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Civic amenities hit hard
Surjewala seeks special girdawari
Meet of Secretaries of Legislative Bodies
Women yet to make their mark
VDS introduced for power consumers
Undertrial’s men open fire on cops
Bhaniarawala gets 3-year jail
Accused of cheating, youth commits suicide
HCS officer booked on woman’s complaint
Army recruitment rally to be held at Jhajjar
State police to
recruit 8,000 personnel
Panipat to be rid of encroachments
Policy on livestock on anvil
Absence of defence
witnesses not to be taken lightly: Court
Teachers’ spat: Two dons get interim bail
Haryana Review revived
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Yamuna above danger mark, red alert sounded
Karnal, September 20 Heavy rain in the catchment area of Yamuna during the past 48 hours had suddenly increased the water level, necessitating the release of water from Hathnikund barrage of Tajewala Head. The water level is continuously rising and the discharge has reached 3.80 lakh cusecs, as against the high flood level of 2.50 lakh cusecs. An alert has been sounded by the administration asking people to move to safer places. The level had crossed 4-lakh cusecs mark in 1998, leading to the worst-ever floods in the area. The flood waters have already submerged Lakhar village in Yamunanagar and Chandro, Hansumajara, Nagli, Nabibabad, Sayeed Chhapra and Shergarh Tapu in Karnal district, and several other villages are under threat. The superintending engineer (irrigation) M.K. Ahuja said the low-lying villages like Mundigarhi, Behlolpur, Devipur, Nasipur, Mustafabad, Peer Badli, Bladara, Jammu Kalan, Dabkoli Kalan, Halwana, Kundu Kalan, Khirajpur and some other villages in Karnal, and Bharoma, Nangalpar, Budanpur, Bilaspur, Goelakhurd, Tamsabad, Goelo Kalan, Rana Majara, Sonali Khurd, Jalmana, Rakshera and adjoining villages of Panipat district are under immediate threat. Sources at the Central Water Commission said all flood control stations have been informed and the situation is being constantly monitored. He said the flow of water takes 14 hours to reach Karnal, another 10 hours to cross Panipat and 36 hours to enter Delhi. Sources added that the danger levels at Mawi, near Panipat, and Delhi were 228.04 mts and 202.36 mts which were expected to rise to 230.85 mts and 204.83 mts, respectively, around 2.5 mts above the danger mark. Deputy commissioner B.S. Malik said senior officials, including executive engineers and revenue officers, have been rushed to the affected areas for relief and rescue operations. The teams are equipped with boats, life jackets, medicines etc. A team of doctors has also been despatched to these areas. Yamunanagar: Several low-lying villages of the district were inundated by the Yamuna, even as the water level continues to rise. The administration has sounded a red alert and evacuated residents of six villages where the ravaging river has engulfed fields and houses. Power supply to the affected villages has also been shut down to avoid further threat, although alternate arrangements through generators and other means has been made. Widespread damage has been caused in Unheri, Lal Chapar, Bhilpura, Kanyawali, Lakar Navajpur villages of the district. Senior officials, including deputy commissioner Mohammad Shayim and additional deputy commissioner Narender Singh, have visited the affected villages to monitor the situation and rescue work. Sonepat: The district magistrate Ajit Joshi has sounded a red alert in the areas adjoining the Yamuna basin in the district. This is the first time after 1995 that such a huge volume of water has been released into the river and it is expected to reach the district around noon tomorrow, said an official spokesperson. He said villagers of Gannaur and Sonepat sub-divisions have been asked to vacate the low-lying areas and take shelter at safer places. All the executive engineers, SDEs, tehsildars, DSPs, SHOs and BDPOs have been put on round-the-clock duty and necessary arrangements were being made to meet any emergency. |
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Rain Fury
