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Panel to decide quota for Jats soon: CM
Steep hike in HAU fees: MBA courses see over three-fold rise
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Mahendragarh college fails to comply with HC order
UHBVN maintenance campaign from today
World-class football academy to come up in state
Sharma merges Bada Parivar with Cong
Protection homes at Narnaul, Nuh
Kalka village gets women community hall
26 students selected
Sirsa, Fatehabad fail to get govt support
Rs 1.2 cr for maintenance of streetlights in Kalka
Play focuses on inadequacies of judicial system
Experts for building brand to promote khadi
Employment Dept helps 10,753 get jobs
Gupta group emerges winner
Minimum wages highest in Haryana: Janbaaz
Workshop on management skills at KU
PMA opens Panipat chapter
Scribe expresses concern over paid news
Hindu Girls College bags 23 merit positions
Sirsa college gets grade ‘A’ from NAAC
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Panel to decide quota for Jats soon: CM
Rohtak, March 31 Expressing his satisfaction over the agreement reached with Jat leaders, he said the government had adopted the most viable method of tackling the issue. “We could only take a course that is legal and proper as acceptance of such a demand could not be done all of a sudden but it requires a due process that has to be followed”. He said some other communities, including Jat Sikh, Bishnoi, Tyagi and Ror, were among others who had been seeking the benefit of reservation. All these applications would be taken up by the commission and it would be the proper authority to give any such recommendation. The Chief Minister claimed that he had requested the Union Government to release a bonus of Rs 1,000 per quintal on the MSP of wheat this year so that the loss suffered by the farmers on various accounts could be covered. He said the state government had already released the compensation for the damage caused by hailstorms and unseasonal rains in the recent months across the state. Assuring that there would be no shortage of power supply in the summer season this year, he said the government had taken all measures to meet the demand, which include considerable increase in the generation of power within the state. He said it was perhaps the first time that the generation had gone up sharply. There would be surplus power in the state by the end of next year, he claimed.
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Steep hike in HAU fees: MBA courses see over three-fold rise
Hisar, March 31 Besides, the tuition fee for the MBA (General) and MBA (Agricultural Business) courses has also been increased from Rs 4500 to Rs 15000 per semester The board has also raised the merit scholarship for undergraduate students from Rs 500 to Rs 800 per month for boys and from Rs 750 to Rs 1200 per month for girls. The board has approved budget estimates for the next financial year, which would come to Rs 268.76 crore. Of the total budget estimates, 30.98 per cent has been earmarked for research, including farms, 18.03 per cent for teaching and 12.66 per cent for extension activities. Besides, 26.59 per cent of the budget will be spent on administration and miscellaneous activities, 8.13 per cent on building, maintenance and landscaping, 2.11 per cent on service units and 1.51 per cent on students and employees' welfare. The board considered a proposal for starting a six-year B.Sc (Hons) degree programme in agriculture and home science after matriculation but asked the university authorities to get approval of the state government. The board has also allowed the university to enhance the emoluments of senior research fellows (SRF) and research associates (RA) working in the ICAR-funded schemes with a retrospective effect from. April 1, 2007, and April 1, 2010, as per guidelines of the ICAR. However, those whose cases were sub judice would get the revised emoluments only after the court verdict. The proposal for transfer of employees and division of assets and liabilities between the HAU and the newly established Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences was considered by the board which asked the university to seek an option from the employees and also include officers from the HAU, including Dean, College of Agriculture, and two from LLRUV&AS in the exiting committee to decide the issue. Dr Saroj Jit Singh, Dean, College of Home Science, has been appointed as Technical Adviser to the board in place of Dr AK Pruthi, who has joined the Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. The board has also approved the appointment of PB.Gupta, Superintending Engineer, PWD (B&R), on deputation against the vacant post of Estate Officer-cum-Superintending Engineer in the university.
