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No evasion of stamp duty in Rahul land deal: Revenue Dept
Rahul Gandhi
Centre trying to promote small industries: NSIC
Improved facilites at DHBVN call centre in Gurgaon
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Mid-term elections Chautala’s reverie, says Deepender
A woman’s passion for education survives hurdles
Manju Yadav
Kurukshetra admn to empower women
Police launches drive to check crime
FDI in multi-retail business
Lecturers’ body holds meeting
Development works draw residents’ ire
Lal Dora extension NGO to move HC
College holds blood donation camp
All eyes on Bishnoi’s Sirsa rally
RTE: Inclusion of EWS in Schools
Improving Sex Ratio
IPS officials attend course in strategic management
‘Govt to help NGOs for differently abled persons’
FOLK ART OF HARYANA
Large haul of drugs routine in Kurukshetra
Ratia academy bag football trophy
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No evasion of stamp duty in Rahul land deal: Revenue Dept
Palwal, October 25 The charge levelled by Chautala against the scion of Gandhi family had kicked up a controversy in political circles. According to official version, the sale deed of a chunk of 6 acre, three kanal and 13 marla land was executed in favour of Gandhi on March 3, 2008 at Hodal tehsil in this district. The land was purchased from one HL Pahwa, who had in turn bought it from Ashok Kumar, a native of Hassanpur, who was its original owner since consolidation of land holdings conducted in the village. Revenue Department officials say the consolidation of land holdings in Hassanpur was conducted by the department in 1974-75. As per revenue records, the land belongs to “sailab” category. Sailab land is one which generally remains submerged in water. Consequently, the utility of land remains uncertain and thus, it is of comparatively low financial value. Hassanpur falls on the bank of Yamuna. Also, on account of the questionable utility of “sailab” land, its “circle” rate is comparatively low. A senior official of the department said that as per the official records, Gandhi purchased the piece of land at Rs 26,47,000. Subsequently, he paid Rs 1,58,820 as stamp duty on the purchase. The transaction of land revealed that the Congress leader had made the purchase at a market rate, at a rate much higher than the collector rate in the area, which was Rs 1.5 lakh per acre. The break-up of the money transaction in the deal reveals he bought the land at about Rs 4.4 lakh per acre. Officials of the Revenue Department rebut allegations that the land was undervalued at the time of purchase.
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Centre trying to promote small industries: NSIC
Rewari, October 25 While Ashok Kumar Bebal, chief manager of the NSIC, was the chief guest, MP Bhukhal, chief manager of the DIC, was the guest of honour. Stating that the Union Government was making all possible efforts to promote small industries, Ashok Kumar Bebal enumerated various incentives being provided to the entrepreneurs by the government. He went on to explain that such stimuli included subsidised financial assistance, marketing facilities for manufactured goods and information about the latest technical know-how to boost entrepreneurs vis-à-vis emergence of India as a front runner in the domains of industry. He also said that while such industrial advancement would strengthen Indian economy, it would enable India to successfully meet the challenges being posed by many of the industrially developed countries of the world as well. Simultaneously stating that while large-scale industries always needed ancillaries, he exhorted the entrepreneurs to provide employment to jobless youths by setting up such auxiliaries. Besides he also asked them that to meet their financial requirements, they could approach the NSIC which would facilitate acquisition of loans from banks.
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Improved facilites at DHBVN call centre in Gurgaon
Hisar, October 25 A spokesman said the DHBVN had decided that the call centre would send information regarding the areas from where comparatively larger number of complaints was received to officials concerned to find the root cause of the problem and resolve it permanently. The consumers who had to call the call centre repeatedly would also be identified to address the individual grievance separately. The call centre will now register all type of complaints, including wrong billing, wrong reading, new connection, change of meter, etc. The complaints other than that of power failure will be diverted to the Consumer Grievance Redressal System of the nigam, where the grievances are addressed in a time-bound manner. Complaints can also be lodged online in the CGRS through the website of the nigam, www.dhbvn.com. The complaints received at the call centre will now be classified as rural and urban complaints and then be sub
Besides this, the spokesman said the call centre was being provided with the database of consumers having arrears of bills due from them. When a defaulting consumer will call at the centre, after registering his complaint, he will be reminded by the operator about payment of his pending bill. The administrative control of the call centre has now shifted to the general manager, Operations, Gurgaon. Any consumer from the area under the jurisdiction of the DHBVN can get his grievance or complaint registered on toll free number 18001801615. The complaints will now be attended day and night in rural as well as urban areas. The mobile complaint centres are being made functional at level of each circle and old complaint centres are being revived by providing additional manpower. Complaint centres are being set up at all substations in rural area. Status of the registered complaints will be submitted to the higher management periodically which will analyse the reasons for the delay in addressing any complaint.