Jind, September 20 The incident took place at around 3 am when the family of Rajender Singh were asleep in their house. A major part of the debris fell on Rajender’s daughter Saroj, who died on the spot. Others escaped with minor injuries, said Ramesh Khatkar, sarpanch of the village. Saroj was cremated in the afternoon today. Khatkar said the neighbours rushed to help the family members after hearing their cries. Senior officials, including the Tehsildar and BDPO, reached the spot and assured the family all help. Meanwhile, heavy rain has lashed the area during the past 24 hours causing damage to many buildings. While 106 mm was recorded in Jind subdivision, over 60 mm of rainfall was received in Narwana, Safidon and Julana areas of the district. Sonepat: One-and-a-half year old, Rahul, died on the spot and three others, including his father Satish, sister Preeti and their neighbour’s daughter, Pushpa, were seriously injured when the roof of their house in village Butana of the district collapsed this morning. The injured, who were first brought to CHC Gohana by the villagers, were referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak, later. They have reportedly suffered fractures in various parts of the body. After postmortem at CHC Gohana, the body of Rahul has been handed over to family members. Karnal: A 45-yr-old woman died when the roof of her house, in village Khera Chappra, collapsed following heavy rains. The deceased was identified as Leela Devi. |
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Civic amenities hit hard
Rewari, September 20 Even the three kilometre long renovated stretch of the Delhi road, from canal pump house to the Dharuhera
Chowk, was washed off apparently exposing the inferiority of the material used in the repair work last week. Owing to accumulation of huge quantities of water, the city’s waterworks at the Dharuhera Chowk became almost inoperative. The civil hospital and Haryana roadways bus stand were also waterlogged. Heavy rain also affected the power supply, which remained disrupted in most parts of the district. Shiv Nagar colony on the Delhi road area was the worst affected and electricity remained suspended for almost 36 hours here. Seepage of rainwater also affected the underground telephone network owing to which services on the Delhi road remained non-functional for over 24 hours. Incessant rain played havoc in the grain markets of the district as well. While a large number of bajra bags lying in the open grain markets of Rewari and Bawal got drenched, over one lakh quintals of
bajra, lying in the open at the grain market at Kosli, was badly damaged, causing enormous losses to the farmers. Rainwater also flooded fields and approach roads in
Pranpura, Bas Batodi and Mundi villages, near Rewari. |
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Surjewala seeks special girdawari
Kaithal, September 20 Addressing a press conference here today, he said between 200 and 250 mm of rain had been reported from various parts of the state. He said the bajra crop had suffered the “most serious” damage while major damage had been reported to cotton and pulses. The paddy crop, which was ready for harvesting, had also suffered damage. Surjewala, who is also the MLA from Kaithal, said adequate compensation should be given to farmers immediately after the assessment of the loss. The paddy crop which the farmers had already brought and dumped in mandis had suffered huge damage. He said the Sirsa branch canal had been linked with the drain on the Jind road to thwart any possibility of floods in Kaithal town and the surrounding villages. He said the public health department was making all-out efforts to drain out water from low-lying areas. |
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Meet of Secretaries of Legislative Bodies
Chandigarh, September 20 Everything from misconduct by a member, the use and misuse of the Right to Information Act, the consensus of political parties against withdrawal of reference to go into malaise of disruptions in the House, the fact-finding committee to influence voting during the UPA trust vote found mention as he shared his experiences. While referring to the initiatives taken by Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, he said a round-table discussion on “strengthening parliamentary democracy” was organised recently and the next such discussion would be held on October 1 in Parliament. Achary said it had been decided to introduce six scholarships per year from this year for the benefit of meritorious wards of low-paid employees of Parliament. These scholarships aimed at bearing tuition fee of students who gained admission to engineering colleges or such professional colleges. A colourful hi-tech children’s corner has been set up in Parliament Library Building, which has benefited over 300 children from underprivileged section of the society.
