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8 panchayats elected unanimously
Interviews postponed
Poll rehearsal absentees to face action
DC’s gunman held for robbery
Want to scale all 7 summits: Mamta
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Illiteracy root cause of bonded labour: Minister
Need to revamp education system, says Sampat Singh
Now on, contractors to ensure adequate security of transformers
UP, Haryana agree to end land dispute
ADC summons municipal secy, Congress councillors
Industrial units refused NOC
Villagers hold up traffic over power
10-year jail for raping minor
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8 panchayats elected unanimously
Karnal, July 4 The panchayats where contests have been avoided by arriving at a consensus include Maidenhair, Ruksana, Ratak, Deraphola Singh and Chakmuridika in Assandh tehsil and Bhukapuri and Shekanpur in Nilokheri. Elections will now be held in 50 panchayats of Assandh, excluding five panchayats where elections have been held unanimously and 69 panchayats in Nilokheri where three panchayats have elected members unopposed. All 47 panchayats of Nissing, 53 of Gharonda and 50 of Assandh will go to the polls on July 6 while polling for 63 panchayats in Karnal, 82 in Indiri and 69 in Nilokheri will be held on July 10. Around 2,500 Home Guard, police and paramilitary personnel will be deployed for the elections. The district administration had asked owners of licensed arms to deposit these at the nearest police station. Liquor shops will remain closed on the polling day. Meanwhile, the district administration has made elaborate arrangements for the bandh called by the NDA and its allies and Left parties tomorrow. Patrolling has been intensified and all efforts will be made to ensure that life was not disrupted, according to an official spokesman. Cautioning the parties sponsoring the bandh to remain peaceful, the spokesman said any attempt by the parties to force shopkeepers to pull down their shutters, obstruct people from going to their workplaces or disrupting public transport would be viewed seriously. |
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Interviews postponed
Chandigarh, July 4 The interview for the post of clerk in various departments, boards and corporations will be held at the commission’s office, Panchkula; the PWD (B&R) Rest Houses, Rewari and Karnal; and the Canal Rest House, Yamunanagar, on September 7 instead of July 6. The interview for the post of Sub-Inspector, General, Cooperative Societies, will now be held at the commission’s office at Panchkula on September 8 instead of July 10.
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Poll rehearsal absentees to face action
Panipat, July 4 The Deputy Commissioner said action would be taken against the erring employees under Section 185 of the Panchayati Raj Act of 1994. He said the employees could face a fine up to Rs 2,000 for dereliction of duty. Besides, criminal cases could also be registered against them. Meanwhile, over three lakh voters will exercise their franchise to elect heads in 1,286 villages during the panchayat elections scheduled to be held on July 6. These include 1.95 lakh men and 1.58 lakh women voters. — TNS |
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DC’s gunman held for robbery
Sirsa, July 4 The cop, Gurjeet Singh, a head constable, is posted in the security of the Deputy Commissioner at Faridkot and he, along with his three accomplices, is alleged to have perpetrated the crime. Saurabh Sharma, a youth working with an Abohar-based jeweller, was asked to come out of a private bus by two persons wearing police uniform at Bathinda Chowk in Dabwali town in the wee hours on June 26. The youth, who had bought gold from Delhi for his master and was going towards Abohar, was made to sit in a car and after snatching the gold, he was thrown out of the vehicle on the Bathinda road. The police yesterday arrested the cop with another person, Jagjit Singh, a taxi driver from Bathinda, whose vehicle was used in the crime. SP Satinder Kumar Gupta said the police had got three days’ remand of the accused for the recovery of the booty and efforts were on to arrest the other two accused. Sonepat: Investigation into the murder of Vinod of Mahendipur village on June 30 revealed that the deceased’s wife Gurmit had allegedly conspired the murder along with her paramour Manoj of the same village. The police has arrested Gurmit along with Manoj and Sunil of Busana village and during the interrogation they confessed their involvement in the murder. The court remanded both accused to the police custody for the recovery of arms and motorcycle used in the crime, whereas Gurmit has been sent to the judicial custody. Gurmit was married to Vinod in 2002 and had a son and a daughter. She allegedly developed illicit relations with Manoj about four years ago. Aware of these relations, Vinod left the village and started living with his family at RK Colony in Murthal. On June 29, Vinod had gone to Gopalpur village to collect money, but did not return.The police recovered his bullet-ridddled body on June 30 near Rohat village. |
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Want to scale all 7 summits: Mamta
