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Coalgate scam
Woman carried dead baby in womb, was left untreated for days: Kin
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Colonies adjoining cantt dogged by problems
SC
Post-Matric Scholarship
444 cases pending in dist consumer forum
Teacher’s Day
Youth Congress activists submit memo against corruption
Attack on Hindus: Pak flag burnt Working of depts reviewed
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13 colleges remain closed
Bandh call was given by Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, September 4 While in most of the colleges, it had already been declared a holiday, some of the colleges were closed down only after rallying ABVP activists’ insistence today. Two processions, comprising a total of about 400 to 500 students, took out a rally through the city in support of their protest against the Coalgate scam. While both processions started from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar, one of these moved to the Workshop Chowk and further to the HMV and DAV colleges and the other one proceed via the KMV College and the Doaba College to the Guru Nanak Mission Chowk and further to the Apeejay College of Fine Arts. Colleges like KMV College, Apeejay College, Doaba College and St Soldiers, among others, which had been opened today, were closed later in the day. The ongoing house tests at the DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology was also postponed to a further date due to the holiday declared owing to the bandh. College sources said children did not face any problem due to the test postponement because they were informed about the holiday well in advance. Dr AL Sangal, principal, DAVIET, said, “Students were asking about the holiday and due to the tests, students also wanted a gap in the schedule. The holiday, thus, came in handy and no inconvenience was faced.” “However, we believe that the prime objective of students is studies and they should remain focused on them. Such occasions are fine as long as no inconvenience is caused to students and public,” he added. Sources of some colleges said they reluctantly closed their colleges due to the nationwide bandh, but they were not in favour of students’ studies suffering. “With skyrocketing fees, students, too, feel the pinch of inflation. Corruption is one of the biggest demons facing society. Students should have thorough knowledge of scams like these and for reforms in the country, the younger generation also needs to raise a voice against such issues,” said ABVP activist Varun Kashyap.
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Woman carried dead baby in womb, was left untreated for days: Kin
Jalandhar, September 4 They also said that the death in the first place happened due to improper care. Jyoti, a resident of Basti Dasinshmandan, had been admitted to the Civil Hospital on August 26. Initially admitted to the new maternity ward, after some initial scans at the hospital, Jyoti was shifted to the old ward. While the family was told that the baby was fine, it was only after an ultrasound was done on Jyoti (from a private hospital) that the family came to know that the baby had died. Still left untreated, and the baby still undelivered, the family finally complained about the issue to members of the outfit Yuvsena, following which the complaint was taken to the Civil Surgeon on Monday and Jyoti shifted back to the new maternity ward. Talking to The Tribune Gandhi Lal, the brother-in-law of Jyoti (her husband Prem Kumar’s brother) said, “Since the day we admitted her, she was not being treated properly. No nurse or doctors were attending to her. Even requests made to nurses were falling on deaf ears. After the initial scans, the hospital staff told us that the baby was fine. It was only after they told us to get an ultrasound conducted again on Friday (from a private hopistal), that we came to know that the baby had died. When we asked them to deliver the dead baby they told us to take the patient to Chandigarh.” “For six days, no one listened to us but after the complaint yesterday, the hospital staff’s behaviour suddenly changed and they started proper treatment. The baby was finally
delivered only yesterday after the complaint was made. They had also not taken any notes till yesterday but after the complaint, they started taking notes in her file, which they had not done earlier,” he added. Venting his ire at the hospital staff, Lal said, “Poor people like us have no value at the hospital. People are treated badly and nurses do not listen half of the time. Our baby is dead, but we do not want any more to die and families to be treated so badly.” Amit Taneja leader and Yuvsena chief Amit Taneja, while talking to The Tribune, said, “While the ultrasound on August 31 confirmed the child had died, the plight of the woman can well be imagined. For four days and probably many more before that she carried her dead child because the hospital staff did not pay heed. It was only after our complaint yesterday that the treatment was resumed.” “It was also mentioned that despite the presence of a team of eight doctors, only 150 children are delivered here per month, while in centres like Nakodar, as many as 250 children are delivered per month by only one doctor,” he added. The family also paid Rs 1,200 for the ultrasound and Lal confirmed that about Rs 4,000 to 5,000, were spent on the entire treatment so far by the family. Notably, both Lal and Jyoti’s husband Prem Kumar are labourers. Prem Kumar stitches footballs for a living. Civil Surgeon Dr RL Bassan said, “The family of the said patient did come to me. Sometimes, it takes 24 hours for the baby to be expelled. The staff had informed them about the state of the baby. They were taking proper care of the mother.” |
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Colonies adjoining cantt dogged by problems
Jalandhar, September 3 The problem is so grave in most of the localities that the residents are left with no option but to approach the main road through a pool of water. A Jalandhar Tribune team visited some colonies adjoining the cantonment and found that the situation was quite bad in some of the areas. From Mehnga Singh Colony, Mohinder Singh Colony, Golden Colony, Bunga Colony and Birring village almost all residents claimed that they were facing a major problem in commuting through these stretches. “We have been running the show through little efforts from our side. There have been occasions when we gathered funds on our own to make some approach road but to no avail,” said Ajay Kumar. “Continous rains in the past have further led to more trouble for us. The sewerage is being laid at a snail’s pace and we have been left with no option but to face the acute problem of water logging. The area councillor also seems to have turned a blind eye towards this huge inconvenience,” said Vijay Kumar, a resident.
