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Rallies galore, but show of strength no more
CANCER INSTITUTE IN HARYANA
Renewal of Contract |
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Support My School Programme
Poets send audience into peals of laughter
Museum on 1857 revolution ‘to be established’ in KU
Proposal to give power to villagers on urban mode
Drive to publicise state government policies
MDU appointment rakes up controversy
KU don to visit Europe for research
Challenges following development need to be overcome: Cong leader
Award in Memory of Poet Renu
Implement ‘Patiala model’ to bring down losses, DISCOMS told
Haryana power utilities to start survey in villages
Rewari college holds meet on women empowerment
Missing girl's parents go missing
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Rallies galore, but show of strength no more
Gurgaon, November 5 Barely a couple of days after the INLD arranged a huge public gathering at Rewari on Haryana Day (November 1), the Congress managed one on the Ramlila grounds in New Delhi. The HJC-BJP combine is also set to hold a state-level rally at Sirsa on December 2. The political parties project that the gathering at their events depict the massive support they enjoy in a given state or region. This may have been a fact till a decade or so ago, but holds good no more. Contrary to the politicians’ claims, assertions and projections, the size of gatherings at their public rallies does not show their mass base or strength any more. Political observers point out that in old times, people went to attend the rally of a given party or leader with whole-hearted support and dedication. They started early from their respective places and reached the rally venue by buses, trains, tractor-trailers or whatever mode available to them. They listened to their leaders with rapt attention and took electoral decisions on a call given by them. On the way back, they had their food at some dhaba or restaurant as their pocket allowed. Some rowdy youths who came to attend rallies even used to loot eatables from poor fruit-sellers and other vendors. But the scene has changed over the past few years. The rallies have become political events which are managed by middle-rung politicians and their “professional” aides. Now the masses do not arrive at the rally venue on trains, buses or tractor-trailers, but are ferried in cars and SUVs. Their food and drinks are also taken care of by the event managers. The crowds are kept intact at the rally venues not by inspiring personalities and oratory skills of the leaders, but by live musical programmes arranged on such occasions for the purpose. Specific duties are assigned to village-level, block-level, district-level and constituency-level political workers, who serve as event managers to ensure the presence of a sizeable crowd — and their entertainment — at the rally venue and beyond. Certain persons close to the top party bosses keep track of the entry of vehicles to the rally venue and later give a detailed report of the “performance” shown by the workers. The political workers are propelled by vested interests like ticket in the next elections, party support for the posts of sarpanch etc, lucrative government contracts and other such benefits in the event of their party bosses coming to power. They believe that after their party is voted to power, they would make much more money as compared to what they have spent on such events. Thus, the defeat of a political party in the elections despite having organised a series of successful rallies in the run-up to the poll — and vice-versa — can be explained.
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CANCER INSTITUTE IN HARYANA
Stating this at the conference of State Health Ministers in New Delhi, he said important health indicators had improved in the state with the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and state schemes. The Maternal Mortality Rate had reduced from 186 per lakh in 2006-07 to 153 per lakh. Institutional delivery had gone up from 49.04 per cent to 79.57 per cent and the Infant Mortality Rate had reduced from 61 per thousand live births in 2005 to 48 per thousand. However, the state government is not complacent and is making all efforts to further improve the health indicators. The conference was presided over by Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad. Health Ministers and Health Secretaries of different states besides officers from Union Health Ministry were present at the conference. Rao Narender Singh said the state government was paying special attention to Mother and Child Health Services under Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, which was launched by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi from Mewat in Haryana in 2011. The government was providing full maternal facilities in District Hospitals and the first referral units. To reduce infant and child mortality, a number of special care units had been established for newborn babies. The Haryana Health Minister said the government was trying to strengthen the basic infrastructure for health services in the state. According to the Census 2011, there was a gap of 860 sub centers, 84 Primary Health Centres and 29 Community Health Centres, for which Rs 550 crore would be needed during the 12th Plan. He urged the Central Government to ensure a mechanism and commit adequate resources for this purpose. Rao Narender Singh said the state government had spent Rs 120 crore on upgrading six district hospitals. For constructing additional buildings in seven more hospitals, more funds would be needed. Besides, there was also a need for providing specialised services like dialysis, MRI and ICU in district hospitals. The Health Minister said that the NCDS programme had been taken up in four districts of Mewat, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra and Ambala. So far, over 4.5 lakh people had been screened for diabetes and hypertension.
