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Farmers association chief lashes out at SAD-led govt
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Mass Counselling Programme
Painting contests on water, energy conservation
Brucellosis scare among cattle
Triple murder case accused arrested
Tap tribal talent in archery, says Olympian
Swati Saini shines with bat, adjudged best player
Award for Moga MC president
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Farmers association chief lashes out at SAD-led govt
Bathinda, October 25 Lashing out at the state government, he claimed, “The worst ever paddy procurement process in the state this time will dethrone the Badal-led state government in the coming assembly polls.” “To make the government feel ashamed of its deeds at the national level, we are going to release a farmers’ resentment pamphlet on November 9 outside Parliament in Delhi,” he disclosed. Behru said, “To our surprise, conducting a statewide survey of the mandis, we observed that farmers are being looted at the hands of corrupt officials of the Mandi Board and procurement agencies, who have some links with commission agents and rice millers.” “We are soon going to expose a scandal in the state in the name of purchase of PUSA 44 and Hybrid 6129 varieties of paddy. If a farmers wants to sell any of the two varieties, he will have to shell out a bribe Rs 30-Rs 70 per quintal out of the fixed MSP of Rs 1030 per quintal to the purchase officials,” alleged Behru. About the basis of his allegations, Behru said, “I am well equipped with all required documents to prove my charge. I wish that after reading it in the newspapers, CM Sahib gets the matter examined through independent agencies and challenges any of my statements. Then I will produce everything in black and white before the media.” “After the media highlighted the factual position of mandis, the chief minister claimed to have deputed his principal secretary to monitor and speed up the process but failed in bringing the situation under control,” alleged Behru. Speaking further, he said, “As we all know, that farmers are the vote bank of the SAD-led government but the policies of this government (apparently to please the election fund donors—big rice millers and Arhatyas), have exploited the farmers to such an extent that they are now remembering the previous Congress regime and are campaigning to weed out the Akalis to save the agriculture of the state.” Terming the hike of Rs 20 in the wheat MSP a cruel joke with farmers, Behru said, “We are planning to move the Supreme Court to get the report of the Swaminathan commission implemented in letter and spirit,” he disclosed. |
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Spurious ghee making units unearthed, sealed
Abohar, October 25 The team of district health authorities being supervised by Kanwarjit Singh Kakkar, civil surgeon and YK Gupta, district health officer (DHO), also took samples of six sweet makers, four from Fazilka and two from Abohar town, to check adulteration. Kakkar said the first spurious desi ghee manufacturing unit was unearthed on Seetoguno road and about one quintal of such ghee was seized. The owner of the factory had claimed that he had been indulging in these activities for the past over two months. Another spurious desi ghee manufacturing unit was unearthed near Subzi Mandi area of this town and about 3.3 quintals of ghee was recovered from its premises. The accused had been manufacturing spurious ghee by mixing low quality refined oil with bakery shortening oil and adding essence into the same. The Patisa sweet was seized on Abohar-Malout road on the outskirts of this city today, while it was being brought here from Dhuri town of Sangrur district. About eight quintals of Patisa sweet had been seized and it appeared the even dry fruit used in Patisa sweet to give it attractive look, were also spurious. He said that all the samples of seized desi ghee and Patisa sweets would be sent for chemical examination to the laboratory concerned and action would be taken as per the outcome of report. Meanwhile, the factories had been sealed after taking the samples of seized material. |
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Tribune Impact
Barnala, October 25 Secretary, Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), Barnala Dr Raj Kumar Jindal told The Tribune that a local doctor Ashok Kumar Singla, who works as medical officer in the dispensary of Police Lines, today met Deputy Commissioner Arshdeep Singh Thind who is also president of IRCS and in a letter to him expressed his willingness to help these three sisters financially by giving them Rs 1000 every month and also treat them free of cost besides giving them medicines. He further said that Dr Jindal had read the news about the problems of three sisters, Jasbir Kaur (13), Amritpal Kaur (11) and Simran Kaur aka Munni (8) whose parents Soma Singh (father) and mother Rani Kaur had died of AIDS in April and August, respectively. He added that news item had deeply moved the doctor and he decided to approach the Deputy Commissioner for helping the three sisters. "I have handed a cheque for Rs 1000 as financial help to the Deputy Commissioner and have promised to give Rs 1000 to these three sisters every month besides treating them free of cost." Barnala DC Arshdeep Singh Thind confirmed the gesture made by Dr Ashok and appreciated The Tribune for highlighting the plight of the kids. |
