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Water should reach Lehra plant by Apr 27: CM
Farmers ask for redressal of water woes
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Hotels serve a cricket treat, bring IPL on big screen
Eye camp organised
Man, parents booked for demanding dowry
Motorcyclists injured in road accidents
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Water should reach Lehra plant by Apr 27: CM
bathinda, April 22 Confirming this, the authorities at GHTP said the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) high officials have informed that the plant would receive water by April 27 and hence, the power generation would not face closure. The secretary, power department, Government of Punjab, had raised the issue with the principal secretary, irrigation, during a meeting held in Chandigarh on Saturday. As an outcome of the meeting, the irrigation officials at Bathinda were today asked to send a report on the water available with GHTP, Lehra Mohabbat and the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant in Bathinda. “We told the officials that GNDTP Bathinda has the capacity to store water till May 10, while the Lehra Mohabbat plant can store water till April 27 as its water storage tanks are of lesser capacity,” said the XEN (Irrigation), Bathinda, Nirmal Singh Brar. Water consumption at Bathinda plant is less than the Lehra Mohabbat as only two units, of the total four, are working. The thermal plant authorities have already revived an old tubewell that lies within the precincts of Lehra Mohabbat plant, to meet with the daily need for service water (water used for ablutions). There are around 14 to 15 private tubewells lying along the channel that supply water to the thermal plant. The irrigation department officials plan to rope in these tubewell owners for providing water to the thermal plant. It would not be possible to release water in Sirhind canal as some work is going on near Doraha where the canal splits into three parts. However, shooting down the idea of using tubewell water in thermal plant, the engineers said tubewell water was full of salts and was not healthy for the machines used in the plant. “Our machines are designed for de-mineralised canal water and not for salt saturated tubewell water,” they reasoned. Since the work on cleaning the Sirhind bed within Bathinda city area is going on, the irrigation department also plans to drop down water gates at Ballo head works from where water is divulged in the Phool distributary. The irrigation department would take its final decision tomorrow. |
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Farmers ask for redressal of water woes
Bathinda, April 22 Block president of BKU, Ranjeet Singh said farmers were at the receiving end due to the water shortage. “Farmer community in the cotton belt is sitting with its fingers crossed in view of the water crisis. The delay in the release of water would further burden the farmers who will have to shell out extra bucks if it fails to sow cotton in the coming few days or so,” he said. He added that the farmers who fail to sow cotton now would be left with no option but to transplant paddy. He reasoned that while on the one hand, the government had been urging the farmers not to sow water guzzling crops, on the other, it failed to provide any other alternative. “If the government is so concerned about the water crisis, then it should know about the sowing season of crops and initiate steps to provide water to the farmers at the earliest”, said district president of BKU (Ekta-Ugraha), Shingara Singh Mann. He said steps should be initiated to release water in the Kotla branch and in Bathinda-Sirhind branch. He claimed that the agriculture department officials had urged farmers to sow cotton at the earliest to get rid of the extra burden. Mann pointed out that apart from the water crisis, the farmers would have to face power crisis soon. “Many villages, falling under the Talwandi Sabo, Sangat and Bathinda blocks, are already complaining of drinking water shortage and consumption of water was likely to increase in the coming days,” said Jasvir Singh Burjsema. He said it was time to sow cotton and vegetables in the empty agricultural fields. Areas where the underground water was not good for irrigation and unfit for drinking purposes were the worst affected, he added. Farmers demanded that their water problem be immediately redressed by the government or else the situation would turn from bad to worse. |
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Evening drizzle springs a surprise on Sunday
Bathinda, April 22 The region has been witnessing the vagaries of weather for the last few days with partial cloudy conditions, accompanied by dust storms, remaining prominent features in the day, causing considerable fluctuation in temperature too. The met office had attributed weather’s mood swing to western disturbances. The maximum temperature recorded on Sunday was 35.6 degree Celsius, nearly 2.5 degree Celsius higher than yesterday, as per the agri-met department of the PAU regional station, Bathinda. The day’s low was 18.4 degree Celsius, about 2 degree Celsius lower than on Saturday. |
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12 Bathinda boxers chosen for state-level championship
Bathinda, April 22 The Punjab Boxing Association is organising the tourney. The winners would qualify to represent the state in the national-level boxing championship to be held in Patiala in the next month. A selection panel of the Bathinda District Boxing Association, comprising Gurmeet Singh, Bhagwan Das Bhushan, Rajesh Kumar, Sukhjinder Singh and Ganeshwar Kumar, selected the boxers at the selection trial held at the multi-purpose stadium today. Over 45 boxers of Bathinda participated in the trial, Ganeshwar Kumar said. Vijay Prasad and Balwant Singh have been selected in the body weight category of 46-49 kg while Jaideep Kumar and Lakhdeep Singh will fight in the 49-52 weight category. Lokesh Bains and Hemant Kumar would take part in 52-56 weight category while Harjeet Singh and Gurdeep Singh will be playing in 56-60 weight category. In the weight group of 60-64, Amrit Pal Singh and Sagar will represent Bathinda district while Parwinder Singh and Arawat Sharma would be fighting in the 69-75 and 75-81 weight categories, respectively. Along with their boxing coach, Balwinder Singh, the players will go to Jalandhar on April 26. |
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world book day
