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Civic woes mount as mayor chooses to snub RWAs
Chandigarh, May 14 Many pressing issues have been hanging fire for over a year. Even requests made to the mayor to address them by PC Sangi, president of the Federation of Sector Welfare Association, Chandigarh (FOSWAC), an umbrella body representing all the 54 RWAs in the city, have not met any success. Expressing his
dismay at the mayor’s failure to respond, Sangi said in the last four
months he had sent a number of reminders to Ravinder Pal who on taking
office as mayor on January 1 had promised to regularly hold meetings
with RWAs. "On New Year’s Day he assured the RWAs he would hold
regular meetings and try to resolve the grievances in their areas as
soon as possible", he added. When contacted, Ravinder Pal conceded
he
had not held any meeting with any of the RWAs during the past four months and offered no explanation on why he had not. He merely said he “planned” to hold the meetings after he returned from a “study tour”. He sought to justify not having met RWA representatives by saying he had “interacted” with several city residents on his visits to various sectors.
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Rave parties by brats spoil village residents’ sleep
Chandigarh, May 15 The new “haunt” of the youth is a small bridge over a “choe” flowing into the Sukhna Lake on the road from Kaimbwala village to Saketri village. Kaimbwala is a serene dwelling on the lower Shivalik range foothills located behind the Sukhna lake. During a visit to the spot, this reporter found many paper glasses, empty liquor bottles, cough syrup bottles and remains of eatables, lying under and beside the bridge. Ram Karan, a resident of Kaimbwala, said, “There are no fixed days or time for the parties. Youngsters come on any day. However, weekends are very packed at the spot. These groups start landing usually after midnight. What follows are parties full of liquor, dancing and even obscenity.” Ram Karan said, “We are very upset over these parties. Not only do these disturb us during late hours, they also adversely affect youngsters of the village.” Premanand Saraswati, popularly known as “Swami Ji” who resides close to the “trouble spot”, says although these youngsters have never tried to come inside the village, their “activities” nevertheless remain acceptable. Adding that the area witnesses such parties almost every night, he says, “Even the police remains a mute spectator to this nuisance for unknown reasons.” Village residents say they have shooed away these youngsters many times. “But now we have also given up,” said a senior citizen. Much to the frustration of village residents, people have been dumping hundreds of bottles of medicines, especially ‘Hispokyn’ in the ‘choe’, which flows into the lake’s regulatory end. The medicine, having salt cetrizine hydrochloride, is said to be anti-allergy syrup. The dumped stuff has last month’s expiry date. Village residents say someone had thrown the bottles a few days ago and it was not the first time that such medicines had been discovered. “This is not the place to dump expired medicine. It can be harmful to those living nearby,” said the village residents, demanding strict action against the guilty.
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Jan Shatabdi engine
catches fire
Rajpura, May 15 As the driver applied emergency brakes, passengerssitting in the bogies got panicky and many came out of their compartments, fearing fire might spread into the bogies as well. The fire was, however, controlled with the help of GRP (Government Railway Police) officials who used fire extinguishers. The GRP officials had to call firemen from the local fire station to control the fire completely. The fire tenders could not reach up to the rail engine and firemen used extended water pipes up to the burning engine to douse the flames. Most of the machinery inside the cabin of the driver was gutted in the incident, but the reason behind the fire could not be ascertained.The railways authorities at the Rajpura railway station were trying to arrange an alternative railway engine from Ambala to take passengers to Amritsar. No injuries were reported in the incident, said rail authorities.
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CHANDIGARH scan The Chandigarh Police booked three city residents in separate incidents of cheating here today. Krishna and Inderjit Kaur, both residents of Khuda Ali Sher, have been booked in a case pertaining to land fraud. The police said a 30-marla plot was jointly owned by Inderjit Kaur, Krishan and Vimal. Inderjit Kaur and Krishna allegedly sold the land owned by Vimal without his knowledge by preparing fake documents. Vimal approached the DC and after an inquiry, the two were booked in a case of cheating under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In another incident, the police booked a person for procuring loan on fake documents. KD Sharma, AGM Bank of Maharashtra, Sector 17, alleged that Girish Chand Kapoor, a resident of Dhakoli, took a car loan of Rs 3,30,000 from the bank by producing forged documents. Acting on the complaint, a case under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC has been registered in the Sector 17 police station.
