SaturdayMay 22, 2021

CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXVI, NO. 112 PAGES 8, RS. 2

PAGE 3

Central Govt okaysRs 20.67 crore toHaryana fororganizing YouthGames

FOLLOW US ON

YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER

WWW.YUGMARG.COM

REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95Join us at telegram

https://t.me/yugmarg

WTC is like WC,have reached finalafter defeatinggood teams:Umesh Yadav

Global food,hunger challengesprojected toincrease mortality

CM flags offconsignments oflife savingequipments forCovid-19

Mamata to contest by-election fromBhawanipore KOLKATA: West BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee will contest by-election from the Bhawa-nipore Assembly seat,said a Trinamool Con-gress (TMC) leader onFriday. Senior TrinamoolCongress leader andparty MLA SovandebChatterjee resigned fromthe Bhawanipore seat onFriday.

IAF pilot killed asMiG Bison aircraftcrash in PunjabMOGA : An Indian AirForce pilot was killed aftera MiG-21 Bison aircraftcrashed in Punjab's Mogadistrict, officials said onFriday. The aircraft wason a routine sortie fromSuratgarh when itcrashed near a village inMoga, they said. A Courtof Inquiry has been or-dered to ascertain thecause of the accidentwhich took place lateThursday night.

PAGE 5PAGE 4 PAGE 8

RBI to transfer Rs 99,122crore as dividend to govt

AGENCYMUMBAI, MAY 21

The Reserve Bank on Friday de-cided to transfer Rs 99,122 croreas surplus to the exchequer, amove that will help the govern-ment to channelise more resourcesto combat the second wave ofCOVID-19 pandemic.

The decision to transfer thesurplus amount for the accountingperiod of nine months endedMarch 31, 2021 was taken at ameeting of the central board of theRBI, held through video confer-encing, under the chairmanship ofGovernor Shaktikanta Das.

The surplus is commonlycalled 'dividend'.

The accounting year of RBI istruncated as the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) has aligned its July-June accounting year with the gov-ernment's April-March fiscal year.

The RBI has followed a July-June financial year since 1940,when it moved away from a Janu-ary-December financial year.

The RBI also decided to main-taina Contingency Risk Buffer at5.50 per cent in line with recom-mendations of the Bimal JalanCommittee report. The panel had

prescribed a Contingency RiskBuffer range of 6.5 per cent to 5.5per cent for the RBI.

The RBI Board, according to arelease, also reviewed the currenteconomic situation, global and do-mestic challenges and recent poli-cy measures taken by the ReserveBank to mitigate the adverse im-pact of the second wave ofCOVID-19 on the economy.

With the change in the ReserveBank's accounting year to April-March (earlier July-June), theBoard discussed the working ofthe RBI during the transition peri-od of nine months (July 2020-March 2021).

During the meeting, the board"approved the Annual Report andaccounts of the Reserve Bank for

the transition period."The Board also approved the

transfer of Rs 99,122 crore as sur-plus to the central government forthe accounting period of ninemonths ended March 31, 2021(July 2020-March 2021), while de-ciding to maintain the Contin-gency Risk Buffer at 5.50 percent." The RBI had transferred Rs

57,128 crore as surplus to the cen-tral government for the accountingyear 2019-20. A year before that(2018-19), the RBI had transferredRs 1.76 lakh crore which included Rs 1.23 lakh crore as div-idend and Rs 52,637 crore excessprovisions identified as per the re-vised Economic Capital Frame-work (ECF).

India records 2.59 lakh fresh casesNEW DELHI: The daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained be-low 3 lakh for the fifth consecutive day with 2.59 lakh new casesrecorded in a single day, according to the Union Health Ministry dataupdated on Friday.With a total of 2,59,551 fresh cases, India's total tally of COVID-19 cas-es climbed to 2,60,31,991.The death toll climbed to 2,91,331 with 4,209 daily deaths, the data up-dated at 8 am showed.The active cases further reduced to 30,27,925 comprising 11.63 percent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rateimproved to 87.25 per cent.The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surgedto 2,27,12,735, while the case fatality rate has increased to 1.12 percent, the data stated.India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11,crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and sur-passed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grimmilestone of 2 crore on May 4.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, MAY 21

Haryana Chief Minister, ShManohar Lal while giving a bigsigh of relief to the BPL patients ofHaryana undergoing COVID-19treatment in Private hospitals an-nounced that from now onwardsthe entire treatment cost of suchpatients will be borne by the StateGovernment. Earlierthe State Governmenthad announced finan-cial assistance of up toRs 35,000 to such BPLpatients.

"All the BPL fam-ilies who are not cov-ered under AyushmanBharat scheme wouldbe eligible to get thisbenefit and the Deputy Commis-sioner will ensure that this finan-cial assistance scheme reachesgrassroots levels," said the ChiefMinister.

The Chief Minister whilechairing the eighth review meetingof COVID-19 management withthe Deputy Commissioners andAdministrative Secretaries heldhere today through video confer-encing said that the Deputy Com-missioners should ensure thatevery patient who is eligible forthis benefit should get it on prior-ity basis. Deputy Chief Minister,Sh. Dushyant Chautala, Health

and Home Minister also joined themeeting from Chandigarh andAmbala respectively.

He said that presently as gov-ernment and private hospitals ofthe State are already putting up atough fight against the ongoingsecond wave of COVID-19 Pan-demic, now the focus should beshifted on making adequatearrangements to deal with the pa-

tients suffering fromPost-COVID complica-tions including keepinga close vigil on 'BlackFungus' cases.

"Every DeputyCommissioner has tonow act like Field Com-mandment and shouldensure sure proper im-plementation of the

schemes and strategies executed bythe Government to the grassrootslevels said the Chief Minister.

The Chief Minister was alsoapprised that in the coming days amassive awareness campaignwould be launched for the aware-ness of ‘Black Fungus’ among themasses and special training hasbeen imparted to the doctors fortreating the same. It was informedin the meeting that a plan has beenformulated for opening specialclinics along with regular OPDs inthe civil hospitals across the stateto deal with Post-COVID symp-toms.

Haryana offers freeCovid treatment to

BPL patients

AGENCYMUMBAI, MAY 21

At least 13 Naxals werekilled in an encounter withpolice's C-60 commandos inGadchiroli district of Maha-rashtra early on Friday, offi-cials said.

The skirmish took placearound 5.30 am in the forestat Kotmi in Etapalli, wherethe Naxals had gathered for ameeting, said Sandeep Patil,Deputy Inspector General ofGadchiroli. Based on specif-ic inputs, the police party,comprising C-60 comman-

dos, had launched a searchoperation in the forest, hesaid. However, the ultrasspotted the police party andopened fire, following whichthe C-60 commandos retali-ated, in which 13 Naxalswere killed, he said.

The encounter lastedaround an hour, after whichthe remaining Naxals es-caped into the dense forest,said Ankit Goyal, Superin-tendent of Police, Gadchiroli.

Bodies of the Naxalshave been recovered from thespot and a search operation inthe area is still on, he said.

13 Naxals killed inencounter with

police in Gadchiroli

AGENCYPANAJI, MAY 21

A Sessions Court inGoa acquittedfounder and formerEditor-in-Chief ofTehelka MagazineTarun Tejpal of allcharges in the al-leged sexual assaultcase.

Tejpal, who was alreadyout on bail, was accused ofsexually assaulting a womanin 2013.

He was arrested on No-vember 30 in 2013 after al-

legedly raping hiscolleague at a five-star resort in NorthGoa.

On September29, 2017, the courthad charged himwith various Sec-tions of the IndianPenal Code (IPC),

including rape, sexual ha-rassment, and wrongful con-finement. He, however,pleaded not guilty.

Tarun Tejpal acquittedin sexual assault case

CLASSIFIED

RNI NO. 61323/95 | Printed and Published by Gaurav Goel for Yugmarg Prakashan from 28/1, Industrial Area Phase-II, Chandigarh and printed at Yugmarg Publications, Kurali Road, Khanpur, Kharar Distt. Mohali (PB), Editor Chander Trikha, Ph.:(off) 0172-5002721, 2972414. E-mail: yugmarg@gmail.com

Postal Code No. G/CHD/0186/2016-2018

I h i t he r to known a s I, Kawaldeep Kaur W/o I, Kanwalpreet W/o Ravi Das I, Manpreet Kaur W/o I, Gursifat Kaur Luthra D/o Manpreet Kaur D/o Jagraj Kuldeep Singh R/o H.No.36, R/O VPO Zaffarwal Tehsil & Rajinder Singh Vill Arnauli , Rajvikram Singh R/o H.No. Singh R/o H.No.6, TEH. Block-C, Friends Avenue, distt Gurdaspur, Punjab Guhla , Kaithal Changed 132 Preet Nagar Bassi Road TAPA, VPO Bhila, Barnala, A j n a l a R o a d D i s t r i c t declare that My Husband is My Minor Son Name Sirhind (Fatehgarh Sahib) P u n j a b - 1 4 8 1 0 0 , h a v e Amritsar have declare Serving in Unit 2,Guards Mehtab Singh Given c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o changed my name and shall that Kaur is my Surname (1Grenadiers) C/o 56 APO, in Name Mehtab Surname Gursifat Kaur.hereafter be known as and Kalwaldeep is my his service Document’s My Singh. 63372M A N P R E E T K A U R Given name. name is Kanwalpreet instead 84661 I, Rajwinder Kaur Johal RANDHAWA. 900020 of Kamal preet. Now I want to I P a r m j i t K a u r W / O W/O Beant Singh Thind

100077 I, Gurdeep Singh S/o change my name from Kamal S o h a n S i n g h R / O R/O Khosa Pando (Moga) I , hi therto Known as J a r n a i l S i n g h R / o preet to Kanwalpreet. Please S a h n e w a l ( L u d h i a n a ) Changed Name Rajwinder A M A R D E E P K A U R Dabanwala , Gurdaspur note. Have Changed My Name Kaur Thind.MANDLA D/o ICHHIA have changed my name 98748 Paramjit Kaur. 63372PARGAT SINGH W/o from Gurdeep Singh to I, Mira Yadav is legally 63372 I Sarbjit Kaur Grewal W/o AMANPREET SINGH R/o Gurdip Singh Wedded of No.15473090P I , Ta r u n a S o o d W / o Gurjant Singh Punia R/o 15/31, Near Govt. Dental 900020 DFR Rajesh Singh Yadav R/o Parveen Kumar Sood R/o Kothe Pona Tehsil Jagraon Hospi ta l , Mal l Road, I, Ankush S/o Ashwani at 46 Armd Regt C/o 56 APO # 437 W.No. 5 Near Easy D i s t t L u d h i a n a h a v e Amritsar-143001 Punjab Kumar R/o H.No.756, declare that I have Changed D a y M o r i n d a T e h - c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o have changed my name and Gali No.2, Amritsar have my name from Mira Yadav to M o r i n d a ( R u p n a g a r ) Sarbjit Kaur Punia.Shall hereafter be known as changed my name from Meera Singh Vide affidavit Punjab, India, changed 63372AMARDEEP KAUR. Ankush to Ankush Arora. No.AN 414256 dated on 21 m y s o n ’s n a m e f r o m I B i s a k h a S i n g h S / o

900020 900020 May 2021. before notary S a k s h a m t o S a k s h a m M a l k a i t S i n g h H : N o I , hi therto Known as I, Harjashanveer Singh public Amritsar. Sood. 1 7 8 0 / 4 2 , 0 3 N e a r A M A R J E E T S I N G H Bath S/o Avtar Singh R/o 72737 63372 B h a j a n g a r h G u r d w a r a THIND Son of SUCHA 5 8 5 , G a r d e n E n c l a v e I, No.15500427Y SWR Jagjit I, Shiv Kumar S/o Bal Malak Road Jagraon Distt SINGH residing at Village Near Bath Dairy G.T Singh S/o Balwinder Singh K r i s h a n S h a r m a R / o Ludhiana have changed my Dharar, District Amritsar Road Byepass Amritsar R/o at 67 Armd Regt C/o 56 H.No. 118 Sukhdev Nagar name to Visakha Singh.Punjab have changed my have changed my name APO declare that I have W. N o . 7 , A h m e d g a r h 63372name and Shall hereafter be f r o m H a r j a s h a n v e e r Changed my Mother's name D i s t t . S a n g r u r h a v e I, Harmesho W/O Sham known as AMARJEET S i n g h B a t h t o from Surjit Kour to Surjeet changed my name son Lal R/O Bakkar Khana SINGH. Harjashanveer Singh. Kaur Vide affidavit No.AN n a m e f r o m Tw i n k l e Road Nawanshahr, Distt

900020 900020 414257 dated on 21 May S h a r m a t o M a n a v SBS Nagar, (Punjab) Have I, Harmeet Kaur W/o Lajpat I Sapna Khurana D/o 2021. before notary public Sharma. C h a n g e d M y N a m e Rai R/o Flat No.77 G.F, B- Shyam Sunder Khurana Amritsar. 63372 Harmesho To Harmesh Kaur.Block, Ranjit Avenue, W/o Mukesh Chadha R/o 72737 I, Dharminder S/o Virsa 63372Amritsar have changed my H.No. 4445, Ward No. 13, I, hitherto known as S i n g h R / o V & P o . minor son’s name from N e a r Q i l a C o m p l e x , Sukhchain Kaur Somal Lalughuman (Tarn Taran) Balgopal Rai Singh to Kharar (Mohal i ) have W/O Harbhajan Singh R/o changed my name to Bavneet Singh. after marriage changed H.No. B-7/50, Ward No. 9, D h a r m i n d e r ( G i v e n

900020 m y n a m e t o S a p n a M o h a l l a M a t h u r a p u r i , name) Singh (surname).Chadha Phillaur, Distt. Jalandhar - 63372

100071 144410, Punjab, India have I , R a n j e e t K a u r W / o I Kanta d/o Harbans changed my name and shall N a r i n d e r S i n g h R / o S i n g h a n d w / o hereafter be known as Mohalla Gokalpur Gali Bhulwinder Singh, r/o Harcharan Kaur. G u r d w a r e Wa l i Ta r n Vi l l a g e G o l i a n , P O 72778 Ta r a n ( Ta r a n Ta r a n ) Moela Wahidpur, Tehsil I, hitherto known as changed my name from G a r h s h a n k a r D i s t t . Rajwinder Kaur Virk W/O Ranjit Kaur to Ranjeet H o s h i a r p u r h a v e Dilbag Singh Virk R/o Kaur.changed my name as Village Rajpura, PO Apra, 63372Harminder Kaur. Tehsi l Phi l laur, Dis t t . I , Ve e r p a l K a u r W / o

900017 Jalandhar - 144416, Punjab, Savinder Singh Gill R/o I M a n j i t K a u r W / o India have changed my Vpo. Jargari Teh-Payal Karamjit Singh Village name and shall hereafter be (Ludhiana) changed my Changan Teh & Distt known as Rajwinder Kaur. name to Veerpal Kaur Gill.Ludhiana Decelar Manjit 72778 63372Kaur and Manjeet Kaur I, Rai Shakil S /O Inderyas I , Ku ld i sh Kau r W/o is one and the same R/O H.No. 1093 Sector 18 Amarinder Singh R/o Vpo. person. Concern Note. Sarhoi Gurgaon , Haryana J a r g a r i T e h - P a y a l

98731 n o w a t Vi l l . D h e e n a (Ludhiana) changed my I, Lalit Kumar S/o Sh. J a l a n d h a r C a n t t h a v e name to Kuldish Kaur Gill.Omkar Sharma presently changed my name to Rahul 63372R/o H.No- 2689, Sector Rai. I, Gursimran Kaur Luthra 40-C, Chandigarh have 72778 W/o Rajvikram Singh R/o changed my name to I, Manpreet Kaur W/o H.No. 132 Preet Nagar L a l i t A t t r i . A l l R a j i n d e r S in g h Vi l l B a s s i R o a d S i r h i n d concerned please note Arnauli , Guhla , Kaithal ( F a t e h g a r h S a h i b ) and corrected in all the Changed Given Name changed my name to records accordingly Manpreet Surname Kaur. Gursimran Kaur.

