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Monalisa(s),little black boys and the sad tale of the”Bahu-Betis” of an Eastern state in grain market Kotkapura

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My first hand account......... Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com While the grain market Kotkpaura is considered to be one of the largest markets in the state,like,maybe all, it also has a sad tale of poverty to tell. The herds of the small children,boys and girls,apart from the women, are seen roaming around in the market all day and night to lift some produce so that they can douse the fire of appetite burning their stomach. The intolerable,vulgar comments by the labourers,sometimes beatings by the farmers and abusive language of the Chaudhris of the ahartis is not strange to them. Their needs have made them strong enough to tolerate this all, as at least they have to survive.They always, in all season, give the farmers, Choudharis of th...

“War Against Drugs” district administration holds an awareness programme in Dasmesh Dental college Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot A district level awareness programme organised at Dasmesh Dental college Faridkot on Friday. “The war against drugs would continue until the drugs are eradicated from the state-Kultar Singh Sandhwan. “The awareness campaign would be more intensified against drugs-Gurdit Singh Sekhon. DC Faridkot Punamdeep kaur and SSP Pragya Jain attended the seminar. In a second step after registration of FIRs and arresting the drug pedlars,district administration on Friday organised an awareness programme at Dasmesh Dental college Faridkot, which was attended by Kultar Singh Sandhwan,Speaker Punjab VIdhan Sabha, Faridkot MLA Gurdit Singh Sekhon,DC Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur and SSP Faridkot Pragya Jain besides many others,including students and locals. Ac...

Alleged mismanagement by the government, undid 15 years efforts to save subsoil water in one step, leading to destruction of the natural resources, ie, subsoil water.

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Punjab government has advanced the dates for paddy transplantation from June 10 last year to June1 by dividing the state into three zones for the upcoming paddy sowing season from June 2025. Now the farmers will be free to sow paddy from June 1 to June 9 in Punjab, at least ten days earlier. The government has taken this step to ensure that the procurement of the paddy now goes on smoothly and more window period be provided to sow wheat. The farmers often complained that if they start transplanting paddy from June 10 onwards, it matures in the second week of october. Those days are shorter,moist  and the weather is smoky because of which the produce does not lose its moisture content and remains unsold in the markets. But actua...

Farmers are buying seeds of long duration banned varieties from neighboring states, rice millers allegedly discouraging farmers not to plant PR-126,131 despite the assurance by state government.

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Farmers in the district allegedly buying the seeds of PUSA-44,Dogar Pusa and Peela Pusa from others states, which have been completely banned by the Punjab government. These varieties are of long duration, takes about 15 to 30 days more than the PR varieties recommended by the PAU Ludhiana, produce more stubble, need many sprays of insecticides and pesticides besides leading to the fast depletion of water table as they need more water. Though these varieties have been banned in Punjab, yet farmers are somehow buying those from neighboring states. “I am confused which variety should I choose. My commission agents from kotkapaura who has also a rice mill indirectly convey us a message that we should not choose PR ...

Farmers are the spine of Punjab’s economy, anndata can’t be left to fend on his own, Dr Baljit Kaur

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Minister Dr Baljit Kaur distributes Rs 6 lakh worth cheques as compensation to fire affected 20 farmer families, 480 kg wheat to each family, fodder for animals --Minister uses her two month's salary, cooperation from NRIs, villagers to help the farmers in need -Punjab govt to award compensation at Rs 18,500 per acre to farmers Extending a helping hand to the farmers of village Sotha and Duhewala, whose ripened wheat crop got charred few days ago, the Minister Dr Baljit Kaur today distributed cheque's worth Rs 6 lakhs to 20 farmer families. She made the onerous contribution using her salary of two months and with the help of villagers as well as the NRIs. Besides this, she also distrubuted 480 kg of wheat to each family along with fodder for a...

