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Child sale: SHO, ASI held
Staff found using non-sterilised instruments in maternity ward OT
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Rogi Kalyan Samiti gives nod to child health care centre in Civil Hospital
3 arrested in Football Chowk group clash case
Vegetable centre to come up at Kartarpuran
City industrialists develop machine to convert plastic into fuel
BSF Wives’ Welfare Association Day celebrated
from schools and colleges
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Child sale: SHO, ASI held
Jalandhar, September 17 Additional SHO of the Basti Bawa Khel police station Subhash Chander and ASI Bhupinder Singh, posted in the Police Control Room (PCR) of the Jalandhar (Rural) police station, have been arrested. Another ASI, Som Lal, also posted at Basti Bawa Khel police station, is on the run. The police is also looking for two women, Kulwant Kaur of Basti Mithu and Raj Rani of Nakodar, besides one Kashmir Singh of Basti Mithu, who were the first ones to know about the incident, had called the policemen to meet the father of the child and had agreed to remain silent in lieu of the amount received. The ACP (West), Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu, had started a probe into the matter ever since a case in this regard was registered at the Basti Bawa Khel police station on Saturday evening. In his report Sandhu found that while ASI Bhupinder Singh had a major role to play by conniving with women of the area, the SHO and ASI of Basti Bawa Khel in whose area the crime occurred, too, were at a major fault as they connived with the other four rather than reporting the matter and bringing the accused to book. The police had arrested father of the infant Dharam Singh, a helper at Katehra Mohalla cremation ground, and Pooja, a receptionist of a nursing home, under the Human Trafficking Act. Sham Kumar of New Delhi, who had allegedly bought the child on a payment of Rs 1.5 lakh, and his cousin midwife Tara Rani are yet to be arrested. The police is also yet to bring back the infant, who is with Sham Kumar. The case had come to light after workers of a political party learnt about the episode and managed a video recording of the confession of Dharam Singh. Dharam Singh is said to have stated that SI Subhash Chander and ASI Som Lal shared Rs 13,000, Bhupinder Singh took Rs 7,000 and the two women and Kashmir Singh shared Rs 20,000, which he gave to them for keeping mum on the matter. The ACP (West) said as Subhash Chander had got admitted to the Civil Hospital last night complaining of some health problem, he could not be presented in the court today. The other accused, Bhupinder Singh, was remanded in a one-day police custody. A case under Sections 217 (public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture), 384 (extortion), 385 (putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion), 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC has been registered against the six. Tainted policemen
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Staff found using non-sterilised instruments in maternity ward OT
Jalandhar, September 17
On a visit to the Civil Hospital, The Tribune team found surgical instruments cleaned and properly arranged openly on a bed in the room just next to the OT. The staff nurse on duty informed that these instruments were used for Cesarean deliveries. But on being asked as whether they were sterilised or not, she did not gave a satisfactory reply. However, sources in the ward informed that due to the non-functioning of the autoclave machine and high rush of patients, many a times, these instruments were used without sterilisation. "We are facing this problem as the autoclave machine in our ward is not working due to low voltage. It requires a three-phase wiring, which is not available in the maternity ward. Also, the capacity of this double drum machine is very less in comparison to the heavy rush of deliveries we have everyday. However, we are sending all the equipment for sterilisation to the orthopaedic ward on the first floor. However, I will conduct a detailed inquiry in the case," said Dr Sunita Kapoor, Senior Medical Officer, Civil Hospital, Jalandhar. But she could not confirm as to whether every gynaecologist check the sterilisation of these equipment before performing a cesarean operation or simply believes the ward attendant for the most important job that could cost a mother and a newborn their lives. The sources in the maternity ward also confirmed that many a times used syringes were used for administering injections to patients during heavy rush. "Most of the times, we have seen nurses getting the medicine trolley and injecting various post-delivery patients with the same syringe. Most of the people coming here are illiterate and do not know the risk attached to the sharing of an injection needle," an attendant of a patient in the maternity ward said. Medical Superintendent Dr Jagjit Singh Cheema when informed immediately ordered an inquiry into the incident and asked the Senior Medical Officer to submit the report within a week. "This is a very serious negligence that can cause a mother and a newborn to lose their lives and it will not be tolerated at any cost. Those responsible will be punished," said Dr Cheema, Medical Superintendent, Civil hospital. According to a recent report released by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the most life-threatening event that a child will face in his life is birth itself. Being fortunate enough to survive the process of coming into the world, the 28 days that follow are absolutely critical for a child's survival. This is high time that the government and the people practising in this field should realise this and gift the mother and newborn a healthy environment to breathe in!
