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13 child labourers rescued from factory, gift shop 75 panchayats to get Rs 1 crore for improving sex ratio |
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13 child labourers rescued from factory, gift shop Jaalndhar, May 11 Metal utensils were made in the factory from where the children were recovered. Assistant Labour Commission (ALC) Varinder Singh said, “Thirteen children have been rescued today. One child was recovered from Oberoi Gift Shop and 12 from Nanak Metals. The child rescued from the gift shop has been taken home by his grandmother. While those who were rescued from the factory have been taken to the child home at Hoshiarpur. We have challaned the owner of the gift shop while action against the owners of the factory (brothers Harmanpreet Singh and Manmeet Singh) will be taken once the issue is taken to the court on Monday. Deputy Director, Factories, will initiate action against the children from the factory.” Talking to The Tribune, Dinesh Kumar, from BBA, said while they reached the ALC office at 9 am in the morning, the raid started at 1:30 pm in the afternoon due to the absence of the deputy director factories and CDPO, who joined much later in the day. The team rescued a child at a shop (Oberoi Gift Centre) at Nakodar Chowk. After the deputy director factories joined them at about 2:30 pm in the afternoon, the team proceeded to the leather complex factory from where 12 children were rescued. The children - Sagar (11), Raja (18), Jatinder (13), Mithu (12), Dilip (14), Vikas Kumar (14), Sudhir (12), Shekhar (13), Rajeev (13), Mukesh (15), Umakant (10), Sanjay Kumar (15) and Sikander (12) revealed these ages themselves. The NGO was dissatisfied with the work of the doctors. The doctor examined the children by looking at their teeth, nails and moustache. No X-ray was conducted to the ascertain age, they alleged. The children were working from a 9 to 9 shift at the factory for the past six months. They have demanded that action be taken as per the Bonded Labour Act against the
violators. Delay
This raid was supposed to be held on April 4. Another date was fixed on April 16, which was again postponed to April 23 due to the collapse of the Shital Fibres unit. The NGO placed a request to the DC in September 2011. |
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75 panchayats to get Rs 1 crore for improving sex ratio
Jalandhar, May 11 It is expected to improve further to 900 by the end of March 2013. “Each panchayat, which have been working towards the stabilisation of the male-female sex ratio, will be awarded an amount of Rs 1.50 lakh,” he added. Mittal disclosed that the state government had provided assistance of Rs 31 crore to patients suffering from cancer even though the government had set up Rs 20 crore Chief Ministers’ Cancer Relief Fund initially. He said the medical authorities at Civil Hospitals and dispensaries had been directed to prescribe only those medicines to patients that are available in the hospitals and dispensaries. On the issue of submission of their asset details by senior medical officials, he said it would be done by the end of this month. When pried about the issue of government doctors working in private establishments as well, he said he wasn’t aware of any such cases. The minister had earlier openly said anyone could inform him about offending chemists (who sell illegal drugs) on his personal number. When asked whether he has received any such complaints he said he had received 15 such complaints and action had been initiated against the offenders. However, he did not give any further details. Minister mum on issue of HIV+ patients
The health minister usual tendency to evade uneasy questions was pretty much evident during the meeting. Thrust was made on issues such as drugs, lack of medicines at hospitals, provision of technological facilities for patients etc. The minister was clearly at a loss of word, when it came to issues demanding immediate action from the government. When asked what action he was planning on the issue of the alleged discrimination against HIV positive patients at the local Civil Hospital, the minister, instead of taking serious note of the issue, demanded the names of the patients. When pressed, he asked journalists not to ‘bully’ him or ‘thrust’ questions
at him. The SMO of the ART Centre at the local Civil Hospital also alleged that HIV positive people face discrimination in the hospital (a report in this connection was published in The Tribune today). The minister, when told about it, said he would decide after looking at the newspaper report. When the newspaper report was read to him by journalists on the spot, he said, “I do not decide alone. The report will be forwarded to senior health officials and action would be taken accordingly.”
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BSF seizes 3 kg of heroin Tarn Taran, May 11 Each packet weighted 1 kg and the estimated value of the assignment is said to be Rs 15 crore in the international market. RK Sharma, Commandant of the 45th battalion, Amarkot, said that the packets were thrown on the Indian side during midnight. The BSF official said the packets were recovered between post numbers 10 and 11 in Noorwala village in Khemkaran sector.
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1 dies in road accident
Pathankot, May 11 The police said Pawan Kumar (25), a resident of Sailli Kulian locality, was going to his residence on motorcycle when the accident took place. As he reached near Chakki flyover another motorcycle coming from the opposite direction collided with his vehicle. Pawan fell on the road and a truck coming from behind crushed him to death. Another motorcyclist Gurbakash Singh sustained injuries.
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As many as 13 children were rescued from a metal factory and a gift shop by Labour Department today.
Soot-covered children working at the factory, Nanak Metals, were recovered when the Labour Department, along with Deputy Director, Factory, Phagwara, Kashmir Singh (who has additional charge of Jalandhar), members from the health department, education department, ACP (headquarter) S Bhupathi as well as the NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) raided the factory.
