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December 30, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Haryana gears up for power flow SYL: Congress to gherao PM’s house VCs for more funds to farm varsities 7 booked for murder of
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One held in gold looting case Crime rate ‘down in Fatehabad’
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Haryana gears up for power flow Yamunanagar It may be added that there are three power houses of 16 MW each which are operational on the Phase I hydel channel which are generating 48 MW of power every day. The power being generated from hydel is cheaper than that generated from thermal power stations. When contacted Mr Dalbir Singh, Superintending Engineer, Hathnikund Barrage Circle, Jagadhri, confirmed that the tail race of the above hydel channel was being linked with the old main line upper canal for taking supplies to the already constructed Phase I hydel channel. The work of linking the canal had been taken up by the Irrigation Department under the Hathnikund Barrage Circle, Jagadhri, as deposit work of the Haryana Power General Corporation Ltd. This work, costing about Rs 60 lakh, was already halfway through, as an amount of Rs 30 lakh had already been spent on it. Mr Dalbir Singh said the remaining 50 per cent work of the linking project had been taken up on an emergency footing by closing the supplies to the mainline upper for 15 days — from December 15 to 31. The supplies of this mainline upper portion had been diverted through the newly constructed channel from Hathnikund Barrage, which has already been tested and found fit. The release of supplies through the newly constructed channel enabled the regular running of the downstream irrigation system, which had been affected due to the closure of work. The linking work is going on round the clock and is expected to be completed by December 31. |
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SYL: Congress to gherao PM’s house Jhajjar, December 29 The HPCC President said the Supreme Court had asked the Punjab Government to complete the construction of the canal by January 15 and if Punjab showed reluctance, the Centre would be asked to take up the work. The deadline was only 17 days away and it was clear that Punjab would not abide by the court directive, Mr Bhajan Lal said and added that there was no option but to launch an agitation. He claimed that it was during his tenure as Chief Minister that a water-sharing agreement between Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Punjab was brokered by the Centre and a sizeable share of the water was given to Haryana. The HPCC chief also announced that all taxes imposed by the Chautala government would be withdrawn if he was elected Chief Minister. He also criticised the Kelkar committee’s recommendations about taxing agricultural income. Launching an attack on the BJP, Mr Natwar Singh said members of the Sangh Parivar were guilty of giving a “vulgar interpretation” to Hinduism. The meeting also passed four resolutions. The first resolution was about drought relief measures announced by the government and it demanded that Jhajjar district must be declared drought-affected. The other resolutions pertained to compensation from the Central Government for farmers who were losing their land on account of development of the National Capital Region, and upgradation of the railway network and power supply to Jhajjar. The DCC chief, Mr Raghbir Singh Kadiyan, kept away from the meeting apparently due to his affiliation to Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, CLP leader and rival of Mr Bhajan Lal. |
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VCs for more funds to farm varsities Hisar, December 29 Giving details, Dr I.V Subba Rao, Vice-Chancellor of the Acharya N.G Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, said the panel has recommended that the Central and state governments should provide more funds to these universities for improvement of infrastructure. The government should spend at least 1 per cent of the national GDP or 2 per cent of the agricultural GDP on agricultural research and extension programmes. Dr Subba Rao pointed out that 70 per cent of our country’s population depended on agriculture but only half a per cent of the GDP was being spent on the agricultural education. On the other hand, developed countries were spending 6 per cent of their GDP on agricultural research, even as only 2 per cent of the population was dependent on agriculture. It has also been recommended that the government should take adequate steps to generate more sources of income for these institutions. Dr Rao said the universities were not in a position to increase the tuition fees as 50 per cent of the students studying here were from backward and weaker sections of the society. The report also finds mention of the fact that under the present system, agricultural universities were non-statutory bodies and they should be converted into statutory
