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P4 » » FORECAST FOGGY MAX 24°C | MIN 10°C YESTERDAY MAX 24°C | MIN 10°C SUNSET MONDAY 5.24 PM SUNRISE TUESDAY 7:10 AM » MONDAY | 2 DECEMBER 2024 | JALANDHAR INBRIEF SCOOTERIST DIES, 4 HURT IN MISHAP Phagwara: A scooterist was killed while four others, including his pillion rider wife and three children, sustained injuries when their scooter was hit by a speeding car being driven by an ASI of the Punjab Police near village Sarhal Mandi near Phagwara on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Balwinder Kumar of village Pandori near Nakodar. Injured were admitted to the local Civil Hospital. The police have registered a case and arrested car driver Surinder Paul. The body of the deceased has been handed over to the family members after the postmortem examination. OC ~11 CRORE FOR ROAD REPAIR Phagwara: Roads in Phagwara are being repaired at 53 points with a budget of Rs 11 crore, Municipal Commissioner Navneet Kaur Bal told this correspondent here on Saturday. She said 1,550 points of streetlights had been identified and the MC was providing streetlights at these points by spending Rs 67 lakh. Bal said Rs 3.25 crore was being spent on the work for water supply in different localities, including Onkar Nagar. OC EIGHT BOOKED FOR ILLEGAL MINING Phagwara: The Shahkot police have booked eight persons on the charge of illegal sand mining. The accused have been identified as Kulwindar Singh, Gursewak Singh, Gurjit Singh, residents of Kapurthala, Sukhraj Singh of Mehsampur village and Vikramjit Singh of Baghela village, Dilpreet Singh of Gosian Khan Mohammad village in Ludhiana, Charnjit Singh and Mangi Bhalwan of Chak Bahmannia village. Jang Singh of Gorsian Khan Mohammad village complained to the police that the accused were indulging in illegal sand mining. OC Renovated Cantt rly station to be ready by March next year: Bittu Tribune News Service Jalandhar, December 1 Jalandhar Cantonment Railway Station’s new building will be dedicated to the public by the first quarter of the next year. Disclosing this after visiting the project site, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries, said officials had been asked to carry out quality work in a timely manner. The redevelopment work on Jalandhar Cantt Railway Station as a world-class railway station was in full swing, he said. The minister also said 12 railway stations in Punjab were being redeveloped under Amrit Bharat at a cost of Rs 270 crore which include Dhandari Kalan, Phillaur, Phagwara, Kotkapura, Mukatsar, Ferozepur Cantt, Fazilka, Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Gurdaspur and Pathankot City. Accompanied by BJP leaders Manoranjan Kalia, Sushil Rinku, KD Bhandari, Sarbjit Makkar, Ashok Sareen Hicky and DRM, Ferozepur Division, Sanjay Sahu, Bittu, while addredsing the media at the railway station, said with the redevelopment being done at a cost of Rs 99 crore, once completed Jalandhar Cantt Railway Station will have various stateof-the-art facilities. These will include segregation gates for both arrival and departure of passengers, temperature-insulating domes (bringing down platform tem- The bus that met with an accident in Khuralgarh near Garhshankar. Bus full of devotees rams into hillock; woman dies, 7 hurt Brake failure leads to accident Our Correspondent The under-construction Jalandhar Cantt Railway Station; and (right) paintings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh installed at the new railway station. TRIBUNE PHOTOS: SARABJIT SINGH peratures by 10 degrees in summers), wall murals, green building, facilities like cafeteria, entertainment lounges, luxurious concourse for large gatherings, 10 lifts and nine escalators as well as ample parking with pick and drop facility for smooth traffic flow. He said the railway station currently handles around 7,400 passengers per day, with an average of 141 trains passing through, including two Humsafar and one Vande Bharat train. During the financial year 2024-25 till YOUTH BOOKED FOR KIDNAPPING Phagwara: The police have booked a youth on the charge of kidnapping a minor girl. The accused had been identified as Rajiv Kumar, alias Kulu, of Sangowal village. Raju of the same village complained to the police that the accused kidnapped his minor daughter on November 21 on the pretext of marriage. oc MAN BOOKED FOR SELLING LIQUOR Phagwara: The police have booked a villager on the charge of selling illicit country-made liquor. The accused has been identified as Santokh Singh of Gounsuwal village. As many as 