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4 cops suspended for Negligence
Punjab Police in the line of fire; users open hate pages on Facebook
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Parking charges: Blank rate board gives contractor a ‘free’ hand
The rate list at the parking lot outside the tehsil complex in Jalandhar does not mention charges. Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Gracious touch
Powerlifters left in
lurch
School skating coach crushed to death
Ravi Kumar shows the broken shutter of his jewellery shop in Jalandhar on Friday. Tribune photo: Sarabjit Singh
38 DAV students get placements
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4 cops suspended for Negligence
Jalandhar, February 3 Sources said the team barged into the houses of Kuldeep Singh and Sukhwinder Kaur and started the search for the contrabands. Importantly, the team had not informed the area police and the sarpanch before conducting the raids. Interestingly, the police team found nothing illegal in both the houses thus leaving the villagers fuming. The villagers lodged a protest and even stopped the vehicle of the raiding police party. The villagers alleged that the policemen even misbehaved with them. The police party was chased out of the area after they failed to explain why the local police or sarpanch was not involved in the search operation. Meanwhile, the villagers apprised Addition Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), HPS Khakh about the entire episode. Khakh said the Assistant Sub-Inspector and three head constables of the CIA staff have been placed under suspension with an immediate effect. “The party did not follow the procedure while conducting the raids,” he added.
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Punjab Police in the line of fire; users open hate pages on Facebook
Jalandhar, February 3 "So, the next time you spot a cop getting away with a bribe of Rs 100, do dare to click a picture and share it with us on Facebook pages. Let us bring forth the true face of policemen working in the name of law and order," said Facebook pages. Further scoffing at the functioning of policemen, Facebook users have also uploaded pictures of tipsy personnel. The users have also posted funny comments on the physical fitness of the policemen. These pictures show overweight cops sitting and brooding while on duty. There are scores of other pictures signifying law enforcers as law breakers. One such picture shows policemen riding triple on a motorbike. Similarly, another picture shows policemen riding a bike without any registration number and using a logo of 'play boy' on the number plate. There are pictures showing policemen sleeping and fuddling on duty. Another comment said, "According to Indian law, no male officer can arrest or take female into custody. But in actual Punjab police believes in making its own rules." One of the Facebook users, requesting anonymity, asked, "Why do the policemen break rules if they are law enforcers? Once I saw a policeman lying drunk on the road."
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Parking charges: Blank rate board gives contractor a ‘free’ hand
Jalandhar, February 3
However, the rates also are negotiable to some extent. If you insist on paying Rs 15 for car, the men on duty may at times agree to that as well. Asked about the hanky-panky, Raj, an employee with the contractor, said, “Those who park once a day are charged Rs 15, those visiting more than once have to pay Rs 20.” As most people argue on the variable charges, they do not have any proof of the rate fixed by the office for parking purposes for there are no rates mentioned on the two boards put up alongside the road. Further, while the contract for the purpose is given by the DC office, the rate boards outside the complex mention that it is an MC-approved parking lot, further confusing the visitors. Contractor speak We are running into huge losses. We took the contract in an open auction in the DC office in April last year for over Rs 20 lakh a year. Our biggest problem is that the employees (many of whom include policemen), advocates, politicians or any politically connected persons do not pay a penny. Then they park the vehicle in such a way that they block space for at least three cars. We have had to deploy 8-10 persons a day for the purpose. It really is a difficult job collecting the amount and dealing with all sorts of people the day through. — Ajit Singh
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Exposing young to Odissi treat
Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 3 It introduced students to a culture from another part of the country and the little briefings she gave on the microphone, kept them informed about her dance presentations and their origin and/or significance. Dressed in mild peach, with the intricate Odissi head wear decorating her head, Mahali began with a little introduction about the origin of the dance form itself. Traditionally performed by Maharis (a woman from the Mahir jagat, heavenly world, as the legend goes), Odissi was initially meant to perform for the Gods at the Jagannath Temple. Dancing for their deity Jagannath, these women spent their entire lives at the temple. Little boys, called Gotipus, dressed as Radha and Krishna, usually accompanied these women during the dance. Beginning with Manglacharan - a prayer dance to the holy deity - with an offering of flowers and then performed Bhoomi pranam and Trikhandi pranam. Her second performance was Dashavatar, which signifies the Hindu deity Vishnu’s coming to the earth in 10 avatars to destroy evil from the earth - Mashchavatar, Meenavatar, Kachap Avatar, Sukar Avatar, Narasimha Avatar, Baaman (dwarf) Avatar, Bhrugapati Avatar, Ram Avatar, Balaram Avatar, Buddha Avatar and Kalki Avatar. Performed on the verses of Geet Govind penned by the 12th century poet Jaidev, the performance saw the performance taking varied hues and expressions as Mahali portrayed Vishnu’s various Avatars. Her first presentation - Mangalacharan and the pranams were steeped in grace and poetry. As she transformed from one avatar to another, her face depicted various shades of the different moods, ranging from anger to strength and humility. Excerpts from an interview with Geeta Mahali: What made you chose Odissi of all dances? Geeta Mahali: I was born and brought up in Orissa so I was attracted to Odissi since childhood. The dance form was my first love and never even thought of taking up any other dance form. My Gurus Guru Deb Prasad Das and Guru Mayadhar Rao taught it to me and from early on, I never perceived it as a challenge. Odissi’s origin is very spiritual, did you ever have a spiritual experience while practicing and performing it? When I was small, I never perceived it as a spiritual experience. But as I grew up, learned more about it and got acquainted to its spiritual connotations, I began perceiving it as a more and more religious experience, especially when I performed it deeply, from the core of my heart. Do you think today’s generation perceives and celebrates dance in the way your generation did? These days, students pick up dances because they are pushed into learning dance by their parents. While very few are genuinely interested, 70 per cent students just learn the dance and understand the emotional and loftier aspect of it as they grow up. Though I have come across students who have followed me from one venue to another just to see a different aspect of my recital, such keen lovers of dance make me happy. Do you worry about the state of Odissi or decreasing popularity of classical dances compared to other modern dances? No. In fact I have recently been seeing that many people are switching over to Odissi from other dance forms. It is very popular and a plethora of people take interest in it. Rather it was less popular earlier. Now it has a number of takers. What is so special about it that people switch over to it from other dances? It is a beautiful dance form and is poetic. What are your future plans? I am currently working on a production called Antim Prashna which will be showcased soon.
