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Marriage palaces given 6 months
Property dealers throng tehsil complex
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JDA move to alter property use
Government schools put in money to keep mid-day meal hearth burning
Survey to focus on debts, investments
HUPA released Rs 32 cr to Punjab from 1997-2012
Panel to review fire safety measures at government buildings
ADCP to probe laptop theft
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Marriage palaces given 6 months
Jalandhar, December 19 Giving details on the matter, Principal Secretary SK Sandhu said that while earlier the palace owners had been asked to make structural changes as per the norms in three months, the time period had now been extended to six months. He said the palace owners had also been allowed six months' time to furnish NOCs related to national highways authorities and the Forest Department. “Instead of paying half the dues on account of he CLU in the first go, they have now been given the liberty to pay up in four six monthly installments. As another decision taken in their favour, the palace owners will now also have to make fewer toilets,” Sandhu specified. While as per the policy announced earlier, the palaces in more than 2 acre land and falling on link roads could not be regularised, the existing ones have been exempted, said Sandhu. It is this amendment which has brought cheer to a few palaces, which were otherwise on the verge of closure. The amended policy also entails relaxation of a norm as per which the entry point from any corner of the hall could not be more than 10 metres away. There, however, is no relaxation regarding reduction in the amount to be levied, parking norms, frontal and back setbacks and other structural points. The local committees formed on the issue will now decide the cases by January 15.
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Property dealers throng tehsil complex
Jalandhar, December 19 With an aim to plugging the evasion of stamp duty, the revenue authorities had, on August 1 this year, directed the sub-registrars to get a new proforma of the transactions filled from all the applicants coming for getting the power of attorneys done. The directions could be implemented effectively for just about 29 days. Perhaps amidst pressure from realtors, councillors and local leaders, the government had, on August 29, issued orders to allow registries to be done on the basis of Power of Attorney for two months. The orders read that the old system that prevailed prior to August 1 be allowed till the orders got implemented uniformly in the entire state. On October 22, there again were orders of extending the provision for another two months till December 31. Apprehending that there could be no extension this time, those into the business have been flocking to the tehsil offices for getting their work done well in time. During a recent monthly meeting, officials of the revenue department had asked Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti of how things would be followed post December 31. The latter had told them that in case there would be no extension, the previous orders regarding restriction on registries would be applied. When contacted, Bharti said that he would ask the officials to comply by whatever would be further orders from the government. As per the orders passed on August 1, the sub-registrars had been directed to also register all those documents which reflected the transaction, take details of the bank account of the buyer and seller, get copies of bank statement, amount paid and received and the PAN number of the buyer and seller to verify the mentioned details. The details thus furnished were also to be passed onto the Income Tax Department for checking the further evasion of the taxes. Officials have further directed the revenue officials to register only those transactions which they find genuine and initiate relevant inquiry in all suspicious cases. The officials had introduced the reform when they realised that the number of registries done in a month were almost equivalent to the number of power of attorneys, which meant that there were very few genuine buyers and the land was simply changing hands between property dealers who were not just avoiding stamp duty but also evading income tax. “All those documents, including power of attorney, which fall under the provisions of the Indian Registration Act 1908 have to be registered in time as per the law. Wherever there has been a transaction involved, stamp duty has to be levied as per the Indian Stamp Act 1899,” SDM-1 Iqbal Singh Sandhu said. |
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JDA move to alter property use
Jalandhar, December 19 While the officials had, till June this year, planned the raising of two chunks of commercial blocks on the 18.97 acres in the old Central Jail building here, the plan is now being revised for constructing residential accommodation. Similarly, the old irrigation office site on Kapurthala which, too, had been earlier proposed for total commercial construction is now being reworked to make the frontal portion available for commercial use, leaving the area at the rear for the construction of residential towers. Principal Secretary Housing and Urban Development SK Sandhu confirmed the same. He said the old jail site now would have maximum area earmarked for the construction of flats, with small area reserved for use as commercial property. The jail had been shifted to Kapurthala and since then the demolition of the site had begun. Earlier, there were plans to make the commercial hub open from all sides and have a multi-tier parking. In the process to provide better access to the then proposed commercial hub ahead of the Assembly polls, the demolition of a few residential and commercial properties had been done to widen the road starting from Football Chowk via Basti Adda road crossing the Mission Compound area. Done in a hurried manner, it invited litigation wrangles for the government departments involved in the process. The matter is pending in the Supreme Court. New plan
The Jalandhar Development Authority is in the process of reworking the earlier proposed plans of using prime properties as commercial hubs by now converting these for residential purpose
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Government schools put in money to keep mid-day meal hearth burning