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Mid-term elections Chautala’s reverie, says Deepender
Rewari, October 25 In this high-pitched political engagement, the Chautalas have been relentlessly insisting on the dismissal of the Hooda government while levelling serious charges of corruption against the Chief Minister as well as a scion of the ruling brass of the nation. In sharp contrast, Chief Minister Hooda, too, has been vehemently rebutting the accusations while pooh-poohing the INLD chief. Interestingly, like Ajay Singh Chautala, elder son of Om Prakash Chautala, the Chief Minister’s MP son, Deepender Hooda, too, has frequently been firing salvos against the INLD supremo in a bid to denigrate his father’s bete noire, OP Chautala. Notably when Junior Hooda (Deepender Hooda) recently visited Jetpur village, 30 km from Rewari, in connection with the installation of a statue of goddess Bhagwati Devi in a village temple, he made good use of the opportunity to slam OP Chautala while addressing the villagers. Launching a tirade against the INLD chief, Deepender Hooda asserted that while Chief Minister Hooda was engaged seriously in all-round development of the state, the INLD leader, OP Chautala, on the other hand, was busy in putting a spoke in the wheels of this development at Fatehabad, Sonepat and other places. Similarly specifically mentioning about Chautala’s two-point pet refrain regarding imminence of mid-term poll and insistence on the resignation of Chief Minster Hooda, he jocularly termed such things as Chautala’s reverie while firmly stating that elections in Haryana would be held after two years at the expiry of the present Hooda government’s tenure.
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A woman’s passion for education survives hurdles
Rewari, October 25 When Yadav, a resident of Surana village in the Narnaul area of Mahendergarh district, got married to Ramesh in 2000, she was studying in BA I. Thus Ramesh, whose parents had already expired and who eked out a living by cultivating his ancestral land, found it tough to make provision for the education of Manju who was quite keen to continue her studies. However, Manju, who bore a daughter and later a son to Ramesh, kept the flame for further studies alive in her undaunted by adverse circumstances. Eventually, with tangible cooperation and support provided by her husband, Ramesh, Manju did her MA, BEd as a private candidate and got a job in the Haryana Police in 2008. Thus while she is now head of the FRO at Gurgaon, Ramesh, who too is an MA, BEd successfully cultivates his agricultural land at Shahdat Nagar. Simultaneously their daughter Garima (11) and son Abhinav (6) are now getting schooling at the village. It is noteworthy that Manju, who recently passed the NET examination conducted by the University Grants Commission, has been passionately continuing her forays in the domain of education.
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Kurukshetra admn to empower women
Kurukshetra, October 25 The meeting was convened by the district administration, chaired by Deputy Commissioner Mandeep Singh Brar, along with government officials and representatives of different spheres of society. Rakesh Arya, Superintendent of Police, briefed the gathering regarding a special awareness drive following crimes against women. Discussing the steps and preventive measures for the safety of women and seeking cooperation of various institutions, the Deputy Commissioner stressed the need of building an information network, creating confidence and boosting the morale of women. He said the authorities, the police and women’s organisations must work together to build confidence among women and solve cases related to crime against them. Brar said the social problem was to be handled with the help of society. He asked the district education officer to launch a special campaign to spread awareness and empower girl and women with the help of local panchayats and school management committees, designating special teachers for the purpose. The chief executive officer, Kurukshetra Development Board, has been directed to call a meeting of all social and religious organisations for this social cause. Rakesh Arya said a helpline 8814000455 for women had been introduced in addition to 100 number in active service. Women PCRs had been deployed at sensitive points to prevent crime against women. He said the media’s role was crucial in tackling the situation and empowering women.
