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Rising crime in Amritsar
North Zone Inter-University Youth Fest begins
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MC staff burn garbage on roadside with impunity
Stray dog menace poses risk on many city streets
Educational conference from Nov 9
Workshop for teachers held
'No chances for revival of terrorism'
Seven days on, no trace of abducted sisters
Fake currency seized
BBK DAV win inter-college ball-badminton championship |
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'Outsiders' target city
PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 7 Following the arrest of four persons in the Rs 41-lakh robbery case in which an employee of a money exchanger in the Katra Jaimal Singh area was shot at and looted, it came to light that a majority of the accused were from Jalandhar, who had hatched the conspiracy in connivance with a walled city resident. The probe into the killing of a trader Munish Khanna by unidentified assailants also pointed towards the involvement of outsiders. Though the police sources claimed to have zeroed in on the accused involved in the crime, they added that somewhere in the investigations, miscreants from outside the city had committed the crime. However, police officials refrained from confirming this. ADGP (Law and Order) SK Sharma, during his visit to the city, also hinted at the involvement of outsiders in the crime. Concerned at this, the police department launched special checking drives first in Ludhiana and yesterday in Amritsar City. The city police, along with the Border range police, launched the drive and checked about 2,000 vehicles, including buses, trucks, cars, jeeps, three-wheelers and two-wheelers, at every entry and exit point of the city. The police impounded about 16 vehicles under the Motor Vehicles Act owing to various reasons, while 60 vehicles were challaned. The police recovered a huge quantity of blunt and sharp-edged weapons, while revolvers and pistols seized were later released after verification. The police also seized Rs 28.50 lakh, which was later let off after verification.
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North Zone Inter-University Youth Fest begins
Amritsar, November 7 More than 1,100 student-artistes of 28 universities from all over Northern India are participating in the competitions of music, theatre, dance, literary and fine arts. This festival is being hosted by Guru Nanak Dev University under the aegis of the Association of Indian Universities
(AIU), New Delhi, and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Prof SN
Puri, president of the Association of Indian Universities and Vice-Chancellor, Central Agricultural University,
Imphal, was the chief guest, while Prof Ajaib Singh Brar, Vice-Chancellor, of Guru Nanak Dev University, presided over the occasion. Sampson David, cultural coordinator, and deputy secretary,
AIU, and RK Dhand, Vikram University, Ujjain, MP, were the guests of
honour. Eminent singers and alumni, Jasbir Jassi, Amrinder Gill, Sarabjit Cheema and Satinder Satti were also honored on the occasion by the university. Dr Jagjit
Kaur, Director, Youth Welfare, detailed the achievements of the department. While congratulating the Vice-Chancellor for organising this festival, Prof Puri said 400 universities in the country catered to around 1.75 crore students. He advocated that universities should encourage all students to participate in cultural and sports activities so that their hidden talent could be
recognised. He said students should participate in competitions with the true spirit of sportsmanship without bothering the results. Blessing the student-artistes, he said the energy of youth should be properly channelised for the benefit of society. “These types of youth festivals not only utilise the energy of youth for constructive purposes, but also remind them about their rich cultural heritage,” Prof Puri said. Prof Brar said universities should always encourage the constructive activity of the students. Earlier, the festival started with the cultural procession of the students from the multipurpose Gymnasium Hall to Sports Grounds of the university. The student-artistes of the university presented
gidda, bhangra and folk orchestra under the guidance of registrar Dr Inderjit Singh. Eminent singers and alumni, Jasbir
Jassi, Amrinder Gill, Sarabjit Cheema and Satinder Satti also performed on this occasion.
