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May282025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Ensure all drains, sewerage systems and village ponds are cleaned before rainy season-Punamdeep Kaur-DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur on Thursday instructed all the concerned officials of the departments of the drainage,sewerage and village ponds to clean them before the rainy season starts. The DC was chairing a meeting of the all concerned officials from the district to take stock of the flood control programme. “Ensure that all the drains falling within the district Faridkot are cleaned on war footage before the rainy season starts. The local municipalities and concerned officials are instructed to ensure that the sewerage systems in Faridkot,Kotkapura and Jaitu towns are cleaned.Apart from those, the village panchayats and DDPOs and BDPOs are instructed to clean the village ponds before the rainy season so that the people of the distr...

May282025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

A unique initiative of the government: Toppers of class 10th and 12th spend a day with DC, SSP

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Under a unique initiative of the Punjab government, the toppers of the class 10th and 12th were provided an opportunity to spend a special day with the DC and SSP Faridkot,Punamdeep Kaur and Pragya Jain today so that they can have an experience of the life of the civil servants, who are selected through a very tough competition of the India Administrative Services conducted by UPSC. The IAS,IPS and many other grade one officers are selected through the civil services examinations ,preliminary and mains held by UPSC every year. The government aims to encourage the students to be aspirants of the civil services examinations by providing them an opportunity to be with IAS and IPSs in the districts of the state. “The 6 toppers of the district spen...

May192025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Motor Vehicle Inspector arrested red-handed while taking bribe of Rs 3,600

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Vigilance Bureau recovers Rs 1.34 lakh in cash during search Faridkot May 19 Further strengthening the Punjab Government’s zero tolerance policy against corruption, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested Gurpreet Singh, a Motor Vehicle Inspector (MVI) posted at Faridkot, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 3,600. During the operation, the Vigilance Bureau team recovered Rs 7,200 from his possession and also recovered another cash of Rs 1,26,500 from his vehicle, which appears to be the bribe amount. A spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said that the arrest was made following a complaint by a resident of Faridkot, who alleged that the said accused had demanded Rs 1,800 per truck for approving the fitness certificates of two of his trucks....

May182025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

More than 100 families from Sikha wala village of Muktsar district join BJP-Bhai Rahul Singh Sidhu

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More families would join soon-Bhai Sidhu. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Allegedly in a big jolt to the Akali Dal and AAP, more than 100 families from village Sikha Wala from Muktsar district have joined BJP. Sikhwala falls under the Lambi assembly constituency, earlier being represented by Parkash Singh Badal and now by Gurmeet Singh Khudian,who is cabinet minister in the Bhagwant Mann led AAP government. The village population is around 4500. This information was shared by senior BJP leader Bhai Rahul Singh Sidhu, who had been member Punjab Public Service Commission and Halqa In charge of Kotkapura assembly constituency from 2017 to 2022. “This is a set back to both the SAD which has been representing this constituency for decades...

May162025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Father killed by allegedly mentally upset and drug addicted son in village Kotsukhia

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Parmjeet Singh son of Bachan Singh was alleegdly killed by his son Pargat Singh on late Thursday evening. "The accused hit his father on his head with a blunt wooden log last night after some altercation. The accused Pargat Singh is allegedly mentally upset and was being treated for the same," the locals said. He is also a drug addict according to the family members and village residents. The police have registered a case at police station Sadar Kotkapura in this regard.

May162025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Deadbody of martyred Agniveer arrives in his village Chahal

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The dead body of Agniveer Akashdeep Singh son of Balwinder Singh,21, has arrived in his village Chahal,near Faridkot. Akashdeep Singh,who had been recruited as an Agnivir little less than 2 years ago, was killed on duty in Jammu on Thursday morning. Two Jawans were killed on duty Thursday including Akashdeep Singh and another from Amritsar district. The deceased had just come to his village on April 12 and left to join the duty on april 17. A large number of the people expressed condolences to the family of the deceased. "The government policy makes a discrimination between the regular army Jawans and Agniveers.It can not be justified at all. The bullets don't make any differences to anyone on the line of duty. So the government mus...

May162025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Stubble burning leaves trees and plantation damaged at places alongside main and link roads

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Same happens almost after wheat season Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The burning of the government and private plantations and big trees during the field fires is a cause of serious concern. Even some of the farmers resort to burning the wheat stubble after harvesting which can be easily managed in comparison to the paddy stubble. The farmers do not show little concern to save the big trees and new plantations standing in their fields and alongside the roads. “We had planted many trees near Smadh Hari Singh Fakkar, on Kotkapura-Jaitu bypass. But most of the plantation and full grown trees have been badly damaged.Unfortunately, our farmers do not realize the importance of the trees. During Covid-19 pandemic, we were forced to buy oxygen while the trees provide...

May52025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Debt ridden farmers are allegedly selling the soil, causing an irreversible damage to their land, not a solution the debits but hammering a permanent damage to the earth

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Allegedly debt ridden farmers are trying a way out to earn some money from their land without transferring the ownership of land. They want to keep the land but want to earn some amount of it by selling the upper layers of soil. The soil or earth is being sold either to the brick kiln owners, for earth work in the low lying plots in the towns and at large scale, it is being transported to the national highways projects of roads which are coming up in the state at a fast pace. But the step is much more harmful than advangeous.”If the land is dug up two to three feet deep, the permanent damage is done. It is irversible.No body at any cost can once again make it the same.If the land is somewhat higher than the adjo...

May52025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Pregabalin above 75 mg banned,no to songs promoting drugs or alcohol and objectionable posters in the district-Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur, exercising her rights under section 163 of BNS Sanhita, has imposed a ban on the sale of Pregabalin salt above 75 mg in any form of tablets or capsules. The painkiller, which is used to relieve the patients of spinal cord etc related pain, is being consumed as a drug by the drug addicts, it has been leant. "No chemist would sell any medicine which contains Pregabalin above 75 mg without the prescription of the registered medical practitioner. The chemist would also ensure that the prescribed drug is not purchased multiple times by the buyer. All the related information would be maintained by the chemist. What is Pregabalin (by Mayo Clinic) Pregabalin is used with other medicines to help control partial-onset seizures...

May52025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

” Nasha Mukti Yatra”(drug free Punjab campaign) from May 7, no of beds in de -addiction centers increased from 50 to 200-Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot "Nasha Mukti Yatra"(drug free Punjab campaign) is going to be stared from May 7 in the district.During this campaign, three villages of the each assembly segment would be covered daily and concerned officers have been instructed to complete this task," said Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot,in a press release today. The campaign has been launched by the Punjab government to educate the masses about the destructive effects of drugs and the families,victims and all related to the victim. "In each programme under this campaign, the village level people will be actively involved where the experts would deliver them the lectures about the bad effects of the drugs, apart from handling the victims, how to bring them out of the drug addic...