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26.9 lakh kids given polio vaccine CHANDIGARH, Dec 6 — According to preliminary reports received here, 26.90 lakh children under the age of five years were administered oral polio vaccine against the target of 26.88 lakh, in the first round of the fourth national pulse polio immunisation campaign in Haryana today. Base mapping of major towns begins CHANDIGARH, Dec 6 — The Haryana State Remote Sensing Application Centre, Hisar, has undertaken base mapping in major state towns using high resolution satellite data. |
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 HAU to sign MoU on bio-fertiliser plant HISAR, Dec 6 —CCS Haryana Agricultural University is in the process of signing a memorandum of understanding with a private company for setting up a plant for the manufacture of bio-fertilisers. The plant is proposed to be set up at Sonepat with an installed capacity of 200 tonnes per annum. |
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26.9 lakh kids given polio vaccine CHANDIGARH, Dec 6 — According to preliminary reports received here, 26.90 lakh children under the age of five years were administered oral polio vaccine against the target of 26.88 lakh, in the first round of the fourth national pulse polio immunisation campaign in Haryana today. Elaborate arrangements were made by the state to administer the polio drops through 9191 static pulse polio immunisation posts and 524 mobile posts. Of the static posts, 7453 were located in the rural areas and 1738 in the urban areas. Special pulse polio immunisation posts were set up at strategic points like bus stands, railway stations, urban slums and labour colonies in industrial towns to provide coverage to transit population and migrant labour. The programme was inaugurated by Mr Mahabir Prasad, Haryana Governor, at Gurgaon while the Health Minister, Mr O.P. Mahajan inaugurated the programme in Rewari and Narnaul. Likewise ministers, legislators and senior officers of the state and district inaugurated the campaigns in their respective areas. The Haryana Food and Supplies Minister, Prof Ganeshi Lal, inaugurated the first round of pulse polio drive at a booth installed by the district administration in collaboration with the Health Department and the Rotary Club at the Government Senior Secondary School in Sirsa today. In risk areas with confirmed polio cases, urban slums and areas with high population, the campaign was intensified through house to house visits by pulse polio immunisation post team members in the afternoon to verify coverage of 100 per cent target children. In the Mewat region of Gurgaon and Faridabad districts, the cooperation of local community leaders was elicited to ensure coverage of minorities whose coverage was found to be low in the previous pulse polio immunisation campaign. The third battalion of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) organised a camp at Haryana Civil Secretariat for administering the pulse polio drops. Mr J.S. Ankoti, Commandant of the battalion, inaugurated the camp. From Tribune Reporters BHIWANI: The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, launched the pulse polio immunisation campaign by administering polio drops to children at Ravidas Community Centre and Government High School, Hanuman Dhani here on Sunday. He said that for successful implementation of the National Immunisation Programme, the state government had established a total of 8918 immunisation sites, out of which 7193 were in rural areas and 1725 in urban areas. The immunisation sites had been established in all villages with population of more than 1,000 and in urban areas having a population of 3,000. Besides these about 520 mobile teams had also been constituted for administering polio drops in the areas like dhanis, brick kiln, construction sites and other high risk areas. The Chief Minister said that this year special emphasis would be on the areas with low routine coverage, urban slums, areas having confirmed polio cases and the areas having large influx of migrant population. For covering all children in these areas mobile teams had been pressed into service and supervision of these areas had also been strengthened. The members of the static posts and the supervisors would go from house to house in the afternoon to find out whether the polio drops had been given to all the children below five years. He urged the people to ensure administering of 