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March 21, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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CAT orders refixation on seniority Official directed to be present in court Revenue collection badly affected Kalpana’s husband visits Karnal
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Booked for bid to burn wife Liquor vend auction Hola Mohalla
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CAT orders refixation on seniority Chandigarh, March 20 Dr Ashok
Khemka, a Haryana cadre IAS officer of the 1991 batch who is currently Director, Information Technology, had challenged the Union Government’s step of computing the seniority of these promotee officers with reference to the years when vacancies had occurred in the promotion quota. The CAT order said that in 1994-95, five vacancies had become available in the IAS promotion quota but no meeting of the selection committee was held for this purpose. Subsequently, no meeting of the committee was held in 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1997-98. However, on October 23 and 24, 1999, a meeting of the selection committee was held to prepare the select lists of promotees against the vacancies for 1995-96 and 1996-97. Mr Balraj Singh, Mr Anand Sharma, Ms Satwanti
Ahlawat, Mr Sant Kumar, Mr H P Chaudhary, Mr S P Gupta, Mr R B Langyan, Mr Vimal
Chandra, Mr Raj Kumar, Mr Phateh Singh, Mr D D Gautam and Mr J P Kaushik figured in the list of promotees for vacancies occurring for 1995-96. The year of allotment (year of elevation to the
IAS) in the case of the first seven of these officers was 1990 and they were placed below Mr Rajashekhar
Vundru, a direct recruit of 1990 batch. All these seven officers were given weightage of six years each on the basis of the length of their service and computing backwards from 1996 (when the vacancies occurred), 1990 was fixed as the year of allotment for these officers. Mr Vimal
Chandra, Mr Raj Kumar, Mr Phateh Singh, Mr D D Gautam and Mr J P Kaushik got weightage of five years each and they were elevated with effect from 1991 and placed below Mr Abhilash
Likhi, a direct recruit of the 1991 batch. Similarly, Mr M.R. Anand, Mr
M.P. Bansal, Mr Pushp Raj Singh, Mr D.P.S. Nagar, Mr Mohinder Kumar, Mr Ashok Kumar
Yadav, Mr T.K. Sharma, Mr Balbir Singh and Mr Balwan Singh were promoted against the vacancies for 1996-97. Taking into consideration the weightage of the candidates accruing from the length of their service, Mr Anand’s year of allotment was fixed at 1991, Mr
Bansal, Mr Pushp Raj Singh, Mr D.P.S. Nagar and Mr Mohinder Kumar’s at 1992 and Mr Ashok Kumar
Yadav, Mr T.K. Sharma, Mr Balbir Singh Malik and Mr Balwan Singh’s at 1993. Dr Ashok Khemka challenged the dates of allotment of the promotee officers as decided by the UPSC and argued that as per the provision of rule 3(3)(ii) of the Regulation of Seniority Rules, the year of allotment had to be arrived at in the light of length of service to be recknoned with reference to the year in which the selection committee held its meeting. That is, the year of reference should be 1999 instead of 1996 for the first batch of 12 promotees and 1997 for the remaining nine
promotees. Dr Khemka had also earlier approached the Department of Personnel and Training of the Union Government on the same issue but his prayer was rejected. The CAT, however, upheld Dr Khemka’s application and directed the Department of Personnel and Training to “undertake the exercise afresh and re-determine the year of allotment and seniority of the promotee officers strictly in the light of provisions of rule 3(3)(ii)”. The CAT order, which came on March 10, also asked the department to complete the exercise within four months. The Haryana Government had filed a short reply in connection with the case and said that since the competent cadre controlling and appointing authority to the IAS was the Union Government, which took the decision for assigning the year of allotment, the state of Haryana was not a necessary party. “The state of Haryana does not have to say anything in the matter”, it said. |
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Official directed to be present in court Chandigarh, March 20 Taking up the petition seeking directions to the respondents for filling up the vacancies, Mr Justice V.M. Jain and Mr Justice Viney Mittal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court have directed the Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary in Haryana’s Political and Services Department to be present in person “for supplying the relevant information”. In his petition, Narwana-based advocate Sushil Kumar Sharma had earlier claimed that the shortage of judge was resulting in an increase in the pendency of cases. Giving details, Mr Sharma had asserted that at an average about 3000 cases were pending in each court. The petitioner had added that the heavy burden of pending cases was also forcing the judges to fix the next date of hearing after a gap of about one year in some cases. He had added that the shortage was further forcing the over-burdened judges to do five to eight times additional work. This, he had submitted, was unjustified as the Judges had to go through each and every file, record evidence, hear arguments and deliver the judgement after going through the documents. Quoting a Law Commission report, Dr Surya Parksh had submitted on behalf of the petitioner that there should be 50 judges per million people. At present there were just over 10. Regarding the cases before the courts, he had asserted that the number of files pending before a judge should not be more than 400 to 500 at any given time. The reality was, however, different. A visit to the courts revealed that about 2,500 to 4,000 cases were pending before each court. He had added that as per the directions issued by the High Court, and the Supreme Court of India, the Public Service Commission was required to send the complete list of qualified candidates to the state in order of merit. The state, on the other, had to forward the same to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The respondents, he had claimed, were required to “make public the requirement” and invite the candidates to compete for the posts. |
