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Rural vets refuse to come under PCS Act
Upset over controversial auction, trustee puts in his papers
PSPCL staff against 2-tier system
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Centre starts proceedings to bring Harjit’s body
Flesh trade racket unearthed
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Rural vets refuse to come under PCS Act
Amritsar, May 21 They threatened to go on a strike if the government failed to rollback decision or keep their services out of this Act. “On March 9, the government decided to regularise our jobs and assured to provide full pay scale from April 1. However, due to dilly-dallying attitude of the government and department concerned, our regularisation got delayed. In the meanwhile, the government announced to implement PCS Act on new government jobs. Under this act the new government’s recruits had to go through three to five years of probation period during which they would be getting basic pay of the salary without any other benefits,” said Dr Navdeep Singh Khinda, president of the Rural Veterinary Officers Association, Punjab. Dr Gagandeep Singh Dhillon of the association pointed out that it has been four and half years that they had been working under Zila Parishad in far-flung rural areas of Punjab. They had been getting half of the salary given to the regular employees. “At present we are getting just over Rs 22,000 per month. However, if get we regularised the government would provide us basic pay of the gross salary that would be about Rs 15,000 as per the act,” he said. Meanwhile, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Ranjit Singh Brahmpura assured the veterinary doctors he would take up this issue in next cabinet meeting and remove this anomaly by bringing them out of the Act. Dr Khinda and Dr Dhillon said though after the assurance of the Panchayat and Rural Development Minister they had suspended their plans to protest for the time being, they would be forced to launch an agitation if the government failed to regularise them on full pay scale.
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Batala Improvement Trust
Batala, May 21 Sources disclosed that a livid Bhatia, upset over the manner in which the auction proceedings were conducted, sent in his resignation to BJP Batala District President Vivek Moudgil. Moudgil confirmed the development and said he would be taking a decision on the resignation soon. However, BJP insiders claimed that there were very little chances of Bhatia’s papers being accepted since the Improvement Trust mandarins had already cancelled the auction after a lot of hue and cry erupted in the town over the illegal process in which the auction was held. There are four BJP supported trustees while two are aligned with the SAD. The other three-Batala SDM, Executive Engineer of the PWD and the District Town Planner - are government nominees. It is pertinent to mention here that US-based NRI Baljinder Singh Boparai had claimed that he was ready to buy the prime land, which was auctioned on May 9, at Rs 10 crore against the reserved price of Rs 3.4 crore. However, he claimed that he was not allowed to take part in the proceedings by some senior Improvement Trust officials. He also claimed that the prime land measuring 5,700 square yards was given at a throwaway price of Rs 4 crore. Trust chairman Dev Raj Chachowalia revealed that the next date of the fresh auction would be announced shortly. He added that everything would be held in a transparent manner and advertisements proclaiming the sale will be placed in widely circulated newspapers unlike the last time when advertisements were placed in lowly circulated newspapers, a development which had irked Boparai and many others who were allegedly kept in the dark about the proceedings. Chachowalia dared the NRI to take part in the fresh auction while Boparai, on his part, claimed that he was ready with the money and would take part in the proceedings whenever they were held. Meanwhile, Vivek Moudgil said since the trust was controlled by the BJP, it would be the party’s endeavour to ensure that the proceedings during the fresh auction were conducted in a transparent manner. “We do not want the party to get a bad name before the next assembly election,” Moudgil added.
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PSPCL staff against 2-tier system
Jalandhar, May 21 The employees, on a call given by the Joint Action Committee, Jalandhar Circle, sat on a dharna outside Shakti Sadan here on Friday over the issue. Other complaints were that through the enforcement of an order issued by PSPCL, some offices were closed down (under the supervision of chief engineer, North Zone, and deputy chief engineer, Jalandhar Circle), while some others were shifted to a common place. However, no sitting arrangements were made for the employees in the new offices where they were shifted.
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Centre starts proceedings to bring Harjit’s body
Tarn Taran, May 21 Dharamveer Agnihotri, president, District Congress Committee, on behalf of Preneet Kaur, Union Minister of State for External Affairs, told this to Harjit’s parents in Kallha village here today. Agnihotri also expressed grief on behalf of Parneet Kaur and Punjab PPCC chief Amarinder Singh. Harjit became the victim of racial attack in London on May 14. |
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Crime Zone
Tarn Taran: The Bhikhiwind police has unearthed a flesh trade racket and arrested three persons. The police raided the residence of one Sukhwinder Kaur. Kiran Kaur, German Singh and Balwant Singh were arrested from the spot. But Sukhwinder Kaur, Major Singh and Surjit Singh managed to escape. — OC Water dispute leads to murder
Amritsar: A dispute over water sharing led to the murder of Ramesh Kumar of Bhindi Saida village, who was shot dead by his own uncles and cousins. Those booked for the murder are his two uncles Mahinder Singh and Darshan Singh and cousins Gurjit Singh, Gurmit Singh and Harjit Singh. The accused were absconding. The accused also injured Ramesh’s father Bhag Singh and two brothers Kuljinder Singh and Parminder Singh. — TNS Robbers kill man
Hoshiarpur: Unidentified robbers killed a shopkeeper’s son at Jalalpur village and fled with a bag containing Rs 45,000 cash on Friday night. According to police sources, Pradeep Singh of Jalalpur, running a cement and steel shop at Jaja Chowk, Tanda, was returning with his son Surinder Singh on a motorcycle to his village when three persons, also on a bike, stopped their two-wheeler. One of the robbers pointed a gun at them. Surinder Singh when resisted the attempt of the robbers to snatch the bag was shot from a point blank range killing him on the spot. The police has registered a case under Sections 302 and 392 of the IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act in this connection. — OC Man found dead
Amritsar: An unidentified person was found dead near Ibban Kalan falling under Gate Hakima police station here on Saturday. According to police authorities, his throat was slit by assailants, who later threw the body near Ibban Kalan crossing. The police has registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC against unidentified persons. — TNS Bikes recovered
Amritsar: The Amritsar rural police busted a gang of vehicle lifters and arrested three persons including an auto dealer based at Batala in this connection today. The police recovered 20 motorcycles of different brands from them. Gurpreet Singh of Friends Colony, Baljit Singh of Sant Avenue and Sanjiv Kumar, owner of S K Auto in Batala, were arrested. — OC Murder: 2 arrested
Batala: Raising objections to his wife’s illicit relationship costs Balkar Singh of Jangla village his life. His wife Manjit Kaur tried her best to mislead the police but ultimately she along with her paramour Anoop Singh landed in the cops’ net after a thorough investigation by the law enforcement agency. The body of Balkar Singh was recovered from the river in the village on April 27. Interestingly, Manjit Kaur’s mother Sawinder Kaur and brother Buta Singh helped her in carrying out the murder. — OC |
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