Figures Compiled By The State Government:

The State government has compiled the figures from last year and for this year also and according to the reports in 2017 there are around 1,765 people died in accidents in the first five months and in 2016 the number of people who died was 2,052. From 27 police districts and commissionerates around 18 showed a decline in the accidental deaths. These include Faridkot with 62% decrease in fatal accidents, Moga 45%, Ludhiana Rural 38%, Mansa 41%, Jalandhar (Commissionerate) 26%, Kapurthala 23%, and Khanna 21%.

Reports also said that this decrease occured due to better enforcement of traffic rules and also database is being compiled to work on the vulnerable areas and accident-prone black spots in the state to tackle the accidents. These all things decrease the number of accidents. Harman Singh Sidhu of NGO ArriveSafe said the major effect on this due to the ban on the sale of liquor on highways because drunk drivers mostly break the rules and also met with fatal accidents.

Other Things Government Is Doing To Control Accidents:

To enhance public safety on the roads and to control the road accidents Punjab cabinet had decided to set up a Rs 100-crore Road Safety Fund, in accordance with the Supreme Court guidelines of 2016. There are some things that are included in the policy:

• CCTV cameras are installed inside buses plying in the state and entering the state.
•  The funds will be utilized to enable automatic detection of over-speeding and overloading of vehicles.
• The state government has also started putting up signage at several places, warning commuters about vulnerable points and ensuring that traffic does not merge at dangerous points, especially at night.

Hope, all these things will help Government to control road fatalities further.

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Robbery At Chandigarh Sai Temple:

The Sai Temple that is located in Sector 29, Chandigarh faced robbery for the very first time. This is the famous devotional place in Chandigarh where a large number of devotees come and give a huge amount of donation. This temple security is tight and no one can easily do robbery there but after tight security that person theft huge amount from temple premises. The news of robbery reached to the workers of the temple after two hours of the incident. Then trust members checked the amount and they found around 7 lac are missing and the thief did not take any other things like jewelry from there. The thief entered the temple area at 2:45 am from the rear door of the temple and with help of wall he reached the window of the first floor and then he cut the mesh of the window to enter inside the temple. The thief had covered his face and also sprayed paint on CCTV cameras to hide his identity. After the robbery, he left the path from the same temple.

Police Found The Culprit:

Robbers choose Thursday for robbery because on this day huge crowd comes to the place and police investigated the case and checked all the CCTV footages. After 36 hours of investigation, Police caught the culprit. He was the devotee of the temple and lives in sector 29. His name is Sonu and he took the help of his friend Ajay in this robbery. Police found around 3.47 lac from him. According to the police, they both have investigated properly about the temple before committing this crime.

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Now soon you will be able to see women who will manage the public parking lots. Many people crack lots of jokes about ladies that they can not drive or park vehicles properly but this initiative will show that women can do anything efficiently. In this initiative around 200 women would be hired as parking managers.

Chandigarh’s Smart Parking Lots:

Chandigarh will soon be going to get the smart parking system under the joint initiative of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation and Arya Toll Infra Ltd and this will be very helpful for the residents. This project is going to amend all the 25 parking spaces and sector 17 will get multi-level parking system. This system will control traffic and also residents would be able to get parking spaces easily. There would be a new app that will help people to pay parking charges and they can also book parking space online.

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Students are Losing their valuable things:

Many students claimed that their valuable things were missing when they came out of the examination hall after their exams. According to them, they have to keep all their belongings outside the examination hall because it is not allowed to take them with us. A student of Punjab University has faced this problem in this regard and she has lost her expensive things. Mehak Jain said that before entering the examination hall she kept her bag outside the hall and after three hours when she came outside the hall her bag was not there. Things that were stolen are:

• The bag contained two smartphones, including an iPhone along with other valuables.
• She also lost her ID proofs, hostel room keys and
• She said in her bag there were her notes also.

After this Mehak Jain lodged the complaint in Police station and other students were also saying that these kind of theft are happening in other exams centre as well. Students said that mobile phones are being stolen from inside bags lying outside other exam centres as well.

Students Are Demanding CCTV Cameras:

According to the students, these incidents are happening because there are no CCTV cameras are installed. So, for the thief, it is easy to steal things outside the examination halls. Students are demanding provision of CCTV cameras in each corridor of all the departments. Chairperson of the economics department Upinder Sahwney says, “We are not responsible for the belongings of students. Such thefts were last heard 15- 20 years ago.”The students of the University say that they would soon write a letter to the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrar regarding the same. 

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