Tarn Taran diary: Cops pat self on the back

The Tarn Taran police have expressed satisfaction over its performance to tackle drug trafficking and smugglers. Senior Superintendent of Police Dhruman H Nimbale said huge quantity of contraband has been seized during the last one year. However, in the same period, cops had a brush with spurious liquor tragedy wherein more than 110 lives were lost in the district. The SSP said 79-kg heroin, 26 kg of opium and 144-kg poppy husk had been confiscated by them. Nimbale said the police had seized 274 injections and 3,31,334 intoxicants. He said they arrested 31 persons under the Arms Act and seized 47 pistols, eight revolvers, four rifles, one AK 47, four guns, 23 magazines and 3,115 bullets. The police from time to time conducted raids against illicit liquor manufacturers. He said they registered 483 FIR’s and nabbed 388 persons. The SSP said 1,10,29,387 ml of illicit liquor, 23,05,930 ml of alcohol, 8,65,388-kg lahan, 4,74,240 ml of English wine and 98,200 ml of beer had been recovered. Nimbale said property of 100 drug smugglers worth Rs 127 crore (approximately) has been freezed.

Achievement survey

All the 1,800 teachers of elementary wing in the district were being trained to conduct the National Achievement Survey (NAS). The Education Department has been organising camps at nine block-level offices. Paramjit Singh, Deputy District Education Officer (Elementary), said the survey aims at understanding the health of the education system in the government and government-aided schools. He said in order to increase focus on quality of education, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) Act 2009, was amended in February 2017 to include references on class-wise and subject-wise learning outcomes. He said all developments in the survey should be brought on record.

A ‘Koshish’ for job aspirants

The district administration has launched a ‘Koshish’ project to provide free coaching to unemployed youths, with assistance of the District Employment and Entrepreneur Bureau. Tarn Taran Deputy Commissioner Kulwant Singh inaugurated the project. Free coaching for written tests will be provided for forty days by Sri Guru Arjun Dev Government College, Tarn Taran. The Deputy Commissioner said as many as 179 apirants have got themselves registered. He urged aspirants to take coaching to crack the written tests. He said it’s much better than sitting idle at home. Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Jagwinderjit Singh Grewal, Tarn Taran SDM Rajnish Arora, Assistant Commissioner (General) Amanpreet Singh, HS Bhalla, Principal, Sri Guru Arjun Dev Government College, shared their own experiences with job aspirants. Teachers from Career Launcher India Ltd will give coaching to aspirants.

— Contributed by Gurbaxpuri

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