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Cotton purchase
Widening of National Highway-10
Schools not following guidelines for BPL-category students
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NIFAA’s drawing contest finds place in Guinness records
Rs 15-cr development plan for Karnal
Rs 3.56 cr spent on construction of village lanes
Focus on socially relevant media research projects, scholars urged
KU invites TCS for next-gen varsity
Anti-measles campaign at Yamunanagar
Hooda’s bid to strengthen Congress in Sirsa
Governor lauds drive to enrol voters
Medical students flout norms
Agarwal samaj to launch political awareness drive
Police increases vigil to stop cow slaughter
Premature baby weighing 800gm saved
FIFA team inspects Rai sports school
Tributes paid to freedom fighter
President's Police Medal for Deswal
Urbanisation leading to
higher demand for malt
Recruitment drive held
Workshop on development of social sector held
Rural women workers made aware of govt schemes
Folk art powerful medium to reach rural people
Training programme at NDRI from March 3
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Cotton purchase
Sirsa, January 30 Revenue collections in Sirsa, the biggest producer of cotton in Haryana, have dipped from Rs 24.32 crore till January 24 last year to Rs 19.28 crore this year. This is despite the fact that the arrival of cotton last year was 15.49 lakh quintals against 23.09 lakh quintals till January 24 this year. Last year, 19 lakh quintals of cotton arrived in Sirsa mandis, which was sold for Rs 800 crore and fetched Rs 32 crore as revenue to the government. Sirsa alone accounts for almost one third of the total cotton produced in Haryana. According to the records of the Agriculture Department, cotton was sown on 2.10 lakh hectares in Sirsa out of the 5.98 lakh hectares brought under the cultivation of cotton in the state. The Agriculture Department had set a crop production target of 24 quintals per hectares against the last year’s target of 19.5 quintal per hectare. The plunge is largely due to a decrease in the rates of the market fee and the HRDF by the state government from last year’s 4 per cent to 1.6 per cent this year and partially due to evasion by some unscrupulous dealers. The rates were decreased after a strike by the Haryana Cotton Industries Association, which, while seeking a reduction of rates, had assured the government that the total revenue collection would remain unaltered, as traders would not feel any need for evasion with the new rates. In Haryana, the total production of cotton is more than 120 lakh quintals going by the Agriculture Department’s figures. However, the actual realisation of revenue to the government is not even on half of this quantity. Sushil Mittal, president of the Haryana Cotton Industries Association, said while seeking a reduction in the rates of market fee and the HRDF, their organisation had promised the government to give revenue on at least 90 lakh quintals of cotton this year. He said till January 15, members of his association had already paid revenue on 47 lakh quintals of cotton. Meanwhile, Mittal said the government was yet to issue a notification with regard to the decrease in the rates of the HRDF, leading to apprehensions among cotton industry owners.
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Widening of National Highway-10
Rohtak, January 30 In a statement here recently, Hooda said he had been aware of the delay in launching of the project. He said he recently met the secretary of the ministry concerned and asked him to take up the work on the widening of the highway immediately as any delay would inconvenience commuters. The MP said the department had told him that the lack of adequate response by contractors regarding the project had perhaps been the main hurdle so far, though tenders inviting expression of interest had already been issued. The Union Government had given clearance to the construction of several new national highways across the state, Hooda said. Regarding the ongoing construction and widening of the highway between Rohtak and Delhi, he said the work was nearing completion. He said the construction of a bypass of Bahadurgarh town had also been on full swing and was nearing completion. He said the department and the authorities concerned had been asked to get service lanes of nearly all the highways and important roads constructed so that the problem of road blockades and traffic jams could be tackled effectively in future. While the national highway between Rohtak and Delhi was being six-laned, the highways connecting Rohtak with Jind, Rohtak with Jhajjar, Rohtak with Bhiwani and Rohtak with Panipat were being converted to four lanes at present.
