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Kala Sanghia
Industry association assures Punjab Pollution Control Board
Registration of revenue deeds |
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HDFC told to pay for deficient service
DCC general secretary’s car snatched
Vendor assault case: Suspect still at large
Pong Dam water enters villages
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Kala Sanghia
Industry association assures Punjab Pollution Control Board
Jalandhar, August 21 The president of Federation of Jalandhar Industrial and Traders Association, Gursharan Singh, gave this assurance on behalf of the unit owners to PPCB chairman Kahan Singh Pannu who had warned the defaulting units of closing down their industries if they did not stop discharging their effluents into the sewer. The PPCB took a strict stand against the 125 micro and small electroplating and zinc units after environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal had taken up the issue solidly with the district administration several months ago. These units were discharging their untreated effluents into sewer in the absence of any Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP). Bringing the issue into the notice of district administration, Baba had stated, “The ground water of over 100 villages located on the banks of the 45-km-long Kala Sanghia drain has been contaminated due to discharge of effluents into the drain with which the villagers have been suffering from various diseases including cancer.” After the strict action by the PPCB, some of the units of the city started sending their effluents to a Ludhiana-based company JBR Technology Private Limited for its treatment at CETP for electroplating units set up in Ludhiana. Talking to The Tribune, Gursharan Singh said: “Now 90 of the total 125 units have been sending 30000 to 35000 litre effluents to Ludhiana daily for proper treatment. My association is persuading other unit owners to do so and 15 more have become members of the Electroplating Effluent Treatment Society for sending their effluents to Ludhiana. The remaining unit owners are also being persuaded to do so. The Jalandhar unit owners are spending Rs 74 paise per litre for treating their effluents in Ludhiana.” Gursharan Singh said he had assured PPCB Chariman that none of the 125 electroplating and zinc units would discharge their effluents into the sewer as they were also well aware of their duty towards the society in saving the environment from further deterioration. The electroplating units would continue to send their effluents to Ludhiana until a CETP would be set up for which two acres land was provided for the state government, he added. |
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Registration of revenue deeds
Jalandhar, August 21 The plan has been proposed keeping in mind the immense volume of forgeries, largely faced by the NRIs, in the Doaba belt. It has been suggested that the provision of mentioning the UID will be of extra benefit in case of the power of attorneys and will deeds. Jalandhar Divisional Commissioner Anurag Verma has forwarded a letter in this regard to the Financial Commissioner (Revenue) and sought suggestions. A copy of the letter is in the possession of The Tribune. The letter states: “Para 127 of the Registration Manual prescribes the procedure for identification of parties when the Registering Officer is not personally acquainted with the executants.” It also states that till the time the government takes a decision in this regard, there is no harm in encouraging the parties to mention their UID numbers along with their addresses.Verma said, “We can take advantage of the UID, also known as Adhaaar, in establishing the identity of the buyers and sellers at the time of the registration of the documents. Especially in the cases of NRIs, as they are living abroad and away from their properties, sometimes mischievous people dispose of their property by producing someone else before the Tehsildar. This initiative can be relied upon by the Registering Officer for the identification of the executants.” Verma said if the system was put in place, the prudent buyers would insist upon the sellers to include their UID numbers in the sale deeds. “Moreover, if a buyer mentions his UID number in the sale deed, it can be mentioned in the land records, like mutation and the subsequent jamabandi. And when a particular piece of land is resold, the sub-registers can ask for the number and this would reduce the possibility of any such fraud,” he added. |
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Agreement not notified, teachers flay govt
Amritsar, August 21 Raising slogans against the SAD-BJP government, the agitating teachers held a protest march at Court Chowk and blocked vehicular traffic for nearly an hour. Sukhwinder Singh of the union said the government had not notified the agreement, which was reached at on May 13 after a month-long chain hunger strike by the teachers. On behalf of the government Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan had signed the agreement with the protesting union. He said as per the agreement the teachers recruited under the Pendu Sikhya Vikas Committee (PSVC) would be brought under the Sarv Sikhya Abhiyan and would be granted full grade till 2012. He said the government had also accepted to allow untrained teachers of the PSVC to pursue BEd and ETT courses while in service. He said all efforts of the agitating teachers would be wasted if the accepted terms of the agreement were not notified. Our Correspondent adds from
Hoshiarpur: Maninder Singh Marwaha, Harjot Singh, Baljit Singh and many other condemned the Punjab Government for not implementing their already accepted demands under this plea that the election code had been enforced where as their demands had been accepted three months ago when there was no election code. They demanded to issue the notification regarding their pay scale from April 2012. They also supported the ongoing agitation of social activist Anna Hazare against corruption. |
