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Sukhbir’s visit spells doom for commuters
Every maternal death will be reviewed, project starts this week
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Film fest for students begins
4 St Soldier Law College students clear PCS
Students at the farewell function in the MHR DAV Institute of Nursing
in Jalandhar. A Tribune photo
Bossy Neelamahal keeps trustees waiting, they stage walk out
Special bond for jail inmates
A woman ties rakhi on the wrist of an inmate of the Central Jail in Jalandhar on Tuesday.
Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Rakhi celebrated with fervour
Siblings celebrate Rakhi in Jalandhar on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Computer teachers hold state-level protest
IMA honours world veteran champ
Officials asked to remove encroachments near canals
2 nabbed for attacking ASI
Radio Mantra conducts auditions on LPU campus
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Sukhbir’s visit spells doom for commuters
Jalandhar, August 24 As buses were not being allowed to enter the city across the BSF Chowk and were being diverted further towards Ladowali Road to enter the bus stand, traffic remained withheld in the Rama Mandi area and even further ahead. This had been done to avoid any traffic in the area around the Lyallpur Khalsa College railway overbridge which was to be inaugurated by the Deputy CM today. Ever since the bridge construction started about two years back, buses were coming via the Defence Colony road but this was not the case today. Due to heavy inflow of traffic, coupled with diversion and mismanagement, several commuters (mostly women and children) were seen walking down to the bus stand with their baggage right from Rama Mandi Chowk, which is at least at a distance of four km from Rama Mandi. Heavy rain at that time further added to their woes.
Diljinder Singh Dhillon, ACP, Traffic, said since a huge tent had been erected by the PWD on the road near ROB, buses could not go via the normal route. “They had to be diverted via Ladowali Road, Alaska Chowk, GPO, Namdev Chowk, Skylark Hotel, Guru Nanak Mission Chowk, Milk Bar Chowk, Sultlej Chowk and bus terminus,” he elaborated. He said due to the festival, the volume of traffic was at least three times more today. “We had deployed 168 men on duty today for the purpose but VIP movement made the traffic slow as some parts had to be emptied due to security reasons. The rain proved to be a dampener as the movement of traffic became further slow,” he added. Even the Congress Legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, who was in the city today, said the inauguration of the ROBs could have been scheduled for this evening in view of the festival celebrations in the morning hours. “The commuters have had to face a very tough time”, she said. There were reports that the Sada-e-Sarhad Lahore-bound bus was also delayed by almost half an hour. Dhillon, however, said the bus got stuck up at Rama Mandi for about five to 10 minutes.
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Every maternal death will be reviewed, project starts this week
Jalandhar, August 24 Under the national level project, all the factors, which led to the death of expectant mothers, will be recorded and available online. All the private and government hospital facilities would come under the ambit of the project, which is aimed at to bring down the mother mortality rate in the country. To ascertain the reason behind such deaths and to fix the responsibility of doctors and paramedical staff concerned, an audit would be conducted by the committee, chaired by the Deputy Commissioner, besides the Civil Surgeon, District Family and Planning Officer, representative of local Indian Medical Association (IMA) unit and members of non-governmental organisations as its member. As of now, committee of only three doctors performs such audits. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s project, which the state government is going to introduce in the state this week, will be implemented in the state through the National Rural Health Mission. The training of health personnel concerned of the few districts of the state has already been conducted by the state health authorities. Confirming the development, Dr. Ashok Nayyar, Director, Health services and Family Welfare, said that ironically, the state has a large number of unreported maternal deaths and the deaths especially occur during home deliveries largely went unreported. “A nodal officer would be employed at each government facility, which would be given the responsibility to compile the information. In the rural areas, ASHA and ANM workers will be given the responsibility to report every such death to the Block Level Officer”, he said. “A meeting of the audit committee would be organised every month. In case of any maternal death, the senior medical officer concerned would be called up in the meeting and causes of death would be reviewed in front of the committee. Such review would definitely enhance the accountability of the staff”, he added.
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Film fest for students begins
Jalandhar, August 24 In the festival, students of more than 100 schools of the district are being shown movies, giving message of adopting and practicing traditional social values, morals and spirit to work hard through the characters. K.P. Sharma, District Science Supervisor, who has also been appointed as a festival coordinator, said the aim of the festival was to teach students about the moral values through the mode of entertainment. He said the movies were being screened at seven various theatres of the district simultaneously. He said the five theatres in Jalandhar city and one theatre at Nakodar and Goyraya each were screening the movies free of cost. “The movies have been produced by the Children Film Society, New Delhi, which is an offshoot of the Ministry of Human Resources and Development. Neither the district education authorities, nor the students have to pay anything to the theatres and to the film society,” said Sharma. He said the authorities had already prepared the schedule of the schools and the staff in the schools had been given responsibility to carry students to theatres every morning, where movies, duration of two hours each, were being screened from 8 am to 10 pm everyday. He said the department had also deputed a principal in each theatre to run the activity smoothly. He said the festival was running in a few other districts of the state simultaneously.