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Police launches drive to check crime
Rohtak, October 25 Though all the accused were released on a bail, the police said it created awareness and scare among such elements who could be a potential threat to the safety of women. Admitting that the recent incidents had put a lot of pressure on the Police Department, Ved Singh Nain, spokesperson of the department, said such drives could be helpful in keeping a check on the movement of anti-social elements and thus, reviving the confidence of the common man in the police. As the total number of cases under the Excise Act had already reached 260 in the past 20 days, the average arrests made by the police had been between 10 and 15 daily, Nain said.
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FDI in multi-retail business
Faridabad, October 25 BR Ojha, president of the Faridabad unit of the Congress, said his party had targeted participation of about three lakh persons from all over Haryana in the rally. A good number of farmers from the district will also take part, he added. Party leaders of all hues have hit the streets here, championing the FDI, and the trail of economic benefits that would come from it, especially to the farmers. The Congress cadre appears to be charged up, and wants to make a point to the party's opponents in the state that it is still popular among the masses as the latter are allegedly making out a case in the public that Congress’s popularity has waned in Haryana. Visibly upset by such controversies against the government in the past three weeks, the leaders are making efforts to counter them during their mobilisation campaign. In an effort to blunt the criticism of the traders and shopkeepers, who are considered to be support base of the BJP, the Congressmen are trying hard to convince the public that middlemen and touts only would be adversely affected by the FDI. The party leaders, during their meeting with the public, also highlighted the development works accomplished by the government, especially in Faridabad, during the last eight years of its rule. Meanwhile, president of the Haryana Congress, Phool Chand Maula, is scheduled to visit in November to boost up the campaign.
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Lecturers’ body holds meeting
Rewari, October 25 While Power, Forest and Environment Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav was the chief guest, district education officer Virender Singh Yadav presided over its proceedings. Kitab Singh More, state HSLA chief, was also present on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, Capt Yadav said the development and progress of a country were invariably in direct proportion to the advancement accomplished by it in the domain of education. He urged the teaching community to impart fine academic as well as moral education to the students to make them good citizens. He said in this age of stiff competition, acquisition of proficiency in sports, technical skills and other such things, along with bookish knowledge, was a sine qua non for them to achieve success in life. The minister released a telephone directory by the Rewari unit of the HSLA and also honoured four lecturers of the district who had recently received the State Teachers Award for their meritorious services.
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4 Rewari students win laurels
Rewari, October 25 The NIF, which primarily aims at promoting scientific and technological skills among the student community in particular, will now hold a special function at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, on November 10, in which these talented students will be honoured with the Ignite- 2012 awards by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India. It is a matter of pride that of these 31 students, four are from Rewari district. These four pioneering students are the solitary ones from the state. They include Ravi Duhan, Sanjay Raghav, Manoj Kumar, all three students of class ninth (Science Faculty) of SD Senior Secondary School, Khori (10 km from Rewari) and Jyoti Dhillon, a student of the Shishushala Public School, Rewari. Felicitating the students on their achievement, Jawahar Lal Duhan, Principal of SD Senior Secondary School, Khori, said the innovative device of the students pertained to the recharging of a charge-less mobile phone ith the help of a charged mobile phone.
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Development works draw residents’ ire
Kaithal, October 25 People lament that senior officials of PWD (B&R) Department, which is the main executing agency of these projects, failed to play the desired lead role in coordinating execution work and ensuring minimum inconvenience to people. The road widening projects being executed in the town, at the cost of crores of rupees, will not only facilitate smooth flow of traffic but would certainly add to the beauty of this historic town. Residents though appreciate the initiative taken by local MLA and PWD and Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala for getting funds allocated from the state government for various development projects in this area. However, lack of coordination among the departments has made the local people suffer due to leaking water supply pipes, damaged sewerage manholes and uprooting of underground telephone cables disrupting communication system. SK Khurana, SDE, BSNL said, “The cable infrastructure has been badly damaged due to cutting of cables during digging and hundreds of BSNL consumers continue to suffer”. A number of sewer manholes had to be reconstructed and water pipelines had to be shifted and laid at a specified depth at huge costs as these were found to be an obstruction in digging of the roads. When questioned, Surendra Mohan, XEN, water supply said, “These water pipes were laid years ago”, though he admitted that lakhs of rupees had been spent on relaying and shifting of pipelines. The approach roads connecting local residential colonies to the main road have been badly damaged. Dozens of colonies still remain cut off from the main roads, leaving the residents grumbling. During digging operations, sewer and water connections of hundreds of houses got damaged and they had to cough up thousands of rupees for the restoration and repair of these connections. A number of residents and those running their businesses on Kaithal-Ambala and Kaithal-Dhand road complain that the long duration of construction activity has adversely affected their business. At some places, large stretch of roads were scratched by machines 7-8 months ago to lift layers of bitumen mixed concrete of old roads for use in the construction of new roads, leaving the roads rough and uneven period. Residents rue they had to drive on rough roads all these months and some were victims of fatal accidents too. They are apprehensive that their water and sewer connections would be again damaged during construction of concrete nullahs on both sides of these newly constructed roads and they will be forced to spend thousands on restoration of their damaged connections again. They demand that the government should bear the expenditure and get the damaged connections repaired through the concerned department.
