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9-yr-old kidnapped, recovered by cops
Solid waste deadline extended again
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DBA seeks land from Div Commissioner’s office for chambers
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jalandhar: illegal dairies-I
Prof Yogender receives Wren Pioneer Award
KMV students secure top positions
Forex dealers now on ED radar
22-year-old shot dead in village
Congmen pay tributes to Beant Singh
Government employees to hold convention
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9-yr-old kidnapped, recovered by cops
Jalandhar, August 31 Sources said the boy was kidnapped when he was returning home from tuition. The moment the boy stepped out of his tuition class, two youths, namely Soni and Vishal, aged nearly 20, stopped the boy and offered to drop him at his residence. After taking the boy into their custody, they kept on roaming in the city, sources said, revealing that after an hour, they made a ransom call to his parents and demanded Rs 80 lakh from them to release the child. The parents of the boy, who were shocked at the kidnapping, informed the police. The police, after putting the mobile phone of the accused on surveillance, asked the parents to keep the miscreants busy in negotiating the ransom money. Ransom deal struck at
Rs 10 lakh
To trace the mobile locations of the accused, the parents kept on negotiating the ransom amount with them. From Rs 80 lakh, the final ransom amount, after long negotiation, was decided as Rs 10 lakh. Till the time the negotiation process was on, the police had already traced the location of the accused near the Ladhewali area. Vigilant resident
helps police
As the accused had not taken the boy to any undisclosed location, they were roaming here and there in the city only. While negotiating the ransom amount with the parents, a resident, while passing near the miscreants, listened about the ransom talk. He, while keeping a tab on the miscreants and the victim, who was sitting between them on the bike, informed the police. He also revealed to the police about the identification details of the miscreants and the kidnapped
boy. Finding the identification details to be true, the police immediately reached the specific area near the Ladhewali and apprehended the accused and recovered the boy. Fortunately, the boy was hale and hearty, as the kidnappers had not hurt him. The police said the accused were also residents of the same locality, Sant Nagar, and it was suspected that they might have been planning to kidnap the child since long. |
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Solid waste deadline extended again
Jalandhar, August 31 Succumbing to the high-pitch protests by safai karamcharis against the move to allot the work to JITF Urban Infrastructure Ltd being held in Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala, both falling in this cluster, and the matter remaining pending with the Deputy Chief Minister, there are no plans to get the
work started from the company tomorrow. MC Commissioner Manpreet Singh Chattwal said the launching of the project was still under consideration. “We have a meeting tomorrow in Chandigarh and we would go by whatever orders we
get,” he said. The MC officials also want to adopt a wait-and-watch policy, as the matter is to be heard by the National Green Tribunal on September 2. The Municipal Councils where garbage collection was to start include those in Nawanshahr, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur. These include those at Adampur, Alawalpur, Banga, Begowal, Bhogpur, Bholath, Dasuya, Dhilwan, Garhshankar, Goraya, Hariana, Kapurthala, Lohian Khas, Mahilpur, Nakodar, Nawanshahr, Nurmahal, Phagwara, Shahkot, Sham Churasi, Sri Hargobindpur, Sultanpur Lodhi and Umar Tanda. The Jalandhar city matter was to follow after this. The decision was announced during a visit of Secretaries, Local Bodies, Ashok Gupta and JM Balamurugan, in Jalandhar. The officials had visited the garbage dumping sites in and around the city and given directions to the company to get the collection started on the date and dump the waste as of now in the dumping sites of the respective towns. The company staff had also been told to get the foundation stone for the new incernation plant laid at Jamsher on the same day. The MC officials had then been saying that the work regarding solid waste management in Jalandhar city, too, was expected to begin soon as the safai karamcharis had been told that the National Green Tribunal had started regularly monitoring the project very closely and they would have to bow or get ready to face action. But the safai karamcharis had held a protest here day before as well. The MC Commissioner is also learnt to have written to top officials to get the work started soon or in case the company left the project in between, the whole project would have to get started from the first level. |
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DBA seeks land from Div Commissioner’s office for chambers