'oral' polio vaccine to their wards on January 17, 1999 also in the second phase of the programme irrespective of whether they were given the drops earlier or not. He said the immunisation sites had been worked out in such a way that they would cater to 250 to 350 children per post. About 27 lakh targeted children would be administered polio drops through these posts with the help of more than 35 thousand employees and social workers. The Haryana Legislative Assembly Speaker, Prof. Chhatar Singh Chauhan, administered polio drops to the children at Bambla village about 15 kms from here. He exhorted the people to extend their full cooperation to the campaign. Mr Ram Bhajan Aggarwal, Minister of State for Tourism and Home also accompanied the Chief Minister and the Director General Health Services, Haryana, Dr P L Jindal, was also present on this occasion. SONEPAT: The Deputy Commissioner, Mr P K Mahapatra, on Sunday administered doses of the oral polio vaccine to children and launched the first phase of national pulse polio immunisation campaign here. Reports from the district indicated that there was a tremendous response to the immunisation programme. People lined up before the medical centres and make-shift units since morning to get their children immunised. People thronged the 492 centres spread all over the district, including 395 in the rural areas, and long queues could be seen in front of these much before the scheduled time of 9 a.m. As many as 1,65,881 children below the age of 5 years, identified during the survey conducted by the Health Department, will be immunised today and on January 17 next in the district. FATEHABAD: The Haryana Home Minister, Mr Mani Ram Godara, inaugurated the pulse polio drive here by administering polio drops to a child at a polio booth at the local Bhuna road. Mr Godara visited some of the polio booths set up in the town and inspected the arrangements made by the administration. Elsewhere in the district the Haryana Minister for Industry, Mr Vinod Mariya, inaugurated the drive at Tohana and Mr Ram Swaroop Rama, Haryana Minister for Sports at Rattia. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr V. Raja Shekhar, said the administration had made elaborate arrangements to administer polio drops to 1 lakh 5 thousand children in the district. JIND: Nearly 1.66 lakh children were administered polio drops in the district. According to the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Tarun Bajaj, the district administration and the Health Department had constituted 573 teams for giving polio drops in the district. He said special arrangements had been made at bus stands, railway stations and in slum areas for administering polio drops to children. 44 mobile teams were also pressed into service, he added. ROHTAK, A large number of children aged between 0-5 years were administered anti-polio drops by the employees of the Health Department and the volunteers at different booths created specially for the purpose in the Jhajjar and Rohtak districts, on Sunday. According to reports the response to the campaign was overwhelming as parents and guardians of small children were seen waiting for their turn at several posts. While the target was about 1,11235 children in Rohtak district, it was about 1,19993 in the neighbouring Jhajjar district. About 411 and 400 posts had been set up in these districts respectively. KAITHAL: The Haryana Finance Minister, Mr Charan Dass Shorewala, inaugurated the pulse polio programme by administering drops to a child at a centre in the city on Sunday. As many as 335 immunisation centres including 295 in the rural and 40 in the urban areas, were set up to administer drops to about 1,30,000 children. At another centre the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jaiwanti Sheokand, also administered the drops. PANIPAT: The district administration set up 406 medical posts in the district for administering anti-polio drops to the children on Sunday as part of the Pulse Polio Campaign, according to Mr Anurag Rastogi, Deputy Commissioner, Panipat. AMBALA: The pulse polio programme was launched in the cantonment by Mr Anil Vij, MLA and in the city by the Deputy Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Faquir Chand Aggarwal. The Deputy Commissioner, Mrs Navraj Sandhu, said 465 booths had been set up for 1,14,719 children and 25 mobile centres had been put in operation for railway stations bus stands and children of migrant labourers.
