Bathinda, June 10
The results of the All India Engineering Entrance Exam, announced late on Saturday night, brought the smiles back on the faces of many students in Bathinda, who hadn’t done too well in the IIT-JEE exam.

With an all India rank (AIR) of 332, DAV School student Shivali managed to secure the ninth rank in the entire state. Shivali had secured rank 973 in the IIT-JEE. Shivali aspires to take up chemical engineering at IIT Delhi.

Pushapjeet Sodhi, a Saint Fateh Singh School Maur student, grabbed the 29th state rank with an AIR 1019. Army Public School student Prashant Kumar Singh secured rank 128 rank in the state with an AIR 5149.

Daughter of MN Goyal, a senior manager at National Fertilizers Limited, and teacher Anju Goyal, Shivali studied at the St Joseph’s Convent School till class X and passed the metriculation examination with a CGPA 10. She followed it up scoring 92.2 per cent marks in her class XII examinations.

Sounding jubilant over the AIEEE results and giving the credit of her success to her parents and teachers, she said she had studied for the exam with full dedication.

She also maintained that having a clear understanding of the basic concepts played a vital role in her performance. “Being self-confident is of utmost importance. While preparing for an exam, one should give it her/his best shot till the end,” she said.

Pushapjeet, son of Civil Hospital pharmacist Sukhwinder Singh Sodhi and Welfare Department employee Bhupinder Kaur, cleared his class X exams with CGPA 10 and scored 89 per cent marks in class XII.

Interestingly, Pushapjeet had performed better than Shivali in the IIT-JEE by securing the 721st rank.

Son of an ex-serviceman Nand Singh and housewife Rekha Rani, Prashant Kumar Singh had passed his class XII examination with a brilliant score of 93 per cent. Prashant wishes to take up aeronautical engineering at either PEC, Chandigarh or IIT Pune.

Karan Goyal spent a year, after clearing his class XII examination, preparing for AIEEE and says the hard work paid off.

A resident of Rama Mandi, Karan has secured a state rank of 127 and an AIR of 5069.

Over 11 lakh students had taken the AIEEE this year. Sandeep Pathry of Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Mukherjee Nagar, New Delhi topped the examination by securing 346 out of a total of 360 marks. Rajpura resident, Anant Gupta secured AIR 2. He had secured 7th rank in IIT.

Among girls, Mansi Sood of Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, topped with an AIR of 6 and a score of 336 marks.

Bathinda, June 10
The Bathinda Development Authority (BDA) has been accused of violating the Right To Service Act that makes deliverance of services time bound. Dr Rajesh Jindal from Jindal Heart Institute has accused BDA of not passing the plan of his building coming up on Power House road near the residence of the income tax commissioner.

Dr Rajesh Jindal is getting a hospital constructed at the aforesaid site, which BDA had auctioned in November last year and covers an area of 1,150 square meters. “I submitted the building plan with BDA state officer on January 15. On the directions of the chief town planner Punjab the plan was passed and sent back to BDA on April 2,” Dr Jindal said. He added that since April 2, the building plan has not been sanctioned by teh BDA. He added that BDA had not even raised any objections to the plan.

As per Part III Administrative Control of Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (Building) Rules 1996, section 180, a building plan is presumed to be sanctioned within 60 working days if the competent authority does not raise any objection or gives approval to pass it.

“The period of 60 working days lapsed long ago. Against this, the BDA authorities got construction of my building stopped on May 23 without issuing me any prior notice,” he said.

State officer, Navreet Singh Grewal, said since the matter was pending with the XEN, Public Works Division, he could not comment on the issue.

Meanwhile, sources in the BDA said the building plan has become a pain in neck for the officers. “There is a litigation pending against this structure and hence passing the plan at this stage would be contempt of court. Had the plan been passed before the filing of the court case last month, it would have not drawn any ire. But now, with matter under consideration in court, no official would dare take decision,” said the sources.

BDA had auctioned this land for commercial mixed land usage purposes on November 2 last year at the rate of `41,860 per square meter.

