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Workers demand wage revision SONEPAT, Nov 30 — Thousands of workers affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and other workers' unions as well as employees of various banks and the LIC took out a procession here yesterday in protest against the anti-employee and anti-people attitude of the central and the state governments besides the government's decision to privatise banking services and the LIC. Power bills: Haryana to review slab system KURUKSHETRA, Nov 30 — The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, today announced that the slab system introduced in the state for paying electricity bills for tubewells would be re-assessed so that maximum people could benefit from the system. |
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AIDWA flays govt for
neglect of women FATEHABAD, Nov 30 — The All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has expressed concern at the "plight" of the women in the country. Commuters
demand new train Teachers
not paid salaries Sugar
mill stops functioning Youths
beat up teacher Fault
in BBMB transformer Plea
to regularise ad hoc teachers Make
health awareness campaign a ‘success’ Train
with relief material flagged off |
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Workers demand wage revision SONEPAT, Nov 30 — Thousands of workers affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and other workers' unions as well as employees of various banks and the LIC took out a procession here yesterday in protest against the anti-employee and anti-people attitude of the central and the state governments besides the government's decision to privatise banking services and the LIC. Carrying placards and raising anti-government slogans, they marched through the main markets of the city and reached the mini secretariat where leaders of various unions submitted a charter of demands to the Deputy Commissioner. The memorandum demanded immediate revision of the wages of industrial workers and fixation of Rs 3,500 per month as their salary. It regretted that the state government had utterly failed to revise the minimum wages of the workers for the past five years although the wages are to be revised after every two years. The memorandum also urged the state government to immediately impose a ban on lockouts, lay-offs and retrenchments besides privatisation and end of police intervention agitations started by workers against their employers. The memorandum also demanded immediate reinstatement of 600 workers of Jhalani (Gadore) tools factory at Kundli village and release of their pay which had been withheld for the past 14 months. Earlier, a rally was
also held which was addressed among others by Mr S.N.
Solanki, president of the Haryana unit of CITU, and Mr
Jai Bhagwan Dahiya, president of the district unit of the
Sarv Karamchari Sangh, Haryana. |
Power bills: Haryana to review
slab system KURUKSHETRA, Nov 30 — The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, today announced that the slab system introduced in the state for paying electricity bills for tubewells would be re-assessed so that maximum people could benefit from the system. He was talking to newspersons at Shahbad Markanda, 25 km from here. He said the slab system was introduced by Mr Devi Lal for the benefit of the farmers. He said the three slab system was introduced and the charges were according to the depth of water in the respective areas. He said that the previous government had changed the decision. His government had decided to re-examine the prevalent system so that maximum benefit could be given to the farmers he said. The Chief Minister appreciated the efforts of the Central Government in providing liberal assistance to the Orissa Government. He alleged that the Orissa Government had failed in the distribution of relief material to the people of the state. He reminded that the then Central Government had approved Rs 30 crore during flood havoc in 1995 in Haryana as against the demand of Rs 800 crore put forward by the state government. The Chief Minister said the government had decided to provide grace marks to experienced teachers, including private teachers. As many as 13,000 teachers would be recruited in the state only on merit basis. Earlier, redressing the grievances of people at a specially organised ‘open darbar’ at PWD Rest House the Chief Minister said his government was committed to providing all basic amenities to the people of the state. Acceding to the demand put forward by village panchayats, the Chief Minister announced sub tehsil status for Ismailabad, X-Ray machine for primary health centre, Ismailabad, shifting of Block Education Office-2 from Shahbad to Ismailabad and addition of two rooms in the school. He sanctioned a number of roads, including the construction of roads from Haripur to Brami, Chapri to Adhori, Landi village to Highway, G.T. Road to Khanpur Kolian, Raipur to Sulakhni, Haripur to Mohri, Sulakhni to Golpura, Chnarthal to Atwan, Haripur to Butwan, Thaskali to Malwa, Fatehgarh Jhrolly to Nalvi, Rawa to Jogimajra, Dyalpura to Railway line, Yara to Kasherla. He also announced the renaming of the Shahbad Chowk after the name of Shahid Udham Singh beside providing some land to Shahid Udham Singh Memorial Society. He announced the upgradation of schools at Shanti Nagar from middle to high, Government Primary School Kheri Shahedan to middle besides construction of new government primary school at Babakpur village. He also announced the construction of primary health centre at Thol village and a community health centre at Jhansa village. He announced a grant of Rs 2 lakh for Nalvi village and the setting up of a 33 KV substation at Jhansa village. Mr Ashok Arora, Speaker,
Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Mr Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, Chief
Parliamentary Secretary, Mrs Kailasho Devi, MP, Banta Ram
Chairman Sugarfed, Vaid Kapoor Chand, local MLA, Mr Sher
Singh Barshami, Political Adviser to Chief Minister, IG
Ambala Range H.S. Ahlawat, Mrs Joyati Arora , DC,
Kurukshetra, S.P. Kurukshetra, Mr A.S. Ahlawat, were
present on this occasion. |
Angry circus elephant attacks
