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October 14, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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‘Punjab defying SC order on SYL’ HSAMB spends 415 cr on rural roads Assurance to rice millers Haryana fodder for Rajasthan |
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Tau’s statue unveiled GJU students go on strike Meritorious students get prizes Jawan cremated with honours Six held on cheating charge
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‘Punjab defying SC order on SYL’ Ambala, October 13 Talking to mediapersons here today, Mr Sampat Singh said the Punjab Government had not implemented the court order so far. He said if the construction work on the SYL did not start by January 15 next year, the state government would take up the matter with the Union Government. The Supreme Court had observed that if the Punjab Government could hand over the SYL construction to some Central agency, he added. He criticised the statement of the Haryana Congress chief, Mr Bhajan Lal, that the farmers were not getting the MSP in the state. He said Mr Bhajan Lal should visit various grain markets before issuing any statement over it. At some grain markets, like the Ambala market, the farmers had been getting more than the MSP as private dealers had been purchasing the farmers produce between Rs 600 and 610. Mr Sampat Singh said the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala had himself been touring the grain markets in the state so that he could know about the problems of the farmers personally. Replying to a question, he said all cooperative sugar mills in the state had cleared the arrears of the farmers. Private mills, which had not yet cleared all arrears, would be persuaded in this regard, he added. Replying to another question, he said the government had decided to enhance its revenue through non-conventional resources like on line lottery and casino. |
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HSAMB spends 415 cr on rural roads Chandigarh, October 13 An official spokesman of the board said here today that about 3650 km rural roads were constructed during the past about three years against 2855 km roads during the eight years preceding July, 1999. The board spent Rs 268.79 crore on the construction of new rural roads and about Rs 147 crore on the repair of rural roads in the past three years. The board created an additional storage capacity of 39,750 metric tonnes of foodgrains during this period. Additional concrete common platforms in 14 new grain markets falling in the paddy belt and 50 covered sheds in various grain markets were also constructed. |
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Assurance to rice millers Chandigarh, October 13 The FCI had made adequate arrangements for accepting custom milled rice (CMR) and levy rice. The FCI had set up 45 centres to accept CMR and levy rice. About 5,000 metric tonnes of rice had been accepted by the FCI till yesterday. Farmers were being paid Rs 20 per quintal as drought relief along with the minimum support price of Rs 560 and Rs 530 per quintal for grade “A” and common variety of paddy, respectively. The millers purchasing leviable paddy were also paying Rs 20 per quintal to the farmers as drought relief, which was payable on the paddy purchased between October 1 and December 31. The state procurement agencies had purchased 84 per cent of the total leviable paddy which had arrived in the mandis till yesterday. The remaining quantity was purchased by the millers. |
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Haryana fodder for Rajasthan Yamunanagar, October 13 Mr Sher Singh Badshami, state president, Indian National Lok Dal, told newsmen here today that the trucks would be sent to Bikaner, Jhunjhunu, Churu, Sikkar, Alwar and Badmer districts in the last week of October. Addressing party workers here today, he said the paddy arrival was very encouraging in spite of the drought. He said that the fixed price of paddy, Rs 580 per quintal, was being given to the farmers. |
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Tau’s statue unveiled Bhiwani, October 13 He said the statue was the highest-ever put up in the state. After unveiling the statue of his father, the Chief Minister also inaugurated Swami Shri Sewanand Old Age and Handicapped Ashram built at a cost of Rs 25 lakh. |
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JAC to meet Chautala Chandigarh, October 13 |
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GJU students go on strike Hisar, October 13 The agitating students took out a procession on the campus and raised slogans against the administrator. Later, they staged a dharna in front of the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr R.K. Chauhan. The students alleged that the memorandum regarding their longstanding demands had already been given to the university administration but no steps had been taken to solve them. They threatened to continue their agitation till the demands were accepted. |
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Meritorious students get prizes Yamunanagar, October 13 Mr Kataria gave away prizes to meritorious students and felicitated Prof S.C. Dhingra and Ms Mohinder Kaur for completing 25 years of service. |
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Jawan cremated with honours Hisar, October 13 The jawan had attained martyrdom while fighting infiltrators along the Indo-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir on October 10. He belonged to a family dedicated to the Army. His father was also an ex-serviceman. The Deputy Commissioner, Ms Deepti Umashankar, paid homage and placed wreaths on the body of Shrawan Kumar on behalf of the state government. Wreaths were also placed on his body on behalf of the
regiment. UNI |
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Six held on cheating charge Yamunanagar, October 13 On October 11 officials of the Crime Branch raided the SDM’s office and arrested clerks Devi Dayal and Ravinder Kumar. The agents arrested were Om Parkash, Gulab Singh, Sat Pal Singh and Varinder. The police has seized some important documents, including driving licences and files pertaining to the registration of motor vehicles. |
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