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MC staff burn garbage on roadside with impunity
Amritsar, November 7 Sukriti Mehta, a resident of the Race Course road, was on her way to the Beams Hospital this morning for her routine checkup at around 8 am. Just a few steps away from the hospital building, she found massive smoke emanating from a corner on the road adjoining this hospital. “It was nothing but the garbage collection staff setting garbage heaps on fire without any guilt and shame. I realised that the Beams hospital must have installed CCTV cameras all around the building for security reasons and the whole scene must have been captured. I was not wrong. On my request, officials of Beams Hospital searched this morning’s clips and there it was crystal clear how a woman came and set the heaps ablaze,” she said. On her request, the hospital staff provided her with that particular portion of the clip, which is lying with The Tribune office. The hospital staff stated that this practice was rampant and it was difficult for the residents to pass by the place in the morning, as these garbage collectors do not hesitate to light “Also, since major surgeries are being done in the hospital, it is very harmful for the patients, as it increases the chances of infection in them. Moreover, this practice is a straightaway invitation for lung infection and respiratory problems,” said a doctor, who also showed concern about the number of cars parked just beside this spot. (Remember the instance at Nehru Shopping Complex on May 8, when a parked Honda City car caught fire in the parking lot through a smouldering garbage heap). Earlier, too, complaints about the MC employees resorting to such a practice were received, but the MC officials were in a denial mode. Cocking a snook at rules, MC employees or those engaged by the MC for garbage collection, resorting to such a practice, never accepted it. Due to the lenient view of the MC authorities, even in the historic Ram Bagh, the Summer Palace of erstwhile Maharaja Ranjit Singh, where residents come to breathe fresh air in the morning and stroll in the evening, garbage collectors burn heaps of refuse, apparently to avoid the hassle of lifting it and dumping it at the designated spot at Bhaktanwala. Numerous times this grave issue was brought to the notice of the MC authorities, but to no avail. Residents who stroll here in the mornings and evenings complained that they come in the Bagh to breathe fresh air, but it had become otherway round. “The MC men routinely burn the garbage in the Bagh, little realising the damage they caused to the environment. We have questioned them many a time but they do not listen to our pleas,” said a resident.
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Stray dog menace poses risk on many city streets
Amritsar, November 7 Several streets in the Kot Khalsa area are so much infested with the menace that residents have abandoned moving out of the four walls of their houses after sunset. Rajbir Singh, a resident of Gali Loharan Wali in the Kot Khalsa area, said that recently he could not move out of his residence to get his ailing son treated at night. He said he was not alone regarding this, but many residents of the locality do the same. He said inhabitants of the locality were a harried lot, as over a period of time, many visitors and residents of the locality had been bitten by stray dogs. The Kot Khalsa area falls under ward number 60 and its Akali councillor Sukhbir Singh accepted that the number of dogs had swelled and reports of their menace were trickling in. He said he would take up the issue with the leader of his party in the house to stem the menace. A resident of Poddar Colony on the GT road Chander Kumar said the menace of dogs had increased in almost all lanes of the colony. In order to avoid any untoward incident, the parents do not allow children to venture out of their houses in the evening. Similarly, Jatinder
Marwaha, a resident of Chitta katra inside the walled city, said the menace of stray dogs has grown in recent times. He added that stray dogs posed a grave threat to the health of passersby as they are not vaccinated. Besides, being stray they consume unhygienic food and stay in unhealthy conditions, which adds to bacterial growth and various diseases in them. He added that the menace of dogs was more terrifying in the congested narrow lanes of the interior city. He added that street dogs doubled as night watchmen of localities. However, their large number and living in unhygienic conditions and consuming filthy things made them carriers of diseases. A social worker, Surjit Sharma, said dogs chase the riders of two-wheelers and bicycles to bite them. He said aged, children and women were vulnerable to their attacks and injuries. He said cases of dog bites were rising and victims had to undergo severe pain and expensive treatment. Dog population is anticipated to cross over 30,000 now, as the population was pegged at 25,000 within the municipal corporation limits in the 2007 census. After remaining in operation for a couple of months, the minimally invasive vas occulsion
(MIVO) technique to sterilise male dogs was abandoned after the Animal Welfare Board prohibited it. The technique, developed by principal investigators Prof RCM
Kaza, Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, Dr Baljit
Kaur, State NSV Trainer Punjab, and co-investigators Dr Simrat Sagar Singh and Dr NS
Saini, both from Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
(GADVASU), Ludhiana, was introduced here on August 14, 2009. Animal Husbandry deputy director Dr Jagdish Chander Shori said, at present, his department was not performing the sterlisation
programme. He said the demand for more funds and kits had been forwarded to the Municipal Corporation to conduct open surgeries. He added that open surgery needs more funds, as it requires a 10-day treatment, including three days before surgery and seven days post surgery care of female dogs. Besides, he stated that this could only be done through a campaign which seeks massive involvement of NGOs.
