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Saturday,
September 21, 2002,
Chandigarh, India  
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Purchase
of drugs: Civil Surgeon booked Haryana to
regularise 402 more colonies Western
implants ‘not suitable’ for Indian bones NH toll
levied sans facilities Pak CJ
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Purchase of drugs: Civil Surgeon booked Hisar, September 20 A case has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 120-B, 409, 420, 467, 468 and 471, IPC, against Dr Goyal, Dr Surender Singh, District Family Planning Officer, Dr
S. P. Memani and Chabil Dass, Bhimsen, Ratan Lal, Gauri Shankar, Subhash Bagga, all officials of the Health Department and Norang, Mahesh Jain and Deepak Medicos, all chemists. According to a complaint, the health officials had purchased drugs worth Rs 80 lakh from the chemists who were not authorised to supply the drugs to government agencies. The health authorities had received huge funds for the purchase of drugs under the rural health scheme, District General Hospital scheme and family planning scheme. The chemists had submitted their quotations which were above market prices. They had also supplied substandard drugs. It was also alleged that the health officials had shifted Class IV employees on posts of storekeeper for making illegal commission from the purchase of drugs. With their help the officials had allegedly shown receipts of some drugs in the store record which were not actually supplied. The police has sealed the record of the local Civil Hospital and started investigation. No arrest has been made so far. Mr Balram Singh, Inspector said he had received secret information from some persons regarding the irregularities. |
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Haryana
to regularise 402 more colonies Chandigarh, September 20 Mr Subhash Goyal, Minister of State for Urban Development, said these colonies were in Tarori, Nilokheri, Kalayat, Rohtak, Ambala City, Tohana, Gannaur, Bawani Khera, Jind, Gohana, Pehowa, Bhiwani, Sohna, Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka, Kaithal, Rania, Kalanaur, Kharkhoda, Sonepat and Taoru. Mr Goyal said that these colonies were being regularised to provide basic amenities to the residents. The Executive Officers and Secretaries of Municipal Councils and Municipal Committees had been asked to refrain from approving building plans in these colonies if the plans had vacant patches of land falling on outer boundaries of the colony. He also clarified that no development charges would be recovered from those house owners who had already paid development charges to the municipal council or committee at the time of approval of the building plans. Mr Goyal said the state government had also approved a policy of self-assessment or voluntary assessment for the recovery of development charges of the colony. According to the policy, individual house owners would deposit the development charges on the basis of the size of the plot (Rs 120 per sq yard in municipal council areas and Rs 80 per sq yard in municipal committee areas). A 20 per cent rebate on development charges would be allowed in case the plot holders deposited the development charges within two months from the date of issue of demand notices. In case a houseowner failed to deposit the development charges within two months from the date of issue of a demand notice, the charges would be recovered along with water bills by charging 10 per cent of development charges along with 10 per cent interest with each billing cycle. In case of continuous default for two billing cycles, the water connection would be disconnected. |
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Western
implants ‘not suitable’ for Indian bones Chandigarh, September 20 Dr Siwach has reached this conclusion after studying 300 cadavaric bones of both men and women over the past three years. He says the mismatch between the Indian bones and western implants is the cause of higher incidence of failure of bone operations in India as compared to the western countries. Dr Siwach, who has received this year’s prestigious international SICOT fellowship award for his outstanding contribution in research, says the orthopaedic implants currently available are designed according to bone mass, angles, thickness and other anthropometrics parameters of western people. The Indian implants are virtually xerox copies of the western implants. By virtue of his selection for this award, Dr Siwach attended XXII World Congress of Orthopaedics held at San Diego recently. This award is given by the World Orthopaedic Concern, an international society for orthopaedic education and care in the developing countries after every three years to about 15 orthopaedic surgeons around the world. Dr Siwach was placed at the second position in this year’s merit list. Since the anthropometric parameters of east and west do not match, Dr Siwach says, the western implants are not suitable for Indian bones. “Moreover, our life style and habits are different from those of the western people”. Dr Siwach has also been selected by the Indian Orthpaedic Association for the Silver Jubilee Oration award this year for his research work — “Anthropometric study of Proximal Femoral Glomatary and its Clinical Application”. The award committee was unanimous that Dr Siwach’s research was the best work of the year in its field. The award was instituted in Mumbai in 1980 on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the association. It was decided that it would be given every year to one eminent orthopaedic surgeon whose research would be adjudged the best. In this region, Dr Siwach is the second orthopaedic surgeon to get this award so far after Dr R.L. Mittal of Patiala was honoured in 1988. |
