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Inclusion
of Bhiwani and Mahendragarh in NCR UPLIFT OF DALIT COMMUNITY
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On pretext of holding auditions, cheats defraud youth, hotel
Four-week summer school concludes
Sirsa farmers prefer guar crop to cotton
Haryana to spend over Rs 3,000 cr for welfare of SC, OBC
Murthal varsity organises workshop on 'lab governance'
BJP mulls over holding public meetings in Faridabad villages
Filling
of backlog vacancies
Drive
against violation of traffic rules
Conservation of Buddhist stupa under way
Sacked Maruti workers to observe Manesar mayhem’s anniversary
Hisar to be new industrial corridor of Rohtak, Delhi: Deepender
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Inclusion
of Bhiwani and Mahendragarh in NCR Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Bhiwani, July 4 Shruti Choudhry, who was the first to give a hint of the possible inclusion of Bhiwani and Mahendragarh districts in the NCR after her meeting with Kamal Nath on June 21, organised a press conference at her Bhiwani residence immediately after the decision was announced in a meeting of the National Capital Region Planning Board in Delhi. Giving the entire credit to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Union Minister Kamal Nath for the announcement, Shruti said she had met these leaders several times over the issue. On the other hand, the Haryana Cooperation Minister, Satpal Sangwan, and Health Minister Rao Narender Singh said on June 15, 2012, a delegation of ministers and MLAs of southern Haryana had met Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath and gave a memorandum for the inclusion of these two districts in the NCR. Kamal Nath had assured them that appropriate efforts would be made on his part. The delegation had apprised the Union Minister of the geographical status of these districts. They said Kamal Nath was also apprised of the fact that Haryana contributed 10 per cent soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces, out of which most of were from southern Haryana. Meanwhile, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Anita Yadav expressed gratitude towards Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda for getting the districts included in the National Capital Region (NCR). In a statement issued here today, Yadav, who represents Ateli Assembly constituency said that it was a long standing demand and the whole credit of this success should be given to the Chief Minister and MP Deepender Singh Hooda.
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UPLIFT OF DALIT COMMUNITY Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Ratia (Fatehabad), July 4 In a recent state-level convention of Dhanak community in Ratia, Chautala had accused the Congress of keeping Dalits backward and away from quality education. The INLD leader had also alleged that the Congress had done nothing for the welfare of the Dalit community. In a press conference at Ratia, Jarnail Singh, who himself is a Dalit, claimed that whatever had been done for the Dalits in the country so far, it was due to the policies of the Congress. “The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) has come as a lifeline for the Dalits, as those who were starving for want of money were getting two square meals for their children comfortably,” said Jarnail Singh. He ridiculed Abhey Singh Chautala’s statement that scholarships given to Dalit children were keeping them away from quality education. “Bhupinder Singh Hooda government’s policy of providing scholarship to Dalit children, who were earlier away from schools, has attracted them towards education,” he said. He alleged that the opposition parties, particularly the INLD, were in the habit of criticising whatever the government did. “I have been with the INLD, too, and I know what kind of a attitude Chautalas have towards the Dalits,” the Haryana Agro Industries Chairman said. Jarnail Singh claimed that most of the Rs 300-crore development projects that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had announced for Ratia had either been completed or are in the process. He said after Hooda’s announcement, the status of the Community Health Centre, Ratia, had been elevated to General Hospital and the government had already started sending additional staff for the hospital. Bhawani Singh, a leader of Bhakhra Oustee families living in villages coming under Jarnail Singh’s assembly segment, said that Ratia has witnessed unprecedented development ever since the Congress has won a byelection from there.
