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Bus drivers, conductors giving quickest ‘courier’ service
UK Sikhs for ‘hukamnama’ against dowry, femicide
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Village sans basic amenities produces fighter pilot
Badal okays industrial mega park project
Special teams will be formed to nab suppliers: SP
3 suspected cases identified
Mystery shrouds death of couple
Two children feared drowned
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Bus drivers, conductors giving quickest ‘courier’ service
Bathinda, June 22 Though this method has no legal sanctity but it is very popular among individuals besides wholesalers and retailers of different commodities, including books. A wholesaler receives an order from a retailer over phone and delivers the same to him within hours through bus service. For the ‘service’, they pay some amount to the driver or conductor of the bus. In some cases, the charge is equivalent to the bus fare from one station to the other while it is negotiable in other cases. It is also learnt that if the luggage is more than the prescribed weight then the conductor issues a ticket besides receiving the charge for the ‘service’. The driver/conductor allegedly involved in this practice will deny about the practice of ‘fastest courier service’ as it is not legal and against the ethics of their profession. Neither private transporters nor the management of government buses allow such a practice in their buses. Despite this, the practice has been spreading and gaining a broad base in this era of speedy life. A boy, working at a book shop, on the condition of anonymity, told this reporter that the practice had been going on for past about seven to eight years. He said they sent forms, books, guides, help books and stationery items to small shopkeepers in small towns through buses. They compensate the driver or the conductor of the bus for the ‘service’. He said electricity goods, letters, domestic goods and general store commodities were also transported in a similar manner. The ‘service’ is of great convenience as letters and goods reach their destination within hours and more importantly, safely. He said the sender notes down the name of the driver or conductor, his mobile number, the bus number, the company of the bus, reaching time of the bus at the bus stand of the town where consignment was to be delivered. The information is passed on to the recipient over phone so that he could collect the material from the conductor or the driver, he added. When contacted, General Manager of the PRTC, Bathinda depot, Iqbal Singh said he had never received a complaint from anyone in this connection. |
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UK Sikhs for ‘hukamnama’ against dowry, femicide
Moga, June 22 The patron of the UK-unit of the SAD Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, who was recently conferred with ‘humanitarian award’ by the British government, while talking to The Tribune over telephone from Manchester, said in a function organised by the local Sikh organisations in this town Giani Gurbachan Singh was honoured by the community. Dhaliwal, who hails from Bir Raoke village of the Moga district, which has the highest female ratio in the state, addressing the gathering of the NRI Sikhs urged Jathedar of the Akal Takht to issue a ‘hukamnana’ imposing a total ban on dowry and female foeticide among the community across the globe. He revealed that Punjabi youths well-settled in these countries demand huge sums of money as dowry to marry women in the home country, which has also led to increase in crimes against women. “This is the high time for the Akal Takht to come forward and issue a hukamnama banning dowry and female feticide,” he added. Kulwant Dhaliwal further said the figures of the United Nations and many Human Rights’ Organisations with regard to crime against women among the Punjabi community were heart-rendering, which acquires immediate attention. He revealed that as many as 2,726 cases of matrimonial disputes seeking divorces had come to light among the Punjabi NRIs in the United Kingdom during the past three years. Giani Gurbachan Singh Jathedar of the Akal Takht assured the Sikhs of the UK to take up the issue with the heads of other takhts and head granthi of the Golden Temple to bring a consensus on these issues for issuing a ‘hukamnama’ in this regard. |
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Refinery adopts evening schools
Bathinda, June 22 During a meeting held today, the refinery officials handed over a cheque worth Rs 1.86 lakh for all expenses of the three evening schools, located at Beant Nagar, Panchayat Bhawan and Bal Bhawan in the city. According to information, as many as 105 children from slum areas were enrolled with the three schools. While hailing the ‘noble’ gesture of the refinery officials, the deputy commissioner Bathinda, Gurkirat Kirpal Singh, who is also the president of the district child welfare council, said due to financial crunch, the state child welfare council did not allocate its grant for 2010-11, which was forcing the district administration to close down the schools. “Meanwhile, we urged the refinery officials and they happily agreed to bear all expenses to keep the schools functioning,” the DC added. Replying to a query, the DC said there were about 28 schools throughout the state, which could not get the grant from the child welfare council, Punjab. Meanwhile, the DC informed that the district administration was completing all formalities to start a blind training school in the city, where blind children would be imparted computer training through some ultra modern software. Among the refinery officials, general manager (construction) SC Das, general manager (marketing and CSR) SK Oberoi were the prominent. Speaking to the TNS, refinery officials informed that besides organising various camps for the social causes and bearing expenses of the de-addiction centres located at Mansa and Bathinda, they were running various centres for people located in the villages around the refinery to impart knowledge about some simple courses like meson, carpenter, electrician, which might help them to earn livelihood. They informed that the refinery had an annual budget of Rs one crore for the social causes. |
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Village sans basic amenities produces fighter pilot