Mamta was felicitated at the Shahid Baba Deep Singh College of Nursing and Education at Aherwan in this district recently, where she worked as a teacher of physical education and hostel warden till March 17 this year, before she proceeded for her expedition on March 21. rman Virender Siwach and director Sharanjit Kaur felicitated her for her feat. The newfound status has failed to take the modesty out of Mamta, who brought with her shawls and other mementos for those with whom she worked here since November 2007, including lowly placed employees, and was emotional while calling them from the podium to accept her gifts. “Mountains always fascinated me since my childhood. Scaling Mount Everest was my aim and I have spent all these years planning about this. I used to assess the hurdles involved and how I could overcome these,” Mamta said, reminiscing how she worked hard with a focused approach to achieve her goal, when she was asked to address students. She said hard work was the key to success and there were no shortcuts. She revealed how she could overcome all hurdles, including the “khumbu cough”, often suffered by mountaineers at high altitude, loss of energy, loss of sleep and loss of appetite by sheer focus on her goal. “The last leg from the fourth camp to the summit was particularly tough with 10 to 12 hours of continuous climbing without rest. My leg was aching badly due to an old injury and extreme cold conditions. A nagging “khumbu cough” was giving much trouble and no medicine was allowed to avoid drowsiness. The terrain was so tough that one’s next step could fall on an iceberg that could sink one hundreds of metres down and the occasional sight of bodies of some unknown former mountaineers was enough to send chills down one’s spine,” Mamta said about her expedition to Mount Everest. Later, speaking to mediapersons, Mamta said this was not the ultimate goal for her but only the first step in the direction of realising her dreams. “I aspire to climb all seven summits of the world, including K2, the toughest mountain peak to climb,” she explained. K2, though the second highest peak of the world after Mount Everest, was the toughest and had the highest mortality rate of climbers, she added. |
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Illiteracy root cause of bonded labour: Minister
Chandigarh, July 4 He was speaking at a workshop on “Convergence Approach to Prevention of Bondage” organised by the Labour Department of Haryana, Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, and International Labour Organisation here recently. He said illiteracy and poverty were the root causes of bonded labour. Haryana did not face any problem like this because the state had made monumental progress in all spheres of development under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during the past five years, he added. He said social problems like bonded labour could not be solved by merely enacting laws. The entire social milieu and the thinking of the people would have to be changed to root out social evils from the society. Citing the example of Maharaja Agarsain, he said whosoever came to settle in Agroha, the capital city of Maharaja Agarsain’s kingdom, people did not exploit him. Rather each of them gave Re 1 and one brick to him to facilitate his rehabilitation. This thinking of the people made him economically self-sufficient and all kinds of social problems automatically solved. He said Haryana was the first state which had adopted structured Labour Policy under which a number of welfare schemes for the labour class had been implemented in the state. The state government had implemented Swasthya Bima Yojna for the poor. Cash incentives and scholarships were also being given to the students of the weaker sections of society to enable them pursue their studies. The minister said the state government was fully sensitive to the problems like bonded labour and had constituted vigilance committees in all districts and subdivisions. |
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Need to revamp education system, says Sampat Singh
Speaking to The Tribune here recently, he said the IIM at Rohtak would benefit the youth of the state. Sampat Singh, who was on a private visit here, however, cautioned against undue political interference in the educational field and asked the government to “decontrol educational institutions” to make them autonomous bodies. Claiming that colleges and universities needed to be freed from the direct control of the government, he said it was perhaps due to excessive political interference that the academic atmosphere had failed to improve and match the
standards of national and international institutions like the IITs and the IIMs. “The authorities should see the functioning of the IIMs and take a leaf out of their book as these were autonomous bodies and getting admission to such institutes was a dream of every student,” he said Stating that though hundreds of professional and vocational colleges and institutions had come up in Haryana in the past few years, he said the standard of education left much to be desired. Sampat Singh said the recruitment process for the staff and faculty in all colleges and
universities should be changed on the pattern of the IIMs and it must be ensured that politicians or other influential persons did not have a say in this. |
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Now on, contractors to ensure adequate security of transformers
Kurukshetra, July 4 Managing Director of the nigam Arum Kumar, who held a meeting of senior engineers to address the complaints of transformer thefts from Karnal, Kurukshetra and Kaithal here recently, disclosed that the permission to install transformers departmentally would be given by Chief Engineer (Operation) on the merit of each case and the SDO or consumer concerned would be required to lodge the FIR with the police for getting the transformer installed. Observing that most of the transformers had been stolen due to lack of security, the MD said it was mandatory for the contractor to ensure proper welding of transformers with the system to avoid theft. While the nigam would install the transformers, contractors would be held accountable for not providing adequate safety measures. He said most of the transformers had been stolen from the locations where the contractors did not work properly. The Junior Engineers and Sub-Divisional Officers would be directed to explain their position for clearing the installation without ensuring welding of the transformers, he added. Kumar further stated that hundreds of transformers in Karnal, Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts and other paddy growing areas had been reportedly stolen and the nigam had planned to recover the amount of transformers from the erring contractors. However, the initiative would benefit a large number of farmers, whose transformers had been stolen, he observed. Earlier addressing the engineers at the meeting, he said it was priority of the nigam to ensure reliable and uninterrupted power supply to the consumers during the ongoing paddy season. |
