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Amidst chaos, MC passes Rs 11-cr development projects
MC contractual staff to start hunger strike
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Modernisation plan of railway station to be synchronised
with city’s master plan
Ex-servicemen launch new party
Woman kills son, buries body in house
Amanpreet Khinda wins
‘Sarla Kapoor Award’
Yoga teachers’ training course launched
Jallianwala Bagh turns
into a protest zone
3 booked for giving wrong info to court
NRHM employees go on pen-down strike
Consumer rights protection society alleges flouting of TRAI regulations
Trek to horror
KSC submits memo against patwari
Schools spread awareness on World Health Day
Stop unnecessary use of antibiotics: Experts
Five honoured for identifying children
with cleft-lip deformity
Bheem Mahajan exhibits his paintings at Thakur Singh Art Gallery in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Environmentalists greet prohibition on diesel-run auto-rickshaws
Consul General of Canada visits Guru Nanak Dev University
Ayurvedic medical camp organised
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Amidst chaos, MC passes Rs 11-cr development projects
Amritsar, April 8 Mayor Shwet Malik clarified that the proposal of regularising the contractual workers would be dispatched to the state government for a final nod. “We have decided to form a committee of five members each from the BJP and SAD side to scrutinise the proposal. They would prepare a detailed report which would be submitted to the government, as per procedure demands. Already a proposal for 441 workers associated on the same pattern with the corporation has been submitted with the government. Besides this, yet another proposal has been sent for providing DC rate (Rs 4,100 per month) to the sewerage men who at present get Rs 2,100 per month”, he said. While apprising about the development works during the SAD-BJP times, the Mayor emphasised that there has been 41 per cent development of the city as far as the basic infrastructure like the roads, sewerage or water supply works were concerned. The situation became piquant for the SAD-BJP-led House, when a number of councillors from the opposition party, alleged little development in the Congress-led wards and tried to disrupt the House proceedings. The cops on duty had to intervene to pacify the Congress councillors. They accused the SAD-BJP combine of projecting distorting figures in the name of development works. Ajit Singh Bhatia, Congress councillor from Ward 20 (New Golden Avenue and Maqboolpura area) rued that as many as 5,000 residents in the ward have been living in pathetic situation due to inadequate disposal system. “In block C of the Maqboolpura area, there has been no water disposal system. The crores spent on the sewerage project got defunct in the absence of proper water disposal system. It appears as if the House is waiting for some epidemic to erupt before waking up from its deep slumber”, said Bhatia. However, Sanjeev Khanna, Chairman, Improvement Trust, showed concern over the fire fighting infrastructure of the city and urged the House to engage latest and effective fire extinguishing system. “Due to high rise buildings, it becomes necessary to go in for effective fire fighting system. Though, two new state-of-the-art vehicles have been purchased and one more is to join the fire brigade, yet more has to be done in this respect”, said Khanna. His proposal was taken into account by the House and the Mayor announced to deliberate over the issue in the next meeting on priority. Senior Deputy Mayor Ajaybir Singh Randhawa (SAD) when pointed out an inspector’s corrupt practices, the Mayor instantly marked an inquiry into it and passed orders to transfer the inspector. Meenu Sehgal, another councilor, raised an objection about a collection inspector of the corporation who carries an official weapon while on duty to realise house tax. Calling him ‘don’, the councillor demanded that his ways of terrorising people should be mended as it would disturb the peaceful atmosphere of the city.
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MC contractual staff to start hunger strike
Amritsar, April 8 The employees under the banner of Joint Sangharsh Committee (JSC) raised slogans against the authorities for their dictatorial attitude. Even as the workers were informed about that starting of the process of withdrawal of cases and regularisation of their jobs, the employees continued their agitation. The meeting has been deferred twice. It is evident to mention that a case under Section 307, 186, 353, 342 and 149 of the IPC has been registered against 11 persons, out of which two had been arrested, for allegedly creating ruckus on the MC premises and attacking the city Mayor and some BJP-SAD councillors. The workers demanded unconditional withdrawal of police cases against their colleagues and expediting of the cases related to their regularisation. Jarmanjit Singh, member of JSC, said “We have decided to continue with our agitation. From Monday onwards, we would sit on chain hunger strike wherein activists of other organisations too would join in. After that, we would also hold protest rally in the city but the route and venue for our action plan has been kept secretly”, he said.