60017 84661 63372

YUGMARG PUBLICATIONS does not take responsibility for the

contents (Display/classified) carried in this newspaper. The paper does not endorse the same readers are requested to verify the contents on

their own before acting upon”

CONTACT

0172-2972414

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

NEWSPAGE2

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one

you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

SHAHABAD, MAY 21( ): Anti -Terrorism Day was observed at Hooda Chowki in Shahabad. The programme was started by paying tribute to the martyred in the terrorist attacks. Hooda Chowki in-charge Sahab Singh said that terrorism is like a cancer and apart from this every Indian should stand up. He said that the terrorists have killed many innocent people. He said that in order to eliminate terrorism from the root, maintain peace and harmony in the country so that the terrorist ideology does not succeed. All police employees took an oath to fight against terrorism along with the outpost in-charge Saheb Singh. Outpost in-charge Sahab Singh also appealed to the people to comply with the rules of Covid-19. He said that along with the government and administration, they also have the same view that people must take precautions against corona disease. Therefore, it is important to stay safe in the houses and leave the houses only wearing a mask. SI Surendra Singh, ASI Balinder Singh, ASI Sushil Kumar, HC Sandeep and Munshi Rishipal were present on the occasion.

GOLDIE CHUGH

Police observe Anti-Terrorism Day

SHORT TALKS

RAVI KUMARBABAIN, MAY 21 : The National Anti-Terrorist Day was celebrated in the premises of Babain Police Station on Friday. On this occasion, the station in-charge Jagbir Singh said that every public and government institution is sworn in to prevent terrorist incidents on May 21 every year. During this episode, police officers and employees were administered anti-terrorist oath in Babain police station premises and the purpose behind observing this day is to keep the youth away from the path of terrorism and violence and show how any terrorist activities And violence is harmful to the common man and the national interest. Jagbir Singh said that he also swore to stand firmly against terrorists and violence and to fight against the disruptive forces of peace among all sections of mankind, to maintain social harmony and understanding and to preserve human life values.

R K KASHYAPCHHACHHARAULI, MAY 21

Dur ing the Corona period, the Asha workers, who were employed to check the health of the villagers, have been accused of not giving them complete health k i t s . S o m e A S H A workers, on the condition

tying masks or home made of anonymity, said that they

clothes while doing the have been engaged in the

work. They should have got health check-up work of the

the surgical mask of the villagers for the last three-

treble layer before doing four days as per the orders

the work.of the government and the

W h e n S M O department, but neither

Chhacharauli Dr. Sushila were fully equipped for this

Saini was contacted, she task. Neither has he been

said that the team which has given any training. Despite

been deployed for the this, she is still going door

survey has been provided to door and checking the

thermal scanners, pulse health of the villagers.

oximeters, masks to Asha Even at the beginning

w o r k e r s , A n g a n w a d i of the plan, there were

workers and teachers but reports of opposition by

due to the problem of hand Asha workers to work in

gloves in the store The this scheme. They said that

reason could not be only pulse oximeters,

available. In-charge of the thermal scanners and hand

survey team of Pratap san i t i se rs have been

Nagar, Chhachrauli, Ledi, provided by the Health

Kot, Kharavan said that all Department, and triple

the items except hand layer surgical masks and

gloves have been made hand gloves have not been

available to all the members provided. Anganwadi

of the team.workers, Asha workers are

Anti-Terrorist Day observed

ASHA workers demand protective gearCenter, state working hard to control corona: Dr Arvind

SHIV KUMAR SHARMA conferencing and reviewed the ROHTAK, MAY 21 arrangements made by the

administration regarding the Rohtak MP, Dr Arvind Sharma corona epidemic. The MP said that said that more and more health awareness is necessary in rural services are being increased now areas. Still some villagers in the due to the corona epidemic. At the village have taken it lightly, which same time, the government is is wrong. For this, the villagers will already working at the war level in have to come forward and make view of the possibility of a third teams to prevent the villagers from wave. The epidemic in rural areas needlessly getting out of the house. needs more attention. The MP said The MP said that the threat has not that each of the BJP workers has been postponed yet, for this we all been asked to work for the support need cooperation. The MP asked of the people. Apart from this, the the officials to report on the status villagers should also be aware of report of the Covid patients

labs in private hospitals and if they On Friday, MP Dr. Arvind Sharma the disease and follow the undergoing treatment at isolation have any complaint in this regard, met the people and administrative instructions of the government. centres CHC and PHC and said that inform the helpline and action will officials of 10 villages of the The MP told the villagers that the system of vaccination and be taken immediately. Maham region through video treatment rates have been fixed in sampling should be maintained.

PUBLIC NOTICES

I Santokh Raj S/O Daulat Ram Village Khusropur Post Office Nainowal Jattan Distt Hoshiarpur Declare That My Son Sukhvir Singh (Unmarried) Is Out Of My Control So I Disinherited Him From My Moveable And Immoveable Property. I Shall Not Be Responsible If Anybody Deal ing With Him.

63372I Birj Lal S/o Dhiraj Ram Village Dholanwal Post Office Bassi Daulat Khan Distt Hoshiarpur declare that my son Lakeshwar alias Lovely is out of my control so I disinherited him from m y m o v e a b l e a n d immoveable property. I shall not be responsible if anybody dealing with him.

63372I, Rachhpal Singh s/o Sh. Harjit Singh, R/o Vill . B o o t h g a r h , P O . R a m C o l o n y c a m p , D i s t t . Hoshiarpur, declare that in s o m e d o c u m e n t s t h e spealings of my name are mentioned as Rashpal Singh while in others Rachhpal Singh. Hence is one & the s a m e p e r s o n , c o r r e c t spealing of my name be considered Rachhpal Singh.

63372I Am Supinder Kaur Wife Of Mr. Sandeep Singh Resident Of Village Maneli, Tehsil K h a m a n o n , D i s t r i c t Fatehgarh Sahib. Let Me State That My Daughter Jasanpreet Kaur Who Is A Minor, Was Born On 16-11-2008. I Have Changed The Name Of My Daughter J a s a n p r e e t K a u r T o Jashanpreet Kaur. Now Let My Daughter Be Known As Jashanpreet Kaur. Make Relevant Notes.

63372

PUBLIC NOTICES

I Jyoti Parkash S/o Late Dhani Ram Sharma R/o H.No.2194, Sector-45-C, Chandigarh declare that My Wife Shashi and Son Sandeep Sharma and Daughter-in-laws Pinky Rani and Suman Bala and grand children Angel, Aarav Sharma and Shanya Sharma are out of my control. I Disown Them From My Moveable / Immoveable Properties. If Anybody Deals With them Will Do So At Their Own Risk

100010I R a d h e S h y a m S / o Dharmaraj R/o House No 72, Lamber Colony, Deep Nagar, Jalandhar cantt Declare that my Daughter Barkha is not U n d e r m y c o n t r o l . I Disinherit her from my movable and immovable property. Anybody dealing with her at there own Risk

900026I, Balkaur Singh s/o Dalip S i n g h R / o v i l l a g e Neelianwali Tahsil Dabwali District Sirsa declare that my son Gurdit Singh and his wife Mandeep Kaur is out my control. so I disown with them f r o m m y m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property.Anybody dealing with them at their own risk.

50008I, Nirmala Devi widow Mahinder Singh r/o Village Ratgal, Tehsil Thanesar (Kurukshetra) inform that my son Praveen Saini and his wife Rashmi are out of my control. So I disown them f rom my movable and immovable properties. My family will not be responsible f o r t h e i r a c t i o n s o r transactions in future.

52724I, Ram Sharan S/o Mange Ram And Ram Rati W/o Ram Sharan R/o Vill Jurasi Kalan Te h s i l P e h o w a D i s t t (kurukshetra) Declares That Our Son's Sanjay Kumar And Krishan Kumar Out Of Our Control. ,we Disown Them F r o m O u r M o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e Properties. We And Other Family Members Will Not Responsible For Their Act And Conduct. Anybody Deal With Them.

84661

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICES

NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, MAY 21: After the government gave a grant of 11 lakhs for the construction of Guru Ravidas temple langar hall, Ravidas temple committee, Amritpal and Deputy Pradhan Pawan Committee of Kansapur reached Mandhar village, residence of former minister Karna Dev Kamboj. They thanked and honoured Kamboj and offered a shawl. The former minister said that some time ago during a programme in Kansapur, members of the Ravidas Temple Committee had demanded a grant for the construction of the langar hall on which he assured to get the grant amount soon. With his efforts, the government has now given the grant amount for the hall to the temple committee. He said that similar development works will be done in the area. A policy of discrimination against any village and town will not be adopted for development work. Former District Secretary Jagdish Babbar, Divisional President Devaki Nandan, outgoing block committee chairman Shashi Dureja, expander Sandeep Verma and Divisional General Secretary Manoj Saini were present .

Kamboj felicitated by Ravidas committee

Rajiv Gandhi started computer era in country: Mewa Singh

RAVI KUMAR former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.BABAIN, MAY 21: Ladwa MLA Mewa At that time the BJP had criticised Rajiv Singh observed the death anniversary of Gandhi for bringing computer revolution in former Prime Minister by distributing the country. But today the computer era has masks and fruits to patients at the brought a new revolution in the country. The Community Health Center in Babain. The credit goes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Congress workers laid flowers on Rajiv Gandhi. He said that Rajiv Gandhi gave the Gandhi’s statue. On this occasion, MLA youth of 18 years the right to vote. On this Mewa Singh said that late Prime Minister occasion, Dr. Sudhir Shekhawat, Dr. Sonia, Rajiv Gandhi had envisioned to see the former Block Principal Jaipal Panchal, Labh country of India fully developed and we Singh Ghisarpadi, Rakesh Aggarwal, should play an important role in the progress Dharambir Babain, Sanjeev Bhudi, Mukesh of the country. Mewa Singh said that Rajiv Sharma, Agrej Guhan, Rampal Saini, Gandhi was the creator of modern India. The Praveen Kumar and other dignitaries were computer age in the country was started by present.

AMRITSAR, MAY 21( CHARNJIT SINGH ARORA ): A letter of appreciation has been sent by the World Book of Records London to the President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Bibi Jagir Kaur, praising the services rendered to the welfare of humanity during the Corona epidemic. In this letter of appreciation the services rendered by the Shiromani Committee to the society with sincerity and commitment have been specially highlighted. It is to be mentioned that the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee is rendering great services during the Corona epidemic. Since last year, the Sikh organization has not only set up langars for the needy, but also made special efforts for the treatment of corona patients, as well as for solitary confinement. Now that the second wave of Corona is in full swing, on the instructions of Shiromani Akali Dal President Bibi Jagir Kaur, the Shiromani Akali Dal has arranged medical services for Corona patients all over Punjab. Due to this, the World Book of Records London has sent a letter of appreciation to the President of the Shiromani Committee Bibi Jagir Kaur praising the services of the Shiromani Committee. In this regard, Bibi Jagir Kaur said that the Sikh body Shiromani Committee has always been at the forefront of human welfare work and will continue to work as per the teachings of the Gurus.

Shiromani Committee honored by World Book of Records London

Congress workersobserve Rajiv’s

death anniversaryNIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, MAY 21

Senior Congress party leaderMangeram Marupur observed thedeath anniversary of former PrimeMinister late Rajiv Gandhi at hisresidence along with party work-ers. During this, flowers were of-fered to the portrait of late RajivGandhi. Mangeram said that RajivGandhi did many good things forthe development of the countryduring his reign. He cared for peo-ple of every class during his reign.He worked according to the needsof all classes.

The country moved towardsdevelopment at that time. On thisoccasion fruits and masks weredistributed on behalf of Mangaramand activists in the Covid Centrein Civil Hospital Yamunanagarand Tejali. The party's social me-dia in-charge Rajat Kashyap saidthat today the entire country isgrappling with the Corona epi-demic. Avoidance is the only op-tion. Therefore, use the mask andfollow the rules. Former Congresscandidates Yamunanagar NirmalChauhan, Dawoodi WasimAhmed, Vinay Parshad, JabbarPoswal, Rajat Kashyap, AmarjeetKohli, Nirmala Yadav, Sathis Up-neja etc. were present on the occa-sion.

93 villages haveno corona

positive case: DCRR SHELLYKARNAL, MAY 21

Deputy Commissioner NishantKumar Yadav said that the Coronaepidemic has continued. There are93 villages out of 434 villages inthe district, where no person hasbeen infected with Corona yet. Inthe village, door-to-door survey isbeing done by the teams. Theseteams send the symptomatic per-son to the Isolation Center in thevillage, if the patient is more ill, heis being sent to the CHC.

The Deputy Commissionersaid that under Taraori there are 16villages under the CHC, includingGangar, Shamgarh, Bhaini Khurd,Takhana, Sultanpur, Bhani Kalan,Dadupur, Jatpura, Chamar Kheda,Chut, Kudak, Nadana, Jogi Majra,Lalaini, Shekhanpur, GobindgarhIs included. In Sagga 5 villages areunder the PHC, including BeedMajra, Sitamai, Dhimangatana,Chandan Kheda, Ghalib Khedi.Manpura under Balla CHC, Risal-wa, Padhana under Salvan. Thereare 4 villages under Nissing CHC,including Alipur, Govindgarh,Fatehgarh and Mehmal. There are8 villages under Sambhali PHCvillage, including Motia, Dindari,Jalala, Gohida, Dhaula Kuan, Ba-jida Rodan, Bhojpur and Lal Khe-da. The Budhota PHC includesBudhanpur Abad and Shahpur. Hesaid that efforts are being made tomake all villages in the district co-rona free, efforts are going on con-tinuously.