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Renewal of Contract
Jhajjar, November 5 “We are expecting a positive and favourable response from the new DGP about renewal of our contractual period as it has now been proved that PRO at every district headquarter are required to bridge the communication gap between the media and the police, besides improving the image of the police in public through the media,” the PROs said. Though Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had also recently announced to appoint PRO at every district police headquarter and range level to coordinate with the media in an efficient manner and propagate achievements and functioning of the police for checking crime, no action had so far been taken in this regard, they said. The fate of these PROs hangs in balance after the end of their contractual period as the police authorities have not yet cleared their stand on the renewal of their job contracts. Notably, the Haryana police had appointed PROs at the district headquarters under its outsourcing policy last year. This was the first instance when the state police took such a vital decision to improve its image through associating mediapersons with the department. However, it was not that the Police Department had not made any effort earlier for public relationship (PR). Though the department had assigned the additional charge of the PRO to one of its employees at
every district headquarters, they were incapable to meet the expectations of the department owing to the lack of public relationship skill. In this situation, these “makeshift” PROs were turning out to be mere “informers” of the district police as they were confined to inform the media only about criminal cases registered at various police stations of the district. Most of the times, they even failed to tell the media about the official action the police had taken to apprehend criminals. Contrary to these police officials, professional PROs have succeeded in improving the image of the Haryana Police to some extent through their public relations skill. “If the Police Department does not wish to continue our service, then a clear-cut direction should be issued in this regard so that we can explore other employment opportunities,” said a PRO.
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Support My School Programme
Sonepat, November 5 The visitors, led by Lee Winfield, were accorded warm welcome in
traditional Haryanavi style by the school students, teachers, block education officer Satish Solanki and school headmaster Yagya Dutt Shastri. They also inquired about the teaching and other facilities in the school and asked the students about their routine activities. They were appreciative of the Scholarship Scheme started by the state government for the students from the Scheduled Caste and poor families. Commenting on the visit, Winfield said India had its different identity in the world in the field of education and culture.
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Poets send audience into peals of laughter
Rewari, November 5 One such sammelan was held recently on the campus of the historical temple of a legendary Saint, Baba Mohan Das, at Bharawas village, 7 km from Rewari. While poets from the Ahirwal region and Delhi participated in it, Baba Mahavir Das, presiding saint of the temple, chaired its proceedings. Describing poets as genuine guides of society, Baba Mahavir Das, in his key note address, asserted that poets had always contributed significantly to the emergence of a healthy and a robust society. In the symposia, noted humourist Halchal Haryanvi sent the audience into peals of laughter with his mirthful rhymes. Humourist Mahender Sharma from Delhi delighted the listeners with his witty pleasantries. Lyricist Ramesh Siddharth kept the
gathering spell-bound with his verses while poet Satyavir Nahariya versifically described a mother’s great merit in life and a rising humourist, Alok Bhandoria, lyrically portrayed changes in daily life brought about by technological advancement. Ahmana Manohar, Deshram Deshpremi, Ramesh Kaushik Anjan, Bharpoor Singh Bharpoor and several other poets amused the audience with their typical rhymes. In the end, the poets were presented with mementoes, shawls and citations by Baba Mahavir Das.
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NSS training camp concludes
Sonepat, November 5 This was stated by RK Arora, registrar of the Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, while addressing programme officers of the NSS units of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, on the concluding day of the North-Zone Programme Officers’ (POs) Training Camp, on the university premises recently. As many as 25 POs from these states attended the camp, which was jointly organised by the university and the Institute of Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, and the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. “The NSS can bring positive approach among people as it helps them cooperate with each other in daily life,” he said. In his presidential address, state coordinator of the IDC Dr Satbir Singh Malik said the main aim of organising the camp was to make the POs aware of the emerging areas where NSS activities had become the need of the hour. “The NSS is an effective means of communication to educate and motivate people against social evils like dowry, female foeticide and illiteracy,” he added. He stressed upon the involvement of more and more youths in NSS activities.
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Private schools submit memorandum to DC
Kurukshetra, November 5 They were demanding that Rule 134 A of the Haryana School Education Rules, 2003, be repealed and all the unrecognised schools, established and working before the commencement of the Haryana Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011, dated June 3, 2011, be given recognition, as per the norms specified in Appendix-1. They also demanded that police cases against 96 private school managements, dated March 22, 2007, be withdrawn, all the recognised schools be exempted from the obligation of filing form no. 1 under the RTE 2009, upgrade of old existing schools as on April 10, 2007, according to the old norms and implementation of passenger tax exemption, already granted by the state government vide Budget proposal 2012-13.
