Reasons why accidents occur at black spots5
1There are no separate tracks for bicycles,
rickshaws and horse carts, and no separate lanes for heavy vehicles
2Rash driving and the large number of
NMVs (bicycles, rick-shaws, and horse carts) on roads like Grain Market, Sector 26, and Transport Chowk cause crashes
3Heavy traffic flow on roads linking the city
with neighbouring states
4Lane overlapping by motorists in the
absence of marked lanes on busy roads
5Driving in the opposite or wrong direction
and taking of ‘short-cuts’ by two-wheeler drivers, cyclists
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Chandigarh: Different student groups ac-tive in the city took to flexing their muscles – an indication of the heavy activity the next couple of months will witness before Panjab University (PU) goes to student polls.
National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and Students’ Organization of India (SOI) protested against each other at different ven-ues in the city on Tuesday. As NSUI protest-ers battled with cops and water cannons during their march against the SOI Chandi-garh president, NSUI-backed PU student council president was the point of attack for SOI. Hundreds joined the protest led by NSUI’s Punjab and Chandigarh units against Vikramjit Singh Middukhera, who was dis-qualified from PU’s law entrance exam after a complaint of using mobile phone was re-ceived against him. The student body at-tacked the Shiromani Akali Dal, parent body of SOI, for ‘protecting’ the candidate caught cheating. Leaders demanded expulsion of Middukhera from the party and submitted a memorandum to Chandigarh IGP to regis-ter a criminal complaint against him.
“Our motive is to raise voice against the unfair practices of the SOI president. Senior leaders of SAD should take strict action against him and expel him from the party,” said NSUI’s national president Roji M John.
Protests sound PU poll bugle
Day Of Dissent Hits City
SOI members (L) protest against PU student council president at varsity, (above) police use water cannons to disperse NSUI demonstrators in Sec 15 on Tuesday
PUSU stirs against slow renovation of library Earlier in the day, Panjab University
Students’ Union also protested outside the PU VC office, demanding quick completion of the renovation work at AC Joshi Library, as it was “causing inconvenience to many students”.
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Panchkula: Police resorted to mild lathi-charge and used water cannons to disperse over 500 pro-testing JBT teachers at Housing Board Chowk on Tuesday after-noon.
Seeking permanent jobs, the JBT teachers, who had gathered from all over Haryana, were march-ing from Shiksha Sadan, Sector 5, to Haryana chief minister’s house to hold a demonstration when the cops stopped them. While some agitators received minor injuries, water cannons damaged the ear-drums of a few others, who were taken to Sector 6 General Hospital.
Though the officer on special duty (OSD) to CM, Jawahar Yadav, met the JBT teachers around 2pm and assured to regularize their jobs, the agitators refused to budge. The JBT Teachers’ Welfare Association spokesperson, Pawan, said, “The OSD to the CM assured
that we will get permanent jobs in the education department before July 31.”
The association president, Ra-jendra Sharma, said, “We will in-tensify our stir if our demands are not met. Earlier, the Haryana CM
had promised to make JBT teach-ers permanent on July 1, but till now the government has not taken any steps.” With the protesters’ march halted at the chowk, diver-sions and traffic jams gave a tough time to commuters as the road lead-
ing to Housing Board Chowk was closed for more than two hours around noon. Camping in Pan-chkula for over a week, the JBT teachers had earlier held two pro-tests against the state government on June 22 and on June 27.
Teachers’ march stopped with water cannons
AT THE RECEIVING END: Police take on agitating JBT teachers in Panchkula
Photos: Pritam Thakur & Agam Mahey
Police detain protesters, P 4
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Chandigarh: The highest cut-off (CGPA 10) in science stream (general category) again went to Government Model Senior Secondary School, Manimajra Mod-e r n C o m p l e x (GMSSS-MMC ), with GMSSS, Sec-tor 16, taking the second slot in Class XI admis-sions. For three years, the Manima-jra school has been popular among toppers.