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On pretext of holding auditions, cheats defraud youth, hotel
Rewari, July 4 This high-class trickery began on June 27 when Chadha, apparently a self-styled executive of a film production company, telephonically asked Rohan Singh, manager of the Golden Huts, a hotel on NH 8 here, near Dharuhera, to book some rooms in his hotel for the company’s administrative directors. Thus a team of four persons, including two women, occupied those rooms in the hotel by evening. At the behest of the hotel manager, they revealed their identity as Vipin Sharma and his wife, both residents of Bhiwani (Haryana), Guarav Kumar of Kaithal and Gunjan Dixit of Uttar Pradesh. The following day, they telephonically contacted Tarun Sharma, a director of DJ festivities in Rewari, who arranged for them over a dozen youths, including an equal number of young girls, at their behest. Next morning, Tarun Sharma, along with the youths, reached the hotel where they were made to stay in rooms which were got reserved for them through the party’s chief. While the youths were eagerly waiting for the commencement of the audition programme, Vipin Sharma and his colleague got their mobile phones switched off and put them, along with the youths’ two lap tops, into a bag. Soon afterwards while the two women were sent in a taxi that was arranged by the hotel manager to Gurgaon to bring their cameras for the audition, some time later Vipin and Gaurav, too stealthily, sped away in a car, owned by one of the youths, towards Gurgaon on the pretext of fetching dresses for the youths which they would have to wear
during audition. Simultaneously while the duo left the place without paying the hotel bills amounting to over Rs 80,000, they also took away with them the bag which contained 12 mobile phones and two lap tops of the youths. The car, which belonged to one of the youths, was abandoned by the duo at a place near the Metro station at Dwarka in Delhi from where it was recovered by the police on June 30. Under such circumstances when Rohan Singh and others realised that they had been duped by the quartet, the hotel manager filed a complaint following which the Dharuhera police registered a case of cheating and criminal breach of trust against Vipin Sharma and others. Thus while searching the rooms, occupied by the cheats, the police found a file which contained particulars of some youths who had earlier been called by them at a hotel in Jaipur (Rajasthan) for audition. Consequently a team of Dharuhera police officials went on July 2 to Jaipur where it learnt that numerous youths, including young girls, belonging to two dance academies of Jaipur, had likewise been duped of cash and other costly belongings by them in December 2012. The Jaipur police, which had registered a case of cheating, was clueless as yet about the fraudsters. Meanwhile, a senior police official of Dharuhera said that although tracing of the culprits was an onerous task, yet efforts were on to get at the crafty tricksters.
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Eight students get placement in TERII job fair
Kurukshetra, July 4 The two companies Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra participated in the job fair. Assistant Placement Officer, TERII, Jyoti Garg, welcomed the delegates of these companies. Addressing the students, the TERI adviser, Prof MP Gupta, promised that he would ensure that the placement opportunities were provided to them from time to time. The corporate trainer, Neha Gulati, said eight students were selected after a technical and general round of interview and group discussion. The selected students were Preeti, Neha from RKSD College, Kaithal, Mahima Narang, Sawati Sirohi and Tarun Sharma from University College, Kurukshetra, Meghraj and Vishwas from Sharada College of Institutions, Agra, Ranjana Mishra from DAV College, Faridabaad and Abhishek and Varsha from Shri Krishan Institutions of Management, Muradabad. The HR executive technical, Vasant and Timothy Semson, and the Project Manager of the company, Uday Kumar, were present in the job fair. TERII Training and Placement Officer, Sagar Gulati, congratulated all the selected students and wished them a bright future. Aspiring students from all over Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Kurukshetra participated in the job fair.
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Four-week summer school concludes
Kurukshetra, July 4 The Kurukshetra University Vice-Chancellor, Lt Gen (retd) DDS Sandhu, was the chief guest while the Deputy Commissioner, Mandeep Singh Brar, presided over the function. As many as fifty students from Class XII of the district and belonging to economically weaker sections of society attended the summer school. The main focus of the school was laid on building up conceptual foundation of the participants in science and mathematics so that they could do well in the board examinations as well as get admission in good colleges for undergraduate courses. The girls were kept busy during the four weeks with daily assignments and weekly tests. In the last week final exams were held on the basis of which prizes were given to the first three position holders as well as to the subject wise performers. Apart from academics, the girls also went for excursion. They visited Panjab University, Punjab Engineering College and PGI in Chandigarh. They also visited the Science Education and Research Institute, Mohali. While addressing the valedictory function, the chief guest, Dr Sandhu, appreciated the participating girls for attending the summer school to achieve their goal of attaining extra knowledge in science and mathematics instead of enjoying tours during summer vacations. The SPSTI President and former Haryana Chief Secretary, Dharam Vir, said the SPSTI intends to prepare a model of science and knowledge which could be adopted by the government.
