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Noise pollution declining on Diwali
Safety measures go for a toss at cracker markets
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City police seize crackers worth lakhs
Health Dept ready for emergency, puts sweets shops under surveillance
NCD detects hypertension patients in survey
Absence of math teachers in remote areas leads to lack of interest, says Bangla VC
DC visits Ghudda sports school
United Nations Day on October 24
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Noise pollution declining on Diwali
Bathinda, October 22 In compliance with the Supreme Court order dated September 10, 2013, regarding control of noise pollution during the festival season, the Punjab Pollution Control Board has been collecting data through the noise monitoring systems in a residential area (Model Town), silent zone (Civil Hospital) and a commercial area (near Gol Diggi),Comparing the data collected by the PPCB noise monitoring systems on Diwali days in 2012 and 2013 show that the noise pollution levels have fallen by several decibels. In 2012, the noisiest hour in Model Town was 9-10pm when noise in the area was recorded at 108.46 decibels. The same hour in 2013 was recorded as the noisiest in the area but at a mere 82.5 decibels. Similar fall in the decibel levels was also recorded in the silence zone of Civil Hospital. In the commercial area of Gol Diggi, the monitoring system recorded 10-11pm as the noisiest hour when the decibel levels touched 106.74. In 2013, the noisiest hour in the same area was recorded to be 6-7 pm when the noise level reached 82.2 dB. It is pertinent to mention here that the ambient air quality standards in respect to noise for different zones shall be prescribed under Rule 3(1) of Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000 are: 75 dB and 70dB during the day and night time, respectively for industrial area, 65 dB and 55 dB for commercial area, 55 dB and 45dB for residential area and 50 dB and 40 dB for silence zone. As per the rules, day time shall mean from 6 pm to 10 pm and night time shall mean 10 pm to 6 am.
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Safety measures go for a toss at cracker markets
Bathinda, October 22 The district administration has failed to wake up from a slumber even after the yesterday’s incident at Dasehera ground in Faridabad where 233 stalls of fire crackers were burnt to ashes due to some electric spark at a stall. The administration has instructed the stall owners to have one bucket of water, sand and one fire extinguisher at each stall, but showing thumbs down to the instructs some has kept empty bucket, some contain little water and sand. Shop owners appear to be little serious about the fire security, while the administration has adopted a carefree attitude as they have only give instructions and there is no one to check the fire safety measure at the stalls. The stall owners are selling Chinese crackers openly in their stalls under the nose of the district administration in the absence of any check. Even people are puffing cigarette without any worry. Condition was this that due in the absence of police personnel, cars and motorcycle have been parked in the middle of the ground just near the fire cracker stalls by the customers. Some of the owners of the stall told that they had paid Rs 2,500 for the stall at Multi Purpose Stadium. The District Administration should have arranged the fire safety measure for them, as if any untoward incident happens these little buckets of water will fail to provide any relief. They alleged that even the basic safety arrangements were not in place. They stated the administration should keep drums of water for emergency purpose in case of a fire apart from the fire tenders and an ambulance on standby. Even the fire department in the city sans staff. As there are six fire bridge trucks and only eight persons work in each shift. It is pertinent to mention that for each van, at least three persons are must. A district official said instructions have been issued to have full fire safety measures and even fire bridge van is also being make round time-to-time.
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City police seize crackers worth lakhs
Bathinda, October 22 Sources claimed that fire crackers worth lakhs were stored but the police maintained that only two cartons and some other fire crackers have been seized. As per information, the Kotwali police in the afternoon arrested one person selling firecrackers in residential area in large quantity. Police sources claimed that they got a tip-off that Prince, alias Mani, a resident of Goniana Mandi, was running a store in which he had kept fire crackers in a large quantity. Acting swiftly, SHO, Kotwali police station, Mahesh Saini, along with a police party today raided the store and arrested the accused. Investigative officer ASI Harjiwan Singh said he could not comment on the firecrackers but that they have seized boxes of firecrackers and they are interrogating the owner of the store. It is worth mentioning that the police has also recovered Rs 30,000 cash from the store. Source claimed that the city police was trying to sweep up the case under the carpet due to reported political pressure.
