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Coop societies help farmers out of debt trap
Ludhiana, January 10 Addressing a meeting of the Punjab Kisan Club on the premises of Punjab Agricultural University, he said cooperative societies would work hand-in-hand with Krishi Vigyan Kendras to make agriculture science and technology-based. He said at the moment 40,000 farmer families of Ludhiana were making use of farm machinery purchased by cooperative societies. Kisan Club president Pavittar Pal Singh Pangli and general secretary Hardev Singh Ghanaur told the participants that under the National Horticulture Mission scholarships would be given to supervisors, gardeners and technicians during training. The training would be imparted by PAU, he added. The club was unanimous that making cooperative societies procure farm machinery would go a long way to free farmers from unproductive expenditure. At present, farm machinery worth Rs 15,000 crore is deployed in Punjab and additional machinery worth Rs 1,300 crore entered the market every year. Unfortunately, this machinery was not being used to its optimum level. On the contrary, this had pushed the farmers into a debt trap. Therefore, cooperative societies could play a significant role in giving relief to farmers rather than owning their own tractors and farm machinery.
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PAU invites applications for awards
Ludhiana, January 10 According to Director of Extension Education, Dr. S. S. Gill, these three prizes are given annually out of Rs.20 lakh grant given by the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, who had made this announcement at Kisan Mela-2004. He said forms for the application of awards were available with the Directorate of Extension Education, PAU, and the State Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry and at all 15 Krishi Vigyan Kendras of the university and district officers of Agriculture, Horticulture and Dairy Development in the state. The last date for receipt of these application forms is January 20.
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Workshop for home science
students
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, January 10 Speaking on the occasion, Dr Sushma Gupta, Head of the Department said, “One of the most sought after career option for home science students is in the fashion industry. Keeping this in mind, we wish to give our students knowledge and exposure to the working methods, facilities and environment of this much demanding industry”. The students were told about the working pattern of manufacturing units of fashion industry by Ms Manmeet Sodhia, Director of Ivana Institute. A demonstration was followed by the faculty of the institute. Ms Maninder Kaur, Ms Parminder Gill, Ms Jaspreet Kaur and Ms Sukhmani Shergill also attended the workshop. The Principal, Ms Prabhjot Kaur, appreciated the efforts of the department. SDP College: The Department of Hindi, SDP College for Women, celebrated the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekanand as Youth Day. Ruchi, Arti and Micky, through speeches and poems shed light on the preachings of Swami Vivekanand. The students asked the youth to realise and perform their duties well. They asked the youth to rededicate themselves to the progress of Mother India. The youth took an oath to follow into the footsteps of Swami Vivekanand. Ms Shashi Bindal, officiating Principal and Ms S.Verma, honorary director, motivated the youth to adopt Swami Vivekananda’s ideas on this occasion.
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Lohri celebrated in schools
Ludhiana, January 10 Mom’s Pride School:
Mom’s Pride School celebrated Lohri. Children came dressed in traditional dresses and sang and danced. The best-dressed children were Gurnoor and Gunesh .The children enjoyed eating peanuts and “rewaris”. Seminar:
The Shaheed Memorial Sewa Society and the Dr Sadhu Singh Hamdard Education and Service Society in a joint statement criticised the evils of the society and held a seminar in RS Model Senior Secondary School on this topic here today. Mr Hira Singh Gabria, ex-MLA, Akali Dal, presiding over the function, said the youth was getting addicted to many evils and it was time that everyone got united and rouse patriotic feelings among the children. Assistant Commissioner (Complaints) Anupam Klair, as a special guest, said the social evils were spreading like wild fire. Out of these evils, the worst was female foeticide and it will have serious repercursions in the society . “If we are not very serious about this problem, we will not be able to solve it later”, she said, only that country could prosper whose youth is full of patriotism. Mr Karamjit Singh Aujla, Sukhwinder Kaur Amrit, Jaswant Zafar, Pali Detwalia and Principal Mohan Lal Kalra also spoke on the occasion.