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HAU to sign MoU on
bio-fertiliser plant HISAR, Dec 6 —CCS Haryana Agricultural University is in the process of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a private company for setting up a plant for the manufacture of bio-fertilisers. The plant is proposed to be set up at Sonepat with an installed capacity of 200 tonnes per annum. The private company has already set up a similar plant in Madhya Pradesh in collaboration with the M.P. State Agro-Industries Corporation. The company, called Agroth, plans to get assistance from the MP corporation, which has reportedly gained experience and technical knowhow for the research and development, production, distribution and marketing of bio-fertilisers. The negotiations with Agroth for setting up the plant are at an advanced stage and the MoU is likely to be signed in the coming few weeks. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof J.B. Chowdhury, feels that the indiscriminate use of chemical fertilisers has reduced land fertility and polluted the ground water. He says scientists of his university had been engaged in research on developing bio-fertilisers since 1970. Though these scientists claim to have succeeded in developing bio-fertilisers, these are yet to be tested in farmers' fields. Dr K. Lakshminaryana, Head of the Microbiology Department, feels that it is high time that the use of bio-fertilisers is encouraged as the cost of chemical fertilisers has increased manifold. In developing countries like India, this has become a burden on the economy. Scientists of the Microbiology Department here believe that green revolution technologies are no more as productive as they were during the early phases, but they are also apprehensive about the indiscriminate advocacy of organic farming. Will organic farming help in attaining the goal of 300 million tonnes of food production so as to feed every mouth in the country by 2007? This question is being hotly debated. Dr Kuldip Singh Dhinda, a former Dean, Microbiology Department says there is need for a combined system of farming. A harmonious combination of chemical fertilisers and bio-fertilisers will achieve the mandated goal of doubling the foodgrain production in the next 10 years. Organic manure enhances the efficiency of inorganic fertilisers, helps in better soil moisture retention and promotes the growth of microbes in the soil, he says. Addressing a brainstorming session on "Organic farming in India" held in Delhi on September 7 and 8, the Minister of State for Agriculture, Mr Som Pal, had said that after the green revolution period, growth started showing a declining trend since 1990. He was of the view that organic farming held a promise of reversing this trend. Dr Dhindsa pleads that as chemical fertilisers are being subsidised by the government to make them cost effective, the government should also provide incentives to farmers to go in for organic farming. Dr Lakshminaryana says the performance of bio-fertilisers depends upon the optimum use of management practices. This will increase the yield between 2 to 4 quintals per hectare along with saving of fertiliser. The farmer will gain between Rs 500 and Rs 1,500 per hectare in the case of wheat, mustard, bajra etc, he claims.
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Base mapping of major towns
begins CHANDIGARH, Dec 6 — The Haryana State Remote Sensing Application Centre (HARSAC), Hisar, has undertaken base mapping in major state towns using high resolution satellite data. Mr Bhim Sain Mehta, Minister of State for Science and Technology, said here today that Harsac was undertaking this project at the behest of the Haryana Urban Development Authority. Such type of study will be of great use of the decision makers as high resolution data will provide the thematic details of settlements and transports network. Briefing newsmen about the plans undertaken by Harsac, the minister said the centre was getting prepared to handle microwave satellite data. The centre was also gearing up for handling of high resolution data derived from Cartosat and Resoursat satellite missions. The Cartosat satellites had the capability of having 5.8 mt resolution, stereo viewing capability and five-day revisit. The Resorsat would mainly cater to the applications for agriculture such a monitoring of water resources and land use change detection. Attempts were also being made to collaborate with international agencies for the improvement in technology which would help the centre in providing improved services to various users in the state.
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Stay on panchayat land transfer
flouted CHANDIGARH, Dec 6 — Many eyebrows are raised over the manner in which officials of the Revenue Department violated the stay orders of the Commissioner, Gurgaon Division, against the alienation of panchayat land in Haiderpur Viran and Wazirabad villages by so-called co-sharers. What is intriguing is that the Commissioner had handed down the stay orders on March 26, 1998. The tehsil officials, who are subordinate to the Commissioner and are stationed in the same city, claimed to have received the orders only on April 6. It means that the stay orders took 11 days to travel from one building to another building in Gurgaon! During the 16-day interregnum, as many as 265 registration deeds were registered. So blatant was the violation of the Commissioner's orders that even after the stay orders were "officially" taken note of in the tehsil on April 6, the tehsil officials registered 91 sale deeds on April 7, alienating land by co-sharers. Documents in the possession of The Tribune reveal that the bulk of the purchase was done by four concerns with the same postal address — Himalaya House, Kailash Part-I, New Delhi. Knowledgeable sources reveal that it is practically impossible to enter into 265 transactions involving the sale and purchase of land in as short a time as 13 days, more so when a huge sum is involved, unless the buyers had already entered into agreements with the so-called co-sharers. In such a situation the very locus standi of the co-sharers before the Collector would not be maintainable, since the case would then be classified as proxy litigation. The sources alleged that builders from Delhi had entered into a conspiracy to divest the Wazirabad panchayat of its legitimate land worth Rs 100 crore located near fashionable colonies. Seeking anonymity, some of the villagers demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter to bring the guilty to book. The sources point out that the Commissioner had not initiated any contempt proceedings against the guilty revenue staff as also the co-sharers. Some Harijans of the village have got themselves impleaded in the proceedings by filing a revision petition before the Commissioner. These people are alleging that the land purchasers are making attempts to further alienate the land to complicate the issue and to crate the right of several others in the process. It may be recalled that the way the former Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon, Mr Devinder Singh, had passed contradictory orders in the case of two plots of panchayat land, had kicked up a state-level controversy. When the Haiderpur Viran and Wazirabad panchayat was divested of its land, Panchayat Minister Kanwal Singh, the Secretary for Development and Panchayats and the Director of Panchayats had rushed to Gurgaon. It was on their intervention that the Commissioner had stayed the "operation of the Deputy Commissioner's orders". The stay orders of the Commissioner, however, helped little the Haiderpur Viran and Wazirabad panchayat in retaining this land. What is interesting is that the "co-sharers" who are not legitimately vested with the land are selling this disputed land to other buyers. What kind of title would they pass on prospective buyers is anybody's guess?