The bar has also been raised for the commerce stream (general category), with both GMSSS-16 and GMSSS-MMC recording cut-off of CGPA 9.4, higher than last year’s CGPA 9. The cut-off for humanities (general cate-gory) has also gone up from CGPA 8 to 8.4 at GMSSS-16. In
science stream, second and third highest cut-offs were re-corded at GMSSS-16 (CGPA 9.4) and GMSSS-35 (CGPA 9).
In commerce, GMSSS-35 had the second highest cut-off at CGPA 8.8 and GMSSS-19 and
GMSSS-37-B had the third highest at CGPA
8.4. In humanities stream, the second highest cut-off (CGPA 7.6) was r e c o r d e d a t
GMSSS-35 and the third highest (CGPA
6.8) at GMSSS 10 and 19. In GMSSS Manimajra
Modern Complex, 92 students, including two from reserved categories, of the total class strength of 116 have scored CGPA 10 in science stream (general category).
Class XI admissions: Manimajra govt school makes the cut, again
WHAT NEXT?
1Candidates candeposit fees in the
school where they have been allotted seat on July 1 and 2 (9am onwards)
2Report to the school along with admission
form, photocopies of cer-tificates, original docu-ments for verification and latest photograph
3 In case fees is not deposited on the due
date, the seat will be cancelled
4 Choice of school and stream given in the
application form cannot be changed till the com-pletion of first round of counselling
5 For change of school/stream, candidates can
submit forms in the second round of counselling, which will start from July 16. For detailed schedule, they can refer to the prospectus
Schools to reopen, P 4Second counelling, P 43 most popular schools, P 4
Sets highest
cut-off of CGPA 10 in science stream, 9.4 in
commerce
Chandigarh: The probe re-port into the death of three la-bourers in a sewer on May 30has held MC staff-cum-officials– mainly the junior engineerconcerned – and a private con-tractor guilty of negligence.The labourers employed by theMC’s private contractor haddied in a 20-foot sewer chamber
after inhaling toxic gases infront of the 3BRD sewage plantin Industrial Area, Phase II.
Sources in the ChandigarhAdministration revealed thatthe detailed report also pointedout that laid down precaution-ary measures were not fol-lowed by the MC engineeringwing officials as well as thecontractor at the time the la-bourers were cleaning the sew-er. The report, which is withthe UT’s home secretary, hasrevealed that employees of theMC’s engineering wing shouldhave been present there as perthe guidelines to monitor thecleaning process.
According to the report, thecontractor acted carelessly bynot providing even basicequipment to the labourers tocarry out their work in the sew-er. The report has also made astartling revelation that somelabourers might have been inan inebriated condition. But italso stated that the allotment ofwork to clean the sewer was al-lotted through a tender in a fairmanner, by fulfilling all the gui-delines.
Significantly, the civic bodyhad – at the time of the incident– refused to take any actionagainst its engineering staff byputting the blame only on thecontractor, but now the inqui-ry has indicted MC employeestoo for not doing enough, as perthe norms. The detailed reporthas also given suggestions re-garding precautionary mea-sures needed to be taken whilecarrying out such works, andthe MC has been asked to pro-vide all the necessary equip-ment. The report states thatthe cleaning of sewers is riskywork, and there are guidelinesfor labourers on how to cleanthem by using equipment, butall the precautions were mis-sing in this specific case.
Probe blames MCstaff, contractor
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Chandigarh: Son of a formerhead constable of Chandigarhpolice, who retired last month,jumped from the fifth-floor ofGovernment Medical Collegeand Hospital (GMCH), Sector32, on Tuesday. He was taken tothe emergency with seriousinjuries on forehead, chestand legs, but was declaredbrought dead.
Jatinder Singh, 31, of Sec-tor 46, was a psychiatric pa-tient taking treatment fromthe hospital. The police saidJatinder had, on Tuesday,come to the psychiatry OPDsituated in the B-block of thehospital. “He was not accom-panied by his family,” said in-spector Balijeet Singh, SHO ofSector 34 police station.
Police did not recover anysuicide note. The post-mortemexamination will be conduct-ed on Wednesday. An inquestproceeding under Section 174of the CrPC has been initiated.
