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Sunday,
October 20, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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CM draws
flak over Jhajjar killings All roads
will be repaired: Chautala
Varsities
fail to enforce uniform exam fee format |
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Pilgrims
death: gloom descends on village Special
measures to check foeticide Judicial
remand for 43 more BKU men Canara Bank ‘may not implement’ VRS 7 die in
jeep-truck collision 10-yr
jail in dowry death case Dalit
raped in Haryana PCI chief for national policy
on communication Kadian
heads business panel Jind
college team wins quiz
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CM draws flak over Jhajjar killings Chandigarh, October 19 The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today branded Mr Chautala as “one hundred per cent anti-dalit” and demanded his resignation. The Congress said there was no security in the state for “either men or cows”, while the Vishva Hindu Parishad held the government responsible for failing to implement the law against cow slaughter in the state properly. Mr Narinder Kashyap, a member of the Legislative Council of UP, who is in charge of the BSP in Haryana, said that the party had sought an appointment with the Governor, Babu Parmanand, on Monday when they would demand the dismissal of the Chautala-led government for its failure to stop atrocities against Dalits. Stating that the Rs 1 lakh compensation given to the families of the victims by the state government was “a pittance”, Mr Kashyap claimed that Mr Chautala had come to Gurgaon on Thursday on some work, but he did not visit to the families of four victims who belonged to Gurgaon district. Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, leader of the Congress in the Haryana Assembly, said the incident was a pointer to the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. “The Congress will take up the issue in the Assembly session beginning on October 30”, Mr Hooda said. Mr Surendra Jain, secretary of the VHP who visited Jhajjar today, claimed that cow slaughter was rampant in the Mewat area and residents of Jhajjar had always nursed a grudge on this issue which exploded on the fateful day, leading to the death of five men. “Had the government been implementing the laws against cow slaughter in the state properly, Tuesday’s incident would not have taken place”, Mr Jain claimed. He added that action should be initiated against the government personnel who had failed to protect the five men from mob frenzy. While no arrest has been made in connection with the killing, demands for action against the police personnel manning the Dulina outpost, from whose custody the five men were brought out and lynched, is becoming more strident. At Gurgaon today, various organisations of Scheduled Castes, led by a former minister of Haryana and chief of the Janhit Sewa Sangathan, Dr Kripa Ram Punia, rejected the administrative probe ordered by the government into the killings and demanded probe by the CBI. Workers of the CPM and BSP also joined a demonstration by these organisations which presented a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. The demands listed in the memorandum included payment of Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the families of the victims and arrest of the SDM, City Magistrate and SHO of Jhajjar and all the police personnel of the Dulina checkpost. Gurgaon district seems to have emerged as the hotbed of protest as panchayats of 100 villages falling in Gurgaon subdivision have been convened at Badshapur tomorrow to chart out the strategy to press the government for a CBI probe. In a related development at Fatehabad, Mr Krishan Swaroop, general secretary of the Haryana Kisan Sabha, demanded a high-level probe into the incident. He also urged the government to arrest the culprits and the policemen. The Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, is visiting Jhajjar tomorrow for
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All roads will be repaired: Chautala Yamunanagar, October 19 This announcement was made by Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala while redressing the grievances of people of Sadhaura constituency, 35 km from here, during the third phase of the “Sarkar Aapke Dwar” programme today. Mr Chautala said the government was committed to provide the basic facilities to the people and it would also undertake the work of repair of all chaupals and phirnis all over the state. He said in its endeavour to provide sufficient potable water to the people the state government would provide 90 per cent grant to the villagers. On paddy procurement, he said the interests of the farmers were safe in the