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Mass Counselling Programme
Bathinda, October 25 Students from 76 government senior secondary schools and drop-out students from various schools will be counselled at the programme. The programme was launched on October 18 at Bhagta Bhai Ka village. The second session was held at Raman Mandi today, in which over 430 students from six schools took part. Deputy director, Employment Generation and Training, Bathinda, Harpal Singh, in-charge of C-Pyte, Kaljharani village, Major BS Mann (Retd), district guidance counsellor (Education Department) Harcharan Singh and other resource persons apprised the students about various job avenues and self-employment ventures. Deputy director Harpal Singh told TNS that students from classes X to XII were being counselled by resource persons from various departments and institutions, including ITIs, polytechnic colleges, engineering colleges, Sainik Welfare, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, agriculture and fisheries. He added that the students were also being told about a huge number of vacancies in banks and the Indian Army. Harpal Singh said they had planned to counsel around 5,000 students during the programme. Next, the counselling would be held at Kot Bhara (October 28), Chughe Kalan (November 1), Sangat (November 8), Bathinda (November 11), Phul (November 15) and Bhucho (November 22). During the programme, the Employment Generation and Training Department is also organising an exhibition of booklets that contains information about various jobs and professions. |
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Painting contests on water, energy conservation
Bathinda, October 25 The aim of these competitions is to ingrain a habit among children to save energy and water resources. Students of classes IV and V only can participate in the competitions. According to information available, the state-level competitions for both the energy saving and water conservation would be held on November 14. The national-level competition for energy saving would be held on December 12 while for water conservation, it is slated for January 21. Meanwhile, the schools have been directed to conduct the competitions at their respective schools at the earliest and send two best paintings to the Director, Bhakra Beas Management Board, Chandigarh. The topics for energy conservation competitions are ‘More Stars, More Savings’, ‘Today’s Energy Wastage Is Tomorrow’s Energy Shortage’ and ‘Energy Saved Is Future Saved’. However, no specific topics have been set for competitions on conserving water resources. Nevertheless, schools have been directed to conduct these competitions keeping the three topics for energy saving as model. Students can participate in any of the two topics for competitions i.e. energy or water conservation. Confirming the details, principals of some schools here said they had started taking steps to conduct the competitions in a smooth and interesting manner. |
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Brucellosis scare among cattle
Moga, October 25 Talking to The Tribune, Dr PC Mittal, deputy director of the animal husbandry department revealed that the department would provide the vaccine dose free of cost to the farmers. He said the testing facility for the disease was also now available in Moga district. Earlier, the test to detect this disease was conducted at the regional laboratory of the department at Jalandhar, he said. Adding that the department has enough antigens available here to conduct the tests for detecting the disease, he appealed to the farmers to contact the nearest government veterinary officer if their cow or buffalo repeatedly aborts the foetus after pregnancy. "The brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by gram negative facultative intra-cellular bacterial organisms of the genus brucella that are pathogenic for a wide variety of animals and human beings. The disease is manifested by reproductive failure which includes abortion, birth of unthrifty calves and retained placenta in female animals," Dr Mittal said. It spreads from the vaginal discharge of an infected cow/buffalo or from an aborted foetus. The infected breeding bulls could transmit the disease to cows at the time of service by infected semen. Milk produced front an infected cow may also transmit the organism to the human beings. The infected milk creates a public health hazard as the organism causes undulant fever in humans and could also lead to impotency. Dr Mittal further said that there was no effective way to detect infected animals by symptoms of brucellosis. "The most obvious signs in pregnant animals are abortion or birth of weak calves. Milk production may be reduced from changes in the normal lactation period. This is caused by abortions and delayed conceptions," he said. |
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Triple murder case accused arrested
