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Khalsa College ROB ready for inauguration
Encroachments block canal flow
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Allege Jam-tired Residents
What’s in a name?
Bhanu Partap Agnihotri
Recruitment rally for Territorial Army from July 29
MGSIPAP to organise sarv dharam sammelan on Aug 1
YOUNG WORLD
Indo-Pak talks failed due to lack of foresight: Mann
Flesh trade racket busted, six arrested
Tussle over milk powder
Elementary teachers
to protest from Aug
Pensioners for revival of old pension scheme
Valedictory function
Tata’s Winger launched
LPU ranked 19 in
engg education
Essay writing contest
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Khalsa College ROB ready for inauguration
Jalandhar, July 20 Though the project, taken up by the PWD, has been delayed for over six months, the department is much enthusiastic on its completion. This is the third ROB in the city that has been completed by the PWD. The PWD had earlier constructed ROBs in Rama Mandi and at Suchi village, while the ROB near Maqsudan is under construction. Started in June 2008, the project was to be completed within one and a half years as per the agreement with two construction companies. With the opening of this ROB, there will be no traffic congestion on Ladowali Road and internal roads in Defence Colony. Currently the vehicles heading towards the Jalandhar inter-state bus terminus (ISBT) have been diverted to take the Defence Colony road from the railway crossing to rejoin at the ISBT. This 1,110-metre-long ROB has come up at a cost of over Rs 52 crore. The vehicular traffic heading towards Ludhiana has been diverted from Police Lines to rejoin the Jalandhar-Amritsar and Jalandhar-Ludhiana road at BSF Chowk via Ladowali Road. As these diversions are unable to bear the heavy volume of traffic, deep potholes have developed at many places. The honking horns have been putting residents of Defence Colony and shopkeepers along Ladowali Road to great inconvenience. Executive Engineer B.S. Tuli with the provincial wing of the PWD said that certain works on a “leg” of the ROB towards Jalandhar cantonment area was pending. Installation of light poles is to be completed within a week. “The ROB will be thrown open to the traffic any day after July 31,” he claimed.
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Encroachments block canal flow
Phagwara, July 20 A glance at the small canals passing through Phagwara in the localities of Hadiabad, Dosanjh Kalan Road, Chachoki etc, said it all. Several illegal constructions existed till date on land of the Irrigation Department, including many canals. Encroachers were throwing garbage and dirty water into the canal thus blocking and polluting the canals. In Hadiabad, some people had even extended their canal side houses up to the canals and some had constructed pucca lanters on the canals. When contacted, Phagwara SDM Amarjit Paul said it would a top priority to remove encroachments on the canals to pave way for normal flow of the canal water. He said officials of the Irrigation Department would soon be summoned to act as per the government directions.
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‘Vote bank-wary councillors not acting against encroachments’
Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, July 20 People usually do not raise any voice against such violations. However, now the residents of Ishwar Nagar locality at Basti Sheikh on the Kala Sangha Road, falling under Ward 58, have come out in the open against reported encroachments by the shopkeepers on the road from Ghah Mandi Chowk to their colony. Chairman of Ishwar Nagar Welfare Society Manoj Arora, accompanied by its president Sunita Sondhi, stated that they had met area councillor Surinder Kaur and Jalandhar South MLA Bhagat Chunni Lal to use their influence to get the encroachments removed from the road as it created hindrance in the flow of traffic due to regular jams. Arora and Sondhi alleged that instead of pursuing the matter with the Municipal Corporation, they said they would not do so as it would adversely affects their votes. However, when contacted separately, both Surinder Kaur and Bhagat Chunni Lal’s son Mohinder Bhagat, chairman of Medium Industry Development Board, claimed no one had contacted them regarding the removal of encroachments. They said if any delegation met them, they would take up the matter with the authorities concerned. On the other hand, Arora said they had also met Mayor Rakesh Rathour and MC Commissioner Vinay Bublani in this regard. Giving a 30-day ultimatum to the authorities concerned, Arora said if the encroachments were not removed within a month, they would be left with no option but to knock at the door of Punjab and Haryana High Court. Credit game
An estimate of nearly Rs 1 crore for laying sewarge and installing streets lights in the Ishwar Nagar locality has been passed in the last meeting of the MC held on July 15. Representatives of the Ishwar Nagar Welfare Society claimed that the estimate of development works had been passed at the initiation of Mayor Rakesh Rathour for which they had pursued time and again. They alleged that Surinder Kaur and Bhagat Chunni Lal were trying to get false credit for getting the estimates passed. Denying the allegations, Surinder Kaur said no estimate in any ward could be passed without being pursued by the councillor concerned. Similarly, Bhagat Chunni Lal’s son claimed that it was due to the
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What’s in a name?
