Ludhiana, Punjab Business Information Directory

Ludhiana February 13Cash amounting to Rs80 lakh and a bunch of incriminating documents including multiple bills receipts and cheque books were seized by the Ludhiana chapter of the State GST department during a search and seizure operation from a local trader in Mandi Kesar Ganj here today. The action was taken on a tip-off by a team of state tax officials comprising Manu Garg Dharminder Kumar Davinder Pannu and inspectors Munish Kumar Ashwani Kumar and Rishi Verma. It was done after Punjab Taxation Commissioner Nilkanth S Avhad and Additional Taxation Commissioner-1 Showkat Ahmad Parry had asked the Deputy Commissioner of State GST to take action in the matter. After recovering huge amount of cash the state tax officials while following the protocol called the officials of the Income Tax Department on the spot for handling the heavy amount of cash. The Income Tax Department officials counted the cash in the presence of the state GST authorities.

Ludhiana: The Internal Quality Assurance Cell and Department of Hindi of Arya College Girls Section organised a 15-day workshop on human values under its ongoing Gyanvardhini Shrankhala. In the workshop the students were imparted knowledge on moral values and social awareness and those values were also cited with examples from Hindi novels dramas poems and stories. Principal Dr Savita Uppal appreciated the efforts of IQAC and said that students will be immensely benefitted from such programmes. He stressed upon the need to follow and observe traffic rules in our daily lives. Principal Maninder kaur appreciated the efforts of NSS Unit of the college and advised students to follow traffic rules in their daily lives.

Ludhiana February 13Members of the Rehri Phari Federation Ludhiana and the National Association of Street Vendors of India have urged the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) to first set up vending zones instead of taking action against them. He said a number of street vendors have faced harassment as their carts were being removed from different areas. If their carts are removed from streets without setting up the vending zones how will they earn and return the loan amount? All registered vendors should be shifted to the vending zones first” he said. Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu said he had given instructions to Tehbazari head Neeraj Jain for shifting the vendors to the identified sites for vending zones.

Ludhiana February 10Residents of Rajiv Gandhi Colony led by the Karkhana Mazdoor Union members today staged a protest at the Sherpur office of the Municipal Corporation Ludhiana. The people demanded the problem of choked sewers in the colony should be resolved as soon as possible. They also demanded that safe drinking water supply should be restored and broken water pipes should be repaired. “The residents have been suffering due to problem of choked sewers at Rajiv Gandhi colony. JE Harinder Singh said that the problem has been resolved at Rajiv Gandhi Colony.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana February 10In a major action the Municipal Corporation (MC) today disconnected irregular connections of five colonies in the city. According to information developers of these colonies had taken sewer connections from the MC's sewer line without any permission. “Earlier the MC had sent notices to colonisers concerned to pay charges for regularisation of sewer connections but they failed to do so. Today we disconnected illegal sewer connections of these colonies” Ranbir added. Sources said many other colonies including posh areas located outside MC's jurisdiction had also taken sewer connections from the civic body's sewer line without paying any charges.

There are complaints that sewers generally remain choked at various locations including Dhandari Khurd and nearby areas Kailash Nagar Jassian Road and other parts of the city. Sukhwinder Singh a resident of Dhandari Khurd said: “After a gap of a short period sewers had started overflowing again in the area on Sunday. We appeal to the civic body to resolve the issue.”The residents said sewers are not being cleaned on Jassian Road near the railway bridge. A resident of Jassian Road in ward no. Superintending Engineer of the O&M branch in MC's Zone D Ravinder Garg said he would look into the matter about choked sewers on Jassian Road area.

Shivani BhakooTribune News ServiceLudhiana February 11To achieve 100 per cent result in schools under 'Mission Shat Pratishat' the state government had recently allotted grants to all districts to provide assignments and study material to students studying in higher classes. Under the Learning Enhancement Programme (LEP) there are total about 37033 students in Ludhiana district who are studying in classes XI and XII. After spending this grant for the particular purpose a certificate will be sent to the DEO by respective schools. “If study material is readily available with the students they can go through it a number of times before their final or board exams. This way they can get the desired study material old question-papers assignments etc to memorise” said the teacher.

