16052024-LT-01.qxd 5/16/2024 12:50 AM Page 1 c m y b Ludhiana tribune SARABHA NAGAR SCHOOL HAS 1 ROOM FOR 150 KIDS DUNE: PART TWO TO STREAM ON MAX FROM MAY 21 MILESTONE MOMENT FOR MANOJ BAJPAYEE Govt schools in the district lack arrangements to deal with sweltering heat, still focus on enrolment. P2 The movie passed $500 mn at the global box-office in March, crossing the entire run of Dune: Part One. P4 The Padma Shri awardee from Bihar is gearing up for the release of his 100th film, Bhaiyya ji. P4 » » FORECAST MAINLY CLEAR SKY MAX 41°C | MIN 24°C YESTERDAY MAX 40°C | MIN 23°C SUNSET THURSDAY 7.15 PM SUNRISE FRIDAY 5:30 AM » THURSDAY | 16 MAY 2024 | LUDHIANA INBRIEF WOMAN DELIVERS BABY IN TRAIN Ludhiana: A woman gave birth to a child in a moving train at Lal Kalan village near Samrala on Wednesday. With the help of female passengers, the baby was delivered safely. When the train stopped at the Samrala railway station, an ambulance was arranged and the mother and child were admitted to the hospital. Ankur, a resident of Ludhiana, said his wife started suffering from labour pain near Samrala railway station. The couple was going from Ludhiana to Lucknow. Dr Prabhjot Singh said the mother and child are safe. TNS YOUTH KILLED AT SALEM TABRI Jalandhar: A 25-year-old youth was killed by three assailants at Peerubanda Mohalla in Salem Tabri on Wednesday. The victim has been identifed Sam. Rajan, Sam’s friend, had entered into a scuffle with some locals over an old enmity. Rajan then came to hide in the house of Sam. The accused arrived at Sam’s house at Peerubanda and asked him to bring Rajan out but Sam refused. Irked over the refusal, the assailants attacked Sam and his brother with knife. The duo was rushed to the hospital where Sam succumbed to injuries while his brother was undergoing treatment. TNS 332 farm fire cases in 5 days Air quality turns ‘very unhealthy’, city 2nd most polluted in state Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 15 As the current wheat harvesting season is over with a total crop over 2,45,200 hectares already harvested, farm fires have seen a sudden spurt in Ludhiana district during the past few days, official figures have confirmed. The gravity of the spike could be gauged from the fact that as many as 332 of the total 408 stubble burning cases in the district have been reported during the past five days. This season’s tally so far was still the lowest-ever in the past nine years. This has, however, not shown any positive impact on the air quality, which has turned from ‘poor’ to ‘very unhealthy’, making Ludhiana the second most polluted city in Punjab. The sharp decline in the stubble burning cases this year was evident from the fact that Ludhiana had never reported less than 517 incidents of farm fires with the highest going up to 1,035 during the Rabi season in 2016. Similarly, Ludhiana’s farm fires during the paddy harvesting in winters, popularly known as the Kharif season, had also STUBBLE BURNING YEAR 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 SUMMERS 408 889 950 517 1,019 WINTERS NA 1,801 2,682 5,817 4,330 MOST POLLUTED CITIES CITY Mohali Ludhiana Mullanpur Amritsar Jalandhar Patiala Ropar AQI 230 226 191 189 189 178 171 (SOURCE: PRSC, SUMMER FIGURES FROM APRIL 1 TILL MAY 30, WINTER FROM SEPTEMBER 15 TO NOVEMBER 30 FOR PAST YEARS, TILL MAY 14 FOR 2024) (SOURCE: CPCB, FIGURES OF MAY 15) never gone below 1,801 in 2023 and had touched the high of 7,697 in 2016. A perusal of the data compiled by the Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) here, a copy of which is available with The Tribune, reveals that Ludhiana has reported the maximum daily count of 107 farm fires this season on May 13, followed by 92 on May 12, 90 on May 14, 42 on May 10, and 1 on May 11. However, not even a single incident of stubble burning was recorded on 25 days during the past 44 days of the harvest season, which began on April 1. The day-wise count revealed that 7 farm fires were reported in the district on May 9, 13 on May 8, 15 on May 7, 1 on May 6, 5 on May 5, 4 on May 4, 7 on May 3, 14 on May 2, 3 on April 26, 1 each on April 24 and 2, with no incident of crop residue burning captured on other days since April 1. The year-wise data showed c m y b that 889 farm fire cases were reported in Ludhiana in 2023, 950 in 2022, 517 in 2021, 1,019 in 2020, 1,035 in 2019, 730 in 2018, 875 in 2017, and 918 cases of stubble burning were captured in the district in 2016. When it comes to other districts, as many as 7,828 cases of crop residue burning have been reported across the state from April 1 till May 14. On Tuesday, as many as 1,024 farm fires were recorded across 23 districts in the state, with a maximum of 153 cases reported in Gurdaspur, and a minimum of 3 incidents were noted in Mohali. Among other districts, Amritsar had reported 115 stubble burning cases on Tuesday, 26, Bathinda 31, Fatehgarh Sahib 21, Faridkot 21, Fazilka 25, Ferozepur 82, Hoshiarpur 39, Malerkotla 10, Jalandhar 24, Kapurthala 24, Mansa 6, Moga 85, Muktsar 33, Nawanshahr 32, Pathankot 19, Patiala 51, Ropar 7, Sangrur 7, Mohali 3, Sangrur 30, and Tarn Taran had captured 97 incidents of farm fires on May 14. On the state level, Ludhiana stands on the 15th position in reporting the crop residue burning cases this season so far. continued on page 2 Nominations of 26 aspirants rejected, 44 left in fray Ludhiana, May 15 District Election Officer Sakshi Sawhney on Wednesday rejected the nomination papers of 26 candidates during the scrutiny of papers. Divya Mittal, General Observer for Ludhiana parliamentary constituency, was also present during the scrutiny held in the court room of Deputy Commissioner-cumDistrict Election Officer. The representatives of the candidates were also present. During the scrutiny, the district election officer and other officers checked the papers submitted by the candidates in the presence of the general election observer. Now, 44 candidates have been left in the fray, including Ashok Parashar (AAP), Amrinder Singh Raja Warring (INC), Davinder Singh (BSP), Ranjit Singh (SAD-Badal), Ravneet Singh (BJP), Amandeep Singh (Sehajdhari Sikh Party), Amritpal Singh (SAD-Asr), Santosh Kumar (Bharti Inqalaab Party), Shivam Yadav (Global Republican Party), Harvinder Kaur (Samajik Sangharsh Party), Darshan Singh (National Justice Party), Davinder Singh, among others. Meanwhile, Sawhney said the last date of withdrawal of candidature is May 17. — TNS Cong ahead of others: Warring Ludhiana, May 15 Punjab Congress president and party’s candidate from Ludhiana seat, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, today said unlike the “fake and false promises” of the BJP and the AAP the Congress has a , proven record of launching welfare schemes that directly benefit the poor and the needy. Addressing multiple public meetings during his campaign tour here today, Warring said the Congress has promised a revolutionary “poverty alleviation scheme” for the entire country, under which every poor family, irrespective of the caste it belongs to whether Dalit, backwards or poor from general castes, will receive Rs 8,500 every month. He said during his campaign, he did not feel any contest with anyone as Congress is far ahead of others. He said the Congress does not play any religious, divisive or deceptive politics like the BJP the SAD , and the AAP — TNS .
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