Host district wins netball tourney
The netball team (boys) of the host Tarn Taran district was a winner in a state-level tournament. It was a three-day event. The 63rd Punjab State Inter-district School Sports (under 17-boys/girls) was organised by the Education Department. The boys’ team of the Barnala district was runner-up, and the Mansa district won third position. In the girls competition, girls’ team from Barnala won the trophy where the team of the Faridkot district was runner-up. Team from the Sri Muktsar Sahib district won third position. The MLA, Dr Dharamveer Agnihotri, inaugurated the tournament.
The Punjab Police through its Special Task Force (STF) have started its ‘Buddi Program’ meant for creating awareness among the youngsters against the drug use. The programme will be implemented in other districts of the state as well. A seminar was organised at the Government Secondary School, Pandori Gola, six kilometer away from here. The ADGP (STF),Harpreet Singh, was the chief guest at the seminar. The Deputy Commissioner, Pardeep Kumar Sabharwal, SSP Darshan Singh Mann and the senior officials from the police department also attended the seminar. The ADGP said the police was functioning on a three-prolonged strategy which included enforcement of drug related laws, de-addiction and rehabilitation for the drug abuse victims and prevention of drug use. The AGDP said the programme was to involve all the school heads, teachers, students and the parents in the cause. The programme will involve five students to help, support and partner one another against drug use. The authorities of the District Administration, Education Deprtment and the police will be collaborated in the programme.
No senior official at CDPO
The office of the Child Development and Project officer (CDPO), Valtoha village, was being run by a Class-IV employee. Shockingly, there was no senior employee in the office from last six months. The office has been sanctioned besides the post of the CDPO, one post of Senior Assistant, two clerks, four supervisors, a driver and a peon. The supervisors were meant for the field duty. Except the peon, all other posts in the office were lying vacant. The block level office was meant to serve 70 villages. As a result, the people of the area were harassed as their pension related issues were pending since long. The District Program Officer (DPO), Hardeep Kaur, told that the higher authorities were well aware of the situation. However, additional charge of the CDPO was given to Uspinder Kaur for Cholha Sahib and the Supervisor, Paramjit Kaur was looking for the office work temporarily. The Block Chohla Sahib was at the distance of 50 km from Valtoha village.
—Contributed by Gurbax Puri
