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 Saturday, November 21, 1998 |
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State
to get more power How
cane prices are fixed Three killed in accident GURGAON, Nov 20 — Three persons were killed and 14 seriously injured when a jeep collided with a truck on the Delhi-Alwar road near Nuh town. |
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 Kurukshetra gets set for Gita
jayanti Village
with a difference 50
feeders to be rehabilitated |
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HVPN
launches metering plan Sinha’s
assurance to insurance staff Jagadhri
consumer fined Rs 5000 Brazil
willing to cooperate in livestock production Workshop
on food science held |
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Transfer
rakes up controversy CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — The sudden transfer of the Excise and Taxation Commissioner of Haryana, Mr R.N. Prashar, three days ago has raked up a controversy in the department as well as in political circles of the State. After the murder of an Excise and Taxation Officer, Mr Lachhman Ram, at Faridabad on November 1 allegedly after he, and his colleagues dared to check tax evasion by a goods carrier company, Mr Prashar is alleged to be the second casualty in the department at the hands of the powerful transport lobby in Haryana. According to sources in the department, instructions were received from the Chief Minister's secretariat that special campaigns should be launched to check evasion of passenger tax by maxi-cabs and other passenger vehicles. The instructions were issued after it was detected that the recovery of passenger tax in the fund-starved State was low. The sources say about 50 buses had been plying illegally in Bhiwani district for the past two years under political patronage. In view of the instructions from the Chief Minister's secretariat, two officials of the Rohtak Enforcement Circle conducted a surprise check a few days ago. During the checking they found that several vehicles had neither chassis number nor engine number. Obviously, there was no question of registration certificates with them under the circumstances. The matter was reported by the inspecting officials to the Deputy Excise and Taxation Officer (Enforcement), Rohtak. It is alleged by the departmental sources that certain vehicle owners reached the Rohtak office of the department and used threatening and abusive language against the officers, including a senior woman officer, for checking their vehicles. The sources say that Mr Prashar personally visited Rohtak on November 15 and constituted special teams which checked vehicles in the Tosham-Bond-Dadri-Meham areas. Ten jeeps and 16 buses were impounded for violation of the Passenger Tax Act. Two days later Mr Prashar was given the marching orders. The department officials allege that Mr Prashar was transferred because he stepped on too may political toes together. The sources say the department officials have resolved not to conduct roadside checking to prevent tax evasion in protest against Mr Prashar's transfer as well as to press their demand for a proper security cover. Official sources on the other hand say that after the Rohtak Enforcement Circle officials detected the irregularities being committed by certain bus operators of that area, Mr Prashar brought the matter to the notice of the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, who gave him the signal to take action against offenders, irrespective of their political positions. However, they allege that during the special checking conducted on November 15, Mr Prashar "exceeded his brief". They allege that Mr Prashar did not take the D.C. and the S.P. of Bhiwani into confidence, though he had taken the help of the Rohtak police. The official sources also allege that the checking parties went to villages and seized parked vehicles and challaned them, something which, they say, is not sanctioned by law. They say when the matter was again brought to the notice of the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal told the concerned authorities to take action against the offenders as per law. But he also expressed his displeasure over the alleged excesses committed during the special checking. Mr Prashar was not available for comments. Meanwhile, Mr Chander Mohan, Congress MLA from Kalka and the elder son of the former Chief Minister, Mr Bhajan Lal, has demanded a CBI inquiry into the episode, including the murder of the Faridabad Excise and Taxation Officer. In a statement issued here today Mr Chander Mohan accused the State Government of demoralising senior honest officers instead of protecting them. Criticising Mr Prashar's transfer, the MLA said the officer had done a yeoman's service to the State by increasing its revenue and punishing the defaulters. He alleged that the only fault of Mr Prashar was that he checked the buses being illegally plied by certain close relatives of Prof Chhattar Singh Chauhan, Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, and Mr Bansi Lal. The Speaker could not be