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Lal Dora extension NGO to move HC
Kalka, October 25 The Bill had deprived the residents of the state of the right to construct residential houses. An ordinance was also issued that an alternative policy would be issued for extension of Lal Dora within two months after the session, but nothing has happened till
date. Bansal further said the Manch would meet the Haryana Governor regarding the cancellation of the new Bill. A PIL would be filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in this regard, he said. Notably, the state government had issued two notifications under the Punjab New Capital (Periphery) Control
(Haryana Amendment Act, 2003) under which there was provision of extension of 60 per cent of Red Line of the existing village abadi area of 152 villages of Kalka subdivision and 7,000 villages of Haryana state. Various delegations of the area had already met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in connection with the extension of Lal Dora. A PIL was also filed in the High Court in 2010 for implementation of the notifications regarding extension of Lal Dora.
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College holds blood donation camp
Yamunanagar, October 25 While speaking on the occasion, Kaushik said blood donation was the best service to mankind. It not only inculcated a sense of sacrifice among the students, but also motivated them to do great service to society. He said one unit of blood could save three people’s lives. While congratulating the management committee, staff and students of the college for organising the camp, he said more such camps should be organised in the name of humanity. Earlier, welcoming the chief guest, Bhupinder Singh Jauhar, chairman of the managing committee of the Guru Nanak Khalsa Group of Education Institutions, said the college was committed to the promotion of social causes amongst its students. College principal Dr Verinder Kaur highlighted the achievements of college students in the field of sports, social work, NCC, NSS and academics. She said an ultra modern sports complex would be started very soon with the blessings and support of the local citizens. Later, she proposed a vote of thanks and expressed gratitude towards the members of the Lions Club and other social organisations for making the blood donation camp a success. On this occasion star blood donors, winners of poster making and slogan writing competition were
honoured.
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All eyes on Bishnoi’s Sirsa rally
Sirsa, October 25 In Bishnoi’s own words, “The Haryana Janhit Congress will dare Chautala in his own turf” through this rally named by him as “Jan Samarthan Maha Rally.” Sirsa has always been a stronghold of Chautala’s INLD and his party’s previous avatars under his father Devi Lal. In the 2009 assembly elections, his party won four out of five seats here. While the party won Dabwali, Rania, Ellenabad and Kalanwali, it lost Sirsa assembly seat to independent Gopal Kanda. Though the INLD lost Sirsa parliament seat to the Congress in 2009 parliamentary polls, the INLD’s grip over the electorate in Sirsa has never been in doubt. In contrast, the Haryana Janhit Congress does not have much presence in the district. None of the party’s candidate could save their security deposit in the 2009 assembly elections in Sirsa and Rajinder Dhanak, who contested parliamentary election on HJC ticket, deserted the party later. Earlier, some senior HJC leaders like Mani Ram Keharwala had quit in protest against party ticket to Dhanak in 2009 polls. In this scenario, it will be interesting to see what message the December 2 rally leave for political analysts. Addressing a press conference in Sirsa recently, Bishnoi said that his rally would give a message that the alliance between his party and the BJP was permanent and it would not end before the next elections. Bishnoi said that the presence of senior BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj would send a strong message to the INLD leaders, who, he alleged, had been propagating that the HJC-BJP alliance would not last till the next assembly polls. The rally will also test Bishnoi’s prowess to mobilise people, particularly in Chautala’s citadel. Chautalas have always been considered masters in mobilisation of support in political rallies. Bishnoi has selected a huge HUDA ground for his rally. The HJC supremo will no doubt leave no stone unturned to bring as much people as possible in the rally. However, how much this rally will help Bishnoi widen his party’s base in the district will be known only in the times to come.