As no parking arrangements are available in such buildings the visitors are forced to park their vehicles on road. Now residents want the MC to conduct a survey to check parking violations in the buildings in all four zones in the city and take appropriate action to resolve the parking as well as traffic-related problems. The complainant Baljeet Singh who is a civil engineer and resident of BRS Nagar has demanded that a survey should be conducted in this regard. A survey should be conducted to identify all those buildings that have been constructed or are under construction by violating norms. The civic body should take the required action to resolve the traffic-related problems in the city.”Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu said a survey would be conducted to check the buildings that lack parking arrangements.

Ludhiana February 11Dayanand Medical College and Hospital has started palliative care services which is another patient-oriented service added in the hospital. In his message Gupta said that the hospital is committed for extending services to provide best medical care at affordable prices. Principal Sandeep Puri said this is a specialised medical care required in patients with incurable progressive life threatening disease. It helps in relieving the pain and suffering from other symptoms and may help in reducing the hospital admissions. He said Dr Kunal Jain Dr Vivek Gupta and Dr M Rupinder Singh along with nursing team have undergone structured training in palliative care from AIIMS New Delhi.

Ludhiana: St Thomas Senior Secondary School Ludhiana organised a farewell party to bid adieu to the outgoing Class XII. The programme started with a Word of God from the Holy Bible read by Principal Samuel. He wished the students best of luck and motivated them to do hard work to achieve the desired goal of their lives. Welcome speech was delivered by a Class XI student and a Class XII student delivered a speech to thank each and everyone who contributed in their long journey in this school and who left an indelible impression on their hearts. And then there was a ramp walk by beautiful damsels and handsome dudes of Class XII dressed in their best attire.

Ludhiana February 11Today 60 people tested positive for Covid while one death was reported in the district. Now the total positive cases from the district are 26214 while the Covid death toll has gone up to 1009. Today one more student from Government Senior Secondary School Sekhewal tested Covid positive. Yesterday 11 students from the same school had tested positive for the virus. Earlier five teachers from the school tested Covid positive after which samples of teachers and students were collected.— TNS

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana February 10Haryana-based man allegedly raped his niece on the pretext of solemnising marriage with her. Recently her parents had also shifted to Ludhiana and were living in Chitti Colony Salem Tabri the victim added. In June last year her uncle came to Ludhiana and took her to Kangra HP the victim added. Initially the victim told suspect that she would enter into physical relation with him after getting married with him. Later the suspect convinced victim to develop physical relations by assuring that he would soon solemnise marriage with her.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana Febraury 10Deputy Commissioner (DC) Varinder Kumar Sharma was inoculated against Covid at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here today. After receiving the jab the DC said he was feeling completely fine and healthy. “Till date around 2700 frontline workers have been vaccinated and the district administration aims to cover maximum frontline workers by March 5” the DC added. “The Punjab Government has already made it clear that this vaccination is totally voluntary. Still all people should get themselves vaccinated because this vaccination is totally safe” the DC said.

Ludhiana: To celebrate the 400th birth anniversary of Guru Teg Bahadur a musical programme 'Manukhta da Rehbar Guru Teg Bahadur' was organised in online as well as offline mode at Ramgarhia Girls College Ludhiana. Expressing his views Dr Nirmal Jaura Director Youth Welfare Department said 12 colleges participated in this programme and students were highly enthusiastic. Principal Dr Mukti Gill appreciated the efforts made by NSS NCC students council and Rotract students and thanked the programme officers. NCC camp heldA five-day NCC camp held at Gulzar group of Institutes Khanna and Ludhiana. Over 250 NCC cadets both boys and girls joined the NCC Annual Training camp at GGI Campus.

Ludhiana: Dr Sukhwinder Kaur joined as principal of the Government College for Girls (GCG) Ludhiana. The programme was held in the presence of director Dr Balwant Singh principal Dr Manpreet Kaur and all staff members. Jain College students shineShree Atam Vallabh Jain College informed that number of students have cleared CA Foundation and CA (Inter) examination. Yogya Madaan (B.Com) Payal Sharma (B.Com) and Pranjal of (B.Com II) cleared CA Foundation. Tanishka Aggarwal (B.Com II) Aryan Verma (B.Com II) and Rhythm Sood of (B.Com II) cleared CA (Inter) exam.