20 bottles of hooch and 50 kg of lahan (raw liquor) were recovered from his possession but he managed to flee. A case has been registered. oc mu, Jammu-Amritsar, Amritsar-Pathankot and Amritsar Khemkaran sections of the division and on FerozepurLudhiana, Ferozepur-Jalandhar, Ferozepur-Fazilka and Kotkapura-Fazilka-Abohar sections of the division. Train Collision Avoidance System (KAVACH) is an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) System meant to provide protection to the trains against Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD), excessive speed and collisions. FACILITIES Separate gates for both arrival and departure of passengers, temperature-insulating domes, green building, cafeteria, entertainment lounges, luxurious concourse for large gatherings, 10 lifts and nine escalators as well as ample parking with pick and drop facility for smooth traffic flow. Over 4,200 take part in half marathon Tribune News Service MAN BOOKED FOR DUPING VILLAGER Phagwara: The Cybercrime Police Station Jalandhar Rural, has booked a miscreant for duping a villager of Rs 75,000 to secure a VIP registration number. Gurdeep Singh of Taggar village in Nurmahal complained to the police that a person duped him of Rs 75,000 by promising to secure a VIP registration number on the phone. OC October, the average passenger revenue per day was Rs 16.30 lakh and the average per day from parcel service is Rs 51,000. Bitu also said the provision of automatic block signalling between the LudhianaJalandhar section had been sanctioned at a cost of Rs 71.25 crore and tenders invited for the same. A proposal has been initiated by the Ferozepur division to instal Kavach in 1513 km’s, provision of Kavach on the Srinagar-Jalandhar-Jam- Garhshankar, December 1 In the semi-hilly terrain of the Kandi area, a mini bus full of devotees going to Guru Ravidas Charan Chhoh Ganga near Khuralgarh collided with a hillock, killing a woman and injuring seven others. The incident occurred around 2 pm when the brakes of the bus failed. There were about 24 devotees in the bus, who were said to be from Samrala and Machhiwara. According to information, the bus of a private academy, driven by Amandeep Singh, was carrying the devotees from Samrala to Charan Chhoh Ganga, Khuralgarh. When the bus was about 100 metres from the destination, it went out of control due to brakes failure. It collided with a hillock, causing injuries to the passengers (mostly children and women). The injured were immediately taken to hospitals by ambulances with help of Gurdwara president Baba Kewal Singh. They were taken to General Hospital, Bathari, Himachal Pradesh, and Civil Hospital, Garhshankar. One of them, Kiran Bala (60) died. Apart from her, seven people were injured. Three of them were discharged from the hospital after first-aid and those with serious injuries included Harleen Kaur (12), Sarojbala (58), Himanshi (6) and Manveer (10) were undergoing treatment in the Civil Hospital, Garhshankar. JCT workers after a meeting at Phagwara. JCT workers to start stir from today Our Correspondent PHAGWARA, DECEMBER 1 An indoor meeting of JCT workers was held at Phagwara under the leadership of Kamal Saroj, Shiv Sena leader, Ajay Kumar president, JCT Mill Worker Union/BMS, Sunil Panday (INTUC), Ravi Sidhu, president, INTUC and Tripta Sharma with regard to the payment of arrears to workers and reinstating the electricity and water supply at Thapar Colony, Phagwara. During the meeting, the leaders stated that it had been over one year that workers of the JCT mill are struggling to get the pending arrears, allowances, bonuses, overtime among other payments from the mill owners but nothing had been done by the local administration. The leaders further stated that deliberately, the electricity connection of Thapar Colony had been snapped to harass the workers so that they leave the colony without any protest. The leaders further alleged that the local administration had been supporting directors of JCT mill Sameer Thapar and Mukulika Sinha. During the meeting, the leaders decided that workers would continue to make efforts to get their pending arrears from the mill management and an indefinite protest would be organised by the workers from tomorrow in front of JCT mill gate till their pending arrears were not given and also the electricity was not restored to the colony. YAD vice-chief joins AAP Jalandhar, December 1 The third ‘One Race’ Jalandhar half marathon ‘Daur Jalandhar’ was organised at the local Guru Gobind Singh Stadium today in which international veteran