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Schools not following guidelines for BPL-category students
Ambala, January 30 Most of the prominent public schools of the city have good infrastructure and faculty. Last year, hardly 5 per cent students from the BPL and EWS categories were admitted to those schools. A meeting of district education officers was summoned in the DPI’s office in Chandigarh recently to discuss the issue. In spite of it no directions in this regard have been issued to the schools of Ambala so far. One of the guardians of the BPL students said the department should ask the public schools to fill 25 per cent seats of the reserved quota first and then only these should be allowed to fill the remaining seats. When contacted, some of the public schools said they had hardly received two or three applications for admission from BPL candidates. Most of the public schools are not in favour of granting admission to BPL candidates. They are of the view that the schools where BPL students are studying should be upgraded and provided with similar infrastructure and other facilities available in public schools. A chairman of a public school said they could grant full fee concession to BPL students but such students would have to spend a lot of money to arrange the school uniform, books and meet other requirements of a public school. The government should review its decision, he added.
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NIFAA’s drawing contest finds place in Guinness records
Karnal, January 30 The exhibition-cum-painting competition was organised on the theme of “No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki” to promote world peace and nuclear weapon-free world in collaboration with the Japan Information Centre and supported by Sahodaya School Complex, Karnal. Sahodaya School also found a place in the Guinness Book of Records for providing support system for the mega event held on August 1, 2011 in which a record number of 6,067 artists participated. Guinness World Record Ltd has now issued an official certificate stating that “the most people dot-to-dot drawing simultaneously at one location is 6,067 and was achieved by NIFAA at New Grain Market in Karnal on August 1 last year”. The competition surpassed the old record of 3,563 persons participating in a similar event in Luyang City of China in 2009 under the category “most people drawing simultaneously at a single venue”. All the selected and prize-winning paintings of this contest were also exhibited close to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial where people from about 190 countries assemble every year to pay tributes to the victims of Hiroshima and also to advocate the need of world peace. The painting competition was held under four categories namely open category, university and college students, secondary school students and elementary school students. The members of NIFAA recently facilitated the principals of 51 supporting schools who made the event a success, NIFAA president Pritpal Singh Punnu said.
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Rs 15-cr development plan for Karnal
Karnal, January 30 The plan is likely to be discussed and approved at the meeting to be held on January 31 to be presided over by the Deputy Commissioner. Under the “D” plan, the main thrust would be on streetlights, drainage, community centres, education, water supply, irrigation, health services and sports. The administration is reported to have asked for the details of the development works done through sarpanches, block development and panchayat officers, BDC, zila parishad members and MLA and MP development fund and the amount spent ahead of the meeting. According to sources in the administration, under the plan, 40 per cent of the total amount would be spent on improvement of streets and drainage, 15 per cent on community centres, 10 per cent each on educational institutions, water supply, irrigation and child and women welfare. Further, separate budget of Rs 11.53 crore for development of rural areas and Rs 3.84 crore for urban areas had been earmarked to ensure speedier development and better facilities in villages.
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Rs 3.56 cr spent on construction of village lanes
Sirsa, January 30 Hooda had reviewed the progress of works under his announcements during his visit to Sirsa recently and had pulled up several officers for showing laxity in the completion of works covered under his announcements. Deputy Commissioner J Ganeshan said in the Ellenabad block, Rs. 16.90 lakh had been spent in Amritsar Khurd village on the construction of a concrete lane. Similarly, in Beharwal, Rs 9.51 lakh had been spent. In Bhuratwala, Rs 22 lakh and in Dhani Shera village an amount of Rs 17 lakh was spent on the construction of concrete lanes. Ganeshan said in Dholpullia, an amount of Rs 11.44 lakh was spent on the construction of concrete lane, whereas in Humayun Khera village, it was Rs 7.07 lakh. In Karamshana village, Rs 13.73 lakh; in Kashi Ka Baans village, Rs 27 lakh; in Kesupura, Rs 13.32 lakh; in Kharisureran village, Rs 14 lakh; in Kishanpura village, Rs 3 lakh; in Mallekan village, Rs 11 lakh; in Mamrekalan village, Rs 7 lakh; and in Mithanpura village, Rs 4 lakh have been spent on concrete lanes. He said similar work was carrried out in Mojukhera, where a sum of Rs 22 lakh was spent. In Pratap Nagar it was Rs 12 lakh; in Pharka, Rs 11 lakh; in TalwaraKhurd, Rs 18 lakh; in Thobria, Rs 10 lakh; in Kuttabarh, Rs 11 lakh; in Mirzapur, Rs 12 lakh; in Neemla, Rs 4 lakh; in Shekhu Khera, Rs 14 lakh; in Budhimedhi, Rs 6 lakh; in Kumthala, Rs 10 lakh; in Kripal Patti, Rs 7 lakh; in Ratta Khera, Rs 5 lakh; in Chilkani Dhab, Rs 6 lakh; in Mehna Khera, Rs 11 lakh; in Meethi Sureran, Rs 12 lakh; and in Umedpura village, Rs 11 lakh, the Deputy Commissioner said.