“Mera Paani - MeriVirasat" Scheme tobe linked to "Meri

Fasal - Mera Byora"CHANDIGARH: Haryana ChiefMinister, Sh. Manohar Lal saidthat "Mera Paani -Meri Virasat"Scheme will be linked to "MeriFasal - Mera Byora" so that thefarmers get the benefit of incentivemoney without any delay. TheChief Minister was presiding overa review meeting of "Mera Paani -Meri Virasat" Scheme today. Agri-culture and Farmers’Welfare Min-ister of Haryana Sh. Jai PrakashDalal was also present in the meet-ing.

The Chief Minister said thatthe Haryana Government will pro-vide incentive money to farmerswho conserve water. Farmers whosow other crops instead of paddycrops will be provided incentivemoney. This scheme was imple-mented last year, under which in-centives were given at the rate ofRs 7,000 per acre to the farmerswho sow alternative crops (whichconsume less water) instead ofpaddy. As a result, the farmerssowed other crops instead of pad-dy in 96,000 acres of land. Due toits success in the first year,Haryana Government has decidedto encourage farmers under thisScheme this year as well. Duringthe review of this Scheme, the of-ficers of the Agriculture Depart-ment were instructed to impart ed-ucation to the farmers with regardto water conservation so that watercan be saved. The Chief Ministersaid that farmers will be providedincentives for sowing of horticul-ture, vegetables, fodder, ground-nut, moong and other pulses, soy-abean, guar etc. For the benefit ofthis Scheme, the farmers will haveto give detailed information ofcrop being sowed per acre on MeriFasal - Mera Byora and MeraPaani – Meri Virasat portal. Afterupdating this information, the offi-cer of the department will verifythe details on time (within the stip-ulated time).

NEWS BRIEFS HARYANA

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

PAGE 3

Anti- Terrorist Day observed in DC officeRANVIR PARASHARKAIREHAL: Anti-Terrorist Day was observed in the Deputy Commissioner Office. Under theCovid-19 protocol, Deputy Commissioner Sujan Singh administered the oath to officials tofirmly oppose terrorism and violence. He inspired all sections of the human race to fightagainst disruptive forces that threaten peace, social harmony and human values.On this oc-casion, Deputy Commissioner Sujan Singh swore that we Indians strongly believe in the tra-dition of non-violence and martyrdom of our country and sincerely take an oath that we willfirmly oppose all forms of terrorism and violence. We also pledge to establish peace, socialharmony and understanding among all sections of mankind and to fight with disruptive forcesthat threaten human life values.

Central govt okays Rs 20.67 crore toHaryana for organizing Youth Games

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, MAY 21

The Central Government has ap-proved financial assistance of Rs20.67 crore for the fourth edition ofKhelo India Games to be held fromNovember 21, 2021 to December 5,2021 in Haryana.

Games for Under-18 category willbe organized in Khelo India

Giving information in this regard,Minister of State for Sports and YouthAffairs, Sh. Sandeep Singh said thatthere will be an agreement betweenthe Sports Authority of India (SAI)and the Haryana Government for or-ganizing the Games, in which therules and responsibilities of the SAIand Haryana Government on theGames will be discussed.

He informed that this is the fourthedition of Khelo India Youth Gamesto be held in Panchkula, which is a na-tional level sports competition of itskind. This competition brings out the

best young sports stars from everycorner of the country. Athletes select-ed under Khelo India are awarded anannual scholarship of Rs. 6.28 lakhs,which includes an out-of-pocket al-lowance of Rs. 10,000 per month. Heinformed that the main objective ofthe Khelo India Games is to build andstrengthen the sports ecosystemthroughout India so that more andmore players can win medals in theupcoming Olympic Games.

Sh. Sandeep Singh said that the

objective of these games is to pro-mote sports across the country andto discover and mould new talent.With this event, the players of thestate will get an opportunity to showtheir talent.

He said that there is great enthusi-asm among the players regardingthis event since preparations for thefourth edition of the Games IndiaYouth Games -2021 have been start-ed and the State Government ismaking efforts to make the event abig success. Work related to KheloIndia Youth Games is being com-pleted at a fast pace under the lead-ership of Haryana Chief Minister,Sh Manohar Lal and all the officersof the Sports Department are en-gaged in completing the prepara-tions on time.

He said that under the 'Khelo In-dia' programme, Haryana has al-ways performed well and it is ex-pected that the players of the statewill continue to perform well.

R R SHELLYKARNAL, MAY 21

The medical store at the time of par-tition of Hindustan and Pakistanwas shifted to Karnal from Lahoreafter partition. At that time, it wascalled the area of Karnal city, notKarnal Cantt. which, even today, in-dulges in the service of storage ofgovernment medicines, which isknown as the Government MedicalStore. The consignment of the firstvaccination during the Corona peri-od, which was brought from Delhiwas stored here. It is located in themiddle of the city in the area ofabout 94110 sqm and is surroundedby other central institutions nearby.The building area inside the presentboundary wall is 67189 square me-ters. The building at the Govern-ment Medical Store Depot, Karnalis very old and in dilapidated condi-tion as a foundation carving on onewall of the inner building was builton 9 March 1907 as Cent Elizabeth

Mission Hospital. The outerwall of the depot is centuriesold. It has masonry work withmud and small brick. It is saidto have been built during theMughal period.

According to sources, theGovernment Medical SuppliesStore located in Karnal is theonly medical supplies store inIndia from where medicinesare supplied in the entireNorth zone. This store distrib-utes medicines for civil servic-es, national programmes, TB,malaria, measles, vaccination,polio, BCG and TPT, and nowcorona. The CMO stated thatthere are 7 numbers of governmentmedical supplies stores all over In-dia, including Karnal, Delhi, Hyder-abad, Gohati, Calcutta, Mumbai andChennai. All depots are supplied byState Government, Para MilitaryForesis and CGS. The governmentmedical supplies store is locatedonly in Karnal in northern India.

The supply of medicines goes to theentire North zone. This includesHaryana, Punjab, Jammu Kashmir,Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Ra-jasthan, Chandigarh and HimachalPradesh etc.

This medical supplies storecomes under the Union Ministry ofHealth.

The store is also affil-iated with the WorldHealth Organisation,where foreign medicinescome from, while somevaccines are suppliedfrom all over India. Hesaid that 171 officers andemployees are employedin the Government Med-ical Supplies Store locatedin Karnal.

He stated that themain functions of thisstore include supply ofmedicines, storage and re-ceipt of various stores,storage and distribution,

national and international agenciesor bodies under various bilateral ormultilateral agreements, India andsuch agencies like WHO , UNICEF,USAID, and DFID, receipt storageand distribution of various stores ei-ther either purchased or receivedseparately, national programs out-side the country, etc.

Historical medical store in Karnal

Congress gives masks on RajivGandhi death anniversary

S KBILASPUR, MAY 21

MLA Renu Bala distributed fruits, masks and sanitisers at Bi-laspur Civil Hospital, Shiv Chowk, Grain Mandi, Slum settle-ments on the death anniversary of late Prime Minister late Ra-jiv Gandhi. Renu Bala offered flowers on Rajiv Gandhi's por-trait in Bilaspur, Sad-haura and SaraswatiNagar and paid homageto him. The doctors,staff distributed masks,fruits, food and sanitis-er in the street vendorsand slum settlements toprevent the corona epi-demic. Renu Bala saidat the Civil Hospital that under the direction of Congress StatePresident Selja today, the birth anniversary of the formerPrime Minister, under the cooperation of the needy, Congressparty workers across the state today distributed masks, fruitsto 19 patients, Covid patients in hospitals.

She said that the Congress Party leaders Sonia Gandhi,Rahul Gandhi Selja have always helped the poor. She ap-pealed to the residents to wear masks in their homes to protectfrom the corona epidemic and to cater to the government-is-sued guideline. Social worker Kuldeep Singla Jony distributedmasks and sanitisers in Dalit settlements, including AgrasenChauka. Other senior party workers including Kuldeep SinglaJoni, Rinku Sharma, Rahul Singla, Ajay Gyanwala, RajeevRanjipur, Monu Nagla, Rajeev Rana, Ravi Ranjan, GurdevSarpanch Bhilchhappar, Rakesh Raku, Ankush Chandakhediwere also present on the occasion.

R R SHELLYKARNAL, MAY 21

The Congress dedicated the 30th martyrdomday of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minis-ter of the country and the father of youth suf-frage and Panchayati Raj to Covid today.Congress activists at various places made thepeople aware of how to deal with Covid. Theydistributed food items to the relatives andneedy people of Covid patients and distrib-uted sanitisers and masks to the people nearNirmal Kutia in Karnal. Congress leaders led

by State President Selja paid tributes andhomage at the statue of Rajiv Gandhi. On thisoccasion State President Selja said that RajivGandhi was the creator of modern India. Heenacted the Panchayati Raj Act and the anti-party law to strengthen the democracy of thecountry. In addition to this, the youth of 18years of age have been given the franchise tolead the nation. Rajiv Gandhi was the fatherof the computer revolution as well as liberal-isation in education. He said that today Con-gressmen are helping the victims of Coronavictims at the forefront.

Congress workers helpingCovid patients: Selja

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MAY 21

On the 30th martyrdom day of formerPrime Minister Bharat Ratna RajivGandhi, the city district congress or-ganised programmes dedicated toCovid. The programme was organ-ised in the old building of the CivilHospital in conjunction with Con-gress District Convenor TarlochanSingh at the call of the All India Con-gress Committee and the State CongressCommittee and Team Deepender Hooda.The main speaker on this occasion wasformer speaker Kuldeep Sharma. A por-trait of Rajiv Gandhi was garlanded. Sub-sequently, the PMO of the Civil Hospitalwas handed over to Dr. Piyush Sharma todistribute PPE kits, sanitizers, masks, bis-cuits and other food items to the hospital.

Speaking as the keynote speaker onthe occasion, former speaker KuldeepSharma said that former Prime Minister ofthe country Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed his

life while fighting against terrorism. Hismother, former Prime Minister IndiraGandhi, sacrificed her life for the unityand integrity of the country. He said thatthe history of Congress is full of martyr-dom and sacrifice. He said that the modernartisans of the country today are RajivGandhi who gave information technologywith computers to the country. ConvenorTarlochn Singh said that late PM RajivGandhi gave the country a modern shape.Due to this, today the country is showinga new path to the world.

Rajiv Gandhi was creator ofmodern India: Kuldeep

Need to improve healthsystem now: Prem

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MAY 21

Mata Mantari Devi Charitable Trust expressed heartfelt grati-tude to the life-giving drug makers and doctors and corona ser-vants on behalf of the society affected by Corona. Familieshave been harmed by Corona. We have to adopt them with re-spect. Only then will the true tribute be paid to the society andpeople affected during the corona period. Adopt orphanedchildren and try to bring them into the mainstream. Healthservices will have to prepare better for the future.

Efforts should be made to find a new way out of Indianand foreign health education, so that the human world is goodand no virus can create such a catastrophe. We have to leavepolitics at this time and give a new system to the hospitals,doctors and supporting staff in the country’s interest. Dr. Swa-mi Devendra Chaitanya, Shivratan Agarwal, Ritu Kapilapraised the works of National President Bharat Prem.

Epidemic should not bepoliticised: Hooda

SHIV KUMAR SHARMACHANDIGARH, MAY 21

Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has written anopen letter to the citizens. He wrote. ``All respected citizens,it is a matter of pride for all of us that centuries ago our fore-fathers built a strong and healthy society based on eternal prin-ciples and sustainable truths like mutualism, purity, unity,affinity, equality and warm-heartedness. The heritage of thisculture and rituals was stored and preserved by our ancestorsand handed over to us.

History testifies that it was on the strength of these valuesand rituals that our ancestors all faced and conquered the greatwars, the cholera and the pandemics, the famines, etc., and allthe adversities and calamities. I address you all at this time ofthe Karona epidemic, through this letter, I urge all of you tofollow the same social values and traditions. First of all, I ap-peal that at least in this time of crisis, politics, religion, casteclass, varna and region etc. were created by the politics of theBritish. So we must demolish all the artificial and selfish wallsthat divide us. If you live, everyone will live, otherwise no onewill. Secondly, this epidemic is a serious problem and it shouldbe humanised and not politicised. At this time there is no ben-efit of criticising and accusing anyone. Leave it temporarilyand wait till normal conditions occur in the future. There is aprovision in the democracy to punish the government's fail-ures, remembering the sufferings you have suffered on that oc-casion.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAGHARAUNDA, MAY 21

Gharaunda MLA HarvinderKalyan said that the prices of DAPfertiliser has increased in the inter-national market, but a big decisionhas been taken by the Governmentof India in the interest of farmersthat now DAP manure sack will besold for just Rs. 1200 instead of Rs. 1900. Theentire additional burden of the price increasewill be borne by the government and the sub-sidy of farmers has been increased by 140 percent. Farmers will benefit from this system.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is constantly

taking decisions in the interests offarmers. He said that the leadershipof Prime Minister Narendra Modiis completely devoted to farmers.The agricultural reform bill is go-ing to bring a revolutionary changein the life of farmers, increase theincome of the farmer and the coun-try should move forward, the vil-lage should move forward, the

farmers should be prosperous and the pride ofthe country is elevated all over the world.

He said that under the Prime MinisterKisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, about Rs 19thousand crore have been sent to the farmers'account.

Kalyan welcomes reductionin DAP fertilizer price

SDM appreciates Hariyali Sangathan’s workMAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI: People are being made aware as part of a public awareness campaign against Covid-19. TheHariyali sangathan released the poster of a public awareness campaign. The SDM said that it is a wel-come step by the officials of Hariyali Yuva Sangathan to come forward selflessly and make the commonman aware through cloth masks, soaps and posters. Organisation’s Vice President Kehar Singh andWomen's Wing President Neeru Devi jointly informed that the public is being informed to protect and fol-low the corona epidemic protocol. He said that if any donor wants to help poor families with any mask,soap, ration etc. through the organization, he can contact the organisation.

