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Harshraj Singh

Harshraj Singh is a staff reporter in Ludhiana. He covers civic issues and politics.

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Bains group agitated over mayor locking sangat darshan room

After finding the mayor's room locked, a group of councillors, owing allegiance to MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, sat on the floor to conduct sangat darshan (public meeting) at municipal corporation's (MC) Zone-C office on Gill Road on Monday.

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Updated on Aug 05, 2014 07:10 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Unipole remnants a nightmare for commuters, pedestrians

Remnants of more than a dozen unipoles that have been removed are frequently injuring residents and damaging tyres of vehicles in different parts of the city.

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Updated on Aug 01, 2014 03:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Months after carpeting, road starts wearing off

Cracks have started appearing on the newly-carpeted Ishmeet Singh Road. The premix layer has started coming off on the road around 200 metres away from the cremation ground of Model Town extension.

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Updated on Jul 30, 2014 01:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Dangerous open pits causingmishaps, escape MC’s notice

With the municipal corporation (MC) turning a blind eye to pits and trenches dug up by telecom companies, mishaps continue in various areas of the city. On Monday, 10-year-old Subhash fell into one such pit near Chand Cinema, which was not evident due to waterlogging after the downpour. The boy suffered multiple injuries, thanks to MC’s indifference.

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Updated on Jul 30, 2014 01:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

MC unmoved by old water pipes, filthy conditions near tubewells

Even as the municipal corporation (MC) and deputy commissioner (DC) claim that insanitary conditions at ‘vehras’ were behind the recent outbreak in Prakash Nagar, Jawaddi, and adjoining areas, the authorities concerned have overlooked the old water pipes in city and filthy conditions near tubewells managed by the MC.

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Updated on Jul 28, 2014 01:07 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Dairies in residential areas posing threat to lives

Though after the outbreak of gastroenteritis and diarrhoea the municipal corporation (MC) acted against two dairies in Jawaddi, around 300 more dairies are running in violation of the norms in the residential areas and are posing threat to human lives.

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Updated on Jul 27, 2014 06:48 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Unsanitary conditions open invitation to diseases at vehras

Despite the municipal corporation (MC) conducting a survey last year to improve living conditions in ‘vehras’, unsanitary conditions continue to prevail there, increasing the threat of various diseases.

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Updated on Jul 26, 2014 02:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

82 more diarrhoea, gastro cases force MC to spring into action

A day after diarrhoea claimed three lives at Parkash Nagar, Jawaddi, as many as 82 new cases of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis were reported from the area on Thursday.

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Updated on Jul 24, 2014 07:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

City Bus Service comes to a halt again, now for want of fuel payment

The City Bus Service again came to a halt on Wednesday as fuel stations stopped supply, according to the Prasanna Purple Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd (PPMSPL), which operates and maintains the buses.

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Updated on Jul 24, 2014 03:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Road repair on in monsoon; RTI activists cry foul

City-based Right to Information (RTI) activists have claimed that despite failure of sample of the recently carpeted Pakhowal Road, the officials concerned are not taking the carpeting of other roads across the city seriously.

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Updated on Jul 22, 2014 05:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

No policeman at multi-level parking despite commissioner’s assurance

It seems to be a herculean task for the district administration to stop fleecing of visitors at the multi-level parking located on the premises of the mini-secretariat.

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Updated on Jul 22, 2014 04:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Tree guards missing, plants on dividers at risk in city

With the arrival of rainy season, the municipal corporation (MC) has started its plantation drive on dividers and roadsides to increase green cover in the city, but majority of these plants are not safe in the absence of tree guards.

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Updated on Jul 21, 2014 01:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

2% allocation for health services will hurt the poor

Doctors and residents have come down heavily on the state budget saying that it was not up to their expectations. They have claimed that at least 6% budget should have been allocated for healthcare in the state.

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Updated on Jul 18, 2014 01:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Budget for health services not satisfactory, say docs, residents

Doctors and residents have come down heavily on the state budget saying that it was not up to their expectations. They have claimed that at least 6% budget should have been allocated for healthcare in the state.

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Updated on Jul 17, 2014 09:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

No fogging arrangements in rural areas so far

Despite an increase in the number of malaria cases reported in the district, no initiative has been taken to ensure fogging in rural areas.