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Modernisation plan of railway station to be synchronised
with city’s master plan
Amritsar, April 8 The official from the Northern Railway zone’s Ferozepur Division, which has its jurisdiction spread across parts of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, would hand over a copy of the proposed plan to develop the local station into a world-class station in the country. While in exchange, the official would get the copy of Amritsar master plan. Senior railway officials said the major aim of integrating these modernisation plans was to provide hassle-free access to the railway station, improve condition of road network around the station and decongesting the roads. They said depending upon the requirement more railway overbridges could be added while the already ones could be widened. Once the integrated plan was ready it would be submitted to Deputy Chief Engineer for Construction of World Class Railway Stations based at New Delhi. The world-class railway station would have facilities like escalators, shopping centres, food stalls, restaurants, book shops, telephone and fax booths, medicine and variety stores and budget hotels as well as underground parking. Meanwhile, residents of Amritsar feel that synchronisation of plans would resolve traffic chaos outside the railway station. Regulation of auto-rickshaws and clearing up of encroachments, which have mushroomed all over the place, presently are the major areas of concerns for the residents. It had been a long-pending demand of city residents that the railway station be renovated to add more facilities for hundreds of passengers. It may be recalled here that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in the 2009 railway budget had announced construction of 50 ‘world-class’ stations across the country. Amritsar was among the 50 stations. The world-class facilities were to be developed through innovative financing and under public private partnership mode. Apart from the budgetary allocation, the Central government had also prepared a plan to upgrade this station in 2006. This development plan still remains unimplemented. Sources in the Railways said tender for installing escalator has already been passed under the plan and most probably it would come up near parcel office on platform number one while beautification plan was already undergoing. |
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Girl on wheels
Amritsar, April 8 Her daring task has been certified by the Indian Book of Records.Titled as ‘Daughters of India are the pride of India’, this event was organised on April 3, to spread the cause of female foeticide, said Rakesh Kumar Vias, the official judge of the event. Even as the designated task demanded the distance to be covered in 200 minutes, with three halts of five minutes each in between, Mehak completed the distance while maintaining a speed between 20-25 kms per hour and set a fresh benchmark. Mehak, who has been into this sport for the past three years, said it was her competing instinct which enthuse spirit in her to beat her elder brother in skating. “He is otherwise my guru and boasted of being a gold-medalist in skating. But now, I too am no more a novice”, quipped Mehak, who now set her eyes for finding a place in the Limca Book of World Records. Equally delighted, Mehak’s parents Lovekesh Gupta and his wife Anju Gupta were bit dejected that skating has not been included in the grading list of Punjab. “It is humbly requested that this sport which has now found place in Commonwealth Games and also being recognised by Olympics federation, should be included in the grading policy of Punjab. Secondly, the district sports wing should initiate to develop atleast 200-meter skating track for children like Mehak, who can hone their skills regularly”, told Lovekesh. This achievement earned her a star child status among her classmates of Class III in DAV International School, Amritsar. Principal Anjana Gupta, while recognising her achievement, honoured her with a cash prize of Rs 2,100. Her daunted task could not escape the attention of Deputy Commissioner Amritsar KS Pannu who also honoured Mehak. “What caught my fancy was that a bus takes around half an hour to reach Attari post, but a child of such a tender age who covered this distance on wheels and without any break is a daunted task”, expressed Pannu. Tarun Chug, a BJP’s senior leader has come forward to over the grading policy in the state with the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhvir Badal. He honoured Mehak in his capacity as the vice- president of Youth Development Board, Punjab. “I too feel that keeping in view the extraordinary achievement of our Punjab children in this sport, it should be given its due recognition. Moreover, if this sport would be included in the grading system, more and more parents would let their children to go in for skating as it would earn them assured admissions for further college studies and job quota”, said Chug.