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Rogi Kalyan Samiti gives nod to child health care centre in Civil Hospital
Jalandhar, September 17
The Rogi Kalyan Samiti (RKS) was deputed by the National Rural Health Mission for the job. A few months back, a sum of Rs 51 lakh was released by Naresh Gujral, member of Parliament (MP), under the MPLAD scheme to buy equipment, but that is not being used due to the recent change in the MPLAD policy, which prohibits the buying of movable items. So, with the approval of the RKS, the hospital has now decided to make two public conveniences, worth Rs 24 lakh each, with the money. “The money was released about a year ago before the change in MPLAD funds policy, but due to the delay in implementing the same, the fund of Rs 51 lakh is now going to be flushed out through the public conveniences to be constructed in the Civil Hospital,” said Surinder Saini, Member of RKS. He said the same money could have been utilised on time to buy new life-saving equipment. Another important proposal to get a nod is the one-stop crisis care centre for women. “This centre will have all the facilities for women who are victims of rape, sexual harassment, etc, under one roof. The victims will be given all facilities like medical care, forensic tests, medicines, police and legal help in a very short span of time,” informed Dr Daljit Singh Cheema, Medical Superintendent, Civil Hospital. The RKS also raised a question on the parking contract given to the same person consequently for three years. The samiti told the hospital administration to demarcate the parking lot and have a check on those people who while visiting the nearby markets like Rainak Bazaar park their vehicles in the hospital parking thus causing inconvenience to the ambulances coming with emergency cases. The proposal to made a modern mortuary in the place of existing ones also got a nod by the RKS.
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3 arrested in Football Chowk group clash case
Jalandhar, September 17 All three have been booked under Section 307 of the IPC and Sections 25, 27, 49 and 59 of the Arms Act. The SHO, Manmohan Singh, said Jaspreet Singh, Dharminder Singh and Ajay were going on a bike near the bus stand. “We got a tip-off about their whereabouts and managed to apprehend them. We produced them in the court and have got their two-day remand,” he added. The SHO said three more persons of the group were still at large. He added that two persons of the opposite group had been identified. “We are trying to nab them too,”, he said. The SHO said the trio had been ferrying "rehris" and had hand-to-mouth existence. He said the reason for the clash was recovery of some amount from a Phagwara-based financier. |
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Vegetable centre to come up at Kartarpuran
Technology from Israel to be used for developing high-yielding varieties of vegetables at the centre
Jalandhar, September 17 Phillaur said the centre was being set up on an area of 15 acres which would be made operational at a cost of Rs 10 crore. More than 70 per cent work has been already completed, he said. The minister said in first of its kind project in the state, the focus would be on increasing the productivity and the quality of vegetables by using latest farm technology so as to make the produce acceptable for export to Europe, the US and Middle East countries. Giving the details of the project, Phillaur said a ‘High Tech Poly House’ had been set up on an area of 2,000 sq yard to produce seedlings of exotic vegetables having a great export demand. “Similarly a ‘Naturally Ventilated Poly House’ on an area of 6,000 sq yard has been created in which seedling of new varieties of capsicum, small corn and other exportable vegetables will be produced by the farmers,” he said. Phillaur said six units of net houses and eight units of walk-in tunnels have been created with regulated temperature and humidity for different varieties of vegetables seedlings. He said for the first time, the centre would use low tunnel technology and Israel experts were providing total technical support for it. “Soon training programmes will be organised for the farmers to update them on the new technology of vegetable production,” he stated.
