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High Court raps HUDA top brass
After Kaithal mishap, anganwari staff told to leave unsafe buildings
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Ex-sarpanch committed suicide: AIIMS report
State bags top wheat producer award
35 more kids fall ill after midday meal
Pension disbursal begins in Rohtak tomorrow
Become true agents of social change: Hooda to scribes
6-yr-old dies of diphtheria in Sirsa
Mysterious disease kills 12 buffaloes in Kaithal
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High Court raps HUDA top brass
Chandigarh, July 16 Asking HUDA officers to mend their ways, Justice Ranjit Singh also asked them not to routinely sign set orders presented by the babus, but to apply their brains. The wake-up call came on a bunch of petitions filed by Sandeep and other petitioners against the State of Haryana and HUDA on the right of oustees. The assertion came after it was brought to the high court’s notice that the speaking order passed by the authorities was identically worded in many cases of the oustees. Counsel Puneet Bali told the court that the petitioner could not apply on the prescribed format as newspapers were not supplied to the remote village in Rohtak district where he had been staying after the acquisition of his land in Gurgaon. As his claim remained undecided, he approached the high court. The speaking order passed in pursuance to the high court order of May 15, 2009, was “identically worded”. Bali added “same stereotype reasons are stated in rejecting the claim of the petitioner”. Taking a note of the assertion, Justice Ranjit Singh ruled: “Bali is justified in making a grievance that all these orders have been kept in a format and routinely prepared by a babu to be signed by officer concerned without application of mind. “HUDA must make mends and the officers must apply themselves instead of leaving such issues to Babus”. Before allowing the petition for allotment of a plot, Justice Ranjit Singh asserted: Do Estate Officers and other officers of the HUDA need to be reminded of the background for which the oustee policies are formed? “Should they not be themselves sensitive to the needs of such land loser who are involuntarily displaced and are deprived of their livelihood and shelter and who are uprooted of their socio-cultural environment? Their traumatic psychological impact, perhaps, has no value and place for consideration before such officer who arrogates themselves with power of lording over the plight of these hapless farmers losing their lands and livelihood.” |
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After Kaithal mishap, anganwari staff told to leave unsafe buildings
Chandigarh, July 16 Sources said that the field staff, the anganwari in-charge and the worker have been telephonically conveyed the urgency to ensure the safety of the children attending anganwaris and asked them to look for “suitable alternatives” on priority. An anganwari in-charge in Pehowa confirmed that they had received such directions. “We have been asked to shift out of any unsafe building the anganwari maybe running from and move to a new location. The Haryana government gives Rs 200 as rent in rural areas and Rs 1,500 as rent in urban areas for running the anganwaris,” she said. In Jind, a worker maintained that the knee-jerk reaction of the district officials to the Kaithal incident had sent them in a tizzy. “The supervisor hardly visits the anganwaris or there would have been no such urgency. At such short notice, it becomes difficult to identify a family willing to give its premises to run an anganwari,” she said. Meanwhile, Anganwari Workers and Helpers Union general secretary Jagmati Malik appreciated the suspension of the Child Development Project Officer, programme officer and supervisor in Kaithal. “Everywhere, top officials shy away from visiting anganwaris. Workers and helpers are left to identify buildings and run anganwaris on their own. At some places, our workers pay rent from their own pockets while at others they run anganwaris from dilapidated and unoccupied buildings because the rent approved by the government is not passed on to them. Such buildings then cost nothing,” she emphasised. Malik added that district officials also generally ignore the grievances of workers in running anganwaris. “Our workers have told us many times that their grievances go unheard and unaddressed. In fact, they are targeted by the staff for making complaints. The supervisor, instead of visiting anganwaris, regularly prefers to call workers at one place to gather all her information. When the government does so much, the staff in the districts should also be made responsive,” she said.
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Ex-sarpanch committed suicide: AIIMS report
Karnal, July 16 “We are anguished over the report and fail to understand that why the deceased did not say anything about suicide before he breathed his last while he gave a brief account of why he went to the house of Jile Ram, former CPS, and also referred to the letter written by him,” said Rajinder Singh, deceased’s son. Reiterating his demand for “narco test” of former minister Om Prakash Jain and the former CPS, he said, “Unless the investigations are handed over to the CBI, there is no hope of getting justice as the police is treating us ‘accused’ and not ‘complainant’ and harassing us.” “I have already filed a case in the Punjab and Haryana High Court for seeking the CBI probe in the case as the state police has done too little to tighten the noose on real culprits and we are regularly receiving threats and being pressurised,” he alleged. Rajinder Singh said a few days ago Vinod Kumar with some other persons came and threatened him and he reported the matter to the police. But instead of arresting and interrogating him, the police gave him 48 hours to report and let him go after an hour while we were made to sit in a police station for the whole day and not told anything about the progress of investigations. Karam Singh had shot off letters to the Chief Minister and senior officers of the Karnal administration on June 6 alleging that he had paid bribe of Rs 12.95 lakh to Om Prakash and Jile Ram for recruitment to three jobs. He went to Jile Ram’s house on June 7 and was found in semi-conscious condition near the NDRI. He was rushed to a hospital but could not survive.
