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Socio-economic census restarts
Goods worth lakhs gutted
Hummer with black film challaned
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Tantrik detained for investigation
41,701 vehicles registered in just seven months
Aided school teachers sans salary for 6 mths
Rape accused, victim’s kin engage in heated arguments
DAV students make clean sweep
AFP surveillance workshop held
Disability activist to present paper on down syndrome at Capetown
Teachers submit demand letter to DC
Ray of hope for heart patients: Spanish doc
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Socio-economic census restarts
Jalandhar, August 7 The primary work being done now is supervision and cross-checking of the data already fed into the PC tablets by the block enumerators. The supervisors have been assigned to check certain variations that have cropped up in the collated data and incorporate the changes. There are also reports of certain discrepancies like the presence of manual scavengers, bonded labourers and tribal groups shown by the enumerators, which is otherwise being reported as nil by the state. The schedule of the census is going behind what was planned by the department. Director Rural Development and Panchayats Balwinder Singh, who is currently in the US, had planned supervisory rounds between July 16 to 30. By this time, the printed drafts of the report should have come for being put up at panchayat ghars or any common place in each village. For urban areas, the lists displaying caste, religion and other economic angles is to be released to the Municipal Corporation Commissioners so that anyone could raise objections on the matter. It will be after clarification in the objections that the lists would be sent for final publication. While the work in the city areas is being reviewed by the Municipal Corporation authorities, the data checking in rural areas is being overseen by the administration. The officers have been asked to daily upload the status of the reports coming. Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti said there was some duplication in the data being collected by the census enumerators for National Population Register and through Aadhar scheme meant for issuing of Unique Identity Card. “There is no point in putting in double effort to collect the same part. So, the common information will be shared,” he said.
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Goods worth lakhs gutted
Jalandhar, August 7 The fire erupted at 7.30 am on Tuesday morning when the factory labourers noticed smoke billowing out from the building and they immediately informed him, Bodh Raj, a resident of Shakti Nagar and the owner of B R Forgings, said. He immediately reached the spot and found a major fire in the building, adding that raw and finished goods worth several lakhs were destroyed. Three fire tenders reached the spot, which took one and half hours to douse the flames. |
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Hummer with black film challaned
Jalandhar, August 7 A high drama was created at the BMC chowk as the stylish SUV fitted with a Sharjah number plate was stopped by the traffic policemen. As it came to a screeching halt, the three young Namdhari Sikh youths alighted from it and started asking the policemen to explain the reason as to why they were signalled to stop. The traffic policemen told them that they had violated the law, as they were travelling in a vehicle which was fitted with prohibited black film. The youths were identified as Gururaj Singh, his brother Gurjinder Singh and one of their cousins. The ACP (Traffic) Jasbir Singh Rai said the youths were able to produce their passports and driving licences which were found to be genuine. They told the police that they ship their Hummer to India via sea route once every year. The entry for any such vehicle is valid for six months. Their uncle and local Preet Nagar resident Kulwant Singh identified them and also told them that it was against law to use black film in India, said Jasbir Singh Rai. He said the boys were told to follow the law of the land.
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Tantrik detained for investigation
Jalandhar, August 7 Preeti Sharma, a resident of the Garha area, had filed a complaint before the police that he met tantrik Miyan Sameer Sulemani at his office situated in Nakodar Chowk, where he had promised to provide solution to her family tension. The tantrik had even took Rs 48,000 and promised her to sort out her family problems in a few days only through the “mystical powers” he owned she said. Alleging that when she did not notice any change in her family tensions, she again reached his office. “When I queried him (tantrik) that my family tensions were still intact, he did not give any satisfactory reply. Instead, he asked me to give 17 gm of gold. Only then, he will give solutions,” she alleged. Station House Officer Surinder Pal said the tantrik was rounded up just for questioning and a case would be registered only after thorough investigations. |
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41,701 vehicles registered in just seven months
