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Chief Minister’s air travel costs exchequer Rs 53,000 per day
Alliance with HJC to continue, says BJP
Teaching aspirants cut a sorry figure
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Barwala tense as shootout victims cremated
Green tribunal stays fencing by NPCIL
Roadways staff call off protest
Policy for EWS plots in licensed colonies
Father-in-law charged with rape
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Chief Minister’s air travel costs exchequer Rs 53,000 per day
Hisar, July 16 A Hisar-based RTI activist, Ramesh Varma, procured this information from the Civil Aviation Department recently. Varma, who had won the national RTI award, had demanded information about air journeys of the state chief minister and other expenses incurred on these air trips in the last five years on February 22. Revealing the details of the trips by the Chief Minister, state civil aviation adviser informed that the department purchased a helicopter from a German company in 2009. The government had incurred Rs 1.78 crore on the maintenance of this helicopter up to February 2013, while it spent a whopping Rs 2.88 crore on the fuel for the helicopter and on another aircraft in the last five years. Another major expense was on salaries of two pilots - around Rs 2.58 crore during the period. The expense incurred on landing/parking/housing of helicopter and aircraft has been
Rs 44,68,951. The department also spent approximately Rs 7 lakh on salaries of the engineer and the flight dispatcher from April 2012 to March 2013. Expenses touch dizzying heights
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Alliance with HJC to continue, says BJP
“There is no truth in the reports as the party high command, especially party president Rajnath Singh and Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj, have made it repeatedly clear that the alliance with the HJC would continue in the run-up to the elections,” Haryana BJP president Ram Bilas Sharma told The Tribune here today. In fact, Sharma went on to claim that given the anti-incumbency against the Hooda-led Congress Government, the BJP-HJC alliance would romp home to victory in both Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Repeated meetings of senior BJP leaders, including Rajnath Singh, with INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala in the recent past had led to speculation that the BJP, desperate to come to power at the Centre and in the state in next year’s elections, was toying with the idea of forging an electoral alliance with the INLD. An influential section of the BJP believed that only the BJP and the INLD could replicate the success of the SAD-BJP alliance in Punjab in Haryana. In fact, the miserable performance of both BJP and the INLD against the Congress-backed Independents in the recent MC elections might force both parties to come together to take on the Congress in the forthcoming elections. This BJP section is uneasy over the alliance with the HJC as it felt that the fledgling party without much organisational set-up would prove to be liability for the BJP in the elections. Attacking the Hooda Government for failure on all fronts, Sharma alleged that the current government was most corrupt .“In the name of special economic zones (SEZs), the Congress grabbed thousands of acres of land of poor farmers and handed in over to big corporates for a song,” Sharma alleged. |
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Teaching aspirants cut a sorry figure
Bhiwani, July 16 Similarly, the pass percentage for level-3 test for postgraduate teachers (PGTs) and level-1 test for primary teachers is also not encouraging; only 2.7 per cent and 9.6 per cent have been able to clear the respective tests.
The results for the HTET held in the state on June 25 and 26 this year will be placed on the website www.hbse.ac.in at 10 am tomorrow. HTET is the minimum eligibility condition for the appointment of teachers in Haryana. HBSE Chairman Dr KC Bhardwaj said out of the 1,49,255 candidates, who had appeared in the HTET for the level-2 test, a mere 2147 could clear it. In the level-3 test, only 2,248 candidates out of 83,830 could get through. The result was relatively better for level-1 test for primary teachers, with 15,420 out of 3,47,272 candidates clearing it. Bhardwaj said in the level-1 of HTET for primary teachers, Sunita of Sonepat (roll No 1015045) and Menka of Bhiwani (roll No 1040185) had stood first by scored 119 marks each. In level-2 of the
TGT exam, Promila of Bhiwani (roll No 2065439) has stood first with 116 marks. In level-3 of TGT exam, Hardeep Singh of Jind district (roll No 3012132) has stood first by scoring 121 marks. |
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Karnal MC building inundated
Karnal, July 16 The Mayor and councillors inspected the low-lying areas inundated by heavy rain and slums in Sector 13, Chaman Garden, Indra colony and Shiv Colony could not enter their own office. Water had to be drained from the record room to salvage the record. The old Municipal Council building which has been crying for attention has been converted into the Municipal Corporation complex without any renovations and repairs. The leaking roof, cracking walls of the building and live electric wires hanging all around are a threat to councillors and staff. The councillors have demanded shifting of the Municipal Corporation complex to a safe place. They demand that 9000 sq yards out of the 22 acres of MC land given free of cost for Kalpana Chawla medical College should be made available for the MC complex. |
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Barwala tense as shootout victims cremated
