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Over 100 trees face PUDA axe
Cantonment traders to get New Year bonanza
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2 held with heroin worth
Rs 62 lakh
Dream debut
No house tests today as lecturers go on strike
Pharmacists go on week-long mass leave
SSA Scheme: Officials earn rap
PIMS joins hands with WHO against drunken driving
National Sports fest for Women from Dec 17
Admn round-up: Change of guard shakes up many
Road to Pakistan, a drug route?
Farmer unions meet
Vet inspectors to go on protest
Recruitment rally at Ramgarh cantt from Dec 21
Football players honoured
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Over 100 trees face PUDA axe
Jalandhar, December 12 The site currently houses the judicial record rooms which are likely to be shifted in the newly constructed building of the administrative complex. Nearly 734 vehicles attached in several court cases currently lodged in the malkhana at the complex are also proposed to be shifted to a new site in Model House. The malkhana is said to have been built in 1928 during the British era. PUDA has plans to come up with shop-cum-offices at the nearly 70 kanal site with a provision of basement parking. Additional chief administrator, PUDA, SK Singla said a plan in this regard had been sent to the government for approval. The plan of the civic authority to axe trees has come as a big disappointment for environmentalists. Says SPS Dosanjh, former senior landscapist, Punjab Agricultural University: “This greenbelt is the only breather in the area with concrete all around. It is understandable that the fund-crunched government needs money which can come only with such preposition, but it does not mean that they destroy greenery. There can be other ways too.” Dosanjh said he could assist the government in developing an aesthetically landscaped park at the site. Dr JS Bilga, former executive engineer (horticulture), MC, too is averse to cutting of trees. “PUDA officials must try to save maximum number of trees. There is no need to cut all trees. Rather, the planning for the hub should be done in a way that open spaces are planned around the green area.” He said. He suggested: “This is the right season of transplanting trees. I am ready to offer my guidance for the process if PUDA officials are interested in safely shifting the trees of a certain age limit to some other suitable area.” |
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Cantonment traders to get New Year bonanza
Jalandhar, December 12 A long pending demand of the traders of the cantonment, octroi tax collection within the cantonment limits of Jalandhar has been going on till date. The tax was abolished in Punjab except the cantonment areas of Jalandhar and Ferozepur. Sources revealed that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cantonment Board Vibha Sharma had gone to Delhi in the last week of November to hand over the proposal to the officials in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the publication of a gazette notification. Earlier, the draft public notice approved by Ministry of Defence and examined by the Ministry of Law and Justice for the collection of octroi within the limits of the cantonment was received for inviting objections or suggestions from the affected parties and persons. The cantonment board had invited objections and suggestions from the public for the suspension of octroi within the cantonment limits in October this year. A public notice in this regard was also released by the cantonment board authorities. “After the expiry of the period to file objections, a special board had resolved to forward the proposal to the MoD for publication of the gazette notification. The proposal has been forwarded to the Central government for consideration for publication in the official gazette of India,” said Nistha Goel, vice-president of the Cantonment Board. She said as there were no objections and suggestions from any of the parties, the board went ahead with the proposal for the final notification. After publication in the official gazette of India, the Cantonment Board will enter into an agreement with the state government for suspension of collection of octroi on goods, except on electricity, petrol or diesel and liquor entering within or transiting through the limits of Jalandhar Cantonment. The collection of tax on these items will continue in the form of additional excise duty. |
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2 held with heroin worth
Rs 62 lakh
Jalandhar, December 12 Officials said investigations were on and accused were likely to divulge more detail about their cartel. Inderjit Singh, in charge of the special staff, said following a tip-off, a police party set up a barricade at a specific place and after intercepting the accused, arrested him. The accused have been identified as Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Lohian Khas, and Mukhtyar Singh of Birbansia village in Jalandhar. Officials said that 100 grams of heroin worth rupees 50 lakh was recovered from Rakesh Kumar and 25 grams from Mukhtyar Singh. A case under Sections 21-61-85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against the accused and further investigations were on, the police said.