athlete 114year-old Fauja Singh, India’s first blade runner Major DP Singh, Lt General Chandpuria, former Cabinet Minister Amarjit Singh Samra, MD of Capital Bank Sarvjit Singh Samra, Olympians Manpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh flagged off the run. They gave a go-ahead to runners participating in the 21.1 km race, the 10-km race and 5km race from 6.30am to 7:30 am. To encourage runners, Municipal Corporation Commissioner Gautam Jain participated in the 10-km race. More than 4,200 runners of all age groups from Jalandhar and surrounding districts, besides Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad participated in this race. With the aim of spreading awareness about mental health, like last year, autistic children were invited to participate in the 3-km race with the help of the Soch Autism Society of Punjab without any sound and the race started with a ‘Quiet Flag Off’. This year, in view of the large number of runners participating in the Jalandhar race, the race route was divided into two parts. The 21-km and 10-km runners started from Guru Gobind Singh Stadium and ran from Icon Mall via Cool Road to Urban Estate Phagwara, December 1 State vice-president of the Youth Akali Dal Ranjit Singh Fateh joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday, giving a boost to the party’s preparations for the upcoming Phagwara Municipal Corporation (MC) elections. The announcement came during a meeting of senior AAP leaders from the Phagwara Assembly constituency held at the local rest house. It was chaired by constituency in-charge Joginder Singh Mann and attended by Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal, AAP MP from Hoshiarpur and the party’s appointed in-charge for the municipal elections. Mann said: “Inclusion of dynamic leaders such as Ranjit Singh Fateh will strengthen the party in the Phagwara constituency. It will also attract youths towards AAP , ensuring the party’s victory in the municipal elections.” Dr Chabbewal urged party members to work in unity, emphasising the importance of the elections for the state’s urban development. The meeting saw participation from prominent leaders, including District Planning Board Chairman Lalit Saklani, AAP Punjab spokesperson Harnur Singh Mann, senior leaders Harmesh Pathak and Daljit Raju Darvesh, Improvement Trust, Phagwara, Chairman, Advocate Kashmir Singh Mally, Dr. Jatinder Singh Parhar (District Secretary, Doctor Cell), Santosh Kumar Gogi (president, SC Wing, District Kapurthala), and others. — OC c m y b Participants at the half marathon in Jalandhar on Sunday. PHOTO: SARABJIT SINGH Phase-2 Market, Taj Food World via 66 Feet Road, Curo Mall, White Diamond, Jalandhar Heights, CT Institute, took a U-turn and returned to Guru Gobind Singh Stadium on the same route. The 5-km runners started from Guru Gobind Singh Stadium and ran from Mall Road, Agarwal Dhaba, Johal Market, Income Tax Colony, Urban Estate-2 Market lights and returned to Guru Gobind Singh Stadium on the same route. This time the winners were given cash prizes of Rs 4,50,000. The prizes were distributed by international athletes Harmilan Bains and Sarvjit Singh Samra. Harmilan Bains praised the half marathon and said if they want to produce international level athletes, then such events should be held as much as possible. In the men’s 21.1-km race in the half marathon, Jaswinder Singh stood first, Anil Kumar Yadav stood second and Rohit Dahiya stood third, while in the women’s category, Pooja stood first, Ruhi Bohra stood second and Pooja Pandey stood third. Similarly, in the men’s 10 km race, Sikander Panwar, Lovepreet Singh and Ajay Singh stood first, second and third, respectively, while in the women’s category, Seema Devi, Sameer Aulakh and Kiran Sodhi stood first, second and third, respectively, while in the men’s 5-km race, Tarun Kumar Mishra, Gaurav Chandra Bhat and Ranjeev Kumar stood first, second and third, respectively, and in the women’s 5-km race, Gurjit Kaur stood first, Prachi Kumari and Vandana Kumari stood first, second and third. Apart from this, cash prizes were given to the runners who came first, second and third in each age group. To make the race a success, the Jalandhar District Administration, the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate, the Jalandhar Traffic Police, the MC, the Jalandhar Running Club, Sriman Hospital, Thind Eye Hospital, Lyallpur Khalsa College, Doaba College, KMV Sanskriti School, Castle Tuta, Soch Autism Society, Bisleri, Policy Bazaar, Roza Herbal and Roohafza provided support.