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Ivory Coastnational heldwith Rs 25 crorecontrabandSHIMLA: HimachalPradesh police have ar-rested an Ivory Coast na-tional with illegal drugsworth Rs 25 crore in theinternational market, di-rector general of policeSanjay Kundu said Thurs-day.The accused, a 38-year-old man, was brought toKullu after being arrestedin Delhi and more than sixkilograms of heroin wasrecovered from his resi-dence, the DGP added.He said that on January31, two youths were ar-rested in Kullu for pos-sessing 55 grams of hero-in, and investigators learntthat an African residing inDelhi had supplied themthe heroin.

Nadda to flag off'Parivartan Yatra' inBengal todayNEW DELHI: BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) Presi-dent JP Nadda will inau-gurate a statewide 'Pari-vartan Yatra' from Nadiain West Bengal and holda roadshow in Malda onSaturday. The BJP Presi-dent will also attend the'Krishok Surokha Saha -Bhoj' and visit Sri SriGauranga JanmasthanAshram at Nabadwip.Nadda's inauguration ofthe 'Parivartan Yatra' willcome in the backdropwhen a PIL has been filedat Calcutta High Courtagainst the matter aheadof West Bengal polls .

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PSH, PSMER getjabs at civil hospitalMohali

BUREAU SHIMLA, FEB 5

The State Cabinet in its meet-ing held here today under theChairmanship of Chief Min-ister Jai Ram Thakur decidedto recommend to the Gover-nor to convene the BudgetSession of Himachal PradeshVidhan Sabha from 26th Feb-ruary to 20th March, 2021. Itwould have 17 sittings.

It was decided all govern-ment educational institutionsin Sarkaghat Sub Division ofMandi district would beopened from 8th February,2021. It was also decided thatif any teacher/employee orstudent is found Covid-19positive in any educationalinstitutions of the State thenthe institution would beclosed for 48 hours andwould be opened after saniti-zation as per protocol.

It was also decided thatstudents of 6th and 7th class-es would also attend their re-spective schools for studyfrom 15th February, 2021. Itwas also decided that studentsof 1st to 4th standard wouldattend the online classes fromtheir homes.

The Cabinet decided tosuspend the serving cookedmeals in schools under MidDay Meal Scheme till 31stMarch, 2021. During this pe-riod, dry ration would be pro-vided to students and thecooking cost would be trans-ferred in the accounts of thebeneficiary/guardians. Acad-emic session 2021-22 wouldstart from 1st April, 2021.

It decided to allot 20kanals and one marla land ofIndustries department atTahliwal in Una district infavour of Haroli Industrial In-frastructure Development So-ciety for the period of 30years on lease at one rupeeper square meter annually forsetting up General Engineer-ing Cluster.

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, FEBRUARY 5:

The total number of Punjab Police Personnelwho have got COVID-19 vaccination reached3859 in just 4 days with 1900 cops across thestate getting the jab on Friday.

Ludhiana Police Commissionerate re-mained on top with 372 cops vaccinated in asingle day. Additional Director General of Po-lice (ADGP) Law and Order Ishwar Singh, In-spector General of Police (IGP) Law and Or-

der Ajay Kumar Pandey, two IGPs from Vigi-lance Bureau including Lakshmee Kant Yadavand Vibhu Raj besides four Senior Superinten-dent of Police (SSPs) and four Commandantswere among the senior police officers to getthe COVID-19 vaccine on Day 4. DirectorGeneral of Police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gup-ta appreciated all the Police Personnel, whoare voluntarily coming forward to get them-selves vaccinated to protect themselves as wellas the citizens of Punjab from the COVID pan-demic.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, FEB 5

Haryana DeputyChief Minister, Mr.Dushyant Chautalatoday launched an'e-filing' portal forthe convenience ofconsumers from hisoffice at HaryanaCivil Secretariat.Now consumerswill be able to regis-ter their cases on-line from anywhere on thewebsite www.edaakhil.nic.in.

President, State Con-sumer Disputes RedressalCommission, Haryana, Jus-tice (Retd.)Mr. T.P.S. Mann,Additional Chief Secretary,Food, Civil Supplies andConsumer Affairs Depart-ment, Mr. PK Das, Joint Di-rector, Food, Civil Supplies &Consumer Affair Department,Dr. Inderjeet were also pres-ent on the occasion.

After launching the 'e-fil-ing' portal, the Deputy ChiefMinster who also holds theportfolio of Food, Civil Sup-plies and Consumer Affairs

Department said that this is amajor step taken by the StateGovernment in the interest of

consumers. Now,they can registertheir complaintfrom anywherethrough e-filingportal and not onlythis, they can alsosee the status oftheir complaint on-line, he added.

Mr. PK Dassaid that the process

of filing cases of consumersonline is very simple. Con-sumers can also learn theabove process through videosuploaded in Hindi and Eng-lish language on the websitewww.edaakhil.nic.in, headded. He said that first of all,consumers have to get them-selves registered throughtheir e-mail ID and after reg-istration; they have to followthe entire process step by stepgiven on the website.

He said that a total num-ber of 597 cases were re-ceived in the State ConsumerDisputes Redressal Commis-sion during the year 2020.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, FEB 5

Haryana and Switzerland haveagreed to share their expertise in thefields of skill training, tourism,dairying besides exploring the pos-sibilities of signing MoUs for theteacher-student and cultural ex-change programmes so as to furtherstrengthen the bilateral ties betweenSwitzerland and India particularlywith Haryana.

Mr Ralf Heckner, Ambassadorof Switzerland to India, who calledon Chief Minister Manohar LalKhattar here on Friday praised the

state government for providing aconducive atmosphere to the entre-preneurs in the state and evincedkeen interest in making further in-vestment in Haryana.

Mr Ralf Heckner said Haryana isone of the five States in India wherethe Swiss Companies including Nes-tle have established their businesses.He said 10 per cent business ofSwiss Companies is in Haryana andconveyed thanks on behalf of Swisscompanies based in Haryana for allthe support provided to them andadded that the country is lookingforward to further expanding itsbusiness in Haryana in the times to

come.At present, he said, 34 Swiss

companies have set their base in theState providing employment toabout 16,600 people and added thatSwitzerland with a population of 8.5million is one of the biggest in-vestors in India.

While counting on the achieve-ments of the present state govern-ment, Mr Ralf Heckner saidHaryana is a leading State in thecountry in many spheres. The Statehas also performed well in terms ofEase of Doing Business (EODB)rankings as it is ahead of many oth-er States in the country in EODB.

Hry, Switzerland agree to share expertise in dairying

3859 Police Personnelvaccinated in Punjab

Dushyant launchese-filing portal for

consumers

AGENCYMUMBAI, FEB 5

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Fri-day decided to leave benchmark inter-est rate unchanged at 4 per cent butmaintained an accommodative stance,implying rate cuts in the future if needarises to support the economy hit bythe COVID-19 pandemic.

The benchmark repurchase (repo)rate has been left unchanged at 4 percent, Governor Shaktikanta Das saidwhile announcing the decisions takenby the central bank's Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC).

Consequently, the reverse reporate will also continue to earn 3.35 percent for banks for their deposits keptwith RBI.

He said MPC voted for keepinginterest rate unchanged and decided tocontinue with its accommodativestance to support growth.

The central bank had slashed therepo rate by 115 basis points since lateMarch 2020 to support growth.

This is the fourth time in a rowthat MPC has decided to keep the pol-icy rate unchanged. RBI had last re-vised its policy rate on May 22 in anoff-policy cycle to perk up demand by

cutting interest rate to a historic low.The 27th meeting of the rate-set-

ting MPC with three external mem-bers -- Ashima Goyal, Jayanth R Var-ma and Shashanka Bhide -- began onFebruary 3. This is the first meeting ofthe rate setting panel after the Budget2021-22, announced this week, pro-jected a nominal GDP growth rate of14.5 per cent and a fiscal deficit of 6.8per cent for the financial year begin-ning April 1.

The government moved the inter-est rate setting role from the RBI Gov-ernor to the six-member MPC in2016.

RBI keeps policy rate unchanged fourth time in a row

Temperatureshover belownormal in Pb, Hry CHANDIGARH: Coldweather conditions pre-vailed in Punjab andHaryana on Friday withtemperatures hovering be-low normal limits.A day after rains lashedmany places in the twostates, maximum and min-imum temperatures hov-ered three to four notchesbelow normal range.According to the Meteoro-logical Department'sweather report, Chandi-garh recorded a maximumtemperature of 21.2 de-grees Celsius and a mini-mum of 6.1 degrees Cel-sius.

5 bridges onIndo-Nepalborder reopenPITHORAGARH: Fivebridges on the Indo-Nepalborder in Pithoragarh dis-trict reopened on Fridayafter remaining closed forover 10 months due to thecoronavirus lockdown.District Magistrate V KJogdande issued an orderto this effect on Friday.The subdivisional magis-trates of Dharchula,Pithoragarh and Didihat,and the SSB battalionsguarding the Indo-Nepalborder have been in-structed to open all fiveborder bridges in view ofthe latest guidelines bythe Centre, Jogdandesaid.The Nepal governmenthad issued orders to openthese bridges last week it-self.

Farmers’ Chakka Jam todayIt will be a peaceful event, assures Tikait

AGENCYNEW DELHI, FEB 5

All the precautionary measureshave been taken by Delhi,Haryana, UP, Punjab and Ra-jasthan police to avoid any un-pleasing incident on Saturdaywhen protesting farmers will holdthree hours Chakka Jam acrossIndia. The Haryana DGP called aspecial meeting and reviewed allthe arrangements especially onborder areas. All the District po-lice Chiefs have been directed tobe alert and have special vigil onanti social elements.The ChakkaJam will be observed from 12 pmto 3 pm and all the national high-

ways will be blocked. Police alsoissued traffic advisory for passen-gers to avois problems in their re-spective ways.

Meanwhile Bharatiya KisanUnion (BKU) leader RakeshTikait on Friday said the nation-wide protest will be peaceful andadded that there will be no 'chak-ka jam' in Delhi, UP and Uttarak-hand.

"We have been protestingpeacefully and the 'chakka jam'will also be held peacefully acrossthe country on February 6. Therewill be no chakka jam anywherein Delhi. The farmers who are un-able to join us will hold chakkajam at their respective places,"

said Tikait."The people who get stuck

will be given food and water, wewill peacefully talk to them andexplain our point," he added.

Earlier, Tikait told reportersthat there will be a three-hour-long chakka jam on February 6everywhere outside Delhi.

Farmers have been protestingat different borders of the nation-al capital since November 26 lastyear against the three newly en-acted farm laws: Farmers' Pro-duce Trade and Commerce (Pro-motion and Facilitation) Act,2020; the Farmers Empowermentand Protection) Agreement onPrice Assurance and farm Ser-

vices Act 2020 and the EssentialCommodities (Amendment) Act,2020. Delhi Police on Friday saidadequate security arrangementsare in place at borders to preventany untoward incident and socialmedia contents are under surveil-lance to prevent the spread offalse rumours ahead of 'chakkajam.' "Agitating farmers haveproposed 'chakka jam' tomorrow.In view of the violence that hap-pened on January 26, Delhi Policehave made adequate securityarrangements at borders so thatmiscreants can not enter the na-tional capital", said Delhi PolicePublic Relations Officer, Chin-moy Biswal.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, FEB 5

Union Agriculture Minister NarendraSingh Tomar on Friday said that op-position has failed to point flaws innew farm laws and the opposition didnot discuss provisions of these legis-lations during the motion of thanks tothe President's Address in Rajya Sab-ha.

The minister,who also took partin the discussionon the motion ofthanks to the Pres-ident's Address onFriday in the up-per House, saidopposition leadershave been calling the new farm laws"black" but did not say what was"black" in its provisions. "As far asfarm laws are concerned, I was in Ra-jya Sabha today and I noticed that noone is ready to say what is black inthe 'black laws'. If you are protestingagainst the law, then discussionshould be held on its provisions. Un-fortunately, this is not happening," hesaid. "So, I have told all the leaders ofthe parties as well as farmers that thecentral government is ready for anopen discussion," he added. The Agri-culture Minister said that the govern-ment had given a proposal to farmers."We will talk with them (farmers)again after their proposal comes," hesaid. Eleven rounds of discussion havebeen held between the government andthe protesting farmer unions. The gov-

ernment has said that it is willing to putthe farm laws on hold for about 18months. Farmers have been protestingon the different borders of the nationalcapital since November 26 last yearagainst the three newly enacted farmlaws: Farmers' Produce Trade andCommerce (Promotion and Facilita-tion) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empow-erment and Protection) Agreement onPrice Assurance and farm Services Act2020 and the Essential Commodities(Amendment) Act, 2020.

What is 'black' infarm laws, Tomarasks opposition

Opposition adamanton repeal of lawsNEW DELHI: Various oppositionparties like the Shiv Sena, SAD,NCP, Samajwadi Party and Leftparties on Friday demanded inRajya Sabha that the three newfarm laws be repealed and freshones brought after wider consulta-tions.Participating in the debate on theMotion of Thanks on the Presi-dent's address, the members ofopposition parties attacked thegovernment for dubbing the farm-ers protesting against the farmlaws as "anti-nationals" and for"defaming" their agitation.Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut al-leged that anyone speaking thetruth is dubbed as a "traitor" or"anti-national" and that cases ofsedition have been slappedagainst those criticising the gov-ernment.

