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 Sunday, August 30, 1998 |
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Edible-oil tankers under watch ROHTAK, Aug 29 — Fearing that the dropsy epidemic, that has shaken the Union Capital, may spread further, the authorities in Rohtak and Jhajjar are keeping a close watch on the movement of edible oil tankers being smuggled out of Delhi. Plan to streamline power
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 Herbal garden developed CHANDIGARH, Aug. 29 — The Integrated Watershed Development Project, Haryana, has proved a boon in maintaining the ecological balance in about 0.2 lakh hectares area of the Shivalik foothills falling in Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar districts. |
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‘Media
being misused for vested interests’ Haryana
tourism day on Sept 1 Permanent
Lok Adalat set up |
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Edible-oil tankers under watch ROHTAK, Aug 29 — Fearing that the dropsy epidemic, that has shaken the Union Capital, may spread further, the authorities in Rohtak and Jhajjar are keeping a close watch on the movement of edible oil tankers being smuggled out of Delhi. The police manning the Bahadurgarh-Delhi border has been alerted following reports that dealers in Delhi might smuggle the toxic mustard oil out of the Capital. Mr Rohtas Singh Kharb, SDM, Bahadurgarh, told TNS that the administration was monitoring the movement of edible oil tankers in the border areas. The ban on the sale of loose and non-branded mustard oil has created a panic among traders and manufacturers. The 15-odd oil manufacturing units have been closed. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anil Kumar, said directions had been issued to take samples of the mustard oil produced and sold in the market by Monday. Those found selling adulterated oil would be dealt with sternly. However, he said, there was no ban on mustard oil with "Agmark". Nonetheless samples of "Agmark" oil would be put to a laboratory test. The district administration is watching the situation with fingers crossed as Sushil Kumar arrested by the Delhi police on charges of selling adulterated mustard oil has his mills at Lakhan Majra in this district. The mustard oil produced in Haryana is mostly marketed in Delhi. Most of the mustard oil produced in the district is non-branded and used by a majority of pickle manufacturers in the town. As the trade of mustard oil is seasonal, owners of oil expellers keep stocks of the product for sale at a premium during the festival months starting with Navratras and ending with Divali. The ban on the sale of loose or non-branded mustard oil has as such dampened the enthusiasm of the stockists who were hoping to earn a good profit. The Haryanvis by and large do not use mustard oil for cooking but it is the main cooking medium of labourers from Bihar, West Bengal and eastern UP. The administration in the industrial town of Bahadurgarh bordering Delhi, therefore, is taking extra precautions. It is trying to locate the centres of purchase by the oil dealers in the town. In Faridabad too, the Health Department officials have swung into action. They have taken several samples of the oil which are being sent to Chandigarh for testing. The results expected within 10 days. A meeting of the oil mills managements and wholesale dealers was convened yesterday by the Health and Civil Supplies Department for initiating certain preventive measures. A report from Gurgaon said six samples of mustard oil had been collected for laboratory tests at Chandigarh. The reports would be received within a week. Traders blame agriculturists for the contamination. They say agremone seeds gets mixed with other seeds during harvesting. The mustard oil has some percentage of agremone seeds. This is not harmful. However, if the percentage increases, it can be harmful. PANIPAT: The karyana merchants of the district went on strike in protest against the taking of samples of edible oil by the Health Department today. A spokesman of the Karyana
Merchants Association has demanded that the action should
be taken against the manufacturers of oil instead of the
shopkeepers. |
Plan to streamline power
distribution REWARI, Aug 29 — The Haryana Government plans to segregate the power distribution system for tubewells and for domestic consumers to ensure uninterrupted supply in the rural areas. This was stated by the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, at a public meeting after laying the foundation stone of a 33 kv substation at Khushpura village, 15 km from here, yesterday. He said in the first phase, two rural feeders in each of the 49 operation divisions of the state would be segregated. The plan, he added, would be funded from the second instalment of the Rs 1000 crore of World Bank loan, expected to be released in March. The Chief Minister said the government was making efforts to provide ample power supply to all categories of consumers in the state by June next. The HVPN planned to add 85 new substations to the present network and also augment the capacity of the 74 existing substations. Defending the creation of two corporations the Chief Minister said the corporations were fully owned by the Haryana government. He, however, added that after six months the state would have two distribution companies one of which would be fully owned by the government while the other would be a joint venture. The Chief Minister said the 432 MW gas-based thermal power plant at Faridabad would start generating power from April. He said the HVPN planned to set up nine new substations, two each of 220 kv at Mahendragarh and Dharuhera, two each of 132 kv at Gothra and Mundia Khera and five each of 33 kv at Dublana, Model Town Rewari, Bawania, Garhi Maheshwari and Khushpura, In addition, a number of substations at Kanina, Mahendragarh, Ateli, Madhopkhera and Nizampur would be augmented in the Ahirwal area. Attacking the Indian National Lok Dal chief Mr Om Parkash Chautala, the Chief Minister said Mr Chautala was making false promise of providing power free of cost to the farmers. The meeting was also addressed by Mr Jagdish Yadav, State Minister for Forests, the Haryana BJP president, Mr O.P. Grover and the HVPN Director, Mr P.K. Verma. BHIWANI: The Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, on Saturday said that a number of projects had been started to augment irrigation facilities in the state. The construction work on the Hathni Kund Barrage was being done on war footing. He was addressing the inaugural function of Seth Megh Raj Jindal Government College at Siwani. He said at present Haryana was getting 15000 cusecs from the Tajewala headworks. After completion of Hathni Kund Barrage, the state would be getting more than 20,000 cusecs of Yamuna waters. Meanwhile the Indian