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Prize distribution function held
Mandi Gobindgarh, January 10 He announced a grant of Rs 2 lakh for the boundary wall and play ground of the school. Mr Dharamsot gave away prizes to the meritorious students. Earlier, Mr Dharamsot inaugurated the four room of the school. Mr R D Goyal, District Education Officer, Fatehgarh Sahib, presided over the function. He announced a grant of Rs 10,000 for the school. Mr Roshan Lal Sood, District Education Officer, Ropar was the guest of honour. Mr Gurdial Singh
Hansra, a local Punjabi writer, who had formed a trust for the help of needy students. He announced that he would pay fees of needy students of the school. Mr Mohinder Singh, staff secretary, of the school read the annual report. Ms Rasham Rani, Principal of the school presented a vote of thanks. Dr Swatantar
Karkara, state secretary, PPCC, Dr Arjan Singh, Agricultural Development Officer, Mr Gurmeet Singh, president, PTA committee, Mr Balbir Singh, sarpanch and Director, Rural Development Bank, Amloh, Mr Amar Singh, state awardee teacher, Mr Baljit Singh
Anian, block vice-president, Anti-corruption Federation, Mr Baljit Singh, sarpanch,
Marardu, Mr Jasbir Singh, sarpanch, Bholia, and Mr Avtar Singh Azad, Secretary, Punjabi Likhari Sabha, were present on the occasion.
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Cultural function
Mandi Gobindgarh, January 10 Dr Zora Singh, Chairman, Desh Bhagat group of institutes, welcomed the guests. Dr Dinesh Katoch was impressed by the achievements of the institute and he appreciated for conducting medical camps every month in the rural areas to provide medical aid to the ruralites.
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Endoscopic surgery for
eye disorders
Ludhiana, January 10 Two of these patients had pus inside the eyeball. One of them had fungal infection of the nose and sinuses, which had led to deterioration in vision. The ENT team comprising Dr Hemant Chopra, Professor and Head and Dr Kapil Dua, Assistant Professor, did medical orbital decompression (opening up of eyeball from inside the nose) of the orbit to remove the pus from inside the eye. The eyesight of the patient was thus saved. The other patient, a diabetic, was suffering from decrease of vision and headache. He had undergone plastic surgery for accident of the face 15 years back. A sialistic sheet was kept in the floor of the orbit during that surgery. Now, the patient had developed pus around that sheet. The team of Dr G.S. Bajwa, Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, and Dr Kapil Dua, removed pus from the maxillary sinus and eyeball without opening from outside. The sialistic sheet was also removed endoscopically. Post operatively, the doubling of vision decreased and vision of the patient improved. In the case of the patient with bullet injury of the face, a bullet was lodged in the left maxillary sinus. Routinely, the bullet had to be removed by an incision below the upper lip but in this case, the bullet too was removed through endoscopy. Dr Kapil Dua stated that with the help of endoscopic technique, everything was done under vision. The operative field was much clearer and the chances of complications decreased. The post-operative stay was less, external scar avoided, swelling of face did not occur and the patients was able to go back to his home early. Dr Hemant Chopra further stated that endocscope had gone well beyond the confines of just nose and was being used to treat the patient with eye complaints, headaches, CSF leak and pituitary adenomas tumors of the brain. So, from the nose, diseases of skull base (brain), orbit and sinuses could now be easily tackled without much of morbidity. Dr Daljit Singh, Principal, DMCH, said that endoscopic sinus surgery was a minimally invasive technique in which disease was removed from the nose and sinuses, without any scar marks on the external face under visualisation.
