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Congress in Haryana a house divided
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Sub-tehsil opened for Rai region
Hisar MC poll results bring relief to Cong
Cong, poor complementary to each other: Hooda
BJP focuses on non-Jat regions in state
VC gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Mohammad Azam (extreme left), Minister of Education from Iran, gives the Lifetime Achievement Award to Lt-Gen (retd) DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, at a function at India International Centre, New Delhi. Photo: DR Vij
Rs 200-crore plan may improve power situation
Rs 488 crore to be spent on MGNREGA
Consumer forum president honoured
Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme
The Vice-Chancellor, Dr Pankaj Mittal (left), and the Registrar, Prof Asha Hooda, congratulate Dr Sweta Hooda for Raman Fellowship for post doctoral studies in Texas University, US. Photo by writer
Chautala interacts with party men via videoconferencing
Replace old transmission wires, ADC tells power
board officials
Students from Pataudi, Rewari excel in NEET
Making RTI Act more accessible
Special campaign to check drunken driving in 4 dists
Every 10th soldier in defence forces from Haryana, says Hooda
'Natives can contribute to development activities in villages’
Plea against shifting of boundary walls of govt buildings
NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT SITE AT GORAKHPUR
Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar with engineers of the NPCIL at the site of the proposed nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad. A Tribune photograph
College Principal honoured for outstanding achievements
Dr Kamdev Jha (extreme right) receives an award from Dr Bhishma Narayan Singh (second from left), former Governor, Tamil Nadu on the premises of the Indian Society of International Law, Krishna Menon Bhavan, New Delhi, recently. Photo: DR Vij
Workshop on handling hyperactive children
Placement drive held
NEET
Online submission of KU admission forms
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Congress in Haryana a house divided
Sirsa, June 10 The development not only raised speculation regarding possible rethinking on alliance between the BJP and Kuldeep Bishnoi's Haryana Janhit Congress, but it also provided Chautala and his party a shot in the arm. Since then, a large number of BJP leaders, both national as well as from the state, have visited Chautala in Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon, where he was admitted for a pace-maker surgery thereby adding fuel to the fire. The BJP on the other hand has been terming these meetings as courtesy calls and Bishnoi, too, has been brushing aside rumours of any change in the alliance. Bishnoi undertook a damage-control exercise and met top six BJP leaders at the national level — LK Advani, Rajnath Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi, Narendra Modi, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley and presented his case in an effective way. He is reported to have told BJP leadership that the INLD has not been able to win a single parliamentary seat after former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal's demise. Bishnoi's exercise apart, a number of BJP and opposition leaders meeting Chautala and Narendra Modi, who is known for his proximity to the INLD supremo and has a major say in the BJP, have raised speculations again. In the ruling party, Union Minister Selja, AICC general secretary Birender Singh and Rajya Sabha member Ishwar Singh have made their intentions clear in a recent rally at Karnal that they were not going to allow a smooth ride to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in his endeavours to win elections third time in succession. It was for the first time that Selja, who was once known to be close to the Chief Minister, used such a strong-worded language for Hooda in her speech. Not to be left behind, Hooda replied to the verbal diatribes of his detractors within days of the Karnal rally and claimed that Haryana had witnessed unprecedented development during his tenure. With almost a year left for the parliamentary poll and some more months to go for Assembly elections (if the two elections are not held together), political observers believe that Haryana politics will take more interesting turns in future.
