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TRASH TROUBLE PILES UP
Chandigarh, May 5 She said her neighbours were also disposing of the garbage in the bin of the locality, which is full as for the past four days no employee had turned up to lift it. This is not the story of Sector 44 residents only, but the problem is being faced by the public in the entire city, as for the past two days not even a single garbage bin has been lifted from any area for processing in garbage processing plant at Dadumajra. The door-to-door collection employees have blocked the entry gate of the plant and are not allowing any garbage vehicle to enter it. Helpless sanitary inspectors and area councillor have no option but to give fake assurances to the residents that soon the garbage bins will be lifted by the vehicles. During a visit to the plant, it was found that more than 40 vehicles that had lifted the garbage yesterday were parked near the dumping ground as the employees of door-to-door garbage collection association, who were protesting near the plant, were not allowing their entry into the plant. However, even today no fruitful results emerged from the meeting between the employees association and the MC officials on the issue of the protest. The employees’ association is protesting against the implementation of the contract system for hiring staff for garbage collection in Sector 22. Representative of the Dadumajra garbage plant RD Sharma said for the whole day today, the plant remained shut as no garbage was received from the city. He expressed surprise at the attitude of the authorities for not taking any stern action to resolve the agitation. In fact, the plant management has been asked to wait for another two days to resolve the protest by the garbage collection employees.
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Police steps up drive to remove black films
Chandigarh, May 5 The motor markets in sectors 28, 38, 48 and Manimajra witnessed a huge rush of vehicle owners who had come to get the films removed from their vehicles. Interestingly, the cost of removing the film has also gone up, as vehicle owners were charged between
Rs 300 to Rs 500 for removing these. Ranjodh Singh, a PU student, said he had paid Rs 400 for getting the glasses of his vehicle filmed around a month ago and it was surprising when he had to pay the same amount for getting the black film removed. The development has also led to loss of business for the shopkeepers. One of the shopkeepers at the Sector 28 market said earlier, on an average, they used to paste black films on 10 vehicles everyday. However, for the past few days, not even a single vehicle owner had visited them. Following the apex court orders prohibiting the use of black films on windows of the vehicles, the traffic police had issued over 500 challans in just two days. Police officials stated that the traffic cops deployed across the city had been asked to strictly check the vehicles with black films and remove these at the spot. Police officers said the black film challaning drive would also continue during late hours along with the nakas laid to check drunken driving.
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stalemate on
Chandigarh, May 5 All resident doctors, wearing black badges, will go on work without having meal on Monday, as no action had been taken against Sethi by the PGI administration, said Sandeep Patel, president of the Association of Resident Doctors. The resident doctors are up in arms since Thursday when Dr Ajay Misra, a senior resident from the Department of Anaesthesia, alleged that Sethi refused to listen to him when he asked him to shift a patient at the ICU at Advanced Cardiac Centre. “He locked me in the bathroom and tried to attack me physically,” alleged Mishra in his complaint to the authorities. The PGI authorities have formed a committee to investigate the matter and its report is to be submitted on Monday. This morning a meeting was held with the
committee formed to look into the matter. In the evening, the ARD office-bearers met PGI Director YK Chawla, who assured them a proper inquiry into the incident and appropriate action by Monday evening, said Patel. In case no action is taken against Sethi by Monday, the ARD members will hold a general body meeting to chalk out further agitation, he added.
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Two cars set on fire
Panchkula, May 5 They also informed the police and a team led by Sector 7 police post in charge Kashmira Singh reached the spot. Modi informed the police that someone broke the windowpanes of vehicles and set them on fire after sprinkling petrol. He alleged that someone was trying to harm him, besides damaging his property. The police has registered an FIR after inspecting the area and started investigations in the case.
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City u-15 lads win coveted football cup
Chandigarh, May 5 Defender Nishu Kumar, who caught the eye of national selectors (junior) in the recently held 35th Mir Iqbal football Trophy, bagged the Best Player Award of the tournament, while the team’s half-line, including Arjit and Danile, also felt their presence against the rivals. Ace right-in, Samuel remains the team’s key player after scoring most of the goals. “The boys have played well and earned praise all over the nation. They have defeated strong rivals, including the host team and teams from Far East. I am very glad to have the best batch-ever of the CFA. These players have displayed their potential and hopefully will prove their mettle again at international level,” said elated coach Harjinder Singh. “ I hope that the team will perform well in the competition. But the local administration really needs to re-start the international exposure of the players. These exposures will help the team to perform in international grounds and conditions,” he remarked. Earlier, the local lads defeated all their rivals in the league stage and notably only conceded one goal in the whole tournament, while scoring a total of nine goals in the competition. In their first match, the team defeated Odisha 2-0, Meghalya 2-0 and Tripura 2-1. After clearing the league stage, the team defeated Manipur 2-0 and later in the final, the team overcame the host team of Jharkhand 1-0 in a highly pitched match. “It’s like the biggest achievement of my life.
The tournament was the real booster and I am happy after bagging the player of the tournament title for the first time, but happier that our team has won the tournament. My efforts paid off well for me and for my team. I hope we will continue to play well and win the Asia zone of the competition in Indonesia to qualify for the world zone of the tourney,” said Nishu. According to information, a total of 9000 teams from across the world were participating in the tourney. The teams after clearing three stages will qualify for the world cup stage.
Talent hunt
Manchester United Premier Cup is the tournament organised to find the real talent in the junior category of Boys (u-15) category. After three stages, including local round, regional round and respective continent cup, a team qualifies for the main edition of the tourney.
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UT, Punjab hold talks on development
Chandigarh, May 5 The issue came to light following Chandigarh’s move to create new posts of secretaries for AGMUT. Punjab has already raised the issue with the Centre. In the meeting held at Punjab Raj Bhavan, the Speaker of Legislature of Assemblies of Punjab and Haryana, Leaders of Opposition, Chief Secretaries of both the states, other officers of Punjab and Haryana were also present.