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Mahendragarh college fails to comply with HC order
Jhajjar, March 31 Significantly, the university has also afforded an opportunity by giving the college sufficient time to explain its position in the matter, but it is deliberately escaping from complying with the court’s order. Thus, the university authorities are now mulling over to file a writ petition in the high court to recover the amount. According to information, the Maharana Pratap College of Education, Dhanuada, Mahendragarh district, run by the Indian Computer Education Society, had admitted nine students to CPEd/BPEd courses during 2009-10 in violation of the eligibility norms prescribed by the university and in gross contravention of the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in January 2010, while disposing of a CWP in this connection. The admissions were later cancelled by the university. All affected students challenged the decision in the high court by filling a CWP. After hearing the pleas of both the parties, the court, upholding the decision of the university, dismissed the petition. Besides, the court, while disposing of the writ, also passed an order that the college was liable to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 per petitioner to the university which would recover the amount from the college and the Indian Computer Education Society by
affording them an opportunity of being heard. Subsequently, the university served them with a show-cause notice on November 23, 2010, asking them to explain their position within 15 days. But instead of submitting their reply, the college made a request to the vice-chancellor for granting six weeks for the reply. Though, taking a lenient view of the request, the university had granted the time, the college failed to submit the reply even as the six weeks’ period ended on January 24, 2010. The matter was also discussed in the recently held meeting of the Academic Council of the university, which concluded that the college was deliberately avoiding to avail the opportunity and evading to comply with the order of the high court, hence necessary steps be taken to effect the recovery.
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UHBVN maintenance campaign from today
Chandigarh, March 31 According to a spokesman of the UHBVN, the nigam would carry out maintenance of distribution transformers as per technical specifications, tighten loose wires, replace weak poles, would remove snags in conductors and trim trees near the distribution system in each operation subdivision. The nigam would allow employment of additional labour in each office for carrying out the maintenance works. The nigam has also decided to set up transformer banks in each operation circle for speedy replacement of damaged transformers. Each bank will have spare transformers of 100 KVA and 63 KVA rating. Simultaneously, it will be ensured that the transformers are not overloaded and there was only 70 per cent load of the total capacity on them. This would help minimize the low-voltage problem and the rate of damage to the transformers.
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World-class football academy to come up in state
Sirsa/Fatehabad, March 31 Ajay Maken, Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, who participated in a series of programmes at Sirsa and Fatehabad recently, announced this while addressing a meeting of Nehru Yuva Sangthans in Sirsa recently. Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar said the search was on for a suitable site for the academy and the work would be started soon after the land was available. He said hockey and football games would be promoted in a big way to make them popular among the youth. Maken said the ministry would also organise sports events at village, division, district and state levels. A panchayat youth sports campaign would be started by the ministry, he added. He said rural sports potential would be identified through this campaign. The identified youth would be admitted to the centres of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) so that they could get a chance to play in the national and international events. Metro Clubs would be set up all across the country, which would coordinate with sports and youth clubs to promote the sports talent, he said. As many as 123 Nehru Yuva Kendras would also be set up in the country at the district level to provide a new direction to the youth so that they could contribute in the nation building. At present,there were 501 NYKs in the country. The minister said Fatehabad district had been selected to launch the setting up of these kendras. He said while Rs 5 lakh would be spent on the construction of sports stadium at divisional headquarters, Rs 1 lakh each would be spent for the stadiums to be constructed in all the villages of the district. Necessary sports equipment would also be provided in these stadiums and coaches would also be appointed for training the youth. He said the winners of medals at international events would be given cash prizes. Maken said the preparation for participating in the Olympics 2012 had been started and camps for hockey, archery and shooting practices had begun. As many as 19 foreign coaches were providing training to the sportspersons and the training would continue for 240 days. In the last Olympics, a total number of 64 players represented the country and won three medals, he said, adding that better performance was expected from the players in the next Olympics in view of their excellent performance in the Commonwealth and Asian Games last year. The minister also visited Jan Nayak Devi Lal Vidyapeeth run by Dabwali INLD MLA Ajay Singh Chautala. Maken was also felicitated at the Sirsa Club here. The club office-bearers requested him to expedite the case of setting up a swimming pool in the club. Earlier, chief parliamentary secretary Prahlad Singh Gillankhera welcomed the minister at Fatehabad. Besides Tanwar, Congress leaders KV Singh, a former aide of the CM, Malkiat Singh Khosa, district president, and Bhupesh Mehta, block president of the Congress, and Amit Sihag, Sirsa Lok Sabha president of the Youth Congress were present on this occasion.
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Sharma merges Bada Parivar with Cong
Bhiwani, March 31 Sharma joined the Congress last week in the presence of Hooda and HPCC president Phool Chand Mullana at the party office in Chandigarh. Ran Singh Maan, HJC leader and former CPS, also joined the Congress along with him. Talking about the situation in which he left the Congress about seven years ago, Sharma said circumstances forced him to leave the party, which had given ticket to Kuldeep Bishnoi, who was a staunch opponent of Hooda, which he could not accept. He also said his associates and followers had been pressurising him to join the Congress and keeping in view their emotions, he had to change his decision of continuing with the INLD. Welcoming him to the party fold, HPCC general Secretary Sandeep Singh said he had been an associate of Vasudev Sharma. His presence would add to the strength of the party in Haryana, he said. Shashi Ranjan Parmar, former MLA, said Sharma was not a new face for the Congress and he would strengthen the base of Hooda. Om Prakash Bahalwala, BITS co-chairman and a senior Congress leader, said Sharma was close to Hooda and he would prove helpful in redressing people’s grievances in Bhiwani.
