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Beri to be subdivision, Shahzadpur sub-tehsil
Indications of early Assembly elections
BJP okay with Chautala as CM
Rohtak to have national biotech institute
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Appoint own vigilance officers, govt dept heads told
RTI law will ‘change system of governance’
IMSAR spreads wings in Gurgaon
Anti-ragging panel at HAU
MC staff stage demonstration
Cops to monitor kanwarias’ movement
Gold medallist wrestler drowned
Suspension of roadways’ union chief decried
Man shot dead
Gang of motorcycle thieves busted
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Beri to be subdivision, Shahzadpur sub-tehsil
Chandigarh, July 13 The farmers of the state will benefit to the tune of over Rs 5 crore per annum. With a view to reducing the burden of ad valorem fees on litigants, the Cabinet decided to amend Schedule 1 to the Court Fees Act, 1870, and gave its approval to the Court Fees (Haryana Amendment) Ordinance, 2009. It was decided to establish a subdivision at Beri in Jhajjar district and create a sub-tehsil, Shahzadpur, in Ambala district. There will be 40 villages in Beri subdivision while Shahzadpur sub-tehsil will have 59 villages. The Cabinet also approved a proposal for granting state government guarantee for Rs 10 crore on behalf of the Mewat Development Agency, Nuh, in favour of the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation, New Delhi. Approval was granted for implementing 11 projects in public-private partnership in the Tourism Department while the IMT, Rohtak, was named after the late freedom fighter, Ch. Ranbir Singh. An increase in the unemployment allowance for educated unemployed persons, announced during the Budget session of the Vidhan Sabha, was also given the nod. Ex post facto approval to the proposal of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department for enhancing the rates of old age samman allowance, widow pension, handicapped pension, dwarfs’ allowance, eunuchs’ allowance and financial assistance to destitute children. The Cabinet gave its approval to the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Haryana Validation Ordinance, 2009. Two ordinances--- the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009, and the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009, were approved. The authorised share capital of the Haryana Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation was enhanced from Rs 40 crore to Rs 50 crore to further accelerate the economic development of the Scheduled Castes in the state. Women employees of non-government aided colleges, too, will get six months’ child adoption leave for adopting a child not exceeding one year of age and will be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave. A proposal to award the project for the development of the metro link from Delhi Metro Sikanderpur station to National Highway no. 8 in Gurgaon was also approved. A separate fund, the Service to the Poor Fund, will be created to deliver services to the poor and the inhabitants of slum areas in towns and cities. The fund will comprise all money raised by any rent, tax, fine, rate or cess on any person or any property situated in a slum area, grants for the development of slum areas, grants or gifts or deposits for service to the poor, among others. Sections 4 and 311 of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, has been amended to make provision to hold elections to a municipal corporation within a period of two years instead of one year from the date the corporation was constituted. Ex post facto approval was given to modalities for the execution of projects under the economic stimulus package of Haryana state and enhance both the honorarium and uniform allowance of village chowkidars from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 each per month. |
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Indications of early Assembly elections
Sampat likely to join
Cong Sources in the Congress said senior INLD leader Sampat Singh, who resigned from party posts on Sunday, was likely to join the Congress in the next two days
Chandigarh, July 13 Though talk of holding early elections in Haryana, along with those in Maharashtra, around the first week of October has been doing the rounds since the Lok Sabha results came out in which the Congress won nine of the 10 seats, the sops doled out at today’s Cabinet meeting come as the first hint of the likelihood of an early poll. While the Vidhan Sabha session is to be held within six months of the last session (the Budget session was held in February 2009) and was expected to be held around mid-August, its timing has not come as a surprise. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been repeatedly denying the holding of early elections in the state and maintaining that the poll will be held as per schedule in February next year. However, recently he had “softened” his stand and maintained that it was up to the Election Commission of India to fix the day Haryana goes to the polls. Besides, sources said that senior officers had already been informally briefed on hastening project implementation and trying to clear all pending issues by mid-August after which the model code is expected to come into force if early elections are on the cards. Sources said though there was no discussion on holding an early poll during the Cabinet meeting, the announcements made therein were “suggestive” of a poll being round the corner. The Cabinet approved the doubling of the exemption limit for paying stamp duty on mortgage deeds in favour of commercial banks, benefitting the farming community and the creation of a Service to the Poor Fund to deliver services to the inhabitants of slum areas. Women employees of non-government aided colleges were extended the benefit of child adoption leave while the Cabinet gave its approval to increased unemployment allowance for the educated unemployed nearly six months after it was announced in the Vidhan Sabha. The sources said the state unit of the Congress is particularly upbeat about the disarray in the Opposition where the INLD is fighting a battle of its own, the Bharatiya Janata Party is settling down under a new chief to re-draft its election strategy and the Haryana Janhit Congress-Bahujan Samaj Party combine is working out the nitty-gritty of seat sharing in the new alliance. |
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BJP okay with Chautala as CM
Rohtak, July 13 This was stated by newly elected president of the state BJP Krishan Pal Gurjar while speaking to mediapersons here today. A former minister in the Haryana Cabinet, Gurjar, who had remained Transport Minister and leader of the BJP legislature party, however, clarified that the leadership issue between the two parties was yet to be finalised. When asked about the number of seats to be contested by the BJP in the state assembly elections, he said leaders of the BJP and the INLD would together decide about the matter before the elections. Enumerating his aims and priorities, Gurjar, who represented the Mewla Maharajpur Assembly constituency in Faridabad district, said revamping the party organisation, maintaining discipline in the party, strengthening coordination between the workers of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents - the INLD and the BJP - and formation of the NDA government in Haryana would be the four main tasks before him. The BJP would organise district-level workers’ conferences in the state from July 18. The first conference would be held in Panchkula, he added. Criticising the Congress government in the state, he alleged that the government during its four and a half years rule had failed on all accounts. There was an acute shortage of power and water, crime graph was rising, corruption was rampant and the ruling party leaders had been promoting private builders, he said, adding that the government had no control over the administration and corrupt officials were ruling the roost. |
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Rohtak to have national biotech institute
Rohtak, July 13 This will be the first institute of its kind in the state and the fourth in the country. The institute will come up at Garnavathi village, about 15 km from here, where the government has already sanctioned the starting up of a new Indian Institute of Management (IIM). According to a spokesperson for the government, a team of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research visited the site recently and provided its nod for this ambitious project. The team consisted of national-level scientists and senior officials of the Haryana government. The institute would come up on an area of 200 acres and the main focus of research would be development of new plants varieties and their breeds. The state government had taken up the construction of a new bypass road from the area to provide an easy access to the institute. The institute would pave the way for facilities and avenues for professional and higher education in the field and open new avenues in job and research at national and international levels, claimed Prof Virender Singh, political adviser to the Chief Minister of
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Appoint own vigilance officers, govt dept heads told
Gurgaon, July 13 In a recent letter to the office and department heads, the Superintendent of Police of the State Vigilance Bureau (Gurgaon Range) Yogender Nehra has asked them to designate a Chief Vigilance Officer or Departmental Vigilance Officer in their offices. According to the instructions, the names of these officers, along with their contact numbers, addresses and email IDs, should be displayed on boards put up at prominent places near the main entrance of the offices. The idea behind the exercise is that any victim of corrupt practices at the hands of any official can bring the same to his notice. In addition, the services supposed to be provided by these officers for the prompt redress of grievances of the public should also be written in brief on this board. Nehra said the display board would also contain the names of the officers of the State Vigilance Bureau along with their telephones numbers. “Anybody from whom a bribe is demanded at any government office can inform the Director-General of the State Vigilance Bureau on number 0172-2571980. A complaint can also be made to Inspector-General of Police, State Vigilance Bureau (Gurgaon Range) Manjeet Singh Ahlawat on phone number 0124-2321428 or on his mobile number 09999981852 and to the Superintendent of Police, State Vigilance Bureau (Gurgaon Range), on numbers 0124-2223443 (office), 0124-2334222 (residence) or 09999884494 (mobile). The offices of the IGP and the SP of the State Vigilance Bureau (Gurgaon Range) are located in SCO 25, Sector 15, Part I, Gurgaon,” the letter states, adding that the Vigilance officers were available round the clock for conducting raids on corrupt officials. The names of the department vigilance officers along with their designation, address and contact numbers have to be sent to the office of the State Vigilance Bureau (Gurgaon Range) at the earliest. |
