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Dog bite victim dies in city
3 schoolboys die in road mishap
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DC tells officials to clear encroachments along highways
Attack on Cong leader: Arrest of accused, fair inquiry sought
Century old unsafe school building poses risk to students
Wadala ROB may be ready by Nov
Civil Surgeon’s office unsafe, admn at ease
PF office to tighten noose around educational institutes
CIVIL HOSPITAL
PTU employees stage protest against second tech varsity
Lt Gen KJ Singh visits Vajra Corps
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Dog bite victim dies in city
Jalandhar, September 16 The woman died on Saturday, but the death became known today only. Hailing from a less-educated and humble background, the victim, Sunita, had not cared to get herself vaccinated and died a tragic death. It was on September 12 that the husband of the victim, Lovely Baba, who runs a cycle repair shop, took her to the Civil Hospital to get her treated, but the doctors referred her to Guru Nanak Hospital in Amritsar. The family then took her to Amritsar, but she was sent home as the doctors there, too, said the treatment was not possible at that stage, after which she died. The family had to borrow money to perform her last rites. Shockingly, the sister of the rabies victim, Nirmala, too, died on Saturday, as she was reportedly in a grave shock after the incident. While Sunita is survived by three children, Nirmala has left behind four children. Harsimranjit Singh Banti, area councillor, said he was away to Delhi and had heard about the news. “I will return tonight and arrange to offer all help to the victims,” he said. There have been several incidents of dog bite in the recent past. On July 19, a five-year-old boy, Jograj, had died after being bitten by a stray dog in Basti Danishmandan. As many as five children had been bitten by dogs in the Abadpura locality on June 25, but the timely intervention of the parents helped save precious lives. On March 12, 2013, 21-year-old Parul Sharma of Mohalla Purani Kachehri had died after showing symptoms of rabies. On April 15, 2012, Somnath Bhardwaj had died after being bitten by dogs in his neighbourhood. Incidents of dog bite have become very common even as the Municipal Corporation officials have been sitting over the issue of setting up a dog pond in the city. The MC complaint office daily registers two to three complaints on the issue, but to no avail. Dog catchers rarely move out. They reportedly only immunise dogs and leave them back in the same area. |
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3 schoolboys die in road mishap
Jalandhar, September 16 The boys were riding two bikes when their vehicles collided with a tempo near Singriwala village.
The deceased were students of class X at MD School in Kapurthala and were from the same village, Mansoorwal Dona, in Kapurthala district. Police sources said the trio was on way to the Chintpurni shrine when they met with the tragedy, adding that they were part of a 15-member group, all of whom were riding motorcycles. Sources said after the collission, all three sustained serious head injuries hence died on the spot. Sources said one of the motorcycles was bearing registration number PB 09 J 8108, while the other had a temporary number. The deceased were
identified as Balvir Singh (17), son of Didar Singh, Ranjit Singh (18), son of Jagjit Singh, and Sukhminder Singh (18), son of Hari Singh. Sources said Didar and Hari were daily wage labourers, while Jagjit was working in a Gulf country. The bodies were sent for postmortem examination at the Civil Hospital. Sources said a case of negligent driving was registered against the unidentified tempo driver and efforts were on the trace the accused. |
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DC tells officials to clear encroachments along highways
Jalandhar, September 16 Even though the Municipal Corporation (MC) has made a list of 1,123 buildings on main roads which are required to withdraw their boundary walls as per a decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, no action has followed on the matter. The deadline given to the owners has been getting extended every time. The last deadline in the notices issued was of August 15, but none of the owners have so far themselves taken the initiative to recede from the markings done at the site. The MC had issued notices, saying any construction at a 5-m distance from a national highway or a scheduled road is a violation of the Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act (PAPRA) 1995. In the notice, then Senior Town Planner Tirlok Singh had said that the notice had been issued following orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a Civil Writ Petition 4559 of 2007. The notices had been issued following the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The Town Planning Department of the MC has made a roadwise detail of the buildings which have encroached upon the government land illegally. The list with the details, including road, name of the owner, violation, notice number and size of violation, has been put up on the MC’s official website www.mcjalandhar.in. There are 503 encroachments along the Jalandhar-Nakodar road only. While there are 327 encroachments on the left side of the road, there are 176 on the right side. The number of illegal extensions on the left side of the Hoshiarpur road are 121. On the right side, there are 204 encroachments. The number of illegal extensions, however, is fewer on the Amritsar road, where owners of 87 building owners will have to recede their frontal boundary wall. The list also includes 206 encroachments on the Pathankot road.
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Attack on Cong leader: Arrest of accused, fair inquiry sought
Jalandhar, September 16 They demanded the immediate arrest of the accused booked in attack case. On September 10, Youth Congress leader Paramjit Singh Bal was injured when a group of armed assailants attacked him on his official premises at Transport Nagar. Bal, who was Youth Congress leader from the Jalandhar (Central) constituency, was reportedly sitting in his office Bal Highway Carriers when he was attacked with swords and rods. He was grievously hurt on head, ear and shoulder. His office too was vandalised. He was immediately rushed to the Civil Hospital. The leaders demanded that the accused booked in the attack case should be immediately arrested. They also requested the Police Commissioner to appoint an ADCP-rank police officer to inquire the cross case registered against their leader under Sections 452 and 324 of the IPC.