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UP, Haryana agree to end land dispute
Chandigarh, July 4 This was decided at a meeting between the DC of Palwal in Haryana and that of Aligarh in UP, Amit Kumar Aggarwal and K Ram Mohan Rao, respectively, held at Palwal recently. Revenue officers were also present at the meeting. Earlier, a meeting between the Commissioner, Rohtak, and Commissioner, Meerut, was held a few days ago to end the long-standing land dispute between the two states. Aggarwal said the cultivable land adjoining the Yamuna had been shifting from one state to the other following the change of course by the river.The boundary between the two states was determined under the Dixit Award in 1975 and pillars were fixed to mark the boundary. However, now only a few of the pillars fixed at that time remained at the site. Now, the work to mark the land would again be conducted by the Survey of India, with whom Rs 18.95 lakh had already been deposited by the Palwal administration.The Survey of India would complete the work in the next few months and the pillars would be fixed again putting an end to the dispute between the two states. Another meeting would be held next month at Aligarh. It was also decided by both the DCs to stop the work of registry and intkal of the disputed land till the
Survey of India completed its task of marking the land. |
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ADC summons municipal secy, Congress councillors
Sirsa, July 4 Chaudhary, who was asked by Deputy Commissioner CG Rajini Kaanthan to conduct a probe and give report by July 5, has summoned municipal secretary Girdhar Gopal and two Congress councillors to her office tomorrow. SDM Balraj Jakhar had allegedly gone ahead with election proceedings despite the DC’s fax orders for its cancellation after allegations of intimidation of Congress councillors on July 1. Municipal councillors Radhey Sham and Nareshhave also been asked by the ADC to come to her office for inquiry. The two councillors had informed the DC that they were being prevented from going to the venue, where a meeting for election of president and the vice-president was to be held. |
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Industrial units refused NOC
Faridabad, July 4 The Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) declined the certificate to the industrial units last year on the grounds that these fell outside the municipal limits and were thus not under the jurisdiction of the civic body. On account of shortage of space and lack of industrial estates, a number of industrial units mushroomed at various places. The most conspicuous growth was alongside the Delhi-Mathura National Highway and towards Prithla near Ballabgarh.The units near Prithla fall in the medium and small-scale categories and are mainly into manufacturing of auto parts. Many of these are into exports. The issue was also recently raised here by industrialists with Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati. According to an owner of an industrial unit, the no-objection certificate pertaining to fire is the “lifeline” for any industrial unit. It is a mandatory requirement to pay taxes to the MCF. The problem is more acute for industrial units having foreign clients as the latter reportedly insist on all documents, especially the no-objection certificate relating to fire. |
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Gulzari Lal Nanda remembered
Kurukshetra, July 4 The function was organised by the Gulzari Lal Nanda Centre for Ethics and Philosophy, Kurukshetra University, in the university senate hall here today. Pahadia exhorted people to propagate the message of national integration and peace given by the late leader. Lt-Gen DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, welcomed the chief guest and apprised him of the work being done at the Gulzari Lal Nanda Centre for Ethics and Philosophy. Underlining Nanda’s simplicity and honesty, the Governor called upon the people to emulate the late leader. “He was one of those extraordinary leaders in our country who devoted their lifetime to the service of people and helped fight corruption and social evils,” he added. The Governor gave away prizes to the winners of various competitions organised from July 2 to 4
to mark Nanda’s birth anniversary. — OC |
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Villagers hold up traffic over power
Jind, July 4 The road blockade, which continued for over one hour, was lifted following an assurance given by officials of the department concerned that they would address the issue. The protesters, who belonged to Alewa, Katwal, Gohiya and Khanda villages, came out on the main road, connecting the district with Assandh and Karnal, around noon alleging that the department had failed to supply adequate power to them, which had hit their life. “We have been getting supply for only two to three hours a day in these villages, which is grossly inadequate,” said an
agitated resident of Alewa village. FATEHABAD: Irked by the erratic supply of power, villagers from Hinjrawan Kalan and Hinjrawan Khurd today laid a siege to their power substation and raised slogans against the functioning of the power utilities. The 33-kV substation situated between Hinjrawan Khurd and Hinjrawan Kalan cater to the power needs of the two villages, besides Dhani Thoban village. Hundreds of villagers from the first two villages surrounded the substation today alleging that the power supply to their villages was erratic. They alleged that their villages got power for six hours a day, while Dhani Thoban got it for eight hours a day. Later, the DHBVN officials reached the spot and convinced the villagers to end their protest, assuring them of a better power supply in the future. The villagers ended their protest after this. |
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10-year jail for raping minor
Jind, July 4 The judge imposed a fine of Rs 11,000 on him, directing that Rs 10,000 be paid to the victim. |
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