Patiala News - Patiala
May 24th, 2013
Once again due to lack of facilities the Govt Rajindra Hospital has come to lime light. This time an accident victim lost his life due to non-availability of mobile oxygen cylinder.
After being hit by a speeding car the 50 year old victim Radheshyam died as he was being shifted to the radiology ward for CT scan without mobile oxygen cylinder.
His brother alleged the Hospital stating Radheshyam was stable in the operating ward as he was on oxygen but a CT scan was required as he had sustained a head injury he had to be shifted.
On way for CT scan he started breathing heavily and due to lack of mobile oxygen cylinder he died. The Doctor had said the patient required regular supply of oxygen but the CT scan was important and due to lack of mobile oxygen cylinder they sent for CT scan.
Though the hospital claims on spending forty lakhs on oxygen every month still there are only 2 cylinders in the new emergency ward.
The hospital Pharmacist also has given a written request to the seniors stating it is hard to maintain the store due to inadequate supplies, mostly for oxygen cylinder. Even after eight months of reconstruction the centralized emergency ward has not yet began.
Even an alternative ward has not been made for emergency cases. The lack of attendants is also a problem at the hospital when the patients are required to be taken for MRI, X-Ray and ultrasound as these facilities are not in one place.
The senior doctors on condition of anonymity picked their hands, that this is not the first case. During the past 8 months lots of patients have lost their lives during shifting.
Though the medical superintendent Dr VK Sharda denied the allegations saying Radheshyam died due to his head injury and quoted the cost spent on the oxygen each month but admitted Radhe Shyam was not provided mobile oxygen cylinder as he was shifted.
Dr VK Sharda stated, “Radheshyam lost his life because of his head damage. We spend Rs 40 lakh on oxygen on a monthly basis and make sure that all sufferers needing oxygen obtain the supply”.
Official lack of concern
Accident victim Radheshyam lost his life when he was being transferred from the surgical procedure ward to the radiology section for a CT examination without a portable oxygen cylinder
Though Govt Rajindra Hospital heads claim they spend around Rs 40 lakh on oxygen on a monthly basis, there are just 2 oxygen cylinders in the key emergency section
Senior physicians claim a lot of people have died while being transferred from one section to the other during the last eight month period.
Medical Superintendent VK Sharda claims the patient died owing to his head wound, however admits he was not given a portable oxygen cylinder
May 24th, 2013
Mayor Amarinder Singh Bajaj wiping away the political novice image his opponents have given him has gone against his namesake and former Cheif Minister Captain Amarinder Singh by firing the first salvo blaming him of ill-planning the development of the city.
The last installment of the Rs forty-five crore loan taken by the Patiala Municipal Corporation during Capt Amarinder Singh’s term as chief minister in 2004 has been paid.
The Mayor on Thursday targeted Amarinder for causing irresponsible loss to MC, ill-planning development and lack of vision.
The loan that was to help augment the water and sewerage supply system made the MC debt-ridden. Cutting all costs, on Thursday, the MC paid the last installment of RS 3.7 crore taken from the National Capital Region Planning Board.
“For the last ten year period, the Patiala Municipal Corporation has been making payment of the loaning sum, which was not appropriately utilized for want of planning. The fund was utilized to wrap up the Gandha Nullah from Lahori Gate to Shahi Samadhan, however the then custodians of the Municipal Corporation didn’t carry out their task well. No room has been left in order to clear the nullah that has turned into a pain for the corporation. In addition, the waste matter pipe laid in the city rural has also not been placed in the right manner,” added Mr. Bajaj.
“It is like the Congress brought a permanent pain for the Patiala Municipal Corporation. Initially, we had made the payment of Rs. 72 crore, comprising the rate of interest, on a sum of Rs. 45 crore, and after that, the work was carried out in a chaotic way that it’s causing problem to one and all. And, it also put the Patiala Municipal Corporation in arrears for ten years,” alleged Mr. Bajaj.