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Revenue collection badly affected Kaithal, March 20 In Kaithal tehsil alone, there is a fall of Rs 73 lakh in the collection of registration fee in the past three months, as compared to the same period last year. In the months of December, 2002, and January and February this year, as many as 930 documents have been registered and Rs 64.60 lakh collected as registration fee against the registration of 2156 documents and realisation of Rs 1.37 crore. If the figures of about 150 tehsils and sub tehsils in the state are taken into consideration the fall in the collection of registration fee may well run into crores of rupees during the past about 10 months after the imposition of restrictions by the government. Municipal councils and committees all over the state too continue to be hit financially as there is a steep fall in their incomes from their share in the registration fee collected by the sub registrars. Due to the complicated procedure and in the absence of any clear-cut guidelines small plot-holders desirous of transferring their property in the urban areas and others, desirous of selling their properties in controlled areas have to run from pillar to post to get an NoC from the civic bodies and the Town and Country Planning Department. The business of property dealers has also come to a standstill. |
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Kalpana’s husband visits Karnal Karnal, March 20 Jean Pierre Harrison accompanied by Kalpana’s father Banarsi Lal Chawla and brother Sanjay first visited the Tagore Bal Niketan here where she had her education up to class 10. The three also visited the Dayal Singh College from where Kalpana did her Pre-engineering. Harrison, however, declined to pay floral homage to the portrait of Kalpana saying she had never liked to be garlanded. It was Harrison’s first visit to Karnal — the home town of Kalpana, who died with six other space scientists in the US space shuttle Columbia crash on February 1. In fact Kalpana had also not visited the City after 1982 when she went to USA. An audio visual film prepared by NASA was shown to the school and college students highlighting the achievements of Kalpana. In his speech, Harrison said he met Kalpana in September 1982 in the first hour of her arrival in the University of Texas at Arlington. “Soon we became friends because of many common interests, similarity in habits, hobbies and thoughts of each other which culminated in our marriage on December 2,1983,” he recalled. He said she completed her Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1984. “We moved to Boulder where Kalpana enrolled in the Ph.D aeronautical engineering programe at the University of Colorado. Kalpana earned her private pilot licence during this time and whenever possible flew along and among the rocky Mountains in our small airplane,” Harrison said. Mr Harrison further said that in 1988, Kalpana Chawla and he moved to California where she took up work at NASA Ames Research Centre in Sunnyvale. Kalpana first applied for the astronaut programme 1993 but she could not succeed. On her second application in 1994, she was invited to Johnson Space Center for a complete interview even while in Kentucky she was undergoing flight training in December 1994. Harrison said he received a message from Kalpana that she had been selected for the 1995 astronaut class. Harrison said he and Kalpana were very keen to visit Karnal but due to strained political relations between India and USA could not visit India. Welcoming Harrison, Dr Ramji
Lal, Principal of the college demanded that the government should confer “Bharat
Ratan” award to the brightest star in the galaxy. PTI |
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Five die as car, matador collide Hisar, March 20 According to the police, a Matador was carrying passengers from the local bus stand to Agroha. When the Matador driver saw that an official car of the Roadways Department was following his vehicle, he suddenly accelerated the speed of the vehicle. As soon as the Matador reached the Sirsa road chungi on the National Highway, the driver lost control over the vehicle and it collided head-on with Maruti Zen, coming from the opposite direction. Both vehicles overturned alongside the road. Ajay Kumar (15), his sister Poonam (18) and one-year-old brother Vishu, all residents of nearby Siwani Bolan village, who were travelling in the Zen died on the spot while the Surender Kumar and Roshan Lal who were travelling in the Matador succumbed to their injuries at the Civil Hospital here. The other members of the family, Ramesh Kumar, his wife Sunita and nephew Vinod Kumar received serious injuries. The other injured are Rajender Singh and Dhobi village, Ramsawrup of Kaimri village, Suresh Kumar of Asrawan village and local resident Ralduram.
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Booked for bid to burn wife Yamunanagar, March 20 Shallu’s brothers said his sister had married
Shambu, their neighbour, five years ago. Soon after the marriage, the relationship soured, as Shambu was unemployed and addicted to alcohol. On Tuesday he tried to save his sister by throwing a blanket on her. She was rushed in unconscious condition to civil hospital of Jagadhri. Dr V.K. Sharma, Medical Superintendent of the hospital said today that the burns were severe, so, the woman could not be shifted to the PGI in Chandigarh or any hospital. He said the chances of her survival were slim. The police has registered a case against Shambu, who has absconded.The couple has three children. |
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Liquor vend auction nets 696 cr Ambala, March 20 There has been an increase of Rs 32.3 crore as compared to last year in the auction which was held at Rukmini Devi Hall. A Haryana Excise and Taxation Department official said the liquor vends in the state were auctioned for Rs 696.69 crore, which was a 4.87 per cent increase from last year’s amount of Rs 664.34 crore. Faridabad fetched Rs 80.40 crore, Fatehabad Rs 24.25 crore, Hisar Rs 42.41 crore, Yamunanagar Rs 34.46 crore, Panipat Rs 39.10 crore, Sonepat Rs 38.55 crore, Rohtak Rs 30.70 crore and Sirsa Rs 34.55 crore. The districts of Gurgaon, Rewari and Narnaul jointly fetched 106.50 crore while Bhiwani and Jhajjar districts jointly fetched Rs 65.75 crore. The districts of Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Jind, Kaithal and Kurukshetra jointly fetched for Rs. 200.12 crore. |
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Hola Mohalla
celebrated Yamunanagar, March 20 Sant Karamjeet Singh of Gurdwara Thara Sahib said a free heart check-up camp was organised in calloboration with the local Lions Club . The unique feature of Hola Mohalla was the inauguration of newly constructed Sant Sarovar. |
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