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City industrialists develop machine to convert plastic into fuel
Jalandhar, September 17
Industrialist Ashok Palta and his father Narendra Palta in collaboration with engineer Rahul Sehgal have developed a machine with relentless efforts of three years after conducting several experiments at their industry ‘Palta Rubber’ located at Focal Point on the outskirts of the city on the Jalandhar-Amritsar national highway number one. Displaying its working at their unit on Monday, Palta duo accompanied by Rahul said, “Plastic waste is converted into four forms of fuel and is converted into plastic with ‘pyrolysis’ process with which long chain polymers can be de-bonded into basic hydrocarbon monomers. Pyrolysis is thermal cracking of waste plastics or polymers at high temperature under non oxidative conditions to yield valuable products that is fuel gases and oils. The four forms of fuel converted from plastic waste using this process are liquid, solid, petroleum coal and gases.” “While liquid oil may be used in various furnaces and other units for industrial purposes, gases may also be used for driving bikes and cars or even for cooking after modification,” they said. Ajay said, “If I get an order for a machine, I will be able to provide the same within a week at the cost of Rs 18 lakh.” Also, chairman of a city based non-government organisation (NGO) Sahara Youth Indian Welfare Society, Ajay Palta, said, “I wanted to do something for the society. That is why we decided to make efforts to develop this machine for getting rid of plastic waste which is posing environmental threat in every city of our country nowadays.” Elaborating about the process of converting plastic waste into fuel, Palta said, “The major part of petroleum is used as fuel, whereas about five per cent of petroleum is converted into plastics. In refineries, petrochemicals are converted into long chain polymers.” aHe said, “Any industrialist who can invest Rs 18 lakh on a machine can convert about 1,000 kg of plastic waste into fuel in just 10 hours. As per an estimate, fuel gas or oil produced with machine will cost about Rs 15 per kg and power generated with this fuel will cost from one rupee to Rs 1.5 per unit. If in our country we use these types of machines on massive scale, we can convert seven million tonnes of plastic waste into 6.3 million tonnes of fuel. By producing fuel from plastic waste we can save 50 billion dollar or about 3,000 billion rupees every year.”
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BSF Wives’ Welfare Association Day celebrated
Jalandhar, September 17 Uniyal said, “Today, the organisation has completed 21 years. The BWWA activities are not only limited to units, sectors and Frontier Welfare Centre but as a ‘meaningful campaign’, it is trying to improve the living standard of the ladies of BSF families.” She said BWWA was currently running many welfare activities like computer education, beauty parlour courses, sewing and knitting courses, free medical camps, various medical related seminars, workshops, dental
medical check-up and plantation drive. a“A range of products from various BWWA centres are being sold at BWWA outlet established at Attari Border,” she said. Uniyal also honoured the wives of BSF martyrs during the programme. Wheelchairs were distributed among physically challenged children and the students of BSF Senior Secondary School were rewarded for excellent results. |
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from schools and colleges
Jalandhar, September 17 Placement drive Wipro, one of the largest companies in the IT Services in the country, conducted a campus placement drive for final year students at DAV College, Jalandhar, in which about 200 students of BCom, BBA, BCA, BSc Computer/Science, BSc and BA participated. Vijay Magotra, manager of the Talent Acquisition Team WIPRO, conducted four rounds for the recruitment process. A powerpoint presentation on Wipro and the job scenario in the IT sector was prepared. Thereafter, group discussion was held and a total of 19 candidates were shortlisted. Finally, after all the recruitment tests, the offer letters to seven students were issued. Seminar on Indo-western hair style The Cosmetology Department of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised a seminar on ‘Indo-Western Hair Style and Hair Extension’ by Pooja, vice-president of Orane Institute, hair specialist Manjit Kaur and Saurabh Kumar. Principal Dr Rekha Kalia Bhardwaj motivated the students regarding beauty culture. Driver’s Day celebrated With an objective to acknowledge the importance of the drivers, CT Group of Institutions celebrated the Driver’s Day at its Shahpur campus. As many as 120 drivers, including the bus drivers, car drivers and ambulance drivers of CT Institutions attended the function, where the management of CT Group of Institutions honoured all the drivers. Notably, the Driver’s Day is celebrated on September 17 to dedicate a day to the drivers. On this occasion, Sukhdeep Singh from Jalandhar Traffic Police was invited to educate the drivers about the new rules and regulations of the traffic. He said, “The drivers should take up their responsibilities seriously. They should keep all the documents, use the seat belt and follow the rules and regulations set up for smoother and safer driving.” The vice-chairman of the CT Group of Institutions, Harpreet Singh, said, “The driver community is the integral part of the society. In the institutions they work like the life line of the organisation. Their role can never be overlooked. The purpose of organising the programme is to motivate them for their contribution and services.” Student
shines Ravnit Kaur, a student of Lyallpur Khalsa College, bagged second position in the university examination of MA-Economics Semester IV by securing 1440 marks out of 2000. This information was given by the college principal, Dr GS Samra.
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Bringing a bad name to khaki once again, three policemen - an Additional SHO and two ASIs - have been booked for allegedly receiving bribe of Rs 40,000 from a helper of a cremation ground, who had recently sold his 20-day-old baby to a Delhi-based businessman.
Kartarpur is all set to bring ‘vegetable revolution’ in Punjab with the early operationalisation
of the “Centre of Excellence for Vegetables” in the next three months. Jails and Cultural Affairs Minister, Punjab, Sarwan Singh
Phillaur, said, “The Indo-Israel ambitious project is all set to give
a new direction to the diversification of crops, with farmers getting the latest technology on vegetable production.”