According to Bajaj 10 years have gone in clearing the loan but unfortunately the money has not been executed well as they did not leave any space for cleaning, which today is a headache for the MC. The Patiala rural sewerage is also not properly laid out.
Alleging that the congress has given a permanent headache for to the MC, Even after paying a RS 7.2 crore plus interest on the Rs 45 crore loan, due to haphazard work the people are facing difficulties daily.
The MC diverting special development grants received from the chief minister or the deputy Chief Minister (CM), in repaying the loan, has stalled the development program but revilement is there because the MC can spend money on the developing projects.
Bajaj also blamed Capt Amarinder for damaging the city with wrong projects. As per now the MC with its 12 crore loan intends to pay it back by generating resources. Bajaj also intends to meet the Chief Minister (CM) for more developing grants for the city.
During this, Captain Amarinder was not available for any comment.
May 23rd, 2013
The Vigilance Bureau has detained a Junior Engineer (JE) of the Power Corporation posted at Sanaur sub-division following the charges of taking Rs 10K instead of interchanging the transformer of a local agriculturist.
Sources added that the detained Junior Engineer (JE), Jugraj Singh, had allegedly asked for Rs 15K from Tejinder Singh, however the transaction got finalized at Rs 10K.
“We detained the charged from the house of the complainant and recovered the fund from his ownership,” added KD Sharma, DSP, Vigilance.
May 22nd, 2013
Yet again smugglers attacked on duty police inspector and excise officials in Ghanaur before fleeing away late Tuesday afternoon.
The incident clearly shows the wits of the tax evaders. The assailants that fled challenging the on duty excise and police officials have been charged in pertaining attempt to murder and cheating, while one was arrested on the spot.
Punjab government and the law enforcing agencies have again failed in attempt to decrease these incidents that have been undergoing in the state over the past year which leads to hundreds of crores revenue loss each year.
During the posting of senior police officer Mandeep Singh Sandhu, who was posted SSP excise and taxation wing, the mafia was very much underground, but after Sandhu’s shifting the mafia has risen again.
Gogi Sood, a well known tax evader and his goons after attacking on duty police officials confiscated 2 trucks near the Lohsimbhi Village containing iron scrap.
May 22nd, 2013
On Tuesday, the Congress allegedly accused SAD-BJP for rigged counting stating before the counting day the ballot papers were tempered with.
To enforce their point MLAs Brahm Mohindra and Lal Singh showed outside of a room at the government Polytechnic, Urban Estate, ballot boxes with broken seals and ballot papers.
Pouring a shower of questions as to how ballot papers, when each is accounted for, is in the open? Why the seals are broken? How did the broken seals come out?
They alleged the SAD used their links with the administration office and tempered with the ballots mainly in the areas where the congress was strong.
PPCC vice-president Lal Singh alleged SAD-BJP for first rigging and capturing booths then changing ballots in the night stating this is not the public result.
On the pooling day itself, Mohindra has apprehended rigged counting issuing a press release.
Rajpura congress MLA Hardial Kamboj calling it murder of democracy stated after Devi Bai won by a margin. As per the district administration the boxes were opened in front of the SAD and congress candidates or their agents denying any such charge. Deputy Commissioner GK Singh stated a video footage is available to prove all work was done by the rule. All charges are baseless.
May 20th, 2013
Yarn traders, who have got exclusion from the payment of entry tax in the state, are under the scanner of the Excise and Taxation Department. A couple of cases have emerged where traders sold imported yarn in the market without processing it in their plants.
Punjab Excise and Taxation Commissioner Anurag Verma asked section functionaries to verify records of all the yarn traders, especially in the city of Ludhiana.
The matter came to hand a few days back when the section carried out a probe in some firms in Ludhiana.
“After availing tax exemption while importing yarn, which is meant to be converted into cloth and then sold as a tax-free item, several dealers misused the exemption and supplied the yarn in the market,” a said senior official.
