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Man shot dead
Videoconferencing fails to click
Bomb-like object found
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Mending spoilt school students a hard task for teachers
Defence road turns into commuters’ nightmare
Riot cases: Police starts re-investigation
Mayor pulls up MC staff for low recovery of arrears
DAVIET students take out ‘Think Green Drive’
Lewd music: Istri Jagriti Manch burns effigies of singers
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Man shot dead
Jalandhar, February 16 Family members of Jagmohan, however, said that the woman, who had illicit relations with deceased, got him killed. The woman, a widow, was residing with her brother-in-law at Nahlan village. Jagmohan was living alone as his wife and two children had moved to Singapore around four years ago, the police said. In his complaint to the police, deceased's brother Puran Singh alleged that he received a call from Jagmohan around 7.30 pm, saying that someone had shot at him at Wadala village. Superintendent of Police (Detective), Gurmit Singh said a case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered on the complaint of Puran Singh at the Lambra police station. The woman has also been arrested, he added. The body was handed over to the family after post-mortem. The police have also recovered an empty shell from the spot. "We are working on various theories and trap has been laid to nab the suspects," the SP added. |
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Videoconferencing fails to click
Jalandhar, February 16 Six MC offices, the Local Bodies Department office in Chandigarh that of Deputy Director (Regional), Ferozepur, had been connected so that they could discuss day-to-day developments, deliberate on policy matters or issue certain directions through video-conferencing. The project was aimed at saving time and money. Ever since the former Principal Secretary, local bodies, Satish Chandra inaugurated the system on November 2 in the office of the Mayor, the plasma TV screen and the entire paraphernalia is lying unused. Prior to this, even the system managers had been called in Chandigarh twice for training purposes. The Commissioner, Chief Engineers and Superintending Engineers are still commuting to Chandigarh for meetings. Unlike the MC, the administration is using the videoconferencing system of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) at the administrative complex. Divisional Commissioner Anurag Verma often communicates with the Deputy Commissioners of the eight districts. Verma has been sending the agenda of the meeting across to the DCs a day or two before on e-mails or fax for them to come prepared on issues. Even the election office, Punjab, held a videoconferencing twice or even thrice a week during prior to Assembly polls with District Election Officer Priyank Bharti, election tehsildar Jagtar Singh and returning officers taking part in it.
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Bomb-like object found
Jalandhar, February 16 Receiving information, top police officials, including Deputy Commissioner of Police Tulsi Ram and ADCP (Crime) HPS Khakh reached the spot and the object was taken into possession. Safai workers who were on job in the locality in the morning noticed a bomb-like object with a clock and informed owners of a house where it was found. Residents of the area informed the PCR following which a police party from the Police station, Division No 6, reached the spot and removed the object. When contacted, ADCP Khakh said it was an object resembling a bomb.
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Mending spoilt school students a hard task for teachers
A little further, one spots indecent graffiti written on another wall which reads: "ILU Sunita meri jaan" and "Sire de badmaash" written in Punjabi. This is how one learns about the indiscipline among students of this only boys school, which at times gives a tough time to their teachers in controlling them. But, nevertheless, teachers too have yardstick of keeping a check on notorious boys as compared to the hi-fi culture of private schools with CCTV cameras, biometric attendance and smart classes. Another sight that one could hardly miss was that of a group of students eating fruit chat outside the school premises during school hours. While teachers were busy taking classes, there were some boys who were basking under the sun on school playground. Some students were seen roaming with their friends in the backyard too. Teachers claim that some boys create a nuisance by indulging in petty quarrels, using abusive language and bunking classes every now and then. As if this was not enough, students also play smart games with teachers. In majority of the cases, mobile numbers of parents provided by students usually turn out to be wrong. "Although we are not like the private schools in terms of facilities, but was follow strict rules to teach them discipline. We also keep a record of the contact numbers of their parents. But, in certain cases, boys furnish wrong numbers," said Amandeep Kaur, a Punjabi teacher. Teachers claimed that they had been maintaining a lecture diary in which attendance of the students was taken after every single lecture. "This helps us in keeping a tab on those boys who try to bunk classes. And if someone indulges in serious indiscipline, we inform their parents immediately," said a teacher. However, as far as respect to teachers is concerned, they maintain: "Owing to a gap between the teacher-taught relation, students somehow fear our mere presence. However, it is always not fear. They are afraid of being humiliated in the class, which helps in maintaining decorum," said principal of the school Sunita Sahota Randhawa. Initially, they used to face a major problem with the bunking habit of senior secondary students as one part of the boundary wall in the school playground had collapsed. "Students used to escape through the broken wall. After all, teachers cannot run after every student," she added. Randhawa also made a mention of corporal punishment, which she said was a major hurdle for them to maintain discipline in the school. "Earlier, teachers used to beat up students for indiscipline, but now students have become fearless. We end up scolding students and contact their parents," she added. The principal also highlighted toward another problem of not having a gatekeeper. "The one we used to have has been busy with election duty for the past six months. And that leaves us with no option but to just keep the gate closed and hope that nobody ventures out," she added. The principal said the strength of the school has increased manifold in the past couple of years. "We have 800-plus students with around 500 of them in the senior secondary classes of arts, science, commerce and vocational subjects," she said.
