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Parampreet Singh Narula

Parampreet Singh Narula is a staff correspondent with the Jalandhar bureau at Hindustan Times. He covers political, rural and agriculture issues in Punjab.

Articles by Parampreet Singh Narula

Lone teacher in Moga village school for five years and counting

67 students across Classes 6, 7 and 8 making do with lone teacher; officials remain unconcerned on filling the vacancies as school officially needs five teachers

Navpreet Kumar teaching at Government Middle School at Sirsari village in Moga on Friday, August 12.(Parampreet Singh Narula/HT)
Updated on Aug 13, 2017 04:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

After denying police job, Moga DC says martyr’s brother asked for clerk’s job

Soldier’s brother Kuldeep, however, denies this and says he wanted job in police; DC had earlier offered him peon’s job

Kuldeep, 23, is a Class 12 passout.(HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 10, 2017 10:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Despite Punjab CM’s assurance, DC denies police job to Moga martyr’s brother

Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh had announced Rs 10 lakh financial assistance to the family.

Kuldeep Singh
Updated on Aug 08, 2017 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Watch | Cricketer Harmanpreet gets a rousing welcome in Moga

Although, the Mithali Raj-led Indian team lost to England in the final, the team caught attention of the country due to their fighting spirit.

Indian cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar in Moga.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 31, 2017 06:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Favouritism? Three-fold hike for four Red Cross employees in Moga

Employees made eligible for benefits under the Punjab govt’s fifth pay commission in violation of rules

Former Moga deputy commissioner Kuldeep Singh Vaid.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 29, 2017 08:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

A day after expired medicines found at Moga clinic, probe into how photographs leaked out

In a blatant cover-up, Moga chief medical officer’s inquiry report denies that there had even been a recovery of expired drugs; says photographs of expired drugs sent to a common WhatsApp group by mistake.

In a telephonic conversation with this correspondent on Monday at 5.08pm, Dr Rupinder had admitted to having recovered the stock of expiry medicines from the Mehra sub-centre.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 26, 2017 02:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

5 MC commissioners shifted in a month: What’s cooking in Moga civic body?

Some occupants of the post got the marching orders on the day or a day before mayor Akshit Jain was scheduled to hold a House meeting.

The office of Moga municipal corporation.(HT File Photo)
Updated on Jul 26, 2017 09:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Expired medicine stock seized from Moga government clinic

“This stock of medicine was being used to treat patients, mostly children, coming to the centre,” sources alleged.

A National Health Mission (NHM) team found medicines with expiry dates of February, April and June this year in stock at the Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) clinic.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 25, 2017 10:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Harmanpreet Kaur’s passion takes her to top after starting from Moga streets

Harmanpreet Kaur, who hails from Duneke village in Moga, started playing cricket in the streets and that too with boys. Her century against Australia helped India enter the final of ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup

Harmanpreet Kaur’s 171* helped India defeat Australia and set up a final with England at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.(Action Images via Reuters)
Updated on Jul 21, 2017 11:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By

Half of govt schools in Moga without principals

Of 605 sanctioned posts in lecturer cadre for all subjects there are only 400 teachers are working in the district.

Sources said there are at least 10 schools that are functioning with just a single teacher. This teacher, single-handedly, is teaching 6-8 subjects to over 60 students alone.(HT Representative image)
Updated on Jul 18, 2017 02:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

All 4 Moga molestation-death case accused walk free

The shocking case had triggered a statewide outrage and political backlash for then SAD-BJP government as the bus belonged to Orbit, a company owned by the Badal family.

Driver Ranjit Singh (right) and conductor Sukhwinder Singh outside the Faridkot Jail .(HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 18, 2017 08:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Moga panchayat scam: Authorities fail to act against those indicted

Dhurkot village falling under Moga block-1 had received Rs 71-lakh compensation from the government in 2016 after some the village common land was acquired for four-laning of the National Highway-71.

Block development and panchayat office in Moga-1.(HT Photo)
Published on Jul 14, 2017 08:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Moga DDPO transferred days after he exposed Rs 55-lakh embezzlement

Ravinderpal, who joined on April 27, reported several cases of financial irregularities in the working of panchayats of the district in his short stint.

Sources said lobbying from a Dharamkot-based senior Congress leader led to the transfer.(HT representative image)
Updated on Jul 12, 2017 11:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

This govt school in Punjab’s Moga is giving a run for money to private schools

The school, spread over 3 acres, also has basketball and badminton courts on its premises.

A student looks at a teaching tool for the periodic table of elements, installed in the science park at the school in Khosa Pando.(Parampreet Singh Narula/HT)
Updated on Jul 06, 2017 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Making the cut for govt incentive: High number of C-section deliveries at night in Moga hospital

There had hardly been any C-section deliveries from 4 pm to 8 pm during the year, raising doubts about doctors manipulating the time of delivery.

In the 301 C-section deliveries from April 1 to June 15 this year, 229 babies were delivered at night.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Jun 28, 2017 10:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Moga village grant scam: Inquiry indicts BDPO with sarpanch, panchayat secretary

Dhurkot village falling under Moga block-1 had received a grant of Rs 71 lakh from the government last year in the form of compensation when the village common land was acquired for four-laning of National Highway 71 (Jalandhar-Barnala road).

