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Multi-speciality hospital only in name
Fatehabad girl wins laurels in US
Govt aims at high enrolment in ITIs
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Management refresher course held
Martyrs’ memorial to come up in Kaithal
Faculty development programme at Murthal varsity
INLD campaign covers 150 villages
Relief cheques given to families of mishap victims
Job fair draws crowd
Shiwalik Vikas Manch serves legal notice on CM
149 criminals nabbed in state till May
Admn assures villagers on pollution concerns
IGP selected for International Jurists Award-2011
Bad roads offer bumpy rides
Court complex gets corridor
Ex-MLA decries use of force on peaceful protesters
Over 200 students get placements
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Multi-speciality hospital only in name
Kaithal, June 16 The hospital, which started functioning in January 2011, was formally inaugurated in March by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. No doubt, the four-storeyed spacious and elegant hospital building has been constructed on a 12-acre plot in HUDA Sector 18 on the Kaithal-Jind Road bypass at a cost of Rs 18 crore, but the shortage of doctors, paramedical staff and latest equipment in some departments has adversely affected its functioning. Ministers and government functionaries have been claiming that this hospital would be like a “mini PGI” where all types of specialised services would be available and patients will not have to go to other towns for specialised treatment. But till now, the hospital has been working like any other district-level hospital and lacks important facilities. Due to this, patients continue to be referred to other towns as was the practice earlier. Patients coming to the hospital from far-off places demand that the government should act swiftly to make it a multi-speciality hospital in the real sense. The posts of a pathologist and a skin specialist have been lying vacant for long. Only one anaesthesia doctor has been posted here who remains overburdened. At least two more are required. The post of radiologist too has been lying vacant for a long time. Doctors say the government has made several efforts to recruit radiologists for its hospitals, including this one, but qualified persons are unwilling to join government jobs because of better opportunities in the private sector. Besides, two X-ray machines of 300mA and 500mA capacity could not be shifted to the new building as these are out of order. The Health Department has not yet decided whether to get these two machines repaired or install new X-ray machines. Another old small 100mA X-ray machine presently being used is not sufficient to meet the demand. Patients have to rush to private radiology centres in the town located at a distance of about 3 km from the hospital. The existing portable low-capacity machine is unable to cop with the huge rush of patients. Around 700 to 800 patients are being examined daily in the OPD. About 18 doctors in different streams besides paramedical staff are required for the smooth functioning of the hospital. The hospital has not been connected to the hotline to ensure uninterrupted power supply. During power cuts, the functioning of the hospital gets adversely affected. The generator installed here is unable to bear the load of electric equipment. According to information, the hospital has no ultrasound machine of its own and the machine provided by the Red Cross years back is being used. Latest digital X-ray machine is also required for proper diagnosis and investigation by doctors. A major share of the money collected through ultrasound is taken by the Red Cross Society and even poor patients have to pay Rs 110 for an ultrasound test. Only one physician and a surgeon are posted here who have to examine hundreds of patients daily. These doctors, especially the surgeon, also have to go on field jobs like family welfare camps etc. If any one of these doctors is not present, the plight of patients can be well imagined. Meanwhile, medical superintendent SK Nain said though more doctors were needed to provide good services to the patients, the team of existing doctors in various fields worked with dedication and made efforts to provide the best treatment to the patients. He said neonatal ICU, gynaecologists, ortho and dental surgeons and doctors in other streams worked like a well-knit team. He said ambulance service was available as per the government policy and patients availed the service in emergency. Blood bank and vaccination centres were also working smoothly, he added.
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Fatehabad girl wins laurels in US
Fatehabad, June 16 Shrishti has been rewarded with the $5,000-President’s Education Award for her achievement. Shrishti did her initial schooling from local DAV Centenary School. She went to see her father, who has business in the US, two years ago and stayed back to peruse her further education there. Sunita Madan, principal of the local school, said she received a call and an email containing relevant certificates and citations from her recently. Rayon Cross, principal of Shrishti’s school in the US, handed over the documents to her recently. US President Barack Obama has congratulated Shrishti, her parents, friends and teachers for the award in the citation issued by him. “Education will not only determine your success, but also America’s success in the 21st century. My administration is working hard to ensure that every student receives a first-class education, but ultimately, your future will be shaped by your own willingness to put your best efforts into your studies. This award reflects your dedication to academic excellence and I commend students like you for setting a powerful example for all of our nation’s young people,” the citation by President Obama said.
