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JIT auction evokes lukewarm response
Women players’ absence to disappoint fans in tournament
Theatre night to be dedicated to playwright
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BPL family struggles to make both ends meet
Sisters Rekha and Raman with their grandparents, vision-impaired Gurdev Singh and Kartar Kaur, at their ramshackle house at Chuharwali village in Jalandhar on Sunday. Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Success eludes Phagwara police
SAD (A) holds Insaaf Rally
Mohammad Rafi Society felicitates singers
Ten Phagwara villages get grant for gymnasium
Chief Parliamentary Secretary Som Parkash and Markfed chairman JS Wahid lay the foundation stone of a footpath in Phagwara. Photo: Ashok Kaura
‘SAD trying to revive militancy in Punjab’
Students visit Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy
Raise income tax slab for SCs, Centre urged
DAV holds quiz
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JIT auction evokes lukewarm response
Jalandhar, September 22
The JIT will get a revenue of Rs 2.67 crore from the properties it sold through auction held at Red Cross Bhawan here. While the JIT got Rs 65 lakh on the spot, it will get the rest amount later in instalments. The 52 properties, including a nursing home site, plots, booths and stalls of its three different development schemes of 170 acres Surya Enclave Scheme, 51.5 acres Guru Amardass Nagar Scheme and 3.71 acres scheme. However, the JIT did not succeed in selling the nursing home site and most of its other properties due to a lukewarm response. JIT chairman Vinay Bublani, executive officer (EO) Dayal Chand and superintendent engineer (SE) Mukul Garg Soni were present at the auction.
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surjit hockey meet There’s a clash of dates with national women hockey selection camp which will also be held on same days in New Delhi Rachna Khaira
Jalandhar, September 22
"It is a bit unfortunate that we may not see our women players participating in this year's tournament. However, if the Pakistan women's team gets the visa, we may ask various states to send their teams from the players available during that time. But presently, no women matches have been planned for the tournament," said LR Nayyar, working president of the Surjit Hockey Society, Jalandhar. So far, 16 teams of men's hockey have confirmed their participation in one of the most coveted tournaments of India. Many prestigious teams like Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum, Punjab police and Punjab & Sindh Bank are participating in the tournament. KD Bhandari, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, is going to inaugurate the tournament. The prize distribution ceremony will have Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal as the chief guest and will be presided over by Bikram Singh Majithia, Revenue Minister of Punjab. Also, due to the unavailability of the Deputy Chief Minister, the final tournament will now be held on October 17. The tournament will be played on a knockout-cum-league basis. Two teams have been placed in the knockout stage, while 11 teams, including two teams from Pakistan (subject to visa approval), have directly been seeded into the quarter final league. Like every year, this year too, all matches will be played in the floodlights and there would be no entry fee for the spectators. Olympian Surjit Singh Randhawa
Born on October 10, 1951, Surjit Singh played for Lyallpur Khalsa College under Guru Nanak Dev University and later for combined universities team as deep defender. Surjit Singh made his international debut in the second World Cup Hockey Tournament in Amsterdam in 1973. He was a member of the Indian team which, under the leadership of charismatic leader Ajit Pal Singh, won
the third World Cup Hockey Tournament at Kuala Lumpur in 1975. He also participated in the Fifth World Cup Hockey Tournament, the 1974 and 1978 Asian Games and the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Surjit Singh was acclaimed as one of the best full backs in the world. In 1973, he was included in the World Hockey XI. He was also the top scorer-both in the Esanda International hockey Tournament at Perth in Australia and the 1978 Asian Games. He served the Indian Airlines for a few years. Later, he joined the Punjab Police. He died in a road accident near Kartarpur in Jalandhar district. A hockey stadium is named after him in Jalandhar. A hockey academy named after him is also being run by the Punjab Government. Schedule of Matches October 8, 4.15 pm Opening Ceremony October 9, 6 pm League Stage Matches October 10 to 15, from 4.30 pm Semifinals Match (Men) October 16, 4.15 pm & 7.15 pm, respectively Final Match (Men) October 17, 7.15 pm Live Telecast of Semifinals & Finals A private channel will telecast both semifinal & final on October 16 & 17, respectively Running Commentary All India Radio, Jalandhar, will relay commentary of the final match on October 17 FINAL POOLING Pool A POOL B POOL C POOL D Indian Oil, Mumbai ONGC, Delhi Mumbai XI Bharat Petroleum Namdhari XI, Sirsa BSF, Jalandhar Indian Overseas Bank Punjab and Sindh Bank Punjab Police XI Punjab National Bank Army XI, Delhi, Delhi Winner of match 4 |
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Theatre night to be dedicated to playwright
Jalandhar, September 22 Dedicated to the legendary playwright as well as the Ghadar centenary, a night of revolutionary theatre will be held at the Dana Mandi, Barnala. Amolak Singh President of the Punjab Lok Sabhiacharak Manch and general secretary Kanwaljeet Khanna said in this event dedicated to the Ghadar Centenary, thetare and music groups from across the state shall be rubbing shoulders with each other. They said on the night Prof Ajmer Aulakh, Mansa, Sangeet Gupta, Chandigarh, Samuel John Leheragaga, Kewal Dhaliwal, Amritsar, Harkesh Chaudhary, Mullanpur and Harvinder Deewana, Barnala among others will present theatre and other performances directed by them for the audience. Master Ram Kumar Bhadaur, Amarjeet Swaran Rasoolpur, Lok Bandhu, Navdeep Dhaula, Kanwar Bahar and Iqbal Udasi will offer tribute to the Ghadarites. Talking about the preparations for the event, they said at colleges, chowks, bastis and other areas, marches, caravans, film shows and debates are in the run up to the final event on September 27.
