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Haryana officers on deputation with Centre
207 loans sanctioned for purchase of vehicles
Haryana tax on school buses stayed
Gang of snatchers active in Yamunanagar
Hooda to attend Rasam Pagri
Leadership camp to be held at Golden Public School
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All set for Rajnath Singh’s yatra: Bajwa
Group clash over piece of land
Youth shot
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Haryana officers on deputation with Centre
Chandigarh, April 6 Ms Rajni Rajdan, Principal Secretary, Housing, has got appointment as Additional Secretary in the Pension branch of the Personnel Ministry. She was relieved by the state government with exceptional haste. However, citing personal reasons, she has secured an extension of her stay in Haryana and will move to Delhi only in the latter part of this month. Mr Shyamal Misra, Haryana cadre officer of 1996 batch, who is now Registrar at the Maharshi Dayanand University at Rohtak, has also got posting in the Ministry of Commerce and Industries. Others whose names have been retained by the Central government for deputation are, Mr Sanjay Kothari, Mr Vineet Garg, Mr Vijender Kumar, Mr Ashok Yadav and Mr T.K. Sharma. Mr Sanjay Kothari is holding multiple charges. He is Financial Commissioner of Tourism, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs departments. Besides, he is also Member Secretary of the Haryana Bureau of Public Enterprises. Mr T.K. Sharma and Mr Vijender Kumar are also holding important charges. While Mr Sharma is Deputy Commissioner of Kurukshetra, Mr Kumar is Managing Director of the Dakhshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam. Mr Vineet Garg, Administrator (Headquarters) in the HUDA office at Panchkula, and Mr Ashok Yadav, Joint Secretary in the Department of Housing, are in relatively insignificant posts. Recently, the Central government also empanelled the Principal Secretary, Health, Ms Urvashi Gulati, for posting her as an Additional Secretary. However, she is unlikely to move to Delhi in view of the state government’s refusal to relieve her from Haryana. |
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207 loans sanctioned for purchase of vehicles
Chandigarh, April 6 He has qualified for a loan from the Haryana Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation (HSFDC) to purchase a 10-seater Jeep to ferry passengers under a scheme that has been revived after a gap of over four years. And, like him, 74 others have also been selected for a similar loan under the sanctioned Rs 8.09 crore released by the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC). The scheme aims at uplifting the socio-economic status of the SCs in the state and has sanctioned 207 loans to purchase various types of transport vehicles. "We invited applications in four categories, auto rickshaws, light commercial vehicles, car taxis and Jeeps. We got over 300 applications and the maximum response came for Jeeps with 113 applications for it. Seventyfive loans to the tune of Rs 3.66 crore have been sanctioned for the same," Mr Dhanpat Singh, Managing Director of the HSFDC, said. The Transport Department, owing to certain constraints and objections, had suspended issuing licences for maxi-cabs and 10-seater jeeps. "We have had a meeting on the issue and the department has agreed to revive licences for plying of jeeps. Since it is a good source of income, the people too were very enthusiastic about the decision to extend loaning facility for them," he maintained. During the scrutiny of applications, the department found a number of post-graduates and graduates applying for the loans. These will now be disbursed in two phases over the next one month. Loans are sanctioned to applicants in the age group of 18 to 45 years with annual income less than Rs 40,000 in the rural areas and Rs 55,000 in the urban areas. The change, however, is that against the 6 per cent rate of interest charged earlier, the loans will be recovered at 5 per cent interest rate per annum. "While all central government-assisted schemes were available at 6 per cent rate of interest, the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, last December, announced that all loans to SCs, OBCs, physically handicapped and minorities should be given loans at 1 per cent lower rate of interest which has been implemented," the Director held. |
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Haryana tax on school buses stayed
Chandigarh, April 6 Taking up the petition filed by the Principal of Tagore Bal Niketan Senior Secondary School, Karnal, and 19 other school principals, the Bench comprising Mr Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Mr Justice S.D. Anand also issued notice for May 30 to the Haryana Transport Commissioner and others. In their petition, schools have sought directions to the respondents to quash the passenger tax on the buses ferrying schoolchildren, saying that only students and not passengers were being transported through these vehicles. A similar petition by some schools of Faridabad and other places is already pending before the High Court. |
