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Jaundice outbreak in Sangat Singh Nagar
Gang of looters busted, four held
Drug dealer’s property frozen
Students yet to get training
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India tops list of women dying while giving birth
Fourth annual University Youth Festival organised
from schools and colleges
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Jaundice outbreak in Sangat Singh Nagar
Jalandhar, October 21
Waking up the Municipal Corporation (MC) from its slumber, as many as 50 people have fallen prey to jaundice outbreak in the Sangat Singh Nagar area of the city. Unclean water in the area has been said to be the cause of the outbreak. While the Health Department maintains that not more than 33 jaundice patients have been reported, the area councillor and residents claim that at least 45 to 50 patients had been reported in the area until Saturday and some more were reported today. Area residents and the councillor believe that it is the carelessness of MC authorities, which gave rise to the epidemic in the first place. Despite repeated complaints by the councillor and residents, MC teams were not sent to the area to fix the problem. It was only after the uproar yesterday that MC teams began working in the area intensely. Talking to The Tribune, Gurwinder Bunty Neelkanth, area councillor, said: “The Municipal Corporation is clearly at fault for the outbreak. I have personally brought the trouble to their notice a number of times, but no work was started to fix the problem of dirty water, for which, clearly the Water Supply Department was responsible. Pipes in the area are old and haven’t been changed for about 30 to 35 years. We had also recently worked on getting illegal connections in the area (about 2,000) cut, but the problem persisted even after that. We continued to get water with black particles and dirt in it. Ultimately, it resulted in the outbreak.” “While about 45 to 50 patients were reported until yesterday, 9 to 10 more jaundice cases were reported in the camps today. But since yesterday, health and MC teams have been working in the area. Three new water hydrants were set up and about 11 are needed. Due to closed streets in the area, water used to accumulate and hopefully the hydrants will fix that problem, too,” the councillor added. While health teams carried out surveys in the area today, an alternative water supply arrangement was also made. Civil Surgeon RL Baasan said: “As many as 33 jaundice patients were reported in the area yesterday. Today about 7 to 8 new patients were diagnosed with the disease. Medical teams held camps in the area and alternative water supply arrangements have also been made for the residents of the area. We have distributed chlorine tablets among the residents and for the coming days, we will continue to hold camps in the area.” MC Commissioner Vinay Bublani said: “We have started working in the area since yesterday. Cleaning operations began yesterday and we are also working on putting up water hydrants. We are also taking care to check the illegal connections in the area and to make sure that no sewerage blockage is left in the place.” Commenting on the delay in operation despite being informed, he said: “The MC wasn’t informed about any trouble in the area beforehand. We immediately put our teams to work despite the fact that it was a holiday. We had no information about any water-related problem in the area earlier.” official speak "We have started working in the area since yesterday. Cleaning operations began yesterday and we are also working on putting up water hydrants. We are also taking care to check the illegal connections in the area and to make sure that no sewerage blockage is left in the place." — Vinay Bublani, MC Commissioner
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Gang of looters busted, four held
Jalandhar, October 21
The police also recovered a country-made revolver, three motorcycles (one bullet and two Hero Honda Splendor), half kg intoxicant powder, two generators, sharp-edged weapons and some other valuables from their possession. The accused were identified as Mohammad Ali, hailing from Malerkotla, now residing at Dheena village, Ravi Hans of Jalandhar, Money of Nakodar, and Satnam Singh, alias Sunny, of Dhilwan village. Two members of the gang were still at large, said Subash, Station House Officer. Raids were being conducted to nab the absconding members of the gang. Ravi and Money had criminal past and several cases of snatching and theft were registered against them at various police stations of the city, he said. During investigation, the accused admitted that they had committed six incidents of snatching and several other incidents of loot and theft in the city in the past few months. Gagan Ajit Singh, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, said during further investigation of the accused, the police would likely get vital clues about their other accomplices and network.
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Drug dealer’s property frozen
Jalandhar, October 21 Inspector Bimal Kant Sharma said drug dealer Jaswinder Singh, resident of Saryala Ranua village near Banga, along with his accomplice Gurnam, alias Rama, of Nurmahal, was nabbed with 730 kg of poppy husk in 2010. The local court had then sentenced them to 10-year imprisonment, along with a fine of Rs 1 lakh each. The inspector said considering his (peddler) past record, they had frozen his illegally acquired property and the case had been sent to the competent authority in New Delhi for approval. He said the police initiated the proceedings to freeze the property acquired through ill-gotten money under Section 68-F of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. While inquiring about the assets of the drug peddler, the police found that he obtained a house worth several lakhs through his illegal means. The police had also been inquiring if the peddler owned any other movable and immovable property. If so, the same would also be attached. Diljinder Singh Dhillon, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Staff, said once the competent authority approved the freezing of the property, the proceedings for the confiscation of assets would initiate.
