pal, district project coordinator, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, said she had initiated the project and it took over a month to launch the website. Harbans Singh Sandhu, DEO (Secondary), Bathinda, said, the website would make things easy for the teachers as well as the DEO office for reports and required information could now be uploaded and downloaded from the website www.deoofficebti.com. “Teachers had to leave teaching at times for submitting information asked by the DEO office. They used to complain about additional work being given to them as it called for a lot of time and legwork,” he added. Mahinder further informed that the website has three parts RMSA, Punjab information and communication technology and EDU-SAT where information can be added and received. “Schools have been given password for login and all government high schools and senior secondary schools have been directed to check the website daily. Teacher and student record would also be available there,” he said. The website was designed by a computer teacher from a government school here. |
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Man murdered in Gidder village
Bathinda, November 18 Two unidentified persons shot at Makhan Singh twice on November 10 evening and fled from the spot. Initially, the police registered a case for attempt to murder and robbery. However, during investigation, the police found that his son Hakam and wife Karamjit Kaur along with two contract shooters, Harjinder Singh and Sunny of Bagha Purana, a woman Jarnail Kaur of Burj Tharod who used to practice witchcraft and an helper of the family Boota Singh and his wife Baljit Kaur, had a role in the killing. Makhan succumbed to his injury on Monday and the police added section 302 of the IPC (murder) in the already registered case. Giving details, SP (D) Ajay Maluja today said Hakam and his wife Karamajit were irked over the tight-fisted attitude of Makhan Singh. They sought support of Boota Singh and his wife Baljit Kaur, who helped them contact Jarnail Kaur, who further arranged their meeting with the contract killers. “Jarnail Kaur was assured of Rs 40,000 for arranging meeting with the shooters, who killed Makhan reportedly for Rs two lakh,” Maluja claimed. Police recovered the weapon (.12 bore gun), four mobile phones and the motor-cycle used by the alleged shooters. Producing them in district courts today, the cops got two days of police remand of the accused to ascertain further facts. |
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Govt staff dwell upon RTI Act at seminar
Bathinda, November 18 Resource persons Naresh Mehta and Dhanwant Kaur detailed the participants upon the information related to the RTI Act. Later, an open discussion was also held on the topic. The employees asked the resource persons for solutions to the problems being faced by them in dealing with the applications filed under the RTI Act.
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Table tennis championship begins
Ferozepur, November 18 MP Sher Singh Ghubaya declared the championship open. Sukhpal Singh Nannu, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Basant Garg, ADC, GS Pannu, SDM, besides leaders from SAD-BJP, district officials, players from various districts of the state, school principals and hundreds of sportsmen were present on the occasion. Ghubaya lauded the efforts of the district administration and Ferozpur District Table Tennis Association (FDTTA) for organising the golden jubilee of the state-level event in this border town. He announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh for the renovation of the indoor stadium out of MPLAD funds. Earlier, the DC Kamal Kishore Yadav welcomed all the players and officials who had come from various parts of the state. — OC
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Sriganganagar/Abohar, November 18 In the national style kabaddi matches the team of village Nukera defeated Gurusar Modian team advantage extra time. Both the teams had scored 18 points each in the final match. — OC
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