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, MAY 21

On the death anniversary of Prime Minis-ter Rajiv Gandhi, Team Deepender laid awreath on his portrait and paid homage tohim. Team Deepender remembering RajivGandhi, dur-ing theCorona epi-d e m i c ,s p r a y e dsanitiser invillage In-dargarh toprevent co-rona infec-tion in ruralareas. Underthe leader-ship of Ra-jya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda from Ro-htak of the Congress Party, Team Deepen-der has come forward to help the peopleday and night. It is not only providing foodto the people all the time, but is ready tohelp in every possible way during the

Corona period.In such a situation, Congress workers

and former Zilla Parishad member SachinBudhpur from Team Dipendra are work-ing together with colleagues. As per thedirections of Team Deepeneder in all thevillages of Indri area, sanitisers are being

sprayed in the villages under sanitationcampaign. Rather, they are also makingthem aware about the rescue of Corona.Team Deepndra says that this campaignwill be continued to stop the infection ofCorona in the village.

Team Deependersanitises villages

Govt to establishcontrol rooms

for flood CHANDIGARH: HaryanaGovernment has decided toestablish control rooms forflood, drought and heatwaveat State Headquarters and inall districts in the State. Thecontrol rooms will remainoperational round the clockfrom June 1, 2021, till furtherorders. Additional Chief Sec-retary, Revenue and DisasterManagement, Mr. SanjeevKaushal, said that the controlroom at State Headquarterswould be established in NewSecretariat Building,Haryana, Sector 17, andcould be reached throughtelephone/fax number 0172-2545938. The State Agricul-ture and Farmers’ WelfareDepartment, which has beendesignated as the nodal de-partment for drought man-agement by the State Execu-tive Committee.

4WE ARE ALL GIFTED. THAT IS OUR INHERI-

TANCE.

ETHEL WATERS

ROUGH DIAMONDS MAY SOMETIMES BE MIS-TAKEN FOR WORTHLESS PEBBLES.

THOMAS BROWNE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

Lost StarWhen the creation was new andall the stars shone in their firstsplendor, the gods held their as-sembly in the sky and sang`Oh, the picture of perfection! thejoy unalloyed!' But one cried of asudden ---`It seems that some-where there is a break in the chainof light and one of the stars hasbeen lost.' The golden string oftheir harp snapped, their songstopped, and they cried in dismay---`Yes, that lost star was the best,she was the glory of all heavens!'From that day the search is un-ceasing for her, and the cry goeson from one to the other that inher the world has lost its one joy!

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

Global food, hunger challengesprojected to increase mortality

Anew study showsthat climate changewill increase the

challenge of meeting thenutrition and food needs ofa growing population, espe-cially in Africa south of theSahara, but policy actionsinitiated now could helpavert this additional burden.

The findings by the In-ternational Food Policy Re-search Institute (IFPRI), theUSDA's Agricultural Re-search Service (USDA-ARS) and RTI International(RTI) published in theAmerican Journal of Clini-cal Nutrition, indicates thatpolicymakers could coun-teract at least the impacts ofclimate change with in-creased investments in foodsystems now.

The study projects thatglobal chronic and hiddenhunger will increase theoverall years of life lost dueto premature mortality andyears lived with disability,also known as disability-ad-justed life years (DALYs),globally by over 30 millionby 2050 relative to 2010.Expected impacts of cli-mate change on the avail-ability and access to nutri-tious food will exacerbatethis change in DALYs byalmost 10 percent.

"Investment in agricul-tural R and D, irrigationsystems, market access andinfrastructure are essentialto counteract the effects offactors that increase DALYsin coming decades," saidRobert Beach, Senior Econ-

omist and Fellow at RTI. Hefurther added, "To meet theneeds and nutrition require-ments for society, it is im-portant for policymakers toinvest more broadly in foodsystems, rather than focus-ing on the production ofcalories.

Strengthening food sys-tems now, along withhealth, education and em-ployment opportunities canreduce the effects of climatechange and populationgrowth on global hunger."

According to pre-pan-demic estimates, 10 percentof the world's population isexperiencing hunger or fac-

ing severe food insecurity.As climate change and pop-ulation growth continue todisrupt food systems, re-searchers found that reach-ing the UN Sustainable De-velopment Goal of "ZeroHunger" by 2030 is becom-ing an enormous challengewithout extraordinary poli-cy action. "Improvementsin food systems can signifi-cantly decrease hunger, butour projections show thatpopulation growth will out-pace those improvements atcurrent investment levels,especially in Africa south ofthe Sahara," TimothySulser, Senior Scientist at

IFPRI. He continued, "Cli-mate change exacerbatesthe pressures on food sys-tems to deliver healthy dietsto everyone but investing infood systems can reduce theyears lost that we project,particularly in South andEast Asia."

The scenarios exam-ined in the study show thatavoiding an increase inDALYs due to climatechange requires a compre-hensive investment strategyfrom policy and decision-makers globally. Increasedinvestment of GBP 25.5 bil-lion annually, would morethan offset the negative im-

pacts of climate change onDALYs according to thestudy. Using DALYs as ametric is appealing due toits universally comparablenature across a broad rangeof potential health issues.Chronic hunger impacts areassociated with protein-en-ergy undernutrition whilehidden hunger refers to mi-cronutrient deficiencies.

The study used a modelof the global food systemdeveloped by IFPRI andpublished relationships be-tween regional food avail-ability and DALYs to proj-ect the total number ofDALYs caused by chronic

and hidden hunger and ex-acerbated by climatechange. "It was exciting towork with this interdiscipli-nary team to get this inno-vative approach to analyz-ing the impacts climatechange can have on ourhealth and our lives" saidNaomi Fukagawa, directorof the Beltsville HumanNutrition Research Centerat the USDA.

"Pulling together per-spectives from economistsand health/nutrition expertsis important for understand-ing and addressing the com-plex issues facing the futureof food systems.

Literature & Health

Gum disease could lead to a severe COVID-19 infection

Netanyahu's prospects bolsteredamid Israel-Hamas fighting

Israel is at war with Hamas,Jewish-Arab mob violencehas erupted inside Israel, and

the West Bank is experiencing itsdeadliest unrest in years. Yet thismay all bolster Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu.

Just over a week ago, thelongtime Israeli leader's politicalcareer seemed all but over. Hehad failed to form a coalitiongovernment following an indeci-sive parliamentary election, andhis political rivals were on thecusp of pushing him out of of-fice. Now, as Israel and Gaza'sHamas rulers wage their fourthwar in just over a decade, Ne-tanyahu's fortunes have changeddramatically. His rivals'prospects have crumbled, Ne-tanyahu is back in his comfort-able role as Mr Security, and thecountry could soon be headed foryet another election campaignthat would guarantee him at leastseveral more months in office.The stunning turn of events hasraised questions about whetherNetanyahu's desperation to sur-vive may have pushed the coun-try into its current predicament.While opponents have stoppedshort of accusing him of hatchingjust such a conspiracy, they saythe fact that these questions are

being asked is disturbingenough. If we had a government,security considerations wouldnot be mixed with political con-siderations, opposition leaderYair Lapid wrote on Facebook.No one would ask themselveswhy the fire always breaks outjust when it's most convenientfor the prime minister.

Lapid appeared to be poisedto make history early last week,saying he was wrapping up thefinal details of arranging a gov-ernment that would end Ne-tanyahu's 12-year rule. In a fewdays, we should be able to swearin a new Israeli government thatis functional and that is based onbroad agreements and the com-mon good, he declared, hours be-fore the war erupted. The sudden

outburst of fighting was the cul-mination of a series of events thathave made it increasingly diffi-cult, and maybe impossible, forLapid to assemble his coalition.

His alliance was to includediverse groups that span thespectrum from right-wing to left-wing Jewish parties, as well as anIslamist party, unified by littlemore than their opposition to Ne-tanyahu.

Such a coalition wouldmake history. An Arab party hasnever officially been part of anIsraeli governing coalition. Ne-tanyahu himself had courted thesame Arab party when he wasgranted the first chance by Is-rael's figurehead president to as-semble a coalition governmentafter the March 23 elections.

As per a new report,studies show thatmaintaining good

oral hygiene can help youovercome COVID-19, im-plying that there is a directconnection between oral hy-giene and the deadly infec-tion. This report was pub-lished in the US's leading or-ganisation of periodontists,the American Academy ofPeriodontology (AAP).

Dr James G. Wilson,President of the AAP, men-tioned in the report, "It iswell-established that sys-temic inflammation is notonly linked with periodontaldisease but to several other

respiratory diseases as well.Therefore, maintaininghealthy teeth and gums in aneffort to avoid developing orworsening periodontal dis-ease is absolutely crucial inthe midst of a global pan-demic like COVID-19,which is also known to trig-ger an inflammatory re-sponse." Furthermore, a re-port by McGill University inMontreal, Canada, found adirect link between gumswith inflammation and in-fection and even connectedhow oral hygiene can play arole in aggravating COVID-19 complications and evenlead to deaths.

According to this study,people that have gum issuesor periodontitis are 8.8 timesmore likely to die ofCOVID-19. Not just this,such people are 3.5 timesmore likely to require hospi-talisation for COVID-19 and4.5 times more likely to re-quire a ventilator.

It has also come to lightthat oral health plays a piv-otal role even in the COVIDpost-recovery period. Shed-ding more light on this, DrMohendar Narula, Founderand Chairman of MyDen-talPlan Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.said, "Taking care of yourgums and oral hygiene was

always vital but it has be-come even more significantduring this pandemic. In thissecond wave of COVID-19,oral symptoms are on therise."

Talking about maintain-ing gum health, he contin-ued, "However, maintainingoptimum gum health withsimple steps such as brush-ing twice a day, tonguecleaning, flossing and gar-gles can help people combatthese life-threatening dis-eases even better. Further-more, professional dentalcleanings twice a year andregular dental check-ups areknown to minimize the

severity of COVID-19 andthe associated complica-tions."

Adding to it Dr Narulasaid, "The second wave ofCOVID-19 is also witness-ing Mucormycosis, a deadlyfungal infection affectingthe gums, teeth and the peri-oral area, developing as apost-COVID-19 complica-tion among immunocompro-mised individuals with poorgum and oral health status. Ithas now come to light thattaking care of oral hygienecan also help people safe-guard themselves even fromthis post-COVID-19 com-plication."

EDITORIALGo digital: E-governanceOne thing that many people adapted to during

the pandemic is handling technological toolsand platforms. In 2020, we suddenly realized

that almost all the necessities of modern life — fromgrocery to education, payment of electricity bill togetting court judgments — can now be obtained onthe platter of the puny mobile phone. While 2020 willbe remembered for the scary experience of the globalpandemic, it will also be remembered for acceleratedadoption of information technology in daily civic life.In 2006, the Union government launched the Nation-al e-Governance Plan, with 27 mission mode projects,and later, in 2015, the ambitious Digital India pro-gramme. Today, many government initiatives likePassport Seva, DigiLocker, online public distributionsystem, unified payment interface and, more recently,Aarogya Setu have earned universal accolades. Mostministries in the Union government are now paperlessand decision-making is much faster and more trans-parent. India has embraced digital payments in an un-precedented manner and, as per reports by the ReserveBank of India, Indians now make more than 10 croredigital transactions every day — a five-fold jumpfrom the 2016 level. But we cannot become compla-cent; rather now is the time to replicate the success ofthese benchmark initiatives in every field of gover-nance. In India, where universalization and transpar-ent delivery of public services is closely linked to costof living and well-being, digital governance becomeseven more important as it reduces transaction costs,speeds up service delivery and ensures entitlement ina transparent manner. Digital transformation is re-quired not only for the citizen at the last mile, but forevery sector of our political economy. It is one of theprerequisites for the penetration of industry. The waya complex and sensitive sector like banking has beenrevolutionized and democratized is an example of thepotential of digital technology in public service deliv-ery. Digital transformation will lead to equality ofreach and democratization of knowledge, and will cutdown layers in citizen-government interface. TheCovid-19 pandemic has provided us with an opportu-nity that we should not miss. Now almost every vil-lage and city is reasonably connected with affordableprivate service providers and through government ini-tiatives like BharatNet. With half of the populationnow owning smartphones, access is no longer an is-sue. Government initiatives like Common ServiceCentres now cover even the remotest of villages. Dur-ing the pandemic, private players, particularly start-ups, have shown enormous interest in co-developingpublic service delivery platforms, with shiny successstories like the Aarogya Setu app.

POEMS

Weight cycling linked to increasedsleep problems in womenWomen with a history of

weight cycling - losing andregaining 10 pounds or

more, even once - have increased ratesof insomnia and other sleep problems,reports a study published in the Jour-nal of Cardiovascular Nursing, the of-ficial journal of the Preventive Car-diovascular Nurses Association. Thejournal is published in the Lippincottportfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

"History of weight cycling wasprospectively associated with severalmeasures of poor sleep, includingshort sleep duration, worse sleep qual-ity, greater insomnia, greater sleep dis-turbances, and greater daytime dys-function among diverse US womenacross various life stages," accordingto the new research by Brooke Aggar-wal, EdD, MS, FAHA, of ColumbiaUniversity Vagelos College of Physi-cians and Surgeons, New York, andcolleagues. The researchers analyzeddata on 506 women, average age 37years, enrolled in an ongoing Ameri-can Heart Association-funded "GoRed for Women" research project. Thewomen represented every stage ofadult life, including childbearing, pre-menopausal, menopausal, and post-menopausal. About 60 per cent of thewomen identified themselves as aracial/ethnic minority. Seventy-twoper cent of the women reported one or

more episodes of weight cycling, de-fined as losing or gaining at least 10pounds (excluding pregnancy). His-tory of weight cycling was evaluatedfor associations with a wide range ofsleep problems, both at the time ofstudy entry and at a one-year follow-up visit. The analyses adjusted for oth-er factors known to affect women'sweight history, including pregnancyhistory and menopausal status. Atboth times, sleep problems were morelikely for women with any history ofweight cycling. Each additionalepisode of weight cycling was associ-ated with shorter sleep time, poorersleep quality, long time to fall asleep,more severe insomnia, more sleep dis-turbances, less efficient sleep, andmore frequent use of sleep medica-tions.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

Cong party pays rich tributes to Rajeev Gandhi onhis martyrdom dayPANKAJ BHAARTIYAHAMIRPUR: Rich tributes were paid to former Indian Prime Minister, Rajeev Gandhi at ameeting of the Congress party that was chaired by its district President, Rajendra Zar. Itwas on this day that the late Prime Minister had sacrificed his life for the nation. Speakingon occasion, Rajendra Zar described Rajeev Gandhi as the man behind thecomputerization movement in India. The Congress party leaders and workers distributedfruits to the patients admitted at the local COVID wards and prayed for their speedyrecovery. Meanwhile, a senior Congress party leader and member of HP Bar council, RohitSharma attached a private vehicle HP-67A-1482 with the local hospital for the benefits ofthe COVID-19 patients. Other leaders of the Congress party including the District partychief, Rajendra Zar were also present in the function when Sharma gave keys of theambulance to the officers of the local health department.

