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No plan to acquire land around city, says Garcha
Ludhiana, August 8
Scotching all rumours to the effect that the Ludhiana Improvement Trust intended to acquire more land in some villages around the city, the LIT chairman, Mr Ashok Singh Garcha, has asserted that there were no such plans for acquisition of land.
Malaria spreads in city colonies
Ludhiana, August 8
Exposing the inadequate arrangements of the district health administration to prevent diseases, malaria has spread its tentacles in Ambedkar Nagar and Vishawakarma Colony in Giaspura area.
As many as 500 persons of the two areas are down with fever.The health department organised 10 free medical camps and took samples of 400 patients and started fogging operations in the area today. While the residents claimed that two persons had died, the health authorities denied the same, stating that unless a person was clinically tested , the cause of death could not be known.
People queue up to give samples of blood to employees of the Health Department
in Ludhiana on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph |
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20,000 posts of teacher to be filled
Ludhiana, August 8
The state government has decided to fill the 20,000 vacant posts of teacher in government schools in Punjab in order to improve the standard of teaching in government schools in the state. This was stated today by Mr Harnam Dass Johar, Education Minister, Punjab.
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