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Boy killed, 7 hurt in mishap
Artillery shell recovered from rag pickers
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Forum penalises varsity
Typhoid patient awaits transfusion
PTU declares result of first round of counselling for BTech courses
Agriculture Dept starts propagation of direct paddy-sowing technique
Two snatchers held
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Boy killed, 7 hurt in mishap
Jalandhar, July 3 The deceased was identified as Darpan, son of Vipan Batra, resident of Ghanour, Sonipat. The injured were identified as Deepak Kumar of Jhundla Gate, Karnal, Vipan Batra, Vipan, Vijay Chawala, Surinder, all four residents of Sonepat, Naresh Kumar of Jind district, Hansraj, aka, Chanchal of Zirakpur. Of the injured, Deepak, Vipan, Hansraj and car driver Ram Pal sustained serious injuries and all were admitted to a private hospital here. The accident occurred at 1.30 am when the driver of Innova (HR 05 Y 0049) lost control over the vehicle and rammed into the stationary truck. Police sources said the injured alleged that the accident occurred due to their driver’s fault, who was driving the vehicle rashly. “Many times, we requested our driver to drive slowly, but he did not pay heed, hence the tragedy struck,” Vipan, the dead boy’s father alleged. The boy, who sustained serious head injuries, died while he was being taken to the
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Artillery shell recovered from rag pickers
Jalandhar, July 3 Top police officials, including Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) City I, RK Sharma, reached the spot. The Police Division No. 8, after taking possession of the bombshell, initiated the proceedings to intimate the army authorities to get its inspection done. Inspector Bimal Kant Sharma said the police was informed by some residents that some women rag pickers were possessing a bomb-like object, adding that, acting on the information, the police reached the spot and found that the women were standing at some scrap dealer’s shop to sell to the object, but were nabbed by the police. The police took the rag pickers in its custody for further investigation. ADCP Sharma said in preliminary investigation, the women alleged that they had acquired the object from a dump near the nullah, and considering it to be scrap, they were planning to sell it. Recently the nullah was cleaned by the authorities and it was being suspected that the object might have been lying in the nullah for the past sometime. The recovered object was 3 feet long and weighed about 8 kg, the ADCP said. Whether the object was live or “dead”, only the army authorities could tell after getting its inspection done. Last month, the recovery of 18 bomb shell-like objects, weighing 7 kg each, from Dhogri Mohalla near Devi Talab Temple had alarmed residents and panic had gripped residents, who had mistaken the objects as a bombshell. Meanwhile, it came to light that those recovered objects were part of army equipment and had no association with arms or ammunition. |
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More diarrhoea, typhoid cases reported in Rajan Nagar
Jalandhar, July 3 The outbreak has spread to areas like Rajan Nagar and New Rajan Nagar, from where, also, cases have begun to be reported. New cases: While there were three new (diarrhoea and typhoid) cases reported from the Basti Peerdad area yesterday, an additional five (diarrhoea and typhoid) cases were reported from the Rajan Nagar area today. The prime cause of there being no let up in the outbreak is that the residents continue to get contaminated water. Water still dirty: Enquiries from the residents of Basti Peerdad, Rajan Nagar and New Rajan Nagar today revealed that almost a week after the first case of jaundice was found, they are still getting dirty water in their taps. Sewage accumulation: While the bad water supply is already a threat, sewage woes have also not ended as residents say the spot near the Basti Gurdwara (where water earlier used to be accumulated) might have gone dry, but the water has found new outlets. Now the approach point to the Rajan Nagar area and inner streets of the Basti Peerdad area remain clogged. In the Rajan Nagar and new Rajan Nagar areas, some streets are so filled with stench that standing on those spots is nauseating. Residents say the sewerage clogging has affected drinking water too and the issue has been brought to the notice of the MC, but till date, no MC teams have started work in their area. Tankers: Fed up with the dirty water, a few residents privately brought in tankers for drinking water but even a week after the outbreak, the MC officials have not provided any tanker to the residents of the area. MC officials claimed that the tankers had been sent to the area, but none of the residents reported seeing any MC water tanker in the area. Tejinder Singh, a resident of Basti Peerdad said, “While the MC men are working on cleaning the sewerage system, we haven’t seen any MC tankers in the area. Some residents brought in private water tankers for clean drinking water.” Rain threat: The greatest threat to the entire area is of rains. The evening overcast skies brought dread to the area residents, as people feared major seepage and sewage water overflow during rains, which might give rise to an intense outbreak. Unfortunately, there’s an evident lack of urgency among the health department officials to fix the sewage trouble in these areas. Five to six cases were reported from a single street at the Rajan Colony today. Additional Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Paramjit Singh Jaggi, said, “We are carrying out de-salting work in the Basti Peerdad area daily. The work of cleaning and fixing pits on the main road is almost complete. From tomorrow, we will be sending people to other areas too. The work to be done in the area is substantial, so a team of two to three people won’t be enough. We will shortly be recruiting bigger teams to clean the area.” “So far we haven’t seen any dirty water being supplied to the area, but still we certainly sent water tankers to the area,” Jaggi said, denying reports that no MC tankers had been sent. |