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PUBLIC NOTICESI Surinder Singh S/O Late Sh. Harpal Singh R/O H.No. 58, Mirchmandi, Rajpura, Distt. Patiala My Son Mandeep Singh And His Wife Gurdeep Kaur Both Are Out Of My Control. So I Disown Them From All Movable/Immovable Properties. Anyone Dealing With Them Will Do At Their Own Risk.

63372I, Monika Rani W/o Vijay Kumar R/o #128 St.No. 1 Preet Vihar Manakwal (Ludhiana) declare that in my son Mohit Verma 10th class certificate my name entered Monika Verma. But my another documents Like Passport and Aadhar Card my name entered Monika Rani. Monika Rani & Monika Verma is one and same person.

63372I, Vijay Kumar S/o Roop Lal R/o #128 St.No. 1 Preet Vihar Manakwal (Ludhiana) declare that in my son Mohit Verma 10th class certificate my name entered Vijay Verma. But my another documents Like Passport and Aadhar Card my name entered Vijay Kumar. Vijay Verma & Vijay Kumar is one and same person.

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I Som Dutt S/o Prabh Dyal 1, Niraj Kumar Poddar, I, Parmjit Kumar S/o Nand I Hitherto Known As I, Narinder Singh S/O I Rajnish Kumar S/O R/o H.no. 279, Guru Teg Resident Of Smq No. 339/2, Lal R/o House No 56 Gali Ranjana W/o Charnjit Harnek Singh R/O #16, Mangat Rai Goyal R/O Bahadur Nagar, Sec-14, Range Area, Air Force N o 3 N e w J y o t i s a r Rai,r/o Vpo Hardaspur, St.No.3, Guru Angad Dev H:No 500/37 Gali No: 03 Kharar, Sas Nagar Mohali Station, Halwara, Punjab Avenue, Jandiala Guru, Teh. Phagwara , Dis t t . Naga r, Amloh Road , Shastri Nagar Jagraon Have Changed My Name Have Changed My Son's A m r i t s a r P a r a m j i t K a p u r t h a l a - 1 4 4 4 0 2 , Khanna (Ludhiana) Also Dis t t Ludhiana Have Som Dutt Sharma To Som Name From Yash Poddar Kumar Punjab, India, Have Known As Naginder Singh, Changed My Name To Dutt To Yashraaj Poddaar Vide 72737 Changed My Name And These Both Names Are Rajnish Kumar Goyal.

100071 A f f i d a v i t D a t e d I, Amrit Kaur Nijjar W/o S h a l l H e r e a f t e r B e Mine One & Same Person. 633720 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 B e f o r e Rajeshwar Singh Nijjer Known As Ranjna Devi. 63372 I Ramanpreet Kaur W/O Notary Public, Raikot, R /o N i j j a r Fa rm Po 72778 I, Amninder Kaur W/O Karamjeet Singh Rai R/O Ludhiana. M e h a r b a n p u r a V i a I, Dharam Pal S/o Sh. Amar Singh Khokhar R/O Village Balianwali Distt

98731 J a n d i a l a G u r u D i s t t Ram Chand R/o Vpo Bargari (Faridkot) Have Bathinda Have Changed I K a n t a D e v i D / o Amritsar Amrit Kaur Salala, Distt. Jalandhar, Changed My Name To My Name To Ramanpreet Gurbachan Singh, Guru Nijjar To Amrit Kaur Punjab Declare That In Amninder Kaur Khokhar. Kaur Rai.After Marriage.Nanak Nagar, Ward No. Nijjer The School Record My 63372 633721 0 , G a r h s h a n k a r 72737 Son’s Name Has Been I , Tejinder Singh S/O I, Ekamdeep Singh S/O ( h o s h i a r p u r ) H a v e I, Simerjeet Kaur W/o R e c o r d e d A s Shingara Singh R/O Sh. Teja Singh Dhillon Changed My Name As Jaspal Singh Sandhu Rameshwar But Now I Village Dadehar Sahib, R/o Vpo Kararwala Distt. Kanta Saini. R/o.vill. Kokri Buttran Want To Changed The Distt. Tarn Taran Have Ba th inda Change Of

900017 Po. Kokri Wehniwal Distt Name Of My Son From Changed My Name Name Ekamdeep Singh I, Baljinder Kaur W/o Moga Have Changed My Rameshwar To Rishit Tajinder Singh. Dhillon.Jagrup Singh R/o Tehsil Name To Simarjeet Kaur Kumar. 63372 63372K h a d u r S a h i b , V p o Sandhu 72778 I, Baldev Singh S/O I, Teja Singh S/O Sh. Khadur Sahib, District 72737 I Manjinder Kaur W/o Narain Singh R/O Augher Banta Singh R/o Vpo T a r n T a r a n H a v e I, Service No.6489035f, Kulwant Singh R/o (Mubarakpur) (Moga) K a r a r w a l a D i s t t . Changed My Name To Rank Hav/ash Nirmal Vpo.tut Kalan Tehsil Changed Name Baldev Ba th inda Change Of S u r n a m e K a u r S i n g h R e s i d e n t O f N a k o d a r D i s t r i c t Singh Gill. Name Teja Singh Dhillon.Baljinder. Vi l l age Tiwana Pos t J a l a n d h a r , I H a v e 63372 63372

900020 Office Maru, Tehsil & C h a n g e d M y N a m e I, Harjit Kaur W/O Baldev I Amarj i t Kaur W\O I, Rupika Khanna W/o D i s t t P a t i a l a , S t a t e From Manjinder Kaur S i n g h R / O A u g h e r Pargat Singh Vill Malang U j w a l K h a n n a R / o Punjab Declare That I To K a u r M a n j i n d e r. (Mubarakpur) (Moga) Shah Wala Teh Zira Distt H.no.39, The Mall, Opp. Have Changed My Son Please Note. Changed Name Harjit Ferozepur Have Changed Narula Mall, Amritsar Name From Gurwinder 100066 Kaur Gill. My Name From Amarjit H a v e C h a n g e d M y S i n g h To G u r v i n d e r I , S inde r Kaur W/o 63372 Kaur To Amarjeet Kaur.Name From Rup ika Singh Vide Affidavi t G u r m e e t S i n g h R / o I, Jaswinder Kumar S/o 63372B a j a j T o R u p i k a No.am 981541 V i l l : D h u n i k e Mohan Lal R/o Vpo. I Balbir Singh Sidhu S/O Khanna. 72737 (Bathinda) Pb, changed Mehtiana (Hoshiarpur) Darbara Singh R/O Vpo

900020 I, Service No.6489035f, my name to Sinderpal changed my name to Rorikapura, Teh, Jaitu I, Hitherto Known As Rank Hav/ash Nirmal Kaur. Jaswinder Kumar Bians. (Faridkot) Have Changed Nisha Jain Daughter Of S i n g h R e s i d e n t O f 63372 63372 My Name To Balbi r Satish Jain Wife Of Vi l l age Tiwana Pos t I, Mahinder Kaur W/o I, Lakhvir Singh S/o Singh Brar.Nimit Mittal Residing At Office Maru, Tehsil & Bakhtawar Singh R/o Gurdev Singh R/o Vpo. 63372H . n o 11 6 , M e d i c a l D i s t t P a t i a l a , S t a t e V i l l : A t h o u l a Tu n g w a l i ( B a t h i n d a ) Enclave, Amritsar, Punjab Punjab Declare That I ( J a l a n d h a r ) P b , changed my name to Have Changed My Name H a v e C h a n g e d M y changed my name to Lakhveer Singh. And Shall Hereafter Be Daughter Name From Mohinder Kaur. 63372 Known As Nisha Mittal. H a r w i n d e r K a u r To 63372 I, Indira Rani W/o Vijay

900020 Harvinder Kaur Vide I, No. JC-811663M Sub Kumar R/o W.No. 2 I, Anu D/o Santokh Singh Affidavit No.am 981540 Davinder Singh Bajwa Talwandi Bhai (Ferozepur) R/o #1233, Mori Gate, 72737 S/o Amar Singh Bajwa changed my name to Indra Manimajra, Chandigarh I , G i r i j a D e v i M / o R / o Vi l l : N a t t P o . Rani. Have Changed My Name Jitendra Kumar Presently C h a h a l T e h - B a t a l a 63372From Neha To Anu And Residing At Sokhodewra, ( G u r d a s p u r ) P b , I, Paritam Singh S/o Sham Dob From 21-07-1980 Kawakol Nawada Bihar- changed my son name Singh R/o Basti Shamsdin To 22-08-1987. 805106 India Declare Jasraj Singh Bajwa to Zira Teh-Zira (Ferozepur)

98702 That I Have Changed My Jasraj Singh. Pb, India-142047, changed I Hitherto Known As Name From Girija Devi 63372 my name to Pritam Singh.Naseeb Kaur D/o Mohan To Giraja Devi Vide I Jasveer Kaur W/O 63372Lal And W/o Vijay Kumar Affidavit No.an 226813 B a h a d u r S i n g h R / O I, Sukhpal Kaur Sidhu W/O Residing At, B-1-226, Dated On 3 Feb 2021 Balala Po Mehdoodan, Manjeet Singh R/O Vill. Guru Nanak Pura, Civil 72737 Khanna Distt. Ludhiana Bhangchari, (Sri Muktsar Line, District Ludhiana, I. Manpreet Kaur Dhesi H a v e C h a n g e d M y Sahib) have changed my Punjab- 141001, India W/o Gurpreet Singh R/o . Name To Jasvir Kaur. name to Sukhpal Kaur.Have Changed My Name V.p.o. Jullah Majra The. 63372 63372And Shall Hereafter Be Nawanshahr .distt. S.b.s . I Tushar Alias Tushar I Sarbjit Singh S/O Joginder Known As Shiv Rani. It Nagar Punjab Declare Goyal S/O Sinder Pal S i n g h R / O V P O Is Certified That I Have After Marriage I Have Goya l R /O Rampura S h e i k h u p u r a D i s t t Complied With Other C h a n g e d M y N a m e P h u l D i s t t B a th in d a Ludhiana Have Changed Legal Requirements In Manpreet Kaur Dhesi To Have Two Name Of One My Name To Sarbjit Singh This Connection Manpreet Kaur Person. Dhatt.

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LOST & FOUNDMy original Certificate of Performance of Secondary Examination, March 2014, b e a r i n g R e g n . No.C114/20401/0067, Sr. No. SSE/2014/0352916, Roll No. 2153598 issued by CBSE, Delhi has been lost in Safidon. Amritpal Singh son of Gurdiyal Singh, v i l l a g e M a l i k p u r , Distt.Jind.

98732I, Jito Devi W/o Ajmer Singh R/o Jurassi Kala T e h s i l P e h o w a (kurukshetra) My House S a r a s w a t i K h e d a Teh.pehowa, Two Old Cell Deeds Of Pehowa 1904/1 Dated 24/7/2014 And Deed No. 252/1 Dated 25/04/2013 S.r. Sahib Pehowa, Which Is Lost, If The Said Deed Is Found, I Will Not Use It.

84661I, Manjinder Pal Kaur D/o Jagmel Singh R/o Middu Khera Teh-Malout (Shri Muktsar Sahib) declare that my 10+2 class bearing Roll N o . 1 3 6 0 9 6 7 8 a n d M i g r a t i o n i s s u e d b y C.B.S.E. Board has been lost at home on 25-01-2021. If anybody found then c o n t a c t a t m y a b o v e address.

63372I, Parveen Singh S/o Sarwan Ram R/o Near Railway Line M o h a l l a G o b i n d p u r a Phagwara (Kapurthala) do hereby inform that original Regd Sale Deed Dt. 15-02-2008, document No. 4723 was lost/misplaced by me on 01-02-2021 and a t present I am owner of the said property situated in the area of Village Phagwara Disrtrict Kapurthala. In case this Regd Sale Deed is found, I may be contacted.

63372I Karam Chand Son Hans Raj Resident Of Wara Bhai K a F e r o z e p u r D i s t r i c t Ferozepur Informed That A Registry Anonymous Vasika No. 346 Date 27/04/2004 Sub Registrar Ferozepur Owner Sukhwinder Kaur W i f e R a j w a n t S i n g h Resident Guru Ramdas N a g a r F e r o z e p u r T h i s R e g i s t r y I s M i s s i n g Somewhere Searched But Not Found. If Found I Will N o t M i s u s e I t . T h i s Anonymous Registry Does Not Appear In Any Court

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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities

you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman

HANSI, FEB 5 ( ): The BJP government is spending crores of rupees for development work in the city of Hansi in Haryana. However, the money is also being wasted at the same time due to the lack of coordination in the administration. A suitable example is that the public health department started digging the water line due to the huge water shortage in the area around the Bajaria Chowk and Chand Samosa Street. Be that as it may, the shopkeepers say that the city council had just built a concrete cement road a few months ago which has now been dug down to put a water line. They said that the money paid by them as tax is being misused due to the lack of collegiality between different departments of administration. BJP MLA Vinod Bhayana built a cement road from Bajaria Chowk to Pratap Bazar last year and now the public health department has broken the same road by putting JCB in the name of laying a water line.