contacted for his reply to the allegations levelled by Mr
Chander Mohan. Telephonic enquiries at his official
residence here revealed that he would come to Chandigarh
only on Tuesday next. |
State to get
more power FARIDABAD, Nov 20 — Mr P.R. Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, today declared 200 MW of additional electricity would be provided to Haryana from January next year. Addressing a function after laying the foundation stone of the power grid's transmission system at Samaipur village, 15 km from here, he said the transmission system would be installed by March well before the completion of the 143-MW first unit of the gas-based Mujeri plant of the NTPC. Mr Kumaramangalam also announced that with the proposed setting up of the national power grid by the year 2000 an additional power of 3,000 MW would be available in the next five years. Out of this, 500 to 600 MW would be released to Haryana. This would meet the demand of the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, for more power. He advised the state government to sell power at commercial rates and minimise subsidy on electricity. He also suggested improvement in the recovery of the amount pending with the consumers. He felt the present rate of recovery in Haryana was not satisfactory. The minister said to make the power sector viable electricity had to be sold at commercial rates. Earlier, welcoming Mr
Kumaramangalam, Mr Bansi Lal wanted that Haryana should
be given special attention to meet its power needs. He
asked engineers of the NTPC to advance the date of
commissioning of the second unit of the Mujeri project.
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How cane
prices are fixed CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — The sugarcane prices — which are fixed more out of political compulsions and less for realistic considerations — have come in for severe criticism as the farmers expected the new prices to be at least in three figures. The government machinery has to maintain a delicate balance between the interests of the farmers, millers and last of all the consumers. This is why there is a wide gap between the statutory prices of sugarcane fixed by the Government of India and the State Governments. Perhaps, the statutory price does not come under consideration while fixing the current prices of Rs 95, Rs 93 and Rs 91 for early, mid and late varieties of sugarcane in Haryana. The statutory price of sugarcane is Rs 45.50 per quintal which is binding for all State Governments/Union Territories in the country wherever sugarcane is grown. The statutory price has been linked to the recovery of sugar at 8.5 per cent. Any extra recovery means higher premium for each decimal rise in the recovery production. It is surprising that the real cost of inputs like diesel, fertiliser and power tariff is generally relegated to the background. Thus the cost of production is worked out keeping in view the intentions of the leaders running the governments and the prices fixed by the neighbouring governments to avoid unrest. Thus whatever the prices fixed by the State Government has to be criticised by opposition leaders who suddenly become "extraordinary friends of farmers" and start demanding higher prices on the same grounds which they ignore when they come to power and become decision makers, says an official. While the HVP-BJP
Government in Haryana has given Rs 13 higher than the
last year's sugarcane price of Rs 82 for the early
variety, the Congress leaders, including the Haryana
Pradesh Congress President, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda have
demanded a minimum of Rs 125 for the early variety to
compensate the farmers for the high cost of inputs and
the losses they have suffered on account of unseasonal
rains which damaged the cotton, bajra, and paddy crops in
the state to the extent of 25 per cent to 30 per cent.
