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Jul152025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

New initiative:32 services related to revenue and transport departments start for doorstep delivery and at Suvidha Kendra-Punamdeep Kaur-DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Punjab government led by chief minister Bhagwant Mann has started the 32 services related to the department of transport and revenue. "This move of the government aims to provide hassle free services in easy and transparent manner.Now the people can avail these services at their door steps or at Suvidha Kendra.They have just to call at toll free no 1076," said Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot in press note to the media. The DC has said that 5 services related to the revenue department including the deed registration,preparing manuscripts of the deeds,submission of deeds for pre-assessment,payment of the stamp duty and application for the registration of mutations have been included into these services. Apart fro...

Jul152025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

40 years old link drain needs reconstruction, farmers complain of crop loss as it gets broken

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Earlier the drain was supposed to be reconstructed with a budget of Rs 7 crore which has not jumped over three fold,upto Rs 22 crore. The drain carries all waste water of Kotkapura town, with a population of over 1 lakh. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The 40 years old link drain which carries the sewerage water of Kotkapura town to a link drain, falling into Langhewala drain needs reconstruction. The drain runs about 5 kilometres along the Devi Wala to Kotkapura link road and has all the agriculture area on its left side. The drain not only damages the crops when it gets broken in the rainy season, but its leaking to the road also breaks the link road. Though some length of the drain has been cleaned, but yet is not all cleaned. The way of cleaning the small drain ...

Jul132025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Citizens Group Demands Overhaul of Police Complaints Authorities at a Rally at Tapa

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot citizens group led by activists Lakha Sidhana and Amitoj Mann held a public rally today to protest against police excesses and to demand urgent reforms to the Police Complaints Authorities in Punjab. The group voiced strong concerns over recurring incidents of police misconduct, including custodial violence, illegal detentions, extortion, and alleged police involvement in the drug trade across the state. The rally drew wide and diverse support from across Punjab’s civil society, religious, and farmers’ communities. Among those who addressed the gathering were Bapu Tarsem Singh, father of Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh; Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a prominent farmer leader; Bhai Baldev Singh Wadala, a respected Sikh leader; Satnam Singh Pannu farm le...

Jul112025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Much lower collector rates, how land sharks are dumping crores of black money by buying land in Punjab

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If the collector rate is Rs 12 lakh per area in a village ,that land is selling at Rs 50 lakh leaving a huge gap of Rs about 38 lakh between the black and white money. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Right under the nose of the Punjab government, crores of rupees of black money is being adjusted by the land sharks in Punjab by buying agriculture or commercial lands in the state. The prized parcels of land along with the major roads ,including the state and national highways are looking to be sold, as the concreate walls have been coming up or are already up around large circle of land. The rich agricultural land is turning into the uninhabited encircled walls of concrete. The crops have been replaced by concrete which would finally result i...

Jul102025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

In less than three days, three murder cases solved,7 accused arrested-Pragya Jain,SSP Faridkot

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In two cases, extra marital relations led to the murder,another happened due to family dispute. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot In less than three days since the first incident of the murder took place, the district police have claimed to have solved all the three murder cases which took place in the past three days by arresting all the 7 accused in the three separate cases. “Murder of Jagmohan Singh resident of village Sandhwan took place on the intervening night of July 6/7 and a case in this regard was registered at Sadar police station Kotkapura on the complaint of Inderjeet Singh,brother of the deceased.The police have arrested three accused in the case including a juvenile.From the investigation, it has come to fore that the victim was killed because the accused suspected...

Jun242025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Deputy commissioner Faridkot chairs the road safety meeting

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy commissioner Faridkot,Punamdeep Kaur on Tuesday chaired a meeting with the officials concerned about road safety in the district. The deputy commissioner instructed the concerned officials to strictly ensure the compliance of the road safety rules in the district. “The people should be made fully aware about the rules regarding the road safety and their complete compliance be made,” she asked the officials attending the meeting. The DC also asked the officials to ensure that all school vans strictly follow the rules and guidelines laid down by the honourable courts and the school students be made to travel safely. The DC also asked the officials for the medical check up of the drivers of the school vans etc. Hajot Kaur,Regional Transp...

Jun242025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

DC Faridkot issues instructions regarding digging up tubewell or borewells

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur on Tuesday passed instructions regarding the digging up the orwells or tubells in the district. She said that in case a borewell or well is dug up in the district, a 15 days prior information must be given to the concerned officials. "As reported at many places in the past,some children and men were trapped inside the borewell pipes or holes and at places, despite all out efforts, the loss of life was reported. So to ensure that no such incident takes place, the farmers or the others engaged in the work must be very careful about it. No borewell holes or pipes be left open,uncovered and be guarded by barbed wires," she said in a press release today. She said no well...

Jun82025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

The promise of the chief minister to supply canal water from June 1 failed, farmers rely on subsoil water

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com The Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had promised the farmers that they would get regular power supply and canal water from June 1, while the power supply is more than 8 hours now leading to further depletion of sub soil water,but canal water is playing truant. “The water in Jaitu Rajbaha was released on June 5,it flowed to 100 per cent capacity only for two days and then water in the Rajbaha reduced to less than 50 percent,” said Sukhjinder Singh Brar, a farmer from village Niamiwala of the district. Rajbaha Jaitu supplies irrigation water to dozens of the villages of Jaitu constituency. “The Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had announced that canal water would be supplied to the districts...

Jun72025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Farmers must avoid banned Pusa 44 and Hybrid Varieties, government may not procure those–Chief agriculture officer Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Chief agriculture officer of the district has appealed to the farmers not to grow banned paddy varieties,including Pusa 44, Pila Pusa and other Hybrid varieties as those have been banned by the state government. "I appeal to the farmers that they should not grow banned rice varieties on the fields because they take too much time to mature. The farmers have already been advised by the state government not to grow these banned varieties and have encouraged the farmers to choose any PR variety,mainly PRR 126,which saves a lot of water,requires less fertilizers and chemicals and matures very shortly," said Dr Kulwant Singh,CAO Faridkot. PR 126,which was very popular among the farmers, led to a s...

Jun72025 by 70102pwpadminNo Comments

Advancement of paddy sowing by 15 days, farmers exploited the opportunity to grow banned varieties ignoring the water crisis and environment over petty gains

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com While the state government led by chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann attempted to placate the struggling farmers by allowing them paddy transplantation by 10 to 15 days in advance, some of the farmers took it as granted and went ahead with the banned varieties. As soon as the state government announced that the farmers can sow the paddy from June 1 to 9, by dividing the state in four zones, the farmers rushed to the neighboring states to buy the seeds of banned varieties like Pusa 44,Pila Pusa and Dogar Pusa which take about 150-160 days for their maturity leading to guzzle more and more groundwater. The Punjab government had already banned the water guzzling varieties besides...