Vikas Maddan, who was born here in 1989, came to his native village today after completing six months training of fighter pilot. Vikas was the only candidate from Punjab, who was selected for the Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun in 2002, for his studies. He studied at the local schools of Ferozepur till class VII before he was selected for the RIMC. Hailing from a middle-class family and son of a small businessman, Vijay Maddan, Vikas became fighter pilot on his own by surmounting all odds in every sphere of life. In 2006, he was selected for the National Defence Academy (NDA) and he became pilot by the end of 2009. Vikas again had an achievement when he was selected for the fighter pilot course in January 2010. He has done 35 flights on Kiran Jet including three solo flights so far. His first phase of six months training for fighter pilot has come to an end in the Air Force Academy at Hyderabad. Talking to the TNS on Tuesday, Vikas, who was accorded a rousing welcome when he reached here along with his parents and other kin, said it was his dream since childhood to fly aeroplanes. Though he did not make any special efforts for the same, destiny played a key role in fulfilling his dreams. He added that it was by chance that he came to know an advertisement in the news paper in connection with admission in the RIMC, Dehradun. He did not have much idea as to how to get admission into the RIMC. However, he passed the entrance test and was selected for the RIMC as only candidate of Punjab. He completed his class XII from this college. “In 2006, I was selected for the NDA and completed the course of pilot in 2009 from Pune. After that there were three options with me. I could have become helicopter pilot, transport aircraft pilot and fighter pilot. Destiny again did me a favour and I was selected for the fighter pilot course,” he said. “Now I would go for second phase of my training shortly. I am happy that I have enabled myself to do something for my country, if the need arises,” said Vikas. |
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Badal okays industrial mega park project
Mohali, June 22 A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at Chandigarh. The CM also gave in principle approval to launch local bus service within Mohali. |
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Fight against drugs
Abohar, June 22 Revealing this, Harmohan Singh, who had recently taken as SP here against newly-created post, informed the media today that special investigation team would be constituted to reach the suppliers of opium, smack, poppy husk in other state. Barring poppy husk all kind of narcotics had been originally smuggled from Madhya Pradesh enroot Rajasthan, interrogation of the culprits booked in the past indicated. The suppliers can also be booked under the law, he sought to point out. Speaking about complaints from the Rajasthan police that bodies floating through canal system in this sub-division were willfully allowed to cross the inter-state border, he said from now onwards Abohar and Khuyiansarwar police SHOs would fish out the bodies and complete proceedings including postmortem here. Notably, Rajasthan IG, Dalpat Singh Dinkar, during the recent visit to Sriganganagar had confirmed that on an average more than 250 bodies had been floating annually from Haryana and Punjab to Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar region and most of the victims remained unidentified. |
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Breast cancer check-up camp
Bathinda, June 22 The mammography tests were conducted on 42 women, who felt lump in their breasts and were between 25 and 60 years of age, at the camp. Dr Gurbinder Singh, a radiologist who conducted the mammography tests, said out of three suspected breast cancer patients, two were about 30 years old while the third was nearly 40. Senior medical officer (SMO) of local Civil Hospital Dr Vinod Garg said the mammography tests of all 42 women were conducted free of cost at the camp, which was otherwise done for Rs 100. He said such camps were being organised in the hospital so that the disease could be detected and treated at an early stage. Besides, the other aim of organising such camps was to create awareness among the women about the deadly disease. He claimed that most of the women came to the camp for tests after reading news in the media that the camp was being organised. Meanwhile, the hospital authorities suggested that a woman above 40 years of age should go for a mammography test at the earliest as a lump in the breast could occur anytime after the age of 15. |
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Mystery shrouds death of couple
Sriganganagar/Abohar, June 22 As per details, Krishan Lal Kumhar (45) and his wife Saraswati Devi (40) were found dead inside their house at village Bhojasar, when Prahlad Rai, a newspaper hawker and relative of the victims, visited to deliver newspaper today. The body of Krishan was lying on a bed and that of Saraswati on the floor in pool of blood outside a room. SHO Dinesh Rajaura and DSP Pawan Meena, who rushed to the village, observed that none of the rooms had been broken, so it was a case of murder only. Meanwhile, at Goluwala one Bhagirath Jaat, an addict, of Hardyalpura allegedly shot his son Bhoop Ram dead. As per report lodged by Sharda Rani, wife of the victim, Bhoop Ram last night asked his father not to sell six acre land. “When she and Bhoop left him to do their job at the local Gaushala, Bhagirath followed them carrying rifle and fired without any immediate provocation resulting in death of Bhoop, she added. SP Mohan Lal Nitharwal, who rushed to Goluwala to monitor probe by the DSP Chandresh Gupta and ASI Jai Parkash, said the killer would be arrested soon. |
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Two children feared drowned
Balluana (Ferozepur), June 22 Balkar Singh, SHO, police station, Sadar, who reached on the spot, said so far nothing could be said as to what had happened to them as the search to find them out was being carried out. Information gathered by the TNS revealed that Sandeep and Gaurav were feared drowned while saving each other as they could not resist the strong currents of water which rendered them unable to come out of the same. Another child of this village, who was about to drown, was saved by three villagers, who reached the spot after listening to the hue and cry raised by children. The divers were pressed into service to find out the children. The bodies of the children could not be located till the filing of this report. |
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Mamdot (Ferozepur), June 22