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Woman apologises to 'accused'
Nawal Kishore Rastogi
Rewari, June 10 The panchayat, which was convened by village elders in collaboration with the doyens of the police-public coordination committee of the Kosli region, earlier announced a decision ordering the woman, along with other members of her family, to offer a public apology to the erroneously censured Hoshiar Singh and simultaneously imposed a fine of Rs 61,000 on the accusing family of Suraj Bhan Yadav of Bisoha village. SP Pankaj Nain and other senior police officials were also present at the panchayat. Thus while both parties accorded their concurrence to the verdict of the panchayat, Suraj Bhan's family, after offering a public apology, agreed to pay the fine of Rs 61000, which would be donated to the village temple. Notably the trouble started after Suraj Bhan Yadav's family recently got an illegal water connection from the pipeline that was being laid in Bisoha village by the public health authorities. However, when Hoshiar Singh insisted on getting the above water connection legitimised. the matter came to a boil after which members of Suraj Bhan's family reportedly dragged Hoshiar Singh inside their residence, beat him up and even tethered him to a tree as well. Simultaneously the said woman called the police which, on her complaint, booked Hoshiar Singh on charges of sexual harassment and criminal trespass. However, Hoshiar's condition led the police to get him admitted to the local Civil Hospital for treatment. Thus as soon as Hoshiar got well, he filed a complaint following which the police registered a cross case of rioting, causing hurt, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation and under the SC/ST Act against the said woman complainant and some other members of Suraj Bhan's family. Thus when this criminal case put Suraj Bhan Yadav's family in a tight corner, efforts for a compromise were initiated which resulted in holding of the panchayat. Eventually, while the panchayat delivered the above verdict and also pleaded for cessation of any prospective repetition of such ugly things, SP Pankaj Nain appealed to all to maintain peace and harmony while appreciating the panchayat's adjudication to settle the discord amicably.
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Sub-tehsil opened for Rai region
Sonepat, June 8 Speaking on the occasion, the MLA said that with the opening of the sub-tehsil, a long-standing demand of the people of the Rai region had been fulfilled by the Chief Minister. The people would not be required to spend a lot of time and money for going to Sonepat for their Revenue Department-related works, he added. The DC said as many as 45 villages had been brought under the jurisdiction of the new sub-tehsil and every Tuesday and Thursday had been earmarked for registry of land deals. Other Revenue Department-related works like issuing of domiciles, caste certificates, 'jamabandi' and 'nakals' etc would be carried out on all working days, he added.
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Hisar MC poll results bring relief to Cong
Hisar, June 10 On the other hand, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has been able to perform reasonably well by scoring victory in four wards. Given the fact that the INLD is predominantly a party with rural base, its performance in the municipal elections is being considered satisfactory. Though both Congress and the HJC had decided against contesting these elections on party symbol and no leader from these parties campaigned in the poll, the political affiliations of winning candidates is being linked with the performance of the respective parties. Nearly 20 months ago, Congress nominee Jai Prakash was badly mauled by the HJC and the INLD in a parliamentary bypoll for Hisar held in October 2011. The Congress nominee had lost the security deposit and his condition in the areas that come under the 20-odd wards of the Hisar Municipal Corporation was even worse. In the Hisar Assembly segment of the parliamentary constituency, Jai Prakash could barely get 7,488 votes against 50,947 votes polled by HJC nominee Kuldeep Bishnoi and 16,556 votes secured by INLD’s Ajay Singh Chautala in 2011. Even in the Nalwa and Barwala Assembly segments, the areas of which come under the Hisar MC, the Congress nominee could secure 14,375 and 14,101 votes only. As against it, the HJC nominee polled 41,206 and 42,647 votes, respectively, and the INLD nominees secured 30,076 and 30,531 votes in October 2011. In contrast, the candidates owing allegiance to the Congress scored victory in nine out of the 20 wards of the Hisar MC poll, the results of which was declared on June 4. The party’s supporters Anil Jain (ward No. 1), Kamla Bansal (2), Rekha Saini (4), Bhim Mahajan (5), Dayanand Saini (8), Shakuntala Rajliwala (12), Mahender Juneja (14) and Narender Sharma (19) scored victories over their respective rivals this time. The results have shown that the Congress’ crushing defeat in the 2011 parliamentary poll was not the true reflection of the party’s position, but a result of consolidation of non-Jats and Jat votes behind Bishnoi and Chautala, as the ruling party leaders have been maintaining after the bypoll. While the INLD has been able to perform reasonably well by winning from four wards on an urban turf, which is not considered its forte, the HJC as well as the BJP has suffered reverses in the election. The BJP, which contested 14 out of the 20 seats in the Hisar MC, could not open its account. In fact, Raj Kumar was the only candidate of the BJP, who could come in the runner-up position, and he too was defeated badly by a margin of 984 votes by Independent Ajit Singh. The CPM fielded two candidates, including Shakuntala Jakhar, state president of the All-India Democratic Women Association, on its party symbol, but both of them lost the elections.
