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Sep 25, 2013
Sep 17, 2013
FAZILKA’S EIFFEL TOWER
By Harjap Singh Aujla
South Asia Post: Issue 25 Vol II, October 15, 2006
 Fazilka is a sleepy sub-divisional headquarter on the Southern tip of Ferozepore district close to the border with Pakistan. Before 1947 partition of Punjab, it used to be a thriving business center, but after the creation of Pakistan, it fell on bad days. The Northern big cities located along the Grand Trunk Road can be easily interlinked for television, telephone and radio services through inter-connecting terrestrial towers, but the Southern areas located in the Bhatinda, Muktsar, Abohar and Fazilka belt are difficult to connect terrestrially with Northern big city grid. Being at the South-Western corner of Punjab, Fazilka’s location is quite remote from the point of view of superior quality sound and picture transmission linkage with Northern communication grid. Technically speaking Fazilka deserved a high standing self supporting tower of its own. According to stories published recently in some newspapers including “Ajit” and “The Tribune”, Fazilka has finally got a 1000 foot tall self supporting communication tower. The reason I call it Fazilka’s Eiffel Tower is that its height is comparable with the height of France’s World famous Eiffel Tower. It may not be as beautiful.
Before we discuss the capabilities of this tower, it will be appropriate to share a brief history of broadcasting in Punjab. To the British Colonial rulers, Punjab was a province of extraordinary importance. Under the direct control of the Indian government, a central broadcasting authority called All India Radio was formed in 1936. In addition to the four metropolitan cities of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and New Delhi the fifth and the sixth radio stations were opened in Lahore (Punjab) and Peshawar (North West Frontier Province). Originally all these stations were equipped with one 5 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter each. Between 1941 and 1943, these transmitters were replaced at each station with 10 kilowatt medium-wave transmitters. Theoretically the range of a 5 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter during day light hours is only 30 miles and the fringe area extends another 20 miles. This means that All India Radio Lahore with 5 kilowatts barely reached Amritsar, but after up-gradation to 10 kilowatts, it became local in Amritsar. On August 14, 1947 Pakistan got independence and from 15th of August, Radio Pakistan Lahore became a hostile station. This rang alarm bells in New Delhi and since high powered transmitters were unavailable in India, two low powered 1 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter each were dispatched to Amritsar and Jalandhar. Thus All India Radio Jalandhar-Amritsar came into existence. This arrangement continued for five years. Soon after independence the authorities in Pakistan increased the power of Lahore radio station from 10 kilowatts to 50 kilowatts. In 1953, All India Radio also installed a 50 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter at a place called Goraya, located equidistant from Ludhiana and Jalandhar. This arrangement continued until the nineties. Pakistan added a 100 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter to its existing 50 kilowatt station in Lahore in 1965. India opened a 1 kilowatt medium-wave station at Chandigarh in 1965. Another radio station was to be opened at Amritsar, but due to the 1965 war with Pakistan the idea was shelved. In the meanwhile Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television Service increased its presence in the border areas with India.
 Radio Pakistan slowly and steadily kept opening new radio stations after independence in Rawalpindi, Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Mianwali, Islamabad and Sialkot. Pakistan television also dotted entire border area with Indian Punjab with powerful transmitters. India started its second phase of expansion of broadcasting services in Punjab during the nineties. During the nineties both Bhatinda and Patiala got relay centers for Doordarshan and also got FM transmitters of All India Radio. The mother station at Jalandhar was up-graded with two high powered medium-wave transmitters along with a 10 kilowatt FM transmitter. All India Radio Chandigarh was strengthened with a 10 kilowatt high altitude transmitter at Kasauli extending its range up to 110 miles radius.
Punjab’s border area was all along better served by Pakistan Television Service and Radio Pakistan and poorly served by Indian broadcasting services. Hence there was a need to strengthen All India Radio and Doordarshan services in the border belt. Sushma Swaraj was the first Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, who realized that the entire border belt in Punjab was shabbily served by All India Radio and Doordarshan. She was surprised to find that Amritsar was served with a local quality radio service of Radio Pakistan Lahore and did not have its own radio outlet to be local in Lahore. She had two options. Either she could open four radio cum TV transmitting centers in Fazilka, Ferozepore, Amritsar and Pathankot. Or she could order the construction of very tall towers at Fazilka and Amritsar and serve Ferozepore and Pathankot from those two centers. She decided to have just two 1000 foot high towers at Fazilka and Amritsar. The one at Fazilka has just been completed and the one for Amritsar is yet to be built.