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Kurukshetra
gets set for Gita jayanti KURUKSHETRA: For the first time the Gita jayanti celebrations have been given a national perspective. Thanks to the efforts of the Haryana Governor, Mr Mahavir Prasad, Gita jayanti has already been recognised as a state festival. In addition, the Union Government has recognised Kurukshetra as India's 21st heritage city. For this purpose, the Union Government has decided to provide Rs 50 lakh during this year and another Rs 50 lakh next year for creating suitable infrastructure. The Gita jayanti celebrations would be held from November 21 to 30. In the earlier days, the state government and the district administration participated in the festival only for the first two days. Afterwards, it was left to social and religious organisations to finish the show. But this year, the programme has been so chalked out that it ensures the state government's participation till the concluding day. The programme has drawn up to include items which have a socio-religious, cultural and educational bearing. It has been decided to organise a two-day cultural week along with the cultural evenings on every day for a week. This includes a live broadcast by All India Radio stations at Rohtak and Kurukshetra on the first two days of the celebration. This is being arranged for the first time. The cultural evenings will include — a bhajan evening, nritya natika on Mahabharata by Saras Institute (Delhi) a cultural evening by Kurukshetra University, a drama by a Kashmir Government troupe and a magic show by Shankar Samrat. Besides, children of local schools stage a performance on one day. Mr Ashok Yadav, Executive Officer of the Kurukshetra Development Board, which is organising the festival, told TNS that the evening of bhajans would be conducted by the famous Sharma Bandhus, while the other bhajan sandhya would be conducted by Pt. Kishor Chaturvedi of Lucknow. He further disclosed that a ballet on Mahabharata from the North-Central Zone Cultural Centre, Bhopal, would be presented on the occasion. Mr Yadav stated that it was for the first time that another innovation has been introduced. It relates to a photo exhibition of 108 temples which existed in the traditional and legendary "48 kos" periphery of the Mahabharata wars. He maintained that all the temples still existed and the board was meeting their maintenance costs. Dilating on the innovative programmes, he stated that a three-day national seminar on Bhagvadgita which would be inaugurated by Shankracharya of Badrika Peeth would be held. The concluding session of the seminar would be presided over by the Haryana Governor. Thirty scholars from Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Pune and Mumbai etc. have sent their consent to participate at the seminar which would have its theme on "Concept of religion and science as propounded in Bhagvadgita". From this year onwards, the seminar would be a permanent feature of the celebrations. The deliberations of the seminar would be published in the form of a book by the Gita Kendra of the Kurukshetra Development Board, he maintained. Besides this, a state-level debate and declamation contest as well as a state-level quiz for college boys and shloka recitation for school boys would also form part of the week-long celebrations. The topic for the debate would be: "Are religion and science opposed to each other?" A running trophy after the name of Ved-Vyasa, a writer of Vedas, and Lord Krishna has been instituted. An attraction to the festival is that 30-metre high mask lights would be erected both at Sannihat and Brahm Sarovars. The Sannihat Sarovar is believed to be the permanent abode of Lord Vishnu, according to the Hindu mythology. The board has also decided to erect a "surya dwar at Sannihat Sarovar, which would suit the sarovar surroundings. Mr Ashok Yadav stated that the Principal Secretary, Mr L.M. Jain, who was deputed by the Governor to suggest ways and means for further providing a heritage look to Kurukshetra, has sanctioned a sum of Rs 1 crore for drainage and dewatering of the mela area. The Chuttang nullah frequently floods the mela area. Floodwaters can be seen even now on about 100 acres of the mela area. The scheme which is being taken in hand by the Kurukshetra Development Board, would not only free the mela area from floodwaters, but would also enhance the water circulation in both sarovars. To further develop and preserve the old periphery of Kurukshetra, Mr Manik Sonewane, Secretary to the Governor, has directed the board to erect "Yaksha" statues on all four corners which demarcate the "48 kos" area of the Mahabharata war. Various schemes chalked
out by the board along with the state government indicate
that the Gita jayanti celebrations would be a befitting
show during the years to come. |
Village with
