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Healthcare vans for Malwa villages on the anvil
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Charges for using canal water
Opening of Hussainiwala border sought
First of its kind in Punjab
Lifter held, six vehicles recovered
Press Club chief elected
Medical check-up of students begins
OBC opens branch at Sangat
Rain brings respite from heat
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Healthcare vans for Malwa villages on the anvil
Bathinda, June 24 Three such vans would be launched in Bathinda and Muktsar districts each while two would be launched in Mansa district. The proposed launching of these mobile vans is the outcome of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Punjab government and the society. The society has already recruited doctors, ANMs (auxiliary nurse midwife) and drivers. Besides, all arrangements have been made to launch the service in three districts. The delay in the launching of the service is being attributed to the chief minister’s programme, which is yet to be finalised, to flag off the vans. Talking to TNS here today, senior medial officer of the society Dr Indu Bhushan Aggarwal said each mobile van would have one male doctor, one female doctor and two ANMs. He said laboratory services would also be available in the vans to test HB of the blood, urine etc. Besides pregnancy test, a facility for preparing pap smear slides to detect cervix cancer among women would also be available in the vans. Later, these slides would be sent to a hospital in Mohali for testing purpose, he added. Dr Aggarwal said along with providing normal healthcare services, the main emphasis of the mobile vans would be detection of cancer disease among women and men as the Malwa belt was infamous for having a large number of cancer patients. The doctors would also administer polio drops to children and injections, like DPT and measles. The society would also provide medicines free of cost, he added. In Bathinda district, the mobile vans will cater to the Talwandi Sabo, Bhagta and Sangat blocks. Each block will be divided into five rural clusters while each cluster station will serve the rural population of four to five villages of the area concerned. A van will visit one cluster station daily from Monday to Friday. Likewise, Lambi and Doda blocks of Muktsar district and Sardoolgarh and Budhlada blocks of Mansa district have been selected for the purpose. |
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Admn urged to order fresh survey
Our Correspondent
Abohar, June 24 A random survey carried by the Nambardars revealed that about 40 per cent of the debtor farmers had either died or left the villages after disposing of their land during the period when farming was not considered economically viable due to scarcity of canal water, poor supply of electricity for tubewells besides damage to crop by attack of pests including mealy bug, leaf curl, white fly and American Bollworm. Nambardars urged the sub-divisional authorities to order fresh survey through the patwaris of the revenue department to ascertain the actual land owner farmers from whom the Abiana could be recovered. Inquiries made by the correspondent indicated that an amount of Rs 2.70 lakh was to be recovered as Abiana from the farmers at village Khubban; last village of the sub-division bordering Muktsar district, the situation was not much different in other villages. Suman Kumar Nambardar of village Bishanpura said instructions had been received to recover Abiana since 2004. Recovery lists of some villages located close to the inter-state border including Rampura and Narainpura have also been attached to the list for Bishanpura. Sukh Ram, a small farmer, said the SAD-BJP alliance had mesmerised the farming community by promising free water and electricity to all in its election manifesto but was now backtracking rudely. The free electricity unit offer to the BPL families had already been slashed from 200 to 100 units per month.
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Opening of Hussainiwala border sought
Ferozepur, June 24 What the residents have been demanding is that opening of Hussainiwala border for trade and other purposes must be one of the items of the agenda, which would be discussed between the home ministers of both the countries in their ongoing talks and a final decision in this connection must be taken during the foreign ministers' level talks in July. “We want Hussainiwala must be opened for over like Wagah border. The trade should be allowed and people to people contact must be encouraged,” said Amar Nath Bhambari, who worked in New Bank of India at Lahore before the country was partitioned into India and Pakistan in 1947. The Hussainiwala border is just 11 km from Ferozepur city and nine kilometres from Kasur city of Pakistan. This border was the lifeline of traders dealing in clothes, dry fruits, dates, grapes, pomegranates and vegetables before it came to complete halt after the 1971 Indo-Pak war
broke out. “The trade through Hussainiwala border has got the potential of changing the complexion of this region by bringing economic prosperity, curbing crimes and reducing the number of people living below poverty line (BPL),” claimed Ravi Kant, president, All India Rice Mill Machinery Manufacturers Association and leading industrialist of this town. “When the trade activities have been taking successfully from Wagah border for the past many years then what is the difficulty in opening Hussainiwala border for the same purpose,” asked Dr Kamal Baggi, whose father Satya Pal Baggi fought relentlessly for this mission throughout his life. The different organisations of Ferozepur had written to the Centre government to include opening of Hussainiwala border in its agenda of talks with Pakistan but so far nothing had been done in this regard despite the fact that the ruling politicians had promised to do the needful time and again, he added. The residents said closing of Hussainiwala had also affected their fates as the city had become dull in every sphere of life with little economic activities. The problem of unemployment in the border areas had become a major source of producing criminals. Bal Mukand Sharma, former Congress minister, said everything was ready for opening of Hussainiwala border when Manmohan Singh became the prime minister for the first time. However, the things could not materialise at that time. Now, the authorities concerned must take up the matter with their Pakistani counterparts to make it a reality. |
