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CM, Bajwa claim credit for corridor
Child kidnapped from Golden Temple complex
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DSGMC chief: Will go ahead with memorial
CM flays Delhi govt
State losing say in BBMB, claim Engineers
Mata Kaushalya hospital hit by transfer of doctors
Patients at a ward of the Mata Kaushalya Hospital in Patiala on Friday. Tribune photo: Rajesh Sachar
Docs to go on strike from tomorrow
SLIET violence: Probe panel seeks more time
Fateh Brar, member of youngest team that scaled Mt Everest
70-yr-old dies in police custody
8 injured in clash over MNREGA payment
375 Sikh pilgrims leave for Pak
The jatha leaving for Pakistan.
Cong leader visits deceased sarpanch’s family
Probe ordered into Faridkot custody death
African agriculturists get tips on farming
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Child kidnapped from Golden Temple complex
Amritsar, June 8 “We tried to locate Gurmilap in the complex. But when we could not find him, we informed the police at 3.30 am,” he said. A CCTV footage shows the suspect was accompanied by three more persons, a woman and two men. They disappeared soon after kidnapping the boy at around12.15 am and left the complex from the main entrance. Sukhwinder Singh Randhawa, Station House Officer (SHO), Kotwali police station, said the police had registered a case under Sections 363 and 365 of the IPC. He said the family could not
identity the suspects when they were shown the CCTV footage. “We are not sure about the motive of the kidnappers. The family has so far not received any ransom call. We have sounded an alert and police teams have been deputed at the railway station and bus stand,” the SHO said, adding that CCTV footages of toll plazas would also be scanned. Condemning the incident, SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said the strength of task force would be enhanced so that no such incident took place in future. He said he would review the current security arrangements on the Golden Temple premises.
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DSGMC chief: Will go ahead with memorial
New Delhi, June 8 He reiterated that five high priests of Sikhs would lay the foundation stone on June 12. Manjit was reacting to the objections raised by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), on June 7 by pasting a notice on the gate of the gurdwara. The NDMC stated any illegal construction was not permitted inside the gurdwara complex. It also raised objection to a 3-feet wide and 4-feet high wall constructed for laying the foundation stone. The site of proposed memorial is located adjacent to the Parliament house. Earlier on June 6, the DSGMC had made a formal announcement for building a memorial. Talking to mediapersons, Manjit claimed the DSGMC was doing no wrong. “The Delhi Government and any other authority has no right to raise objections to our peaceful endeavour,” he said. Speaking on the issue, DSGMC general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that DSGMC would make no violation and would stick to the byelaws. “We have already announced that height of the memorial would not be more than 22 feet as per the norms in the area due to security reasons,” said Sirsa.
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CM flays Delhi govt
Sultanpur Lodhi (Kapurthala), June 8 Talking to mediapersons during his visit here to honour newly elected block samiti and zila parishad members, Badal said: “The Congress government should have not issued the notice.” The Chief Minister was accompanied by Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia and former minister Bibi Upinderjit Kaur among other leaders.
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State losing say in BBMB, claim Engineers
Bathinda, June 8 Besides, nearly 40 to 60 per cent posts of engineers and other staff were vacant in the PSPCL due to which the management of power generation, transmission and distribution was bound to suffer ahead of the paddy season. The associations claimed that under the given situation, one XEN was left to manage up to 67 grids which was practically impossible. Addressing a press conference here today, representatives of the All India Power Engineers Association (AIPEA) and the PSEB Engineers Association asked the PSPCL to come clean on the “deliberate” shortage of coal at the thermal plants. They claimed the PSPCL was losing control over the Bhakra Beas Management Board as 50 posts of SDO and 150 of JE, falling in state’s kitty, had not been filled for long. “The BBMB is run by different states with Punjab’s share of employees pegged at 40 per cent. However, Punjab is losing its vigil on power generation as the PSPCL has not sent officials on deputation to the board as per the norm. The BBMB wants to recruit engineers directly, who will be under the Central Government. This might hamper Punjab’s interest,” they said. The association also announced a novel way of airing their concern over varied issues confronting the PSPCL. It announced that an agitation would be launched on June 11, but instead of going on a strike, staging rallies or blocking roads, they would work more. “We would work without break from 9 am to 7 pm on June 11 and wear black badges to mark our protest. The power generation, transmission and billing system is in a mess. The PSPCL management had assured us of implementing our recommendations in October, but nothing has been done so far,” said Padamjit Singh, chairman, AIPEA, and Baldev Singh Sra, president, PSEBEA. They said the paddy season was to commence in a few days, but since June 1, the coal mining company, PENAM, which had the contract of mining coal from state-owned Pachwara coal mines, had not supplied a single rake of coal to thermal plants. “PENAM has deliberately stopped coal supply to Lehra as its engineers had exposed the inferior quality of coal supplied by it,” said the association leaders. The association also rued that engineers had introduced a “Patiala” model of power management, which had brought the transmission and commercial losses in the city to 12.5 per cent. “It is a pity that states like Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have shown interest in the model, but our own state has not implemented it,” said the leaders.
