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Ration card data to be digitised
Bangalore-based bus operators told to pay
Rs 25 lakh
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Woman, paramour held for husband’s murder
Seven-day police remand for Raja Kandola
Teachers to observe bandh on Sept 5
DTO record to be shifted to roadways workshop
Policemen come to blows over trivial issue
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Ration card data to be digitised
Jalandhar, August 25 The inspectors will digitise the details available in the D1 form of their ration card so that the next time a card holder would want a deletion or addition or change of address, the process would become easier. Further any new applicants or those demanding a change would get a computerised printout of the same form. The department has recently also uploaded the entire data regarding nearly 3,000 ration depots in the district. The data regarding the APL and BPL card holders and atta dal scheme beneficiaries, phone numbers and licences of depot holders has already been computerised by the inspectors during a three-month exercise recently. TS Chopra, District Food and Civil Supplies Controller, Jalandhar, said the ground work for the same had started and he hoped that the work would be on track by next week. Employment Bureau lags behind
The District Employment Generation and Training Bureau, however, lags behind in terms of computerisation. The entire record of the department has been kept in files and retrieving details of the registered unemployed candidates often becomes a Herculean task. Preparing matter for informing applicants about the availability of government jobs, updating mailing list on the basis of qualification of each candidate and dispatching any communication to the applicants would become much easier if the office gets computers. The staff tells that since their salary details were also computerised, they had to use computers in other offices to retrieve the same. Sanjeeda Beri, Deputy Director of the bureau, when asked about the same, said, “Computerisation, of course, would make working much easier. But there has been no sanction till date.” |
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Bangalore-based bus operators told to pay
Rs 25 lakh
As per the agreement, the operators plying buses on four routes across the city have to pay up a fixed royalty per route per bus, which they have failed to deposit for more than a year. The total amount added up comes close to Rs 25 lakh. The board, headed by Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti, passed on the directions yesterday after a meeting on the issue at the DC complex. The operators, on the other hand, have been claiming that it were the illegal autorickshaws plying on the same routes who had been spoiling their business, resulting in losses to them. Considering their demand, the board had also invited in the meeting SHO Kartarpur to look into the problem of illegal autos and checking the menace. The operators, however, claim that they have been making an average collection of Rs 80,000 each day by plying their 15 buses. The board members, comprising Municipal Corporation Commissioner Viney Bublani and DTO RL Jassal, also opined that Lakshya, another company roped in for constructing modern steel bus shelters for the placing advertisements on bus shelters, had not fulfilled another condition of installing GPS system in the buses which was to be further connected to an electronic public information system at bus shelters. The system was to come to the aid of commuters waiting at the stops so that they could ascertain the location of bus and, accordingly, know the time by which it would arrive. MC Commissioner said the board was planning to penalise the company for not fulfilling its commitment. Ever since the bus shelters have been installed, these have hardly been put to use. “The commuters do not wait at stops and are rather picked from anywhere along the road. The buses keep on halting every now and then and rather fail to gain speed. Even at the bus stand, all local buses move every five minutes. The City Buses keep on halting for a pretty long time till all seats are occupied,” said Amardeep, a resident. Chronology of city bus
Jalandhar was the first city in Punjab to get the City Bus Service. It was started on August 17, 2008 by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. While 16 buses had been initially started, four on each of the four routes, one got burnt during a violent incident in the city. The service got a major boost, as the route from Rama Mandi to Maqsudan was extended up to Kartarpur, which got a good response. For almost three years ever since the service had been launched, various bridges, including Lyallpur Khalsa College ROB, DAV ROB and BMC Chowk flyover, had been under-construction posing a major hindrance in the smooth plying of the buses, which have to take detours from other narrow passages. The big structure of buses was yet another problem which often resulted in traffic snarls. Future planning
MC Commissioner Bublani said the contract with the current operators would end by August next year and advance planning for the same had already started. “We have planned to have a mix of small and big buses and cover all parts of the city. The bigger buses would be on long-distance routes, while mini-buses would ply on relatively narrow and shorter roads,”, he added, hinting that there would be other policy changes as well. Route plan Total buses plying: 15 Bus routes: 4 Route 1: Rama Mandi to Maqsudan to Kartarpur via Bhur Mandi, PAP Chowk, BSF Chowk, Sadar Police Station, Bus stand, Narinder Cinema, BMC Chowk, APJ, Guru Nanak Mission Chowk, Nakodar Chowk, Football Chowk, Adarsh Nagar, Kapurthala Chowk, Tagore Hospital, Kabir Nagar, DAV College, Sabzi Mandi. Route 2: Rama Mandi to Jalandhar Kunj via Bhur Mandi, PAP Chowk, BSF Chowk, Sadar Police Station, Bus stand, Narinder Cinema, BMC Chowk, APJ, Guru Nanak Mission Chowk, Nakodar Chowk, Football Chowk, Adarsh Nagar, Kapurthala Chowk, Sports College, Basti Bawa Khel, Surgical Complex, Jalandhar Vihar and Leather Complex. Route 3: Bus stand to Wadala Chowk via Cool Road, City Hospital, Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Milk Bar Chowk, Masand Chowk, Manbro Chowk, Guru Ravi Dass Chowk, Boota Mandi and Deol Nagar. Route 4 : Rama Mandi to Railway Station via Bhur Mandi, PAP Chowk, BSF Chowk, Sadar Police Station, Bus stand, Narinder Cinema, BMC Chowk, Shastri Chowk, Old Jawahar Nagar and Madan Flour Mill Chowk. Charges levied 0 to 5 km Rs 5 5km to 10 km Rs 10 10 km or more Rs 15 |