“Leave alone walking through the muddy roads, even commuting by cars is very difficult. There have been times when our vehicles, especially cars, got struck in the slush and huge potholes. Often, in such circumstances, we had to take the help of cranes to lift the vehicles,” said Kirpal Singh, another resident. Jalandhar Central MLA Manoranjan Kalia was not available for comments.
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Colleges ‘making excuses’ for not giving info
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, September 4 Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti had on August 14 asked the District Welfare Officer (DWO) to seek information regarding Scheduled Castes (SC) admissions against the reserved seats from all senior secondary schools and colleges of the district. The District Welfare Officer, Rajinder Singh, prepared a pro forma for the information required, including total admissions in each course, seats reserved for SC students in each course, number of such seats filled and fee levied on each student. The officer had dispatched the format to all colleges while seeking information by August end. Even as the deadline has passed, most colleges have not cared to respond back, while there are others seeking more time as is the case with the Lyallpur Khalsa College for Women. The reply to the notice from the college read that it wanted more time as it had got the copy of the notice, dated August 24, on August 28 at 2.30 pm. The authorities of the MGN College of Education, too, have responded saying, “Since the admissions to B.Ed are still on, we need more time to respond. Anyways, we have told all SC students having annual family income less than Rs 2 lakh to furnish income certificates and seek claim from them under the scheme.” The authorities of DAV College went ahead saying that it did not have any trades to offer to the students as it was a degree college. The DWO plans to write back a missive saying that the scheme was applicable to all courses, including BA, MA, B.Com, B.Sc and others offered even in a degree college. “We will ask them to furnish details of all sorts of admissions,” said the DWO. The staff of the Government Tanning Institute, however, has furnished the complete detail claiming that 33 SC students had sought admission under the scheme. The principal has given the names of each student, while also mentioning the details of amount charged from them, including use of computers and a refundable security. The Deputy Commissioner (DC) had issued orders after a group of students from Mehr Chand Polytechnic College appeared before the DWO regarding a complaint against their college authorities. The students had entered the second year of their engineering diploma course and were asked to deposit their original class X certificates with the authorities and furnish an affidavit, failing which they would not be allowed to take the benefit of the scheme. The students rued that the certificates were important to them and was used as an ID proof on various occasions. The DWO was directed by the DC to pursue the case with the principal of the college concerned and come to the rescue of the students. The DWO said once all colleges furnished the details, he also had plans to call them for a meeting and urge them to ensure the implementation of the scheme religiously in future.
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444 cases pending in dist consumer forum
Jalandhar, September 4 President of the State Consumer Commission SN Aggarwal gave the latest figures pointing that the cases related to widows, elderly and ailing persons were being heard and disposed of on priority. He said he had got set up a triple Bench in the commission as the pendency there had jumped to as high as 6,000 cases. Over the common grouse of complainants that the cost of litigation announced was too less than the amount being charged by the lawyers, he said, “We are announcing the cost to a maximum amount of Rs 5,000 as we cannot go beyond it. A higher cost would lead to further litigation with the respondents going further to the National Consumer Commission and thus leading to further lingering of the cases.” Asked if some help desk could be set up in the forum offices across districts to help those complainants, who could not afford the hefty amount being charged by the lawyers, to plead their cases on their own, he said, “It is not possible. It is rather a very hypothetical situation. What if the people on desk start acting as touts and start promoting certain lawyers?” At this, lawyers, including KC Malhotra and KK Arora, who had come to meet him, said, “The district legal aid cell can be of help to them. There also are some lawyers who agree to take up certain cases without charging a penny. We can put up their contact numbers on a board as an assistance to such needy complainants.” No additional Bench now The additional Bench, headed by Surinder Mohan, will stop functioning from now onwards. He has got transferred to Mansa. He had nearly 60 cases pending with him. He was hearing the cases on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
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Lone case for state award from city not cleared
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, September 4 The principal of Government Senior Secondary School Nehru Garden, Gurinderjit Kaur, along with two other teachers, had applied for the award, filling in forms available with the education department. The district education office had approved just her claims while rejecting two others. District Education Officer (secondary) Neelam Kumari said since there had been no communication regarding the selection of the school principal for the state awards to be given tomorrow, it was clear that her case had been rejected.
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Youth Congress activists submit memo against corruption
Jalandhar, September 4 The activists, led by Youth Congress Jalandhar Central president Paramjit Singh Bal and Youth Congress Jalandhar West vice-president Rajesh Agnihotri, demanded that strong steps should be taken immediately to check corruption.
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Although at present, the sewerage is being laid in some of
the outer areas of the cantonment, there seems little hope of its early
completion. “At least the local MLA or the area councillor should
ensure some assistance for making a service lane till the work gets
completed, as it was causing huge inconvenience,” the residents
said.
