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World Health Day
Registration of FIRs, DDRs to be easy now
18 acres made free of encroachments
Illegal structures being demolished in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar |
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Farmers protest police leniency
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World Health Day
Jalandhar, April 7 Although World Health Day is about to pass, ‘much engaged’ state health authorities have failed to become a part of this global campaign. Though, registration process, in order to become a part of the campaign, is just a few clicks away on the official website of WHO, the health authorities in not even a single city in the state bothered to get the cities registered. In spite of the existing network of thousands of health department employees, NGOs and health activities, only four cities --- Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Pathankot --- have been registered with WHO so far, that too with the individual efforts of health professionals. As many as 840 cities across the world have already registered with the WHO. Keeping in account that 50 per cent of total world population is living in the cities, the WHO devised that organisers in registered cities should conduct 10 km long walk, which include eminent personalities of city. Keeping in view the rapidly decreasing breathing space, it was suggested that at least one road in city should be declared as “walking plaza” or “no traffic zone”. Creating 10 km long cycling paths, posters campaigns, sanitation drives, road shows, and holding symposiums, workshops on ill effects of urbanisation on health was also part of this year’s theme. “Sole purpose of such slogans and themes is to create mass awareness through mass movements. Though state health authorities are not accountable to WHO for not becoming part of this campaign, we cannot generate mass movements on health front without the involvement of government infrastructure in such initiatives”, Dr Sanjeev Sharma, who registered Jalandhar with WHO. “Not being registered means, either we are not agreeing with the theme or simply don’t know anything about it. In gross, it reflects that finally, we are not part of this campaign”, said one senior doctor. Even organisations like the Indian Medical Association, which boasts of its 5500 members across state, failed to take the initiative. Admitting the delay, state IMA President Dr R.S. Parmar said, “We have not passed any circular to our district units about registration. However, we will do it very soon.” State Health Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla and Director Health Services S.P. Sohal could not be contacted despite repeated attempts. |
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Registration of FIRs, DDRs to be easy now
Jalandhar, April 7 City Police Commissioner Gaurav Yadav said instructions had been given to all police stations to register first information reports (FIRs) in cognisable cases and lodge DDRs in non-cognisable cases immediately. Moreover, the Station House Officers (SHOs) have been instructed to give copies of the DDRs and FIRs to the complainants without any delay. He said fact-finding inquiries could be conducted in certain cases in accordance with the directions of the apex court. Affidavits for getting a DDR or FIR lodged in case of loss of passports, mobile phones, bank papers and other documents would no longer be required. Applications on a plain paper in this regard would be accepted by the police stations. Similarly, intimations given to police stations about missing persons, minor accidents, loss of documents, loss due to fire or any other reasons would be immediately recorded in the Daily Dairy and copies would be given to the complainants at the time of lodging of the information, the Commissioner added. The police would provide reports of untraced goods in property cases, including thefts of motor vehicles and other thefts, within a period of 30 days from the registration of an FIR. The Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP), Crime, has been made the nodal officer and would be responsible for supervising the theft investigations and submission of reports of untraced goods by SHOs within a month. On the completion of the stipulated time period, reports of untraced goods would be sent by post to the complainants by the office of the ADCP (Crime) and these could also be obtained in person by the complainant from the office.
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18 acres made free of encroachments
Amritsar, April 7 Accompanied by a heavy posse of police force, the trust authorities demolished encroachments, spread on 18 acres of prime land belonging to the trust near posh Kabir Park area, in the form residential houses that have been there for the last 60 years. It is pertinent to mention here that the people of the said illegal colony have lost their case in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The police has taken a number of residents under preventive arrest before the operation in order to avoid any unwanted situation. They were later released after the 4-hour operation was over. Although the people tried to protest and oppose the staff, they were outnumbered by policemen. Earlier, the IT officials removed demolished a gurdwara after following proper maryada by organising ardas and taking the holy scripture to an appropriate place. “The 18-acre land is worth of Rs 50 crore. A residential colony would now be constructed on this land,” said an trust official. Later, the MC staff removed encroachments from near Jallianwala Bagh, Galliara, Dharam Singh Market, Brahambuta Market, Gurdwara Baba Atal, Ramsar Road, Atta Mandi besides many other areas inside the walled city especially surrounding the Golden Temple. They also removed encroachments from focal point and 100-feet road.
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Farmers protest police leniency
Amritsar, April 7 In a recent incident, a group of armed persons, in an attempt to grab the land of Malkiat Singh, fired at him while he was working in his field along with his hired staff at Jabbowal village. The alleged miscreants had fled from the scene afterwards. Blaming the culprits to be having connections with the ruling party, the Jamhoori Kisan Sabha activists complained that despite having identified some of the attackers, the police was hesitant to book them. “It was due to political pressure that the police is reluctant to take any action against the culprits. We had recognised some of the attackers, but the police is instead shielding them due to political pressure,” said Satnam Singh Ajnala, state president of the Sabha. Nevertheless, hundreds of activists of the sabha, which included women and children too, today gheraoed the police station and demanded to nab the culprits. Meanwhile, police station in charge Gurdial Singh, assured them that no cross case against the victim would be registered in matter and culprits would be arrested soon. — TNS
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In a major anti-encroachment drive, the Improvement Trust (IT) and Municipal Corporation demolished illegal structures yesterday.
On the occasion of World Health Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) introduced the theme “1000 cities, 1000 lives” and invited 1000 cities across the world to get associated with the organisation and hold mass campaigns, open up streets for health activities and highlighting ill-effects of urbanisation this year.