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High cotton prices bring cheer to farmers
Target: Higher wheat production
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CM urges banks to give loans on easy terms
Panipat third largest petrochemicals hub in Southeast Asia
Pharma industry seeks reduction in excise
Notice to former DC of Gurgaon
Over 20,000 power theft cases detected
Online power bill facility gaining momentum
Water mission to focus on supply, sanitation
Lok Adalat settles 37 cases
State to provide paid internship
Shiksha parishad invites applications
Ex-serviceman's family living a miserable life
Need for quality manpower stressed
BJP mobilising support for February 20 rally
Sino-Indian relations clouded by mistrust: Parthasarthy
Play on Hindi: Seen, appreciated, but no lesson learnt
College holds youth fest
Dental camp held at college
Yoga bronze medallist Bharat Kumar honoured
Nisha adjudged best camper
Railways wrestlers shine
Gang of criminals busted, 2 held
Letter
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High cotton prices bring cheer to farmers
Sirsa, February 17 The price of Narma, a variety of cotton seed, have increased beyond the expectations of the farmers as well as the cotton industry, and it was sold for Rs 6,270 per quintal in Sirsa. This is almost double the prices last year, varying between Rs 3,200 and Rs 3500 per quintal. “The price of Narma will go up to Rs 7,000 per quintal in the next couple of days as the demand is much more than the supply,” said Subhash Garg, proprietor of the cotton export firm, RK and Sons, in Fatehabad. The sharp rise in prices of cotton could be guaged from the fact that it was Rs 5,000 per quintal in the middle of January and rose to Rs 5,500 per quintal last week. However, it crossed Rs 6,000 mark on February 8. Consequently, the price of raw cotton has also touched a new height and it was selling at Rs 5,600 per maund (37.25 kg). Good returns from the crops have brought substantial earnings to the farmers. The price of land, particularly residential and commercial plots in Sirsa and Fatehabad, has witnessed a sharp hike, as farmers with big landholdings have been investing their funds in immovable property. With cotton bringing prosperity to the farmers, many more were expected to opt for this crop during the next sowing season. Ravi Chander Punia, Deputy Director (Cotton), Agriculture Department, Haryana, said the department hoped to complete its target of bringing six lakh hectares of land under cultivation of cotton this year. The department has been setting this target every year, but has not been able to achieve it after 1996-97, when a record sowing in 6.53 lakh hectares of land was witnessed in Haryana. However, a severe attack of American Bollworm hit cotton crops that year and continued to affect both the yield as well as the area under cultivation of cotton in Haryana for the next five years. The area as well as the yield started increasing again with the advent of the Bt cotton, and the total area under cultivation of cotton was 4.45 lakh hectare this year. As per the estimates of the cotton industry, 15 to 20 percent of the cotton produced in Haryana is still to come to the market this year. The website of the Cotton Corporation of India, however, suggests that out of the 15 lakh bales of cotton produced in Haryana, only 11.01 lakh bales had come to the market till February 6.
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Target: Higher wheat production Tribune News Service
Karnal, February 17 Revealing this, Dr SS Singh, project director, DWR, said scientists of the two nations would work together on biotic stress, waterlogging, water use efficiency, marker assisted selection and wheat quality to achieve the desired goals. The decision in this regard was made during a special visit of the Australian scientists to the DWR. He said the Indian wheat programme had helped the country maintain second position in wheat production in the world for the past 10 years. He said for the last three consecutive years wheat production in the country had registered record wheat production which touched 80.70 million tons in 2009-10. Dr Singh said the country was shifting from traditional breeding to precision breeding to wheat production in order to mach the increasing demand of food grain. He said the world had to come together not only for wheat research but also for other crops. Dr Paul Fox, programme manager, crop improvement and management in Australian Centre for International Agricultural research (ACIAR), said the two countries had similar environmental conditions and natural recourse management issues along with common crops such as wheat, sorghum and pulses.