HIMACHAL/JKPrivate schoolsunder debtJOGINDRA DEV ARYABANGANA: It has been over a yearand a half, all the private schools,their buses are standing and thebuses have rusted. Interest isconstantly increasing on the loanstaken from banks and now noticeshave started coming from banks.These words were uttered by therecognized private schoolassociation's state secretary MaheshRana. He said that private schoolsare giving salaries to their bus driversfrom their pockets, many standingbuses have started going bad, thebatteries of the buses. He has urgedthe government to forgive the interestthat is continuously increasing on theloans taken from banks, and the timelimit for bank loans should beextended. Apart from this, tax ofbuses should be waived, otherwiseall schools will be closed.

Oaths taken on Rajiv Gandhi deathanniversaryPANKAJ KATNAUNA: On the occasion of Anti-Terrorism Day, death of late RajivGandh, oaths were administered atgovernment offices, governmentundertakings and other governmentinstitutions located at the districtheadquarters today. In the wake ofthe Covid 19 transition, theemployees took an oath to spreadthe message of peace and humanityin their respective sections. AssistantCommissioner Deputy CommissionerDr. Rekha Kumari said after takingoath that the purpose of celebratingAnti-Terrorism Day is to make theyouth aware of the damage ofterrorism as well as pay tribute tothose who lost their lives in the terrorattacks. At the same time, it is also aday to honor those soldiers who havecontinued their war against terrorism.

Webinar on 'Solar PowerGeneration- Solution forEnergy Conservation' heldPANKAJ BHAARTIYAHAMIRPUR: A Webinar on High QualityMaterials & Solar Power Generation-Solution for Energy Conservation held atGovernment Polytechnic, Hamirpur forthe faculties and students of Civil &Electrical Engineering. The webinar wasaimed at inspiring and impartingknowledge to students on the out of boxideas for entrepreneurial opportunitiesfor setting up their own units thusmaking the dream of our Hon’ble PrimeMinister “ATAMNIRBHAR BHARAT” areality by reducing the import of SolarEquipments from China. Country’sPrestigious TATA Group CompaniesTata Power & Tata Steel was roped infor the Webinar. It was told in thewebinar that as of now, India wasimporting Solar Cells and Solar Panelsfrom China worth $1.2 Billion and SolarEquipments worth $ 1.5 Billion. It’sworth mentioning here that SolarEnergy is the cleanest, mostabundantly available and fastestgrowing Renewable source of energyand will be playing a major role inFuture Global Electricity Generation.Bhaskar S. Kamath - Head Rooftop(Engineering) at TATA Power SolarSystems covered the TechnologicalDevelopments in Module History.

PNB Zonal office organisesCovid vaccination campDINESH AGARWALSHIMLA: On the basis of call givenby Indian Banks Association andvarious Bank unions, the Ministry ofFinance has categorised BankEmployees as Frontline Workersand have also requested all StateGovt to vaccinate Bank employeeson priority as the Bank employeesand their families are exposed toCorona while rendering essentialfinancial services to General Public.Considering the above guidelines,the Health Department of Shimlaorganised a special vaccination campat PNB's Shimla Zonal Office onFriday, 21st May. The vaccinationcamp was inaugurated by Bank'sZonal Head Pramod Dubey.

Rajiv Gandhi was asymbol of service,goodwill: RohitKISHORI LAL BAINSAMB: State Bar Council memberAdvocate Rohit Sharma on the 30thdeath anniversary of Bharat Ratanand former Prime Minister of thecountry, Rajiv Gandhi, ambulancefrom Chief Medical Officer Hamirpurto fulfill the objective of helping thecorona patients, attached. On thisoccasion, Advocate Rohit Sharmasaid that the ambulance Carona hasbeen engaged in the service of thepatients, so that the lives of commonpeople can be saved in this coronaperiod. He paid tribute to formerPrime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi onthe occasion, saying that he left anindelible mark in his actions as theyoungest Prime Minister of India ashis main principle was service andharmony and the wave of time willnever erase his footprints.He saidthat the ambulance has beendedicated to serve the purpose ofservice and harmony for theconvenience of those who are beingreferred to homes in isolation or inhospitals, as well as in other districts.He along with all the resourcefulpeople and elected Panchayatrepresentatives, it has urged thesocial organizations to come forwardat this time and follow the path ofservice and harmony.

CM flags off consignments of lifesaving equipments for Covid-19

AGENCYSHIMLA, MAY 21

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurtoday virtually flagged off twotruckloads of consignments of lifesaving equipments for Covid-19donated by Captain Sonika Prasharand Captain Sanjay Prashar,Managing Director of VRMaritime Services Private Ltd. forthe State from Shimla. Whileaddressing the occasion, ChiefMinister thanked Captain SonikaPrashar and Captain SanjayPrashar for this philanthropic act.He said that the contributionsmade by them would help the StateGovernment in fighting the covid-19 pandemic in the State. He saidthat several philanthropists havecome forward to help the StateGovernment in providing betterservices to the society. Jai RamThakur said that the StateGovernment was laying specialstress on capacity building to fightthis pandemic. He said that theGovernment has succeeded inincreasing the bed capacity fromexisting 1200 to about 5000. Hesaid that the Centre Governmenthas also increased the quota ofoxygen from 15 MT to 30 MT forthe State and now Government hasurged the Union Government to it

increase further to 40 MT.Chief Minister said that the

Government has also increased theavailability of D-Type cylinders inthe State from 2500 to 6000 andalso succeeded in enhancing thestorage capacity of oxygen by 25MT. He said that similarly the

number of ventilators available inthe State has gone from about 50 to600. He said that efforts werebeing made to increase bedcapacity in Una district so as tocater to the needs of the patients.He said that additional capacity of180 beds was being created at

Pandoga which would becompleted within a week. He saidthat as many as 1800 patients inthe district were under homeisolation thus better mechanismwas required for ensuring speedyrecovery of those patients. JaiRam Thakur also appreciated thecontributions made by ArogyaBharati and Sewa Bharati infighting this pandemic. He alsothanked Union Minister of Statefor Finance and Corporate AffairsAnurag Thakur for providinghelping hand to the State toeffectively cope up with thesituation. Rural Development andPanchayati Raj Minister VirenderKanwar said that State has beeneffectively fighting the pandemicunder leadership of ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur. Heurged the people to come forwardto help the Government infighting the corona virus. DeputyCommissioner Una RaghavSharma while welcoming theChief Minister apprised himabout the Covid-19 situation inUna district. Managing DirectorVR Maritime Services PrivateLtd. Captain Sanjay Prashar saidthat this was the secondconsignment of life savingequipments donated by him forKangra and Una districts.

Pays tributes to Rajiv GandhiSHIMLA: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur paid rich tributes toformer Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 30th death anniversaryby garlanding his statue at Sadbhavana Chowk, Chhota Shimlahere today. Urban Development Minister Suresh Bhardwaj, MLARakesh Singha, Mayor Shimla Municipal Corporation SatyaKaundal, Deputy Mayor Shalinder Chauhan and former MayorAdarsh Sood also paid their tributes to the former Prime Ministeron the occasion.

Cong leaders distribute fruits,masks in hospital on RajivGandhi death annivesary

JYOTI SYALHAROLI, MAY 21

Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri andDistrict Una Congress Rana Ranjit Singh paidtribute to the creator of modern India, Bharat Ratnaand former Prime Minister late Shri Rajiv Gandhion the death anniversary, distributed masks, fruitsand masks to patients in the hospital. Leader ofOpposition Mukesh Agnihotri said that on this day,the late Rajiv Gandhi was killed by terrorist forcesthat is why today is celebrated as Anti-TerrorismDay and Seva and Sadbhavana Day in his memory.Agnihotri said that the digital India that is beingtalked about today has been made possible byRajiv Gandhi leading the communicationrevolution in the country. District President UnaCongress Rana Ranjit Singh said that today theentire District Congress and Block Congress arecelebrating the service and goodwill day. Masksare being distributed to the general public, and atthe same time it is giving a message of rescuefrom the corona. Rana said that today the entireDistrict Congress Committee is distributingmasks, sanitizers and fruits in its nearbyhospitals. Rana said that today the country isfacing an epidemic like Corona. In this time itbecomes the duty of every person of the societyto take care of the poor families around them.

Lecture organised on postcolonialism at Shoolini UnivABHIJOT PUNJSOLAN: The Department of English, Shoolini University, organised a virtual lecture on the topic“Postcolonialism Orientalism and other issues in Critical Theory” by the expert, Aneel Raina.Professor Aneel Raina teaches at Punjab University and is a leading figure in literary theory. He isalso the founder member of MELOW, the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures ofthe World. Prof Aneel Raina covered all the vital aspects of Postcolonialism and Orientalism. Hestarted the lecture by introducing the terms which date back to the late 20th century. He then tookinto account Edward W. Said’s book “Orientalism” and explained the various connotations of themand how it is used in critical theory. Further, elaborating upon the idea of enlightenment which isassociated with reason, science, and technology, progress, human evolution.

Microtac company to build Oxygenconcentrator: Subodh Gupta

ANWAR HUSSAINBADDI, MAY 21

Deputy Commissioner SolanK.C. Chama as part of theMicrotac Foundation's mission toprovide 100 Oxygenconcentrators to HimachalPradesh by Subodh Gupta,Chairman of the MicrotacInternational Private LimitedCompany. Chaman was given 25oxygen concentrators for DistrictSolan. Company managershanded over this oxygenconcentrator. The DeputyCommissioner appreciated thework of social service being doneby Subodh Gupta, Chairman ofMicrotac Company, and said thatSubodh Gupta always participatesin social service activities veryvigorously. He said that it is acommendable job of SubodhGupta that his company willproduce oxygen concentrator in

Baddi. At the virtual conference,Subodh Gupta said that there wasa problem of oxygen in thecountry at this time and we haveto depend on other countries forequipment like oxygenconcentrator, but they have takena pledge that the Microtack NewTechnology Pvt. Limited will startproduction of oxygenconcentrator from June 15 to June30, so that we do not have todepend on other countries foroxygen concentrators and peoplecan get oxygen concentrators asneeded and at a lower cost. Guptasaid that even during thelockdown last year when he didnot get a thermometer for himself,he started producingthermometers first in his companyand then started producing plusoximeter. Gupta said that today itis time that only with the help ofeach other we can win the coronaepidemic.

Congress Seva Dal play leading rolein prevention of Covid-19: Bablu

PRADEEP CHAMBAYALUNA, MAY 21

Sudarshan Singh Bablu, Congress leader and State President ofthe Congress Seva Dal Young Brigade, continued to play aleading role in the prevention of Covid-19 infection. He presentedoxygen cylinders to BMO Amb on the death anniversary offormer Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi.In the Corona era,Congress leader Sudarshan Singh Bablu is constantly supportingthe administration on his behalf and sanitization through theyouth brigade cadres in all the panchayats under Chintpurniconstituency, with the provision of security related items fromtime to time. Under this mission, activists of Seva Dal YoungBrigade are getting the panchayats sanitized. He said that allpossible help is being provided to the local administration andhospitals to deal with the corona infection so that the coronainfected patients do not have to face inconvenience due to thelack of small facilities. Bablu has urged people to use masksregularly, ensure adequate social distance compliance in publicplaces and keep their hands and mouth clean continuously. At thesame time, to ensure strict compliance of the Corona curfew andalso appealed to people not to go out of their homesunnecessarily. He was accompanied by Seeta Dal Talwal of SevaDal Young Brigade, Shamsher Ali, Block President of YouthCongress, Saurav Sharma, Block President of Seva Dal YoungBrigade and NSUI State Secretary Aslam on this occasion.

Thakur gives medicalequipment in civil hospital

PANKAJ KATNAAMB, MAY 21

President of Indian National Congress SoniaGandhi, President of Indian Youth CongressSrinivas , Leader of Opposition MukeshAgnihotri, President of Himachal PradeshYouth Congress Corporation Bhandari andAmit Pathania in charge of District Una, asdirected by Rajneesh Mehta, District YouthCongress on Rajiv Gandhi ji's deathanniversary today, Una president RaghavThakur gave medical equipments to Dr. RajeevGarg at Civil Hospital Amb.

These are 10,000 masks, 200 pieces handsanitizer spray, 15 pieces oximeter, 40 liters ofhyplochloride on chemical corona infection.Dr. Rahul Katna, Dr. Rupinder, Daljit Singh,Dr. Bhupinder, Kuldeep Saini, ArifMohammed, Tanuj Thakur were present.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

6

Guru Amar Dass PublicSchool takes novel initiativeof Free Education for Covidhit needy families

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: S. AJit Sigh Sethi,president, Guru Amar Dass PublicSchool Model Town Jalandhar and allthe members of School ManagingCommittee told that the school studentswho belong to Covid affected,financially weak families, would get freeeducation from Nursery-XII. Thismarvellous initiative by Guru AmarDass Public School, Model Town,Jalandhar, is in fact, one of its kind inthe whole state. Such initiatives havealready been taken by the schoolmanagement by providing hugeconcessions to the students during thepandemic crisis. On this occasion,President Ajit Singh Sethi, MohinderjeetSingh, Kanwaljeet Singh Kocchar,Kultaran Singh Anand, Surjit SinghArora, Dr. H.M Hurria, Tejdeep SinghSethi, Gagandeep Singh Sethi and VicePresident Dr Sonika Singh, SandeepVeena were also present.

Meeting of UTRC,District Legal ServicesAuthority Patiala held

PATIALA: A meeting of Under TrialReview Committee, District LegalServices Authority, Patiala was heldunder the supervision of RajinderAggarwal, District & Sessions Judge-cum- Chairman, District Legal ServicesAuthority, Patiala. Rajinder Aggarwaltold that this meeting was convened asper the directions of High PowerCommittee under the Chairmanship ofJustice Ajay Tewari, Judge Punjab &Haryana High Court-cum- ExecutiveChairman, Punjab State Legal ServicesAuthority, SAS Nagar. Amit Malhan,CJM, Patiala, Parminder Kaur, CJM-cum- Secretary, District Legal ServicesAuthority, Patiala, Kumar Amit, DeputyCommissioner, Patiala and SandeepGarg, SSP, Patiala also participated inthis meeting.

