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Written by admin on 10 December 2009
Chandigarh, Dec 10 – The fear of swine flu has pressed the panic button in this union territory. With the advent of winter, there has been a sudden surge in the number of positive cases of the influenza A (H1N1) virus reported in city hospitals.
Till Oct 31, only 57 positive cases were reported here but during the next 40 days, up to Dec 10, Chandigarh got 139 new confirmed cases, raising the number of positive cases to 196.
At least 25 casualties have been reported in this region.
‘We have screened 617 suspected cases of swine flu and 196 of them tested positive. Out of these, 111 belonged to Chandigarh while remaining cases are from Punjab and Haryana,’ a health official said Thursday.
‘FIftysix cases were reported from different schools (49 alone from private schools) whereas over 30 were doctors working in leading hospitals of Chandigarh,’ he added.
In the last three days, seven deaths due to swine flu and at least 15 new cases have been reported in city hospitals.
A testing facility is available here at the virology department of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), which is also catering to the needs of neighbouring states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
Isolation ward facilities are available here at PGIMER and at government hospitals in Sector-16 and at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32.
‘Our health department is fully equipped with all the necessary equipment like face masks, anti viral drugs (Tamiflu) and laboratory facilities for preventing and controlling swine flu cases. There is no need to panic and we are capable of handling any kind of emergency situation,’ H.C. Gera, UT nodal officer for swine flu, told IANS Thursday.
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Written by admin on 09 December 2009
Chandigarh, Dec 9 – The Chandigarh administration has asked all hotels and restaurants here to install CCTV cameras, an official said Wednesday.
‘As a measure of safety and security of general public, the administration has issued directions for the installation of CCTV cameras in all hotels, restaurants, guest-houses, cinemas and multiplexes. CCTV cameras should cover entry, exit, reception and parking areas and they have to keep the recording of 30 days,’ said a union territory spokesperson said.
Recently many incidents of scuffle, firing and stabbing during late hours have been reported from the city’s restaurants.
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Written by admin on 09 December 2009
Chandigarh, Dec 9 – The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) would provide security to the 1200-MW Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Project (RGTPP) at Khedar in Haryana, an official said here Wednesday.
‘The security of RGTPP, which is being set up at a cost of more than Rs.4,300 crore (Rs.43 billion), could not be compromised at any cost,’ said Sanjeev Kaushal, managing director of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL), Wednesday.
‘Therefore, we have engaged CISF, the premier security agency in the country, for looking after security and fire safety of this project. The union ministry of home affairs has approved the deployment of 193 CISF personnel at Khedar,’ he said.
The official said that 126 CISF security personnel would be deputed for the security and 67 men would be for fire safety.
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Written by admin on 09 December 2009
Chandigarh, Dec 9 – A Hindi song ‘Naya Aghaz’ (New beginning) composed by a Gurgaon-based private school teacher has become the signature song of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for its Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in schools.
The song composer, Kamaljit, is a teacher at Salwan Public School.
The CBSE has the song, which is 4.32 minutes long, to further popularise its new concept of CCE in addition to conducting workshops, training teachers and distributing manuals.
A spokesman of the Haryana government said here Wednesday that the CBSE has put this song on its website (www.cbse.nic.in) and has also sent it to schools across the country.
The song describes the transition in the classroom from the time students were evaluated through a one-time exam to the new era of CCE.
Kamaljit volunteered to write this song and her school presented it to the CBSE.
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Written by admin on 09 December 2009
Chandigarh, Dec 9 – One more death due to swine flu was reported in this union territory Wednesday, taking the toll from influenza A (H1N1) here to 25, a health official said.
‘The deceased was identified as 55-year-old Surinder Kaur, a resident of Ropar town in Punjab. She was admitted here to the PGIMER (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) in serious condition,’ said G.C. Bansal, a health official.
This is the seventh death reported from the contagious virus in this city in the last three days.
‘Besides six new patients, including a PGIMER doctor, tested positive for swine flu today (Wednesday). Yesterday (Tuesday), seven patients tested positive,’ he said.
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Written by admin on 09 December 2009
Chandigarh, Dec 9 – Over 80 ‘anganwadi’ workers (village-level social workers) were arrested here Wednesday trying to enter the official residence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to submit a memorandum, police said.
The workers gathered in Sector 2 from various parts of the state and wanted to meet Badal but were stopped just metres away from the chief minister’s official residence.
‘Taking preventive measures, we arrested the anganwadi workers. Despite our repeated reminders, they did not stop,’said Harsahai Sharma, the investigating officer.
Usha Rani, president of the anganwadi workers’ union, said: ‘On Nov 9, some employees of Punjab Raj Samaj Bhalai Board (a state-run unit) were promoted to the rank of supervisor under border area project of state government. They were promoted flouting all rules and regulations.
‘Now many Class 8 pass people are supervising post-graduate workers. This is totally intolerable. We just wanted to apprise Badal about this anomaly but the police stopped us and illegally arrested us,’ she said.
All the workers were released later in the evening.
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