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Protection homes at Narnaul, Nuh
Nuh/Narnaul, March 31 The Narnaul district administration has arranged another protection room for such couples in the police lines area, besides the one already provided at the local PWD rest house. Similarly, protection homes in Nuh (Mewat) district have been established in H.Nos 47-A and 48-A in the local Housing Board colony. The step had been taken after specific orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in this regard. In the case CWC 6717 of 2009 (Asha Vs State of Haryana), the court had observed that the couples who married against the wishes of their family members after eloping had difficulty in finding a safe accommodation. In such cases they were pressured by their families in various ways and some instances of honour killings also occurred. It was with a view to checking such occurrences that the protection homes have been arranged for. A spokesperson for the police department/district administration said full protection would be provided to such couples.
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Kalka village gets women community hall
Kalka, March 31 Informing this, Gurdial Singh of the village said the community hall was inaugurated by Mamta Rathor, sarpanch of the village. She said women of the village had been demanding the construction of such a hall for the past 25 years, but no one took any initiative in this regard. The demand was finally put before the state government.
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26 students selected
Rewari, March 31 The students were earlier made to go through the rigours of an intensive interview which was conducted under the over-all supervision of Ravi Ranjan, Senior Technical Head and Arvind Kumar Tiwari, Assistant Manager (HR), of the above company.
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Sirsa, Fatehabad fail to get govt support
Sirsa/Fatehabad, March 31 The government, according to an official spokesperson, has drawn elaborate plans to equip and upgrade all existing health care institutions in the state and build new ones to take health care on the people’s doorsteps. The state government, the spokesperson said, had allocated health sector an outlay of Rs 1,443.61 crore in 2011-12, which was Rs 67.73 crore more than that of the current fiscal. He said while nine out of the 21 district hospitals were being renovated and upgraded to bring them to the IPH standards, three new district hospitals were being constructed. Six out of the 21 district hospitals - Faridabad, Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Hisar, Rohtak and Sonepat - were being renovated and upgraded by the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC), New Delhi, under the special economic stimulus package of Rs 109 crore. Three other district hospitals - Panchkula, Karnal and Panipat - were being renovated and upgraded by the NBCC under the grant of Rs 25 crore sanctioned by the 12th Finance Commission. Besides, three new hospitals were being constructed in the districts of Kaithal, Jhajjar and Palwal and one sub-divisional hospital was being built in Bahadurgarh. The spokesperson said the government had sanctioned Rs 330 crore for the construction of 22 CHCs; 79 PHCs; and 285 SHCs under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). While construction work was apace on 18 CHCs, 48 PHCs and 26 SHCs, buildings of one CHC, 30 PHCs and 55 SHCs had been constructed. With a view to equipping CHCs, PHCs and SHCs, Rs 33.11 crore had been earmarked under the state plan and Rs 10 crore under the NRHM. Besides, three trauma centres were fast coming up in Ambala, Panipat and Yamunanagar under the Central government scheme of providing emergency care on national highways. He said PGIMS, Rohtak, was being upgraded and three new medical colleges at Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat district; Nalhar, Mewat district and Karnal were being set up. Besides, possibilities were being explored for setting up medical colleges and hospitals under the Public Private Participation (PPP) mode. The AYUSH Department was setting up a drug testing laboratory and government pharmacy on the campus of Shri Krishna Government Ayurvedic College, Kurukshetra. The condition of healthcare facilities was abysmal in both Sirsa and Fatehabad. Though Fatehabad was elevated to the status of a district along with Jhajjar in 1997 and the government had since declared all district hospitals as 100-bedded, the district hospital here was still functioning in the old building with the provisions of 60-beds. Out of these 60 beds, almost all private wards were being used to accommodate officials of the civil surgeon office or outpatient departments of certain specialties. Even the civil surgeon’s own office was working in the building constructed out of the funds of the District Health and Family Welfare Society. In Sirsa, the condition of the hospital building was very poor and certain portions of the building were in a dilapidated condition. Though a trauma centre was built in Sirsa six years ago, it was still not functional due to the want of staff.