hands of present government. He said all paddy procurement procedures were going on in a smooth and systematic manner in all state mandis. He criticised the leaders of opposition parties for adopting a dual policy on corruption issue by praising Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on one hand and on other blaming him of being vindictive by launching a crusade against corruption. Mr Chautala assured that the consumers who had applied for tubewell connections would be provided these within this year. All schools fulfilling norms prescribed by the Education Department would be upgraded. The other announcements he made included replacing of rusted electricity poles by cemented ones, removal of loose electricity wires passing over schools and residential areas to avoid any untoward incident. He assured that all kinds of encroachments on government, panchayat or public lands would be removed. He announced the construction of the retaining walls of various village ponds and boundary walls of cremation grounds, repair of chaupals, phirnis, pavements of village streets and link roads. All announcements made for the development of Sadhaura constituency during the first phase of the “Sarkar Aapke Dwar” programme had been completed with an expenditure of over Rs 5.61 crore. Similarly, most of the announcement of second phase of the programme had also been completed. A sum of Rs 4.74 crore had been spent on these developmental activities during the second phase. Others present on the occasion included Mr Rishal Singh, Social Welfare Minister, Mr Pawan Diwan, Mr Balwant Singh, Dr M.C. Gambhir, all MLAs, Mr Akram Khan, Chairman, Dairy Development Board, Mr Vijayender Kumar and Mr Gautam, Deputy Commissioners of Yamunanagar and Ambala, respectively and Mr M.S. Ahlawat and Mr Manoj Yadav Superintendent of Police of Yamunanagar and Ambala, respectively. |
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Chautala apke dwar,
but late Panchkula, October 19 Scores of residents had to wait for more than four hours before the sarkaar (Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala) finally arrived and got down to hearing their grievances. By the time the programme began, a large number of people had already left the venue. Irate residents said entire purpose of the programme had been defeated with ‘janta’ once again at the mercy of the sarkaar. The district administration had yesterday announced the time of the programme at 1 p.m., at the Yavanika Open Air Theatre here. While the official circular about the programme showed the time at 2. 30 p.m., the officials, trying to pacify irate mediapersons, later said the Chief Minister would arrive at 3.30 p.m. after he had presided over another
Sarkar Aapke Dwar programme at Sadhaura in Ambala. A large number of residents from all over the Kalka constituency, especially from Morni and Raipur Rani, had begun gathering at the venue around 12 noon. By 4 p.m., with their patience waning, a number of persons from Kalka, rural reaches of Pinjore and Morni began leaving the venue to catch the last bus back home. By the time, Mr Chautala finally arrived, the number of officials and security personnel seemed to outnumber the public. Interestingly, a number of representatives of resident welfare associations here, who had been waiting in vain since 1 pm, too, left the venue after giving a copy of the memorandum to the press. “Once our demands appear in the press, it will automatically come to the notice of powers that be. So why wait endlessly? “ remarked a representative of an association. This is the third phase of the programme and till date more than 33,000 announcements and grants of over Rs 24.70 crore have been made during these programmes. Meanwhile, complaints pertaining to drinking water supply problems, changing of electricity transmission lines; stoppage of water in Singh nullah, improving street lighting, dilapidated condition of roads, creation of labour chowks, repair of chaupals, creating retaining walls, phirnis etc. were made to the Chief Minister, who gave necessary directions to officers
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Varsities
fail to enforce uniform exam fee
format Karnal, October 19 The decision to enforce a uniform examination fee structure was taken at a meeting of the
high-powered co-ordination committee for education which was presided over by the Haryana Governor Babu Parmanand who is also the Chancellor of the four universities in the state. The meeting was held on April 4, last year in which Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala, Finance Minister Sampat Singh, Education Minister Bahadur Singh, Agriculture Minister Jaswinder Singh Sandhu were present. The Commissioner for Finance, the Commissioner for Education along with Mr