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RTE: Inclusion of EWS in Schools Manish Sirhindi Tribune News Service
Ambala, October 25 Speaking to mediapersons here recently, president of the Private School Association of Haryana Kulbhushan Sharma said the private schools are rule-bound to admit 25 per cent students from families of economically weaker sections (EWS) category or below poverty line (BPL) across the state. He said the schools were already being charged commercial rates for water, electricity, sewage and other levies. He said there was no provision for reimbursed of the expenses which were to be borne by the private schools to provide free education to 25 per cent of the students. He added that the state government was also not giving any financial assistance to the schools for the purpose. The president of the association said if private schools were forced to bear the expense of 25 per cent seats, they would be left with no other option, but to close down the institutions. He said in view of these problems, the association had decided to lock all private schools affiliated to it for three-days i.e. October 29 to 31 to protest against the ‘indifferent’ attitude of the state government towards their demands. He said this would also affect the quality of education and might also result in increase in cost of education as they would have to charge additional fees from the rest of the 75 per cent students. He said during the meeting, it was also demanded that the ‘anomalies’ in the RTE Act should be removed to make it more effective. He said the association had demanded that funds for education should be directly transferred to needy families as was being done in case of government employees. Kulbhushan Sharma said in case the state government would not withdraw the rule, they would close down the schools for an indefinite period.
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Jind, Jhajjar selected for pilot project
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 25 While stating this recently, Director General, Women and Child Development Department, Haryana, Sumita Misra, said Census 2011 reported 914 females per 1,000 males in the age group of 0-6 years in the country. While recognising the urgent need for action to improve the sex ratio, she said the Central Government had decided to initiate a district-level action plan for improving child sex ratio through the gram panchayats. She said the Union Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath recently inaugurated the Thematic Convergence Project in Delhi.
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IPS officials attend course in strategic management
Sonepat, October 25 Prof SYR Murthy, registrar of Jindal Global University, said the first six weeks of the training programme was organised at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad. During this period, the main focus was on lecture-workshop sessions, followed by weekly examinations and assessments. Each participant was required to prepare a strategic leadership case presentation for an all-course competition. The issues covered by these presentations included corruption investigations, counter-terrorism, interrogation methods and other issues related to policing. Lectures and workshops covered global issues with faculty from the US, Australia, UK and India representing leading universities and major police agencies from all over the world. This was the fifth batch of the programme. The participants for the first time got an opportunity to visit various important divisions of the Greater Manchester Police and the West Yorkshire Police. The IPS officials also visited the House of Commons and got the opportunity to meet HM Inspector of Constabulary Steve Otter. The ‘Cambridge-Jindal lIPS Training Programme’ has trained nearly 500 senior officials of the Indian Police Service in less than three years. Commenting on the training programme, Professor C Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of OP Jindal Global University said the programme combined the best academics, research and policy initiative in evidence-based policing around the world and other aspects of law and criminal justice reforms. “The contract for the training was awarded to the University of Cambridge and OP Jindal Global University by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs with the aim at strengthening the law enforcement mechanisms through knowledge-based policing,” he added.
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‘Govt to help NGOs for differently abled persons’
Sirsa, October 25 The Haryana Principal Secretary for Development and Panchayat Department, P Raghavendra Rao said this while distributing uniforms to 92 children of RKJ Shravan Vani Nishakt Kalyan Kendra, Sirsa. He announced a grant of Rs 20 lakh to the kendra. He added that the state government was committed to the welfare of the physically challenged persons. A new scheme, ‘Care Givers’, has been started for the welfare of the deaf and dumb, mentally challenged and persons with multiple disabilities. Nirmaya Insurance Scheme has also been started for the mentally retarded children by the state government. Rao said under the ‘Educated Unemployed Allowance Scheme’, persons with more than 70 per cent disability were being provided with a monthly allowance of Rs 2,000 each. Earlier, Deputy Commissioner, Dr J Ganeshan said education was being provided to children up to class five at RKJ Kendra. On this occasion, Bricks Kiln Association adopted eight children of this centre and voluntary organisation ‘Saugat’ donated Rs 11,000.