The 1000 foot high steel structure may not be as magnificent as the famous “Eiffel Tower of Paris”. But it is almost as tall. Before the construction of the tower in Fazilka, the tallest tower in India was the Bombay Doordarshan Tower, which is 984 foot tall. The Bombay tower is supporting the antennas of several Doordarshan channels and accommodates a number of government owned and private radio channels. The Fazilka tower is as much capable. As I hear this tower will carry at least the National Channel of Doordarshan and perhaps one or two Punjab based channels. Its radio outlet will carry several FM channels. Within a sixty mile radius, its transmitters will cover most of Ferozepore district with the exception of Ferozepore City and cantonment area as well as Zeera Tehsil. These areas will be covered by Amritsar station. Fazilka tower will also cover Abohar Tehsil and Muktsar District in Punjab as well as Sri Ganganagar District of Rajasthan. All India Radio Bhatinda is a full fledged FM radio station. Considering the height of the Fazilka tower, a point to point linkage with Bhatinda tower is possible. This means that the Fazilka tower can pick up the signal of Bhatinda and relay it. We congratulate the people of Fazilka for earning this state of the art broadcasting facility and hope it will spread knowledge in the area.
[Writer and engineer Harjap Singh Aujla has done engineering calculations to determine the ranges and radius of coverage and are accurate. He can be contacted at 16 Junction Pond Lane, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey 08852, USA
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Sep 16, 2013
PAU to honour 6 progressive farmers on Kisan Mela
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The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) will honour six progressive and innovative farmers, on the inaugural day of PAU Kisan Mela, on March 15. The farmers will be awarded cash prizes, plaque and citations for excelling in agriculture, horticulture, and allied activities.
Sushil Periwal of village Khippanwali, district Fazilka, will be conferred with the “Chief Minister Award in Agriculture.” He has carved a unique niche for himself in the field of agriculture by adopting scientific methods. In addition to his ancestral land of 32 acres, Sh. Periwal has taken 96 acres of land on lease and thus, is cultivating on a total of 128 acres of land for the last 37 years. By leveling his orchards through laser land leveler technology, he has saved about 30% of water and improved the health of fruit plants. He has adopted drip irrigation method to save water. He uses farm machinery according to mechanical and scientific techniques. A 62-year old Sh. Periwal has remained in touch with the Kisan Melas of PAU for the last 37 years. For the marketing of horticultural produce under the brand name “LSP”, he personally visits Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Indore, Kanpur and Surat. He is earning 15-20% more income as compared to other farmers.
Sep 12, 2013
Sep 2, 2013
Aanand Utsav Fazilka ਅਨੰਦ ਉਤਸਵ ਦੋਰਾਨ ਰੋਟੀ ਗੀਤ ਤੇ ਕੋਰਿਓ ਗ੍ਰਾਫੀ ਪੇਸ਼ ਕਰਦੇ ਹੋਏ ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ ਯੂਥ ਕਲਬ ਦੇ ਪਰਧਾਨ ਰਾਕੇਸ਼ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਤੇ ਹੋਰ
Aug 17, 2013
Pak river floods village in Fazilka
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times FEROZEPUR , July 29, 2013
tanding crops spread over 5,00 acres of land are inundated due to overflow of water from Pakistan-based Budha river in Mohar Jamsher village of Fazilka district. The village has Pakistan boundary on three side and Sutlej on the fourth and boat is the only source to reach the village.
"Crops of vegetables and paddy on 500 acres of land of the village are flooded due to overflow from Budha river in the neighbouring country," said Satnam Singh, a farmer of Mohar Jamsher village.
"We suffer almost every year due to floods in the river. No one from the government comes to our rescue. There ar eonly promises of compensation," rued Jagir Singh, another farmer.
Farmers demanded strengthening of bundh along the river Sutlej and a permanent bridge.The local administration had asked the villagers to move to safer places due to rise in water level in Sutlej river, while orders to get special girdawris had also been issued, said sources.
Meanwhile repeated attempts to contact Fazilka DC remained futile.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
Sat,17 Aug 2013
15,000 acres flooded in Fazilka
Gaurav Sagar Bhaskar, Hindustan Times Ferozepur/Fazilka, August 16, 2013
More than 15,000 acres in Fazilka is under water, playing havoc with residents' lives. In Ferozepur, water standing in fields adjoining the Sutlej river has started receding.
Seventeen villages of Fazilka sub division and 11 under Jalalabad sub divisions have been the worst-hit due to release of 70,000 cusec water from Harikee headworks in Ferozepur. Around 15,000 cusec rain water had also stagnated.
"There has been no help from the administration. Even the condition of our cattle folk is worsening as not even fodder is available," said Surjit Singh, a farmer.
