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SAD prepares ground beneath BJP’s feet
Sewage woes spill over, literally, at PWSSB meet
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Jatt’s the way: Juliet keeps her date with fans in city
People appealed not to leave treatment midway
First aid training course held
Two booked for stealing mobiles
Computerise ration card data: Sarup
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SAD prepares ground beneath BJP’s feet
Bathinda, June 22 For the BJP's dharna against the Central Government for increasing the price of the fuel, the front side of district administrative complex — the site of the dharna — was sprinkled with water in the morning, literally preparing the ground for the agitation. All the smiling BJP workers promptly courted arrested after raising slogan for an hour and were ferried in the buses of a private institute and taken to the police station. Due to the BJP dharna, the demolition drive at the rear of the Pukhraj Cinema was postponed as the municipal corporation officials did not get the required police force. "We were supposed to knock down the houses of 170 identified families that had encroached upon a major portion of the 100-feet road.
“We had requested for police protection but could not get it as the police was busy with the BJP's dharna. So, the exercise was postponed," said a municipal corporation officer pleading anonymity. Meanwhile, at the dharna spot, the BJP workers raised slogans against the union government amidst tight security. Nearly 12 to 15 buses of a private educational institute were lined up to ferry the Bharatiya Janata Party workers. However, only two to three could be used while taking the BJP workers to different police stations. Sources said the district administration and the police was handed over a list of the workers to be arrested a day before. "This saved the Bharatiya Janata Party workers from the long procedure of the arrest and subsequent bails. Moreover, how difficult it is to stage a dharna in the state where the agitating party has its own government? This is the same police that had confined the Yuva Morcha workers over issue of challan for traffic violation for four hours and stirred a hornet's nest a few days ago," said a Congress worker. Due to the political dharna, the municipal corporation's Senior Deputy Mayor Tarsem Goyal left the meeting held with the district administration over the issue of sewer and drinking water projects going on in the city. Goyal could attend this important meeting only for ten minutes. Meanwhile, state general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party Manjit Singh Rai and the district leaders said the fuel hike was not justified and it was the wrong policies of the Central Government that resulted in the skyrocketing prices of fuel, pinching the pockets of the common man.
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Sewage woes spill over, literally, at PWSSB meet
Bathinda, June 22 The MC PWSSB Satpal Angurwala, chief parliamentary secretary Sarup Chand Singla and Deputy Commissioner KK Yadav presided over the meeting where the ongoing water supply and sewer projects were discussed. Ironically, while the team discussed the sewer projects in the city, the main sewer line on the GT Road, which is clogged for the last few days, started throwing out muck from the storm water pipes. Unable to find the blockade near the bus stand, the sewerage board officials pumped the Power House Road motors to remove the blockade. Instead of cleaning the blockade, pressure from the pump began exerting force on the other manholes and pipes. Within an hour, sewage started flowing out of the manholes in and around the district administrative complex, judicial complex and on the court road near the bus stand. The blockade could not be cleared in a day, so the corporation had decided to clean the sewer tonight. In the Sanjay Nagar area, the corporation has completed the work on the laying of sewer and people have even started using the pipes, despite the fact that no arrangements for the disposal of sewage has been made. "There are some technical glitches in laying the pipe. The sewer department has been told to expedite the process and in the mean time, provide alternative source of disposal to avoid blockade in the newly-laid pipes," said municipal commissioner Uma Shankar Gupta. For the sewer on Thandi Sarak, which the sewer department had declared was damaged, it was decided that the department will submit a detailed project report (DPR) on the laying of parallel pipes to save the area from facing blocked sewer. The wewer on Thandi Sarak has reportedly outlived its life, but the corporation is getting it de-silted from a Delhi-based agency. Keeping this in view, it has been decided that a parallel pipe be laid as an alternative so that even if the archaic pipes get damaged, the alternative can prove helpful. The Sewerage Board has been directed to get all the de-silting work completed before July 10. MC officials have been asked to ensure proper safety measures at places where sewer work is going on to avoid mishaps that have occurred in the recent past. Dedicated manpower has been assigned for the maintenance of existing sewer and new projects. An SDO and a JE each have been designated exclusively for the maintenance of the existing sewers as well as overseeing the existing works. Those present at the meeting included the Senior Deputy Mayor Tarsem Goyal, district advisory committee's advisor Om Prakash Sharma and Rakesh Singla. Later, the team visited the ongoing projects in Sanjay Nagar, Lal Singh Basti and Gurukul Road.
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Jatt’s the way: Juliet keeps her date with fans in city
Bathinda, June 22 And, it seems Neeru Bajwa has taken the title of 'Katrina Kaif of Punjabi films' a little too seriously. And she seems to have learnt the ways of the Bollywood's leading lady too. Well, how else would one explain the way she keeps her fans waiting for long? Thankfully, unlike last time, she brought smiles to the faces of her fans when she arrived at a city mall, albeit two hours behind schedule. And like Katrina Kaif, Neeru too chose to keep her visit short and sweet, rather crisp. She had arrived with her co-star for the film 'Jatt and Juliet', singer-actor Diljeet Dosanjh. At the press meet, the duo spoke about their film "Jatt and Juliet". The film is about how a desi boy and a sophisticated modern girl fight and then finally fall for each other. Sounds like yet another NRI girl-meets-desi boy flick? Well, let's wait and watch. Looking quite fazed as well bored of being asked about the protests against the use of the allegedly 'vulgar' lyrics in his songs, when Diljeet was asked the same question again, all that he chose to say was: "Rabb sab nu changa rakhey".
