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INLD decision on Tosham, Hisar seats
New policy on compensating farmers for land acquisition
Lottery ticket printing
to be probed: minister
HUDA to act against encroachments
Labour shortage hampers wheat procurement
2 cops booked for
graft
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HC Judge advocates Bench-Bar understanding
Land records to be computerised
Pak delegation calls on Hooda
15 civic bodies likely to be revived
Plant trees, students exhorted
Judicial complex soon,
says MLA
Confusion over CDLU executive council meet
KU library to go hi-tech
Engg entrance test put off to June 11
Cash, jewellery looted
Application date
extended
Rickshaw-puller crushed to death
Man gets jail for carrying charas
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INLD decision on Tosham, Hisar seats
Chandigarh, April 21 This was announced here today by the secretary-general of the INLD, Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, MP son of Mr Om Prakash Chautala, the party supremo. Surender Singh and O.P. Jindal, two Haryana Ministers, were killed in a chopper crash near Saharanpur on March 31. They represented the Tosham and Hisar constituencies in the Assembly. Mr Ajay Chautala said the party had decided at a meeting of its core committee held here under the chairmanship of the former Chief Minister, not to contest these two byelections if the Congress fielded the family members from the Tosham and Hisar seats as its candidates. However, if the Congress fielded somebody else from these seats, the INLD, too, would contest the byelections. He said this decision was taken by the INLD out of respect for the sentiments of the families of the departed leaders. Mr Ajay Chautala, however, said his party would contest the byelection from the Kiloi Assembly constituency from where the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, is likely to make a bid to enter the Vidhan Sabha. Mr Chautala said : “We will not allow Mr Hooda to enter the Vidhan Sabha.” Mr Ashok Kumar Arora, president of the Haryana INLD, said the increase of Rs 10 per quintal in the minimum support price of paddy was “grossly inadequate” because during the past one year the cost of inputs, particularly diesel and fertilisers, had gone up manifold. He said Mr Hooda was not serious about the completion of the SYL canal. |
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New policy on compensating farmers
Chandigarh, April 21 Official sources say the broad contours of the new policy was decided at a meeting called by the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, here last evening. Representatives of the Revenue Department, the Town and Country Planning Department and the Industry Department were among the officials present. The sources say the Chief Minister is of the view that the present policy of calculating the price of a piece of land according to the collector’s rate has not gone down well with landowners. The landowners’ grievances are evident in the large number of cases pending in courts on the issue of compensation. The collector’s rate is worked out by the Deputy Commissioner of the district concerned on the basis of the market price of the land prevailing at that point of time. However, the market price of land figuring on registration deeds is often lower than the actual price. Apparently, the prices shown in the records are often lower than the actual prices to enable the purchaser as well as the seller of the land to avoid the financial implications. Since government departments are unable to pay the landowners (mostly individual farmers or village panchayats) the price of land over and above the “official market price”, the landowners do not like it when their land is acquired by the government. It is learnt that in lieu of the existing policy of paying compensation to landowners, the state government has decided to adopt for this purpose the policy prevailing in Delhi. Under the policy, called the floor rate system, minimum cut-off money is given to the landowner of a particular area in the case of acquisition of his/her land by the government. While the minimum cut-off rate of compensation will be the same for any piece of land in a particular locality, a landowner will be entitled to get additional compensation worked out on the basis of location and other such external factors. While the cut-off rate of compensation will be uniform for a particular geographical limit, it will vary from area to area. “For instance, the minimum compensation for a piece of land in Gurgaon cannot be the same as that paid for land in Narnaul”, the sources say. They add that the state government will categorise the entire state and fix the uniform cut-off rates for various categories of urban and rural centres. |
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Lottery ticket printing
to be probed: minister