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Focus on socially relevant media research projects, scholars urged
Kurukshetra, January 30 While inaugurating the workshop, Prof DD Arora, Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management of the university, said, “Research is an important and serious academic exercise”. Prof Arora urged upon the research scholars to focus on socially relevant media research projects. “Today, media plays a vital role in governance and more specifically in a democracy,” he said. Prof Rajbir Singh, director, IMCMT, said, “The primary objective of organising the workshop is to encourage dialogue among PhD, MPhil students and the faculty members”. He said the interactive dialogue among the scholars and experienced resource persons would add value to the research work. “The institute will extend all possible help to research scholars for producing quality research work in the media field,” he added. Dr Dev Vrat Singh, associate professor at the institute and the coordinator of the workshop, said seasoned resource persons had been invited by the institute to cover various aspects of media research such as review of literature, audience research, sampling techniques, quantitative analysis and qualitative research analysis.
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KU invites TCS for next-gen varsity
Kurukshetra, January 30 Making the offer while inaugurating a one-day meeting on “Digitally Enabled Solutions for Next Generation Universities” organised by the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), the Kurukshetra University Vice-Chancellor, Lt-Gen DDS Sandhu (retd), said “foreign universities are going to give us competition and therefore we have to prepare ourselves to meet the future challenges”. Addressing the delegates from various engineering colleges affiliated to the university, Sandhu said the demands of modern-day society required the administrators of today and tomorrow to think differently. “The core challenges faced by universities and colleges are the availability of quality faculty, idle capacity, quality of academics, employability of students and overall administration of day-to-day affairs”, he added. V. Ramaswamy, Global Head, iON Tata Consultancy Services, in his keynote address said cloud computing had come as a major saviour for the education sector and the challenges faced by universities could be addressed by IT-enabled services to set standards and automate processes to manage the core functions of the campus relating to admissions, academics, financial and accounting matters, HR, payroll, hostel, library, canteen, etc. It would help in effective day-to-day governance by allowing an integrated view of the institution and also provide a platform for communication among various stakeholders of a university ---its affiliated colleges, its regulators, teachers, parents,students, industry and alumni, Ramasamy added.
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Anti-measles campaign at Yamunanagar
Yamunanagar, January 30 Dr VK Sharma, CMO, Yamunanagar, said the drive would be conducted in 10 districts, including Ambala, Fatehabad, Hisar, Jind, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Sirsa and Yamunanagar. Sharma said children, if not vaccinated or those who had received a single dose of measles vaccine, were at the risk of the disease as well as other health complications like pneumonia, diarrhoea and encephalitis. Globally, an estimated 400 children died from measles every day. Three out of four children, who died from measles in 2008, were from India,” he said. A Yamunanagar-based civil surgeon said 40 Adverse Effects Following Immunisation Management Centres had been established for any emergency. “We are targeting 2.32 lakh children to be vaccinated with different teams of vaccinators, ASHA workers and supervisors,” he added. Earlier, a workshop on measles was held at Chandigarh with the help of technical expert from the Health Department, Yamunanagar. Addressing the participants, Dr VK Sharma said the government recognised the importance of vaccinating every child. “The drive is the second phase of the measles catch-up campaign supported by the UNICEF and WHO in 10 districts of the state,” he added. Dr Suminder Kaur, DIO, Yamunanagar, said, “A total of 2,642 immunisation session sites have been identified in Yamunanagar out of which 1,261 in schools and 1,381 at outreach sites”. She said 141 high-risk areas like brick kilns, construction sites, nomadic sites and slum areas would also be covered. “Special mobile teams have been deployed to cover brick kilns, construction sites and other areas,” she said. Dr VM Atreja, deputy civil surgeon, emphasised the role of the Health Department for the campaign. “Parents can be educated and motivated about the importance of the second dose of measles vaccine and will substantially add to the success of the campaign,” he said.
