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Deputy CM lays stone for modern jail
Improvement Trust: Race for top post gets murkier
Students protest against bus operators
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Rlys finally gears up to keep station clean
First aid training camp held for NCC cadets at Malout academy
GZS-PTU teacher to present paper in Russia
Talent hunt programme held at DAV College
27 kg poppy husk seized; woman among 11 held
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Deputy CM lays stone for modern jail
Bathinda, September 23 The approval in principle for the construction of the jail was given in December last year. Thereafter, the government acquired 69 acres of land in village Gobindpura and Khialiwala for this purpose and the PWD buildings and road department has been handed over the work to execute the project. Located 12 kms away from the main city, the Central Jail will have a capacity to house 2,100 male inmates as well as 650 women inmates. Already, the PWD has floated tenders for the work which shall be completed in a time-frame of 18 months. The process of floating tenders is in process and will be allotted soon. The camps for men as well as women will be double-storeyed with a total of 13 blocks. Ten of these blocks have been allotted for the male inmates while another three have been given for the female inmates. The campus for male inmates will have three workshops, a multipurpose training centre, four religious centres, a hospital, an isolation ward and two blocks of canteen. In the women's cell, besides five blocks, there will be two workshops, a training centre, a nursery school, a teaching block, dispensary and two crèches. The campus will also have residential quarters for the jail superintendent, six houses of deputy jail superintendents, 66 houses for class III employees, 12 houses for class IV employees and a warden for the hostel. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal also inaugurated a new irrigation line at Dhilwan Minor at Nathana, which has been commissioned for Rs 18.80 crore. Earlier in the day, he inaugurated a cycle track and a jogging path near the Rose Garden water tanks. The existing 35 acres of land belonging to Bathinda Central Jail will be put up for sale by the Bathinda Development Authority (BDA) when the new campus is ready. Located in the heart of the city, the existing Central Jail campus is expected to fetch a good price.
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Improvement Trust: Race for top post gets murkier
Bathinda, September 23 A dossier of communiqués against the former trust chairman was distributed to the deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal during his visit at the inauguration of joggers' park. The same set was also widely circulated in the media circle. The issue of appointing chairman of trust has been doing rounds of the political circles since early September. However, the delay in declaring candidate for the same is costing dear for the area residents. The candidate has been alleged of indulging in malpractices like buying land in a wrong manner, amassing wealth and other allegations have been levied against him.
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Students protest against bus operators
Bathinda, September 23 Led by the Punjab Students' Union (Randhawa), the students held a march and sat on a dharna outside the Mini-secretariat. The protesters demanded the arrest of the employees of Jalal Bus Company, against whom a case has also been registered for beating up a student, Gurpreet Singh. The family members as well as villagers from Gurpreet's village participated in the protest. Addressing the gathering, the student leaders said private bus operators were trying to take away the rights of the students who had bus passes. They added that the episode of beating up Gurpreet Singh was being viewed an incident meant to suppress the voice of the students. The protestors also met the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Bathinda, who assured them of action in the case. Earlier, rallies were held at the Punjabi University Regional Center as well as the Government Rajindra College. The students union has called a meeting of different unions on September 25 to decide the future course of action on the issue.
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Rlys finally gears up to keep station clean
Bathinda, September 23 Cleanliness has been a major issue at the station ever since the contract with a private firm got over on August 25. It has been a month and the railway authorities are yet to have a permanent solution to the problem in place. According to highly placed sources, the authorities floated the tender to give the contract for the facility on August 12 and considering that it's a long-winding process, it didn't get over in time for another firm to step in when the earlier contract ended. The finalisation of the contract is in its final stages and will be in place by the end of this week and the new firm will take over soon, the sources confirmed. "The DRM has assured the station authorities that the contract will be finalised and the work will be taken over by the new firm," the source said. "The earlier firm had been taking care of cleanliness at the station for the past 4-5 years and wrapped it up after its contract got over. Suddenly, the station authorities were left with no cleaners and equipment since those belonged to the firm. While earlier, close to 50 persons were involved in cleaning the station daily, now there are merely ten who are hired by the station authorities," the source added. Meanwhile, the passengers have been at the receiving end as the dustbins at the platforms have been spilling over and the lack of civic sense in the people is adding to the problem. While several areas, especially the waiting room and the platforms look littered these days, on Monday, the station looked comparatively cleaner as the station authorities made sure that even the vendors at the railway platforms maintained cleanliness.
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Baba Farid Aagman Purab held
Bathinda, September 23 GS Dhaliwal, chairman, BFGI, congratulated the audience for their presence at the Baba Farid Aagman Purab. He shared his views about naming the institute after this great saint. Dr Pardeep Kaura, Deputy Director (Academics), BFGI, threw put the light on the life of Sufi saint Baba Sheikh Farid and described the relations and importance of his views in the light of today's challenges and queries. During the address, BD Sharma, Deputy Director (Activities), also described the teachings of Baba Farid. Prof Gurdas Singh from Baba Farid Senior Secondary School, Deon, enthralled the audience with his recorded song "Tumba". Famous Sufi singer Dr Mamta Joshi rendered Sufi songs at the programme. She performed her famous kalam, "Rakhin Rabba Kheran Sajana de Sehar Dian", Ve Sone dia Kagna Ve" , Tu kala Chola Pa Sadi Farmaish Te" beside " Dama dam Masat kalandar" and " Nakhre Hajur De". Mamta Joshi was honoured by the management of the BFGI. Dr Sardool Singh Grewal, vice-president, BFGI, Sukhdev Singh Pakka, Director, BFGI, Hem Raj Sharma, Director, BFGI, Paramjit Kaur Dhaliwal, Director, Administration, BFGI, Paramjit Kaur Gill, and other staff members of the institute were present on the occasion.