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Cong, poor complementary to each other: Hooda
Chandigarh, June 10 While describing members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes as the backbone of the Congress, Hooda said people of these communities face hardships whenever the Congress remains out of power. He said the present state government had fulfilled the longstanding demand of the community by constituting the board. Other members of the board would also be appointed soon, he
added. Hooda said the board would work for the welfare of those who earn their livelihood through “mati” (clay) and it would give suggestions to the government for increasing their income and upgrading of their skills so that they could match the global technological requirements. “The nature has endowed you with a unique art and it should be utilised for the betterment of society as well as for the future generations,” he
added. Hooda said the demand for transfer of ownership of ‘Aawah Land’ to the Prajapat community would soon be examined. Speaking on the occasion, president, Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Phool Chand
Mullana, said recently that Hooda’s policies were being appreciated not only in the state but across the country. Taking a dig at the opposition leaders without naming them, Mullana said there were some leaders who said they would remain the Chief Minister till they were alive, but now they were suffering for their own deeds. Later, Hooda exhorted the teaching fraternity to lay emphasis on providing quality education to children in the state and discharge their duties with a sense of commitment. He was addressing a delegation of guest lecturers of the college cadre who had called on him at his residence here recently to express their gratitude for making 25 per cent hike in their wages. The state government has increased the wages of guest lecturers teaching in government colleges in the state from Rs 18,000 to Rs 22,500.
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BJP focuses on non-Jat regions in state
Faridabad, June 10 BJP leaders also see the elevation of Bainda to the national body as party’s focus on Haryana. In effect, the number of leaders from the state who have been enlisted in the national politics of the party has gone up to six. Bainda was elevated just before the ongoing Goa conclave of the BJP got underway. Many see the development as BJP’s strategic move with regard to the coming Lok Sabha elections. Bainda is the second leader from Faridabad and the third from South Haryana, which is dominated by non-Jats, to have been enlisted in the national politics of the party. Former state BJP president and sitting party MLA from Faridabad district Krishan Pal Gurjar is already a member of the national executive. The party had made Sudha Yadav, its former MP from the erstwhile Mahendergarh seat in Ahirwal belt of South Haryana, its national secretary, a couple of months ago. The other three leaders who have already been inducted to national politics are Capt Abhimanyu, Om Prakash Dhankar and Manohar Lal Khattar. While Abhimanyu is the secretary and national spokesperson of the party, Dhankar is the national chairperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Morcha, the farmers’s wing of the party. Ajay Gaur, president of the Faridabad unit of the BJP, said the presence of around six leaders from Haryana in national politics of the party was high in proportion considering the size of the state. The state sends merely 10 MPs to the Lok Sabha. There was a feeling in the BJP circles in the state after Rajnath Singh took over the reigns of the party that he would be pro-active with regard to the politics of the state. Majority of the present inductions were made after he assumed the charge. He, along with Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and other other central leaders of the party, called on the convicted INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala in Ram Manohar Lohia Hosital in Delhi recently.
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VC gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Kurukshetra, June 10 Stating this here recently, Prof Brajesh Sawhney, Director, Public Relations, KU, said the award was presented to Dr Sandhu at the function which was attended by leading educationists from India and abroad. Mohammad Azam, Minister of Education from Iran, presented the award to Dr Sandhu. The award came in recognition of the outstanding leadership, development, innovation and high-level of excellence shown by Dr Sandhu in the education sector. Commenting on the award, Dr Sandhu said, “This award is recognition for the KU and will inspire me to contribute more to higher education in the country. I am grateful for the recognition, which has renewed my zeal to work harder. The university has been ranked 13th in India by Nielson and India Today and we will try to take it to the top 10 universities of India”. Dr Sandhu had previously held prestigious positions which included the Vice-Chancellor of Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar; Director General of Ordnance, India; and Principal, College of Materials Management, Rani Durgawati University, Jabalpur. Dr Sandhu has previously received the Dewang Mehta Award, Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award, Indian Excellence Award, Best Administrator of the Year 2009, International Achievers Award for Educational Excellence and Amity Excellence Award.
