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Father’s sad tale: Badal proposes, MC disposes
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Now, man to donate kidney to daughter-in-law
Border villagers want farming hours to increase
Implement Accord
Yoga camp for jail inmates
Play for a cause
Young World
ETT Union flays Education Dept’s orders
Purse snatched
Biz Buzz
Free dental camp organised
Mental Health course: Last date for applications extended
Application for post of instructors
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Father’s sad tale: Badal proposes, MC disposes
Amritsar, July 12 His case also brings to notice the chinks in the Akali Dal’s favourite sangat darshan. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had remarked that it was “very genuine case. Be examined sympathetically” during a sangat darshan at Circuit House, Amritsar. However, it had no impact and all his hopes were dashed. Contrarily, nearly four months after meeting the CM, the MC annulled its own second resolution on the ground that the deceased was not an employee of the Local Bodies on September 19, 2007. The MC’s second resolution vide bearing no estate officer - SA - 45 dated January 11, 2006 resolved with another proposal that a commercial plot bearing booth number 32 of the size of 8-3” x 16 - 9” = 15.35 square yards in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Extension Market should be allotted to Nirmal Singh by way of compensation on the collector rates and the same was also forwarded to the Director, Local Government for necessary approval. About a year later, the septuagenarian through the RTI came to know that the state government had sanctioned 15.35 square yards in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Extensions Market. He alleged that he was not intimated about this at all. The plot was sanctioned to him after his younger son Paramjit Singh, then 36-year-old, a photographer with a Punjabi daily, died in a road accident while traveling in a Municipal Corporation Gypsy on the way to Rajasansi Airport in connection with the reception of Sri Lanka Cricket team on February 19, 1994. He left behind wife, a son and aged parents. The veteran photographer, who worked with several leading dailies and weeklies of the region and contributed to India Today, The Week, Probe and Outlook, had received another major setback in life when his another son Rana Jaspal Singh got killed while parasailing during an Army organised function. As a 16-year old boy, he, along with his family had arrived here following the Partition. Nirmal Singh in a communication to the Prinicpal Secretary, Local Government, has requested restoration of sanction. He said his son had gone to click photographs of the occasion on the invitation of the then Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Kulbir Sigh Sidhu. Earlier, the MC in its first resolution vide number 64/9 dated February 12, 1996 resolved that a piece of land measuring 228.35 square yards situated in Town Planning Scheme number 2 be allotted to Nirmal Singh by way of compensation at the reserve price with the approval of the Government. He maintained that the official Gypsy was being driven not by a driver but by a class four employee of the MC, who did not even possess a driving licence. The driver also got killed along with Paramjit.
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Price Watch
Amritsar, July 13 Garlic saw a steep rise of Rs 30. Earlier available at Rs 70 per kg, the prices touched Rs 100 per kg. Ginger price went up to Rs 100 per kg from Rs 80 within a span of few days. The price of lemon increased from Rs 30 to Rs 40. Even the seasonal vegetables witnessed a steep hike in prices. A kg of cucumber, which was available at Rs 25 a few days ago, was available at Rs 45 per kg. The rate of onion has increased from Rs 10 per kg to Rs 15 per kg. The homemakers said the increased prices of vegetables had affected them. Moreover, they said, tomato being a favorite ingredient to prepare an Indian delicacy cannot be ignored. Kaushalya Devi of the Shivala Bhaiya area rued that they had to compromise with the taste by using less of the important ingredients for the preparation of dal and many other items. But they can not help it due to their rising cost, she added.
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Now, man to donate kidney to daughter-in-law
Amritsar, July 13 An official letter giving nod for the kidney transplantation has not been issued by Dr RPS Boparai, Medical Superintendent and Chairman of Human Organs Transplantation Authorisation Committee. “Actually, an infection was found in the blood cells of Jeet Singh after a series of tests conducted upon him. We have communicated to the doctors of the hospital, where the kidney transplantation operation has to be performed upon, that the detected flaw should be rectified completely before operation. It would take a week or so.
After that, a consent letter from the committee would be issued to transplant
the kidney”, he said. Asha Rani, the 32-year-old woman and a mother of two kids --- son (11) and a daughter (10), has been suffering from kidney disorder and was under the treatment from Ravi Hospital at Pathankot. Her husband Sukhdev Singh, a small-time taxi driver, said he himself wanted to donate his kidney for the sake of her wife. “But I was discouraged by my father only”, he said. Jeet Singh said he decided to come forward because he wanted to save the family of his son. “Because of our financially dilapidated family circumstances, I could not risk the life of my son who has to look after two growing children and an ailing wife. Moreover, he is the only bread earner of the family. If some complications arise with him, it would be from bad to worst conditions for us.