Bathinda, June 10
Out of total 47 posts under various categories, 26 have been lying vacant at the Sadar Treasury Office in Bathinda, and other sub-treasuries at Phul and Talwandi Sabo of Bathinda district, adversely affecting the functioning of these treasuries.

In the Sadar Treasury, Bathinda alone, 23 posts (out of total 36), including the post of District Treasury Officer, have been lying vacant nowadays.

In such circumstances, one can easily assess the efficiency of the work in the district treasury as the staff, even after working overtime, face problems in completing the entire work on time. Besides, almost every staff member has been performing duties of more than one seat.

As per information, the post of district treasury officer at Bathinda has been lying vacant for the past some months, due to which the charge of this post has been given to the superintendent of the Sadar treasury. Out of the total 11 posts of senior assistants in the district, nine are lying vacant.

Besides, the lone post of district treasurer is also vacant. There are four posts of assistant treasurer in the district, of them three are vacant now.

Out of 19 posts of clerk, seven are vacant in the district. The lone post of steno is also vacant. Out of eight posts of peon, four have also been lying vacant in the district.

As far as Sadar treasury, Bathinda is concerned, besides the post of district treasury officer, the other posts, that have been lying vacant, are: senior assistant (nine posts), district treasurer (one post), assistant treasurer (two posts), steno typist (one post), clerk (six posts) and peon (three posts).

Likewise at the Phul sub-treasury, one post each of clerk and treasurer are vacant while at Talwandi Sabo sub-treasury, the post of the peon is vacant.

Talking to the Bathinda Tribune, an employee of the treasury said they were so over-burdened that they always remained under mental stress, fearing any type of error or mistake, despite doing work with proper attention. He said each employee had the work of two to three seats or even more.

He said the staff of the district treasury, besides passing bills of various government departments and issuing cheques to them, also operate strong room for issuing stamp papers.

The staff also pass various types of employee-related bills, including TA bills, medical bills, general provident fund advances and the bills of retired employees.

Bathinda, June 10
A fish hatchery will be established soon on the premises of local Civil Hospital for breeding and rearing Gambusia fish, a mosquito larvaecidal. The Gambusia is a little fish that eat mosquito larvae. Thus it helps in solving big mosquito problems during the mosquito season, especially the malaria and the dengue.

Talking to this reporter, district health officer (DHO) Dr Raghubir Singh Randhawa said they had got an estimate prepared from the PWD B&R authorities for the construction of a tank (fish hatchery) on the premises of the Civil Hospital here. He said they had also identified space which is situated near the official residence of the Civil Surgeon.

Fact file The place near the official residence of the Civil Surgeon has been identified for the construction of a tank. On the construction of the tank, an amount of about Rs 87,000 will be spent while some amount will be spent on providing water source for the tank. The measurement of the tank will be 15’x12’.

On the construction of the tank, an amount of about Rs 87,000 will be spent while some amount will be spent on providing water source for the tank. The measurement of the tank will be 15’x12’.

Dr Randhawa said the district health authorities had already sent the plan of the fish hatchery and the estimate to the local municipal corporation authorities for passing the amount to construct the tank.

He expressed the hope the authorities of the corporation would pass the amount during the ensuing meeting of the corporation, so that the construction work could be started soon.

Dr Randhawa also said that after breeding and rearing the Gambusia fish at the fish hatchery, it would be supplied to the sanitary inspectors of the health department so that the same could be released in the village ponds and other such places in the city where the fish would eat the mosquito larvae.

Assistant Unit Officer in the Civil Surgeon’s Office here, Surinder Verma said the Gambusia fish would be released in natural ponds and at other such places where they could not put any type of medicine to kill the mosquito larvae.

He said a small fish could eat over 100 larvae in a day.

Bathinda, June 10
Three persons have been booked by the police for beating up a resident of Tungwali village. In a complaint to the police, Bagga Singh alleged he was beaten up by Resham Singh, Kaur Singh and Jeeti Singh over an old dispute.