Jalandhar district gets new sports officer

Jalandhar: Umesh Sharma assumed the charge as District Sports Officer (DSO) of Jalandhar on Monday. He had carved a niche for himself in swimming and was one of the renowned players from Punjab. He was also bestowed bravery award in 2009 for saving lives of three people stranded in flood-affected Fatehpur village during relief operations. Prior to this charge, Umesh had been imparting coaching to budding swimming players at Sports College, Jalandhar. A number of players trained by him have brought laurels to the state and country. TNS

Rahon MC passes resolutions

Nawanshahr: The Rahon municipal council on Monday passed several resolutions during the General House meet. From now, no water bills will be sent to people living in households less than 5 marla. Apart from it, cleaning of main drains within the limits of the council, beautification of Dr BR Ambedkar park, deployment of six safai sewaks for one year through outsourcing, supervision of revenue and development works of the council and redeployment of former patwaris, will be done. Technical branch also passed an estimate of Rs4.20 crore for the development works. MLA Angad Singh urged that overall development of the city should be given top priority. TNS

Organic farm class held

Nawanshahr: To promote organic farming and provide information about various techniques to farmers in the district, the Chief Agriculture Officer organised an organic farm school class at Dr Baldev Singh Bika’s Kutia Natural Farm at Bika village in Banga. In this farm school, Block Agriculture Officer Dr Darshan Lal along encouraged farmers to practice organic farming. Satwinder Singh, district supervisor, Punjab Agri Export Corp, said this organisation provides free registration of organic produce. TNS

plan to gherao FM’s residence

Jalandhar: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Office Employees’ Union will gherao the residence of Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal in Bathinda on July 10. Notably, the union has been demanding regularisation of their services. Ashish Julaha, a member of the union, said years have passed since they have been asking the government to make them regular, but to no avail. “No one is paying heed to our problems. We will keep on fighting for our rights,” he said. TNS

reaching out to ex-servicemen

Hoshiarpur: The Vajra Corps has taken an initiative and made an endeavour to reach out to all the ECHS in their area of responsibility to ensure better facilities for their ex-servicemen. The programme commenced with the ECHS, Hoshiarpur, on Monday. On behalf of Lt Gen C Bansi Ponnappa, GOC Vajra Corps, Brig Atulya Bamzai, Brig EME, kick started this unique initiative. There are 28 ECHS in the area of responsibility of the Corps. TNS