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Dream debut
Jalandhar, December 12 The celebratory mood of his family, friends and coaches is yet to sink in as they are sure that such a haul of wickets would continue in the coming One Day Internationals (ODIs) and the Test matches. And why not? His family and city residents were eagerly waiting to see him in action. Jalandhar Tribune spoke to the family of Rahul Sharma about those proud moments of watching their son taking West Indies head on. The family saw the match together and bounced to joy on every wicket he took. Rahul’s father Pardeep Sharma, who is serving as an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) with the Punjab Police, was just too elated to share his joy. He said: “Ever since Rahul was named to the Indian squad for the ODI series against England followed by test matches and the ODI series against the West Indies, we were anxiously waiting to see him in action. But we are glad that he proved his worth on his debut.” “At times we felt a little dejected as he was not being given a chance in the playing eleven, but Rahul never hinted towards any such worries. We are happy that his hard work all these years bore fruit,” he added. Rahul spoke to his family soon after his debut match at Indore in which he took three wickets. “We were short of words to congratulate him. All he asked was how my performance was?” the family added. His coach Davinder Arora said that Rahul spoke to him a day after his debut. His coach said their conversation began with his balling and the match and ended on that. “It was such a wonderful feeling to see him perform with excellence. I have seen him growing and wish that he scales new heights,” said Arora. At present, Rahul is in Bangalore for Ranji Trophy matches. On being asked about his visit back home, the family said: “Even we are looking forward to see him.”
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No house tests today as lecturers go on strike
Jalandhar, December 12 Even today, colleges in the city remained closed as principals and lecturers sat on a chain fast in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office. The union has also decided to hold candlelight marches on December 13 in support of their demands in the city and hold protest rallies in front of the residences of the ministers and MLAs in the state on December 14. The agitation was launched under the banner of Joint Action Committee (JAC) comprising the Non-Government Colleges Management Federation, Punjab & Chandigarh, the Federation of Associations of College Principals, Punjab and Chandigarh, the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU) and the Federation of Non-teaching Employees. Convener of the JAC Dr Jaspal Singh Randhawa said the union had also decided to block traffic on December 15 from 12 noon to 2 pm. “We are not in favour of such protests, but the government seems to have turned a blind eye towards our demands. It is not just an issue of fulfilling our demands, but that of the future of education in the state. The standard of education has gone down considerably and the government is least concerned,” he added. The JAC members demanded that the ban on recruitments should lifted, pension and gratuity scheme, which was approved by the then SAD-BJP government in 2001, should be implemented, revised pay scales of the non-teaching staff should be implemented from January 1, 2006 onwards instead of August 1, 2010.
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Pharmacists go on week-long mass leave
Jalandhar, December 12 Hukam Chand Thareja, president of the district cell, alleged that on September 5, the pharmacist association had a meeting with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here the he had agreed to fulfil their long pending demands. To implement their demands, the CM had also formed a three-members committee, Thareja alleged that till date their demands have been still no been fulfilled. |
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SSA Scheme: Officials earn rap
Jalandhar, December 12 He expressed his displeasure during a review meeting of Jalandhar, when it it came to his notice that out of the 6,000 children, who had to be given free spectacles, only about 2300 had been given spectacles so far, even though 2/3rd of the academic session was already over. Following this, he directed the DCs to not only personally monitor the scheme but also launch a campaign to distribute spectacles to all the children eligible under the scheme latest by December 31. One school should be taken up as a unit and all the eligible children there should be given spectacles in one go and thereafter random checking should be got done through respective SDM’s, he added. Verma further directed that the Health and Education departments should jointly hold camps at block level to screen the orthopedically impaired cases to identify as to which children require physiotherapy or corrective surgery. Although the scheme has a provision of getting free corrective surgery, but due to indifference on the part of the officials only eight such surgeries have been held since April 1 in Jalandhar district, he pointed out. He also expressed his concern that despite adequate funds being available no furniture has been provided till date to children suffering from cerebral palsy. The furniture should be provided to these children within a month, he ordered. The Commissioner further observed that substantial improvement can be brought about in speech impaired children without any medical intervention. For this the speech therapists should be clearly told that their performance shall be assessed in terms of actual improvement brought about in the speaking capabilities of children in their blocks, he added. Verma directed the DC’s to send him progress reports regarding all the points every month with fail.
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PIMS joins hands with WHO against drunken driving
Jalandhar December 12 Day one of the campaign began with the slogan chanting, skit by nursing staff and reciting poems. PIMS Resident Director Rajsekhar welcomed the people supporting the good cause, saying, “Drunken driving is a major reason of road accidents. PIMS fully supports this RS 10 project of WHO and will provide all the required help.” Dr Payel Gupta also motivated the crowd against the menace and EMO Dr Rajinder Kumar said that drunken driving is the cause of 3,500 deaths on an average in Punjab. He added, “Every third case of road accident coming to PIMS is due to drunken driving.” On the occasion, nursing students and staff motivated the crowd by conveying the message through skits and poems.