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Women yet to make their mark
Chandigarh, September 20 From among the 34 participating presiding officers of legislative councils and assemblies, there are only two women among the Speakers and secretaries attending the all-India conference. While Rajasthan legislative assembly Speaker Sumitra Singh is the lone representative of the fairer sex in her category, W.M. Rymbai is the lone woman secretary from the Meghalaya legislative assembly. Speaking to TNS, Sumitra attributed the “lack of interest of political parties” in selecting a woman Speaker to inexperience. “A Speaker must be very thorough with the rules and working of the House which only comes with experience. I have been elected to the House nine times and have been on the post of Speaker for the past over four years. Experience counts a lot in conducting the proceedings of the House and many women in the state legislatures have not had very long innings,” she stated. On the sidelines of the conference, Rymbai has gradually gone up the ladder and been made secretary. Since the appointment is essentially a career promotion where only seniority counts, there are fewer women, she says. Rymbai adds that it is high time merit must be given recognition so that more women can make it as secretaries. “Women have to balance between home and work and sometimes, that takes a toll on seniority. That is probably why there are fewer women in this category,” she explains. While Parliament mulls over the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women, there is scope to extend this reservation-debate to other areas of legislative working also. |
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VDS introduced for power consumers
Hisar, September 20 A spokesman for the DHBVN said here that under the VDS, the farmers who had raised the capacity of their motors without permission could declare the same voluntarily in the office of the assistant general manager, operation, concerned by submitting an “application and agreement” form. Their load would be regularised without imposition of penalty. However, consumers would have to deposit advance consumption security and submit a test report for the extended load. Under the scheme, the farmers who had extended existing electricity supply to new bores could declare the extension voluntarily. In such cases, they would not be booked for unauthorised consumption of power. Yamunanagar: The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has introduced the voluntary disclosure of load scheme for domestic, non-domestic, agricultural (tubewell) and industrial consumers and decided that no penalties will be imposed on consumers for the regularisation of their unauthorised load till October 31. The procedure for the regularisation of unauthorised load has been simplified and consumers will have to give an undertaking that they will abide by the terms and conditions governing power supply. For the regularisation of extended load up to an extension of 20 kW, there will be no need to submit a test report. The extended load will be regularised after obtaining the necessary certificates from the consumers. They will be required to deposit the “consumption security”, fixed connection charges and the extended load shall be considered as regularised immediately, said a UHBVN official. |
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Undertrial’s men open fire on cops
Faridabad, September 20 ASI Omkar Singh was hit on the shoulder and his condition is stated to be critical. He has been admitted to the local Escorts Hospital. The other two policemen were injured in a “physical battle” with the criminals. The criminals escaped after the incident. Their intention was reportedly to help the undertrial, wanted in four states, including Haryana, flee. According to sources, the criminals used country-made firearms. The policemen, however, ensured that the undertrial did not escape. The incident occurred when the policemen were having lunch at an eatery on the Agra-Delhi National Highway after producing the undertrial in a local court. They were en route to Mathura. The criminals came to the spot in two vehicles and opened fire from close range on the policemen. The local police arrived on the scene, but by that time the criminals had fled. The undertrial, Aditya, had surrendered before the Faridabad police a few months ago. He was wanted in a murder case in Ballabgarh. He was lodged in Bhondsi jail in Gurgaon. The Mathura police had taken him on remand to Uttar Pradesh. He had been brought by it here to appear before a local court. The police has launched a manhunt to arrest the criminals. |
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Bhaniarawala gets 3-year jail
Ambala, September 20 Later, the court granted bail to Bhaniarawala and the other accused on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 25,000 each. The others who were granted bail are Harjinder, Lakshman, Gurcharan, Surmukh and Jasmer. This case, along with six other cases, was transferred to the Ambala court on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court a few years ago. A few cases pertaining to a charge of hurting the religious sentiments of a community are pending against Bhaniarawala in Ambala courts. According to the prosecution, Kamaljeet Singh, a resident of Noorpur Bedi, had filed a complaint with the police that Bhaniarawala and his five accomplices had beaten him up when he tried to rescue Darshan Singh whom they were allegedly thrashing. On his complaint, the police had registered a case against Bhaniarawala and the five others. Bhaniarawala had hit the headlines during the previous Akali regime when a number of cases were registered against him for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of the Sikh community. Three years ago, an attempt was made on his life in Ambala City while he was coming out of the court. |