Jalandhar, July 20 Former Local Bodies Minister Chaudhary Jagjit Singh, during his tenure, beautified and named the road along the canal towards his house, near Basti Bawa Khel, after the name of his father Master Gurbanta Singh. Even an Improvement Trust Colony was named after his father as Master Gurbanta Singh Enclave. The present Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia already has the road leading from Shastri Chowk to his house named after his father as Manmohan Kalia Marg. Even a park in Central Town is named after the minister’s father. PPCC president Mahinder Singh Kaypee has the road in front of his residence in Model Town named after his father Darshan Singh Kaypee. Also a stadium near his house is named after his martyred father.
There is even a trend of setting up memorials to parents or grandparents. Gurkanwal Kaur, during her tenure as Social Welfare Minister, got the statue of her father former CM Beant Singh installed at BMC Chowk. Former chairman of Improvement Trust Tejinder Singh Bittu got a memorial built in the name of his grandfather Giani Lal Singh. During the recent MC House meeting, councillors passed a resolution for renaming Focal Point area after Thakur Ganpat Rai, father of Mayor Rakesh Rathour. There is already a park at Chandan Nagar and Gazigulla Road named after the RSS leader. Mayor Rathour claimed that he was never interested in getting this done. “People announce this all of a sudden and it rather becomes awkward for me to say no at a public function,” he replied.
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Kapurthala kid bags place in VOI’s lucky 10
Kapurthala, July 20 His father Sanjay Agnihotri, a judicial officer at Kapurthala, told The Tribune that Bhanu started singing when he was eight. He said the first song which Bhanu had sung was “O hum dum sunio re” (Sathia movie)”. His entire family, including his mother Karishma Agnihotri and sister Roja supported him a lot. He was taken to a music teacher at Amritsar, but that wasn’t adequate lessons in music. Thereafter, he took shikhsha from different gurus Sant Satnam Singh, Aman, Prof Narang (classic music) and Naresh Dhiman and Dipin Adiwal (light music) in Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Amritsar and Hoshiarpur. Hailing from a locality near Arya Samaj Chowk in Patiala, Bhanu performed at different musical programmes, including Madan Mohan night, Rafi night and Sangam Kala group. He won the national talent hunt held in Delhi last year and was awarded by Sonu Nigam and BR Chopra in the sub-junior group. He was also selected for the wildcard entry in “sa re ga pa…little champs 2009”, and sang a song there. Bhanu has also performed several songs in a TV show “Honhar” (Hum Honge Kal Ke Star). A student of class VII at Doaba Public School, Garhshankar, Bhanu has been specially looked after by Principal Rosy to enrich his talent. Music teacher Sunny also paid special attention towards him.
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Recruitment rally for Territorial Army from July 29
Jalandhar, July 20 Recruitment for the candidates from
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Delhi would be held on July 29 and for candidates belonging to Punjab and Jammu cand Kashmir on July 30. The medical examination and documentation would be held on July 31. The candidates should have passed matriculation examination with 45 per cent marks except those from Himachal’s districts of Lahaul and Spiti and Kinnaur for which class VIII is the minimum qualification. The candidates appearing for the tradesmen category should be simple matric pass. The candidates should be between 18 and 42 years of age. Preference would be given to ITI qualified, computer literates. |
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MGSIPAP to organise sarv dharam sammelan on Aug 1
Jalandhar, July 20 The Director-General of the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab, (MGSIPAP), B.K. Srivastava, said that the institute had decided to take the help of religious leaders to spread awareness among masses regarding important issues like pollution and a drug-free society. Srivastava said the MGSIPAP would organise a sarv dharam sammelan at Guru Angad Dev College, Khadoor Sahib, on August 1 to spread the message of a pollution-free environment and a drug-free society. Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh will be chief guest. Srivastava said the MGSIPAP already held a seminar on “religion and environment” on June 14 where Baba Sewa Singh and chairman of Ek Onkar Charitable Trust Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal took part. — TNS |
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YOUNG
WORLD
Jalandhar, July 20 Talent hunt
MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar, organised a talent hunt competition on July 16 and 17. The competition was held in two categories - classes V to VIII and class IX to XII. During the competition, students participated in events like singing and dance events. University positions
Vandita Jain, Sandeep Kaur, Anu Chawla, Harpreet Kaur, Beenu, Sandhya
Rani, Swati Verma, Sukhwinder Kaur and Harpreet of PG diploma in textile designing of Kanya Maha Vidyalaya bagged the top 10 positions in Guru Nanak Dev University.
