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Haryana’s Annual Plan up by 9.7 pc
Rename row: “Chautala, Hooda responsible”
Demand to remove statues of Devi Lal
SITM students honoured
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Parents with only daughters to get pension
Special tourism zones to be set up
Firing incident
Police rescues 120 cows
3 held for
forging documents
18 children fall ill after eating seeds
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Haryana’s Annual Plan up by 9.7 pc
New Delhi, February 13 The decision was taken at a meeting between state Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Deputy Chairman of the Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia here today. “We are happy with the allotment as we were given what we had asked for,” said Hooda after the meeting adding “every sector has been given equal priority”. Giving the details of the outlay, Hooda said the highest priority had been given to social services — 47.5 per cent of the total outlay amounting Rs 1,568.92 crore for health, education water supply and urban development. The second highest priority has been given to improving infrastructure of irrigation, power, roads and transport sector, for which Rs 1,250.2 crore has been earmarked. Out of this outlay, Rs 498 crore has been earmarked for irrigation, Rs 449 crore for power and Rs 303.20 crore for road and road transport sector. Agriculture and allied activities have been allotted Rs 335.12 crore, besides Rs 18 crore for development of the two most backward areas of Mewat and Shivalik. The Chief Minister said the approved outlay of the 10th Five Year Plan was Rs 12,000 crore. “Since 2006-07 is the last year of the plan, we are fully confident that targets of 10the Five Year Plan will by fully achieved.” “Many innovative schemes will be introduced this year and Haryana’s aim is to become number one state in the next five years,” he said. Meanwhile, Ahluwalia said the allotment was made after taking into account Haryana’s social indicators for 2005-06 that “was very good” and showed promise. He said the gap of Rs 58.55 crore would be filled through different measures, including Rs 25 crore central assistance for special projects. “The state has witnessed improvement in all sectors,” he added. On the problems faced by Haryana due to the NCR, Ahluwalia said: “For NCR to be successful extra resources are needed. But there is no current provision.” He, however, indicated that there could be separate NCR funds in the next five year plan. |
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Rename row: “Chautala, Hooda responsible”
Karnal, February 13 Talking to The Tribune, Mr Pratap Singh said that Chautala should have not named almost every other establishment after former Deputy Prime Minister Tau Devi Lal during his regime whereas Hooda also did not do right thing by removing Tau’s name for Thermal Power Plant, Panipat and IMT Manesar. A former Congressman Mr Pratap Singh, who keeps on sharing dais with Congress leaders against INLD, further said that his name could not be removed from the hearts of the people of Haryana as he was among those national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru and Bhim Rao Ambedkar whose statues had been set up in Central Hall of Parliament. Mr Pratap said that he had warned by Chautala by organising several press conferences during his regime to desist from the policy of naming every other establishment after Tau Devi Lal and from erecting his statues here and there. Mr Pratap Singh said he had named every other establishment if his Tau thinking that if his successor changed it, he would get political mileage out of it and attempts were being made to do so. In reply to a question over INLD’s demand to rename both the establishments after Tau Devi Lal, he suggested that all political parties should sit together to discuss the issue and a criterion should be fixed for that. The Haryana Cabinet had decided to remove the name of Deputy Prime Minister from Thermal Power Station, Panipat and IMT, Manesar, in its meeting held on January 27. |
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Demand to remove statues of Devi Lal
Kaithal, February 13 When Mr Parkash Singh Badal was Chief Minister of Punjab and there was NDA coalition party in power at the Centre and Mr Chautala was the Chief Minister of Haryana he never tried to solve the SYL canal issue, alleged Mr Surjewala. Commenting on the recent statement of the Punjab Chief Minister that Punjab would not, allow Haryana to take Canal water from its territory, Mr Surjewala said that Mr Amarinder Singh might have made this statement due to political compulsions and added that Haryana would take its due share in canal water after the matter was settled by the Supreme Court.
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SITM students honoured
Rewari, February 13 Justice R.C. Lahoti, a former Chief Justice of India, was the chief guest of the function. Appreciating the SITM management for providing him an opportunity to visit Rewari, which he described his life’s first visit to Haryana, Justice Lahoti said 11 MPs had been stung by the operation, he said that Indian polity needed a string of such operations for its health and recuperation. Paying homage to late R.D. Somany, father of Ashok Somany and Vijay Somany, he complimented the Somany family for establishing the engineering college here, where 1500 students, including several hundred girls, from 19 states of the country were now receiving technical education fortunate. Quoting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s lines; “Lives of great men all remind us; We can make our lives sublime; And departing leave behind us ; Footprints on the sands of time”. He exhorted students to imbibe great men’s teachings to attain heights scaled by them. He called upon them to follow Guru Dutt Vidyarthi, who had made efforts to inculcate the teachings of his great master Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Meritorious students of the SITM who had won distinction in academics, were honoured by Mr Naresh Yadav MLA and SITM functionary Shri Ram Singla while mementoes were presented to Justice R.C. Lahoti, Mr Anirudh Behl, Miss Jeenia Singh and Mr Naveen Kumar Agarwal of the Zeel News.
