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Further
hike in petrol price CHANDIGARH, July 13 — A majority of privately owned petrol pumps here went dry today. This came in the wake of imposition of a 5.5 per cent increase in the sales tax on petroleum products in Chandigarh, announced recently, which had resulted in about 34 of these petrol pumps deciding against making any fresh indents for more supplies. But with the Chandigarh Administration announcing that the imposition of sales tax on petroleum products would be reviewed, the Chandigarh Petroleum Dealers Association has decided to indent petroleum products with effect from tomorrow. Most petrol owners had today said that their petrol supplies would last till late afternoon or early evening today. Surprisingly, since a lot of people were still apparently unaware of the imminent short supply of petrol and diesel there was little panic buying today. In fact, some petrol stations could be seen supplying petrol till evening, though late in the evening, people were queuing outside a few city petrol pumps. Only 10 petrol pumps had reportedly finished with their stock by evening, while petrol was available in the rest. With the imposition of 5.5 per cent sales tax, the rates of petrol and diesel in the city had been brought at par with those of Panchkula and SAS Nagar. While a litre of petrol cost Rs 22.63 before the levying of the sales tax, this was hiked by Rs 1.09 after the levying of the sales tax. According to the latest revision, on account of the continuance of motor spirit tax in addition to the sales tax, petrol would be dearer by Rs 1.24 and would now cost Rs 23.87 per litre. Petrol costs Rs 23.81 per litre in Panchkula and Rs 24.87 per litre in SAS Nagar and Zirakpur. The governments of Punjab and Haryana had hiked the rate of tax almost two years ago, because of certain political decisions like free power supply to farmers, which was causing loss of revenue. According to sources, the Administration while agreeing to set into motion a process of reviewing the levying of sales tax on diesel, has added that it would be only after watching the impact of the new levy on petrol sales that a review of the same would be undertaken. A further increase in
petrol price in Chandigarh. |
Chaos,
delay mark admissions CHANDIGARH, July 13 — There was chaos at the venue of admissions for humanities stream of Class XI at the Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, here today. Students having 33 per cent and above were scheduled to be interviewed today. Tempers of students and parents ran high over the mismanaged show. The 15-odd policemen deployed to manage the crowd could do little about the affair. The delay in putting up the list of students to be interviewed added to confusion. When it was finally put up, students ended up tearing the list in a hurry to spot their names on the list. With no distinction made for different percentage groups, serpentine queues were formed by students in the absence of any information. This resulted in students with higher percentage being pushed towards the end of the queues. In queues for boys, there was a lot of pushing and jostling the entire day. Parents of girls, in the adjoining queue, stood by their side, instructing them on how to make their way through the crowd. Baton-wielding policemen at the entrance appealed to students to calm down but to no avail. "This mammoth gathering of students and parents is causing harassment to us. The school should have evolved some system for the smooth conduct of the admission process, keeping in mind the number of applications received by them. It is not that the authorities were caught unawares," said Ms Chandrakanta Verma, a parent. Standing in queue since 9.30 a.m. till after noon, Ms Meena rues, "My name is not on the list that they have put up. While I stand in the queue which is moving at a snail's pace, my brother is trying to find out what has gone wrong and where. I do not know whether I will be able to secure a seat in the school of my choice." Many parents, anxious about the admissions of their wards, had heated exchanges with the Principal, Ms Rajesh Chaudhary. They demanded that the public announcement system be used. Ms Rajesh Chaudhary, said the rush was on account of all left-out students converging on the school to seek admissions. These comprised compartment candidates and students of reserved category who had failed to turn up on the first day. Today admissions were held for students having 47 per cent and above in the arts stream and students having 45 per cent and above in the vocational education stream. As many as 341 students and 162 students were admitted in the two streams, respectively. While seats in arts are available in all schools, there are 481 seats in the courses of accountancy and auditing, structure and fabrication technology, fashion designing and textile designing. Seats are also available in the courses of basic electrical technology, automobile technology and refrigeration. Since admissions for all candidates could not be held today, the remaining candidates will be interviewed during the next five days. Candidates having compartment and those who have applied in reserved category will be interviewed on a specific date later. The date is likely to be announced tomorrow. Students having 43 per cent and above will be interviewed for arts faculty and those having 40 per cent and above will be interviewed in the vocational stream tomorrow. There are over 500