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Rs 200-crore plan may improve power situation
Fatehabad, June 10 Under this plan, the power utilities would construct 16 new substations of various levels and augment capacity of eight existing substations, said Devender Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli
Nigam. The new substations include 220-KV substations Samain and Hukamanwali, 132-KV substations Bhattu Sottar and Chander Khurd and 33-KV substation
Ratia, Boswal, Hamjapur, Tohana, Dharsul, Buwan, Nangla, Shakkarpura, Gorakhpur, Bhattu
Sottar, Chanderpur and Bithmara. Besides this, 169 feeders of 11-KV level would be rehabilitated converting the feeders of proper length and load.
Devender Singh urged the people to take benefit of a voluntary disclosure scheme
(VDS) launched by the power utilities and get the unauthorised extension of load regularised without paying any penalty. It would help the utilities to augment capacity of the system by setting up additional transformers. “The VDS is beneficial for farmers and domestic consumers as it is the compulsion of farmers to extend load on tubewells in case of scanty rains, the CMD said. He said there is high density of tubewells in Fatehabad district and underground water is exploited at large scale for irrigation of the water guzzling crops like paddy and wheat. The level of underground water is going down due to extensive pumping or scanty rains. As such, it becomes necessity for the farmers to installed motors of higher capacity at their
tubewells. A large number of consumers, due to negligence or being not aware of rules, extend the load without intimating to the
discoms. It attracts penalty like in cases of theft in electricity.
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Rs 488 crore to be spent on MGNREGA
Chandigarh, June 10 The Chief Minister directed all the Divisional Commissioners to submit district-wise report of the five-year perspective plan under the MGNREGA within a month. The said report should be submitted by July 10 this year. So far, seven
districts-Faridabad, Hisar, Jind, Jhajjar, Narnaul, Panipat and Rohtak-had submitted the perspective
plan. Hooda also sought details of the works being carried out in each village under the scheme. He also directed the Divisional Commissioners to ensure that all the Deputy Commissioners held the meeting of the Task Force for Convergence twice in a month so that the maximum funds under the MGNREGA could be
utilised. The Chief Minister also directed that the construction work of the Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras in all blocks and gram panchayats be completed by November 1. It was informed during the meeting that Ambala and Sonepat districts had been selected under the direct benefit transfer scheme. The payment of wages will be released electronically to workers. This facility in Ambala and Sonepat districts will start in the first week of August this year. It was also informed during the meeting that so far over Rs1254.20 crore had been spent under the scheme in the state and 500.38 lakh person days were generated in the rural areas under the scheme.
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Consumer forum president honoured
Kaithal, June 10 Speaking on the occasion Surjewala said the development of any area depended on the cooperation extended by the people. He said these projects were prepared keeping in view the priorities of the people so that they could avail maximum desired
facilities. Surjewala asked Anil to take care of the welfare of consumers who approached the consumer forum seeking justice. Haryana Finance Commission member Subhash
Sudha, Backward Commission member Arjan Gulati, local municipal council chairman Ram Niwas
Mittal, senior advocate RK Nijhawan, Grievances Committee member Inder Jeet
Sardana, HPCC member Sudhir Mehta, Senior Citizens Association president Ruldu Ram, Sewa Ram Narang and representatives of many local organisations were present. Anil assured the gathering to perform his duty with devotion, dedication and to the best of his ability. Various speakers appreciated the efforts of Surjewala for speedy development of the area. They said completed development projects worth crores of rupees, including widening of roads and improvement in the infrastructure had given a face lift to the town.
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Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme BS Malik
Sonepat, June 8 Dr Hooda will carry out studies on the subject, “Quality of work life, job satisfaction and well being among university teachers in USA and India" for six months in Texas University of USA. The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Dr Pankaj Mittal, and Registrar, Prof Asha Hooda, have congratulated Dr Hooda for this unique opportunity provided to her by the UGC and hoped that she would set an example in her post doctoral studies on the subject matter. “It is a moment of pride for the university as well and it will be an inspiration for other inmates of the university,” they remarked. Dr Hooda said with the blessings and guidance of the VC, Registrar and the UGC, it would be her sincere effort to bring out the best possible post doctoral studies on the matter during the studies. “Prof Angela Nivear will be my host professor at Texas University for six months and I will leave for the US in the last week of June,” she said and added that it would be a comparative study of university teachers of both countries.