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BPL family struggles to make both ends meet
Jalandhar, September 22 Chuhrwali village has about 33 to 34 BPL families. Among these, the family of Gurdev Singh, the entire village agrees, is the poorest. But thanks to poor awareness of various schemes among the poor, the family is currently getting barely Rs 1,000 as collective pension and 20 kg of wheat and some kerosene per month under the atta dal scheme. Barring these, the family is entirely dependent on villagers, panchayat and Rekha’s school for everyday needs, from ration to clothes to the fixing of their fallen roof. The family (like most others in the village) do not even have a BPL card. Their rundown home is ridden with dangerous walls and roofs, which seem to be on the brink of falling. During the current monsoon, the roof of one of their rooms fell. But local Chitra NGO chipped in with help. The girls’ grandmother Kartar Kaur says, “I had three sons. All three died. Within months of their father’s death, their mother also abandoned them and went away. We have heard now she has also died. I have been bringing them up since the girls were two to three years old. Earlier, I had strength and walked to people’s home to ask for help. But I am too old now to do even that.” While Rekha studies at Janta High School at Jandu Singha, her sister is pursuing a diploma course at a local college. The school staff has also arranged the elder sister’s free course so that she may not have to pay for education. While the girls’ father died about 15 years ago, they had also been paying their water and electricity bills since then, but the new benevolent sarpanch recently waived their dues and this month was the first ever when they did not have to pay their water and electricity bills. Sarpanch Gurjeet Singh says, “We do as much as we can to provide them with help. Their bills have also been waived. The present panchayat is also planning to mobilise efforts to get the various schemes for the BPL families to be applied for them. Currently, there is very little awareness on the issue.” Activists KS Nagra and SK Kapoor of the NGO have been associated with the family for the past one year. “They have provided Rs 18,000 (Rs 5,000 of it was donated by one of Rekha’s school teachers Balwinder Kaur) for the repair of the fallen roof of one of their rooms. They also provide help through ration, clothes and other needful things donated to the family from time to time.” Master Sukhwinder Singh, who retired as Principal from Rekha’s school, is also one of the contributors to the family. The BPL and SC/BC schemes which aren’t being availed by the family despite being needy are RSBY under which medical help worth Rs 30,000 per year is free and Indira Awas Yojna, which provides repair and construction grants to poor/SC families.
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Success eludes Phagwara police
Phagwara, September 22 Moreover, the Phagwara police could not solve the mystery behind the murder of ASI Gurdev Singh even after six months. The ASI was shot dead near the Haweli on the national highway on March 31 this year. The accused, Palwinder Singh, alias Pinda, and Rajinder Singh, alias Mintoo, are still at large. Notably, two of the four accused-- NRI Tarwinder Singh and Pushpinder Singh- were arrested on April 2, but the remaining two are still at large even after six months. The police has also failed to solve the blind murder of a Nepali youth. He was allegedly killed by his brother and sister-in-law on April 5 this year and none of the killers could be arrested. The police has also failed to solve two cases of female foeticide. Two infants were found dead at an abandoned places near Chachoki and Khangurra villages early this year, but the police could not nab the culprits. It seems as if the police is busy in guarding the politicians belonging to the ruling party besides participating in several social functions. Gursewak Singh Brar, SP, Phagwara, said he would act swiftly to solve all the pending cases.
