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Industrialist beaten to death
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Enabling visually challenged to convert Punjabi text into clear audio format
Project fails to combat child labour
From Schools and colleges
Man, son held for staging robbery drama in Nakodar
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Industrialist beaten to death
Jalandhar, February 27 Sources said Darshan Kumar’s neighbourers, Milkhi Ram and his son Rajesh Kumar, running a rubber factory right opposite to the surgical unit, had been opposing the high volume. The incident occurred this morning when Darash Kumar was playing the cassette of “bhajans” and Milkhi Ram and his son Rajesh Kumar entered his house and indulged in arguments. The three also entered into a brawl that claimed Darshan Kumar’s life. In a complaint to the police, Parveen Kumar, son of the deceased , said his father was playing the cassette in his residence-cum manufacturing unit, while Milkhi Ram and Rajesh came to their house and started beating his father. He was also thrashed when he tried to rescue his father, Parveen Kumar added. In the scuffle, they gave heavy blows to his father on the chest, following which he collapsed on the ground and died. The police has registered a case under Sections 323, 452 and 304 of the IPC at the Division No 5 police station. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) RPS Sandhu said the victim’s son sustained injuries on his neck and was admitted to the Civil Hospital. A hunt had been launched to nab the accused, he added. |
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Construction charges for all 8 zones fixed at Rs 5,000
Jalandhar, February 27 To evaluate the average cost of construction, the officials took the cost of construction of top-class commercial buildings at Rs 1,200 per sq ft, top residential building at Rs 750 per sq ft, average residential construction at Rs 500 per sq ft and industry at Rs 350 per sq ft. The mean of all the four constructions converted in per sq m came out to be Rs 7,535 per sq m, which has now been lowered to Rs 5,000 per sq m.
The members also decided to take the mean of collector rates of each zone as the average rate per sq m. The total average rate would be calculated adding up this average rate with the standard cost of construction of Rs 5,000 per sq m. It will be on this total average that various factors such as those of usage, rental or self-occupied and year of construction would be worked out for calculation of property tax of each dwelling. Deputy Commissioner Shruti Singh chaired the meeting, which was attended by Chief Parliamentary Secretary KD Bhandari, MLA Pargat Singh and nominees of other MLAs. The meeting was also attended by Mayor Sunil Jyoti, Commissioner Viney Bublani and Joint Commissioner Anupam Kler. |
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MC sets deadline of April 15 for Jindal group
Jalandhar, February 27 The company officials had reportedly pleaded that their contract be not cancelled and they be allowed to lift garbage from dumping sites from March 30 onwards. But the MC officials insisted that the project be started as door-to-door lifting and that, too, covering half of the city. There are total 60 wards in Jalandhar. With the development, the company officials, who had been facing chances of the contract being cancelled, company being blacklisted and forfeiting of Rs 5 crore bank guarantee, would have surely heaved a sigh of relief. However, they have another daunting task ahead as the safai karamcharis of the MC are likely to oppose any such move. In another decision taken on the GIS survey regarding properties and water connections, the committee left the decision on whether to carry forward the project or drop it on Joint Commissioner Anupam Kler and system manager Rajesh Sharma. Mayor Sunil Jyoti said the twosome had been asked to decide if the survey was required as a check on another similar tender for property survey to be opened on March 6 or be cancelled. All other projects, including raising a ward-wise contingency fund for road and sewage repair, have also been cleared. Senior Deputy Mayor gives meeting a miss for second time
For the second consecutive time in a row, Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Bhatia did not turn up for the much important Finance and Contracts Committee. During a previous meeting held this month, Bhatia was said to be away for the Moga byelection, but today he clearly did not have any pressing reason. There have been reports that Bhatia is not in good terms with Mayor Sunil Jyoti and even today lodged a complaint on the matter with SAD (Urban) president Gurcharan Singh Channi. Akali sources confirmed the development but Channi, Bhatia and Jyoti have preferred to be mum on the matter. Bhatia said he was busy somewhere. He, however, did not clearly assign any reason for not attending the meeting. Deputy Mayor Arvinder Kaur Oberoi also did not make it to the meeting claiming that she was busy in some religious function. |
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Retd cop threatens to commit suicide at DC office, detained
Jalandhar, February 27 Noticing the drama, the administration swung into action and policemen overpowered him and took him to the New Bardari police station. Navjot Singh Mahal, ADCP (H), when contacted, said the protester was a retired employee of the department and had been under depression for sometime. He had been detained and the department was investigating the matter. |
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Enabling visually challenged to convert Punjabi text into clear audio format