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Educational conference from Nov 9
Amritsar, November 7 Following a meeting to review the arrangements here today, Chief Khalsa Diwan president Charanjit Singh Chadha said the three-day conference would begin with bhog of Sri Akhand Paath and Kirtan in which main aims and goals, along with the programmes of the conference, would be discussed in detail. On the same day, the subject committee would hold the meeting in which all members of the Executive Committee and the Chief Khalsa Diwan would participate along with reputed social personalities. Representatives of Sikh community would discuss different problems related to improving the standard of education and would formulate resolutions to make the way forward. After the approval of these resolutions by conference, it would be presented to the community, the government and related departments so that they could be motivated to progressive developments in the field of education and others. On November 9, the event would be inaugurated by SGPC chief Avtar Singh
Makkar, which would be followed by a grand Kirtan Darbar. The second day of the conference would begin with “Aassa Ji Di
Waar” Kirtan and “Nagar Kirtan” will start from Gurdwara Singh
Sabha, Model Town, Ludhiana. On the concluding day, Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal would preside over the conference. All problems relating to the Sikh Community would be discussed and great Sikh personalities would be honoured for their services.
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Workshop for teachers held
Amritsar, November 7 Dr G.
Balasubramanian, a former education officer at the CBSE, was the resource person. He told the teachers not to only teach, but also reach onto their pupils. Through a series of anecdotes, he motivated the teachers to introspect their own classroom behaviour and change it for a better output. He gave demonstrative examples for increasing interactive learning, engaging emotions, stimulating senses, including visual, audio leading to better involvement, renewed interest leading to improved outcome. This was followed by a lively interactive question- answer session. “Teaching today has become one of the most challenging jobs. To meet the surging demands of the profession, a teacher has to be competent and motivated at all times. Hence, inspirational seminars have become need of the hour,” said Aakash
Khandelwal, member of the School Management who presided over the occasion.
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'No chances for revival of terrorism'
Amritsar, November 7 Stating this, SK Sharma, ADGP, Law and Order, while interacting with media here today, said that the state government had written to the Government of India about the increased movements of radical groups and militant outfits living outside the country. The police department had formed a dossier of as many as 1,072 anti-social and suspicious elements, including 27 sympathizers of the radical outfits living across Punjab. “The police department has been keeping a close watch on each and every activity of the sympathisers of radical groups taking asylum in foreign countries also. We have complete intelligence inputs on their movements, besides their source of funding and what are they doing to mobilise the vulnerable youths,” said the ADGP.
— TNS
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Seven days on, no trace of abducted sisters
Amritsar, November 7 “I don’t know why Gobind and his wife (the accused couple) have kidnapped my children,” said Poonam, victims’ mother. Poonam has been doing menial jobs to look after her three daughters aged eight, three and five after her husband separated from her a few years ago. The incident has also brought to the fore that despite orders residents do not care to inform the concerned police station
about the antecedents of their tenants. In this particular case, Gobind and his wife with an 11-year-old daughter had rented a room in the neighbourhood of Poonam. The owner of the building had not inform the Majitha road police about his new tenant. Joga Singh, SHO, Sadar police station, said he could not say anything in the case as investigation was on.
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