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Museum on 1857 revolution ‘to be established’ in KU
Kurukshetra, November 5 Chaudhary Chandermani, veteran advocate and former president of the District Bar Association (DBA), Kurukshetra, presided over the function. While addressing the gathering, Prof Tanwar highlighted the events of 1857 revolution and the happenings before and after the formation of Haryana in 1966. He said a museum on the theme of 1857 revolution would be established at Kurukshetra University. Chandermani laid stress on taking steps for the eradication of social evils, including drug menace, child labour and dowry system. Former president, Kurukshetra DBA, Mohinder Singh Tanwar, called upon the advocates to unite and serve the country in a better way. Dina Nath
Arora, president, District Consumer Courts, Yamunanagar, honoured Chandermani with a shawl and
a memento. Former MLA and advocate Sahab Singh Saini; former BJP state president Atam Prakash Manchanda; Prof Richa Tanwar, director, Women Studies Research
Centre, KU, and senior advocate Amar Singh were among those present on the occasion.
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Proposal to give power to villagers on urban mode
Hisar, November 5 Such villages will get domestic supply on urban mode for 20 hours a day. Another condition is that every household should have a metered connection and all the meters are outside the house. The Chairman and Managing Director, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), Devender Singh, said here recently that the hours of supply would be in proportion to loss reduction. If a village cuts one third of the existing AT&C losses above 25 per cent, supply to their village would be increased from the present 11 hours a day to 14 hours a day. With further one third reduction, they would be given supply for 17 hours a day. And, when the village brings the losses to the level of 25 per cent, the village would be given domestic supply for 20 hours a day. He said to opt for this scheme, the villagers were required to ensure that each house in the village had a regular power connection, all meters were relocated outside the houses on outer walls or poles and all damaged and old mechanical meters were replaced by new electronic meters. He said, on request of the panchayats, the Nigams would organise camps in the villages to give on the spot connections to the houses with no regular power connections. All damaged and old meters would be replaced during the camps. However, no theft case would be framed on detection of any irregularity in the meters on the day of camp. Instead, the irregularities would be corrected.
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DHBVN for control rooms at circle headquarters
Faridabad, November 5 A DHBVN spokesperson said here recently that sub-divisional engineers would head the functioning of the proposed control room. With regard to the control room in Faridabad Circle, 14 sub-divisional engineers would oversee it functioning. He said the control room here had been connected to the systems’ operation in order to expand its grievance-redress mechanism. Linkage with the systems’ operation network would enable the personnel to access information about the exact nature of problem in the system and convey the same to consumers.
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Drive to publicise state government policies
Kurukshetra, November 5 Stating this to mediapersons here recently, Deputy Commissioner Mandip Singh Brar said all the six blocks of the district had been covered under the campaign. Folk artistes and drama units had also been engaged to ensure
publicity as per village-wise schedule, he added. The publicity material provided by the department was being distributed among the public during the cultural shows, the Deputy Commissioner added. The assistant information and public relations
officers concerned have been directed to monitor the publicity programme to ensure
effective results.
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Mock fire drill on Judicial Complex premises
Kurukshetra, November 5 Stating this to mediapersons, Arya said during the drill, the control room got information from the Judicial Complex that a building in the eastern side of the complex had caught fire. Besides informing the fire brigade and the Public Health Department, the employees of the Police Department were also informed. After getting the information, the police reached the site of the incident and cordoned the building, while affected persons were sent to a safer place. The Fire Brigade employees and the Health Department ambulance team reached there and participated in the drill. Arya said the aim of the exercise was to prepare the employees for any emergency situation and to review the preparedness of the police, Fire Brigade and the Health Department employees.