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HDFC told to pay for deficient service
Nawanshahr, August 21 In his complaint, Harvail Singh Saini said he had an account with the local branch of HDFC and he had shown his willingness to invest some money in fixed deposit with the Bank authorities to earn higher interest. The bank authorities assured him that his amount could be doubled after the expiry of three years and this scheme was free form the market risks. They took his signatures on blank papers and sum of Rs 14 lakh was invested by him in 2008. Besides, he had also paid a sum of Rs 80,000 as telephonically demanded by the HDFC officials for extending the time of fixed deposit. In February 2011, when he approached the concerned officials to inquire about the status of his investment, the Bank officials handed over him four policies issued by the HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company to him, who, in turn, told him that the policies had already been forfeited and the balance lying in these policies would be returned to him. In April 2011, a sum of Rs. 11,20,169 was returned to him through different cheques. Having heard the pleas of both the parties and perusal of the documentary evidence put before them, L.N. Sharma, president, Karnail Singh and Sudha Sharma, members of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum found serious doubts in the entire working of the local HDFC Bank and HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company in the execution of the policies as well as refunding the amount invested in the policies by the complainant. |
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DCC general secretary’s car snatched
Hoshiarpur, August 21 Sandip Nanda informed the Model Town police station which swung into action and recovered the car which was abandoned by the robbers on Lachowal-Pathial link road in the morning today. However, the robbers decamped with a stereo before abandoning the car. Sandip Nanda told mediapersons here this morning that he was going to leave his one employee Sandip Kumar at Khanpur village in the car last night. On his way, one of the car tyres got punctured near Tanda Chowk. When he was going to turn the ignition on, three unidentified youths suddenly got in the car. Two of them assaulted Sandip Kumar who was sitting on the rear seat and a youth pushed him out of the car. Sandip’s father Kuldip Nanda informed the SSP in this connection. The President, City Congress Committee, Rajnish Tandon, showed his deep concern over the prevailing law and order situation in the district and urged the SSP to take stern action against anti-social elements to restore the confidence of the people in the police. SSP Rakesh Aggarwal said the stolen car had been recovered and the robbers had been identified and they would be arrested very shortly. Girl abducted
Tarn Taran: Peter Masih of Bhojian village, 15 km from here, has been booked under Sections 363 and 366 of the IPC by the Chabal police for abducting a teenaged girl residing in his neighbourhood. The father of the victim girl in his statement to the police said Peter established illicit relations with his daughter and then abducted her by luring her with a promise of marriage last night. Office burgled
Jalandhar: Thieves allegedly broke into the office of a property dealer and money exchanger in Abadpura locality and decamped with cash, electronic goods and other important documents, here late on Saturday night. The theft was recorded in a CCTV installed in the office owned by Ramesh Lal Bali. The theft came to light this morning when Gurmeet Singh, owner of a dhabha adjacent to Bali’s office, found locks of the main gate of the shop broken. He informed the owner who called the police. Bali claimed that the thieves took away cash, computers, laptops, home theatre, cameras and certain other documents after ransacking the entire office. The exact loss is yet to be ascertained. A team of forensic experts has been pressed into service. The police has taken the CCTV footage into its possession. No arrest has been made so far. |
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Vendor assault case: Suspect still at large
Jalandhar, August 21 The investigating officer (IO), Kuljit Singh, said the assailant was absconding. The police would initiate action against the suspect only after getting victim’s statement recorded. “He is not in a state of getting his statement recorded. Still out team will go to the hospital for the purpose,” the IO added. It may be recalled that the driver of an employee of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) had assaulted Ramesh with a pan on his head when he demanded his pending tea bill of Rs 500 from him. |
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Pong Dam water enters villages
Batala, August 21 Villages near the river Talwara, Samravan, Kangra, Maari Buchian, Maari Pannauan, Sansa and Kapori, Keeri Afhgana, Bahadar and Rajoa are the worst-affected. SDM Paramjit Singh claimed the situation in Dera Baba Nanak is normal. Nawanshahr: PPCC member Gur Iqbal Kaur Babli has visited a number of flood-affected villages here. She interacted with the victims to get information on damage of crops, cattle, houses etc. caused in the floods. Babli said the state government should immediately conduct a survey to assess the loss. |
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The owners of electroplating and zinc units of the city have assured the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) that they would not discharge their effluents into sewer which ultimately flows into the Kala Sanghia drain.