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Woman, paramour held for husband’s murder
Kapurthala, August 25 Harjinder knew about their relations and he warned both of them several times against continuing the same. On the contrary, Paramjit and Kulwant hatched a conspiracy to kill Harjinder for clearing their hurdle. Kulwant also took his nephew Harpreet’s help to eliminate him. On their return from the Jalandhar factory, Kulwant rode pillion with Harjinder, while Harpreet reached near Khukhrain village on his own motorcycle. Both stabbed Harjinder to death there by attacking him several times with a long knife. The police recovered the weapon used for murdering him. Brar further stated “Kulwant had provided a mobile phone to Paramjit Kaur and got connection for the same providing his own identify proof. Both used to talk secretly through the mobile. The police also recovered that mobile. Interestingly, Harjinder Singh was killed on the night of August 18 and the murderers also looted his Rs 2,000 and mobile for misguiding the police that some robbers had murdered him. Harjinder was attacked with sharp-edged weapons near Khukhrain village, falling under the Kotwali police station, when he was returning from his workplace in Jalandhar to his village on his motorcycle. The police came to know about the murder on Sunday morning when some persons saw his body lying on the road in the wee hours. A case was registered. |
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Seven-day police remand for Raja Kandola
Jalandhar, August 25 Though the police moved an application before the JMIC, seeking 14-day police remand for his interrogation, the court permitted seven-days custody. The court also accepted a request of Kandola’s counsel, Mandip Sachdeva, directing the police that the interrogation be done in the presence of his defence lawyer. The court said the lawyer should be present during the interrogation to watch the process of interrogation, but would not interfere in the process. The defence council of Kandola opposed the police remand of his client on the grounds that nothing had been recovered from Kandola and his wife during earlier interrogation by the police. He, however, apprehended that the police might implicate Kandola in certain drug case by showing “fake and huge’ recovery of any kind of drug. Kandola was brought from Delhi on production warrants only yesterday where he was arrested along with one of his aides Sukhjinder Singh on August 11. Involved in a Rs 200-crore drug haul (ICE), Kandola had escaped police net when teams of the Jalandhar rural and Hoshiarpur police had cracked the multi-crore drug racket. 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 on June 2. 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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Teachers to observe bandh on Sept 5
Jalandhar, August 25 The demands of the teachers included immediate release of the UGC pay scale arrears pending since 2006, enhancing retirement age to 65, greater funding for higher education, ammendment of Service Security Act 1974 to provide security to staff on uncovered posts, lifting ban on recruitment and implementation of pension gratuity scheme for aided college teachers. Dr Tejinder Virli, GND varsity Area secretary, Prof VK Sareen, finance secretary, Dr Jasbir Rishi GND varsity Women Wing Convener, among others, spoke on the occasion. Teachers announced that there would be education bandh on September 5 wherein teachers would go on mass casual leave. They also submitted a memorandum to the DC. |
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DTO record to be shifted to roadways workshop
Jalandhar, August 25 DTO RL Jassal confirmed that the office had got a sanction to store records in the workshop of the Roadways, which was planning to shift to its newly constructed administrative block inaugurated recently. The DTO office has been in a complete mess as the almirahs, desks and floors have been packed with records up to the roof level. The employees and visitors to the office have had to pass through narrow passages left in-between, making their working extremely difficult. |
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Policemen come to blows over trivial issue
Jalandhar, August 25 The incident occurred at around 5.30 pm when Sunny Sharma, a police personnel from PAP who, along with his friends, while travelling in a car, stopped at the PAP chowk and started bargaining with a boy selling car accessories on the road. As the boy refused to bargain with them on a steering-wheel cover, Sunny’s friends, who were well built, gave him a sound beating. Noticing this, a passerby approached the police personnel deployed at the traffic police booth at the chowk, following which two policemen reached the spot to know the cause of the trouble, an eyewitness said. Claiming himself to be an employee of the Punjab Police, posted at PAP, Sunny, who was in plain clothes, indulged in arguments with the traffic police personnel, who then asked him to accompany them to the booth. After reaching the booth, there was a scuffle between the two policemen, Sunny and Jatinder Kumar, traffic police personnel, in which clothes of both were torn. Sunny, allegedly, also called his other friends for help and subsequently almost six youths reached the spot. Noticing Sunny’s men, other policemen, including the area sub-inspector, also reached the spot. The cops then nabbed an aide of Sunny after a long chase. Sunny alleged that the policemen punched and thrashed him after bundling him inside the booth. Jatinder Singh, who was on traffic duty at the PAP Chowk, alleged that Sunny gave him a sound beating and ripped apart his dress also. The furniture inside the booth was also damaged in the clash. Station house officer, Rama Mandi, Barjinder Singh, said the accused, along with his one aide and the victim, had been detained at the police station for questioning. The SHO did not rule out the possibility that Sunny and his aides were under the influence of some drug. No case had been registered till the filing of this report.
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Ranjit Singh, alias Raja Kandola, the kingpin of the Rs 200-crore drug haul case, was produced before a local court and sent to seven-day police custody here today.
The Jalandhar (Rural) police that had got Kandola on production warrants from the Delhi Police yesterday produced the accused and his aide Sukhjinder Singh before the court of Harpreet Kaur
(JMIC) amid tight security cover at about 2 pm.
Jalandhar, August 25