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No roll numbers, dental students block highway
Ludhiana milk plant loses Rs 1.3 cr due to poor handling
Police probe bares drug peddlers’ modus operandi
Illegal distilleries in Jalalabad destroyed
row over separate gurdwara panel for haryana
Batala faces flood scare as old main drain lies choked
Development projects
iraq imbroglio
Patiala MP Gandhi meets Sushma
Relief to youths returned
from Iraq meagre: NAPA
PSPCL buys costly power to meet demand
8 IPS, 16 PPS officers transferred
Class X pass-outs from other states allowed MBBS seats
Varsities told to collect fresh data on suicides by farmers
Mumbai divers to clean Golden Temple sarovar
Thandal: Jail warders to be recruited afresh
Security to 150 VIPs may be pruned
Fish market to come up on land earmarked for cricket stadium
Move to ensure minimum health standards
Bhawanigarh clash
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Denied admission, 100 aspirants protest at Adesh Institute
Bathinda, July 2 Though the BFUHS held counselling sessions on June 21 and 22, the Adesh Institute has prepared a separate provisional list for admissions of around 98 students due to the ongoing legal proceedings in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. As of now, the next hearing in the matter is on July 8. An aspirant’s parent, Satpal Kaushik of Chandigarh, said, “The state government first issued a notification on March 7, saying admissions to all medical colleges, including Adesh Institute, will be held through central admissions. The institute went to court seeking an exemption, while arguing that it had status of a university, so, was independent to conduct its admissions. On June 23, the HC granted permission to Adesh University to conduct admissions provisionally. Meanwhile, Baba Farid University had completed the admission process on June 21 and 22.” Kaushik said, “When we were not heard at Adesh Medical College, we approached Baba Farid University today and submitted our case.” Dr SS Gill, Vice Chancellor of BFUHS, said, “The students on our merit list fare better than those of Adesh Institute. The only difference in the two lists is that a student at Adesh is paying Rs 40 lakh for a seat against the Rs 2.2 lakh annual fee recommended by the government.” Dr HS Gill, chairman of Adesh Group of Institutions, said the students had been warned through different advertisements in newspapers that we would not be liable for any of their problems in case they chose to seek admissions through Baba Farid University. “Our advertisement clearly read that any student taking admission in Adesh University through counseling conducted by the state government through BFUHS will take admission at her/his own risk. We are a university and will argue our case in the court,” he said.
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No roll numbers, dental students block highway
Muktsar, July 2 The students alleged that the college had admitted 45 students in the management quota, charging Rs 3.25 lakh each, “but without the permission of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot. They threatened that if the college failed to provide them roll numbers before the next exam tomorrow, they would step up their stir. “The university authorities have told us that the college does not have a management quota. The college gave us admission on its own. Hence, the university has not issued us roll numbers,” the agitating students said. A police party led by the SHO, Sadar, Iqbal Singh, held an hour-long discussion with the students after which traffic on the highway was resumed. Attempts to contact the college principal proved futile. The chairman of Desh Bhagat Group of Institutes, Dr Zora Singh, too did not respond to phone calls and messages. A senior college official said the matter was in the court and a decision was expected in a day or two. The SHO said: “The students have given a written complaint. We are verifying the facts.” Dr SS Gill, Vice Chancellor, BFUHS, said: “Private colleges usually have a management quota, but the agitating students may not have been registrated by the university.They may have not fulfilled the criteria for registration and the college may have admitted them on its own.”
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Ludhiana milk plant loses Rs 1.3 cr due to poor handling
Chandigarh, July 2 An audit of cooperative societies revealed that the union suffered a loss of over Rs 1.3 crore in the financial year 2012-13 due to improper handling that resulted in over-stocking and alleged sale at lower prices. It also pointed out that the Ludhiana cooperative was not supposed to buy milk from Rajasthan-based Sri Ganesh Society. It has held the top management responsible for the lapses and recommended action against them. General manager of the Ludhiana cooperative Shiv Ram Saini has, however, refuted the charges and claimed the audit report is wrong. The report will come up for discussion in the meeting of the board of directors of the union on July 4. Saini said he had asked the Audit Department to recheck the facts. One of the 12 board members, Tejinder Singh Jassar, who is also the secretary of the Ludhiana Youth Congress Committee, has claimed that the management of the cooperative was being protected by Akali leaders. He said he had been trying his best to expose the wrongdoings, but being the only director having allegiance to the Congress, he was isolated on the issue. The board of directors is elected by milk producers of 50-70 villages in a given district. Tejinder claimed the loss was eventually of the milk producers who could have benefited from the profits. The audit report said the contract with the Rajasthan-based society was for supply of milk to the Mohali plant. However, due to non-requirement, the supply was diverted to the Luhiana plant for 15 days. The report said the Ludhiana plant continued receiving supplies for one year in contravention of the rules. It claimed the Ludhiana plant made skimmed milk powder from the milk procured from the Rajasthan society. However, it overstocked the powder and later sold it for Rs 11.23 crore. The produce could have fetched 12.53 crore had it being sold off in the market at the right time.