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Powerlifters left in
lurch
Jalandhar, February 3 Three power lifters, who have won medals for their performances in international sporting events, have been left in the lurch even as the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Awards policy promises special cash prizes to gold, silver and bronze medal winning sportspersons in special sporting events. Rajinder Singh Rahelu (has won eight medals - three gold, two bronze and three silver medals - in various international games and tourneys, including Paralympics and is also an Arjuna Awardee); Parminder Singh (won a bronze at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Games held at Bengaluru in 2009) and Rajdeep Kaur (won a silver medal in the junior category at the IWAS Games at Bengaluru in 2009 and another silver in the junior category at the Asian para-Powerlifting Cup also in 2009) have not received their promised award money promised by the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award policy even as they have repeatedly written to and talked to sports officials in the government about it. There is one lacunae though, despite the fact that power lifting is one of the oldest sports in the Paralympics (the sport was introduced at the Tokyo Paralympics on 2004 and was then called weightlifting, a name later changed to power lifting), it does not feature on the Punjab government’s list of sports essential for a person to qualify for the given cash award. Thanks to the government’s whimsical policies, the three sportspersons who have been acclaimed internationally for their sporting abilities, do not qualify for the award even though they are among the best power lifters in the world (Rahelu was also awarded a medal and a cash prize of Rs 12 lakh from the central government for his sporting genius in Paralympics in August 2010). Speaking on the issue, Rajinder Singh Rahelu, who is also a power lifting coach at Gowahar, said, “It is surprising that some differently abled sportspersons in power lifting had won cash prizes for medals in 1994. So we wonder what went wrong that the sport had to be taken off the list formulated in 2007.” “Mahavir Singh, a sportsperson, who won a bronze medal in the IWAS Games for athletics (in the regular category), also won a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh. We have the same certificate from the same games. Only the category is different. So we don’t understand why we are being left out.” Paraminder Singh, currently employed at PAP Jalandhar, says, “We have talked to the then Director Sports many times. We have also sent lists to the director and other sports personnel regarding the games which are part of the international Paralympics sports (and thus should be featured on the Punjab list too), but nothing has been done about the matter so far.” |
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School skating coach crushed to death
Jalandhar, February 3 Originally hailing from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, the deceased, identified as Ashok Kumar, was presently residing at Ambika Colony in Santokhpura. The victim was waiting for the school bus at the chowk bus stand. After the bus arrived, the victim tried to cross the road and was hit by the speeding vehicle. The victim was taken to a private hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The victim had reportedly sustained severe injuries on the head. The vehicle driver sped away after the accident. The police has booked the driver in a case of negligent driving.
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Another burglary rocks city
Jalandhar, February 3 The thieves first locked the doors of the houses (located near the shop) from outside so that the residents couldn’t come out and identify or nab them. They then broke open the shutters of the jewellery shop and decamped with ornaments and cash worth lakhs of rupees. Ravi Kumar, owner of Fancy Jewelers, said he came to know about the incident when he came to open the shop in the morning. Interestingly, the thieves took away the heavy safe which contained the ornaments and the cash. Ravi said the burglars might have been unsuccessful in breaking the locks of the safe which is why they took away the safe itself. The safe had 12 kg silver, 300 gm gold, Rs 3 lakh cash and some artificial jewellery. Residents said when they woke up in the morning, they found their main doors locked from outside. The police has started investigations. It is to mention here that five burglaries have been committed in as many days in the city.
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38 DAV students get placements
Jalandhar, February 3 Official speak Online competition An online competition was organised at Kanya Maha Vidyalaya in collaboration with Knowledge Icon in which as many as 135 students took part. The test was designed to check the IQ, reasoning and other skills of the students. It was open for all faculties, graduate and postgraduate classes.
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With parking charges nowhere mentioned on the rate board in and around the tehsil complex, it is left to the whims and fancies of the contractor to levy any amount from the hundreds of daily visitors
here. Owing to lack of adequate parking space inside the complex, almost half of the visitors are made to park outside the side gate alongside the road.