Sirsa, April 21 Expressing doubts over the functioning of the previous government in view of carrying on with the loss-making lottery business, he said the department had decided to investigate the printing of tickets. In the guise of the lottery business satta mafia had flourished in the state. According to the official records, the annual turnover of the satta business in the state was to the tune of Rs 3,000 crore and it was carried out quite open in the state. The minister said Rs 1,200 crore would be allocated to various power boards despite huge losses to cover up the deficit. Terming the present power situation as “highly alarming”, he said as per the records there was 43 per cent power loss in transmission. The construction of the SYL canal would the foremost priority of the Hooda regime apart from getting the share of Ravi-Beas waters. On a charge sheet prepared by the Congress against the Om Prakash Chautala regime, he said the government would adopt a vindictive attitude in the case. Though he remained evasive in giving any details of action against the
Chautalas, he said nobody would be spared if he had committed anything wrong. The government would soon come up with a programme to tackle unemployment in the state. A rapid growth of industry would create new employment avenues, he said. |
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HUDA to act against encroachments
Gurgaon, April 21 Sources in HUDA said soon a drive would also be launched to clear encroachments on its land in the residential area. This is a sequel to a directive of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The move has caused ripples among
shopkeepers. The Administrator, HUDA, Gurgaon, Mr Anurag Aggarwal said the move to clear the corridors was aimed at beautification of the markets. The plan was to give a facelift to the markets. The department has already surveyed a number of markets, including those in Sectors 14, 17, 4, 7, 15 and 31. It has also conveyed its stand to the shopkeepers, especially those of Sector 14. HUDA says they can use three feet area of the eight-feet corridor and leave the rest as the passage. However, the shopkeepers say there is an interim order of the lower court that as they have paid for the entire space of the shops, including the corridors, these belonged to them. According to them, the implication is that HUDA cannot prevent them from using the entire corridor. The department on the other hand says it is not aware of such an order applicable to all shops in the markets. |
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Labour shortage hampers wheat procurement
Fatehabad, April 21 The wheat arrival has reached its peak now and there is hardly any space left in the grain markets to accommodate more wheat. Heaps of wheat can be seen lying scattered at every available space in the local grain market. The shortage of workers with the labour contractor and contractor responsible for sewing the filled gunny bags is hampering the pace of procurement. Trucks carrying procured wheat can be seen lined up in front of the FCI godowns for hours due to the shortage of labour. Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner, Phateh Singh Dagar today visited the local grain market and reviewed the procurement operations. He directed officials of the procurement agencies to speed up the lifting of the procured wheat. He also directed the market committee officials to improve the sanitary and lighting conditions in the grain market and ensure availability of clean drinking water for the visiting farmers. |
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2 cops booked for
graft
Karnal, April 21 Sources in the police said ASI Ram Singh and Constable Shamsher Singh had allegedly demanded Rs 10,000 from Ajit Kumar and Gagan, both agents of a private bank who were detained in a case of non-payment of a loan. They had allegedly mediated as agents in providing a bank loan to Rajpal to purchase a two-wheeler who did not pay the instalments in time. The bank had approached the local police to register the case against the defaulter, said the police sources. However, the above-mentioned police personnel illegally confined these bank agents and demanded bribe to release them. They managed to pay the promised amount in two instalments following which they were released. Later, when these police personnel again demanded more amounts to let them free from the ongoing investigation in the case, Ajit and Gagan approached the inspector in-charge of the CIA-II who in a prima facie inquiry found the ASI and Constable guilty of accepting the bribe. Accordingly, the case under Section 342 of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against them. The Tribune contacted Mr Sitar Singh, SHO of Civil Lines police station, on his mobile phone but he couldn’t provide details since he was on leave for the past couple of days following fever. The other officials of civil lines police station refused to provide further details saying that the SP had asked them not to interact with the media. The PRO of district police, Mr Ganpat, couldn’t be contacted despite repeated efforts. The guilty police personnel were yet to be arrested when the report was last filed, said the sources. |
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HC Judge advocates Bench-Bar understanding
Kaithal, April 21 Mr Justice Nijjar was addressing members of the District Bar Association. He said it was a matter of concern that in spite of construction of huge judicial complexes in Punjab and Haryana proper facilities could not be provided to advocates and litigants at some places. He assured the Bar members to do every thing possible to address their genuine problems.