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Govt aims at high enrolment in ITIs
Chandigarh, June 16 Stating this, Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal, who also holds the portfolio of Industrial Training, said these committees would be constituted before June 21 so that students would not face any difficulty during the admission process. She said the principals of the ITIs would serve as chairperson or coordinator of the committee for admission to the main ITIs at the district level. The vice-principals would act as the member-secretary and two senior principals of other ITIs in the district would be the members of the committee. Any official in whose name serious complaint was registered during last year would not be engaged in the admission process. For admission to the women’s ITIs, principal or headmistress of the ITI concerned would be the chairperson of the committee. Senior headmistress or group instructor would act
as a member and the office deputy superintendent or assistant or clerk would be the member- secretary of the committee. Similarly, for admission to the advance module, principal or in charge group instructor of the ITI concerned would be chairperson; vice-principal or group instructor as a member and the office superintendent or deputy superintendent or assistant or senior most clerk would serve as member-secretary of the committee. Bhukkal said 1,396 government ITIs were being upgraded under the public-private partnership scheme to start new courses. The institute management committees could allow admission to 20 per cent seats at their own level. Out of the total sanctioned seats in ITI Sahalawas in Jhajjar, 10 per cent seats would have to be kept reserved for wards of those families whose land was acquired for the setting up of a thermal power plant at Jharli.
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Management refresher course held
Rewari, June 16 At its concluding function, Prof. CS Nagpal, director-general of The Jaipuria Group of Colleges, Ghaziabad, was the chief guest while Dr. BK Punia, director of the ASC, presided over it. Dr. Punia said in various technical sessions during the course, a number of subject specialists provided valuable tips to the participants on human resources, finance, marketing and other vital aspects of management. Such expert briefing by specialists renewed as well as catapulted the skills of participants on an exalted pedestal, he added. In his keynote address, Prof Nagpal graphically referred to relevant works of the legendary sage Chanakya and the German revolutionary writer Karl Marx while stating that business had now become the pivotal point of all relevant domestic, national and international affairs. Exhorting teachers to impart quality education to their pupils, he wanted them to be well conversant with the transformation taking place in the social scenario as well as the latest trends and techniques developing in the domain of management. Besides, participating teachers also expressed their views on the occasion.
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Martyrs’ memorial to come up in Kaithal
Kaithal, June 16 This was stated by Randeep Singh Surjewala, Haryana PWD and Industries Minister, while inaugurating a sarovar constructed at a cost of Rs 76 lakh on the left bank of Bidhikyar tank here recently. He said statutes of Mahatma Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi would be installed shortly in the existing park.
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Faculty development programme at Murthal varsity
Sonepat, June 16 The programme was inaugurated by former Director-General of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) NK Sinha recently. In his inaugural address, Sinha said the present era was of information and technology development and works could easily be completed after obtaining the relevant information. “We cannot complete national highways without the help of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS),” he said and added that the use of these techniques would not only bring quality in the work, but also a lot of valuable time was saved. Sinha disclosed that the Centre had planned to construct 1,000-km of national highways and design maps of as many as 70 cities had also been prepared with the help of these systems. He appreciated the progress made by the university within a short span of just four years. HS Chahal, Vice-Chancellor of the university, said the programme was aimed at acquainting participants with the tools of geo-informatics, i.e. remote sensing (RS), GIS and GPS, which had emerged as significant interdisciplinary technologies, apart from achieving a matured and operational status in the country and abroad. “Eminent and qualified speakers and experts from premier institutions of the country will deliver lectures to make participants well conversant with the latest tools, recent developments and wide applications in geo-informatics,” he added. Dr RK Garg, coordinator of the programme and chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, hoped that the course was going to make a great difference in the development of faculty of various engineering colleges, technical institutions and polytechnics. The course was also open to professionals from industries, he said. RK Arora, registrar of the university, welcomed the chief guest and other participating experts from different parts of the country and the faculty attending the programme and said every effort would be made to make the programme a success.