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SAD (A) holds Insaaf Rally
Phagwara, September 22 The rally was addressed by SAD(A) president Simranjit Singh Maan in Phagwara. Though the police team, led by SHO Ravinder Singh, was deputed at the venue of the rally, hundreds of Hindu activists, led by Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Suraksha Samiti president Deepak Bhardwaj, and Purshuram Sena president Sanjeev Johny reacted sharply on hearing the slogans and started shouting Khalistan murdabad. They blocked traffic on the Phagwara-Banga Road and burnt an effigy of SAD(A) president SS Maan. At the rally Maan appealed to people to bring third front into power in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Talking to mediapersons the SAD(A) president said Modi was a communal leader was responsible for Gujarat riots and displacement of Sikhs from Gujarat. Maan said during the state-level meeting of his party on September 28 at Naushehra Pannua, a will be taken on upcoming elections.
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Mohammad Rafi Society felicitates singers
Amritsar, September 22 National SC/ST Commission Vice-President Raj Kumar Verka gave away the prizes to playback singers Anupama Deshpande and Shahid Malya, both from Bombay, comedian Jaswinder Bhalla, music director Kuljit Singh, Darshan Kumar, director of T-series, folk singer Sudesh Kumari and philanthropist SPS Oberoi and Gurjit Singh as best anchor. It may be mentioned here that Rafi was born in Kotla Sultan village, about 30 kms from Amritsar on December 24, 1924, and died of a heart attack in Mumbai on July 31, 1980. Rafi, who began singing by chanting the notes that a fakir sung in his village, went on to lend his voice to Bollywood megastars, including Amitabh Bachchan, Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra and Dev Anand in his career as a successful playback artist. — TNS
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Ten Phagwara villages get grant for gymnasium
Phagwara, September 22 The grants were given to set up gymnasiums at the villages. Earlier, they laid the foundation stone of a footpath and repair of the 2-km road. The Chief Parliamentary Secretary said Rs 38 lakh would be spent for the repairing of the road and Rs 48 lakh would be spent on the construction of the footpath. Som Parkashsaid the Punjab Government would spend Rs 1,700 crore for the construction and repair of rural roads in the state.
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‘SAD trying to revive militancy in Punjab’
Jalandhar, September 22 Nimisha said, “DSGMC president Manjit Singh is holding meetings with the representatives of radical Sikh groups during his recent visit to UK. It is a clear indication that the SAD has some ulterior motives.” Mehta said, “The reports that have surfaced following the meeting have made one thing clear that the SAD is trying to revive militancy in the state despite being aware of its repercussion. “It is not for the first time that the SAD has supported the radicals and their ideology. Earlier, they supported the move of honouring the families of those who were declared terrorists ,” she added. Flaying the SAD-BJP alliance for keeping mum on the issue, Nimisha said, “A large number of Hindus had to migrate to areas during militancy. The Akali Dal and the BJP should inform the public if they had take even a single step to rehabilitated those migrated Hindus?” She said, “The punjab Chief Minister who claims to be a secular has never spoken about the Hindus who were forced to leave the state." — TNS
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Students visit Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy
Jalandhar, September 22 The tour was sponsored by the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC), the Directorate of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, New Delhi, through the District Science Supervisor S Baljinder Singh. Students of Government High School, Nangal Fateh Khan, and Government Senior Secondary School, Hazara, also accompanied them. The tour was very informative. At the Verka Milk Plant, students were informed about the processes through which milk is processed and converted to curd, kheer, butter, ghee and powdered milk. They also learnt about the technique to convert butter into milk during the season when the demand is more but supply is less. At the Ramsar Level Wetland, Kanjli, the students had a view of the lake and the biodiversity in and around it. It was no less than an informative picnic for them. The third and the last spot that was visited by them visited was the Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy. Here the students came to know about various processes and techniques through which biomass is converted into energy and how energy efficient chulhas work. They came to know how biodiesel is synthesised from the seeds of Sri Lankan jetropha plant and the seeds of Sri Lankan national tree mesue feria. — TNS
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Raise income tax slab for SCs, Centre urged
Jalandhar, September 22 He said the prices of all the essential commodities had gone up and it had become very difficult for the people to run their houses. Kainth said the income must be connected to the price index so that the Scheduled Castes could get some
