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Odds apart, Astro Turf to be ready by Dec 23
LPG consumers in Maur Mandi protest delay in refilling of cylinders
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Govt teachers on deputation recalled
School kids have a date with techies at GZSCET
world aids day today
One killed, 4 hurt in separate mishaps
Seminar on JET held at polytechnic college
Class IV govt employees stage dharna
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Odds apart, Astro Turf to be ready by Dec 23
The German team comprising Opitz, Victor Bastos and Kutas are carrying out the installation work of an artificial turf, which is first of its kind in Malwa region. Speaking to TNS on the college ground whereon the Astro Turf is coming up, the team members said apart from frequent breakdown of a machine, meant to lay the carpet on the ground, they were unable to comprehend the language of labourers. “Few men have been given to us as assistance but getting them involved with the work is quite tough as they don’t understand English or German. They know Punjabi or Hindi, which we are not well conversant with,” said Opitz. Opitz works for the Polytan Company, which is carrying out the installation of Astro Turf here. He pointed out that despite the language barriers and frequent breakdown of the machine, they were confident of completing the project before December 23. “We are getting support from the local authorities to carry out the project,” said the team. It is the team’s first visit to Bathinda. Before, they had installed Astro Turfs at Jalandhar, Delhi, Chennai and Madurai. The team said the authorities should install sprinklers around the Astro Turf so as to avoid injuries to players. “A wet turf reduces the risk of injury to a player who skids while playing,” the team said. Sukhdev Bhullar, a hockey coach, said the capacity of the stadium would increase to almost 5,000 with construction of gallery and making seating arrangements under the covered area of the stadium. He pointed out that the hockey players were quite excited about the Astro Turf stadium, in which floodlights would also be installed. Entire construction work is likely to be completed within a month and a half month or so, he said. Fact file
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LPG consumers in Maur Mandi protest delay in refilling of cylinders
Bathinda, November 30 The protesters raised slogans against the officials of the Maur Gas Agency and blocked the road for over two hours. The police reached the spot and pacified the protesters and assured them of taking up the matter with the authorities concerned. Harbhajan Singh, one of the protesters, said the gas agency officials force villagers to stand in queues for hours together and still, they had to return empty-handed. “It is harrowing experience for consumers to get gas cylinders refilled every month. While influential people manage to get their cylinders refilled easily, others have to wait for days together,” he alleged. He said people from Bhai Desa, Ramanwas, Kotli and other nearby villages had raised their voice against the delay in refuelling of gas cylinders. “Consumers queue up as early as 5 in the morning but even then, they fail to get their LPG cylinders refilled,” said Surjeet Singh. He added that people like him were making rounds of the gas agency for the past three days but in vain. He said the protest would be intensified if authorities or administration failed to do the needful in this regard soon. The protesters also alleged that LPG cylinders were sold in the black market in connivance with the authorities concerned. An official of the Maur Gas Agency, Rajinder Kumar, said the dharna was politically motivated. “The Indian Oil Corporation has not sent us cylinders for the past five days. We had conveyed this to the consumers too but they did not listen,” he said. He said two trucks loaded with LPG cylinders had arrived today and no consumer would return empty-handed from tomorrow onwards, adding that the agency has 12,800 gas connections and 6,000 gas cylinders. Official Speak We did not get the supply of LPG cylinders from the Indian Oil Corporation for the past five days. Two trucks loaded with cylinders have arrived and no consumer will return empty-hand from tomorrow onwards. — Rajinder kumar, official, Maur Gas agency
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Govt teachers on deputation recalled
Bathinda, November 30 Principals of all the middle, high and senior secondary schools have been directed to send a list of such teachers from their respective institutions by December 1. These teachers were transferred to fulfill needs of certain institutes on temporary basis. It has been directed that if these teachers are urgently required at their deputation postings, the concerned school principal should immediately inform the clusters' in-charge so that permission is sought from the office of Director General School Education (DGSE) Chandigarh. The principals have been told to send a list of teachers who are available for temporary deputation in their neighbourhood schools or clusters. At some places, due to transfers and lack of rooms, sections could not be constituted in accordance with the number of students and hence these teachers do not have complete workload. Such teachers would also be considered for further temporary postings. The DEO (secondary) H S Sandhu said that around 20 to 25 teachers were presently serving at deputation in the district. These orders do not cover non-teaching staff members. At the same time, no person on deputation from approved posts would be moved such as coordinators for various education programmes including district coordinators of the RMSA, the Parho Punjab, the SSA and the Edusat. |
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School kids have a date with techies at GZSCET
Bathinda, November 30 Later, the students were taken to a workshop where they were briefed on how
metals are shaped and moulded. The students got an opportunity to interact with the engineers and technical staff and learnt about the work atmosphere and various functional. The last session of the visit was very interactive where the students got to have a discussion with teachers and lab instructors. A complete knowledge about the practical way for imparting education made the visit very knowledgeable experience for the students.
