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Monday, February
11, 2002,
Chandigarh, India  
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Retrenched
staff lathi-charged Cloned
seeds a boon to farmers Plan afoot
to beautify Panipat Life term
for two in murder case |
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Farmers innovate to check neelgai menace DHBVN to
convert horticulture connections BJP
‘marred’ cordial relations Camp in
aid of handicapped, poor Job on
fake certificate: DC orders probe 
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Retrenched
staff lathi-charged Yamunanagar, February 10 The employees included those of the police, Confed, Small-Scale Industries and Export Corporation and JBT teachers. According to the President of the joint action committee of the employees, Mr Jai Narain Kaushik, the police resorted to a lathi charge on the agitating employees to disburse them. He said a large number of employees were rounded up and taken to police station. Later, hundreds of employees reached the station in the evening and demanded their release. Leaders of various political parties, including Dr Kamla Verma and Prof Ganeshi Lal, former BJP ministers; Mr Aman Kumar Nagra, former MP; Dr Krishna Pandit, Congress candidate; Mr Ghanshyam Dass, BJP nominee; Mr Randhir Singh, an Independent; and a number of HVP leaders also reached there and addressed the employees. They criticised the policies of the government. The police later released the arrested employees. A spokesman for the police said: “There was no lathi charge as such”. CHANDIGARH
(TNS): The Haryana Congress President, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has criticised the “brutal” lathi-charge. In a statement issued here today, Mr Hooda said the dismissed employees were holding a peaceful demonstration to highlight their grievances but the police lathi-charged them and arrested them. He, along with former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal; Mr O.P. Jindal, MLA; and Dr Pandit, said Mr Chautala had begged for votes at the time of the Assembly elections by promising that 70,000 vacancies in various government departments would be filled to provide employment. But now thousands of the employees had been dismissed or retrenched from service. |
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Cloned seeds a boon to farmers Kurukshetra, February 10 Briefing the visiting members about various ongoing research trials in the state, the Deputy Conservator of the Forest Research and Training division, Mr Vivek Saxena, said under the World Bank project, the Forest Research Institute, had assisted the Haryana Forest Department in initiating tree improvement programme on a large scale. Clonal seed orchards of different clones of eucalyptus and clonal multiplication areas were set up and provenance and progeny trials held for determining genotype and phenotype matching, in relation to agroclimatic conditions of Haryana. Clonal forestry has great potential in improving the productivity under farm forestry plantations, as productivity can be improved by 20 to 30 cubic metre per hectare per year compared to seed origin plantations, which have an average productivity range of 5 to 8 cubic metre per hectare per year. Eucalyptus and poplar are the two main species in the state which have revolutionised the entire economy of the northern areas of Haryana. Total state-level consumption of eucalyptus in 1999 was 968,000 tonnes, with a market value of Rs 1662,30 million at the current prices and that of poplar was 1,459,000 tonnes, with a market value of Rs 4229.10 million. To meet the demand and supply in future, there was a need to improve in productivity of eucalyptus and poplar by introducing location-specific suitable clones. Research trials, initiated in the past had started showing results as seedling production of eucalyptus clones had started in the state itself. A modern technology nursery has been set up with an annual production capacity of two lakh plants. The construction of another unit, with an annual capacity of two lakh plants, had also started. Mr Atul Sirsikar from the Haryana Community Forestry Project briefed the officials about the high-technology nursery. Mr Saxena said seed production from clonal seed orchards had also started. During 2001-2002, two lakh plants of different clonal seeds were raised by the Research and Training division and initial field results were promising. During next year, about three lakh such plants would be raised. |
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Plan afoot to beautify Panipat Panipat, February 10 Speaking to mediapersons at his monthly press conference here today, Deputy Commissioner, M.R. Anand said the meat shops which were located in every part of the town and the slaughter house near Qila Chawki would be shifted soon to the fish market in the industrial area. As many as 54 shops were being constructed in the market for this purpose. Saplings were being planted in the area between the GT Road and the service lanes on both sides lengthening up to 4 km, and pavements were being developed with the help of shopkeepers and business offices located on both sides of the service lanes, Mr Anand said. He said this would not only help in regulating the vehicular traffic on the service lanes but also provide proper parking for vehicles. Mr Anand said as a large number of educational institutions were also located alongside the service lanes, the administration had planned to submit a proposal to the National Highway authorities for the construction of at least four sub-ways under the GT Road. For the beautification and modernisation of the Hali Park, which is named after famous poet Hussain Ali Hali, the Indian Oil Corporation had agreed to spend about Rs 1.50 crore and the work would be completed in three phases, he said. Speaking about the long-standing demand of the district for a mini-secretariat here, the Deputy Commissioner said all formalities to take over 66 acres of military land adjacent to the PWD Rest House, opposite the Skylark Tourist Complex, had been completed and the construction was likely to start soon. He said 16 acres had been acquired for the construction of a new police lines near Siwah village. The GT Road was being lighted with flood lights and more than 90 per cent work had already been completed. Similarly all transport unions would also be shifted to the Transport Nagar, he added. |
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Life term for two in murder
case Kurukshetra, February 10 Stating this here yesterday, the
DSP, Mr Anil Dhawan, said Narender Singh, a resident of Nalvi village in his written statement to the Shahabad police, said when he was going to his brother Gurdyal Singh’s house on July 24, 2000, he heard people crying in the street “maar