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Ex-servicemen launch new party
Amritsar, April 8 Addressing the media, Sidhu said their party would contest the ensuing assembly elections from Punjab with the support of soldiers and farmers of the state while adding that they were open to cooperate with like minded political parties which would give due recognition to their agenda. Lashing out at present political parties he said the coalition governments have miserably failed to resolve the issues concerning to the common man especially the farmers who were forced to commit suicides due to huge financial debt on them. He said the bureaucracy and whole system is infected with corruption while the unethical and greedy politicians have brought bad name to the country which stands fourth in corruption. Capt (retd) Amarjit Kumar, National Secretary General, there would be no ex-servicemen wing in the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal parties who were allegedly involved in the exploitation of the Army jawans. While listing out the agenda and main aims of his party, he said their main objective would be maintaining unity and integrity of the country, promoting economic growth, strengthening the rule of law and constitutional order, empowerment of soldiers, farmers, women and weaker sections of the society, to protect environment from pollutions of all types, to eradicate corruption. — TNS
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Woman kills son, buries body in house
Amritsar, April 8 Deceased Gurpreet Singh, who had come to know about her mother’s illicit relations with Mohan Singh of the same area, used to stop them for indulging in such activity. In front of people, she used to treat Mohan as her son, said the police authorities. According to preliminary investigations, it was found that they killed Gurpreet, who was a driver, by giving him poison on February 26 evening. They later buried his body in the verandah. They used to tell the people in area that he had gone outside Punjab regarding his work. The police authorities revealed that Lovepreet, who spent the whole night in the neighbouring house, went to his relatives and told the entire story to them. They immediately approached the police, which arrested his mother, Mohan Singh and also his father Dalbir Masih. The accused admitted to their crime and on their revelation recovered the body after digging the land. A case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Majitha police station.
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Amanpreet Khinda wins
‘Sarla Kapoor Award’
Tarn Taran, April 8 Amanpreet presented a paper on ‘Anger management among undertrial prisoners in central jail, Amritsar.’ Besides a medal, trophy and cash award was given to her. The theme of the conference was ‘Complimentary and Alternative Therapies in Management of Psychiatric Disorders’. As many as 600 delegates from all over the world participated in the conference. Amanpreet (26), who is the assistant professor at Khalsa College of Nursing, Amritsar, was an author of many nursing books in psychology and has published her several research papers and articles in different journals. Speaking at the conference, Amanpreet said psychiatric disease was dangerous and it disturbs the entire life not only of the patient but affects the whole family. Her paper was declared to be the best in the conference and was awarded with the first prize. Amanpreet did her primary education from her village government school. —
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Yoga teachers’ training course launched
Amritsar, April 8 SAVY International (Sahdev’s Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga International), which is a registered yoga school with yoga regulatory body in the USA, has launched Yoga Teacher Training Course RYT 200 to train new yoga teachers at SAVY International, c/o Sahdev Medicare Clinic, Main Market, Near Shivala Bhaiyan, Amritsar. First of its kind, this course will enable students to get registered with Yoga Regulatory Bodies in the US once they have completed this course and they can work directly as Registered Yoga Teachers in the US or Canada, without the need to clear any other bridge courses. Dr Sahdev said this is a legal and proper way to start working in North America. He also informed that SAVY International is a registered organisation in Canada and is running registered yoga schools in Canada and India. Yoga school in India has been launched very recently. He informed that people there are really interested now in yoga and yoga way of life and people are really crazy for yoga and look up to yoga to stay fit or to even get rid of lifestyle diseases. To guide these people about the true and traditional forms of yoga, teachers with in-depth knowledge of traditional yoga are in great demand. Only a few people knew about yoga a few years ago, but as people came to know about its true value, the need for knowledgeable yoga teachers exploded.