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SD SHARMACHANDIGARH, FEB 5 :Mesmerizing performance by Delhi-based Sanjeet Gangani of Jaipur Gharana of Kathak classical dance marked the inaugural day of the three-day Kathak Utsav organized by Pracheen Kala Kendra at Koser Indoor Auditorium here today. The Utsav features prodigious danseurs from different ghranas of Kathak. A graded artist of Delhi Doordarshan Sanjeet had performed all over India and abroad. He commenced his dance recital with an invocatory Stuti in laudation of lord Shiva based on raga Pilu before presenting the Shudh nritya (pure dance) of Jaipur Gharana exploring theThaat, aamad, uthaan, paran, chakradar paran, upaj, gat, nikas so on with captivating and graceful movements and agile footwork. His abhinaya piece was also mesmerizing in which he presented Guru Bhajan “Guru bin aise kaun kare” . He concluded his recital with traditional compositions of Jaipur Gharana set to drut laya winning the large applause on his presentations.Kendra registrar Dr. Shobha Koser, the acclaimed Kathak Guru, Kendra Secretary and Utsav director Sajal Koser honored the artists . Rudra Shankar Mishra of Banaras ghrana performs tomorrow, disclosed Sajal Koser.

Prodigious danseur Sanjeet Gangani lights up Pracheen Kathak Utsav

college students should be given information about government schemes in particular. Also, they have to give this message to make other people aware. Only then can we build Atam-Nirbhar Haryana and self-sufficient India. You can make India a world guru. All the members of the club were congratulated on the successful organization of the program by College Director Dr. Varinder Gandhi and Principal Anu Atreja. They called upon the students to become self-reliant.

SUSHIL PANDIT inspire others to do the same. He said that YAMUNANAGAR, FEB 5 the Government of India is constantly

pushing the countrymen to become self-A one-day online webinar was organized reliant. Many schemes are also being run by the self reliant club of Guru Nanak for this, but due to lack of information, Girls College, courtesy think-tank NGO needy people are not able to take of the city. Program coordinators Prof. advantage of these schemes run by the Dr. Meenakshi Gupta and Monika government . He gave deta i led Chopra said that this program was information about various schemes and organized to make the girls aware under benefits to the students. At the end of the the Atam-Nirbhar Haryana program. CA program, NGO founder Shashi Gupta Manoj Lamba was the keynote speaker said that every citizen will have to on the occasion. He gave the message to become aware of government schemes the students to become self-reliant and to make the state self-sufficient. For this,

Govt must repeal farm laws: Gaurav Bakshi

ROHIT LAMSER Bakshi said that the demands of the farmers TARAORI, FEBRUARY 5 are valid, the central government will have to

withdraw all these three black laws under any In support of the farmers demanding the circumstances. He said that now more and withdrawal of the three black laws by the more youth will be brought forward to central government. Student organisations strengthen the farmers' movement. Gaurav took out a motorcycle trip, which took them Bakshi, Ankush Palwal, Vikas Sandhir, Sahil from Kurukshetra University to Pipli, Umri, Sadyan, Ankit Bakhpuri, Dr. Mukesh Nilokheri, Taraori and Shamgarh, among Chaudhary, Aman Pannu, Munish Bhargava, others. Motorcycle yatra was welcomed at all Munish Pandit, Prem Sharma Taraori, Dinesh places and more and more youth were Munjal participated in the motorcycle appealed to support the farmers. The journey that reached Taraori for the peasant motorcycle journey on the Taraori National movement on the Bastara toll from Pipli. Highway was welcomed by Taraori social Deepak Sharma, Sahil Girdhar, Deepak workers Premchand Sharma, youth leader Pathania, Prem, Anu Bhargava, Vishal Munish Bhargava, social workers Munish Raheja, Shubham Bajaj, Gurlal Virk, Puru Pandit and Anu Bhargava, along with youth, Girdhar, Rakesh Lather, Vardan Sachdeva, including the youth chairman of the forum Amandeep Matharu, Raman Kang, Nikhil Sahil Girdhar, with flowers and they shouted Rawat, Robin Kang, Sachin Yadav, Robin slogans in support of the farmers. Youth Sandir Nillu Beed Amin, Arun Yadav, Ravi leader of the student organisation Gaurav Yadav, Arjun Yadav were present.

Lack of coordination between departments resulting in wasting of public money

Webinar organized under Atam-Nirbhar Hry program at Guru Nanak Girls College

Science exhibition heldBABAIN,FEB 5 (RAVI KUMAR): An observational and evaluation program was organized to make science subject more interesting in Government Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary School, Babain. This program was presided over by the Principal of the school, Sachinder Kaura. In this program, Block Education Officer Ranbir Singh Rampura attended as a chief guest. On this occasion, Assistant Professor Gulab Singh and Associate Professor Dr. Anand Kumar explained various activities to the students of ninth and tenth class. The children were explained in detail about the law of gravitation of Newton, the electromagnetic effect of science.

Farmers'mahapanchayat in

Gumthala todayNIRMALRADAUR, FEBRUARY 5

Farmers of the area will gather atGumthala Anaj Mandi tomorrow at10 o'clock in the morning on vari-ous issues. At 12 o'clock on the Ya-munanagar-Karnal road, near theGumthala bus stand, a chakka jamprotest will be held for three hours.Surjit Singh, former sarpanch ofGumthala village, informed thathundreds of farmers are expected toreach the Mahapanchayat.

The farmers of the region willgather in Gumthala Anaj Mandifirst. There will be a mahapanchay-at of farmers there. Views will beshared on various issues related tofarmers. After that, Yamunanagar-Karnal road will jam will be heldfrom 12 to 3 o'clock in front ofGumthala bus stand. Police is alsoalert about the mahapanchayat offarmers. Police station in-chargeDharampal says that in view of themahapanchayat of farmers, addi-tional police force has been called.If the farmers block the road, thenthe vehicles will be diverted fromMT Karhera Chowk so that the peo-ple do not face any problem inreaching their destination.

HSSC has setrecord in

scams:GurjarSUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, FEBRU-ARY, 5

Haryana Pradesh Congress Com-mittee spokesperson Rai Singh Gur-jar said that for the last 6 years, theselection commission has set recordin scams and corruption. The cor-ruption of the selection commis-sion's arbitrary recruitment has beenexposed many times by manipulat-ing the selection, personal interestsare served. He said that the BJPgovernment’s image has drownedin the sea of corruption. This isclearly visible in the selection com-mission.

While the papers of examina-tions of different departments wereleaked one after the other, the secre-tary level examination has also cre-ated a new record in the past, theway centres were given to some oftheir favorite people for their ownbenefit, exposing the face of theirconspiracy. Haryana Pradesh Con-gress Committee demands investi-gation of this entire recruitmentcase under High Court Judge to ex-pose how the game of employingtheir own people in the last 6 yearsis going on in a planned manner.

Nutritioninformation through

nukkad nataksRANVIR PARASHARGUHLA-CHIKA, FEBRUARY 5

Urmil Sivach, Programme Offi-cer of the Department of Womenand Child Development, saidthat through nukkad nataks underthe nutrition campaign, people,especially women, are beingmade aware for the right nutri-tion so that anemia can be avoid-ed and mother and child can re-main healthy. She said that streetplays would be performed in 196villages of all the blocks of thedistrict. Under this campaign, the street-to-villagestreet theater in Guhla section ismaking the common peopleaware. On Friday, street playswere organized in the villagesBhagal, Harigarh Kingan, RivadJagir and Balbehra. Till date programmes have beenorganised at 82 different placesin the district.

25 teachersawarded for

innovation workSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, FEBRUARY 5

25 primary teachers for innovationin education were awarded by Dis-trict Fundamental Education Offi-cer Rohtash Verma in GovernmentGirls High School Urban State Kar-nal by giving appreciation certifi-cate for zero investment innovationin education. The programme wasconducted by Anurag Singh Virkand he highlighted the innovativeideas of the programme run by theAurobindo Society. On this occa-sion, Anil Kumar Saini Urban StateSector 13, Karnal was presentedwith a letter of appreciation, mainlyas an innovative teacher. His maininnovation was the manufacture ofmatching machines.

Along with this, the teachers towhom certificates were distributedfrom across the district are : Krish-na Kumar GPS Assandh, RuchiGPS Neelokheri, Priyanka GPSNo.1 Neelokheri, Gurbaj SinghGPS Begampur, Gayatri. Devi GPSBegampur, Anil Rohilla GPS Car-wali, Meenakshi GPS Bhagapati,Mukesh GPS Tharova, Anju RaniGPS Kohand, Pinki GPS Camla,Pawan Kumar GPS Sambi.

NEWS BRIEFS HARYANA

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2021

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Essay competition on Rightto Information

CHANDIGARH,– Haryana Government Colleges and Aided Colleges will beorganising an essay writing competition on the topic “Right to Information”(RTI) Giving information in this regard, a spokesman of the Higher EducationDepartment said that the students who bag the first, second and third positions inthis competition would be given prize money of Rs 2,000, Rs 1,500 and Rs 1,000respectively.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, FEB 5

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar LalKhattar said Prime Minister NarendraModi had announced Rs 20 lakh croreeconomic package to bring the coun-try’s economy back on track and thispackage has now been increased toabout Rs 24 lakh crore.

The state government should alsoformulate such schemes so that thispackage can be used to get the maxi-mum benefit, the Chief Minister stat-ed this during a review meeting re-garding 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Cam-paign' in view of the upcomingHaryana Budget 2021-22 here on Fri-day.

He said every statesman has a de-sire to make the country self-reliant.Prime Minister Narendra Modi haslaunched campaigns like Make in In-dia and Atmanirbhar Bharat with theaim of taking the Country on the pathof development.

Mr Khattar said the State has towork in the direction of increasingemployment, strengthening the eco-nomic situation, ease of doing busi-ness and ease of living. He directedthe Administrative Secretaries of var-

ious departments present in the meet-ing to prepare such schemes so thatmaximum amount of AtmanirbharBharat package can be availed.

He directed the officers to ensurethat every civil hospital has privaterooms and to increase the room num-bers along with ensuring high class fa-cilities provided in these rooms. Thiswill prevent people from going to pri-vate hospitals and give priority to gov-ernment hospitals. Apart from this,ICU facilities should also be providedto citizens in all civil hospitals, he fur-ther directed.

Economic package announced by PM nowincreased to about Rs 24 lakh cr : Khattar

Mobile net suspension in 2 dists till Sat eveCHANDIGARH: Haryana government has extended the suspension of mobile internetservices (2G/3G/4G/CDMA/GPRS), SMS services (only Bulk SMS) and all dongle servic-es etc. provided on mobile networks except the voice calls in the territorial jurisdiction ofSonipat and Jhajjar districts till 1700 hrs on February 6. This order is issued to preventany disturbance of peace and public order in the jurisdiction of these districts of Haryanaand will be in force with immediate effect. Any person who will be found guilty of violationof aforesaid order will be liable for legal action under relevant provisions. The spokesmansaid the suspension has been ordered under Rule 2 of Temporary Suspension of Tele-com Services (Public Emergency or Public Safety) Rules, 2017. All telecom serviceproviders of Haryana including the Head of BSNL (Haryana jurisdiction) are hereby di-rected to ensure the compliance of this order. He said the State Government has decidedto impose this suspension of internet services in order to stop the spread of disinforma-tion and rumours through various social media platforms, such as WhatsApp, FacebookTwitter, etc on mobile phones and SMS.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, FEB 5

Haryana government has issued orders to reg-ister criminal case under Prevention of Cor-ruption (PC) Act against the then Assistant ofRTA Office, Ambala on the recommendationsof the State Vigilance Bureau (SVB).

An official spokesperson on Friday saidthat the Assistant of RTA Office, Ambala, wasfound guilty of acquiring disproportionate as-sets and the officials concerned have beenasked to recover amount of Rs 7,92,121 fromcontractor for using sub-standard material inthe construction of residential quarters for theofficials of Central Jail, Hisar.

In another matter, the State Vigilance Bu-reau (SVB) has recommended to register acriminal case under Indian Penal Code (IPC)and Immigration Act for sending players ille-gally to Korea. The first case is regarding cor-rupt practices in the office of RTA, Ambala anddisproportionate assets acquired by an Assistantof this office. The inquiry conducted by Vigi-lance Bureau revealed that the officials of RTAOffice, Ambala committed irregularities in theregistration of vehicles and Assistant Zile Singhhas acquired disproportionate assets amountingto Rs 27,25,607. While accepting the enquiry of

Vigilance Bureau, the state government has or-dered to initiate departmental action against theerring officials and to register criminal case un-der the Prevention of Corruption Act against theAssistant.

A case under Sections 13(1) read with13(2) PC Act has been registered in Police Sta-tion SVB, Ambala in this regard and investi-gation is in progress. In second matter is re-garding use of sub-standard material by con-tractor Lajpat Rai Chanana in the constructionof residential quarters for the officials of Cen-tral Jail, Hisar. The allegations were estab-lished during the Vigilance Enquiry and theGovernment has directed the concerned de-partment to initiate departmental actionagainst the officials, who were supervising thework and to recover amount of Rs 7,92,121from the contractor. In the matter regardingsending sportspersons to Korea, it was allegedthat players were sent to Korea illegally bycharging an amount of Rs 20,000 each and bycreating a Federation during the posting inSports Department, Yamunanagar. It was beenrevealed during the enquiry conducted by theVigilance Bureau that one Rajesh Sharan, aresident of Village Tezli, Yamunanagar sent ateam of 16 players by using fake documents ofDragon Boat Federation.

