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Independent survey of damage to
paddy CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — While the Haryana Government has succeeded in getting the survey reports on damage to paddy by the Central team delinked from that of Punjab, a decision on further relaxation is likely to be delayed by another few days, pending independent assessment in Haryana. Inter-state gang busted PANIPAT: The Panipat police has achieved a major breakthrough with the arrest of a four-member gang of inter-state robbers. Mr Manoj Yadava, SSP, Panipat, told TNS that the gang had committed crimes in the districts of Gurgaon, Panipat and Sonepat districts and in Delhi state. |
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 51,000
cr needed for water supply schemes |
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Sodomy case filed against
undertrial ROHTAK, Nov 14 — The police has registered a case of sodomy against an undertrial lodged in this jail. According to a complaint, the accused identified as Ramu alias Dushyant, who has been in jail for the past about seven months allegedly sodomised two other undertrials on Thursday night. Staff
union plans 'pol khol' campaign One
more dies of enteritis |
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Cong celebrates Nehru's birthday |
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Independent survey of damage to paddy CHANDIGARH, Nov — 14 While the Haryana Government has succeeded in getting the survey reports on damage to paddy by the Central team of the Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs delinked from that of Punjab, a decision on further relaxation is likely to be delayed by another few days, pending independent assessment of the damage in Haryana. The Haryana Government has impressed upon the Centre the need for a separate assessment in Haryana because damage to paddy in the state was much more than in the state of Punjab where the Centre had sent its team on November 9. It has also made it clear that Haryana's contribution to the Central pool would not be possible without relaxation of specifications by taking a separate view of the state. In fact, the Central team, which was to have submitted its report to the Union Ministry on November 16 after securing test milling reports of paddy at various rice mills in Punjab, will now separately visit Haryana. Earlier the team was to have submitted a report which would have been applicable to both States. As the Haryana Chief Secretary and other senior officials have been pressing the Centre to take an independent view of the damage caused to paddy in Haryana, the Union Ministry has agreed to the request. Mr B B Pattanaik, Joint Commissioner (S&R) in the Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs has told Mr Naseem Ahmed, Commissioner and Secretary, Food and Supplies, Haryana that he had deputed two teams to conduct test milling in the rice mills in Haryana. Each of these teams would comprise a Deputy Director from the Department of Food and Civil Supplies (GOI), a Deputy Manager (Quality Control ) from the FCI (HQ), a Deputy Manager (Engineering) and a Deputy Manager (QC) from the Regional Office of FCI, Haryana and an officer nominated by the Haryana government . The team will visit various districts including Jind and Kaithal on November 16 and 17. These teams will submit the report to the Centre any day after November 18. Thus the bulk of the procurement season is being consumed in going through formalities and the majority of farmers/rice millers are likely to be deprived of the benefit in the absence of a quick decision either way. The Haryana Government had requested the Central team which had visited the state from October 26 to 29 to give relaxations in specifications of paddy and rice owing to large scale damage to crop because of untimely and unprecedented rains. Mr Naseem Ahmed had brought to the notice of the Central Government that already a large quantity of leviable paddy — 10,84,518 tonnes — had been purchased by the millers since the commencement of the procurement season up to November 9. Similarly the government procuring agencies had purchased nearly 1 lakh tonnes of paddy. From November 1 onwards, the millers had purchased 2.51 lakh tonnes of paddy and government agencies had purchased 35,000 tonnes. It was clear, Mr Naseem
Ahmed said, that most of procurement of rice for the
Central pool was to be done through the levy route. The
paddy which arrived in mandis was damaged because of
untimely and unprecedented rains. The damage had been
much more as compared to the neighbouring state of
Punjab. The rice millers, he said, were unable to make
rice as per the laid down specifications. As a result,