a difference CHARNAUND (HISAR), Nov 20 — This little hamlet of Hisar district is an ideal case of the success of Panchayati Raj. The village is a complete democracy in itself. As of now, none of the 1,200 persons from the village has ever approached the police or any court of law for the redressal of any grievance. Dispute is referred to the panchayat. According to the Sarpanch of the Charnaund panchayat, all panches (the panchayat members) work with a consensual approach. The contentious issues are also resolved with mutual agreement. In fact, the panchayat has been a reflection of the general brotherhood and amity prevailing among the people of the village. The village does not have people from anyone particular community. People belonging to various castes have been living here for generations. Their caste identities may differ but not the approach to problems and other issues. The panches were elected unopposed during the last panchayati elections. The sarpanch was also elected through consensus. Rajinder Kumar claims the mutual trust and understanding among people prevails from "the top to the bottom". It is reflected in every social and political aspect. It is not that the people here subscribe to any single particular political ideology. But they restrict their political inclinations to themselves only. Thus, there is no political influence in the working of the panchayat either. According to Ram Swarup, an elderly person of the village, people have inherited their brotherhood. He claims that, unlike other places in Haryana, people here are not known by their caste, but by their name alone. "We have so many castes here. If we start identifying ourselves in this manner, we may not live like we are living now" he explains. The entire village is dependent on agriculture. Every family possesses enough land to make both ends meet. The main crops include cotton, wheat and rice. The people have also a lot of spare time. Playing cards and sitting over hookah is a common pastime. The roads and lanes are relatively better managed than other villages. Recently, the panchayat was granted Rs 10 lakh from the rural development fund for construction of roads and lanes. During last two years, the panchayat has spent about Rs 32 lakh on various developmental works. The money was spent on the local school, the dispensary and construction of small drains. The panchayat has also been allocated an additional grant of Rs 25 lakh by the rural development agency under the watershed scheme. The literacy rate in the
village is much higher. Almost every child of the village
goes to the school. Most of the men this reporter talked
to were able to spell their names in English. The same is
not true about women, who still remain behind the veil.
But girl children are sent to school. |
Three killed
in accident GURGAON, Nov 20 — Three persons were killed and 14 seriously injured when a jeep collided with a truck on the Delhi-Alwar road near Nuh town today. The seriously injured were
referred to the general hospitals at Gurgaon and Delhi.
The police has registered a case against the truck
driver. |
50 feeders to be rehabilitated KURUKSHETRA, Nov 20 — A number of development activities have been carried out here under the World Bank emergency action plan. Stating this to mediapersons here yesterday, the Superintending Engineer (operation circle Kurukshetra), Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited, Mr V P Arya, said the World Bank team had selected four 11 KV feeders at Dhola Majra, Mangoli Madhuban and Rourkee, which were overloaded for rehabilitation, and work on the Dhola Majra feeder would commence within a week. On the whole 50 such overloaded feeders had been selected for rehabilitation which would cost about Rs 20 crore. He said the undersized and worn out LT PVC Cables of distribution transformers were being replaced. A target of 500 such locations had been fixed from November to January and as many as 433 moulded case circuit breakers would be installed. The Superintending Engineer said a special drive had been launched for checking power theft, particularly by way of kundi connections. Over 473 cases of power theft had been detected and FIRs lodged up to November 15. The penalty imposed on defaulters totalled Rs 104 lakh. He said three new 132 KV
sub-stations were being constructed at Pipli, Malikpur
and Pai under a scheme financed by the OECF, Japan, at a
cost of about Rs 19 crore. These sub-stations were
expected to be commissioned by February, he added. |
HVPN