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RTI law will ‘change system of governance’
Hisar, July 13 Delivering the keynote address at a state-level workshop on the "Right to Information Act --- Experience so far and the Road Ahead" held at CCS Haryana Agricultural University here, he said the RTI law was landmark legislation which was bound to change the system of governance by bringing about transparency, efficiency and accountability apart from checking corruption. He said merely within three years of its institution, the RTI Commission had successfully brought awareness among the masses about their basic rights thereby changing their mindset. The workshop was organised by the Directorate of Human Resource Management of the university. It was attended by nearly 250 district-level officers and sarpanches and a host of senior government functionaries. Madhavan urged administrators and officers of academic and administrative institutions to make available on the Internet all information pertaining to the functioning of their institutions and update it regularly. He said Sweden was the first country to implement the RTI Act and that was why it was the least corrupt country in the world. He asked citizens to be aware of their rights and involve themselves in the functioning of schools, colleges, hospitals, post offices and other public institutions of their area. In his presidential address, Vice-Chancellor KS Khokhar said HAU public information officers were very responsive and adhered to the time-frame while disposing of applications made under the RTI Act. He said transparency in the varsity administration was a proof of the commitment to the RTI Act. |
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IMSAR spreads wings in Gurgaon
Gurgaon, July 13 “We have been running an MBA (International Business) programme at the ILMS for several years. For quite some time, there was a demand for general MBA as well as specialisations in other areas,” he maintained. Dr Rajan asserted that while the admission process for the MBA course was already on, the university had also issued the admission notification for a week-end MBA (Executive) programme on the Gurgaon campus. “Thus, apart from the LLB and MBA (International Business) courses, the ILMS now offers MBA with specialisations in Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management and Disaster Management, besides a week-end MBA (Executive) programme especially designed for in-service professionals,” said Dr Poonam Datta, Coordinator of management programmes at the ILMS. The classes for the MBA (Executive) course would be held on Saturdays and Sundays, she said, adding that the last date for receiving application forms was July 28. Dr Rajan further informed that several senior functionaries from the industrial sector had also been roped in to guide the students about the skill-set required to suit the latest requirements of the industry. To a query, he maintained that the week-end programme would have an edge over the correspondence and distance-education management courses as it had been designed and developed as per the latest trends and job market requirements. |
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Anti-ragging panel at HAU
Hisar, July 13 The Vice-Chancellor said here that all freshers except girl students of the College of Home Sciences would be given accommodation in a hostel earmarked for freshers. He said no other student would be allowed to enter the freshers’ hostel which was surrounded by high walls. He said the contact numbers of officers of the Directorate of Students’ Welfare and hostel wardens would be provided to every fresher so that help was available to them when needed. The Vice-Chancellor said plans were afoot for the installation of closed-circuit television cameras at the freshers’ hostel to ensure constant vigil. He said apart from ragging, the taking of alcohol was another menace plaguing the hostels in educational institutions. This was also a major cause of the rising cases of crime and violence on the campus. He said disciplinary action against hostel residents consuming alcohol was not the answer to the problem. The faculty, especially the hostel wardens, should give students extensive counselling to check this problem, he added. |
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MC staff stage demonstration
Sonepat, July 13 In the absence of the MLA, they handed over a memorandum of their demands to his mother. The demands included implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission for council’s employees, regularisation of temporary employees, reinstatement of retrenched employees of the Faridabad Municipal Corporation, abolition of contract system in municipalities, timely payment to labourers on contract and preparation of seniority list in the department. According to district president of the sangh Naresh Kumar, the employees would stage a demonstration tomorrow and would hand over a memorandum to MP Jitender Singh Malik and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ramesh Kaushik. District president of the Sarva Karamchari Sangh (SKS) Sheelak Ram Malik said if the government did not implement the recommendations of the sixth pay panel for nagar palika karamcharis, the SKS would also join the agitation in support of their demands. |