Govt orders to registercriminal case against RTA

Assistant under PC Act

Villagers angrywith poor road

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, FEBRUARY 5

There is a lot of anger among the villagers over the poor con-dition of the road leading from Indri to village Bayana. Thisroad has remained broken for the last 2 years. There are deeppits on the road in villages Ran-doli, Bayana, Garhpur, Fazilpur,Muradgarh, etc. People comingfrom the village face a lot of prob-lems. Villagers Mannu Datana,Ankit, Kuldeep, Pradeep, Yogesh,Ankush, Gaurav said that travel-ling on this road is bad. He saidthat many times he has appealedthe concerned department offi-cials about this and a complainthas also been given on the CMwindow. But till date there was nosolution to the problem. Villagersshouted slogans against the government on the road. He hasdemanded from the government that this problem be resolvedimmediately. Schools from VI to VIII have been opened. Forgirls to go through this path on bicycles is no less a threat.

When the problem of the villagers was taken to the juniorengineer of the concerned department, Ramesh Kumar, he saidthat this road was built 6 years ago and also had a 4-year war-ranty period. But after that it broke down two years ago. Its pro-posal has been prepared and sent to NABARD and as soon aspermission is received the repair work will start

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, FEBRUARY 5

Municipal CommissionerVikram inspected the interiorwork of the new office build-ing being constructed in Sec-tor-12 of the Municipal Cor-poration providing basicamenities to the citizens at theearliest. He indicated that bynext month the building couldbe completed after which theMunicipal Corporation officewould be shifted here. Forthis, he asked the contractorof the agency working on theinterior to expedite the work.He was accompanied by Ex-ecutive Engineers SatishSharma and JE Gaurav Ku-mar. During the inspection,the commissioner visited theground floor, first and secondfloors and observed the cabinworks.

He inspected the win-dows on both sides of thebuilding, floor tiles, air-con-ditioning, firefighting, fallceilings, toilets and the underconstruction cafeteria at the

top of the building and sawthe work progress. Regardingthe facilities in the new build-ing, he said that the countersof the City Facilitation Centerwill be installed on theground floor, while there willbe a record room in the base-ment. On the first floor, therewill be rooms of senior offi-cers on one side and roomsof engineering wing on theother side. In the course ofinspection of the building,the commissioner instructedthe Executive Engineer tosee some defects in the watertank built above the roof in

the civil work Issue notice tothe contractor and get it re-paired.

Later the commissioneralso inspected two parks ofthe old housing board ofward number 10 and the parkon Sector-13 dividing road.He observed the pathwaysconstructed in the parks sometime back, cleaning andswings for children to play.The Commissioner instructedXEN to prepare an estimatefor the repair of the swingspresent in all the parks andget them repaired quickly, sothat children can use them.

MC Commissioner inspects buildingMC Commissioner thankedfor water recharge

KARNAL, FEBRUARY 5

KL Virmani, President of the Road Safety and Munic-ipal Sanitation Subcommittee of the Citizen Griev-ances Committee and Sanjay Batra, Secretary, Con-sumer Protection and Right to Information, met theM u n i c i p a lCorporationCommission-er VikramYadav in hisoffice.

T h e ythanked thecommission-er for fixingthe construc-tion of theroad waterrecharge in the Chaman Garden and another tubewellfor drinking water including planting of grass andplants by doing good leveling in the newly constructedpark in Chaman Garden which has been approved. Hehas been asked to get commissioned soon before sum-mer starts.

Sanjay Batra also requested to apply white guardsand reflectors to reduce the distance of barricades in-stalled in Subhash Colony to stop the movement ofheavy vehicles and to not let any vehicle hit in the mist,for which he immediately sent the concerned officerimmediately. Instructed on the phone and ordered to re-port on completion of the work.-

RK KASHYAPC H H A C H H A R A U L I ,FEBRUARY 5

A national workshop washeld on the subject titled 'SelfStudy Report Preparation forNAAC by the IQAC andNAAC Committees at Gov-ernment College, Chhacha-rauli. The event was organ-ised under the chairmanshipof the college's Principal Sm-riti Baljeet Kaur. Inaugurat-ing the programme, she wel-comed the keynote speakerand all the participants.Ashok Bansal said in his in-augural address that today'sworkshop will prove helpfulin Criteria 6 and 7. LecturerLakhwinder Singh of Criteria6 welcomed the keynotespeaker. Chief speaker Dr.

Sonika Sethi while explain-ing about Criteria 6 said thatmost of the questions in it aredescriptive.

Its main part depends on

the IQAC Executive.Professor Seema Rani

thanked the keynote speakerat the first technical sessionand read the report. In thesecond technical session,

keynote speaker Dr. SonikaSethi said that it is mandato-ry for any institute to adoptbest practices and this activi-ty will complete the work ofNAAC as per Criteria 7. Atthe conclusion of the pro-gramme, Vinod Sharma elab-orated the points made by thekeynote speaker in both thesessions. The online platformwas operated by Rajni Goy-al, Dr. Ruchika Wadhwa andProfessor Neha Saini. Thetechnical team consisted ofMrs Priyanka and Priya. Atthe end of the program, Dr.Suman thanked the keynotespeaker and all the partici-pants and the staff membersof the college. 235 partici-pants participated in thisworkshop.

National workshop on NAAC heldRANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL, FEBRUARY 5

Amit Kumar said that all the services be-ing offered on Saral portal should be timebound so that its beneficiaries get directbenefits. Not only this, the departmentwhich is behind in providing time boundservices should also work with full re-sponsibility and implement the system sothat the district's score remains at a higherlevel. City magistrate Amit Kumar wasgiving necessary guidelines to officers andemployees by taking a review meeting re-lated to Saral Portal in the conference halllocated in the small secretariat. He saidthat if the services are related to differentdepartments, then the head of the depart-ment should provide services to the time-bound citizens by mutual coordination.

While doing so will benefit the com-mon man, the district's score on the portal

will also be the first. All the departmentswhich are providing services to the citi-zens but do not deliver at the time pre-scribed under the right to service, mustwork responsibly. He said that complaintson e-ticketing i.e. toll free number shouldalso be redressed under the Right to Ser-vice Act. There should not be any kind oforder in this work. CMGGA PankhuriGupta, EO Balbir Rohilla, ADIO Rajiv,Dr. Gaurav Punia, Secretary Mohan Lal,Devendra More were present on the occa-sion.

All services on Saral portalmust be time bound: CTM

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, FEBRUARY 5

A meeting was held on Fridaywith all the panel advocates ofthe Sub Divisional Legal Ser-vices Committee, headed by theChief Magistrate and Secretary,District Legal Services Authori-ty, Karnal Amit Sharma, Addi-tional Civil Judge Senior Divi-sion and Chairman Sub-Divi-sional Legal Services Commit-tee, Assandh Aparna Bhardwajand Civil Judge Junior DivisionSunil Patlan. The purpose of thismeeting was to publicise theschemes being run by theHaryana government so that peo-ple can get benefits of theseschemes.

On this occasion, Aparna

Bhardwaj asked all the advocatesabout the problems being facedby them, to which they said thatwe have no problem of any kindin the Sub Divisional Legal Ser-vices Committee. Advocates

like Dushyant Singh, CDBansal, Karan Singh Rana,Manju Rani, Ram Niwas Shar-ma, Rajinder Kumar Attari,Harpreet Singh etc. participatedon the occasion.

Advocates hold meetingwith legal services panel

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, FEBRUARY 5

The MBBS course session 2020-2021 has started at KalpanaChawla Government Medical Col-lege Karnal. This year 120 stu-dents received admission. Thiswill be the second session accord-ing to the new syllabus of MBBScourse which has been implement-ed across the country from 2019session. The provisions of the newsyllabus include a foundationcourse at the beginning of the ses-sion that lasts for a few weeks.

Provision of this foundationcourse has been made to make thenewly selected medical studentsaware and sensitive about health-related issues quickly. The Foun-dation Course was formally inau-gurated by Director Kalpana

Chawla Government Medical Col-lege Dr. Jagdish Chandra Durejatoday in the presence of newly se-lected students and teachers. Theinstitute's director, dean and med-

ical superintendent welcomed allthe new students and wished themall a great year of excellence and aglorious medical career at the endof their studies.

MBBS session starts atKalpana Chawla College

4SMILING IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THE BEST BEAU-

TY REMEDIES. IF YOU HAVE A GOOD SENSE OFHUMOR AND A GOOD APPROACH TO LIFE,

THAT'S BEAUTIFUL.

RASHIDA JONES

SMILE IN THE MIRROR. DO THAT EVERY MORN-ING AND YOU'LL START TO SEE A BIG DIFFER-

ENCE IN YOUR LIFE.

YOKO ONO

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2021

MayaThat I should make much of myselfand turn it on all sides,thus casting colored shadows on thyradiance ---such is thy Maya.Thou settest a barrier in thine own be-ing and then callest thy severed self inmyriad notes. This thy self-separationhas taken body in me. The poignantsong is echoed through all the sky inmany-coloured tears and smiles,alarms and hopes; waves rise up andsink again, dreams break and form. Inme is thy own defeat of self.This screen that thou hast raised ispainted with innumerable figures withthe brush of the night and the day. Be-hind it thy seat is woven in wondrousmysteries of curves, casting away allbarren lines of straightness. The greatpageant of thee and me has over-spread the sky. With the tune of theeand me all the air is vibrant, and allages pass with the hiding and seekingof thee and me.

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

Economy, edu, entrepreneurship: A trilogy for self-reliant nation The notion of the ho-

listic development ofthe nation can only

be visualized throughitswill power and planning tofoster targeted economy.Budget-2021 is an attemptto actualize the idea ofSelf-Reliant Nationthrough economic commit-ment.

After two decades ofthe 21st century, which isgoing to be recognized asthe century of digitalknowledge, the FinanceMinister of the Govern-ment of India, Smt. Nir-mala Sitharamanhas pre-sented budget inthe paper-less form and has sincerelytried to align it to realizethe idea of Self-Reliant na-tion. It was submittedthroughMade in IndiaTablet, in which govern-ment announced historicalcorrective measures inhealth services and othersectors to revive and accel-erate our economy fromthe global crisis arising outof pandemic. In the midstof COVID-19 when theglobal economy is in crisisand many countries are in-troducing new taxes to re-vive their fiscal deficit, insuch a situation IndianGovernment hasdared topresent budget without im-posing any new tax. This isan exemplary evidence ofminimum government-maximum governance.

This budget is the re-flection of the foresight ofthe dynamic leadershipand is, in many ways, animportant initiative to-wards making our countryself-reliant. While it showsIndia's confidence in sense

of collectiveness, it alsoencourages and incen-tivizesone-person entrepre-neurship. The Union Bud-get 2021 presented by theFinance Minister is aroadmap of the future eco-nomic development of thecountry, andlays focus onthe six pillars for revivingthe economy - Health andWellbeing, Physical andFinancial Capital and In-frastructure, Inclusive De-velopment for AspirationalIndia, Reinvigorating Hu-man Capital, Innovationand R&D, and MinimumGovernment-MaximumGovernance.

General Budget-2021of the country is very im-portant to realize Hon'blePrime Minister ShriNarendra Modi's vision ofAll Round Development ofIndia and to make Aatm-Nirbhar Bharat. This budg-et will play a vital role torevive the country's slowprogress affected during

COVID times and acceler-ate industrial development.While this budget resolvesto strengthen the country'sinfrastructure and make In-dia self-reliant, it alsopaves the way for the im-plementation of the Na-tional Education Policy -2020 (NEP-2020) to re-es-tablishes India as the JagatGuru. The NEP-2020 notonly recognizes 'education'as the most powerfulmeans of national develop-ment but it also providesthe foundation for settingall standards of develop-ment. This budget provideseconomic support to theeducation sector to play asimilar role by ensuringeducation for all and forskill development.

This budget featuresimportant announcementsrelated to the educationsector such as the statutoryrecognition for the HigherEducation Commission ofIndia, the establishment of

umbrella structure in HEIsin 9 cities, the establish-ment of National ResearchFoundation with an annualbudget of 10,000 crores,the establishment of 100new Sainik Schools & 750Eklavya ResidentialSchools, allocation of35219 crores in six yearsfor the development ofSCs students, collaborationwith UAE & Japan forskill development, the es-tablishment of CentralUniversity at Leh etc. Thisbudget provides economicbasis for the effective im-plementation of NEP-2020and resolves to strengthen15000 schools initiallywhich will serve as themodel for NEP implemen-tation at school levelacross the nation. The fun-damental Right to Educa-tion could be achieved inaneffectivemanner only byenhancing the quality ofthe primary education.

The most crucial con-cern of the NEP-2020 isthe creation of patrioticcitizens in the country andto realize this goal, thisbudget proposes the estab-lishment of 100 SainikSchools across the countrywith the framework ofpublic-private partnership.Taking positive initiativesin Higher Education Sec-tor, this budget proposesthe establishment of theHigher Education Com-mission for regulatory, ac-creditation, standard set-ting and continuous fund-ing to Colleges & Univer-sities and thus ensures bet-ter synergy between insti-tutions and regulators.

As a part of its consti-

tutional imperatives tomake universal educationaccessible, special provi-sions have been made inthis budget to promote ed-ucation in tribal areasthrough the establishmentof 750 Eklavya residentialschools. The unit cost ofeach school has been in-creased from INR 20 croreto INR 38 crore and for re-mote areas, it has been in-creased to INR 48 crore.Further, special provisionshave also been made inthis budget for the welfareof Scheduled Caste stu-dents with the allocation of35219 crore by 2026 in thenext 06 years.

In this budget, an at-tempt has been made toformulate the fiscal blue-print to develop future en-trepreneurs and skillful cit-izens through effective im-plementation of NEP-2020, envisioned by ourHon'ble Minister of Educa-tion, Shri RameshPokhriyal 'Nishank'. Anamount of 3000 crore hasbeen allocated in thisbudget to promote skill-training in students.

