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Jalandhar-based bodybuilder
ready to hit silver screen  City-based bodybuilder Varinder Singh Ghumman, the 6 feet 3 inch tall athlete, is ready to hit the silver screen with his debut Punjabi movie 'Kabaddi Once Again'.Bodybuilder Varinder Singh Ghumman strikes a pose with the poster of his upcoming Punjabi movie 'Kabaddi Once Again' in Jalandhar on Monday. Photo: Sarabjit Singh Computer glitches give PowerCom officials nightmares |
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Jalandhar-based bodybuilder
ready to hit silver screen Jalandhar, May 21 Ghumman, who became the first Indian bodybuilder to get a 'Pro Card' by the International Federation of Bodybuilding, said the movie would encourage the youth to take to sports and shun drugs. Ghuman, who completed his MA in English from Khalsa College, said: "My first love is bodybuilding. It comes before movies." Harjinder Singh Dhanoa, promoter of kabaddi and also producer of the film, said the movie was made to take kabaddi to new heights. "We have also approached the state government to make the movie tax-free so it could be shown at the grassroots level." The movie would highlight the drug addiction among kabaddi players, the role of anti-social elements in fixing matches and other loopholes which the game had been facing, Dhanoa added.
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Computer glitches give PowerCom officials nightmares
Ravi Dhaliwal/TNS In an attempt to make optimum use of technology, Powercom officials, early this year, had transformed the entire billing system into an online one and ever since then the PSPCL is facing computer glitches. Nearly 10,000 domestic and small-scale industrial unit consumers in Gurdaspur division have yet to receive their bills for March and April as the software installed in the SBMs has developed some fault and is issuing bills for the past 816 days instead of 60 days. Moreover, consumers have been asked to deposit their bills by May 18, 2014 and if they pay before that date the computer will not accept their payment. The Deputy Chief Engineer, Gurdaspur Circle, Jasbir Singh, admitted to facing this dilemma and said he had already apprised the Chief Managing Director KD Chowdhury about the problem. “Actually, we went online because we wanted to have a paperless system. Every new system comes with its quota of glitches and anomalies, but we are trying our best to put corrective measures in place.” The SBMs have been manufactured by a Banaglore-based firm and the Powercom officials are not in a position to rectify the mistake at their own level. This development has put officials in a piquant situation as cash generated from receipt of bills is the main source of revenue for Powercom. A senior officer disclosed, “It is possible that the consumers may get bills for a four month cycle and they may be forced to pay fine in the form of surcharge on bills for the months of March and April. The consumers are not at fault as it is a computer error but if they are delivered bills for a four month cycle, a majority will be forced to knock the doors of the consumer court.” To add to their woes Powercom has outsourced work of distributing bills to a Hyderabad-based firm. “Earlier, bills used to be distributed after verifying addresses of consumers from a ledger. Now we have to distribute bills on basis of power being supplied from transformers. To compound matters, residents are drawing power in a haphazard manner from transformers following which it is not easy to locate the address of a consumer,” disclosed a bill distributor.
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