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Chautala interacts with party men via videoconferencing
Gurgaon, June 10 The INLD commander asked about the well-being of the party workers and about the situation prevailing in their area. An INLD spokesperson said the strategy had been devised so that party workers could focus on their responsibilities instead of thronging the hospital where Chautala was admitted. Meanwhile, former Army chief Gen VK Singh visited the INLD chief at Medanta hospital yesterday. Olympian boxers Vijender Singh and Jaibhagwan and TDP MP N Nageshwar Rao also met Chautala and enquired about his health. Chautala, who has been convicted in a case pertaining to irregularities in recruitment of JBT teachers during, has been released on bail to undergo medical
treatment. — TNS
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Replace old transmission wires, ADC tells power
board officials
Kaithal, June 10 Various government departments had put up stalls highlighting their activities. Residents who had made outstanding contribution in various fields were honoured by the administration. Khem Chand, a World War II veteran, and Saroj Devi, widow of Krishan, who attained martyrdom in 1994 on the Kashmir border, were also honoured. The ADC directed power board officials to replace old transmission wires on demand of the village sarpanch. He directed Public Health officials to expedite the laying of water supply pipelines. The ADC also announced the setting up of a three-pond system in the village soon. He urged villagers to make timely payment of outstanding electricity bills. Soil health cards were also distributed among 70 farmers to create
awareness about maintaining soil fertility.
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Students from Pataudi, Rewari excel in NEET
Rewari, June 10 While NEET was held at 1,251 examination centres located in 85 big cities of the country, on May 5, as many as 366,317 out of the 658,040 students were declared proficient (eligible) for admission to various government and privately-managed medical colleges across the country. While a total of 32 students - 29 from PGS, Pataudi, and three from PGS, Malesyawas - appeared in NEET, 26 of them (23 of PGS, Pataudi, and 3 of PGS, Malesywas), were crowned with distinctive success. Of these 26 talented students, Sarita Rao, Ashujeet, Yashdeep Yadav, Nitesh Kumar and Shonam have distinguishably secured the 210th, 367th, 453rd, 731st and 934th rank, respectively.
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Making RTI Act more accessible
Chandigarh, June 10 An official spokesman said the purpose of suo motu disclosure under section 4 is to place a large amount of information in the public domain on a proactive basis to make the functioning of the public authorities more transparent and reduce the need for filing individual RTI applications. He said the government had decided to issue the guidelines on the basis of a report of a task force which was constituted by the Central Government on suo motu disclosures under the RTI Act. He said the sub-section 4(2) of the RTI Act, 2005, requires every public authority to take steps to provide as much information suo motu to the public at regular intervals through various means of communication, including internet, so that the public has minimum resort to the Act to obtain information. Information relating to procurement made by public authorities, including publication of notice or tender enquiries, corrigenda thereon, and details of bid awards detailing the name of the supplier of goods or services being procured or the work contracts entered or any such combination of these and the rate and total amount at which such procurement should be disclosed.
— TNS
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Special campaign to check drunken driving in 4 dists
Jhajjar, June 10 Anil Kumar Rao, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Rohtak Range, has recently shot off a communiqué to superintendents of police (SPs) of the four districts in this regard wherein he has asked them to carry out a special drive in their area concerned. The IGP has also directed station house officers (SHOs) and traffic in charges to have at least one alco sensor each in their official jeeps every time to check drunk drivers. “The move aims at preventing drunken driving that is turning out to be a major cause for majority of the road accidents occurred in the range. Hence, special attention is needed to curb the issue for bringing down the number of road mishaps,” Rao said. He aid the drive would be carried out during evening and night patrolling in these districts. The police personnel on duty would challan commuters for drunken driving, if they found guilty. “Over speed driving is also one of the key factors responsible for road accidents. Hence I have directed the SPs to use interceptors for controlling the speed of vehicles. They have also been told to send proposals for buying interceptors if they do not have adequate numbers of the same in their area concerned,” Rao said. Rao said a police personnel of Inspector rank would be deputed as the in charge of the interceptor so as to carry out the checking operation in an efficient manner. The Inspector General of Police added that the station house officers and the traffic in charges had also been directed to keep challan books in their official vehicles so that violators could be challaned on the spot.
