Girls medicos molestation case: GGS MC Faridkot medicos strike enters in 8th Day

 The strike of MBBS intern doctors; students of Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, Faridkot today entered in the 8th day as they held a protest-march against the security arrangements in the college and university premises.

 

Besides action against the culprits who were involved in molestation of girls students on August 21 the students train their guns today to the university authorities and raised slogans against the security, management staff primarily Lakhbir Singh Brar, chief security officer of the college; demanding his resignation.

 

They have urged the vice chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFHUS) Dr. SS Gill to remove Brar with immediate effect.

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PMCPA demands stern action against miscreants who have molested girls of GGS MC at Faridkot

Punjab medical colleges parents association (PMCPA) today demanded the intervention of Punjab’s deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to take stern action against who were involved in molestation of MBBS girls students -of Guru Gobind Medical College, Faridkot- on Sunday night  at Faridkot.

The president of PMCPA Gagandeep Singh in statement issued here today asked Badal, who has been holding portfolio of Home department, to direct the SSP of Faridkot for the registration of case against miscreants who have molested girls and later attacked Intern doctors and MBBS boys students who have came to rescue the girls students. The miscreants have chased the students in hospital premises and injured three doctors/students one of them was admitted in ICU of Government medical college Faridkot.

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PUNJAB TO RECRUIT STAFF FOR NEW MODERN JAILS SOON

The Punjab Government would soon initiate the process to recruit wardens and other staff for new jails to streamline the functioning of newly built modern Jails at Kapurthala and Faridkot.

A decision to this effect had been taken at a high level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with the Jails administration to review the work relating to the finishing touches being given in these newly constucted Jails here late last evening.

Mr Badal asked the Senior Jail Officers to immediately start the process of recruitment to appoint head wardens, wardens and other miscellaneous staff, besides completing all the other necessary works for making these Jails operational with in two weeks.

He directed the Punjab Health System Corporation and Health Department to provide necessary equipment and staff for the Hospitals in these jails without any further delay. He approved to utilise the services of security personnel from PAP and PESCO for the Jails at Kapurthala and Faridkot as a stop gap arrangement till the completion of the new recruitment process.

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In Zail Singh’s village, girls drop out of school early

Once an education hub, area languishes for want of attention 

In this village of Giani Zail Singh, the first Punjabi to become the President of India, the dropout rate of girls after the high school level is about 70 per cent as its residents are afraid of sending their daughters for further study to the neighbouring towns because of reports of rising crime graph. During his tenure as Chief Minister of Punjab, Giani Zail Singh strived to make Faridkot area a hub of education.

The village sarpanch, Sukhdev Singh, said although the district headquarters at Faridkot was just about 5 kms away from here but the villageers were not willing to send their daughters there for schooling beyond class X. The village has a co-education high school, but most girls discontinue their study after the tenth class as their parents do not allow them to go to the town that has Plus Two schools and a college, said village elders Gurcharan Singh and Gurmeet Singh. The high school should be upgraded to the secondary level, they demanded.

The village folk give credit for development of the area to Giani Zail Singh, but point out that after his death the village has become orphaned. Neglect of the area was not only by the present SAD-BJP coalition government, the previous Congress governments also did not pay any attention to their problems after Giani Zail Singh strained his relations with the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1987 by refusing to give assent to the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill arming the government with powers to censor any personal mail.

Sukhdev Singh said the village has been split into two panchayats because of the increasing population. The biggest problem was of waterlogging as the government has yet to lay a sewerage system here. The sewerage project for five villages of Faridkot, including Sandhwan, was sanctioned in 2004, but nothing has been done so far.

The tower housing a photo museum that has been constructed in the memory of Giani Zail Singh in his village Sandhwan near Faridkot.Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma

The cotton yarn spinning mill sprawling over 30 acres set up during Giani Zail Singh's tenure, employed about 2100 men and women. It was shut in 1998 and transferred to a business tycoon, said the sarpanch.


