Blood donation camp organised

Jalandhar: A blood donation camp was organised by employees of BDC Blood Centre, Nawanshahr, as a mark of respect towards former President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Mother Teresa. As many as 80 persons donated blood while Surinder Kumar, one of the oldest employees of the centre, donated blood for the 50th time on the occasion. Dr Ajay Bagga, former Civil Surgeon, Nawanshahr, and Dr Dyal Saroop, urged all healthy person between 18 to 65 years to donate blood. Blood donation helps in saving life of patients admitted in health facility for shortage of blood, they said. TNS

Applications for scholarship

Jalandhar: With pre-matric, post-matric and merit-cum-means scholarship announced for minorities by the state government, applications have been invited from eligible students. Kapurthala DC Deepti Uppal said those willing to apply for new scholarship scheme could apply until November 15. She added that those applicants who have received scholarships during 2020-21 can apply for post-matric scholarship and merit-cum-means based scheme until November 30. She said as per the time table released by the Directorate of Social Justice, Punjab, the applications for scholarships announced by the Centre for six minorities (Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain and Christian) could be sent be students via student national scholarship portal www.scholraships.gov.in. She also said the applicant should provide their current bank details for the scholarship. TNS

DC: district leads in e-girdawri

Jalandhar: Jalandhar has emerged as a leading district in e-girdawri of crops of last year’s Kharif season by making 56.26 per cent of Khasra-Girdawri online, highest in the state. Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said a mammoth exercise was initiated for e-girdawri under which entire Khasra-Girdawri records have to be made online in the district. He added that so far entries of 7,61,550 khasra numbers out of a total 13,53,542 have been made online. He said while taking a step further in the direction of digitisation, the state government had ordered e-girdawari of crops for the kharif season of 2020. He said the district administration was working round-the-clock to ensure completion of the task within due timeline. TNS

Neeraj Chopra Marg at LPU

Jalandhar: Honouring Neeraj Chopra for winning Gold medal, Lovely Professional University (LPU) unveiled a special 87.58-m long ‘Neeraj Chopra Marg’— a pathway leading to University’s sports complex. The pathway was inaugurated by Chopra himself, when he visited the campus. The occasion was a grand ceremony of LPU’s 13 Olympic medal-winning students, including Neeraj Chopra, where he was also awarded with Rs50 lakh and a ‘Gold Javelin’ for winning the only and first athletic gold for India at Tokyo Olympics. TNS

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