Research has emergedas an important componentin the current global sce-nario. It is only throughmulti-disciplinary researchwith scientific tempera-mentwith emphasis on Vo-cal for Local that the dem-ocratic values can bestrengthened in the indi-vidual and the society.This budget is the most ef-fective step towards realiz-ing this goal of NEP-2020,under which a provision of10 thousand crore has beenmade for the National Re-

search Foundation everyyear. Earlier, only the cen-tral universities receivedfunds for research from theMinistry of Human Re-source Development. Butnow, state and private uni-versities based on theirquality and competitive-ness could also get grantsfrom National ResearchFoundation. The Ministryof Education is workingclosely with the PrincipalScientific Advisor for theimplementation of thisfoundation.

The major 09 cities ofthe country are centres ofeducation and research,where colleges, universi-ties and many research in-stitutes funded by theUnion Government arefunctioning. To maintainthe internal autonomy ofthese institutions and topromote research, a newGlue-Grant is proposed tocreate a formal umbrellastructure. The NationalLanguage Translation Mis-sion envisaged in the Na-tional Education Policy2020 for knowledge shar-ing between Indian lan-guages has also been men-tioned in this budget. Withthe establishment of thisMission, the governance-and-policy related knowl-edge, as well as the tradi-tional knowledge pre-served in various lan-guages of India, will bemade available on the in-ternet in major Indian Lan-guages which will promotethe sense of nationalism.

Prof. Raghavendra P. TiwariVC, CUP

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Anew study has found thatCOVID-19 patients who suf-fer cardiac arrest have a high-

er probability of dying in compari-son to those who are not infectedwith it. Women particularly have anine times higher chance of dyingdue to the same reason.

According to research publishedin the 'European Heart Journal', thestudy from Sweden included 1946people who suffered a cardiac arrestout of hospital (OHCA) and 1080who suffered one in hospital (IHCA)between 1 January and 20 July. Dur-ing the pandemic phase of the study,COVID-19 was involved in at least10 per cent of all OHCAs and 16 percent of IHCAs. Coronavirus patientswho had an OHCA had a 3.4-fold

increased risk of dying within 30days, while IHCA patients had a 2.3-fold increased risk of dying within30 days. None of these patients hadbeen discharged alive from the hos-pital by the time the study was writ-ten in October 2020. Many had diedand the rest were still being treatedin hospital. The first author of thestudy, Dr Pedram Sultanian, a doc-toral student at the University ofGothenburg (Sweden) said, "Ourstudy clearly shows that cardiac ar-rest and COVID-19 is a very lethalcombination. Patients with the coro-navirus should be monitored inten-sively and measures are taken to pre-vent cardiac arrest, for instance withthe use of continuous heart monitorsfor patients at high risk."

The Biden administrationhas announced that it isdelaying the H-1B poli-

cy of the previous Trump ad-ministration on allocation ofthe popular foreign work visasby continuing with the lotterysystem until December 31,2021, to give the immigrationagency more time to develop,test and implement the modi-fications to the registrationsystem.

On January 7, the US Cit-izenship and Immigration Ser-vices (USCIS) announced todo away with the traditionallottery system in deciding thesuccessful applicants for theH-1B visas.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows UScompanies to employ foreignworkers in specialty occupa-tions that require theoreticalor technical expertise. Thetechnology companies dependon it to hire tens of thousandsof employees each year fromcountries like India and Chi-na. The USCIS had said itwould prioritise wages to pro-tect the economic interests ofAmerican workers, and betterensure that the most highly

skilled foreign workers bene-fit from the temporary em-ployment programme.

In a statement on Thurs-day, the USCIS said that it isdelaying the rule's effectivedate until December 31, 2021.The Trump-era rule wasscheduled to go into effect onMarch 9.

"To give USCIS moretime to develop, test, and im-plement the modifications tothe H-1B registration systemand selection process, DHS isdelaying the effective date ofthis final rule from March 9,2021, to December 31, 2021,"it said. This is because it willnot have adequate time tocomplete system develop-ment, thoroughly test the

modifications, train staff andconduct public outreach need-ed to ensure an effective andorderly implementation of theH1B Selection Final Rule bythe time the initial registrationperiod will be open for the up-coming fiscal year (FY) 2022H-1B cap season, the USCISsaid.

The delay will also pro-vide more time for the USCISto train staff and perform pub-lic outreach as well as givestakeholders time to adjust tothe new rule. For the upcom-ing H-1B cap season, the US-CIS will apply the currentregulations (random selection)to any registration period thattakes place before December31, 2021, the statement said.

UCC palaeontologists have dis-covered new evidence that thefate of vertebrate animals over

the last 400 million years has beenshaped by microscopic melanin pig-ments. This new twist in the story ofanimal evolution is based on cutting-edge analyses of melanin granules -melanosomes - in many different fossiland modern vertebrates, including fish,amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mam-mals.

Melanin and melanosomes havetraditionally been linked to outermostbody tissues such as skin, hair, andfeathers, with important roles in UVprotection and stiffening of tissues.

Analyses of where different ani-mals store melanin in the body, howev-er, show that different vertebrategroups concentrate melanin in different

organs, revealing shifts in how animalshave used melanin over the last 400million years. The study, published to-day in the journal Trends in Ecologyand Evolution, was led by UCCpalaeontologists Prof. Maria McNama-ra, Dr Chris Rogers, Dr Valentina Rossiand PhD student Tiffany Slater, with aninternational team of evolutionary bi-ologists from Switzerland.

"Most studies of fossil melaninhave focussed on melanin in fossilfeathers and skin, and what colours an-cient animals had," said study leaderProf. McNamara. "By comparingmelanin in different animals - howmuch melanin they have, where in thebody it occurs, what melanin type andcomposition is present - and by study-ing fossils, we discovered new evi-dence for changes in the functions of

melanin through deep time," addedProf. McNamara. The research showsthat amphibians and reptiles concen-trate melanin in internal organs, whereit supports the immune system andstores metals. In birds and mammals,however, almost all melanin occurs inhair and feathers. This difference hasan unexpected source - evolution of theimmune system and of warm-bloodedlifestyles. "There are pros and cons tohaving melanin in the body. Melanin ishugely beneficial, but it also generatesfree radicals, which are harmful. Thiscreates a major problem for animals,"said team member Dr Rossi.

During the evolution of hair andfeathers, mammals and birds evolvedmore sophisticated immune systemsthan in amphibians and reptiles. Thismeant that large amounts of melanin

were no longer necessary in internalorgans. Melanin storage then shifted tohair and feathers, which are dead tis-sues, thereby removing harmful metalsand free radicals from living bodyparts. "Melanin is a two-sided coin. It'suseful, but toxic. Birds and mammalsbasically came up with an ingenioussolution during the early Triassic -pump melanin into new, outer, deadskin tissues that were evolving at thetime. This set the scene for the evolu-tion of the incredible diversity ofplumage and fur patterning which wesee today," said Prof. McNamara.

The study also shows that keygenes can be mapped onto colour pat-terns in fossils, tracking the geneticevolution of melanin through time, andthat animals preferentially use less tox-ic forms of melanin.

EDITORIALGovt’s anti-Twitter ragebetrays own uncertainty

India’s threat to take legal action against Twitterbetrays thin-skinned sensitivity breached bypointed criticism of a few actions of the state in

the matter of handling the farmers’ strike againstthree contentious agriculture laws. The overt attackon Twitter is illustrative of the government and theruling party’s selective outrage because certaintruths may have hit home. But Twitter is just a mes-senger carrying all shades of opinions of users. Inraging against Twitter India is in danger of missingthe wood for the trees. The issue has more to do withthe perception of peaceful dissent being an active in-gredient of democracy. The opinions of celebritiesmay sometimes be unpalatable but only in respond-ing is importance attached to them. There is no needfor official India to have reacted like this to individ-ual opinions unless they came from State actors as itdid in the case of the Canadian Prime Minister. WhatRihanna or Kangana Ranaut and Greta Thunberg orSachin Tendulkar think of a social issue like treat-ment of farmers is strictly a matter of personal opin-ion and the public can easily see through celebritiesif they are seen to offer opinions only in orchestratedcampaigns stoked by jingoism or faux nationalism.The farmers’ strike against Indian laws is an internalmatter and if a nation like the United States feelscompelled to have its say on the subject, India is freeto take it up through diplomatic channels. Much thesame argument arose when violent raiders landed onthe US Capitol on Jan. 6 after which India’s PrimeMinister felt compelled to comment. But sensitivitycannot be allowed to become such a regressive qual-ity as to take us back to an era in which official Indiasaw a foreign hand or a global conspiracy every timesomeone in authority said something in a world cap-ital. The right to the Internet is fundamental in amodern democratic setting but Twitter is merely onemicroblogging platform used by many. Its inconsis-tencies have been made obvious in its handling oftweets, some of them outrageous or even outrightlies and which were selectively removed as offen-sive or promoted in the guise of “free speech”. Thesocial media, particularly Facebook and Twitter,have monetised hate because abusive content, whichgenerates user engagement in millions, has become ahighly marketable commodity in the Internet era. Itis ridiculous if someone complains now after havingcynically weaponised the same platform as a medi-um to sell ideologies and ideas or to canvass votes.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Counseling dates for recruitment of JBTteachers announcedSOLAN: The counseling for the recruitment of 47 posts of JBT teachers in Solan district onbatch basis will be held from 15th - 18th February 2021 at the office of District Educationand Training Institute (Diet) Solan. This information has been provided by Deputy Directorof Elementary Education, Roshan Jaswal. Roshan Jaswal said that this recruitment will bedone on contract basis. He added that the list of eligible candidates has been receivedfrom various employment offices and call letters are being sent to these candidates forcounselling. The candidates will have to appear for counselling at the Diet Institute Solanfrom 15th - 18th February at 10:30am. He said that 19 posts of general category, 11 postsof scheduled caste category, 1 post of scheduled tribe category, 9 posts of other backwardclasses, 1 post of dependents of freedom fighters and 6 posts of economically weaker sec-tion are available for recruitment.

HIMACHAL/JK20-year-old girlcommits suicideJYOTI SYALHAROLI: A 20-year-old girl hascome under the trap of committingsuicide by falling under the Haroliassembly constituency of districtUna. According to the informationreceived, the 20-year-old girl hangedherself from the fan of her houseand gave up her body. Her deadbody sent it to the regional hospitalUna for postmortem. After the post-mortem, the body will be handedover to the family. The police haveregistered a case and started furtherproceedings. According to sources,the girl belonged to a very poorfamily.

Survey from Feb 8 indistrict Una to identifyTB patients: DC

JYOTI SYALUNA: The central and stategovernments have launched TBeradication programs across thecountry to make the country TB-freeby the year 2025. Under this, asurvey will be conducted fromFebruary 8 to find new cases of TBin district Una. This information wasgiven by Deputy CommissionerRaghav Sharma while presidingover a review meeting today. Heappealed to the general public tocooperate in this survey. The DCsaid that from February 8, the firstsurvey work will be done in PoliBeit, Ram Nagar, Jot, Sasan andTei villages of district Una so thatTB patients can be identified andgiven timely treatment. Healthdepartment employees have beentrained for the survey. He said thatthe work of checking the data of thesurvey at the national level is to becompleted by 7 March. If there is a20 percent drop in TB cases in Una,the district will claim a bronzemedal.Raghav Sharma said thatdistrict Una ranks ninth in thecountry and third in the state in thelowest cases of TB.

Memorandum to DistrictCollector for inaugurationof Diggal College BuildingSHANTI GAUTAMBADDI: It has been more than ayear, since college building inDiggal was built. But it has not beeninaugurated yet, due to whichclasses have not been started here.The college classes are currentlyrunning in a section of the schoolbuilding. Due to this, not only thecollege is facing tightness of thebuilding, but also the school isfacing tightness of space. On thissubject, a delegation led by newlyelected head of Diggal PanchayatPawan Kaushal met the DistrictCollector KC Chaman in Solan, andrequested that the college buildingshould be inaugurated at theearliest and handed over to thecollege administration.

nCoV: 67 swabs taken after mid-daymeal cook tests positive in Hamirpur

UNIHAMIRPUR, FEB 5

A team of the department ofhealth today took samples of 67people including teachers, non-teaching staff and studentsfollowing detection of a cook ofthe Government school testedpositive two days ago.

School had been closed tillSaturday and would be opened

only after the report of thesamples of their tests werereceived. It’s worth mentioninghere that a female mid-dayworker of the Didwin Schoolwas found positive. She hadearlier cooked food for the class8th students of the school.

Meanwhile, the departmentof health and the department ofeducation have decided to takesamples of all the cooks working

in all the schools of the districtfor testing.

On other hand, the districtauthorities are highly upset overthe sudden detection of newpositive cases at a time when thenumber of active cases had comedown to seven and it was hopedthat the district would becomeCORONA free district in a dayor two. Earlier too during themonth of December when the

number of active cases had comedown to eleven, there wasgeneral spurt in the new casesand their number had risen tomore than two hundreds. Thereare reports that theadministration has directed theofficers of all the departments toensure that social distancing wasproperly ensured and thoseviolating the orders be taken totask.

City receives brightsunshine after two days

HAMIRPUR: After two days of bad weather, the district onFriday received bright sunshine accompanied by chilly windssweeping across the district. Elderly people in large numberswere seen basking in the sun to keep them away from the cold.The temperature was recorded at 18 degrees celsius maximumand 6 degrees celsius minimum around 1100 hours today. Thedepartment of weather has predicted a generally cloudy sky in theafternoon hours with light rains.