Illegal parking in Sec 9
A security guard on duty said, “I don’t know whose land is this. I have been asked by my employer to keep the spot clear from any outsiders’ vehicle”.
Consumer awareness
Consumer awareness is necessary for making people aware of the legal remedies available, stated HS Aulakh, secretary (finance), Consumer Association, Chandigarh, in a talk organised by the First Friday Forum. The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, gives consumers the right to safety, information, choice, to be heard, consumer education, redressal of grievances, he added. The founder of the forum, Dr SS Bhatti, remarked that before the consumer became the king, he must studiously learn to use effective strategies for self protection based on eternal vigil.
Alumni association
To promote the professional growth of homoeopaths, an alumni association of Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Sector 26, has been constituted consisting senior-most doctors and ex-students of the college. The association has been formed under the guidance of Dr KS Poswal. The other senior homoeopathic doctors on the board include Dr SS Vithal, Dr Avtar Singh, Dr RK Trigotra and Dr Gurinder Singh Brar.
‘Nurses Walkathon’
Over 100 nurses of Fortis Hospital, Mohali, on Sunday participated in a “Nurses Walkathon” held at the Sukhna Lake as a part of the Nurses’ Week celebrations based on the theme “Closing the Gap: Increasing Access and Equity”. The walkathon was flagged off by Ashish Bhatia, regional director, Fortis Healthcare Limited.
Col Harinder Singh Chehal, director, Fortis Hospital, Mohali, said, “Our dedicated nurses are taking the extra step in their professional life, as they fight against diseases on a daily basis and provide the best of the care to their patients.”
Residents of Phase 3B1 organised the annual religious congregation here on Sunday. Raja Kanwar Jot Singh, president of the local unit of the Youth Akali Dal, who was the chief guest, called upon the residents to work for the betterment of society. Later a community kitchen was also organised.
Blood donation camp
The camp laid stress on inspiring more volunteers to donate blood for saving lives and other medical emergencies.
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Higher technical education needs transparency, supervision The Chandigarh Tribune has rendered invaluable service to students and their parents by highlighting blatant money-driven exploitation by unscrupulous fly-by-night “high-end” education operators, who promise heaven but don’t deliver even a normal world. Sanjeev Singh Bariana has aptly pointed out that the institutions, in the category under discussion, promise quality management and engineering education through lavish colour spreads and brochures, but deliver abysmal quality and low-end placements if at all. The real tragedy is that they continue to flourish and prosper with no interference from supervisors of higher education in India. The sole regulator of higher technical education in India is AICTE. This is a Constitutionally appointed statutory body without whose permission no institute of higher learning can be set up in India. Every aspect of education from course content, faculty and staff qualification, salary structure, period of teaching, classroom space requirements, hostel space per bed, other minimum infrastructure, funding transparency, minimum bank balance, fee and examination structure, minimum acreage, sports facilities, etc, has been laid out in clinical detail. It is clear that the problem does not lie in the theoretical enunciation of what is needed for imparting quality education but in implementing the fine print and transparency of the selection process, as also in endemic corruption in giving licences to unscrupulous vendors (which is what most of them really are). The problem also lies in failing to supervise the conduct of education, as also its critical end result, the placement process. There is an urgent need for Kapil Sibal to look into the functioning of the AICTE and restructure it to function in a student friendly and fully accountable manner. There is also a need to appoint respected, even retired educators as Ombudsmen who can report without fear or favour on higher education institutions that fall within their area of responsibility. Needless to say, the state and UT educational authorities can, without waiting for Kapil Sibal’s drive, put all such shady institutions (and there is no dearth of them) on short notice and demand compliance of AICTE norms or cancellation of licences and follow up disciplinary proceedings against those who have delivered less than what AICTE demands from them by way of minimum performance. The AICTE website must be visited by students looking for enrollment to find out if the institution they seek admission into is blacklisted (the AICTE is mandated to declare all such institutions). Such declaration can also be done by the state and UT authorities and announced through the media. This actually amounts to high treason and needs public condemnation, which is why The Chandigarh Tribune article is so welcome. — Maj Gen Raj Mehta (retd) Fooling students on name of placements
