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‘Only Gurgaon, not state, is flourishing’
Agricultural growth good but not enough: Birender
16 DSPs promoted
Villagers meet SP over framing of ‘innocent’
Mullana medico wins laurels
No-trust move against MC Dy chief fails
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2 teenagers consume poison, die
Airtel showroom burgled
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‘Only Gurgaon, not state, is flourishing’
Kurukshetra, December 28 He also clarified state’s economy was not growing in the “true sense”. Speaking at the special session on Haryana’s Economy organised on the 89th annual conference of the Indian Economic Association (IEA) at the Kurukshetra
University, here this afternoon, he said economic data prepared on the basis of development of Gurgaon, major IT hub, should not be considered a barometer of state’s overall growth. The
Finance Minister refused to read out the written speech, which he termed a piece of paper prepared by the Finance Department and some of the delegates. He was keen on speaking out his “own words.” He said Haryana’s contribution to national foodgrain stock was 30 per cent but no attention was paid to improve the condition of farmers. He said ground reality on the poor condition were neglected by the policy makers. Addressing economists from all over the country, he said it was only Gurgaon and not the rest of the state that was flourishing. He said over 95 per cent call centre jobs in Gurgaon were taken by the Delhiites and state’s youth was lagging behind. He admitted education system in the state was in the doldrums. He added about 12 per cent of the state’s budget went as salary for school
teachers which was not a healthy sign for education. He lamented the Haryana Agriculture University’s (HAU), Hisar for poor research work to help farmers. He said in the past 12 years, the university had failed to develop even a single seed, thus defeated the very purpose of it’s establishment. Prof K.C. Reddy, president, IEA, said agriculture was a way of life for India and SEZs had indeed become serious issue in several places
including West Bengal. He said small farmers were not being recognised by banks and exploited by the money lenders. The event turned out to be a mismanaged one as the KU authorities changed the venue and time at the last minute causing inconvenience to the participants. The IEA and KU authorities failed to provide any information to the media about other technical sessions held elsewhere on the KU campus. |
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Agricultural growth good but not enough: Birender
Kurukshetra, December 28 He agreed the GDP or the per capita income in Haryana had recorded phenomenal increase, yet this was not true indicator of a robust economy. The question to consider was how many people were benefited and who were the beneficiaries of the Gurgaon-like so-called “magical growth”? He said hailing from rural background he could feel what hard facts the farming community in Haryana faced in the midst of tall talks of economic resurgence. Although there was increase in agricultural growth, yet it was not as substantial as recorded by business and the industrial sectors. Therefore, the Minister said, he had his own version that the growth was not happening in the right direction. The agriculture sector was under increasing stress and fund’s inflow was much less than that of in the industrial sector, he added. He drew attention of the gathering to the fact that 80 per cent of the institutional finance from the banks was being made available to rich business sector leaving only a poor 20 per cent for agriculture sector. There was little provision of loans for the poor farmers’ daughter’s marriage or for his ward’s education. In a state where majority of farmers were under debt could not be deemed a prosperous state. He wondered why could not the waiving of farmer’s loan be considered favourably when Rs 1050 crore of loans of the Harshad Mehta brand could be written off without problem. On the setting up of SEZs, Mr Birender Singh made it clear that allotting farm land of the farmers to the investors was not a propitious proposition. We can not, he added, compare the phenomena to that of Karnataka where agricultural economy was not as much the backbone of the state as of Haryana. He also deplored that education system in Haryana, especially at the elementary level, was in the doldrums. One may paint very rosy picture of the educational growth and the budget being spent on it, but we also have to consider that we are not producing the right kind of professionals and skilled human resource suitable for the competitive job market. Even in Gurgaon, the percentage of Haryana youth in employment was poor four per cent. He urged the economists to pay heed to all these issues evolve a theory paving the way for the distribution of benefits of globalisation to the poor and farmers of the state. Prof. T.R. Kundu, Department of Economics, Kurukshetra University, apprised how recent years, Haryana’s Economy had undergone a significant change. Today, the tertiary sector, i.e. the services sector had come to occupy dominating position more than 50 per cent of the G.D.P. originating in this sector. Structural change in the course of development has followed the path of a shift from agricultural development to industrial development and then final to the development of the services sector. Rather sudden emergence of the services sector as the dominating sector of the economy raises a host of questions. Are our selling costs rising faster than our production costs ? Or is it the result of wrong classification of certain activities across the sectors. IEA president, K.C. Reddy, showed agreement that if a major sector of economy like the agriculture sector was bereft of benefits of growth, it did not present a very optimistic picture. He affirmed Haryana had recorded vital economic growth and most of us needed to learn a lot from the Haryana way of economy, he added.