launches metering plan HISAR, Nov 20 — The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) has launched a massive campaign to streamline the metering system under a new time-bound plan named "metering action plan" to be completed in 18 months. The HVPN has taken up this comprehensive metering plan to ensure that all defective meters are replaced with accurate meters and for all new connections, HVPN's meters are installed, a nigam spokesman said yesterday. Under the metering action plan, all consumers who had high energy consuming apparatus like geysers, air conditioners, room heaters and ovens, would be provided with electronic meters. All low tension apparatus, having more than 30 kilowatt load, would have current transformer connected meters. Large supply industrial consumers would be provided with high tension electronic trivector meters. Trivector feeder meters would be installed at the sending off at the grid sub-station for the consumers having independent feeders and the flat rate unmetered tubewells would be provided with proper energy meters in a phased manner, the spokesman said. The HVPN plans to procure
over 5.50 lakh new meters the purchase of which was being
financed from the first two instalments of the World Bank
loan. |
Workers hold
procession SONEPAT, Nov 20 — Hundreds of workers affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) held a procession here last evening in protest against the price rise and the anti-worker attitude of the HVP-BJP government led by Mr Bansi Lal. The procession was led by Mr S N Solanki and Mr Howa Singh, presidents of the state and district units of the party, respectively. Carrying placards and raising anti-government slogans, the processionists passed through the main bazars of the town and reached the mini-secretariat where a memorandum, listing the demands of the party, was submitted to the SDM, Mr Balwan Singh, for forwarding it to the Chief Minister. The memorandum demanded the fixation of Rs 3,500 as monthly salary of a worker employed in industries, the revision of wages after every two years, ban on the contract system, lockouts, layoffs and retrenchments, enforcement of all labour laws and the Factories Act strictly and the revoking of a decision to privatise the power sector. The memorandum also urged the state government to take immediate steps to safeguard the trade union rights and exclude the matter from the purview of the courts. It also demanded an end to police interference in the agitations and protests launched by workers in support of their demands. The memorandum also demanded immediate preparation of ration cards for workers, opening of fair price shops and supply of rationed as well as essential commodities at subsidised rates. Earlier, a rally of workers was also held which was addressed, among others, by Mr Solanki and Mr Howa Singh. They said that the rising prices were a clear indication of misrule of the government. They accused the
government of doing nothing to check the hoarders and
blackmarketeers. |
Levy rice
delivered to FCI CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — Mr A.D. Nityanand, Senior Regional Manager, FCI, Haryana, today took exception to a report regarding non-acceptance of levy rice stocks by the FCI from the millers in Haryana and non-despatch of rice stocks from Haryana. He said that the report was not based on facts. He confirmed that 402 tonnes of rice had been delivered to the FCI on central pool account by the millers of Haryana during the period from November 10 to 19. The rice stocks were delivered under normal specifications laid down by the Government of India. The payment towards the cost of the levy rice stocks delivered by the millers was made by the FCI within 48 hours from the presentation of the bills. Out of 40 specials of rice
planned for despatch by rail during the current month 16
special had been despatched up to November 19.
Additionally, 12,200 tonnes of rice had been moved by
road from Karnal and Kurukshetra districts to
destinations in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, he said. |
Computer
centre for Rohtak CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — The Haryana Rajya Sainik Board will open a new computer centre at Rohtak and upgrade its computer centre of Panchkula. Mrs Savitri Varma, Chairperson of the Management Committee of Sainik Parivar Bhavans, said the Sainik Parivar Bhavans in Haryana were having a suitable training environment and one-year diploma course was being run in Hindi and English stenography, cutting, tailoring and computers, duly recognised by the Director-General, Employment and Training Ministry of Labour. Besides this, training was also being conducted for handloom, hosiery and cut glass. The Sainik Parivar Bhavan was also organising coaching for PMT, CET and career guidance courses for Class II and III services at Sainik School, Kunjpura and prerecruitment training for enrolment into the Army at Bhiwani. The Sainik Parivar Bhavans
were being run for rehabilitation of war widows and
dependents of armed forces personnel since 1972. |
4 books