What the audit report says
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Police probe bares drug peddlers’ modus operandi
Patiala, July 2 The police have foiled a drug trade racket involving woman conduit Cherry, who worked with an NGO for Burmese refugee camps and also as an undercover drug cartel operative. Investigations continue into the synthetic drug trafficking cartel and the Punjab Police were now working to break the chain that facilitated supply of ICE and its raw material (ephedrine and pseudoephedrine) to national and international markets. Patiala Zone IG Paramjit Singh Gill said over 5 lakh tablets of pseudoephedrine weighing 200 kg were seized from a rented godown in Harsh Matar, Vidya Nagar, Delhi, today. The seizure was made following disclosures by Cerboih, alias Cherry. “The drug trafficking network involved funnelling of pseudoephedrine and other narcotic substances diverted from pharmaceutical factories in Himachal Pradesh and then sending these to Chennai through rail route using supply chains in Haryana and Delhi. The Chennai module then shipped the consignments to Malaysia,” Gill said. Another supply chain diverted narcotic substances from Himachal Pradesh and then sent these to Mayanmar via Delhi. The recipients in Mayanmar and Malaysia later sent these to European countries. “The cartel was operating in a sophisticated manner using separate cut-outs for receipt of pseudoephedrine consignments, its transportation, storage and delivery to the next link in the supply chain in order to maintain anonymity. Important operatives of the cartel were shadowed and kept under surveillance by the Malaysia-based drug lords who were the end recipients of narcotics,” said Patiala SSP Hardyal Mann. The money transfer was done through hawala channels with delivery within 15 minutes of a phone call by hawala operatives, he said. “Cherry had got prepared fake voter card, PAN card and driving licence in the name of Cherry. Her ostensible activities involved registration of children born in the Burmese refugee camps in Delhi under the aegis of an organisation named FOOD. She was married to one Yanlan Hriata, an operative working for the CID Wing of the Mizoram Police who has since died due to heroin addiction,” he said. “Cherry worked as an important link in the supply chain for drug recipients in Mayanmar and Malaysia. The state police will hold meetings with senior police officers of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and other affected states to apprise them of the facts that have come to light so far,” Gill said. International racket
State police coordinating with NCB The Zonal office of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is also being apprised of the national and international aspects of drug trafficking networks to enable coordinated action and follow-up on the information revealed during the course of investigation by the Punjab Police. All arrested persons have been remanded in police custody till July 9.
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Illegal distilleries in Jalalabad destroyed
Ferozepur, July 2 The SSP said they had also recovered other items such as lizard skin, iodex balm, intoxicating tablets and tubes which were added in the illicit liquor brewed in the village. “We have registered 12 cases and booked 23 persons, out of which six accused, including Harjit Bittu, Satnam Singh, Dashmesh Giani and Kulwinder
Babbu, have been arrested,” he said. Denying any kind of political pressure to go soft on the accused as the village falls under Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s constituency, the SSP said the police had launched a manhunt for other accused who had escaped from the spot during the raid. Over the years, the village had gained notoriety for illegal brewing of liquor in distilleries operated from homes. On few occasions, when teams from the Excise and Taxation Department raided the villages, they were allegedly attacked by
people in the village. Earlier, a Station House Officer was injured when villagers pelted stones
on a police team.
12 cases registered, 6 held
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row over separate gurdwara panel for haryana
Mohali, July 2 Talking to mediapersons here after the installation ceremony of the chairman of the Punjab State Rajput Kalyan Board, Capt RS Pathania, Badal said the Hooda government's designs to divide the Sikhs would not materialise. He said the Haryana Government was making a desperate attempt to woo Sikh voters. However, this "election stunt" would hardly pay the Congress any dividends as the Haryana Sikhs had time and again rejected the demand for a separate body for managing the state's gurdwaras. Badal said the SGPC had come into existence by an Act of Parliament. It was, therefore, solely authorised to take any decision on this matter and the Haryana Government was not competent to bifurcate the SGPC. The Chief Minister cautioned the Congress against meddling in the religious affairs of the Sikhs for vested interest. He said it was unfortunate that the Haryana Government was reviving the issue. "We have met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the issue. We will take every possible step to foil the attempt of the Haryana Government to divide the SGPC.” To another query, the CM said the state government was in touch with the Centre for ensuring the return of Punjabis in Iraq.