Bathinda, April 22 However, not withstanding the notion, young bibliophiles in city are busy lapping up page after page in their quest for adventure. Aaryan Bharadwaj, a student of class VI from Delhi Public School, is one of the young avid readers who has embarked upon the journey of reading with adventure literature. Having read around 100 books in the last one year, Aaryan shares his treasure trove with his classmates as well as other friends. “I started with an adventure book and there was no stopping. The school library issues us a book every week, but we finish the book issued to us within a day or so,” he says. Aryan, who is currently reading Sherlock Holmes, then exchanges books with his friends— Partesh Ramana, Anhad Naad, Arpit Bansal, Nandini, Nistha and Pihu. The public library has failed to satiate quench of children and hence, they depend on school libraries or online book stores to shop for their favourite adventure books. Partesh, who first read Geronimo Stilton, picked up the reading habit from his maternal grandfather who gifts him the books of his choice. Passing on the spirit, these children gift books to each other on various occasions such as birthdays. Partesh is now busy reading the all time favorite “The Enchanted Wood” by Enid Blyton. “It is good that the children are into reading. The basic idea is to catch them young. Even the researches have shown that regular readers have more rational thinking prowess than the non-readers,” said Prof Paramjit Singh Raman from Central University of Punjab (CUP). Vatsal, a student of Government Rajindra College, added that the parents should positively contribute towards the inculcating of reading habit among children by providing them with such an atmosphere at home. |
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Wall painters to form district-level units to fight for their cause
Bathinda, April 22 The president of union Amarjit Singh said wall painting was the best and cheapest means of advertising, but the wall painters were most lowly paid professionals as it was an unorganised sector. He said formation of district units of union was the need of the hour to ensure that the painters get their dues and are paid properly. Prominent among those present were Shashipal Shinda, Som Nath, Rajesh Kumar, Kaka Painter, Happy, Gurmeet Singh, Bhag Singh, Balvir Singh beera, Satish Kumar, Ramesh Sony, Ajit Jalalabad, Jassi Kot Fatta, Purshottam Kumar, Ram Chand and others. |
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Hotels serve a cricket treat, bring IPL on big screen
The guests, in addition to feasting their eyes on the matches on these huge screens, can also relish the packages that the hotels offer at the beverages counters to lure more guests. The Booze Bamber Bar at the HBN Coutnry Club has been screening the IPL season 5 matches since April 4, the day it started. “We have installed large screens and project the IPL matches onto them. This gives the guests an experience which is quite close to the one that they may get at a stadium,” says Sumit Grover, business manager at HBN Country Club. Elaborating on the complimentary packages that they offer to their customers, he says, "Apart from the fact that the entry to these special screenings are free, we also offer discounts on certain drinks to the customers while they enjoy the IPL matches. Till now, the response has been quite good. We are hoping for even higher occupancy in the days to come." The Tulips Bar at Hotel Comfort Inn is another place where one can catch an IPL match being telecast live on huge LCD screens. While speaking to TNS, general manager of the hotel, JS Rajawat, said the IPL screenings are getting good response from the guests. “This is a unique concept for the residents of Bathinda. We also offer schemes on beverages to the customers, apart from some small gifts,” he said. "The fact that the guests can enjoy mocktails nd cocktails while watching the matches on big screens makes the experience a distinctive one. Since we've been getting good response, we are also planning to screen other big matches in the future," he added. While a few city bars and pubs are screening the matches, the others said they were waiting and watching before they began with the screening themselves. “This is the first time the cricket matches are being shown on special screens at a few city hotels. If the idea works well, we'll also plan to start screening the matches starting next season,” says a hotel staff member. Big gets even bigger
While the city hotels are slowly waking up to the idea of special screenings of IPL matches, in the year 2010, the company, UFO Moviez, entered into a strategic alliance with the IPL management to screen matches at big screens across theatres in India. The same year, the film theatres across the country geared up to screen the matches and promote them with F&B offers. Some theatres in cities like Delhi and Mumbai even went ahead and hired cheer girls and dholwallahs to perform inside the theatres. |
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Eye camp organised
Bathinda, April 22 Retina specialist Dr Shweta Grover explained that patients develop diabetic macular edema as a result of long-term diabetes. Patients do not come to know early about their disease. Regular check-up of the retina can help in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Various treatment for diabetic retinopathy are available depending on the type of retinopathy and its severity like laser treatment. |
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Man, parents booked for demanding dowry
Bathinda, April 22 Investigating officer in the case, Jagir Singh, said the couple has two children. The complainant in the case said her family members had spent nearly Rs 35 lakhs on her marriage and even then, the groom's family members demanded that she should ask for a share in her ancestral land. The man has also been accused of beating his wife. The woman alleged that her husband beat her up and banged her head
on the refrigerator following which she received injuries. A case in this connection has been registered against her husband Manjinder Singh, his mother Sukhwinder Singh and father Harbans Singh. No arrests have been made by the police so far. |
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Motorcyclists injured in road accidents
Bathinda, April 22 The volunteers said the bike was hit by a jeep. They added the injured has been admitted to the emergency ward of the hospital. Police officials were informed about the accident. They recorded the statements of the victim and the eyewitnesses. In another incident, two motorcyclists received injuries after they collided with each other at the local Fire Brigade Chowk. The injured, Jaspal and Ramesh, were rushed to the hospital and the police was also informed. Despite the launching of a mass traffic awareness drive by the NGOs and the traffic police, road accidents have been occurring in the city with an alarming regularity. The increase in the number of vehicles and careless on the part of the drivers, have added to the
problem. Labourer injured A labourer working at an under-construction site suffered injureies after he fell off from the roof of the house under-construction. The injured labourer, identified as Jaspal Singh, a resident of Maluka village, was rushed to the hospital by volunteers of Sahara Jan Sewa. He was admitted to the emergency ward of the hospital.
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