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Every 10th soldier in defence forces from Haryana, says Hooda
Chandigarh, June 10 Another cadet, Vikas Kumar of the same village, won the gold medal at the parade. Prateek Dhankhar of Rohtak has bagged the silver medal as a technical graduate. Out of the total 631 cadets, 60 are from Haryana. While highlighting the state's contribution to the defence forces, the Chief Minister said he was proud of the fact though Haryana was a small state, yet every 10th soldier in the defence forces was from the state. He said the state government had also organised awareness camps for providing guidance to the youths, willing to serve the defence forces. He said Sainik School, Kunjpura, had also contributed hundreds of officers to the defence forces. Hooda said the state government was providing assistance to soldiers, ex-servicemen, their dependents and the amount of pension, scholarships and grants for them had been increased. He said 10 per cent reservation had been provided in group housing societies to serving soldiers and ex-servicemen. Now, one per cent rebate in stamp duty is being given to them on purchase of a house or plot. He said Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had recently laid the foundation stone of first defence university of the country in Gurgaon. Meanwhile, Suhag said his grandfather and father junior warrant officer Hoshiyar Singh Suhag had inspired him to join the defence forces. Siddhant has been inducted into 18 Sikh Infantry, Manipur. Apart from ex-servicemen, a large number of people from Bisahan village are serving in the defence forces. Lt General Dalbir Singh Suhag, Eastern Army Commander, also belongs to this village. Earlier, Sudeep Kumar of Haryana had won coveted Sword of Honour in the passing out parade in December 2012.
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'Natives can contribute to development activities in villages’
Chandigarh, June 10 It was observed that although people left their native villages or towns for business or other purposes, yet their association with their native places remained. However, they intended to spend money on carrying out development works in their native villages after the names of their ancestors. Under the scheme, such people would be able to contribute in activities like setting up of a library, a gym, construction of a bus- queue shelter, water courses and cremation sheds. Hooda directed that sanitation projects should also be included in this scheme. Hooda directed to organise a conference of such people in the state on the pattern of Non-Resident Indians and also give advertisements in the media for collecting information about those hailing from Haryana. Hooda said it was a good concept and the state government would extend full cooperation. Hooda said to give due respect to such people, a district-level cell should be constituted which would establish correspondence with them and seek their contribution in the development activities in the villages. This would further improve people's faith in the government, added Hooda. The Chief Minister directed to constitute a four-member committee under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary, Development and Panchayat Department, Ram Niwas, to prepare the modalities of the scheme. The other members of the committee would be Principal Secretary, Finance, Sanjeev Kaushal, Deputy Principal Secretary to Chief Minister RS Doon and Deputy Commissioner, Jhajjar, Ajit Balaji Joshi. At the meeting, Joshi suggested that a society should be constituted at the district level to monitor the corporate social
responsibility
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Plea against shifting of boundary walls of govt buildings Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, June 10 The Nagrik Parishad, Sirsa, had moved the High Court after the Haryana Police Housing Corporation started construction activities on the site of the Sadar Police Station. The parishad was of the view that the construction, if allowed, would end the chances of four-laning of the zigzag road that had become a bane of the local residents. The parishad produced a letter written by a former Deputy Commissioner to the executive officer of the municipal council in this regard. The letter said in order to provide a sufficient carriageway to vehicular traffic from railway crossing up to Bal Bhawan, a committee was constituted to suggest ways and means for the purpose. The committee had recommended the boundary walls falling along this patch i.e. canal lining circle office, old DC residence, Police Station Sadar, MC, DSP residence, working women’s hostel, old residence of judicial officers, library and Bal Bhawan should be shifted to provide 60-ft path. The High Court has disposed of a writ petition filed by the Nagrik Parishad with directions to the government that a decision on the proposal of the district administration should be taken within two months.