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Hooda’s bid to strengthen Congress in Sirsa
Sirsa, January 30 Hooda participated in several programmes in Sirsa. Though most of these events were receptions organised by his supporters, the tone and tenor of these meetings remained political. The Chief Minister, along with Governor Jagannath Pahadia, had come to Sirsa to address the first convocation of Chaudhary Devi Lal University here. While the Governor left after the function, Hooda participated in as many as 12 programmes in the two days he remained in Sirsa. Before leaving for Chandigarh, Pahadia accompanied Hooda to Minister Gopal Kanda’s palatial residence on the Rania Road for lunch, where Kanda brothers - Gopal Kanda and Gobind Kanda - had invited a huge gathering that gave the impression of a rally. Later, Hooda had dinner at the residence of a former deputy chairman of the State Planning Board, Ranjit Singh, where again a large number of people greeted him. A former parliamentary secretary, Dura Ram, vice-chancellor of Chaudhary Devi Lal University Dr KC Bhadwaj, and several doctors of the town were present on the occasion. The Chief Minister also participated in a reception organised by a villager Mani Ram Hooda at his Dhottar village in Rania tehsil of this district, where hundreds of villagers assembled at the reception and many others perched on their rooftops to have a glimpse of the Chief Minister. A reception xorganised by Hoshiari Lal Sharma, state delegate of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, took the shape of a rally where Hooda also launched the website of the veteran leader, who has been a pillar of the Congress in Sirsa since 1974. Looking at the response, Hooda said he was reminded of his own Sanghi village. He also went to pay obeisance at the Dera Sangar Sadh of the Kamboj community and at the ancestral residence of his former OSD in Chautala village to mourn a death in his family. The next day, besides addressing formal meetings of officers and a press conference, Hooda addressed the members of the Bar Association and had breakfast in the factory of Sushil Mittal, president of the Haryana Cotton Industries Association. Later in the day, Hooda went to the ailing former minister LD Arora’s residence to know his wellbeing and attended a tea organised in his honour by his former media coordinator Sanjay Arora. Before returning to Chandigarh, Hooda visited Fatehabad, where he attended a tea organised by chief parliamentary secretary Prahlad Singh Gillankhera and visited former minister late Mani Ram Godara’s house to mourn the death of his widow. During his meetings in Sirsa, Hooda targeted Chautalas, particularly for the Dabwali Bandh organised by the INLD on his visit. “Once they (Chautalas) talked of Bharat Bandh, then gradually they came down to Haryana Bandh, the last time I was here, they organised Sirsa Bandh, this time it has shrunk to Dabwali Bandh, the next time it will be Chautala Bandh (the ancestral village of Chautalas) and finally, it will be end at Kiwad Bandh (doors closed) for them,” Hooda said.