Block development and panchayat office in Moga-1.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 24, 2017 07:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bathinda | By, Moga

Spate of crimes in Moga, 5 murders, three rapes in 10 days

After May 15, the district reported major crime incidents almost on daily basis, raising a question mark on the working of the police force.

(HT representative Image)
Updated on May 30, 2017 11:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

After getting ‘free water’ during Akali regime, panchayats in Moga refuse to pay bills

After a change of government, the free service is no more in place and the panchayats have been asked to clear the old bills as well.

PSPCL officials say there is no policy to provide free power to village.(HT File Photo)
Updated on May 22, 2017 09:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Moga siblings’ murder: Day after, father booked for murder

Police investigations revealed that scuffles between Sher and Paramjeet were a routine affair.(HT Representative Image)
Updated on May 19, 2017 11:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Moga

Stubble burning: 687 cases detected in 4 days in Moga

Despite administration’s ban on burning of stubble, farmers continue to openly defy the order.(HT Representative Image)
Updated on May 10, 2017 10:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Moga

Raiding police team attacked at Moga village, 21 booked

A nine-member Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) team, led by in-charge Kikkar Singh, following a tip-off, had raided a marriage palace to arrest three POs when a group hurled stones and attacked them with bats.

Updated on May 09, 2017 10:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Rs 3.5 lakh being spent per month on pound, but stray cattle still a menace in Moga

Stray cattle can be found ruminating on garbage dumps and roaming every nook and corner of the city.

Stray cattle roaming outside the mini­-secretariat on the Ludhiana-­Ferozepur highway in Moga.(HT Photo)
Updated on May 08, 2017 09:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Moga

Rs 57 lakh ‘embezzled’ from panchayat account in Moga

As per various complaints received by the officials, the sarpanch and panchayat secretary had withdrawn Rs 57.60 lakh while as per panchayat records, this money has not been spent anywhere in the village.

HT Image
Updated on May 07, 2017 10:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

No labour pangs, doctors make fast buck through night deliveries in Punjab

PERFECT TIMING More babies born through Caesarean section after 8 pm in Moga government hospital.

Of the 2,987 normal deliveries, 1,600 babies were born in the day and 1,392 arrived at night in the same time period.(HT Representative Image)
Updated on May 05, 2017 04:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Moga man caught spitting rehab dose excluded from beneficiary list

Following the HT report on how a free dose of ‘buprenorphine’ given under the opioid substitution theory (OST) has become a substitute dope for the addicts, the health authorities have deleted the name of the man, who was caught in the video spitting and preserving the dose, from the beneficiary list under the OST.

When asked about the reason of spitting the drug, introducing himself as Sukha (name changed) of Moga, he said that he is a regular user of the drug for the past four years and is now addicted to it.(HT File Photo)
Published on Apr 15, 2017 03:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

In Moga, fake addicts selling rehab drug for quick buck

A free dose of buprenorphine given under the opioid substitution theory (OST), a project started by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to rehabilitate the injectable drug users (IDU), has become a substitute dope for the addicts.

As per rules, the dose has to be administered under the supervision of a doctor or a staff nurse.(HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 14, 2017 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Akali sarpanch shot dead in Moga had criminal record; three booked

Manuke village sarpanch Beant Singh, 27, of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) party, was shot dead on Wednesday night in an attack by three assailants at his village in Nihal Singh Wala.

Based on the statements of deceased’s mother Surinder Pal Kaur, the police have booked three men from the village — identified as Rajinder Kumar, Raman Kumar and Kuldeep Singh.(HT File Photo)
Updated on Apr 06, 2017 07:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Moga

Ludhiana-Talwandi Bhai four-laning fails to meet deadline

March 31 was the deadline for the completion of an ambitious four-laning project of the 78-km stretch on National Highway-95 from Ludhiana to Talwandi Bhai in Ferozepur, but the project seems nowhere near completion.

(HT Representative Photo)
Published on Apr 02, 2017 11:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

Cops spare cops, book police chowki building for power theft with kundi connection!

Norms say police have to mention accused person/s — even as ‘unidentified’ — while registering a first-information report (FIR) as a case cannot be lodged against a lifeless thing, such as the police post (chowki) building.

Norms say case cannot be lodged against a lifeless thing, such as the police post (chowki) building.(HT/Representative image)
Updated on Mar 24, 2017 10:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga

BDPO, panchayat secy suspended for embezzling Rs 26 lakh in Moga

Ten days after the Hindustan Times highlighted the embezzlement of panchayat funds totalling Rs 26.6-lakh at Ramuwala Kalan village here, the state government has suspended block development and panchayat officer (BDPO, Moga-1) Jaspreet Singh and panchayat secretary Rajwant Singh for their alleged role in the scam.

Block development and panchayat offic in Moga-1.(HT Photo)
Updated on Mar 23, 2017 11:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Moga | By, Moga
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