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Sanjhi competitions held at Sirsa, Fatehabad
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, October 25 Rajni Devi, a resident of Kirti Nagar made the best Sanjhi at Sirsa while those prepared by Sumitra from Prem Nagar and Kitabo from Bhagat Singh Colony were adjudged second and third respectively. Darshana, Project Officer, Integrated Child Development Project, and Reena Gupta, a lecturer judged the Sanjhis. In Fatehabad, the Project Officer, ICDS, Asha Setia, the District Education Officer, Manju Gupta, and Office Superintendent Mahinder Singh judged Sanjhis prepared by women at Fatehabad. Shimla Devi from Bhodia Khera prepared the best Sanjhi while those prepared by Maya Devi from Pilimandori and Sheetu Rani from MM PG College were adjudged second and third respectively. Sanjhi, a folk art of Haryana, is fast diminishing due to lack of interest shown by younger generation to learn their traditional skills. However, the Public Relation Department has been keeping this art alive by organising Sanjhi competition every year. Sanjhi is a traditional art that has been immensely popular in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh. This involves women especially girls creating a replica of Goddess Sanjhi with mud and decorating it with colours on the wall of the house. Mud is collected from the dry area of the village pond. The mural is then decorated with images of stars, moon, trees, sun, etc and cow dung is applied to the wall to cleanse the area. The Sanjhi (which literally means shared by all) is also embellished with paint and Goddess Sanjhi is adorned with bangles, necklace, bindi, etc.
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Large haul of drugs routine in Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra, October 25 If this menace is not curbed soon, the youth will be ruined as they are the most vulnerable targets for drug peddlers, the police claims. The in charge of the CIA, Rajesh Kumar, said they had lodged seven cases under the NDPS Act in two weeks. "Drug smuggling has reached an alarming proportion and it needs to be curbed immediately as more and more youngsters are getting involved in it. We have been appealing to the masses that if they get any information regarding drug peddlers or drugs being smuggled, they can contact the police and we will maintain secrecy at all costs," said Rajesh Kumar. The criminals are punished under the NDPS Act but when booked under the Excise Act, the liquor smugglers are let off after they pay a penalty. A few days ago, the police arrested Kair Singh, a dhaba owner on the national highway near Dhantori village, and seized around 360 kg of poppy husk from his dhaba. The police has also arrested Kuldeep Singh of Safido, from whom Kair Singh used to buy drugs. "Kair had purchased the drugs from Safido and used to sell these to truck drivers and labourers. The value of the seized drugs is about Rs 5 lakh," Rajesh added.
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Ratia academy bag football trophy
Kurukshetra, October 25 Sant Ishar Singh Academy, Sangrur, was the runners-up, while Gurukul Kurukshetra secured third position. The winners were felicitated by district police chief Rakesh Kumar Arya, who was also the chief guest at the closing ceremony. While addressing the players, Arya said everyone should try to find happiness in little achievements and give little importance to failures as they also tend to teach us in many ways.
Organising secretary Harish Kumar said out of 254 schools falling under the cluster XV, 411 players from 25 schools participated in the event. GNAV principal Rishi Goel expressed satisfaction over the successful completion of the event. “The school will feel proud to host more such events in future too,” he added. Hem
Chandra, organising secretary, Vidya Bharti, Dr Vishav Raj Singh Chauhan and Dr Pawan Saini were among those who were present on the occasion.
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Softball team selected
Jhajjar, October 25 Joginder Arya, coach of Haryana boys’ softball team, announced the names of the selected team members: Naveen
Balhara, Rishi Pal, Praveen Sharma, Mohit Balhara, Jivesh Saini, Sumit Sharma, Ravinder
Rohaj, Jitender and Paramjeet from Rohtak, Raju Ranjan, Manoj and Mohan Dev from
Faridabad, Pawan and Sunil from Hisar, Aman and Sahil from Fatehabad. Arya maintained that Naveen
Balhara, who is the main pitcher of Haryana team, would lead the squad in the national championship. A training camp for the selected players is also being organised in Rohtak to make them technically sound, he added. “Haryana softball team is a strong claimant of the national title as most of the selected players are in good form and have given good performance in the recently concluded Haryana School State Softball Tournament,” claimed
Arya. The team would leave for Indore on October 29.