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Capt: Demand a political issue
Chandigarh, July 2 He said that Makkar's statement that Akal Takht could summon Congress leaders who were backing the demand of the Haryana Sikhs only re-inforced the public belief that the Badals were interfering in the Akal Takht functioning. He called Makkar as the Chief Minister's handpicked "yes man". The former Punjab Chief Minister claimed that the demand for a separate SGPC was a “political issue” and it in no way amounted to meddling in the religious affairs of the Sikhs. “Hence, it is wrong to drag Akal Takht into the issue. Badal and Makkar were trying to misuse the highest temporal authority for partisan interests,” alleged Amarinder in a statement. Amarinder Singh reminded Badal that he was a part of the Akali movement led by Sant Fateh Singh which in 1971 had launched a 'morcha’ that had led to the creation of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managment Committee, as demanded by the Sikhs in Delhi. “Badal and other Akali leaders had then courted arrest. If there was nothing wrong in demanding a separate body for Delhi, where is the wrong in seeking a separate body for the Haryana Sikhs,” asked Amarinder Singh.
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Kalia may head BJP Legislature Party
Chandigarh, July 2 Sources said the BJP leaders in Delhi have told Kamal Sharma and Shanta Kumar, in charge of the party affairs in Punjab, of their decision to change all the ministers. Efforts are on to ensure that the other two ministers to be inducted in the Cabinet are from the Kamal Sharma faction. The names of Chief Parliamentary Secretaries, Som Prakash and KD Bhandari, are being considered for Cabinet berths. Though the state BJP chief was not available for comment, sources said his faction had argued that a berth should be given either to Kalia or Ashwani Sharma. After the top leaders put their foot down, a compromise was arrived at. The sources said that the new ministers would be sworn in by next week before the state Cabinet meeting on July 8. It is learnt that organisational changes in the BJP state unit was unlikely and Sharma would continue as the state president.
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Batala faces flood scare as old main drain lies choked
Batala, July 2 The state government had asked the district administration to clean the drains by June 30. However, the authorities have not started the process of cleaning the most important Hansli drain, which over the years has become a lifeline for the locals every time the town is flooded with rain water, due to its huge capacity. The drain was constructed in 1958. During the 1988 deluge, the drain had come to the rescue of the town. “So heavy were the rains in 1988 that had Hansli not been there, there would have been a tremendous loss of life,” said local septuagenarian Surinder Kumar. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr Abhinav Trikha said, "An amount of Rs 16 lakh was sanctioned for the cleaning process. However, the amount is stuck in the treasury and once we get the money, the work (to clean the Hansli drain) will begin." “It was cleaned a few years ago but now again, there are heavy deposits of silt. A similar condition was witnessed in 1992 when thousands of people were forced to spend three days and nights on their roof tops as the town was inundated with rain water,” said a resident. Batala halqa in charge and former MLA LS Lodhinangal claimed that the drainage department officials were sitting on a plan to brick line the drain for years. “I took up the issue of brick lining with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal recently and he assured me that things will get moving soon,” he said. To make matters worse, the Municipal Committee has been regularly dumping garbage into the drain, choking it to the brim.
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Fields inundated due to canal breach
Abohar, July 2 Farmers Gurbir Singh and Mandeep Singh said they had sown cotton crop, which was completely washed away by gushing water. A junior engineer
(JE) of the Irrigation Department, Rupinder Singh, said the supply of canal water had been suspended from the
headworks. He said labourers had been deployed to plug the breach and the work was expected to be
completed by tomorrow.
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3 of family die of diarrhoea
Patiala, July 2 Mohan Singh (65) of Raj Colony died at Government Rajindra Hospital. His brother Varinder Pal Singh (45) had died of gastroenteritis on June 25, while Mohan’s son Baljit Singh (25) died at a private hospital on June 26 due to the same disease. Mohan’s daughters Meenu and Gurmeet Kaur are undergoing treatment at a private hospital after they developed similar symptoms. The other affected include a Rahul (20), Soma (55), Binder Kaur (45), Rupali (13) and Gyaprasad (45). They were neighbours of the deceased. Patiala Civil Surgeon Dr HS Bali said the health department had begun distributing medicines in the area. Patiala MP Dr Dharamvir
Gandhi visited the house of the deceased.
