International Labor Day

May Day Conference to be held in Ldh PUDA grounds 
Workers’ organizations have called upon all workers-laboring masses-youthto participate in the conference

Ludhiana: 30 April 2013: International Labor Day is call to all workers-laboring masses of the world for waging a united struggle against every type of exploitation. On the occasion of 128^th International Labor Day tomorrow (1^st May), May Day Conference is being organized by Karkhana Mazdoor Uinon, Punjab (KMU) and Textile-Hosiery Kamgar Union, Punjab (TKMU) in PUDA grounds Ludhiana. TKMU president Rajwinder said that large no. of people from workers-laboring masses and youth will gather for the conference. He said that May Day Conference is not just a formality for them. Today, laboring people are being exploited and oppressed barbarically. There is no big mass movement against these atrocities. In such times, remembering the revolutionary legacy of May Day and by taking inspiration from it, building the future path for changing the present inhumane conditions is the only right way to commemorate the May Day.

            During the program, comrades in the leadership of the workers’ organizations will speak on the history and relevance of May day in present times, and also on the economic-political-social conditions of country and world today. The speakers will also discuss that in such situation exploited and oppressed can follow which path today when the whole system is rotting from head to foot.

            Comrade Rajwinder also said that organizations affiliated to many parliamentary vote-seeking parties hire the B-grade singers and make the orchestra girls to dance to gather the crowd on the occasion of May Day. The May Day Conference will oppose and expose such practices and will take forward the revolutionary ethos of May Day. There will be a cultural program comprising of revolutionary songs & plays. He said that it is very important to bring forward the alternative to the ugly, vulgar & consumerist culture served to the masses by the capitalist media.

            KMU and TKMU have called upon all the workers-youth who want to bring a change to take part in the conference.

Lakhwinder,

President, KMU, Punjab.

Mobile No.- 9646150249

Three days festival at Peerkhana from tomorrow

Gurdas Mann and Hamsar Hayat are main attraction

 All is set for the religious cum Sufi event at the New Aggarwal Peerkhana Ground Kakowal road, Ludhiana. This three days event will start from April 20 and remain continue till April 23, 2013. Organizing committee has also invited known sufi singer Gurdas Maan, Hamsar hyaat Nijami, Anees Sabri, Shakeel Sabri, Sardar Ali, Amit Dharamkoti, Rakesh Radhe, Lalit Goyal, Tony Sultan. Sufi Anchor Hemant Walia will conduct the stage. This is the common place for the devotees related to all casts and creed. Head priest of this Darbar Banti Baba  listened the problems of devotees advice the remedies with the instruction that devotee should must avoid liquor and other ways of corruption in business and moral. Known Akali leader Heera Singh Gabria, Veteran BJP leader Rajinder Bhandari, Shree Ram Leela Committee  Dresi ground have assured active support and presence in the  function. Shobha Yatra will take place on April 20, 2013 and Sufi Singing is scheduled for April 21 and 22, 2013. Chader ceremony will take place on April 21 at 10:30 AM, flag ceremony will be held at 11:00 AM, Main attraction ceremony cake ceremony is scheduled for 01:00 PM and Mehandi will take place at 4:00 PM on the same day. Long awaited musical event Sufi mehfil will start on April 21 at 5:00 PM. A small piece of land  about three acre has been decorated for  the audience. 

All arrangements have been made for the reaching sangat, CCTV cameras installed for the safety and security from anti social elements.
  

Ludhiana City Stroke Registry

Ludhiana, 18th April, 2013:(Shalu Arora and Rector Kathuria):The department of neurology at Christian Medical College is conducting a “Population based stroke registry survey” sponsored by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The epidemiology of stroke is well studied in the developed world. However, stroke in the developing world is less well studied. There is evidence that stroke incidence rates in developing countries have increased by more than 100% during the last four decades. Hence the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiated this unique National Task Force Project in Ludhiana since August 2010.

A stroke, also called ‘brain attack’ occurs when the vessels supplying blood to the brain is blocked. This results in the death of the brain cells. Depending on the area of the brain involved and the extent of brain cell death, the specific body functions such as speech, movement or memory may be affected. A stroke may be ischemic or hemorrhagic. Ischemic stroke: This is caused when a clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain shutting off the blood flow. Hemorrhagic stroke: This is caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.

The findings of the stroke registry has brought Ludhiana in the middle of the stroke storm hitting the world. The annual incidence of stroke in the city during the year 2011-12 is 162.3/100,000 lakh , which is the highest in the country. The number of first ever stroke patients identified till now in Ludhiana are 6840 with residents in the age group 18-45 being 20%. Hypertension was the most common risk factor followed by intake of desi ghee, diabetes and alcohol consumption. This suggests that the city has entered the “health transition” which includes the rapid socioeconomic growth, changes in lifestyle, stress and diet which increases the risk of stroke among the city residents.