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Mata Kaushalya hospital hit by transfer of doctors
Patiala, June 8 On one hand, the Punjab government is laying stress on institutional deliveries and spending huge sums on promoting the cause, and on the other it has transferred eight out of 10 gynaecologists to other places. This has paralysed the working of the gynaecology department. Out of the remaining two doctors, only one is a specialist in gynaecology and the other is an MBBS doctor. Hundreds of female patients, especially expectant mothers, visit here on daily basis for check up and deliveries. The average delivery rate at the hospital is about 12 deliveries a day and about 350-400 deliveries a month. Last year, the total number of the deliveries at the hospital was about 4,300. Under the Mata Kaushalya Scheme started a few years ago, any woman, who gets her child delivered in a government hospital, gets Rs 1,000. The government also pays Rs 200 referral transport charges for bringing the patient to hospital at the time of delivery and an additional Rs 700 is given to women who are from the BPL or reserved categories. On the contrary, the women have to pay around Rs 5,000 for a normal delivery and Rs 20,000 for a cesarean at a private hospital.
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Docs to go on strike from tomorrow
Ludhiana, June 8 Dr Hardeep Singh, State President of PCMS Association, while presiding over the State executive meeting here today, demanded the transfer of 523 specialist doctors should be cancelled. He said fresh applications be invited for the 100 hospitals to be upgraded by the government. Dr Hardeep condemned the government’s move to reduce the number of sanctioned posts for specialists from 1,800 doctors for 176 hospitals to 1,420 for 100 hospitals. He also demanded pay parity of specialist doctors with doctors on central government service and that specialists shouldn’t be assigned non-specialist duties. Dr Hardeep questioned the government’s decision to downgrade 76 referral hospitals and upgrading 100 selected hospitals without increasing the strength of doctors. He demanded the posts of specialist doctors and paramedical staff at the chosen hospitals be doubled.
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SLIET violence: Probe panel seeks more time
Longowal (Sangrur), June 8 The panel, comprising Justice SN Aggarwal, a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, and RP Aggarwal, a retired IAS officer, was appointed by the MHRD on May 10, to look into the circumstances that led to the unprecedented violence. In its order of May 10, the MHRD had said, “The inquiry report will be submitted to the Ministry of HRD within a month from the date of its commencement”. The panel members have made several visits to the campus to probe the matter. RP Aggarwal first visited the institute on May 15 to take stock of the situation. The panel members have also spoken to students, parents, faculty and SLIET staff on several days, including from May 21 to May 24 and June 6 to June 8. Over 50 persons had met the two-member panel from June 6 to June 8. Meanwhile, the SLIET authorities have decided to conduct the final examinations of this semester of the final year students of certificate, diploma and degree courses at the earliest.
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Muktsar lad gets hero’s welcome
Muktsar, June 8 He said he wanted to join Indian Army and serve the nation. “My father has served in the army and I too want to become an army man. However, at the moment my focus is on studies,” said Brar. Fateh is the third youngest member of the team. “We started our journey on May 17 and scaled the peak on May 21. On the way, we saw nearly half a dozen bodies of mountaineers, but did not lose heart,” said Fateh, adding that the team had trained for one month before scaling the mountain. He gave the credit of his success to Col Neeraj Rana who is the principal of Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. The team included four members from Punjab, one from UP, one from Himachal Pradesh and one from Haryana. Elated over the success of their son, Sukhwinder Singh Brar, ex-Captain in the Army and Sumanjeet Kaur Brar said Fateh not only made them proud, but the whole town.
