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ETT teachers for release of arrested colleagues
Sewer pipeline work causes traffic problems
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Mid-day meal worker’s union holds protest in city
Police rule out terrorist Mintu’s role in child’s murder
Pitiable condition of roads plagues city
Farewell accorded
Nooran sisters are full of offers from Bollywood
One held for attempt to rape
Linesman electrocuted Quiz contest organised Feedback
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ETT teachers for release of arrested colleagues
Jalandhar, February 2 The members said today, after eight days of the incident, the members were still locked
up in jail and were being kept with other criminals who had been held for serious crimes. The members also demanded that the 5,078 posts in their department should be filled. They said they were all highly qualified teachers who had done MA, MEd, PhD and MPhil and had passed the TET test in the year 2011, but were still jobless due to the government’s apathy. Press secretary Manjit Singh said delegations from the union met the CM Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, DGSE and Education Minister so that teachers could be reinstated at the 5,078 posts and the jailed teachers could be released. Members said while a deadline of February 3 had been given
for the release of the arrested teachers in Ludhiana, so far there was not intimation about their release from the
government. Around 8,400 teachers had cleared the TET tests in the year 2011 of whom 2,100 got jobs. About 6,000 members of the ETT teachers’ union are unemployed. While 5,078 posts were released in the year 2013, for which many had applied. Some teachers had cleared the tests
and a number of counsellings had also been done, but they were yet to get any jobs. While they had been promised time and
again that some solution to their problem would be found, nothing had been done. Meanwhile, a meeting of 3,442 members of the Teachers Union was also held at the Desh Bhagat Yadaar hall today. Teachers said while they had been working for
the past over one year, they were getting paid meagre wages. Teachers rued that the new posts released by the DPE were being paid way more
than them. They said while they had cleared the TET test, they were still not getting regular pay grades. They demanded better pay grades. |
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Sewer pipeline work causes traffic problems
Jalandhar, February 2 A daily commuter on the road from the Rama Mandi locality, Baljit Singh, said it was an absolute struggle to pass this stretch. Moreover, the bus drivers make the situation worse. The road has recently been repaired and now again it is being dug up for the sewer pipeline. Nobody cares about the common man’s problems. It seems the local bodies do not have a proper strategy to deal with such issues as they are installing the sewer pipeline on roadside after the recent repair work. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Mohinder Singh said they had taken up the issue with their seniors and the Municipal Corporation (MC) several times and had written letters also, but no permanent solution had been found as yet. ‘‘Traffic on this road is a major issue, while the recent development of digging is making the traffic issue worse. We recently held a meeting in this regard with the MC,’’ he added. MC Joint Commissioner Anupam Kler said the recent repair was just a temporary work. ‘‘Once we are done with the sewer issue, a permanent construction to the issue would be found by the first week of March,"
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Mid-day meal worker’s union holds protest in city
Jalandhar, February 2 Union members demanded that they should be given salaries at par with the rest of the staff in the Education Department. The rally saw a heavy deployment of the police force. The police also regulated traffic via the Press Club road due to the blocking of the chowk due to the rush at the place. The union members moved from there only after ADCP-I Naresh Dogra reached the spot and assured members that their meeting would be arranged with Cabinet Minister Bhagat Chunni Lal on February 20. Members warned that if their demands were not met by the end of February, they would hold agitations in all tehsils. Speaking on the occasion, leaders and members, gathered from across the state, complained that they were not even being paid their minimum wages. Members said they were being paid a mere Rs 12,000 annually even as in the neighbouring state of Haryana, workers were getting Rs 2,500 per month. They said the Punjab Government was violating labour acts, discriminating against the women members of the union. They said while they had held a rally at Rampura Phul, the constituency of Education Minister