Jalandhar, August 31 Annulling the old proposal of the DBA, then mooted by the former DBA president Mandeep Singh Sachdev, the new DBA president Karampal Singh Gill has passed a fresh resolution and has sent the same to the Districts and Sessions Judge for further sending the same to the building committee of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. “We have annulled the earlier proposal of the District Bar Association to replace the 465 temporary, existing chambers in the 4-acre leased out land near the district courts with a new multi-storeyed building housing 621 plush chambers. Under our new proposal, we are seeking spare land from the Divisional Commissioner’s office to construct 1,000 chambers,” the DBA president Karampal said, adding that the Commissioner’s office had a plenty of spare land which could be utilised for constructing the chambers. Inspecting judge Mahesh Grover with the Districts and Sessions Judge had also recently visited the site. He added that now the ball lies with the building branch of the Punjab and Haryana high court and the DBA was awaiting the clearance from the same. “If we get land from the Commissioner’s office, 1,000 chambers can be built there and the land, where our old chambers exist, can be utilised for building a parking for the District Courts. The cost of the parking lot construction will be borne by the government, while the cost of the chambers will be borne by the lawyers. Under this, each lawyer just has to pay approximately Rs 2 lakh for getting chamber. We will also file a writ petition to release the matching grant of Rs 2 crore for contributing in the construction of the chambers, the DBA chief said. He said if the proposal gets cleared, the work would be completed in four phases. In the first phase, initially 250 chambers would be built. It is to mention that there at least two foundation stones were laid for the purpose within the District Courts compound, but with nothing changing to reality. “One stone had been laid by now Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal on December 22, 2001, in the presence of MLA Manoranjan Kalia and the second by Captain Amarinder Singh on February 15, 2004, then as his capacity of Chief Minister Punjab. It is also pertinent to mention here that in August last year, the then the DBA president had announced having received the clearance of the project in the 4-acre land from the inspecting team of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He had even announced that their maps had been approved and a go-ahead had been given for the phase-wise construction.
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Rain brings relief to residents, farmers
Jalandhar, August 31 Speaking to Jalandhar Tribune, Teja Singh, a paddy farmer from Chak Chela village, who has around 70 acres under the paddy crop, said
today’s rain had brought much respite to the paddy farmers. Owing to the lack of rain for the
past few weeks, various kinds of pests had started attacking the crops. “I had hired a labourer to spray insecticide to save my crop. However, the rain has come at right time,” he added. Another farmer Balwinder Singh of Sarupwal village, who has around 100 acres under the paddy crop, said the rain had not met his expectations. Yet, something is always better than nothing. Hopefully, the desired level of rain will follow in the next few days. Agriculture Officer Jalandhar, Suttantar Kumar, said heavy rain was needed to get rid of insects. Otherwise, farmers will have to spend thousands of rupees on pesticides that would certainly increase the input cost. The rain and sudden drop in temperature had cheered the residents who had been facing high temperature and humidity for a
long time. With cloudy weather since morning and mild rain, the temperature dropped to 25.2 degrees Celsius as per information gathered from the Adampur Air Force Metrological. Many teenagers were seen enjoying while getting drenched in the rain. Apart from this, children and senior
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Better
jalandhar: illegal dairies-I Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, August 31 The failure to shift the dairies to another place has not only made the surrounding areas stink but also lead to frequent choking of the sewage drains. The development in the periphery of such areas has stopped and they look-like the slum areas. There are illegal dairies in New Rattan Nagar near Basti Peer Daad and the Bashirpura area at the back of Surya Enclave. Some residents of Birring, New Deep Nagar, Kalia Colony, Kishanpura, Ajit Nagar and Master Tara Singh Nagar have kept animals in their houses and are illegally selling milk. Even posh colonies like Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar and Guru Amar Dass Nagar have been housing dairies. Even a decade after the allocation of the land to dairy farmers, the MC has only been cutting their sewer connections and then restoring them. The last action that the MC took was in April, 2013, when it cut connections of eight dairies in New Rattan Nagar along the Kala Sanghian drain. However, seven dairies in the vicinity have been spared and allowed to continue to throw off the untreated discharge into the water body in front of their premises in violation of the court orders. The practice adopted by the dairy farmers is not just affecting the lives of the residents living along the drain, but also the health of a large population as the polluted water make it to the Sutlej and then Harike headworks, from where the drinking water is provided to Rajasthan and other parts of the Malwa region. At Rattan Nagar