diya.... maar diya.” He told the police that when he reached the house of Banwari Lal, he saw that both sons of Jog
Dhyan, namely, Amarjeet Singh and Kulwant Singh were beating Banwari Lal with iron rods and
gandasas”, he tried to rescue Banwari Lal but in vain. However, Amarjeet Singh and Kulwant Singh continued beating up Banwari Lal and dragged him to their residence where they left him
there. Narender Singh further told the police that he, with the help of villagers took the injured to Civil Hospital, at
Shahabad, where he died. Mr Dhawan said a criminal case under Section 302/34 of the IPC was registered on the basis of Narender Singh’s statement and after holding proper investigation, a challan against Amarjeet Singh and Kulwant Singh was submitted in the court on July 26, 2000, and the judge found the accused Amarjeet Singh and Kulwant Singh guilty of murdering Banwari Lal and sentenced them on Friday. |
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Farmers
innovate to check neelgai menace Dhandardu (Barwala), February 10 From using a fencing of rice straw along the fields to scarecrows with neon- coloured clothes so that they remain visible during the night, the villagers in this belt have found many innovative ideas for scaring away the neelgai that have been playing havoc with the crops. In some villages, the farmers have also decided on “thikri pheras” each night to ward off the animals. In some places, farmers have made machans from where they guard their crops through the night. A majority of the fields in these areas have machans to keep a lookout for the marauders. Farmers allege that the animals descend from the lower Shivalik Hills and other nearby forest areas during the crop season and attack their fields during the night. The creatures are frequenting for the past many years and often destroy their standing crop of maize, wheat, sugarcane, fodder like barseem as well as seasonal cash crops. A visit to several villages-Rihor, Khatauli, Khatuala, Ganikhera and Gazipur (both in Ambala district) - showed that vast stretches of agricultural land, where fodder and vegetables adorned the fields, are now without the crop. Farmers of the Barwala, and Raipur Rani blocks told Chandigarh Tribune that attacks by black bulls has become more frequent in the recent past. They inform that the animals come down from the lower reaches of Shivaliks in herds of 30 to 40 and eat away the standing crops. It is also learnt that farmers of more than 500 villages falling in the peripheral areas of Chandigarh, SAS Nagar besides the nearby villages of Kansal, Mullanpur Garibdas, Zirakpur, Dera Bassi, Lalru, Chhat Bir and Jagatpura. Villagers complain that the number of animals in a herd has increased manifold making it easy for them to damage a huge field within a matter of minutes. Says Dev Raj Saini, a farmer from village Gazipur, “Our months of efforts are gone waste year after year. Since the government has prohibited the killing of neelgai, the villagers have little choice left than to find ways to ensure that their fields remain protected.” Since majority of farmers in this belt are poor with small and marginal land holdings, they cannot afford the more sophisticated forms of fortifying their fields from them. Thus the villagers have found out simple, inexpensive and the more rustic ways of protecting their fields. In several land holdings in these areas, most farmers like Des Raj Sharma (in the picture) , have used rice straw to their advantage by crafting this into ropes and fencing their Fields. Says Jaspal Singh, a small farmer of Dhandardu, who has a two-kanal land holding here, “For the past three years, I have been sowing crops but have not been able to reap a single harvest. My crop, like those of other farmers in the village, has been eaten up by the neelgai time and again.” He says that though they have approached the forest officials time and again but no action has been taken yet.
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DHBVN to convert
horticulture connections Hisar, February 10 He said under the scheme the consumers who were provided horticulture and other low-tension industrial connections which were practically being used for agriculture purposes would be converted into agricultural connections provided they paid all outstanding principal amount of outstanding bills by February 28. The surcharge would be waived. The spokesmen said the farmers had obtained tubewell connections under small-power categories. These tubewells were actually being used for agriculture purposes. With the conversion of the connections, the farmers would be charged the agriculture tariff, as applicable. |
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BJP ‘marred’ cordial
relations Shahabad, February 10 Speaking to this correspondent on the phone she said the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala had been ignoring anti INLD statements and activities of the state BJP leaders for a long time for maintaining cordial relations with the BJP. However, it was the BJP which severed relations with our party, she said, adding that the state coalition was intact because Mr Chautala was a fan of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee. Mrs Saini criticised statement of Mr O.P. Kohli, in charge of the BJP affairs for Punjab and Haryana, on the SYL canal issue and demanded that the Haryana BJP should explain its stand on it. She claimed that the INLD candidate, Dr Malak Chand Ghambhir, would win the Yamunanagar by election. |
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Camp in
aid of handicapped, poor Shahabad, February 10 A medical team of the District Red Cross Society, under Dr Ashok Chadha, inspected the patients and selected 23 persons for providing artificial limbs, 13 for giving tricycles, 12 for hearing aid sets and eight for wheelchairs. Forms of 185 handicapped persons and their dependent children and widows were completed at the camp, according to the centre in charge, Mr Surindera Jain and president of the Bharat Vikas Parishad, Mr Ravindra Aggarwal. |
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Job on fake
certificate: DC orders probe Fatehabad, February 10 Veerinder Kumar, a resident of Balsamand village in Hisar district, was accused of grabbing a job in the Education Department on the basis of a fake handicapped certificate. In all 14 complaints were heard by the Deputy Commissioner, who redressed 11 of these by asking the officers concerned to take action on the spot. |
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One killed in accident Yamunanagar, February 10 |
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