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MDU appointment rakes up controversy
Rohtak, November 5 Alleging irregularities in the decision to appoint Devender Singh Dhull as Director, the applicant Dr Bhagat Singh, a former HoD and member of the present EC, has alleged that Dhull had been promoted as Director in violation of rules. He said instead of inviting applications through advertisement, the appointment was made on the V-C’s personal discretion. Alleging that the track record of the incumbent had been controversial, he said the facts regarding his past performance had not been put up before the EC, which recently adopted the resolution to clear his appointment. In his letter to the Commissioner, Higher Education, Haryana, Dr Singh has appealed for cancellation of the appointment, which he claimed had been illegal. He said the person in question was Assistant Director in the department and could not be promoted to the post directly in such a manner. When contacted, Vice-Chancellor Dr RP Hooda, claimed the appointment was legal and no irregularity had been done. He said all the fuss that was raised could be a result of personal rivalry as appointment had been made on the basis of work performance of the incumbent. He claimed that there was no truth behind the allegations levelled by Dr Bhagat Singh.
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KU don to visit Europe for research
Kurukshetra, November 5 Dr Chauhan will be visiting France and other European countries within the framework of India-France Cultural Exchange Programme, in connection with his research work and collaboration on ‘An Analytical Study of Barriers to Climate Change Technology Innovation and its Transfer to Developing Countries with Special Reference to India: Role of European Union’. During his visit, he will meet top European Union experts of the field. Dr Chauhan said the fellowship study would focus on how climate change technology innovation could be promoted and transferred to developing countries in the given United Nations Framework of Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “The European Union (EU) has been a leader in global climate change policy making since the 1990s. It was the main force in the international arena pushing for measures to mitigate climate change during the preparation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Therefore, it needs to be thoroughly investigated, as to how EU can play a leading role in technology transfer to developing countries like India,” added Dr Chauhan. He said the study would also focus on EU-India relations in this regard. India is the second country, after the US, in which the EU was engaging about the new European climate and energy package. Transfer of environmentally sound technologies (EST) is an essential component of the global action necessary to address mitigation and adaptation aspects of climate change through the development, diffusion and innovation of ESTs in developing countries. Technology transfer is a treaty commitment that developed country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have bound themselves to comply with fully and effectively. Dr Chauhan said the integrated climate and energy policy commits the EU to cut Green House Gas (GHG) emissions by at least 20 per cent by 2020, and will increase this to 30 per cent if other developed countries agree to collectively meet this target and more advanced developing countries agree to contribute according to their responsibilities and respective capabilities. The new policy also commits the EU to improve energy efficiency by 20 per cent by 2020, raise the share of renewable energy to 20 per cent by 2020 and increase the level of bio fuels in transportation fuels to 10 per cent by 2020.
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Challenges following development need to be overcome: Cong leader
Sampat Singh, a former minister and senior Congress leader, is among those who want the state government to chalk out a strategy to deal with the challenges that have surfaced, following the development in various sectors. Speaking to The Tribune recently, Singh, who represents Nalwa Assembly segment and held the portfolio of finance and home during the INLD regime, claimed there was a need to identify the challenges and launch a drive to
overcome them. Defending the claims of the state government of providing an unprecedented development of infrastructure across the state and especially in
the NCR, he said the authorities should prepare and carry out schemes to sustain the momentum of development. Claiming that the people had been benefitted with the boom in the realty sector in the state, Singh said completion of several projects, like six and four-laning of some of the highways crisscrossing parts of the state, dozens of flyovers and new railway links, including the Rohtak-Jhajjar and Jind-Gohana tracks, which were benchmarks of development, would result in development of industry and business. Due to proximity to Delhi, the NCR part of the state had huge promise of further development and investment opportunities, he added. He said while the power generation in Haryana had gone up, to the relief of the consumers, measures were needed to check power pilferage and to ensure round the clock supply to consumers paying their bills on time. Adding that hundreds of crores had been pumped into education, health and social sectors, the challenge was to ensure that such services do not languish due to want of staff , machinery and other factors. Advocating modern techniques of agriculture and farming, he said the rural youth must be motivated to take up self employment avenues and measures to improve the functioning of the law and order machinery in the state, to tackle with
the problems.
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Ambala school wins group song contest
Ambala, November 5 The competition was organised as an effort to inculcate feeling of patriotism and love for the rich culture and heritage of the country. Earlier, the school’s team had participated in a district-level group song competition which won first prize in Sanskrit group song and second position in Hindi group song. Those who participated in the competition were Diksha and Vaishali from Class X, Sonalika from Class XI, Aashi, Aanchal, Aayushi from Class IX and Nandini and Twinkle from Class VIII. After winning the competition, the girls have now qualified for a national-level competition, which will be held in Ahmedabad next year.