There is nothing denying the fact that a majority of the colleges in the periphery of Chandigarh are fooling children in the name of placements. Certain colleges are calling companies on the campus after paying them money and average placement package is not more than Rs 2 lakh annually against all tall claims. Interestingly, these colleges are not giving the correct placement figures of their students. Agreed that these institutes have impressive infrastructure but what good is the apparatus if there are no trainers. These colleges are charging high fee and is more than double from the premier engineering college like Punjab Engineering College. It is ultimately the parents who are suffering and more importantly they need to be prepared for a major fee hike in the coming times as has been indicated enough by the college authorities. We, students, are appalled at the standards of evaluation by the teachers. Not making a personal comment on any one teacher, it will not be wrong to point out that there is poor standard of teachers in the education market, which raises serious questions needing government interference. — Kanika
It’s a viscous circle
Over the last 10-12 years, several private colleges affiliated with Punjab Technical University (PTU) have mushroomed around the tricity, but that does not mean that the parents did not send their students for higher education to private colleges before that. Several students have done their engineering from such substandard colleges, which are located in Maharashtra and Karnataka during earlier times. But after 10 years, this model is observing a lot of flaws because these colleges have never addressed the core issues. Only in the medical field, education and job is related and doctors who work in hospitals are also teachers, however, in the field of engineering, the faculty who teaches students has no exposure and no idea of what the industry requires. Hence, there is a basic skill mismatch at the initial stage. The reason for this is that the engineering jobs are again nowhere linked to the basic engineering education of students. Generally, a businessman is behind every such college having surplus funds to invest, which is rather good, as you need money to build such colleges and provide education. However, problems begin when the management of these colleges starts saving money on things where they should spend the most. Engineering colleges always require a qualified bachelors or masters in engineering faculty. Modern day industry offers high and attractive salaries to any decent engineer with such qualifications. So considering if you want good faculty to teach in your college, you need to attract such people and that obviously implies that you need to pay them comparable (if not equal or more) to the industry pay packages. Pay your employees decent so that they feel good and proud about their profession. Engineering jobs are more about industry and practical exposure, however, most engineering colleges, including the government, have only academicians and a few people from the industry, due to which the students are exposed to only bookish and theoretical knowledge. Hence, the institutes should attract people from the industry by any means whether as permanent or guest faculty so that the students get some exposure. The education fee in the institutes is exorbitantly high, especially if there is any meritorious student who is bright but cannot pay to become an engineer. The colleges should have special schemes similar to the government ones, which are easy to avail for financially weak families, therefore, there should not be cumbersome procedures in these. Finally, the reason why all students join any such college is to have a job in their hands when they passout. Considering, that so many fresh graduates can never be absorbed by the industry, the colleges need to have good rapport with the industries. Conduct frequent practical workshops, invite people from the industry, pay them for their short visits and hire reputed senior position executives from the industry in their placement teams. — Prashant Jindal
Gaping holes in new breed of colleges
After the opening of the economy, the demand for IT students has increased and famous institutions started mushrooming. There is no policy regarding the distance between two colleges and quality of education they will impart, along with qualification of staff engaged to teach. Invariably the students, once they pass courses, are engaged to teach. Most of these colleges are attached to the higher education department of the state government and the UGC is bypassed conveniently by framing policies at local levels. There are many novel ways to fleece students not only in and around Chandigarh, but also in Chandigarh. Last year a college in Chandigarh admitted students and arranged exam in collaboration with another famous college and pass certificates were held up by PU, as both colleges did not have any permission to run that exam. A hefty fee was charged for issue of pass certificate. Certain colleges affiliated to Panjab University in Punjab are running courses, which have not been allowed by the university. This is all a byproduct of our corrupt system. There is great money in colleges and most of these colleges belong to influential political and rich groups. — RK Garg
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3 DSPs, SP from Punjab all set to join UT police
Policing being first, lawn tennis his second love
Looking forward to his first assignment in Chandigarh, Ashish says he cracked the Pradir kidnapping for ransom in Amritsar in which nine accused have been sentenced to life. His other success was cracking of the Rulda Singh murder case in which four British nationals were accused.
