AMRITSAR
Child labour: The local Labour Department in
collaboration with Industrial Association and
Trade Union organised a seminar on Wednesday on
the abolition of child labour. The consensus
which emerged from the seminar urged the
government to evolve a master plan to
rehabilitate the children who were forced to work
at an early age. The participants felt the need
to create a special fund in order to provide
education to such children. The Additional Deputy
Commissioner said the district would soon launch
a literacy drive for these children.BATALA
Appointed: Mr Dev Raj Chachowalia was
appointed president of the local unit of the BJP
by Mr Daya Singh Sodhi, President BJP state unit.
The appointment of Mr Chachowalia was hailed by
several local leaders.
Strike:
The local Bar Association observed a strike on
Wednesday in protest against the alleged
misbehaviour by a Punjab Police ASI, Mr Sita Ram
on Tuesday. The ASI had allegedly misbehaved with
a member of the Bar Association, Mr Gurinder
Singh, and had abused and threatened him.
Eye camp:
A three-day eye camp organised by Maharaja
Tulsidas Charitable Trust Durga Mata Mandir
concluded here on Wednesday. Dr Suri Kumar, Head
AC Memorial Government Eye Hospital, Gurdaspur
along with a team of doctors conducted about 50
eye operations on Wednesday. Over 250 patients
were examined at the camp.
GURDASPUR
Arrested: The district police arrested Rakesh
Kumar of Killa Jamalpur village on Thursday and
recovered one HMT watch, Rs 300 cash and a
bicycle from his possession. According to Mr
Varinder Kumar, SSP, the accused had looted
Naresh Kumar of Dunera Khad village on Tuesday at
pistol point by using a toy pistol. A case has
been registered against the accused in Sadar
Pathankot police station.
KHANNA
Bail granted: The alleged suspects in
the Harjit kidnapping case, Sunil Sharma and Ravi
Sharma — have been released on bail by the
Additional Sessions Judge, Ludhiana, Mr M.R.
Batra, on Wednesday. The next hearing of the case
will be on December 14, 1999.
NAWANSHAHR
Farmers' protest: The local activists of the
Punjab Kisan Sabha and Kirti Kisan Union held a
protest rally on Wednesday in front of the local
Doaba Cooperative Sugar Mill. Later, they
organised a protest march from the mill to the
SDM office. The protesters were demanding that
the sugar cane price should be fixed at Rs 110
per quintal on Haryana pattern, withdrawal of the
hike in diesel prices and waiver of loans worth
Rs 5700 crore given to farmers.
Medical
practitioners' protest: The district unit of
the Medical Practitioners Association, Punjab,
organised a protest rally here on Wednesday to
protest against the suicides committed by two
medical practitioners — Gurmit Singh and
Surinder Kumar. The protesters also blocked
traffic at Chandigarh Chowk, burnt the effigy of
Dr Inderjit Singh of Ludhiana and submitted a
memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. Addressing
the rally Mr Ramesh Kumar Bali, General Secretary
of the association said Mr Parkash Singh Badal
was responsible for the suicides, as his policies
had rendered about 80,000 medical practitioners
unemployed.
NRI Sabha:
Dr Roshan Sunkaria, Deputy
Commissioner-cum-Chairman of the district unit of
the NRI Sabha, while presiding over a meeting of
the sabha here on Tuesday said the sabha had
received 35 cases pertaining to land grabbing of
the NRIs and had settled 30 cases out of them. He
also said a district-level convention of NRIs
would be organised on January 2, here to discuss
the problems being faced by them.
PATIALA
Eye camp: The Lions Club (Patiala Fort ), in
collaboration with the Red Cross Society,
district Blindness Control Society, Civil Surgeon
and Eye Department of the local Rajindra Hospital
will organise a free eye check-up operation and
lense implant camp on December 13 at the
Government Rajindra Hospital.
PHAGWARA
Office-bearers: The following have been
elected office-bearers of the local Senior
Citizens Council: Patron — Mr Hansraj
Chopra; President — Dr Desraj Sharma; Senior
Vice-President — Mr Surinderjeet Singh;
Vice-Presidents — Mr J.S.Jaswal and Mr
P.S.Virdi; General Secretary — Mr
H.S.Parmar; and Cashier — Mr Biharilal
Narang.
Demand:
Dr Hardial Singh, General Secretary of the Sikh
Intellectuals Council, district Nawanshahr, in a
press statement here on Thursday demanded that a
welfare department should be set up for general
category as the caste-based reservation policy in
admissions to various courses, jobs and welfare
schemes had made people belonging to the general
category economically backward.
Training
centre: The District Rural Development Agency
under the swarn jayanti self-employment scheme
has set up a training-cum-production centre at
Lakhpur village in Banga block of the district.
The centre which has been set up at a cost of Rs
14.9 lakh has started imparting training of
football and volleyball making to as many as 40
women belonging to the Scheduled Castes.
According to an official press note issued here
on Thursday each trainee would be given a stipend
of Rs 200 per month and after the completion of
training the women would be provided raw material
for making football and volleyball and would be
paid Rs 9 to 18 per piece.
TARN
TARAN
Gang busted: Five members of a dacoit gang
have been arrested by the Chabbal police and a
case has been registered against them under
Sections 399, 402, IPC. Police sources said here
on Tuesday that Mr Hardev Singh, SHO, heading a
police party, on a tip-off, nabbed them during a
naka at Bhucher village. The arrested are Baldev
Singh of Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar, Banta Singh of
Gurdaspur district, Bikramjit Singh of Toot
(Valtoha), Amritpal Singh and Jodha Singh. A van
and two revolvers of .455 and .303 bore were
seized from them.
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