Jalandhar, February 27 Be it a newspaper, a magazine, a story book or a course book, the software would be able to convert all kinds of texts. The technology will help the visually challenged get independent and grasp the matter without the aid of any reader or its conversion into the braille format. The mechanism will be simple and user friendly. “The page will have to be scanned on 300 dots per inch resolution in black and white colours, BMP file will be converted to the unicode format and read in e-speak or any other available softwares,” explained Jasbir Singh,
a system analyst and PhD student of the Advance Centre for Technological Development of Punjabi, Punjabi University, Patiala. He even explained that the file could be converted into MS Word and copied at other locations for use. The software would also help users simply convert the scanned files into editable formats for reuse, he showed. Further developing the same project is Parminder Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Ludhiana, doing his PhD under Patiala university professor Dr Gurpreet Singh Lehal. Lehal has already earned accolades for developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Punjabi. Parminder demonstrated how he was working on to make a text-to-speech synthesiser for Punjabi. He got a commendable response on this from the audience as he got the audio of converted files tested from the visually impaired persons attending a seminar organised by NGO Saksham today at HMV College here. Parminder showed how he was working on improvising the speech by taking into account various syllables in Punjabi language, the effect on speech by their positioning in a word, colloquial forms of some verbs and reading full form even if abbreviations are given. Students from various schools and colleges across the region participated in the seminar, which was organised by Dipendra Minocha, Prem Sagar and Deepika Sood of NGO Saksham. |
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Project fails to combat child labour
Jalandhar, February 27 While the number not only reflects the futility of the anti-child labour campaigns in the district, it also speaks volumes about how inadequate the current NCLP schools have become for a bustling child labourer population of the district. But even as the number of child labourers have dramatically risen, the NCLP schools in the district continue to work on the 50-children-per-school-pattern, denying much needed education to the rest of the children. Professor Anup Vatts whose NGO Citizen’s Welfare and Protection Council has been entrusted with two NCLP schools (Basti Peerdad and Babu Labh Singh Nagar) in the district, said, “The maximum number of students an NCLP school can currently admit in one session is 50. The number of NCLP schools is 27. This had been decided on the basis of a survey conducted about nine years ago, as per which the number of child labourers in need of education in the city had come out to be 1,350.” “Over the years the rise in the number of child labourers in our area as well as the district was evident to anyone associated with the NCLP project. Parents — both in the vicinity and those with children studying in regular government schools — had been requesting us that we admit more students to our NCLP schools. But due to the student limit, we were not able to. So we had also been demanding from time to time that another survey should be conducted to ascertain the risen labourers and the schools thus be increased. This was done about four months ago and the district genuinely needs additional NCLP schools now.” Prof Lakhbir Singh, whose NGO PAHAL runs the NCLP schools at Bhagat Singh Colony, had also been among the people demanding the survey, “Our school is doing really well and we are giving students a lot of exposure. But we also realise that the area certainly has more child labourers and 50 seats in the school are not enough to accommodate all these children. While the lives of 50 students gets better, it’s sad to see the rest langushing.” Queries with the staffs at the NCLP schools at Basti Peerdad (one and two) as well as some other areas also revealed that even after admitting 50 students in their schools, the areas still had many (100 to 200, some even more) child labourers who did not have any school for them. Dinesh Kumar, an activist of the NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, said, “In areas like Lamma Pind, Muslim Colony, Gandhi Camp, our NGO has come across lots of child labourers who have been denied their right to a free education. Interestingly, none of the about 20 child labourers in the district rescued by the Labour Department have been admitted to schools. All these children will only get normal lives if there are efforts to merge them with the mainstream. But currently, we perceive no such efforts.” Talking to The Tribune, Project Director, NCLP, Jalandhar, Inderjit Singh, said, “The result of the recent survey has come and the results say there are presently about 9,000 child labourers in the district, who need to be catered to by the NCLP project. Bringing more education to those without it and more NCLP schools are on our agenda. The budget would make things clearer. By the year end, we hope to see more NCLP schools.” |
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From Schools and colleges
Jalandhar, February 27 Principal Jagroop Singh received the award in Delhi from Shard Yadav, Lok Sabha MP and NDA convener. Speaking on the occasion, principal Jagroop Singh said the college had received the best polytechnic award earlier, in 2003 and 2011, as well. NSS camp