Sikander Singh Maluka, on January 19, they were holding the rally in the constituency of Labour and Employment Minister Bhagat Chunni Lal today so that the government would take their issue seriously. The Punjab Mulazam Manch head Germanjit Singh, DAF president Bhupinder Singh Varaich, Harinder Dusanjh and Aamarjit Shastri as well as NTUI president, Punjab, Makkhan Singh, Nacchattar Singh Tarn Taran, Mamta Sharma and Parkash Thothiyan said workers had sent letters regarding their demands to the Punjab Government many times and the matter had also been brought to the notice of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, but no action had been initiated on the issue. Members also said that rather than paying heed to the problems of unions, the Punjab Government was, instead, planning to initiate the move of mid-day meal food preparation on a contract basis. Workers demanded that they should be brought under the ambit of the Minimum Wages Act and be paid Rs 7,028 per month. And part-time workers should be paid Rs 6,248 per month. They also demanded that they should get pay for 12 months a year, rather than 10 months as they were currently getting. Their other demands included the withdrawal of the decision to start mid-day meal on a contract basis in the state, ESI facility, provident fund, all kinds of leaves, one cook for every 50 students and free insurance of Rs 2 lakh for every worker. Union members warned that if their demands were not met, all union members would burn an effigy of the Punjab Government at all tehsil headquarters. |
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Police rule out terrorist Mintu’s role in child’s murder
Jalandhar, February 2 Mintu was today produced in court which remanded him in judicial custody. The Model Town police had brought Mintu on a three-day production warrant from the Pathankot jail on Friday. He was interrogated in connection with the murder case, reported on March 31, 2011, when some unidentified assailant had brutally stabbed to death a seven-year-old boy Sonu and grievously hurt his two-year-old sister Nisha in the posh Cool Road locality. The police had questioned Mintu on the basis that he was seen in Jalandhar on the day when murder took place. Mintu had murdered former SAD MLA Sarabjit Makkar’s brother Surinder Singh Makkar about 25 years ago. Mintu had dodged the police for over 25 years after murdering Akali leader Surinder. He was nabbed in a drug haul case in Batala in No vember last year. Changing his names and switching between his Hindu-Sikh identity, the 50-year-old Babbar Khalsa outfit activist, involved in as many as 11 criminal cases, could not be nabbed by the Punjab Police despite the fact that a three-member SIT had been formed in the matter by the DGP even last year under ADCP (Crime) Harpreet Singh Mander. |
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Better Jalandhar road Infrastructure—I Bipin Bhardwaj Tribune News Service The city has elected many high-profile politicians to the state legislature and Parliament but none has been able to provide Jalandhar its dues in terms of road infrastructure. Jalandhar Tribune digs into the problem and asks leaders about the reasons behind this Jalandhar, February 2 The main entry and exit points are a telling comment on the pitiable condition of the roads, raising a question mark on the performance of the legislators from the area. In the last 15 years, Jalandhar has given three Local Bodies Ministers, including Chaudhary Jagjit Singh (Congress), Manoranjan Kalia and Bhagat Chunil Lal (both from BJP) to the state government lead by the Congress and the SAD-BJP. To strengthen the road network in his constituency, Member of Parliament from Jalandhar, Mohinder Singh Kaypee, has also spent rather miserly from his MPLAD funds. Moreover, Jalandhar has always been a favourite destination for the Punjab chief ministers and the deputy chief ministers who frequently visit this city on one pretext or the other. But they have hardly looked upon the damaged roads, confined as they are to their security cover. The terrible roads not only claim precious lives but also cause a major revenue loss to the industrialists and traders of the city besides leaving