students whose applications fall in the 43 to 46 per cent
category while there are over 2,000 applications of
students who have scored between 33 per cent and 46 per
cent. |
1,000
bogus ration cards detected PANCHKULA, July 13 — A preliminary inquiry into complaints of irregularities by certain depot holders in the Kalka subdivision by the district administration has revealed existence of about 1000 bogus ration cards. The involvement of certain officials of the Food and Supplies Department in issuing the ration cards is suspected. The Deputy Commissioner, Ms Saroj Siwatch, today said that detailed investigations were being made by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Kalka, Mr Yudhvir Singh, in order to identify the officials involved in the racket. The exact number of such ration cards issued were also being ascertained. Following the revelations the administration has suspended supplies of at least nine depot holders in the Kalka subdivision till further investigations. The issue surfaced after Mr Chand Singh, a resident of Pinjore, complained to the SDM, Kalka, about a depot holder, Baldev Singh, who he alleged opened his depot twice or thrice a month and sold the PDS items on the black market. A number of ration cards do not bear any entry of items sold and signatures of the ration card holders. The complainant also pointed out that a number of ration cards registered with the depot holders were also registered with other depot holders. The depot holder, who had also the charge of the depot at Kona village, was issuing 5 litre kerosene instead of the fixed quota of 8 litre. In another complaint put
up before the District Grievances Redressal Committee, Mr
Ashwani Kumar, a resident of Pinjore, alleged that at
least eight depots in Pinjore had been issued in the name
of different persons belonging to one family. The depot
being run by Pawan Kumar and Parveen Kumar, had at least
60 per cent bogus ration cards registered with them, he
said. |
3 of a
family washed away KHARAR, July 13 — Three members of a family were washed away in Siswan river near Sekhpura village of Kharar tehsil last evening. According to information received here today, Santoshi (65), her daughter, Bhupinder Kaur (35) and her son Harnarain (12) were washed away by the river when they were trying to cross it at about 5 p.m. According to Mr Jasdev Singh, SHO, Kurali, the police was informed about the incident late last night. He said the bodies were handed over without performing the post-mortem. Meanwhile, residents of
the village complained that the government had not paid
any attention to their demand of constructing a bridge
over the river. |
School bus
strike put off CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The Chandigarh School Bus Operators Welfare Association has deferred the strike with regard to plying of school buses on July 14 and 15. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held today. According to Mr Manjeet Singh Saini, President of the association, the school buses will now run as usual and the strike stands postponed till the issue is resolved between the Administration and the association. He has in a release stated that the decision follows the request of the parents who have in a representation to the Home Secretary urged him to review their demands, and the assurances given by the school authorities. In view of the pendency of the special review petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the strike has been postponed. He has further specified that if their demands are not looked into, they will be forced to resort to an indefinite strike. Mr Saini has urged the Administration to at least involve one representative among the operators in the decision-making process or before evolving any new rule to avoid any kind of public harassment in future. All the school buses plying in the city had earlier given a call for strike against the policy formulation with regard to non-issuance of fitness certificates to buses more than 15 years old and the issue of registration. . Meanwhile, Mr D.S. Bedi,
President of the Independent Schools Association, also
prevailed upon them not to go on strike and that he would
be taking up their genuine demands with the authorities
concerned for an amicable settlement. This will save
parents and students from any further inconvenience. He
had also requested the member schools to ply their own
buses tomorrow and not join the strike. A few other
schools had told the children to make their own
arrangements of transportation in case the buses did not
ply. Keeping in view the safety of students, they were
not keen on plying their own buses.
