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Heavy downpour lashes city
In five months, 21 commit suicide due to depression on railway tracks
GKU to offer course in aviation technology
Hike in diesel price irks city residents
Shift or close liquor vends located in residential areas, demand Jogi Nagar residents
Anganwari workers demand salary
3 booked for rape
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Admn gears up for counting
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Bathinda, May 13 While the counting for Lambi and Bathinda Urban segments will be held at the Institute of Hotel Management, counting for the Bhucho and Bathinda rural segments will be held at PESCO and counting for the Talwandi Sabo and Maur segments will be held at the CUP campus. Counting of votes for the Mansa, Sardulgarh and Budhlada segments will be done at the GNMC. All the centres will have two halls each for counting and each hall will have 14 tables on which the EVMs will be opened and the votes will be counted. All the complaints regarding the counting process may be registered in Room No. 208 where a Complaint Cell has been set up. Polling agents to keep check on counting
This time around, the counting centres may be flooded with polling agents as every candidate has been allowed to appoint a maximum of 15 counting agents to keep a check on the counting of one assembly segment. Since Bathinda has 29 candidates for its nine assembly segments, there may be as many as 3,915 counting agents legally. "Only one counting agent of a candidate will be allowed to sit at a counting table and he will not be allowed to move to another table. Throughout the counting process, the agent will have to sit at the same table," said Returning Officer Kamal Kishore Yadav. At every table, three government officials - a micro-observer, a supervisor and a counting assistant-- will sit at each of the tables. A wire mesh wall will separate the counting table from the counting agents of the candidates. Wall breached to interlink campuses
To ease the movement of officials of the administration, the common boundary wall of the IHM and PESCO campuses has been breached to make way from one campus to the other. "We spent a lot of time on recce for a place which could give us easy mobility and finally zeroed in on these three campuses as all the three are located close to each other," said SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar. Water, connectivity problem at IHM
Aiming to provide utmost security to the EVMs stored in the strong rooms inside the IHM, the knobs of some of the overhead water tanks were turned off. This was done to make sure that the seepage of water didn't cause any damage to the EVMs. As a result, water supply to some parts of the campus, including the laundry, was stopped. The campus also suffered from loss of internet and phone connectivity as while the hotlines for the counting were being laid, the telephone and internet lines of the Institute of Hotel Management got disconnected by mistake. The connections were restored on Tuesday. Round-wise updates
The district administration has also arranged for providing round-wise updates of the counting process to the counting agents. "Apart from the LCD screens displaying results, the agents will also be given printouts of the results after every round. This will rule out any possibility of the agents complaining of any foul play or fudging of results at the end," said the Returning Officer. |
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Govt staff trained for counting process, strong rooms checked
Bathinda, May 13 "The counting of votes will be held at four places — Central University of Punjab, PESCO and the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition in Bathinda and Government Nehru Memorial College in Mansa." He also answered all the queries raised by the members regarding their identification proof and entry passes required to seek entry into the counting centres. This exercise was followed by a tour of all the strong rooms located at the three centres wherein the EVMs have been stored. Apart from the DC, SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar and SDM Damanjit Singh Mann were also present. In the presence of the candidates, polling and counting agents of political parties, the seals and security arrangements of the strong rooms were checked. The RO also shared that mobile phones, weapons or any kind of inflammable items will not be allowed inside the counting centres. Candidates Jasraj Singh Longia, Jagdish Rai Sharma, Satish Arora, Jagdip Singh Gehri, Dyal Chand and polling and counting agents of various other political parties were also present on the occasion.
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Heavy downpour lashes city
Bathinda May 13 After light rain was recorded in the city in Monday night, the city experienced cool winds blowing at a velocity of 9 kmph through the day on Tuesday while the sun beat down harsh. The weather took a turn when clouds covered the evening sky and lightning began at around 7:15 pm. A strong dust storm was followed by a heavy downpour which lasted for about half an hour. While during the day, the maximum temperature was recorded at 30.2 degree Celsius, the minimum temperature was recorde at 17.6 degree Celsius. But the downpour brought down the temperature by several notches. The sudden downpour caught the commuters unawares. Although the monsoon is yet to set in, the early rainfall lay bare the chinks in the monsoon preparation of the Bathinda Municipal Corporation. As per the Met Department, such weather in the month of May is caused by south-western disturbance which affects parts of Northern India every 4-5 years. As per the forecast released by the IMD for the next four days, the region may experience similar weather over the next few days as well. As per the forecast, the region will experience a mainly cloudy sky with possibility of rain and light showers. Water accumulated at several places in the city. Commuters in Balla Ram Nagar, Civil Lines, Amrik Singh Road, North Estate, Dhobiana Road, Sirki Bazar, Mall Road, Shant Nagar, Parasram Magar, Ganesha Basti, Bhai Mati Das Nagar, Mansa ROB and several other places had a tough time manouvering through waterlogged streets and roads. |
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In five months, 21 commit suicide due to depression on railway tracks
