Health Department
National campain to issue the Birth Certificates - 2003
Census Department, Punjab, Chandigarh has asked to prepare the Birth Certificates of Children below 10 years ( 01/01/1994 to 31/10/2003 ) for NCBC-2003. The birth Certificates were to be distributed on 14-20 November, 2003 on "CHILD RIGHT WEEK". Action plan to complete this work was prepared and our target was to prepare 83950 Birth Certificates in small period of one month for four Municipal Committee's, Five Police Stations and 473 Villages in Distt. Nawanshahr. For Rural Area we called 55 best para-medical workers from five Primary Health Centres in the Office of Distt. Registrar, Birth & Deaths Nawanshahr. All these workers were trained for preparation, verification and checking of the Birth Certificates so prepared. District Health Officer and seven Senior Medical Officer were deputed for signatures under supervision and monitoring of this work under Distt. Registrar, Nawanshahr. Similarly, all the Municipal Committee's started preparation of Birth Certificates in their respective offices. Similarly, all the S.H.O.'s prepared the Birth Certificates in their offices from 01/01/2003 to 31/10/2003. thus total 83950 Birth Certificates were prepared in record time of one month and were distributed by our para-medical Health Workers by house to house visits in the rural areas. In the urban areas Birth Certificates were distributed by the staff of Health Department and staff of the Municipal Committee's by house to house visits.
Distt. Nawanshahr was first to achieve the target of preparation and distribution of Birth Certificates among all the Districts of Punjab.
The King of Music
Master Madan
A great master of music , who Shook the whole music world and where talent voice and qualities proved to be his enemy , Master Madan was born in village Khan- Khana of district Nawanshahr.
Master Madan was born in December 1927 in the house of Amar Singh and Puran Devi. The love of elder brother Mohan, and the liking of music of his father made him matured in this field .Master Madan- Mohan got the same popularity as was enjoyed by Laxmikant – Pyrelal, in the music world.
When he was a young boy he started singing in the court of kings. At the age of Eight he was called " Sangeet Samrat " .He had such a Goldon Raag Bhairavi,Baagesh Wari, Jonpuri that even nature used to get thrilled. He sang Ghazals also. Eight songs were recorded in his voice of which two were ghazals. The valuable Gem of Nawanshahr was living in Shimla those days when he become a victimof a conspiracy . It is said that after his last stage show in Calcutta, one of his rivals in music gave him mercury in milk.
There is a need of high level probe in this case. On 5th June 1942 the combination of music and voice, the sun of the sky of music the beloved of saraswati said good- bye to the world forever.