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Birender in land row Lone woman teacher mans middle school Ahirwal villagers’ supports SEZ Protest against villager’s death APO nabbed on graft charge INSO to launch agitation over quota issue |
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Transfer order stayed 8-hr power cut Two caught taking bribe
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Birender in land row Rohtak, July 17 The plot is located near the Chhotu Ram chowk here and the residential property located on a part of the plot is famous as Neeli Kothi because of its blue facade. On the night of July 1 supporters of the minister hired a JCB machine, demolished a part of the boundary wall of the property to take it inside and then demolished the backside walls of several shops that are located on the plot. This created an uproar as the affected shopkeepers rushed from their homes to the plot and sought the intervention of the local administration. Leaders of traders’ organisations contacted Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda after which the administration allowed the shopkeepers to raise the demolished walls again. Politically, the most damaging part came when Mr Birender Singh’s supporters began a campaign to garner support in the name of late Sir Chhotu Ram. They began holding meetings for support, saying that the sentiments of thousands of admirers of the late leader were attached to this property and getting the shops vacated was therefore justified. This evoked sharp reactions from the people of the area. The general opinion was that if the land were to be used for setting up a memorial, it would be proper to get the shops vacated, though not by force. But to replace the shops with a petrol station was no tribute to the leader. Mr Ashok Kaka and Mr Jagdish Kapur, president and general secretary of the local traders’ association, said had the minister planned a memorial they would have helped him in persuading the shopkeepers to shift elsewhere. But replacing shops by a petrol station by using force was unacceptable, they added. Mr Manmohan Azad, a son of Haryana Freedom Fighters Samman Samiti chief Puran Chand Azad, who is also one of the affected shopkeepers said they were ready to vacate the shops in case the minister himself or the government builds a suitable memorial here. Politically too the move was ill timed. It came at a time when former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal was raising a banner of revolt against the Chief Minister by resigning as Haryana Congress chief. Mr Birender Singh had in 1991 played an important role in getting Mr Bhajan Lal installed as Chief Minister, a move that did not go down well with the Jat community. The campaign launched by his supporters at this particular juncture was again viewed in this Jat heartland as one intended to help Mr Bhajan Lal. Even as the controversy rages, the shopkeepers have obtained a stay order against their eviction. But the political damage has been done. |
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Lone woman teacher mans middle school Asrawan (Hisar), July 17 Since there is no clerk in the school and the peon has been suspended, the lone woman teacher posted here has to fulfill other responsibilities like making admissions, handling the official mail, locking the school premises etc. The only help she has got is a woman sweeper, From March 7 to June 19, the only teacher posted at the school was a Drawing mistress, Ms Santosh Kumari. In the summer vacation, even she was transferred to some other school, leaving the school sans any teacher. Seeing the situation, a teacher from the Government Senior Secondary School in the village was deployed in the middle school after the vacation was over. A S.S. mistress, Ms Saroj Kumari, was recently posted in the school, while the posts of science teacher, Sanskrit and Hindi teacher, PT teacher and drawing teacher are vacant. The results were bound to suffer in such a situation. Of the nearly 20 girls of the school who appeared in the Class VIII exams, only four passed. Fifty-nine girls are enrolled in the school, which meets requirement to the students of VI, VII and VIII classes. The social studies teacher, who was transferred to the school, is running the show single-handedly. Repeated requests of the village residents and panchayat members have failed to elicit favourable favorable action from the authorities concerned. “All our requests for adequate staff at the school have fallen on deaf ears,” says Mr Bhoop Singh, a former sarpanch and block samiti member. He maintains that due to the prevailing situation and poor results, many students were turning to private schools. As the semester system has been introduced in government schools, the September examination are round the corner and in the absence of subject teachers, hapless students do not know whom to look to for preparation. |
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Ahirwal villagers’ supports SEZ Khandsa (Gurgaon), July 17 The panchayat cautioned the “outside” forces not to misuse the name of Khandsa and other villages of the Ahirwal belt regarding their campaign against the SEZ. The meeting, held under the banner of the All-India Kisan Mazdoor Mahashakti Sangathan, was attended by about 250 participants. Chaudhary Deva Singh, president of “Jharsa-360”, a cluster of villages around Jharsa and the sarpanch of Khandsa village, Mr Udaivir Singh, took part in the meeting. The meeting was presided over by a Congress leader and president of the sangathan. The panchayat also cautioned those forces which had been burning the effigies of the general secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) and in charge of Congress affairs in Haryana, Mr Janardhan Dwivedi, in various parts of the state for the past few days. It was an open secret that supporters of a former Chief Minister and Congress rebel leader, Mr Bhajan Lal, were indulging in such activities, speakers alleged. The participants openly named Mr Kuldip Bishnoi, a son of Mr Bhajan Lal, who is scheduled to undertake “yatra” in some villages starting from Khandsa, which will perhaps be the entry point of the SEZ. The speakers said this was the best thing that could have happened for the farmers of the area. They said it would boost infrastructural growth, push up industrialisation, open avenues for job and go a long way in appreciating the value of their agricultural land.