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Jallianwala Bagh turns
into a protest zone
Amritsar, April 8 This notice which was served upon the residents and traders of the area, on the instance of the Punjab Government’s scheme of widening the road up to 40 foot, conveyed them to vacate the places instantly and get the compensation formalities on the DC (district collectorate) rate. This notice, which has become nightmare for over 30 houses and 87 shopkeepers, especially those who hired these places on rent and have been earning their livelihood for the past over five decades, has forced them to come on roads to lodge their protest against this move. All their efforts to convince the district administration authorities to stall this move bore no fruit, and the deadline (April 7, till 12 midnight) granted for vacating the land, has already been lapsed. It is evident to mention that keeping in view the easy access to Jallianwala Bagh and the Golden Temple, this scheme was conceptualized in 1997. While opposing the move, the residents and traders approached the High Court then but their pleas were quashed. Now after 14 years, when this project was again going to be implemented, it has invited the ire of their ire. Nevertheless, the Jallianwala Bagh Association showed solidarity with the residents and the traders. Manmohan Kundra, the president of the association viewed that the government should implement the Regulation no 73 of 1997 Section 4. This regulation has ensured that similar property at DC rates would be given to the owners and tenants of the property. The traders demanded to grant at least 20 more days to let them shift their goods safely to some other place. However, their protest gained some ‘momentum’ today when the political parties too joined them in their cause. Today, BJP leader Tarun Chugh and Inderbir Bolaria, MLA, SAD, visited the agitating crowd and reportedly assured them to get this move scrapped. Meanwhile, the official formalities are under progress. Since the area falls under the jurisdiction of Improvement Trust, it had deposited the compensatory package to the tune of Rs 8.5 crore to the Land Acquisition Collector (LAC) department, controlled directly by the Office of the Deputy Commissioner. OfficialSpeak
Deputy Commissioner KS Pannu: QWWe would make sure that adequate compensation is given to the owners of the property, as per laid down procedure. They approached me and demanded some days to shift. We decided to wait for a week. Secondly, at least 90 per cent of the owners of the property have given their consent to move, after agreeing upon the compensation being offered to them. Only, the remaining percentage was of those who were living or trading over there on rent. We are working out on some policy matters to accommodate them reasonably, too. |
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3 booked for giving wrong info to court
Tarn Taran, April 8 The accused have been identified as Gagandeep Singh, his mother Jasbir Kaur residents of Havelian village (Sarai Amanat Khan) and Pawandeep Tuli, the lamberdar. It is learnt that Gagandeep Singh, who was facing a trial under Sections 307 of the IPC, and Sections 21, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act by Khemkaran police, got bail from the court of Asha Condal, Additional Sessions’ Judge, on the plea that he was a teenager. The court checked the records of Gagandeep Singh from the school concerned and the death-birth registrar, and found the date of birth presented in the court to be wrong. Jasbir Kaur, the mother of the accused, had filed the application seeking bail when Lamberdar Pawandeep Tuli verified her identification. |
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NRHM employees go on pen-down strike
Amritsar, April 8 They were later joined by activists from Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran, Moga and other neighbouring parts of the city. They decided to continue their strike until their demands are met by the state government. They were demanding the regularisation of their jobs, implementation of pay scales from March, 2009, on same work, same pay basis, implementation of service rules and other allowances as per their regular counterparts in the Health Department, free treatment in the government hospitals, reimbursement of medical bills, etc. They said the NRHM workers should be given priority whenever the state government fills the vacant seats under the District Health Society, besides formulating a seniority list of all the auxiliary nursing midwives (ANMs). Speaking on the occasion, they pointed out that during a protest in Mohali on April 4, the Mohali Deputy Commissioner had talked with the Chief Minister, who had called the representatives of the NRHM Employees Association to Chandigarh on April 11, after which the dharna was lifted. Dr Inderjit Singh, Medical Officer at Gurdaspur said if the government failed to fulfil their demands they would continue and intensify their agitation. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the Assistant Civil Surgeon to be forwarded to the Chief Minister.
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Consumer rights protection society alleges flouting of TRAI regulations
Amritsar, April 8 Alleging this BR Preenja, general secretary, Consumer Rights Protection Society (CRPS), said the government and TRAI should ensure strict compliance of its regulations, which would help the aggrieved customers to air their grievances. Quoting recent reports brought out by the Department of Communications and Information Technology, he said all the leading telecom companies were flouting the regulations with impunity. He said it was mandatory for the service providers to publish a public notice in leading newspapers, at least once in 12 months, regarding establishment of customer care or call centres for redressal of grievances of consumers besides the name, address and telephone number of the nodal officer appointed by the company under the Regulation 3 and 6, respectively of “Telecom Consumers Protection and Redressal of Grievances Regulations, 2007”. “At the same time, at each office of service provider, name of the nodal officer as well as the appellate authority are to be displayed. It is also required to publish manual practice for handling consumer complaints which should be available for reference at every office of the service provider under the regulation 20,” he pointed out. “The recent reports published in the media were just a tip of the iceberg as those complaints were made by the vigilance subscribers. But a large section of subscribers were unaware of their exploitation at the hands of the service providers and majority of them don’t know where to approach if they are being swindled by activating some services arbitrarily without the consent of the customers,” he alleged.
