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e-Governance boon for border villages
Sugar mill GM held in suicide case
Medical stores raided, drugs seized
Two killed in mishap
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e-Governance boon for border villages
Gurdaspur, June 27
The society has set up 255 mini suvidha centres with each one manned by villagers known as the village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs) across the length and breadth of this district where locals can avail more than 400 services. These include preparation of driving licence, birth and death certificate, payment of electricity and mobile bills, phone recharges, police clearance certificates and permission to use load speakers. Besides, educational benefits like having access to computer courses of IGNOU and the AISECT and services like deposit and withdrawal from SBI Bank accounts. The VLE charges a particular amount from users depending upon the service they want to access. Instead of travelling long distances, villagers will now get information related to their work at the click of a mouse at any of these centres which have also earned the sobriquet of common service centres (CSC). Sanjeev Sarpal, state co-ordinator, AISECT, said all 1,674 villages of this district have been interconnected for better facilitation of services and all 255 CSCs have become operational. Each CSC is computerised and has a direct link to Chandigarh-based state wide area network (SWAN) which monitors all the CSCs. “The effective use of IT services in government and administration enhances existing efficiencies and increases transparency in the functioning of departments. It also gives citizens easy access to tangible benefits, be it through simple applications such as online form filling, bill sourcing and payments, or complex applications like distance education and tele-medicine,” said Sarpal. "Almost every state has an IT policy with an aim of evolving itself from being an IT-aware to an IT-enabled government. The Punjab government is fast recognising the benefits of an IT-enabled working environment,” he added. Anurag Gupta, national head of the project, said: “e-governance has brought to the fore five Es in governance - ease, economy, efficiency, effectiveness and ethics. Today, villagers in remote areas of Gurdaspur are accessing government services efficiently, economically and with ease. This system also appears to have introduced some transparency into government administration, instilling a rare sense of confidence among users. Lives for these villagers have clearly changed for better.”
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Sugar mill GM held in suicide case
Gurdaspur, June 27 A mill worker Harjeet Singh, who was also the president of Gurdaspur Sugar Mill Employees Union had committed suicide on Aril 26 in protest against the alleged high-handedness of the GM. In his suicide note Harjeet Singh had blamed Jaffal for creating circumstances which led him to commit suicide. The SSP Ravcharan Singh Brar said, “The police was in possession of the handwriting report and he had been arrested because the police had enough evidence against him.” He said a team constituted under the leadership of SHO Dinanagar Manoj Kumar raided the Majhithia road residence of Jaffal and arrested him. He has been remanded to police custody till tomorrow. A case under Section 306 IPC had been registered at the Dinanagar police station. Two electronic media journalists were also named in the suicide note but both of them got a bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The police has asked the reporters to help the police to investigate the case. The case had created a controversy when the relatives of Harjeet Singh and some powerful union leaders, including Gurmeet Singh Bakhatpura, state president of the Indian Federation for Trade Unions (IFTU), blocked traffic on April 26 demanding immediate arrest of Jaffal. Sensing that the situation could get out of hands, the SSP and DSP Manoj Kumar had placates the kin of the deceased. In a related development, the Deputy Commissioner Dr Abhinav Trikha had assured the kin of Harjeet Singh that either his wife or daughter will get employment. It was only after the assurance of the DC that the body of the deceased could be cremated at his native village Nardan, near Dinanagar amidst rising tension. Gumeet Singh Bakhatpura, while appreciating the Police action in arresting the GM, claimed, “The deceased, on April 20, had written to senior police officials, including DIG (Border Range) and the then Gurdaspur SSP, about the shocking treatment being meted out to him by the GM but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Now, with his arrest, justice has been delivered to Harjeet’s family.”
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Medical stores raided, drugs seized
Hoshiarpur, June 27 The drug inspector said action would be taken against medical stores. — OC
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Phagwara, June 27 The Goraya police has registered a case against the car driver and has sent the bodies to the Civil Hospital for post-mortem. — OC
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The All-India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT), a venture of the Union government’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, has ensured that residents are not forced to wait for hours for a five-minute job at the counter.