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NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT SITE AT GORAKHPUR Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Fatehabad, June 10 Wherever the NPCIL has set up its atomic power projects in India so far, there was rocky soil at the sites. However, the soil at Gorakhpur is quite sandy and hence it requires different level of tests to ascertain its grip. Before starting the construction activities, the NPCIL has to carry out several kinds of geo-physical and geo-technical surveys on the soil, so as to ensure that the building is safe, even under natural calamities like an earthquake. “The work of geo-technical surveys has been entrusted to DBM Geotechnics and Constructions Private Limited, a Mumbai-based company, which has deployed samplers from the US for the purpose of taking samples of the soil,” said TR Arora, Project Director of the NPCIL for the Gorakhpur project. He said the services of Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute, a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), would be taken to make the site free from the risks of earthquakes. Sources said the soil quality in the area had been found changing after almost every 30 acres, forcing the engineers to take more samples than they would have expected. “In the 1,503 acres of land where the nuclear power project is to come up, samples will be taken at 195 different sites after drilling. We have pressed into service 12 drilling machines for this purpose and so far samples from 121 sites have been collected,” said Arora. Meanwhile, Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar today visited the site of the proposed nuclear power project and inquired about its progress.
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College Principal honoured for outstanding achievements
Kurukshetra, June 10 The Rashtriya Vidya Gaurav Gold Medal Award was given by Dr Bhishma Narain Singh, former Central Minister for Education and former Governor, Tamil Nadu, in the presence of Joginder Singh, former Director, CBI. Dr Jha had written several books and had also presented about 100 research papers at national and international seminars. About 50 research papers of Dr Jha have been published in various prestigious journals in the field of Sanskrit grammar-philosophy and Vedic literature.
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Workshop on handling hyperactive children
Ambala, June 10 The teachers felt relieved and relaxed just by exercising their muscles for a few hours. The second workshop was on handling of hyperactive children of different levels. Dr Vikram Aditya dramatised real-life situations and mirrored the emotions and feelings of students inside and outside the school. The workshop conducted by Mandeep Kaur from Oxford University was informative. She redefined a teacher in the modern world of education. She said a teacher was an orator, a philanthropist, an athlete, a stress-buster and one who opened opportunities. She kept the teachers busy with studying her teaching techniques and shared knowledge among them. The workshop session concluded with a workshop on eye care where the teachers put up queries regarding eye care. The closure of the summer camp was fun as a dance group took to the floor and entertained the audience.
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Placement drive held
Hisar, June 10 While stating this recently, a spokesman of the university said the placement drive had been conducted jointly by the College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology and the Directorate of Students’ Welfare of the university. The companies which
have offered employment to the student included Swaraj Tractors, TEXMO Industries, DUNCAN Industries, Agri Impex and Beri Udyog
(P) Limited. They have selected 21 graduating agricultural engineering students of
the college. He said two BTech final year students of the college had passed junior research fellowship
examination of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, while six students had qualified
the graduate aptitude test in engineering.
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Tanushi 30th in Haryana
Our Correspondent
Ambala, June 10 Tanushi’s father is a wholesale distributor of medicines while her mother is a housewife. Her mother, being an MSc, used to help her till Class X. Elated grandparents said Tanushi was the eldest among the children at home and would be the first to be a doctor in the family.
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Online submission of KU admission forms
Kurukshetra, June 10 University College Principal KS Antil said the facility of online submission of admission forms had been introduced to facilitate students, who could also deposit their fee online. Besides, the admission forms for honours in Sanskrit, economics, philosophy and music as well as five-year integrated courses in bio-tech, engineering, physics, MSc and economics, along with BSc computer science, BSc electronics and BCA computer are available on the
website. — OC
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Lt-Gen (retd) Dr DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, has bagged the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding performance in educational planning and administration at the 33rd World Environment Congress organised by the International Association of Educators for World Peace at a function held at India International
Centre, New Delhi, recently.
The Associate Professor of the School of Management Studies of BPS Women University, Khanpur
Kalan, Dr Sweta Hooda has been selected by the University Grant Commission for post doctoral studies in the US under its Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme.
Fatehabad, June 10
Kamdev Jha, Principal, DAV College, Pehowa (Kurukshetra), brought laurels to the state by bagging two awards for outstanding achievements in the field of education.
The Mother Teresa Sadbhavana Award was conferred on him at a function, jointly organised by the International Institute of Education and Management, New Delhi, and the Indian Solidarity Council, Tolstoy
Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi, on the premises of the Indian Society of International Law, Krishna Menon
Bhavan, New Delhi recently.
Political activities in the Opposition started with BJP president Rajnath Singh's visit to the ailing former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala at a time when he was admitted in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital from Tihar Jail, where he was lodged after his sentence in JBT teachers scam.