selected for award CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — The Haryana Sahitya Akademi has announced literary award and grant-in-aid for publication of books of Haryana domicile writers published during 1997-98. A spokesman of the Akademi said the government was making all-out efforts to encourage the Haryana domicile writers by giving them awards, financial assistance and prizes by organising various competitions. He said that the Akademi had selected two Hindi and two Sanskrit books for literary awards which carries a cash prize of Rs 5,000 each. The books of Hindi language include ‘Dahan’, poetry written by Mr Mahender Pratap of Chandigarh, ‘Lok Kavi Avam Natyakar Ali Bakhsh’, Lok Sahitya written by Dr Ram Kumar Bhardwaj and Dr Anita Bhardwaj of Hisar. Similarly, ‘Uchchhvasanaam Pratichchhay’ Sanskrit prose written by Dr Madan Lal Varma of Kurukshetra and Poonahorse Vijay, Sanskrit poetry written by Capt. Ram Bhagat Sharma (retd) of Khudana. In a Hindi short story competition during 1997-98, 20 Haryana domicile writers with their 27 short stories participated in this competition. Out of these three short stories had been selected for award of prizes which include ‘Sirf Paanch Pratishat’ written by Dr Puneet Bedi of Panchkula was awarded Ist prize of Rs 1,000, ‘Do Perhon Ke Beech’ written by Mr Ram Singh Arya of Jind and ‘Sambandhon Ka Ahasaas’ written by Mrs Sudarshan Ratnakar of Faridabad were awarded second and third prizes of Rs 750 and 500 respectively, he added. A sum of Rs 5,000 or 50
per cent of the cost of publication, whichever is less,
was being provided to the author as grant-in-aid for each
of the selected books. During the year 1997-98, 18
manuscripts, 16 in Hindi and two in Haryanvi, were
received. After the evaluation, eight books had been
selected for grant-in-aid. |
Sinha’s assurance to insurance staff AMBALA CANTT, Nov 20 (PTI) — The propagation of "Swadeshi" does not mean closing your doors but being able to compete with other countries successfully. Mr Yashwant Sinha, Union Finance Minister, said this at a seminar on the proposed privatisation of insurance sector here today. Mr Sinha said if foreign companies enter insurance business there was no danger to promotion prospects of insurance employees. He said the foreign companies will be allowed only minority participation. The fears that the insurance sector is being opened to private sector or foreign companies under pressure from the IMF or the World Bank are totally unfounded, Mr Sinha said. To develop basic infrastructure we need $ 2500 crore each year. "We may be able to provide the same in the next seven years or so but if our country does not have the necessary infrastructure we will remain for behind the East Asian countries," he said. He said at present there was a scope to insure 300 million persons in the country. The Finance Minister announced that the Haryana office of the Oriental Insurance Company will be set up at Ambala and not at Delhi as proposed earlier. The UP Governor, Mr Suraj Bhan pointed out that 40 per cent of the insurance cases get settled in time where as 60 per cent cases were embroiled in disputes. He said 1.47 lakh cases were pending due to various reasons. Mr D. Sen Gupta, Chairman of the GIC, Mr R.V. Shetty, general secretary National Federation of Gen Ins Employees, Mumbai, Mr N.C. Gupta, GM Oriental Insurance Company also spoke. Earlier, Mr S.K. Aggarwal,
General Secretary of the GIC Employees Union, Chandigarh
region, demanded that 40 per cent share of the insurance
company should be transferred in the name of insurance
employees. He wanted that tenure of CMD should not be
less than three years. More than 500 delegates from the
country participated in the seminar. |
Protest
against rape of 3-year-old GURGAON, Nov 20 — The Delhi-Rewari railway line was blocked by some persons at Haily Mandi for three hours in protest against the incident of rape of a three-year-old girl at Jatauli yesterday. The DSP (City) Anil Kumar, DSP (HQ) Palaram and SDM R.C. Pariaria arrived at the site to bring the situation under control. The girl was raped by one Jabbar Singh who is still absconding. The girl has been admitted to Rohtak Medical College in a serious condition. The protesters were complaining that neither the accused had been arrested nor proper treatment was given to the victim. The SDM has announced a
medical grant of Rs 25,000 for the girl. |
300 old
buses to be replaced CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — The Haryana Transport Department has decided to replace 300 old buses of Haryana Roadways with new buses during the current financial year. An official spokesman said out of these, more than 200 buses had already been replaced. The bodies of the buses were being fabricated in the workshop of Haryana Roadways Engineering Corporation situated at Gurgaon. He said the department had initiated a series of measures to improve the performance with a view of providing better transport facilities to the people. The checking of the depots by senior officers had been intensified so as to minimise the detentions and breakdown of buses to bring improvement in bus services. He said the Haryana Government had already relaxed the passenger tax being charged from maxi-cabs from Rs 150 per seat per month to Rs 100 per seat per month so as the motive them to get permits. As many as 3,636 maxi-cabs had already obtained the permits. The checking of unauthorised operation of such vehicles also been intensified by giving challaning powers to the General Managers of roadways depots. He said that the