Gurcharan Singh pointed out that although the village is situated between Faridkot and Kotkapura towns on the highway but even private buses do not stop here to pick up the passengers and as such the railway station set up on the directions of Giani Zail Singh was a great relief to the common people as all passenger trains heading towards Bathinda, Ferozepur and Delhi stop here. The railways have rightly named the station as “Giani Zail Singh Sandhwan”, Gurcharan Singh appreciated. Gurmeet Singh said it was during the Giani's tenure as Chief Minister that a post office, dispensary, veterinary hospital and a school were set up in the village.


Gurnam Singh and Jaswant Kaur, who were the immediate neighbours of Giani Zail Singh when he lived in his old house where a tower and a photo museum have now been constructed in his memory, recalled that the Giani made a group of about 50 residents of the village stay in the Rashtrapati Bhavan when they visited New Delhi when he was the President.


The Giani also arranged for their transportation to various places of tourist interest in and around Delhi. They also recalled that the Giani arrived in a helicopter in the village to attend the cremation of his elder brother Jagir Singh.


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Recruitment Rally Begins In Punjab - Ferozepur 7 April,2011

Thousands of youth seeking recruitment in the defence forces today converged on the supply depot grounds in the cantonment here where the recruitment rally being held by the Army recruitment office under the aegis of Golden Arrow Division began today.

Col Balwan Singh, Director (Recruitment), while giving details, said the recruitment drive will continue till April 14. Aspiring youth from four districts including Bathinda, Muktsar, Faridkot and Ferozepur will be allowed to participate in it.

He said over 1000 youth from the Faridkot district participated in the recruitment drive today, which will be followed by boys from Muktsar, Bathinda and Ferozepur. He said all arrangements for the smooth conduct of the recruitment process have been made. Col Singh cautioned the youth from falling into the trap of unscrupulous agents.

FARIDKOT VILLAGERS PROUD OF 100 PER CENT LITERACY

FARIDKOT VILLAGERS PROUD OF 100 PER CENT LITERACY

Putting signatures on different documents instead of thumb impressions fills neo-literates of Shimerewala, about 20 km from here, with child-like glee, as also their co-villagers who take pride in the fact that their village boasts of cent per cent literacy.

Of the nearly 1,000 villagers, both young and old, more than 100 have landed government jobs so far on the basis of their educational achievements. Most villagers are migrants and their progeny from Bahawalpur (Pakistan), who were allotted around 1,000 acres of land owned by Muslims who crossed over to Pakistan after Partition. An octogenarian villager, Zora Singh, a gradute from Lahore, said that there were at least 200 families in the village and no member of any family was illeterate.

Interestingly, youngsters in the village take inspiration from the example of village sarpanch Sadara Singh, who secured a Bachelor's degree in technology before Partition from Lahore. Walking down the memory lane, the former sarpanch informed media that Dewan Chand was the first teacher appointed in the village government school. Dewan Chand inspired the villagers to get education and thus helped them embark on the path of self-improvement, he said.

It was on the insistence of a grateful villagers that Education Department officials never transfered the dedicated teacher from the village school. He ultimately retired from the village school. Interestingly, even Dalit residents of the village do not lag behind in education. Village sarpanch Dheerinder Kaur as also all members of her family, attend the village school.

Two Dalit youngesters were presently studying in a polytechnic, it was learnt. A villager Harjinder Singh said that five-six youngsters from the village had even gone abroad for higher studies. Whenever a politician visted the village, particularly during elections, panchayat members plead for money for strengthening educational infrastructure, including up gradation of village school to senior secondary level.

Villagers said that Lok Sabha MP Paramjit Kaur Gulshan, who recently visited this dusty village, appreciated the villagers for the success of their total literacy campaign and announced a grant of Rs 2.50 lakh out of her MPLAD funds for the betterment of the village.