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Community LPG kitchen comes up at de-addiction centre
Rajay Deep Tribune News Service
Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda), June 24 The service would help attendants of the patients at the de-addiction centre, who had to either buy food from market or bring it from their homes. By paying a nominal usage charges to de-addiction centre authorities, the attendants could use the burners and utensils available at the community kitchen to cook food. As per the scheme, Rs two would be charged for using a gas burner for 15 minutes. A burner could be used for an hour at the most. Five gas stoves, four cylinders with refills, two pressure regulators and seven Suraksha pipes have been installed at the kitchen. The Indane authorities have provided a set of utensils for about 35 persons through its local dealer Manroop Indane Service. The expenditure for setting up the community LPG kitchen was incurred by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL). After making the kitchen functional on Wednesday, the Indane authorities handed it over to the Bathinda Civil Surgeon free of cost. The running expenses would be met by the de-addiction centre authorities from the usage charges collected from people. Speaking to TNS, area manger (LPG-sales)-cum-district level coordinator (Indane gas) Suresh Sharma said the motive behind the scheme was to make the domestic LPG available to the deprived sections of the society through the common LPG kitchen mode. He said, "We could either set it up at a government hospital or gram panchayat. But after analysing the overall system of the state, we observed the de-addiction centre in the Civil Hospital as the right place to serve the poor. It would also check adulteration in the food for addicts, as from now onwards there would be no need to bring cooked food from outside." Terming the community LPG kitchen set up here as first in the state, he informed that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas wished to establish more than 75 such kitchens in Punjab.
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Lifter held, six vehicles recovered
Bathinda, June 24 Laying a trap following a tip-off, police arrested one Parwinder Singh alias Kala of Dabwali (Haryana) at Verka police post, Talwandi Sabo and recovered an allegedly stolen Bolero jeep being driven by him. The accused also confessed about involvement of one Charanjit Singh of Rama Mandi in the crime.
Charanjit is said to be an expert of preparing fake documents and having all related documents and stamps in his possession. The accused Charanjit Singh was already facing several such cases. He was named as a prime accused in a recently busted gang of vehicle-lifters, through whom the Mansa police had recovered more than a dozen vehicles. Acting upon the prima-facie evidences, police booked both accused Parwinder Singh and Charanjit Singh under sections 379, 411, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 of the
IPC. As Charanjit was already lodged in the jail, police got the remand of Parwinder Singh. Giving details, the SSP Bathinda, Sukhchain Singh Gill said, "The gang had a vast network in Punjab, Haryana and neighbouring states. The gang used to steal vehicles from other states and after preparing fake documents, the vehicles were being sold here." Speaking further the SSP said it could not be ruled out that the gang would have even been changing the engine and chassis number of the vehicles. |
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Press Club chief elected
Bathinda, June 24 Thanking the members, SP Sharma assured the journalists of putting his best efforts to serve the association.
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Medical check-up of students begins
Ferozepur, June 24 So far, about 446 students have been medically examined and students of all other schools of the district would be covered in the next two months. Presiding over a meeting of district education development committee here on Wednesday, deputy commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav said that if any student was found suffering from any disease during the medical check-up, he or she would be given medical treatment free of cost by spending the funds available under Sarv Sikhiya Abhiyan (SSA). |
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Bathinda, June 24 The bank has already started a programme at Ferozepur for imparting training to small business entrepreneurs and farmers in rural area. Chief managers BK Harit, SKGarg, RC Gupta, Ashok Kumar Sharma and ARM SS Dagar were among those present on the occasion. — TNS
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Rain brings respite from heat
Bathinda, June 24 Rain coupled with thunderstorms hit Bathinda and its adjoining areas around 10 pm. Residents who had been witnessing heat wave for the last few days heaved sigh of relief as mercury nosedived following the downpour, making the conditions pleasant and conducive for a sound sleep. However, power cuts running over an hour in several areas robbed the residents of pleasure.
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