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Delimitation panel chief’s no to new working paper
Erratic power supply hits industry in Haryana
Chautalas must quit public posts, says Nehra
Sarpanch’s arrest:
Dalit families flee
FLASHBACK 2005: CHAUDHARY
DEVI LAL VARSITY
Beopar mandal chief abducted
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Mukhtar Ansari’s aides in Sirsa, says Partap Chautala
Lovers commit suicide
Teachers boycott training camp
Factory owner booked
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Delimitation panel chief’s no to new working paper
Chandigarh, December 27 According to information received here, at the first meeting with the associate members in Delhi, a demand was made by the members that the working paper prepared earlier was faulty as it took the patwar circle as the unit. The members demanded that instead of the patwar circle, the village should be taken as the unit. The members told Justice Kuldip Singh and other official members of the commission that by taking the patwar circle as the unit, the constituencies had spread over a large area. They were also not
satisfied with the manner in which the constituencies were being sought to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes. Sources said while turning down the demand for a new working paper based on the village as the unit, Justice Kuldip Singh, however, told the members that they could come up with some other suggestions. If possible, he said, he would give due weightage to those suggestions. He allowed them a fortnight’s time to submit their suggestions. |
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Erratic power supply hits industry in Haryana
Panchkula, December 27 Industrialists in the state rue that in spite of a low demand for power in the agriculture sector, the industry is being forced to suffer losses because of the government’s failure to make alternate arrangements for power supply. Till today, the industry was being given power supply for just five hours at night, while no power supply is made during the day time. Two-phase supply is provided from 6 pm to 10 pm, but the industry cannot operate on a two phase supply. Today, Haryana Power Utilities announced that industry having load of over one Megawatt, will not get any power for the coming two days. For the coming four days, industry in Hisar, Narnaul, Ambala, Sonepat, Jind, Rohtak and Faridabad will get six hours supply from 11.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., while Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar will get supply from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Industrialists in the state complain that their production has declined sharply because of the unavailability of power for the entire month of December. With the per unit captive power generation cost almost double the cost of normal power supply (per unit), the small and medium scale industry in the state claims that industrial production has stopped for the past three days. Mr Rajendra Singhal, General Secretary of the Haryana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI), and a leading industrialist from Kurukshetra, said that there was almost no power supply during the day, and industry was being asked to operate during the night hours. “In this extreme cold weather, how can we find labour to work in the night. Thus, production has almost come to a standstill. The state government should have foreseen the power shortage and made some arrangements,” he said. Mr Vishnu Goel, General Secretary of the Panchkula unit of HCCI, too lamented the poor power supply. This is the second time during this year that the dismal power situation has forced the industry to come to a grinding halt. “The state government is seeking FDI in industry, but is unable to provide the basic infrastructure like power,” he said. |
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Chautalas must quit public posts, says Nehra
Chandigarh, December 27 A senior Congress leader and former Minister, Mr Jagdish Nehra, while addressing a press conference here, alleged that the Chautala family had links with Mukhtiar Ansari of Uttar Pradesh, accused in the murder of the UP BJP MLA, Mr Krishna Nand Rai. Mr Chautala is an MLA and his elder son, Ajay, is a member of the Rajya Sabha. His younger son, Abhay, is the Chairman of the Sirsa Zila Parishad. Mr Nehra wondered what right the INLD had to demand the resignation of the Transport Minister, Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, who had done nothing wrong. Mr Nehra, who contested the Rori seat against Mr Chuatala in the Assembly elections in February, also alleged that the Chautala family had links with RJD MP Syed Shabuddin as well. The Congress leader circulated to the media a CD of a 2002 function in Sirsa district wherein Ansari was present along with Mr Ajay Singh and Mr Abhay Singh. |
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Sarpanch’s arrest:
Dalit families flee