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INLD campaign covers 150 villages
Rewari, June 16 District in charge of the campaign Rao Bahadur Singh, INLD MLA Nangal Chaudhary, Rameshwar Dayal MLA, Bawal, district party president Sunil Chaudhary, former Zila Parishad chief Satish Yadav and other prominent party functionaries have made a whistle-stop tour of the above villages. Launching a scathing attack on the misrule of the Hooda regime, Rao Bahadur Singh, Rameshwar Dayal, Sunil Chaudhary and others persistently flayed it for erratic disbursement of old-age pension, continued paucity of electricity and drinking water, increasing frustration among jobless youths, broken roads, rampant corruption and various other ills plaguing the state. Alleging that the Chief Minister had manipulated a majority by resorting to unscrupulous ways and means, they asserted that unceremonious removal of Transport Minister Om Prakash Jain and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Zile Ram Sharma on corruption charges had just taken the lid off the enormous corrupt practices which were being indulged in freely by such supporting legislators on largesse to keep the Hooda government in the saddle. Further ruing the tardy pace of development in the Ahirwal region, they deplored that the Chief Minister was simply focused on the Rohtak region alone.
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Relief cheques given to families of mishap victims
Naraingarh (Ambala), June 16 According to sources, Neeraj and Mohit, both residents of Gadhauli village, were riding a motorcycle when they were signalled to stop by a police party near Naraingarh. The youths panicked and while trying to speed away their bike collided with a speeding Scorpio. Neeraj died on the spot while Mohit succumbed to his injuries on his way to PGI, Chandigarh. Following the incident, irate villagers set on fire two police vehicles and blocked the Naraingarh-Sadhaura highway for about six hours. The villagers relented after a case was registered against the four policemen. Later, the district police authorities suspended the cops. According to the villagers, one of the cops hit the youths with a stick which created panic among them and they tried to speed away. In the process, they lost control of the bike and hit a Scorpio. A case under section 304 has been registered against Puran Chand, SI; Satish Kumar, ASI; and Krishan Chand and Gurcharan, both constables. A case has also been registered against the driver of the Scorpio.
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Job fair draws crowd
Rewari, June 16 The event was held under the sponsorship of Environment, Education, Human Rights and News Media Society. While about 150 of them underwent the rigours of intensive interviews conducted by HR managers of various private companies situated in the industrial estates of Rewari, Dharuhera and Bawal, nearly 350 others would be interviewed for appointment by HR personnel in the next few days. Pawan Kumar, managing director of the SSP Placement and Security Services, said their institute had made employment available to over 5,000 jobless youths in various companies in Rewari, Dharuhera, Bawal, Manesar, Neemrana and Bhiwadi during the past one decade. He further said youths aspiring for jobs in such companies could also log on to their website “www.sspglobaljob.com”.
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Shiwalik Vikas Manch serves legal notice on CM
Kalka, June 16 Bansal said in the notice, it had been demanded that non-government members should be nominated to the board from Panchkula, Yamunanagar and Ambala districts. “Such members have not been nominated since 2004. Subsequently, lakhs of people of the hilly area remain unrepresented as there is not even a single member from the public on the board due to which all purposed schemes for the development of the Shiwalik area have been hanging fire. “The notice also seeks restarting of grant to the Shiwalik Development Board, which was banned in 2008 in discrimination against the poor and backward people of the area. In fact, it was the denial of a share in the development schemes of the state. A special financial package has also been sought for the commencement of development projects,” he added.
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149 criminals nabbed in state till May
Chandigarh, June 16 He said the inter-state gang of Rajesh and Badri involved in serious crimes in Haryana, Punjab, UP, Chandigarh and Delhi was busted. Similarly, the notorious Daljeet gang, involved in about 40 cases of murder, extortion, kidnapping for ransom and robberies, was also smashed. This gang was also responsible for the murder of a reputed businessman in Hansi town. The notorious gang of Sonu Pandit involved in making and supplying fake Indian currency notes was also busted. A criminal gang involved in cattle smuggling was also nabbed. He said the police had solved the Sweety murder case at Kurukshetra and arrested all accused persons involved in the crime. A Nigerian gang had also been arrested by the Gurgaon police. It used to cheat innocent people by giving false appointment letters in the name of Maruti Company through email. Several criminal gangs involved in supplying illicit arms to criminals of Haryana from Bihar, UP and MP were apprehended. A total of 928 illicit pistols, 87 illicit revolvers and 1,664 cartridges were recovered in 2010. During the current financial year, 401 pistols, 44 revolvers and 427 cartridges had been recovered. The police recovered 230 kg of charas in February with the arrest of Rohtak-based smugglers. During 2011 up to May, 71.16 kg opium, 410 kg charas and 7,618 kg of poppy husk was recovered. The spokesperson claimed that several measures were also taken for crime prevention by implementing the community policing programme. The Police Academy had incorporated a special module, “Sensitised Police for Empowered Society”, to sensitise all police ranks. Seminars and workshops were organised in collaboration with resident welfare associations, business associations, educational institutions and chambers of commerce and industry. The Global Positioning System had been provided in all police control room vehicles and all prisoner vehicles to monitor the exact movement of the vehicle and to fix the accountability of the police personnel on duty. A digital control room had been set up in Gurgaon and one such control room was being set up in Faridabad to cater to the growing need and importance of wireless communication in the NCR.
