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Rescue service project set for trial
WHO team to investigate acute flaccid paralysis cases in Amritsar
Kandola finally in Jalandhar rural police custody
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Rescue service project set for trial
Amritsar, August 24 This stretch has been chosen for the project as it witnessed over 2,400 accidents which is among the highest in the country. Nitin R Gokaran, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways along with RP Mittal, IG Border Range, and Amardeep Singh Cheema, vice-chairman, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) held a meeting today to complete the modalities and fix the responsibilities of the authorities concerned. Among others district police chiefs of five police districts, members of insurance companies and experts from IIT Delhi participated. The trial run of the project is likely to start in the first week of September. The main objective of the project was to give timely relief and treatment to road accident victims. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, has selected the Amritsar-Pathankot highway (NH-15) for the pilot project. The Rs 20-crore project, which has been conceptualised by Cheema, is one of its kinds in all over the world and would be implemented in other parts of the country depending upon its success, informed Nitin Gokaran while presiding over the meeting. He said accidents occurring on the road would be monitored, tracked, analysed and remedial measures will be set in place for avoiding that kind of accidents in future through a specialised accidental tracking system developed by National Informatics Centre for this project. Under this project, all the police stations and the hospitals on the highway, ambulances, rescue vehicles and volunteers would be mapped through geographical information system (GIS). He said CCTV cameras would be installed on every 300 metres to monitor vehicular traffic, tracking vehicles with hit and run cases and driving patterns and road designs. Cheema said accident victims would be shifted to nearby trauma centre in record time with the help of trained NYKS village-level volunteers. The government and private hospitals falling on or near the NH-15 have been empanelled by the health departments of three districts - Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot - for providing free treatment for first 48 hours to the victims. The expenditure of the treatment up to Rs 30,000 would be borne by the Central Government, he said. Gokaran also visited 10 hot spots on the highway where a maximum number of accidents has occurred in the past two years.
First-of-its-kind Initiative Under the project cashless rescue service will be provided to victims of accidents occurring on a 108-km stretch on Amritsar-Pathankot national highway connecting Amritsar with Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu
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WHO team to investigate acute flaccid paralysis cases in Amritsar
Amritsar, August 24 Acute flaccid paralysis is a clinical syndrome characterised by the rapid onset of weakness and is used these days for surveillance during polio outbreaks. The Health Department had earlier this year enhanced its AFP surveillance after polio outbreak was reported in neighbouring Pakistan. As such around 500 suspected AFP cases have been reported from various parts of the state. The district Health Department had earlier roped in registered medical practitioners in the rural areas to report any case with the symptoms immediately so that measures could be adopted timely. Dr Yash said a polio immunisation drive (migratory round) would start from September 9. During the drive, the department would focus on slums, brick-kilns, factory premises and other such areas where migratory labourers were believed to be residing. He said though no cases of polio were reported in the recent past, the Ministry of Health was not ready to take any risk. He asked the officials to come up with an effective plan to reach out to each and every child under the age of five during the drive. |
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Kandola finally in Jalandhar rural police custody
Jalandhar, August 24 The chief of the rural police, Yurinder Singh Hayer, was tight-lipped on the matter when asked if Kandola was in the city. Sources in the police, however, revealed that the accused, in a Rs 200-crore drug haul case, was brought to the city and would be produced before the court either tomorrow morning or late this evening. Highly placed sources in the police revealed that Kandola was getting help from certain police officials, whom he had been entertaining lavishly in every possible manner at his sprawling and luxurious farm house near Samrala. It is also learnt that the Director-General of Punjab Police Sumedh Singh Saini is taking interest in the case and personally monitoring the entire episode. Kandola managed a drug empire worth crores of rupees and operated out of Punjab. He had set up a drug manufacturing unit near Samrala on an 8-acre plot with a farmhouse having luxuries on a par with a five-star hotel there. He reportedly also had set up a manufacturing facility in Gurgaon also. Information gathered by the police from his aides, who were arrested a few months ago, revealed that Kandola had a well-knit network of people for producing the drug supply across international borders. He had been using top models and good-looking young women fluent in English as couriers to send and receive drug-consignments. Originally belonging to Haibowal village in Nawashahr district, Raja had been staying in Kandola village near Adampur in Jalandhar district and from there, he started using Kandola as surname. Kandola then migrated to Canada. After being back home, Kandola allegedly indulged in human trafficking with Kulwinder Singh Mann. They used to send people abroad and minted a lot of money. He was nabbed in Zimbabwe after being found involved in human trafficking in the year 2002. After spending a year in a Zimbabwe jail, he took to drug smuggling. In Zimbabwe jail, Kandola met Johan Milan, a Serb national, who was accused of drug manufacturing and trafficking. Kandola returned to India and was arrested. He spent three years in Tihar Jail, where he reportedly came in contact with Sukhjinder Singh. The duo then started a Real Estate Business. He also started manufacturing the ICE, a party drug manufactured from heroin and methametaphine. The police arrested four gangsters of a seven-member international gang of drug peddlers, run by Kandola, and recovered over 34 kg methamphetamine and 19 kg ephedrine, also known as “Ice” or “rave party drug,” from their possession in June. Over 18 persons, including three women, NRIs and local residents who were roped in the trade by Kandola and his men, have been arrested by the police till now. |
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would be provided to victims of accidents occurring on a 108-km stretch on Amritsar-Pathankot national highway connecting Amritsar with the Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu.