Army dedicates 50-bed Covid facilityRAJ SADOSHABOHAR: The Sudershan Chakra Division of Indian Army hasdedicated a 50-bed Covid Facility with collaboration of Jan SewaHospital located on Sriganganagar-Hanumangarh road. Major GeneralVikram Verma (VSM), Brig. A. S. Mangat, District Collector ZakirHussain, Superintendent of Police Rajan Dushyant and other seniorofficials expressed satisfaction after inspecting the arrangements. On theoccasion, Maj Gen Verma said that Covid patients will benefit from thisfacility. Dr. Vishu Tantia and Mohit Tantia, Directors of the Jan Sewa Hospital said that their institutions have alwaysbeen ready to cooperate with the administration. Additional District Collector (Administration) Bhawani Singh Panwar,Chief Medical and Health Officer, Dr. G. L. Mehrada, Tantia University Executive Director K. S. Sukhdev, Chairman Dr.M. M. Saxena, Chief Administrative Officer of the hospital, Baljit Singh Kuldiya, General Manager Dr. Vikas Sachdeva,in-charge of the Estates Department, Kaushal Upveja were present.

NEWS

BBMB running massive vaccination programmeCHANDIGARH, MAY 21

Bhakra Beas ManagementBoard is engaged in supplyof water and power to thestates of Punjab, Haryana,Rajasthan, HimachalPradesh, Delhi &Chandigarh. In order tosafeguard its workforcewhich has theresponsibility to maintainthe essential services ofsupplying water and powerto BBMB partner states andto serve the country atlarge, BBMB under theaegis of Ministry of Power,Govt. of Indiaand with thehelp of StateGovernment(s) is runningmassive Vaccination Driveatits Project Stations andSub Stations and treatingCorona patients.

Under this programme,

BBMB Hospital atNangalhas vaccinated over 9000persons till date whichincludes 5027 BBMBemployees & theirdependents above 45 yearsof age, 682 BBMBemployees between 18 to44 years of age and 3376members of general public.BBMB Hospital atNangalis vaccinating about130 persons daily.Similarly, BBMB Hospital,Talwara has vaccinated5100 persons till date

including 3300 BBMBemployees & theirdependents above 45 yearsof age, 457 BBMBemployees between the agegroup of 18 to 44 years and1372 local residents. ThisHospital is vaccinatingabout 110 persons everyday. BBMB has alsoorganized three vaccinationcamps at Dehar PowerHouse, Slapper on 4th,11th& 18th May, 2021 withthe help of LocalAdministration.

Adviser dedicates mini-Covid carecentre at Sports Complex, Sec 34

RAJIV JAINCHANDIGARH, MAY 21

A 50-bedded Mini Covid CareCentre has been opened at SportsComplex, Sector 34,Chandigarh. Sh.Manoj Parida,IAS, Adviser to theAdministrator, UT Chandigarhinaugurated the facility beingopened to the people to bring inCovid 19 patients at SportsComplex, Sector 34. This CovidCentre is created and managedby Kandhari Beverages, knownfor Coca Cola. Sh. Yash PalGarg, IAS CEO, ChandigarhHousing Board & Nodal Officerfor Mini Covid Care Centres wasalso present. Dr.G. Diwan,Former Director Health Services,UT Chandigarh also volunteeredhis services for this Covid CareCentre. Parida said that he washappy that the NGOs/Institutionsof the city participated in a bigway to fight corona. Now thereare so many covid care centers inChandigarh that even if 100patients come to any part of thecity, we do not have shortage ofbeds. He further said that the

Administration alone cannot doanything in this epidemicbecause the contribution of cityresidents and institutions is alsoimportant. He appreciated thefacilities available at the CovidCare Center, prepared by the

Kandhari Beverages and saidthat everything has beenarranged properly keeping inmind the convenience of thepatients here.The centre facilitiesare fully equipped with all thenecessary equipment, oxygen

and medical supplies. Sh. JaspalSingh Kandhari of KandhariBeverages stated that this centrewill help the patients in theirrecovery with dedicated oxygensupply, on-site monitoring,clinical and nursing attention.

Skylar homes holds Covid vaccination campAMIT KALIAZIRAKPUR, MAY 21

Anshul Singla, MD, Society Skyler Homes,Zirakpur, Patiala Road, today organized acamp in his society under the CoronaVaccination Campaign and more than 250people were vaccinated during the camp.Disclosing this here today MD Anshul Singlaand Director Rahul Singla said that we hadappealed to the Punjab government to set up acorona vaccine camp in our society as thepeople of our society need vaccination.Fulfilling our demand by the administration,SDM Dera Bassi Kuldeep Bawa gave the orderto SMO Dera Bassi Sangeeta Jain and theyissued Covi-Shield vaccine to our society andstarted the vaccination camp today. They saidthat this work was highly appreciated by thepeople and we thank the Punjab government

for initiating the corona vaccine camp in oursociety. We also thank the administration onbehalf of all Skyler Homes staff members.Naib Tehsildar Puneet Bansal, SMO DeraBassi Sangeeta Jain were specially present onthe occasion and a team of medical staff led byDr. Pushpinder, Priya Chaudhary, Manpreetand Simran were also present on the occasion.

Corona Free Village campaign gettingoverwhelming response: DC

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAY 21

The Corona Free VillageCampaign launched by the stategovernment to deal with theoutbreak of Corona epidemicand prevent its spread is gettingoverwhelming response in thevillages of the district. While thishas increased the number ofcorona testing in villages, it hasalso reduced the death rate. Thisinformation was given by theDeputy Commissioner B.Srinivasan during a reviewmeeting held with the topofficials of the district. Hedirected to conduct testing onpriority basis in the mostaffected villages of the districtunder the Kovid Mukt Pindcampaign.Assessing thecondition of Level 2 and Level 3

capacity beds set up in varioushospitals in the district for thetreatment of Corona patients, DCsaid that at present there was noproblem of beds and oxygen inthe district. Meanwhile, hedirected the authorities toexpedite the camps being set upin the villages to deal with therising incidence of this epidemicin the rural areas. On thisoccasion, IAS under training.Nikas Kumar, Additional DeputyCommissioner Rajdeep SinghBrar, Civil Surgeon Dr. TejwantSingh Dhillon, AssistantCommissioner . Gurbir SinghKohli, Dr. Babandeep SinghWalia apart from YadvinderSingh, Manpreet Singh Arshi,District Incharge, Corona Celland . Naveen Gadwal, Incharge,Data Cell, in-charges of variousCorona Cells were present.

SDM appeals to cooperatewith health workers

SUMER GARGDHURI, MAY 21

To ensure smooth implementation of Mission Fateh 2.0 in thevillages and to motivate the health department staff, DhuriSub Divisional Magistrate Latif Ahmed visited FatehgarhPanjgraian and Gurbakhshpura villages along with SeniorMedical Officer(SMO), Dr. Geeta, Health Block FatehgarhPanjgraian. SDM Latif Ahmed appealed to the villagesarpanches, panchayat members, anganwadi workers anddepartmental staff to extend maximum cooperation to thehealth workers. He said that corona virus can be defeated withcollective participation. He said that under Mission Fateh 2.0,the administration has formed teams in every village toconduct door-to-door survey on the symptoms of Covid 19and to test the people on the symptoms of Covid 19. SMO, Dr.Geeta said that the health department was taking samples ofCovid 19 daily in the block and at the same time the patientsof Covid were being examined daily by the tireless healthworkers of the department.

It's impossible to succeed inprogram of health services withoutmedical practitioner: Kamal KishoreR.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAY 21

The corona epidemic has intensified its havoc inthe rural areas after the cities, the Punjabgovernment should understand that to succeed theprogram of health serviceswithout medical practitioner isimpossible.These words weredisclosed by senior BJP leaderTaragarh Kamal Kishore . He saidthat while the corona epidemichas engulfed the whole world, thedeath rate is increasing in India aswell, on which medicalpractitioners can play a big role in putting thenukel. He said that the Punjab government shouldconsider the number of one lakh practicing in thestate as an integral part of health. Two crorepeople from rural to urban doctors have a directconnection and for this the government shouldunderstand that programs for health services areimpossible without medical practitioners.He saidthat the government of West Bengal understandsthe importance of rural doctors in nuking thecorona, then the Captain government also needs topay attention because the corona epidemic is notthe fight of any one person but the fight of thewhole country and in this battle.

Online classes successfullyconducted at Collegiate School

LOKESH WALIAMAHILPUR, MAY 21

Online classes of students from variousstreams of Class XI and XII are runningsuccessfully at Sri Guru Gobind SinghKhalsa Collegiate Senior SecondarySchool, at Sri Guru Gobind SinghKhalsa College Campus. Talking about this, principal ofKhalsa College Dr. Jaspal Singh said that these classes arebeing conducted by the staff of the Collegiate School throughvarious online link mediums, through which the students arestudying Commerce, Arts and Science at home. He said thatdue to the challenges of Covid, the institute has made efficientarrangements for online education, so that there would not beany disruption in the education of the students. He said thatthe running collegiate school in the college campus was beingequipped with experienced staff and all the facilities of thecollege campus were available to the students of the collegiateschool, which was of great benefit to the students of theschool. He said that the process of admission of class XI andXII was also underway and in this regard an admission andcounseling cell has been set up in the college. He appealed thestudents to contact the admission cell of the college forregistration of admissions.

There is no shortage of ventilators in3 medical colleges in Punjab: Soni

KULJIT SINGH JANDIALA GURU, MAY 21

Under the able leadership of Punjab ChiefMinister Capt Amarinder Singh, preparationshave been made since last year to deal with thesecond wave of Corona epidemic and 3 medicalcolleges in Punjab have a large number ofventilators and no shortage of ventilators. Is notThese words were uttered by Mr. Om PrakashSoni, Minister for Medical Education andResearch, Punjab while receiving 10 OxygenConcentrators from FICCI Flow and VirdiFoundation England at the local Circuit Housetoday. Soni said that the 10 oxygen constructorsprovided by FICCI Flow would be handed overto the Red Cross.

Balwinder Sandhu condoles death of Akalileader and former Sarpanch Jhorran

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, MAY 21

Constituency In-Charge of Shiromani Akali Dal fromRaikot, Balwinder Singh Sandhu met the familymembers of eminent social activist and politician,senior Akali leader of village Jhorran and formerSarpanch Gurmel Singh Arhatiya, who expired a fewdays ago. Sandhu expressed grief to his son SeniorYouth Akali Leader Sukhjit Singh Baggi Jhorran andother family members. Sandhu said that the suddendemise of Gurmel Singh Jhorran has caused a neverending loss to the family and Shiromani Akali Dal,which will always be missed. Dr. Harpal SinghGrewal, Dr. Ashok Sharma, Jathedar KulwinderSingh Bhatti, Jathedar Narinder Singh Sanghera,Jasveer Singh Gill, Shakti Pruthi, Lakhwinder Singhetc. also shared their condolences.

MLA Cheema distributes masks,pays homage to Rajiv Gandhi

MK SHARMASULTANPUR LODHI, MAY 21

Congress workers led by MLA Navtej SinghCheema today organized a free face maskdistribution campaign in memory of late PrimeMinister Rajiv Gandhi. MLA Cheema distributedfree face masks to people. MLA Cheema alsoalerted the passersby at Talwandi Chowk to aboutCovid-19. Corona test samples were taken on thespot. MLA Cheema said that we should follow theinstructions given by the Punjab government. Weshould use a mask to prevent the spread of thisdisease. Meanwhile SHO Sultanpur LodhiMandeep Kaur, SHO Talwandi ChoudharyParminder Singh Thind, SHO FatudhingaSonampreet Kaur said that corona virus is aterrible disease, so we should follow the law, keepa reasonable distance from each other, only threepassengers in a four wheeler.

SUKH NAHARJAGRAON, MAY 21

District Ludhiana rural policemade major arrests related todouble murder case of ASIBhagwan Singh and ASI Dal-winderjeet Singh. A few daysback, both the police officerswere shot dead at grain marketjagraon by gangsters while theywere on check to arrest bad ele-ments and this incident shookthe entire state and challengeddistrict Ludhiana rural police.

Taking immediate and ex-cellent actions in this case, ja-graon police has made 6 arrestsin this case and recovered hugequantity arms and other materi-al. District Ludhiana rural po-lice SSP Charanjeet Singh So-hal held a press conference re-garding this in which he statedthat on 15 May, ASI BhagwanSingh, ASI DalwinderjeetSingh and PHG RajwinderSingh were carrying out checkfor bad elements near GrainMarket jagraon when they ob-served a suspected a canter andi10 car parked under the shedsand went for checking. Whilethe cops were checking vehi-cles, a person in car opened fireat ASI Dalwinderjeet Singh and

ASI Bhagwan Singh where thelatter died at the spot while theformer lost his life on the way tohospital. Police filed FIR no. 93under section 302/ 307/ 397/353/ 186/34 of IPC and25/27/54/59 of arms act andnow added 212/216/120-b/420/467/468 at police stationcity jagraon against JaipalSingh son of Bhupinder Singhresident of Ferozupr, BaljinderSingh alias Babbi son of Gur-nam Singh resident of MahlaKhurd police station BaghaPrana, Jaspreet Singh alias Jas-si son of Ravinder SinghKharar district Mohali and 1unidentified. Under investiga-tion the unidentified gangsterwas identified as DarshanSingh son of Preetam Singhresident of Saholi, police stationJodhan. On 19 May, policenominated Gurpeet Singh aliasLucky son of Hardial Singh res-ident of Moga, RamanpreetKaur alias Raman wife of Gur-preet Singh resident of Moga,Satpal Kaur alias Noni wife ofDarshan Singh resident of Sa-holi, Gagandeep Singh aliasNanna son of Gurdev Singhresident of Saholi, JaspreetSingh son of Baljinder Singhresident of Abbuwal.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

7

Tributes paid to former Prime Minister Rajiv GandhiKHARAR (SHASHI PAL JAIN): Rich Tributes were paid to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Ji on his 30th Death Anniversary. Among others Punjab Minister Sadhu SinghDharamsot, Swaranjeet Kaur President Mahila Congress Distt. Mohali and other membersof Distt. Mohali were present on the occasion.

They remembered the role played by Rajiv Gandhi and pledged to follow the pathshown by him.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, MAY 21

The Revenue Officers would be per-mitted to hire vehicles for officialuse as per their entitlement assuredRevenue Minister GS Kangar, in ameeting with representatives of Pun-jab Revenue Officers Association atPunjab Civil Secretariat here today.

The office bearers of the Associ-ation brought home the fact that only10% of the Tehsildars /Naib Tehsi-ladars offices have the official vehi-cles while the rest are performingduty in their own vehicles. Fieldduty is a part and parcel of their jobso official vehicles are mandatory,they asserted. The Minister recipro-cated affirmatively to their demand.