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Udham Singh Nagar Barnala
rules out change in stand FARIDABAD, Dec 6 — Mr Surjit Singh Barnala, Union Food Minister, today expressed the hope that all allies of the BJP, including the Akali Dal, would be given due representation in the next expansion of the Union Cabinet. Mr Barnala was on a short visit to Faridabad to attend a function at a local gurdwara. He was also felicitated by the local Akali Dal. He did not say which leader from the Akali Dal would be given a Cabinet berth. Talking with TNS at the Circuit House Mr Barnala said an amicable solution to the vexed Udham Singh Nagar would be found by the three-member panel headed by Mr George Fernandes. He ruled out any change in the Akali stand on Udham Singh Nagar. He denied that the Akali base in Punjab had eroded as was evident from the party’s defeat in the Adampur byelection. However, he said the Akali nominee was weak and fielding of the Akali Dal (Mann) candidate further influenced the result. He claimed that the prices of all essential commodities had started coming down. Onions, which were selling at Rs 50 per kg, were now available at Rs 22 per kg in retail in Delhi. He hoped that this year the onion production would touch the 44 lakh tonne target. Mr Barnala said the shortage of DAP had already ended. More than 55,000 tonnes of DAP imported from Jordan was expected to reach Mumbai by December 15. Mr Barnala appealed to Mr Barjinder Singh Hamdard, MP, to withdraw his resignation from the presidentship of the Anandpur Sahib foundation. He was the victim of misunderstanding.
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CM threatens to suspend civic
body BHIWANI, Dec 6 — The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, has expressed his displeasure over insanitary conditions in the town. During a visit here today, he warned that if things did not improve till his next visit, he would suspend the Municipal Committee. Mr Bansi Lal had primarily come to inaugurate the pulse-polio programme, but in view of the large number of complaints received by him regarding the insanitary conditions, he decided to visit interior localities. The Chief Minister was unhappy at encroachments along roads and ordered their removal. He also directed the administration to acquire roadside plots which did not have boundary walls since garbage accumulated there. In view of congestion on roads due to heavy traffic, he said trucks should not be allowed to enter the interior of the town during the day. He also ordered the shifting of shops dealing in timber, stone and steel to the market area fixed for these by March 31. Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating the pulse-polio programme, he assured the gathering that problems regarding water, electricity and roads would be solved shortly. Four-laning of the road from the Rohtak gate to the New Bus Stand would be completed soon, he added.
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Corporation Act may be amended FARIDABAD, Dec 6 — The Haryana Municipal Corporation Act is likely to be amended in view of popular resentment against the increasing house tax. An indication to this effect was given today by Mr Krishna Pal Gujar, Transport Minister, who represents city's Mewla Maharajpur constituency in the assembly. Talking to TNS here today, he said a delegation of MLAs belonging to Faridabad would soon call upon Mr Bansi Lal, Chief Minister, in Chandigarh to press the demand for amendment in the Act. The Act was passed during the chief ministership of Mr Bhajan Lal. Mr Gujar described it as "anti-people". Meanwhile, Subedar Suman, Mayor of the corporation, has called an emergency meeting of the general house tomorrow to discuss the issue. It is likely to pass a resolution asking the government to amend the taxation policy.
