Tuesday,
September 10, 2002,
Chandigarh, India
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SAPLINGS: With the help of teachers and students of government senior secondary schools of Chheharta and Ghumanpur, as many as 150 and 100 saplings of various trees were planted on the premises of both schools, respectively, here on Sunday. ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Unemployed B.Ed. Teachers Union here: president — Mr Palwinder Singh; senior vice-president — Mr Subash Kumar; and general secretary — Mr Krishan Thakur. Mr Amolak Singh, Mr Dilbagh Rai, Mr Amit Kumar, Ms Indu Bala, Ms Renu Sharma and Ms Sofia Mhajan were nominated as vice-presidents of the union. PRAYER MEETING: For the peace of the world, to end terrorism and to promote communal harmony, a joint programme, “Walking together — a prayer peace meeting” was held at the Wagha border here on Sunday. The programme was jointly organised by the Church of North India Synodical Board of Social Services and the Synodical Board of Health Services. BATHINDA
SUICIDE: Ranjit Singh, a resident of Lopan (Sangrur), committed suicide in a hotel room here on Saturday. His body was handed over to his kin after registering a case under Section 174, Cr PC. An unidentified body was fished out from a water body under the Nehian Wala police station. FARIDKOT
PNB CREDIT CARDS: Mr Inderjit Krishan, Senior Regional Manager, Punjab National Bank Ferozepore region, distributed credit cards amounting Rs 1.56 crore to 101 beneficiaries at a camp organised by local main branch of the bank here on Friday. He said that 1600 beneficiaries had already availed of this scheme during the past three months at Moga, Muktsar and Ferozepore districts in different camps. FEROZEPORE
BSNL: The Vigilance Department arrested a section supervisor of the BSNL’s TRA branch, Mr Manmohan
Katyal, accepting a sum of Rs 500. The Vigilance party had been tipped off by Joginder Kumar, an LIC agent and a resident of Jalabad (West). HOSHIARPUR
CASH LOOTED: Four car-borne youths looted Rs 5,000 from Jaspal Singh of Kiandowal village while he was on his bicycle near Haveli on Sunday. The police has registered a case under Section 382 of the IPC. ARRESTED: The Mahilpur police arrested Manjit Singh of Kalewal Bhagtan village under Sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act on Sunday and seized 10 kg of poppy husk from him. CRUSHED TO DEATH: Balbir Singh of Gonsala village was crushed to death under a vehicle on the Nawanshahr-Garhshanker road on Sunday. His body was handed over to his relatives by the police after a post-mortem. HELD: The Mukerian police has arrested a proclaimed offender, Ashok Kumar, alias Tikka, after 17 years. The police had registered a case of theft under Sections 457 and 380 of the IPC on November 30, 1985, against him.
JAGRAON
DHARNA: Students of the DIET, who have been staging a dharna since August 26, gheraoed a former minister, Mr Darshan Singh Brar, and forced him to sit on the dharna along with them. Mr Brar has assured them that their demands will be forwarded to the state government. The DIET president, Jaswinder Singh Khanna, handed over the charter of demands to Mr Brar.KHANNA
FUNCTION: Vanamahotsava was celebrated at Lala Sarkaru Mal Sarv Hitkari Vidya Mandir on Saturday. The SSP Khanna, Mr Paramjit Singh Sarao, was the chief guest. The function was organised jointly by Mr J.L. Mehndirata, Assistant Commissioner, Income Tax Khanna, and Mr Om Parkash Sachdeva, president of the school. Ms Anju Bhatia, Principal, welcomed the guests. A cultural programme was also organised. MEETING: A meeting of the Democratic People’s Party, Khanna block, was held under the chairmanship of Mr B.C. Bassi on Sunday, according to a press note of the party. At the meeting Mr Bassi was elected as president. The party demanded that health and education should be provided free to all. LUDHIANA
