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Excise & Taxation Dept staff threaten to stall work
Agri Dept collects soil, water samples
Police issue orders to regulate sale of acid
Two killed in separate mishaps
NFL reports profit in half yearly financial results
TSPL, Gram Panchayats collaborated for construction of Anganwadis
Three hurt in group clash in Phagwara
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Students yet to get winter uniform
Nikhila Pant Dhawan Tribune news Service
Bathinda, November 17 While the department appears to be expert in delaying the grant for uniforms of the students of government schools, the department is also yet to provide winter uniforms to the students of the Senior Secondary Residential School for Meritorious, Bathinda. The winters have come knocking in Punjab but students of the school are yet to be provided winter uniform. To save themselves from the chill in the air, the students have been asked to wear their personal sweaters and jackets to school till the time the uniforms are delivered. The school, being run under the Society for Promotion of Quality Education for Poor and Meritorious Students of Punjab, has close to 500 students on its campus and more than half of the students are girls. Speaking to TNS, school principal, Rajinder Kaur, said, “The project Director of the meritorious schools, Punjab, Major General KAS Bhullar, had visited our school on the occasion of Children’s Day and had checked the register we maintain for recording our problems. We had also listed that the students were waiting for the winter uniforms to be delivered.” “He told us that the government had already approved the tender for providing uniforms to the students of all the six meritorious schools and the uniforms will be delivered to the students very soon. Till the time that happens, the students have been asked to wear the sweaters they have,” she added. This is not the first time the students of these special schools, which were constructed as part of the special project considered quiet close to the heart of the Chief Minister of Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal, have been made to wait for uniforms. In the beginning of the first academic session of the schools in August, the students wore the uniforms of their previous schools since they were not given the uniform grant in time. Students selected for Udaan project
Meanwhile, four girl students of the school have brought laurels to the school by getting selected under the Udaan Project of the Central Board of Secondary Education. Deepali Gupta, Sachindeep Kaur, Kiranjeet Kaur and Simarjeet Kaur, all students of Class XI have been selected for the project. It is pertinent to mention here that as many as six students have been selected from the six meritorious schools of the state four of which belong to the school in Bathinda. These students attended an orientation programme held at New Delhi on November 14-15. The selected students will receive free coaching on Saturdays and Sundays to prepare for entrance examinations for admission to top engineering institutions like IITs and NITs. To help them prepare for the examinations, the selected students have been given one tablet each which contains NCERT textbooks and study material. The Udaan project has been launched by the Central government to help intelligent female students of the country in getting admission to top-notch engineering colleges of the country. |
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Specialist docs allege discrimination, call for protest on November 29
Bathinda, November 17 However, the doctors did not shy away from their responsibility and attended to emergency services. But they did not take up any case of surgery and orthopaedics like plaster etc. These services remained suspended. The PCMS specialists complained that despite the need for a separate pay structure for specialists (as a doctor who possesses MD or MS degree would perform better than a doctor who just has an MBBS degree), this too has remained an observation. President of the Bathinda branch of the Punjab Civil Medical Service (PCMS) Specialist Doctors Association Dr Ramesh Maheshwari said specialist doctors were already underpaid in comparison to doctors working for the Central government while their pay scale was similar to that of MBBS doctors. They also demanded special allowances including those for academics, staff, conveyance and reduction of work load. “The doctors are seeking removal of these anomalies in the pay structure, failing which we would start an agitation if our demands are not met. We have been given emergency services, post-mortem and night duty that puts heavy work load on us. Because of this, we fail to give better treatment,”
said Dr
Maheshwari. |
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Employees wear black badges to mark protest