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Accused of cheating, youth commits suicide
Gurgaon, September 20 The deceased, identified as Manish, was a student of Government High School, Harsaru village, near here. He was the youngest of three sons of a hand pump mechanic Hoshiar Singh. Today he had appeared in the first semester test of physical education paper at the examination centre in Government Senior Secondary School, Garhi. However, a case of cheating was made against him. Disturbed by this, while on the way back he threw himself in front of a train, around 250 metres from Garhi railway station. His body was first noticed by a passerby, Dinesh Aggarwal, at around 1.30 pm. The station master was immediately informed, but the GRP party comprising ASI Varinder and a constable from Gurgaon, reached the spot after three hours. Three trains passed on the track in the meantime. Later, the ASI said they recovered the suicide note in which the deceased held the Garhi school principal Rajinder Prasad Verma responsible for the suicide. Meanwhile, a large number of people including the deceased's family, relatives and residents of Harsaru and Garhi gathered at the spot. Aggarwal, who had first noticed the body, alleged that it was criminal on the part of the railway authorities to allow passage of trains over the body despite being informed. Angry over delay in lifting the body as well as in initiating action against the principal, the protesters, led by Aggarwal, did not allow any train to pass on the track for some time. The ASI said a case was being registered against the principal. |
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Rohtak Couple’s Murder
Rohtak, September 20 The Suhags were gunned down by two youths, who had visited their house located on the Sonepat road along with their son’s mother-in-law Bimla. The murder took place on November 5, 2004. Naresh, who used to work at Suhags’ house as a domestic help, later stated in court that he had seen Bimla signalling the youths to open fire at the Suhag couple. The police investigation into the matter also revealed that Bimla had plotted to get her daughter’s in-laws killed with the help of supari (hired) criminals. The supari killers were identified as Rajesh Mogli and Mahabir Don. Of these, Mogli was arrested by the police. Bimla surrendered before the court. Earlier, Suhags’ son Anil had been jailed in connection with his wife’s death. Following this, Bimla apparently hatched a conspiracy to avenge her daughter’s death and to grab the prime property of the Suhags. Pronouncing the sentence today, the court of ADSJ Ajay Kumar Sharda awarded life term to Bimla as well as Rajesh Mogli; and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of them. |
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HCS officer booked on woman’s complaint
Sonepat, September 20 The complainant has alleged that she met Virender Sehrawat in Janaury 2007 in connection with some “domestic work” and during her meetings with him, he proposed to marry her, stating that he was seeking a divorce from his wife. She alleged that Virender Sehrawat even tried to molest her. She alleged that she received calls from his brother Narender, who threatened her that if she complained against Virender, her photographs would be misused on the Internet. An inquiry into the complaint has been handed over to DSP Badri Prasad. Virender Sehrawat, who is the GM, Haryana Roadways, Karnal, said Vishu Phogat was in the habit of lodging false complaints. She had lodged a complaint against him in Panipat also when he was the SDM, Samalkha, but her allegations were found baseless during an inquiry. |
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Army recruitment rally to be held at Jhajjar
Rohtak, September 20 This was stated by Col D.K. Deshmukh, director (recruitment), at a news conference held at the Army Recruiting Office here yesterday. "The rally, which aims at recruiting soldier clerks and storekeepers (technical) from all districts of Haryana, except Gurgaon and Faridabad, will be held at the New Police Lines Ground at Jhajjar," he said. Colonel Deshmukh said the aspirants would be subjected to various stringent screening tests, including the physical fitness test and medical examination. "The selected candidates will be required to appear in the Common Entrance Examination on October 30," he said. The director appealed to the people to beware of touts and antisocial elements. "Touts cannot help a candidate in any way as the recruitment will be made strictly on merit," he maintained. Releasing the recruitment schedule,he said the recruitment for the soldier clerk and storekeeper (technical) categories for candidates belonging to Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Chandigarh would be held on October 1 and for candidates belonging to Hisar, Jind, Kaithal, Fatehabad and Sirsa districts on October 2. Candidates belonging to Panipat, Sonepat, Jhajjar and Rohtak districts would attend the rally on October 3, while the screening for the candidates belonging to Bhiwani, Rewari and Mahendragarh districts would be held on October 4. The medical examination would be held on the last day of the rally on October 5, he added. |
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State police to
recruit 8,000 personnel
Chandigarh, September 20 Dalal said in the first phase to provide residential complexes equipped with modern facilities to the police personnel, as many as 1,400 new houses would be built at a cost of Rs 75 crore at Gurgaon, Faridabad and Rewari for those deputed at the National Capital Region. He said Rs 60 crore would be spent for the residential complex in the Police Training Centre to be built at village Sunaria, Rohtak, and Rs 10 crore would be spent on office buildings of the same centre.