Has fond memories of Chandigarh
Looking forward to the stint in Chandigarh
Interest in the field got him into police job
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Gold glitters in city post offices
Chandigarh, May 15 Buoyed by the rising prices of the gold, which is fuelling investment in the metal, and the increased sale of it's coins in the city from 1.9 kg in 2009-10 to 4.05 kg in the last fiscal, the department is all set to roll out coins of higher weights of 10 and 50 gms. Hitherto, the department was selling coins of 0.5, 1, 5, 8 and 20 gms only.This little success in gold coin sales comes in the backdrop of successive failures of several other schemes, that were dubbed as "innovative" but launched without giving any proper thought or undertaking market surveys to assess their potential. The department had launched schemes of home delivery of 'prasad' from Tirupati and spices from Southern India but they both bombed, to say the least. The department's scheme of door-to-door collection of telephone bills also remained a non-starter and ultimately closed down. Similar was the fate of the department's joint venture with the State Bank of India to provide banking facilities in the un-banked areas in 2008. While senior officials of the department can't just stop talking about the success of the gold coin-sale scheme, the truth is that the department as such has little to do with it. "Frankly, it's the rising prices of gold and the love of the wealthy Punjabis that's driving the sales", said an official candidly while adding that the "trust factor" had also contributed to the success. To attract more customers, the department has also launched a special festive discount scheme from April 4 to June 30, offering an extra 0.5 gm (half gram) coin with every 10 gm coin. In addition to this, the department is also offering a 6 per cent rebate to government employees and pensioners. The officials admit that though the prices of gold coins sold by the department are “slightly” higher than what are available in the open market, the “surety” and the “purity” of the gold has been attracting customers.
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‘Missing voters’ bring election dept’s functioning under cloud
Chandigarh, May 15 While the department claims that decline in the number of voters from about 5.24 lakh in 2009 to 5.05 lakh in 2011 was due to strict enforcement of the directions of the Election Commission of India, particularly, the making of the photo voter I-cards, the decline leaves many questions unanswered. Earlier, there were many registered voters having voter I-card but were not living in Chandigarh. Now, with the introduction of photographs on the voter I-card, the bogus voters have been eliminated, officials claimed. During a verification drive in 2010, nearly 87,797 names were deleted from the electoral list due to their shifting, getting married and having expired. “However, before the deletion of their names from the electoral rolls, notices were served on them individually under the Representation of the Peoples Act, 1950, besides public notices in newspapers. Names of 1,350 voters were retained after verification,” an official communication claimed. However, advocate Ajay Jagga, who took up the matter with the Chief Electoral Officer of the UT Administration disputes these claims saying that the names of the thousands of voters were deleted illegally and the administration did not inform all of them individually as mandated under the Act. “The number of registered voters in the 1999 general elections was over 5,85,000. However, the number of voters in the 2004 general elections came down to about 520,000. In 2008, the registered voters were just over 485,000.
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Workshop on health promotion
Chandigarh, May 15 Following a year of successful intervention programmes being organised by health promotion team under the ICMR project titled “development of health promotion model for the prevention of non-communicable diseases in school setting” in selected schools of the city, the workshop was organised to dwell on the future of health promoting schools. Dr Bhavneet Bharti, associate professor, department of advanced paediatrics, laid emphasis on the importance of initiating this project on a larger scale. Dr Paramjyoti, medical officer, school health, highlighted various initiatives undertaken under the school health programme in Chandigarh. Dr Puneet Bains, medical officer, shared the experiences of selected schools in Chandigarh.
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Higher technical education needs transparency, supervision The Chandigarh Tribune has rendered invaluable service to students and their parents by highlighting blatant money-driven exploitation by unscrupulous fly-by-night “high-end” education operators, who promise heaven but don’t deliver even a normal world. Sanjeev Singh Bariana has aptly pointed out that the institutions, in the category under discussion, promise quality management and engineering education through lavish colour spreads and brochures, but deliver abysmal quality and low-end placements if at all. The real tragedy is that they continue to flourish and prosper with no interference from supervisors of higher education in India. The sole regulator of higher technical education in India is AICTE. This is a Constitutionally appointed statutory body without whose permission no institute of higher learning can be set up in India. Every aspect of education from course content, faculty and staff qualification, salary structure, period of teaching, classroom space requirements, hostel space per bed, other minimum infrastructure, funding transparency, minimum bank balance, fee and examination structure, minimum acreage, sports facilities, etc, has been laid out in clinical detail. It is clear that the problem does not lie in the theoretical enunciation of what is needed for imparting quality education but in implementing the fine print and transparency of the selection process, as also in endemic corruption in giving licences to unscrupulous vendors (which is what most of them really are). The problem also lies in failing to supervise