Department functionaries said Anurag Verma has written to the police to lodge an FIR against Ankit Malhotra, the proprietor of Balaji Sales Corporation, Ludhiana, for registering a wrong undertaking and sworn statement with the section for receiving exemption from the payment of entry tax.
Verma added that the said company obtained exception from the entry tax on yarn imported by him by giving a fake undertaking.
“In the garb of the said exemption, the dealer imported about Rs 6 crore worth of yarn and did not pay any tax on it on the plea that he would convert the yarn into cloth and sell the same as a tax-free item,” he said.
But, during an examination, the departmental functionaries detected that the trader did not even have equipment to make cloth.
“It was found that the dealer has managed to evade tax worth more than Rs 30 lakh,” Verma said.
May 20th, 2013
Over 18 individuals got injuries in election clashes crosswise the city of Patiala. The Congress stated that local SAD heads, particularly councillors, threatened Congress backers and a few got dragged, chased and threatened in front of the police officials.
The overall polling proportion in Patiala stood at 64%.
In the city of Rajpura, the polling percentages was 67%, in Ghanaur 65%, Sanaur 58%, Samana 62%, Patran 68%, Patiala Rural 57% and Nabha 68%.
In Samana, booth-capturing in more than 12 villages have been reported.
6 Congress backers got injuries. Vehicles boasting Haryana registration numbers were witnessed transporting SAD backers and entering poll stations.
In Fatehpur village, outsiders arrested poll booths for more than 40 minutes during the noon, “A mob of more than 100 goons headed by a councillor selectively targeted polling booths. The local police played a partisan role,†alleged Patiala MP Preneet Kaur.
In the regions of Sanaur and Shutrana, fights between Congress and SAD backers outside a dozen election booths scared the voters who returned to their home.
The Congress charged Shutrana MLA Vaninder Kaur Loomba and her family members were making attempts to threaten Congress applicants. 9 individuals got injured in more than 6 fights in Shutrana. Loomba was not there for remark.
Sanaur MLA Laal Singh stated that SAD backers fired into the air to shoo Congress backers. However the police refused the allegation.
Voting stayed largely peaceful in Patiala (rustic) with Congress head Brahm Mohindra holding the fort and assuring there was no booth-capturing.
In Nabha, 3 individuals were injured, one of them gravely, in a SAD-Congress fight.
May 20th, 2013
Stating that there was widespread rigging during the polling, the Congress apprehends that ruling party can manipulate counting of votes to their advantage on May 21.
Mr. Brahm Mohindra, Congress MLA from Patiala (rural), stated across-the-board aggression at Patran, Shutrana and Samana showed that Akalis made use of every mean to manipulate polling.
“Congress supporters, however, put a brave front and managed to cast their votes. Akalis will see massive defeat in many segments,” he added.
“We have come to know that the Akalis will now try to manipulate counting of votes. The election staff says political representative will sit five feet away from the counting tables, then who will ensure that counting is fare,” Brahm Mohindra also said.
Brahm Mohindra said that the district management should make sure fair counting as it was the moral duty of officials to value the decision of the community
May 20th, 2013
Patiala: Election got postponed for more than 2 hours in the city of Rajpura during the morning.
“The returning officer there did not check the faulty ballot papers. Hundreds of voters had to wait and leave without voting,” alleged Congress heads.
Mr. GK Singh, Patiala Deputy Commissioner, stated that he would write to the State Election Commission for severe action against the returning officer.
May 20th, 2013
Amid allegements of booth capturing by SAD workers in his electorate, rustic development minister Surjit Singh Rakhra stated that the zila parishad and block samiti elections end on a calm note.
Congratulating the masses for passionately participating in voting, Rakhra stated that the high polling proportion had written another episode in the record of the democratic system of the state.