National Lok Dal Party got a setback when Tulsi Ram
Mittal, president Bhiwani district, Mrs Nirmala Sharma,
chairperson Bhiwani district Mahila wing, Ram Singh Verma
and Om Parkash Karwashra announced to join the HVP with
their supporters. |
Herbal garden developed CHANDIGARH, Aug. 29 — The Integrated Watershed Development (hills) Project, Haryana, has proved a boon in maintaining the ecological balance in about 0.2 lakh hectares area of the Shivalik foothills falling in Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar districts. The project known as Kandi Development Project was started in 1990 for the protection of fertile lands being destroyed due to silt, sand deposition and thereby reduction in productivity in the Kandi track . In spite of high rainfall, there was severe shortage of water both for irrigation and drinking purposes. Due to scarcity of water and fodder, cattle migration out of the area was common. The project has been helpful in slowing down and reversing the degradation of natural environment with the use of appropriate soil and moisture conservation technology to lay a solid foundation for sustainable yields from crops, livestock, forestry, fruits and vegetable. Efforts have been made to achieve the goal through people's participation. These efforts had helped
in setting up a herbal garden at Badri Mandi, on Shivalik
hills at Kathgarh in Bilaspur block of Yamunanagar
district. The garden was set up in 1997-98 at a cost of
Rs 25 lakh. The garden has more than 100 varieties of
herbal plants, exotic and native. Some of the important
species are Rauwolfia serpentine ( serpagandha) Withania
somnifera |
‘Media being misused for vested
interests’ SIRSA, Aug 29 — Journalists, politicians and social activists today lamented the commercialisation of media and called for a thorough introspection. Speaking at the inaugural function of a two-day annual conference organised by the Haryana Patrakar Sangh here, they said the freedom of press was being misused for personal and vested interests. The sangh president, Mr K.V. Pandit, raised various issues and problems being faced by the journalists. He regretted, what he called politicisation of the media. He said newspaper owners had become editors and the ethics were being ignored. Prof. Sampat Singh, senior leader of the Indian National Lok Dal, said the media had to bear the additional burden of safeguarding the democratic institution. He cautioned against any complacency and said whenever the fourth pillar becomes weak, the rest of the pillars were affected. Ms Sabina Inderjeet, member of the Press Council of India, regretted that journalism was no longer a mission. She said newspaper owners were using the media for their own interests. Capt. Abhimanyu, Editor of Haribhumi, underlined the need of encouraging regional and vernacular press. He said, they had become important as they only addressed the basic local and regional issues. Mr Inderjeet, state secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), referred to the growing degradation of social and moral values. Mr Suresh Akhouri, president of the Indian Journalists Union, referred to growing commercialisation of media. He regretted that newspapers and other news institutions were treated no more than consumer products. The Food and Supplies Minister, Prof. Ganeshi Lal, recalled that during the freedom struggle, the journalists had one goal. Now vested interests had crept in. The Animal Husbandry
Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, said the journalists had an
important role and responsibility in ensuring that media
is not sold out to vested interests. Senior
vice-president of the Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr
Lachman Dass Arora, said all the four main institutions
of democracy should work together. They have a
complementary role, he said. |
Haryana tourism day on Sept 1 CHANDIGARH, Aug 29 — September 1 will be observed as Haryana tourism day throughout the state. Giving this information here today, Mr K.K. Khandelwal, Managing Director, Haryana Tourism Corporation said that a cycle rally-cum-race, golfing event, tree plantation drive, blood donation camp and a food festival would be organised to mark the celebrations. The golfing event would be held at Aravalli Golf Course at Faridabad, while the tree plantation drive would be held at all the tourism complexes. Plants for the event would be arranged by the Forest Department's nurseries and the Haryana Tourism nursery at Delhi. Children from local schools would be invited to participate in the event. A blood donation camp would be held at Sunbird restaurant of Surajkund complex in which staff members and the public would donate blood. The food festival, named Pakwan Pratiyogita would be held at Skylark Tourist Complex, Panipat. This competition would be open for the staff as well as for the general public. A run for fun event would be another highlight of the day. This would be held at Hisar, where the runners would be flagged off at Flamingo complex and received at Blue Bird complex. He said that the cycle rally would be flagged off from Puffin Tourist complex, Chandigarh by Mr Ram Bhajan Aggarwal, Tourism Minister. It would cover about 14.5 km. The race section for juniors would cover a distance of 8 km while for the seniors the distance could be 24 km. The rally would finally
reach Red Bishop. He said that the participants would be