Jalandhar, August 7 Of the total vehicles, 30,981 are two-wheelers, 7,028 are five-seater cars and 1,262 are SUVs. The remaining 1,430 vehicles are for commercial use. Going by the trend, there would be nearly 70,000 new registered vehicles by the year end. There were nearly 50,000 vehicles registered in 2010, 37,000 in 2009, indicating a significant annual increase. The figures have left the administration and traffic police personnel worried over the traffic congestion and parking problems that are certainly going get aggravated in the city. Further, even the Municipal Corporation authorities have not done much in creating parking lots in the city. Most of the 32 parking lots have been created on the roadsides, causing even more inconvenience to the commuters. The two basement parking lots that have come up in the city near Narinder Cinema and Nehru Garden are being hardly used, as people rather prefer to park their cars on roadsides. Owing to a higher number of vehicles getting registered, there has been an increasing rush of visitors to the office for getting learner’s licence, permanent driving licence, printing of registration certificates, challans, permits, fancy numbers and other jobs. The transport office has also, of late, become the highest revenue-fetching department with an income of nearly 8 crore each month. The office, however, does not seem to be spending even a trickle of what it is earning for developing facilities for the staff as well as the visitors. The cash counter is hardly a 5-foot wide air-tight room with just a small window for receiving cash and passing applications and receipts. The other rooms are dingy with sacks full of old records are stacked everywhere, including floors, above almirahs and shelves and even blocking doors and windows, making working of the staff extremely difficult. Only 8 regular employees
The DTO office has just eight employees on regular rolls, while the rest of the staff is working on a contract basis. The department has hired staff from Noida-based Smart Chip Company which does the job of doing photography of the applicants, printing and issuing licences and registration certificates and maintaining entire records online. DC gets new Innova
Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti has recently got a new Innova as his official car. He earlier had Ambassador car as his official vehicle. Probably considering it as his lucky number, the DC has retained the number of his old official car PB-08-R-0011 for his new Innova before depositing it back with the department. |
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Aided school teachers sans salary for 6 mths
Jalandhar, August 7 Teachers across the 53 aided schools in the district have not received their salaries since the month of March this year. The state of teachers in primary aided schools of the district is even worse. The nearly 30 staff members in the 16 primary aided schools of the district have not received a penny since the year 2012 started. December 2011 was the last month they received their salaries. Talking to The Tribune, Deepak Sanan, a teacher from a local aided school, said, “Neither is the government filling vacant posts in our schools, nor is it releasing our salaries. In my school alone, there are 25 sanctioned posts and 10 are empty. We are expected to do back-breaking work and on top of that, we are denied our money. We are indeed being meted out step-motherly treatment by the government.” Gagandeep Kaur, a teacher from a local aided school, said, “We have only received our salaries till the month of December last year. While I work in a primary aided school, my husband also works in an aided school.” “He has also not received his salary since March. Our home budget is in doldrums. We are currently making do with the pension of my mother and father-in-law. Our festivals were gloomy and in future, too, the office people say it will at least be one more month before we get our salaries,” she added. Sources say the post of the official, who releases salaries from Chandigarh, has been lying vacant for the past some months and a replacement has not been sought so far, delaying their salaries. Another teacher from a primary aided school said, “It’s been seven months since we got our salaries. Various things we have to buy are stuck up because we are short of money. I can’t even pay the tuition fees of my children. Queries at the office only reveal that we have to wait for some more time. Departmental trouble and laxity is costing us dear.”
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Rape accused, victim’s kin engage in heated arguments
Jalandhar, August 7 The incident occurred this afternoon, when the kin of the accused, booked in a rape case, were addressing a press conference in which they were levelling allegations against the girl’s (rape victim’s) parents for pressurising her to name more accused in the case. Interestingly, when the conference was on, a number of kin of the rape victim also reached the spot and started arguing with them. They alleged that the kin of the rape accused were holding the conference to weaken the rape case. Had the police not reached the spot in time, the verbal scuffle between them could have taken a fatal turn. Inspector, Police Division No. 4, Surinder Pal, said both parties had been taken to the police station and efforts were on to sort out the issue. It maybe recalled that on the statement of the Alawalpur-based girl, the Adampur police had booked Sunil Kumar and his (Sunil’s) father, Jogi Ram, of whom, the former was recently arrested by the police while the police inquiry was on in the case. A few days ago only, the girl’s parents had held a press conference and had blamed the police for not including the names of four more accused in the case. Before the occurrence of this episode in the conference, Bhola Rani, Sunil’s mother told the media that her son and the said girl had solemnised their marriage at Chintpurni Shrine on their own will and soon after the marriage, the girl’s parents started protesting the move and alleged that the girl was forced by them for marriage. They also blamed the girl’s parents for pressuring her to name more accused in the case. “My son got the punishment and was even jailed. But why are other four persons of my family being dragged in the case?” she quipped. “We will write to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) to initiate a fresh inquiry in the case,” she added.
