Technical education institute at Bassian soon: CM

The Punjab Government has initiated process for establishing a technical education institute and skill development center at Bassian in memory of late Shiromani Akali Dal stalwart Jatheder Jagdev Singh Talwandi. He died a last year.

The announcement was made by CM Punjab Parkash Singh Badal after paying tributes to Jathedar Talwandi during a function organised at Gurdwara Tahliana Sahib here.

Maintaining that late Talwandi had played a vital role in strengthening the Shiromani Akali Dal and fostering harmony among members of various communities including Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims during darker days of the border state, Badal said all sections of society owed a lot to the Talwandi family. Acknowledging that Jathedar Jagdev Singh Talwandi had inherited patriotic and affectionate traits from his father Chhanga Singh, Badal appreciated that these traits were manifested in his sons.

Claiming that work on designing and construction of the technical center will start without further delay the CM said the project will provide an opportunity to the youth of the region.

Acknowledging that successive Union Governments had failed to come to expectations of small and marginal farmers, he urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impress upon the authorities concerned in the union government to launch special insurance schemes for rescuing debt ridden farmers. He said he will meet the PM on Monday.

Jather Sri Akal Takhat Giani Gurbbachan Singh, union minister Vijay Sampla, speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha Dr Charanjit Singh Atwal, MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Prem Singh Chandumajra, cabinet minister Tota Singh, former cabinet minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, chairman Subordinate Selection Board Santa Singh Umaidpuri and legislator Manpreet Singh Ayali were among others who paid tributes to Jathedar Jagdev Singh Talwandi. Referance

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Mohali Mayoral Poll Likely on August 17 or 18

The mayoral election of the Mohali municipal corporation was likely to be held on August 17 or 18 with colonizer Kulwant Singh, the rebel Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate who had contested and won as an independent, might turn out to be king or play kingmaker as he has the support of 11 independent councillors.

None of the parties managed to get a clear majority in the 50-member house in elections on February 24. While SAD-BJP combine has 23 seats, Congress 14 and 12 seats were with the independents. One seat got vacated due to the death of councilor Amteshwar Kaur (independent) of ward number 29. Kulwant Singh said, "I will be meeting with my team of independents to decide the next plan of action. Whatever decision is taken, it will be in the favour of residents."

While the SAD-BJP alliance need only three more seats to claim majority, the task appeared difficult with the Congress willing to back Kulwant Singh. Congress MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu said, "Our party will support anyone who is against the SAD-BJP. We are ready to back the Kulwant Singh group." However, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, SAD in-charge of Mohali, was confident. He said, "The mayor and deputy mayor will be from Shiromani Akali Dal. We are sure we will win. We have not named or decided the candidature yet but will reveal that soon." Meanwhile, fearing horse-trading, Kulwant Singh has sent his group members to a hill station. Referance

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Government Invites Applications for Subsidy on Paddy Straw Chopper/Shredder-Cum-Spreader

The Punjab Government has invited applications from the farmers to avail subsidy on purchase of Paddy Straw chopper/Shredder-cum-Spreader on or before August 10th, 2015.

Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the Punjab Government said that subsidy to the tune of 50 percent or 1 lac whichever less would be provided on this implement. He said that interested farmers could avail this opportunity by filing application in a fixed format along with non-refundable demand draft of Rs 5000 in the favour of Punjab State Farmers Commission, a big gift by Shiromani Akali Dal

He said that farmers can download application format, list of approved companies and scheme details from website www.agripb.gov.in. He further added that application should be sent to Chief Agricultural officer of the concerned district on or before August 10th, 2015.

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Akali Delegation In US To Discuss NRI Problems

A high-level delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal leaders, comprising jails and tourism minister Sohan Singh Thandal, water supply minister Surjit Singh Rakhra and Rajya Sabha MP Balwinder Singh Bhundar, reached Chicago on Saturday to address the issues faced by the NRI community.

The delegation would assess and identify the problems of the Punjabi diaspora there and suggest remedial measures to the party high command to resolve and mitigate their woes.

“During their stay in America, this delegation would participate in various public interaction programmes,” said a Shiromani Akali Dal spokesperson. During these interactions, the leaders would listen to the problems of the NRIs and prepare a comprehensive report with remedial measures, the spokesperson said.

“This report would be placed before the party high command,” he added. The delegation would head to Canada next. Referance

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PSEB And SCERT To Work In Cohesion For Academic Reforms : Cheema

• Education Minister Presides Over The Meeting Of Core Group To Delibera Poor Result Of English Subject 

Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema, Education Minister, Punjab with the senior officers and academician of Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) and SCERT to deliberate upon the academic reforms in the state.