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70-yr-old dies in police custody
Faridkot, June 8 Faridkot SSP GS Randhwan wrote to the Faridkot District Sessions Judge for a judicial inquiry into the incident and informed the National Human Right Commission about the death. Deceased’s daughter Charanjit Kaur alleged the police arrested her father in the afternoon and after about two hours of the arrest, he was declared dead in the police lockup. “My father’s body had bloodstains,” she alleged. The police arrested Surjit Singh after the Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld his conviction in a 27-year-old drug smuggling case. He was awarded 10-year imprisonment by the court in December 1987. While the police was making rounds of his house to arrest Surjit Singh, he was reportedly evasive, alleged the police. Today, the police allegedly rounded up the deceased's daughter to force him to surrender. Charanjit Kaur alleged the police misbehaved with her and put her in a lockup to force her father to surrender.
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8 injured in clash over MNREGA payment
Bathinda, June 8 Rival groups pelted stones and bricks at each other before police reinforcements reached the spot. PPP leader Dilbagh Singh was seriously injured in the clash
and rushed to Mansa Civil Hospital. The police has tightened security at the village and Budhlada Civil Hospital where the injured were under treatment. Police said the situation was under control. The trouble arose when payments were being made to MNREGA workers in the village by sarpanch Balam Singh. Certain workers and village residents led by the area PPP and MNREGA Workers Union leader Dilbagh Singh objected to a scam wherein on
paper incomplete works carried out by MNREGA workers were shown to be complete. Arguments led to blows between the group owing allegiance to the Akalis and Dilbagh’s group.
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375 Sikh pilgrims leave for Pak
Amritsar, June 8 This is the first time in the last three years that an SGPC jatha is visiting Pakistan to observe this event. The Pakistan High Commission had denied visa to it in the last two successive years owing to the differences between the SGPC and the PSGPC over the Nanakshahi calendar. Though the differences remain this time too, the SGPC has managed to get visas. While the SGPC is observing the occasion on June 12 as per the amended Nanakshahi calendar, the PSGPC continues to stick to the original calendar.
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Cong leader visits deceased sarpanch’s family
Nawanshahr, June 8 She criticised the administration for not being able to nab the accused and providing monetary aid to the family.
Nimisha said though Dr Raj Kumar, Vice Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, during his visit to the family had asked the SSP to look into the matter, nothing had been done so far.
Nimisha spoke to village residents to inquire into the circumstances that forced the sarpanch to commit
suicide. Chaman Lal in his suicide note had accused nine persons of forcing him to take the extreme step. He said he was being hounded by the leaders of the ruling party for supporting the Sanjha Morcha candidate in the rural elections.
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Probe ordered into Faridkot custody death
Faridkot, June 8 Faridkot SSP GS Randhwan wrote to the Faridkot District Sessions Judge for a judicial inquiry into the incident and informed the National Human Right Commission about the death. Victim’s daughter Charanjit Kaur alleged the police arrested her father in the afternoon and after about two hours of the arrest, he was declared dead in the police lockup. “My father’s body had bloodstains,” she alleged. The police arrested Surjit Singh after the Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld his conviction in a 27-year-old drug smuggling case. Charanjit Kaur alleged the police misbehaved with her and put her in a lockup to force her father to surrender.
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African agriculturists get tips on farming
Chandigarh, June 8 Speaking at a press conference here today, Director of Zamindara Farm Solutions Vikram Ahuja said, “African companies buy agricultural equipment from Europe. China is emerging as a dominant player in the African market. Indian machines are equally good and reasonably priced. Such interactions will increase the exposure of African countries to India and help us find new areas of growth.”
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A three-year-old child was allegedly kidnapped from the Golden Temple complex late last night.
The boy, Gurmilap Singh, was sleeping with his family, which belongs to Ferozepur, when he was kidnapped by an unidentified woman.
The victim’s father Manjit Singh, who was in a state of shock, refused to talk to the media.
The transfer of 523 doctors in the state has completely derailed the functioning at Government Mata Kaushalya Hospital, Patiala, which is best known for its mother and child care facilities.
On one hand, the Punjab government is laying stress on institutional deliveries and spending huge sums on promoting the cause, and on the other it has transferred eight out of 10 gynaecologists to other places.
Amritsar, June 8
