Preneet Hails Proposed Patiala Sports University

Amrit Pal Brar

Patiala, June 9:

Patiala MP Preneet Kaur has thanked Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for announcing the Sports University for her constituency, saying the proposed institution would not only give a major boost to sports in the state but also give a fillip to infrastructure development in Patiala.

In a press release issued here, Preneet said the incumbent Congress government was committed to the promotion of sports and had initiated several steps for the same in the past two years. The university, however, would accelerate the pace of strengthening the Sports edge of the state, which had given some of the best sportspersons to the country over the years, she added.

The Sports University would help in imbuing the youth of the state with a strong sense of fitness, which will make them better citizens and give them the necessary direction towards a better future for themselves and for Punjab, said Preneet. At the same time, she said, Sports is an ideal way to keep youth away from drugs and other wrongdoings.

The Chief Minister, said Preneet, had not only paved the way for holistic development of youth with this initiative but by fast-tracking the entire process had also ensured the commencement of the first session this year.

Preneet said as the elected representative of the people, she would personally extend full support to the project and facilitate the government in every way to realise Patiala’s dream of becoming a world-class centre for excellence in sports.

With this university, said the newly elected MP, Punjab would soon be sending many more excellent players to international sports competitions to bring greater laurels to the country.

Mission 550

PCCF persuades the field staff to green the villages and establish the Guru Nanak Bagichi

By Amrit Pal Brar

Sangrur, 8 June 2019: Celebration of 550^th Prakash Purabh of GURU NANAK DEV JI by planting of 550 saplings in each village is the top priority of the forest department. This was announced by the PCCF Jitendra Sharma on Saturday.

Jitendra Sharma said that our department is religiously working to construct the Guru Nanak Bagichi in each village of Punjab successfully. The implementation of the thought of divine seva is already started in every forest division of Punjab.

He also told about the preparedness of the planting stock in 222 forest nurseries to green 12600 villages of our state. He made an appeal to all citizens to come forward and participate in mission to balance ecosystem on mother earth.

The PCCF motivated the field staff of Sangrur forest division to conserve, protect and promote environmental awareness in local people.

Later on, Cabinet Minister Vijay Inder Singla and PCCF re- energies the Mission Tandurast Punjab by planting saplings at village Bhindran to turn out the Nanak Bagichi.

Vijay Inder Singla said that clean environment is our collective responsibility. It is our duty to provide better environment for our future generations. He added that we all are facing same crises of pollution and now it’s time to prepare every citizen as an environmentalist to mitigate the challenge.

The environment education should be part of our school curriculum in Punjab. He accentuated that our students should be engraved for caring of our natural resources and handling the environmental crises.

Our 14 forest nurseries are fully stocked to implement the scheme successfully: Monika Yadav DFO Sangrur

DFO Sangrur, Monika Yadav told that we have 720 villages in Sangrur forest division. Our 14 forest nurseries are fully stocked to implement the scheme successfully and also connected with each village. She also appealed public to download the ihariyali 550 app for the noble target.

The occasion was graced with active participation of social workers, villagers along with the field staff of the forest for craving of clean environment and more plantations in coming monsoon season.

Government Elementary Schools of Chanan Wala and Dona Nanaka villages and GSS School Chakk Vairoke become fascinating for public

Amrit Pal Brar

Fazilka, June 7:

Government schools of the border district Fazilka are proving light house in the field of education and beautiful appearances to the other schools of the state. Whereas, the government schools of the district recently brought laurels with good results, the unique appearance and beautiful buildings of these schools accorded new identity to Fazilka.

In a function to mark their recognition for giving brilliant results of classes 10th and 12th for the session of 2019, the Education Minister has recently honoured district Fazilka’s 39 principals, 29 head masters and District Education Officer (SS)  Kulwant Singh, Principal DIET Raj Kumar, In-charge (Education Reforms Team) Mr. Vipin Kataria, District Mentor (Science) Mr. Naresh Kumar, District Mentor (Math) Ashok Kumar, District Mentor (English)  Gautam Gaur and District Nodal Officer Sushil Nath.

It is pertinent to mention that the government has so far been awarded hundreds of government senior secondary principals and high school heads and in-charges, in which 75 education experts of district Fazilka were bestowed upon.

Addressing the gathering, the Education Minister encouraged the teachers and appreciated working of education secretary as well. He said that this great performance is possible only due to the day and night hard work by the teachers and all other officials of the department.

Speaking about border district schools, he said that schools of border area districts are already filled with newly recruited teachers and the rationalization policy for transfers of the teachers is also proved turning point for the better results. Fazilka Deputy Commissioner Manpreet Singh Chhatwal has also congratulated the teachers and education experts of the district for this achievement.