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Rs 1.2 cr for maintenance of streetlights in Kalka
Kalka, March 31 The Kalka MC had already got Rs 70 lakh and the work would be started soon. He said taking a serious note of the cleanliness problem, the MC had prepared a plan to implement solid waste management scheme under which garbage bins would be put up at 50 points. To keep the city clean, supply orders had been issued in context with the related infrastructure and equipment to enable the MC to launch door to door garbage collection, he added. — OC
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Play focuses on inadequacies of judicial system
Yamunanagar, March 31 The drama ended on a somewhat anti-climactic note with an almost certain conviction converted into an “honourable acquittal”. An unscrupulous murderer first pretended to be in love with a rich lady and later killed her after getting a will executed in his favour. His girlfriend schemed her boyfriend’s acquittal and got it, thanks to the fabricated evidence, which was the turning point of the play. Virtually taking the evidence-centric justice delivery system for a ride, the girl fabricated evidence in the form of a few love letters narrating a pretended story of the cold-blooded murder to prove the boy’s innocence. Apart from its serious commentary on the system of justice, the play successfully captured the attention of the viewers throughout the 80-minute drama through some courtroom comedy, played by Manu Mani, the junior lawyer. Another play, “Maria”, written by Zakia Zuberi and directed by Indu Raj, was a story about a mother who was deeply in pain when came to know that her 15-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant. She was remembering her old times spent with her lover and was missing him too much as he was not with her and their daughter in the need of hour. In the end, the mother somehow managed to ask from her daughter that for whom she spoiled her life. Then came the grief stricken climax that he was the same boy who was earlier involved with her mother. Dr Ramesh Kumar, general secretary, Mukand Lal Institute, was the chief guest on the occasion. Ajit Rai, famous media personality, was also present. Dr Sushma Arya, principal of the host college, paid gratitude to the performers, directors and audience present to witness the event. She lauded the zeal and enthusiasm of the performers who, according to her, deserve regard for making the right entry into the world of theatre.
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Experts for building brand to promote khadi
Panipat, March 31 Mahesh Dutt Sharma, state convener of the Haryana Khadi Mission, said globalisation was not the answer to the increasing unemployment, but the small-scale and khadi industry could solve this problem. He stated that the worker ratio in the factories of multi-national companies was far less as compared to the khadi and small industries due to highly mechanised work there. SL Thakur, representative of the state-level committee of bankers, said banks had been playing an active role in promoting small-scale industries at the village level.
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Employment Dept helps 10,753 get jobs
Chandigarh, March 31 Labour and Employment Minister Shiv Charan Sharma said the job fairs had been very effective in bringing unemployed persons and perspective employers on one platform. He said during the job fairs, vocational guidance was also provided to the candidates who attended the job fairs, besides arranging career exhibitions at the venues of these fairs. Various employers notified their vacancies to the employment exchanges where these fairs were held. 'On-the-spot interviews' were arranged and suitable candidates were selected against the notified vacancies. In addition to 8,411 candidates placed through the job fairs, the department also placed 2,342 candidates in the private sector through employment exchanges of the state and the department had, in fact, succeeded in placing 10,753 candidates in the private sector till date during the current financial year. During the last financial year, 1516 candidates were placed in the private sector by the department. Sharma said after reviewing the progress of these job fairs, the department had organised the employers' meet to know the difficulties faced by them in getting suitable candidates. Through these employers' meet, the department also wanted to know the projected requirements of workers during the next six months so that suitable candidates might be made available to these employers accordingly. Training, if needed, would also be provided to candidates. He said the employers' meets had so far been held at Sonepat, Panipat, Faridabad and Gurgaon. More such meets were in the pipeline.
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Gupta group emerges winner
Rewari, March 31 All these four educational institutions primarily fall under the jurisdiction of the Public Education Board, which has 1629 active members on its rolls. As many as 1318 of the 1629 members exercised their franchise in the elections to 14 posts of the managing committees of the four institutions held here on March 27. Dr NK Chandel, principal of KLP College, was the returning officer. There was a direct fight for all 14 posts between candidates of the two rival factions, headed by Arvind Gupta and Anand Swarup Data. While the Gupta group bagged 12 of the 14 seats, only one seat went to the Data faction whereas the result of one seat was kept in abeyance owing to a dispute. Institution-wise results were as follows:- Kishan Lal Public College: President-- Davender Kumar Jain ; vice-president- Brij Lal Goyal ; secretary- Rattan Lal Kasera; and treasurer- Rakesh Garg ( 666). Satish Public College of Education: President- Arvind Gupta ; vice-president- Ajit Prasad Jain ;and secretary- Anil Rastogi. RDS Public Girls College: President- Pooran Chand Gupta; vice-president- NK Gupta ; secretary- Mukseh Gupta; and treasurer- Surya Kant Saini. Satish Public Senior Secondary School: President- Ved Prakash Agarwal ;and manager- Rajesh Lohiya.