the state's contribution to the Central pool till date
was nil. The paddy, with excessive damage which had been
purchased by rice millers and by the government agencies
could not yield rice of the desired quality. |
Inter-state gang busted: 4 held PANIPAT: The Panipat police has achieved a major breakthrough with the arrest of a four-member gang of inter-state robbers. Mr Manoj Yadava, the Senior Superintendent of Police, Panipat, told TNS that the gang had committed crimes in the districts of Gurgaon, Panipat and Sonepat districts and in Delhi state. The district police chief disclosed that the Panipat police had recovered three country-made pistols, a Maruti car, five live cartridges and Rs 5,000 in cash which they had robbed from a clerk of the Government Higher Secondary School Mahavati (Samalkha) a few days back when the clerk had gone to Samalkha to draw the salary of the school staff. Elaborating on the incident, the SSP stated that on September 29, Mr Ram Chander, a clerk of the school, had withdrawn Rs 1.10 lakh from the State Bank of Patiala (Samalkha branch) to pay salaries to the school staff. While he was on his way back to Mahavati, four armed youth waylaid the clerk and the school peon, Sultan Singh, who were coming back on a scooter. The armed robbers fired at Ram Chander when he resisted the attempt to snatch cash from him. The robbers were able to get away with a bag containing Rs 5700 when the main amount of cash remained intact as the school clerk had kept it in the dickey of the scooter. The injured clerk complained to the police about it and the police chief constituted a special group to arrest the robbers. Ultimately, the police was able to arrest the leader of the gang, Anil Kumar Dagar, a resident of Isapur (Delhi). Anil Kumar had planned to rob the clerk in connivance with one. Surinder Kumar, a resident of Mahavati village. Along with the two, the police also arrested Bal Krishan of Dubeta village near Ganaur and Bittoo, alias Satinder, a resident of Nabada (Delhi). The police also recovered the Maruti car used in the incident which was stolen by the gang members from the Janakpuri area of Delhi. The police chief stated that the four members had admitted their involvement in two robberies in Gurgaon district, one in Sonepat district and four car thefts. Mr Yadava asserted that the gang had looted a vegetable trader of Ganaur about two months back and snatched Rs 15,700 from him. Likewise, they had also snatched Rs 63,000 from a teacher who was taking the salary of the school staff of Talwari village under Taoru police station in Gurgaon district. The gang members were also involved in about half a dozen car thefts in Delhi. He claimed that the main
achievement of the police was that it found out about the
criminal activities of this gang, of which there was no
police record. It had becoming difficult to trace the
gang members as most of them were novices and youth. |
51,000 cr needed for water supply
schemes CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — Mr S.S. Bola, Engineer-in-Chief, Public Health, Haryana, told newsmen here last evening that a vast population of 1,046 lakh was still uncovered by water supply schemes in the country. Mr Bola said at least a sum of Rs 51,000 crore was required up to March, 2002, to provide water supply facilities to this uncovered population to raise the population coverage ranging from 67 per cent to 92 per cent for Class VI to Class I towns at the beginning of the Ninth Plan to 100 per cent by the end of the Ninth Plan period. A three-day conference of chief engineers of public health and heads of implementing agencies in charge of urban water supply and sanitation services would be held here from November 16 to discuss the strategy to be implemented during the Ninth Plan in urban water supply and sanitation, he said. The conference with
participants from almost all over India would assess the
magnitude of the problems of water supply, sewerage,
drainage and solid waste management. There was need for
educating the people and making them fully aware of the
necessity of making the services self-sufficient. The
present services, he said, were highly subsidised. |
Sodomy case filed against
undertrial ROHTAK, Nov 14 — The police has registered a case of sodomy against an undertrial lodged in this jail. According to a complaint, the accused identified as Ramu alias Dushyant, who has been in jail for the past about seven months allegedly sodomised two other undertrials on Thursday night. The victims were identified as Devender and Qayum, both from Faridabad district. The unconfirmed reports
from the jail suggest that two (undertrials) allegedly
sodomised an undertrial on Thursday night but the police
report says that one undertrial 'sodomised' two others.
