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Friday,
October 18, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Hooda
foresees mid-term poll Farmers
still made to pay Rs 4 a quintal DDR in
peacocks’ death case filed
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College
students’ stir continues Take
Haryana Sikhs ‘into confidence’ HIGH COURT 
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Hooda foresees mid-term poll Yamunanagar, October 17 In the next elections the Haryana Congress would sweep because the present government had lost faith in the people. When newsmen asked that who will be the next chief minister of the state, Mr Hooda said, that it is prerogative of the president of all Indian Congress Committee, Mrs Gandhi and the elected legislators. When asked about staying away from the five rallies of Mr Bhajan Lal, he said that these rallies were personal ‘samaroh’ of Mr Bhajan Lal. The removal of 10 district Congress presidents was unconstitutional. Only the Congress Working Committee was authorised to do it, he added. Mr Hooda who is on a whirlwind tour of grain mandis said the arrival was quite satisfactory. He said that the government has delayed fifteen days in the process as the procurement should have started on September 15. Later Mr Hooda visited mandis in the district. He was accompanied by Dr Ram Parkash, former minister, Mr Rajinder Hooda press secretary of the Pradesh Congress. |
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Farmers
still made to pay Rs 4 a quintal Fatehabad, October 17 According to sources, every year traders deduct Rs 4 per quintal from the money paid to the farmers against procured paddy. The money is then paid to the officials of the procurement agencies. But the ground realities have changed this year. Earlier, the agencies used to procure crop below the specified standards in greed of commission, but the onus of giving the specified yield of rice fell on the miller, who was allotted the job of that particular lot of paddy. This year the millers have refused to take any lot of paddy allotted to them. They are insisting to choose the paddy so that they are able to give proper yield. Now the discretion of rejection or selection of any lot of paddy is with the millers, who accompany the officials of the procurement agencies in the grain market. Little is left in the hands of procurement agencies when it comes to ignoring the specifications during procurement. Taking this into account, the Beopar Mandal of the local grain market had organised a meeting before the start of the procurement season and decided that since the role of procurement agencies had been reduced so the ‘commission’ to be paid to the officials be reduced by half. The mandal had circulated the decision among its members but still most of the farmers were being made to pay Rs 4 per quintal. Meanwhile, 3.98 lakh quintals of paddy has arrived at the local grain market so far. This is against 3.43 lakh quintals of paddy procured during the corresponding period last year. |
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DDR in peacocks’ death case filed Fatehabad, October 17 It may be recalled that six peacocks were found dead near Bighar village on October 10. Another peacock was found in an unconscious state. The post-mortem examination of the birds indicated that someone had killed them by offering them poisoned wheat grains. The birds were found dead in the Salemkhera Scape, an area under the forest authorities on the sides of the Fatehabad distributory canal near Bighar village. The Wildlife Inspector, Mr S.P. Beniwal, alleged that the police had said it would register the complaint only after he told the name of the person who killed the birds. He said the police simply refused to accept his complaint. Peacock, being the national bird and included in the list of notified scheduled birds, its killing is strictly prohibited and under Section 51, 1-A of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. The Deputy Commissioner, Dr R.B. Langyaan, today summoned Mr Beniwal to his office and asked him to inquire the matter expeditiously. |
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Fee hike: livid students stone buses Ambala, October 17 The Haryana Roadways buses were carrying passengers from Yamunanagar to Ambala when they had to bear the brunt of stone throwing by students. The trouble started around 11.45 am when a group of students from SD College, Ambala Cantt, streamed out of the college premises to lodge their protest over the “substantial increase in the exam fees by the university.” Soon thereafter, students reportedly stoned roadways bus travelling from Yamunanagar to Ambala. The panes of both buses were shattered. A passenger sustained minor injuries in the stone throwing. Even as the students, who had thrown stones, ran away, the bus drivers parked their damaged buses on the road and blocked the busy Jagadhari road. This led to a major traffic which lasted for about an hour. The jam was cleared after the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Mr M.K. Ahuja, and the DSP, Mr Raj Gopal, intervened and assured the Roadways staff that necessary action would be taken against the culprits. There was a murmur of unrest among students in the college over the issue in the morning. Sensing the mood of the students the college Principal, Dr Desh Bandhu, addressed the students and assured them that they would take up the matter with the university authorities. The students then dispersed. Later, Dr Bandhu again spoke to the students to allay their apprehensions. However, the students came out of the college and pelted the buses with stones after they were addressed by one of the youths who had come from Kurukshetra University. Incidentally, SD College was not the only college where students went on strike. Students of SA Jain College, Dev Samaj College and DAV College in Ambala City expressed their unhappiness over the issue. A protesting student said the university had increased the examination fees of the undergraduate courses at Rs 300, which earlier varied from Rs 165 to Rs 190. He pointed out that the maximum hike had taken place for the private students. |
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students’ stir continues Karnal, October 17 Students, led by district president of the ABVP Lovekesh Gandhi, presented a memorandum to the principals of the colleges to be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University. The Vice-Chancellor, Mr
R.S. Choudhary, told on the phone that the decision of the hike had been taken after “due consideration” by the High Powered Coordination Committee chaired by the Governor. “The
university has little role to play”, Mr Choudhary said. The hike in the tuition and examination fees had been effected to bring on a par the fee structure of Kurukshetra University with that of M D University, Rohtak.
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Take Haryana Sikhs ‘into confidence’ Kurukshetra, October 17 Mr Virk said Mr Badungar should have taken into confidence. Haryana Sikhs, who had been agitating for the past one year with regard to the management of the gurdwaras. Commenting on ‘the Sikh Gurdwaras Bill, 1999’, Mr Virk said the HSSF had gone through the entire Bill on the basis of which, the All-India Gurdwaras Act was likely to be enacted. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, October 17 Delivering the verdict, Mr Justice Goel observed: “The petition is dismissed for non-prosecution without prejudice to the rights of the petitioner to contest the matter in the trial court in accordance with law”. |
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