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Nod to shift fencing near zero line
Villagers protest location of fencing
Harsimrat flays surrender policy for Kashmir militants
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CM Parkash Singh Badal inaugurating the institute of automotive driving skills at village Mahuana on Friday. Parkash M. Telang, MD (India Operations) Tata Motors Ltd., Punjab Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal were also present. A Tribune photograph
Helpline launched to prevent suicides
Farmer ends life
Setback for Rail Samiti as track conversion plan suffers jolt
TB awareness camp held
GHTP declared commercial
Rajindra College Sports Meet
Opium seized, two held
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Nod to shift fencing near zero line
Abohar, February 19 Confirming it, BSF DIG Vimal Satyarthi told this correspondent on Friday evening that work has been started and is to be completed within six months. This will bring about 2000 acres of agricultural land out of fencing. The DIG said shifting of wire fencing will be taken up on about 15 km long border in Fazilka and Jalalabad areas. In Fazilka, the work is to be carried out in the border belt of Bachiittar Ke, Gorkha Bhatti and Gulaba Bhaini villages. The villages under this scheme in Jalalabad area have been identified as Tahliwala, Jodhewala, Shams Ke and Bahadur Ke. It is learnt that while responding to queries from Ministry of Home Affairs, the sector headquarter of the BSF here had confirmed that these families had been facing problems as their land was about 1.5 to 2 km deep across the fencing whereas the distance between the barbed fencing and the zero line in other cases was approximately 150-200 meter. The longer distance of fencing from the zero line resulted in multiple problems for female members of these families for years as they had to be frisked by elderly women of the same village for safe entry through the manned gates that were normally opened at 9 am and closed by 5 pm or even earlier. The BSF last year recruited women staff and deployed them at the gates after proper training. Even then the affected families had to traverse longer distance to carry farming related activities. There are many families who were still waiting for tubewell connections to irrigate the land located on the other side of the wire fencing. Notably the farmers have to be guarded by BSF men during
their day long stay across the wire fencing to avert mischief from the other side of the international border as well as to keep close vigil on the activities of smugglers, sources said. |
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Villagers protest location of fencing
Gulaba Bahini (Fazilka), Feb 19 The residents demanded that cobra fencing, erected on the Indo-Pak border about 25 years ago and passing from this area, must be shifted near zero line. While talking to TNS, the residents said that as per the plans, a significant part of relocated fencing would be 500 meter or more than that deep inside the Indian territory from zero line despite the fact that the exercise of relocation of fencing, worth crores of rupees, was started to take it near to zero line.“We are contemplating to approach the high court to get much needed relief for us as the authorities concerned seems to have turned a deaf ear towards our long-standing problems of shifting the fencing near zero line,” the resident sounded a note of warning. They added that if the fencing was not shifted near zero line, they would continue to face the same problems as were being faced by them now. They added that now they had been finding it difficult to look after their crops sown in the fields located across the fencing as the BSF authorities allowed them to work from eight in the morning till five in the evening. In absence of proper care of crops, they had been getting less yield from their fields as compared to those farmers, who had been cultivating the fields which were free from any fencing or restriction. Not only this, they had been finding it difficult to repay the loans taken by them for agriculture operations in absence of any income from it. On the other hand, Vimal Satyarthi, DIG, BSF, Abohar, who met the residents yesterday, said that BSF authorities were leaving no stone unturned to give maximum relief to those, whose pieces of agriculture land were located across the fencing. He pointed out that fencing wire could not be taken near zero line at those points where the border with Pakistan was curved shaped. He added that he had asked his field officers to look into the matter and do the needful for extending maximum benefits to the residents of the border village. He added that about 2,000 acres of land, which was situated across the fencing in Abohar sector of the Indo-Pak border, would be out of fencing area after it (fencing) was taken ahead of its present location. About 200 families belonging to Tahliwala, Gorkha Ghati, Jodhewala, Samaske and this village would get relief due to relocation of fencing.
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Harsimrat flays surrender policy for Kashmir militants
Mansa, February 19 Harsimrat said this while talking to media persons after inaugurating the Police Public School, Mansa. Commenting on the statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram she said that Congress governments have been adopting discriminatory policies against Sikhs from the very beginning. “If Kashmiri militants who had crossed over to Pakistan could be asked to return after renouncing terrorism, then why are Sikh militants being exempted from this,” she added. She said all citizens of country should be treated as equal before the law. Sikh militants who had crossed over to other countries during the militancy era should also be covered under new surrender policy, she maintained. It is because of the discriminatory policies adopted by the Congress governments that those accused of anti-Sikh riots of 1984 could not be convicted till now, she added. She informed that this issue would be raised in the Parliament. On the issue of violence against Indian students in Australia, she criticised the UPA government for not properly taking up this issue with the Australian authorities. She also assured that RO systems were being set up to provide safe drinking water and promised free treatment for poor people in the cancer hospital to come up at Bathinda. The MP visited eight villages in the Budhlada area and distributed grants worth Rs 50 lakh for development. She praised the efforts made by the officials for starting Police Public School as well. SAD general secretary Balwinder Singh Bhunder said despite the negative approach of the Congress, the Bathinda refinery would come up with the efforts of the Akali Dal. District president of the SAD Harbant Singh Datewas, former MLA Sukhwinder Singh Aulakh, Gurpreet Singh Banawali, IG Bathinda range Rohit Chaudhary and DC Kumar Rahul were also present on the occasion.
