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Rs 1.2-lakh fake currency seized
For many, this prospective Adarsh school remains out of reach
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MS directed to designate PIO in civil hospital
Show time for tech nerds
39 schools get Rs 14-lakh grant
Panchayat asks govt to set Pal Singh free
Irregularities
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Rs 1.2-lakh fake currency seized
Amritsar, March 19 The recovered consignment was a part of Rs 2 lakh fake currency, smuggled from Pakistan six days ago. Out of these, currency notes amounting to Rs 80,000 were sold in various village fairs. Preliminary investigations revealed that Shinder Singh, an illicit liquor smuggler, graduated to smuggling of fake currency during his jail term in the Amritsar Central Jail. During the period, he came in contact with notorious Indo-Pak counterfeit currency smugglers. He was released about one and half year ago. Giving details, Manminder Singh, AIG, counter intelligence, said Shinder was nabbed near Dera Baba Bhuri Wala situated on the Tarn Taran Road when he was going to deliver the consignment. All the notes were in Rs 500 denomination and is of very superior quality, he added. A case under Section 489A, B, C, 420 and 120-B of the IPC has been registered at SSOC police station in this regard. Manminder Singh said raids were being conducted to nab the remaining accused. He said investigations are being conducted on different lines to unearth the complete nexus and network of this gang, he added. 7 robbers nabbed Amritsar: With the arrest of seven members of a robbers’ gang, the police today managed to crack two looting cases that rocked the city in the last couple of months. Two sugar traders were robbed of Rs 22 lakh and Rs 16 lakh from Majith Mandi area in these incidents. The arrested are identified as Hari Singh, Amit Kohli, Gaganpreet Singh, Vijay Kumar, Malkeet Singh, Gurpreet Singh and Sahibpreet Singh. Deputy Commissioner of Police Amar Singh Chahal said the police recovered Rs 5.6 lakh from the accused besides two country-made pistols with seven live rounds and sharp-edged weapons. He said Hari Singh, alias Sabha, was the mastermind behind the Rs 22-lakh robbery. He was the member of an inter-state gang, which also included criminals from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. Sahibpreet and Gurpreet were the main architects in the Rs 16-lakh looting incident. They along with Bhola and Jasbir Lucky committed the crime. In this case too, help of professional criminals from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh was taken. “However, the police was suspicious of the exact amount looted from the trader,” said the DCP. He said many more dacoity and robbery cases are liked to be solved with these arrests. Pistol seized
Batala: Ajay Kumar of Umarpura was arrested with .32 bore pistol with six live bullets here on Friday. He was nabbed from the bus stand in Umarpura. Ajay said he purchased the weapon from Jalandhar and was to sell it in Batala. PO arrested
Nakodar: The Shahkot police arrested a proclaimed offender, identified as Joginder Singh, alias Kalu, of Patti Haweli (Malisian), today. He was declared a PO by a Nakodar court in January. He faces charges of selling illegal liquor. |
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For many, this prospective Adarsh school remains out of reach
Khatkar Kalan (Nawanshahr), March 19 The Chief Minister had announced that the poor, meritorious students would be offered admission and given the best of the facilities. However, the state government has not done anything beyond getting constructed a senior secondary block in the school, being run by the Punjab School Education Board. The staff of the school revealed that getting admissions had become a pain in the neck. “Leave aside the chance to be selective in admission, our primary teachers are forced to go around the villages insisting the parents to send their wards to the school. But even this has not helped. This despite the fact that the school falls in the common land of three villages including Khatkar Kalan, Thandian and Bhootan,” rued the teachers.One of the major issues that bothers the parents is its bad approach from the main road. The school falls two kilometers inwards from the Phagwara-Chandigarh highway and students are forced to pass through the fields to reach the campus, which the parents find a bit unsafe. Realising the problem, an NRI from the area had donated a bus but there are no funds for fuel either from the government side or the school board. In fact, this burden has been passed onto the poor students who have to shell out Rs 65 to Rs 150 a month (depending on the distance) as conveyance charges or else take admission elsewhere. Even this option has not clicked too well. The only bus has to take four rounds a day as a result of which some students have to start as early as 6 am to reach the campus. School principal Renu Bhatti confirmed that the strength of the school stands at 550 for the past few years. “There are just 14 students each in science stream at Class XI and XII levels”, the senior teachers revealed adding that the only solution was to either re-locate the school on the main road or add more buses with fuel expenses. The swings and the garden area also need to be re-done. Further, there are just 10 computer systems for all the students and the remaining three have gone out of order. The only attraction in the school is a high-tech English laboratory, which perhaps is not being optimally
