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Low recovery of mustard crop
worries farmers
Faridabad, April 9
While the government agencies have started purchasing wheat at various mandis in the district, some farmers in the region seem to be worried about the low recovery of mustard crop this year.
SPECIAL FOCUS
ON PANIPAT
National Highway puts town residents, road users in a jam
Panipat, April 9
The National Highway, which passes right through the middle of Panipat town, has put the town residents and road users in a jam. The reason: Frequent and chaotic traffic, mainly in the four-kilometre stretch within the municipal limits.
Post office refuses to pay interest on Rs 5 cr panchayat deposit
Sonepat, April 9
Payment of interest on a one-year fixed deposit has become a bone of contention between the Development and Panchayat Department and the main post office, Sonepat. The post office authorities have refused to pay the interest contending that the amount deposited by the panchayat of village Joshi Chauhan was an institutional amount and the payment of interest on such amounts had been banned since 1995.
Rs 200 crore worth projects for Gurgaon nearing completion
Gurgaon, April 9
Various projects undertaken by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) costing around Rs 200 crore in the city are near completion. The HUDA administrator, Mr Mehtab Singh
Sehrawat, informed that the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakesh Chautala, would soon inaugurate the cricket stadium, built by the HUDA in Sector 38 with a capacity of 25,000.
With choked drains and litter all around, Sonepat’s name is mud!
Sonepat, April 9
Sonepat, an industrial township and a district headquarters is fast earning notoriety for poor civic services. Heaps of garbage, choked drains and sewers and poor streetlighting in the interiors spoil the image of this city.
Pamma flays serving of langar
to political rallyists
New Delhi, April 9
The national president of the National Akali Dal, Mr Paramjit Singh Pamma, today criticised the decision of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) of distributing langar to those participating in political rallies in the Capital and seeking a subsidy on cooking gas cylinders from the government on this plea.
DELHI IN
PARLIAMENT
MTNL fault rate highest
New Delhi, April 9
The fault rate in the Delhi unit of MTNL was highest as compared to other units in the metros, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
The fault rate in Delhi is 19.99 followed by Kolkata with 12, Chennai with 11.2 and Mumbai with 10.31, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sumitra Mahajan told the House.
Wheat arrival picks up in Sonepat grain market
Sonepat, April 9
Wheat arrival has started in the grain market of the city and the officials of the procurement agencies are purchasing it at the support price from the farmers who bring their produce to the markets.
NCR BRIEFS
New date for cancelled matric exams
Faridabad, April 9
The Haryana State Education Board rescheduled some of the papers which had been cancelled due to mass copying, from April 10, for the matric and middle classes. The papers were to be held between April 5 and 9 at various centres.
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DELHI
DIGEST
Health centre on paper
New Delhi, April 9
Even more than one year after the inauguration of a primary health centre at Sector-7 in Pushap Vihar, Saket, the centre is yet to be functional.
After much resentment and agitation by the residents recently, some health workers of the malaria department have started sitting there. Interestingly, they have nothing to do with this centre.
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