Government had also invited applications from registered
transport cooperative societies of unemployed youth
(having minimum of five members) for grant of about 699
state carriage permits to operate buses on about 418
routes upto 125 kms, within Haryana. |
Jagadhri
consumer fined Rs 5000 PANCHKULA, Nov 20 — A Jagadhri-based consumer has been fined by the local consumer forum for suppressing facts in a complaint seeking compensation for being harassed on account of a demand made by the Executive Officer, Municipal Committee, Jagadhri, for recovery of development charges. The complaint had been transferred from the District Consumer forum, Yamunanagar, to the local forum on the orders of the State Commission, Haryana. The complainant, Mr Nand Kumar, who is President of the Municipal Committee, Jagadhri, had alleged that he had filed an application with the Executive Officer, of the civic body in 1989 for sanctioning of two site plans and deposited a fee of Rs 1064 for the same. After obtaining the sanction, he did some construction at the site. However, the municipal committee in June, 1998, issued a notice for recovery of Rs 90,300 on account of development charges. The committee maintained that the complainant had hidden the true facts about the case and had allegedly tampered with its records. It said appeals by him before the Punjab and Haryana High Court,and the Civil Judge, Junior Division, Jagadhri, regarding the stay on recovery of development charges had been dismissed. The forum observed that
the complainant had intentionally and deliberately hidden
facts about the case. He has been directed to pay Rs 5000
to the committee within a month. |
Brazil
willing to cooperate in livestock production HISAR, Nov 20 — Brazilina scientists have evinced interest in collaborating with CCS Haryana Agricultural University here in milch cattle research. A 12-member team of Brazilian scientists, which was here on a visit, said there were great scope in collaborative research in the field. The scientists pointed out that India and Brazil had common goal of achieving maximum growth in livestock production. The delegation, which comprised animal and farm scientists, veterinary surgeons and progressive farmers visited animal farms and veterinary clinics of the university. The delegation saw indigenous breeds of Hariana cows and Murrah buffaloes, cross-bred animals and animals health-care services being provided by the university. Leader of the delegation, Dr Romulo Kardec, said his country was producing 21 billion tonnes of milk every year. He said the quantity was sufficient to meet the domestic demand. However, Brazil was still working to maximise milk production to seek entry in the global market, he said. Dr Kardec lauded the
research work being done in the university, particularly
in the embryo transfer technology and animal breeding. |
Workshop on
food science held YAMUNANAGAR, Nov 20 — A workshop on food science and quality control was organised here today at the DAV College for Girls Dr S.P. Singh, Emeritus Professor, Kurukshetra University, and convener of the University Grants Commission panel on chemistry, was the guest of honour. In his inaugural address, Dr S.P. Singh stressed on the rapid growth of the food industry into big business, the changes in the food habits of consumers and growing trends for processed food. He highlighted the significance of developing new techniques for food preservation in India. While dealing with the relevance of holding this workshop, Prof Gurmukh Singh, Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, G.B. Pant University, Pant Nagar, emphasised the importance of doing vocational courses. Students with degrees in food science and quality control in their hands had bright chances of absorption in the world. Eminent scholar Dr J.S. Sindhu, senior scientist at NDRI, Karnal, spoke about the Indian conditions and emphasised that in the changing scenario of domestic and international markets a large force of trained food science and quality control professionals would be needed for the production of better quality, value-added food products. He threw light on various job opportunities in private and public sector organisations for graduates and postgraduates in the field. Dr Parminder Bajaj of the
Bureau of Indian Standards enlightened the audience about
various legal standards relevant to the food industry. |
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