Ludhiana, Punjab Business Information Directory

Lovleen BainsSahnewal January 6Uncovered manholes located in Jugiana village falling under Ward Number 28 of the municipal limits of Ludhiana were proving to be a death knell for pedestrians and vehicles drivers. Not even a single day passes when a two-wheeler rider does not stuck up in the manholes. Cars usually get stuck in these manholes which damage the vehicle and often lead to traffic jams. Vehicles suffer breakdown due to the sudden jerk” rued Jaskirat Kaur who resides in Jugiana village. When contacted Kamal SDO Operational Department of the Municipal Corporation Ludhiana he assured that the manholes shall be covered in the next two hours.

Sports CorrespondentLudhiana January 6Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will launch the campaign “Youth of Punjab” on Thursday. Sukhwinder Singh Bindra Chairman Punjab Youth Development Board said under the campaign free sports kits would be distributed to the youth in all districts of the state. Bindra said the CM would launch the campaign through video conferencing from the Bachat Bhawan Ludhiana wherein youth clubs from the urban areas of district would be handed over sports kits. He said hundreds of youth clubs of the district would be covered in both these functions. were supporting the Punjab Youth Development Board in organising this campaign.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana January 6Alleging police inaction in an abetment to suicide case family of the deceased today gheraoed the Salem Tabri police station. The family alleged the police are working under political influence due to which accused booked in the case were not being arrested by them. On the basis of a suicide note the Salem Tabri police had registered an abetment to suicide case against fruit wholesellers Bikram Singh and Kushal Singh. Meanwhile Salem Tabri SHO Gopal Krishan said police raids were on and the accused would be nabbed soon. The SHO said the suicide note recovered from the dairy was sent for forensic examination.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana January 6Under the Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on November 19 2020 Ludhiana Municipal Corporation is organising country's first loan mela at Indoor Stadium on Pakhowal Road here from 10 am onwards tomorrow i.e. Municipal Corporation Joint Commissioner Swati Tiwana informed that 'Safaimitra' refers to informal/formal sanitation workers who are involved in cleaning of sewer and septic tanks and related tasks. The challenge is aimed at preventing safaimitra from 'hazardous cleaning' of sewers/septic tanks through promotion of mechanised cleaning. The National Safai Karamchari Finance Development Corporation (NSKFDC) is providing loans to Safaimitras on the recommendation of the Municipal Corporation. The Municipal Corporation has mobilised informal workers and loan process initiated for workers under the scheme.

Ludhiana January 6Due to the ongoing agitation by farmers in Punjab the Northern Railways have further extended cancellation short-termination (partial cancellation) and diversion of some long route trains till January 8. Railway officials said 05211/12 Darbhanga-Amritsar-Darbhanga Special express and 08237/38 Korba-Amritsar-Korba Chhattisgarh Special express trains would remain cancelled till Jan 8. The 02407/08 Newjalpaiguri-Amritsar-Newjalpaiguri Karambhoomi Special express would short-terminate at and short-originate from Ambala Cantt (till Jan 8) and 04653/54 Newjalpaiguri-Amritsar-Newjalpaiguri Special express special would short-terminate at and short-originate from Saharanpur till January 8. It was further stated that 02903/04 Mumbai Central-Amritsar-Mumbai Central Golden Temple Mail 02925/26 Bandra Terminus-Amritsar-Bandra Terminus 04650 Amritsar-Jaynagar Saryu Yamuna express special and 04652 Amritsar- Jaynagar Humsafar express special would continue to be diverted to run via Amritsar-Tarn Taran-Beas route.

Our CorrespondentLudhiana January 6Amid reports of illegal colonies coming up all across periphery areas of the city and unscrupulous developers being given a long rope by the regulatory body a team of officials and field staff of the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) carried out a demolition drive in over six illegal colonies in the South City area along the Sidhwan Canal Humbran Road and Haibowal localities. The GLADA team pulled down structures and dug up ongoing development works at the colonies. The developers were directed not to carry out any further development work and produce necessary documents pertaining to regularisation of the colonies if they had applied for the same under the (now lapsed) regularisation policy introduced by the state government. GLADA Estate Officer Sonam Chaudhry however claimed that issuing notices for violations or carving out unlicensed colonies was a continuous process. An action plan had been prepared to carry out area-specific demolition drives against illegal colonies or buildings being constructed without approved building plans or other violations she added.