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Students yet to get training
Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, October 21 While none of the local special schools have special coaches to train students for the task, the Punjab Police provided a special coach to the city students for the task. But so far, not a single student has turned up for the same. Disability activist Amarjit Singh Anand had requested Police Commissioner Gaurav Yadav to provide a coach to train students for the Special Olympics about a month-and-a-half ago. The Police Commissioner made an athletics coach (a former player and presently an officer of the sub-inspector rank) available within days and it was decided that the students would be coached at the Police Lines Ground where police cadets are also trained. But even now after more than a month of the police making the coach available by going out of their way, none of the city special schools have bothered to send their children for the purpose. ADCP Navjot Singh Mahal said: "We had been told that a coach to train special children is needed. Although this is not something that is under the jurisdiction of the police, we made the provision because it is a good cause and the Police Department thought it would facilitate the special children. We have no clue why students haven't turned up." Talking to The Tribune, Amarjit Singh Anand said: "I had told the authorities of the local Udaan School, Prayaas School, Vajra AWWA Special School and the special school at St. Joseph's Convent School to send their children to be coached for the Special Olympics, but none of the schools have sent their students so far." Major Sri Kumar of Vajra AWWA Special School said: "I am currently on leave and any arrangement to send students to be coached can only be made once I come back, since I am the officer in charge. But it is a great opportunity and I will like to send my students to be coached, but only once I come back." Ranjana Bansal of Prayas School said: "We are aware of the special coaches made available for the children, but we presently do not have any means for transportation. We had written to both the Deputy Commissioner and the Police Commissioner to make arrangements for the transportation of students. Once it is done, we will be able to send our children. We hope that an arrangement will hopefully be made by Monday." ACP Jasbir Singh Rai said: "An inspector-rank officer had been made available to coach children at the Police Lines Ground. He is a former athletics player. We were rather happy that some special children will be benefitted. But we were surprised to see that leave alone any children turning up, no one had even bothered to call us about what went wrong. I had said even if they sent three or five children, we would coach them. But so far, not even a single special child has been brought to us after that." Notably, due to the non-availability of coaches and special educators in schools, none of these children are properly coached all year-round. But the schools missed an opportunity to train children even as the police went out of its way to provide it to them. Earlier this year, there was a call to train special coaches from across the state (in Patiala) in view of the upcoming Special Olympics, but no one from Jalandhar was sent because it has no special coach.
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India tops list of women dying while giving birth
Jalandhar, October 21 At present, the average national MMR of India is 212 per one lakh live births, whereas the country’s target was 109 per one lakh live births by 2015. In his paper, Paritosh Vashisht, an engineer at the IIHMR, New Delhi, presented at the Bhartiya Vigyan Sammelan and Expo 2012, which concluded here recently, the grim aspect of maternity deaths in India and raised questions about the claims made about the holistic growth of the country. “We are really behind the world when it comes to deaths of women while giving birth to their babies,” he said. Though he acknowledged the efforts of the government, NGOs and other civil bodies to contain the adverse trend of high number of maternal deaths in India, he feels that India was likely to will miss the Millennium Development Goals. “With an average national MMR of 212, it is really a sorry state of affairs . Even after 65 years of Independence, India has the dubious distinction of one the highest MMRs in the whole world," he said. He added that states like Assam were "clear laggards", with an MMR of 480 per one lakh births and Kerala has the best figures of less than 100. But in the global context, we are still far behind and need to raise awareness, generate funds and develop a sensitive attitude towards conceiving mothers. Vashisht rued, “By developing islands of prosperity amongst a vast sea of deprivation, we cannot claim to be a rapidly growing nation. We need to have a very resurgent society and it is the onus of young generation to put in their bit in removing the ills that mar our society.”