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Sirsa farmers prefer guar crop to cotton
Sirsa, July 4 According to figures available with the Agriculture Department, guar crop has been sown on over 1 lakh hectares of land this time, almost double the area under this crop in 2011-12. "We find guar more rewarding than cotton, which requires more care and use of pesticides. Guar on the other hand does not require much water or other inputs," said Jaswant, a farmer from Kishanpura village in Sirsa. Farmers' interest in guar increased after the 2011-12 season, when the price of the crop that once sold for Rs 3,000 per quintal went up to Rs 33,000. In contrast, cotton prices plummeted from Rs 7,500 per quintal in 2011 to Rs 4,700 per quintal last year. Against 57,000 hectares under guar in 2011-12, the area under the crop went to 7,800 hectare in 2012-13 and is likely to cross 1 lakh hectare this time. "The government is encouraging diversification in crops by setting up demonstration plots of guar, maize and directly sown paddy," said J Ganesan, Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa. A spokesperson of the Agriculture Department said that 40,000 hectares of land at state level would be covered under guar, maize and other crops for setting up demonstration plots. He said with a view to increasing the interest of farmers towards these crops, plots would be set up over 10,250 hectares for guar, 250 hectares each of maize and direct sowing of paddy of basmati variety. He said 500 plots had already been set up for direct sowing of paddy of basmati variety. He said a maximum of 10,250 demonstration plots would be set up in Sirsa district followed by 8,150 in Fatehabad, 1,000 in Jind district and 600 in Kaithal district.
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Villagers vow to fight female foeticide
Sonepat, July 4 The commitment was expressed while taking an oath of a local deity, Baba Shobh
Nath, against female foeticide. It was organised by the administration in a night durbar to hear the public grievances. The oath was taken in the presence of the Sub Divisional Magistrate,
Kharkhoda, Mohinder Pal, and other officers during the durbar proceedings. Influenced by the commitment of the residents of Mozam
Nagar, the sarpanches and other people from the nearby villages also attended the durbar for redressing of their grievances. They also took pledge for working against female
foeticide. During the durbar, the officers not only listened to the public grievances but also collected the forms for issuing of the driving license, ration cards, adhar cards and conducted an OPD for the patients. Addressing the villagers, SDM urged them to maintain cleanliness in the village and to take all precautionary measures against any possibility of the spread of seasonal fevers like malaria and dengue in the coming rainy season.
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Speaker lays stone of old-age home
Sonepat, July 4 “The adults are the backbone of the society and it is our prime duty to acknowledge their valuable contribution in the growth and progress of the society. Any disregards to them are a great sin which will not be forgiven by the Almighty. It is also against the social values of our rich ancient culture,” he said. The state government under the leadership of the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was committed for the welfare of the senior citizens and had initiated number of schemes to make their lives comfortable and respectful. Sharma also laid the foundation stone of a Rs 1.25 crore link road on Kheri Gujjar route. He said the construction of the 33 feet wide link road will be completed within three months. The link road will benefit the residents of Gandhi Nagar on the outskirts of Gannaur town and other villages including Ahulana, Ataayal, Kheri Gujjar, Kheri Bulandpur and Bali Kutubpur villages.
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Haryana to spend over Rs 3,000 cr for welfare of SC, OBC
Chandigarh, July 4 An official spokesman said over 1.48 lakh families had been provided financial assistance of more than Rs 230.2 crore upto last financial year under the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshni Vivah Shagun Yojana launched in the year 2005. Under the scheme, the government will give Rs 31,000 and Rs 11,000 to Scheduled Castes and widows of all sections of the society living below the poverty line respectively to solemnize the marriage of their daughters. He said 3.85 lakh plots of 100-100 square yards each have been allotted free of cost under the Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojna for providing
shelter to the people belonging to Scheduled Castes, Backward Class category and people
of all communities living below the poverty line. —TNS
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Murthal varsity organises workshop on 'lab governance'
Sonepat, July 4 Arora emphasised the importance of experimental science which was the backbone of research in every area, adding that the university administration was providing full support for organising such workshops. A senior scientist of the Department of science and technology, Government of India, Dr SK Varshney, presented his views on maintenance, calibration of instruments and said that wrong calibration could destroy all results taken from various studies. The coordinator of CIL, Dr Satish Khasa, explained the purpose of workshop by stating how to improve skills and follow good lab practices to enrich the research. The Director, PM Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dr Prem Chand, shared his views on advanced research techniques and said no university or institute could represent at the global level until it had good research facilities. All participants were given demonstrations of various instruments in different laboratories.