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Less
kerosene for LPG users CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The UT Food and Supplies Department has reduced the allocation of the PDS kerosene quota from 5 litres to 3 litres per family for single LPG cylinder holders. A notification to this effect was issued here today. According to official sources, the decision follows reduction in subsidy and issuing of ration cards to slum dwellers. The Centre, in a communication to the administration, had stated that the quota of subsidised kerosene to Chandigarh should be cut short. Subsequently, the allocation was reduced by nearly 30 per cent from 1,810 metric tonnes to 1,250 metric tonnes. However, a family of two units without any gas connection will continue to get 15 litres of kerosene and that of more than two units will get 25 litres. Those having double cylinder connections have already been debarred from the PDS allocation of kerosene. The department, in June, had increased the price of kerosene by one paise from Rs 2.93 to Rs 2.94. Further, with a view to
discouraging those having gas connections from using
kerosene for cooking purposes, the department has
directed depot holders and pump owners to affix a seal on
every person's ration card, indicating whether he is a
gas user or not. All ration card holders have also been
asked to fill declaration forms, specifying whether they
are gas users or not, so that the quota is supplied
accordingly. |
Another
martyr's body received CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The mortal remains of Havildar Clerk Raj Kumar were sent to his native place, Masthan village, in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, with full military honours from the N. Area here today. The martyr, who belonged to 22 Grenadiers, was killed in an enemy shelling somewhere in the Batalik sector on July 11. His body was brought to Command Hospital late last evening and was today brought to the N. Area for according the honours. Wreaths were laid on
behalf of the Army Chief, the Air Chief and the Western
Army Commander by Brig S.K. Sinha and Air Cdre S.K.
Banerjee, Col Shakti Parshad, Commander, N. Area, and Col
K.K. Singh, CO, 140 AD Regiment. |
More funds
for Kargil martyrs CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The members of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) have contributed Rs 5. 57 lakh towards the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for the welfare of jawans fighting in Kargil. A cheque was presented to Mrs Vineeta Rai, Advisor to the Administrator of Chandigarh, by Mr N K Jain, Secretary, Transport, here yesterday. The staff and officers of the Punjab State Cooperative Bank have contributed one day's salary to the Punjab War Heroes Family Welfare Fund. A cheque for Rs 2. 60 lakh had been deposited with the Director, Sainik Welfare, Punjab, according to Mr R S Brar, liaison officer of the bank, here. The Ludhiana Subzi Mandi Arthiyas Association has contributed Rs 2. 51 lakh towards the Punjab Chief Minister's Relief Fund. A cheque for the sum was handed over to Mr Mal Singh Ghuman, Chairman of the Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board by Mr Gajinder Singh, President of the association, besides other leading commission agents of the city. The members of the Haryana Employment Directorate and the Arazpatrit Karamchari Association, have decided to donate one day's salary, amounting to Rs 1. 20 lakh, to the Haryana Chief Minister's War Heroes Welfare Fund. The employees of the Punjab Police Housing Corporation have contributed one day's salary to the Punjab Chief Minister's Welfare Fund for the valiant jawans who have made the supreme sacrifice. The officers and staff of the Garrison Engineer (R and D) have decided to contribute one day's salary to the Army Central Welfare Fund. The members of the Welfare Association MIG (I) Houses, Sector 40 C, have contributed Rs 10, 000 towards the Army Central Welfare Fund for the welfare of the jawans fighting for the territorial integrity of the country, according to Mr S K Khosla, General Secretary of the association. The staff of the Central Bank have contributed one day's salary to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. Members of the Raipur Kalan Gram Panchayat and scores of villagers yesterday visited the convalescing villagers at the Command Hospital and enquired about the health of the wounded soldiers. They also presented 21 cases of mangoes and 1, 100 bananas to the hospital authorities, according to Mr Rambir Bhatti, panch of the panchayat. Residents of Sector 36 C have presented a cheque for Rs 56, 968 to the Punjab Governor for the welfare of the jawans fighting in Kargil. Cheques and drafts of varying amounts were presented by Lt-Gen G S Klair, President of the welfare association of the sector. The members of the Chandigarh Jewellers Association and Swarankar Association handed over drafts of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 25, 000 for the Army Central Welfare Fund to the