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Northern Railway seeks eviction of 130 houses
Jalandhar, July 3 The residents said they were in for a surprise when they were today handed over notices and asked to vacate the land in 15 days. The notices mentioned that the railway administration was also entitled to get damage charges for the unauthorised use and occupation from 2001 onwards ever since the department had first issued notices for the vacation of land. Through the notices, the officials also warned the residents of a legal action for eviction and damages under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act 1971 while agreeing to compensate them for the “malba” used. The residents got together on the issue claiming that they had got a similar eviction notice from the Jalandhar Improvement Trust as well, claiming it to be a land to be covered under its proposed Surya Enclave Extension Scheme. They also claimed that the Railways Department was also asking for the eviction of two temples - Shiv Mandir and South Indian Welfare Sangh Mariam Mandir, which could not be shifted. At this, newly elected Congress councillor of the area Palni Soami and secretary of the District Congress Committee Varinder Sharma entered the scene and opposed any forcible occupancy in the area. They even claimed that the notices by the two departments had confused them and they did not know whom to hand over the occupancy of the land. |
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Forum penalises varsity
Jalandhar, July 3 In his complaint, Gurvinder Singh of Hoshiarpur had said that he had got admission in the MBA five-year integrated course at University College with roll no 1530 and rank 40. The counselling was held at Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar on June 30, 2010, and the father of the complainant had deposited a sum of Rs 52,220 at the campus counter on the
same day under receipt no.450178. On July 2, 2010, the complainant said that he forwarded an application to the principal of University College Jalandhar with an intention to vacate his seat of MBA while asking for the refund of fee. “The principal gave a noting on the application that the refund should be made to the complainant and handed over the application back to him for passing it onto the MBA Deptt at Amritsar on August 18, 2010. The complainant also informed the coordinator for the vacation of the seat. The second counselling was to start on July 6 and 7, 2010, at University campus as was advertised in newspapers. On August 18, 2010, the complainant went to the university campus, Amritsar, and submitted the same at the MBA Department. They made a note on the application after consulting the University College principal that this vacated seat was filled. It was entered in diary register no.8359 account branch dated August 18, 2010, and recommended for the refund of Rs 51,220 after charging of fees Rs 1,000. On October 6, 2010, account branch reference no.9883 sent this file to the computer science department. From there, the file got lost. The complainant made several requests for refund but in vain. On July 15, 2011, the University College at Jalandhar sent the complainant a letter that the dean of university had rejected the request, pleading that seats remaining unfilled. On such like averments, the complainant asked for directing the opposite parties to refund him Rs 52,220. In reply, the university and college filed a written reply, pleading that the complainant vacated the seat and shifted to the other university on his own and the seat remained vacant. They denied that the vacated seat was filled. All the seats in the concerned course were not filled, therefore, the seat vacated by the complainant cannot be considered as filled. The forum represented by Jaspal Singh Bhatia, president, and Darshan Singh and Jyotsna Thatai, both members, relied on the fact mentioned by the complainant that the second counselling was yet to start on July 6 and 7, 2010, at University Campus. “In the corresponding para of the written reply, the opposite parties have not denied the facts. So it shall be deemed to have admitted, meaning thereby that the complainant applied for refund of fee while the admission process was on and even the second counselling was yet to start. If the total seats in the MBA course were not got filled, the complainant cannot be blamed. The matter would have been different, if the complainant had left the course after last date of admission. In our opinion, as per the instructions and guidelines issued by the University Grants Commission and the AICTE, the complainant is entitled to the refund of the fee after deduction of processing fee of Rs 1000.” |
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Typhoid patient awaits transfusion
Jalandhar, July 3 While the health teams and the Civil Surgeon were aware of his severe anaemia, Amarjit’s relatives said he hadn’t been administered any blood so far. Tarsem Lal, his uncle, while talking to The Tribune, said, “We took Amarjit to the civil hospital on Monday morning. While all his paper work had been completed and even blood had been handed over for transfusion to the staff concerned, the hospital authorities kept us waiting all day and still haven’t administered him any blood.” “We have been running around from morning till evening to get the receipt work completed and when it was finally time to get the blood administered, the staff on duty said the receipts were not complete and I will have to go through the entire procedure again,” Tarsem added. Amarjit’s relatives also claimed he had been admitted to the general ward of the hospital even as health teams had recommended he be taken to the emergency. When contacted on the matter, Civil Surgeon-cum-District health officer RL Bassan said, “I will get the matter checked and the patient will be administered blood as early as possible.” ‘Brittle’ pills