“The Revenue Officers of theState are performing their regularduties as well as the additionalCOVID19 duties under extremelychallenging circumstances. Theirgenuine demands must be met,” saidthe Minister while directing FCR tomoot the proposal for hiring vehi-cles. The members also raised theneed of security personnel to be de-puted with Executive Magistrates onduty. “Many a time we come acrossunruly elements while performingsensitive/non sensitive/routine duty.Waiting for police to turn up on thespot is not always practically possi-

ble,” said they. The idea of a securi-ty guard with each official is notpractical; however, it would be tak-en up with the DGP Punjab to de-ploy one policeman in eachTehsil/sub tehsil who would accom-pany the Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar infield, as the need be said RevenueMinister.

Gurdev Singh Dham, PresidentPunjab Revenue Officers Associa-tion asserted that the decisions takenby revenue officials , quasi-judicialin nature must not be subject to Po-lice /vigilance inquiry ; the RevenueDepartment being the Appellate Au-thority may review the cases andtake necessary action if the need be.The Minister lent a sympathetic earto the grievance and assured that

Revenue Department is all in sup-port of its officials and will backevery decision taken in right earnest.The association also sought stickingto old rules of department wherebyafter promotion the officer con-cerned had to pass departmentalexam with a minimum 50% scorewhich has been recently increased to66% as in case of IAS Officers.They also asked for the exam patternto be changed to Objectivetype(MCQ) in place of lengthy Sub-jective question/answers. Their de-mand was considered as genuineand the Minister asked the depart-ment to look into the possibility ofRevision in Departmental Promo-tional Exam pattern and pass per-centage.

In the meanwhile, Ms. Vini Ma-hajan Chief Secretary Punjab whoalso joined the meeting along withRavneet Kaur FCR and ManveshSidhu Secretary Revenue, attendedthe meeting to resolve the impend-ing issues of the Revenue Officersso that they may withdraw their on-going partial strike and resume theExecutive Magisterial duties andCourt Work at the earliest supportedtheir genuine demands.

She reiterated the need tostrengthen the Revenue departmentwith recruitment of Legal Literatesto assist the Revenue Officials incourt work and also informed that assoon as COVID scenario improvesthe process of recruitment of Pat-waris would be put on fast track.

Revenue officials to be permitted to hirevehicles as per their entitlement: Kangar

Double murder casesolved, huge quantity of

arms recovered

Saravhitkari schoolactivity to includenutritious food HEMANT SHARMARAMPURA PHUL: Lala KasturiLal Saravhitkari Senior SecondarySchool today conducted an activityto include nutritious food forchildren from first to fifth class. To

reduce the habitof eating fastfood in childrentoday, Activitiesare beingcarried out bythe Schoolteachers toinclude

nutritious food for children in food.Such activities continue to exposechildren to the properties of fruitsand green vegetables and alsopromoting their bodybuildingsystem. Of which there is a greatneed in today's time. Principal SKMalik asked the children to carryout this activity on a daily basisand wished them ever to healthy.

Biba Javed Akhtar announces togive two ambulances on RajivGandhi's death anniversary

DHARAM PAL PUNNIJAITU: Biba Javed Akhtardaughter of Member Parliament ofcongress party Mohammad Sadiqpays homage to the former primeminister and congress leader RajivGandhi on his 30th deathaniversery at congress party officehere today. On this time BibaJaved Akhtar said that the deathanniversary celebrated as the dayof "Seva and Sadbhavna" .On thisday congress party workersdistribute relief materials topeople. On this occasion she alsoannounced to give twoambulances one for Jaitu and onefor Bajakhana hospital .

KVK celebrates 'WorldHoney Bee Day'SUSHIL GOYALSANGRUR: The Krishi VigyanKendra (KVK), Kheri, Sangrurcelebrated 'World Honey Bee Day- 2021' through virtual platform. Asmany as 32 beekeepers and otherfarmers took part in it. On theoccasion, progressive beekeepersKuldeep Singh from Narike villageand Baljinder Singh from Dirbatown shared their success stories.They also briefly discussed theproblems of beekeepers and theirpossible solutions. Both of themare registered with Department ofHorticulture as an approved beebreeder who marketing their honeyunder the brand names "U-YoungHoney" and "Jiwan Care",respectively. Dr Mandeep Singh,Associate Director (Training.),Krishi Vigyan Kendra, highlightedthe importance of beekeeping ingenerating income andemployment amongst ruralpopulation. He also discussed therole of honey bees in increasingagricultural production/productivitythough pollination process. He also acquainted the participantsregarding the usage and benefitsof honey for human health.

Slow speed of devwork becomes bighurdle for residents

MAMOON RASHID MALERKOTLA: Malerkotla wasannounced as 23rd district of thestate but still it needs specialattention of local administrationMohd Shafiq Chauhanrepresentative of Shiromani AkaliDal said this while speaking toYugmarg on the phone, he saidthat roads are being constructedand sewerage work is going on atdifferent sides of the city but thequality work is under doubt as bigpath holes appeared on the roadsand disturbed the traffic after rainof few hours, land slipped at manyplaces on Delhi gate to sattachowk and satta chowk to KelonGate road, he said thatapproximately all major roads areblocked due to construction workthat is becoming big hurdle forresidents. Mohd Shabbir Billu asocial worker of the area said thatcontractors are not using qualitymaterial and there is lack ofchecking on them that is why suchthings are happening, answering aquestion he said that it is also dueto weak opposition in the citybecause nobody is questioning theruling party about the slow speedof development work, quality andchecking. EO MunicipalityMalerkotla when contacted on hismobile to know about the matterwas busy and could not speak tothe said journalist.

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, MAY 21

On the one hand, the rul-ing politicians are blamingeach other and are work-ing to justify themselvesand on the other hand allcities including Khararhave turned into a hell asheaps of rubbish could beeasily seen everywheredue to continues strike bythe Sweepers.

It may be recalled thatthe Sweepers have beenon strike for the last sever-al days over their demandsbut it seems that this is nota matter of concern for thepresent government. To-day in Kharar, near the po-

lice station, near Dussehraground, on the grain mar-ket side, there are piles ofrubbish everywhere andthe stench is spreadingfrom it. On the one hand,the people are very muchdisturbed annoyed withthe Corona, on the otherhand, due to the strike ofthese workers, there are

piles of rubbish inthe city and anydeadly disease canspread at any time.Surprisingly, thepolitical authori-ties have remainedcompletely silentand do not seem tohave taken any se-rious steps to end

the strike. There are holidays in

the next 2 days and thereare restrictions due tolockdown so this situationwill get worse. Govern-ments and administrationswill probably come totheir senses only when avery serious disease likeCorona spread in the area.

Kharar turns into hell due tostrike of safai karamcharies

CHARNJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, MAY 21

Shiromani Gurdwara Par-bandhak Committee (SGPC)is making major efforts totreat corona patients. Underwhich Corona Care Centershave been set up at variousplaces in Punjab. Health fa-cilities are already being pro-vided to the needy at Gurd-wara Sri Manji Sahib Alam-gir, Takht Sri DamdamaSahib Talwandi Sabo(Bathinda) and Bhulath (Ka-purthala). In a similar series,a fourth 25-bed Corona CareCenter was set up at Sahibza-da Ajit Singh Public Schoolnear Gurdwara Sri JamniSahib Bajidpur (Ferozepur)today, which was jointly in-

agurated by Bibi Jagir Kaurand Sukhbir Badal. On thisoccasion, Sukhbir SinghBadal lauded the efforts be-ing made by the SGPC forthe treatment of Corona pa-tients and termed it as a hu-manitarian work. He said thatat a time, when the govern-ments were failing to comeout of the corona crisis, the

role of the SGPC washighly satisfactory.

Speaking on theoccasion, ShiromaniCommittee PresidentBibi Jagir Kaur saidthat Shiromani AkaliDal has alwaysstrived to help theneedy. She said that atpresent due to theCorona epidemic

people were facing major dif-ficulties in getting treatmentand keeping this in view, theSGPC was making all out ef-forts to facilitate the Sangat.She said that in these centers,oxygen was being given tothe patients through concen-trators and the patients werebeing treated by the specialistdoctors.

Corona Care Centers to be established inother districts of Punjab: Bibi Jagir Kaur

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, MAY 21

Intensifying pace of ongoingvaccination, testing and aware-ness drive in the rural areas, theDistrict Administration todayorganised special camps inmore than 780 villages to getmaximum beneficiaries inocu-lated besides RT-PCR testing attheir doorsteps. Expressing sat-isfaction over awareness andvaccination drive, DeputyCommissioner Apneet Riyaitreiterated that all the requisitehealthcare facilities would beensured for COVID-19 pa-tients. The District Administra-tion will take stringent action

against the hospitals taking ad-vantage of these patients byovercharging them for treat-ment, she added. While takinga round of village Jahan Khe-lan, Deputy Commissioner Ap-neet Riyait took stock of ongo-ing vaccination and testing. Shealso interacted with the Pan-chayat members and villagersmotivating them to ensure thatall the eligible beneficiaries canget the jab of COVID vaccinewell in time. Replying toqueries of villagers, the DeputyCommissioner apprised themthat officials of district adminis-tration and health teams werevisiting villages to educate peo-ple against COVID-19.

Will act against hospitals for overchargingfrom Covid patients: Apneet Riyait

HEMANT SHARMARAMPURA PHUL, MAY 21

As per the orders of DeputyCommissioner Bathinda B.Srinivasan and Civil SurgeonBathinda Dr. Tejwant Singhdhillon, Sub-Divisional Mag-istrate Rampura Phul NavdeepKumar and Senior MedicalOfficer Bhagata Bhai Ka Dr.Rajpal Singh, Corona Sam-pling Camp was set up at vil-lage Burj Gill. On this occa-sion, a group of health depart-ment team took corona sam-ples.

Full support from the policeadministration, Nagar Pan-chayat, Group Club, Panchay-at Department was received.Multipurpose Health Supervi-sor Balvir Singh SandhuKalan, Dr. Samit Mital, Dr.Mandeep Kaur, Health Work-er Sheena Bibi, Ranjit Singh,Gurbinder Singh, DavinderSingh, Volunteers RamandeepSharma, Lakhvir Singh etctook Corona samples of 204

people, Seven of the casescame out to be Corona Posi-tive who was informed aboutthe instructions issued by theDepartment of Health by pro-viding the Mission Fateh Kits.On this occasion, SHOSurinder Singh, Patwari Deep-ak Kumar, Sarpanch BalvirSingh beera, Nirbhai SinghPanch,Jeet Singh, JasveerSingh Panch, Rajpal SinghG.O.G, Gurmit Singh Secre-tary, Kuldeep Singh, JasveerKaur Panch, Hamir SinghPanch,Bawa Singh Panch,Gurwinder Sharma, ClubPresident Amrik Singh,UgarSingh Nambardar, GroupAsha workers etc.

Camp for corona samplingat village Burj Gill

400 samples of Covid19sent for testing : DC

SANGRUR (SUMER GARG): Deputy Commis-sioner(DC), Sangrur, Ramvir during a special camporganized at district administrative complex(DAC)here yesterday said that in order to protect the peopleof the district from the Covid epidemic, the teams ofthe district administration and the health departmentwere conducting the Covid test in the camps in urban

and rural areaswhere the vaccina-tion process wasunderway as per theguidelines of thestate government.DC, said that 400samples have beensent for testing dur-ing the camp set up

at for testing of Covid-19. He said that the coopera-tion of the people of the district was essential to con-trol the outbreak of Corona epidemic. He said that itwas the need of the hour to motivate the people to fol-low the precautions issued by the state government byparticipating in the Corona Awareness Campaign toensure the health of the people. He said that it was thepersonal responsibility of every person to cover hisnose and mouth properly for the safety of himself andothers so that he could be protected from the epidem-ic. Mr. Ramveer said that the research so far has shownthat the sooner we identify the disease of corona andstart treatment, the sooner the patient recovers.

Adequate supply of oxygen,medicines in district: DC

NAWANSHAHAR (CHET RAM RATTAN):Deputy Commissioner Dr. Sheena Agrawal said todaythat there is an adequate supply of oxygen and med-icines and other necessary equipment for the treat-ment of Covid patients in the district. Talking aboutthe oxygen plant to be set up during her visit to thecivil hospital, she said that the civil hospital has all thehealth facilities for Covid patients and important testsincluding RTPChave also beenstarted here. Shesaid that nowthrough thesetests all patientswill be constant-ly monitored.During the meet-ing with theteam of technical experts related to the oxygen plantset up in the Civil Hospital, she explained the oxygenrequirements and the technical aspects of the plant. Sesaid that there would be no worry of lack of oxygendue to the commissioning of this plant and also visit-ed the Oxygen Plant site along with the team.

VERMAGURDASPUR, MAY 21

Dr. Nanak Singh SSPGurdaspurin association with Seva De-Drug Center, Babri Bypass,Gurdaspur has launched an'Anti-Drug Awareness Van'with the objective of creatingawareness among the peopleagainst drugs. Speaking on theoccasion Dr. Nanak Singh SSPGurdaspur said that people arenot aware of the cure for drugaddiction. People think that drugscannot be given up without hos-pitalization, drugs can be givenup without being admitted to ahospital, the need is only of coun-selor and with proper advice onecan get rid of drugs by takingmedicine. He lauded the anti-drug awareness campaign

launched by the Seva De-addic-tion Center and said that the peo-ple who have fallen into the trapof drugs for some reason need to

be rehabilitated by raising aware-ness and treating them. Speakingon the occasion Ashish Prab-hakar, Director, Seva De-DrugCenter said that there would be acounselor in the awareness vanwho would go to the villages tocreate awareness among the peo-ple against drug menace.

SSP launches ‘Anti-Drug Awareness Van’

HARPREET SINGH SIDHU GURUSAR SUDHAR, MAY 21

On the Ludhiana-Bathindahighway, CITU workers ledby comrade Daljit KumarGora held placards in theirhands and chanted slogansagainst the Captain Govern-ment of Punjab and the Pun-jab Police. On this occasion,Comrade Gora said that thepeople of Punjab were indire need of attention of thegovernments during theCorona period, but in suchdifficult times, the Punjab

government had given up itsresponsibilities and left theworking class alone to suf-fer and die.

The Punjab Police hasbeen making huge moneyby setting up roadblocks atvarious places and threaten-ing to challan the workersunder the pretext of corona.CITU workers staged aprotest on Ludhiana-Bathin-da highway against the loot-ing of workers and chantedslogans against the Punjabgovernment and Punjab police.