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Gang of snatchers active in Yamunanagar
Yamunanagar, April 6 A former employee of Balarpur Industries Limited, Mr Ramji, lost Rs 2.10 lakh when miscreants stole a bag containing the money, which he had withdrawn from a branch of Punjab National Bank here today. He had got the amount under the voluntary retirement scheme of the company. Mr Ramji withdrew the money from the bank to deposit it in a post-office scheme. He kept the money in a bag and went to the local “sabzi mandi” on his bicycle to purchase vegetables. While he was picking some vegetable, his bag disappeared. He reported the matter to the police, but it is yet to register an FIR in the incident. This is the fourth incident in the past 11 days when money withdrawn from various banks has been stolen or snatched. Police sources did not rule out involvement of a gang behind such incidents. A senior official told The Tribune that it appeared that the members of the gang would randomly select banks and then post themselves at various locations to locate their target. They would follow their target and at the very first opportunity they would strike. On April 4, the dickey of the scooter of a trader was broken and Rs 63,000 lying in it was stolen. The trader had withdrawn the money from a bank. In a similar theft, a trader lost Rs 1.70 lakh near the police station (city) on March 29. A sum of Rs 1.60 lakh was snatched from an employee of a trader on March 26 near the Canal Rest House. In this case, too, the amount had been withdrawn from a bank. |
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Hooda to attend Rasam Pagri
Chandigarh, April 6 The release added that the Haryana Minister of State for Forests, Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Ms Kiran Choudhary, reviewed the arrangements for the prayer meeting today. A number of ministers, including members of the Union Cabinet and as well as MPs and MLAs would attend the Rasam Pagri. |
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Leadership camp to be held at Golden Public School
Ambala, April 6 Mr Aashwin Bansal, project chairman, said the camp would be held from April 7 to 9 on the Golden Public School campus. He said this was a first ever training workshop of its kind being held here. As many as 30 selected children from various schools of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Chandigarh will participate in the camp. Five children from this camp will be selected to further participate in another JCI India’s national training workshop to be held next month in Mysore. Both the workshops are free for children. The issues which will be taken up in the camp, include India 2020, knowing thyself, goal setting, eternal values, motivation and success drives, leadership, creativity, human relations, human rights and civic sense, study skills, effective communications, sound mind in a sound body, career opportunities, career options and facing challenges. |
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All set for Rajnath Singh’s yatra: Bajwa
Ambala, April 6 Mr Bajwa is in charge of the BJP’s nine-member security team of Mr Rajnath Singh’s yatra. Mr Bajwa said the yatra would culminate on May 10 at Ramlila ground in New Delhi. He said Mr Rajnath Singh would begin his yatra by offering prayers at Lord Jagannath Puri temple. Thereafter, the yatra would pass through Talcher, Raikila, Rafegarh, Jashpur, Ranchi, Gaya, Patna and reach Gopalganj on April 15. Then, on April 19, the yatra will begin from Allahabad and pass through Bachnama, Khiri Lakhimpur, Pilibhit, Kashipur, Dehradun, Shimla, Bilaspur, Udhampur and reach Pathankot on April 30. The yatra will leave Amritsar on May 4 and pass through Ludhiana, Abohar, Hanumangarh, Bikaner, Sikar, Hisar and reach Rohtak on May 9. Then it will proceed for Delhi. |
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Group clash over piece of land
Ambala, April 6 A villager, Gurnam Singh, sustained injuries during the altercation ,which followed the firing. He was admitted to Civil Hospital, Ambala City. He was later referred to the PGI, Chandigarh. The dispute was over a plot of 10 -kanal land. While Gurnam Singh and his brothers claimed ownership of the land, the other group, too, staked its claim over the land. |
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Youth shot
Jhajjar, April 6 According to the police, three youths, two of them identified as Naseeb of Suhra village and Babloo of Khudan village, arrived in the fields. They fired three shots at Sandeep from a close range an fled on their scooter. |
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