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CM urges banks to give loans on easy terms
Kurukshetra, February 17 Hooda was addressing farmers at a function on self-employment organised under the loan distribution programme of the Punjab National Bank
(PNB) here recently. As many as 500 beneficiaries were given loans to the tune of Rs 25 crore at the function. The Chief Minister said the banks should evaluate the land on the basis of floor rates decided by the state government. He added that the cooperative banks of the state had already accepted the floor rates as the basis for the same. He called upon the banks to implement pro-farmer schemes so that the economic conditions of farmers could be improved and they could be saved from the clutches of moneylenders. While emphasising the need of diversification of crops, Hooda said apart from farming, farmers should also adopt other professions like animal husbandry, dairy farming, vegetable farming and floriculture etc. He said the banks should train farmers so that they could become self-employed and self-dependent. He urged the banks to provide loans on subsidised rates of interest for such professions. He also asked them to provide soft loans to marginal farmers and
labourers, and also to small-scale industries. Hooda said in the new industrial and investment policy of the state, a special focus had been on the small-scale and agro-based industries. The banks should also encourage the self-help groups by providing training and loans, he
added. Hooda, who is also the Chairman of the National Working Group of Chief Ministers on Agriculture Production, said the group constituted by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had submitted its recommendations for securing a better future for farmers. The group has recommended that the Minimum Support Price of the produce should include a 50 per cent profit of the production cost for the farmers. He was hopeful that after the study, the recommendations of the group would soon be implemented in the country, he added. The Chief Minister asked the farmers to conserve water. He said the ground water table was depleting fast and if there was water, there would be no production. He directed the officers of the Agriculture Department to conduct study tours of the farmers to the Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Gharaunda in Karnal district so that they could benefit from the modern techniques of vegetable farming.
Hooda praised the Punjab National Bank for its plan to set up branches in 496 villages with a population of more than 2,000. He appreciated the changes in the PNB's debt-swap scheme under the Krishak Sathi Scheme, that has allowed an increase in the limit of loans from Rs 50,000 to Rs one
lakh. Under the scheme, debt-ridden farmers would only have to furnish an affidavit of debt rather than a certificate from the moneylender, he added. The Chairman and Managing Director of
PNB, KR Kamath, said Kurukshetra was the fifth circle office of the bank in the state. As many as 90 branches of the PNB in four districts of
Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Kaithal and Jind would be covered with this circle office.
Haryana Cooperation and Food and Supplies Minister Harmohinder Singh
Chatha, Rajya Sabha MP Dr Ram Prakash, working president of the HPCC, Kuldeep Sharma, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Sultan Singh, Shahabad MLA Anil Dhantori and officers of the district administration were also present on this occasion.
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Panipat third largest petrochemicals hub in Southeast Asia
Panipat, February 17 During the ceremony, the minister said it was a matter of joy that the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) had crossed another milestone with the setting up of the naphtha cracker plant. He said the plant was the biggest industrial unit, which would be producing feed for downstream polymer units and would bring more prosperity to the state. The Panipat refinery has become the IOCL's technically most advanced plant in the country with a processing capacity of 15 million metric tonnes per annum. On this occasion, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the plant had been completed in a record time of 46 months with an investment of over Rs 14,500 crore. For this, the state government had contributed about 2,700 acres of land and provided fiscal incentives. He said for the downstream industries, an industrial estate was being developed for which 9,000 acres had been acquired near the Panipat petrochemicals hub. Besides, a national level central institute of plastics engineering and technology was also being set up at Murthal to meet the skill requirements of the industry. Lauding the positive approach of the IOC, Hooda said the corporation had agreed to implement the resettlement and rehabilitation policy of the state government for latest acquisition of land. He urged the IOCL to spearhead its corporate social responsibility agenda, especially for land oustees and provide employment to at least one dependent member from each family whose land had been acquired for this complex. Union Minister Kumari Selja said it was a moment of national pride the foundation of which had been laid when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had approved of setting up the plant in Haryana in the 1970s.
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Pharma industry seeks reduction in excise
Ambala, February 17 Vinod Gupta, president of the confederation, in a letter addressed to Union Minister Kumari
Selja, has said while low excise on MRP could certainly deter the companies from printing higher MRP on labels, high excise could cause the burden to be shifted to the consumers. The confederation has asked the Union Minister to forward these suggestions to the Finance Minister so that he can consider them while preparing the Union Budget
2011. Vinod has said there was overproduction of medicines in the country, but the prices were skyrocketing. The reason being that 70 per cent of the production had been shifted to new facilities in the excise-free zones of Himachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand. This is being done to escape high excise burden caused by levy on anomalous MRP excise. The objective of the MRP excise was to increase revenue, but the purpose was defeated as it caused an exodus. Price rise was a side effect. Most units in the excise-free zones are involved in contract manufacturing. Tax holiday means there is no excise on MRP which prevents companies from printing higher MRP on labels. The facility is being misused by millions of traders and doctors. Since there is no existing price-control mechanism on new brands, the result is large-scale profiteering by sourcing brands from the
EFZ.
