SAI hockey coach BS Randhawa retires

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CHANDIGARH, APRIL 30
Sports Authority of India hockey coach BS Randhawa today retired after completing 35 years of meritorious service.
"During his posting at various places Randhawa worked hard and his dedication brought laurels many times not only for the city but for also for the country," said Mr. Sanjeev Sharma Director Sport Authority of India during retirement party organized by SAI at Sector 42, Chandigarh today. He also congratulated him for his successful completion of the SAI job.
Randhawa was coach of the Indian team which won gold medal in the Asian School Hockey Championship held at Chandigarh in 1994-95. His eight trainees represented India in the Asian School Championship.
Rajpal Singh and Sandeep Singh have captained Indian teams in various tournaments. They were his trainees during the NSTC scheme.
Sukhvir Gill, Sarbjeet, Kamalpreet, Sukhwinder Gobbe, Chanderpal and other players represented India in various tournaments.
Teams trained by him have won four times the All India Junior & Sub Junior Nehru Championships held at New Delhi.
Randhawa's other achievements as a coach:
1 His team won Sub Junior National Championship held at Agra.
2 Coach of Punjab University Team from 1994-2004 won top two positions.
3 His team won All India National rural Championship at Gumbla.
4 2012-13 won National School under 17 (age group) Chandigarh held at Chandigarh.
5 His team 2013-14 won all India Junior Nehru Championship at New Delhi won Rs 1,00,000 (cash prize)
6 His won All India Ranjeet Singh Gold Cup Junior Tournament at Amritsar in 2012-13.
　
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CM pats Punjab voters for enthusiastically casting their votes

by Punjabnewswire4u
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 30
Describing the smooth, peaceful, free and fair conduct of the general elections in Punjab as “a triumph of democracy” in the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that the voters of the state have once again strengthened democratic process by exercising their franchise in an overwhelming manner.
In a statement issued here today, the Chief Minister profusely thanked the people of Punjab for participating in the electoral process in a whole-hearted and peaceful manner. He lauded the people of the state for sticking to the ideals of peace and harmony in the state and carrying out the polling process in a dignified manner. Expressing gratitude towards the voters, Mr. Badal said that he was grateful to them for this as nothing was dearer to him than peace and communal harmony in the state.
The Chief Minister also thanked the people for reposing faith in the ethos of democratic values by exercising their franchise freely. He said that undeterred by the scorching heat of the summer season, the wise voters of Punjab have turned up in large number to cast their votes, which reflected the passion of the Punjabis to play a decisive role in shaping the destiny of the country.   
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister highly appreciated the role played by the Election Commission of India and the State Election Commission besides the state administration and its entire official machinery for the smooth conduct of free and fair elections across the state. 

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Creating awareness on voting rights

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AMRITSAR, APRIL 24

 With the view to create awareness about using right to vote, the students of Khalsa College Amritsar today organized a rally and stated a play, asking the voters, especially the youth to exercise their right to franchise as duty. The programs were organized by the NSS Wing of the College and students, carrying the banners and placard asked the masses that to strengthen the democracy they must go to vote to elect their representatives to the Parliament.

 Khalsa College Principal Dr.Daljit Singh said the aim of the rally was to make the general public aware about how important it is to use the right to vote. He said huge gathering was witnessed when the students performed the `Nukad Natak’ (street play) outside the College at Kot Khalsa Road, enacting the message of not being lured by the worldly things but using the voting right as sacred one. He said more than 100 students participated in the event, organized as per the directions from the district electoral authorities.

 While addressing the students Dr.Daljit said that India is largest democracy in the world but it was unfortunate that at an average only 60 percent of the eligible voters cast their votes. `Using the right of adult franchise is sacred and all must go to polling stations to caste their votes’’, said he. NSS Program Coordinator Dr.Jaspreet Kaur Randhawa and Program Officer Prof.Zorawar Singh led the students during the rally.

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No outsider can stay in any constituency on poll day: CEO

by Punjabnewswire4u
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 23
Punjab Chief Election Officer VK Singh today categorically said that any outsider or political functionary, who was not enrolled as a voter in a parliamentary constituency can’t stay there on day of polling but the candidates have been exempted for this purpose.
Interacting with media persons here today, Mr. Singh said that the state government has decided to suspend procurement operations for one day on April 30 i.e poll day to facilitate people especially rural populace to use their franchise. He said that due to inclement weather in last few days, the procurement operations have been little delayed and amidst possibility of prolonged procurement in state, this decision has been taken.
The CEO informed that after thorough analysis 20 purely urban assembly constituencies have been identified, where poll percentage was around 20 percent less in comparison of remaining state in last assembly constituencies. He said that these constituencies include Amritsar North, Amritsar West, Amritsar Central, Amritsar East and Amritsar South, Jalandhar West , Jalandhar Central, Jalandhar North and Jalandhar Cantt, SAS Nagar, Ludhiana East, Atam Nagar, Gill, Ludhiana South, Ludhiana Central, Ludhiana West, Ludhiana North , Ferozepur Urban, Bathinda Urban and Patiala. He said that a unique sms service ‘ Voter Queue Information Service" was being launched to inform voters about the queue status and this was aimed to check the trend of urban apathy. He said that each of total 22022 polling booths would be covered by either micro observer or web casting or videography/still photography or para military forces.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. B. Purushartha, Additional CEO said revealed that first time in the history of Punjab, the Elector Population Ration has touched projections of population in Census-2011. He said that projected population above 18 years of age was 1,95,16,688 and the final number of electors was 1,95,27,114 . He said that the credit goes to DEOs and Election machinery. He said that we have around 50 lac unique mobile phone numbers and each number would get three sms on poll day and specially mentioned that all big mobile operators have come forward to provide this service free of cost. The Additional CEO informed that till date 652 complaints have been received out of which 614 have been verified and 38 were pending. He said that 2948 FIRs have already been registered.