Badli (Jhajjar), December 27 Though, the police denied that any family had left the village due to fear of attack but near deserted streets and locked houses confirmed Dalits were frightened. Bhim Singh, Bakshi, Balbir, Bhoja, Lalchand, Dataram, Murari, Harnam, Gugal, Sahib Singh, Harchand, Prem, Bittu, Santram, Banarsi, Sattu, Shyam, Phool Singh, Asharphi, Jaiprakash etc have taken refuge with their relatives houses at separate places after Wednesday’s incident when sarpanch, Jaipal’s supporters, most of them from the upper caste, protested against the police and the administration and blocked roads leading to their village the entire day. Even local MLA Naresh Sharma had to face the ire of agitated people when he was beaten up by them. Mr Karnail Singh, whose son was shot at by the sarpanch’s accomplices at a meeting, told that he had received threatening call on the night after the sarpanch was arrested by the police on his complaint. Most of the migrated families are his neighbours. He added he had returned from the hospital in Delhi where his son was admitted. His brother Banarsi alleged that the remaining accused in the shooting case were moving in the village, as the police was unable to arrest them. While, the police refuted any family had left the village due to fear. The Badli police post in charge, Mr Ashok Dahiya, who arrested the sarpanch, told that the police was patrolling the colony of the Khatiks and policemen in plain clothes had been keeping vigil in the area. He said some families might had gone to visit relatives to attend a function but fear was not the reason of their leaving houses. Sources added it was Karnail Singh who first attacked the sarpanch in the meeting and afterwards sarpanch’s supporters fired at his son. The villagers said both groups were equally fearsome and their rivalry began during panchayat elections. Meanwhile, the Panchayat of Gulia Khap, consisting of 24 nearby villages today refused to take up the issue of the arrest of the sarpanch. Later, some villagers met Rohtak MP and son of the Chief Minister Deepender Hooda and pleaded that the sarpanch was innocent framed in the case. Local MLA Naresh Sharma, who was in Bahadurgarh today, was also with the villagers when they called on the MP, the sources said. |
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FLASHBACK 2005: CHAUDHARY DEVI LAL VARSITYCDLU leaves much to be desired Vishal Joshi Tribune News Service
Sirsa, December 27 The brainchild of the former Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, the university was established three years ago in Sirsa, the home district of the INLD supremo. The plan was conceived as a major step for the educationally backward district of the state catering to the adjoining areas of Punjab and Rajasthan too. The university continued to mire into controversies in 2005. Much to the embarrassment to the university authorities, the state-level CEET test taken by the GJU mired into a controversy with an answer sheet went missing from the CDLU campus soon after the test had been started. The Vice-Chancellor suspended two teachers and one member of the non-teaching staff. In another case, Mr Abhey Singh Chautala, the influential younger son of Mr O. P. Chautala and former MLA from Rori in the district, enrolled himself in the Department of Laws, without attending even a single lecture for the past two years. Serious questions over Abhey’s admission and the papers attempted by him in the first and second year of LLB were raised while the university authorities kept mum. However, Abhey was not allowed to take test, thanks to a series of reports published in The Tribune. In a sudden move colleges of five districts, attached with the university, were disaffiliated and attached with Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, and Kurukshetra University. However, at the first Cabinet meeting, the Hooda government decided to attach only the National Government PG College, the only government college of Sirsa affiliated to the CDLU, while ignoring other disaffiliated colleges. Later, succumbing to pressure from different quarters, the government reverted the decision and disaffiliated the college thus giving the CDLU a status of campus university. This year, too, the university continued to work with the ad hoc staff at all levels as the posts of Vice-Chancellor and Registrar are held by Mr R.R. Fuliya, Commissioner of Hisar Range, and Mr Pankaj Yadav, ADC, Sirsa, respectively. Though the university has started enrolments in the research works, the faculty members wonder if the same could be materialised without a well-stocked library. With not even a single employee in the non-teaching staff on the CDLU rolls, the university has employed personnel on deputation for the past three years. Shortage of staff, lack of infrastructure besides other problems continued to mar the functioning the university. With not even a single permanent professor in the university and most of the departments are run by the guest faculty members, students were seen reluctant to join the university as the sciences classes were held in the absence of a laboratory.
