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Blessed with triplets after 4 yrs
HAVING strived for a child for about four years, it was a day with a difference and full of elation for Gurparshan Kaur. Overcoming all difficulties she gave birth to healthy triplets at a Jalandhar hospital.Gurparshan (30), hailing from Saiflabad village in Kapurthala district, was yearning to have a baby since her marriage about four years back to Santokh Singh, a labourer working with a construction company in Dubai. But the Almighty had a delayed gift in store for her: triplets — two females and a male. Talking to TNS at the Maqsudan-based Sharma Eye Hospital and Maternity Home, an ecstatic Gurparshan stated: “All I can say at this moment is that it is the biggest gift for me and the whole family. Nobody, initially believed when the doctor told them about three babies. My husband was so curious that he asked me on the phone from Dubai to send photos of the babies,” she narrated in an emotionally charged voice. Dr Shabnam Sharma, who operated on Gurparshan, said what surprised everybody was that all the three babies were of normal weight and were perfectly normal. “When we examined her in the seventh month and told her about three babies, Gurparshan was worried as she had already lost a child through miscarriage and had a frail body. She was so heart-broken that she refused to believe that she could give birth to triplets. So much so, one of her aunts suggested that two of the foetuses should be terminated. But, she finally agreed to go ahead with the babies after much persuasion,” said Dr Sharma. “Actually, it’s a blissful dream after a nightmare. I could not even sleep properly for two months. And one can say it is by the grace of God that no harm was caused to babies when I fell down in my courtyard three days ago and broke one of my teeth,” she revealed, adding that she had gone to all holy places to invoke blessings for a child. “Finally, the dream turned into reality.” Her aunt, Balbir Kaur, was so elated that she distributed laddoos to every one coming by her way. The accompanying photo by Pradeep Purohit shows Dr Shabnam Sharma enquiring about the health of triplets from their mother, Gurparshan Kaur, at Sharma Eye Hospital and Maternity Home.
UGC grant for Karnal collegeThe University Grants Commission has recognised the services of Dyal Singh College, Karnal, in the field of education. The UGC has sanctioned a special grant for the college on its completion of 50 years. Dyal Singh College was founded by the great philanthropist, Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, at Lahore through a will which was executed by the trustees. Sardar Dyal Singh was the founder of The Tribune at Lahore which has rendered yeoman service in the field of dissemination of information in the north-western region. A public library was also founded by Sardar Dyal Singh which started functioning at Delhi after partition. The Dyal Singh College Trust Society established two colleges in his name. One college was re-established in Delhi. The other after the name of Sardar Majithia was founded in Karnal by the trust society headed by Dewan Anand Kumar. The Dewan was also the founder Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University in this part of the country. Dewan Anand Kumar chose Karnal for the establishment of the college because educationally it was a backward region. The college started from scratch and has now 2,200 students on its rolls according to the newly appointed principal, Dr Ramji Lal. The principal, a political scientist of repute, maintains that the college has flourished into a higher education institution providing post-graduate courses in four streams — three in humanities and one in software computer science. Dyal singh College, initially, was housed in a haveli owned by Mr Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan’s first Prime Minister) and his brothers. The trust society, now headed by Dewan Gajendar Kumar, has expanded the building and added a modern auditorium named after the late Dewan Anand Kumar. The auditorium is likely to cost Rs 1 crore. In order to commemorate the memory of Sardar Dyal Singh, it established two model secondary schools under the guidance of Mr R.C. Sharma, a former Director of CBI, and Dewan Gajendar Kumar. It is learnt that the society is contemplating establishing another modern secondary school. In fact, Karnal has become a hub of education and has kept alive the memory of Sardar Dyal Singh. Dr Ramji Lal maintains that Dyal Singh College has done yeoman service in meeting the educational needs of the rural poor. A majority of the male students of its rolls hail from the rural areas.
Key post lies vacantThe post of Professor has been lying vacant for the past three months at Department of Anaesthesia in Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda. The Government policy based on rotation required that a professor from the Department of Anaesthesia, I.G.M.C, Shimla, should be transferred to R.P.G.M.C, Tanda, but orders to this effect have not been issued till date. This has adversely affected the working of this key/crucial department, which caters to a host of surgical departments such as general surgery, gynaecology, orthopaedic’s, eye and ENT. At present, the Department of Anaesthesia in this institution has a skeleton staff of one associate professor, two assistant professors and two registrars. It is noteworthy that the Deptt. of Anaesthesia, Dr R.P.G.M.C, Tanda, is the only department in this institution which is in the process of being accorded recognition by the National Board of Examinations for starting the postgraduate DNB course; but such a careless attitude on the part of the authorities may jeopardise such a move. Contributed by Varinder Singh, K.G. Dutt & TNS 
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