Ludhiana January 6The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) vide circular memo no. 861/66/DD/SR-62 dated 09.12.2020; regularised the power intensive unit load on electrolytes processing units which is totally 'unjustified' for the small electroplating processing industry. This was stated by Gurmeet Singh Kular president Federation of industrial & Commercial Organisation (FICO) and Rajeev Jain general secretary. They requested A. Venu Prasad CMD PSPCL to immediately rollback the decision otherwise industrialists will protest against the decision. Members of the FICO said the Industry in Punjab is already being supplied with electricity at expensive prices as compared to the neighbouring states.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana January 5The Punjab State Women Commission has served a notice to the Ludhiana Police Commissioner Rakesh Agrawal and asked him to submit a report regarding the rape committed in the Mundian police post which falls under the Jamalpur police station. The Commission has asked the police to submit the action taken report in two days. The Commission Chairperson said if the seniors were informed about the presence of the woman at the police post had any action been taken against them for failing to prevent the crime. The Commission stated that if the woman was taken to the police station why women cops were not called there to attend to the woman complainant. Two days ago a case was registered against the cop and others.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana January 5The Municipal Corporation (MC) has slapped a notice of around Rs 80000 to a factory owner in New Subash Nagar here for allegedly damaging a road to get sewer connection without any required permission from the civic body. 10 Harjinder Paul had earlier complained to the MC authorities that the owner of a hosiery unit had got interlocking tiles removed to link the factory's sewer connection with the MC's sewer line. The factory owner was getting the sewer connection joined with the MC's sewer line without any permission the councillor said. He further said that they took action in this regard and did not allow the factory owner to get the sewer connection joined with the MC's sewer line. A notice has been served to the factory owner to pay Rs 80528 to the MC for causing damage to the road.

Kuldip BhatiaLudhiana January 5Despite best efforts by railway authorities and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel to curb the menace of encroachments along the railway tracks at various places in the city and to stop the people from crossing railway tracks to save human lives it is business as usual along Dhuri Line railway tracks where a sabzi mandi on one side of the tracks has become a permanent feature. The mandi has a tacit support from certain RPF officials and employees as despite regular patrolling business at this mandi continues to thrive with veggies and fruits being unloaded right along the tracks and buyers crossing the tracks with impunity all day long. People living on both sides along the railway track maintain that the situation looks threatening when tempos and auto rickshaws unload the vegetables and fruits which are then carried across the tracks by shopkeepers. More so during the peak hours vegetable and fruit buyers and keep crossing the tracks unmindful of the danger that they were putting their lives into. Tarun Kumar Director Ludhiana Railway Station said railways were taking several steps to secure railway land against encroachments and deter the people from crossing railway tracks which was a punishable offence under the Railway Act.

Ludhiana: Students of Shree Atam Vallabh Jain College Ludhiana brought laurels to the college by their excellent performance in online Punjab State Youth Festival-2021. Now these students will represent Panjab University at national level” said Principal Prof Rishi Kesh. On the occasion Mohinder Singh KP chairman Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training was the chief guest. Conference was conducted under the guidance of the Principal Dr Gurpreet Kaur the head of the department Baljit Kaur and Asst. Principal Dr Gurpreet Kaur appreciated the efforts of students and motivated them to keep participating in such conferences to enhance their knowledge and confidence.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana January 4Keeping in view increasing cases of crime against women the police have resolved to focus on protecting the fairer sex and act tough against criminals. As per official records 450 complaints related to crime against women are reported on an average in the city every month. The city police have set up special women helpline desks to exclusively deal with crime against women. Majority of complaints received were related to matrimonial disputes including allegations of domestic violence and dowry the CP said. In POSCO and sexual assault cases teams of women officials mandatorily assist investigators at every step of investigation and registration of cases.

Tribune News ServiceLudhiana January 4The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Ludhiana held its first General Body meeting and installation ceremony of its new team for the year 2021. Dr Saroj Aggarwal took over as the IMA Ludhiana president for the present year along with Dr RS Maheshwari and Dr Pawan Dhingra as senior vice-presidents. Dr Aggarwal appointed Dr Ashish Ohri as honorary secretary Dr Dheeraj Aggarwal as finance secretary and Dr Ashish Saxsena as joint secretary of the IMA Ludhiana. Dr Manoj K Sobti former IMA Punjab president and member Punjab Medical Council welcomed the new team. In her inaugural address Dr Aggarwal asked IMA members to attend meetings and assured them of all help in the times of need.

Ludhiana: A Hyundai Verna car was reportedly stolen while thieves broke open a window of a Honda City car and decamped with a purse containing cash and other documents. Arun Kumar Malhotra a resident of Harcharan Nagar lodged a report with the police about the theft of his Hyundai Verna car (bearing registration no. PB 10CH 1850) from outside his house on Saturday night. He said he parked the vehicle outside his house but the next morning the vehicle was found missing. Dr Pardeep Galhotra a resident of Rajguru Nagar reported to the police that thieves had broken open the window of his Honda City car (bearing registration no.

Kuldip BhatiaLudhiana January 3Leaking water supply and sewer pipes in Gole Market here the main commercial hub in the posh Model Town locality for over a month are mocking the tall claims of smart city and smart roads that are being talked about day in and day out by political leaders and bureaucrats. The water accumulation at several places in the market has not only turned this stretch into an accident-prone area but leakage from water supply and sewerage pipes might as well lead to the mixing and contamination of drinking water thereby resulting in a huge health hazard. Residents and shopkeepers of the affected area say that repeated complaints made to senior officials of the operations and maintenance (O & M) wing of the Municipal Corporation have either remained unheeded or resulted in only temporary stop-gap arrangements. “At some places rubber pipes have been used to reconnect the water supply lines” said the complainant. The PHRC has been urged to intervene in the matter issue directions to the officials concerned for resolving the issue and recommend suitable disciplinary action against the MC officials for negligence and dereliction of duty.