“Even though the Congress heads tried their best to misdirect the individuals by giving reports of boycotting the elections, however the people have given a suiting reply to them by making use of their franchise,†he stated, adding that SAD would clean sweep the elections.
May 19th, 2013
The statewide voting for the 22 zila parishads and 146 panchayat samitis in Punjab finished on a calm note with some episodes of minor clashes on May 19.
The Punjab state polls commission announced a cautious 63% polling crosswise Punjab as it ordered re-poll at 8 polling booths accompanying some occurrences of fighting in the regions of Moga, Muktsar, Fazilka, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur and Patiala.
May 19th, 2013
Timely interference of deputy commissioner (DC) GK Singh and senior superintendent of police (SSP) HS Mann halted a poll booth capturing bid by the hubby of Vanider Kaur Loomba, local MLA, official sources stated.
An official spokesperson said that when tales of commotions were reported from restic zone Thaurwa in Patran, the deputy commissioner and SSP instantly instructed GK Singh of Patran HS Gill to reach the spot.
GK Singh has reportedly controlled the situation. The son of Congress applicant got hurt during the fight.
May 19th, 2013
Considering the election linked violence in other regions of Punjab, detailed safety arrangements have been made in the region for smooth performance of the zila parishad and block samiti polls.
Around 1,514 police people would guard 478 polling booths in 5 blocks of the region.
Around 22 patrolling parties have been positioned to uphold tranquility during the polling. Around 135 polling booths have been announced responsive and unique video groups will keep a vigil on anti-social elements.
District Returning Officer Malwinder Singh added that in addition to a heavy safety force, 3,000 workers were on election duty in the district.
He added up that all the election booths would be managed by staffers had been trained in the poll related work.
May 19th, 2013
Patiala: Mr. GK Singh, Patiala Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer stated that all the arrangements at 900 polling booths for 21 regions of the zila parishad and 167 block samiti sectors had been fulfilled.
Mr. GK Singh added that more than 8,700 functionaries had been deputized for the same.
Patiala Superintendent of Police also stated that the harsh action would be taken against any person who attempted to create law and order troubles during the election process.
“We have positioned 3,700 policemen for defending polling booths and have set up 50 patrolling parties,” he added.
May 19th, 2013
Physicians in India stated that the internal organs of a UK girl, who expired while on trip in the Punjab, were not sold on the black market.
The 8-year-old Gurkiren Kaur, from Birmingham, England, lost her life on April 2, minutes after she was given a jab for dehydration at doctor’s clinic in India, her family members added.
Gurkiren’s body was missing the majority of inner organs when her body came back to Britain, and her family fear she may have been a victim of the prohibited trade in human body parts.
Physicians had assured not to take out her inner organs, her parents stated, adding efforts to get data have been disappointed by Indian medical functionaries.
Shabana Mahmood, associate of British parliament from Birmingham, lifted what she called the “intensely suspicious conditions” with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
But, Dr. Surinder Oberoi, chief of forensic medicine and toxicology at Government Medical College in Patiala, India, stated that the internal organs had been taken out and sent to research labs for analysis as the girl’s reason of demise could not be recognized.
Dr. Surinder ignored fears the organs were taken for sale and stated that the remarks of the girl’s parents were an effort to “divert attention from the real cause” of her demise, which, he thought, was a “congenital heart deficiency for which she had formerly undergone surgical procedure.”
Gurkiren’s mom told media that the clinic doctor denied identifying what had been in the jab.
May 18th, 2013
Pupils given the Punjab School Education Board for twelfth class received their final results today.
The results were announced by 1 pm today. Pupils can check the results on the official internet site of Punjab School Education Board.
Approximately 3.2 lakh pupils have given the examination crosswise the state.
The twelfth board examinations took place from the month of March to the month of April. The results are also obtainable on SMS from a variety of service providers.
Pupils are advised to be patient as the servers may be hectic. There is projected to be intense traffic owing to the number of pupils who will try and access the website for outcomes.