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Defence road turns into commuters’ nightmare
The Army as well as the civic body authorities have failed maintain the road that starts from the Army check post from Garha locality near the Golf Course to the cemetery near the Phagwari Mohalla. Residents of the area say that two-wheeler riders often skid on the road leading to accidents. The road turns into a cesspool during rains in the absence of a drainage system. Chaman Lal, an elderly resident of Phagwari Mohalla, said: "I fail to recall when this road was re-laid last time. Since the land belongs to the defence authorities, they don't allow the municipal corporation to even put a single stone leave the issue of re-laying of this stretch. Surprisingly," Another resident Ashok Kumar, who owns a shop along the road, said: "The authorities manage to make this road motorable by filling up the potholes with debris, mud and stones. As the volume of traffic on this road is high, even little efforts done by us also yield no results. We are trapped between two authorities - the defence and the municipal corporation." Residents claimed MC councillor Kirpal Pali had also been apprised of the bad condition of the road, but to no avail. "The Army authorities don't care of inconvenience to civilians and the MC is helpless," they said. When contacted, MC councillor Kirpal Pali, stated: "This is defence land and it is the responsibility of the Army to construct this road. However, as far as the road in the Garha locality from Dayanand Chowk is concerned, it will be constructed soon as the municipal corporation has passed a resolution in this regard. We are waiting for the next house meeting for the allocation of the budget." |
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Riot cases: Police starts re-investigation
Jalandhar, February 16 Violence was triggered across Punjab after some armed assailants shot Sant Rama Nand of Dera Sachkhand, Ballan, near here, dead at a gurdwara in Vienna (Austria) in May, 2009. More than 75 cases of rioting were registered across the state and of them 34 were registered in Jalandhar district alone. Since Sant Rama Nand’s dera was in Ballan, Jalandhar, so the worst affected was the district where the furious mob caused extensive destruction to the public property. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) HPS Khakh revealed that out of the 34 cases registered in the district, 14 were with the Jalandhar (City) police, while the rest were being investigated by the Jalandhar (Rural) police. The city police had solved 11 cases, while three cases are still unsolved. “We have started collecting copies of the newspapers and video footage from the TV channels about their coverage of violence and rioting after the Vienna incident in the city so that the unsolved cases could be solved,” claimed Khakh. The case relating to the death of Vijay Kumar, resident of Rama Mandi, in a shooting incident after the Vienna incident, in which a municipal councillor was framed, still remained unsolved with two other cases registered against unidentified miscreants, he added. The Superintendent of Police (SP), Detective, Jalandhar (Rural), Gurmit Singh, however, claimed that out of the 20 cases, four were untraced, one cancelled and challans relating to 15 cases had been submitted in the courts. “Following the court’s directions, we have started re-investigating the four cases and 80 per cent of the job is almost complete in this context,” the SP calimed. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL), filed by Phagwara-based NGO General Samaj Manch in 2010, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Government to explain that how the Supreme Court’s directives in this regards were not complied with. The court has also asked the state government to re-investigate the cases and submit a report in this regard before March 1. |
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Mayor pulls up MC staff for low recovery of arrears
Jalandhar, February 16 Rathour pulled up the staff, including MTPs Tejpreet Singh and Des Raj, and asked them to vie to increase the income of the MC in the form of composition fee, development charges and building application fee. He said, “During election days when we cannot expect any special funds, in-house recovery has to be enhanced so as to manage funds. But the income has been dipping all this while.” He added that the dip was partly due to stay on enhanced water bills and after vacation of the stay he hoped for improved recovery on this front as well. While the daily income of the MC from water bills was around Rs 10 lakh till mid-November, it had of late dipped to as low as Rs 4 lakh. The income through CLUs, too, has been on the decline with just seven cases cleared by the government this year and as many as 66 cases still pending. Even the clearance for handling the cases at the local level has not come to the MC. The MC has a committed monthly expenditure of Rs 9 crore on account of salary.