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Workshop on tackling natural disasters organised
Hisar, July 4 The Deputy Commissioner, Amit Agrawal, inaugurated the workshop while the HIPA course director, Abhay Shrivastava, gave tips to deal with the adverse circumstances in case of natural disaster. Addressing the workshop comprising 50 government officials, Shrivastava said quick response and immediate help for the victims could minimize the losses in the natural disasters like quake, floods, cloud bursts, fire etc. "We should identify the key locations like industrial centres, power plants, petrol and gas pumps in such crises and rescue people from the areas," he said. He also screened a film to apprise them about the ways and techniques that need to be followed at the time of such disasters. The DC said the district officials have an important responsibility to get in action as soon as any natural crises occur. "The district crisis management has assigned the task of reacting to such disasters quickly. We need to take lessons from the flood fury occurred in Uttarakhand and the workshop is an important part in imparting training to the officials," he added.
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BJP mulls over holding public meetings in Faridabad villages
Faridabad, July 4 Faridabad BJP president Ajay Gaur said there was also a demand from the party cadre to organise an Assembly-level public meeting. The proposed meetings would be held in the villages of the constituencies, he added. The party had once enjoyed considerable public support in Faridabad. Its nominee Ram Chander Bainda had consecutively won the Faridabad Lok Sabha seat thrice in the past. However, the BJP lost the seat to the Congress later. Moreover, out of the six Assembly seats in Faridabad, the BJP could only manage to win the Tigaon seat in the last Assembly elections. Former BJP MP Ram Chander Bainda said his party was expecting good electoral results in Haryana in future. Meanwhile, the BJP cadre is apparently on a high as senior leaders the HJC are taking part in the campaign in a big way. In a related development, a state leader of the HJC, Tejpal Sharma, asserted that the target of the BJP-HJC was to dethrone the Congress in the state.
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Filling
of backlog vacancies Ravinder Saini
Jhajjar, July 4 Representatives of various Dalit organisations, intellectuals and students belonging to the Dalit community from different places of the state attended the 'shivir' and stressed upon the need to make sincere collaborative and decisive efforts for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes. The meeting also resolved to launch a statewide campaign against the government if it failed to meet their longstanding demands, including filling of backlog vacancies reserved for Dalits in government institutions, reservation in promotion in government jobs, 20 per cent reservation quota in contractual government jobs, removal of BPL compulsion to avail the benefit of government schemes, establishment of fast-track courts for speedy disposal of heinous crime cases pertaining to the Dalits. Earlier, balming the state government for adopting an "indifferent" attitude towards the Dalit community, the speakers said the government on the one hand claimed to be the biggest well-wisher of the Dalits while on the other hand, it was virtually doing injustice to them by not filling the backlog vacancies in government institutions. “We are struggling hard to get the backlog vacancies filled, but the state government has turned a deaf ear to us. We have given representations to the government many a times to attract its attention towards this burning issue but to no avail,” said Rajesh Shastri, a Dalit leader. He alleged that the Dalits were deliberately being deprived of their constitutional rights under a deep-rooted conspiracy in the state. “Dalits are insecure and unsafe in Haryana due to the failure of the Hooda government in maintaining the law and order situation. Criminals are persistently perpetrating crime against Dalits while the government says every time that the law would take its own course,” said Shastri. “Dalits will not tolerate such an 'irresponsible' attitude being adopted by the government against them,” added Shastri. Dalit leader, Dr Udit Raj, advocate Ram Dhan, Mange Ram Dahiya, Rohtas Talav, Anil Ranga, Raj Kumar Ranga, Rajender Jogpal, Bimal Prakash and Gulshan Kumar also expressed their views.
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Encroachers reoccupy roads in Kaithal
Kaithal, July 4 Despite the drives launched by the local administration, the encroachments on major portion of roads by the shopkeepers, rehriwalas and workshop owners have again disturbed the movement of traffic on the roads. The encroachers have reoccupied major part of the roads in the town. The roads have become congested, resulting in
frequent traffic jams and causing inconvenience to commuters and the local residents. All other towns of the district facing the similar problem. The situation so alarming that a major portion of the roads have been illegally occupied. Those visiting the local vegetable market find it difficult to move on the roads. Shopkeepers have kept their goods on display on the footpaths. A few shopkeepers have also kept the stocks of sand, saria on the roads while others are running automobile workshops. The residents demand that an anti-encroachment drive should be a regular feature and those involved in the culprits should fined heavily to prevent them from doing it again in future.