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Beopar mandal chief abducted
Sonepat, December 27 According to a report, Mr Jain left his rice sheller around 9 p.m. for his residence in Ganaur on his motorcycle but failed to reach his house. After some time, his son Dinesh made a series of attempts to contact Mr Jain on the mobile phone but he could not be contacted his as his mobile phone was switched off. Mr Dinesh also contacted his relatives on the mobile phone to locate his father but failed to achieve any breakthrough. Thereupon he suspected some foul play and informed the Ganaur police. The police immediately registered the case and launched a massive hunt but failed to locate him. It was told that a white car followed him when he left the rice sheller on his motorcycle. The incident has caused panic among traders and residents of the town. A group of traders, led by Mr Jatinder Malik, MLA, called on Mr Shiv Dayal, DSP, and apprised him the facts about the case. They demanded the arrests of the culprits involved in this case. The DSP assured the traders that the police had already sounded alert in the district and neighbouring districts for arresting the culprit. |
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Mukhtar Ansari’s aides in Sirsa, says Partap Chautala
New Delhi, December 27 Talking to newspersons, he said: “I have all the evidence to prove the allegation and I have the video CD indicating their presence in the farmhouse of Mr Chautala in their native village.” Mr Pratap Chautala said he would share all the evidence with the UP Special Task Force, which is investigating the case, if they approached him for cooperation. Mr Ansari, who surrendered in the court, has been remanded in judicial custody till January 4. He demanded a CBI inquiry against the former Chief Minister. He demanded constitution of a Special Investigation Team, comprising officers from outside Punjab and Haryana, to conduct investigations. |
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Lovers commit suicide
Jhajjar, December 27 The college going girl and the boy, residents of the Siwana village here, took the extreme step in frustration. Naveen (23), a student of BA final year in a government college, Dubaldhan, and his classmate Sushila were having an affair for a long time. Sources in the police said they fled from their houses on December 24 and took away Rs 10,000 with them. The families of the duo started a hunt for them and came to know that they had gone to Haridwar. As the families were trying to track down the couple, they decided to commit suicide due to apparent social unacceptability of their relationship. They died under the wheels of Ferozpore-bound passenger train. The police brought the bodies to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem.
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Teachers boycott training camp
Fatehabad, December 27 Mr Naveen Sharma and Mr Raghunath Mehta, both leaders of the teachers’ union, said the state government had been organising training camps for teachers during their winter vacations since 2002 under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA). The programme is to continue till 2010. They said that before the SSA, the government had organised such camps for five years under the District Primary Education Projects (DPEP) in eight districts of Haryana, including Fatehabad district. They said as per the government rules there was a provision of providing earned leaves to the employees in case they were made to work on holidays. But the government was yet to provide any earned leave to teachers, who had been attending such camps. The training camp for teachers started today in the local Government Girls Senior Secondary School. The Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mr M.L. Kaushik, inaugurated the camp. |
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Factory owner booked
Panipat, December 27 Confirming this to The Tribune, Mr Alok Mittal, SP said the police had seized petrol guns and relevant materials for the investigations from the factory premises at Nizampur village. He said teams of experts from the Electricity Department and the Industrial Safety Departments had conducted investigation. Interestingly, promoters of the export house had removed everything from the spot yesterday and did not allow anyone except the fire brigade and an SHO to enter the premises. A police official admitted that it would be difficult for the experts to ascertain the cause of fire as the seized gadgets could have been damaged. |
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Power sub-station to come up near Nilokheri
Karnal, December 27 Tenders for the substation have already been invited and the project will be executed by March, 2007. The supply to the sub-station would be made from thermal power plant sub-station, Yamunanagar. Besides, the 33-KV sub-station of Nagla Megha will be upgraded up to 132 KV at a cost of Rs 15 crore. This project will also be completed by March, 2007. A transformer with a capacity of 20 x 25 MVA will be installed at 132-KV sub-station at Neval at a cost of Rs1.5 crore.
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Teachers boycott seminars
Yamunanagar, December 27 Sources said the teachers, after marking there attendances, left the seminar venues at Government Senior Secondary Schools of Model Town, Yamunanagar, Model Colony, Jagadhri, and Chamrouri village in Radaur block. The seminars will continue till January 4, 2006. Mr Payare Lal Tanwar, district president, Haryana Rajya Adhyapak Sangh, said that such seminars should not be held during the holidays and if held the teachers should be given earned leave for the seminar days and the same should be included in the service rules.
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Labourer murdered
Jhajjar, December 27
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Cops terminated
Jhajjar, December 27 They misbehaved with a woman on December 14, who was trying to protect herself from the eve-teasers. The policemen were in drunk condition at the time of incident.
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Train timings
Karnal, December 27 |
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House burgled
Rewari, December 27 |
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