The 2.2-km bundh along the New Maujam village is on the verge of collapse and if it gave way, more than six villages would be flooded, said sarpanch Des Singh. Teja Ruhela, Jhanger, Dona Nanka, Dhani Sda Singh and Mohar Jamsher are the affected villages.
Ferozepur MP Sher Singh and Charandev Singh Mann, ADC(G) Fazilka visited the affected villages and assured villagers that a 'special girdawri' of the flood-hit crop area would be organised.
Ferozepur MP Sher Singh and Charandev Singh Mann, ADC(G) Fazilka visited the affected villages and assured villagers that a 'special girdawri' of the flood-hit crop area would be organised.
Ferozepur DC Manjit Singh Narang said that water discharge from Harikee Headworks had been reduced to 51,000 cusec from 89,000 cusec. He claimed that on Friday night, the quantity of water reduce would be cut by 10,000 cusec.
Congress MLA Parminder Singh Pinki said: "Is this development that the SAD-BJP is so proud of --- the annual devastation that residents, especially of border areas, see during the monsoon."
He demanded that affected farmers should be compensated at the rate Rs. 35,000 per acre instead of rubbing their salt by paying them a meager amount ranging from Rs. 1,500-5,000 per acre.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
Aug 5, 2013
State compensates farmers having land near int’l border Praful Chander Nagpal
Fazilka, August 4
The Punjab Government has at last provided succour by way of compensation after a span of about a decade to the farmers in the border area whose land falls between the international border and barbed wire fencing.
The Punjab Government has at last provided succour by way of compensation after a span of about a decade to the farmers in the border area whose land falls between the international border and barbed wire fencing.
Notably, the farmers are cultivating their fields till the last inch towards the international border braving all odds. They are not allowed to cultivate tall crops like sugarcane and cotton for security reasons. Besides, the entry to their fields is also restricted and the terrain is tough.
"Rs 1,33,65,000 has been disbursed among the farmers whose land falls across the barbed wire fencing. Disbursement work was completed recently," said Fazilka Additional Deputy Commissioner, Charandev Singh Maan.
Due to the typical topography and limited options of farming, the standing committee on defence affairs had allowed compensation to these farmers at the rate of Rs 5,000 per acre. This compensation had been sanctioned by the Central Government and was paid up to 2002 during the tenure of the Atal Behari Vajpayee government.
The compensation was later on withheld due to unspecified reasons. The poor farmers who had been cultivating their fields in these areas across the barbed wire fencing and between the international borders continued to demand compensation for the regular losses incurred by them.
Their sustained pleas did not yield any results for about a decade. However, the state government, during its second tenure, has ultimately come to rescue of the affected farmers and has released a compensation of Rs 3,000 per acres to these farmers. The payment has been made by the Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Punjab. Such compensation has been paid in all six border districts of the state. An amount of Rs six crores had been released by the Punjab government in March this year. The highest amount of Rs 1,48,80,000 was released for disbursement in Ferozepur district followed by Rs 1,33,65,000 for Fazilka district.
"The initiative by the Punjab Government is a welcome step but it is not sufficient. The Central Government should come forward and pay the compensation which should be enhanced to a total of Rs 10,000 per acre," said a farmer Harbans Singh of border village Gulaba Bhaini.
www.tribuneindia.com
Hospital of Fazilka
1. Civil Hospital, Station Road
2. Jassi Hospital Specialist in heart
disease, Near S.D Sen.Sec. School
3. M.M. Singh, Hotel Bazar
4. Gupta Nursing Home,
near sanjeev cinema
5. Loona Hospital
6. Chabbra Nursing Home
7. Dr. Navdeep Jasuja
8. Chugh Hospital
9. Dr. Dang Eyes Hosptial
10. Rajan Kakkar Hospital
11. Sachdeva Hospital
12. Usha Swami Hosptial
13. Munjal Hospital
14. Shaminder Eyes Hospital
15. Chawal Dental
16. Sadhu Ram Dental
2. Jassi Hospital Specialist in heart
disease, Near S.D Sen.Sec. School
3. M.M. Singh, Hotel Bazar
4. Gupta Nursing Home,
near sanjeev cinema
5. Loona Hospital
6. Chabbra Nursing Home
7. Dr. Navdeep Jasuja
8. Chugh Hospital
9. Dr. Dang Eyes Hosptial
10. Rajan Kakkar Hospital
11. Sachdeva Hospital
12. Usha Swami Hosptial
13. Munjal Hospital
14. Shaminder Eyes Hospital
15. Chawal Dental
16. Sadhu Ram Dental
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