registered and given free food packets, caps and
registration numbers. He said that the children sponsored
by the schools should come in uniform and only cycles of
Indian make and without gear system would be allowed in
the rally-cum-race event. Over a thousand cyclists would
participate in these events. |
Permanent Lok Adalat set up KURUKSHETRA, Aug 29 — The first permanent Lok Adalat of Haryana was inaugurated by Mr Justice V.K. Bali, a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of the Haryana Legal Services authority, in the Judicial Complex here today. This court will work once a week. Mr Justice Bali said the Lok Adalats were playing an important role in providing cheap and speedy justice to the people. He said that the advocates also played an important role in settling the cases. On this occasion, the district-level 69th Lok Adalat was also inaugurated by Mr Justice S.S. Sudhalkar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He said that lakhs of candidates had been benefited from lok adalats since their inception in 1982. Mr Justice Nawab Singh of
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who is also Member
Secretary of Haryana Legal Services Authorities, informed
that such Permanent Lok Adalats would be established at
every district headquarters in Haryana. He said that 878
adalats had been organised in the state so far and 2.64
lakh cases settled. He added that Rs 58.55 crore had been
granted to the victims of motor accident cases. |
Tension in court complex FARIDABAD, Aug 29 — Tension prevails in the court complex here due to violent clashes between two groups of members of the District Bar Association in which five advocates, including Mr Harish Chetal, a former president and four others were injured yesterday. Some advocates had to take shelter in the courtrooms of the District and Sessions Judge and other judges to escape from the wrath of violent groups. Both the groups of advocates have filed FIRs against each other. No arrest has been made so far by the police. The situation would have worsened if the worsening situation would not have been handled tactfully by Mr B.K. Panigrahi, Deputy Commissioner, and Mr Mohammed Akil, Senior Superintendent of Police. Mr Kartar Singh Badhana,
MLA, and Mr Shyam Sunder Kapoor, vice president, Haryana
Vikas Party in a statement today appealed to both groups
of advocates to exercise restraint and settle their
differences amicably. |
Powermen 'to be retrenched' CHANDIGARH, Aug 29 — The Chairman of the Haryana unit of the All-India Labour Council, a front organisation of the Congress, Mr Ram Sarup Janbaz, has expressed apprehension that a large number of employees of the erstwhile Haryana State Electricity Board would be retrenched following the trifurcation of the board. In a statement issued here yesterday Mr Janbaz, a known trade unionist, said the board authorities had already taken the first step towards the retrenchment of employees by sacking two senior engineers, Mr R.L. Chhokar and Mr R.S. Bhati. He also alleged that the scheme framed by the board to review the suitability of the employees for the three companies on the basis of vacancies in the companies, experience and nature of job would be used to shunt out the employees without giving them meaningful compensation. Mr Janbaz appealed to the
Union Energy Minister, Mr P. Kumaramangalam, who himself
has been a trade unionist, to come to the rescue of the
employees failing which, Mr Janbaz said the trade unions
in Haryana would be forced to launch an agitation. |
VC trying to 'divide'
teachers CHANDIGARH, Aug 29 — The M.D. University Teachers Association (MDUTA) has charged the Vice-Chancellor with attempting at splitting the association by "encouraging" the formation of a parallel association. The general body of the association in a resolution criticised the Vice-Chancellor for removing MDUTA president Vazir Singh Nehra from the membership of the house allotment committee. The university and college teachers, who are on strike for the past 19 days press for the implementation of the UGC-recommended pay scales, have decided to observe Teachers Day on September 5 as "protest day". The teachers will wear black badges and start a relay fast. The association resolved
to participate in the teachers' rally at Delhi on
September 4 and court arrest as per the directives of the
All-India Federation of University and College Teachers
Organisations (AIFUCTO). |
HSEB union begins stir SONEPAT, Aug 29 — The Haryana State Electricity Board Workers Union today launched a three-week agitation in protest against the abolition of the HSEB and formation of regulatory agencies. The employees will hold
demonstrations every day till September 22. They will
also join the proposed statewide strike on September 16. |
Bail plea in cheating case AMBALA, Aug 29 — The Sessions Judge, Mr A.S. Garg, today fixed September 4 the next date of hearing on the bail application of Mrs Jagjit Kaur, against whom the police has registered a case of cheating. The complainant in the case, Mr Sushil Kumar, an industrialist of the cantonment area, alleged that Mrs Jagjit Kaur along with three other persons had cheated him of several lakhs of rupees. On the basis of the
complaint, a case under Sections 420, 406, 408, 465, 467,
468, 471 of the IPC read with Section 120-B was
registered against the suspects on August 23. |
Conference on economy begins ROHTAK, Aug 29 — A two-day conference of the Indian Political Economy Association started here today. The Vice-Chancellor of
Maharshi Dayanand University, Mr O.P. Kaushik,
inaugurated conference in which 40 delegates from the
various parts of the country are taking part. It is being
hosted by the Department of Economics. Among others who are
taking part in this conference are K.N. Babra of the
Indian Institute of Planning and Administration, Prof
Atul Sharma of Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi,
Dr D.N.S. Reddy from Hyderabad University, Prof
Jaggannath Pati from Hazaribagh, and Prof K.G. Iyer from
Panjab University, Chandigarh. |
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