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world aids day today
The clubs would come up in 34 colleges of Bathinda district. Besides, such clubs will be set up in colleges of Patiala, Sangrur, Barnala, Mansa, Faridkot, Moga, Ferozepur, Fazilka and Muktsar districts of the Malwa region. The Department of Youth Services, Punjab, would initiate proceedings in setting up of these clubs in the Malwa region while the Pushpa Gujral Science City, Kapurthala, would do it in the remaining districts. Talking to TNS here, Assistant Director, Youth Services, Bathinda, Dr Kamaljit Singh Sidhu said the PSACS would give a financial assistance of Rs 2,500 to each club for holding activities to create awareness about AIDS. He said a district-level conference of the 34 colleges of Bathinda district would be organised wherein NSS programme officers of the colleges would take part. Sidhu said after that, seven training workshops on AIDS awareness would be held at various places in the district. Five colleges would take part in each training workshop and one programme officer and nine NSS volunteers from each college would undergo training there. He said earlier, the Youth Services Department held a state-level workshop on November 23 where assistant directors of the department were given guidelines on implementing the programme. He said in May and June last, 10 workshops were organised in all blocks of Bathinda district, in which about 300 youths were sensitised to HIV/AIDS.
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One killed, 4 hurt in separate mishaps
Bathinda, November 30 As per the volunteers of the Sangat Sahara Sewa Society, the both the persons are from the Gehri Buttar village of Bathinda. Their tractor collided with a truck and later a car also collided with the ill-fated vehicles, which could not be removed from the spot. Mahinder received serious injuries and is undergoing treatment at the local civil hospital. In another incident, an elderly woman Gurnam Kaur was hit by a speeding biker near Sangat bus stand. Gurnam sustained injuries on her both legs and was rushed to the local civil hospital by volunteers of the Sangat Sahara Sewa Society. In yet another accident, a taxi driver received serious injuries after his SUV hit the roundabout of the ITI flyover late last night. Volunteers of the NGO that rescued the injured said that it took more than an hour to rescue the taxi driver, which was later identified as Soni of Phus Mandi area. Meanwhile, body of an unidentified elderly man was also recovered from the Sangat Mandi last night. Efforts are being made by the volunteers of the NGO and police to trace the address of the deceased. |
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athletic meet
Bathinda, November 30 In the under-19 age-group boys, Talwandi Sabo stood first with 44 points, Sangat stood second with 36 points while Bhucho Mandi secured the third position with 24 points. In the girls’ category for the same age group, Mandi Phool secured the first place with 51 points, Maur Mandi secured second place with 19 points while Talwandi Sabo stood third with 18 points. In the under-17 age-group boys, Sangat secured the first position with 45 points, Maur Mandi stood second with 27 points while Mandi Phool secured third place with 19 points. In the girls’ category for same the age group Mandi Phool secured 55 points, Maur Mandi secured 33 points while Talwandi Sabo secured 18 points. In the under-14 age group boys, Bathinda I stood first with 30 points, Sangat stood runner-up with 26 points while Bhucho Mandi secured the third place with 10 points. In the girls’ category Maur Mandi stood first with 30 points, Bathinda I stood second with 19 points while Sangat stood third with 14 points. Around 2000 students from 10 zones of the district competed in various events being held at the district-level sports meet of the Education Department. The zones include Bathinda I, Bathinda II, Talwandi Sabo, Sangat Mandi, Bhucho Mandi, Goniana Mandi, Mandi Kalan, Mandi Phool, Maur Mandi and Bhagta. In the under-14 category from amongst boys in 600 m race, Avneet from Bathinda I zone, Jaswinder from Maur Mandi and Swarn from Talwandi Sabo zone secured first, second and third positions, respectively. In the same event from girls’ section, Rajwider from Mandi Phool, Amandeep from Mandi Kalan and Amandeep from Maur Mandi zone secured first, second and third positions, respectively. In the discus throw (boys), Hapreet from Sangat Mandi, Harpreet from Goniana while Harpreet from Talwandi Sabo secured first, second and third positions. Similarly, in the boys category for the same event, Bant Kaur from Talwandi Sabo, Maya from Bhucho Mandi and Rajinder Kaur from Maur Mandi secured first, second and third positions. In the long jump (boys), Akashdeep from Bathinda I, Amit Kumar from Mandi Phool and Rishi Sahni from Bathinda I bagged first, second and third positions. In the under-17 category in 800 m race for boys, Akbar Pal Khan from Bhucho Mandi, Binder from Sangat
