NEIGHBOURHOOD

Dera Bassi without bus stand, residents’ pleas go unheard
Parmod Mehta

Students take shelter under a tea stall in Dera Bassi

Banur, June 8
Though Banur was developed as an educational hub and it caused development and increase in population but the absence of a bus stand here harass the commuters. People are bound to stand in the open in summer and winter seasons. There is no arrangement of sitting and that of drinking water arrangement where the commuters board buses for Rajpura, Patiala, Chandigarh and for other cities of Punjab and Haryana.

Lack of bus stand facility has been causing accidents because commuters were bound to stand near the main highway and wait for the buses. Bhulla Singh of Buta Singh Wala village serves drinking water here at free every summer season. He told that he has been serving drinking water to commuters for past 30 years and the government had not made any arrangements of sitting and drinking water here.

He informed that some long route buses do not stop here due to which commuters face problems.

Some students of different educational institutions and people of different villages told that in the absence of bus stand commuters stand in the open sky in this summer season and face heat. They said that commuters’ rush was increasing day by day due to the set up of educational institutions and industrial units but the government had not taken any step to construct bus stand according to the need of people.

Meanwhile, the SDM Lakhmeer Singh said that there was no proposal to construct bus stand at Banur yet. Residents of Banur and that of other adjoining villages have demanded the construction of bus stand and facility of sitting and drinking water as soon as possible for the facility of commuters.

Executive officer of Municipal Committee, Banur, Baljit Singh Sandhu, could not be contacted for comment despite repeated efforts.

Patiala, June 8
With former Youth Akali Dal vice-president Satbir Singh Khatra’s comeback into the SAD, the prospects of the SAD-BJP candidates in as many as 20 municipal wards seems to have brightened. Khatra’s induction is important mainly because of the fact that there are 20 municipal wards in the Patiala Rural assembly segment and Khatra had contested the assembly election from this constituency as an Independent, pocketing 20530 votes out of the total 1,27,930 votes polled.

Majority of the Akali leaders are of the opinion that in wake of the good enough number of votes polled to Khatra, his return to the party fold is bound to strengthen the party and will help the SAD-BJP candidates secure more votes in the civic polls.

Notably, Khatra, who was vice-president of the Youth Akali Dal, had left the party after he was denied assembly ticket from Patiala Rural. He contested the election as independent and remained at third place. But what was significant was that he managed to get 16.05 per cent votes.

In the meanwhile, Khatra, along with his hundreds of supporters, today, campaigned aggressively in Patiala. Addressing the various elections gathering Khatra said that vote in favour of the SAD-BJP combine would ensure that the royal city of Patiala is put on the path of the fast track development for the next five years.

“Discard the Congress candidates, who comes out of their palatial houses only during the election time,” he said, while launching scathing attacks on the Congress.

Meanwhile, Congress candidate from ward number 24 Inderjit Kaur Nippy, has sent a complaint to the returning officer GS Chahal (SDM, Patiala) that her rival SAD-BJP nominee, Harsimrat Kaur Chhanga, has hired a tri-cycle rickshaws and is announcing through public address system that Congress nominee has withdrawn from the election in her favour.

“The announcement schedule was chalked out so cleverly that it could not be counteracted, as it was made just before the close of campaign today. Inderjit has sought an indepth enquiry into the matter and action against Harsimrat for violating the code of conduct,” the complaint reads.

Ambala, June 8
The detective staff of the Ambala police has recovered two and half kg of opium from two youths near bus stand at Ambala Cantonment last late evening.

According to information, the incharge of the detective staff received secret information that two youths hailing from Rajsthan and Madhya Pradesh were carrying large quantity of narcotic drug.

The officials of the detective staff nabbed the two youths going toward bus stand. Around two and half kg of opium was recovered from their possession after their searching their luggage.

The police has registered a case under Prevention of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) against them.

One of the accused, Mangi, belongs to Gurguria Kalan (Rajshtan) while the other Chaman is the resident of Baksur (Madhya Pradesh).

During interrogation they disclosed that they used to smuggle opium and other narcotic drug to Punjab and various areas of Haryana.

Fatehgarh Sahib, June 8
All the distributaries, drains, minors, Sirhind choe, Patiala Ki Rao, Rajpura minor and other drains passing through the district are being desilted at the cost of Rs.84 lakh and the work would be completed by the irrigation department before the coming rainy season, said Prof. Prem Singh Chandumajra, gen. secy. SAD (B)-cum-incharge, Fatehgarh Sahib Constituency, while inaugurating the desilting process at Patiala Ki Rao at Bhaini Patarsi village in the district.

He said that after a long gap the desilting of these minors and drains is being under taken. He said that earlier, he had desilted minors and choes in Munak, Lehragaga area to save the produce of the farmers from rains now the development works would be initiated in Fatehgarh Sahib on the same pattern.

Addressing the irrigation officials, he urged them to complete the work before rainy season as due to blockade of these drains, the produce of farmers worth crores of rupees is destroyed. He said that under the MANREGA scheme Rs 10 lakh would be spent on these projects, which will also help in providing employment to poor people.

