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JOURNALIST DEAD: Ajit Kumar (62), a senior journalist, poet and writer, passed away at the PGI, Chandigarh, yesterday evening. He had served as President of the Punjab Working Journalists Union for many years. He was founder Chairman of the Journalists Welfare Trust and nominated member of the Punjab State Press Accreditation Committee for four terms. Ajit Kumar is survived by his wife, three daughters and son.WAGES: The All-India SC/BC/ST Minorities Ekta Bhalai Manch has threatened to gherao the District Education Officer (Primary), Ferozepore, if the volunteers engaged under the Compulsory Education Scheme are not paid their wages within 15 days. The president of the manch, Mr Kulwant Singh Bhatti, in a letter to Mr Sandhu Singh Randhawa, Director, Sarv Sikhya Abhiyan, Chandigarh, said that unemployed girls and boys had been engaged on monthly contract against payment of Rs 1,000 each to teach children at the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) centre.
BATHINDA
PF COMMISSIONER: Mr P.R. Mitra has taken over as the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner at the subregional office here. He replaced Mr S.D. Parsad. Mr Mitra had been working in West Bengal before joining here.
PATIALA
BAR ASSOCIATION: Mr Amrik Singh Juneja, Mr K.K. Singla, Mr Suresh Mittal, Mr Pritpal Singh Anand, Mr Ashwani Kanojia and Mr Pardeep Singh have been elected as president, senior vice-president, vice-president, general secretary, secretary and auditor, respectively, of the district Taxation Bar Association here on Saturday. FUNCTION: SOS Children’s Villages of India, an NGO, organised a function at Jiwan Jyoti Model High School here today. Students of the school collected donations from their near and dear ones under the ‘Young Ambassador’ programme to contribute for orphan children of Rajpura SOS village.
PHAGWARA
ROAD SAFETY RALLY: Students of various schools on Friday participated in a road safety rally to create awareness of traffic rules and safe driving. Students carried placards on road safety. The rally was preceded by a seminar on road safety at Government Senior Secondary School for boys here.SANGRUR
POLICE ‘BEAT BOOK’: Ms Preneet Kaur, MP from Patiala on Friday released a police ‘beat book’ for Chhajli village at a function at Sunam. Now a policeman would be made in charge of every ‘beat’ and gather information about people, their character, and vehicles of the village of his area with the help of village panchayat, residents and chowkidar etc. 
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