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Gurdaspur under e-governance
Selling butter sans MRP costs Rs
6,000 to Vishal Mega Mart
VAT: Sports goods traders to launch agitation
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Cong supports industrialists
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Gurdaspur under e-governance
Gurdaspur, June 19 The AISECT has got the rights from the sate government to establish 270 such centres across the length and breadth of this district. All the 1,624 villages are in the process of being interlinked online and the district has been divided into 270 CSCs with each centre providing services to a cluster of six villages. Says Sanjeev Sarpal, state coordinator of the project, which district administration officials believe will prove to be very beneficial for residents, particularly those living in remote and rural areas, “People will definitely heave a sigh of relief as they will not have to trudge long distances to get their work done. Each CSC will provide services like getting driving licenses, old age pension, birth and death certificates, payment of electricity and mobile bills, phone recharges, police clearance certificates, educational services like Computer courses of IGNOU, AISECT, BSNL bills, DTH recharge and some facilities which otherwise are provided by SBI.” “Villagers, instead of travelling long distances-like residents of Dhar Kalan block who have to travel 70 kms to get their work done at the District headquarters-will now get information relating to their work at the click of a mouse at a CSC located in their cluster,” disclosed Pawan Kumar, project coordinator. Each CSC is being computerised and will have a direct link to the Chandigarh-based State Wide Area Network (SWAN) which will monitor the CSC running at village level. SWAN is governed by the Punjab Government’s Department of Information and Technology. Sarpal says he already has appointed 14 block managers in the district who, in turn, will be leasing out these CSCs to villagers willing to run these centres for a profit. The villagers who will handed over the franchises of the CSCs will be termed village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs). On their part the VLEs will be running the CSC on a profit basis. Says Sarpal, “The VLE will be charging for the services he renders and villagers will no longer be required to travel to the district headquarters to get their work done.” There are nearly 540 services which can be offered to residents. These also include providing passport services, permission for holding of fairs, issuance of both married and unmarried certificates, issuance of dependent certificates to wards of freedom fighters and issuance of dependent certificates to riot and terrorist victims.
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Selling butter sans MRP costs Rs
6,000 to Vishal Mega Mart
Jalandhar, June 19 The complainant, Tarminder Preet Singh Malhi of Jatpura, Kapurthala, had stated that he bought the pack of butter along with other items on April 11, 2009. When he found the butter pack without specifications, he approached the departmental store and made a complaint but they did not agree to replace the pack. He then lodged a complaint against Vishal Mart, Jalandhar, marketing company Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt Ltd, Delhi, and manufacturer Gangol Shankri Dugdh Utpadak Sangh Ltd, Meerut. In reply, the counsel for Vishal Mart said the quality, quantity and expiry dates of all products were thoroughly checked prior to display of the products for sale. He added that the butter was neither manufactured nor marketed by the Mart. The counsel for Mother Dairy replied, “The butter has to be refrigerated at a given temperature so that it does not melt. Melting of butter causes packet getting sogged due to which the printed declarations on the packet of butter might have got erased.” The reply also mentioned that the pack could have been tampered with by someone by applying some chemical in order to lower the business reputation of the company. The forum represented by Surinder Mohan, president, and Darshan Singh, member, verified the records and evidences and said that the Mart had no legal right to sell the butter without any MRP, batch number and packet number and dates. |
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VAT: Sports goods traders to launch agitation
Jalandhar, June 19 The traders maintained that the industry was crumbling due to staggering prices of petrol in the state. Highlighting that the world-renowned Jalandhar sports industries were rapidly shifting to other states taking advantage of zero per cent VAT on sports goods, Ravinder Dheer, president, Beopar Sena, urged the government to immediately slash the VAT on sports goods in the state.
— TNS
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Cong supports industrialists
Jalandhar, June 19 Walia said the policies of the Punjab Government have been detrimental to the state’s traders and industrialists.
— TNS
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Six of gang held
Phagwara: The police busted a gang of robbers with the arrest of six persons in Guru Nanak Nanak Nagri near Sukhchain Nagar locality here on Sunday. Sadar SHO Ravinder Singh said on a tip-off, a police party raided the place and found six gang members hatching a conspiracy. The police also recovered several sharp-edged weapons. The accused, identified as Dharmendera of
Tibbi, Raman Kumar, Ashok Kumar and Sandip Kumar (all of Chiherru), Satwinder and Birbal of
Bahua, were produced before the Judicial Magistrate today who sent them to police custody till June 21 for further interrogations.
— OC Man held for cheating
Pathankot: The police has arrested Kamal Kumar, a resident of Gurgaon, for allegedly cheating residents of
Sujanpur, Kahnuwan and Berampur. He had taken money with the promise that he would double the amount in 10- month time. In his complaint, Baljeet Singh of Gobind Colony,
Sujanpur, said he deposited Rs 2.66 lakh in a finance company, Unipaid, of Kamal Kumar. But after 10 months, Kamal did not return the money as promised. The police registered a case under against Kamal under Sections 420, 34 of the IPC at Gurdaspur police station on April 18. After the investigation by the
SHO, the police found that the accused had taken money from Vishal Thakur of
Kahnuwan, Vinod Kumar, Raj Kumar, Joginder Singh, Vinod Sharma, Gagandeep Singh and Preetam Chand of
Berampur.
— OC Complaint against firm
Nawanshahr: More than hundred persons lodged their complaint with the police against Dubai Tour & Travel Company, situated on Garhshanker Road here, for allegedly committing a fraud on the pretext of sending them to Singapore. They claimed that the company promised to send them to the foreign country for which they paid a sum of Rs 20,000 each and submitted their passports to the agents Paramjit Singh of Sondh village and Dilwarjit Singh Dilwar of Langroya village in April. The company officials promised to send them abroad within 45 days. But even after passing of two months, the agents neither send them abroad nor returned their money and passports.
— OC Poppy husk seized
Nakodar: The police seized 15 kg of poppy husk from Sandeep here on Sunday. Sandeep’s father Surjit was also booked for the crime.
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