Bathinda, May 13 As per the Government Railway Police (GRP) record, Harcharan Singh, a resident of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar at Mansa, committed suicide on railway track due to financial stress the family was facing. Om Parkash Singh, a resident of Hisar, and Bholu Ram, a resident of Kheta Singh, Bathinda, also committed suicide on the Bathinda-Goniana railway track due to financial crunch. Gursewak Singh, a resident of Bhagta Bhai Ka, committed suicide near Bathinda on railway line due to depression and Buta Singh committed suicide near Katar Singhwala railway station due to financial stress. Dr SK Tiwari, a psychiatrist, said: "Suicide is committed by a person under depression in an impulsive mood. Depression is common these days among the youth also. These days, family issues like financial strain, fight with life partner and other issues also lead to impulsive responses like committing of suicide. The relatives of these people who are in depression should take them to the counselling centres or a psychiatrist. These days even the state government has opened a counselling centre at the de-addiction centres at local civil hospitals. GRP official Parminder Singh said after the investigation, the reason behind most of the cases turns out to be poor financial condition. |
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GKU to offer course in aviation technology
Bathinda, May 13 Students will now be able to opt for courses in physiotherapy, hospitality and tourism, library science, humanities, journalism and mass communication, multimedia and animation, paramedical/ nursing/ dental, management, veterinary science and dairy technology, security services, agriculture, horticulture/ aquaculture and aviation technology. In physiotherapy, students will be able to opt for a diploma, bachelor’s or master’s course in physiotherapy. In the hospitality and tourism department, bachelor’s degrees in hospitality, hotel management and airlines, tourism and hospitality management will be offered. Diploma, degree and PG courses in library and information science will also be offered. Diploma and graduation courses will also be offered in Humanities, journalism and mass communication. In the paramedical/ nursing/ dental department, diploma courses in geriatric nursing, multipurpose health worker, dental hygiene, revenue record management and bachelor degree in medical laboratory technology will be available. Students willing to make a foray into the management sector will be able to opt for a diploma course in revenue record management. Those
interested in the dairy sector will be able to pursue diploma course in veterinary science and dairy technology. The students having a knack for security services, a one-year certificate course in security training and a diploma course in fire safety will be made available. Youngsters having interest in agriculture and allied sciences may choose from post-graduate agricultural economics, or diploma courses in horticulture supervisor training course or a diploma course in aquaculture. |
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Hike in diesel price irks city residents
Bathinda, May 13 Mitul Jindal, a local resident, said: "The government is leaving no chance to crush the common man, as diesel prices are going up each month. The government claims that the price hike is due to the international market fluctuation, but then why are the prices not slashed when prices in the international market come down." Ankush Aggarwal, a trader, said: "This hike will affect the daily life as this will result in an increase in the rates of vegetable and fruits, which are out of reach of the middle class and affect the monthly budget of the families." Another trader, Rajinder, urged the government to direct the oil companies to immediately rollback the hike in diesel price as they have no moral authority to hike the price at the end of the government’s term. Meanwhile, Sakshi Gupta, a housewife, said: "The hike will put the monthly budget of our household out of order, as each day, some hike or the other is announced by the government." |
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Shift or close liquor vends located in residential areas, demand Jogi Nagar residents
Bathinda, May 13 For almost 10 days now, the residents have been demanding that the district administration either shift or close the liquor vends located in residential areas or near educational institutions or the places of religious importance. During the meeting, the protestors objected to liquor vends located in Jogi Nagar, Hans Nagar, Mehna Chowk, Amarpura Basti, Naruana Nagar, Lal Singh Nagar besides other several vends located in the residential areas. They pointed out that due to the functioning of these vends, residents of these areas, especially females, felt insecure. They also accused the Deputy Commissioner of Bathinda of favouring the owners of the vends and not heeding the demands of the residents. In the memorandum, the protestors pointed out that while there were 124 vends located in the Bathinda city, there was only one government college, three government senior secondary schools and one government hospital. Accepting the memorandum of demands, CPS Singla assured them that a committee comprising of the ADC, AITC and DSP will be formed to look into the matter. |
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Anganwari workers demand salary
Bathinda, May 13 Raising slogans against the state government, the workers stated that they had not been paid salaries since February. Although the workers were also scheduled to take out a protest, they dropped the plan after a deputation of the workers was assured by the Deputy Commissioner of Bathinda, Kamal Kishore Yadav, that a meeting of the union will be fixed with the Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, within two days. Accusing the state government of pocketing the funds which the Central Government had released for their scheme, the workers threatened that if the state government failed to heed to their demands by May 19, they will turn to CM's village Lambi and sit on a dharna there. |
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3 booked for rape
Bathinda, May 13 The police have registered a case under Section 376, 506 and 34 of the IPC against all the three accused. 80 bottles of illicit
liquor seized
The Maur police have arrested two person with 80 bottles of country-made illicit liquor in two cases. The police recovered 60 bottles of illicit country-made brand Khasa Motta Santra from Gurmeet Singh, a resident Maur Khurd village, during checking. The accused managed to flee from the spot. The police have also recovered 20 bottles of the same brand from Jagjit Singh in Maur Khurd village. Both the accused have been booked under Sections 61,1,14 of the Exercise
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Central University of Punjab campus, PESCO and the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition in Bathinda and Government Nehru Memorial College
in Mansa.
Bathinda May 13
Bathinda, May 13