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DAVIET students take out ‘Think Green Drive’
Jalandhar, February 16 The rally started from the college and went through Workshop Chowk, Dolphin Hotel, Kapurthala Chowk and returned to the college via Gulab Devi Road. As many as 500 students participated in the rally. Media fest
Students of mass communication and video production of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya (HMV) won the first prize in the Communis-2012 media fest held at Doaba College. Manpreet Kaur of PG diploma in journalism and mass communication won the first prize in photography and Amanpreet bagged the first prize in news reading. Exchange programme
Under the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), a team of seven students, along with two teachers from Cornwall and Wolverhampton, UK, visited Police DAV Public School here on February 13 to have a firsthand experience of the Indian culture, traditions and education system. This visit is in reciprocation to the visit of Punjab students to the UK in October, 2011. The group, comprising Steph, Rosa, Rosie, Jenna, Katherine, Sam McGill, Sam Chilton and their teachers Richard and Wendy Lloyd, will remain here till February 18. The team observed school activities and had a lesson in Indian film dance. The team will also visit other schools of Punjab, Golden Temple and Wagha border. Sports meet
Saffron Public School organised its annual sports meet. It was a day full of fun and frolic for the students. The students who won prizes in various events are: Football - Amandeep Singh Mann; tae kwon do - Manu Bhardwaj, Gurjot Kaur and Ramninder Singh; table soccer - Tajwinder Rana, Sukhjinder Singh, Kunik Dhanda and Naresh Kumar. Sports teachers of the school were also honoured. Medical camps
Innocent Hearts School in collaboration with the Bowry Memorial Educational and Medical Trust organised free medical check-up camps at Chitti, Husainpur, Loharan and Rampur. Dr Hardeep and Dr Mohit examined patients and also distributed medicines among them. Annual function
MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar, organised the annual prize distribution function of the junior wing. The programme started with the recitation of school shabad. Children presented action song on the lyrics of poet Bulle Shah. Glimpses of the Maharashtrian culture were presented beautifully through the lavani dance performance. Gidda was also presented by girls. Students were awarded trophies for their excellence in academics, 100 per cent attendance and co-curricular activities. Farewell party
A farewell party for Class XII, “Adieu”, was organised at Apeejay School, Rama Mandi. Students of Class IX, X and XI gave music and dance performances. Siddharth Sehgal was chosen “Mr Apeejay”, Tanya Nagra “Ms Apeejay”, Hitesh Mehta “Mr Handsome” and Disha Rana “Ms Elegant”. Mayor World School organised a “Super Spellathon” today for Classe III to V. The “Super Spellathon” was an inter-house competition, with four participants representing each house. There were eight interesting rounds in all encompassing questions from a wide range of aspects of the language such as spell-check, pronunciation, proverbs, dumb charades, kangaroo words, etc. Shakespeare house bagged the first position with 114 points. |
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Lewd music: Istri Jagriti Manch burns effigies of singers
Jalandhar, February 16 From areas like Shahkot, Mehatpur, Nakodar, Nurmahal, Kartarpur and Jalandhar, among other places, they gheraoed the office of Speed Records squatting down on the road and raised slogans against lewd songs and about upholding Punjabi culture on a huge loudspeaker installed on a rickshaw, with white flags in their hands. Activist Jasvir Jassi said, “We carried out surveys for three years across five districts. It is generally perceived that since the time these sort of songs gained prominence, more lover-couples have begun eloping from villages. Women travelling in a train or bus now stand a greater chance of being teased in a vehicle which play such a song. If you have noticed, crime in which knives are repeatedly used have increased. We believe that it is also due to these sort of songs.” Talking of lewd songs, activist Anita Sandhu said, “Songs which discuss the vital stats of a woman’s body (lakk 28 kuri da) and encourage teenagers to run away (tun 15 saal ton ghat nahi aa ja ni bahana la ke) are driving the youngsters mad. Children these days do not know the real meaning of Punjabi culture and think this is what our culture is all about.” Singer and writer Sukhwinder Singh Ghoman, who has been airing dissent on the issue for the past two years and also released two albums on the issue, said, “While singers are condemnable, a greater onus lies with the audience, which promotes such music. I have seen elderly men dancing in parties on such songs.” While similar protests were carried out in Nawanshahr and Patiala today, protests would also be carried out in Sangrur and Barnala, the activists said. The manch activists had already gheraoed the house of singer Diljit on the issue. They also plan the same with respect to other singers singing lewd songs.
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Jalandhar, February 16
A stretch of the road on the defence land adjacent to Ward No. 32 of the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation in the Jalandhar Cantt-Garha locality is commuters' nightmare.
The road has large potholes and residents claim it has not been re-laid for the past over 30 years. However, official sources say the road was constructed around 10 years ago.
Jalandhar, February 16
Students of the DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (DAVIET) marked the beginning of their national-level tech-fest, “TECHKNACK-2012”, scheduled for February 23 with an eco-rally under the name of “Think Green Drive” today.
Jalandhar, February 16
Jalandhar, February 16
Jalandhar, February 16