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First aid training camp held for NCC cadets at Malout academy
Bathinda, September 23 As many as 600 NCC cadets from various school and colleges of Mansa, Barnala, Budhlada, Rampura and Bathinda took part in the awareness programme. Nijhawan appealed to the cadets to obey the safety rules and learn life-saving first-aid techniques to save human lives. SM Parkash Chand and Major Rajiv Bhargava said the purpose of the programme was to provide basic first-aid knowledge to the NCC cadets so that they can help someone in case of any emergency. Captain ML Sharma also addressed the cadets about human rights. Lt. Kaumarjit also took part in the training camp. Lectures on various topics like choking, electrical injuries, fainting, snake-bite, nose bleeding, heat exhaustion and heat stroke among several others were delivered. Demonstration of various first-aid methods were also performed by trainer Vijay Bhatt. Major Rajiv Bhargawa said apart from cultural activities, cadets were getting training and knowledge in various activities like drill, firing, social service, RD selection, first aid, disaster management, civil defense and traffic rules during the camp.
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GZS-PTU teacher to present paper in Russia
Bathinda, September 23 This conference is being conducted by Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). His visit to Russia to present this paper has been sponsored by the campus under the TEQIP-II Project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The paper, entitled “Segmentation of touching left modifier from consonant in the middle region of handwritten Hindi text” would help to develop optical character recognition (OCR) for handwritten Hindi text, which is still in the process of development. This research work is a joint publication with Dr Lakhwinder Kaur, professor, Punjabi University Patiala and Dr Manish Jindal, associate professor, Punjab University, regional centre in Muktsar. Hindi is the national language of India, but no commercial OCR for handwritten Hindi text is available yet. A lot of research is going on for the development of handwritten Hindi OCR. This research work will help in the development of the same. Professor Yu I Zhuravlev, Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, will be the chairman of the conference. Delegates from various countries including USA, Korea, Brazil, France, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia and Canada will present their research papers in the conference. Exhibition of software and hardware for the implementation of advanced information technologies of image analysis and pattern recognition will also take place during the conference. Technical committee meeting of the TC16 International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is another event of the conference. This conference will provide a platform for researchers and engineers from various countries to exchange knowledge and advances in the field image analysis and pattern recognition emerging field of computer science.
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Talent hunt programme held at DAV College
Bathinda, September 23 Chief guest at the function was Swami Suriya Dev of Maharishi Yog Ashram, Goniana, and the function was presided over by principal of the college Dr JS Anand. Jashanpreet Kaur, a student of MA English, was adjudged as best dancer, set the stage on fire with her dance number. Anu Sharma was declared best in the poem recitation competition, while the title of best singer was given to Parampal Singh. Students of MA English and MA History who topped the merit lists - Varunpreet Kaur in English, Shelza and Karamveer Kaur in History and others - were honoured for their outstanding academic performance. Others who were honoured at the function were students who were declared winners in various college-level activities like painting, collage-making and quiz competitions. Swami Surya Dev lauded the college administration for a fine-tuned presentation of talent. Dr Anand, who welcomed the guests, appreciated the dedication of the staff and the students in putting forth an enthralling cultural programme.
The judgement panel included Prof Mahesh Inder Singh, Prof Karampal Kaur and Prof Kulwinder Singh Maan. The stage was conducted jointly by Dr Beant Kaur and Prof Satish Grover. Others present at the function were PD Goyal, vice-chairman, local committee, Vimal Garg, Prof Pardip Verma, Prof Varesh Gupta, Prof Parveen Kumar, and several other senior members of the faculty.
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27 kg poppy husk seized; woman among 11 held
Bathinda, September 23 Kotwali police arrested two persons near Government Rajindra College and recovered 3 kg poppy husk from their possession. Arrested accused have been identified as Darshan Singh of Sema Kalan village and Dineshwar Pandey of Kartar Basti. In another incidence one kg of poppy husk was recovered from two people who were arrested near the office of truck union. Accused have been identified as Ved Prakash from Jassi Pau Wali village and Mukhtiar Singh of Jaito city. Police arrested two people near T-point Naruana road and recovered 2 kg poppy husk from their possession. Accused have been identified as Labh Singh of Mehma Bhagwana village and Binder Singh of Bhai Rupa village. Thermal police arrested two people and recovered 2.5 kg poppy husk from their possession. Both accused were arrested near bus stand. Buta Singh is a resident of The police arrested one Amarjit Singh, a resident of Dulewala village and recovered 4 kg poppy husk from his possession.
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Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today laid the foundation stone of a double storey modern jail to come up in village Gobindpura and Khialiwala at a cost of Rs 169
crore.
First aid training, knowledge about basic first-aid techniques was given to the cadets of NCC by first-aid lecturers Naresh Pathania and Vijay Bhatt at the NCC camp held under the guidance of Dinesh
Nijhawan, CO of the 20th Punjab Batalion of NCC, Bathinda. A 10-day training camp for NCC cadets is being conducted at Malout academy.