R. S. Chaudhry, Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Major Gen B.S.
Suhag, Vice-Chancellor of Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Mr Vijay Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, and Dr
R. K. Chauhan, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar were also present. The Governor and the Chancellor had directed the vice-chancellors to bring uniformity in fee structure in all Universities and streamline the admissions, the examination system, the holidays and the postings in the varsities. This was to be done from July last year. Later, at a meeting of the Vice-Chancellors of Kurukshetra University, MDU, Rohtak and
GJU, Hisar with the Commissioner of Higher Education held on October 10, last year. It was decided to have a uniform structure of fees and funds in all affiliated colleges of Haryana. A meeting of the Vice-Chancellors of four universities which was held on November 29 in which the Registrars of the Universities were also present endorsed the enforcement. The committee decided to recommend to the state government uniform examination fee structure. The committee decided to charge fee for undergraduate courses including (Prabhakar, Giani, certificate and diploma courses) Rs 250 plus Rs 125 for science and practical subjects for regular students. For private and former students, the fee structure was to be Rs 350 plus Rs 125 for science and practical subjects. For postgraduate courses it was to be Rs 350 plus Rs 125 for science and practical subjects for regular students. While for private students, it was fixed at Rs 450 plus Rs 125 for science and practical subjects. Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak decided to enforce the recommendations of the fee structure committee for various courses from session 2002-2003. However, when Kurukshetra University decided to enforce the revised fee structure as per the directions of the high powered co-ordination committee on education and its subsequent ratification by the Vice-Chancellors, the students unions raised a banner of protest. Students unions including the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the All-India Students Federation, the Students Federation of India
(SFI) gave a call for the state-wide strike and agitation against the enhancement of fee structure. In Pehowa, protesting students were cane-changed. In Ambala
Cantonment, students indulged in vandalism and broke the windowpanes of Haryana Roadways buses near the S.D. College. Reports of police
skirmishes with students were received from Karnal and Yamunanagar. At the Kurukshetra University campus, students disrupted teaching classes for two-days. Similar was the case in some engineering colleges of the state. However, Kurukshetra University Vice-Chancellor
R. S. Chaudhry has constituted a committee to hear students’ grievances. Mr Chaudhry told The Tribune that he was very sympathetic towards the demands of the students but his hands were tied by the decision of the co-ordination committee. The three-day-old stir was withdrawn by students. |
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Pilgrims
death: gloom descends on village Fatehabad, October 19 According to reports received from Hasanga village, from where three persons of a family have died in the mishap, the group left for the pilgrimage on October 9 from the village. The pilgrims included men and women from villages of Hasanga, Plsar, Gurusar, Chankothi and Ramnagar and Rattia town of this district. The pilgrims hired a truck (HNT-1697) from Rattia and started their pilgrimage from Dhamtan Sahib Gurdwara in Jind district of Haryana. The pilgrims had earlier visited Amritsar, Muktsar, Jhar Sahib, Anandpur Sahib and
Tarn Taran Sahib. According to reports, two of the deceased, Banta Singh and Gurdial Singh are brothers-in-law. The third victim has been identified as Gurdial Singh of Chankothi village while the identity of the fourth victim is not yet established. The kin of the victims have already left for Indore and are likely to bring back the bodies of the victims and some of the injured by tomorrow. |
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Special
measures to check foeticide Kaithal, October 19 He was addressing a press conference at the local Civil Hospital after inaugurating the newly installed ultrasound machine. The District Red Cross Society and the local Anaj Mandi had provided Rs 4 lakh and Rs 1 lakh, respectively, for purchasing the machine. Mr Ranga said the PNDT Act, 1994, had been amended and a provision for six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 would be imposed on the doctor who discloses the sex of the baby. Mr Ranga further said the state’s health Budget had now been increased to Rs 407 crore. Under the new health policy of the state government special health check-up camps were being organised in rural areas of every district and the services of senior doctors of the PGI, Rohtak, and the PGI, Chandigarh, had been utilised. Sixteen mobile dispensaries had been pressed into service for the benefit of the people, Mr Ranga added. He disclosed that senior citizens visiting the state government-run hospitals were exempted from paying any registration and testing fee and added that the RUPAK scheme announced by Mr Chautala on the birth anniversary of Devi Lal would go a long way in checking the female foeticide. |
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Judicial
remand for 43 more BKU men Kurukshetra, October 19 The farmers, belonging to the Shahabad area, later were sent to the district jail here. The BKU activists had demonstrated against the alleged bungling in the election of the directors of the Shahabad Cooperative Sugar Mills when Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala visited Shahabad on October 15 to hear grievances of the people of the area under the
Sarkar Apke Dwar programme. A BKU leader burnt an effigy of the Chief Minister in full view of the police which resorted to indiscriminate lathi charge on the BKU workers and arrested 42 of them, including six women, under Sections 147, 148, 149, 188, 283, 332, 353, 341, 427, 435 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code . While six women activists were sent to Ambala jail, 36 activists were sent to Kurukshetra district jail and now 43 more persons have been jailed. The arrested persons raised antigovernment slogans while they were being brought to the court. Meanwhile, Haryana BKU president Hari Singh Khokhar and secretary Sewa Ram Arya announced that the “ Jail
Bharo” agitation would continue and five BKU activists would court arrest everyday till their demands were accepted. They also announced that a BKU mahapanchayat would be organised on November 1 to finalise future course of action.
