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Kin of Bhagat Singh asked to prove identity Hooda launches Overseas Placement Bureau Fake Agrofed chairman held |
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Kin of Bhagat Singh asked to prove identity Faridabad, July 1 Mr Babar Singh Sandhu, son of Kulbir Singh, younger brother of the Saheed-e- Azam, has been asked by a Zone Taxation Officer of the Municipal Corporation, here to furnish an attested copy of the certificate by the Union Government regarding his claim to be the kin of a freedom fighter to get exemption from house tax. The official is learnt to have turned down the copies of the documents submitted by Mr Sandhu so far, stating that these were not enough. The documents submitted to the MC include the copy of the list prepared by the district administration showing the relatives or dependents of the freedom fighters. The list mentions the names of Mr Babar Singh, his mother Kanta Devi at serial number- 38. The Haryana Government had announced to exempt the families and relatives of freedom fighters from the house tax in year 2003. The Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who had been the head of the All India Freedom Fighters Successors Association, had visited the house of Mr Sandhu in the NH-3 in NIT here recently to enquire about his health. Mr Sandhu’s father, Kulbir Singh, had actively taken part in the freedom struggle. Being involved in the freedom struggle along with elder brother Bhagat Singh, Kulbir Singh had disconnected a power line and had remained in jail for more than three times. He had observed a hunger strike in the jail for 63 days and was later hospitalised in 1943. Kulbir Singh was younger to Bhagat Singh but elder to three brothers Kultar Singh, Ranbir Singh and Rajinder Singh. Kulbir Singh, who had been the general secretary of the Punjab Kisan Mahasabha in 1937, had been accused of supplying secret information to the revolutionaries who had shifted to Punjab after Independence. The family, however, settled in Faridabad in 1955, where Kulbir Singh died in 1983. His wife breathed her last in 1992. Though the family of Mr Sandhu is invited at the annual Martyrs’ Day observed at Hussainiwala in Punjab each year, the state or the local administration hardly cares to honour the relative of Saheed-e- Azam at any important function. |
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Hooda launches Overseas Placement Bureau Sonepat, July 1 Claiming that Haryana was the first state in the country to announce its own industrial policy last year, Mr Hooda said now the government had decided to formulate a youth policy to channel their energy for the development of the state. Informing that more than 10 lakh youths had registered themselves with employment exchanges of the state, Mr Hooda said the problem would be tackled by providing quality education to them and inviting the industry to the state. Commenting on the poor quality of education in the state, the Chief Minister said more than 1.5 lakh people from New Delhi were working in the call centres at Gurgaon, as suitable candidates were not available in Haryana. Mr Hooda said keeping this in view the government had decided to reserve 25 per cent of seats in the educational institutions coming up at Rajiv Gandhi Education City being set up in Sonepat for students with domicile of Haryana on merit basis. Earlier, presiding over the function, Mr Birender Singh, Finance Minister and who holds the portfolio of Labour and Employment also, said NRIs from the state were sending merely Rs 50 crore every year while Punjab was getting more than Rs 1,500 crore. The Finance Minister said the setting up of the Overseas Placement Bureau would help more people from the state to migrate to foreign countries and protect youths from falling into the trap of travel agents. Besides informing, guiding and helping people about getting jobs in 16 countries, the bureau would serve the youths desiring of getting education in foreign universities also, informed Mr Birender Singh, adding that nothing would be charged for the services provided by the bureau. He said bank officials would remain present at the bureau office to guide students about education loan schemes to get education in foreign institutions. Prominent among others present on the occasion were Mr Anil Thakkar, Parliamentary Secretary and MLA, Sonepat, Mr Ramesh Kaushik, MLA, Rai, and Ms Promila Issar, Finance Commissioner of the Labour and Employment Department, Haryana. |
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Fake Agrofed chairman held Ambala, July 1 The Agrofed scam had rocked Ambala after it was found that Agrofed was not a “Government of India undertaking” as claimed by Sandhu. A large number of persons had been offered jobs by him in exchange for money. Agrofed offices had been opened in different districts of Haryana and other states. After the scam came to light, the offices were shut down and cases were registered. The scam involved granting employment in exchange for money. After the appointment letter was issued, the candidate would be asked to undertake medical examination from a government hospital and the candidate would be posted in an area far away from the district to which the candidate belonged. |
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