Bathinda, November 17 The employees stated that despite promising them several times, the state government had failed to regularise their services. Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, had promised that a circular announcing regularisation of services of the contractual SSA-RMSA employees will be regularised will be their services would be issued by March 31, 2014, but the same was not done. District president of the union, Deepak Bansal stated that last year when the SSA-RMSA non-teaching employees had ended their pen-down strike after they were assured by the Education Department that their jobs will be regularised soon. He further stated that the department had also promised that they will be paid salaries for the time they were on strike. Bansal further stated that while on the one hand, the state government was yet to draft any policy pertaining to regularisation of their jobs, on the other it had withheld their salaries thereby pushing them into deep financial trouble. The protestors further stated that they were upset with the state government since during their meeting with the Director General of School Education, VK Singh, the latter had accepted that their demands were valid and had given his nod to the same. The protestors requested the state government to heed to their demands at the earliest and threatened that of it failed to do so, it would have to bear the consequences of its decisions during the upcoming municipal corporation, committee and council elections as the employees who were being cheated by the government would not vote for the candidates belonging to the Shiromani Akali Dal. Among those who wore black badges were Satinder Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Bhupinder Singh, Bua Singh, Raminder Singh, Ajay Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Gurjit Singh and Vivek Kumar. |
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Excise & Taxation Dept staff threaten to stall work
Bathinda, November 17 Expressing grief over the untimely death of inspector Jaswinder Singh, the employees held Additional Commissioner, main office Patiala, SS Bangar, responsible for his death and demanded that an enquiry be initiated against Bangar. They alleged that Singh fell critically ill and then died after being under pressure from Bangar. They added that Bangar, who was working after being given post-retirement extention, had been causing trouble to several members of the field staff. They unanimously demanded that Bangar be booked for causing Singh’s death or else the employees will begin strike starting November 20. Earlier during the day, a deputation of the joint action committee also met Chief Parliamentary Secretary Sarup Chand Singla and demanded that action be taken against Bangar. Present during the meeting were Sukhwinder Singh, Ravinder Kumar, Anil Kumar and Gurtej Singh among others. |
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Agri Dept collects soil, water samples
Bathinda, November 17 The main aim of collecting and testing water and soil samples is to make farmers aware about the health of their soil. “We tell farmers about the nutrients that their soil lacks or has in surplus. This helps in reducing the use of fertilizers for growing crops,” he said. To make this campaign a success, the village was divided into five portions. Dr Brar added that that some villages have been identified in the district where this campaign is being run. Teams have been formed under the project deputy director Dr Narinder Singh, Dr Ram Sarup Singh Gill and Dr Sukhmandar Singh who are coordinating with the farmers and collecting the samples. A farmer of the village, Iqbal Singh, helped the team in its endeavour. |
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Authorities wake up after 2 drown in water tanks
Bathinda, November 17 Two kids were drowned in the water tanks during the past just one month due to the low lying boundary walls, open access of tanks to residential areas and other flaws in the tanks. The corporation officials who visited place today and assessed the situation however stated that it is the public which has made access to the water works tanks by pressurising the department to open two gates. The gates are opened for the pedestrians who complain of taking a longer route to reach the residential areas situated on the other side of the water tanks. “Not only the public got an entrance sanctioned from our seniors using pressurising tactics but they also broke the inner pavement using hammer,” said a corporation employee at the Jogger’s Park. He said that while iron grills are fixed on all the sides of the water tanks except those situated close to the residential area. “When children playing cricket or other games came over to fetch their ball usually slips over into the water tanks which are situated quite blow the surface on one side”, said Vijay Goyal the president of NGO Sahara Jan Sewa. Ashwini Kumar, XEN, the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, said a detailed project report in this regard is being prepared by the Municipal Corporation wherein railings would be fixed upon the boundary wall of the water tanks. “Though the matter was taken up earlier too but now it has been expedited at war footing and the
railings are expected to be fixed by the Municipal Corporation within next few weeks of so,”
Ashwini said. It is pertinent to mention here that the water tanks situated on the Bhagu Road, Goniana Road too have become watery grave where 23 deaths are reported during the past just two and half years. While most of the incidents of suicide are reported in the water tanks of the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant on Goniana road and water tanks on Bhagu Road, the deaths due to engineering and other faults have
taken place in the tanks situated close to the Jogger’s Park. Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Dalwinderjit Singh, expressing concern over the two deaths said the railing around the boundary wall of the water tanks and plugging of the illegal access by the public would be blocked soon. OPEN HOUSE QUESTION
In view of the rising number of suicides in the lakes of Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant on Goniana road and Muktsar road, the lakes situated on Bhagu Road and adjoining Jogger’s Park, what needs to be done to avoid the tag of watery grave that these water tanks are assuming in view of 24 deaths in the past two and half years. Readers may send their response at btidesk@gmail.com |
