|
|
|
|
Poll hiccups
Dhaba owner jumps into election fray for third time
Congress demands transfer of SSP (rural)
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Poll security
Election
special
Jallianwala martyrs’ kin flay govt
Johal to qualify as tourism board trainer
BSF jawans honoured for checking smuggling
Heroin worth Rs 15 crore seized
Campus notes
GNDU holds lecture on crystals
Doctorate professors assigned peon’s duties
Thieves strike at hospital |
|
MC employees sans salaries
GS Paul Tribune News Service Amritsar, April 11 Municipal corporation employees continue to face problems in getting their monthly salaries. There are around 5,000 staff members who were resenting the delay in payment of salaries. On the assurance of MC Commissioner DPS Kharbanda, employees withdrew their agitation. “It was a temporary delay in receiving government funds. The salaries will be released soon,” said Kharbanda. Vinod Bitta, president, Safai Mazdoor Union (Bitta group), said even as authorities had started disbursal of salaries in a phased manner and we had decided to suspend our agitation, there was no permanent solution to the problem of salaries getting delayed. “It has been a nuisance since January when the government had failed to release funds to the corporation leading to delay in payment of our salaries,” he said. Surinder Tona, president of the Nagar Nigam Union, Amritsar, said that it happened in February also. Actually, the salary bill of the MC employees comes to around Rs 11 crore. The MC spares its share to the tune of around Rs 4 crore, but for meeting the rest of the demand, it has to depend upon government funding. The government extends the MC its fund quota due against VAT payments and other taxes, which are contributed to the state exchequer by the MC. This payment generally gets delayed.
|
|
Dhaba owner jumps into election fray for third time
Amritsar, April 11 He said after allotment of symbol tomorrow, he would go to people ask them to vote for him. “My biggest advantage is my accessibility," he said. He has shown his annual income as Rs 2.45 lakh. His wife Madhu Bala also has annual income over Rs 2 lakh. Besides, he and his wife jointly possess 750 square yard commercial and residential properties and gold ornaments weighing 100 gm. “As the youth is complaining about unemployment, I think anything can be done through hard work," said Bal
Krishan.
|
|
Congress demands transfer of SSP (rural)
Amritsar, April 11 In a complaint to the Election Commission of India, the party alleged that on the directions of the SSP, Jarnail Singh, SHO, Bhindi Saidan, intimidated Congress sarpanch Sadda Singh as he refused to support the ruling alliance. "The SHO even provoked an attack on the sarpanch, in which his car was damaged. If he had not escaped, he would have been killed," the complaint read. Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee’s legal cell convener Sandeep Gorsi said the SSP
ad tried to influence voters in the rural areas in favour BJP candidate Arun Jaitley. The PPCC has sought immediate transfer of the SSP till the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections. “The party was compelled to express anguish over the act of SSP Gurpeet Singh Gill. He is misusing his position," said Gorsi The party stated in the complaint that Gill had a dubious service record and during the last Assembly elections, he was transferred from Patiala due to similar complaints against him. “Gill is the blue-eyed boy of the SAD-BJP alliance and has deliberately been chosen by the ruling alliance for the SSP Amritsar (rural) post to influence
voters ," he said. “It was appropriate and necessary that Gill be transferred till the elections are over," he added.
|
|
130 persons taken into preventive custody
PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service
Amritsar, April 11 Confirming this, Jatinder Singh Aulakh, Commissioner of Police, said the police had scrutinised through the list of history-sheeters and out to them 130 have been sent to jail as a preventive measure. He said more preventive arrests were possible in future. He said all police stations had been asked to prepare lists of the anti-social elements who could create a problem during the elections. The Amritsar Lok Sabha seat has become a prestigious seat after central BJP leader Arun Jaitley was fielded by the party. The Congress fielded former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh against Arun Jaitley and a continuous war of words between the SAD-BJP and Congress leaders has heated up the political temperature in the city. The police wanted to do its all in providing foolproof security for the poll. Meanwhile, around 8,100 of 10,000 licensed weapons have been deposited with the Police Department and the gun houses so far. The Police Department had asked armed licence holders to deposit their arms before the parliamentary poll. Police commissioner said by Monday around 90 per cent of the licensed weapons would be deposited with the department. On suspected sneaking of illegal and country-made weapons in the city in view of the poll, he said regular checkings were being done while new plans for holding nakas at every entry and exit point besides other important parts of the city had been chalked out. At present four companies of paramilitary forces, including three CRPF and CISF companies, have arrived in the city while the Police Department has sought over 20 companies of the paramilitary forces which are likely to arrive by April 25, said Aulakh. Besides two companies of the Punjab Armed Police, 150 constables and 100 women cops have arrived in the city for security arrangements till now.
