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After A Year Of Budget Allocation
‘Blunder’full
2 PTU affiliated colleges get IBM centres
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BJP to organise workshop for councillors
BSP to raise Vienna issue in Parliament
CPM to launch mass campaign against price rise
Land dispute: Villagers, baba claim ownership
Pre-flood Arrangements
Drug de-addiction seminar with a difference
Delay in VAT refunds
Can’t remain ignorant on population explosion: Docs
Insurance firm asked to pay
claim
Student dies as cycle, bus collide
20 quintals of poppy husk seized
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After A Year Of Budget Allocation
Jalandhar, July 12 The food provided is free of cost under the mid-day-meal scheme (MDMS) and it is mandatory to construct sheds to provide hygienic food to students and to avoid any untoward fire accident. An amount of approximately Rs 6 crore, with allocation of Rs 60,000 per unit, was released to construct such sheds in 725 schools of the districts in the mid of year 2009. Though it takes 1-2 months to construct such sheds, even after a year, only 54 schools across the district have accomplished the task and the work is still ‘under progress’ in 648 primary schools of the district. Sources in the department revealed that the amount released was not adequate for the construction of permanent sheds and in 648 primary schools, work is not ‘under progress’ but is ‘stagnating’. Admitting the delay, Parminder Singh, Deputy District Education Officer, Primary, said dearth of funds lead to such delay and the district authorities have requested the higher authorities for the allocation of more funds. “Teachers in most of the primary schools are unable to involve the community in such programmes. Otherwise, the shortfall could be made good by community participation,” said the Deputy District Education Officer. Ironically, exposing the cramped environment in primary schools, 23 schools were even unable to use funds due to space constraints in these schools. There are over 930 primary schools in the district and besides these 725 schools, for which funds were released in the year 2009-10, funds for the same purpose were released to more than 200 schools in the year 2008-09. However, as per sources, construction of sheds even in some of these schools is still not completed.
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‘Blunder’full
Hoshiarpur, July 12 Believe it or not, the information provided by the Civil Surgeon Office to social activist Jai Gopal Dhiman revealed results of water samples collected by the department in August in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Dhiman, through a letter of June 17, had asked for the results of water samples collected by the District Health Department in 2006 to which the Civil Surgeon Office provided the detail list, whose copy duly signed by the District Health Officer is there with The Tribune. According to the information, samples of water seized from the taps of local Gopal Gali was found non-potable on July 5 of 2007 and 2008 in the sample list of 2006. Further in the same result list, it was revealed that water samples from taps were found potable at local gurdwara of New Fatehgarh on August 24, 2010, at Gogi Da Dhaba, on August 24, 2011, at Balbhadar Vatika, Kushal Ashram and Rishi Nagar on August 24, 2012. Jai Gopal Dhiman said the blunder might have happened as the state government had got only one testing laboratory at Chandigarh where samples of various edibles, water etc were being tested. On account of heavy rush, it takes a lot of time to get results of the samples. He demanded to open testing laboratories at district level to speed up the work.
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2 PTU affiliated colleges get IBM centres
Jalandhar, July 12 As many as 45 colleges of the university have applied for getting a centre on the campus. If given a nod, the students of these colleges pursuing B.Tech in computer science engineering, IT and electronics and communication engineering will be able to complete a free-of-cost six-month course during the four-year course of their studies and a certification from the company. The certificate produced at the time of placements will help the students score an edge over other candidates, explained Navdeepak Sandhu, Placement Officer, PTU. “A meeting of the officials of PTU and representatives of 45 affiliated colleges with the IBM team has already been conducted. The institutes have given their letters of interest to the company. The company already has 94 such centres in the country and is planning to open nearly 50 more such centres,” he added. “The company itself will be at an advantageous position. They will get a ready manpower. The students without a certification placed with the company need to spend another six months on training after their course. This will save their time as well,” he said, adding that the course involves use of certain type of database and their testing. The two institutes which already have IBM centres were Baba Banda Singh Bahadur College of Engineering, Fatehgarh Sahib, and Rayat Bahra Institute,
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BJP to organise workshop for councillors
Phagwara, July 12 He said the councillors would be educated about their responsibilities and rights in the workshop. Punjab Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia, Technical Education Minister Swarana Ram and Punjab BJP President Ashwini Sharma besides the Local Bodies Department officials will attend and address the workshop. A 12-member committee of BJP leaders, including Aakash Kalia (District BJP President), Hiral Lal Dhir, Rakesh Duggal and Pawan Malhotra will make arrangements for the success of this prestigious workshop.