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Police issue orders to regulate sale of acid
Jalandhar, November 17 The Deputy Commissioner of Police, under powers vested on him under Section 144 of the CrPC, issued the orders. The DCP in his order has categorically stated that anybody who wants to sell acid must get a licence from the Police Department. Sources said police officials are also conducting a survey to update its record about the number of acid sellers in the city. The orders also stated that sellers, after obtaining a licence, have to maintain a register to record the name of the buyer, quantity of acid purchased, purpose of buying acid, date of sale, photo of buyer, mobile number and photo ID. They have to submit complete details of the sale with the police station concerned every day. The orders were issued to prevent miscreants from using acid for attacking people. The orders will remain in force till January 16. Acid attack incidents
On July 15, Neeta, a government school teacher, and a resident of Talwandi Mehma in Kapurthala, was injured in an acid attack by Paramjit, when Neeta had turned down his marriage proposal. On June 4, three motorcycle-borne youths threw acid on 21-year-old Shiv Sena activist Naveen Talwar while he was on way to work. — TNS |
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Two killed in separate mishaps
Bathinda, November 17 As per the volunteers of NGO Sahara Jan Sewa, the victims were hit by a speeding vehicle following which they succumbed to their injuries. The bodies of both the victims were sent to the mortuary at the Civil Hospital by the police. The volunteers said the man found lying
dead on the Thandi Sarak seems to have fallen on the road due to unconsciousness and might have died due to cold at night while the other on the Goniana Road was crushed by an unidentified vehicle. |
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NFL reports profit in half yearly financial results
Bathinda, November 17 In the half year of the current fiscal, India’s largest PSU, Urea Manufacturer, witnessed an increase of 26 per cent in its income from operations to Rs. 4,486 crore from Rs 3,564 crore in
the corresponding previous period. NFL has achieved gross turnover of Rs.4483 crore in the half yearly results of FY 2014-15. The company has produced 18.40 LMT urea up to half year ended September 30, 2014. Neeru Abrol, C&MD, NFL, indicated that the company is heading towards profitability again after a gap of two years. |
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TSPL, Gram Panchayats collaborated for construction of Anganwadis
Bathinda, November 17 This is very positives step since number of villages have no fund to mobilise this fund under the MNREGA as they have no source of revenue. Thermal supported two villages of Mansa district, Moosa and Manbibriyan for construction of Anganwadis. Further thermal and panchayat are planning to make the Anganwadi as a model Anganwadi for the area. On the Children’s Day, a cheque amounting Rs 50,000 was handed over
to the Panchayat of village Moosa. The fund of Rs 4.5 lakhs was mobilised under the MNREGA scheme. Thermal and Gram Panchayat contributed Rs 50,000 each. Construction work in Moosa village is already in progress and to be completed soon. The company is also supporting Gram Panchayat Manbibriyan for the same cause but still construction work is not initiated. It is worth mentioning that in Mansa district many villages don’t have separate buildings for Anganwadis. In such villages these Anganwadis are being run temporarily in either panchayat ghars or dharamshalas that have to be evacuated
in case of any function taking place in the respective buildings. |
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Cooperative societies’ employees stage protest
Bathinda, November 17 The protestors also announced that they would stall works related to organising camps, making members and constituting self-help groups till December 6 and added that to make sure that the farmers were not at the receiving end of their dharna, they would continue doing works related o farmers. Addressing the protestors, the union leaders stated that the while the employees of other societies running into losses had been covered under the fifth pay scale, he employees of the cooperative societies had been left out of the benefit. They added that in case the registrar of the cooperative societies, Arnjeet Muglani fails to implement the fifth pay commission on their salaries as well, he employees will intensify their struggle against the government. They also demanded that the Chief Minister of Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal, should look into issue and take requisite step. Among those who were present during the dharna were Mohan Singh, Sukhmander Singh, Bikar Singh, Arvinder Dhapali, Gursewak Singh, Aatma Singh and others. |
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CBSE 3rd Summit: Students win laurels
Bathinda, November 17 The students won laurels for the school by winning the first position in global health exhibition and second position in elocution, thematic song and third position in on-the-spot poster making competition and adolescent whiz quiz. These students will now be representing their region at the International CBSE summit to be held in New Delhi on December 10 to 12.
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Three hurt in group clash in Phagwara
Phagwara, November 17 Police sources said that some money matters were the cause of the clash. The police have registered case and started
the investigation into the matter. |
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