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Trek to horror
What comes to mind when you talk about horror films? A creepy evil spirit and lots of blood! However, Harish Sharma, director of Two Nights in Soul Valley, says that his film is different, “My movie is based on supernatural events. It’s an adventurous film.” The film is a commercial venture. Five college friends decide to go trekking where scary things start happening to them. In the main lead is Hemant Pandey (Pandeyji of Office-Office fame) and other actors include new faces from Chandigarh. New kids on the block
Sumeet Sharma, Gaurav Shah and Aakashi Khari are the fresh faces in the film. "We play college friends who decide to go for trekking. During the trip, we come across unknown forces of nature and some weird incidents occur. Then the story becomes an adventurous tale," says Aakashi. Gaurav Shah, a young Chandigarh lad, feels blessed to have grabbed the role. Sumeet Sharma says, “To get this challenging role in the beginning of my career is a great feeling. Let’s hope I can carry it forward.” From ‘Office’ to horror flick, Hemant Pandey is popularly known for his comedy roles, but he has always wanted to essay serious ones. “No one offered me serious roles, so I never got a chance to showcase my talent,” says Hemant. |
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KSC submits memo against patwari
Tarn Taran, April 8 Satnam Singh Pannu, state president of the KSC, led the deputation. The deputation told the official that the patwari and other officials of the Revenue Department have entered wrong entries in the records, which was causing great inconvenience for the landholders. The farmer’s organization warned the district administration that in case the administration failed to redress their grievances, it would launch an indefinite agitation against the administration. The ADC could not be contacted.
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Schools spread awareness on World Health Day
Amritsar, April 8 Sureet Kaur of Class X spoke on the subjects of anti-microbial resistance, Arshdeep of Class X enlightened the ways of keeping healthy and Mehak Kaur of same class apprised about the role of WHO in catastrophic situations like the one occurred in Japan due to tsunami. Harjit Chawla, senior science teachers conducted a quiz on World Health Day and role of WHO. While addressing the students Principal Dharam Veer Singh laid stress on the importance of balanced diet for good health. Spring Dales and Spring Blossoms also celebrated World Health Day. In view of the concern being shown towards the increasing spate of deadly diseases around the world, the focus of Spring Dale Senior School and Spring Blossoms School evidently fell on issues related to human health and well-being on the occasion of World Health Day. In keeping with the theme of ‘Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Global Spread’ of the World Health Organization (WHO), the staff and students of both the schools dwelt on the benefits and perils of medications used for various ailments and the need to observe healthy practices to keep diseases at bay. In an in-house debate competition, the students spoke about the benefits and ill-effects of antibiotic medicines on human health. DAV International School too celebrated World Health Day by organising a wide range of activities in different classes. The students of all the classes were instructed to bring healthy food like green vegetables, sprouts, salad, fruit cheat etc. Principal Anjana Gupta cautioned children against consumption of junk food. Foundation day DAV International School celebrated its foundation day. A cultural programme on the occasion saw girls presenting a dance performance. The girls of Nav-Chetna, a service unit being run by the school, were given sewing machines on the occasion. Anniversary Sri Guru Harkrishan International School, Ranjit Avenue, celebrated its 10th annual anniversary with great enthusiasm. Chananjit Singh Chadha, president, Chief Khalsa Diwan (CKD), said, “Soon we will open number of professional colleges, in which the preference would be given to the students of Diwan schools.” Gurukul India would hold a two-day education fair for career counselling, at Ranjit Avenue, D-Block ground from April 9. Vishal Kumar of Gurukul said experts from various academic streams like science, medical, engineering, pharmaceutical and immigration would provide counselling to the students. He said the students, who have done 10+2 and pursuing graduation could gain immensely from the Education Fair.