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Century old unsafe school building poses risk to students
Shahkot, September 16 Better known as “Nimmawala school” (there were hundreds of neem trees around the school) and also “Angrejo ke zamane ka school”, the century old temple of learning has been given a cold shoulder by the government ever since its establishment in 1905. Shortage of teachers, cramped infrastructure, declining graph of students every year, shortage of funds and apathy of the state government are some of the issues the school is facing now. Sources said in 2005 some bricks fell in one of the classrooms of the building. Annoyed at the infrastructure, parents of a child then filed a complaint with the Shahkot Sub-Divisional Magistrate, who then wrote to the Public Works Department (PWD) to conduct a survey of the school buildings. Sources confirmed that on residents’ complaint, the PWD officials specially came to inspect the building, following which they declared these unsafe. Initially for a few years, the school had to run the classes under the looming danger of building collapse, as it had no fresh constructed rooms. Sources said after the building was declared unsafe, parents started withdrawing their children from the school due to the danger of building collapse. Since then, the strength of students has started declining. School principal Dhanpat Rai, who has been heading the school affairs for over a decade, said, “We decided to upgrade the middle school up to Class X in 2005 after we got the help of the Shehri Shiksha Vikas Committee and Parents Teachers Association (PTA).” The upgradation took place as per the self-finance policy of the government in which all financial responsibilities were to be borne by the Shehri Shiksha Vikas Committee and the PTA and no government funds would be allotted for its working. Only the available infrastructure was allowed to be used. He said since the school was upgraded on self-financed policy, it required at least Rs 3 lakh every year to run the expenses, including salaries to teachers. “For five years, we managed to run the school on private donations, but after the major donors, including NRIs and social organizations, pulled their hands back, Classes IX and X were put off. As a result, salaries of teachers, who were appointed on a contractual basis for higher classes, couldn’t be cleared. Class shifted to four
newly constructed rooms
The school, which has presently 140 students studying from Class V to VIII, has been on the verge of closure. Sources said with each passing year, the number of students has been declining. Incomplete faculty
The post of drawing teacher has been lying vacant for the past four years. Despite apprising the higher authorities of this, school staff said, the post is not being filled. Similarly, the post of science teacher, which got filled after 10 years in 2011, has been lying vacant since July 2014. The post of peon is also lying vacant. Notably, the school has not sanctioned the post of Hindi teacher, due to which teachers of other subjects are forced to teach Hindi to students. Politicians made
hollow promises
Many times politicians promised to upgrade the school to the higher secondary level, but all of their promises turned hollow with the passage of time. They couldn’t even do a bit to start the process of upgrading the school to high standard. “Rana Gurjit Singh, former MP, and Ajit Singh Kohar, MLA, had made such a promise, but they didn’t turn up afterwards, Shahkot residents alleged. Sports activities affected
Even the badminton hall constructed in the building, which has churned out many badminton players, is lying useless. After the building was declared unsafe by the PWD in 2005, students were debarred from playing badminton due to the risk of building collapse, school principal Dhanpat said, adding that students’ performance in sports activities was excellent, as its students had played volleyball and badminton at the state and national level. Some students had also gone to Taiwan for a tug-of-war competition, the principal said, adding that now with the school building declared unsafe, sports activities had got affected. Fact file
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Wadala ROB may be ready by Nov
Jalandhar, September 16 The bridge is set to be opened for the public at least a month ahead of its schedule of December 26. Even as the work at the site had begun in June 2013, it was to be completed in 18 months. "Since the main work of launching readymade girders has been successfully completed in time, the remaining work will not take more time and we should be a month ahead of our schedule,” said Pawan Kumar, XEN PWD, Kapurthala. The ROB is coming up at a cost of Rs 32 crore, with work to the tune of Rs 26 crore being done by the PWD through its Delhi-based contractor Brahamputra Infrastructures Ltd. The remaining Rs 6 crore work has been done by the Railways Department. The traffic between Jalandhar and Kapurthala at the Wadala crossing has been diverted via villages since December 6 last year. The vehicles from Kapurthala side to Jalandhar have been going via Dhuankhe village-Wadala Kalan-Wadala Khurd finally meeting on the same road near the Pushpa Gujral Science City. Similarly, commuters going from Jalandhar side have been taking a turn towards Dhapai village and again coming on the same road at Urban Estate in Kapurthala. Those going from Jalandhar are taking a 1.5 km detour, those coming from the Kapurthala side have to travel 2.5 km more compared to the straight route.