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Notice to former DC of Gurgaon
Chandigarh, February 17 The Bench headed by acting Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked Kataria why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against him. Kataria was recently transferred from Gurgaon and has taken over the charge of HUDA Administrator at Panchkula. The notice came as the Bench disposed of a PIL by residents of Bohra Kalan village in Gurgaon for upgrading the village as a municipal committee (MC). The villagers had pleaded that the population of their village was 20,000, while the minimum requirement to upgrade a village to an MC was 10,000. In response, Kataria filed an affidavit on February 1 in which he gave the population figure of around 13,000. The affidavit was not even signed by him. In another affidavit submitted to the court, Kataria said the population was around 17,000. Considering his act to be misleading, the Bench asked him to file his reply on April 19.
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Over 20,000 power theft cases detected
Chandigarh, February 17 A spokesman for the UHBVN said the nigam imposed penalty of Rs 41.77 crore on the erring consumers and recovered Rs 19.13 crore from them. In 7,196 cases, complaints had been lodged with the police, which registered 67 FIRs against the defaulting consumers. In most of the cases, the erring consumers were found stealing power through direct connections, meter bypass, tampering the meter or by managing fake meter seals. The electricity meters of 14,338 consumers were found defective and had been replaced. He said the nigam would arrange village camps to release on-the-spot connections to domestic consumers for which meters were being procured.
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Online power bill facility gaining momentum
Hisar, February 17 The nigam has received Rs 5.6 crore through this facility from about 15,000 consumers during the past six months. The monthly number of transactions increased to 3254 during January. A DHBVN spokesman said here that with the introduction of this facility, electricity consumers in Faridabad, Gurugaon and Hisar need not stand in queues or go to nigam offices for payment of bills. They can pay their bills from home through Internet. The facility has been made available through the DHBVN website--www.dhbvn.com-in 18 urban operation subdivisions of Faridabad, Gurugaon and Hisar. The facility will be soon made available to consumers in Rewari. For making online payment a consumer will have to go to DHBVN's website www.dhbvn.com and click on the link 'online payment'. The website will ask for unique ID code of the consumer called 'K number' which is mentioned on the bill of each consumer. After filling in the K number, details of the consumer's account will be displayed. The consumer can login and choose the service number and mode of payment (credit card, debit card, Internet banking). Depending upon the choice of the bank, the website redirects them to that bank's website for completing the transaction (debiting from the consumers' account and crediting into the DHBVN's account). However, the bank's site will ask for user ID and password. On logging in the amount to be paid has to be filled. The consumer can press the button 'pay'. A message will appear indicating that the 'hot payment is successful'. Online receipt will be generated and print of the receipt can also be taken. The payment can be made through Internet banking, credit and debit cards issued by 27 banks. These are: Axis Bank, Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, Bank of Maharashtra, Central Bank of India, Corporation Bank, Deutsche Bank, Development Credit Bank, Dhan Lakshmi Bank, Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Indus Bank, Karnataka Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab National Bank Corporate, Punjab National Bank Retail, Shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank Ltd., South Indian Bank Ltd. State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of India, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank, Vijaya Bank and YES Bank.
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Water mission to focus on supply, sanitation
Chandigarh, February 17 The financial commissioner and principal secretaries of the Public Health Engineering, Development and Panchayats, Planning, Finance, Health, Education, Women and Child Development, Information and Public Relations, Irrigation and the Agriculture Departments will be the members of the mission. The mission will also have special secretary and director, Development and Panchayat Department, member secretary, Haryana State Pollution Control Board, regional director, Central Ground Water Board (Expert), and Director, NIC, Haryana Unit (Expert), as its members and the Engineer-in-Chief, Public Health Engineering Department, will act as its member secretary. The mission will focus on water supply and sanitation activities, including special projects, besides coordinating with various departments and other partners in relevant activities. It will also approve the state annual implementation plan under the total sanitation campaign before clearance from the Centre and monitor and evaluate the physical and financial performance and management for water supply and sanitation projects. The idea is to integrate communication and capacity development programme for both water supply and sanitation, besides maintaining the accounts for programme fund and support fund and carrying out the required audits for the accounts.
