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Tackling Swine Flu 300 volunteers to get training Bathinda, June 30 Under a state-level “Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness Project”, as many as 300 volunteers are being imparted training on protection against swine flu (H1N1), in Bathinda, Faridkot and Ropar districts. The training will complete by July 20.
RTI Act
Podium demolition sparks off protest
Goods train derails
Mock test winners felicitated
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BJP blames Cong for price rise, stages protest
Bathinda, June 30 They clanged utensils (saucers and spoons) and raised slogans against the Central government to lodge their protest in a big way. They demanded rollback in the prices of petrol, diesel and LPG. In this regard, the party leaders submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner to forward the same to the President of India. The party appealed to the President to urge the Central government to control inflation. The protesters also carried out a rally in the Ambedkar Park near the Mini-secretariat. The speakers at the rally criticised the UPA government on the issue of price rise. They also held the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre responsible for the miseries being faced by the common masses. They said the UPA “failed” in protecting the interests of the masses, especially the poor who earn only Rs 20 to Rs 50 a day. Senior deputy mayor of the Bathinda Municipal Corporation Tarsem Goyal said the Congress had forgotten the promises it had made to the people during the previous Lok Sabha elections. Due to this, the common masses had been facing unprecedented price rise in the country, he added. Among others present or addressed the protesters included Mohan Lal Garg, PD Goyal, Asheshwar Paswan, Ajay Kumar, Suman Gupta, Rajesh Puri and Ramesh
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Number of drug addicts rising
Bathinda, June 30 The situation has, perhaps, arisen due to rise in drug addiction cases in the Malwa belt. In the first six months of this calendar year, about 425 patients were admitted to the centre for treatment while over 4,000 drug addicts were examined in the OPD and treated during the same period. Majority of the patients admitted to the 25-bedded centre during first six months of 2010 were in the age group of 20-40 years and were hooked on to intoxicant pills, capsules, poppy husk, poppy flowers, ganja, cough syrup, alcohol and injections. Few patients addicted to smack were also treated at the centre. The patients are generally kept at the centre for 10 to 20 days. Talking to TNS, project coordinator of the centre Roop Singh Mann said though the centre had 25 beds, they had at times accommodated even more patients. He said due to full occupancy at the centre, 14 patients were today given next dates for admission. As some patients would be discharged today, five patients could be admitted tomorrow while six patients would be admitted on July 5 and the remaining on July 8, he added. Mann said in May and June, they had admitted 80 patients each. He added that some patients, who gave up drugs after undergoing treatment at the centre, were brought back by their family members. Mann said the centre provided about 70 per cent of medicines to the patients free of cost as it received a grant of about Rs 5 lakh per year from the Society for Service to Voluntary Agencies (SOSVA). The de-addiction centre is offering services not only to the patients of this belt but also to the patients from various parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. |
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Tackling Swine Flu
Bathinda, June 30 As a part of the programme, a training workshop was organised here today for first batch of 25 volunteers drawn from various NGOs by the Punjab branch of the Indian Red Cross Society. The workshop was held under the leadership of project director-cum-state coordinator of the project RP Verma. Besides, 75 more volunteers from the district will be imparted training till July 20 in three batches. The volunteers were educated about the symptoms, causes and prevention of the H1N1. They were also trained on how to deal with a situation in case the disease spread in their areas. Till today, 25 volunteers each had been trained in Faridkot and Bathinda districts while 25 volunteers each will be trained on July 2 and July 6 at workshops in Ropar district. Talking to TNS here today, RP Verma said the Central government had selected three states of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra for preparing national action plan to tackle the H1N1. The action plans of the Faridkot, Bathinda and Ropar districts of Punjab would be part of the national action plan. Verma also said besides imparting training to volunteers, such training was also being given to the employees of various government departments. He said a two-day training programme for employees had been organised on June 23 and 24 at Chandigarh while one more training programme would be organised soon so that they could impart training to the functionaries of their own departments. The volunteers were addressed among others by ADC Upjeet Singh Brar, project director RP Verma, secretary of district Red Cross Society JR Goyal and Dr MS Gill of local Civil Hospital. |
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Ex-Armyman promotes hybrid crops, reaps rich harvest