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Health Dept ready for emergency, puts sweets shops under surveillance
Bathinda, October 22 The district health department had instructed all the doctors and staff to be ready on a single call and had checked its medicine stock. Civil Surgeon, Bathinda, had also instructed the senior health officials to manage the duties of the staff on the festival day to tackle the crisis situation if occurred. It is noteworthy that some private NGOs had also offered to dedicate their services of private ambulances placed at different places in the city to tackle crisis situation on night of Diwali. “We have about 12 ambulances (108) and all have been actively given instruction to remain stationed at their respective stations. We welcome the move if private NGOs are also providing the free help to common man but we have sufficient ambulance and staff to tackle the situation of crisis. I appeal the public especially children to avoid consumption of sweets and crackers. Children if adamant on using crackers, should use the fireworks under the surveillance of their parents and carefully. Precautions should be taken before using the fireworks. Our teams have been inspecting on sweet shops regularly.” Sweets under surveillance of food safety teamA team under the surveillance of District Food Safety Officer are conducting inspections of sweet shops in Bathinda district for the last two days while it had conducted regular raids on sweet shops ahead of Diwali season. Food inspector, Amritpal Singh, said, “We are inspecting the number of shops and destroyed the sweets that were in not fit for consumption or were kept in unhygienic condition. Yesterday, too, we inspected the shops. No such product was found that we could have suspected as adulterated. We had conducted raids in almost all the major and minor shops that are famous for selling sweets. Hard instructions have been given to every sweet seller to keep the sweets in hygienic way and in a proper environment. No one will be spared if found with sub standard sweets.” Its noteworthy that district health department had conducted a numerous raids ahead of Diwali this year and had claimed to conduct raids on about more than 130 shops in Bathinda, including all the blocks of district. The district health department had also claimed that it had earned about Rs 7 lakh by conducting raids since 2011 in Bathinda and numbers of minor cases that are found with sub standard food stuff are sub judice in the court of Adjudicating Officer-cum-ADC (General), Bathinda, whereas major cases that includes adulteration are pending in local courts. “We are prepared for circumstance and a stringent action would be taken against the sweet sellers if found at error. Our team is keeping a vigil round the clock over the district and sources in the market are regularly informing us about the sweet sellers if any erroneous,” added the food inspector.
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NCD detects hypertension patients in survey
Bathinda, October 22 In the ongoing survey it has screened about 26,691 people, including 10,299 men and 12,893 women between 20 to 60 years of age while 1,395 women and 1,409 men above 60 years of age have been screened. Among the screened population the NCD staff has found a total 1,711 patients of hypertension, including 637 women and 489 men. Similarly, around 2,256 people were detected with diabetes, including 933 females and 654 females. Besides, 303 males and 15 females who consume tobacco and alcohol have also been detected whereas about 22 cases of cancer has been detected too. Among the cancer cases, six are males and 16 are females till this date of survey report. Its noteworthy to mention that the waiting more staff and instructions from Punjab Health Department to conduct survey the district health department is yet to start the survey of cancer cases in Bathinda districts. The survey is being conducted since May 2014 for the second time in the district. Last year, it was conducted in July when nursing students and the multipurpose health workers checked the blood pressure and blood sugar of people above 30 years of age. The health workers had then conducted the survey by making people assemble at a common place like gurdwaras and temple. It is pertinent to mention here that from December 2011 to August 2012, a similar survey was conducted in 285 villages. The survey found around 8 per cent of the population surveyed to be diabetic and 9 per cent to be hypertensive. Around 3.9 lakh people of 30 years of age and above were screened for diabetes and hypertension. However, this year, the survey has been conducted among the urban area that falling under dispensaries of the Health Department, including in Beant Nagar, Ganesha Basti Town Dispensary, Partap Nagar, SAD Guru Nanakpura, PP Unit dispensary, Janta Nagar dispensary, RSD I and RSD II, and ESI-I, ESI-II and ESI-III. Medical officers posted at urban dispensaries have 5 to 6 ANMs working under them and each ANM is assigned a pocket of around 10,000 people where the aanganwari workers also helping the ANMs. An official who do not wished to be quoted said, “Our survey is being done with a lot of energy but there is need of staff that could be recruited at state level. However cancer survey is not being done because we don t have staff. A lot has been done in survey and a huge number of population in urban area is screened.”
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Absence of math teachers in remote areas leads to lack of interest, says Bangla VC
Bathinda, October 22 He said that it was a truth that in far-flung villages, there is scarcity of math and science teachers which is liable to form an unenthusiastic environment for the students and making them insufficient to compete equally with the students studying in big private schools. — TNS
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DC visits Ghudda sports school
Bathinda, October 22 Addressing the students, the DC stated that the sportspersons have the scope of growing up into good human beings since they develop the qualities of hard work, determination, fair play and sportsmanship at a very young age. He also promised the students and the management of the school that the district administration will make more efforts to provide good facilities to the students of the school to make sure that they have all the facilities needed to help them evolve as even better sportspersons. — TNS
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United Nations Day on October 24
Bathinda, October 22 An official spokesman said the United Nations flag would not be hoisted on Raj Bhawans/Raj Niwas and the buildings housing Legislative Councils, Legislative Assemblies and High Courts, he added. A circular has been sent to all the department heads, divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners for compliance in both letter and spirit. Directions have been issued that the flag code should be observed and wherever the United Nations flag is available, it should be hoisted on the top of government buildings. Programmes relating to the aims and objectives of the United Nations like peace and international brotherhood should be organised.
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Bathinda, October 22
The city police today raided stores of fire crackers near Desraj School in Aggarwal Street and arrested a man who was selling these crackers. The police also seized fire crackers worth
lakhs. A case has been registered against the accused for violation of the instructions of the Deputy Commissioner under Section 188 of the
IPC.
Bathinda, October 22