Lyallpur Khalsa College also had its share of varsity toppers. Roopdeep Kaur of bachelor of physiotherapy-III bagged the first position in the university and secured 625 marks out of 900. The topper completed her hat-trick in the university with her first position this time again. Sonu and Sukhdeep
Kaur, both students of BPT-II, got second and third positions, respectively. Fruit market
A fruit market was organised at St Soldier Divine Public School, Kapurthala Road. Students dressed up in colourful attires, brought baskets full of apples, bananas, mangoes, plums, pears and guavas and highlighted the importance of fruits. Tree plantation
A tree plantation drive was held at the DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology in association with the Indian Youth Climate Network
(IYCN). The IYCN is a network uniting Indian youth and youth-oriented
organisations, which are concerned about climate change and environment issues. — TNS |
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Indo-Pak talks failed due to lack of foresight: Mann
Jalandhar, July 20 Stating this in a press note issued here, SAD (A) president Simranjit Singh Mann said Qureshi had rightly stated that India had not prepared on ground level as both the countries should proceed further on satisfying each other with reasoning on every issue. Lack of foresightedness and seriousness of Hindutava forces were the main reasons behind failure of the talks between the foreign ministers of both the countries. |
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Flesh trade racket busted, six arrested
Jalandhar, July 20 Acting on a tip-off, the police laid a trap at Lamba Pind Chowk and intercepted a car in which Parminder Singh, alias Prince, his mother Arvinder Kaur, both residents of Sher Singh Colony in Basti Bawa Khel, and a teenager girl were travelling. Sub Inspector Ganga Singh of Police Division 8 said during questioning, Prince and Arvinder Kaur admitted to have active in the trade for the last over six years and were arranging girls from Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and other neighbouring states for customers in Jalandhar and surrounding areas. The SI said the two were accompanying a Rohini (Delhi)-based teenager girl in the car who was to be handed over to three customers near Pathankot Chowk. On their disclosure, the police nabbed Sandeep Sharma, a resident of Durga Colony, Vikas Aggarwal of Golden Colony and Gaurav Kumar of Adhia Brahmin village, near Mehtiana in Hoshiarpur. After registering a case under the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act against the six, further investigations are on.
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Tussle over milk powder
Phagwara, July 20 When the villagers objected, both sides had a heated argument. Anganwadi Workers Union
(CITU) Press Secretary Krishna Kumari alleged that kids in anganwadi centres were being provided spoiled milk powder, which was seized in Nanak Nagari Chiherru Centre few days back. After receiving such news, we decided to check the milk powder of Palahai
centre. Union leaders also questioned the milk powder of anganwadi centre being kept in a cooperative society. Phagwara SDM Amarjit Paul said he had instructed the Child Development Project Officer to thoroughly investigate the matter. |
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Elementary teachers
to protest from Aug
Jalandhar, July 20 District president Gurmukh Singh Baba said the union would distribute pamphlets and write on the walls about the state government’s failure to bring the zila parishad and nagar council schools under the Education Department. He said the SAD-BJP government should implement the pay scale of Rs 10,300 to 34,800 for its teachers while the primary schools should not be merged with the upper primary schools. “If the state government failed to give us any assurance during the month-long protests, the union would be forced to take to streets in the coming days,” he added.
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Pensioners for revival of old pension scheme
Jalandhar, July 20 The retired teachers emphasised the need to revive the 1992 pension scheme. A resolution was adopted during the meeting. Even the regular employees of the aided schools demanded that the old pension scheme of 1992 should be implemented in the larger interest of the teaching faculty.
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Tribune Adalat
I retired as mathematics teacher from Government Senior Secondary School, Ladhewali, Jalandhar, on February 28, 2006. My PPO number is 19090/Pb. My case for fixation of pay as the Fifth Pay Commission report and revision of pension accordingly was sent to the Accountant-General, Punjab, Chandigarh, vide letter No 223 dated December 29, 2009, by the Principal, GSSS, Ladhewali. My pay has not been fixed and pension not revised fixed so far depite reminders.
— Karan Shanker, 809/59, Ekta Nagar, Phase I, Ramamandi, Jalandhar If you have a grievance against a public utility, or if you have a complaint about any dealing with a public servant, in a government office, bank, finance company, post office, insurance company, in a train or at a bus stand… or if your grievance has not been attended to, send an e-mail (not more than 200 words) to jalandhar@tribunemail.com or jalandhartribune@yahoo.com, or post the complaint to News Editor, Jalandhar Plus (Tribune Adalat), The Tribune, SCO 20, Ladowali Road, Jalandhar. Complaints against individuals will not be entertained. Your complaint is our concern and The Tribune offers to suitably highlight it. |
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It is an open secret that shopkeepers have made encroachments almost in every part of the city.
People usually do not raise any voice against such violations.
However, now the residents of Ishwar Nagar locality at Basti Sheikh on the Kala Sangha Road, falling under Ward 58, have come out in the
open against reported encroachments by the shopkeepers on the road from Ghah Mandi Chowk to their colony.
The game of eulogising senior party leaders is running consistently in all parties. An Improvement Trust Colony in Jalandhar was named Maharaja Yadawinder Singh Enclave after Capt Amarinder Singh’s father during the latter’s tenure as Chief Minister.