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Lok Adalat settles 37 cases
Kaithal, February 17 Out of the settled cases, 30 were related to land mutation and two under the Gambling Act. Addressing the litigants and all those present on the occasion, Naresh said: “Those desirous of settling their disputes with mutual consent can take the help of lok adalats as the main objective of these adalats is to settle the disputes amicably and expeditiously”. He said as these cases were settled with mutual consent of the parties, there was no feeling of losing or winning a case. In such an atmosphere, mutual brotherhood among the litigants could be maintained. Jasmer Singh, former president of the District Bar Association, Lavdeep Singh Virk, naib tehsildar, Dhand, Suraj Bhan, BDPO, and Savitri Devi, sarpanch, were among those present on the occasion.
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State to provide paid internship
Chandigarh, February 17 Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said graduates or postgraduates completing their respective courses by the academic session ending April 2011 would be considered as interns for projects such as quality initiative coordinators, community mobilisers and information communication technology (ICT) coordinators. Referring to the eligibility criterion, she said postgraduates like MBA or mass communication and journalism or media and B.Tech studying in state universities or institutes affiliated to the state universities would be eligible for internship. A selection process will be conducted by the Directorate of Secondary Education. After selection, they would be provided induction training by the department. The aspirants for these assignments would be exposed to various aspects in human resource development like quality initiatives and manpower requirements, budgeting and financing, community mobilisation training programmes and management during the induction training. They would be paid a monthly stipend of Rs 15,000 for a period which may be up to one year in addition to a laptop with internet facility. The applicants for internship are expected to have knowledge of the background of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the Right to Education Act and ICT in schools. Interested students may forward the applications on prescribed format either through email at edusecondaryhry @gmail.com or through post or courier or speed post to Joint Director, Education, Directorate of Secondary Education, Shiksha Sadan, Panchkula. They may dial 09416793136 for seeking further clarifications. Application form can be downloaded from www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in
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Shiksha parishad invites applications
Chandigarh, February 17 A spokesman for the parishad said the posts for which applications had been invited included one post each of consultant inclusive education for disabled, computer programmer and procurement assistant-cum-store keeper, two posts each of accountant and accounts assistants, three posts of deputy superintendent, six posts of assistant and four posts of stenographers. Separate applications should be sent for each category of post, he added. He said the prescribed proforma for the application could be downloaded from website www.ssaharyana.org. Applications should reach the office of the State Project Director, Haryana Prathmik Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad, by February 23. — TNS
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Ex-serviceman's family living a miserable life
Sirsa, February 17 Dalpat's widow, Asha, has been living with her six children in Chatargarhpatti locality in pitiable condition due to choked sewerage in the area. The family members have to tread on bricks kept in the verandah to save their feet from being spoiled by sewage. The family has been living under abysmal conditions ever since the Public Health Department laid sewer lines in their lane number one situated near the railway crossing on the Sirsa-Dabwali bypass road in November last. She said though the conditions were similar for other houses of the street, some, including her house, were specially doomed as they were situated in a low-lying area. Asha said she had invited the attention of the authorities a number of times, but nobody had cared to listen to her grievances. Other residents also alleged that they had brought the matter to the notice of the Public Health and municipal authorities, but to no avail. The overflowing sewer water was giving an open invitation to diseases, they alleged. Jagdish Jangra, executive engineer of the Public Health Department, said the matter was not in his notice. He said he would get the conditions examined and ask the authorities concerned to take remedial steps soon.
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Need for quality manpower stressed
Sirsa, February 17 Dr Ashok Mittal, a noted economist and a former professor of Hindu College, University of Delhi, said this after inaugurating "Verve 11", a three-day academic and cultural extravaganza organised by the JCD Institute of Business Management, a constituent college of Jannayak Chaudhary Devi Lal Vidyapeeth here. Mittal said the management institutes should stop producing job-seekers and added that they should rather make their students job-givers. He said the institutes should also re-christen their placement cells as entrepreneur training centres so that those graduating from there could start their own venture and contribute to the economic growth of the nation. Dr Shamim Sharma, executive director of JCD Vidyapeeth, and Anshu Bhargava, an industrialist, were among those present during the occasion.