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MS directed to designate PIO in civil hospital
Jalandhar, March 19 In her two-page order on March 7, State Information Commissioner Ravi Singh said, “It appears that there is no PIO in the Civil Hospital and paediatrician Dr Balbir Singh is being made to act as PIO, which is not in conformity with the provisions of RTI Act.”Actually Dr Balbir Singh appeared before the commission on behalf of the Civil Hospital in connection with a complaint of delay in providing information filed by a local advocate Rajinder Bhatia. The commissioner in her order said, “Dr Balbir Singh, who is a nodal officer, says he is a paediatrician and he remains either in the OPD or in the ward. He further says he has not been provided any separate office and staff to look after the RTI matters. He went on to submit that not even a single paper pertaining to RTI matters has even been put up before him. It is in this matter for the first time that any paper has been marked to him.” At this, the Commissioner directed the Medical Superintendent to meticulously follow Section 4 (1) (b) (xvi) of the RTI Act so as to bring in the necessary changes in the working of the hospital. The above-said section clearly states that every pubic authority shall publish within 120 days from enactment of this Act, the names, designations and other particulars of the PIOs. |
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Show time for tech nerds
Kapurthala, March 19 Teams from more than 70 engineering colleges and institutes participated in three categories - engineering, polytechnic and postgraduate/teachers. Although they did not make it to the top, water conservation (water overfill indicators, rain water harvesting and ground water recharging systems) as well as railway traffic security (unmanned railway crossings with vibration sensors) weighed heavy on the minds of students. Both categories saw more than two models each. The themes that won, however, were different. Convenience coupled with a fascination for automobiles ruled the event. All-terrain vehicle (engineering), four-way four-wheeler (polytechnic) and camless rotating cylinder engine (PG/teachers) grabbed the top slots. There was innovation but the students lacked a radical or revolutionary approach since most of the models one saw were recycled avatars of technology or products one had already seen on the internet or elsewhere. |
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39 schools get Rs 14-lakh grant
Nawanshahr, March 19 The money would be used to provide school uniforms to as many as 2,142 primary and 1,505 upper primary students. Besides, Kariha distributed cheques amounting to Rs 1.18 crore under Rashtriya Madhaymik Shikhiya Abhiyan (RMSA) for infrastructure development in schools. Speaking on the occasion, Kariha said that to ensure proper implementation of Right to Education in state, the SAD-BJP govt. had decided to provide school uniforms to the students from class 1 to 8 in the state. Besides, unprecedented infrastructure development as well as qualitative improvement in classroom teaching - learning process had been started, he added. District Education Officer, Darshan Kaur, while asking the school heads to ensure proper utilisation of funds, said the people at the grassroots should be made aware about the better infrastructure as well as academic facilities being made available to the students of government schools. |
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Panchayat asks govt to set Pal Singh free
Jalandhar, March 19 The panchayat alleged that Pal Singh has been falsely implicated in various terrorism-related cases. Pal Singh, along with four others, was arrested by the Counter Intelligence in July last year. Addressing a press conference, jointly organised by the Khalra Mission Organisation and Dhandowal Welfare Organisation, Gurmukh Singh Dhandowal, village nambardar, said taking account of the good conduct of Pal Singh and his participation in village level welfare activities, the general house of panchayat had also passed a resolution in this regard in September last year and sent it to the higher police authorities, but to no avail. He alleged that the health of Pal Singh was deteriorating and despite the court directions, the authorities are not providing adequate medical care to him. |
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Irregularities
Amritsar, March 19 Civil Surgeon Dr Chandanjit Singh Kondal said a number of irregularities were found during the raid as the centre was being run by a laboratory technician while there was no sinologist to operate the machine. He said the owner of the centre has also shifted the machine to other place without mandatory permission. He said a show-cause notice would be issued to the centre while its registration has been suspended. |
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