Highly-placed sources said on the issue of regional planning board for integrated development of UT and neighbouring areas of Punjab and Haryana, the Chief Ministers were reportedly apprehensive about the legal framework and instead were in favour of an inter-state coordination committee to handle the common issues. Meanwhile, the UT Administration in a press release issued yesterday stated that the points discussed in the meeting were related to metro project, planning for proper development of three cities, transport system used in the Union Territory, Chandigarh, cess to be levied on liquor, utilisation of solar energy in the Union Territory and the two states, construction of office and houses for those working in the government at a higher level in the legislature and Judiciary. A detailed presentation on the proposed plan on metro was given. The Chief Minister of Punjab and Haryana agreed to examine the proposal in detail. Chandigarh has prepared a plan for its development, keeping in view its character and needs to expand. Punjab has developed a plan for the expansion and development of Mohali. Haryana has also prepared a plan for the development of Panchkula. It was suggested that these plans could be considered at the level of the Chief Secretaries of the two states and the UT Adviser. The Chandigarh Administration needed more buses to increase the frequency and time for which it would use them. The two states could ply their buses on the long routes outside the city. Officials of Punjab and Haryana were advised to start a local bus service between Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. Most of the issues discussed at the meeting are already under discussion in the inter-state coordination committee meeting Officials discloses that issues like metro, integrated planning, bus service, strengthening of roads had been discussed and implemented to certain extent. The inter-state coordination committee had been in existence for long.
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De-silting of Sukhna begins
Chandigarh, May 5 Officials of the UT engineering department said a crane had been pressed into the service to remove the silt that would allow more rainwater to flow into the manmade lake. Persistent silting and growth of weeds has lead to considerable degradation of the lake bed, resulting into squeezing of the water body.
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Councillor for need-based changes in CHB houses
Chandigarh, May 5 He has sought similar relaxation for houses under the EWS/LIG categories. In a memorandum submitted to the CHB, Moudgil urged the authorities to withdraw notices served on them and regularise the changes. He added that the government should fix a time limit for doing everything in government offices.
— TNS
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Body donated
Chandigarh, May 5 As per his will, he wanted his body to be donated to the PGI. He wanted his body to become useful for research and to benefit any needy person. He was also a Punjabi writer whose works have been published in many newspapers and Punjabi magazines. A gathering will be held to pay tributes to Rattan Singh tomorrow at his residence, 529, Phase II, Mohali.
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Residents irked over leaking pipeline
Chandigarh, May 5 Kasturi Lal, a resident of the sector, said despite repeated complaints to the MC, no one turned up to repair the leaking pipeline. The leaking pipeline could pose a threat to the foundation of the houses.
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Army Chief visits Western Command
Chandigarh, May 5 The Army Chief was briefed by Lt Gen SR Ghosh, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, on the operational preparedness of the Western Command as well as on other training and administrative matters. The Chief addressed all officers of the command, including corps and division commanders based in the western sector. He also awarded Army Chief’s commendation to four personnel of 103 Engineer Regiment for their exemplary courage and devotion to duty.
— TNS
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Women’s rights workshop
Chandigarh, May 5 The workshop focused on the need for women for better understanding of their property rights under the Succession Act, necessity of a personal bank account, stocks and shares held by the family from savings and financial instruments like mutual funds and fixed deposits, nominating the wife as successor and the importance of insurance plans for protecting the interest of the wife in the event of a mishap. While introducing the speakers AK Dua secretary, Chandigarh Social Welfare Board, said that the women should have economic freedom for which a strategy needs to be devised to empower women by spreading awareness them about their rights. Lalit Joshi, chairperson of the Chandigarh Social Welfare Board while presiding during the inauguration ceremony focused on various laws and acts for the protection of women rights. Dr Ranjay Vardhan, assistant professor, Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, said that the males still dominates the society following which continuous efforts needs to be made to empower women. Vardhan said that women need to be socially, economically and politically empowered. He further urged fairer sex to be aware about their rights and equally participate in the decisions of families. Prema Cariappa, chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India inaugurated the workshop. Other speakers also included Ninnete Vas Sharma, wife of the UT Advisor to the Administrator, Varsha Khangwal, Director Social Welfare department, UT.
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Education dept fails to reply to PIL
Chandigarh, May 5 Advocate Pankaj Chandgothia and his wife had filed the PIL. The court of Gurpratap Singh today gave Last Opportunity to the Education Secretary, DPI (S), DEO, Independent Schools Association and
private un-aided schools, St Johns' School, New Public School and Ankur Nursery, to file their replies both to the main case and the interim application, on or before June 5, when the application
for interim relief will also be heard. Chandgothia had contended that during the pendency of the suit, the education department be directed to issue 21 days show-cause notice for de-recognition and closure, to all the schools in the UT Chandigarh who fail to deposit the Self Declaration Form (FORM I) within the said period. Chandgothia contended that under Rule 15 of the RTE Act, it was
compulsory that every private School shall make a self-declaration within a period of three months of the commencement of the Act, to the DEO regarding its compliance or otherwise with the norms.
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Training programme organised
Mohali May 5 Mahindra and SAE are the organisers to the event A Word in Motion (AWIM). AWIM is an International competition by the name of ‘Jet Toy’ during which national champions from all over the world compete for the most coveted title of being the international champions.
— TNS
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Adding to the residents’ is the fact that the bin in which they are disposing of the garbage has not been lifted by the Municipal Corporation vehicles. Resultantly, heaps of garbage are lying around bins and residents residing nearby that location are living in unhygienic conditions with foul smell emanating from the garbage.