Punjab Governor. The employees of the Haryana Cooperative Development Bank and the Department of Agriculture have contributed one day's salary to the Haryana Chief Ministers War Heroes Welfare Fund. The students of Government High School, Toda village, took out a rally through various nearby villages and collected Rs 11,700 and deposited it to the Chief Minister's War Heroes Welfare Fund. The sum includes one day's salary of the teachers. Christ Church (CNI), Sector 18-A, today sent Rs 11,000 to the Army Central Welfare Fund. Giving the cheque for the amount, the pastor of the church, Rev Warris K. Masih, said it was a token of the pastorate committee to the Kargil heroes. The members also prayed for the bereaved families who had lost their dear ones in Operation Vijay. Members of the Mani
Majra Motor Market Association contributed Rs 1.25 lakh
towards the Army Central Welfare Fund here today. |
Woollens
for Kargil CHANDIGARH, July 13 — Contributions for the welfare of the soldiers fighting in Kargil continue to pour in. The UT Administrator, Lt-Gen BKN Chhibber (retd) today flagged off a truck containing 2,000 woollen vests and 2,000 woollen necks for the soldiers stationed in the Kargil, Dras and Batalik areas. The clothing was made at the initiative of the International Punjabi Society (IPS) and handed over to Lt-Col R.P.S Bouncer and Lt-Col Joginder Singh, of the N Area here. Lt-Col Bouncer informed the Governor that the packets of the woollens would be sent by air to the front areas tomorrow. The Governor appreciated the efforts of the IPS. Meanwhile, Mrs Pradhan
Kaur, wife of the late President, Giani Zail Singh, has
donated her one year’s freedom fighters pension
— Rs 31,000 — to the PM Relief Fund for the
welfare of the jawans fighting at Kargil. |
Tiger
Hill hero cremated CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The mortal remains of 8 Sikh Havildar Bikram Singh, who was killed fighting infiltrators during the capture of Tiger Hill on July 6, were consigned to the flames at his native village, Kubaheri, 20 km from Kharar, today. Hundreds of people lined the road leading to the village of the martyr and raised slogans of "Bikram Singh amar rahe" and ''Pakistan murdabad''. The villagers from the nearby areas had been waiting since early morning even though the Tricolour draped body atop a bedecked truck reached the village at noon. The people paid their respects before the buglers sounded the last post, an Army contingent reversed arms and fired a volley of shots. There were heart-rending scenes as the pyre was lit by Gurvinder Singh, eight-year-old son of the deceased. The 26-year-old widow, Paramjit Kaur, broke down repeatedly. The cremation ground was packed to capacity and some of the people, who had come to pay their homage, could be seen perched on trees to get a better view. A large number of Army officers, jawans and ex-servicemen were present. Wreaths were laid on behalf of the Chief Minister by the Rural Development and Panchayats Minister, Mr Nirmal Singh Kahlon, and the Agriculture Minister, Mr Ajit Singh Kohar. Also present was Mr K.K. Addiwal, Mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. Wreaths were also laid by Brig S.K. Sinha, Station Commander, Brig T.S. Gill, Col Pratap Dola, the Ropar Deputy Commissioner, Mr K.S. Sidhu, and the SSP, Mr Jaskaran Singh, The Punjab Sainik
Welfare Director, Brig K.S. Kahlon, announced that the
widow would be given Rs 2 lakh, while Rs 5 lakh would be
provided for the construction of a house. The government
school of the village would be upgraded and named after
the martyr. Besides this, a 1-km stretch of the road
connecting the village to Banera would also be named
after the hero. |
Kargil
has not hit trade: Hegde CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The Union Commerce Minister and the Lok Shakti President , Mr RK Hegde, today claimed that the Kargil conflict had not affected India’s trade with the world. During a brief chat with mediapersons here, Mr Hegde informed that prior to the start of the conflict in May the country’s trade grew at a rate of about 8 per cent. This had risen to 12 per cent now which reflected well on the state of the economy of the country. He, however, added that the sugar import from Pakistan had been suspended for the time being in the wake of the Kargil crisis. Neither India nor Pakistan had shortage of sugar and the import was purely a friendly gesture, he said. The former Karnataka Chief Minister said though the Lok Shakti’s alliance with the BJP would continue at the national level, there were certain problems for the alliance in Karnataka. He claimed that several top Janata Dal leaders of Karnataka would join the Lok Shakti soon. Answering a question, Mr Hegde said Kargil should not be made an election issue since every body knew that Pakistan had been defeated both diplomatically and militarily. For the first time, all major powers have backed India’s stand on Kargil, he said, adding that Pakistan should learn a lesson from its debacle in Kargil and should not aid the intruders and Mujahideens in future. Accusing the Congress leadership of bankruptcy of ideas, he scoffed at the party’s demand for convening a Rajya Sabha (RS) session on the Kargil issue. “Why the RS session should be convened when the Pakistan forces and intruders had started withdrawing from the Kargil?” Mr Hegde has advocated