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Development projects
Chandigarh, July 2 Badal today reviewed the progress of all development projects and welfare schemes taken up with the Union Government. He was updated about the latest developments on matters forwarded to the Centre and the progress made so far by the administrative secretaries at a high-level meeting at the Chief Minister’s office here today. Badal directed Kaushal to oversee the progress on important projects and welfare schemes forwarded to the Centre to ensure an early clearance of the projects. He directed the administrative secretaries to frequently visit the ministries concerned and their offices in Delhi to get early sanctions. Badal mentioned that he had met various union ministers recently and raised several issues concerning the state’s development and the practice “must be followed up by all the administrative secretaries meticulously so as to ensure a prompt clearance of projects”. The CM also advised the officers develop a personal rapport with their counterparts at the Centre “in the larger public interest”, besides getting long pending issues resolved at the earliest to hasten the pace of development in the state. “Either you visit personally or send your heads of the departments to the union ministries for prompt resolution of the pending issues,” he told officers. He also asked the officers to maintain discipline in their offices from 9 am to 5 pm from Monday to Thursday and reserve Friday for field visits.
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iraq imbroglio
Hoshiarpur, July 2 Surinder Singh of Kotla Dadheri village in Fatehgarh Sahib said his brother Satnam Singh and another man of their village Surinder Singh
were stuck in Al Talia city of Iraq. He said: “Yesterday I got a call from them. They said after Indian Embassy officials visited them, the owner of their company snatched their mobile phones and stopped providing meals to them.” Shapinder Singh of Ludhiana whose father Darshan Singh is in Iraq said: “The visa of my father and his co-workers has expired, but their company is not allowing them to return. They have been told that either they will have to work for four more months or pay Rs 3 lakh to the company.” Harjit Kaur whose husband Major Singh of Khanna is in Iraq said her husband had been in the strife-torn country for three years, but now he wanted to return but
his company was not letting him go.
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Patiala MP Gandhi meets Sushma
Patiala, July 2 Dr Gandhi requested the minister to deploy all channels to ensure an early return of stranded workers. He said the minister had assured him that the Central Government was in constant touch with the Iraqi Government.—TNS
AI planes ready to evacuate victims: Khanna
Hoshiarpur:
Avinash Rai Khanna, Rajya Sabha MP, today said the Indian Embassy in Iraq was sending teams throughout the country to locate stranded Indians. He said Air India had kept its planes ready to send special flights to evacuate Indians. — OC
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Relief to youths returned from Iraq meagre: NAPA
Chandigarh, July 2 Exposing the claims of the Punjab Government regarding help extended to Punjabis stuck in Iraq, Satnam Singh
Chahal, Executive Director, NAPA, alleged those returned from Iraq had paid $400 each to middlemen to get back their passports from their companies. Chahal said it was unfortunate that most of the Indian Embassies abroad had become “dens of corruption”.— TNS
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PSPCL buys costly power to meet demand
Patiala, July 2 The PSPCL has gone for costly short-term power purchase of Rs 400 crore for July from outside the state to meet the paddy/summer season power demand as private thermal plants have failed to start generation as per schedule. Moreover, the state’s own thermals at Lehra Mohabbat and Bathinda are not running on full capacity due to uncertain coal supply. On June 4, the PSPCL had claimed, “The issue of coal supply has been resolved and normal supply has been assured.” However, the ground reality is that the PSPCL officers are managing with whatever stock is available with them. “Due to coal shortage, the PSPCL is not running all the units of Lehra and Bathinda thermal plants, while two units each of Bathinda and Lehra have been closed. Not only this, the remaining units are not being run on full capacity. Yesterday, only 125 lakh units (LUs) were generated by the remaining 3 units of Lehra against their capacity of 170 LUs,” said officials. PSPCL Chief Engineer (Fuel) SK Goyal said enough power was available and the consumers didn’t have to worry. Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD), PSPCL, KD Chaudhri was unavailable for comment. Grim scenario
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8 IPS, 16 PPS officers transferred