|
|
City yet to cash in on airport infrastructure
Hopes from next MP to make a case for its uplift and turn things around Neeraj Bagga Tribune News Service
Amritsar, April 11 The Amritsar airport boasts of state-of-the-art infrastructure and its strategically location of being close to Central Asia was said to carry immense potential in boosting trade. However, all these objectives have not been met yet. The primary reason is that there is an absence of direct flights to Amritsar. The airport losses mounted after various airlines cancelled their international flights. Earlier, Air India discontinued its Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flight, which was arguably the most successful flight in the annals of the national carrier's history. It was withdrawn on October 31, 2010. However, it was not the only flight that was cancelled from the Amritsar airport. The British Midland International (BMI) had pulled out its Amritsar-Almaty-London flight in October 2012. Before this, Air India had suspended its Amritsar-Toronto flight due to strikes of pilots. The Singapore Airlines had launched thrice a week Amritsar-Singapore flight on October 1, 2004. The service ran well for around five years before being discontinued in early 2009. Later, Jet Airways launched its Amritsar-London flight only to withdraw it after sometime. A progressive farmer, Kuljit Singh, who has a 25-acre farm on the airport road, said that after learning the setting up of the temporary cargo at the airport, he was inclined to switch over to vegetable-growing. However, discontinuing of flights at regular intervals disappointed him and he gave up the decision. He opined that the next MP must spare thought over it and put in efforts to start cargo flights to discontinued destinations, especially in the Central and Middle East countries. He said a conducive weather condition offers immense potential to export vegetables from the region. Even as the infrastructure of the Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport is being boosted by the Airports Authority of India for the past few years, the airport doesn't seem to have got its due in terms of a national-level airport and the frequency of international flights. The Union Government with an investment of about Rs 150 crore offered a state-of-the-art infrastructure and established the airport building in consonance with the contemporary architecture prevailing around the world. This entire development was carried out in two phases of a Master Plan to give the airport a new look with the objective of more passenger facilities and increased security.
|
|
Jallianwala martyrs’ kin flay govt
Amritsar, April 11 Bhushan Behl, whose grandfather Lala Hari Ram Behl was among the slain during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, said in 2008, the government had declared the Jallianwala Bagh martyrs as freedom fighters but denied the benefits reserved for the freedom fighters‘ kin. He is the president of the Jallianwala Bagh Shaheed Parivar Samittee. “Despite our efforts, the matter was further referred to the state government for verification but it has been hanging fire due to red-tape. We are still struggling to win the coveted title for our forefathers who laid down their lives for the nation on April 13, 1919," Behl said. Behl claimed that his grandfather had led a jatha to the Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919. “At the time of my grandfather's death, my father Jagdish Chander was a year old and our family faced a tough time earning a livelihood,” he claimed. Nand Lal Arora, whose grandfather Fakir Chand was killed during the massacre, said the state government had formed a committee, headed by the Chief Secretary, to make recommendations in this regard to the Central Government but nothing happened. Vimal Kapoor, whose grandfather Tara Chand Kapoor died on the fateful day, said “It was a negligence on the part of the government that till date no decision has been taken over the issue," he said.
|
|
Johal to qualify as tourism board trainer
Amritsar, April 11 The training programme will be conducted by the World Federation of Tourist Guide Association (WFTGA). Johal, who works as a heritage walk guide in the holy city, will attend the training programme at Kota Kila Banu in Sabah Malaysia. The WFTGA is a non-political premiere tourist guides body which came into being as a result of proposals put forward at the first International Convention of Tourist Guides in 1985. It was officially registered as a non-profit organisation under Austrian law. Today the WFTGA has members from more than 70 countries, representing well over 200,000 individual tourist guides. It has established an international network of professional tourist guides and today it is the only global forum for tourist. The entire fee and expenses of Johal's training will be incurred by the PHTPB. After completion of this training, Johal will be the only qualified Guide Trainer in the state. He will be in a position to train the guides in different cities of Punjab. A postgraduate, Johal, started his guiding career in 2004. Johal said that there is dearth of qualified and skilled guides in the state which is adversely affecting the tourism in the state. “Tourists like to visit other cities in Punjab but due to shortage of good guides, they do not get information.” He said after attending this training, he would be training youngsters in Patiala, Bathinda, Kapurthala and
Gurdaspur.
|
|
BSF jawans honoured for checking smuggling
Amritsar, April 11 MF Farooqui, DIG BSF, Amritsar sector, distributed 91 commendation certificates and approximately Rs 5 Lakh among hundreds of BSF officers and jawans. The cash reward received from the Narcotics Control Bureau for the seizure of drugs was also distributed among the troops. DIG Farooqui said it was perhaps for the first time that monetary rewards to the tune of Rs 10 lakh were distributed among the brave soldiers. "This is very encouraging and moral boosting for the jawans," he said. As per the information, the BSF has recovered more than 300 kgs of heroin worth 1500 core besides arms and ammunition in the past six months. Ten Pakistan smugglers were also killed by the BSF. Farooqui praised the alertness and determination of the jawans. "Stern action at the Amritsar border has terrorised the smugglers. These seizures have saved the lives of millions of people across the world," he added.