an unfavourable impression on tourists visiting the city. This affects tourism adversely. Almost every main road and the internal link roads in the city bear an ugly look with knee-deep potholes filled with garbage and slush. With the layers of bitumen peeling off, gravel has scattered on the surface and it makes the roads accident-prone. The stretches where four main roads-- Jalandhar-Kapurthala, Jalandhar-Nakodar, Jalandhar-Amritsar and Jalandhar-Ludhiana -- connect with the city, are in a dilapidated condition as the authorities of the local civic body and the Punjab Public Works Department (PWD) as well as the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) remain at loggerheads over their jurisdiction. The main entrance to the city, a stretch from PAP Chowk to Rama Mandi Chowk, has been in a bad shape for over six years. The damaged stretch is not only a major traffic bottleneck on the GT Road but also a nightmare for the motorists due to its poor maintenance. The abandoned project for the widening of the GT Road by a private construction company- Soma Enterprises Limited- to whom the NHAI has allocated the work, has also added to the woes of the motorists, passengers and commuters. The condition of a stretch on the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road in Basti Bawa Khel is pitiable due to deep pits and trenches on it. Moreover, the decades-old problem of waterlogging on the main road here has been putting the road users to great hardship. The road gets converted into a canal during the rains and vehicles often get struck in water here. Travelling on the road connecting the city limits from Nakodar at Khurla-Kingra village near TV Tower at Wadala Chowk is a virtual test of courage for the motorists as the the vehicles have to make their way through numerous potholes. The condition of the road linking the city with the GT Road at Bidhipur railway level crossing is also similar. Apart from the main roads, the internal roads like BSF-PAP Chowk Road, Railway Road, Ladhewali Road, Meethapur Road, roads in Basti area, Alaska Chowk, Shashtri Chowk, GPO Road and Maqsudan Road, among others, is crying for attention. All the roundabouts in the city and the intersection on GT Road at Adda Hoshiarpur, Pathankot bypass, the approach road to Domoria railway overbridge, Rama Mandi overbridge, DAV College overbridge, Khalsa College overbridge, have developed potholes due to the apathy of the authorities concerned. The condition of the 120 feet and 60 feet roads, the internal road in the Industrial Focal Point and other circular roads is also pathetic.
The ruling SAD-BJP alliance has made the local municipal corporation virtually bankrupt and ruined the road connectivity in the city. The present government has been taking the people for a ride by making hollow promises and laying foundation stones for various projects that finally end up nowhere. In fact, the SAD and the BJP are hand in glove to ensure profit for themselves while undertaking big projects. This is resulting in the deterioration of basic infrastructure in the state. During our regime, a complete pre-mix was laid on the damaged roads every year while the present government is not interested in even doing patch work for the benefit of the common man. The SAD-BJP leaders are taking credit for projects started by the Congress.
You are asking the wrong man the right question. Still, I will tell you that Rs 100 crore was spent on strengthening and upgrading the road network in Jalandhar during my tenure. Apart from this, to clear traffic bottlenecks in the city, three overbridges at Khalsa College, BMC Chowk and DAV College, were constructed. The unfinished Domoria overbridge was also completed and another overbridge near Maqsudan was also completed during my tenure. You can compare the pace of development during my tenure with those taken up during the tenure of the other ministers.
The Member of Parliament from Jalandhar expressed his ignorance about the expenditure incurred by him to strengthen the road network in his constituency, especially in Jalandhar city.
He, however, claimed to have spent a substantial amount from his annual Rs 5 crore MPLAD funds on various development works in the rural areas. But he was not sure of the exact amount spent till date. The municipal corporation has a budget of Rs 64 crore to carry out re-carpeting and patch works on the damaged roads. The tenders for the works have been floated. We have also prepared a comprehensive statement for these works. The work will begin in March.