Earlier, Mr Nafe Singh Berwal, president, District Bar Association, while welcoming the visiting judge spoke about the delay in resuming construction of lawyers’ chambers, library, a shed for litigants and a Bar room for the Advocates. He also requested Mr Justice Nijjar to ensure that the holidays in the district courts coincide with the holidays in the High Court. Mr Kanshi Ram Nain, a former president of the Bar, said it seemed that the judiciary at the district-level was working under some unforeseen pressures due to which the litigants were forced to approach the High Court even for petty matters. He said it would be in the interest of the effective judicial system if the litigants succeeded in getting speedy justice at the lower level. Mr Sarjit Singh, another senior lawyer, said due to delay in the grant of bail at lower levels, litigants were forced to knock at the doors of the High Court. He said the High Court should take some steps to restore the faith of the people in the judicial system. |
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Land records to be computerised
Chandigarh, April 21 This was decided at a meeting convened by the Haryana Revenue Minister, Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, to review the working of these departments. It was attended by, among others, the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Mr G. Madhwan; the Director, Land Records, Mr Hardeep Kumar; and the State Informatic Officer(SIO), NIC, Haryana, Mr G.S. Bansal. Captain Yadav said that with this work he was also fulfilling the cherished dream of the late Surender Singh, who died in a helicopter crash recently. The Minister handed over documents related to the land records computerisation of Madhya Pradesh to Mr Hardip Kumar to study and take the necessary action. He also directed the officers to study the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh pattern also for the computerisation of the land records. The SIO informed the meeting that most of the formats of deeds being presented for registration had been standardised. Captain Yadav also ordered that the registered deeds should be issued to the public on the same day or latest by the next day and no document should be registered after the office hours in order to check corruption in the department. He also directed that no unqualified persons should be posted as registry clerks. There should be rotation in the posting of registry clerks after every quarter. Besides, the period of sanctioning of mutations should not be more than two months in any case. He said the tehsilwise daily summary report of the registered deeds should be communicated to the nodal officer in the office of the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, who in turn would put up a summary report to the Minister
every week. He also said the work of the issuing of Kisan Pass Books to farmers should be taken up immediately. |
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Pak delegation calls on Hooda
Chandigarh, April 21 Mr Hooda was talking to members of a delegation of the Pak-India Friendship Society, led by its patron-in-chief, Brig
Mukhtar-ul-Haq (retd), when they called on him. Brig Mukhtar-ul-Haq appreciated the efforts being made by the people of both India and Pakistan to further strengthen the bilateral relations between the two countries. He invited Mr Hooda to Pakistan. He requested Mr Hooda to use his good offices in impressing upon the Union Government to expand the scope of the visas being issued by the Indian Embassy to citizens of Pakistan. Mr Hooda said he had been to Pakistan twice. He was impressed with the gesture of goodwill and mutual understanding expressed by the people of Pakistan. The secretary, protocol and coordination of the society, Mr Babar Pasha
Kamboh, sought the cooperation of Mr Hooda in further strengthening the bonds of friendship between the two countries. He informed Mr Hooda that a new society, the Baba Bhuman Shah Sewa Sabha,
Okara, Pakistan, had been constituted to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of India and Pakistan. |
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15 civic bodies likely to be revived
Chandigarh, April 21 The subcommittee, headed by the Health Minister, Mrs Kartar Devi, has the Revenue Minister, Capt Ajay Singh Yadav; and the Urban Development Minister, Mr Lachhman Dass Arora, as its members. The Chautala government had abolished 29 civic bodies on the ground that they were not economically sustainable. Later, it revived 14 civic bodies on public demand. Now the Cabinet subcommittee has recommended that the remaining 15 civic bodies should also be revived. It has also decided to ask the Urban Development Department to suggest measures within one month to make these civic bodies self-sufficient. The civic bodies which will be revived are Loharu and Tosham in Bhiwani district; Hathin and Hasanpur in Faridabad district; Jakhal in Fatehabad district; Farooqnagar and Punhana in Gurgaon district; Uklana Mandi in Hisar district; Julana in Jind district; Ateli and Kanina in Mahendragarh district; and Chhachhrauli, Radaur, Sadhaura and Buria in Yamunanagar district. |
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Plant trees, students exhorted