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Stop unnecessary use of antibiotics: Experts
Amritsar, April 8 Urging this during the state-level seminar on “Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread”, various experts pointed out that due to excessive use the microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi or protozoans, had become resistant to antibiotics available in the market which, was very dangerous for the generations to come. While advocating the sensible use of antibiotics, they also appealed to the people to avoid self-medication and take appropriate dose of antibiotic medicines for the period as prescribed by the physician. The seminar was organised by Government Medical College to mark World Health Day. Weak pharmaceutical regulatory mechanisms in India were also cited as one of the reasons as they allowed the availability of antibiotics of substandard quality and unauthorised sale of these medicines. The majority of pharmaceutical researches were conducted in the developed countries. But now they had diverted their maximum research budget towards lifestyle diseases and medicines. This had resulted in decrease in invention of new antibiotics, which could affect developing countries where the instances of diseases caused by microorganisms (bacteria, fungi or protozoans) were very high as compared to western countries, informed Dr Dinesh Kumar Sharma, an ENT expert. By the next one and half decade, the present antibiotics would become ineffective and spread of diseases caused by microorganisms, especially in developing countries, would become inevitable, he said. The WHO representative, Dr Mahtab Singh, speaking on the occasion said because of this reason the WHO was urging governments and stakeholders to implement policies and practices to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms. “Although antimicrobial resistance is not a new problem, but it is fast becoming more dangerous. If it goes unchecked, death and disease due to untreatable infectious diseases will become the biggest obstacle to poverty alleviation, development, and global efforts to make the world a better and healthier place,” he cautioned. Dr Jai Kishan, Director, Research and Medical Education, while delivering his keynote address, said, “Doctors also should not recommend or prescribed these powerful drugs for trivial infections which can be cured by giving normal medicines. The use of newer and more powerful antibiotics is also associated with increased costs, which imposes a burden on the poor sections of the society and leads to incomplete treatment due to issues of affordability.” Realising this, the WHO had urged to intensify global commitment to safeguard antibiotics for future generations as growing resistance by microbes threatened to make many medicines ineffective, he added. Earlier, Dr S.S. Shergill, Principal, GMC, said steps had been taken by the college authorities to encourage rational use of antibiotics by the doctors. The undue influence of pharmaceutical companies on physicians was a serious matter and steps were underway to control the menace. Safe practices had been developed to control the spread of hospital-acquired infections in ICUs, operation theatres, emergency and general wards. Among others who spoke on the occasion included Dr Santokh Singh, Dr Jaswant Rai and Dr
Bimla.
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Five honoured for identifying children with cleft-lip deformity
Amritsar, April 8 SDM Sandeep Rishi presented a bicycle, water filter and three sewing machines to the persons. During the press conference, later at hospital premises, Dr Ravi Mahajan, plastic surgeon, and director of the Indo-US project informed that the US NGO started the project in 2004 here. The project is ongoing in about 80 countries in the world giving relief from this disability and offering a new lease of life to affected children. Dr Amandeep Kaur, director of hospital, said two hospitals in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir have been empanelled with this project of which the local hospital is the oldest. She informed that as many as 3,100 children with this genetic disorder have been given a new lease of life through free surgery at the hospital and as many as 15 patients have benefited in the last three months. —
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CLASSY ART
Amritsar, April 8 “I discovered that at one point, almost every commuter, especially truck drivers, were stopping to pay obeisance at a temple. I thought that it was a wonderful idea to spread a message especially among the truck drivers, who should refrain from ‘forbidden pleasures’ to avoid contracting AIDS, the menace which is gripping our nation vastly,” he explained. Similarly, his creation “Rickshaw in the spring” was caught on canvas in Chandigarh. The painting describes the lives of rickshaw-pullers who come all the way from Bihar in search of livelihood. It was painted in a location in Chandigarh. The half-rickshaw in the painting portrays the half phase of their lives, as their mind would always be occupied worrying about their families back home. In the background, the small green belts, beside the slip road would be their most preferred place to take small afternoon nap and the old Le Corbusier-designed government quarters show the basic character of the City Beautiful, i.e Chandigarh. Though, the cost of his art ranges between Rs 10,000 and Rs 1.5 lakh, yet Bheem was happy to get the desired price for his both paintings. Nevertheless, the subject of his paintings is unique and unusual. He has adopted a different approach to treat varied themes like “Landscape in spring”, “Snow scape in Rohtang Pass”, “Monsoon mood in Kerala and Goa” and “Shimla and Goa by night”. One another most appreciable painting of his was “Glory of past: Old letter box”. This painting is about the British-era letter boxes, which have got extinct now. “The only one I could find was in the Old Rashtrapati Bhawan, which was preserved for the museum. This painting also catches the fancy of visitors the most,” said Bheem. Likewise, the old railway engine recalls an age that holds little significance for Generation-X. And not to forget to have a look at some printouts of his old creations like the “Bazaar outside the Golden Temple” and “Hall Bazaar of the Holy City”. “The original paintings have been sold, but keeping in mind the sanctity and emotional feeling of the holy city residents, I have prepared small printouts,” he said. The exhibition will continue till Sunday.