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Admn assures villagers on pollution concerns
Panipat, June 16 It is the country’s first and Asia’s biggest plant being constructed by the oil giant to meet the ever-increasing demand for SB rubber which is predominantly used in the production of tyres for cars and light trucks, besides making mats, drain board trays, shoe soles, chewing gum, food container sealants, conveyor belts, sponge articles and others. It is also used in pharmaceutical, surgical, and sanitary products along with food packaging. The project, which is likely to be completed by February next year, had raised apprehensions among the villagers around the refinery that it would wreck havoc on the ecology of the area. Aware of the anxiety shown by the villagers, the district administration organised a special public grievance redressal meeting on the premises of the refinery to listen to the suggestions of the villagers and dispel their fears. Speaking on the occasion, deputy commissioner JS Ahlawat said besides having state-of-the-art pollution control equipment, the company would be developing a green cover over an area of 19 acre around the refinery. He said the plant would also have a water treatment plant to check any kind of water pollution in the region. It was in January this year that the IOC performed the ground-breaking ceremony of the SBR plant on the refinery premises. The rubber plant is being brought up as a joint venture with Taiwan State Rubber Corporation (and Marubeni Corporation of Japan. IOC's move was considered crucial as the country has only two poly-butadiene rubber (PBR) units at IPCL, Vadodara, while there is no SBR unit in operation currently. As per estimates, the demand for SBR is expected to cross 220 TMTPA a year by 2014-15 with steady growth in the automotive industry which constitutes around 92 per cent of the consumption of SBR in the country. The project is likely to be commissioned by February next year. The deputy commissioner said measures to curtail pollution of any kind were being put in place which would ensure that the delicate ecological balance was not disturbed.
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IGP selected for International Jurists Award-2011
The award will be conferred upon him by Lord Phillips, president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, during an International Conference of Jurists for Judicial Reforms scheduled to be held on June 20-21 at Hotel Crown Plaza in London (UK). A communiqué in this regard has recently been sent by the president of the International Council of Jurists to the IGP office. Kamaraja is the first officer of the Haryana police who has been selected for this coveted award. He will leave for London on June 18 to receive the award. Earlier, this award was given away to Lord Phillips, Chief Justice of UK, Justice Beverley Mc Lachin, Chief Justice of Canada, Justice Awn S Al Khasawneh, vice-president of the International Court of Justice, Justice Chan Sek Keong, Chief Justice of Singapore, Sir Gavin Lightman, Fatou Bensouda, Sir James R. Mancham, Founding President of the Republic of Seychelles, Ram Jethmalani, the then Union Law Minister, Prof C. Donald Johnson and Prof. Shimon Shetreet. Besides, Kamaraja has also been invited for giving presentation on law and order situation in India so that delegates attending the conference from different countries can know about the techniques and policies being adopted by the Indian police to curb crime for maintaining law and order situation over there. Moreover, several other issues pertaining to law and order will also be discussed by experts concerned during the two-day international conference. Notably, an American-based organisation “Tathastu” had also honoured Kamaraja with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his exemplary contribution in empowering underprivileged persons besides taking novel steps to curb criminal activities.