Yoga training classes in Faridkot daily, more and more people come to attend those-Punamdeep Kaur-DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Faridkot deputy commsioner Punamdeep Kaur has said that yoga training classes,under the flagship programme by chief minister Bhagwant Mann as “CM di Yogshala,are daily being held at vaious palces in the distict. These training classes are held free of cost. “Yoga classes in Faridkot are being held by trainer Chander Bhan at drug-deaddiction entre and at Kotkapura, the classes are being held in government school Surgapuri by trainer Kiran Rani,” said DC Faridkot. The classes are held from 4.30 to 5.30PM. Yoga coordinator in the district, Neha informed that 24 such Yoga traing classes are being held in the district at various places. “The yoga is very helpful for the patients of cervical, backpain, knee joint aches, diabetes, mental stress...

Attack on humanity, In-depth investigations needed-Kultar Singh Sandwan,no religion permits it

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We held a protest march against this inhuman activity-Parveen kala, President Sahara welfare club-Faridkot. Raghbir SinghBrar Faridkot Kultar Singh Sandhwan, the speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha termed the Pahalgam terror attack as an attack on the entire humanity."No religion permits to kill the human beings.Whoever has carried out this atack, is no human being,they are rather monsters. Sanhwan also referred to the alleged massacre of Sikhs in Chitti Sigh Pura and demanded a deep and thorouginvsitgation into the killings of the innocents. "I stand by the aggrieved families and share their grief," Sandhwan said. IN Chittisinghpura,35 Sikhs were killed indiscriminately on March 20,2000. The killings of the 27 tourists have shook the nation. Faridkot residents ...

3 arrested with 16 quintals of poppy husk,canter seized-Pragya jain SSP Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Faridkot police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested 3 persons and recovered about 16 quintals of poppy husk filled in the 73 bags. The police said that they have arrested Gurmeet Singh, a resident of village Chaina of Jaitu Sub Division,Salwinder Singh, a resident of Bholu Wala road Faridkot and Sukhpal Singh, also a resident of Sanjay Nagar Faridkot. Gurmeet Singh is said to be the driver of the cancer, impounded by the police which was allegedly used to transport the said haul of poppy husk. "The police teams were on patrol on National Highway (NH-15) when they happened to see a canter with register no PB-03-BF 8592 in suspicious circumstances outside a closed roadside eatery on the Bathinda-Kotkapura national highway.Whe...

Lifting of the procured wheat produce has been sped up, about 264848 LMT of wheat procured out of total arrival of 295228LMT-Punamdeep Kaur, DC Faridkot

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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Providing a relief to the commission agents and farmers of the district Faridkot, Punamdeep Kaur,DC Faridkot has instructed the concerned officials to speed up the lifting of the procured grains from the grain markets of the district. It is pertinent to mention that due to slow lifting, farmers find little space to unload the produce and commission agents have to guard the procured produce round the clock. "We have procured about 264848 LMT of wheat out of the total arrival of 295228 LMT in all major grain markets and grain rural yards of the district .Pungrain is topping the procurement list with its procurement of about 59766LMT, followed by Markfed with procurement of 58270, Punsup 52650 and Warehouse 28665," said DC Faridkot i...

DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav visits Faridkot to study its pattern against”YudhNashyan Virudh”, all parse for Faridkot police

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New cyber crime police station was inaugurated in the police lines. Commendation disks and appreciation letters to the dedicated police officers. Appreciation of Faridkot police for eradicating the drugs. “Faridkot police have done a commendable job to eradicate drugs.It has registered over 150 NDPS cases and arrested about 300 accused. Over Rs. 5 crore worth property has been frozen of the drug smugglers by Faridkot police. I am here to study the Pattern applied by the Faridkot police to curb drug menace-Gaurav Yadav,DGP Punjab in Faridkot. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com. The DGP Punjab police Gaurav Yadav today visited Faridkot and inaugurated three facilities in police lines Faridkot ,ie, cyber crime police station, an ultra m...