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Double delight for border town
Panghura launched for abandoned children
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Man gets 10-yr RI on charge of raping minor
Police files challan in rape
case in 24 hours
Rise in theft cases in Fazilka
130 bags of wheat looted from godown
AIDS awareness drive launched
Abohar MC plans to hand over sewerage system to PWSSB
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Double delight for border town
Ferozepur, February 5 Earlier, the ministry had approved the plan to develop a satellite centre of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, at this place besides a state-of-the-art eyecare hospital which will come up at cost of Rs 4.20 crores here. Confirming the development, Parminder Singh Pinki, MLA, Ferozepur, said an amount of Rs 3.75 crores will be spent to establish a trauma centre under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) for which a survey has already been carried out. Pinki said in the event of any accident or medical emergency, the patients belonging to the border region had to rush to bigger towns which consumed a lot of time and money, and even proved fatal for the patient at times. However, after the commissioning of the trauma centre, all such cases will be handled here itself. Pinki said the union government was making all possible efforts to improve healthcare facilities in remote and neglected areas. About the proposed PGIMER satellite centre, Pinki said it will have a 100-bed hospital which will be linked to PGIMER, Chandigarh, for referral, training and consultation purposes. He said that provision round-the-clock emergency service along with out-patient and in-patient facilities will also be provided at the centre on which an initial investment of around Rs 200 crores will be made. |
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Panghura launched for abandoned children
Ferozepur, February 5 The inaugural ceremony was presided over by Napinder Kaur, wife of Raminder Singh, Commissioner, Ferozepur division. Giving details about the scheme, Charanjit Kaur, chairperson, District Hospital Welfare section, said the idea was to take care of the unwanted children which are at times abandoned at isolated places or even in garbage dumps by the parents who do not wish to bring up that child. "Though it has been seen that most of the time, it is the girl child which is abandoned, in the present day society which is seeing a decline in moral values, at times even the male child is also disowned by the parents who do not wish to be identified for various reasons," she said. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Manjit Singh Narang, who was instrumental in launching the "Panghura" scheme, said any person can leave the child in the cradle and sound the bell. The staff of Red Cross Society will immediately inform the officials whenever a child is left in the cradle. The child will be provided all medical assistance at once for which several hospitals have been short-listed, he said. Thereafter, the Red Cross will look after the child till the time the baby is handed over to some government approved organization with the help of the social security department. Ashok Behal, secretary, District Red Cross Society, officials from various department besides representatives of NGOs were also present on the occasion. |
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Residents protest against rise in hepatitis C cases
Faridkot, February 5 Demanding free treatment for the patients of hepatitis C and effective early detection of the disease, the members of Naujawan Bharat Sabha and residents of Jhok Sarkari said the health department was not paying attention to the rising graph of the disease. Two months back, a random sampling of blood of 1510 individuals in Jhok Sarkari village of Faridkot, Kahan Singh Wala in Ferozepur and Jagat Singh Wala in Muktsar had revealed that 30 per cent population of these villages was actively infected with hepatitis C and over 80 per cent of population was significantly anaemic. "The prevalence of the disease is much higher than the national average," said Rajinder Singh, an activist of Naujawan Sabha. "While the selection of three villages from these three districts was made at random, there should be thorough health check-up of the people," said Gurpreet Kishanpura. Like cancer, the treatment of hepatitis C is very costly. Therefore, the intervention of the health department is must, he said. Rakesh Arora, Civil Surgeon, Faridkot, said the health department would take up the matter with higher authorities so that there was mapping of hepatitis C on the pattern of cancer. |
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Man gets 10-yr RI on charge of raping minor
Barnala, February 5 The judge also awarded Mandeep Kumar five years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 under Section 363 of the IPC, seven years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 under Section 366 of the IPC, seven years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 under Section 467 of the IPC, three years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000 each under Sections 466 and 468 of the IPC, and seven years' imprisonment and fine of Rs 5,000 under Section 471 of the IPC. All the sentences shall run concurrently. Jagjit Singh and his wife Kiranjit Kaur, both accused in the case, were acquitted by the court. As per the information, the father of a 14-year-old girl had lodged a complaint at Rurreke Kalan police station, about the rape of his minor daughter. On the basis of his complaint, the police had registered a case on February 22, 2012 under Sections 376, 363, 366, 466, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC against Mandeep Kumar and some other persons. The complainant had stated that Mandeep Kumar, in connivance with other persons, had misguided his daughter and taken her to a Ludhiana court for the registration of marriage by showing her as an adult with the help of a fake birth certificate. |