Jalandhar, December 19 While they earlier bought cylinders at one-third of the current prices (Rs 420), they have not yet been provided with any extra money or subsidies to meet the escalated costs. In small schools, sans playgrounds, the practice is exposing students to a lot of pollution as mid-day meals have to be cooked in the limited space available. In many schools, kitchens have been shifted to corners near bathrooms to avoid smoke polluting the premises, in turn creating insanitary conditions. Schools are making use of quintals of wood since they cannot afford cylinders. Staff at Government Primary School, Maqsudan, (which has a student strength of 350) said, “In any given month, we can’t make do with less than eight gas cylinders. But since we can’t afford them now, we are using wood.” “Earlier, we needed at the most 2 quintals of wood per month, but now we need at least eight quintals of wood for cooking per month, whatever the (student) strength be. We have to spend at least Rs 5,000 on wood fuel per month. Every month, we are putting in at least Rs 2,000 from our pockets.” Cooking at the school was being done right next to the passage for the lavatories. Staff at Urban Local Bodies School Banda Bahadur has been faced with a even worse situation as the gurdwara where the school is situated has been given little space by the bathrooms for the school to use for cooking. “We have 108 kids and need at least two cylinders for mid-day meal each month. We get Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 per month, but the expenses incurred by us easily touch Rs 7,000 to Rs 8,000 or more per month. Rs 1,500 gets spent in buying a week of ration only,” the staff said. Officials in charge of the mid-day meal also say that for the past two months, this has been the story of every school in the district. “Barring some big schools, all schools in the district are using wood to make the mid-day meal work. They have to shell out extra money and since the government hasn’t compensated them for the increased expenses, they will either have to spend from their own pockets or adjust it in the coming months’ expenses due to which the quality of the meal will suffer,” said members of the mid-day Meal officials of the district. Other small schools like those at Tali Mohalla, Kabir Nagar (ULB), Panj Peer, Kot Amin Khan, Harnam Das Pura (ULB), among others, grapple with problems of both space shortage and pollution due to fumes. Staff at Khurla Kingra High School said, “Schools across the district (and state) are weighed down by this problem and at places, the quality of the mid-day meal has been greatly hit. It is the need of the hour that schools be provided with cylinders at subsidised rates. Schools also battle pollution." DEO (Secondary) Neelam Kumari said, “We have got reports from schools that they are forced to use wood as fuel due to the high prices of cylinders, but we cannot make a move or issue any instructions unless we are directed to do so." "I do think schools should get cylinders at lesser rates because the budget is certainly being affected adversely. We are awaiting instructions from the DGSE office in this regard.” Despite hike in both cylinder prices and commodities, mid-day meal rates stay at Rs 3.11 (for primary) and Rs 4.11 (for high schools). Livid school staff also said that despite all their efforts to keep the scheme running, mid-day meal officials behaved rudely with them even as they disregarded the suffering quality of the scheme itself. Across district, schools forced to move to wood. Many shelling out extra money from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 (depending on student strength) to keep scheme afloat. Make-shift brick stoves replace gas stoves. Hearths by the bathrooms and polluted school environs common sights |
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Survey to focus on debts, investments
Jalandhar, December 19 The field operations division of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of the ministry would collect this information from January 1 to December 31 next year. NSSO Deputy Director General and Regional Head, Punjab, Harbinder Singh said the survey would be conducted at 4048 randomly selected households of already chosen 92 blocks Punjab, including both rural and urban areas. As much as 1,84,000 households would be surveyed nationwide for the purpose, he added. Apart from debts and investments, information regarding land and livestock holdings (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey of agricultural households would also be gathered, said NSSO Assistant Director Arvind Gupta. While various agricultural departments would use the information collected regarding LHS, information about debt and investment would help the RBI in formulating future policies, Singh added. A number of investigators would conduct this socio-economic survey and a four-day training camp was being held from December 19 to 22 for them in Jalandhar, said NSSO Superintendent Kailash Chander. Sample surveys are being conducted by NSSO in the form of annual rounds for over sixty years, following scientific sampling techniques and statistical methods to collect socio-economic data on various subjects. Singh requested the public to provide fair information to the investigators as it would be used for statistical purposes and policy formulation and would be kept strictly confidential. NSSO Amritsar Office In charge Talwinder Singh was also present on this occasion.
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HUPA released Rs 32 cr to Punjab from 1997-2012
Phagwara, December 19 However, an amount of Rs 22 crore, released during 2011-12, had not been distributed amongst Urban Local Bodies in Punjab. The Ministry of HUPA had not made further releases to the state government for SJSRY due to non-submission of utilisation certificates. This was revealed during a training programme on capacity building for revamped Swaran Jayanti Shehri Rozgar Yojna (SJSRY) and approach to National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM), conducted by Human Settlement Management Institute, New Delhi, at Municipal Corporation, here today. The programme was inaugurated by Municipal Corporation Commissioner Satish Kumar Singla and was attended by Executive Officer Adarsh Sharma, Ex-Councillors Malkit Singh Raghotra, Gurmit Palahi, Ranjit Singh Khurana, Veera Ram, Sarbjit Kaur, Kuldeep Sardana, Jitinder Varmani, Sushil Lata, Sukhbir Kaur and Mahesh Maria. About 100 officers, members of public, NGOs, social and political activists participated in the programme. The programme focused on objectives and components of SJSRY/NULM and formation of Self Help Groups (SHGs). The resource person for the programme, Dr SK Gupta, senior fellow, HSMI, New Delhi, urged the participants to form a large number of SHGs to help the urban poor to initiate group income generating activities.
