AMLOH
DOOR-TO-DOOR CHECK UP: A team of specialised veterinary doctors from Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, and Cattle Health Organisation, Jalandhar, made a door-to-door check-up of foot and mouth disease at Tibbi village near here on Tuesday. They have taken blood and saliva samples of some cattle for analysis. Among others, the Deputy Director, Mr Ramesh Chand Punj, senior veterinary officer Ramesh Chand Jaluria, veterinary officers Ranbir Sharma, Amrik Singh and Mr Jatinder Kumar and veterinary pharmacists accompanied the teams. ELECTIONS: The election of chairman and vice-chairman of Amloh block samiti will be held on January 28 at 11 am in the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO), said Mr Amarjeet Singh Shahi, SDM-cum-Returning Officer, while talking to the media persons here on Wednesday. Each member elected from 15 zones of the block and MLA of the constituency, who has also right to vote, will elect the chairman and the vice-chairman through ballot paper if there is no unanimity. The elected members of the samiti had already been administered oath in a function at Patiala. The SDM further said that the seats of chairman and vice-chairman were reserved for the Scheduled Caste and woman candidates, respectively.
BATHINDA
ARMY RECRUITMENT: A recruitment rally of the Army will be held here on January 27 and 28. An official press note issued here said the recruitment of Ramdasia and Mazhabi Sikhs would be considered. The recruitment rally at Mansa would be held on January 30 and 31, at Sangrur on February 3 and 4 and at Malout on February 5.
PSEB STAFF RALLY: Employees of Punjab State Electricity Board on Tuesday staged a rally near the office of Zonal Engineer (Western) in the city to show resentment against the formation of corporations in place of the PSEB. The members of the GND Thermal Plant Employees Federation, PSEB Labourers Sangh and the PSEB Employees Front participated.
KHARAR
TRIBUTES: Tributes were paid to Sukhdev Kaushal, a former president, Bar Association
Kharar, in a ‘shradhanjli samagam’ organised at Shri Ram Bhavan, here on Tuesday. A large number of prominent persons, including lawyers from
Kharar, Ropar and Chandigarh, were present.
GRANT: Mr G.S. Tohra, MP, Rajya Sabha, has given Rs 50,000 for the construction of Shri Ram
Bhavan, a community centre, here. This was announced by Mr Rajbir Singh
Padiala, vice-president, SHSAD, on Tuesday.
CHEATED: Two Sikh youths took away many utensils from Gurdwara Sahib Singh Sabha, Mundi
Kharar, on January 18 by giving fake address. The police has been informed.
LUDHIANA
AWARDED: Prominent Sikh writer, Dr Sarup Singh Alag, Chairman, Alag Shabad Yug Trust, Ludhiana, has been awarded a D.Litt degree by an American university for his outstanding achievement in literature. Dr Alag is the author of 42 books in Punjabi, English and Hindi. Three years ago, he was awarded a Ph.D. by a Washington-based university on his thesis on Guru Granth Sahib.
QUIZ CONTEST: The Vth Punjab state-level maths quiz was organised by Castle Education Centre in November. About 900 students from Ludhiana appeared for the written quiz. The result of declared recently and Sameer Jain of Kundan Vidya Mandir was adjudged Expert-2002. “This is another outstanding achievement in the field of maths,” said the Principal, Ms Neena Khanna. Along with Sameer Jain, 13 other students of the school will be awarded merit certification on February 1, 2003, by the Castle organisation at the Ludhiana Club.
FUNCTION: A student of Shanti Tara College, Gurvinder Singh, of B.A. (III) won the first prize in folk singing at the contest organised by the Cultural section of the Punjab Government. The function was held at Government Ranvir College, Sangrur, out of 60 participants Gurvinder Singh was declared the winner. He received a gold medal and a cash of Rs 5100.
NSS CAMP ENDS: A 10-day NSS camp organised by the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) concluded on Tuesday. Mr H.S. Gill, SE (retd), Border Roads Organisation, was the chief guest. The chief guest in his address emphasised the importance of conservation of water. He said that people of Punjab were fortunate to have an abundant supply of potable water and informed the audience about the plight of the people in the NW borders where the water was scarce. Col H.S. Singha, Director, IMS, in his concluding address congratulated the participants for the good work done by them.
MACHHIWARA
LAND POSSESSION: In the campaign launched by the Forest Department, the department officials of Samrala range who had come to nearby Mand Jodhwal village to take possession of the land from Nachhattar Singh, a poor labourer, did an act of inhumanity by killing his goat apart from demolishing his hut. The Range Officer, Samrala, Mr Swarn Chand, who was assigned the duty of deserting the poor farmer, was accompanied by a large number of forest guards and cops. Alongwith Nachhattar’s hut, his shed for animals was also destroyed.
MANSA
GANG BUSTED: The Bareta police has busted a gang of robbers by arresting six persons — Gurpreet Singh, alias Guru, and Buta Singh of Bahadurpur village, Geeta Singh and Jasbir Singh of Mal Singh Wala village, Sukhpal Singh of Daryapur village and Pargat Singh of Khadal Kalan village in the district. They had looted a vend of country-made liquor at Sirsiwla village in the district a few days ago. One member of the gang, Gora Singh of Khadal Kalan village, managed to escape.
POPPY HUSK SEIZED: The Jhunir police has seized 275 kg of poppy husk from an inter-state gang of smugglers. The police has arrested Jang Singh, alias Janga, Kuldeep Singh, alias Bhinder, and Mukhtiar Singh Mehra, all residents of Harian Patti Rori in Sirsa district. A case under Section 15/61/85 of the NDPS Act has been registered.
NEW ADC: Mr Kulwant Singh, a PCS officer of the 1981 batch joined here as the Additional Deputy Commissioner on Wednesday in place of Mr Mohinder Singh Kainth, who relinquished charge on Monday.
WOMAN KILLED: An unidentified woman died near the railway station after she fell off the running Bathinda-Delhi Express train. The body of the deceased was sent to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination. In another incident, Makhan Lal (35) of Budhlada in the district allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison.
PATIALA
ELECTED: Mr Naresh Gupta of Esgi Tools and Mr Vikram Goel of H-Tech Tools Industries have been elected president and general secretary, respectively, of the Patiala Industries Association. Mr Ashwani Garg has been elected vice-president; Mr Rakesh Goel — finance secretary; and Mr Paramjit Singh — joint secretary.
BLOOD DONATION: As many as 50 volunteers of the Army Institute of Law donated blood at the Inter-College Blood Donation Camp organised by the NSS Department of Punjabi University, Patiala, at the Health Care Centre on Tuesday, according to the college Principal, Dr
G.I.S. Sandhu.
OFFICE-BEARERS: Mr Jyoti Parshad Goyal has been elected president of the Dhillon Colony Welfare Association. The other office-bearers are: Dr
R.K. Garg — patron; Mr Harinder Pal Singh — chairman; Mr Chhotu Ram Gehlot — senior vice-president; and Mr Pawan Goyal — secretary.
SAMRALA
‘RELEASE SALARIES’: The regular government school teachers, who are working under the Operation Black Board Scheme, are not paid their salaries for the past seven months. Teachers working under this scheme have requested the Punjab education authorities to end this scheme which never worked and turn their costs to regular teachers. They have requested the authorities to release their salaries as early as possible.
LEKHAK MANCH: The local Panjabi Lekhak Manch will honour famous Panjabi Novelist Om Parkash Gasso and will hold Ru-bu-ru with him on February 6 at 10 a.m. on the local Government Senior Secondary School premises, according to Professor Hamdardvir Nausheharvi. A Kavi darbar will also be held, he added.