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7-year-old gets new lease of life
Ludhiana, January 10 The cardiac surgical team, headed by Dr K.C. Mukherjee, senior consultant and coordinator cardiac surgeon, and supported by Dr Anupam Shrivastava, Dr Sanjeev Chandna, Dr Arun Gupta, Dr Anwar Khan, Dr R.P. Singh, Dr Chetan Sharma operated the seven-year-old for the complex congenital heart disease. Giving details at a news conference here today Dr Mukherjee informed that Rohit son of Mr Sanjeev Sharma, a resident of Haibowal Kalan in the city, was brought to the hospital. The child was ‘blue’ since birth and on crying or after some exertion, he used to become almost blackish. “With the help of advanced diagnostic facilities available at the hospital, Dr Anwar Khan, consultant cardiologist, diagnosed the child as suffering from ‘tetralogy of fallot’, which itself is a cluster of four different defects in heart. In this particular case, it was associated with two more complex problems of the heart - narrowing of the main pulmonary artery and leak as well narrowing of the aortic valve. Narrowing of the aortic valve made this case very rare. Only treatment possible for these defects in heart was by a prolonged and complex correction by way of open-heart surgery,” he revealed. Rohit underwent corrective surgery on December 9. The procedure was successfully completed in four hours and the child was standing on his own feet after 24 hours. He started walking within 48 hours. He was discharged from the hospital after a week’s stay. Since his discharge, he has come for follow-up twice with no complaints. According to Dr Mukherjee, ‘tetralogy of fallot’ was one of the complex congenital diseases of the heart in which children were born blue and had four defects - a hole in the ventricular septum (wall dividing two pumping chambers of the heart), right ventricular outflow tract obstruction (narrowing of the tract which supplies blood to lungs), right ventricular hypertrophy (right pumping chamber of the heart which is normally very thin becomes thickened) and aorta, the main artery supplying blood to whole body, which normally arose from the left pumping chamber, in this condition came out from both left and right sides. In Rohit’s case, he was having two associated anomalies - narrowing of main pulmonary artery (main artery of the lung) and narrowing and leak of valve at the starting of aorta. Mr Jugdeip Singh, Director of the hospital, said that facility for surgical correction of these kinds of complex congenital heart diseases were available at very few centres in India. In the short span of time, since its inception, SPS Apollo Hospitals had performed around 80 heart operations. “We are regularly doing bypass surgery, beating heart surgery, total arterial bypass surgery, valvular surgery and most importantly, surgery in small children for complex congenital heart diseases with 100 percent success till date.”
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Polio immunisation drive
from January 15
Ludhiana, January 10 Mr Anurag Verma, Deputy Commissioner, presided over a meeting of the officers of all the departments concerned and representatives of NGOs at Bhachat Bhavan, here today. He informed that there are total 5.22 lakh children below 5 years of age, which would be covered under this program. Out of these 274344 children are in urban areas and 247878 in rural areas. The mop-up operation would be carried out blockwise under the supervision of an SMO. To cover all children, 900 booths are being set up in Ludhiana city and 1200 booths would be set up in the remaining parts of the district. As many as 8,800 workers from health and other departments and NGOs would be deployed to carry out the operation. Mobile teams have also been constituted, which will be covering the children in brick kilns, huts, hamlets, industrial area and jhuggies on highways. Departments have been told to depute their employees/ workers and school students far the task. Medical and nursing students from Dayanand Medical College, Christian Medical College, GTB Hospital, Oswal Cancer Hospital, Kapoor Hospital, Homoeopathic Medical College and Dental College would also be deputed for the same. Dr Rajinder Kaur, Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana, informed that the arrangements for required vaccine for mop-up immunisation campaign have been made and total 2,100 teams were being deputed in the entire district for this purpose. Ludhiana city has been diverted into 15 sectors and one supervisor would supervise the operation in each sector. She informed that apart from 2,100 booths, mobile and transit teams have also been constituted to cover railway station, bus stand etc, so that each and every child could be covered under this campaign.
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Health Dept’s clean chit to staff
Ludhiana, January 10 The Civil Surgeon, Dr Rajinder Kaur, said an inquiry into the incident has found that the health employees were not at fault in any manner, ‘‘They were given wrong or false information, if any, by the youth concerned,’’ the report said. The Civil Surgeon said the inquiry report has been filed as the department was not concerned with the motive of the youth in making the claims, ‘‘The inquiry was concerned with the role of the health employees, who have not been found guilty in any
manner.’’ TNS
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