As one takes a turn from Basti Peer Daad towards Rattan Nagar, one is welcomed by a foul smell, irritating the throat and eyes. The water of the drain is dark, filthy and highly poisnous. There are huge swarms of mosquitoes all around. The entry to the colony is also marked with a huge pile of cow dung cakes kept along the drain on a vacant plot for drying. While most of the dairies owned by the Gujjar community came up a few years ago, there are some dairies owned by the Jat families, who do not want to shift, stating that they have been there for many years and had settled down there. There still are about a dozen dairies on the both sides of the drain, where animals are being reared and buckets full of refuse is thrown off into the drain. “There are times when our drinking water supply mixes with the sewage water. It really becomes repulsive. In summer and during monsoon, my children get sleepless nights due to mosquito bites.” said Shanti, a resident of the colony. The dairy owners, however, have their own point. “It is not easy to shift to some other area. We have our fields and our houses here. We have sold most of our animals. Most of them still being reared in our farm belonging to my brother-in-law”, said Kulwinder Kaur, a resident. At Bashirpura
People residing at the back of Surya Enclave and Bashirpura, too, are distraught. The residents said there were three dairies in the locality and the farmers kept on grazing the animals there all through the day. The residents say the roads got often soiled with cow dung causing inconvenience to them. “ I, along with my family, usually go out for a walk in the evening. We have to be extra cautious about the trail of the waste that the milch animals leave. We often have planted saplings in our locality to give it an aesthetic look but, these too, get trampled over by the animals. Farmers and their labourers often leave the animals in the open during the daytime,” said Sukhbir Singh, a resident of Surya Enclave. Court deadline expired four months ago
PS Jaggi, Additional Commissioner (Technical O&M) , Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar, had on December 10, 2012, submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the Kala Sanghian Drain would be made pollution-free by March 31, 2014. He had stated, “The short-term and long- term measures to control pollution in the Kala Sanghian drain were being taken up. It is further stated that steps, as per the measures suggested therein, would be taken and the work shall be completed by March 31, 2014, by which the Kala Sanghian drain would be made pollution-free.” The matter pertained to a civil writ petition number 15771 of 2005, titled Seth Hukum Chand Colony Welfare Society vs State of Punjab and Others. The court had pronounced, “In the view thereof, no further orders are required to be passed in this case and, therefore, we close this matter. However, in case there is any default on the part of the authorities in not carrying out the project as per the schedule mentioned above, it would be open to the petitioner to approach the Court again.” However, even after the deadline the drain continues to be polluted, though the number of dairies have fallen. Previous action
Prior to April, 2013, action was taken against the dairies on March 20, 2012. The MC team had plugged the sewage channels of 44 dairies falling on both sides of the Kala Sanghian Drain that were being used to throw off water mixed with slush and cow dung into it. Three JCB machines had been deployed at Bulandpur village, Kalia Colony, Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Nagar, Rattan Nagar and surrounding areas. The action then had a significant impact but the remaining dairies have been spared. What they say
The councillor of Ward No. 40, Dr Pardeep Rai, said, “Even as action should have come against all dairies, only those supporting the Congress have been sealed and forced to shift while those supporting of the ruling alliance have been spared. “The law is same for everyone then why this partisan attitude was adopted. I have taken up the matter of removing all dairies with the MC officials a number of times, but nothing has happened for more than a year”, added Pardeep. Ward No. 17 SAD councillor Amit Dhall said there was a dairy in an open land in his ward. “Since the matter pertaining to this is already in the court, I have not intervened,” added Dhal. Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Bhatia said he had always recommended the shifting of dairies and never stood by any of the dairy owners. “We have to ensure a clean and good environment for the residents of the city”, added Bhatia. Municipal Commissioner Manpreet Singh Chattwal said whenever he got any complaint, he immediately took action. “Recently, I was told that a resident of Basti Mithu had kept five cows. We immediately sent a team there. The owner was forced to shift to a nearby village”, he said. Regarding the discharge of refuse by seven dairies along the Kala Sanghian Drain, the Municipal Commissioner said he would check it again. |