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Panipat to be rid of encroachments
Panipat, September 20 Deputy commissioner Vijay Singh Dahiya said the administration was aware of the traffic snarls being faced by city residents and the main reason behind this was encroachments. He said the administration had identified certain areas in the city where traffic problems were grave. These included the Sanoli road, the Asand road, the Railway road and the Salarganj road. He said the administration was asking the locals to remove the encroachments of their own, but in case these were not removed soon, the administration would adopt a stringent stance against these. In July, the administration had launched an anti-encroachment drive to get the city rid of encroachments. The administration had prepared a list of offenders who had encroached upon government land across the city. The administration had served the violators with notices to remove the encroachments or face action. However, the drive failed to yield any results and thus the administration has decided to re-launch it. According to the list of offenders, there is hardly any shop in the city that has not encroached upon government land. Even reputed commercial establishments on the NH-1 have been listed as offenders in the list. Besides, the administration has also proposed to set up a traffic park in the city. The deputy commissioner said the main objective of setting up this park was to make it more convenient for the local population to get their driving licences made. |
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Policy on livestock on anvil
Karnal, September 20 Bandopadhyay, who is here for a two-day workshop on “Effects of climate change on livestock”, said milk and poultry products had great export potential and it was necessary to remain updated on the technical front so as to compete in international markets. The need for evolving new technologies to check emission of greenhouse gases like methane was highlighted at the two-day workshop, which commenced here today. In his keynote address, K.M. Bujarbaruah, deputy director-general (animal sciences), ICAR, said researchers had come up with a fungi, cuyluleamices, that helped in animal digestion and a protein, HSB 70, had also been developed which absorbed the heat in animals and helped in reducing methane emission by animals. Other practices like building of animal houses with more air space by raising the platform and allowing a natural “cooling system” for the animals needed to be adopted. For this purpose, a Rs 9.5 crore pilot project had been sanctioned to the National Dairy Development Institute for research and experimentation, he said. Serious concern was expressed over the large-scale emission of methane by animal excreta, especially cows and buffaloes, by NDRI director A.K. Srivastav. Around 150 farm scientists and environmental experts, including 14 heads of different research institutions, from various parts of the country are participating in the workshop. |
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Absence of defence
witnesses not to be taken lightly: Court
Chandigarh, September 20 The court added that the plea for another date in the case had been opposed. The case was posted to October 20 for the defence witnesses to come, subject to the cost of Rs 500, which was to be paid by the contesting defendants in equal share. If allegations levelled in the civil suit filed and subsequent communications to the Punjab and Haryana High Court are to be believed, the Haryana police had subverted the legal process in 1994 for harassing Geeta Sabhlok’s family. She along with her three children had asserted that a false complaint was filed against them in a court by a person interested in their business. Even though the court did not order the registration of a criminal case, the police registered an FIR on April 8, 1994, she claimed. Going into the background, the applicant had claimed they agreed to expand the business by entering into a partnership. For the purpose, necessary documents were signed. After receiving the signed documents, the businessman did not make any payment. Rather, he allegedly entered into a conspiracy with a DSP and others and filed a false complaint against them. The applicant added that the police presented the challan after about six months, but necessary documents, including the original partnership deed, were not a part of it. They were, subsequently, acquitted on October 30, 2000. The state, on the other hand, added a new dimension to the issue by claiming it could not be held responsible for action of its employees, if the same was not bona fide. The DSP added the state protects its employees for lawful and bona fide action, not for illegal action committed by them in the discharge of their public duty. If an ASI acted illegally in the matter, he himself was liable and not the state. In any case, there was nothing on record to show he acted illegally. |
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Teachers’ spat: Two dons get interim bail
Sirsa, September 20 The court has issued notice to the police for September 24 and has stayed the arrest of the two teachers till then. The court has directed the two lecturers to join investigations as and when required by the police and has directed the police to release the two on bail, if arrested. Bajwa had lodged an FIR against the two under Sections 295-A, 452 and 323 of the IPC accusing them of barging into his house, beating him up, pulling his beard and crushing his turban under their shoes. The allegations had, however, been denied by the two teachers. In fact, they had levelled some serious charges against Bajwa. Meanwhile, a police party today visited the journalism and mass communication department of the university in connection with the investigation into the case, but was informed that Bajwa has proceeded on leave for a few days. |
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Haryana Review revived
Chandigarh, September 20 Releasing the first issue, Hooda appreciated the efforts made by the department in bringing out the 56-page colourful journal with a new look. He said the journal would prove a link between the people and the government, and provide updated information to the people. The English monthly journal is full of illustrations and images depicting Haryana’s developmental strides and its culture and aims to record the momentous changes taking place in Haryanavi society. The September issue of Haryana Review has prominently projected Haryana’s triumph at the Beijing Olympics, where Bhiwani’s Vijender Singh clinched India’s first-ever bronze. It also carries a feature on Kaluwas village in Bhiwani district, which is the home of budding boxers. The cover story entitled “Gurgaon - the credible journey .....” by Haryana Review’s consulting editor Gobind Thukral is informative and highlights the reasons behind Gurgaon’s emergence as a show window of Haryana. |
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