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Farmers: put off loan recovery SIRSA, Dec 6 — Farmers of Sirsa district have demanded that the recovery of all kinds of loans given to them be postponed. The farmers said they were not in a position to deposit even a single loan instalment as they had been adversely affected by natural calamities for the past three years. They threatened to launch an agitation if the loan recovery was not put off. They also demanded
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Teachers to stage dharnas ROHTAK, Dec 6 — Several organisations of teachers have demanded immediate steps to check atrocities on the teaching community in Haryana and the payment of salaries to teachers for the strike period. The demand was raised in telegrams sent to the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, by various organisations. The decision to send the telegrams was taken at a meeting of the national executive committee of the All-India Federation of Universities and Colleges Teachers' Organisations at Calcutta last month. Disclosing this here yesterday, Mr Vazir Singh Nehra, convener of the Haryana unit of the federation, said that about 300 telegrams had been set to the Chief Minister supporting their demands. He further told that a national-level dharna would be staged in front of the office of the Human Resources Ministry in Delhi on December 14 and in Chandigarh on December 15 in support of their demands. He told that about 5,000 teachers from Haryana would participate in the dharnas. He also criticised the functioning of the MDU Vice-Chancellor and warned him not to adopt anti-teacher policies.
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BKU rejects hike in support
price SONEPAT, Dec 6 — The Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) today rejected the increase of Rs 95 per quintal in the support price of wheat announced by the Centre and urged it to fix Rs 950 per quintal as the support price. In a press note here, it described the increase as unjust in the wake of increase in the prices of inputs and fertilisers and said that it was a cruel joke played on farmers. If the Centre could import wheat at the rate of Rs 850 per quintal why it was declined to fix the higher support price of wheat and give the benefit to the farmers. It also demanded immediate increase in the support price of sugarcane and the payment of the paddy produce marketed by paddy growers. The union also threatened
to launch a statewide agitation if the government to
accept the just and legitimate demands of the farmers. It
regretted that the state government had failed to grant
compensation to the rain-hit farmers.
Ved sammelan from Dec 9 FARIDABAD, Dec 6 — More than 1,000 delegates from all over the country and abroad will participate in a five-day Vishva Ved Sammelan being held in Raja Garden, Delhi, from December 9. A spokesman for the organising committee of the sammelan said here today that Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Human Resource Development Minister, would inaugurate the sammelan.
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VHP celebrates "shaurya
divas" ROHTAK, Dec 6-- Several activists of the district unit of the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad held a function at the Bhiwani bus stand here last night to commemorate the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya. Video-films were shown on the demolition of the disputed structure for half an hour and the role of members of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal in pulling down the structure lauded. Amidst slogans..., ‘halwa’ was distributed among the people as "prasad". PANIPAT: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal jointly organised a function to commemorate the demolition of the masjid as "shaurya divas" in Ujha village . Mr Ram Sarup Bhatia, district general secretary of the VHP, presided. Sports and "langar" marked the occasion. Members of the Sant Samaj also participated.
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BJYM protest on Jan 23 PANIPAT, Dec 6 — The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Haryana, will organise a state-level rally at Jind on January 23 against increasing unemployment in the state. Addressing a press conference here today, Mr Dev Kumar Sharma, state president, BJYM, demanded that a rural youth development board be set up to help find jobs for rural youth. He expressed concern at the deterioration in law and order and privatisation of education. He expressed unhappiness at the grant of "special status" to the minorities. He also demanded holding
of regular elections to students unions and a complete
ban on cow slaughter in Haryana.
Man murdered SONEPAT, Dec 6 — Roop Chand (80) was murdered allegedly by three persons at Kailana village about 20 km from here yesterday. According to a report the police had registered a case of murder against Deep Chand, the brother of the deceased, his nephew, Sukhbir and another person Basti Ram. A hunt was on to apprehend the suspects. A land dispute was stated to be the cause of the murder. According to another report, the police recovered the body of a man from the bushes on the outskirts of Raipur village and sent it for a post- mortem. The body bore several knife injuries.
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