He said that besides this the construction of 33 KM of minor from Rajpura drain has been sanctioned and the project would cost Rs.11 Crore and the work will start after rainy season.

BPS Brar, Executive Engineer, Gurpal Singh SDO and Simranjit Singh Chandumajra also addressed.

Banur, June 8
Three persons including two children were injured in a road accident near Banur on Friday evening. The injured were admitted to the GMCH-32, Chandigarh.

They were identified as Gurpreet Singh (19), Parveen Kumar (12) and Gurpreet Singh (11), all residents of Banur.

As per information, the accident occurred when a car hit a motorcycle on which the victims were riding. The car driver fled from the spot after the accident. The police has booked car driver under Sections 279 and 338 of the IPC.

Mohali, June 8
A woman under going treatment at the local Civil Hospital alleged here today that she was beaten up by her husband and members of his family for she had failed to fulfill their financial demands.

Amandeep Kaur, who had married in January this year, told mediapersons that her husband, Parvinder Singh, had allegedly taken her away from her parents’ house in Mundi Kharar on June 3. After driving aimlessly for sometime, he allegedly took her to Bariyali rivulet where his family members were waiting. She was allegedly beaten up and injured by them and left in the darkness to fend for herself. She then informed her parents who admitted her in the Civil Hospital.

Darshan Singh, father of Amandeep, told The Tribune that he had spent about Rs 30 lakh on the marriage of his daughter. Soon after the marriage, her in-laws allegedly started harassing her. She was allegedly asked to bring Rs 30 lakh to compensate the loss they had faced in the process of sending their daughter abroad. Her in-laws had allegedly given Rs 22.50 lakh to someone for sending their daughter abroad but their plan backfired during the verification process.

He further alleged that his daughter was sent back home in May and on June 3. But his son-in-law came to his house on the pretext of apologising and took his daughter with him.

He said the police had registered a case for only beating up and issuing threats and not under the provisions of the Dowry Act.

Bhupinder Singh, father-in-law of Amandeep, however, denied the charges levelled against his family. He said that his daughter-in-law was neither beaten up nor any demand for dowry was ever made. He said that his family was being framed in the case. Details of telephone calls could be traced to know the whereabouts of his family members on that day. He demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter. — OC

Panchkula, June 8
The host team of Haryana defeated Andhra Pradesh by 9 wickets during the ongoing 16th All India Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda Day and Night Cricket (U-15) Championship held at Tau Deevi Lal Stadium, Sector 3, here today.

The wining team, after elected to bat first, posted a total of 224 runs after loosing two wickets in 25 overs. Sagar Kalyan scored an unbeaten knock of 134 runs. He was equally supported by his teammate Saurav Aggarwal (96).

Chasing the target, the Andhra Pradesh team was bundled out on a mere total of 38 runs. For Haryana, Aman Kumar was the pick of the bowlers after taking 6 for 10 while Mohit Singla and Himanshu Sharma claimed two wickets each.

In the second match, the team of Bangladesh defeated Maharashtra by 9 wickets. Batting first, Maharashtra team was bundled on a mere total of 67 runs with Yogesh (24) contributing the most runs. The Bangladesh team achieved the target in 10 overs.

In another match, the team from Himachal Pradesh defeated Jharkhand by 41 runs. Nipun Bhargava scored an unbeaten 60 runs with Rajat contributing a half century. In reply, the Jharkhand team managed to score 129 runs with Mohit Kumar contributing the most runs.

In yet another match, the team of CFI-11 defeated Hyderabad by 10 wickets.

Hyderabad: 105 all out in 24.5 overs (Shiva Sahi 32, Soha Men 15, Jai Sachdeva 4 for 14, Rahul Soni 4 for 13); CFI- 11- 106 for no loss in 18.2 overs (Nishant 42 not out, Jai Sachdeva 34 not out). 

Chandigarh, June 8
The cricket team of Fatehgarh Sahib scored a total of 245 runs against Hoshiarpur on the first day of ongoing Punjab Inter-District Cricket Championship for boys (U-22) today.

The bowling attack of the Hoshiarpur team was studded by Karan Saini’s brilliant performance. He completed his hat-trick and took six wickets for 49 runs. For the batting side, Karan Aggarwal played an 80-run (including 14 boundaries) innings to help his team in achieving the total.

Earlier, the openers of Fatehgarh Sahib made a fine start after scoring 56 runs for the first wicket before Daksh Aggarwal gifted his wicket on his individual’s best of 31 runs. Satpreet also contributed lion’s share and added 53 runs (studded with eight boundaries) to the team’s total.

Chandigarh, June 8
The UT sports department will organise the High Altitude Summer Coaching Camp at Shillaroo (Shimla), for all state run academies from June 11 to 25.

The summer coaching camp will be organised at Sports Authority of India (SAI), RG HATC -Shillaroo, Shimla. More than 122 boys and girls from Chandigarh-based academies will be included in the camp.

A total of 13 coaches, including four Athletic coaches, will also accompany the players. The department will made all the arrangements of boarding and lodging. — TNS