Tourists enjoy snowfall inShimla, Manali & Dalhousie

AGENCYSHIMLA, FEB 5

The major tourist resorts whichhaving thin presence of touristswho are enjoying snowfall inShimla, Kufri, Narkanda, Manaliand Dalhousie as the state hasbeen experiencing the first majorsnowfall this year. It alsobringing the cheer to farmers andlocal people. However, most ofroads in Shimla and high landareas of district are snowbound.This Capital town recorded about57 cm snowfall which is a majorsnowfall in this winter season.District Administration Shimlacould not able to open the majorroad linking to Shimla as it was

snowing continuously. Somesnow cutters could be pressed onthe important and VIP roads,however, slippery roads were notfit for traffic movement. Thereare heavy snowfall at touristresort, Kufri and Narkanda, sinceFriday morning. Hindustan TibetNational Highway blocked, dueto mounting of about half-feetsnowfall on the road from Dhallito Kufri and Fagu and betweenMatiyana and Narkanda, all linkroads are off in the high landareas of Shimla district. Numberof HRTC, Local buses strandedon the way in various roadforcing the commuters to walkon the slippery road to reach theirdestinations.

Exports awareness seminar ofEEPC begins in Paonta Sahib

OUR CORRESPONDENTPAONTA SAHIB, FEB 5

Engineering ExportsPromotion Council (EEPCIndia) in association withHimachal Chamber ofCommerce and Industry(HCCI) organized ExportAwareness Seminar atChamber House, Gondpur,Paonta Sahib, covering variousaspects of export business. Onthe occasion of thisinformative seminar 'ExportAwareness Program &International BusinessOpportunities', the Convenor,Baddi Chapter HimachalPresident Arun Shukla toldthat the objective of thisprogram is to make theengineering manufacturersaware of exports andencourage them to considerexporting as a viable option.The seminar was chaired bySatish Goyal, President of

Himachal Chamber ofCommerce and IndustryPaonta Chapter. Gyan SinghChauhan, GM, DistrictIndustries Center, Sirmour andSakshi Satti, MemberSecretary, SWCA, PaontaSahib were also present onbehalf of the IndustriesDepartment. Satish Goyalwelcomed everyone and saidthat it should be ensured thatsuch seminars do not justremain locked in the room.Various presentations weremade during the seminar titled"Basics of Exports forNewcomers and Exporters".Exporters and trade experts ofEEPC India, Delhi, HCCI

Paonta Sahib, Central DrugsStandard ControlOrganization, Baddi exportersand trade experts spoke andexplained about the processesand documentation,production and marketing,export/import registration,export promotion and the roleof SMEs in promoting exports.Addressing the entrepreneursparticipating in the seminar,Gyan Singh Chauhan of GMIndustry discussed thepossibilities and problems ofexports in different marketsand gave information aboutusing business prospects tothrive in the export market. Heurged Paonta Sahib and nearby

entrepreneurs to develop apassion for exports anddedicate all their energies tothe realization of their dreams.Arvind Kukreti, Deputy DrugsController (India), CentralDrugs Standard ControlOrganization, Baddi,Himachal Pradesh advised allpharma manufacturers andexporters to target theirproducts keeping in mind thecompetitive quality and bestprices as per the preferences ofthe customers after makingcomparisons based on thecountries and their markets.He also shared information ofthe industry and morespecifically the expansion ofthe MSME sector byexpanding innovation byincorporating time innovation,bringing in best globalpractices, responding tochanging global demands,timely delivery and qualitywith best prices.

National Farmers OrganizationKhand Banga holds meet

JOGINDER DEV ARYABANGANA

National FarmersOrganization KhandBangana met today atShivalik Hotel which waschaired by Block PresidentPandit Gyan Chand Sharmaand Deshraj ModgilNational General Secretary,Bal Kishan Shastri StateGeneral Secretary Thakur Karm SinghState Head of State Ramesh Soni StateOffice Secretary Prakash ChandSharma District General Secretary AnilSagar, Thakur Puran Singh ChaudharyJagarnath, former Panchayat Samitichairman Tarsem Lal Sahota, ArunPatial participated.

In the meeting, the farmersmovement in Delhi was discussed indetail and National General SecretaryDeshraj Modgil said that this is ahistoric movement, for the first time thefarmer has united and is fighting for hisrights and the farmer will be successfulin achieving his rights. Deshraj Modgilsaid that on 6 February, agitation willbe organized in Bangana on the call ofthe Kisan Joint Struggle Committee

Deshraj Moudgil has calledon the farmers of the area toreach maximum number ofBengalis on 6 February tomake the movementsuccessful.

Modgil said that all thethree laws imposed by thegovernment are anti-farmerand the National FarmersOrganization demands thePrime Minister and the

Government of India to add theirvictory and immediately repeal thesebills and negotiate with the farmers.And Delhi said that the governmentshould enact the Minimum SupportPrice Guarantee Act, which is notgetting the right price for its produce.Modgil said that the government isadopting a repressive policy to crushthe farmers 'movement, the results ofwhich will not be good, then thegovernment is trying to negotiate withthe farmers and on the other hand, tocrush the farmers' movement, there arevarious tricks in their hands. Ho saidthat the government should leave theoppressive policy and immediately talkto the farmers and accept theirdemands.

Large number of people coming to meet Chaitanya SharmaGAGRETJYOTI SYAL

Just as Chaitanya Sharma won theZilla Parishad election by a recordvote. People are reaching to visitChaitanya Sharma. Chaitanya Sharmais meeting around 35 to 40 peopleevery day and listening to theirproblems. Some problems areresolved on the spot and someproblems are being sent to theconcerned authorities so that peopledo not have any kind ofinconvenience, with this, they haveorganized a program in 16 panchayats

of their Zilla Parishad ward underwhich Chaitanya Sharma will performa programme in every Panchayat toexpress his gratitude to the public for1 day. Under this program, people'sproblems will also be heard and workwill be started on them soon. Withwhich Chaitanya Sharma will be ableto know the problems of people moreclosely and will make every effort toovercome them. This program willrun from 19 February to 20 March,except one day there will be aprogram in every panchayat. In whichstudents will be given scholarshipsand other work will be discussed.

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, FEB 5

The Chairman of the SixthState Finance Commission,Satpal Singh Satti, todaydistributed free uniforms to578 students in GovernmentSenior Secondary School,Bahdala under the AtalVardi Yojana. On thisoccasion, he also gave a 750ml water bottle of steel tothe students of class IX andalso gave certificates to thestudents who came inmerit.He said that thescheme of providing freeuniforms to the students wasstarted by the previous BJPgovernment, whichincreased the number ofstudents in government

schools. He said that thestate government is makingefforts to provide qualityeducation to the students, aswell as running severalschemes to encouragestudents to get to school.Meritorious students arebeing provided with freelaptops. They were alsogiven school bags and nowthe state government is alsoproviding steel waterbottles to students of first,third and ninth class free ofcost. Satti said that the stategovernment, under theleadership of ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur,has taken up this position toban the use of plasticbottles. In view of this, thegovernment has decided to

distribute steel bottles.During the programme, thePresident of the Sixth StateFinance Commission saidthat the corona is towardsthe end. The largestvaccination campaign in theworld has started in Indiaand the first phase vaccineshave started. He appealedthat when it comes time tovaccinate, do not backdown and must bevaccinated. Vaccines madein the country arecompletely safe andeffective. At the same time,he also stressed that untilthe vaccine is in place, keepadopting safety measures.Use a mask, wash yourhands frequently and takeproper distance.

Corona vaccine safe, get vaccinatedwhen your turn comes: Satti

Mehr ChandPolytechnic Collegeobserves ‘WorldCancer Day’

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR Pharmacy department ofMehr Chand Polytechnic Collegeorganized a webinar on ‘Myths andfacts about cancer. HOD Dr. SanjayBansal informed that to spreadawareness about cancer, a webinarwas arranged by Dr. Archan Dutta,Oncologist, PIMS, Jalandhar. Projectcoordinator Meena Bansal told that inmost of the cancer cases, symptomsappear quite late and then it becomesdifficult to cure...Prof. Kashmir Kumar(Internal Co-ordinator CDTP) releaseda pamphlet on this occasion. PrincipalDr. Jagroop Singh appreciated theeffort done by Pharmacy deptt. MeenaBansal, Rajeev Bhatia, ManjuManchanda, Richa Arora, KashmirKumar, Sandeep Kumar, PankalGupta, Prince Madaan, Karan InderSingh, Savita Kumari, Neha, SureshKumar, Manoj Kumar and about 60students and interns from PIMS,Jalandhar were Present. HOD Dr.Sanjay Bansal thanked all.

Chakka Jam to be heldpeacefully in SAS NagarSUKHVINDER SHANSAS NAGAR: Farmers Unions' leadersannounced that chakka Jam would beimplemented peacefully in district S.A.SNagar (Mohali) from 12 P.M to 3 P.Mtomorrow. Kissan leader Gian SinghDharak told that all farmers leaderswould protest and chakka jam at tollplazas in the district like Bhagomajara(Kharar), Derabassi, Banur, Baroudi andLakhnaur. Gian Singh Said, "We don'twant to disturb the people, so we willmaintain peace and brotherhood."Param Baidwan, Youth leader said thatall farmers and supporters would gatherin front of Gurduwara Singh ShaheedaSohan in Mohali at 11.30 and wouldblock the roads from 12 to 3 p.m.Amandeep Singh, convener PunjabKisaan Union district S.A.S Nagar toldthat they would implement ChakkaJam at Mullapur Barrier in NewChandigarh. He told that all farmers ofIndia want to repeal new agri laws, butModi government would implementforcefully in the country.

To save property and life, always obeytraffic rules

SUMER GARGSANGRUR: Under the National roadsafety mission(which is being observedfrom 18th January till 17th Februaryevery year) and under the able guidanceof Deputy commissioner, Sangrur,Ramvir the Secretary Regional transportauthority Sangrur, Karanveer SinghChhina has started a special campaignby organising a camp in Spring dalesschool at here today. While apprising thedrivers & school childrens regarding thetraffic rules Chhina Sahib warned themto not use mobiles while driving theirvehicles, so that your life & propertiescan be saved. Among the otherinstructions given to the management &bus driver of schools, Chhina pastedreflectors on the vehicles.

No stone will be left unturnedfor development in BBMBwards: Rana Kanwarpal

KULWINDER BHATIANANGAL: Punjab Assembly SpeakerRana Kanwarpal Singh today addressedan election rally in favor of the Congresscandidate Indu Bala for the MunicipalCouncil elections in Ward No.11, He saidthat the wards belonging to BBMB havebeen specially developed by theCongress and all the roads, which wereunpaved for the last 50 years have beenpaved. He said that no stone would beleft unturned in the development ofBBMB wards in future also.Accompanying him on the occasionwere Intuk leader Satnam Singh,Sukhdev Singh, RK Jaswal, RanBahadur Singh Rana, Krishnanand andother Congress leaders.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2021

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Mother running piller to post to find her sonANKUSH SHARMALUDHIANA: One mother is running piller to post for finding his son, who is missing since 20September 2020 and also alleged that police did not lodged any report. Today victim motherAsha Rani wife of Bhushan Kumar approached the Police Commissioner for demandingnecessary action. She told to media that his son Manish Kumar is missing since last 20-09-2020. The victim said that she went to the police station Division no.4, for getting lodgedreport in this regard, but instead of lodging any report, concerned police sent me to the jail tofind him. The victim said that she also found her son there, but the jail authorities told no anyperson is in Jail of his son's name. Upon which she again reached police station number 4and demanded to report her son's missing, but the concerned police still has not taken anyaction. She demanded that her son be find as soon because she is worrying about him.

Economic growth will only moveupwards: Shaktikanta Das

AGENCYMUMBAI, FEB 5

Stressing that economic growthwill only move upwards, theReserve Bank of India GovernorShaktikanta Das on Fridaypegged the GDP growth rate forthe next financial year at 10.5 percent, though a tad lower than thegovernment's projection of 11per cent. The projection is in linewith the estimates in the UnionBudget 2021-22 presented inParliament earlier this week.

The Economic Survey,tabled by the government inParliament recently, hasprojected that the economy willgrow at 11 per cent, up from anestimated historic decline of 7.7per cent in 2020-21, on accountof the COVID-19 pandemic. "...going forward, the Indianeconomy is poised to move inonly one direction and that isupwards," Das said whileunveiling the bi-monthlymonetary policy.

The Governor said the UnionBudget 2021-22, has provided astrong impetus for revival ofsectors such as health and well-being, infrastructure, innovation

and research, among others.This, he said will have a

cascading multiplier effect goingforward, particularly inimproving the investmentclimate and reinvigoratingdomestic demand, income andemployment. Also, thevaccination drive is expected toprovide an impetus for therestoration of contact intensivesectors and a leading edge to theIndian pharma industry in theglobal market, Das said, while

highlighting various aspects ofthe economy. "It is our strongconviction, backed by forecasts,that in 2021-22, we would undothe damage that COVID-19 hasinflicted on the economy," hestressed. The monetary policystatement issued by the RBI saidrural demand is likely to remainresilient on good prospects ofagriculture. Urban demand anddemand for contact-intensiveservices is expected tostrengthen with the substantial

fall in COVID-19 cases and thespread of vaccination. Consumerconfidence, it said is revivingand business expectations ofmanufacturing, services andinfrastructure remain upbeat.