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BSP to raise Vienna issue in Parliament
Jalandhar, July 12 Making its stand clear for the first time after Sant Ramanand’s murder in Vienna, Austria, last year, the BSP stated in a press note issued here today that it would leave no stone unturned to get the culprits punished after bringing them to India. The state BSP president, Avtar Singh Karimpuri, accompanied by its state general secretary Avtar Singh Kotli, took an important decision in this regard in a meeting of senior office-bearers of the party here on Monday. Karimpuri said he would raise the issue in Parliament during the forthcoming Monsoon session, scheduled to start from July 27. ‘Police attrocities’Hoshiarpur: The district unit of the Bahujan Samaj Party organised a Maha Panchayat of Dalits to discuss and oppose the alleged anti-Dalit attitude of the SHOs of Model Town, Mukerian and Garhshankar police stations and DSP (H), at the behest of the leaders of the SAD and BJP, at the local Green View Park, here. Rajya Sabha MP and President of the Punjab unit of the BSP Avtar Singh Karimpuri and hundreds of Dalits from all over the district participated in the Maha Panchayat session. Many of the Dalits highlighted the alleged atrocities on them by the police and while listening to their views, Karimpuri alleged that SHOs of the above said police stations were corrupt and were taking action against Dalits at the behest of ruling party leaders. While quoting a case, he alleged that SHO Model Town abused a Dalit girl and threatened to strip her naked in public. Karimpuri demanded the registration of a case under the SC/ST Act against the said SHO. He also demanded action against and immediate transfers of the above said SHOs and DSP (H). He asked SSP Hoshiarpur to look into the matter personally and take action against the erring police officers before 15th July, failing which the BSP unit, Punjab would launch an agitation against the district police. Later, Karimpuri, along with other BSP leaders, including State Secretary Onkar Singh Jhamat, went to the SSP office in the mini secretariat and apprised him of the atrocities being committed on Dalits.
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CPM to launch mass campaign against price rise
Jalandhar, July 12 A decision in this regard was taken during a two-day meeting of the state committee of the party held here under the chairmanship of Sohan Singh Salempuri. Secretary of the state committee Mangat Ram Pasla said that the CPM Punjab had planned a series of mass dharna and rallies against the anti-people policies of the government in the coming months. “The mass rallies have been planned in the wake of spiraling price rise which is the direct outcome of the wrong policies pursued both by the union and the state governments. The CPM would initiate a mass movement capable of forcing the government to shun such policies,” he added. Pasla said the decision of decontrolling petroleum products has further encouraged the oil corporates to loot the consumers.
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Land dispute: Villagers, baba claim ownership
Amritsar, July 12 Named as “Bunga Dera Shaheed Baba Tara Singh”, the piece of land has been associated with Vaan village for a long time but its ownership rights has, reportedly, come under scanner when the villagers objected over the forcible occupation of the land by Baba Major Singh Vaan. Today, the villagers along with a large number of activists of the Majha Ex-Servicemen Human Rights Front, All-India Human Rights Front and various Sikh organisations, which have been carrying out crusade against the “fake” babas tried to barge into the dera, but the district administration, accompanied by a heavy cache of police force, intervened in the matter. The representatives of Vaan villager claimed that the possession of land belonged to the village panchayat and Baba Major Singh had taken the possession of the land on false pretext. On the other hand, Baba Major Singh maintained that he got the occupancy of the land through court and it was in his name. Nevertheless, the administration officials, which included Deputy Commissioner of Police Kaustub Sharma and Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Sandeep Rishi instantly reached the spot. The officials took the documents of land in their possession and announced a week’s time to scrutinise them before declaring the final verdict over the ownership rights of the land. The SDM said, “We have taken in our custody the land documents of both the parties. The papers would be scrutinised before pronouncing the owner of the land.” Col Sandhu, Chairperson of the Majha Ex-Servicemen Human Rights Front, All-India Human Rights Front, said. “The two bungas (a unit of measurement) of land which was associated with Vaan village and located in Amritsar, remained in illegal possession of Baba Major Singh Vaan for years on the pretext of opening a school and a charitable hospital for benefiting the residents of Vaan village, but it was never to be. Today, we accompanied by villagers and other organisations came to evacuate the land from the clutches of the baba, but now when the administration has intervened, we would wait for one week.”
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Pre-flood Arrangements
Hoshiarpur, July 12 Megh Raj said he had instructed the General Manager of the District Industries Centre-cum-Mining Officer to register cases against the owners of these tractor-trailers. Later, they also caught one truck and tractor-trailer at Bulhowal and Lambra choes, respectively, while they were allegedly stealing sand. Meanwhile, the DC and SSP along with government officials of the departments concerned inspected the sensitive sites of the bhangi choe adjoining Bahadurpur and Bassi Gulam Hussain village and instructed the Executive Engineer, Drainage Department to strengthen the arrangements at these sites as soon as required funds were received from the state government for this purpose. Megh Raj instructed the Executive Engineer to get removed the jhuggies of migrant labourers from the banks of choe near bridge of Gaurhsala Bazaar immediately to avoid loss and smooth flow of flood water. He also instructed to make cleaning of both the banks of the bridge to clear obstacles. They also inspected the ongoing reconstruction of damaged syphon of Kandi canal in Bhangi choe near Bassi Gulam Hussain. Later, they visited the sensitive sites at choes at Bhulowal and Khadiala Sainian villages and inspected the arrangements. He also instructed the Executive Engineer of the Drainage Department to also remove jhuggies of Gujjars from Bhulowal choe bed to avoid any loss.