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Civil Surgeon’s office unsafe, admn at ease
Jalandhar, September 16
The Punjab and Haryana High Court last week had issued directions to the Punjab Government to demolish all unsafe buildings in the state within eight days. But it seems that the administration is in no mood to adhere to the guidelines of the High court. Not only this, the falling structure has been dumped with a lot of scrap and old records that have put even more pressure on the centuries-old walls and roofs of the structure that is on its last leg. "We have informed the concerned authorities many times to provide us an alternate space to operate and to get the building repaired but till date, no action has been taken by them. The condition of the building has really deteorated in the last few days and it may fall anytime," said RL Bassan, Civil Surgeon, Jalandhar. Also, a few months ago, a part of the roof had also fallen on one of staff members injuring him seriously but even then no repair work was carried out by the department.
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PF office to tighten noose around educational institutes
Jalandhar, September 16 This will not only ensure social security benefits to the employees engaged in the operation of school/college buses but may also expose details of illegal buses plying with various educational institutes without the school’s registration permits. "We were regularly receiving complaints from people working on various schools/college buses that the authorities are not contributing to their provident fund despite working for them for the last many years. So, to ensure their social security, we have sought details from the respective DTOs of all districts coming under our office to provide us with details of the buses and other vehicles with special permits to ply for an educational institute," said Jai Shankar Prasad, Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner at Jalandhar. He said the department would then seek details from schools about the PF status of the staff operating these vehicles. While the DTO of Jalandhar was the first one to provide the details of around 178 schools pertaining to the buses both owned by them as well as the contractors, the other three have failed to do so till date. Darbara Singh Randhawa, District Transport Officer, Hoshiarpur, said the PF office cannot ask for any detail directly and the department has to approach the Punjab State Transport Department for any query.
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Maternity ward rush too much to handle
Rachna Khaira Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, September 16 "There has been a steep rise in the number of maternity cases reported in the hospital for the last few months. Not only the patients, their attendants also create a huge uproar many times during the rush hours. We have a shortage of everything except patients. We have a huge shortage of beds and staff. Moreover, these expecting mothers come with troops of attendants," said Dr Kailash Kapoor, Medical Superintendent, Civil Hospital, Jalandhar. In January, the number of maternity cases reported at the Civil Hospital was just 217, but it crossed 545 last month. The hospital authorities are now expecting to cross the 600 mark this month as 500 deliveries have already taken place in the hospital till the 15th of this month. Also, due to the huge rush, the most important aspect of hygiene also gets compromised inside the maternity ward. Due to the free diet and honorarium of Rs 1,000 given to the expecting mother, the number of cases and the attendants has increased in government hospitals. It is very difficult for the housekeeping staff to keep the ward clean in this huge rush. The staff at the ward is also overburdened. "Most of the time, we perform four to five caesarean sections in a day. Our two staff nurses are doing the deliveries, maintaining the records, filling the examination slips and sometimes even rushing to the medical store or dispensaries for some immediate requirement for medicines," she added. Sources at the hospital have also confirmed that even though most of the government hospitals are having all maternity and child care facilities, the number of referred cases to the Civil Hospital has increased manifold. On Sundays and other holidays, the number sometimes swells to double than the routine number.
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PTU employees stage protest against second tech varsity
Jalandhar, September 16 The protest was staged on the premises of the campus itself and the Front demanded from the Punjab Cabinet to review the decision taken. They said that they had already had a word with Technical Education Minister Madan Mohan Mittal a couple of times but to no avail. President of the front Kamlesh Kumar and senior vice-president Paramjeet Singh said, "It is due to interference of a few people and their vested interests that the demand for another state technical university has been raised with vague reasons. Instead of coming up with another technical university, focus should be on more research-oriented universities for those students and parents who are the victims of private institutions that are looting them now and then. PTU itself had a word regarding the same with Punjab CM in July 2013 but again due to a few self-centred people, the move was made."—TNS
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Lt Gen KJ Singh visits Vajra Corps
Jalandhar, September 16 Lt Gen KJ Singh addressed the troops of Vajra Corps at a Sainik Sammelan today. In his address, the General Officer appealed to the men to continue the good work and to further the strengths of Vajra Corps by training hard. The Army Commander emphasized upon the mantra of ‘Physically fit, equipment fit and fighting fit'. He expressed his confidence in his troops and established a chord with them through an interaction. Thereafter, the Army Commander was briefed by the General Officer Commanding, Vajra Corps, on the aspects of operational preparedness of the Vajra Corps, which was well appreciated by the General Officer.
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Having been bitten by a stray dog about three weeks ago, a 38-year-old woman from Ujala Nagar near the Basti Sheikh area died of rabies.
Three schoolboys were killed in a road mishap near Adampur this morning.
The boys were riding two bikes when their vehicles collided with a tempo near Singriwala village.
Addressing the staff of revenue and civic bodies at the monthly review meeting held today, Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishor Yadav told them to clear the encroachments on highways and scheduled roads and report to him at the earliest.
A century old government middle school seems to have become the victim of hollow assurances of local politicians. Despite being the oldest school in the Shahkot sub-division in Jalandhar district, its dream of the being upgraded to high school has not come true.
With an average of 20-25 deliveries a day, the 100 bedded maternity ward of the Civil Hospital is a suffocating place. Not only are the hospital authorities facing a tough challenge to accommodate the huge rush, they even had to call the police on many occasions to manage the huge crowd of attendants waiting to barge in the already congested maternity ward.