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Bad roads offer bumpy rides
Ambala June 16 Most of the main internal roads of the city, except those in Srafa Bazaar and Daal Bazaar are made of concrete. The roads were built a decade ago. No repair work has been conducted on these roads for the past several years. The worst hit roads include the wholesale cloth market road, Shukulkund road, Bazaar Basti Ram road, Civil Hospital road, Circular road, Do Khambha chowk road and the Court road. The roads are in bad shape even in the posh colonies like Model Town, Sectors 1, 8, 9 and 10. The reconstruction of roads in Sector 10 was started two months ago and the people are getting relief to some extent, but the roads in Sectors 8 and 9 are still deplorable. The residents of these sectors had taken out a protest march in this regard two months ago and they were assured that the roads would be repaired at the earliest. Later, local MLA Venod Sharma had visited all three sectors and laid the foundation stone for the construction of roads. He had also announced that the grant for the work had already been sanctioned by the state government. He had maintained that all internal roads of the city would also be repaired immediately after the monsoon. Meanwhile, deputy commissioner Samir Pal Saro, who is also the commissioner of Ambala Municipal Corporation, said the administration had sufficient funds for the renovation of roads. The repair work would be started after the rainy season was over, he added.
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Court complex gets corridor
Fatehabad, June 16 The corridor has been constructed at a cost of Rs 32 lakh. Later, addressing members of the District Bar Association, Gillankhera said lawyers played a vital role in providing justice to litigants. Upender Gera, president of the District Bar Association, said the bar and the bench had been working in coordination in the district in an effort to provide speedy justice to litigants. District and Sessions Judge RK Tewatia, additional chief judicial magistrate Ajay Prashar, judicial magistrates Amit Sharma and Yogender Singh and SDM Baljit Singh were also present on the occasion.
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Ex-MLA decries use of force on peaceful protesters
Gurgaon, June 16 Yadav said he, along with his supporters, would march to Delhi via Rewari and Gurgaon. The former MLA has sought an appointment with the President, to whom he wants to convey “people’s strong sentiments against such oppressive dictatorial acts of the government”. He said the latest instance of the government’s tyrannical approach was the forcible eviction of Ramdev and his supporters protesting against corruption and black money from Ramlila grounds in Delhi. Addressing a press conference here, Yadav said people’s pent-up feelings against rampant corruption had found an outlet in the form of their support to the movements launched by Anna Hazare and Ramdev. “The need of the day is to channelise people’s sentiments to build a mass movement which can stem the rot in the country’s political system,” he maintained.
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Over 200 students get placements
Kurukshetra, June 16 Claiming this here recently, KITM PRO Mohit Gupta said students of the KITM, Kurukshetra, got 4-5 opportunities through campus interviews and most of the eligible candidates got placed in reputed companies. Besides, KITM offered placement opportunities to students from other institutes also. Students from Moradabad, Jagadhari, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, etc, participated in these activities. In total, more than 200 students got placements through the efforts made by the KITM. It was a matter of great satisfaction for the management of the institute that in its first attempt to provide job opportunities, the success rate was quite high, he said. Officials from the companies of national repute visited the campus to carry out the recruitment process. Astitva Sharma, HR manager of AB Corporate, congratulated the students for being selected in large numbers and also expressed appreciation for Munish Kainth, a student of the Mechanical Department of the institute, for being topper of the seventh semester in the university examination. About 94 students from B.Tech and MBA opted to start their own business. These students were provided training to develop their entrepreneurship and business skills in various training programmes organised in collaboration with MSME (Micro Small and Medium Enterprises) and others. Dr PJ George, director-principal, along with managing director Sudarshan Aggarwal and training and placement officer JL Tuli, congratulated the students and expressed satisfaction on this achievement, he added.
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The 100-bed multi-speciality hospital here named after late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is yet to attain the multi-speciality status.
A 12-day faculty development programme on “Geo-informatics - Technology and Application”, sponsored by the All-India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), was organised by the Department of Civil Engineering of the Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology,
Murthal, at the university premises.
Deputy commissioner Sameer Pal Srow has sent relief cheques to the families of the two youths who were killed in a road mishap near Naraingarh earlier this month.A team of officials, led by OP Sharma, Naraingarh
SDM, went to Gadhauli village and handed over the cheques of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of Neeraj and
Mohit. The relief amount has been contributed equally from the Chief Minister’s fund and the Red Cross fund.
Hundreds of youths from Rewari, Mahendergarh, Bhiwani, Hisar, Sirsa and several other districts of Haryana participated in a state-level Rozgar Mela (Job Fair) held under the joint auspices of MPG Career Institute as well as SSP Placement and Security Services in Hari Om Agrasen Lab here recently. MP
Goyal, managing director of MPG Career Institute, presided over its proceedings.
Gurgaon, June 16
Jhajjar, June 16