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While presiding the joint meeting of PSEB and SCERT Dr. Cheema said that both the wings should launch a campaign to bring about quality change in the academic scenario. He stressed that teachers should be given training with modern methodology using the up to date academic research module so as to equip them with the modern challenges being faced by the education field.

Later in the day Dr. Cheema, education minister from Shiromani Akali Dal held another meeting with the recently formed core group to investigate the reasons behind the poor result of English subject. In this meeting Principal and English Lecturers of the DIET and in service training institute gave detailed presentation depicting the reasons of poor result of English subject. Dr Cheema has called another meeting of the core group on August 10 to deliberate upon the poor result of Punjabi, Hindi and Math subjects.

Prominent among others who were present in the meeting included Mr. C Roul, Principal Secretary, Mr. Pardeep Aggarwal, DGSE, Mr. Balbir Singh Dhol, DPI (SS), Mr. Gurdeep Singh, Special Secretary, Mrs.Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal, Chairperson, PSEB, Mr. Sukhdev Singh Kahlon, Director, SCERT, Dr. Ginni Duggal, Deputy Director, SCERT.

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Punjab Constitute High Level Team To Evacuate Stranded Pilgrims From Sri Hemkunt Sahib

The Punjab Government constituted a high level team under Mr. Arunjit Singh Miglani, IAS, Registrar, Co-operative Societies to oversee the evacuation stranded pilgrims from Sri Hemkunt Sahib who have been struck there due to collapse of crucial bridge after torrential rains in Uttrakhand region.  

He would have sufficient number of medical teams and security personnel that would be provided to him by Principal Secretary, Health and ADGP (Security). Meanwhile Punjab Government has placed number of buses at the disposal of team for evacuation of stranded pilgrims

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Mr. Miglani would liaise with the Government of Uttrakhand and station himself at Chamoli/Joshimath with immediate effect to oversee evacuation.  He would report the progress of evacuation to Punjab Civil Control Room on daily basis.

The Spokesman of  Shiromani Akali Dal said that Mr. Lakhmir Singh, PCS, Sub Divisional Magistrate, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali) would also accompany the aforesaid team of official

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Early Phase Of Shiromani Akali Dal

Akali Dal owes its birth as a political organisation to the Sikh movement for control over its religious institutions during the British colonial rule in India. Before the British annexation of Punjab in 1849 and the eventual merger of Punjab with the rest of colonially occupied India, Punjab existed as a sovereign state for 50 years under the rule of a Sikh emperor Ranjit Singh. During the pre-Ranjit    Singh era, the eight-eenth century witnessed a long and bloody period of armed conflict between the Mughals rulers and the Sikh rebels. 

The control of many important religious shrines of the Sikh community, the most important being the birth place of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith, had during this period passed on into the hands of a pacifist sect amongst the Sikh community. This pacifist sect’s control of Gurdwaras, the Sikh religious places, suited both the Mughal rulers as well as the Sikh guerrilla bands. The Mughals rulers by accepting or even supporting the pacifist Sikh pacifist Sikhs control of the Gurdwaras wanted to discourage the rebellious tendency amongst the Sikhs while the guerrilla Sikh fighters knew that they could not logistically manage to run the gurdwaras while involved in armed combat against the rulers and tacitly agreed to let the pacifist sect keep managing the gurdwaras. The Sikh community was also respectful to the sect since its founder Sri Chand was one of the sons of Guru Nanak. Therefore, the control of gurudwaras by the sect was allowed to continue even duringthe Ranjit Singh era.

The agreement of the mainstream Sikh community to the sect’s manage-ment of gurdwaras came to an end when it became widely known in the early twentieth century that the management indulged in financial and religious malpractices.A movement to replace that management by demo-cratically elected representatives of the Sikh community achieved success and the volunteers who participated in the movement were called Akali. Bringing together all the Akali volunteers under one umbrella organisation resulted in the founding of Shiromani Akali Dal in December 1920.

 The major achievement of the Akali move-ment was the creation of a central management committee (SGPC i.e.Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee) to look after the gurudwara. The election to this committee was to involve the entire Sikh community leading to this committee being called the mini-parliament of the Sikhs. This historical association of Akali Dal with the founding of this com-mittee has had a long-term impact on the public image and perception of Akali Dal as an organisation primarily concerned with politics of religious issues concerning the Sikhs. This perception is certainly historically grounded but it also acts as a barrier in building views of Akali politics that transcend this religious focus. 

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