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Parents with only daughters to get pension
Kaithal, February 13 Ms Jindal said as 2006 was being celebrated as ‘Balika
year’ the government had taken steps to provide more facilities to girls and women. She said those parents who had only daughters, they would be provided a monthly pension of Rs 300 per month between the age of 55 and 60 years. She said keeping in view the difficulties faced by women, individual and common latrines were being constructed in the urban and rural areas on a large scale. Besides this, 300 delivery huts were being set up in the rural areas so that the women faced no difficulty. Earlier, the minister installed an idol of Lord Rama at Hanuman Vatika at the Karnal bypass here. She also performed puja and participated in a hawan organised on this occasion. Mr S.S. Surjewala, local MLA, Mr Dillu Ram, MLA
Guhla, Swami Mukta Nand from Hardwar and Dr Neelima Shangla, ADJ, were also present. |
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Special tourism zones to be set up
Bhiwani, February 13 This was stated by Haryana Minister of State for Tourism and Forests, Mrs Kiran Chaudhary in Baya tourism complex here today. She said that the places of historical importance, to be developed as tourism destinations, would also be inter-linked. Tourism in Haryana would be developed as industry to generate employment and revenue. Giving credit to former Chief Minister, Bansi Lal for the development of tourism in Haryana, she said that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and herself were also committed to give boost to tourism. To another question, she said that a new policy was being formulated for the conservation of forests and increase green cover in the State. Under this policy, common people would be associated with afforestation and students would be encouraged to plant more trees. She said that she has impressed upon the Education Minister to include plantation of trees in the curriculum of students. A target has also been fixed to plant 4.50 crore trees next year, she added. |
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Firing incident
Ambala, February 13 Satish Arora, assistant supervisor at the Military Dairy Farm, fired in the air after an altercation with local villagers. The farm had some land at Dudhla Mandi. The land had been given on contract. Last night, cattle owned by local villagers were found grazing on the farm land, following which 18 or 19 cattle were put in a cattle pound. At about 5 am, seven cattle were taken away on a tractor-trolley to the main Military Dairy Farm. When a second tractor-trolley arrived at Dudhla Mandi at about 6.30 am, the local villagers began to pelt stones. They attacked Satish Arora with sticks. Satish Arora fired from his gun in the air. He fired twice. A villager, Suresh, was reportedly injured in the melee. The villagers alleged that the contractor used to charge money for allowing their cattle to graze in the field. They claimed that they stopped paying the contractor money about 10 days back and today’s incident was a fall-out of the non-payment. However, an associate of the contractor claimed that the allegations were baseless. |
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Police rescues 120 cows
Yamunanagar, February 13 Three of the four trucks seized in the past 24-hours were found to be involved in cow smuggling on earlier. The police stopped four trucks (one each at Choti Line, Rakshak Vihar, Pawani Road and Jagadhri - Poanta road) and arresed 11 persons. Five of the 120 living cows are said to be injured seriously. Police sources said truck no (UP-78N-8349) was earlier seized by the police in November 2000, June 2005 and October 2005. Similarly truck No. (HR 38D-8706) was earlier also found to be used for smuggling cows (in January 2000 and September 2005) and truck No. (HR-58A - 7249) has also been seized twice in the past. |
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3 held for
forging documents
Kaithal, February 13 SP Navdeep Singh said Wazir Singh, ASI and in- charge of Kithana police post, received documents for verification pertaining to the release on parole of Satbir Jhabbal lodged in Sirsa Jail. During verification of documents it came to light that signatures and thumb impression on the certificate issued in the name of village panchayat and enclosed with the parole papers were forged.
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18 children fall ill after eating seeds
Sonepat, February 13 The children of Jawrana village, between five and 14 years of age, had eaten the seeds of Rattanjot crop sown in the field of the former sarpanch yesterday and started vomitting after taking meals in their houses, a report said. They were taken to a private hospital in a nearby Farmana village by their parents where the doctor said the condition of the children was out of danger.
— PTI
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