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Prof Yogender receives Wren Pioneer Award
Jalandhar, August 31 The award was presented to him by Prof Ali Sayigh, Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network/Council at a special ceremony in the presence of experts and VIP personalities at Kingston University, London, UK. The award was given to him for serving the world community for more than 25 years,with his research publications. Prof Yadav is PhD in energy studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and has contributed to the development of sustainable bio-energy/ hybrid energy systems for rural development, solar crop drying and desiccant-based hybrid space-conditioning systems. Prof Yadav also made an invited presentation on “Recent Developments and Perspectives of Renewable Energy in India” during the World Renewable Energy Congress XIII held at Kingston University, London, UK, in which more than 600 scientists and renewable energy professionals from 90 countries participated. Prof Yadav has been the project coordinator of the Union Government-sponsored project on integrated rural energy planning for meeting out rural energy needs through optimum mix of conventional and renewable energy sources and has been the principal investigator of the All-India Coordinated Research Project on Renewable Energy Sources. |
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KMV students secure top positions
Jalandhar, August 31 Principal Atima Sharma congratulated the faculty and the students of the Biotechnology Department for excellent results. College holds
interactive lecture
An interactive lecture was held at Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Daroli Kalan, on personality development on Sunday. Surinder Saini, a social worker was the resourse person. He exhorted the students to be down to earth and also administered the oath to fight against drug addiction, dowry and female foeticide. The talk was organised by the Department of English. Principal Dr Sahib Singh thanked Surinder Saini. Placement drive
The placement cell of Apeejay College of Fine Arts organised a placement drive in the college recently. 45 students of BSc, BCom and BCA got placed with IBM. Principal Dr Sucharita congratulated the students and appreciated the efforts of the placement unit of the college. |
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Forex dealers now on ED radar
Jalandhar, August 31 Teams of the ED had yesterday raided one forex dealer, Mankotia Forex Private Limited, in Jalandhar and two in Ludhiana, namely Tangri and Brij forex dealers, and had reportedly seized Rs 30 lakh, including Indian and foreign currency from them. The ED had raided the offices of these three forex dealers after getting leads from the ongoing investigation into the involvement of Happy Forex dealer in the hawala racket. The names of Mankotia, Tangri and Brij forex dealers had cropped up during the checking of recovered documents from Happy Forex. The ED was looking for a tip-off to raid the abovesaid three forex dealers, sources said, adding that the ED had reportedly recovered documents pertaining to the hawala transactions to foreign countries. Sources said with fresh raids at the offices of Jalandhar and Ludhiana forex dealers, that, too, with the recovery of cash and other important documents, several forex dealers of both districts might land in trouble. |
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22-year-old shot dead in village
Jalandhar, August 31 The deceased was identified as Roshan Lal. The victim’s brother, Vikas, said the unidentified youths had come to confiscate a refrigerator from some house for reportedly failing to clear the refrigerator’s installments. “My brother was standing outside the house. After the unknown armed miscreants came out after attacking the residents of the house concerned, they suddenly shot at my brother. My brother had no enmity with the miscreants and we are shocked at the incident,” Vikas added. The victim, who sustained injuries, died on way to hospital. The police said investigation was on in the case and efforts were on to identify the assailants. |
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Congmen pay tributes to Beant Singh
Jalandhar, August 31 The leaders garlanded the statue of Beant Singh at BMC Chowk. Among those who paid tributes were former minister Amarjit Singh Samra, DCC Rural chief Jagbir Brar, DCC Urban Chief Rajinder Beri, Youth Congress Jalandhar Chief Gagandeep Kaku Ahluwalia. Speaking on the occasion, the PYC chief urged the state government to declare August 31 as the martyrdom day rising above party affiliations and to organise a state-level “shardhanjali divas” annually as a mark of gratitude to the leader who laid down his life to bring peace and normalcy in the state. The youth activists expressed their commitment to work for the integrity of the nation. |
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Jalandhar, August 31
Jalandhar, August 31
Jalandhar, August 31