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16 DSPs promoted
Chandigarh, December 28 Mr Baljit Singh has been posted as ASP, Sonepat. Mr Pat Ram Singh is the new ASP, CID. Mr Mohinder Singh will be Assistant Commandant, 1st IRB, Bhondsi, and Mr Sajjan Singh ASP, Rohtak. Mr Narinder Singh has been given the charge of ASP, Traffic, Gurgaon, while Mr Raj Kumar has been posted as Assistant Commandant, 2nd IRB, Bhondsi. Mr Ved Parkash will be ASP, Rewari, and Mr Anil Kumar ASP, Gurgaon. Mr Balbir Singh will be the Assistant Commandant, 3rd IRB, Bhondsi, Mr Hari Singh ASP,
Hisar, Mr Sahab Ram ASP, Jind, Mr Devi Dyal ASP, SVB, Rohtak, Mr Inder Singh ASP,CID, and Mr Maharaj Singh ASP, Faridabad. Mr Kulwinder Singh has been appointed as ASP, Ambala, while Mr Bijender Singh will work as ASP, CID. All these officers belong to the Haryana Police Service (HPS). |
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Villagers meet SP over framing of ‘innocent’
Fatehabad, December 28 Last week, a sub inspector of the same police station was accused of coercing a persons for bribe. The cop later was transferred to Bhondsi. Jagdish Jewellers of Jawahar Chowk here complained to the police against Satnam Singh from Karnoli village on November 11 alleging he had stolen gold and silver worth Rs 18 lakh from their shop. The police registered an FIR on November 18 in this regard and rounded up the accused. He later was let off. The police arrested the youth on December 19 and said 90 gm of stolen gold had been recovered from Sirsa. A deputation of villagers, which included sarpanches and lambardars, maintained Satnam was framed in the case due to enmity and even allegations of theft were doubtful. They alleged claims of the recovery of the stolen gold were doubtful as the accused and the complainant’s son had together gone to Sirsa in the car of the accused on the day, the police said recovery was made. They maintained Chanan Ram met Satnam near village Ding on December 19 and said they were friends and asked him to forget
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Mullana medico wins laurels
Chandigarh, December 28 Atul Sharma, who is a first year student of the Mullana college, has won the best scientific poster award at the four-day 32nd national conference of the Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India held in Kolkata from December 13. Dr Sharma’s paper was selected from among 127 posters chosen from all over the country and prepared by senior academicians, consultants and post-graduate students. Dr Sharma had presented a case study of a patient suffering from “vanishing mandible”, a rare bone disease, in which the bone of the lower jaw just vanishes within months. The reason is the disease is not known. The patient was 32-year-old Irfan, a migrant labourer from Bihar. The first such case was reported in the Boston Medical Journal in 1838. Since then only a few hundred such cases have been reported from the world over. Dr Sharma said since no cure was available, the patient was given radio therapy so that the disease did not spread to the other parts of the body. He said he was guided by Dr Nageshwar Iyer, a renowned specialist in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
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No-trust move against MC Dy chief fails
Hisar, December 28 The meeting was held under the supervision of City Magistrate Ashok Bansal. The vice-president of the council, was present at the meeting along with six council members, all of whom supported her. These, included former council president Arvind Kharinta. However, none of the councillors who had initiated the no-confidence move against Ms Arora was present at the meeting. Although a few councillors of the vice-president’s rival group reached the council premises, none of them attended the meeting.
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2 teenagers consume poison, die
Rohtak, December 28 Family sources said that Jaidev and Reena, both students of class XII and residents of the same village, consumed poison by mistake as they were ill for sometime. The police after registering a case and handed over the bodies after a post-mortem examination to their family members.
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Ambala, December 28 Mobile snatched
In another incident, three motorcycle borne youth snatched the mobile phone of an industrialist, Regal Bhatia, here today at noon. Two days earlier, two motorcycle borne youths had snatched the gold chain of a woman near the Old Civil Hospital Road, at Ambala City.
— OC
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SDO in judicial custody
Ambala, December
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8 held for cruelty to animals
Sirsa (Haryana), December 28 All arrested people, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, were booked under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, the police said. The police also impounded the two trucks in which the camels were allegedly being taken for slaughter.
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Yamunanagar, December 28 His body was found on the Radaur road near Bhavnagar this morning. There were no signs of injuries on the body and the police suspect it to be a case of death due to cold weather. — TNS
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