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Panel to review fire safety measures at government buildings
Kapurthala, December 19 This has come after a fire broke out in a portion of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) office in June this year. The SSP’s office is located in Kacheheri Complex, which houses a number of government offices, including DC office and courts. The committee, under the supervision of Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC, General) Gurpreet Singh Khera, would prepare a report regarding the fire safety measures at these buildings. When contacted, Dayal said “No time limit has been fixed for the committee to submit its report. The committee has been set up as a precautionary measure.”€ť Executive officers of the concerned sub-divisions, EOs of municipal councils, PWD Xen, PSPCL Superintendent Engineer, Water Supply and Sanitation Xen and the district heads of concerned buildings have been included in the committee. A fire officer has been appointed as the convener of the district-level committee. Alaknanda said fire safety measures would be reviewed at government education institutions, hospitals and other important government buildings at sub-division level, with the help of district education officer, civil surgeon and heads of other departments, under the supervision of SDMs. A detailed report in this regard would be submitted to the district committee. Proper arrangements would be made at these buildings as per the recommendations of the report, to avoid loss of life and property, Dayal added.
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Recording studio inaugurated
Annual day celebrations
The two-day annual day celebrations of the Apeejay School, Rama Mandi, Jalandhar, ‘Abhyuday’ culminated here today. The chief guest for the day was Isha Kalia, IAS, SDM Jalandhar-II. The function began with accordance of floral welcome to the chief guest followed by lighting of the lamp. Principal Madhu Sharma welcomed the guests and read out the school report. The cultural show ‘Abhyuday’ depicted Indian history, culture, tradition and values through various dances, enactments, festivals and achievements. Faculty development programme
A three-day PTU-sponsored faculty development programme on ‘IBM DB’ concluded at the Apeejay Institute of Management, Technical Campus, Jalandhar. The programme was organised by the school of Information Technology. Around 35 teachers from five engineering colleges attended the programme. The event aimed at imparting necessary technical skills through hands-on sessions to the young faculty of engineering colleges. Yogesh Sharma, technical consultant for IBM, Florence Fennel Informatica Private Ltd, delivered expert talks on various topics like information and data models, relational model constraints, database logging and working with XML data during the programme. Faculty exchange programme
Ramgarhia College of Education organised a faculty exchange programme in the college today. Under this programme, Dr Ravjeet Kaur and Dr Meharban Singh, assistant professors, MGN College of Education, Jalandhar, delivered lectures on the topic ‘The standards of practice for teaching profession’. Principal Dr Surinderjit Kaur introduced and welcomed the guests. Bharpur Singh Bhogal, chairman cum president, Ramgarhia Educational Council, congratulated the principal and teachers for the event. Classical dance workshop
A two-day UGC-sponsored workshop on the topic ‘shastriya nritya ke bhavnatmak ang mein paramparik gayan shailiyon ka prachalan’ would be held at the local BD Arya Girls College in Jalandhar on December 20th and 21st. The workshop would discuss the singing styles traditionally associated with classical dance. Various aspects and periods of these singing styles would also be discussed at the workshop. Sculpture workshop
Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, is organising a 10-day regional sculpture workshop from December 20-29, in collaboration with the Lalit Kala Akademi, Garhi, New Delhi. Ten sculptors of India would be participating in the workshop. It would be inaugurated on December 20 by eminent sculptor Rajender Tiku, who will also deliver a talk on the significance of the art. Sculptors Rattan Singh, Kailash Singh, Anish Tikku, Koshal Kumar, Hridav Prakash, Mohinder Mastana, Sonika Mann, Sabnam Khan, Rupalika and Dharmjit Singh will be participating at the workshop. |
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ADCP to probe laptop theft
Jalandhar, December 19 Yadav handed over the supervision of the theft case to the ADCP following a delegation of city journalists met him in this regard. He also directed the Rama Mandi SHO inspector Baljinder Singh to question the members of various gangs likely to be involved in the theft. Some unidentified persons stole city photojournalist Kulwant Matharu’s bag containing his laptop, camera, flash, external hard disc, digital diary and valuable documents after breaking the right window pane of his Maruti Esteem car on Monday. Hoping for a breakthrough in this case at the earliest, Dhillon said the Mac number of the stolen laptop had been put on surveillance to nab the thieves. Matharu had gone to get his car washed at Vikas Motors located in the service lane near Lawrence Public School on the Amritsar-Delhi national highway Number 1 on Monday at 4.15 pm. “As some cars were already parked inside, I parked my car outside Vikas Motors and went inside waiting for my turn,” he said. “When I came back after a few minutes, I was surprised to see the right window pane of my car (PB 08 AT 1388) broken. Soon I came to know that my bag containing valuable items were missing.”
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issuing of the registries on the basis of power of attorney could be reimposed after December 31, the tehsil complex here is witnessing a huge rush of property dealers.
The Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation will focus on debts and investments of the public during a nationwide survey being conducted next year.
Cambridge International School opened a recording studio on its campus, which was inaugurated by Punjabi singer Hans Raj Hans.