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Minimum wages highest in Haryana: Janbaaz
Ambala, March 31 He said the government had introduced the Chief Minister Award Scheme for industrial workers. Under the scheme, outstanding workers were honoured with a cash award of Rs 1 lakh. Two awards of Rs 50,000 were given to the second and third best workers. Janbaaz said under the special scheme, three girl children (Class V to Class VIII) of industrial workers were given a grant of Rs 2000 for the purchase of school uniforms, books and stationery every year. While the state had banned child labour, a rehabilitation centres for child labour had been set up at Panipat, Yamunanagar and Faridabad. To encourage girl children in sports, sports meets were organised at the block and district levels. Janbaaz later distributed prizes among the winners, including the Yamunanagar Paper Mills teamwhich was
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Workshop on management skills at KU
Kurukshetra, March 31 While inaugurating the workshop, Prof Raghuvendra Tanwar, registrar, KU, appreciated the efforts of the UGC for sponsoring this programme because without such training interventions it would be impossible to rework on gender sensitisation in the higher education system. Prof Tanwar said the status of women was dismal in Haryana, but there was a positive sign. In the 46 PG departments of the university the women intake was almost 90 per cent in the science departments and most of the top 10 students in each department were girls, which was a very remarkable change, he added. Prof Reicha Tanwar, director, Women’s Studies Research Centre, read out a message by Prof Armaity Desai, chairperson, UGC National Consultative Committee for Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education. Prof Susheela Kaushik, co-chairperson, UGC National Consultative Committee & Core Group Resource Person (North), said though women constituted half of the total population, there was inequity in their representation. However, such workshops provided management-related knowledge and skills and developed appropriate attitudes among women managers. Dr Vandana Dave, research officer, proposed the vote of thanks. About 35 participants from different states like Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Kerela, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajshathan & Meghalaya are attending the
workshop.
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PMA opens Panipat chapter
Panipat, March 31 Dr RC Panda, Member, Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and former secretary to the Government of India, inaugurated the chapter. Adesh Jain, national president of the PMA and father of the project management movement in India, was present along with several dignitaries, projects and business managers and members of the PMA. Adesh Jain was the first non-European President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), Switzerland, in its history of 40 years. He was recently invited by NASA for giving presentation on project management. During its nearly two decades of existence the PMA has made tremendous strides in creating massive awareness amongst CEOs, practising managers and academia about the importance of balancing time and cost to meet the diversified expectations of various stakeholders. With its national committee being based in the national capital, the PMA has other chapters in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Pune, Chandigarh and Vadodara. In his inaugural address Dr Panda said that project management was the key to sustainable growth in India . It was important that a sound planning process were taken into account to cover all possible risks. Underlining the importance of timely completion of projects, Jain said the completion of a project even one day earlier than the deadline could result in saving crores. He said China had 300 times more certified project managers as compared to those in India and thus there was a dire need to produce more project managers. Many corporations like NTPC, IOCL, SAIL, L&T and others had started following this approach to provide a complete career path. Project management had come out of the confines of construction or related to physically visible entities, Jain said. BN Bankapur, Director (Refineries), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., committed himself to strengthening the project management movement in the region and sought support for the purpose.
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Scribe expresses concern over paid news
Rewari, March 31 While Krishan Gopal Dutt, former managing editor of Poultry Times, Thailand, was the chief guest, Dr ML Ranga, vice-chancellor of GJU, presided over the proceedings. Prof Jaishree Jethwani of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, was the main speaker on the occasion. In his inaugural address, Krishan Gopal Dutt rued that the diverse presentation of the same report by different newspapers caused a distorted view among readers while affecting the credibility of the media. Urging mediapersons to rise above pulls and pressures exerted by various quarters to maintain the media’s trustworthiness, Dutt expressed concern over the emerging trend of paid news asserting that it could jeopardise the freedom of the press as well. Emphasising the importance of print and electronic media in effectually highlighting the difficulties of people, Dr Ranga wanted mediapersons to work in accordance with the expectations of the masses while discharging their responsibilities honestly and objectively.