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Fourth annual University Youth Festival organised
Jalandhar, October 21 The attractive feature of the fest remained enjoyment sought by more than 20,000 viewer-students from 28 states of India and 30 countries, who encouraged participants’ performances at different scheduled venues of the university. The chief guest of the day, LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal, inaugurated the festival by lighting the traditional lamp. University students presented special cultural programme, followed by curtain raising of the fiesta encompassing competitions in Indian and western music; western and classical dances; folk dances; theatrics; literary activities (debate, elocution); fine arts (rangoli, poster making, cartooning, painting, collage), etc. The celebration also held a wide spectrum of informal events like fashion parade, rock band show, dandiya ras, added with ample range of fun and frolic-filled stalls. About 70 participating students were declared winners in different categories of competitions. On the occasion, Yuvraj Hans and Parul Gulati, star cast of an upcoming film, totally meant for celebration, added extra glamour to the fest by their thrilling presence, dance and actions.
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from schools and colleges
Jalandhar, October 21 Annual sports day Delhi Public School, Jalandhar Cantonment, celebrated the Annual Sports Day. Inter-house competitions were executed by the school. The athletics meet culminated with the cross country race. As many as 620 students participated in the race. While junior boys and girls and senior girls ran a distance of 3 km, senior boys covered a distance of 5 km. Scholarships distributed Scholarships were given to poor and brilliant school/college students of Ramgarhia Institutions, Phagwara, and Government Girls High School, Chachoki, by S. Lakha Singh Bahra Charitable Trust, Chachoki, Phagwara. As many as 24 college students and 46 school students were given scholarships of Rs 89,200. College students were given Rs 1,800 each, while school students were given Rs 1,000 each. S. Jarnail Singh Wahid, chairman, Markfed, Punjab, was the chief guest and Som Prakash, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Punjab, presided over the function. Fancy dress competition CT Public School organised Inter-School Solo Dance and Fancy Dress Competitions. Tiny tots from more than 20 schools participated in the mega show. Vanya and Arushi won first prizes in fancy dress and solo dance, respectively. The first position in fancy dress competition was bagged by Sanskriti KMV School, while Seth Hukam Chand Public School and Shiv Jyoti Public School, won the second and third positions, respectively. In solo dance category, Shiv Jyoti Public School won acclaim by standing first, Mayor World stood second and the third position was acquired by Shiv Jyoti Public School and Little Flower Play Way School. Clothes donated In consonance with the Joy of Giving Week, which is celebrated across the world, the Social Welfare Club of Police DAV donated a huge quantity of old clothes, toys, stationery, shoes and other material for the needy people of the rural and remote areas in collaboration with NGO, Goonj. On this occasion, a short skit was also presented in the morning assembly, which exhorted the students to donate generously for the underprivileged section of society. Daljit Kaur, representative of Goonj, thanked the students for their generous contribution. Campaign to save tigers To give message "save our national animal tiger", an awareness campaign was held at the St Soldier Group of Institutions in which students Munish, Saurav, Chandan, Monu, Anirudh, Prashant, Rajinder, Prince, Kamal painted their faces with tiger painting. They also carried posters with messages “save tigers”, “tigers prevent climate change, “tiger is a symbol of our national pride”. The students also dressed themselves as tigers and had fun on trees and ground. They also gave messages to protect trees and forests for the safety of tigers. Special assembly on environment Kamla Nehru Public School, Chak Hakim, Phagwara, had a special assembly on environment, culture and heritage under the project “Waves of Change” launched by the CBSE. The Thematic Task Force (TTF) presented the report on various activities done under the theme. A talk show based on the importance of plants and herbs was presented by the students of class XI. The TTF team said the students had a heritage visit to Maharaja Ranjit Singh Fort at Phillaur on October 1. The school has adopted house sparrow, pigeon as school birds and squirrel as school animal. The student had a visit to Chak Hakim village on September 29 and measured the girth of trees. This created environmental awareness among the students. Champion’s trophy St. Soldier Divine Public School, Bhogpur branch, held a champion’s trophy in the Inter-St Soldier Volleyball Championship. In best of five sets, Bhogpur branch beat the host Mann Nagar School with 25-23, 25-23, 20-25, 25-24, 25-19. Players were honoured with the winning trophy.
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DIPS School, Nurmahal, organised Sahodaya Inter-School Quiz Competition on the school premises. As many as 30 schools took part in this contest, which was divided into two rounds. Only four teams qualified for the final round. There was a cut-throat competition among all four teams. Innocent Heart Public School,
Jalandhar, won the contest and bagged 1st prize, followed by CT Public School and Apeejay School, Mahavir
Marg, which secured second and third positions, respectively.