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BJP mobilising support for February 20 rally
Fatehabad, February 17 Prof Ganeshi Lal, spokesman for the Haryana BJP and a former Haryana minister, has been touring the state for mobilising people. Ganeshi Lal alleged the scams detected in the past few months were unprecedented in terms of the amount of money involved. The BJP would expose the UPA as well as the Hooda governments on the issue of corruption during the February 20 rally. He claimed that the UPA Government’s fall was certain whether the government agreed to a JPC probe into the 2G scam or not. The government, he alleged, was afraid of constituting a JPC to probe the 2G scam because several “high-ups” would be exposed in this case. Castigating the government on the issue of inflation, Ganeshi Lal alleged wrong policies of the government were responsible for the steep hike in prices.
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Sino-Indian relations clouded by mistrust: Parthasarthy
Kurukshetra, February 17 Parthasarthy was delivering a lecture on “India’s neighbourhood policy”, organised jointly by the Ministry of External Affairs and Kurukshetra University in the university auditorium here yesterday. He said the emergence of India and China, as well as other new global players, will transform the geopolitical landscape in this century. Given the rapid rate of economic growth in Asia, the balance of economic power will inevitably shift from Europe to Asia, which will become the world’s manufacturing hub in the The Asian region would face continuing challenges from terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, said Parthasarthy. “India has to develop a comprehensive policy of promoting widespread engagement, not only with the fast growing Asia-Pacific region to its East, but also with the oil rich Persian Gulf region,” he said. “While there has been a marked improvement in the Sino-Indian relations in recent years, these are still clouded by mistrust,” he added.
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Play on Hindi: Seen, appreciated, but no lesson learnt
Gurgaon, February 17 The play was enacted by the children of Literacy India, an NGO working for poor and destitute women and children in the Delhi-NCR area. The script was written and directed by noted TV actors-anchors Nikhil Raj and Shreevardhan Trivedi. Prerna, a young student of Literacy India, lit the ceremonial lamp. She was accompanied by guests from the corporate sector. The show began with the screening of an animation film prepared by street children who used to come at the Literacy India’s Nebsarai Centre. It was appreciated and widely applauded by the audience. A presentation of success stories of the NGO entitled “Let Us Connect-Story of Small Joys and Big Success” was also made. The play took the spectators through an assortment of comical and emotional moments portrayed by young children, especially the character of Harish Chandra - the big brother (Monu) and Prem Chand - the younger brother (Akhilendra). The message was loud and clear - that one should be proud of one’s mother tongue. The slapping moments, when some invisible force gives a tight one on the cheek of any character uttering an English word, reinforced the theme. The play got an overwhelming response from the audience. Many spectators also danced on the Hindi rap, specially composed and prepared for the play by Nikhil Raj. However, there was an anticlimax as well. Even after such a patriotic and meaningful presentation supporting Hindi, a sponsor gave a full-fledged speech in the Queen’s English. Even a middle-aged man addressed by child anchors as Praful Chacha spoke in English. Nevertheless, Rahul, “Millimetre” of 3 Idiots fame, and Aarti did a beautiful job in conducting the stage. The play, as per the organisers, was a fund-raising show for the Shiksharth project of Literacy India and evoked a good response. It was supported by Gold Ratt India and Fluor Daniel.
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College holds youth fest
Panipat, February 17 The fest titled "Maestros-2011" saw enthusiastic students participating in various events like paper and technical presentation, solo singing, duet dance, solo folk dance and group dance. Held in the open-air theatre at the student activity centre, the event provided exposure to talented and zealous students. It was for the third consecutive year that the college had organised the fest with an aim to boosting the creative talents of the students. Some of the couplets belted out by famous poet Kumar Vishwas and energetic performances by various rock bands were the main attractions. During the event that culminated recently, Panipat SP Pankaj Nain, income tax commissioner KC Jain from New Delhi, college chairman Hariom Tayal and member secretory Suresh Tayal attended the proceedings to encourage the students and give away prizes to the outstanding performers. On the occasion, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, who had bagged gold medal in the Commonwealth Games, was also honoured.