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CM inaugurates driving school
Mahuana
(Muktsar), February 19 Addressing a large gathering after inaugurating the Rs 18-crore State Institute of Automotive and Driving Skill here, Badal said the efforts of the state government to provide gainful employment opportunities to the rural youth through establishing such skill development centres aimed at imparting short term technical training that would not only help them to earn their livelihood but also change the economic scenario of the state drastically in the near future. The Chief Minister also announced to set up private security training institutes at all district headquarters to impart hi-tech training to the youth. These initiatives of the state government would not only curb the menace of unemployment to some extent but also ensure a dignified living to unemployed youth who were now sitting idle. He impressed upon the big industrial houses to join hands with the state government to set up skill development training centres to gainfully absorb the unemployed youth in the industry and infrastructure projects. Expressing deep concern over the problem of unemployment which was growing at an alarming rate, Badal said this unhealthy trend must the checked forthwith otherwise it would lead to lawlessness and unrest among the youth. The Centre should evolve a multi-pronged strategy in consultation with the state governments to tackle it effectively. Among others present on the occasion were transport minister Master Mohan Lal, Member Parliament Sher Singh Ghubaya and MLA Malout Harpreet Singh. |
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Helpline launched to prevent suicides
Bathinda, February 19 The helpline numbers are 99884-00101 and 98140-74074, which can be called round-the-clock. “Ensuring a quick response, our ambulance carrying expert volunteers would reach the person within a few minutes and if required, would take him/her to the crisis centre,” said Vijay Goyal, president of the NGO. Mission of the helpline is to check the regular incidents of suicides, taking place in canals, lakes and railway tracks in the district. Speaking further, Goyal said the helpline would not only make efforts to prevent suicides, it would also play its role in intervention and aftercare services. Besides a team of dozen volunteers of the NGO, a local psychiatrist Dr Vandana Singla has given her consent to provide free services and counsel persons planning to commit suicide. Further, NGO activists have been making efforts to make some tie-up with the district police and civil administration to provide aftercare to all, who will be prevented from committing suicide. “In the long journey of life, I have observed that extra-marital affairs, failure of marriages and love relations, poor academic results, monetary loss, etc are some of the major reasons pushing individuals to end their lives. Keeping in view all this and to give such persons an outlet to vent their feelings, we have started this helpline,” said Vijay Goyal. |
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Bathinda, February 19 Sources in the village said Baljeet was the adopted son of Roor Singh, who declared in his will the transfer of 3.5 acres of land to Baljeet. Later, after indulging in drinking and gambling, Roor Singh withdrew the will. He sold the land to four persons, namely Gurparkash, his wife Chhinder Pal Kaur and one Kaka Singh, all from Fatoohiwala village, and one Ranjeet Singh of Maseeta village. Frustrated over losing the land, Baljeet ended his life by consuming poison. In a statement to the police, mother of the deceased Kartar Kaur said she found her son dead on Friday morning. During the search, the police found a suicide note in his pocket, which accused his father and all the four buyers of the land of compelling him to commit suicide. Acting upon the statement, the Sangat police booked all five under sections 306 and 34 of the IPC. — TNS
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Setback for Rail Samiti as track conversion plan suffers jolt
Sriganganagar/Abohar, February 19 Samiti convener Baldev Sain said the tenders floated for February 12 were cancelled at the last moment without assigning any reason. Earlier, too the tenders floated in November last year were cancelled. More than 5,000 persons had so far dispatched hand written postcards urging the Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee to get the conversion work expedited on war footing. Notably, Nitish Kumar, the then Railway minister, had laid the foundation stone of the conversion work on September 21, 2003. He had announced that the project that had been awaiting nod for the past decade would be completed within five years. However, later adequate funds were never allocated by the successive ministers. — OC
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Bathinda, February 19 District TB Officer Dr Rakesh Gupta, SMO Dr Jasveen Kaur, Dr Seema Gupta, JR Goyal, Sonu Goyal and others sensitised the attendees to the TB. They informed them about TB symptoms, like loss of appetite, high fever, loss of weight etc. The speakers also told the gathering that every TB patient should get treatment of the disease without any interruption from six to eight months. Under the revised national TB control programme (RNTCP), the TB medicine was given free of cost to the patients at all hospitals. — TNS
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GHTP declared commercial
Bathinda, February 19 Disclosing it, Member (Generation), Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), GS Sra today said after completing its trial period, the authorities declared the unit commercial recently. Expressing his satisfaction over the performance of all the four units of the GHTP, Sra said the plant was performing more than its rated capacity. Officials of the GHTP informed that the plant had achieved the highest daily generation of 228.60 lakh units on February 18 this year at the plant load factor of 103.53 per cent, which was also the highest in the history of PSEB.
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Parmanand, Pinki adjudged best athletes
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, February 19 Earlier, on the concluding day of the meet today, Malkinder emerged as the fastest boy on track as he won the 100 m race. Pinki won the race in the girls' category. Both the ace athletes of the college also won 200 m run in their respective groups. Later, at the concluding ceremony of the two-day event on Friday, Sarup Chand Singla, area in-charge for the SAD for Bathinda Assembly constituency, gave away the prizes to the winners. Principal of the college Sukhchain Rai Garg congratulated the winners on their brilliant show while head of the physical education of the college Surjeet Singh read out the sports reports. Vice-principal Malkit Singh Gill was also present on the occasion. Students of the college presented gidha to mark the occasion.
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Mansa, February 19 As per details, Jaggar Singh and Gora Lal, residents of Budhlada, were arrested while they were bringing opium from Haryana on February 18. Police registered a case against them under the NDPS Act. — OC
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