that one of the alliance partners of the BJP should be
given ticket for the coming Lok Sabha poll from
Chandigarh. The “friendly parties” should be
given chance to contest the poll this time, he told
mediapersons here. |
Army
Institute of Law CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The Army Institute of Law (AIL) will be inaugurated by Lieut-Gen H.B. Kala, Western Army Commander, at a ceremony in Patiala on July 15. The Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and several military and civil dignitaries will attend the function. The institute, which will be affiliated to Punjabi University, will run a five-year LLB degree course as per the syllabus prescribed by the Bar Council of India with emphasis on human rights, international laws and conventions. The AIL will fulfil a long-standing demand of quality education in the profession of law for the wards of serving and retired army personnel and widows. The AIL will also serve as a feeder institute to the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Department of the Army. Out of the annual intake of 60 students based on merit in entrance test, 20 per cent seats have been earmarked for civilians. The institute will shift
from its present interim location to SAS Nagar once its
permanent infrastructure comes up in the next two years.
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Vehicular
traffic interrupted ZIRAKPUR, July 13 — Due to repair work at the railway crossing barrier on the Zirakpur-Panchkula road, vehicular traffic was interrupted for more than two hours here today. The repair work resulted in a lot of inconvenience to road users. Commuters had to cover extra distance to reach their destinations via Chandigarh. Many preferred the Panchkula-Ramgarh road for Delhi. Earlier, a speeding truck had rammed into the boom pole at the railway crossing here when the barrier was pulled down as the Kalka-Ambala, 2UC passenger down train, was about to cross this intersection last evening. The boom, lock and the boom pole were broken in the accident. The gateman had to use a chain across the road to restrain vehicles from crossing the rail track whenever trains crossed from this point after the accident. The normal traffic could be restored only with the efforts of a team of eight department employees after about 18 hours at noon today. Meanwhile, residents of
the area demanded that permanent police personnel should
be deployed at this crossing to avoid such accidents in
future. They said some drunk drivers often argue with the
gateman to let them cross without putting the boom down
even seconds before a train crosses the site. |
School
lacks facilities MULLANPUR-GARIBDASS, July 13 — Students can be seen sitting on jute mats in humid weather and scorching heat without much space for fresh air at primary school in Mullanpur village. The school is located at a congested place in a community centre. It has only two rooms for five classes and these, too, are in a deplorable condition. A teacher in the school said due to absence of enough space at school, students had to sit in the open. It becomes difficult to teach them in the rainy season as we have to adjust all classes in two rooms. About 200 students in such a congested place fail to provide a study atmosphere. For such a strength of students, mere five teachers are inadequate. There is a shortage of blackboards, chalks and furniture. The school also does not have the arrangement of drinking water and toilets. Students rush to their homes to answer the call of nature and also to drink water, a teacher said. Another problem faced here is lack of any playground. Teachers feel that the
administration has turned a blind eye towards their
grievances. They say primary school teachers are deputed
for government assignments in the area. “We are
given the duties during elections, in preparing
voters’ identity cards and other such jobs. These
affect the normal teaching work”. |
BJP
ticket to Jain opposed CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The President of the SC/BC Morcha of the BJP, Mr Prabhu Dayal, has demanded that the party ticket for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat should be given according to the wishes of the workers. In a statement, Mr Dayal warned that if the ticket was given to Mr Satya Pal Jain again the morale of the party workers would go down. Saying that the BJP was a united organisation, Mr Dayal said it was only due to Mr Jain, who got the dismissed leaders from the BJP nominated as chairperson and members of various advisory committees, that the party workers were annoyed. He termed the statement
of Mr Ravi Prakash Kansal, President of the Lok Shakti,
regarding disunity in the BJP as "mischievous".