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Governor lauds drive to enrol voters
Ambala, January 30 Presiding over a function at SD College, Ambala Cantt, organised by the state election office under the supervision of state electoral officer Sumita Mishra during the celebrations of National Voters Day, Pahadia said about 5.30 lakh new voters were registered during the special campaign in the state. Of these, about 2.93 lakh were men and 2.37 lakh voters were women, he added. Pahadia called upon the people to exercise their right to vote. He said, ”National Voters Day is celebrated every year on January 25 after the Election Commission of India decided to celebrate it last year to boost the participation of the voters.” The Election Commission’s aim behind National Voters Day is to raise the number of enrolment. He further said on the initiative of Sumita Mishra, Chief Election Officer, a special campaign was launched from January 5 to 15 in the state and 1.52 lakh new voters were enrolled. Mishra announced that a special campaign was being launched in the state during which camps would be organised in educational institutions across the state. There will be on the spot registration of eligible students and voters. She expressed hope that all departments concerned would cooperate and make the campaign a big success. Chief Secretary, Haryana, Urvashi Gulati lauded the efforts of Mishra and said because of her, about 8 lakh new voters in the state had got registered during the last one year. The Governor also gave away prizes to students. Senior officials of the district administration, including Ambala Commissioner RP Gupta, Deputy Commissioner Shekhar Vidyarhti, Police Commissioner Anant Kumar Dhull, Deputy Commissioner of Police Shashank Anand and others were present on the occasion.
18,637 new voters enrolled
SONEPAT: As many as 18,637 new voters were enrolled in the voter lists of six Assembly constituencies, Sonepat, Gannaur, Kharkhoda, Rai, Gohana and Baroda, of the district, during a 10-day special campaign which concluded here recently. The enrolment process for the same would be continued till February. This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Aggarwal while addressing a district-level National Voters Day function organised at Hindu Girls College here recently. The function was presided over by the City Magistrate, Sonepat, Nishu Singhal. The Deputy Commissioner stressed the need for participation of youth in the process of elections. Every section of society should contribute to the holding of free and fair elections and must exercise their right to vote to strengthen democracy, he added. Jag Niwas, SDM, Sonepat, and Nirmal Jabbal, principal of Hindu Girls College, also addressed the function, which included a skit on voting rights by students of Government Girls Senior Secondary School. Darshna of Gannaur, Bhavna Rani of Rai, Dalel Singh of Kharkhoda, Raj Singh of Sonepat, Kamal Prakash of Gohana and Rajesh Rohilla of Baroda constituencies were honoured for their contribution to the campaign. The occasion was marked by the distribution of voter cards among new voters.
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Medical students flout norms
Rohtak, January 30 "Nearly all my batch mates have been wearing apron both inside and outside the campus. It helps us to get a kind of identity and anyone who sees us identifies us instantly," claims a student of the third year of the MBBS course on condition of anonymity. "All our seniors have been wearing the coats outside the campus. There is no ban on such a practice either," he added, claiming that it was not possible for them to store the apron when not in the class, laboratory or hospital. However, medical experts believe that white apron are meant to be worn during the class hours, laboratory work or when the medical students are attending patients in wards. "It is not to be worn in a market or anywhere outside the campus,"says Dr Ashok Chauhan, Medical Suprintendent of the
PGIMS. Flaunting an apron everywhere seems to have become a status symbol, he admitted. He said the all the students at the time of admission were told and sensitised about the importance of the apron. The apron could be a source of infection if it was worn outside and then used in the wards having critically ill patients including children and women, claimed a physician. There are over 2,000 students enrolled in various courses of the MBBS, BDS and the Post Graduate courses of the PGIMS and the PG Government Dental College. Besides the medical students, the students of other courses including those studying Pharmacy and Physiotherapy have been authorised to wear the white apron.
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Agarwal samaj to launch political awareness drive
Bhiwani, January 30 This was decided at a meeting held at Green Heritez in Jhajjar recently. The meeting also unanimously elected Ashok Buwaniwala as the president of the AVS for the second consecutive year, while Rakesh Mittal of Panipat was elected as the general secretary. The election was held under the supervision of election officer Abhay Jain. Jain said as there were no candidates for the two posts, therefore, the house decided to re-elect Buwaniwala and Mittal. Jain said the election of the president and the general secretary was conducted for a term of two years as per the constitution of the samaj, while the other office-bearers were appointed thereafter. Addressing the gathering after taking the charge, Buwaniwala said his priority would be to create political awareness among women. Mittal said Buwaniwala was recently elected as the national president of the Akhil Bhartiya Shri Dadu Samaj Sewak during its general meeting held in New Delhi. In this election, Vishnu Prasad Chandak of Ajmer, Vishnu Dayal Rateria of Kolkata and Sudarshan Dayal of Hyderabad were elected as the vice-presidents and Brahm Prakash of Delhi was elected as the national general secretary of the samaj. A women cell of the samaj would be formed, Buwaniwala said, adding that its units would be constituted across the country and publication of its journal would be restarted.