The police is reported to be investigating. |
Staff union plans 'pol khol'
campaign ROHTAK, Nov 14 — Haryana Karamchari Mahasangh will launch a statewide "pol khol" (reveal pretensions) campaign against the state government in the rally scheduled for tomorrow in Delhi. Mr S.D. Kapoor and Mr M.L. Sehgal, President and General Secretary of the state unit of sangh, respectively, claimed that the government employees from all over the state would attend the rally in large numbers and express their resentment against the "anti-employee" policies of the Bansi Lal government. He said public meetings would be held at village and block levels to apprise the people of the "anti-people" policies of the state government. He alleged that the government crushed the agitation of municipal employees, nurses and the employees of Haryana Roadways and the HSEB in an unconstitutional manner by suspending or terminating the services of some of the strikers. The sangh demanded the implementation of the revised pay scales from January 96, release in cash the instalment of dearness allowance and regularisation of all employees on ad hoc, part-time and contract bases. It sought a check on the move to privatise the power board, state roadways, education, public health etc. It also sought a strict
transfer policy and restoration of the services of the
suspended and terminated employees. |
One more dies of enteritis AMBALA, Nov 14 (UNI) — The toll in the gastro-enteritis cases in Ambala cantonment rose to two, with Daulat Ram (45) succumbing to the disease last night. The district administration has granted financial aid of Rs 5,000 to each of the families of the deceased. More than 100 persons, including women and children, are reportedly suffering from the disease and are being treated in private nursing houses, the local Civil Hospital and the PGI, Chandigarh. Sources said the disease
spread because of contamination of drinking water. |
Surender Singh, others acquitted HISAR, Nov 14 — The District and Session Judge, Mr R.N. Singhal, today acquitted Mr Surender Singh, a Haryana Vikas Party MP and son of Mr Bansi Lal, Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Joginder Singh Jog, former minister of Haryana, and eight others in a case of poll-related violence in the Adampur constituency of the state Vidhan Sabha, in 1996. The case was registered
with Adampur police station on the complaint of Mr Om
Prakash, uncle of Sushil Kumar, who suffered bullet
injuries on polling day following violence after hurling
of stones at Mr Surender Singh and his supporters by an
unruly crowd near Adampur village polling station. The
name of Mr Joginder Singh, former state minister, and the
gunman of Mr Surender Singh had also figured in the FIR
registered under Section 307 of IPC. |
Cong celebrates Nehru's
birthday CHANDIGARH, Nov 14 — The Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee today joined the nation in remembering the first Prime Minister of free India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 109th birth anniversary. The Congress committee, at the district as well as block levels, all over Haryana observed the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister as 'Bal Divas' and paid glowing tributes to the architect of modern India. Prabhat pheris were taken out in the morning by various district and block Congress committees at their respective headquarters. The distinguished services rendered to the country by the leader, both in the freedom movement and in the post-Independence era, were highlighted at the workers' public meetings. Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
President, Haryana PCC, paid floral tributes to the
departed leader by visiting his samadhi "Shanti
Van" in Delhi this morning. |
No blood bank in Fatehabad FATEHABAD, Nov 14 — Fatehabad perhaps the only district headquarters of the state that does not have the provision for a blood bank. Attendants have to rush to Hisar to fetch blood every time a patient needs it. In certain acute emergency cases the patients are reportedly administered untested blood, increasing the risk of contagious diseases. The demand for a blood bank was raised when it became a district headquarter in July. According to the authorities, the blood bank being a big project, requires a lot of funds. As a result, several
private laboratory owners have mushroomed in the town who
arrange blood from professional donors and volunteers. As
there is no provision for testing the blood for HIV and
hepatitis virus, the patient runs a risk of contracting
such diseases. |
4 held for cheating government FARIDABAD, Nov 14 — The police has arrested four persons, including an employee of the telecommunications department on a charge of depriving the government of revenue worth lakhs of rupees. The arrested persons, included Raj Kumar, supervisor of the department, Ishwar Singh, Subhash and Javed Khan. The modus operandi of the
arrested persons was that they had taken two local
telephone connections in a house in Sant Nagar. They used
to make international calls to Saudi Arabia by illegally
fixing an ISD line by charging Rs 200 per 10 minutes from
people against the official rate of Rs 1,000. They also
used to pay Rs 8,000 daily to Raj Kumar. |
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