Abohar, October 25 With the arrest of Jagsir, the state police authorities heaved a sigh of relief as the Punjab and Haryana High Court ha asked them about a year ago to arrest Jagsir at the earliest. The Punjab police authorities have set up a special investigation team headed by a DIG rank officer to arrest Jagsir. Jagsir, who was arrested today by a police team on the directions of SSP, Ferozepur, Kaustab Sharma, was also involved in other crimes including dacoity in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. He escaped from police custody when he was being brought back by a police party after presenting him in a Jaipur court in connection with the hearing of dacoity case. A case in this connection was registered against Jagsir at the Sadar police station, Abohar. A case in connection with the murder of the three brothers was registered against Jagsir and about 17 others in police station Khuiansarwar in this sub-division. Two policemen were dismissed from service after the escape of Jagsir from their custody. After Jagsir was declared a proclaimed offender in a murder case by the court concerned, the SIT , which was constituted for his arrest, also took the help of Haryana and Rajasthan police. For the first time in the history of reorganised Punjab, the police force of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan states held of meetings in this town to nab Jagsir, who was roaming in Rajasthan and sometimes shifted his base to UP and other states. Varinder Singh Brar, SP, Abohar, said four teams led by Ranjit Singh, Balkar Singh, Hardeep Singh and Kartar Singh were set up after a tip-off in connection with the movement of Jagsir in the area. The operation of teams was supervised by Talwinder Singh, DSP, Abohar. One of the police teams led by Ranjit Singh, SHO, Bhawabwala, managed to arrest Jagsir while he was moving in the area. |
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Gang of thieves busted, 8 held
Bathinda, October 25 During the preliminary
investigation, the police recovered the stolen goods worth Rs two lakh from
their possession. Giving details, the SP (Detective), Jatinder Singh Benipal
said that during the investigation, some more persons had been figured out in
the case but they were yet to be arrested. |
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Tap tribal talent in archery, says Olympian
Sriganganagar, October 25 Limba Ram recalled that initially when he was appointed as the chief archery coach of Rajasthan, he used to get a very small sum which was hiked later on. In 2007, he was designated as field director of rural sports in Rajasthan. On January 10, 2009, he was selected as national archery coach for Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010 by the Archery Association of India. Speaking during a whirlwind tour of Dungarpur and other areas in his home state, on Sunday, Limba Ram regretted that Indian archers performed well during the CWG but failed to clinch gold medals up to expectations. “We will try to improve our performance during the Asiad and in CWG 2012,” he said. |
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Swati Saini shines with bat, adjudged best player
Abohar, October 25 In the cricket match for boys, Lakhwinder Singh was declared the man of the match. Vineet Prashar and Mohammad Jaidan shared the title of best players by scoring 46 runs and claiming 5 wickets in four overs. In the other events for boys, Ratnesh emerged as winner in javelin throw, Iqbal in 1500 meter race, Jatinder Pratap in long jump, Amit and Ratnesh in carom and Rajiv in chess. Among the girls, Harwinder was declared winner in 100 meter race, Shalini Gupta and Namrita Goyal in carom, Jasmine Khosa in chess and Kiranpreet and Harpreet in three-leg race. The closing ceremony of the two-day sports meet was marked by group dances, choreography and folk dances in which Saraswati, Divyani, Navneet, Sonal, Namrita, Nidhi, Tripti, Renu, Sadhna, Manpreet, Kritika and Kamalpreet showcased their talent. Prizes were given away by Tara Singh Ahuja, chairman of the college. Principal Dr Rajinder Girdhar thanked the gathering. Hanumangarh girl in cagers team
Meanwhile, in another development, Kiran Sidhu, a student of the Saraswati Kanya Vidyalaya in Hanumangarh, has been selected for competing in the National Junior Basketball championship to be held in Mumbai next week. Confirming it, her father Maghar Singh, who is posted as an ASI at the Junction police station said Kiran is the only player from the twin districts of Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar to find a place in the Rajasthan state team. |
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Award for Moga MC president
Moga, October 25 Revealing this to the media persons in a press conference held here on Sunday, Brar claimed that with his initiatives, the government has sanctioned many new projects for the Moga town to make it one of the best cities in the state. He revealed that some of the major projects include sanctioning of Rs 100-crore for making a flyover from Bughipura chowk to Duneke (5-km) within municipal limits, Rs 45-crore for replacing the old sewerage pipelines, Rs 4.5 crore for reconstructing the main bazaar road, construction of ring roads on the outskirts of the town to ease traffic flow and over Rs 50-crore for various other development projects in the town. Adding that the state government had already issued a notification to convert the Moga municipal council into a municipal corporation, he said that unfortunately, local rivals from the opposition had approached the High Court and stayed the process of upgradation for the time being. “I am sure the High Court will give clearance to the state government’s notification to upgrade the civic body,” he claimed.
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