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33
injured in road mishap KHARAR, July 13 — As many as 33 persons were injured in a car-bus collision on the Khanpur choe bridge, near here, today. Though most of bus and car passengers received minor injuries, a private Contessa car and the bus, carrying employees of Swaraj Tractors Limited were damaged in the accident. According to the police, the accident occurred when the bus carrying the staff of Swaraj Tractors, which was going to Ropar, rammed into a car coming from the opposite direction on the bridge. The bus fell into the choe after the accident, but, barring minor injuries none of the occupants of the bus was injured seriously. Except for Ashwani Kumar, owner of the car and resident of Panchkula, others who received minor injuries were discharged after first aid from the PGI where they were admitted. Ashwani Kumar was stated to be out of danger. Those who received
injuries in the accident were Ashwani Kumar, Anil
Bharadwaj, Gursharanvir Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Jarnail
Singh, Mohan Lal, Dharminder, Kulwinder, Shaman, Narvir
Singh, Ishwar, Kaka Mohammed, Balwinder, Arun Grover, Raj
Kumar, Irshad Ali, C.L. Sharma, Gursreet Singh, Yogesh
Bhatia, Ram Rattan, Ashok Kalra, Balasubramaniam, Nasib,
Rajesh Kumar, Rohit Pandit, Manjit Singh, Pawan Sharma,
Rajesh Pathak, Dharampal, Arvind Puri, Sanjiv Kumar and
Jujhar Singh.
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Villagers
complain on power bills PANCHKULA, July 13 — Residents of Rewari village near Raipur Rani have complained to the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Saroj Siwatch, that they were being issued electricity bills though their village remained without power. Further they were being issued the bills though no meter reader ever visited their village. The complaint came up in the monthly meeting of the District Grievances Redressal Committee held at mini-secretariat here today. Mr Jeet Ram, Mr Bhim Singh, Mr Gulsher Singh along with other residents of Kandiani village lamented that they had not been given electricity connections even after one-and-half years of having applied for the same along with the security amount. In yet another complaint, Mr Dyal Singh of Basaula village said that he had applied for an electricity connection for a tubewell in April 1996 and took a loan in this regard. But he had not been able to repay the loan due to failure on part of the electricity department to provide him power connection. At the meeting, shopkeepers in Kalka, who are running business from shops leased out by the Kalka Municipal Committee, protested against hike in the lease money from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. The Deputy Commissioner told the shopkeepers that the hike was as per the policy of the state government. Besides, there were complaints pertaining to Sub-divisional office, Kalka and Panchkula, Panchayat Development Officer, Haryana State Minor Irrigation and Tubewell Corporation, and District Education Officer. A total of 11 complaints were received at the meeting, of which two were kept pending till the next meeting. Later talking to
mediapersons about development activities in the
township, the Deputy Commissioner said more facilities
were being added at the cremation ground in Sector 20
here. She also stated that the weekly ‘apni
mandi’ being run near the Suraj theatre here had
been shifted to another location as it had become a
traffic hazard for the vehicular traffic plying on the
Chandigarh — Shimla highway. |
Misuse of