Chandigarh, July 2 Kuldeep Singh has been posted IGP, Community Policing & Training; Anita Punj, IGP, Provisioning; BK Bawa, IGP, Human Rights; Balkar Singh Sidhu, DIG, Administration, Chandigarh; RK Jaiswal, DIG, Intelligence-1 and in addition DIG, Ropar Range; Inderbir Singh, AIG, Personnel-2, CPO; Harbhajan Singh, AIG, Crime Wing; Ashwani Kapoor, AIG, PPCR, Chandigarh; Ashok Baath, AIG, Intelligence Wing; Bhupinderjit Singh Virk, AIG, Intelligence Wing; Harmohan Singh, AIG, Intelligence Wing; Swarn Singh, AIG, Intelligence Wing; Shivdev Singh, Commandant 75th Bn., PAP, Jalandhar; Surjit Singh, Commandant, 9th Bn. PAP, Amritsar; Sawinder Singh, Commandant, 7th IRB, Kapurthala; and Jaspreet Singh Sidhu, Commandant, 36th Bn, Bahadurgarh. — TNS
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Class X pass-outs from other states allowed MBBS seats
Chandigarh, July 2 As the issue came up for resumed hearing before Justice GS Sandhawalia of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, it became apparent that students should have passed class XII examination from the state and should also be bona fide residents of Punjab for availing themselves of the state quota benefit. Disposing of petitions in this regard, Justice Sandhawalia also made it clear that any amendments to the rule making matriculation from Punjab compulsory could not be made applicable retrospectively. The observations came just about three months after the state government notified that the students were required to pass classes X and XII from a recognised institution situated in Punjab for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in medical and dental colleges. The high court had earlier stayed the operation of the notification issued in this regard. In one of the petitions it was contended that the state issued the impugned notification dated March 7 for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in the medical and dental institutes situated in the state for session 2014-15. The notification provided: "A candidate should have passed his/her classes X and XII examinations or an equivalent examination in place of class XII examination from a recognised school/institution situated in the state of Punjab except for the exemptions wherever applicable." The petitioners argued that the condition was a complete departure from the previous eligibility conditions on admission to medical and dental colleges situated in the state of Punjab "in as much as it provides that a candidate should have passed not only class XII examination, but also class X examination from the schools/institutes situated in the state of Punjab". They added the condition was having "a drastic adverse retrospective effect" and made ineligible students who had not passed their class X examination from Punjab against the 85 per cent state quota. It was further added the notification came after the petitioners had filled
their forms and exercised their right of giving options and preferences for the states for admission in 2014 session.
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Varsities told to collect fresh data on suicides by farmers
Chandigarh, July 2 Other officers on the committee are Financial Commissioner (Revenue) Navreet Singh Kang, Financial Commissioner (Development) Suresh Kumar, Agriculture Commissioner Balwinder Singh Sidhu and heads of the Economics and Sociology Departments of the PAU. The committee may recommend measures to regularise money-lending by private persons such as commission agents and finance companies. Meanwhile,Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjabi University, Patiala, and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, are planning a fresh data on the suicides in the farm sector. These universities have been told to collect data from March 2011 to March 2013. Though the Financial Commissioner (Revenue) had written to the universities to start the project forthwith, the universities were waiting for the government to release money for the project, sources said. A provision for the project is likely to be made in the state Budget, the sources said. The government is preparing a data bank on suicides to assess the magnitude of the problem but a mechanism to help farmers come out of the fiscal distress is a must, say experts. An earlier survey conducted by PAU, Ludhiana, Punjabi University, Patiala, and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, shows that 6,926 farmers in Punjab committed suicide between 2000 to 2010. The incidence of suicide is higher in the cotton belt of Bathinda than in other parts of the state. Course correction
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Mumbai divers to clean Golden Temple sarovar
Amritsar, July 2 The sacred tank is equipped with a hi-tech water treatment system that purifies water automatically. A team of divers from Mumbai has been hired by Baba Jagtar Singh kar sewa wale, Tarn Taran. The divers would cleanse the four filters attached to the water treatment system. The filters have been installed at the head of the main supply line. SS Dhillon, who is leading the divers’ team, said 25 divers had been engaged for the job which would be completed in a day or two. Dalmeg Singh, SGPC secretary, said it was a routine process. “Baba Jagtar Singh has volunteered to do this service and it was his idea to hire professional divers for the job,” he said. Thousands of devotees visiting the shrine take a dip in the sarovar and many consume its water. The state-of-the-art system is capable of treating every drop of around 31,000 million gallons of water in the
sarovar.