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Police increases vigil to stop cow slaughter
Faridabad, January 30 DCP Crime Kuldip Singh said a special police team had been constituted to keep a tab on these gangs. He said the measures taken by the police in the past two months had effectively checked the activities of these gangs. The measures include intensive patrolling in the vulnerable areas bordering Mewat district. Activists of several non-government organisations (NGOs) working against cow slaughter said members of these gangs lifted stray cows and slaughtered them in the villages of
Mewat. The members of the gang are hardened criminals who do not fear the police. There have been several instances when policemen have been fired upon by these gangs in a bid to escape.
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Premature baby weighing 800gm saved
Ambala, January 30 According to nursing home doctors, Balwinder Kaur, wife of Sukhwinder Singh of Basma village, delivered the baby at her home on January 10. The male baby was born in the six month. The baby was brought in a serious condition to the nursing home after six hours of birth. On arrival, Dr Earl Gaganjot Jaspal, a neonatologist, examined the baby and admitted him to the neonatal intensive care unit. The baby had hyaline membrane disease (i.e. underdeveloped lungs due to surfactant deficiency), prematurity (delivery before time), extremely low birth weight and neonatal jaundice. For the above problems, the baby was put on a ventilator immediately after admission and was given surfactant therapy through the windpipe. Also, the baby was put in open care warmer and given intravenous fluids and phototherapy for jaundice. The baby is now out of danger, added Dr Jaspal.
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FIFA team inspects Rai sports school
Sonepat, January 30 FIFA’s representatives Robert Bann, technical director of the AIFF, and Scott O’Donel, technical director, Academics of AIFF, were pleased to see the world-class infrastructure and facilities at the school. They liked the concept of a full township not only consisting of academics logistics and medical facilities but also facilities of international standard of football, hockey and other sports infrastructure. The team was accompanied by office-bearers of the All-India Football Federation, including Kaushal Dass, general secretary, Sriniwas Murthy, manager, national team department administration, Pushpargha Chatterjee, manager, academics and development administration and Sunil Bhardwaj, executive member and also general secretary of the Haryana Football Association. VK Verma, principal and director of the school, took them around and gave details of the facilities available on the school premises. Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Aggarwal and SSP KK Rao were also present on the occasion. Earlier, they met president of the Haryana Olympic Association PV Rathi and president of the Haryana Football Association Deepender Singh Hooda, MP, in Delhi and held discussions about the project.
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Tributes paid to freedom fighter
Rewari, January 30 A number of distinguished citizens, family members and functionaries of over 20 social, cultural and literary organisations of the Rewari region participated in a shradhanjali samaroh held in his memory at Lions Bhawan here last week. Born
in 1917 in a middle class family of noted freedom fighter Mahashay
Bhagwan Das of Rewari, who was a true Gandhian and spent 10 years of his
life in various prisons during the freedom movement, Data, too, joined
the freedom struggle and remained in jails for several years. While Data’s
association with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and many
other stalwarts of the Congress had catapulted him on a lofty pedestal
of the Congress hierarchy, he adopted the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and
Jai Prakash Narayan and adhered to it till the last days of his life. He
always kept himself aloof from the lure of any official position either
in the party or the government.
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President's Police Medal for Deswal
Gurgaon, January 30 A spokesperson for the district administration said Deswal was among the 93 police officers from the country selected for this prestigious award. Deswal, an IPS officer of the 1984 batch, has served as the Police Commissioner of Gurgaon from February 19, 2009, to October 31, 2011. He is presently posted as the ADGP (CID) of the Haryana Police.