"The fiscal stimulus underAtmaNirbhar 2.0 and 3.0schemes of government willlikely accelerate publicinvestment, although privateinvestment remains sluggishamidst still low capacityutilisation," it added. "... realGDP growth is projected at 10.5per cent in 2021-22 in the rangeof 26.2 to 8.3 per cent in H1 and6.0 per cent in Q3," Das said.

After the Budget 2021-22announcement on Monday,Economic Affairs SecretaryTarun Bajaj had said that realGDP growth would be 10-10.5per cent in the next fiscal.

"Our revenue figure is under-stated not overstated. We havetaken nominal GDP at 14.4 percent and revenue growth at 16.7per cent. So, the buoyancy isonly 1.16. We are hopeful wewill get more than this. We willdefinitely be within 6.8 per centand could be lower also," Bajajhad said.

KOLKATA, FEB 5

The Infant Jesus Church ofMakrampur at Shantiniketan hasinstalled a Station of The Cross –depicting the crucifixion of Christ -and a grotto in the shape of a conchshell dedicated to the Lady ofLourdes. “The Church, which isdrawing a lot of visitors, hasbecome a pilgrim centre inBirbhum district for people of allfaiths since the Jubilee Year ofMercy declared by the Pope. It is anadded attraction in Shantiniketanwhere people come to seek peace,tranquility and also appreciate theunique spiritual atmosphere. We

shall celebrate a Feast on February2, 2021, for the first time this year,”said Bolpur parish priest, FatherAnthony Raj, who belongs to theAsansol diocese. “This year thepatronal feast was held on 2ndFebruary 2021 with theinauguration of open air Stations ofthe Cross with some 54 life-size

statues depicting the incidents inthe final journey of Jesus carryinghis cross to be Crucified on Calvaryhill. It was during these pandemictimes that our Parish PastoralCouncil decided to put up theStations of the Cross and a Grottodedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes,”Fr Raj said.

Infant Jesus Church at Shantiniketan installsStations of The Cross; draws people of all faiths

Nirmala Devi assumes charge asdirector of Punjab Agro

PRITPAL SINGHJALANDHAR, FEB 5

A new director of PunjabAgro Industries CorporationNirmala Devi todayassumed the charge of heroffice at Chandigarh inpresence of Former PunjabMinister and Chairman ofPunjab Agro IndustriesCorporation Joginder SinghMann, MLA Rajinder Beriand Mayor JalandharMunicipal CorporationJagdish Raj Raja.Complimenting NirmalaDevi for the newappointment, the Chairmanof Punjab Agro Mannthanked the Punjab ChiefMinister Captain AmarinderSingh and President ofPunjab Congress SunilJakhar for this appointment.

The Chairman and MLA

also expressed hope that MrsNirmala Devi wouldcontinue the hard work fordisseminating the pro-people and developmentoriented policies of Punjabgovernment amongstpeople. On the occasionNirmala Devi whilethanking Chief Minister,Jakhar, MLA, Chairmanand Mayor said that she wasoverwhelmed with the newresponsibility bestowedupon by her by theGovernment. Nirmala Devisaid that she would notleave any stone unturned tomake the party strong atground level.

Shaheed Resham Singh givenfarewell with teary eyes

GURDARSHAN SINGHPRINCEBEAS, FEB 5

Jawan Resham Singh, residentof Guru Nanak Pura, a nearbyvillage of Beas, who wasposted in Tripura, suddenly fellfrom a tower during the duty.Resham Singh was martyred,and when his body wasbrought to his village, therewas a dismal atmosphereeverywhere and people fromall over the area visited hishouse to express theircondolences. In order to givethe last farewell to the martyrJawan Resham Singh, theofficers of the BSF and thesoldiers gave him a lastfarewell giving salutes, withfull state honors. It isnoteworthy that despite theextreme poverty in the house,

Shaeed Resham Singhachieved the honor of servingin the Indian Army by his hardwork and studies, and onseeing him, many of hisvillagers were inspired by himto join the army. But todaysuddenly there is a wave ofgrief across the area due to thissad incident. MLA SantokhSingh and other political,social workers, jathebandisand people from all over thearea were present in largenumbers to give the lastfarewell to Shaheed ReshamSingh on behalf of the PunjabGovernment.

Himachal will soon get a bigindustrial project: Vikram

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, FEB 5

Industries, Transport, Laborand Employment MinisterVikram Thakur said thatHimachal Pradesh is hopeful ofgetting a very big industrialproject from the CentralGovernment soon. He said thatHimachal had worked hard toacquire the bulk drug park.Which is likely to bringpositive results. He said that forthe bulk drug park, the CentralGovernment will get financialassistance of Rs. 1000 crores,while there will be a totalinvestment of Rs. 10,000crores, which will providedirect employmentopportunities to more than25,000 youth and its directbenefit apart from Una districtKangra, Hamirpur andBilaspur districts will also beprovided. He said that after theformation of BJP governmentunder the leadership of ChiefMinister Jairam Thakur in theyear 2018, 239 new industries

have come up in HimachalPradesh. Through whichinvestment of Rs 8049 crorehas been made. This hasprovided employment to21,000 youth. The stategovernment is doing its best toattract investment. GlobalInvestor Meet was organizedin this direction. After this, aninvestment of 14,000 crores inthe first ground breakingceremony has been put on theground. Out of this, work on50 percent is going on at a fastpace, while the remaining 50percent of work has beenreturned on track despite thedelay due to Corona period.He said that the secondground breaking ceremonywill be organized in themonth of March or April, inwhich the target of landing aninvestment of Rs 10 thousandcrore is set. In response to aquestion, Vikram Thakur saidthat the state government iscommitted to preparing anindustrial friendly environmentin the state.

MAD club honors Pooja Goyal foroutstanding performance

MAHAVIR GOYAL,BIPAN SETHIAHMEDGARH,FEB 5

Munde Ahmedgarh De Welfare Clubawarded Certificate of Appreciation toPooja Goyal,girl from Ahmedgarh forher spectacular achievement in JEEAdvance test.MAD club is the maidenclub who took the pleasure to recogniseher National Level success.It is worthmentioning that her success story hasset an example for other students whoare going to appear in board exams aswell as national level entranceexams.MAD club has decided toappoint and represent her as anambassador of "BETI PADHAO"campaign on Ahmedgarhregion.Rakesh Garg said that girls cantake the guidance from her on any issuerelated to academics."It would be mypleasure to provide help and guidanceto uplift the standard of education ofgirl students.I dedicate my glorious

success to my worthy teachers",remarked Pooja.Parents of Pooja GoyalMahavir Goyal and mrs.Anita Goyalrequested to residents to provide moreopportunities to girls to face thechallenges of life and conquer theworld with wisdom and patience. Poojafurther added that MAD club hasinitiated the mission to furnish mycapabilities and now it is myresponsibility and accountability toaccomplish that mission.Pooja hasbecome an iconic personalityofAhmedgarh after qualifying theprestigious JEE entrance exam.

PGI Ministerial EmployeesUnion asks for promotion

of clerks as per rules

RN KHERACHANDIGARH, FEB 5

Ministerial & Secretarial Employees Union,PGIMER, Chandigarh is holding this Pressconference due to highly corruptious behavior of thePGI Administration towards the serious issues raisedby the Union. Harbhajan Singh Bhatti, PresidentMinisterial & Secretarial Employees Union, PGIwhile interacting with the media in Press Club heresaid, " The competent autority is not promoting theclerical staff as per the directions, orders of the GoIon the basis of recommendations of the 2nd CadreReview implementation for PGIMER, Chandigarh.The Government of India issued directive vide letterdated 06.08.2001 restricting the promotional avenuein the Ministerial cadre on the lines of the 2nd cadrereview orders, however, Institute through its middlelevel Officers severely violated the directives of theGoI by granting financial and promotional benefitsto the class without any conceptual hierarchydirected by the Government of India, Ministry ofHealth & Family Welfare."

Raikot MC Polls: Unitedfront created to give blowto other political parties

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, FEB 5

A united front was formed by various political partiesto contest the Raikot Municipal Council elections anddefeat the ruling party. This front was led by Dr. TPSingh, Comrade Santokh Singh Gill, Comrade DaljitKumar Gora, Lalit Jain, Ram Kumar Chhapa.Speaking to reporters on the occasion, the leaderssaid that this front has been created for the bettermentof the city and it is above the groupism. PresentingSiropas to the candidates fielded from 13 differentwards of the united front, they said that the candidatesshould contact the voters in their respective wards torun the campaign diligently and demand votes fromthe voters on the basis of development. On thisoccasion, Navdeep Kaur from Ward No. 1, Ward No.2 to Buta Singh Chapa, Ward No. 3 Rubit Garg, WardNo. 4 Sanjeev Kumar Bauwa, Ward No. 5 KamleshRani, Ward No. 8 Jagjit Singh Lali, Ward No. 9 BaljitKaur, Ward No. 10 Rajkumar Raju, Ward No. 11Prem Lata, Ward No 12 Gursewak Singh Mittha,Ward No. 13 Kamaljit Kaur, Ward No. 14, Dr. HarpalSingh Grewal from Ward No.14.

Dr. Attri honored forproviding excellent

services in health sector

R.SINGHPATHANKOT, FEB 5

Dr. ML Atri was specially honored by Shiv SenaHind for providing good services for 22 years inthe Civil Hospital and thereafter,providingexcellent facilities to the people in the hospital atManwal.During this time, Punjab GeneralSecretary of Shiv Sena Hind Manga President saidthat Dr. ML Atri, while working as a front linewarrior even during Covid-19, provided healthfacilities to the needy people, which is less to bepraised. Dr. ML Atri thanked the members of ShivSena Hind.He was accompanied by Rahul,Dwarka, Ganesh, Pawan, Gulshan, Rajan.

'Agriculture Minister trying tojustify failed farming modelsin Europe and United States'

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU, FEB 5

Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee Punjab StatePresident Satnam Singh Pannu, General SecretarySarwan Singh Pandher, Savinder Singh Chatala whilebriefing the press said that the BJP government hasdeclared to doubl its agricultural income throughprivate participation. In Bihar and Madhya Pradesh,where it has state governments, wheat and paddy isbought on less than MSP etc on seven-eight hundredrupees per quintal and is being sell in the mandis ofPunjab? Dairy farms, poultry farms, bee keeping,vegetables, fruits etc. are in the private sector - canModi Sahib explain why farmers could not becomeking? Tomar ji, your government has given supportfor a bloody Holi by the rioters but no action has beentaken against the rioters and your government has notspoken on these issues.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

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Commandant 7th Battalion PAP, 100 copsget covid jabsJALANDHAR: The commandant 7th battalion of PAP Harkamal Preet Singh Khakh,having additional charge of AIG counter Intelligence Jalandhar zone on Friday receivedCovid vaccine in the session site at PAP Community Health Centre. Khakh along with 100cops of the 7th battalion took the shot of the Covidshield vaccine and followed the manda-tory protocol by sitting in the observation room for half an hour. Later, they resumed theiroffice after completing all formalities required following the vaccination. Harkamal PreetSingh Khakh said that all of us are feeling totally fine and told this special vaccinationcamp is being held On the directions of Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta, to cover all officers/officials of the Punjab Police being frontline workers in the pandemic.

SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI/CHANDIGARH,FEB 5

“I am happy that two of the State’sfrontline warriors who planned andexecuted the war against novel co-rona virus from the very beginningof the outbreak of pandemic, havebeen vaccinated today. I wish themand the entire Department of Healthand the Department of Medical Ed-ucation all the best for successfulconduct of phase II of COVID vac-cination drive”, said Vini Mahajan,Chief Secretary Punjab during hervisit to Civil Hospital Mohali.

She had come especially to standby the senior officers of the depart-ment of Health and Medical Educa-tion who received Covishied jabs atthe Civil Hospital. Mr. Hussan LalPrincipal Secretary Health and Mr.DK Tewari Principal SecretaryMedical Education & Researchwere amongst those who receivedinoculation today. Deputy Com-missioner Girish Dayalan was alsopresent on the occasion. “Hopecoming forward of large number ofCivil and Police officers as well asthe Health Care workers will clearthe misgivings in the minds of peo-ple and vaccination would get agreater push,” said Chief Secretary.

As of now, 65345 HCWs and 2516Frontline Workers have been vacci-nated in the State. Mohali CivilHospital today remained the centreof high profile activity with senior

bureaucrats and vigilance officerscoming for vaccination. 133 front-line workers including LakshmeeKant Yadav IG, Vibhu Raj IG,Ashish Kapoor SP, H.S. Bhullar SP

, Mr Ishwar Singh ADGP Law andOrder, Ajay Kumar Pandey IG Lawand Order were amongst those whoreceived the jabs in SAS Nagar onFriday.

PSH, PSMER get jabs at civil hospital Mohali

AAP is committed toclean filth ofcorruption : Dr. KJ

GAGAN BAWAGURDASPUR: The Aam AadmiParty is committed to sweeping thefilth of corruption in Punjab with abroom and providing cleangovernance with basic amenities tothe general public on the lines ofthe Delhi government to providefree electricity, water, good healthcare and quality education. Thesewords were uttered by Aam AadmiParty leader Dr. Kamaljit Singh KJ.Launches Election Campaign AtDhariwal Bus Stand WithCandidates Fighting DhariwalMunicipal Council Elections On thisoccasion he said that the voterswere fed up with Akali Dal, BJPAnd with the genocidal policies ofthe Congress. They are eager tovote for the Aam Aadmi Partycandidate and make themcouncilors. He appealed to thepeople to vote for the Aam AadmiParty candidate on February 14 forthe overall development of the city.Advocate Shivcharan Singh Mann,Dalbir Masih Lehehal, PeterMattoo, Ajit Singh ManmohanSingh, Kartar Chang.