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Chakravyuh
Directed by: Prakash Jha ‘Chakravyuh’ is based on Naxalites and stars Abhay
Deol, Arjun Rampal, Om Puri, Manoj Bajpayee, Anjali Patil, Kabir Bedi and Chetan
Pandit. The buzz is that the movie has direct references to political scandals and politicians. Trade pundits say it is a powerful social commentary on the issue of Naxalites and revolves around six main characters. The six characters come together to stop a people’s movement in India, only to realise that someone from their group is the actual enemy. The film was completed in 57 days’ shooting schedule and was shot in Bhopal and
Panchmarhi. Esha Gupta also plays an important role.
Watch this power politics in theatres near
you. Ajab Gazabb Love Directed by: Sanjay Gadhvi Sanjay Gadhvi’s romantic comedy stars filmmaker Vashu Bhagnani’s son Jackky Bhagnani in the lead role opposite Nidhi
Subbaiah. The film also stars Darshan Jariwala and Kirron Kher. It is a remake of Telugu film, ‘Seema
Tapakai’. ‘Ajab Gazaab love’ has some bold scenes in the song ‘Boom boom...’ which has created a curiosity among the cine-goers. Jacky Bhagnani has pinned high hopes on this romantic comedy. The film has a very youth-centric appeal to it. Music of the film has been given by
Sajid-Wajid, while the choreography has been done by Bosco-Caesar. — Dharam Pal
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Contrary to the charge of INLD strongman and former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala that Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi evaded stamp duty with regard to purchase of land in Hassanpur village in this district, revenue officials say the latter purchased the land at a rate above the “circle” rate, and paid a commensurate amount as stamp duty.
Of late a slanging match of accusations and counter remonstrations has been going on at a pitched political level in Haryana between the two mighty father-son duos- INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala and his elder legislator son Ajay Singh Chautala, both doyens of the main opposition party, and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his MP son, Deepender Singh Hooda, both top brass of the ruling dispensation.
With her elevation to the post of chief of the Foreigners’ Registration Office (FRO) in the Police Department at Gurgaon, Manju Yadav (31) of Shahdat Nagar village (near Kosli), who was simply an undergraduate at the time of her marriage in 2000 and who later did her MA, BEd while facing onerous odds, has now emerged as a role model for the womenfolk, most of whom are underprivileged, of the Kosli region.
The district administration will ensure security of women by spreading awareness and empowering women through the cooperation of panchayats and social as well as religious
organisations. A special drive of the police and educational institutions will be launched in the district. This was declared at a high-level action committee meeting held in the Mini-Secretariat here recently.
The lack of coordination among various state government departments during the execution of a road widening project here has drawn flak from local people. It has resulted in great inconvenience and has added to the miseries of the residents.
People lament that senior officials of PWD (B&R) Department, which is the main executing agency of these projects, failed to play the desired lead role in coordinating execution work and ensuring minimum inconvenience to people.
A blood donation camp was organised by Guru Nanak Khalsa College in association with Lions Club, Yamuna
Nagar-Jagadhri, on its premises. The camp was inaugurated by Raj Narayan Kaushik,
SDM, Jagadhari.
Showing no let-up in their struggle against the implementation of Rule 134A under the Right to Education Act, which was implemented in the state about two years ago, owners as well as representatives of more than 15,000 private schools across the state have decided to lock their schools for three days.
With a view to encourage organisations working for the welfare of differently abled persons, the state government will provide them grants double the amount deposited by them.
The Haryana Principal Secretary for Development and Panchayat Department, P Raghavendra Rao said this while distributing uniforms to 92 children of RKJ Shravan Vani Nishakt Kalyan Kendra,
Sirsa.
Sirsa, October 25
Guru Nanak Academy, Ratia, clinched the trophy for the second consecutive time at the three-day CBSE XV Cluster Football Tournament for boys under-19, which concluded at Gita Niketan Awasiya Vidyalya
(GNAV) here recently.