Ambala, April 21 Addressing students, Mr Asija said trees were the real friends of human beings. He asked the students to plant at least one tree every year. The SDM, Ambala Mr Satbir Saini, and the Principal of the school, Dr Vikas Kohli, also addressed the students. A poetry contest on the topic conservation of trees was also organised on the occasion in which the students of 25 schools participated. In group ‘A’, Vaibhav Chauhan of Major RN Kapoor Public School, Ambala Cantt, was declared first while Nilisha Saini, a student of DAV Public School,
Barara, bagged the second position. Renu of KPAK Mahavidhyalaya, Ambala City, was adjudged third.In group ‘B’, Deepti Jaggi of Major RN Kappor Public School stood first while Vishal of Sohan Lal DAV Public School, Ambala City, and Priyanka of KPAK
Mahavidhyala, Ambala City, were declared second and third respectively. In group ‘C’, Mohit Gupta of DAV College, Ambala City, got the first position, Deepika of Sohan Lal DAV School bagged the second position, while the third place was bagged by
Smarti, a student of MDSD Girls College. In the drawing competition, Mandeep of Police DAV School, Ambala City, was declared first while Manish Kumar of Government Senior Secondary School,
Bulana, got the second position. Rajesh of Government Senior Secondary School,
Premnagar, Ambala City, bagged the third position. A consolation prize was given to Shobha, a student of DAV Public Senior Secondary School, Ambala City. A cultural show was presented by schoolchildren. |
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Judicial complex soon,
says MLA
Ambala, April 21 He said that a sum of Rs 14.24 crore was under consideration for various development projects to be carried out in Ambala Cantt. He said that Rs 8.35 crore would be spent on construction of 100-bed Civil Hospital through upgradation. Mr Bansal said that a multi-purpose hall would be constructed at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore and a new science block at a cost of Rs 70 lakh would be constructed at Government College, Ambala Cantt. He said that Rs 13.77 lakh would be spent on the local bus stand and arrangement would be made for entry and exit of buses at the main bus stand. |
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Confusion over CDLU executive council meet
Sirsa, April 21 According to officials on the campus, the Secretary Higher Education had written to the officiating VC Mr R.R.
Fuliya, to hold the meeting of the executive council. But officials are confused over that who would chair the meeting. The Registrar acts as the Secretary of the executive council and holds the meeting. Prof
A.K. Rajan had relinquished the office of the Registrar on April 6 and since then the authorities have not even given the officiating charge of the office to anybody. During the INLD regime, the CDLU had nominated Mr
A.K. Chawala, then VC of Kurukshetra University, and Mr Dhankhar, VC of Maharshi Dayanand University, as members of the search committee to recommend the names for the post of the VC. The meeting of the executive council is scheduled for
April 30. |
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KU library to go hi-tech
Kurukshetra, April 21 Sources in the Vice-Chancellor’s office said the computerised gate would be opened by a special card issued only to the members. This would check the entry of outsiders in the library. It has also been planned to install close-circuit cameras in the library hall and the reading room. Meanwhile, instructions have already been issued to open the library for 24 hours. |
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Engg entrance test put off to June 11
Hisar, April 21 This was stated here today by Mr Y.P. Goswami, Acting Registrar of Guru Jambheshwar University, which has been authorised by the state government to hold the entrance examination this year. Mr Goswami said the MBA entrance exam would be held on June 18 and the MCA entrance test on June 25. Meanwhile, Mr R.K. Arora, Controller of Examinations, GJU, said the annual and semester exams of the university teaching departments would commence from May 12. All arrangements had been made for the conduct of exams, he added. |
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Cash, jewellery looted
Rewari, April 21 The robbers fled with the booty on a motor cycle. Mr Khanna, who received bullet injuries, has been admitted to Civil Hospital here. This is second such incident in the district in the past four days. Earlier on Monday Mr. Lakhi Ram Goyal , a cloth merchant of Dharuhera, was shot dead and robbed of Rs 3 lakh by three armed miscreants. |
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Application date
extended
Karnal, April 21 According to an official release of the department, the entrance test for DET-2005 would now be conducted on June 3 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. instead of May 29. However, the dates for the entrance test for
DET(P)-2005 and DET(M)-2005 would remain as already scheduled on May 21 (morning) and May 21 (evening), respectively. |
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Rickshaw-puller crushed to death
Sonepat, April 21 According to another report, a brick kiln worker Kishore Tanti was killed on the spot when he was hit by a vehicle today. The police has registered a case. |
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Man gets jail for carrying charas
Bhiwani, April 21 According to the prosecution, the Loharu police, on a
tipoff, had arrested Mahender along with 5 kg charas from the bus stand of Loharu on June 17, 2003. A case had been registered against him under the NDPS Act. |
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