Mark sheets can be anticipated in a period of seven days.
Pupils who did not clear the PSEB Class 12 can give a supplementary examination.
May 18th, 2013
Today, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) declared applicants for 4 parliamentary seats in the state prior to the general polls planned by 2014.
BSP national general secretary Narendar Kashyap stated that the party has selected Ram Kumar Prajapati from the city Ferozepur, Bhagwan Singh Chouhan from the city Hoshiarpur, Jarnail Singh Kamboj from the city of Patiala and Sucha Singh Mann from Khadoor Sahib.
Amongst the 4 applicants, 2 are from the schedule caste (SC) and as many from the backward class (BC), Narendar Kashyap stated.
“We are anticipating early Lok Sabha elections and that is why we have commenced gearing up for the same,” Kashyap also said.
Expressing that the party will contend on all 13 LS seats in the state, Narendar winnowed out option of forging coalition with any party in Lok Sabha elections.
The Bahujan Samaj Party had failed to be the victor of a single seat in last LS polls in the state.
May 18th, 2013
The father-son pair Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal would need to pay heavy price for their mishap in Panchayati Raj polls, gross mistreatment of administration machinery and pervasive chaos in Punjab.
Partap Singh Bajwa, President Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) said this while addressing poll gathering arranged by Congress MLA Brahm Mohindra in famous village Alowal, the place of birth of Sant Ishar Singh Ji Rara Sahib wale in Samana assembly.
Partap blamed Parkash Singh Badal for total breakdown of law and order in the state and stated that mishaps carried out by Mr.Sukhbir Singh Badal for the benefit of ‘Election Engineering ‘ would cost profoundly to Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal.
He added that the lust of grabbing power by hook or crook has overpowered the mind of Badal family. Partap Singh stated that insensate slaughter of Youth Congress head and Congress applicant Sukhraj Singh Bhagupur, assault on Congress MLA Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi in Ferozepur were not secluded incidents.
The score of other events of aggression by Akalis are reported from across Punjab.
“It is a calculated conspiracy to spread panic and Punjab Police was hobnobbing with the ruling party”, he added.
President Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President stated that common individuals were feeling self-doubting owing to increase in slaughters, lootings, snatchings and assault on females. He added that the crooks are roaming around so shamelessly that individuals are frightened of getting out of their residences even in daytime.
He added that more than 24 robbers robbed and hurt 2 families in Mothanwala and Kamalpur Bhatha villages close to Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala region was a dreadful and prearranged crime and the daily newspapers are overwhelmed with such events.
Mr. Bajwa demanded immediate arrest of dacoits and payment of Rs.one lakh compensation to each of injured persons.
Bajwa appealed to people not to permit SAD-BJP administration to grab the right of self administration granted to them by 73rd revision in the Indian Constitution. He added that Akalis were attempting to seize the Panchayats, block Samitis and Zila Parishad by unwarranted means.
He stated that people were so tired of with misrule of the SAD-BJP administration that they were awaiting a chance to teach lesson to the ruling coalition. He added that Congress party was confronting the challenge with bold face and would lead the people from front. He appealed to Congress workers to expose the misdemeanors of SAD-BJP administration publicly.
Bajwa added that he had met the Governor of Punjab yesterday to bring to his notice the large scale rigging of Panchayati Raj elections and demanded to deploy para-military forces to ensure free and fair poll. He stated that passing by the past experience of assembly polls, the Akali Dal thugs would attempt to detain polling stalls. He asked the State Election Commission to make sufficient safety arrangements to allow the individuals work out their right of voting with free will.
Brahm Mohindra guaranteed Bajwa that Congress staff of Samana and Patiala would oppose any effort by SAD-BJP workers to invade people’s right of franchise.