While Basti Peerdad residents have largely been happy about the working of the health teams, there were reports from some areas of the teams providing them old and brittle medicines. Seema, from the Rajan Nagar area, said they had been handed over brittle medicines which were powdery and collapsed in their hands. “The medicines seemed old and were brittle and powdery. They couldn’t have been consumed, so we threw them,” she said. Residents have also said the teams only count the patients seen by them even as patients abound in the area. While residents confirmed five new (typhoid and diarrhoea) cases in the Rajan Nagar area, a fact confirmed by The Tribune, the health teams confirmed only one more diarrhoea patient in the area. Civil Surgeon RL Bassan said, “It’s the peak of summers and many diseases are reported in these days. The said cases might have been either old patients or suffering from some other minor ailment due to summers.”The health teams today visited 70 houses and 300 people. As many as 1,000 chlorine tablets were distributed in the area. |
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ASHA workers demand minimum wages
Jalandhar, July 3 The ASHA workers had yesterday gathered in front of the Civil Surgeon office demanding increase in the minimum wages. Highlighting their plight, the ASHA workers said they were being paid a meagre salary of Rs 200 to 300 per month. The ASHA workers are primarily responsible for the fieldwork and ensuring that the government health schemes reach out to the villagers. At present, there are around 1,800 ASHA workers in the district, who cover a population of 1,000 villagers each. “It has been years since the ASHA workers and felicitators have been demanding the implementation of minimum wages, but to no avail. The government should provide a minimum wage of Rs 4,540 to the ASHA workers, but repeated meetings and protests in this regard have fallen on deaf ears,” said Harinder Dosanjh, chief adviser of the ASHA Workers and Felicitators Union, Punjab. The ASHA workers also maintained that after spending an entire day in the field, if they manage to convince a couple for family planning, they are hardly paid a commission of Rs 150. “Even for free programmes of leprosy and TB, we are paid Rs 200 each. Though we have been demanding an increase in the commission amount, but that issue, too, has been lying pending,” they added. “The state government is wholly dependent on us for the implementation of various health awareness programmes, but when it comes to increasing our wages, passes the buck to the Central Government. The state and the Central Government have a share in the appointment of the ASHA workers. While the Central Government has been paying their dues, the state government has only been making tall promises till date,” Dosanjh added. The ASHA workers added that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had assured to increase their commission, but nothing has happened. “We have forwarded a memorandum of our demands to the CM through the Civil Surgeon,” the AHSA workers maintained. |
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PTU declares result of first round of counselling for BTech courses
Jalandhar, July 3 As per the data provided by the university admission cell, the four universities of the state - Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjabi University, Patiala, and host university PTU - participated in the counselling for a total of 32,789 seats. A total of 12,749 students had deposited the counselling fees, of whom 11,676 students filled in choices. However 10,146 students succeeded in getting seats. While 8,186 seats have been allotted under the 85 per cent Punjab quota, 1,960 seats have gone under 15 per cent outside state quota. PTU has for the first time conducted counselling for 2,041 seats under the fee-waiver scheme along with the regular counselling for which 1,035 seats have been allotted to the students. The Punjab Government in its revised fee-waiver policy had hiked the annual income of the parents of the children availing themselves of the scheme to Rs 4.5 lakh so as to include more beneficiaries. |
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Agriculture Dept starts propagation of direct paddy-sowing technique
Jalandhar, July 3 The vans were flagged off by Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti. Joint Director, Agriculture, Dr Gurdial Singh and Chief Agriculture Officer Dr Sutantar Kumar Aeri said agriculture technocrats would go from village to village enlightening farmers about the technology that not only save 30 per cent water, but also labour and other farm inputs. The programme would continue for two days, during which literature on the issue would also be distributed. The officials said 50 demonstration plants would be set up in each block and their success would be highlighted to the farmers at various forums. They added that it was being targeted to bring a total of 16,000 hectare of land under Basmati cultivation this year. |
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Two snatchers held
Jalandhar, July 3 The arrested snatchers have been identified as Ashish Kumar, resident of Dhobi Mohalla, and Nirvair Singh, resident of Sangrur. Their accomplice Mickey, resident of Ludhiana, is still at large. Surinder Pal, Station House Officer (SHO), said on June 28 Narinder Kumar (25) of the Abadpura localty was robbed of cash, mobile phone by three motorcycle-borne youths and the miscreants had also injured him by attacking him with wooden sticks. Following a tip-off, a police party laid a trap and nabbed Ashish Kumar and Nirvair Singh from Sikka Chowk here. However, Mickey managed to flee from the spot, the SHO said.
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