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Drug de-addiction seminar with a difference
Gurdaspur, July 12 The pledge was taken during the state-level anti-drug seminar held at Ujagar Singh Sekhwan Memorial Hospital and Nursing College here today. The proceedings were conducted by Jagrup Singh Sekhwan in the presence of Public Relations Minister S.S. Sekhwan and Gurdaspur SSP Lok Nath Angra. The minister assured the addicts, many of whom did not want to identity themselves anymore with the word addict, that loans would be disbursed to them to enable them to set up self-employment units. A skit, full of witty anecdotes, was presented by students of the nursing college in which the emergence of fake babas and doctors holding invalid degrees was exposed amid thunderous applause from the sizeable audience. Jagrup Singh Sekhwan said more such seminars would be held in the district. For this he had constituted a team which will identify addicts in areas adjoining Kahnuwan. Rohtas Singh, a cured addict, said “ Had I got a decent job when I completed my degree I would never had taken to opium. Most of the youth take to drugs due to unemployment. If the government provides the youth with self-employment loans the moment they complete their studies, drug addiction will die a natural death. I am happy now that the minister has announced loans for us to establish our own units.” The Batala SDM, Rahul Chaba, was also present. He said such camps would be held at Batala too where drug addiction was considered to be very high among the youth.
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Delay in VAT refunds
Jalandhar, July 12 A delegation of the businessmen, led by the president of the Federation of Jalandhar Industrial and Traders Associations, Gursharan Singh, and including president of the Jalandhar Traders and Manufacturers Association Raj Kumar Sharma and its general secretary Mandeep Singh Gujral, submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti to forward it to the Chief Minister today. Fed up with the dilly-dallying tactics of Punjab Industries and Commerce Minister Manoranjan Kalia to ensure prompt VAT refunds, the businessmen demanded from the Chief Minister that online system of speedy VAT refunds should immediately be implemented. |
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Can’t remain ignorant on population explosion: Docs
Hoshiarpur, July 12 In his presidential address Civil Surgeon, Hoshiarpur, Dr Ravi Dogra said this year’s theme --- Everyone Counts --- underscored the importance of data for development. Counting everyone was an integral part of ensuring that all were taken into account. Dr Ajay Bagga, SMO of the ESI Hospital here, said if the present trend of increasing population continued then by 2050 India will have a population of 1.7 billion which will be much more than that of China. The major reasons of population explosion in India were ignorance, poverty, unemployment and illiteracy. Dr Neelam Sidhu, in charge of the ESI Hospital, inaugurated an exhibition after the seminar to highlight the ill-effects of population explosion and said with the help of social, religious organisations, a special campaign would be carried out to remove ignorance etc.
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Insurance firm asked to pay
claim
Hoshiarpur, July 12 Mohammad Sharif Mughal had stated in his complaint that his sister Razia Mughal got herself insured with Sun Life Insurance Company, Mumbai, for Rs 3,28,440 to which he was a nominee. She fell ill and was admitted to a hospital, where she expired. After her death, the complainant filed the claim with the insurance company which instead of settling it repudiated the same on the ground that the life assured, Razia Mughal, was suffering from coronary artery disease as well as osteoarthritis in both knees. It pleaded that the life assured had wilfully made the untrue statement about her health. The Consumer Forum, comprising president P.D. Goel and member Vandna Choudhary, in the order held that the insurance company neither examined any doctor nor filed any affidavit to prove that the life assured was diagnosed with the diseases and failed in proving that Razia Mughal was suffering from the diseases.
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Student dies as cycle, bus collide
Jalandhar, July 12 A student of 10+1, Vishal Bhatti, son of Sohan Lal of Railway Colony, Dakoha, was declared brought dead when he taken to a private hospital, whereas Lovekesh Sharma, son of Narendra Pal of Jagjit Colony on the Dhilwan road, Ramamandi, sustained serious injuries. SHO Rachpal Singh said both students were going to their school on a bicycle. On their way to school, a DPS bus hit them near Dakoha railway crossing when they were trying to cross the national highway. Bus driver Sarabjit Singh was arrested. — TNS
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20 quintals of poppy husk seized
Pathankot, July 12 A truck was intercepted at the barricade, laid on the Amritsar-Pathankot-Jammu road near Kotli village and during search, the bags of poppy husk were seized. The smugglers had brought the consignment from Jammu and Kashmir and it was to be deliverrd to someone at Jalandhar.
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