Tarn Taran Diary

Making environmental care part of our lives

Some educational institutions are going one step ahead towards fostering environmental commitment. At a gathering organised at the Amritsar Group of Institutes, Chabal Road, Tarn Taran, a call was given to the students and faculty members to focus on the protection of Mother Earth and commit to environmental responsibility as part of their life. The gathering was organised on Wednesday which the students and faculty members of Amritsar Institute of Paramedical Sciences and Amritsar College of Nursing attended. Dr Sandeep Singh, principal of the host college, remarked that healthy life doesn’t rely on medicines alone — clean air, green environment and pure water are equally essential. Students were made aware of their environmental responsibility. Dilip Kumar, principal of Amritsar College of Nursing and Dr Nipun Pasi, while sharing their thoughts, said that plantation of trees not just gives shade but is necessary to help future generations breathe for which environmental care should become a part of our daily lives. During the event, the institutions launched a tree plantation drive with a heartfelt message that we are committed to passing on a legacy of peace and clean environment to the future generations for the sake of

preserving the sanctity of Mother Earth in all her splendour.

Administration starts installing traffic lights

Many public representatives have recalled the minister who laid the stone meant to inaugurate the four-laning of Tarn Taran-Amritsar road via Chabba more than a year back. The representatives said that there are many such stones laid for development works since the present AAP government came to power in state. But work on many of them has not started till date. This stone speaks of its tale — that it was laid on February 1, 2024, by minister Harbhajan Singh ETO at a function organised in Tarn Taran in which Jaswinder Singh Ramdas, MLA, Attari, and Dr Kashmir Singh Sohal, MLA from Tarn Taran, too attended. The public function was also attended by people of the area. The 20-km long road project was necessitated due to commuting by lakhs of devotees visiting the holy Sikh shrines of Chabba village and that of Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh, Amritsar, making the road busy, resulting in traffic jams. Most of the time, the road witnesses traffic jams and in case a vehicle stops in the middle of the road due to a snag, traffic gets blocked for hours together. Gurdwara Tahla Sahib, Chabba, Gurdwara Sangrana Sahib, Samadh Baba Naudh Singh, Gurdwara Jhulne Mehal, Gurdwara Lalkar Sahib, Gohalwar, Gurdwara Lakir Sahib Fatehchakk and some other religious places too are situated on this road where countless number of devotees come to pay their obeisance daily round-the-clock. The road is busy as many industrial units function along this road in villages Gohalwar, Pandori Ran Singh, Pandori Sidhwana, Varpal, Chabba, Guruwali and others. Heera Singh Kandianwala, Sukhdev Singh Gohalwar, Dr.Ajmer Singh, Jaswinder Singh Manochahal and a number of other social activists have demanded that the four-laning of the road be immediately started as making the road accident-free is the need of the hour. The social activists said that this would satisfy the devotees too.

Honour for Mehakpreet and her parents

Mehakpreet Kaur, a student of Government Senior Secondary School, Dubli, a border area village, who stood first in the district in 8th standard examination (session 2024-25), conducted by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), was honoured along with her parents by the Education Department and the villagers. A function was organised in the school in which the village Sarpanch, chairman of the School Managing Committee and other members along with village elders participated. Mehakpreet secured 594/600 marks. She got 57th position in the state merit list. Harsharan Singh, school head, said that Mehakpreet Kaur remained regular last year and had not missed school even for a single day. The school head said that Mehakpreet participated in the state-level science exhibition with her science model which could not get the top position in state for which she pledged to work hard in future. The department had high hopes from Mehakpreet. Her father is a marginal farmer, and mother a homemaker. Mehakpreet’s dream was to be a doctor for which she started working hard. She said that she made it a routine to read whatever she could in school daily and then write it down. In case she had some problems, she got it clarified by her subject teachers the next day and she required no tuition.

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