All the major city health facilities are contributing in this registry but some patients are likely to have sought treatment outside the city due to any reason. To further improve the quality of data the Department of Neurology, CMC will offer free check-up to stroke patients who had received treatment outside the city of Ludhiana from August 2010 till March 2013. Please contact the undersigned for further details: Dr.Jeyaraj Pandian at 9915784750;  Dr.Shweta Jain:9855334242

P.A.U. EMPLOYEES SPORTS

Today was fourth day and Tomorrow is the last day

Ludhiana (Gulzar Singh Pandher) P.A.U. Employees Union (Recognized) is holding sports mela since last 10 April 2013 game of Cricket is being played to-day. Matches of Badminton, Table Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Hockey were finalized upto yesterday. These sports are organised under the leaderships of Senior Vice President and Vice President of the Union Sh. Baldev Singh Walia, Lakhminders Singh Sandhu, Gurmail Singh Tung and Manmohan Singh.
Tomorrow i.e. 17 April 2013 shall be the last day of these sports. And tomorrow accept matches of Kabbadi athletics of men and women; races, throws jumps and tug of war shall be performed. Three leg race, lemon spoon race, musical chairs games of women shall be the special attraction.  Tomorrow morning Registrar of P.A.U. Dr. P.K. Khanna and Comptroller P.A.U., Sh. A.C. Rana shall inaugurate the sports  by hosting the flag of sports and shall remain present in the matches of Kabbadi and Athletic Games. 
P.A.U. Employees Union's Ex-General Secretary, Amrit Pal Singh thanks the employees, sports person and officers of the University to spare the time for games. He said games promote work culture. President of the Union S. Paramjit Singh Gill and General Secretary of the union Dr. Gulzar Singh Pandher appealed to the employees to participate in the sports mela. They told that Vice-Chancellor of P.A.U. allowed the staff to participate in the games mela from 10 AM to 12 PM. Organization of the games is being done with sportsman spirit and team spirit. The Executive Members S. Jarnail Singh (Cashier) Parveen Garg, (Joint Cashier) Lal Bahadur Yadav, (Secretary) and Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Kuldeep Singh, Jai Pal, Harmander Singh, Hardev Ghaloti, Mohan Lal, Jaswinder Singh Gholia, Narinder Singh Sekhon are working with full coordination for the performance of the games. 

Gulzar Singh Pandher
General Secretary
P.A.U. Employees Union 
94647-62825

CPI rally at Ludhiana

Solidarity with the brave struggle of Jagatsinghpur 

The Ludhiana district unit of the Communist Party of India held a rally in solidarity with the brave struggle that is going on against the Central and State government move to hand-over 4000 acre of fertile agricultural land at Jagatsinghpur district, (Odisha) near the Paradeep Part to a South Korean transnational corporation, POSCO for a steel plant, displacing several thousand families who have been earning their livelihood for near a century. Hundreds of workers carrying placards condemned state repression on the peaceful agitators and demanded immediate cancellation of false cases against CPI national council member Abhay Sahu and others, suitable payment to those killed and injured by the police, stop evicting people from the area, proper compensation to the land owners and ensure that the environment considerations/obligations are met with. Addressing the gathering Com Kartar Singh Bowani Distt. Secretary said that our government is out to sever the interest of foreign Multi National Corporations while completely ignoring the local population. Dr Arun Mitra Asstt. Secretary said that the neoliberal economic policies pursued by the governments have led to huge widening of gaps in the society with net income of vast majority of our population falling down continuously. Increase in prices of essential commodities is deliberate as a result of these policies. He also condemned the rise in power tariff by the Punjab govt. and termed it like adding fuel to the fire of people’s problems. This must be rolled back he  said.  Com D P Maur Asstt. Secretary said that the people’s resentment against these policies has been widely reflected in the two days trade union strike on 20 and 21 February. But the government instead of talking to the working class is holding meetings with the elite. Others who addressed include Com O P Mehta, Com Gulzar Goria, Com Gurnam Gill.

Some more links:

Worker on the Bahadarke Road stabbed

Shopkeepers on road

IDPD delegation going to Germany

AITUC meeting held at Ludhiana

CPI rally at Ludhiana

Rejection of Devinder Pal Bhullar’s plea by the Supreme Court

PUDR strongly denounces the dismissal 
Awarding death penalty to a person mentally unstable is a crime against humanity

PUDR strongly denounces the Supreme Court’s dismissal this morning of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s plea for commutation of the death sentence awarded to him to life. The issues at stake in this dismissal are multiple, that of clemency, death penalty, miscarriage of justice and precedence.

Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside the Delhi Youth Congress office which killed nine people in 1993. He has been deemed mentally unstable. The High Court’s decision of upholding the death sentence was not a unanimous decision. After he was given the death sentence by the Supreme Court, he appealed to the then President of India for clemency in 2003. The President, after a lapse of over eight years, dismissed his mercy plea in 2011. Bhullar had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence by the Supreme Court on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency.

The principle of jurisprudence lays down that a person cannot be punished twice for the same crime. Bhullar has already served 12 years in jail and now the consequent execution would strictly violate this principle of jurisprudence. Prolonged incarceration of a death row convict awaiting his execution qualifies as cruelty and violates Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.

Ideally there should have been a norm governing the delay in judicial processes and the relief granted thereof. In some instances, convicts have received relief for delays of 2 years, two and a half years, etc.In  T.V.Vatheeswaran vs. State of Tamil Nadu (1983) 2 SCC 68 and Ediga Anamma vs. State of Andhra Pradesh (1974) 4 SCC 443 it has been held that a delay of two years was permissible beyond which the sentence ought to be converted to life.  In Bhagwan Bux Singh & Anr. vs. The State of U.P. (1978) 1 SCC 214 similar observations were made with respect to a delay of two and a half years and in Sadhu Singh vs. State of U.P. (1978) 4 SCC 428 to a delay of three and a half years. Whereas, in the present instance, even if the delay in handing over the penalty (rejection of clemency) is 12 years, the convict is not entitled for any relief.

It is appalling to note that Supreme Court in its rejection of mercy plea has disregarded the mental health of Bhullar. Awarding death penalty to a person mentally unstable is a crime against humanity. The Supreme Court order hence stands as a serious miscarriage of justice and also dangerously escalates the possibility of such unjust judicial trends becoming the norm. On 6 April 2013, the Supreme Court in a progressive move ordered a temporary stay on the execution of 8 convicts on death row. Not just the apprehension of the present order in case of Bhullar affecting the fate of other prisoners of death row is daunting; equally alarming is the ambiguous position of Supreme Court on death penalty vacillating between two positions, one of relief due to delay in the delivery process and the other of no relief for the same.

In a democracy that guarantees the right to life as a fundamental life, death penalty should find no rationale. In fact, the state should see the execution of someone in its custody abhorrent. Death penalty is an act of retribution and presents the state as an arbiter of retributive justice. The very notion of justice is lost in the act of taking away a life to avenge the loss of another life. PUDR sees death penalty as a form of state violence and an escalator of a culture of hate. It infuses a sense of vengeance in society and reinforces the cycle of violence.

PUDR, while condemning the dismissal of the SC order, reiterates the dangers of having death penalty as sanctioned form of punishment and puts forward a demand for total abolition of the death penalty.

D. Manjit, Asish Gupta
Secretaries, PUDR

ਪ੍ਰੋਫੈਸਰ ਭੁੱਲਰ ਦੀ ਸਜ਼ਾ ਰੱਦ ਕਰਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਹੋਰ ਤੇਜ਼

2 new British Council test centers announced

A special seminar held for the students by Kapri Institute
Ashwin Pandey of British Council taught the key secrets of English speaking

Life is not easy according to our dreams and imagination. In real life we have to rise and work to fulfill our dreams. We can change our life...and the world also but skill of English speaking is an urgent condition for the success. A seminar cum special training held at Ludhiana by the Kapri Institute of English speaking. Mr. Ashwin Pandey market manager, examination service British Council was the key speaker in the seminar.More than 150 students benefited from this special session. 

Mr. Ashwin Pandey announced that two new British Council IELTS test centres are started in Punjab. From 16the May students can also take tests in Moga and Bathinda with the British Council. He also announced scholarships given by the British Council. He told the students about road to IELTS which is free online training session for all IELTS aspirants. he also guided the candidates about all the steps and modules of IELTS. 

Speaking on the occasion, Anjali Chawla, Head of the Department of IELTS at the Kapri Institute said that teachers are trained by British Council. She said that Kapri has also a test registration centre for the British Council and has already trained more than 16,000 students.

Nitin Chawla, director marketing Kapri Institute said kapri held such workshops every year to help students to update skills. He also thanked Mr. Ashwin Pandey and Miss Harjot Kalsi for delivering the wonderful presentation to the students.