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DAV students make clean sweep
Jalandhar, August 7 Free medical camp
A free medical camp was organised by Bowry Memorial Medical and Educational Trust at Lambra under Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions. As many as 150 patients were checked. They were provided medicines. Health education campaign
The zoology department of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised a health education campaign in which the blood pressure, haemoglobin, blood groups, height and weight of students was checked. As many as 500 students, teachers and non-teaching staff members got their medical examination done during the campaign. New session
DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology started the new academic session in BTech, MTech, MBA and MCA on August 6. A hawan ceremony was held on the college premises. Kanya Maha Vidyalaya inaugurated the new academic session today. On this occasion, an English research journal and research Link (special issue on KMV) and Unmilan (a Hindi research journal) were released. As many as seven teachers were honoured for having published their books in computer science, literature, social sciences, music and various areas of research. Dr Gopi, Dr Madhumeet and Neetu, lecturers who completed their PhDs and UGC-sponsored major and minor research projects, were honoured for their outstanding contribution in the area of research, translation and pedagogy. |
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AFP surveillance workshop held
Jalandhar, August 7 Spreading information about AFP surveillance, he said auxiliary nursing midwives who detect polio symptoms in a child should inform the medical officer immediately and also report AFP cases. He said the country was on the brink on being polio-free and AFP surveillance had its importance in the given scenario. Dr Ravinderpal Singh, Senior Medical Officer, National Polio Surveillance Project, WHO, said if a child stops walking within 10 to 15 days or any of his/her organs stop working, then a stool sample of the child should immediately be sent for tests. If a child has similar problems till the age of 15, then it is counted as an AFP case.—
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Disability activist to present paper on down syndrome at Capetown
Jalandhar, August 7 Amarjit Singh Anand, Zonal Secretary, North, Parivaar, and state disability activist, will be presenting a paper on "down syndrome - education, vision and self-advocates" at the Congress. Along with Anand, four other disability activists (three from India and one from Nepal) will also be a part of the delegation visiting the international Congress. The other three (Indian) members of the delegation are from Pondicherry, Chennai and Mumbai. The delegation has been chosen by the Confrontation of Down Syndrome Parents, India, an organisation working for children with down syndrome. Dr Rekha Ramchandran, the president of the Confrontation of Down Syndrome Parents, chose the delegates who will visit the WDSC. The Punjab Down Sydrome Association was set up on March 11 this year. Anand will be the first member from the state to represent India at the Congress. With his visit to the Congress, Anand plans to bring in some precious perspective on the differences and similarities on how down syndrome is viewed in the West in comparison to the situation in India. Talking to The Tribune, Anand said, "Be it education or medical facilities, children having down syndrome are usually meted out different treatment than other children. Down syndrome is just a medical condition, not a disease and children do not 'suffer' from it, as is usually held. Society, however, treats it like a taboo, which leads to the segregation of the children who have it." "A down syndrome child is supposed to go to a regular school and have a normal life like other children. But due to plethora of myths and lack of awareness regarding the condition, no regular school accepts these children (as we see in the city too). The special schools in the city also lack ample infrastructure and do not abide by the guidelines of the rehabilitation council of India. So these children usually end up staying at home," he added. The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa, will host the 11th WDSC from 15-17 August, along with the Indaba of Persons with Down Syndrome on August 14, Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group Meeting on August 14 and post congress workshops on education and employment on August 18.
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Teachers submit demand letter to DC
Jalandhar: The Education Provider Teachers Union handed over a demand letter to the Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner here today.
While the Badal government had agreed to the written demands of the union, teachers today said the government was delaying the implementation of these demands. Lakhwinder Singh, district president of the union, said the government had agreed to their demands like Rs 100 increase in salary, pay scale as per 1 April 2012, and demands regarding holidays, policies etc. —
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Ray of hope for heart patients: Spanish doc
Jalandhar, August 7 “Angio Sculpt balloon is used to prepare the vessel for stent implantation. The technique cuts the atheroma without causing damage to the vessel at a very low pressure, giving rise to optimum results without vessel injury. We operated one patient with the help of this technology at Chawla Heart Care Centre. It is for the first time in the region that the device has been used,” claimed renowned cardiologist Dr Diaz, director and Head of Department of Cardiology, Juan Ramon Jimenez University Hospital, based at Huelva in Spain. He said the device was US FDA-approved and useful in opening blocked vessels, especially after fixing the stents. “The device is very useful to cure fibriotic osteal lesions (Block at the origin of the vessel) and long and hard lesions, mostly common in diabetic and old-aged patients,” said Dr Diaz. He has teamed up with Dr Raman Chawla to offer the treatment to patients suffering from blocked vessels.
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Fire broke out at a factory in the Basti Danishmanda locality here this early morning. Goods worth rupees several lakhs were said to be gutted.
