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Vigilance team storms roads under renovation 
Abohar, November 8
A team from vigilance cell stormed at the main roads here today to investigate whether standard norms specified in the manual was being adhered to in the renovation work.

Swami Vedantananda's ‘bhog’ ceremony today
Moga, November 8
The ‘bhog’ ceremony of Swami Vedantananda, a renowned saint of the modern times who died of prostate cancer at Moga on October 25, is being held on the premises of the Gita Bhawan here on Wednesday.

Probe ordered
Fazilka, November 8
The Director, Local Self Government, Punjab, has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the alleged irregularities carried out at the time of construction of a conference hall in the local Municipal Council office complex.

Vigilance team storms roads under renovation 
Our Correspondent

Abohar, November 8
A team from vigilance cell stormed at the main roads here today to investigate whether standard norms specified in the manual was being adhered to in the renovation work.

As per the information, the local Municipal Council had received funds worth Rs 7 crore from the state government after a lapse of about four years. The process adopted for inviting and finalising the tenders had courted controversy as the Congress MLA Sunil Jakhar alleged in his representation to the state government that some of the beneficiaries were not listed even as “C” class contractors even when the work was to be allotted to the “A” category contractors. It was also mentioned that the Local Bodies department had appointed only a junior engineer here who was not competent technically to handle such huge budgeted works in “A” class council.

The vigilance officials refused to reveal their findings during the inspection.

The MC president Shiv Raj Goyal of the BJP criticised the Congress workers for creating hurdles in the execution of development works. 

Swami Vedantananda's ‘bhog’ ceremony today
Tribune News Service

Moga, November 8
The ‘bhog’ ceremony of Swami Vedantananda, a renowned saint of the modern times who died of prostate cancer at Moga on October 25, is being held on the premises of the Gita Bhawan here on Wednesday.

He was the founder of the Gita Bhawan, an architecturally well-designed temple and a school at Moga, besides the famous Pawan Dham at Haridwar.

In the eyes of his followers, he was a liberal and a visionary saint who was respected by all the communities.

Probe ordered
Our Correspondent

Fazilka, November 8
The Director, Local Self Government, Punjab, has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the alleged irregularities carried out at the time of construction of a conference hall in the local Municipal Council office complex.

The director has ordered an inquiry on the basis of information sought by an RTI activist Amar Nath Chetiwal. He had alleged that a conference hall could not be constructed at the ground level beneath the overhead water tank for safety reasons. Hence, the MC authorities had violated the safety norms.

Notably, a sum of Rs 19 lakhs have been spent on this modern conference hall.

While clarifying the issue, Municipal Council President Anil Sethi said that the opinion regarding the construction of the hall had been sought from the experts before the construction of the hall. Hence, no violation was made by the MC authorities.