Former cop’sson jumps off
GMCH 5th floor
Chandigarh: Non-availabil-ity of separate tracks for non-motorized vehicles (NMV),presence of a majority ofnon-motorized vehicle users,huge flow of heavy vehicles,and non-implementation oflane driving are some of thekey reasons for crashes at thetwo most accident-prone orblack spots of Madhya Marg– Transport Chowk, and Rail-ways Chowk. This was statedby Chandigarh Police in itsreport. Out of a total 10roundabouts, most accidentshave been found in thesespots in the past three to fouryears.
Arrive Safe, a city-basedNGO, which has been work-
ing for road safety and safetransportation in the city, inits detailed study of these two
chowks have found that thereis a dire need for separatetracks around both these
roundabouts. Discussing thetwo crossroads, Harman Sid-hu, president of Arrive Safe,
said: “These zones do nothave any provision of sepa-rate tracks for users of non-motorized vehicles (NMVs),whereas considering thehigh numbers of NMV-users,there should be designated,relatively wide, and well-littracks. Most of the road usersare on NMVs (Non-Motori-zed Vehicles), and they sharethe road with vehicles thatare either entering or leavingthe city, which normallymove at a high speed. Fur-ther, users of the NMVs movein the wrong direction of thetraffic to ‘shorten’ their rid-ing distance, and there is nomechanism to plug this flow.”
Here is what making roads accident-prone
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Chandigarh: The Punjab andHaryana high court stayed theUT administration’s demoli-tion drive in Dhanas colony onTuesday. Around 1,000 resi-dents had allegedly made con-structions on “shamlat” (gov-ernment) land in the colony.
Now, the constructions willnot be demolished till furtherorders.
The division bench led byJustice Ajay Kumar Mittalstayed the drive after hearing apetition filed by Eisha Aroraand other residents.
According to petitioners,the Chandigarh administra-tion decided to carry out thedemolitions without issuingnotices to them or giving theman opportunity of being heard.
It was also argued that theadministration should not goahead with the drive, as a num-ber of Muslims in the colonywere on fast in the holy monthof Ramzan.
On June 27, the administra-
tion had announced that thecolony would be removed sinceit had come up on “shamlat”land. But they were under theimpression that it was on pri-vate land, they added.
The petitioners argued thatthe decision to launch the drivewas arbitrary and illegal, astheir side of the story was notheard. The case will now comeup for further hearing on July2. On Monday, Dhanas colonyresidents, who were protestingagainst the proposed demoli-tion, had clashed with cops af-ter Chandigarh police lathi-charged them. Around 12people were injured in theclash.
HC stays Dhanascolony demolition
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Chandigarh: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will inauguratethe National Optical Fibre Net-work (NOFN) via streaming ho-lographic video from village Da-ria of Chandigarh onWednesday evening. Though theNOFN project will be inaugu-rated across India, the 3D holo-graphic video will be streamedonly from Daria village to NewDelhi, showcasing the strengthof the high speed optical fibre in-ternet connectivity at the grampanchayat level. The exercise isbeing done on the occasion ofDigital India Week, beinglaunched from July 1 to 7.
The live interaction with theDaria sarpanch will also beshowcased as a 3D holographicimage at Indira Gandhi IndoorStadium, New Delhi, on July 1between 4pm and 6pm. The samewill be telecast on Doordarshan.To make this happen, the UT ad-ministration had signed a tri-partite Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) with theDepartment of Telecommunica-tion, Government of India, andBBNL (Bharat Broadband Net-work Limited), for implementa-tion of the NOFN Project here-.The UT department ofinformation technology as a no-dal department, had ensuredthat optical fibre was successful-ly laid across all 12 gram pan-chayats of UT . The UT has alsoplanned key events during theweek, including the launch of e-Stamping that will provide has-sle-free electronically generatedstamp paper, and e-Educationthrough which admissions willbe done online for colleges andcommunication during the aca-demic session will be carried outthrough mobile applications.During the week, a workshop onInformation Security & Educa-tion Awareness will also be heldin government schools, and digi-tal lockers will be opened for cityresidents, which will enablestorage of e-documents. TNN
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The division benchled by Justice AjayKumar Mittalstayed the driveafter hearing apetition filed byEisha Arora andother residents
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