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Road blocked over ‘police inaction’
Sirsa, July 13 When senior officials of the police and the local administration pursued them to lift the blockade, they sat on dharna outside the local mini-secretariat. The villagers alleged that though over a month had passed, the police had not been able to arrest the accused despite the fact that their names figured in the FIR. The body of Brij
Lal, a land labourer from Bhurutwala village, was found hanging from the lever of an electric transformer in the fields on June 2. The police had registered a case against his landlords and relatives of a Congress leader for the murder of Brij
Lal. The kin of the deceased had also blocked the road near Lal Batti Chowk here on June 4. The villagers alleged that the police was not arresting the accused as they were politically connected and the victim was a mere
labourer. They lifted the blockade after the police assured them that it would soon take action. |
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Cops to monitor kanwarias’ movement
Yamunanagar, July 13 It has also been decided to allow community kitchens for them at a “proper distance” from roads in order to avoid any accident and traffic chaos. A special team of the police has been constituted to guide the kanwarias to keep to the left side of the roads while they pass through the district, said Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar Aggarwal after visiting various “sensitive sites” along with SP Vikas Arora this evening. Hundreds of kanwarias carrying holy water from Haridwar arrive here everyday. People who want to set up community kitchen for the kanwarias have to seek permission from the SDM. The community kitchen will be allowed to be set up at 24 sites identified by the administration. |
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Gold medallist wrestler drowned
Sonepat, July 13 Pramod, along with Shrawan, Devi Singh and Pradeep of Delhi and Prahlad of Nangal Thakran village, was returning to Delhi from Sonepat by a car last evening. After reaching the canal bridge near Rohat, they started taking a bath in the canal. Pramod was reportedly swept away by the flow of the water. Teams of rescuers and the firefighting unit reached the spot. However, night-long efforts of the teams proved futile. Residents of Bazidpur and Rohat village reached the spot and blocked the Rohtak-Sonepat road for around four hours this morning. The body of Pramod is yet to be traced. |
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6,000 more hotel rooms for C’wealth Games
Gurgaon, July 13 Talking to mediapersons here yesterday, Hooda said the government would take concrete steps to boost tourism in the state during the games. He said Haryana had taken rapid strides in many fields and during the past four years, an expenditure of Rs 5,330 crore had been incurred on industrial infrastructure. Hooda said due to the “liberal industrial policy” adopted by the state government, an investment of Rs 40,000 crore had been made in Haryana during the past four years and an investment of Rs 90,000 was in the pipeline. |
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Suspension of roadways’ union chief decried
Sonepat, July 13 In a meeting of the district unit of the sangh here today, state vice-president of the sangh Rajinder Singh Rathi alleged that Kirmar was being victimised by levelling false charges on the behest of vested interests. He threatened that if Kirmar was not reinstated, the sangh under the leadership of state president Kartar Singh Malik would be forced to start an agitation in support of its demand. |
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Man shot dead
Sonepat, July 13 The unidentified youth and Rakesh, a resident of Ahulana, who had brought Joginder to the town from the village, reportedly escaped after the incident. According to a complaint lodged by Paramjit, a resident of Ahulana and cousin of Joginder, Rakesh today telephoned Joginder and asked him to arrange some money and also to accompany him to Sonepat for making a payment to someone there. Joginder informed his cousin Paramjit about it and all three came to Sonepat on a motorcycle. After reaching near the main gate of the Atlas Cycle Industries here, Rakesh stopped the motorcycle. Immediately, an unidentified person reportedly fired five rounds, two of which hit Joginder on the back. He was taken to the Civil Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Interestingly, after the incident, besides the unidentified person, Rakesh also went missing. The police has registered a case. |
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Gang of motorcycle thieves busted
Kaithal, July 13 SP Sultan Singh said here today that a police party led by ASI Satyavan on a tip-off laid a naka on the Karnal road and during checking of vehicles stopped three motorcycle-borne youths. On inquiry, it was revealed that the said vehicle had been stolen from here sometime ago. The three were identified as Sandeep, alias Moni, of Bapoli Panipat district, Sidharth, alias Billa, of Siwaha, Panipat, and Sunil, alias Sonu, of Alewa village in Jind district. |
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