INAUGURATED: Lala Lajpat Rai, MP, inaugurated four rooms of Government High School, Salim Tabri. Students presented a cultural programme. Mr Hans Raj, councillor, was also present on the occasion. The MP gave a grant of Rs 2 lakh to the school from his discretionary fund. Mr Ranjit Singh, Principal, thanked Lala Lajpat Rai for his kind gesture. CAMP: A free camp to examine diabetic patients was organised by the Lions Club Ludhiana (Venus) under the presidentship of Dr Sandeep Chauhan at Sandeep Hospital. Patients were given medicines free of cost. Nearly 200 patients were examined. PROTEST: The action committee of daily wage and work-charge ad hoc employees has criticised the ‘anti-employees’ policy of the government and the move to privatise the various government departments which adversely affected the interests of the ad hoc and work-charge employees, who are being denied their rights of being regularised. A meeting of the committee was held here on Monday and attended by employees from various departments. The employees resolved to participate in a state-level dharna at Patiala on September 24. Condemning the government’s move to handover water supply schemes of the Public Health Department in private hands for maintenance, the meeting threatened to gherao the officials concerned and private contractors to safeguard the rights of the employees. RAMLILA
COMMITTEE: The election of the Urban Estate Ramlila Dasehra Committee was held here on Sunday. Mr Rakesh Pandey, Minister of State for Printing and Stationery, Mr Malkiat Singh Beermi, MLA, Mr Prem Mittal, Senior Deputy Mayor, Ms Sushil Gupta, Deputy Mayor, and Mr B.R. Kaushal were nominated patrons. The office-bearers of the committee are: Mr Raj Garg — president; Mr Shiv Gupta — general secretary; Mr N.K. Sharma — convener; Mr Pawan Singla — treasurer; Mr Des Raj Garg, Mr Dev Dutt Sharma and Mr M.P. Singh Gogia — vice-presidents; Mr Om Parkash Sharma — assistant finance secretary; Mr Hardeep Singh Dhillon, Mr Sanjeev Malhotra, Mr Rajinder Gupta and Mr Kuldeep Bhola — joint secretaries; Mr N.S. Takkar and Mr Raman Goyal — assistant secretaries; Mr Tejinder Lakhanpal, Mr Anil Gupta, Mr Ajay Goyal and Mr Shiv Kant Gupta — organising secretaries; Mr Madan Lal Rana and Mr Ranjit Walia — press secretaries; Mr Kirpal Singh Kalra — PR secretary; Mr Sushil Singla — auditor; Mr B.K. Rampal — legal adviser; Mr Ravi Kant Gupta — chairman, reception committee; Mr V.K. Nanchahal, Mr Ramesh Mangal, Mr S.R. Dhingra, Mr D.R. Sharma, Mr Bimal Aggarwal, Mr Gulab Singh, Mr Sohan Singh, Mr Jagan Nath Singla, Mr M.L. Khetarpal, Mr Bushan Dhawan and Mr Bhupinder Singh — all members of the executive committee. MANSA
DHARNA: Agitating workers of the Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta), who have been sitting in dharna since Friday, demanding compensation to Mr Bant Singh, a farmer of Mirpur village in the district, whose “narma” crop failed allegedly due to the inferior quality of insecticides, on Monday shifted their dharna to the bus stand here and blocked traffic. MOGA
MISHAPS: Four persons, including a woman and her son, were killed in separate mishaps since Sunday in and around Moga. A report said Surinder Kaur and her son Pragat Singh were crossing a railway track near Kalichalhan village on the Ludhiana-Ferozepore section of Northern Railway when they were run over by a passenger train. Amrik Singh of Saphuwala village was killed when his scooter rammed into a crane, about 18 km from here, on the Moga-Ludhiana road. A youth was killed when he allegedly consumed a poisonous substance at Kot-isa-Khan village. EYE DONATION: The Moga Seva Bharti has provided 147 blind persons with eyes in the district during the past six months. Stating this here on Monday, the general secretary of the Moga Seva Bharati said the organisation had received a good response for this cause and many more people had decided to donate their eyes. PATIALA
DECLAMATION CONTEST: The Patiala Consumers and Telephone Subscribers Forum will hold an inter-school declamation contest on ‘Consumer Protection Act, 1986, and rights of a consumer’ at Veer Haqiqat Senior Secondary School on Tuesday. The Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Mr G. S. Grewal, will be the chief guest on the occasion. POLICE DIRECTIVE: The district police on Monday urged all the landlords in the district to give necessary information about their tenants to their nearby police station. The police spokesperson said keeping in view the recent spate of crime involving domestic help in the city, the police has also asked the citizens to ascertain that the names and other relevant information pertaining to their servants is registered with the nearby police station. SAMRALA
MELA: A mela was held at Ottalan village, 3 km from here, on Sunday. Members of the Saddi community participated. A bhandara was also organised.
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