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NH toll levied sans facilities Karnal, September 20 But all this has so far remained a promise only. Potholes are visible on long stretches of the road and driving on the National Highway has become hazardous and risky. The road near Pipli has 2-inch deep potholes. Wrong overtaking from the left side is a common feature. In over 70 per cent cases, safety belts are not used. About the availability of mobile traffic vans moving on the national highway, the less said the better. Vans are parked near the toll barriers, but hardly seen moving to check the erring drivers. Not a single driver has been challaned for wrong overtaking or rash driving. The high rate of toll has become a cause of many scuffles, exchange of hot words and even breaking of windowpanes on the three barriers. Commuters travelling for short distances are the worst sufferers. For instance, a large number of businessmen who travel between Karnal and
Taraori, Nilokheri and Pipli daily, a distance between 15 km to 30 km only, have to pay Rs 70 per day per vehicle. The process of getting monthly passes is too cumbersome. The business community has approached Mr I.D. Swami, Union State Minister for Home Affairs, to lessen the tax burden. Another interesting feature is the difference of rates being charged at the Karnal Lake and Shambu barriers. The tax rate per car at Karnal Lake is Rs 50 and at Shambu it is Rs 30. A car owner travelling from Karnal to Taraori (15 km distance) has to shell out Rs 50 while another travelling from Ambala City to Rajpura (15 km distance) has only to pay Rs 30. |
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Pak CJ lays stress on oneness Panipat, September 20 Talking to reporters here last evening after offering prayers at the famous dargah of Kalandar Shah, he said the two countries had not separated emotionally and were still “one body and two lives”. The two countries had common problems like poverty and unemployment, he added. “You will not find such a culture in any part of the world”, he said, lauding India’s cultural unity in diversity. “Before Partition, my grandfather was in Kashmir regiment. This is my first visit to India after Partition, but I have heard a lot of praise about Shimla, Ajmer, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Darjeeling and Mussoorie,” he said. He is visiting India to participate in SAARC Chief Justices conference beginning today at Jaipur.
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Work progress tardy, says Inspecting Secy Yamunanagar, September 20 Public Works Department (Roads) officials informed her that under the Haryana Highway Upgradation Scheme, the Jagadhri-Chhachhrauli-Paonta Sahib road had been constructed by spending Rs 625 lakh and the Jagadhri-Sarwan road was being constructed at a cost of Rs 362 lakh. Mrs Gulati directed the Executive Engineer of the National Highway Authority to get the berms of the Yamunanagar over-bridge repaired immediately and also emphasised the need for repairing the existing roads on a priority basis. |
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Haryana
official held for corruption Kaithal, September 20 According to information available, Babu Ram, a contractor of the board, complained to the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anurag Aggarwal, that the SDE, Mr Subhash Chand was demanding money for getting his payment released against the construction work had completed. Following this, on the basis of the complaint, the DC had constituted a team headed by the city Magistrate Mr Sanjeev Verma. The team laid a trap and caught the officer when he was accepting a bribe of Rs 1,500 from the contractor in his office, this morning. |
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Offices
to remain open on weekends Bhiwani, September 20 Disclosing this here, Board Secretary M.S. Mor told mediapersons today that a decision to this effect would soon be taken. He said according to the new move employees of Sirsa, Gurgaon, Kurukshetra, Panchkula Coordination centres and the camp office of the Board Secretary at Gohana (Sonepat) will report for duty on Saturday and Sundays so that work is not hampered.
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DC visits Chehli Tomb Kurukshetra, September 20 Mr Likhi also directed them to get the construction work completed by November 15, 2002. He also inspected Dara Shikoh Library on the campus of the tomb. He also asked the officials to get the construction work of the Saraswati Memorial in the premises of the Kaleshwar Mandir near the Sheikh Chehli Tomb completed. |
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D. Bhardwaj is DHS Chandigarh, September 20 Dr N.K. Dhawan, DTO, Kaithal, has been promoted as Civil Surgeon, Kaithal, while Dr G.L. Singla, SMO, Hathin, has been promoted as PMO, Hisar. Dr T.K. Gocha, Deputy Director, office of the Director-General, Health Services, has been promoted in the senior scale. |
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N. K. Jain suspended Chandigarh, September 20 The Centre had earlier asked the Haryana Government to suspend the controversial 1978-batch IAS officer, accused of accepting bribes from employees to dole out undue favours during his tenure as Home Secretary of Chandigarh. |
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