Olympian Pragat Singh inaugurated the NSS camp at the CT Group of Institutions, Shahpur. More than 400 student volunteers took part in the awareness campaign. The National Service Scheme (NSS) wing of CT Group of Institutions, in association with the Punjab Technical University, is organising a one-week camp to spread awareness against cancer and hepatitis. About 400 NSS student volunteers from various professional streams are participating in the camp. Olympian S Pragat Singh, MLA from Jalandhar Cantt, inaugurated the programme by lighting the sacred lamp at the CT Group of Institutions, Shahpur. He was accompanied by in charge of the NSS wing of PTU, Dr Nachattar Singh (director, PIT), Dr Jagmeet S Bawa, Dr Manoj Kumar, group director, CT Group of Institutions and sarpanches and panches of nearby villages. The NSS programme will undertake the development activities and major projects of health awareness. Under the health awareness programmes, student volunteers will disseminate awareness against cancer and hepatitis. They will go for door-to-door campaigning in about 11 villages and guide as many as 15,000 persons on how they can save their lives from the deadly diseases. S Pragat Singh congratulated the CT Group for the endeavour of Social service. S Charanjit Singh Channi, chairman, CT Group of Institutions expressed delight that students were working for the noble cause. Dr Surinder Singh said human values were very important. Annual sports meet
MGN College of Education, Jalandhar, organised its 53rd annual sports meet today. The closing ceremony was presided over by Sunil Jyoti, Mayor Jalandhar. The opening ceremony of the meet was inaugurated by Principal Dr Amit Kauts, who declared the 53rd Annual Sports Meet open. Different marching houses saluted the chief guest and other renowned dignitaries. S Satinder Singh, immigration officer, Australia gave away prizes to the winners. More than 100 students participated in various events like 50 m race, 100 m race, 200 m race, long jump, shot put, Apple race, chatti race, three-legged race, sack race, obstacle race, relay race and tug of war. Sports events were followed by cultural events like skit, folk song and gidha. Speaking on the occasion, chief guest Sunil Jyoti emphasised the urgent need to preserve and protect our culture and values. Plato house was declared the best house. In fancy dress, Ridhika Jain was first, Sheetal Thakur was second and Radhika Kumra was third. Amritpal Singh was declared best athlete in boys and Rupinder Kaur was in girls. Extension lecture on banking
DAV College, Jalandhar, under the aegis of "Kautilya Society of Economics", organised an extension lecture on February 26 on the topic "banking and central banking in the context of evolving economic scenario”. The speaker on the occasion was Executive Director of RBI, Jasbir Singh. Principal Dr BB Sharma and head of department of economics Surinder Kaur and other faculty members extended a floral welcome to the honoured speaker. Dr SK Khurana delivered the welcome speech. Economist S Jasbir Singh gave an in-depth account of the evolving economic scenario in the country and its likely impact on people. Map-skill contest
Cutting tables, spell IQ and map-skill contest was held on the premises of DIPS Suranussi. The memory of the students was tested by quick questions. Children put a great show by prompt and accurate answers. Satyam, Satish and Prabhjot Kaur from Class III were the winners of cutting tables contest while Mehak, Abhay and Sarabjit from Class V were the winners of the spell IQ quiz. Gursimran Kaur (VI-A), Damanpreet (VI-A), Tajinder (VI-A), Swati, Naina (VII-B), Tajinder (VIII-B), Navmehak and Gurwinder Singh (VIII-B) were winners in the map skill contest. Principal Bela Kapoor congratulated winners and awarded them certificates to them. Health awareness campaign
Students of St Soldier Kids Paradise conducted a health awareness campaign on the campus and demonstrated many aerobics tricks and yoga exercises for the fitness of the body, relaxation and tension free life. Students were made aware about the benefits of these exercises for our body and mind on the occasion. Farewell party
'Hasta La Vista' — a farewell party was given to the students of Class XII at Innocent Hearts, Green Model Town, Jalandhar City. Ankita Sharma bagged the title of Ms Innocent. Judges of the day were Sharmila Nakra, Shallu and Sheetu. A cultural show was also organised by students of Class XI. Sakoon Prabhakar, Rhytm, Naman and Harleen were given the trophies for the best student of 2011-2013. |
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Man, son held for staging robbery drama in Nakodar
Nakodar, February 27 DSP, Nakodar, HS Hundal, said the accused had been arrested. He said the accused had suggested his NRI sister to purchase a plot in Nakodar, who had transferred the amount in a bank. The DSP said the accused spent Rs 2 lakh earlier and withdrew rest of the amount yesterday from the bank, staging a drama of robbery. He said two unidentified motor cyclist youths had snatched a bag containing Rs 4.5 lakh, including 2.5 lakh withdrawn from the bank and fled away. SHO, Nakodar, Subhash Bath, said the police was suspicious from the statement as there was no eyewitness. He said after the detailed investigations, the accused confessed his crime and conspiracy hatched with the connivances of his son Navneet. The amount of Rs 2.5 lakh was recovered from the residence of the accused while the remaining amount was already spent. The DSP said the accused were produced before the local Judicial magistrate today and were remanded to police custody for further interrogations.
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