|
|
Heroin worth Rs 15 crore seized
Bathinda, April 11 The IG, Counter Intelligence, Jatinder Jain, said Satpal’s brother-in-law Gurbhej Singh, a native of Mamdot is residing in the UK for the last four years. During investigation, it was found that Gurbhej played a vital role to interact with drug smugglers, one of them identified as Haji, in Pakistan for ‘smooth’ flow of drugs through the international boundaries. A quantity of three kg of heroin was recovered from their possession along with drug money of Rs 70,000 and two mobile phones. The police said that the accused Ranjodh Singh being a resident of Mehandipur, which is situated quite close, half-a-kilometer from the Indo-Pak border, used to keep a close watch over the activities of the Border Security Force (BSF). “Ranjodh’s house is situated so close to the barbed wires installed at the border that he used to climb up the rooftop and keep watch over BSF’s activities and remain in touch with his accomplices on the other side of the border using a cell phone,” claimed IG Jain. He pointed out that the arrested accused admitted to have smuggled four consignments of heroin comprising 50 packets from Pakistan to India.
|
|
Ambedkar Jayanti celebrated
Shri Ram Ashram Public School celebrated Ambedkar Jayanti on Friday. Tributes were paid to Dr Ambedkar on the occasion. School Educational Society president Balbir Bajaj, lauded the efforts of the school staff for making the function a success. Lecture on physics
A lecture was organised on the topic "Physics for Students" at Khalsa College Public School (KCPS) on Friday. Dr Krishan Lal, former Director, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, and president of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), spoke on the subject. He asked the students to adopt physics as a subject for studies. "There is a plenty of scope for research in Physics," Dr Lal said . He said inventions in physics could be traced back to the Indus Valley civilisations. He laid stress on the importance of researchers in society. School principal Dr Sarvjit Kaur Brar said the lecture was informative and highly useful for the students. Dr Brar honored Dr Krishan Lal and his wife Dr Raj Shri besides encouraging the students to work hard. Workshop
BBK DAV College for Women, Amritsar, organised a two-day workshop on the “Hands-on Techniques in Clinical Haematology” on Friday. The workshop was inaugurated by Principal Dr Neelam Kamra. The aim of this workshop is to determine complete blood count (CBC), total leukocyte count (TLC), differential leukocyte count (DLC), haemoglobin (Hb), RBC count, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW and platelet count of the students. The anthropometric information, including age and BMI, was also recorded. To now dietary habits of the students, a food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was also distributed among them.The college principal encouraged the students to learn the techniques of automation in haematology.
— TNS
|
|
GNDU holds lecture on crystals
Amritsar, April 11 The lecture was organised by the Department of Physics. Prof AS Brar, Vice-Chancellor of the university, presided over the programme. Citing ancient literature, prof Kishan Lal said crystals like diamond and vaidooryam were known to the people during the Ramayana and Mahabharata periods. He also explained how the discovery of X-rays made the study of crystal possible. He said vocational teaching should be encouraged so that the youth could contribute in a constructive way for the development of the country. Meanwhile, VC Brar presented a memento and a shawl to the guest. Test postponed
Guru Nanak Dev University has postponed the practical test of all eligible candidates for the posts of clerk-cum-junior data entry operator and junior technician (computer).The test was scheduled to be held from April 15 to 19 at the computer centre of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Bhawan in the university. Prof MS Hundal, Dean, Academic Affairs, and Chairman of the test committee, said new dates for the test would be announced shortly.
|
|
Doctorate professors assigned peon’s duties
Jalandhar, April 11 The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) has brought this to the notice of the ECI a number of times, complaining against anomalies in the assignment of polling duties to college lecturers. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has also ruled recently that lecturers and teachers shall be assigned duties as per their grades. A number of college lecturers, professors and associate professors have been assigned duties as polling officers — with employees subordinate to them being made their Presiding Officers — greatly irking them. Similarly, many school principals have also been assigned duties as polling officers, despite having grades of Class I officers.
|
||
|
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | E-mail | |
national Capital and its likely impact on the fortunes of Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport in Amritsar, but it failed to produce results.
Dejected over the apathetic attitude of the Centre as well as the state government, the kin of the Jallianwala Bagh martyrs today decided to lodge protest on April 13 at the historic place under the banner of the Jallianwala Bagh Shaheed Parivar Samittee. They regretted that even after 67 years of the Independence, they were not given the benefits extended to the freedom fighters’ kin.
To boost the morale of jawans, the Border Security Force organised a sainik sammelan at Khasa headquarters. The jawans who played a commendable role in checking the smuggling of contraband, arms and ammunition were honoured on the occasion.
Officers and jawans of all four battalions deputed in the Amritsar sector participated in the
programme.