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Award in Memory of Poet Renu
Sirsa, November 5 Sukhchain Singh Bhandari, director, Haryana Punjabi Sahitya Akademi, who also hails from Sirsa, had recently announced the start of an annual award of Rs 51,000 in the name of Renu, whose books are prescribed for MA classes in a few universities. “It is a great honour to the late Punjabi poet, as his name will now be remembered till the akademi continues with the award,” said Laj Pushp, a prominent literary figure from Sirsa. He, however, said the akademi could have treated Renu in a better manner when he was alive and fighting with poverty and cancer. The akademi had provided Renu a financial help of Rs 20,000 during his illness. Another Punjabi poet from Sirsa, Hari Singh Dilbar, known for his ‘Choukey te Chhakke’ (four liners and six liners), is living a miserable life due to old age, poverty and illness. While a few individuals came forward to help Dilbar after his plight was highlighted in The Tribune, the akademi is yet to come forward with any sort of help. Dr Lok Setia, a noted satirist and poet, said, “Renu spent his last years fighting cancer and poverty. The akademi, which claims to have a budget of Rs 1 crore, provided financial help of merely Rs 20,000 to one of the greatest poets of the language and that too towards the last few days of his life”. “The akademi is wasting government funds by organising programmes of third grade professional folk singers, who are often seen singing at marriages in Punjab villages. This, in no way, is promoting Punjabi culture and literature,” said another writer. Bhandari said he could not provide help to ailing littérateurs from the akademi funds on his own. He had to seek the government’s permission for that. He said he would get some relief for Dilbar only if he received a written application in this regard. He said the akademi already had five awards the ‘Haryana Punjabi Gaurav’, ‘Bhai Santokh Singh Award’, ‘Baba Farid Puruskar’, ‘Sant Taran Singh Vehmi Award’ and ‘Lok Gayak/ Ragi award’ and now ‘Harbhajan Singh Renu Award’ will also be added to these.
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Implement ‘Patiala model’ to bring down losses, DISCOMS told
The Haryana DISCOMS had been contemplating to hand over feeders to private franchisee to reduce AT&C losses, which had been causing a dent to the financial health of the power companies. However, the AIPEF in its executive meeting held recently observed that feeder-wise franchisee proposed by the DISCOMS was a way to privatise the power sector of the state. VK Gupta, a spokesperson of AIPEF, said instead of giving feeder-wise franchisee system to private players, who would be “local goons” in this case, the line losses could be reduced drastically if the government had the will to support the engineers. He said the main reason for higher AT&C losses was theft of power by “influential” people with or without the help of field staff. The prevention of power theft could be started by shifting all domestic and commercial meters outside the premises, he added. Gupta said the AT&C losses had been reduced in Punjab, eastern Andhra and urban Karnataka by the power sector engineers and their expertise and suggestions should be followed in the state as well to achieve reduction in line losses. Franchisee or privatisation was no solution to the problem. He said in Patiala circle, where AT&C losses were not in higher bracket but were in range of 25 per cent, PSEB engineers had been able to reduce these losses to 14 per cent. In this case, the Punjab government and the Power Utility management lent full support to the engineers, he added. The pilot project had incurred an expenditure of 16 crore and 233 lakh units of energy had been saved. The expected AT&C losses by the end of next financial year were likely to 12 per cent. The system reliability index had also improved to 99.75 per cent after implementing the recommendations made by the engineers in the neighbouring state, Gupta said. He said the damage rate of distribution transformers had been reduced to practically nil. The reasons for the present situation in the power industry in the state were non-payment of full subsidies, high distribution losses and high cost of power purchased. Though Haryana made sufficient capacity addition, the failure of Chinese units led to a large scale costly power purchase, he said. Meanwhile, the AIPEF demanded that the state government should seek expert views to improve the power sector in the state.
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Haryana power utilities to start survey in villages
Hisar, November 5 A crash programme to strengthen power transmission and distribution system in villages is planned to be launched by the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitan Nigam
(DHBVN) and the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), an official release said here recently. The chairman-cum-managing director of the
nigams, Devender Singh, has asked the field officials to bring down aggregate technical and commercial losses from the present 30 per cent to 15 per cent, raise the consumer satisfaction level considerably by reducing number of complaints, increase time of power supply and improve reliability and quality of power supply. ”For this, besides strengthening of power distribution system, attending complaints promptly and courteously is also the major step,” the release said.