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National Sports fest for Women from Dec 17
Jalandhar, December 12 Pargat Singh, Director, Sports, Punjab, said teams from all states and union territories would participate in hockey, lawn tennis and handball events. Hockey matches would be held at Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium, tennis matches at Lawn Tennis Centre at Burlton Park and handball matches would be held at Government Polytechnic College, Ladowali Road. |
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Admn round-up: Change of guard shakes up many
Jalandhar, December 12 It was perhaps in the run-upto-the elections that several other top officials got transferred. Additional Deputy Commissioners GS Khaira and Sarojini Gautam Sharda got shifted out. Praneet Bhardwaj has resumed the charge of both the ADCs (general and development). SDM-II charge earlier held by Anupam Kler passed onto the hands of her sister-in-law Babita Kler who too got transferred to Ludhiana. Rajiv Prashar had assumed duties about three months back. IAS officer from Jammu Sumit Kumar took over as SDM Nakodar. After the transfer of Babita Kler, who also held the charge of DTO, additional DTO Kehar Singh has been handling the command. One of the major achievements of the administration has been regarding digitization of land records. The revenue department has been able to computerize 90 per cent of land record of Jalandhar, except the city area. The computerized record for as many as 670 villages falling in Pholariwal and Patara divisions is already available through Fard Kendras. The scheme monitoring system implemented by the DC regarding updation of pictures and status of various schemes on the web has also tightened the noose around BDPOs and other officials in far-flung areas. Still the performance graph of the administration perhaps has not gone too high. The administration has come up with the Right to Service Act but most departments have not implemented it in the right spirit. Frequent strikes and dharnas by the staff has come as a great dampener in the working of various offices.
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Road to Pakistan, a drug route?
Amritsar, December 12 As per statement issued by Amritsar (rural) police, the accused Baldev Singh Deba was a truck driver who acted as a conduit to smuggle fake currency and heroin from Pakistan. This statement has raised a question mark over the scanning procedure on the India-Pakistan border. SSP (Rural) Gurmeet Singh Chauhan said after interrogation it has been established that he used to conceal the forbidden consignment in his truck. He was a part of an organised criminal gang on the other side of the border," he said. The customs wing issues a unique identification card to each trucker before authorising then to transport goods through the border. This identification card is only issued after a 'thorough' verification to be done by the police department. It is yet to find out whether Deba was involved with the criminals before obtaining this identity card or he had got involved with them after becoming a truck driver. A senior customs official, on the condition of anonymity said apart from the customs team, the Amritsar rural police cannot evade the responsibility for such a lapse, if there was any.
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Farmer unions meet
Jalandhar December 12 State president of Kul Hind Kisan Mazdur Sabha thanked the supporters who stood by them on the road 24x7 for consecutive six days. He also thanked Punjab students unions and Naujwan Bharat Sabha, who stood by them during a crisis time. He said despite hard efforts by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in creating hindrances in the way of protesting organisations by installing barricades of police at different places, unions members didn’t give up and finally their struggle yielded results. |
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Vet inspectors to go on protest
Jalandhar, December 12 He alleged the Chief Minister backtracked from his promise and instead of implementing their demands, he planned a conspiracy and arrested their 132 veterinary inspectors on December 3 during protest at CM’s village Badal.— TNS |
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Recruitment rally at Ramgarh cantt from Dec 21
Jalandhar, December 12 In a press release issued here today, the defence spokesperson said Sikh candidates except Mazbi, Ramdasia, Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes from any state/UT could appear for the Soldier General Duty category. |
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Football players honoured
Jalandhar, December 12 On this occasion, Ramgarhia Educational Council, Ramgarhia College of Education and Mela Singh Bhogal Memorial Trust awarded Rs 41,000 to students. Science fair
The Post Graduate Department of Physics of KMV in collaboration with Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, organised a week-long ‘INSPIRE’, a 5-day residential camp from December 5 to promote scientific temperament in school students from all over India. As many as 210 students from 24 schools of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh participated in this camp during which various events and competitions based on science were held. Renowned scholars, scientists and professors from different universities were also present during the camp. |
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Jalandhar, December 12
Jalandhar, December 12