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Protest against villager’s death Sonepat, July 17 The DC and the SP met the villagers and ordered a CIA inquiry into the incident and transfer of the Station House Officer of Mohana police station. In the complaint, the villagers alleged that Karan Singh had taken about Rs 130 lakh from Ram Niwas Mahajan of the village some time back. After the natural death of Ram Niwas about a month back, his family members demanded return of the amount but Karan Singh could not repay the loan on July 14, the date fixed by the village panchayat. The villagers have further alleged that Karan Singh was taken in custody by the police on July 14 evening and his body was found lying on the hospital premises. It is alleged in the complaint that the post-mortem report confirmed that the death had been caused due to suffocation. |
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APO nabbed on graft charge Hisar, July 17 The action was taken on a complaint lodged by Mr Surender Kumar of Rattia, who had alleged that the official was demanding the amount for clearing some bills of pipes in connection with a watershed scheme for the Khai and Lalli panchayats. |
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INSO to launch agitation over quota issue Chandigarh, July 17 In a statement issued here today the leader in charge of the Haryana unit of the INSO, Mr Randhir Singh, described the Haryana Government’s decision in this regard as “anti-Haryana” and demanded its immediate revocation. He alleged that the government had sold Haryana’s interests to the owners of private professional colleges. The students of Haryana would be deprived of admission to their own state’s professional colleges. He said Haryana was the only state in the country where this quota had been abolished. The INSO leader claimed that students were angry with the government because of this decision.
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Transfer order stayed Chandigarh, July 17 The petitioner, Ms Suman, has been asked to make a representation to the concerned authorities within two weeks. The department would then take a decision in the matter within two weeks after the receipt of the representation. In the meanwhile, the petitioner would not be relieved, the order said. A large number of JBT teachers have been affected by the state government order which had earlier offered to allow posting in the home districts to the JBT teachers. Options had been sought from the teachers and several benefited from this step of the state government. However, in a sudden move, on July 13, the Director, Elementary Education, Haryana, issued single-line orders, cancelling all transfers, causing hardships to all those who had moved to places of their preference. Arguing for his client, the counsel for the petitioner told the court that many of the transferred teachers had even been relived from their old posts to enable them to join at the place where they had been transferred. |
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8-hr power cut Chandigarh, July 17 These feeders in areas of the Operation Circles of Hisar, Narnaul, Ambala, Sirsa, Jind, Rohtak and Faridabad will be switched off from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Such feeders in areas of the Operation Circles of Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Karnal Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar and Sonepat will be switched off from 10.15 p.m. to 6.15 a.m. A spokesman for the utilities said here today that the industries, however, would be given supply for lighting purposes during the hours of the power cut. This would be limited to 5 per cent of the normal load of each feeder. |
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Two caught taking bribe Ambala, July 17 According to information, Surender Kumar of Dhurakra had filed a complaint with the DIG of the bureau that a case under Sections 107 and 151 against him was pending in the court of the DDPO-cum-Executive Magistrate. A clerk and a peon of the office had been demanding Rs 500 from him to get the case settled. The DIG had constituted a raiding party, which nabbed both officials red-handed accepting the bribe. A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against them. |
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