Devender Singh has also asked the officials to strengthen the system up to a level that qualitative supply for 15 hours could be given in villages next year and technical losses are reduced considerably. He said the DHBVN had prepared its strategy to complete the crash programme within the next six months and the nigam was getting ready to launch it soon. Under the crash
programme, the nigam plans to cover 21 villages a day. The teams of workers to be raised exclusively for this crash programme would work for 25 days a month, thus, covering all the 3,492 villages in the jurisdiction of the DHBVN in six months, he said, according to the release. Four teams of workers, with each team comprising nine workers, would work to maintain and strengthen the power distribution system in a village in one day. Before entering the village, they would have proper plan of works to be completed in the village, he said. The teams would be supervised by the engineers of the
nigam, Devender Singh said, adding that the crash programme for strengthening the system would cover the works like tightening the loose conductor, replacement of all iron poles, erection of additional poles and conductor as per requirement, replacement of old and torn out conductor, maintenance and augmentation of transformers, among other things. With the completion of the crash programme of maintenance and strengthening of the system, the complaints relating to power failure due to local system constraints were likely to reduce considerably, he said. — PTI
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Congregation prays for peace of ’84 victims
Rewari, November 5 The congregation was held for the peace of the souls of 32 Sikhs, including women and children, who were brutally massacred by rioters in the aftermath of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31, 1984. Strongly condemning the brutal genocide of innocent Sikhs in various states of the country, they released a detailed list of the victims, showing that as many as 4000 Sikhs were massacred in Delhi, 300 in Haryana, 515 in Uttar Pradesh, 317 in Bihar, 207 in Maharashtra, 55 in Rajasthan, 50 in Himachal Pradesh, 48 in Madhya Pradesh, 33 in West Bengal, 22 in Tamilnadu, 21 in Orissa, 20 in Jammu and Kashmir, 11 in Goa and 6 in Gujarat. Expressing resentment that the victims and their survivors had failed to secure justice and relief, even after a passage of 28 years, they urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to see to it that judicial commissions, on the pattern of the TP Garg Commission in
Haryana, were expeditiously set up to probe the genocide of the Sikhs in other states too,
so that the perpetrators were brought to book as early as possible.
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CCTV cameras installed at Nagori Gate
Hisar, November 5 Bishnoi had announced the plan following several instances of thefts in the main markets of the city a few weeks ago. He had applied for permission to install these cameras at Hisar, Hansi, Adampur and Barwala. However, the administration did not respond to his request. Speaking at a function to mark the installation,
former MP Ramji Lal alleged that the government had failed to provide security to the people, adding that the district administration had not even granted permission to install these cameras. However, since the administration was not willing to do so, the HJC decided to get the systems installed, he said. He said the cameras would go a long way in providing important clues to the police. Since the project could not be financed through Bishnoi’s MPLAD funds, he would bear the cost of the installation, he added. He said experts had surveyed the areas and as per their estimate, the total cost of installing the high-quality CCTV cameras, computers and wi-fi connectivity equipment was Rs 18.8 lakh. The work on installation of the cameras at Hansi will begin on November 5.
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Rewari college holds meet on women empowerment
Rewari, November 5 Delivering his keynote address, Capt Yadav emphasised upon the urgency for a radical transformation of the mindset due to which most of people still considered a daughter as an encumbrance for the family. Mentioning about the frequency with which seminars and conferences on “Save Girl Child and Empowerment of Women” were being held here and elsewhere, the minister said still the ground reality indicated that daughters were deprived of the status which they deserved. He said girls were still being given a discriminatory treatment in the matter of nourishment, education and other such things by many of the ‘old-fashioned parents’. He stressed the need for introspection in such circumstances. He called upon the intellectuals as well as social and religious organisations to take up cudgels against female foeticide, dowry and child marriage. Students of the college presented a colourful cultural programme which included a fine short play on female foeticide. Capt. Yadav distributed prizes to meritorious students and announced a financial assistance of Rs 2.50 lakh for the college.
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Missing girl's parents go missing
Kurukshetra, November 5
The police had tried its best to trace her parents in the Shahabad-Kurukshetra area but had not succeeded in its mission so far, he added. Arya said the police had given a call to the people that if any one knew or recognised the girl, they could inform the police on telephone no 01744-241100. Meanwhile, according to the orders of the Children Welfare Officer, the girl has been left under the care of Udyaan Care House, number 526, HUDA Sector-7 here. The telephone no. is 01744-222122. — OC
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