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People appealed not to leave treatment midway
Bathinda, June 22 The awareness programme was organized under the District Health Society-Revised National TB Control Programme (RNCTP) with the guidance of Dr Ashok Monga, District TB Officer, by the communication facilitator of the State Health Society, RNTCP Punjab, Gagan Goyal. At the workshop, people were informed about the symptoms, precautions and treatment (DOT system) for the disease. Goyal urged the people to get their sputum examined immediately in case anyone discovered the symptoms of TB. The symptoms can be cough for more than two weeks, blood in sputum, loss of appetite, loss of weight and pain in chest. Goyal said the sputum examination is done free of cost in government hospitals. He also appealed to the people not to leave the treatment midway. In case any patient gives up the treatment halfway, then the disease becomes incurable. So, the patient should complete the course of the medicine, ranging from six to eight months, to get rid of the disease forever. Medicine is given free of cost threw under the Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) system in the government hospitals. Pathania asked those present to make others aware the disease. |
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First aid training course held
Bathinda, June 22 About 30 persons from different villages of the district took part in the course and got tips on the basic first aid and injury prevention techniques. Lectures on various first aid topics like Red Cross emblem and its misuse, artificial respiration, CPR techniques, burns and scalds, choking, electrical injuries, epilepsy, snake bites, poisoning, heat stroke etc. were delivered by Naresh Pathania, first aid trainer of the St. John Ambulance. Pathania said a sound principle when assessing an accident situation is to try to stay calm, reassure the injured and give appropriate on-the-spot first aid to the victims immediately so that the precious human lives can be saved. During the training course, a dummy was used to learn about the CPR and other artificial respiration skills. On the completion of the training programme, Dr Ashok Monga, District TB Officer from Civil Hospital, Bathinda, examined the knowledge of participants regarding the first aid. Provisional certificates to each trainee were given away by JR Goyal, He appealed to all the participants to spread the maximum awareness about first aid in the community so that precious human lives can be saved.
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Two booked for stealing mobiles
Bathinda, June 22 Police has registered a case against the accused under sections 457 and 380 of the IPC. No arrests have been made so far. Man hit by canter near ITI chowk, dies A man, identified as Bablu, lost his life when a speeding truck canter, rashly driven by an unidentified driver, hit him. As per the complainant, Dharminder Rai, the accident took place near the ITI Chowk, when he along with the deceased was on way to their respective place of work. A case under sections 279, 337, 427 and 304 of the IPC has been registered against the unidentified driver at the Cantonment police station. Police has made no arrests in the case. Copper, oil stolen from transformer Copper and oil, worth nearly Rs 9,000 was stolen from an electric transformer installed in the agricultural fields of Joga Singh of Puhla village. A case under section 379 of the IPC has been registered against unidentified persons at Nathana police station. Driver booked for stealing vehicle The driver of a Mahindra pick-up van has been booked by the police for stealing the vehicle on the basis of the complaint of the vehicle owner. The complainant alleged that he told the driver to deliver some agricultural implements from Bhucho Mandi to Rampura. He received Rs 30,500 from the shop owner where he delivered the agricultural implements. He returned to Bhucho Mandi from where he took away the cash and the vehicle. A case under section 379 of the IPC has been registered against the accused driver on the complaint of the vehicle owner, Gurdas Singh. Ticket checkers booked for beating PRTC driver Three ticket checkers of Deep Bus have been booked by the police for beating and obstructing a government driver deployed with the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation Corporation from performing his official duty. Harbans Singh, deployed at the PRTC depot, Bathinda, accused the checkers, Malkit Singh, Chaddu Singh and Harjinder Singh, of beating him up at the Talwandi Sabo bus stand. He said the accused attacked him over the issue of bus timings. He added that the accused were upset over carrying more passengers in the PRTC bus, which had a time ahead of their bus. A case under sections 353, 186, 332 and 34 of the IPC has been registered against the accused at the Talwandi Sabo police station. One arrested with 2 kg poppy husk The police has arrested a resident of Balla Patti, Nathana with two kilograms of poppy husk. The accused, Pappu, was arrested while he was carrying the banned contraband near the Jodhpur Romana village. A case under sections 15, 61, 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered at the Kotfatta police station. |
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Computerise ration card data: Sarup
Bathinda, June 22 He directed the department to computerise entire data of ration cards issues to the people in the city and ensure proper distribution of services. He directed that the slum areas should not be bereft of any of the facilities. District food and civil supplies controller Gulbahar Singh said for ensuring distribution city had been divided into eight zones and two inspectors have been appointed for the each zone. Every zone had around six wards and twenty booths. |
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As the district administration today convened a meeting with the Municipal Corporation Bathinda and the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board (PWSSB) officials, the emergency pipes for the storm sewer fixed at the front side of the district administrative complex spewed sewage spreading a foul stench all around.