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From schools Students of Dayanand Model Senior Secondary School enjoyed a farewell party on Saturday with the students of class XI bidding them good luck. A cultural programme including the Miss and Master DMS was organised to make the day memorable. Principal Raj Kumar Sehgal blessed the students on behalf of the faculty and gave his best wishes to the graduating students. Star students were also recognised for their special traits. Farewell function at Police DAV Public School
Police DAV Public School bid adieu to its class XII students. "Rukhsat", the farewell function, was an amalgam of feelings with smiles on lips and tears in eyes. All the students were dressed well for the day. The students of Plus One tried their best to make it a day of fun, laughter and cheers. The function started with a welcome song by the students of Plus One followed by a cake-cutting ceremony by the principal Dr Rashmi Vij. The prime attraction of the function was a modelling show in which as many as 210 students participated. Richa Sharma, the head girl, expressed her gratitude to the school while Abhimanyu offered a vote of thanks. In her address, Dr Rashmi Vij exhorted the students to follow the righteous path in consonance with the school motto, "Upward and upright". The students were decorated with titles and awards by the principal. Basant festival
celebrated
The festival of Basant was celebrated by St Soldier Group of Institutions. Students dressed in yellow costumes, carrying yellow kites, spread yellow flowers on the ground and wished a happy Basant to each other. The students presented giddha in a traditional way and shared the happiness of Basant. Manpreet was declared Miss Basant while Jasmeen and Himashi came second and third, respectively, in the contest. Principal Manju honoured the students. Free medical check-up camp held
Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions, Loharan, in collaboration with Bowry Memorial Educational and Medical Trust organised a free medical check-up camp at village Kular on January 30 for the poor and the needy. Dr Rustam examined the patients and distributed free medicines among them. Prof Amrinder Singh of Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions was also present on the occasion. Dr Anup Bowry, Secretary, Bowry Memorial Educational and Medical Trust, assured that the trust will keep organising free medical camps as part of its social responsibility programme to help the needy.
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Nooran sisters are full of offers from Bollywood
Jalandhar, February 2 In an exclusive interview to The Tribune, the Nooran sisters said they felt proud to have got an opportunity to work with AR Rahman. "Besides, our experience with Coke Studio has been incredible. We have performed the Sufi song Allah Hu, which was loved by all sections of society. It has been a great learning experience," the Nooran sisters said. Speaking about the recently released religious album titled "Yaar Gariban Da", Sultana said it is an album about Guru Ravi Das with six Sufi kalams written by the Hoshiarpur-based RP Diwana. "The music has been composed by my dad Gulshan Mihir," Sultana informed. "Prior to this, we did another album titled 'Tatarhi' in 2012 that had Sufi songs. It gave a great push to our career," said Jyoti. "We have many offers from Bollywood for playback singing. Many people in the industry ask us to opt for modelling. We simply refuse as it is not on our agenda," said Sultana. "I started singing at the age of seven, whereas my younger sister Jyoti started when she was five years old. Our father discovered our talent at an early age and trained us in Sufi music. We would wake up at four in the morning for practice. Our family, particularly dad, gave us great support, as he himself was a musician," she added. Speaking about their aspirations, Jyoti said, "We always wanted to do something different as our dad had motivated us to sing only Sufi songs. However, I don't mind singing pop music in future. But we prefer cultural and traditional songs, the kind of music that the audience does not hesitate to listen with family. We always keep in mind our culture and tradition." Sultana left her education after class XI whereas Jyoti is studying in class IX. "I thought of studying more but I remain busy all the time in singing. Now, singing is the only education that we have," said Sultana. About their world tour, Jyoti said, "We have done many concerts all over the world. We recently did a show in Canada. We got very good response as Indians, particularly the Punjabi community, love Sufi music." |
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Members of the ETT Union Punjab today demanded the immediate release of the
arrested members of their union in Ludhiana, here today.
Members of the Mid Day Meal Workers Union today took out a rally from the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar hall to the Press Club chowk to protest against their poor salary structure. After initially gathering at the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar hall, members moved towards the Press Club chowk and held up traffic for about half an hour during
which time they issued slogans and addressed the gathering.
Sultana Nooran and Jyoti Nooran, Jalandhar based Sufi singers, also known as Nooran sisters, have etched their name in the world of Sufi music. The sisters have recently recorded a song,
"Gudi Pataka", under the famous music director AR Rahman in the film "High Way".
