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Keep vigil to curb communal strife: CM Cong MLA Barwala faces another case JBT Recruitment Scam Exhibitions at Gita samaroh draw crowds
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Refund excess amount, BSNL told Shloka recitation results
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Keep vigil to curb communal strife: CM Chandigarh, December 4 Mr Chautala asked police officers deployed in districts having inter-state borders to check the proliferation of gambling and ‘satta’. Smuggling of oil should also be checked. Mr Bhaskar Chatterjee, Secretary, Town and Country Planning, said modern shopping malls and multiplexes would be set up in all cities. Mr Chautala also reviewed development works being undertaken under the “Sarkar Aapke Dwar” programme. About corruption by lower-rung officials, Mr Chautala said a rotation system should be adopted for those posted in public dealing offices so that one person did not remain in the seat for long. The Chief Minister was informed that 62 per cent extra power was being given to the rural sector during the current financial year as compared to that in 1998-99. The power utilities were able to reduce their commercial losses from Rs 632.81 crore during 2000-01 to Rs 205.22 crore during 2001-02. These had earned a commercial profit of Rs 115.93 crore during the past financial year. |
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Cong MLA Barwala faces another case
Hisar, December 4 The jail authorities here received production warrants against Mr Barwala, who is popularly known as JP, in a case registered by the Kalyat police on a complaint of Ram Pal in a land dispute in his ancenstral village. A fresh case has been registered under sections 420, 468 , 471 and 120 of the IPC, in connection with a dispute of land. Sources said originally this case was registered on June 8, 2000 but was dropped following a settlement through the village panchayat. The complainant has now maintained that he was not satisfied with the previous action and now he was seeking justice. He has also written a letter to Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in this regard. As soon as JP came out of the jail here, a large number of Congress workers, his supporters and admirers greeted him. Without making any speech JP drove sped away in a car. When tried to contact him at his residence today, JP’s family members declined to say about her whereabouts. Industrialist-turned politician O P Jindal, former minister Brij Mohan Singla, Mr Jai Narayan Verma, besides former Haryana Congress President, Birender Singh were present to receive JP at the jail gates. Mr Birender Singh said the Congress would soon organise a rally here to honour JP. — UNI
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JBT Recruitment Scam Chandigarh, December 4 Mrs Sekhri was the Director, Primary Education (DPE), before she was succeeded by Mr Sanjiv Kumar at whose instance the apex court has ordered the CBI inquiry into the recruitment of teachers made in 2000. The posts were advertised in November, 1999, a few months after the Chautala government took over in July. Since the Haryana Staff Selection Commission had been dissolved by the new government, it was decided that the teachers should be selected by the district-level three-member selection committees to be constituted under the chairmanship of the District Primary Education Officers (DPEO). The then Director, DPE, Mr Ram Pal Chander, received the selection lists some time in January. The INLD won a majority of its own in the February, 2000, assembly elections. Before the selected candidates could be appointed, Mr Chander was transferred and Mrs Sibal was brought in his place. Sources in the Education Department reveal that pressure was brought on Mrs Sibal to change the lists, which she resisted. The sources say a few days before her transfer, an INLD functionary came to Mrs Sibal’s office and shouted at her for not acceding to the wishes of the powers that be. The sources say Mrs Sibal was so upset at the behaviour of the INLD functionary that she virtually cried. The same afternoon, the sources say, Mrs Sibal brought cotton bandages and sealed the steel almirah in the presence of five employees of her office. They all signed the bandages at several places. The keys of the almirah, too, were sealed in an envelope. A few days after the incident, Mr Sanjiv Kumar took over as the DPE. If Mrs Sibal had not sealed the almirah in a way that it could not have been broken, Mr Sanjiv Kumar, the sources say, might have given in to the pressure. But he knew that tampering with the lists would land him in soup. Among his colleagues, he has a reputation of playing safe even while being not reluctant to take risks. Controversy has always dogged Mr Sanjiv Kumar right from the beginning of his career as the SDM, Naraingarh. But he has managed to come unscathed out of controversies. Administrative service is in Mr Sanjiv Kumar's blood. His great-grandfather, Rai Bahadur Rameshwar Singh, was the first Deputy Commissioner of Dhanbad district. His grandfather, Rai Bahadur Ram Bilas Singh, was in the Indian Police (IP as it was known during British rule). His father, Dr M. Kumar, who did his FRCS from Edinburgh (UK) in 1965, retired as Chief Surgeon, Eastern Railway. Interestingly, his mother, Mrs Kanak Lata, has written many books, including "Gandhaari Nein Aankhen Kholi", for which she was awarded the Radha Krishan award of Eastern India by the Bihar Government. Mrs Sibal is currently on deputation to the IAS Academy, Mussoorie. Who prepared the second list and where? Who handed over the second list to Mr Sanjiv Kumar? Which list has more meritorious candidates — the first or the second? The CBI will have to find answers to all these questions.
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Exhibitions at Gita samaroh draw crowds Kurukshetra, December 4 The exhibition had a number of stalls of goods made of brass, copper, wood and cloth material depicting the life story of Lord Krishna. Another state-level exhibition was put up by various departments of the
Haryana Government on development by the state government during the last four years. The main attraction for the visitors was a stall put up by the Non- Conventional Energy Source Department. The use of solar energy depicting various aspects of energy conservation were the main highlight of the stall. The state government was providing 90 per cent subsidy on these solar tubewells. The exhibition also displayed innovative items manufactured by self-help groups constituted from 19 districts of the state. Besides Haryana, the rural development agencies of several districts of Punjab, including Patiala, Ludhiana, Sangrur and Bathinda have also participated in the exhibition.
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Refund excess amount, BSNL told Fatehabad, December 4 Mr Baldev
Singh, a resident of Rattia town in the district, applied for a mobile connection with the BSNL on December 9, 2002, and made a payment of Rs 700 through bank draft. Even before issuing the SIM card to the consumer, the BSNL issued a bill for Rs 815 to the consumer. The bill for a period from January 1, 2003 to January 31, 2003, was to be paid before February 28, 2003. He approached the authorities in the nigam, who assured him that the amount would be adjusted. However next month, he received a bill of Rs 1156 out of which Rs 815 was shown as previous balance inspite of the fact that he still not received his SIM card. He received the SIM card on March 12, but the nigam authorities disconnected his mobile for the non-payment of dues. The forum found the nigam guilty of deficiency in providing services and ordered it to refund the extra amount received from the consumer with 12 per cent interest along with compensation and costs. |
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Shloka recitation results Kurukshetra December 4 The following were declared winners in various age group: (One to five years) Indra, Aggarsain Public School, Kurukshetra 1 Iavnya, Bal Bhawan Public School, 2 and Udit, Maharana Aggarsain Senior Secondary School 3. Six to 12 years: Minakshi Sharma, Geeta Girls Middle School 1; Saveta, Government Middle School, Chaduni Jattan (Kurukshetra) 2 and Anurag from DAV Senior Secondary School 3. Above 13 years: Kavinder, Aggarsain Public School 1; Poonam Sharma, Geeta Niketan Residential School 2 and Ashutosh Sharma, Government High School, Salwan, Karnal 3. |
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Call centre
owner shot Kurukshetra, December 4 When he visited the call centre, he found his father shot dead, he added. The assailants also escaped with Rs 20,000. |
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Soldier cremated
with state honours Bhiwani, December 4 Havildar Ramautar is survived by wife, a son and a daughter. |
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Local doctor heads international panel Yamunanagar, December 4 She belongs to Yamunanagar and is married to the CMD of Saraswati Industrial Syndicate. |
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