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Hindu Girls College bags 23 merit positions
Sonepat, March 31 According to college principal Nirmal Jabbal, eight positions out of the 11 of the merit list of biotech fourth semester were bagged by the college students. Besides, the joint sixth position of Sahiba and Komal Kaushik, Shailja, Renu, Bindu, Swati, Priyanka and Jyoti were placed at the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and eleventh positions, respectively. Nisha was at the third position, Sujata and Priya jointly at the eighth, Varsh at the 13th and Govind was at the 14th position in the 2nd semester examination of biotech. Poonam Rani, Anjali, Varsha Jain, and Jyoti Antil got the fourth, sixth, eighth and 10th position, respectively, in B.Sc. (1st semester). Neeraj and Monika jointly shared the fifth position in the merit list. Rekha Rani, Shikha and Jyoti were placed at the seventh, 12th and 13th positions, respectively, in M.Sc (mathematics) 1st semester examination. Priyanka got the 10th position in the merit list of M.Sc (mathematics) 3rd semester. The principal as well as the manager of the Hindu Educational Society, Arun Aggarwal, and president of the governing body Ashok Mittal have congratulated the students on their success.
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Sirsa college gets grade ‘A’ from NAAC
Sirsa, March 31 The grade is the highest possible awarded by the NAAC to colleges and a few colleges in Haryana have been able to achieve it. The NAAC grants accreditation to a college from which at least two batches of graduates have passed out. It is a voluntary exercise and the accreditation granted is valid for a period of five years, at the end of which the institution concerned must submit itself for a re-accreditation exercise. “Accreditation is a rigorous process where institutional eligibility for quality assessment is the first step, followed by the self-study report submitted by the institution,” said Dr Shamim Sharma, executive director of the JCD Vidyapeeth. It is after the submission of this report that a peer team visits and assesses the institution from all its aspects. The team inspects the premises and reviews the academic facilities and infrastructural strengths. Based on the reports submitted by the team, the grades were awarded. The team that visited the JCD College of Education undertook several components into account, which were a part of the exhaustive process to assess the institute’s various qualitative aspects, she said. The panel comprised of Prof RS Maali, a former vice-chancellor, North Maharashtra University, Dr A. Shomashekhra Moorty, principal, Ambedkar College of Education, Mangalore, and Prof Y Sudhakara Reddy, dean, Faculty of Education, Venketeshwara University, Tirupati. Curricular aspects, teaching-learning and evaluation, research, consultancy and extension, infrastructure and learning resources, student support and progression governance and leadership and innovative practices were the seven categories which were part of the assessment. The team also held interaction with the principal, management, faculty members, present batch students and staff of the associated institutions. Social aspects like the inclusive nature of the college, number of published papers in refereed journals of national and international repute were also taken into account apart from the infrastructural facilities, added Dr.
Shamim.
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Letter
Though a Division Bench of the High Court has stayed the operation of single judge Bench order passed in December last year wherein the Speaker of the Haryana Assembly was directed to decide the disqualification petitions against five erstwhile MLAs of the HJC for their alleged defection into the Congress within four months, it is only a temporary reprieve for the Hooda government as the HC has merely stayed the direction of the time limit and not the disqualification proceedings.
It is true that there is no specific time limit prescribed in the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution (Anti-Defection Law) and in the rules framed there under, but that in no way gives a free hand to a presiding officer of the House for delaying the adjudication in such cases at his whims and fancies. One still wonders within what time frame the matter would finally be adjudicated as the state Assembly has recently got its new Speaker, Kuldeep Sharma. It would be appreciable on his part if he, after having due consensus among political parties, incorporates a reasonable time frame in the Haryana Legislative Assembly (Disqualification of Members on Ground of Defection) Rules, 1986. He has the power to do so as these procedural rules have been framed by the Speaker in the exercise of power enshrined in para 8 of the Tenth Schedule. HEMANT KUMAR,
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Rohtak, March 31
Two plays, “Gavah” and “Maria”, were screened at DAV College for Girls during a theatre festival recently.The play “Gavah”, written by Agatha Christie and directed by Sanjay
Sahay, showed how witnesses gave fake statement in the court and turned a culprit into an innocent one.
The state government has revised the minimum wages to Rs 4388, which is the highest in the country, said
Ramswarup Janbaaz, Vice-Chairman of the Haryana Labour Board, at the concluding function of an industrial workers’ sports meet at the War Heroes Stadium here.
Sonepat, March 31