bodies. This, according to them, can be done only by Parliament by amending the existing Universities Acts. The members have also expressed concern over in discipline among the university students. They have suggested that ethics should be evolved for the students and the society could also play a vital role in maintaining discipline in these institutions. Dr Subba Rao said that the committee would submit its report to the Director- General of the ICAR, Dr Punjab Singh, in Delhi tomorrow. The committee held its meeting today. |
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7 booked for murder of ex-Sarpanch Fatehabad, December 29 The police has found the body of the deceased and registered a case of murder against all seven persons, including a person who was defeated during the panchayat elections at Chandrawal village. According to sources, the deceased Ram Kishan was a former Sarpanch of Jandli Khurd village. Ashok Kumar, the main accused in the case, had also contested the election for Sarpanch but was defeated. Later, he filed a petition in a civil court, but there too the decision was not in his favour. Ashok Kumar had been nursing a grouse against Ram Kishan since then as he felt that the latter had supported his rival during the elections. Last night, he invited Ram Kishan for drinks. In the altercation that followed, Ashok Kumar and his six accomplices threw Ram Kishan into the well. The body was brought to the local General Hospital for an autopsy. The police has registered a case. |
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Gang of thieves busted, 5 nabbed Karnal, December 29 These arrested have been identified as Ayub, Choota, alias Parvez, Shahrukh Khan, Nakil Ahmad, alias Vicky, and Rohtash, alias Ravi. Two pistols and several iron rods were recovered from them. District police chief Prashant Kumar Aggarwal told newsmen here that the arrests were made on a tip off when police sleuths surrounded their room near Liberty Chowk when they were conspiring to rob a petrol station along the national highway. During preliminary interrogation they confessed to having looted Rs 1.32 lakh from a petrol station on the Bayana-Indtri road on July 25. A case under Sections 399 and 403 IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act, has been registered.
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One held in gold looting case Ambala, December 29 SP Hardeep Singh Doon, said here today three of the accused were from Ambala cantonment who had hatched a conspiracy to rob the jeweller. Dinesh Bhatia, alias Sunny, a resident of the Mahesh Nagar area, was arrested by the police today while the three others, Sandeep, alias Sonu, Neetu and Kanwaljit, alias Happy, had absconded Sonu, who was the brain behind the robbery, is a resident of Ambala city and he is aware of the business activities of the Sarafa Bazar. Mr Doon said that during interrogation Sunny disclosed that they had used chilli powder, two country made pistols and one silver-coloured Hero Splendor motor cycle to commit the crime. He said that Sonu knew that the jeweller usually cross through this street carrying gold ornaments. According to Mr Doon, the motor cycle was without a number plate. The police collected information from all the dealers of Ambala regarding the customers who had purchased the Silver Hero splendors during the last couple of months. On the basis of the list, the police raided the house of Sunny and recovered the motor cycle, which was used in the crime. Mr Doon said that immediately after the robbery, Sunny left for Ambala cantonment on his bike while three others stayed at Ambala city. Around midnight Sonu in a hired Indica car reached at Sunny’s house and both of them left for Delhi to sell some of the looted gold and the remaining gold was left with Neetu and Happy, who planned to sell it at Amritsar. Sunny confessed that earlier, too, he was involved in several theft incidents.
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Crime rate ‘down in Fatehabad’ Fatehabad, December 29 The district police chief, Mr K.K. Rao, in a press release issued here yesterday said that the cases of murder were less and rape cases registered a decline by 10 this year while cases of dacoity registered this year were also less. Under the Excise Act, the district police recovered 118 working stills as many as 1,05,000 pouches of liquor, 13,016 kg of lahan, 18,169 bottles of illicit liquor, 4,572 bottles of country-made liquor and 102 bottles of IMFL were recovered during the year. The SP said 23 criminals had been arrested during 2002. |
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Machine devours mechanic Hisar, December 29 The mechanic lost his life there and then. The power was switched off but it was too late. He was only the breadwinner of the family.
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Youth killed in mishap Yamunanagar, December 29 |
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