Punjabi University's agitatingemployees asks universityauthorities either deliver or quitJAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: After going withoutsalaries and pensions for the lasttwo months now agitatingemployees and pensioners ofPunjabi University here on Fridayhas asked the higher authorities ofthe university either to deliver orquit their post and don't stick totheir posts as it has becomeintolerable keeping in view theirnon cooperative attitude towardstheir long standing demands.Besides they also announced to goin for a big action in coming days tolodge their protest against the anti-employees and pensioners policiespursued by the higher authorities ofthe university and the stategovernment. The Joint ActionCommittee (JAC) spreareheadingongoing agitation in the university ,which today entered into its 136day, has announced that even asagitation is going on in theuniversity but so far neither thestate government nor the higherauthorities of the university seemedto be interested into help out theagitating employees by solving theirproblems by accepting their longpending genuine demands.

Guru Nanak Saharasociety holds pensiondonation program

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON: Guru Nanak Saharasociety jagraon conducted pensiondonation program and langar on12th death anniversary of SansarChand Verma under the guidanceof chairman Gurmel Singh Dhillonand president Captain NareshVerma. Late Sansar chand Verma'syounger son Avinash Verma gavepension to 26 needy senior citizenscommemorating his father. At thisoccasion, late Sansar ChandVerma's elder sons Prem Vermaand captain Naresh Verma saidthat they have been conductingpension and ration donationprogram for 139 months now in thememory of their late father. Captainnaresh verma also added that theyshall continue conducting thisprogram in future in order to helpthe senior citizens of the society. Atthis occasion club membersincluding Naresh Verma, RakeshBharadwaj, Nadeen Gupta,Kanchan Gupta, Jatinder Bansaland others were present.

My dream is to make Mohalimost developed city of India :

Kulwant Singh

SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI, KHARAR,FEB 5

All the candidates of AzadGroup are seeking votes inthe name of developmentand our main aim is to makeMohali the most developedcity of India. Kulwant Singh,former mayor and leader ofAzad group, expressed hisviews during the electioncampaign in various wardstoday. He went door-to-doortoday urging the people ofMohali to vote for the Azadgroup. Kulwant Singh saidthat in the last five years hehas worked hard for the allround development in everyward of Mohali without anydiscrimination. He said thatduring his tenure, the city of

Mohali became the first cityin Punjab to install LEDstreet lights, purchase ma-chines for cleaning streetsand even the very first city ofPunjab to install Open airgyms in each ward therebybecoming city of moderntimes. Apart from these, inorder to reduce pollution andimprove the air quality ofMohali, lakhs of trees wereplanted during his tenure asthe mayor Mohali. FormerMayor Kulwant Singh ap-pealed to the people ofShahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar(Mohali) to rise above partylines and vote for the candi-dates of the Azad group sothat Mohali can attain greaterheights in terms of develop-ment and become India'smost developed city.

DEEPAK KUMAR MACHHIWARA, FEB 5

The farmers are peaceful-ly protesting in Delhiagainst the anti-farmerbills passed by the centralgovernment, but the gov-ernment is trying to thwartthis movement usingcheap tactics.

In protest against this,an awareness rally was or-ganized in Machhiwara onbehalf of various groups,which started from the his-toric Gurdwara Sri GuruCharankanwal Sahib andended in the main chowkof Machhiwara after goingthrough the markets. Vari-ous leaders in the rally ap-pealed to the people that

this movement is not onlyof the farmers but of all ofus, which the governmentis making all efforts tofail.

All of us should reachDelhi and support thefarmers, because the Cen-tral Government has to beforced to withdraw thisblack law. It was also saidby the leaders of variousJathebandis that people

should not pay heed to therumors, rather stand firmwith the farmers. Baljin-der Singh Toor, ParminderSingh Tiwari, LakhwinderSingh Lakkha, Sanjay Ku-mar, Shiv Kumar Shivli,Amritpal, SukhwinderSingh, Balwinder Singh,Sarabjit Singh and a largenumber of children andwomen were also presenton the occasion.

Awareness rally organizedby various groups

SUMER GARGSANGRUR, FEB 5

The Punjab government is inthe process of setting up a spe-cial laboratory at Sangrurfor testing the quality ofdrinking water of ground-water, thus saving peoplefrom various diseasescaused by polluted water.Nirbhay Singh from vil-lage Chathe Sekhwan andDarshan Singh from vil-lage Akoi Sahib have dis-closed that the district lev-el laboratory would prove to beuseful for the residents of boththe urban and rural areas. Nirb-hay Singh further added that theconstruction work of lab is infull swing at a site in front of theold office of municipal councilSangrur. He also said that thelab coming up as part of the

"Har Ghar Pani, Har GharSafai". The water supply andsanitation department will testthe water for various elementssuch as T.D.S., Iron, Calcium,

Flouride, Magnesium, Nitrate,Sulphate, P.H. Copper, Land,Selenium, Chromium, B.O.D.and C.O.D. Praising the initia-tive, Darshan Singh said thatthe samples from different wa-ter works and houses in the dis-trict would also be tested herethrough modern equipment.

‘Drinking water testing Lab tobe completed by Mar 2021’

OUR CORRESPONDENTBANGA, FEB 5

Nomination papers of candi-dates contesting from 15wards of The MunicipalCouncil Of Banga were ex-amined in SDM office, Ban-ga on Thursday in connec-tion with the upcoming elec-tions to the local bodies inPunjab. SDM Banga VirajTareke informed that amongthe candidates whose nomi-nation papers have beenfound to be correct, the can-didates are fifteen of theCongress, fifteen of the AamAadmi Party, eleven of theAkali Dal, five of BahujanSamaj Party and all the oth-ers are in the independentfray. A.R.O. PrincipalAmarinder Singh andA.R.O. BDPO Hemraj joint-

ly informed that the detailsof the candidates in the frayare Ward Wise, ward 1 toHarjit kaur (conggress), Sar-bjit Kaur (BSP), Vandana(Akali Dal) and Jagir Kaur(aap). Ward 2 is the candi-date for Himmant kumarTejpal, Manish Kumar (con-gress) and Ranveer Singh(AAP). Renu Bala (AkaliDal) from Ward 3, Aarti Ver-ma (Congress), Seema Rani(AAP), Anita Khosla (BJP) .Manjit Singh(sad) fromWard 4, Rajesh Kumar Con-gress, Monica Walia AamAadmi Party, Vinod Kumar(BHARATIYA JANATAParty) are the candidates.Daljit Kaur (Azad), BirpalKaur (Akali Dal) ParamjitKaur (congress) and Nir-mala Devi (Azad) are candi-dates from Ward Five.

RO issues symbols to contestingcandidates in 15 wards of Banga MC

Mata Amar Kaur VivekCharitable Trust staff

vaccinated for covid 19

JAITU (DHARAM PAL PUNNI): In the led by ad-ministrator Sant Rishi Ram of Mata Amar Kaur VivekCharitable Trust, all employees of trust got vaccine ofcorona pandemic at civil hospital Jaitu. Dr KeemtiLal SMO Civil Hospital Jaitu appreciated all of themand said that the corona vaccine is beneficial forhealth.

"We urge everyone to get the vaccine when it istheir turn," . On this time Dr. Virinder Kumar MD andSant Rishi Ram appealed to the people for vaccine ofcorona and said that people should not afraid fromthis vaccine and beware from rumors. GurpreetSingh, Harinder Singh, Binder Pal, ,Binder Goniana,Mukesh Sharma administered got corona vaccine atCivil Hospital.

CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHAR, FEB 5

Deputy CommissionerSheena Aggarwal said that inorder to encourage the girlsto get ahead in life, the dis-trict administration throughDistrict Employment andBusiness Bureau (DEBB) hasdecided to honor every girlwith a letter of appreciationthrough e-mail, who gets ajob in future.

Reviewing achievementsof girls under the 'BetiBachao, Beti Padhao' schemeby District Employment andBusiness Bureau, Sheena Ag-garwal said that girls are notinferior in any way and todaythey are playing a lead role inevery field. She said thatthere is no dearth of talentamong girls, they just need tobe encouraged to move for-

ward in life and providedproper employment opportu-nities. She asked the officersto make girls aware of theschemes being run for themin the District Employmentand Business Bureau andmake maximum efforts fortheir proper placement.

On this occasion, DistrictEmployment, Skill Develop-ment and Training Officer

Rupinder Kaur assured thatthe District Employment andTrade Bureau will ensure thatgirls are provided employ-ment and self-employmentopportunities on a prioritybasis. Additional DeputyCommissioner (ADC) AdityaUppal and other officers ofthe District Employment andTrade Bureau were presenton the occasion.

Every girl who gets job will be honored: DEBB

RAJIV JAINCHANDIGARH, FEB 5

The foundation stone layingceremony for construction of2 MLD Sewage TreatmentPlant using MBR Technolo-gy, was held by the Adviserto the Administrator,Sh.Manoj Parida,IAS, todaythe presence of PrincipalSecretary(Home)-cum- Sec-retary(Engg.), DC UT, ChiefArchitect and Chief Engi-neer-cum-Special Secre-tary(Engg.).

In order to treat theSewage generated by the res-

idents of village Kishangarhand to use the treated waterfor the irrigation purpose oflake area, Golf Course, near-by IT Park area and to meetthe water required for top-ping up the lake in future, theproject was undertaken withcost of Rs.19.9 crore.

The installation of STPwill also comply with the di-rections of Hon’ble NationalGreen Tribunal. The parame-ters for the S.T. Plant werefixed keeping in view the re-quirement for topping up ofthe lake, if required, dulyvetted by the Chandigarh

Pollution Control Commit-tee (CPCC).

The system is proposedto be run through full auto-matic SCADA system wherethe quantity and quality ofthe water at inlet and outletwill be continuously moni-tored, which will further bechecked by the EngineeringDepartment and CPCC onreal time basis. T h escope of the project consistsof construction period of 8months and comprehensiveoperation and Maintenanceof the Plant for 10 years bythe agency.

Advisor lays stone for twoMLD sewage treatment plants

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, FEB 5

Deputy Commissioner Ap-neet Riyait today visitedSakhi-One Stop Center andappealed to thepeople to personal-ly interact with thewomen and girlsduring the lock-down and the is-sues currently be-ing handled by theCenter in a veryneat manner. That if a womanor a girl is facing any kind ofabuse or violence, she shouldfeel free to contact the OneStop Center to ensure a prop-er solution to her problems.Arriving at the Sakhi OneStop Center run by the district

administration at the local civ-il hospital, the Deputy Com-missioner interacted withsome of the women and girlswho had been subjected tovarious forms of exploitation

and listened intently to theirpasts. Necessary assistancehas been set up in the cases ofwomen and girls where theaggrieved parties should beinformed about their cases sothat appropriate action can betaken in a timely manner.

DC interacts with centerstaff, hails working

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, FEB 5

Voting for the municipalelections is scheduled forFebruary 14, for which thepolitical arena is completelyon fire The election cam-paign is also getting fasterday by day Treasury Minis-ter Manpreet Badal is alsocampaigning daily in favorof Congress candidates andvotes are being sought in thename of development workdone by the government. Hiscousin Jajit Jojo Johal andZila Parishad Vice ChairmanGuriqbal Singh Chahal arealso campaigning for the

Congress candidates. He ad-dressed corner meetings infavor of Congress candidateSukhraj Aulakh of wardnumber Biali and Demand-ing votes in the name of allround development of thecity under the leadership ofFinance Minister ManpreetBadal Jojo and Chahal saidthat in the city under theleadership of Finance Minis-ter Manpreet Badal Croresof rupees have been spent onrainwater harvesting, drink-ing water, sewerage system,sanitation, beautiful parksand improvement of schools.Whereas during the previousSAD-BJP government no at-

tention was paid by the Mu-nicipal Corporation to thedevelopment works even theoutlying settlements wereneglected. As a result peoplewere still struggling due tolack of basic amenities butnow the development hascome to the notice of Cap-tain Sarkar and the FinanceMinister. He said that in thename of development worksCongress candidates wouldwin the municipal electionson behalf of Guriqbal SinghChahal. Candidates fromother wards are also beingcampaigned for. Gur IqbalChahal is the tallest man inthe area.

We will win elections ondevelopment: Jojo / Chahal

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, FEB 5

Aam Aadmi Party launchessweep campaign in Bathindatoday for Municipal and Mu-nicipal Council elections onFebruary 14. It was inaugu-rated by Harpal Cheema,Leader of the Opposition inthe Vidhan Sabha and MeetHair, President of the YouthWing.

In a press conference,Harpal Cheema alleged thatCaptain Sarkar wanted to winthe Municipal Corporationand Municipal Council elec-tions by force. But the peopleof Punjab want change andthis time they will do well in

the Municipal Corporationand Municipal Council elec-tions He blamed FinanceMinister Manpreet Badal fornot doing any work withPunjab in Bathinda. Peopleare missing out on basicamenities. "People will sup-port you," said HarpalCheema. On this occasionmany AAP candidates whowant to go abroad and havealso filed files will win. Whowill serve the ward after fly-ing abroad? Cheema saidthat such candidates wouldbe investigated and perma-nent arrangements would bemade so that we would al-ways strive to serve the people.

Captain govt wants to win MCpolls by force: Harpal Cheema

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