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Dental camp held at college
Fatehabad, February 17 This fact came to light during a dental checkup camp organised at the local Manohar Memorial College of Education recently. Dr Himani Arora, a local dental surgeon, who examined students, said that a majority of them suffered from dental caries, also known as tooth decay or cavity. Some others were found suffering from dental tartar buildup or plaque formation, she said. "People are less conscious about their oral health and, to some extent, the quality of underground water of this area that contains a lot of salts is also responsible for dental decay," said the doctor. Dr Himani Arora suggested that every person should go for scaling of teeth after every six months from a qualified dental surgeon. She said that proper brushing of teeth and changing the brush every two months was very important. She said brushing the teeth before sleeping was as much important as it was to brush one's teeth in the morning. Dr Himani said that heavy fluoride contents in the drinking water also created problems for teeth in the form of a deformity called fluorosis. She suggested that one must consult a dentist regularly to avoid small tooth problems getting serious. Dr Mamata Chaudhary, principal of the college, said she had been organising health checkup camps for students at regular intervals. She said the collage had recently organised a blood group matching and hemoglobin checkup camp.
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Yoga bronze medallist Bharat Kumar honoured
Jhajjar, February 17 Speaking on the occasion, Bharat said he had worked hard to achieve this position and his would perform even better in future tournaments. He maintained that he was enthused to receive warm welcome from his co-villagers and would do his best in every event for living up to the expectation of the villagers. “There is no dearth of talented players in the state but what is required is to polish their talent by imparting them technical training and providing all basic facilities,” said Bharat, adding that he was grateful to the villagers whose blessings helped him to achieve success at the international level. Deepender Hooda said any goal could be achieved with sincerity, dedication and hard work and by following these qualities, sportspersons of Haryana had exhibited an excellent performance at the international level. “The state government has taken a number of steps to hunt sports talent. Apart from launching new sports policy, sports stadia are also being set up at the village level to provide modern sports facilities to budding players. Consequently, Haryanavi players have brought glory to the state and are continuously showing sterling performance,” the MP said. He maintained that the performance of players was being recognised by the state government. Recently, a number of players had been honored with Bhim awards. Deepender also assured help to Bharat. Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal, who was present on the occasion, also congratulated Bharat Kumar.
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Nisha adjudged best camper
Sonepat, February 17 Col JP Taneja, state Secretary of the Haryana Red Cross Society, gave away prizes to the outstanding performers. The camp was attended by as many as 100 girls of different degree colleges of the district. Others who were also given prizes included Mamta of GVM for excellent service work; a team of Gohana Government College for discipline and punctuality; and Leena of GVM in training course study. In dance competition, GVM girls bagged the first prize whereas second and third positions went to Devi Lal Government Girls College, Murthal, and Government College, Gohana, respectively. Murthal college stood first in group discussion while the declamation contest was won by GVM Girls College. Congratulating the students, Colonel Taneja said the training camp would inculcate the feeling of selfless service into the students. Jyoti Juneja, principal, GVM, appreciated the District Red Cross Society for providing an opportunity to the students to develop their personality and making them realise that they could also play an important role in serving the humanity. Subhash Vashisht, secretary, District Red Cross Society, said, “Blood donation by just one per cent of the people can meet all requirements of blood for patients”. During the five-day camp, the participants were given extensive training in first-aid as well as steps taken for preventing the outbreak of various contagious diseases. Stress was also laid on creating awareness regarding female foeticide.
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Railways wrestlers shine
Rewari, February 17 Over 300 wrestlers from various parts of the country participated in the championship. The TTI Staff Association and other senior Railways officials have felicitated Davender and Brijesh on their achievement.
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Gang of criminals busted, 2 held
Rewari, February 17 It also seized two pistols, six live cartridges and a stolen car from their possession. Besides, the police also recovered two trucks laden with bags of rice, which they had stolen from New Grain Market here on February 5. They were produced before the Duty Magistrate, who remanded them in police custody for three days. SI Om Prakash, in charge of the CIA police post here, said the duo was nabbed when they raided a hideout at Jatuwas village on the Rewari-Bharawas road here on February 12. However, five of their accomplices managed to flee. The SI added that during interrogations, they revealed the names of the absconding accomplices as Sonu, Vinod, Sunil and Neetu, all residents of Sonepat district, and Rakesh of the Rasoolpur area of Delhi. They also disclosed that while Sonu was wanted by the Sonepat police in a murder case, Sunil, who was undergoing imprisonment in a case of dacoity, had recently come out on parole. The criminals were living in a rented accommodation in Parshu Ram Colony here, the SI added.