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Jalandhar, August 24 Green campaign inaugurated
Students of Master Gurbanta Singh Memorial Janata College, Kartarpur, planted 200 saplings in the college campus. Each student pledged to adopt one plant. The students also vowed to fight against air pollution by continuing their Green Campaign. The campaign was inaugurated by president of the college managing committee, Chaudhary Jagjit Singh by planting a sapling. Dr Jasbir Kaur Gill, Dr Surinder Kumar Bangar, Prof Varinder Bhatia, Dr Anita Gupta and Prof Sukhvir Duggal were also present on the occasion. Investiture ceremony
The investiture ceremony of the students’ council took place at the Kanya Maha Vidyalaya. Head girl, vice head girl, associate head girl and other members were formally inducted into the council. This was followed by an oath taking ceremony in which all students pledged to perform their duties with devotion, sincerity, and dedication. Principal Dr Atima Sharma
congratulated the office bearers. Fresher’s party
Senior students of the department of computer science and information technology, Lyallpur Khalsa College for Women, threw a Fresher’s Day party for their new batch of juniors in the college. The function titled IT-SPLASH featured classical welcome dance, various solo performances, group dances, skits and modeling etc. Governing council president Balbir Kaur was the main chief guest of the occasion. As many as 100 students participated in the party. Merit holders were honoured by Balbir Kaur and principal of college Dr Gursimrat Mangat. Nisha was chosen Miss Fresher, Rajwinder Kaur as first runners-up, Ramanpreet Kaur as second runners-up and Priyanka was chosen Ms. Charming Rakhi card making competition
A Rakhi and card-making competition was held at the various branches of the St. Soldier Group of Schools. Students made beautiful rakhies for the soldiers of India with the help of threads, stones, ribbons and other decoration material. They also made beautiful rakhi cards. As many as 1,000 rakhies were made by students and sent to soldiers. |
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Bossy Neelamahal keeps trustees waiting, they stage walk out
Jalandhar, August 24 The chairman had convened a meeting of trustees at noon today. Since the timings coincided with the visit of Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal in the city today, they said they were given a message telephonically that the meeting would be held around 3 to 4 pm. The trustees said when they reached the office at 4 pm, “The Chairman was already seated there. Out of the six trustees, five of them had come, including Shiv Dyal
Chugh, Suresh Marwaha, Mahinder Singh, Buta Singh Sachdeva and Gopal
Mian. The sixth one - Yogita Gupta - being ill, was represented by her father-in-law Gopal Gupta”, they said. The members said the Chairman had also convened a meeting of a sub-committee represented by deputy director local bodies, executive officer of the trust and an SE at 3 pm. The trustees alleged that the chairman went ahead to hold a meeting with this committee at 4.10 pm without telling the trustees as to by what time he would re-join them. At 4.30 pm, they said, they all walked out in protest for not being able to further face any more humiliation. They alleged that they had confronted a similar situation earlier too. “A day ahead of the I-Day, we got a message that the tricolour would be hoisted in the office at 8.30 am.