funds denied CHANDIGARH, July 13 — Six Punjab Public Works Department (PWD) officials, who remained suspended for a year in a case of alleged misuse of funds, have said that the allegation of embezzlement of Rs 36 lakh against them in the construction of roads was a “mala fide action by few officers of the department”. In a joint statement issued here today, they said that the news published in regard to the collapse of culvert on link road Derhi-Chao Majra was wrong. “The slab type culvert construction during 1996 is still in tact. During rains of 1998 and change of water course, some erosion of earth occurred on one side of the culvert. This erosion of earth occurred on one side of the culvert. This erosion was needed to be checked by filling earth and providing balance protection work (which was not completed for years). The damage of the road continued due to lack of supervision of present supervisory staff, resulting in big cut of road. So no responsibility of previous officers in charge can be fixed in this case. “The charge sheets stated to have been served last year were actually served recently on June 18, 1999. The reply to charge sheets is still to be furnished. The charge sheets have been prepared by making imaginary and false calculations.” The statement has been
signed by Mr DPS Sandhu, Mr Karnail Singh, Mr Harpal
Singh, Mr Avtar Singh Walia, Mr RK Prashar and Mr
Sarjivan Lal . |
SNIPPETS Rally
by ITI employees CHANDIGARH, July 13 — Members of the Industrial Training Institute Employees Union staged a rally in front of the Directorate of Technical Education and Industrial Training in Sector 36 in support of their demands here today. Employees from various parts of the state assembled at the venue and raised slogans against the government and the authorities. Mr Chotu Ram Dhiman, president of the union, said that the department had set aside the objectives which toe the guiding force for imparting technical education in the state. He said the institutes had stopped providing raw materials to the students admitted in various courses for the past many years. Besides this, the members had been distressed by pay disparities, lack of promotion avenues, non filling of vacant posts for the past many years, implementation of civil service rules for Class III and IV employees, proper rooms for installation of machinery and cancellation of the transfers effected with mala fide intentions. The members also observe two minutes, silence in the memory of those who have laid down their lives for the country at Kargil. Spreading unity, patriotism CHANDIGARH, July 13 — Four cyclists from Maharashtra have undertaken an all-India tour to spread the message of patriotism and unity among Indians in the present Kargil crisis. Starting their journey from Sholapur on June 8, Mr Karun Mahadev Wagmare, Mr Purushottam Narayan Sadool, Mr Malbo Chandra Jainjangade and Mr Sanjay Namdev Waghmade reached Chandigarh on Tuesday. While recalling their journey, they added that population living in rural areas was equally enthusiastic to come forward for any services for the nation. Mr Sanjay has just completed his graduation while Mr Kruan is an artiste, whereas the other team members are working in a handloom factory at Sholapur. BAMS students CHANDIGARH, July 13 — The BAMS students of Panjab University will get permanent registration with the inclusion of the university in the second schedule of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970. In a press note issued here today, Dr Sanjiv Goyal, Registrar of the Board of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine, Punjab, said so far all students passing out from Panjab University were getting temporarily registered with the board. He said such students could get permanently registered with the board after submitting their provisional registration certificates. Gold medallions launched by PSIEC CHANDIGARH, July 13
— Ranjit Singh Talwandi, Chairman, Punjab Small
Industries and Export Corporation, has launched gold and
silver medallions at Calcutta, according to a press
release issued here today by the corporation. It is
proposed to launch these medallions from Mumbai,
Ahmedabad and Kanpur also. Furthermore, it is intended to
increase the weight of the medallions from 10 gm to 25 gm
and 50 gm. These will be seen in Chandigarh soon. |
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