That’s why I decided to risk my life”, said Jeet Singh. Nevertheless, such instances pose examples of transformation of the society. Meanwhile, as many as seven cases were put forth for approval before the Human Organ Transplantation Committee, where only one case was approved by the committee and the decision for two has been kept reserved. |
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Border villagers want farming hours to increase
Amritsar, July 13 Rattan Singh Randhawa, Border Area Sangharsh Committee (Punjab) office bearer said the meeting appeared to be fruitful as DIG Mohammad Aquil had assured all kinds of co-operation with the farming community. Keeping in mind the sowing season, farmers demanded that the gates through which the farmers gain entry to their fields located on the other side of the fencing should be kept open for ample time. “We demanded that the gates should be kept open from 9 am to 6 pm and a separate feeder should be installed across the fencing to generate electricity supply between these hours. The DIG has assured to meet these two demands on priority,” said Randhawa. “If gate no. 118, which falls in the area of Daoke village, is kept open for longer hours, most of our problems would be solved, as this gate caters to majority of farmers. The DIG has given his nod to our request,” he added. While apprising of other problems faced by them, farmers rued that though it was a welcome step to make identity cards for farmers, who had to go across the fencing to work in their fields but the process of issuing identity cards was a tiresome and tedious exercise. “Even as it was a good step to issue identity cards to farmers and their family members, the exercise of issuing them is very cumbersome. Norms demand that when a card has been issued to a family, the cards of other family members, who work in the fields, should be made on the basis of the card, which has already been issued to the head of that particular family. But the situation, which prevails, is that every time all the documents have to be produced and re-submitted with the authorities concerned. This exercise gives ample chances to officials to exploit farmers unnecessarily. The end result would be that until unless you are ready to grease their palms, your card will not be made,” complained the farmers. The delegation led by which visited the office of DIG included Balbir Singh Muhawa, Sucha Singh Rorahwala, Kuldeep Singh Attari, Balbir Singh Kakkar, Baldev Singh Rattan and Mukhtiar Singh Daoke.
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Implement Accord
Tarn Taran, July 13 Jagtar Singh Uppal, General Secretary of the Technical Services Union (TSU), while addressing the employees said the state government had failed to implement the accord. He said the state government had assured to accept the employees’ demands within a week. Uppal said the government was not sincere regarding the demands of the Powercom employees as a result of which they had taken to the agitation path. The employees would organise a state-level dharna at Patiala on July 21. They would go on one-day strike on August11. |
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Yoga camp for jail inmates
Amritsar, July 13 Programme coordinator Manmeet Pal Kaur emphasised on the need for yoga and meditation to ward off stress and depression. G.S. Sidhu, superintendent, Central Jail, called upon the jail inmates to join yoga and meditation courses which could help in de-addiction and remove sense of guilt for being in the jail. He said it was the policy of the government to organise Art of Living courses in all jails of the state so that inmates could lead a better life when they were released from jail. He said in future more such courses would be organised in the jail. |
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Play for a cause
Amritsar, July 13 Written by Hardip Gill and directed by famous theatre personality Anita Devgan, the play showcased tragic story of a fluent family whose child fell prey to drugs in the bad company of his addicted friends. The play successfully depicted the current scenario of border state of Punjab where liquor and drugs flow like the sixth river. The story revolves around a young boy named Goldy, the only son of a fluent family, who is hooked to drugs. He starts shirking from education and takes to thefts. When the parents try to stop him, he physically assaults his father. Sensing the gravity of situation, the parents tie him and take him to a de-addiction centre. Though at one point it seems he has started recovering, the drugs take control again. He runs away from the centre and all efforts by his parents to trace him prove futile. After sometime, they get the news of his death, leaving them shattered. Hardeep Gill, Anita Devgan, Rajbir Cheema, Pargat Singh, Chander Shekhar, Iqbal Sonu and Manjit Johal played the leading characters in the play whose performance was appreciated by the large audience present in the Naat Palace. |
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Young World
Amritsar, July 13 Prof Hardeep Singh, Director, Placement, said the students would join the company after passing out from the varsity in July. The students have been offered a salary package of Rs. 3.5 lakh per annum. MA Punjabi results
The Guru Nanak Dev
University declared the results of MA (Punjabi)-II today. The results are available on the university website www.gndu.ac.in. Merit list
Students of Swami Satyanand College of Management and Technology secured nine positions in the university merit list. Muskan Gupta of BSc (Biotech)-6th semester stood first in the merit list, whereas Parmandeep Kaur and Jagroop Kaur secured fourth and fifth positions, respectively. Palwinder Singh and Balraj Singh of BSc (Hotel Management)-semester 4 also secured merit positions. Pallavi Marwaha, Varun, Mohit and Sukhpreet Singh of BSc (Airlines and Tourism Management) bagged 6th, 7th and 9th positions in the University. |
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ETT Union flays Education Dept’s orders
Tarn Taran, July 13 Gurlovdeep Singh, the block president of the Union in his address, condemned the orders of the department and said the orders were anti to the elementary schools which would debar the ETT teachers from the promotion channel and the elementary schools would be emerged in the secondary schools.