the conduct of education, as also its critical end result, the placement process. There is an urgent need for Kapil Sibal to look into the functioning of the AICTE and restructure it to function in a student friendly and fully accountable manner. There is also a need to appoint respected, even retired educators as Ombudsmen who can report without fear or favour on higher education institutions that fall within their area of responsibility. Needless to say, the state and UT educational authorities can, without waiting for Kapil Sibal’s drive, put all such shady institutions (and there is no dearth of them) on short notice and demand compliance of AICTE norms or cancellation of licences and follow up disciplinary proceedings against those who have delivered less than what AICTE demands from them by way of minimum performance. The AICTE website must be visited by students looking for enrollment to find out if the institution they seek admission into is blacklisted (the AICTE is mandated to declare all such institutions). Such declaration can also be done by the state and UT authorities and announced through the media. This actually amounts to high treason and needs public condemnation, which is why The Chandigarh Tribune article is so welcome. Fooling students on name of placements There is nothing denying the fact that a majority of the colleges in the periphery of Chandigarh are fooling children in the name of placements. Certain colleges are calling companies on the campus after paying them money and average placement package is not more than Rs 2 lakh annually against all tall claims. Interestingly, these colleges are not giving the correct placement figures of their students. Agreed that these institutes have impressive infrastructure but what good is the apparatus if there are no trainers. These colleges are charging high fee and is more than double from the premier engineering college like Punjab Engineering College. It is ultimately the parents who are suffering and more importantly they need to be prepared for a major fee hike in the coming times as has been indicated enough by the college authorities. We, students, are appalled at the standards of evaluation by the teachers. Not making a personal comment on any one teacher, it will not be wrong to point out that there is poor standard of teachers in the education market, which raises serious questions needing government interference. — Kanika It’s a viscous circle Over the last 10-12 years, several private colleges affiliated with Punjab Technical University (PTU) have mushroomed around the tricity, but that does not mean that the parents did not send their students for higher education to private colleges before that. Several students have done their engineering from such substandard colleges, which are located in Maharashtra and Karnataka during earlier times. But after 10 years, this model is observing a lot of flaws because these colleges have never addressed the core issues. Only in the medical field, education and job is related and doctors who work in hospitals are also teachers, however, in the field of engineering, the faculty who teaches students has no exposure and no idea of what the industry requires. Hence, there is a basic skill mismatch at the initial stage. The reason for this is that the engineering jobs are again nowhere linked to the basic engineering education of students. Generally, a businessman is behind every such college having surplus funds to invest, which is rather good, as you need money to build such colleges and provide education. However, problems begin when the management of these colleges starts saving money on things where they should spend the most. Engineering colleges always require a qualified bachelors or masters in engineering faculty. Modern day industry offers high and attractive salaries to any decent engineer with such qualifications. So considering if you want good faculty to teach in your college, you need to attract such people and that obviously implies that you need to pay them comparable (if not equal or more) to the industry pay packages. Pay your employees decent so that they feel good and proud about their profession. Engineering jobs are more about industry and practical exposure, however, most engineering colleges, including the government, have only academicians and a few people from the industry, due to which the students are exposed to only bookish and theoretical knowledge. Hence, the institutes should attract people from the industry by any means whether as permanent or guest faculty so that the students get some exposure. The education fee in the institutes is exorbitantly high, especially if there is any meritorious student who is bright but cannot pay to become an engineer. The colleges should have special schemes similar to the government ones, which are easy to avail for financially weak families, therefore, there should not be cumbersome procedures in these. Gaping holes in new breed of colleges After the opening of the economy, the demand for IT students has increased and famous institutions started mushrooming. There is no policy regarding the distance between two colleges and quality of education they will impart, along with qualification of staff engaged to teach. Invariably the students, once they pass courses, are engaged to teach.Most of these colleges are attached to the higher education department of the state government and the UGC is bypassed conveniently by framing policies at local levels. There are many novel ways to fleece students not only in and around Chandigarh, but also in Chandigarh. Last year a college in Chandigarh admitted students and arranged exam in collaboration with another famous college and pass certificates were held up by PU, as both colleges did not have any permission to run that exam. A hefty fee was charged for issue of pass certificate. Certain colleges affiliated to Panjab University in Punjab are running courses, which have not been allowed by the university. This is all a byproduct of our corrupt system. There is great money in colleges and most of these colleges belong to influential political and rich groups. The entire issue gives a dismal picture unless controlled seriously.