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Updated on Jul 17, 2014 04:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Electric crematorium a dead duck owing to lack of funds

Unable to afford the electricity charges, Shree Sanatan Dharam Sabha, which runs the cremation ground at Daresi, is unable to utilise the electric crematorium installed at a cost of Rs 50 lakh eight years ago.

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Updated on Jul 17, 2014 10:46 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Liquor store running from building under construction

In violation of norms, commercial activities continue in under-construction buildings even after a recent incident in which a woman died after the scaffolding of an under-construction mall fell on her.

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Updated on Jul 14, 2014 01:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

MC gets govt’s nod to fine Buddha Nullah litterbugs

Over six months after the municipal corporation (MC) decided to fine those littering the Buddha Nullah, the civic body has finally got a go-ahead from the state government.

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Updated on Jul 14, 2014 12:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh Harshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Fleecing at parking lots: news reports not enough for MC commissioner to act

The fleecing of visitors by parking contractors on Ferozepur Road continues despite numerous complaints made by the city residents, which were duly highlighted in various reports carried in the HT Ludhiana. Even after a month, the municipal corporation authorities have failed to take action against the erring contractor.

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Updated on Jul 12, 2014 12:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Fleecing of visitors at parking lot continues under DC's nose

While shortchanging of visitors goes unabated at various parking lots auctioned by the municipal corporation (MC), even those under the district administration have not been spared by the extortionist contractor.

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Updated on Jul 10, 2014 10:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

BJP, SAD councillors oppose mayor for dissolving sub-panels

With mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria dissolving eight sub-committees of the municipal corporation (MC), councillors of both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) are up in arms against the decision.

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Updated on Jul 10, 2014 11:59 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Vodafone coughs up Rs 1 lakh as compensation

Having been served notice for damaging public property while illegally installing wires, Vodafone South Limited Co has paid Rs 1.01 lakh as compensation to the municipal corporation.

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Updated on Jul 08, 2014 12:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Garbage heaps giving tough time to residents, as well as commuters

Questions are being raised over the working of the municipal corporation in view of the heaps of garbage along the roads.

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Updated on Jul 07, 2014 01:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Three months on, no action against digging by telecom company

Learning no lesson from the recent road cave-in on the Chandigarh Road due to the illegal digging by a telecom company, the authorities concerned are still following an irresponsible attitude towards taking any action in the matter of diggings by a telecom firm.

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Updated on Jul 06, 2014 03:20 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh

Fire hydrants crying for MC’s attention

Despite availability of fire hydrants, a source of water that enables firefighters to use municipal water supply to extinguish fire, these are not being put to use in case of any fire incident these days.

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Updated on Jul 05, 2014 10:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Fire hydrants crying for MC's attention

Despite availability of fire hydrants, a source of water that enables firefighters to use municipal water supply to extinguish fire, these are not being put to use in case of any fire incident these days.

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Updated on Jul 04, 2014 10:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

NGO helps needy woman to undergo surgery

Margretta, 27, a resident of Daroli Bhai in Moga district, had been suffering from severe pain due to multiple stones in her gall bladder for the past six months, but she was unable to afford surgery. Thanks to a city-based NGO, Raahat Health For All, which came forward to provide her free treatment.

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Updated on Jul 04, 2014 10:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

MC sets target of recovering 4 crore arrears every week

With an aim to improve the civic body’s precarious financial position, municipal commissioner Pradeep Kumar Agarwal has set a target to recover at least Rs 16 crore of the estimated Rs 200 crore in arrears of sewage and water supply bills as well as house and property taxes every month from its four zones in the city. Each zonal commissioner has been asked to ensure at least Rs 1 crore of the pending dues is collected in a week in his zone.

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Updated on Jul 04, 2014 01:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

NGO helps needy woman to undergo treatment

Margretta, 27, a resident of Daroli Bhai in Moga district, had been suffering from severe pain due to multiple stones in her gall bladder for the past six months, but she was unable to afford surgery. Thanks to a city-based NGO, Raahat Health For All, which came forward to provide her free treatment.