Apart from this, beautification of the government schools of district Fazilka is also guiding other schools of the state. Government Elementary School Chanan Wala, Government Senior Secondary School Chakk Vairoka and Government Elementary School Dona Nanaka’s beautiful buildings, ultra-modern equipments, green environment, clean and smart classes, English medium, libraries, Smart AC Rooms equipped with LEDs and parks are creating illusion of private schools.

Divulging further, the Deputy Commissioner said that all 8 rooms of Government Primary School Chanan Wala equipped with ACs and LEDs. School has park, two stages inside and outside the school, play-way park, Mid-Day Meal and Desi Rasoi, mats in each room and water filter besides listening lab facility, where 36 children can hear lecture through headphones at the same time. Deputy Commissioner said that credit for this transformation goes to the head of the school lovejit Singh, village panchayat, MGNREGA and other villagers.

He further said that the Government Elementary School, Dona Nanaka has also gained fame for his appearance, which is equipped with air coolers and wonderful curtains in every class room to create good atmosphere of the education for children. He said that students of this school have won many state level awards for recitation of tables, sports, cultural programs and other co-curricular activities.

Similarly, Fazilkas’ Government Senior Secondary School, Chhak Vairoka is becoming center of attraction. Deputy Commissioner said that due to the hard work of Principal Gurjit Singh, vice principal Mukhtiar Singh Khundwala and school staff, this schools result remains hundred percent every year. Colourful paintings of flowers, plants and trees on school walls and rooms present attractive view. He said that the tournaments of many traditional sports have also been held in school to connect students with their roots. This School has library, where nearly 4,000 academic, literature and entertainment books have been provided for the students.

Sarkar Darbar bureau

Ludhiana, June 07, 2019: The sleuths of Vigilance Bureau nabbed a Secretary of Market Committee Ludhiana red handed for accepting bribe of Rs.30,000/- on Thursday.

Disclosing this here today a spokesman of Vigilance Bureau Punjab said Secretary of Market Committee Amandeep Singh Sandhu was caught red handed on the complaint of Gurkamal Singh of Ludhiana.

Providing details spokesman said the complainant approached the VB and alleged that Secretary Amandeep Singh was demanding Rs. 50,000 for favouring him in lieu of fewer reporting in transportation of vegetable laden vehicles but the deal was struck at Rs. 30,000/-.

After verifying his complaint the VB team laid a trap and the accused Secretary was caught red handed and tainted money was recovered from him in the presence of two official witnesses.

The spokesman informed that a case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused at VB police station Ludhiana and further investigation was under progress.

Sarkar Darbar bureau

Barnala, June 6:

Drug Abuse Prevention Officer (DAPO), a campaign of Captain Amarinder Singh led Punjab Government, has shown positive results in Barnala as the drug addicts are being treated sympathetically in the OOAT Centers.

Having faced the tag of a drug addict, a 27-year-old youth of Barnala district has also got him treated and presently, he has elected as a Panchayat member in the recent Panchayati elections.

While narrating his story, Parveen (name changed) disclosed that he had consumed the drugs at the age of 20 for the first time at Chandigarh. He added that his friends sweetly forced him to take ‘Chitta’ but there after he habitually visited even Amritsar to purchase the drugs. “To manage the cash for the drugs, I took all the responsibility of the agriculture of our house and started dealing with whole income and receiving cash directly from arhtiya (commission agent).

He further said after some time, my need grew and I was unable to get sufficient funds for my drugs. Then I took a poultry farm of around 10,000 birds also. Whole income of my family business started getting pumped for my drugs which led to dispute with my parents,” He said. He himself got over with the heat of situation but could not help even himself.

Parveen said that one fine day he came to know that the local police had started preparing lists of drug addicts and had also established contact with his parents which led to their refusal of money for drugs. They also started forcing him to get admitted in drug de-addiction center for the required treatment.

Soon after the pressure of the family mounted, he came in the contact of Guardian of Governance (GOG) of his village and he encouraged him to start de-addiction treatment. “I got myself admitted in de-addiction centre for almost a month and after that I also took the medicine course for almost 6 months,” Parveen revealed.

He added that now he is completely free from the drugs and his parents have also got his dope test done which was negative. Parveen appealed other people, who are under the influence of drugs, to get them treated as it is all wastage of health and money.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Barnala Tej Partap Singh Phoolka said that awareness activities were being regularly organised in the district to make the people aware of the ill effects of drugs.

He added that if any district resident wanted to get him treated, he could contact with his concerned SDM office or GOG or directly in the OOAT clinic. He also assured that police would also not investigate any drug addict who will be voluntarily coming for treatment.