relief. — TNS
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Phagwara, September 22 There were 4 teams named on the leading IT companies- Team Infosys, Team IBM, Team Intel and Team Microsoft. Team Intel won the contest. — TNS
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Conference
The SNA Biennial Punjab State Conference was held at MHR DAV Institute of Nursing in collaboration with LLR College of Nursing, Jalandhar. More than 50 colleges participated in the conference. The theme of the conference was “New Dimensions in Nursing”. Chief guest during the conference was Mohinder Bhagat, Cabinet Minister Bhagat Chunni Lal's son. Various competitions such as spot painting, rangoli making, took place during the conference. The winners were awarded certificates, medals and momentos. The conference was a real grand success. The chief guest announced to give Rs 5 lakh to DAV Hospital, Jalandhar, and Rs 2 lakh to TNAI, Punjab state branch. TNAI executive members, principals of various colleges, teachers and students were also present on the occasion. Expressions-2013 The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of Apeejay Institute of Management Technical Campus organised a competition, "Expressions-2013". The competition was held for MBA and BBA students. The participating teams were judged on the basis of their creative and logical thinking. The theme given to students was "Trade Fair-cum-Exhibition'. A total of 105 students participated in the competition. All prize winners were awarded certificates of appreciation by director Dr Rajesh Bagga. The students of top five teams are also chosen for the next level "Ran Neeti- The Money Multiplier". Dr Rajesh Bagga congratulated the winners. Softball
championship Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, softball team players Neeru, Manjinder, Amarjit and Manisha participated in the North-Zone Softball Championship at Parwanoo, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, from September 15 to September 17. The bagged the first position in the championship. Fancy dress competition Srishty (nursery), Aarushi (KG) and Srishty (Ist), students of Shiv Jyoti Public School, won the overall trophy of the Sahodaya Inter-School Fancy Dress Competition at Bawa Lalvani Public School. They presented the themes "Nursery Rhymes", "Disney Characters" and Let’s Advertise. Judges appreciated the creativity, confidence and dialogue delivery of Aarushi and Srishty . Principal Sharda and vice-principal Neeru Nayyar appreciated and blessed the tiny tots for their achievements. Teachers welcomed Kamla Nehru Public school, Chak Hakim, Phagwara, welcomed Rhian, deputy head teacher, and Sophie, head of the KG section, from Irk Valley Community School, Manchester, U.K. The class monitors welcomed them by putting up a tilak on their forehead and a mauli around their wrist. A special morning assembly was also organised. Students sang a welcome song and also presented many dance items .Rhian and Sophie were here on the British Council connecting classrooms teacher exchange visit for four days. They observed teaching-learning methodologies at Kamla Nehru Public School. The school principal, PK Dhillon, welcomed them and said the visit was as per the International policy of the school. Peace march The kindergarten section of Ivy World School took out a peace march to celebrate World Peace Day. Little Ivyians carried placards with the message of peace and raised slogans for the propagation of the peace and harmony. The students hoped that peace would be given a chance everywhere and people would learn to keep the world calm and serene. Annual
festival DR Jain National Senior Secondary School celebrated its 60th annual festival with aplomb. MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee was the chief guest on the occasion. The event started with the Ganesh vandana. Manager NK Jain welcomed the guests and Deepak Sanan, principal of the school, read the annual report. The students presented a cultural programme on the occasion. Litterateur Tilak Raj Arora was also present on the occasion. — TNS
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Rekha (14) and Raman (16) live along with their 80-year-old visually impaired grandfather Gurdev Singh and grandmother Kartar Kaur in a ramshackle house in the middle of the winding streets of Chuhrwali village near Jandu
Singha.
With the aim to continue the struggle against the drug menace in the state and to bring drug addicts back to the cultural and sports activities, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Som
Parkash, along with Markfed chairman Jarnail Singh Wahid, distributed grant of Rs one Lakh each to 10 villages of Phagwara subdivision on Saturday.
An educative and scientific tour to Verka Milk Plant, Jalandhar, Ramsar Level Wetland,
Kanjli, Kapurthala and Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy near Pushpa Gujral Science City, Jalandhar - Kapurthala Road was organised by Sanjiwan Singh
Dadwal, coordinator of the Planet Venus Vipnet Club and headmaster of Government High School,
Patara.
The camp has been organised by Hockey India for the selection of Indian women hockey team to play in the forthcoming international matches.