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Letter
The Hooda Government has decided to fill 15 HCS(Executive Branch) posts by way of nomination from various categories of state government employees. It may be recalled that the state after framing its own HCS(Executive Branch) Rules, 2008, by repealing the erstwhile Punjab Civil Service(EB) Rules, 1930, had reduced and fixed the HCS cadre strength at 220 in August, 2008, for three years. Since then, only one direct recruitment to the HCS has taken place, which took two years for completion. The direct recruitment is also sub judice mired as it was in a controversy. In the 2008 rules too, a provision has been retained for appointment of state government officials to the HCS from amongst three different categories referred to as registers viz. DROs/Tehsildars (Register A-1), Group C employees(Register A-II) and DDPOs/BDPOs(Register C). The short-listed names amongst these categories are handpicked by the higher authorities of the department concerned and recommended to the HPSC for induction into the HCS. During the previous INLD regime, questions were raised in such elevations as the rules were allegedly bent and amended to favour those persons in service who were kith and kin of those considered close to the then ruling elite. The 16 government officials, who were thus inducted into the HCS, are yet to get reverted to their parent posts owing to bureaucratic wrangles. There is need to stem the rot. Why can't the appointment to the HCS be made only by two methods- direct and promotion. In the latter provision, the notified categories of state employees with prescribed years of satisfactory service and unblemished track record be allowed to appear in an open limited departmental examination (LDE) on the lines of Central Government/UPSC to compete against such posts? The prevalent concept of recommendation/ nomination itself gives rise to apprehension of a pick-and-choose policy/ arbitrary exercise of power by the ruling dispensation.
In the ongoing exercise of calling applications for the abovesaid 15 HCS posts, the upper age limit has been further raised to 55 years from 45 years as prescribed in the rules. Since the age of superannuation of HCS officers remains 58 years as against 60 years for the IAS officers, such elevated officials would serve the cadre just for three years or, in other words, just complete their period of probation. The decision merits review by the government. Further, the new methodology of conducting such selections through a limited departmental examination would give a chance to every eligible government employee to compete for induction into the HCS. HEMANT KUMAR Ambala City –––––––––––––––––––––––– Readers are invited to write to us. Send your mail, in not more than 200 words, at
haryana@tribuneindia.com or write in at: Letters, Haryana Plus, The Tribune, Sector 29, Chandigarh-160030.
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A steep rise in prices of cotton in the last few months has buoyed farmers of the area as their financial condition has been boosted immensely.
The price of Narma, a variety of cotton seed, have increased beyond the expectations of the farmers as well as the cotton industry, and it was sold for Rs 6,270 per quintal in
Sirsa.
The naphtha cracker plant that was dedicated to the nation by Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Jaipal Reddy at a ceremony organised on the premises of Panipat petrochemicals hub recently has made Panipat the third largest petrochemicals hub in the Southeast Asia.
During the ceremony, the minister said it was a matter of joy that the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) had crossed another milestone with the setting up of the naphtha cracker plant.
As many as 37 cases were settled at a Gramin Lok Adalat held in Jajanpur village of the district recently. Naresh
Katyal, additional district and sessions judge, presided over the proceedings. Rajan
Walia, additional civil judge, senior division, was also present on the occasion.
Dalpat Singh served the country as a workman in the Military Engineer Service of the IAF for over 20 years. He could have never imagined that after his death his own family would have to live in subhuman conditions due to the lackadaisical attitude of engineers, though not from the IAF but from the civil administration.
How a pure Hindi-speaking man from a small town of India is made fun of, avoided, rather dreaded, by his own friends, acquaintances and even family members was the central theme of “Bhratashree”, a comical satire inspired by renowned Hindi littérateur Munshi Prem Chand’s creation “Bade Bhai Sahab” staged here recently.
Panipat, February 17
Every second college-going student is suffering from one dental problem or the other.
This fact came to light during a dental checkup camp organised at the local Manohar Memorial College of Education recently.
Dr Himani Arora, a local dental surgeon, who examined students, said that a majority of them suffered from dental caries, also known as tooth decay or cavity.
A felicitation function was organised at Sikandurpur village here recently to felicitate Bharat Kumar, who clinched bronze medal in a yoga competition concluded recently in Thailand. Deepender Singh
Hooda, Rohtak MP, was the chief guest, who honoured the promising player on behalf of residents of the village.