May 18th, 2013
With the aim to offer the best cure and diagnostic facilities to the survivors of cancer crosswise Punjab, the CM Parkash Singh Badal has given sanction to a wide-ranging plan of around Rs. 300 crore to provide the government medical colleges Patiala, Amritsar, Faridkot in addition to cancer hospital at Bathinda with the top notch facilities.
A verdict to this effect was taken by the CM during a gathering with the top brass of the sections of state health & family welfare and medical education & Research at CM’s residence.
Repeating his firm pledge to eradicate the cancer from Punjab, Badal added that scarcity of funds would not be permit to obstruct Punjab’s task to offer the best available cure to the sufferers inflicted with cancer.
He further added, “None of any cancer patient would be deprived of the best medical care facilities in the state of penury and would be provided the best treatment at these hospitals equipped with the latest medical care, research and diagnostic facilities.â€
The CM also gave nod for the employment of well trained and knowledgeable faculty in surgical oncology, Nuclear medicine, medical oncology and radiotherapy of these administrative medical colleges in addition to the setting up of the latest tools in sections of Radio diagnosis, Blood Transmission and Pathology to make sure the best cure and diagnostic facilities to the cancer victims.
He told the Principal Secretary Health & Family Welfare to bring a composite offer in this behalf for authorization in the upcoming Cabinet gathering slated to be take place on May 28.
Badal also proceed for direct staffing via a departmental selection group by taking out these positions from the preview of Punjab Public Service Commission led by Dr. KK Talwar and including Principal Secretary Medical Education & Research, Vice Chancellor BFUH Faridkot, Director PGI or his nominee, Director TMC or his nominee, Dr. Lalit Kumar, Prof. Medical Oncology, AIIMS New Delhi, Dr. DR Mittal, HOD Nuclear Medicine PGI Chandigarh, DRME besides a subject expert from the concerned specialty from AIIMS/PGI/TMC.
Emphasizing the requirement for training work force to prepare the health staff to treat the cancer patients in an efficient manner, Badal agreed to the plan considered by Principal Secretary Health to forward the necessary personnel at TATA Memorial Cancer Hospital Mumbai and PGIMER for training in the subsisting facilities in radiotherapy, surgical procedure, medication, pathology, gynecology for a period of 3 to 6 months at TMH.
The CM asked the heads of administrative medical college of Patiala and Amritsar to create a wide-ranging proposal for up gradation of medical tools and team to the 14th Finance Commission for seeking essential funds for this reason. The Principal government medical college, Patiala explained Mr. Badal that he had already forwarded a thorough plan of Rs.165 crore for the upgradation of medical tools and infrastructure with an aim to make this high-status medical institution at par superiority with any of the nation’s best medical & research hospital.
May 18th, 2013
Death-row prisoner and ex Chief Minister Beant Singh killer Balwant Singh Rajoana locked in Central Patiala prison has stated that ‘Sadda Haq’ film’s tale is false and an effort to glorify Jagtar Singh Hawara, his co-charged.
Hawara currently in Delhi’s Tihar jail came back into limelight, in 2004, when he escaped from maximum security jail at Burail, along with 2 other Sikh prisoners by digging a 90 feet tunnel.
The film has been hitting headlines ever since it was made. Produced by Kuljinder Sidhu and Dinesh Sood, the movie was not being cleared by the Censor Board and lastly when it was approved, the film got banned a day before its release on April 4 by Punjab administration for terrors of threats to spiritual accord in Punjab as the film deals with the Khalistan movement and supposedly had the prospective to awaken the feelings of the communities against one another.
Haryana, UT Chandigarh and National Capital Territory New Delhi accompanied the suit as well.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee that earlier donned a positive job in promoting the film and even asked the Censor Board for sanction, later backed down stating that it was unwise for the group to get support for a film.
The makers afterward approached Supreme Court that lifted the ban and the film hit theaters in Punjab on May 10.
Sadda Haq is a Punjabi movie based on the chaotic times during the days of violence in the state and depicts a story of Khalistan movement rise in the late 80s and early 90s.