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Thandal: Jail warders to be recruited afresh
Chandigarh, July 2 The minister told this to The Tribune after a day-long drama over the issue today. Hundreds of youths, who had undergone physical tests and verification of education certificates, were left in the lurch after the state government cancelled the recruitments. A "sangharsh" committee of the youths was scheduled to air their plight at a press conference chaired by Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee spokesperson Sukhpal Khaira at the Press Club at 2.30 pm. However, the committee members were called by the minister for a meeting just before the press conference. The committee members claimed the minister assured them of taking up their issue with the Deputy Chief Minister on July 6 and advised them to wait till then. Khaira went ahead with the press conference without the "sangharsh" committee members. He alleged the Jail Minister pre-empted his move and called the committee members for a meeting. Sangharsh committee president Nirmal Singh told The Tribune that they regretted having not participated in the press conference of the Congress spokesperson. "We were called by the Jail Minister. He asked us to wait till July 6 when he would take up our issue with the Deputy Chief Minister. We want jobs. Since the Jail Minister had called us and given us an assurance, we thought we should give the government a last chance," he added. However, the Jail Minister denied that he had called any meeting of the youths. He said in fact the youths wanted to meet him. "They submitted a memorandum of demands to me, but we have no option left but to start the recruitment process afresh. I have taken over the ministry recently and found that there were several discrepancies in the process, especially as regards eligibility of Class VIII pass candidates."
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Security to 150 VIPs may be pruned
New Delhi, July 2 In Punjab, the security threat to former union minister Manish Tewari, former MP Partap Singh Bajwa and sitting Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu was downscaled by the SAD-BJP alliance 18 months ago. They were then given central security. Tewari's father Prof VN Tewari and Bajwa's father Satnam Singh were killed by terrorists while Bittu's grandfather former Chief Minister Beant Singh was assassinated by terrorists in 1995. "No decision has been taken so far. But the threat perception of all VIPs will be reviewed and security will be given accordingly," an official said.
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Fish market to come up on land earmarked for cricket stadium
Bathinda, July 2 The fish market will come up on 3 acres of prime land on the Bathinda-Dabawali road. Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal had laid the stone for the stadium on December 8, 2007. But not a brick was laid. Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Ludhiana, had handed over the land in its possession to the Sports Department. Now covered with weeds, the land has become a refuge for drug addicts. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who visited the site a few days ago, gave his approval to setting up a fish market there. The Punjab Mandi Board will construct the market for which a 33-ft road along a canal has been planned. The total cost of the project is Rs 9.5 crore. The National Fishery Development Board, Hyderabad, will contribute Rs 3 crore. The PAU in 1984 had acquired 255 acres from farmers of Jodhpur Romana village in Bathinda for conducting field trials and research. In 2007, it agreed to gave away 25 acres, free of cost, to the government for a cricket stadium. The cost of the land then7 was Rs 3.85 crore. The project
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Move to ensure minimum health standards
Chandigarh, July 2 Anjali Bhawra, Principal Secretary, Education, has directed all district education officer (DEO) to ensure that the headmasters depute teachers to take students suffering from eye ailments or weak eyesight to the nearest primary health centre every Thursday. The Education Department would pay for the spectacles, if recommended by the ophthalmologists, said Bhawra. The government schools would facilitate students’ visits to hospitals. “An attendant will accampany the student to the hospital and arrange for transport to and from the health facility. The expenses incurrred would be borne by the Education Department,” Bhawra said.
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Bhawanigarh clash
Chandigarh, July 2 Tarsem Peter and Hardev Singh Sandhu, who led the delegation, said the cases had been registered under section 307 of the IPC, against 41 persons at Balad Kalan village. — TNS
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In an early morning operation, the police today swooped down on Mahlam village of Jalalabad sub-division and seized over 2 lakh litres of “lahan” (country-made liquor), which was illegally distilled by some villagers.
Mohali, July 2
The steel town of Batala faces a threat from floods as the decade-old Hansli drain, which absorbs the flood water, is yet to be cleaned. This despite the tall claims of the district administration that all the drains have been
cleared ahead of the monsoon season.
The sacred sarovar at the Golden Temple is being cleaned by professional divers hired from Mumbai.
The sacred tank is equipped with a hi-tech water treatment system that purifies water automatically.
In an apparent bid to ensure good governance, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has offered his intervention for an early disposal of issues hindering development projects besides directing Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal to supervise matters pending with the Centre.
A high-level committee set up under Dr GS Kalkat, Chairman of the Farmers’ Commission, will submit its report on the measures required to be taken to check suicide by farmers in Punjab after a meeting on July 7.