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Disaster Management
50 councillors give seminar a miss
Ludhiana, March 25
Though recent deaths due to Tsunami in Japan has initiated a global discussion on disaster management, but municipal councillors seem to be insensitive towards it as more then two third of them remained absent from a seminar organised on the issue.
Most of the councillors remained absent from a meeting on disaster management in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Illegal commercial activities thrive in LIT colonies
Ludhiana, March 25
Land use regulations are being flouted with impunity in most of the colonies developed by the Ludhiana Improvement Trust in the city. Numerous properties are being used - either fully or partially - for commercial activities while civic officials choose to look the other way for reasons best known to them.
HIG residential houses in Sant Isher Nagar being used for commercial activities in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Illegal Possession of House
Complainant threatens to commit suicide
Ludhiana, March 25
Amarjit Singh of Vardhman Nagar today threatened to commit suicide if the police authorities failed to redress his grievance. He alleged that head constable Gurdeep Singh had helped Joginder Singh and his son Anku in taking the possession of his house illegally last year.
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WARMING UP
People gather around a vendor for a hot cup of tea on a lazy Friday morning
in Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
DBA politics heading towards confrontation
President refuses to accept Bar Council’s order
Ludhiana, March 25
Terming the decision of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana Chairman regarding the removal of two assistant returning officers and barring lawyers, who were not registered with the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, from casting their votes during the District Bar Association’s poll as biased and unconstitutional, the District Bar Association’s chief has refused to accept the same.
Fancy speed breakers an irritant
Pose danger to fast moving vehicles
Ludhiana, March 25
In a glaring example of how Municipal Corporation authorities execute various works without proper planning, the civic body has installed a number of fancy speed breakers, technically known as rumble strips, in the city, which are putting general public to a lot of inconvenience.
Rumble strip installed near the Municipal Commissioner’s residence in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
4,000
multi-storeyed flats for urban poor
Central team inspects JNNURM project
Ludhiana, March 25
A team of Union Housing and Urban Development officials visited the site where flats are being constructed for urban poor under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme A team of the consultants, hired by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) along with officials of the Municipal Corporation, inspected the sites at Giaspura, Mundiyaan Kalan and Dhandari Kalan locality on Thursday where 4,000 multi-storied flats are being constructed. The team examined the quality of material being used in these flats, which are being constructed under the Basic Services for urban poor (BSUP) scheme of Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission for providing houses to those living in slums.
Usurpation of Land
Officials pass the buck
Ludhiana, March 25
While action against those behind taking unlawful possession of prime government land adjoining CRPF Colony in Dugri for setting up a service station is caught in red tape and the departments concerned are passing the buck, the occupants have succeeded in putting up a boundary wall and an iron gate.
Construction under way on land that has been occupied illegally near CRPF Colony in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjit Verma
Upgrade to subdivision
Legislator felicitated for raising issue in Assembly
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 25
Acknowledging the initiative to get the town upgraded to a subdivision by getting it referred to the reorganisation committee, various organisations felicitated legislator Iqbal Singh Jhoondan here.
Children apprised of safety norms
Ludhiana, March 25
Kids from a local play-way and nursery school, Maple Bear, mesmerised officers of the Sadar police station, Civil Lines, today.
CATCHING THEM YOUNG: SHO Paramjit Singh familiarises children with a wireless set during an educational tour to the Sadar police station
in Ludhiana on Friday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Action against law violators in Feroze market
Ludhiana, March 25
The tehbazaari wing and the police department of the civic body today issued challans to law violators at the Feroze Gandhi market and towed away vehicles parked in the no-parking zone.
Hotel industry perturbed over levying of service tax
May go on strike
Ludhiana, March 25
After the garment industry now the hotel industry is up against arms against the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for levying service tax on the industry. Hotel industry, which is already burdened under heavy taxes is perturbed over the proposal to impose service tax in addition to the already existing luxury tax. Representatives of various associations across India will be meeting the Finance Minister on March 31 and if the service tax is not rolled back then they will be forced to go on strike.
Garment industry to go on indefinite strike
Ludhiana, March 25
The Knitwear Club and allied hosiery associations have decided to go on an indefinite strike against the excise duty being levied on branded garments. Vinod K
Thapar, president, Knitwear Club, said the Finance Minister’s announcement had come as a rude shock to the industry.
Water, sewerage dues
Rs 86.11 lakh recovered from residents
Ludhiana, March 25
Authorities of the Municipal Corporation have expedited the work of recovering arrears pending with defaulters. The operation and maintenance wing of the civic body has recovered Rs 86.11lakh so far in two days.
Bike expo in city
Ludhiana, March 25
Wheel Publications and Expositions Pvt Ltd will organise a bike exposition in the city from March 27 to 29.
Karamjit’s new book on stands
Ludhiana, March 25
Karamjit Grewal has come up with another book for children titled
"Dharti di pukar". The book consists of 17 one act plays based on different issues ranging from environment, drug abuse, patriotism and corruption. This is the eighth book of Grewal for kids.
City lad releases poetry book in US
Ludhiana, March 25
City poet, Manav Sachdeva Masoom, released his collection of poems ‘The Sufi’s Garland’ in New York, United States, today.
Arya College non-teaching
staff on stay-in strike
Ludhiana, March 25
The non-teaching employees of Arya College went on a stay-in-strike today. The strike was called on by the Private College's Non-Teaching Employee's
Organisation, Punjab, and Chandigarh.
Don’t divide PAU, say alumini
Ludhiana, March 25
Showing concern over Punjab Agriculture University's (PAU) further division into "bits and pieces", 1951-1955 - batch of Government Agriculture College, Ludhiana (PAU), has appealed to the government to stop "encroaching" on the land of agriculture university.
From Schools
4 kg charas seized
Ludhiana, March 25
The Government Railway Police (GRP) seized 4 kg of charas worth Rs 1 lakh from two labourers at the railway station here today.
Patwari held for accepting bribe
 Ludhiana, March 25
Continuing with their drive to nab corrupt officials in government departments, the Vigilance Bureau has arrested a patwari for allegedly demanding a bribe for recording the division of property of a villager.
A patwari who was nabbed by sleuths of the Vigilance Bureau in Ludhiana.Tribune photo
‘Despite law, child labour rampant’
Ludhiana, March 25
Dr Manjeet Singh, a social scientist from Punjab University, Chandigarh, was addressing a gathering during a national seminar on "Child Abuse and
Labour" organised by the University Grants Commission at the Arya College Ludhiana today. He said," Children below 14 years who were working, were in crores despite various laws in the Constitution of India, this menace was rampant.”
Sports body holds seminar for coaches
Ludhiana, March 25
Coaches from all the blocks and its headquarters at Ludhiana attended the seminar conducted by the Punjab Sports Department under the Union Government's scheme- Panchayat Yuva aur Khel Abhiyaan
(PYKKA), which concluded at Guru Nanak Stadium, here today.
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