Sukha Singh Wala (Bathinda), June 30 The 43-year-old Nirbhai is now running a 30 kanal nursery of hybrid varieties of chilly, onion, cauliflower, brinjal, tomato, capsicum and others. The nursery was spread over just one kanal when it was set up in 1993, when he was serving the Indian Army in Maharashtra. Having a passion for agriculture, he started bringing seedlings of hybrid variety of onions and chillies from Maharashtra, which were reportedly not much popular then in Punjab. After serving the country as an Armyman, one day he made up his mind to make efforts to promote diversification of agriculture in Punjab. Sharing the turning point of his life with TNS, Nirbhai Singh Khalsa said, “Being a son of the soil, I was getting worried after coming to know that people in Punjab were suffering losses as they were confined to regular crops like wheat, paddy and cotton only. Observing the success rate of diversification in other states, I wanted to replicate it in Punjab also.” “Meanwhile, focusing upon the slogan of Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, I realized that the importance of service in the agriculture sector was equivalent to that in the defence services. The same day, I made up my mind to go for farming and applied for pre-mature retirement, which was sanctioned in 2003,” disclosed Nirbhai Singh Khalsa. Immediately after returning to his village Sukha Singh Wala, the last village of Bathinda district located on Mansa road, Nirbhai started making efforts to nourish his small nursery. Taking the first step, he joined a three-month training course conducted by the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Ludhiana, where he learnt new ways to protect environment and earn a good income by switching to diversification in agriculture. “I was not in haste to earn profit but the agenda was to take a step towards giving new variety of vegetables to the region. Naming the nursery as Khalsa nursery, initially I thrived upon the seedling of hybrid onion and chilly, which became popular within a short span of time,” he said. “Then, I started farming of hybrid onions, which had longer shelf life. Liking the variety, now people from far off places including those from Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana visit here to purchase seedlings as well the ‘special’ onion crop,” he added.. Though, 30 kanal is not a big chunk of land, Khalsa claims to earn profit almost equivalent to more than 10 acres of regular crops in the state. The success rate and a number of awards he received for the hard work, not only made him expand the nursery but also proved a motivation for large number of youth, who under his guidance, adopted diversification of crops and set up their own nurseries. Besides giving credit to his family members for helping him at every step, Nirbhai Singh Khalsa is now providing employment to 10 youth of his village at his nursery. |
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Gang of purse snatchers busted, five arrested
Bathinda, June 30 During the preliminary interrogation of the accused, three motor cycles, four gold chains, two bangles (artificial), five ear rings, five rings, one locket, 18 mobiles and Rs 18,000 in cash were also recovered from them. These were allegedly snatched by them at different times. Giving details, Bathinda SSP Sukhchain Singh Gill said the accused were planning to commit a crime when acting upon a tip-off, the police nabbed them from the canal bridge at village Behman Diwana on Tuesday. They all were booked under sections 300 and 402 of the IPC. The arrested youth were identified as Kuljeet Singh of local Adarsh Nagar colony, Lakhveer Singh of village Gillpati, Mithlesh Kumar of Surkhpuri road, Bathinda, Sandeep Kumar of local Hans Nagar and Gaurav Deep of local Partap Nagar. The SSP said Kuljeet Singh alias Lovely had recently completed a diploma from the Bathinda Polytechnic College while Lakhveer Singh was a third year student of the Saraswati College, Balluana. Mithlesh Kumar was a gate keeper at Bathinda railway station. Sandeep Kumar and Gaurav Deep were already booked for similar allegations in the past too. |
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RTI Act
Ferozepur, June 30 Kahlon, who held a meeting of the Public Information Officers (PIOs) and Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs) of different departments of the state government, said seminars were being held in every nook and corner of Punjab to educate people and officials about RTI Act, 2005. In the open discussion session, Kahlon imparted knowledge to the participants about the RTI Act. Before the meeting, he inspected the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Sub-Divisional Magistrate and District Education Official, Ferozepur.
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Podium demolition sparks off protest
Abohar/Sadulshehar, June 30 SDM Narinder Purohit was virtually gheraoed by the protesters as Sonu Nagpal (president) and Kashmiri Lal Jasuja, former chairman of the Arorvansh Sabha, Sriganganagar exchanged heated words with him.
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Goods train derails
Bathinda, June 30 Traffic of passengers trains are not likely to be disrupted due to the mishap as the tracks is normally used for goods trains, sources said adding that movement of goods trains may be disrupted following the mishap. Getting information, senior officials of the Bathinda station rushed to carry our rescue operations and to restore normalcy.
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Mock test winners felicitated
Bathinda, June 30
He encouraged students for their commendable participation and ensured them of every possible support to come forward in such events. The winners were awarded prizes. Rahul Singla stood first in the test. He was followed by Nitish Singla and Jimtesh Singla. Next 20 position holders were given consolation prizes.
— TNS |
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