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Purse snatched
Tarn Taran, July 13 Mandeep said the purse contained cash of Rs 3,000 besides gold earrings, ATM card, keys of her bank and other articles worth Rs 20,000. A case under section 356 of the IPC has been registered. — OC Astrology courses
Amritsar: The admissions to the 21st batch of Jyotish Parveen course and 19th batch of Jyotish Visharda course have commenced at DAV College, Katra Sher Singh, here. According to Kiranjit Kaur, Head of Astrology Teaching Centre, the courses would be recognised by the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences, which runs around 42 centres of Vedic astrology, palmistry and vastu shastra teachings all over the country.
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Biz Buzz
Amritsar, July 13 There are different packages to choose from. The minimum initial deposit stands between Rs 12 and Rs 15 lakh up to the limit of Rs 40 lakh. Besides this, the customers would have to pay a monthly service charge ranging between Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000, depending upon the initial deposit they submit with the company. Jaivir Singh, Vice-President of the group, said, “Our staff would provide handyman services for odd jobs; provision for housekeeping services like maid, electrician, plumber, carpenter etc on call, laundry facility, dining services, home delivery of food, power backup, centralised hot and cold water supply, RO drinking water supply besides yoga and meditation centres; laughter clubs, physiotherapy centres, religious discourses; community celebration of festivals etc. We would provide daily transport facility for visit to the Golden Temple. And if any unsatisfied resident wants to quit in between, we would be committed to pay back up to 75 per cent of his deposit instantly,” he said. The group aimed to develop about 50 such units in the first phase, which varies from 500 sq ft to 1000 sq ft at Amritsar, within 18 months and has collaborated with Fortis Hospitals for health care and daily diet schedule of the aspirants.
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Free dental camp organised
Amritsar, July 13 The free dental camp is being held in civil and government hospitals across the state. In this district, the camps are operational at Civil Hospitals, Ajnala, Bab Bakala, Community Health Center Majitha besides Civil Hospital in the city. They said the state government released Rs 1.35 lakh for the district to organise these camps. They informed that so far nearly 2,200 patients were provided free dental treatment including filling, RCT and others.
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Mental Health course: Last date for applications extended
Amritsar, July 13 This new course has been started by the university, in collaboration with the United States-Indian Educational Foundation (USIEF) and Fulbright House, New Delhi. Dr NS Tung, Head of the Department of Psychology, of the university, said the candidates who have passed the master’s degree in psychology, with an aggregate of 50 per cent marks, will be eligible for this one-year course. The admitted students would also go through a four-month internship, he added. Dr Tung said this course would help meet the mental health needs of the people as well as raise consciousness about mental health problems as they are quite different from mental illnesses. As part of the rapid economic and social changes, people also experience significant multiple stresses, causing some very serious mental health concerns including clinical depression, anxiety, mental stress, marital discords, domestic violence, and serious alcoholism and substance abuse problems, he added. He said students trained by the university would help redress emotional problems relating to anxiety, stress, mental depression, marital discords, addictions, suicide ideations, etc. The availability of trained professionals and necessary resources would also carry out the prevention and wellness programmes in addition to treatment programmes, he added. He said unfortunately, the issue of suicides is clearly a serious mental health crisis in India where hardly any day goes by when there is no news about suicide. As a suicide is the ultimate indicator of psychological distress and psychopathology, it sends a stunning warning that something is seriously wrong with the psychological health of India, he said.
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Application for post of instructors
Amritsar, July 13 Dr Rajinderjit Kaur Pawar, Director and Head of the Department, said the interested candidates could apply on the prescribed form which is available from the office of the department. She said the application forms along with biodata and photocopies of the duly attested testimonials should reach the office of the Department by July 16.
— TNS
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Prices of vegetables have pushed the common man to the wall. Leading the race, tomatoes prices have gone up by 100 per cent. It was available at Rs 30 per kg last week
is now pinching the common man with a price tag of Rs 60 per kg.
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Amritsar, July 13
Amritsar, July 13