Mandi and Baljinder from Mandi Kalan secured first, second and third places, respectively. In the 800 M (girls), Rajwinder from Maur Mandi, Sandeep from Mandi Phool and Saipi from Sangat bagged first, second and third places. Similarly, in the discus throw for girls, Satvir Kaur from Goniana Mandi, Sukhdeep from Talwandi Sabo and Sukhchain from Bathinda II secured first, second and third places, respectively. In the shot put, Jagteshwar Sharma from Bathinda I, Mandeep Singh from Goniana Mandi and Jagwinder from Mandi Kalan secured first, second and third places. In the discus throw from amidst boys Mandeep from Goniana Mandi, Jagjit from Bhucho Mandi and Lovejit from Goniana Mandi secured first, second and third places. In the long jump, Surjit from Maur Mandi, Manpreet from Bathinda II and Akashdeep from Sangat Mandi secured first, second and third places. In the high jump girls, Manpreet from Mandi Phool, Pardeep from Mandi Phool and Gurvinder Kaur from Bathinda I secured first, second and third places. In the 5000 m race, Sukhandeep from Goniana Mandi, Manjinder from Talwandi Sabo and Gurbinder from Maur Mandi secured first, second and third places. From the girls category in same event, Kamaljit from Goniana, Jaspal from Maur and Pardeep from Sangat secured first, second and third places. The winners were awarded during the felicitation held today. District education officer (Secondary) Harbans Singh Sandhu and deputy DEO Amarjit Kaur honoured the winners. |
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Ministerial staff burn Punjab Government’s effigy
Bathinda, November 30 Before burning the effigy, they also took out a protest march from the Mini-secretariat to the bus stand. Meanwhile, their mass casual leave agitation today entered its sixth day (all working days) as they were on mass casual leave since November 22. The mass casual leave by the ministerial staff has adversely affected official functioning not only in the Bathinda district but also in the entire state. The protesters also held a rally inside the Mini-secretariat here today where they raised slogans against the state government and in favour of their demand. They were addressed among others by the district president of the association Sukhpal Singh Sidhu, general secretary, Kewal Bansal, Prem Kumar (Irrigation office), Sudhir Goyal (B&R), Gurdev Chatha (Health), Paramjit Singh (Food and Supply) and Tejinder Kumar (B&R). Sukhpal Singh Sidhu said the ministerial staff of the Bathinda Thermal Plant and the Bathinda Municipal Corporation had also extended their full support to the agitation, being launched by the PSMSU. He said though they were not on mass casual leave but their support had encouraged the agitators morally. The union leaders also hold the state government responsible for the inconveniences being faced by the people by saying that it was the government that had been adopting indifferent attitude towards their demand. They also stated that their agitation would remain continue till the issuance of notification regarding their demand by the state government. They announced, "If the government continues to adopt dilly-dallying tactics, they would be compelled to intensify their agitation further. |
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Dental
Fortnight
Bathinda, November 30 However, a 78-year-old Buta Singh from Mehta village was the oldest person, who was provided a denture set to fit the same. As many as 60 denture sets were today distributed among the persons, who were identified during the ‘Dental fortnight’, started from November 15 and concluded today. These sets were given away to the beneficiaries by the Civil Surgeon Dr Iqbal Singh. On the occasion, District Health Officer Dr Raghubir Singh Randhawa, senior medical officer (SMO) of Women and Children Hospital, Bathinda Dr BS Gill and Dental Surgeon at the Civil Hospital here Dr Shashi Jain were also
present. Dr Shashi Jain said thatSantosh had lost her teeth as she had been suffering from pyorrhoea, a disease that weakens the strength of the gums. She said during the dental fortnight about 1,350 patients had been examined at the OPD of the Civil Hospital here. Besides, over 1100 students had also been examined during the fortnight in Bathinda. She said during dental examination of the patients, she had found 60 persons fit for getting denture sets. She further pointed out that during the fortnight she also filled the teeth of the patients, besides extracting the teeth. She informed that out of 1350 patients around 700 were suffering from dental caries while remaining were suffering from pyorrhea. She said the patients had also been educated under the awareness programme. She added that they were told how to brush their teeth and at what time, what to eat and not to eat and other precautions. On the occasion a dental awareness exhibition was also oraganised at the concluding functioning, displaying various commodities to tell the people ‘eat only those food items that strengthen their jaws’. |
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Seminar on JET held at polytechnic college
Bathinda, November 30 Addressing the gathering, director, academics, Punjab State Technical Education Board, Narinderpal Lamba talked about the increasing demand for technical academicians. He said the demand for diploma pass engineers is increasing day-by-day. Lamba gave details about various diploma courses and the admission procedure regarding these courses. Principal Yadvinder Singh requested all the school principals to tell their students about the number of employment opportunities available for the diploma holders. He said, “Matriculation is the most important class of a student. This is the most important phase of a student life and guiding them about right possibilities available goes a long way in ensuring fruitful careers.” Prominent among others present included principals Iqbal Singh Romana, Bagga Singh, BS Dullat and Jasvir Singh Gill. |
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Class IV govt employees stage dharna
Bathinda, November 30 They today also stayed away from work in their offices by marking attendance on the registers. District general secretary Gurbans Singh said the class-IV employees would hold a demonstration on December 3 in the Assembly constituency of the Punjab Finance Minister. — TNS
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Bathinda, November 30
Bathinda, November 30