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Updated on Jul 03, 2014 09:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

Unpicked garbage gets Aggar Nagar residents in a flap

Heaps of garbage welcomes you to Aggar Nagar as they have not been lifted from the past one month. It can be seen strewn near the underpass of Aggar Nagar on the Ferozepur Road, leaving residents as well as commuters harried.

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Updated on Jul 03, 2014 12:22 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHarshraj Singh, Ludhiana

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Harshraj Singh

Harshraj Singh is a staff reporter in Ludhiana. He covers civic issues and politics.

After finding the mayor's room locked, a group of councillors, owing allegiance to MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, sat on the floor to conduct sangat darshan (public meeting) at municipal corporation's (MC) Zone-C office on Gill Road on Monday.

Remnants of more than a dozen unipoles that have been removed are frequently injuring residents and damaging tyres of vehicles in different parts of the city.

Cracks have started appearing on the newly-carpeted Ishmeet Singh Road. The premix layer has started coming off on the road around 200 metres away from the cremation ground of Model Town extension.

Though after the outbreak of gastroenteritis and diarrhoea the municipal corporation (MC) acted against two dairies in Jawaddi, around 300 more dairies are running in violation of the norms in the residential areas and are posing threat to human lives.

Despite the municipal corporation (MC) conducting a survey last year to improve living conditions in ‘vehras’, unsanitary conditions continue to prevail there, increasing the threat of various diseases.

A day after diarrhoea claimed three lives at Parkash Nagar, Jawaddi, as many as 82 new cases of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis were reported from the area on Thursday.

The City Bus Service again came to a halt on Wednesday as fuel stations stopped supply, according to the Prasanna Purple Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd (PPMSPL), which operates and maintains the buses.

City-based Right to Information (RTI) activists have claimed that despite failure of sample of the recently carpeted Pakhowal Road, the officials concerned are not taking the carpeting of other roads across the city seriously.

It seems to be a herculean task for the district administration to stop fleecing of visitors at the multi-level parking located on the premises of the mini-secretariat.

With the arrival of rainy season, the municipal corporation (MC) has started its plantation drive on dividers and roadsides to increase green cover in the city, but majority of these plants are not safe in the absence of tree guards.

Doctors and residents have come down heavily on the state budget saying that it was not up to their expectations. They have claimed that at least 6% budget should have been allocated for healthcare in the state.

Doctors and residents have come down heavily on the state budget saying that it was not up to their expectations. They have claimed that at least 6% budget should have been allocated for healthcare in the state.

Despite an increase in the number of malaria cases reported in the district, no initiative has been taken to ensure fogging in rural areas.

Unable to afford the electricity charges, Shree Sanatan Dharam Sabha, which runs the cremation ground at Daresi, is unable to utilise the electric crematorium installed at a cost of Rs 50 lakh eight years ago.

In violation of norms, commercial activities continue in under-construction buildings even after a recent incident in which a woman died after the scaffolding of an under-construction mall fell on her.

Over six months after the municipal corporation (MC) decided to fine those littering the Buddha Nullah, the civic body has finally got a go-ahead from the state government.

While shortchanging of visitors goes unabated at various parking lots auctioned by the municipal corporation (MC), even those under the district administration have not been spared by the extortionist contractor.

With mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria dissolving eight sub-committees of the municipal corporation (MC), councillors of both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) are up in arms against the decision.

Having been served notice for damaging public property while illegally installing wires, Vodafone South Limited Co has paid Rs 1.01 lakh as compensation to the municipal corporation.

Questions are being raised over the working of the municipal corporation in view of the heaps of garbage along the roads.

Learning no lesson from the recent road cave-in on the Chandigarh Road due to the illegal digging by a telecom company, the authorities concerned are still following an irresponsible attitude towards taking any action in the matter of diggings by a telecom firm.

Despite availability of fire hydrants, a source of water that enables firefighters to use municipal water supply to extinguish fire, these are not being put to use in case of any fire incident these days.

Despite availability of fire hydrants, a source of water that enables firefighters to use municipal water supply to extinguish fire, these are not being put to use in case of any fire incident these days.

Heaps of garbage welcomes you to Aggar Nagar as they have not been lifted from the past one month. It can be seen strewn near the underpass of Aggar Nagar on the Ferozepur Road, leaving residents as well as commuters harried.

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