Many of us who came at 8.20 am found the National Flag already unfurled. We were told that the chairman had already conducted the ceremony by himself at 8.10 am and left,” they
fumed. Neelamahal denied all allegations saying, “I wanted to avoid the trustee’s father-in-law in the meeting. I could not say it directly to him. If I had gone for another meeting,
the trustees too could have sent a message across to me for the meeting. They are simply making an issue out of nothing.” He also denied having done
the flag hoisting ceremony ahead of the time. “The Trustees are simply trying to cover up their delay in reaching the office delay on that day,” he claimed. |
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Special bond for jail inmates
Jalandhar, August 24 Talking to The Tribune, Jail Superintendent Surinder Singh Saini said the women who wanted to tie rakhi to their prisoner brothers lodged in the jail had been allowed to meet them without any hindrance of barricades. Similarly, the men wanted to get rakhi tied from their prisoner sisters lodged in the women cell of the the Central Jail were also be allowed to meet them without any hindrance, he added. The persons wanting to meet their brother or sister prisoners in view of Rakhi were provided three hour extra time to do so. They were allowed to meet their brother or sister prisoners from 9 am to 5 pm, whereas usually the visiting time to meet prisoners is only for five hours that is from 9 am to 12 noon and 3 pm to 5 pm, he added. As many as 1,552 prisoners, including 90 women, were lodged in the Central Jail today against the total capacity of just 570 inmates. There are several prisoners in the Central Jail here who are brothers and sisters. Saini said special arrangements were also made to allow them to tie rakhi. |
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Rakhi celebrated with fervour
Phagwara, August 24 Inmates in the Phagwara Sub-Jail were allowed to celebrate Rakhi with their sisters. Some women went to the jail to meet their brothers and tied rakhis on their wrists. Meanwhile, sisters of several patients, admitted to various hospitals in the town, visited them and tied rakhis on their wrists.The Kamla Nehru College for Women organised a rakhi-making contest. Reena Rani and Sukhwinder bagged first position, while Sukhpreet and Amanpreet stood second. |
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Computer teachers hold state-level protest
Jalandhar, August 24 In a press release, Gurvinder Singh, President of the union, said CM Parkash Singh Badal has backtracked from his promise to hold a meeting with the representatives of the union. “The computer teachers, working on contractual basis across the state, had lot many expectations from the meeting. This step of the CM to postpone the meeting has left us with no other option but to resort to a state level protest,” he said.
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IMA honours world veteran champ
Jalandhar, August 24 He was invited as a speaker at a seminar organised by the local IMA unit on stress management. In an elaborate programme attended by 350 eminent doctors of the city, Dr Sanjiv Sharma, President, IMA, Jalandhar, along with other office bearers of the IMA welcomed him. Kartar Singh said although his family had limited resources being settled in a border village - Sur Singh Wala - at that time, the sheer will power, hard work, regular exercise, a well balanced diet, a strict routine and discipline in life made him what he is today. Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti was the chief guest on the occasion. Awards of appreciation by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) were presented to Dr Sanjiv Sharma President, IMA, Dr TS Randhawa, secretary and Dr Rajiv Sharma, finance secretary of IMA, Jalandhar by both the guests, for the Neem Plantation Drive by the IMA in four villages of the district.
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Officials asked to remove encroachments near canals
Phagwara, August 24 Addressing an Advisory Committee meeting of the
Canals and Irrigation Department, SDM Amarjeet Paul instructed the officials concerned to
launch an anti-encroachment drive to remove the encroachments on the government lands. He also instructed them to implement the government’s
plan to strengthen and cement the canals to increase the flow of the water so that
it could reach the tale ends of the canals. In another Advisory Committee meeting, the SDM instructed the officials of the Public Health Department to accelerate their campaigns to provide drinking water in
Nihalgarh, Sangatpur, Wahid and Sapror villages. The SDM said 86 villages
were being provided with fresh and clean drinking water facilities in the subdivision and the work was in progress to facilitate the residents of the remaining villages. |
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2 nabbed for attacking ASI
Phagwara, August 24 SHO City Amrik Singh Chahal, while confirming the incident, told The Tribune tonight that both Nihang brothers first indulged in a scuffle with a car driver, then with a motorcyclist, who ran away and took shelter in a jeweller’s shop, but both Nihangs chased him. Meanwhile, the shopkeeper informed the police and a police party, including sub inspector Karnail Singh and ASI Ramandeep Singh reached there to solve the tangle, but the accused, instead of listening to them, attacked the ASI with a sharp-edged weapon. The ASI sustained critical injuries on his head and was admitted to the local civil hospital. Both the accused would be produced before local Judicial Magistrate on Wednesday, said SHO Chahal.
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Radio Mantra conducts auditions on LPU campus
Jalandhar, August 24 Students were asked why they would want to be an RJ and then given a script to read out. LPU student Hrishita said, “It’s a great platform for us because we listen to RJs on the radio all the time but now we will get a chance to be one.” The winner of auditions will get free internship for a year on Radio Mantra. |
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Four students of St. Soldier Law College, which has started coaching classes for PCS (judiciary) for the first time, have cleared the PCS exam. Out of a batch of 13 candidates, 11 candidates appeared in the test held jointly by the Punjab Public Service Commission and the Punjab and Haryana High Court on August 8.
Jalandhar, August 24
Inmates in the Phagwara Sub-Jail were allowed to celebrate Rakhi with their sisters. Some women went to the jail to meet their brothers and tied rakhis on their wrists. Meanwhile, sisters of several patients, admitted to various hospitals in the town, visited them and tied rakhis on their
wrists. The Kamla Nehru College for Women organised a rakhi-making contest. Reena Rani and Sukhwinder bagged first position, while Sukhpreet and Amanpreet stood second.