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Police files challan in rape
case in 24 hours
Ropar, February 5 Senior Superintendent of Police Inder Mohan Singh said it was probably for the first time in the state that a challan had been filed in the court within a day of the crime. A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her distant relative, Manoj Mishra (20), at her house yesterday. The child was taken to the Civil Hospital from where doctors referred her to the PGI, Chandigarh, as no gynaecologist was available there. |
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Rise in theft cases in Fazilka
Fazilka, February 5 The thieves struck at the house of one Suman Kumar of local Basti Hazoor Singh and took away goods worth Rs 1.5 lakhs and an equal amount in cash. The victim, a teacher Suman Kumar, has in a statement recorded with the city police, claimed that the thieves decamped with gold ornaments, a laptop and Rs 1.5 lakh in cash on Monday evening. The money had been brought from the bank for the treatment of his father. The thieves also broke open the lock of an office of a chartered accountant, Ramesh Babbar, at the local grain market and stole three sets of computers. Besides, 15 sets of computer from seven different schools of the district were stolen in the last three months. District Education Officer, Sandeep Dhuria said these computer sets belonged to rural schools in village Behak Bodla, Bhangalan, Chack Khundwala, Kanwanwali, Pakka Chisti, Karnikhera and Aliana. Interestingly, the thieves decamped with goods including five sets of computer from a library at the government school in village Chack Khundwala on January 14. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Fazilka, Ram Parkash, clarified that the department is facing a shortage of police personnel as the Home Guard jawans have left for duty in the Tripura assembly elections. Similarly a number of Punjab Police jawans have been deputed for the Moga by-election. He, however, assured that the thefts would be checked with an iron hand. |
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130 bags of wheat looted from godown
Abohar, February 5 They made the four security guards captive and locked them in a room. The staff was able to come out later and informed the officials. It was found that the miscreants had taken away 130 bags of wheat. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Veer Chand who visited the godown said it appeared to be the handiwork of an organised gang. Further investigations were in progress. A day earlier also, miscreants had struck at the new grain market. Attempts were made to burgle at least five private commercial complexes in addition to the branch office of the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC). The complex that houses the office of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar was among the buildings targeted. — OC
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Abohar, February 5 While inaugurating the cluster-level workshop at the DAV College here, assistant director, Youth Service Department, Dr Kamaljit Singh Sidhu, claimed that the target for constituting 20 Red Ribbon Clubs in the colleges of Fazilka, Ferozepur and Muktsar districts had been achieved. Each club will be utilizing grant worth Rs 2,500 to organize awareness rallies, seminars, poster making competitions etc during the current financial year, he said. Thirty-five representatives of the colleges attended the workshop today. Senior Medical Officer (SMO), Seetogunno, Dr JC Takkar, mass education officer Anil Bhambhu and Tarsem Sharma, a professor, dwelt on various aspects of HIV and drugs besides exhorting the participants to promote blood and eye donation campaigns. PU senator Dr Sanjeev Kumar Arora presided over the function. President of the Bharat Vikas Parishad, Sandeep Watts, was also present on the occasion. — OC |
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Abohar MC plans to hand over sewerage system to PWSSB
Abohar, February 5 Justice Rajesh Bindal of the Punjab and Haryana HC had last week directed the state government to release Rs 65 lakh to the cash-strapped council to put the sewerage system in order. The HC had fixed February 11 as the next date of hearing as the petitioners in the case, the Congress councillors, pleaded that the people were yet to get relief from the sewerage woes. The sub-divisional office of the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board (PWSSB) had to be shifted from Abohar to Fazilka in May 2010 as the Municipal Council run by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had not extended the contract for the maintenance of water supply and disposal of sewerage. Prior to this, BJP workers had attacked a sub-divisional engineer of the PWSSB office here during a protest over the inadequate supply of drinking water to some colonies. — OC |
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Ferozepur, February 5