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State bags top wheat producer award
Chandigarh, July 16 It is for the first time that the state has won the prestigious Best Performing State Award for wheat in the individual crops and crop groups. The award carries Rs 1 crore in cash, a citation and a trophy. The award was received by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the 83rd Foundation Day function of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research in New Delhi today. The citation appreciated the dedicated efforts made by the state in extending technological inputs and services to farmers, pioneering soil health initiatives like mapping village-level soil fertility, water management, ensuring 100 per cent treatment of certified wheat seeds and effective control of yellow rust disease. Later, talking to mediapersons, the Chief Minister said that the credit for this achievement goes to the state’s hard working farmers. This achievement is a record in itself, he said. Hooda expressed confidence that with the use of scientific methods and modern agro-practices, the state would continue to make progress in agriculture. Haryana Agriculture Minister Paramvir Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Chhatar Singh, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Agriculture, Roshan Lal and Director General, Agriculture, Ashok Yadav, were also present at the award ceremony.
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35 more kids fall ill after midday meal
Kurukshetra, July 16 The incident has exposed the tall claims of the administration of not repeating such incidents. Minutes after the children in Rua School had their midday meal, they started complaining of stomachache and started vomiting. Initially, 20 children were rushed to Government Hospital, Pehowa, but later 15 more children were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure. Sudesh Madan, district elementary education officer, Kurukshetra, said the students complained of stomachache and started vomiting just 10 minutes after consuming the midday meal. The students were discharged after the treatment. She said the food was prepared under the supervision of the committee constituted by the district administration, but what actually went wrong was difficult to say. The food samples have been sent for a test. |
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Pension disbursal begins in Rohtak tomorrow
Rohtak, July 16 According to the DC office, the distribution work will continue up to July 25 and all kinds of pension will be delivered to beneficiaries, including senior citizens, widows, physically-challenged and the families included in the Laadli Scheme, during this period. Officials stated that pension work would be taken up ward-wise and as per the programme beneficiaries of Ward No. 1-7 would be given the payment on July 18. The beneficiaries of Ward No. 8-14 had been informed to assemble at the earlier decided places to collect the payment on July 19. The distribution of pension for Ward No. 15-21 would take place on July 20, while those residing in Ward No. 21-28 would receive the benefit on July 21. The disbursal in Ward No. 29-35 would be done on July 22, while anyone who was unable to collect the pension on due date could contact the MC office on July 25. |
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Become true agents of social change: Hooda to scribes
Kurukshetra, July 16 “Journalists are the conscience keepers of the society and could become agents of change, if they are truly committed to their profession,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at the three-day orientation programme for working journalists organised by the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Technology, Kurukshetra University, here today. Citing the example of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Hooda said that for people like him, journalism was not a “tool” but an instrument for spreading awareness about social evils. He demonstrated that journalism is a tried and tested “powerful public welfare tool” but it must be used with caution and restrain. “A journalist has immense power by virtue of the profession but I firmly believe that this power should be exercised to bring truth to the masses as real journalism brings a difference in the lives of people,” he said. “I hope that the media in the state works as an agency of development and we can expect responsible journalism from them,” he added. In his keynote address, Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express, said that the time has come for journalists and mediapersons to see the mirror. Regretting that mediapersons have become arrogant in wielding their power, he said that there is a need to check this arrogance as Indian people do not tolerate arrogance. KU vice-chancellor Lt-Gen Dr DDS Sandhu said, “To keep pace with the advancing society, it becomes necessary for the journalistic community to reinvent and reinvigorate itself and universities can provide an ideal platform for this.” As many as 53 working journalists from Haryana are attending the workshop. Earlier, the CM laid the foundation stones of the building of the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Technology and mechanical workshop of University Institute of Engineering and Technology on the KU campus.
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6-yr-old dies of diphtheria in Sirsa
Sirsa, July 16 The victim, Samir had tested positive for diphtheria at a private diagnostic laboratory here earlier this month and was shifted to Delhi, where he died at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Samir was taken ill in the beginning of July and was first admitted to a private hospital here with symptoms of fever and a swollen neck. After running some tests, he was confirmed to be suffering from diphtheria. Samir was then shifted to Delhi’s Infectious Diseases Hospital. Residents of the locality are scared after the victim’s death as diphtheria is a highly infectious disease. However, Civil Surgeon Dr Dayanand said that there was no cause for worry as the health authorities had taken precautionary measures. “Ten health department teams carried out a complete survey of the area over five days after Samir’s case was detected. They found 364 children and all of them have been immunised against diphtheria,” he said. |
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Mysterious disease kills 12 buffaloes in Kaithal
Kaithal, July 16 Kaithal Deputy Director Animal Husbandry Dr Madan Lal said that the post-mortem of some animals showed that they had died after consuming a poisonous substance. Some villagers told him that they had brought grass from the ground near the stadium to feed their animals and this could have been poisonous. Villagers have been advised to feed animals dry fodder and clean tubewell or submersible pump water.
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