Hisar, July 16 The police has started investigation into the death of three men in a violent clash between the two groups over the possession of a plot of land belonging to the Wakf board. The police has registered a case of murder on the complaint of Mahender Kumar, father of one of the victim. The police has also booked eight persons for blocking the road and attacking the police. Meanwhile, the police has been deployed at the disputed piece of land. No Wakf board official has visited the site so far. The police spokesperson said no one had been arrested in the case so far. Sources said none of the deceased, who belonged to the Scheduled Caste community, had any direct involvement in the land dispute, but they had been roped in by the rival factions as strongmen to prevent other group from taking over the possession. Both the sides were heavily armed and opened fire after a heated exchange, which resulted in the death of Rinku and Vicki yesterday. Enraged over the deaths, the SC community people went to the police station and started hurling stones, resulting in injuries to the SHO and other cops. The police opened fire to contain the situation. The protesters alleged that the third victim, Neeraj, had died in police firing. |
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Green tribunal stays fencing by NPCIL
Fatehabad, July 16 Seven black bucks have died in the past 10 days after they were trapped in the fencing set up by the NPCIL. However, the NPCIL has already removed its fencing before this order. Hearing an application —Akhil Bhartiya Jeev Raksha Bishnoi Sabha vs Union of India and others, the Principal Bench of the Tribunal has issued notice to the respondents for July 22. In its application, the Akhil Bhartiya Jeev Raksha Bishnoi Sabha had sought a direction to the NPCIL to remove the fencing from 185 acres earmarked for its township. The applicants also sought a direction to the NPCIL to comply with the memorandum dated December 2, 2009, of the Ministry of Environment and Forests before it applied for environment impact assessment (EIA) clearance. The applicants also sought the appointment of an internationally recognised agency for carrying out a survey of the region and taking a census of the existing scheduled animals. The Akhil Bhartiya Jeev Raksha Bishnoi Sabha has also sought a direction to the respondents to take suitable measures for the protection of wildlife in the region and declare the region as a wildlife sanctuary or a national park. |
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Roadways staff call off protest
Chandigarh, July 16 Arun Kumar said it was decided to constitute a committee to study the actual pattern of challans done by the Delhi Police. The committee shall comprise five members each from the department and the committee. This committee will visit Delhi and study the challan process taking place in Delhi. Video-recording, if possible, will be done, particularly of the challans done in "no-parking" areas where the passengers are either dropped or picked. The committee will submit its study report within three months. |
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Policy for EWS plots in licensed colonies
Chandigarh, July 16 EWS plot size shall vary from 50 sq meters to 125 sq. meters or as otherwise approved specifically in the approved layout plan. The licensee would transfer all EWS category plots to the Housing Board, Haryana, at the rate fixed by the government which at present was Rs 600 per sq. meter within six months of approval of the zoning plan. The Housing Board, Haryana, might construct units on the transferred plots and allot to BPL families at a reasonable cost approved by the government.
— TNS |
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Tohana residents detain Chhindwara Express
Fatehabad, July 16 Today, the train was to cross the Tohana railway station without stopping for the first time. Residents started the protest on the railway track before the train’s schedule passing from the Tohana railway station at 5.40 am. “For the past several years, residents have been demanding the stopover of Intercity Express, Avadh-Assam Express and Dholadhar Express at Tohana. However, instead of accepting our demand, the railway authorities have now decided to end the stop the brief halt of Chhindwara Express here,” alleged Sanjeev Nagpal, president of the Dainik Yatri Sangh, Tohana. He alleged that due to the indifferent attitude of the railway authorities, passengers have been facing a lot of difficulties. After the railway authorities announced their decision to end halt of the train at Tohana, residents had taken up the matter with Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar, who had last week arranged a meeting of five members of the Dainik Yatri Sangh with Union Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge. Commuters alleged that the Railway Minister had assured them that the decision would be revoked. The train was allowed to proceed after the intervention of the police and the authorities. However, the Dainik Yatri Sangh threatened to intensify their agitation if the railways authorities do not take their decision of ending the at Tohana soon. |
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Encroachments on ‘gaucharan’ land to go
Sonepat, July 16 This was stated by a delegation of the Haryana Gau Seva Ayog, led by its chairman Dr KL Sharma and vice-chairman Hari Om Bawal, during its visit to Jain Sthanak at Gohana today where Dass has been staying for the past few days. The delegation met Jain saint Sunder Muni in the Sthanak and urged him to persuade Dass to end his fast. Sunder Muni said the government representative should make the announcement in the Bhagwan Sri Ram Prasad’s 6th Samriti Divas programme to be organised in TPS Public School at Wazirpura village near Gohana on July 18 so that Sant Gopal Dass could end his fast. |
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Father-in-law charged with rape
Sirsa, July 16 She alleged that the accused threatened to kill her if she narrated the incident to anyone. The police has registered a case of rape and criminal intimidation but no arrest has been made so far. Alleged rapist in police custody
Rewari: Jogender (29) of Rohtak district, who had allegedly kidnapped and raped a 16-year-old girl of Loola Ahir village, near Kosli, was today produced in a Kosli court which remanded him in police custody for one day. Jogender, who had abducted the girl from Palhawas village, about 22 km from Rewari, where she was temporarily staying at her maternal uncle’s house, on July 10, was apprehended from Rohtak on July 15. The girl was also recovered from there. Her medical examination confirmed that she had been raped. |
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