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Environmentalists greet prohibition on diesel-run auto-rickshaws
Amritsar, April 8 Currently, over 20,000 auto-rickshaws ply in the city. With the possible reduction in numbers, the move may help solve traffic chaos on the main city roads. Deepak Babbar, executive director, Mission Aagaaz, an organisation for environment, welcomed the decision of the government and said the decision was long awaited. He said the decision would not only help in reducing traffic congestion but also reduce the pollutants in environment. Many auto-rickshaws drivers mix kerosene with diesel, which produces harmful gases. Majority of the drivers, who run rented auto-rickshaws, resort to this mixing in order to cut their investment cost, said Davinder Singh, a auto-rickshaw driver for the past 30 years. Satwinder Singh, president, Pink Plaza Auto-Rickshaw Union, said the move was laudable but at the same time the government must ensure adequate availability of LPG filling stations in the city. He said currently the city has only one LPG station on the Tarn Taran road. He demanded that the government must extend a helping hand to the auto-rickshaw drivers for switching over from diesel to LPG by offering soft loans. There was not a much gap of price between a diesel and LPG-run auto-rickshaw. Both categories are available at Rs 1.6 lakh. However, middle age auto-rickshaw drivers face much difficulty in change over due to paucity of funds.
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Consul General of Canada visits Guru Nanak Dev University
Amritsar, April 8 Earlier, Slessor was warmly received by Prof Rajinderjit Kaur Pawar, Dean, Academic Affairs, on behalf of Vice-Chancellor Prof A.S. Brar. During the interaction, Prof A.K. Thukral, Director, Research, Dr Inderjit Singh, Registrar, Prof M.P.S. Ishar, Dean, Students Welfare, Dr M.S. Hundal, Dean, College Development Council, Professor In charge (Examinations) Dr R.K. Bedi, Professor In charge (Finance and Development) Dr Sharanjit Singh Dhillon and Prof In charge (Public Relations) Prof Harish Chander Sharma were present. Prof Rajinderjit Kaur Pawar, Dean, Academic Affairs, apprised the visiting dignitary about the academic, sports, cultural and other activities and achievements of the university. Slessor appreciated the achievements, and research activities of the university. He assured high-quality research collaborations in different thrust areas of science and technology, including material sciences, environmental and life sciences, with GND University. Fellowships, exchange programmes of students and faculty and training progammes were also discussed during the interaction. — TNS
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The Amritsar Municipal Corporation (AMC) passed projects amounting to about Rs 11 crore pertaining to overall development works in the city.
The Jallianwala Bagh for past few days has become a place of protests.This time, it was a gathering of residents and shopkeepers, who anticipated displacement following the orders of the district administration recently served in the wake of widening up the 1.5-km road opposite to this momentous bagh till Ghee
Mandi.
Joining hands with their state counterparts, employees of the district Health Department under the National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM) today went on a pen-down/ computer shutdown strike.
Amritsar, April 8