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Drive
against violation of traffic rules Bijendra Ahlawat Tribune News Service
Rohtak, July 4 The police has issued around 2,500 challans during the past one month as part of the campaign. The number of challans is expected to be higher than the corresponding period last year. "We have continued the drive to check the violation of the norms and the drive has been quite successful with the policemen booking 400 to 500 offenders every week and this campaign is sure to help in disciplining drivers and creating an awareness about the traffic rules," said a spokesperson of the police department. The spokesman said more than 500 violators had been challaned in the district during the past one week. Admitting that the number of vehicles and violations had gone up, he said the department was trying to expand the strength of the policemen on traffic duty. The traffic policemen issued as many as 273 challans on Monday, he claimed. He added that a majority of the challans had been issued due to triple riding, black films on vehicles, overloading and plying without proper documents. However on other hand it is reported that despite the ongoing drive, the violations has been rampant at the spots where there are no traffic cops. " The movement of traffic was errant as majority of the drivers hardly care to follow the rules at the majority of the spots where the traffic congestion is acute and this normally results in chaos and accidents," said Atul, a local resident. He said the traffic system should to be overhauled completely as the less number of the traffic policemen and the lack of authority to punish the offenders on the spot were the major hurdles to putting the things back on the track. "The police hardly takes care of the minor drivers who drive two wheelers and even cars without any fear of the law and several of the offenders manage to give a slip to the policemen," said Nakul, a student. He added that the incidents of road rage had gone up.
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Conservation of Buddhist stupa under way
Chandigarh, July 4 This work was done in a proper manner under the supervision of the Archaeology and Museums Department. He said a sum of Rs 30 lakh has been provided to the Tourism Department for carrying out various works like pathways, toilet, rain shelter, landscaping and the work is in full swing.
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Sacked Maruti workers to observe Manesar mayhem’s anniversary
Gurgaon, July 4 These workers, out of which 147 are still in jail, have decided to observe the anniversary of the incident on July 18 with the "Chalo Manesar" campaign. It was on July 18 last year when the violence broke out at the Maruti's Manesar plant, leading to the death of Awanish Kumar Dev. After the incident, all 2,300 Maruti workers were sacked. The plant is now having a new staff. "It has been a year. They sacked us and moved on. We are without any means to feed our children. Along with the culprits, even innocent workers were thrashed, tortured and were put into jails. We tried to speak to the government but we were shooed away. We tried peaceful protests but were lathi-charged. We will use this day to demand for the justice," said an official spokesperson of the Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union's provisional committee. "All that we want is an impartial investigation into the unfortunate death of the pro-worker manager, reinstatement of illegally terminated workers of Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant, Suzuki Powertrain India plant and Suzuki Motorcycles India plant, and taking back all fabricated criminal cases against the workers," workersstated in a statement.
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Hisar to be new industrial corridor of Rohtak, Delhi: Deepender
Chandigarh, July 4 Hooda said over Rs 400 crore would be spent on the construction of 69-km rail link from Hansi to Rohtak via Meham whereas about Rs 1,000 crore would be spent on four-laning of National Highway No.10 between Hisar and Rohtak. With this direct rail network, western Haryana, including Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad districts, would be directly connected with the national capital Delhi, leading to greater prosperity of the area. The MP said these projects, which had been pending since long, had been approved by the Central Government after strenuous efforts by the Chief Minister. —TNS
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Lootera The first look of the film, "Lootera", has evoked nostalgic feelings. The film is set in 1950’s and stars fresh pair of Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. Ranveer play a very restrained character and tried to do something different with the movie. Sonakshi Sinha will be seen in sporting long tresses, simple sarees and bindis with very little make up. The movie is said to be inspired by O Herry’s famous story "The Last Leaf". Vikramaditya Motwane, director of the film, has drew basic plot from the O Henry’s story and later developed into a 150-minute film. It is produced by Phantom Films and Balaji Motion Pictures. This film is scheduled to release today at theatres in
Haryana.
Policegiri Sanjay Dutt, Prachi Desai starrer action movie "Policegiri", a remake of Tamil super hit film "Saamy" is going to be released at theatres in Haryana today. The film was completed before Sanjay Dutt went to spend 42 months in prison. Director KS Ravikumar shot the last schedule at the Film City studios, Aarey Milk Colony in Mumbai. Produced by TP Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal, the movie is an action flick with some intense and emotional sequences. Himesh Reshammiya is the music director of the film. — Dharam Pal
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Sonepat, July 4