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Canara
Bank ‘may not implement’ VRS Ambala, October 19 He said the number of its employees had already been reduced from 55000 to 48000 last year when the VRS was introduced for the first time. He along with several other senior union leaders visited the Panjokhra branch of the bank close to Ambala City. Talking to mediapersons, he said Canara Bank was affected by this scheme as 8000 employees of the bank had left the job to avail of this scheme. However, it did not affect the efficiency of the bank, he added. Replying to a question, he said private banks were coming up in the country with better infrastructure as compared to nationalised banks. They had also been providing attractive incentives and facilities to their employees. He said the management of nationalised banks expected better working from them but they were not provided even the basic facilities in the banks. He said the nationalised banks should have been given a free hand to take the financial decision. At present, the banks were bound to work according to guidelines of the Reserve Bank of India and government. Replying to a question, he said only 2 per cent finance of the bank was involved in NPA (non-performance account). Mr Kohli said he had been taking up the issue of the transfer policy with the management. Transfers should not be done for the sake of transfers and the employees should be taken into confidence before getting them transferred, he added. He said the management should bear the expenses of the education of the children of the bank employees. The regional secretary of the association Mr Atul Kapoor, and the assistant regional secretary, Mr Sudhir Sharma, and the branch manager, Mr Raman Anand, were also present. |
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7 die in jeep-truck collision Hisar (Haryana), October 19 The victims who were going to Delhi to attend a function belonged to Rania tehsil in Sirsa district of Haryana. The deceased have been identified as Subhash Jain (50), Chander Prakash (50) and his wife Sheela Devi (45), Kamlesh Devi (44), Manju Rani and Inderjeet (27) and the jeep’s driver Jangsher.
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10-yr jail in dowry death case Kurukshetra, October 19 According to the prosecution, Sanjiv Kumar, of Jalbedi village married Sweety of Sangri on March 2000. Sanjiv Kumar started torturing her for dowry. In August 2000, she was burnt to death by Sanjiv
Kumar. The court found Sanjiv Kumar guilty of the crime under Section 304B and 34 of the IPC and sentenced him to 10-years. Sanjiv was sent to jail after the orders of the court were delivered yesterday. UNI |
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Dalit raped in Haryana Narnaul, October 19 The six-year-old girl was abducted while she was sleeping with her grandmother at her house in Dongra village last night and raped, they said. She died before being taken to a hospital, the sources said, adding that “the cause of the death is not immediately clear.” Angry villagers blocked several roads and shouted slogans demanding immediate arrest of the culprits.
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PCI chief for
national policy on communication Kurukshetra, October 19 Justice Reddy who inaugurated a seminar on ‘Changing Facets of Media and Contemporary Society’ maintained that it was not easy to frame such a policy in a country of India’s size, population, diversity of religions and regional imbalances. He called upon the government to provide necessary infrastructure to implement the basic national communication policy in the shortest possible time. Mr R. S. Chaudhry, Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Mr Radhe Shyam Sharma, Director of the seminar, and Dr L.C. Gupta ‘Mangal’, Chairman, Department of Journalism of the university, also spoke on the occasion. |
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Kadian
heads business panel Chandigarh, October 19 Stating this here today, an official press note said Mr Om Prakash Chautala, Chief Minister, Mr Sampat Singh, Finance Minister, Mr Dhirpal Singh, Town and Country Planning Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, LCP leader, Mr K P Gujjar, leader of the BJP in the Assembly, and Mr Ram Bhagat, MLA, had been nominated members of the committee. Mr Gopi Chand Gahlot, Deputy Speaker, would be the special invitee. |
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Jind college team
wins quiz Kurukshetra, October 19 The team comprising Yogesh Singh, Anshul and Gaurav from Government P.C. College, Jind, stood first and the team comprising Sarad Joshi, Vimalesh Kumar and Munish Kaushik from Doon Valley Institute of Information Technology and Management, Karnal, came second. Prof
Y. K. Agarwal, Dean, Academic Affairs of the university, was the chief guest and he gave away the prizes to the winners. |
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