CITU workers raise slogansagainst state government

Sanitization in wardno. 17 to preventcorona infection

BIPAN SETHI AHMEDGARH, MAY 21

In order to prevent the infec-tion of Corona sanitizationwas carried out in the entireward no 17 of Ahmedgarhunder the leadership of MCGeeta Shahi. During thistime, sheasked peopleto sanitizetheir house.C o u n c i l o rGeeta Shahisaid that theinfection ofCorona is increasing thesedays, so we have to be moreand more careful.We have toput on masks and get sani-tized. Geeta Shahi said thatfor many days the people ofthe ward requested her tosanitize the ward. Due tothis, sanitization was carriedout and sanitizers have beenmade available in the entire ward.

Take strict action againstlabs for overcharging fromcovid patients: Aggarwal

R.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAY 21 On behalf of the district ad-ministration, strict actionwill be taken against thehospitals benefiting by in-curring additional chargesfor the treatment of covid-19 patients. DC SanyamAggarwal said that if a pri-vate hospital, lab or doctorexploits patients sufferingfrom Corona virus, the dis-trict administration willtake strict action againstthem under the EpidemicDisease Act.The govern-ment has the right to closesuch hospitals or take themunder its control. He saidthat such complaints are be-ing received in which pri-vate hospitals are cheatingpatients by charging morethan the rates fixed by thegovernment.

Strict action to be takenagainst pvt hospitals for

overcharging : DCGAGAN BAWAGURDASPUR, MAY 21The District Administrationwill take stringent actionagainst the hospitals which aretaking advantage of theCOVID-19 patients by over-charging them for treatment.Deputy Commissioner, MrMohammad Ishfaq said that ifa hospital or a doctor exploitsany patient of Corona virus,the district administration willbe forced to take very strin-gent action against them un-der Epidemic Diseases Act.The government is empow-ered to shut the hospital, ortake control over the hospital.He said that complaints havebeen receiving in which pri-vate hospitals fleecing the pa-tients by charging above therates that have been fixed bythe Government.

TALKSSHORT

New delhi: The Athletics Federation of India's medical commission chairman Arun Kumar Mendiratta passed away due to COVID-19 related complications here in a hospital on Friday. He was 60.Mendiratta was also associated with the Asian Athletics Association for over 25 years. AFI condoled the demise of Mendiratta, who was also the Chief Medical Officer appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics 2020."He led AFI's relentless fight against age-fraud and doping. He was also the architect of our no-needles policy. Soft-spoken and genial, Dr. Mendiratta will be missed by the athletics community. May his soul rest in eternal peace," said AFI President Adille J Sumariwalla in a release. AFI said Mendiratta had the reputation of remaining fearless and committed to the cause of Indian athletics in the face of adverse situations on the age-fraud and doping fronts. He also made it a point to attend all National Junior Championships and National Youth Championships to oversee the weeding out of athletes who attempted to fudge their age.

BUENOS AIRES: Seven health professionals who tended to Diego Maradona in the days before his death have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Maradona, who led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, died of a heart attack November 25 at a rented residence outside Buenos Aires following brain surgery two weeks earlier. He was 60.A medical board's report given to prosecutors this month concluded that Maradona was in agony for more than 12 hours, did not receive adequate treatment and could still be alive if he had been properly hospitalised.Prosecutors on Wednesday charged neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the two leaders of Maradona's medical team, and five other health professionals with involuntary manslaughter.A doctor, a psychologist, two nurses and a nurse coordinator were the others. The medical panel's report said the patient's signs of risk of life were ignored, adding that Maradona showed unequivocal signs of a prolonged agony period of at least 12 hours.

AFI medical commission chairman AK Mendiratta dies of COVID

FC Bengaluru United appoint Kenneth Raj as Technical HeadBENGALURU: BDFA Super Division League 2020-21 champions FC Bengaluru United have appointed C. John Kenneth Raj as Technical Head of the United Pro School and Academy.With 19 years of experience in football coaching, Kenneth Raj is among India's most qualified youth coaches.Kenneth Raj holds the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) 'A' License, has completed the FIFA Youth Coaching course, as well as course in Physical Education from the University of Cambridge. He was the assistant coach for the India U-16 and U-15 teams between 2012-2014.Under his tenure, the U-16 national team emerged victorious in the 2nd SAFF U-16 Championship 2013 in Nepal. He was also an assistant coach for the U-16 national team during the AFC Qualifying rounds, held in Kuwait.He has coached the U-16 U Dream Football Academy, which was affiliated to Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim. Before moving to Germany, Kenneth Raj, who is an AIFF C License Coaching Instructor, also scouted for the AIFF across various age groups. Commenting on his appointment as Technical Head of the United Pro School & Academy, Kenneth Raj said he is excited about the "new challenge". "FC Bengaluru United are committed to growing football from the grassroots level and this really resonates with me. The club ideology and philosophy, as well as their long-term plan reflect a deep understanding of what it takes to grow the sport at every level.

7 charged with involuntary manslaughter in Maradona death

PAGE8

NEW DELHI: Veteran boxing coach O P Bhardwaj, passed away after fighting a prolonged illness on Friday.He was 82.Bhardwaj, India's first Dronacharya awardee coach in boxing had served as a national selector and was the coach of the national side from 1968 to 1989.Boxing Federation of India (BFI) president Ajay Singh condoled the demise of the former coach. Ajay termed Bhardwaj as a "flag-bearer" for the sport of boxing."O P Bharadwaj ji has been a flag bearer for the sport of boxing.He has been an inspiration to all of us. As a Coach, he has not only inspired a generation of boxers, coaches while as a selector his work has been visionary and unparalleled," said Ajay in a tweet posted by BFI."It was under his tutelage that the Sport received some of its highest honors. I join my colleagues in the Boxing Federation of India to mourn this irreplaceable loss and pray for his eternal peace," he added.Earlier this week, former Indian national team footballer and reputed coach Jagir Singh passed away.

Indian boxing's 1st Dronacharya awardee coach OP Bhardwaj passes away

AGENCY Charles Leclerc ahead of team mate Carlos "It's rapid, this track, it's absolutely MONTE CARLO, MAY 21 Sainz. mesmerising every time you get the opportunity

The reigning champion said afterwards he to drive, so I generally enjoyed today. It's a Formula 1 is back in Monaco and Ferrari was keeping an eye on Ferrari's pace, but began challenge, naturally -- Ferraris look really strong are back at the top of the timesheets. The by expressing his adoration for Monaco. -- surprising to see them improve so much but Scuderia's one-two in FP2 on that's great. It means more competition."Thursday, and their improvement Asked whether Ferrari are genuine

since Spain, surprised world contenders to crash the Mercedes-Red Bull party championship leader Lewis everyone is expecting in the Principality, Hamilton, though the Briton said Hamilton replied: "My guess is: I'm seeing what he was delighted to welcome you're seeing. I'm generally just focused on my more competition to the sharp end job. It looks like it, so we'll see."of the grid. "Ferrari particularly have in the past for

Hamilton, a Monaco resident whatever reason been very quick at getting and three-time winner of the race, temperatures in, same as Red Bull... so we've got clearly enjoyed his return to this some work to do," said Hamilton. "The first two

revered street circuit, finishing fifth tyre compounds are quite close... in terms of, the "Everyone loves to drive here. Great day, I mean in FP1 and third in FP2 -- a session in hard tyre can go longer, it's harder, but the soft weather's been great, feels really cool to be back

which he was eclipsed by some familiar rivals tyre is quite a big step softer and it comes in a lot on track," Hamilton said as reported by in red, as Ferrari topped the latter session with faster," he explained. formula1.com.

Hamilton welcomes 'more competition' in Monaco

Ronaldo highlights talented Portugal squad for Euro 2020

AGENCYLISBON, MAY 21

Cristiano Ronaldo will lead a talented Portugal squad that will try to defend its European Championship title. Coach Fernando Santos on Thursday announced his list of 26 players for next month's tournament, when Ronaldo will be supported by the likes of Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva, Diogo Jota and Jo o F lix.

Also included in the Euro 2020 squad was 22-year-old Sporting Lisbon forward Pedro Gon alves, who has never played for the national team. Gon alves was key this season in helping Sporting win its first Portuguese league title since 2002. h Germany and Hungary will have home

Back in the squad were Nuno Mendes and games against Portugal in the group stage.Jo o Palhinha, who made their debut with the "I have great confidence in my players and national team in March. I have the conviction that Portugal is a title

The 36-year-old Ronaldo will be playing in candidate," Santos said. Portugal's preparations his fifth straight European Championship. He is will begin on May 27.six goals from tying the all-time Squad: Goalkeepers: Anthony Lopes scoring record for a men's (Lyon), Rui Patr cio (Wolverhampton national team. The Wanderers), Rui Silva (Granada).record of 109 goals is Defenders: Jo o Cancelo (Manchester held by former Iran City), N lson Semedo (Wolverhampton striker Ali Daei, the Wanderers), Jos Fonte (Lille), Pepe only other male (Porto), R ben Dias (Manchester City), soccer player to Nuno Mendes (Sporting Lisbon), surpass the 100- Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia goal milestone. Dortmund).

Portugal Midfielders: Danilo Pereira (Paris will play in a Saint-Germain), Jo o Palhinha (Sporting d i f f i c u l t Lisbon), R ben Neves (Wolverhampton Group F that Wanderers), Bruno Fernandes also includes (Manchester United), Jo o Moutinho G e r m a n y, (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Renato France and Sanches (Lille), S rgio Oliveira (Porto), Hungary.B ot William Carvalho (Real Betis).

BCCI has not sought any change in Test series schedule: ECB

AGENCY especially as we address the challenges of edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) is NEW DELHI, MAY 21 COVID-19 but have had no official not completed. This year's edition was

request to change dates and are continuing postponed recently when COVID-19 The BCCI has not made any official to plan for the five Test series as cases were reported inside the bio-bubble request to alter the schedule for India's scheduled," an ECB spokesperson told a for the League. Former England captain five-Test series against England for and renowned cricket writer Michael completing the postponed IPL, the Atherton wrore in his column for 'The England and Wales Cricket Board Times' that the BCCI has enquired (ECB) said on Friday. about the possibility of moving the

British media had reported about a final Test of the English summer to possible approach from the BCCI to make room to complete the postponed advance the first Test, starting August 4, IPL. When approached, a BCCI source by a week so that the remaining 31 said the Board is certainly exploring matches of the League could be held. options but the ECB has not been

However, the England and Wales approached officially.Cricket Board (ECB) said they plan to "The situation is pretty fluid now. follow the original schedule since their There are options that are being explored Indian counterparts have not yet made but no official request has yet been sent. news agency when asked about the any official request for a change. Obviously as Atherton wrote in his possible change in the schedule.

"We talk to the BCCI on a regular column, there are some specific enquiries The BCCI stands to lose revenues to basis about a wide range of issues being made.the tune of Rs 2500 crore if the 2021

Tokyo Olympics: IOC President Bach to visit Japan from July 12TOKYO: International Olympic ground. As of 12 July, after the arrival of Bach had originally planned to visit Committee (IOC) President Thomas President Bach, we will move to the full Japan on May 17 and attend the Bach will arrive in Japan on July 12 -- 11 Games-time coordination operations." Olympic torch relay in Hiroshima, but days before the start of the Tokyo The letter was addressed to athletes, his visit was cancelled due to the Olympic Games. sponsors, IOC members, National worsening situation of COVID-19 in

In a letter released on the IOC's Olympic Committee (NOC)s and Japan. Coates quoted Michael Ryan, official website, John Coates, an IOC international federations. the Executive Director of the World Vice President who heads the IOC's Coates reiterated commitments of Health Organisation (WHO)'s Health Coordination Commission for the Tokyo Bach, Tokyo 2020 organising committee Emergencies Program, as saying, "The Games, said: "The next steps on the President Seiko Hashimoto, Tokyo issues regarding the Olympics are organisational front after this Governor Yuriko Koike and Japanese multi-dimensional...It is not whether Coordination Commission meeting Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa we will have [the] Olympics or not; it is include my arrival in Tokyo on 15 June, that the postponed Games will be held how those individual risks within that to join our team that is already on the as scheduled in a safe way. framework are being managed."

SPORTSYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021

WTC is like WC, have reached final after defeating

good teams: Umesh YadavAGENCY right now, during the lockdown, is of you cannot go beyond that. So, being NEW DELHI, MAY 21 individual physical fitness and being mentally strong and keeping yourself

strong mentally. We are all trying to fresh is very important."Over the past few years, India's fast- stay positive and just looking forward Umesh, who has managed to take bowling arsenal has risen through the to playing the World Test 148 wickets from 48 Test matches, ranks to be counted as one of the best Championship final. We are all also spoke about the role of skipper in international cricket. With the big- training individually now so that Kohli and head coach Ravi Shastri in picture UK tour coming up -- World when we come together we are even ensuring that every player in the side Test Championship (WTC) final better," said Umesh. has the desired confidence to take against New Zealand and five Tests "Yes, Ishant Sharma and Ajinkya their game to the next level.against England -- fans will once Rahane are correct. As a player when "Virat and Ravi bhai have again hope for the pace-bowling you are playing Test matches, the worked really hard. The way Virat battery to rise to the occasion. WTC is like a World Cup for you. It's has captained and handled the team,

Umesh Yadav, who has been a very uncertain if we are going to get to the freedom and confidence that the tried and tested performer on the big play ODIs in the near future. So, as a captain and coach have given to the stage, is looking to once again put up Test match player, WTC is like a team keep a lot of weightage match-winning performance when World Cup only. I also think the same. because as a bowler or a batsman the opportunity presents itself and WTC final is different because you when you can play at your free will says he would like to win the World reach at that place by defeating a lot of and freedom you definitely Test Championship (WTC) final good teams," he added. perform so much better. When the which is equal to winning the World When asked about how team steps down on the ground, Cup. challenging life inside a bio-bubble there is a kind of aggression, a

Umesh opened up about his can get for a player, Umesh said: feeling of backup and support. All preparation ahead of the WTC final, "Yes, definitely it is difficult because 11 players are in sync with each the role of skipper Virat Kohli in once your quarantine is over, the bio- other. So, coaches and captain developing such a potent pace attack, bubble life starts. Until 10-15 days, it deserve the credit for that. The and how challenging it would be to is all great, but then it starts to get a players are very comfortable, there is bowl in England. little exhausting because you are in a team spirit and good environment,"

"The only preparations going on the same place in a limited area and said Umesh.

"It's rapid, this track, it's absolutely mesmerising every time you get the opportunity to drive, so I generally enjoyed today. It's a challenge, naturally -- Ferraris look really strong -- surprising to see them improve so much but that's great. It means more competition."