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Urbanisation leading to
higher demand for malt
Karnal, January 30 Inaugurating a 10-day course on “Malting quality improvement in Barley, Sorghum and Corn’, she said the demand for malt and malt-based products was increasing with growing urbanisation and changing lifestyles and to produce more malt, they needed quality raw material. This would also ensure a consistent increase in the profits of farmers, she added. She appreciated the efforts of researchers in developing improved malting barley varieties, DWRUB 52, DWRB 73 and DWRB 64, and asked them to develop more varieties with a higher yield, disease resistance and better quality. The course was attended by scientists/researchers from all over the country. Besides theoretical lectures and laboratory practicals, the participants would be taken to different commercial malting units to give them an exposure to industrial-level agro processing.
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Recruitment drive held
Panipat, January 30 Ambala College of
Engineering, Haryana Engineering College and DAV College of Engineering
were among those which participated in the drive. The drive had online
written test in which a total of 301 students participated. The results
of the test would be e-mailed to the students. — TNS
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Workshop on development of social sector held
Kurukshetra, January 30 This calls for political leaders to understand, analyse and interpret the socio-economic indicators with wisdom and concave lens leadership that unite and do not divide people on caste and communal lines,” opined Dr MM Goel, Professor of Economics and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kurukshetra University, while delivering the inaugural address of a brainstorming workshop on ‘Development of social sector in UP’, organised by the Department of Economics, DS College, Aligarh, recently. Prof Goel said, “People at large, including politicians in power, are required to be smart and simple.” There is no room for complacency as we have more potential to do better in almost all the socio-economic indicators with concrete plan of action, which calls for political will and determination. — OC
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Rural women workers made aware of govt schemes
Kaithal, January 30 Addressing the gathering, members of the legal services authority explained various welfare schemes of the Haryana Labour Welfare Board through which such unorganised workers could get financial assistance of Rs 21,000 for marrying off their daughters.The widow of a worker could get Rs 50,000, in addition to funeral expenses of Rs 5,000, and their girl children from Classes V to VIII could get free uniforms and Rs 2,000 for books and copies. The children of such workers could also get a scholarship from Rs 2,000 to Rs 12,000 after passing Class VIII. The state government has opened 10 Labour Welfare Centres for imparting free training in sewing and cutting. — OC
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Folk art powerful medium to reach rural people
Kurukshetra, January 30 This was stated by Shiv Kumar Gaur, Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister and Director General, Information, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs Department, Haryana, here recently. Inaugurating a three-day workshop of bhajan mandalis and block publicity workers of the Rohtak division at Multi Art Cultural Centre here recently, Gaur lauded the role of folk media, especially bhajan mandalis, in effectively publicising the policies and the programmes of the government and emphasised that lyrics, music, presentation and style had to be upgraded to make it lucid and acceptable to the people under the changing circumstances. Gaur exhorted the bhajan mandalis to come forward with new lyrics and songs on development activities with latest data and compose it in traditional folk tunes to make the message entertaining. Referring to the need for such workshops, he highlighted the importance and need of training programmes to hone the skills of the performers and said some parameters of field publicity were yet to be achieved. The state government would take a decision very shortly about creating a training centre for this department in the Multi Art Cultural Centre, he added. He said no doubt the new generation media had its role, but folk media like bhajan mandalis would never be outdated, adding that these bhajan mandalis would be equipped with new electronic musical instruments. Professor Rajbeer Singh, director, Institute of Mass Communication, KU, said the bhajan mandalis needed classification of audience and effective presentation to improve its access. Anoop Lather, director, Youth and Cultural Affairs, KU, stressed on regular “riyaj” (practice) and feedback of programmes to better the performance. As many as 100 bhajan parties and block publicity workers are participating in the workshop.
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Training programme at NDRI from March 3
Karnal, January 30 The programme is aimed at updating teaching/ research faculty members at SAUs (state agriculture universities) and ICAR institutes and sharing knowledge about the basic molecular biology tools as applicable to understanding better the complexities involved in the functioning of different physiological systems. During the training, apart from theory lectures by eminent faculty members, on-the-bench practical sessions will be arranged on recent genomic techniques. Functional genomics is a field of molecular biology that attempts to make use of the vast wealth of data produced by genome sequencing projects. — TNS
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