Even as the recent ugly spat between Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Jalandhar Central Raman Arora and now transferred Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Naresh Dogra is being attributed to a petty fight between two shopkeepers here, insiders have alleged that the real reason behind the confront
An India Today team discovered that the mattresses in the skin ward of Punjab's Guru Gobind Singh hospital have not been changed since 2007 despite the patients there having serious conditions.
Having scripted a success story of building various rainwater harvesting systems and irrigation ponds to make the use of water accumulated during the monsoon, Rurka Kalan village in the village now finds itself in a peculiar problem.
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Jalandhar, December 31
Nearly 50,000 Dalit students are bearing the brunt of the ongoing stand-off between the Punjab Government and private colleges over non-disbursement of SC post-matric scholarship funds.
Enrolment Dips
As per the Joint Association of Colleges, there has been a constant fall in enrolments under the SC post-matric scholarship scheme
From 3.25 lakh admissions in 2016-17, the number came down to 2.15 lakh in 2019-20. The same is estimated to be around 90,000 this session
Many students have not got their degrees for the past over three years. Agitated over the delay, about 60 students of the local CT Institute allegedly locked the campus yesterday and burnt photographs displayed in the reception area. The management admitted that it had withheld 1,100 degrees since 2017 as Rs 39 crore was due towards SC students.