AMRITSAR
MEDICAL CAMP: As many as 642 patients were examined at a free medical camp organised by Bhai Ghaniyaji Mission Society on the occasion of “parkash utsav” (installation ceremony) at Gurdwara Ramsar here on Thursday. Free medicines were distributed at the camp.HOSHIARPUR
CPM DRIVE: The state CPM has decided to hold ‘janandolan’ from September 15-30 to highlight problems of the masses in the state. This was stated by Mr Gurmesh Singh, district CPM secretary, in a press note issued here on Thursday. He said party workers of the district would start a march from Dharampur, home village of late Kishori Lal, a close associate of martyr Bhagat Singh. on Sunday.
KHARAR
AWARDED: Ms Manjit Kaur Sidhu, a teacher of Government School, Balongi (Kharar), has been awarded National Award for Teachers by the President of India. This award is given in public recognition of valuable services to the community as a teacher of outstanding merit. Earlier, she was awarded state
award.
EYE OPERATION CAMP: The Lions Club, Kharar, will organise a free eye operation and check-up camp from September 23 to 28. The medicines and lenses would be provided free of cost to the patients. The club is organising check up camps in remote villages so that villagers could avail the opportunity of this free operation camp. Such a check up camp is being organised in Tewar village on September 14.
MEDICAL CAMP: The North India Association of Alternative System of Medicine will organise a free camp in Khalsa School, Kharar, on September 15. The camp would start at 10 a.m. and would continue till 4 p.m.
MEETING: The Bar Association, Kharar, has convened a meeting of all Bar Associations of Punjab and Chandigarh on September 21 at Judicial Complex, Kharar, and to suspend their work to discuss the amended CPC so that a suitable decision be taken to start an agitation to compel the government to
withdraw these unjustified amendments.
LUDHIANA
TRAINING COURSE: The Department of Journalism, Language and Culture of the PAU would organise an advanced training course in communication skills and research techniques in the main library of the university campus here from September 16 to October 14. Mr Dinesh Kumar, Resident Editor, Times of India, would inaugurate the course, while Dr K.S. Sekhon, Dean, Postgraduate Studies, would preside over.
EYES DONATED: The eyes of Harnek Singh (68), a resident of
B.R.S. Nagar, were donated to the Eye Bank Mansuran after he died due to cardiac arrest. Dr Ramesh, Director Eye Bank
Mansuran, in a press statement on Friday said the deceased had filled the eye donation pledge from few years back.
NAWANSHAHR
WORKSHOP: The District Education Department, with a view to mobilising school lecturers and teachers to uplift the standard of science education in schools, has started special workshops for science lecturers and teachers. Mr K.C.Kapoor, District Education Officer, Mr Balkar Singh Bains, District Science Supervisor, and Mr Baldev Singh, Lecturer, DIET, addressed the teachers at a workshop organised at DIET, Naura, 12 km from here, on Thursday.
PATIALA
RALLY: A rally was organised by the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union at the Fountain chowk in the city which was attended by teachers from all over the state. Speaking on the occasion, the union general secretary, Prof V. K. Tewari, said teachers working in private grant-in-aid colleges would not accept the pension-gratuity scheme notified by the state government in July, 2000. Union leader Prof Balbir Singh, while opposing the new education policy announced by the state government, said the union would launch a struggle in case the demands were not accepted.
SEMINAR: A workshop on spreading awareness about anaemia, tuberculosis, cancer and health hygiene was organised by the Baba Deep Singh organisation. The director of the Organisation, Dr Harpreet Singh Aurora, urged NGOs to come forward in this direction. Dr Navneet Sawhney stressed on a deworming programme for all school-going children in a phased manner.
PHAGWARA
IMA’S PLEA TO CENTRE: The Indian Medical Association, Punjab, has opposed the move of the Union Health Ministry to “bureaucratise” the Medical Council of India. In a letter to the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Raman Aggarwal, vice-president of the state IMA, has warned that the IMA would be forced to seek legal remedies and launch a nationwide agitation in case the ministry did not drop the move to nominate bureaucrats as members of the MCI, which was a statuary body constituted under Section 3, sub-section 1 and 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.
TARN TARAN
WILDLIFE DAMAGED: Staff of the Karike bird sanctuary has booked four persons of Kirrian village for destroying habitats of migratory birds at the village . The accused are Nazira and his three accomplices. Nazira was sent to judicial remand till September 25. He has been booked under the Wildlife Protection Act.