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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Locals want to remove the speed brakers. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The allegedly illegal speed breakers which have come up about two months ago, near Kothe Mour outside a an Ashram, when the 15 KMS stretch of road , constructed under PM Gram Sadak Yojna,was being carpeted is leading to the suffering of the hundreds of commuters on the road daily. The road connects Kotkapura town to Faridkot district headquarters via Bir Sikhan Wala, Nathewala, and Chahal.. About hundreds of vehicles ply on this road daily. In the harvesting season, the number of vehicles increases considerably. Apart from it, on a particular date, each month, there is a mela at the place of Baba Kaka Mehar where thousands of devotees come to pay obeisance. “The people are suffering a lot due to these i...

 Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Devi Wala village of Faridkot district has taken a unique initiative to compensate the farmers whose about 7 acres of standing wheat crop gutted into the fire on Friday night. “I had Saturday requested  Baba Kaka Singh to make an announcement to get together in the village Gurdwara Sahib so that some solution to compensate the affected farmers be found out. So We have taken this initiative so that our farmers could be compensated and be saved from the harsh conditions,” said Chamkaur Singh Sekhon, a retired lecturer from village Bir Sikhan wala. “As we all know that farmers Bohar Singh,Kuldeep Singh and one farmer Meet Singh from village Panjgrain Kalan suffered huge loss because their standing wheat crop gutted into the fire on Friday night du...

Shri Ashwani Kapur, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Faridkot Range, Faridkot, along with Shri Akhil Chaudhary, IPS, SSP, Sri Muktsar Sahib, Dr. Pragya Jain, IPS, SSP, Faridkot, and Shri Ajay Gandhi, IPS, SSP, Moga, at Ashoka Hall, Faridkot Raghbir Singh Brar Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com Faridkot In compliance of the directions of Shri Bhagwant Singh Mann, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Punjab, and Sh. Gaurav Yadav, IPS, Director General of Police, Punjab, Chandigarh, a campaign "War Against Drugs" has been initiated across the state of Punjab against those who consuming and smuggling drugs. Therefore, for reviewing and introducing the performance of "Faridkot Range Faridkot" in this campaign, a press conference was held today, April 11, 2025, by Shri Ashwani Kapur, IPS,...

The Gujjar was allegedly had a cow herd of about 200 animals and when some animals allegedly entered into the fields of the farmer, he objected and it led to a heated exchange between the cow herd grazer and farmer. The enraged farmer allegedly fired a bullet which left a cow dead. Raghbir Singh Brar Taking a swift action on the complaint of one Sikander Khan son of Sharif Khan, resident of village Janta Wali of district Ganganagar, the Faridkot police have claimed to have arrested a farmer Jagdish Singh son of Tehal Singh, resident of Guru Nanak Colony Faridkot. The complainant had stated to the police that he would graze his cow herd of about two hundreds animals at vacant places roaming from place to place. He stated that when he was moving with his cow herd from village J...

“The two among the arrested are truck drivers and the son of the kingpin of the cow smuggling gang who allegedly caught cows from nearby places,” Jasmeet Singh,SP investigation Faridkot. The kingpin of the cow smuggling gang has about 8 such cases registered against him besides one cheating in Bathinda and Faridkot-Faridkot police. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Email:raghbirsinghbrar@gmail.com The Faridkot police have claimed to have arrested 3 accused in an attempted cow smuggling case, booked three unidentified persons besides the kingpin of the cow smuggling gang. The police have also seized a truck in which about 18 cows had been loaded to transport them allegedly for slaughtering. “The Faridkot police was informed by Mahant Gharib Das of Kotkapura, who is the gener...