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Punjab CEO orders transfer of Xen and Police Inspector

by Punjabnewswire4u
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 21
 The Punjab CEO has ordered to transfer an Xen of Powercom and an Inspector of State Police with immediate effect.
Disclosing this here today, Mr. Supreet Singh Gulati, Additional CEO said that Secretary, Punjab Power Corporation Limited has been asked to transfer Mr. Daljeet Singh, Xen, Powercom, Faridkot to some far flung place as he was a close relative of Prof. Sadhu Singh, Candidate of Aam Adami Party from Faridkot Parliamentary constituency. Similarly, the Punjab DGP has been asked to transfer Mr. Bachan Singh, Inspector, Punjab Police, a relative of Mr. Sher Singh Ghubaya, SAD-BJP candidate from Ferozepur Parliamentary constituency to Amritsar and ensure that he should stay there till the completion of poll process. He clarified that this decision was taken to ensure free and fair elections.
Mr. Gulati informed that total cash of Rs. 1, 10, 62,310/- has been recovered in last 24 hours and was referred to Income Tax department for further action. He said that this amount includes Rs.75, 00,870/- recovered from Amritsar City, Rs.23, 67,360/- from Jalandhar City and Rs.9, 75,000/- from Bathinda. He further said that 3152 litres of illicit liquor, 13292 bottles of country made liquor and 1555 Kgs of lahan have also been recovered during last 24 hours.
He said that the Deputy Commissioner, Muktsar has been asked to send a detailed report regarding carpeting of roads and installation of electricity poles in Lambi constituency in alleged violation of Model Code of Conduct as reported in a newspaper. Besides this, the Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur has been asked to send a report regarding a complaint received against alleged violation of MCC in which it was alleged that Municpal Council’s vehicles were being used for Mr. Narendra Modi’s proposed election rally preparations.
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Gurpurab celebrated at Khalsa College with religious devotion

by Punjabnewswire4uAMRITSAR, APRIL 18
The 'Gurpurab’ of second Sikh master Guru Angad Dev and ninth master Guru Teg Bahadur was celebrated at historic Khalsa College’s Gurdwara with religious devotion. The students from Khalsa College International Public School (KCIPS) recited hymns from Gurbani and an Ardas (prayer) was performed.
Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) honourary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina bestowed `Siropas’ (robe of honour) upon students performing `kirtan’ and gave the message of following the path of love, peace and righteousness as shown by the Gurus.
On the occasion Chhina said we can learn from the lives of the Gurus who stood for truth and right path. The KCGC office bearers including Sukhdev Singh Abdal, Ajmer Singh Heir, SS Mannan , SS Chhina , LS Dhillon, Anup Singh , Principal Jagdish Singh , Principal Dr.Daljit Singh, Principal Dr.JS Dhillon, Principal Dr.Sukhbir Kaur Mahal , Dr Sarvjit Kaur Brar , Dr JS Brar , Dr. SK Jand , Dr. Amarpal Singh , Shivdev Singh , DS Rataul were present during the religious celebration.

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ECI lauches national electoral search facility

by Punjabnewswire4u.blogspot.com
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 14
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched a unique initiative of ‘Electoral Roll Search Facility’ to enable voters to search their names and polling stations in the nation wide electoral rolls. This service could be availed through internet on mobiles, tablets or computers, and SMS through mobiles. Besides this, the Bathinda DEO has also developed an Android based application ‘i vote’ which could be downloaded from Google App and a voter can by typing his EPIC number not only confirm his polling booth but also the way leading to that booth.
Interacting with media persons here today, Mr. Supreet Singh Gulati, Additional CEO said that Punjab was one of the 16 states where this service has already started. He said that internet users could access the information by following ‘Voter search’ link provided on the website of ECI i.e. eci.nic.in. Mobile internet users could also access the services through a specially designed website i.e. electoralsearch.in. Besides this, android phone based users could avail this service by installing an application from the Mobile Seva Appstore of the government (apps.mgov.gov.in under electoral category).
He further said that SMS users could access the information by sending preformatted SMS to predefined numbers. The services are available on a special three digit code 166 provided for BSNL, Idea, MTNL, Tata Docomo, Tata Indicom and Vodafone users. A special five digit code 51969 was provided by operators such as Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Idea, MTS, Reliance, Tata Docomo, Tata Indicom, Uninor, Videocon and Vodafone for the same service. Besides this any user could access the service by sending the SMS to a 10 digit number i.e.09223166166. He said that to access the services through SMS, voters must send a preformatted SMS with a word ‘ECI’ followed by details such as Name, Name of Father/Husband, Locality, Age or Date of Birth and Gender separated by commas.
The Additional CEO said that while the service itself was free of cost, the users may need to bear the cost of SMS for internet access as per their service plan with their phone or internet operators.
It may be mentioned here that at present this service is available with Electoral data from 14 states and Union Territories namely Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Pondicherry, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Mr. Gulati further informed that all the DEOs have completed randomization of polling staff thereby informing them about the assembly constituency where they would be put in for election duty. He clarified that the polling staff would be told about the polling station for their duty just before one day i.e. April 29 from the date of polling.

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