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From Schools
MOHALI: An inter-house quiz on current affairs was held at Shishu Niketan, Mohali. The motive of the event was to inculcate newspaper-reading habit among students and questions were asked from the news reports appeared in the last two weeks. Students of the Aravali House bagged the first position, followed by Nilgiri House. Laurels
Saanya Ohja, a Class XI student of Vivek High School, has been selected for the summer programme at the Brown University, USA, in June. She has been selected on a 100 per cent scholarship sponsored by the Global Education and Leadership Foundation. Saanya would also be participating in an International Round Square Conference at Wellington College near London in October this year. ’Technothon-11’
An inter-school carnival for Classes III to XII, “Technothon-2011” was held at St Soldier’s, Mohali. A total of 130 students from 14 schools of the tricity participated in the carnival. Vineet Raj Kapoor, studio head, Arena Multimedia, Chandigarh, gave tips to the participants about web designing and poster making. Science Olympiad
Students of St Soldier International Convent School, Phase VII,
Mohali,won the runners-up trophy at the Science Olympiad held at Pushpa Gujral Science City, Kapurthala, conducted by ISRO. The winning team comprised Sarjana Singh, V Shruthi, Priya and Mrinal Dutt. School chairman KS Brar and principal V Tiwana lauded the efforts of the students and teachers. Poetry recitation PATIALA: DAV Public School, Bhupindra Road, Patiala, organised an inter-house quiz to mark the world technology day. To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, students presented various items. These included Surbhi of Class X who presented a Bengali dance and Aru Goel delivered a speech on Rabindranath Tagore. An inter-house poem recitation was also organised in which Anuragdeep Kaur stood first, Sehaj stood second and Palak stood third. — TNS
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The municipal corporation authorities are sleeping over an encroachment by an owner of a showroom in Sector 9 C. The showroom owner has put plastic markers to make independent parking space along the Madhya Marg.
As many as 321 volunteers donated blood in the 13th blood donation camp organised at the Sant Nirankari Satsang Bhawan, Sector 9, here on Sunday.
A vigilant officer and known for his accomplishments in sports, Ashish has remained an All India Police Champion in lawn tennis for the last nine years in a row. He has also won a bronze medal in the World Police and Fire games held in Vancouver (Canada) in 2009. Born in Jalandhar, the officer joined the Punjab Police in 1993 as an Inspector and worked actively as a station house officer (SHO) across various police stations. He was promoted to the rank of DSP in 2001 following which he was appointed DSP of Samana. He has also been posted as DSP (Traffic) and DSP (Rural) in Amritsar before being posted on a UN Mission in Kosovo, a similarity that he incidentally shares with the UT Advisor KK Sharma who was posted on a UN mission in Kosovo for five years. From 2004 to 2006, he remained DSP (Civil Lines) in Amritsar before being posted as DSP (City) in Patiala. He also served as DSP Taran Taran, DSP (HQ) and DSP (detective) in Patiala. His last posting was as the staff officer to the
DGP, Punjab.
It will be a homecoming of sorts for this police officer who has spent his entire childhood in Chandigarh. An alumni of Government College in Sector 11 and Panjab University from where he obtained an MA in History, the 42-year-old joined the Punjab Police as an Assistant Sub Inspector in 1988 and has since then served across various divisions. His maximum tenure has been in Ludhiana where he spent close to seven years as SHO of Civil Lines) for more than two years and SHO of Model Town. He has also served as SHO of Samana in Patiala district and also held postings in Dera Bassi, Zirakpur and Rajpura. He also worked with the crime branch at the Punjab Police headquarters in Chandigarh. As a DSP, he remained in charge of the Vigilance Bureau and has also headed sub divisions in Payal (Ludhiana district). He has also served with the Intelligence Wing of the Punjab Police. “Chandigarh is a great place to work and one gets a lot of exposure. I am hopeful that I will learn a lot from my stint with the premier police force of the country,” he says.
Hailing from Moga, Suman Kumar joined the Punjab Police in 1999 as an Inspector after a 17-year stint with the Government Railway police (GRP). A ‘training expert’, the officer was promoted to the rank of DSP in 2006 while he was posted in Phillaur.
While he spent early part of his life as a businessman in Jalandhar, Gursharandeep joined the Punjab Police as a DSP in 2002 at the age of 30. He has been in charge of subdivisions in Phillaur, Mohali, Derabassi and Jalandhar. He has been known for cracking the Mohan Singh murder case in which an NRI was killed in 2006. “I was earlier into family business and then joined policing due to my interest in the field,” he said.