The Tarn Taran police have expressed satisfaction over its performance to tackle drug trafficking and smugglers. Senior Superintendent of Police Dhruman H Nimbale said huge quantity of contraband has been seized during the last one year. However in the same period cops had a brush with spurious liquor tragedy wherein more than 110 lives were lost in the district. The SSP said 79-kg heroin 26 kg of opium and 144-kg poppy husk had been confiscated by them. Nimbale said the police had seized 274 injections and 331334 intoxicants. He said they arrested 31 persons under the Arms Act and seized 47 pistols eight revolvers four rifles one AK 47 four guns 23 magazines and 3115 bullets. The police from time to time conducted raids against illicit liquor manufacturers. He said they registered 483 FIRs and nabbed 388 persons. The SSP said 11029387 ml of illicit liquor 2305930 ml of alcohol 865388-kg lahan 474240 ml of English wine and 98200 ml of beer had been recovered. Nimbale said property of 100 drug smugglers worth Rs 127 crore (approximately) has been freezed. Achievement survey All the 1800 teachers of elementary wing in the district were being trained to conduct the National Achievement Survey (NAS). The Education Department has been organising camps at nine block-level offices. Paramjit Singh Deputy District Education Officer (Elementary) said the survey aims at understanding the health of the education system in the government and government-aided schools. He said in order to increase focus on quality of education the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) Act 2009 was amended in February 2017 to include references on class-wise and subject-wise learning outcomes. He said all developments in the survey should be brought on record. A Koshish for job aspirants The district administration has launched a Koshish project to provide free coaching to unemployed youths with assistance of the District Employment and Entrepreneur Bureau. Tarn Taran Deputy Commissioner Kulwant Singh inaugurated the project. Free coaching for written tests will be provided for forty days by Sri Guru Arjun Dev Government College Tarn Taran. The Deputy Commissioner said as many as 179 apirants have got themselves registered. He urged aspirants to take coaching to crack the written tests. He said its much better than sitting idle at home. Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Jagwinderjit Singh Grewal Tarn Taran SDM Rajnish Arora Assistant Commissioner (General) Amanpreet Singh HS Bhalla Principal Sri Guru Arjun Dev Government College shared their own experiences with job aspirants. Teachers from Career Launcher India Ltd will give coaching to aspirants. All eyes on Khadoor Sahib constituency Various decisions taken by SAD in Tarn Taran are being observed closely by their opponents. After Ranjit Singh Brahmpura left SAD and formed his own outfit a void has been created in Khadoor Sahib constituency which he represented. In 1997 Brahmpura won from Naushehra Pannuan from SAD ticket. He was shifted to Khadoor Sahib after delimitation of the constituency and fought Vidhan Sabha elections in 2012 but lost to Congress candidate Ramanjit Singh Sikki. In 2014 SAD again gave ticket to Brahmpura from this segment and and he won the elections. SAD has put their weight behind three-time former MLA Harmit Singh Sandhu from Khadoor Sahib segment. The reason behind this is that Rani Vallah native village of Sandhu falls in Khadoor Sahib. Sandhu started his outreach campaigns to garner trust and votes. Along with competing with Congress and AAP SAD leader also needs to keep into consideration the cross-voting factor. Harmit Singh remained active in Khadoor Sahib constituency since the last one year but he suddenly had come back to Tarn Taran a few days back. Now Akalis in their latest survey suggested to field Sandhu from Tarn Taran than Khadoor Sahib after AAP came up with assurance of 300 units of free electricity to domestic consumers. — Contributed by Gurbaxpuri

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