mahout PANIPAT, Nov 30 — For 50-year-old mahout Hanif, it was an ordeal whose memory will haunt him for a long time. An old hand with the Amar Circus Company, Hanif had many elephants dancing to his tune for years until yesterday when a 10-year-old baby elephant, Tipu, left him with a fractured right leg and a badly bruised ribcage. "Tipu had just finished the ‘Shiva Lingam’ pooja sequence when he suddenly went wild. The racing elephant lifted me in his trunk and smashed me on the ground," said a dazed Hanif who has been admitted to a private hospital. Fortunately for Hanif, his colleagues managed to get the angry elephant chained before he could do further damage. The elephant, calmed down after a tank full of water was sprayed on him. An assistant with the Amar Circus, Wilson, told TNS that Tipu was probably angry over something and took on the mahout in a fit of anger. "When an elephant gets angry he can attack even the man who looks after him", he explained. The incident sparked panic amongst the spectators and many rushed out. Today, the
‘naughty’ Tipu with his legs in chains remained
the main attraction at the circus, even though he will be
kept out of the performing arena for a couple of days. |
AIDWA flays govt for neglect
of women FATEHABAD, Nov 30 — The All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has expressed concern at the "plight" of the women in the country. Addressing a convention of the Khet Mazdoor Women Union here yesterday. Ms Jagmat Sangwan, general secretary of the state unit of the AIDWA, said it was ironical that while the whole world was moving to the next millennium. women in India were still not being treated as equals to men. She bemoaned the fact that even after 52 years of Independence customs like "sati" were still prevalent in the society. Ms Sangwan criticised the Vajpayee government and alleged that due to the wrong and pro-capitalist policies of the Centre, the condition of the farm labourers and the poor had become pathetic. She alleged that the government was least interested in the welfare of the poor and the women. She said the government had failed to provide even community toilets for women. The AIDWA leader alleged that thousands of tonnes of wheat was damaged in the government godowns every year but the government failed to distribute it among the poor through public distribution system (PDS). She said crime against women were on the rise. She also decried the role played by the electronic media in encouraging obscenity and urged the government to take steps to put curbs on the media. Ms Sangwan said in the absence of stringent laws, the farm labourers were being exploited by the landlords. The incidents of denial of wages to the labourers, keeping bonded labourers and sexual exploitation of the women farm workers was on the rise. Earlier, inaugurating the convention, Mr Ram Kumar Bahbalpuria, president of the state unit of the Akhil Bhartiya Khet Mazdoor Union, alleged that due to the economic policies of the Centre financial status of the poor was deteriorating while the rich were thriving at their expense. The convention adopted a
resolution demanding the framing of Central laws for farm
labourers, fresh survey of people living below the
poverty line supply of essential commodities at
subsidised rates and jobs for the unemployed. The
convention concluded with the speech of Ms Bimla
Choudhary, president of the state unit of the AIDWA. |
Commuters demand new train ROHTAK, Nov 30 — The Rohtak-Delhi Daily Train Passenger Association has asked the railway authorities to start a new train for commuters between here and Delhi immediately. The president of the association said here today that while the number of commuters from this town and nearby stations had increased manifold the Railways had not started any new train to cope with the rush. He said the only express train between Sirsa and Delhi, which caters mainly to daily passengers, had been taking passengers several times more than its capacity. He further said one of the trains which had been rescheduled had failed to operate regularly and on time, resulting in harassment of the commuters. He said a large number of passengers remained stranded at various stations between here and Delhi daily after the departure of Bhiwani Express, which leaves Rohtak at 8 a.m. Demanding an improvement
in the running of other trains on this line, the
association said that starting of a fast passenger train
could solve the main problem. It also appealed to the
Union Railway Minister to start work on laying of railway
line between Rewari and Rohtak, connecting Jhajjar town. |
Teachers not paid salaries YAMUNANAGAR, Nov 30 — Resentment prevails among private college teachers of Haryana who have not been given their salaries for the past four months. There are 78 colleges in the state where more than 5000 teachers, including principals and other secretarial staff, are employed. Dr Ramesh Kumar, Principal of M.L.N. College and General Secretary, Principals Association, said in spite of reminders to the state government nothing had been done so far. He said since July no salary had been disbursed. He urged the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr O.P. Chautala, to intervene and get the salaries released. They also sought a system under which there could be a regular release of grant-in-aid-to the colleges. He further asked the
Chief Minister to revoke the ban on recruitments in
private colleges against the existing vacancies. In the
absence of new appointments, the colleges were unable to
get replacements against retiring employees. In some of
the colleges even the principals had not been appointed
for over one year which was affecting the working of
these institutions. |
Sugar mill stops functioning SONEPAT, Nov 30 — The crushing of sugarcane at the local cooperative sugar mill came to a halt yesterday following the reported collapse of a turbine. According to informed sources, all five blades of the turbine broke and these were being repaired for the mill to resume functioning. The mill had started functioning on November 9 and the turbine trippings started on November 18. However, the management succeeded in crushing the sugarcane till November 28. The Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ashok Yadav and the Managing Director, Ms Sumedha Kataria, were engaged in monitoring the repair work. It is alleged that the mill management had purchased the old turbine for Rs 14 lakh and it was handed over to a private firm for the repairs at a cost of Rs 6 lakh. Leaders of the Haryana
Sugar Mills Workers Federation have demanded a high-level
probe into the purchase of the old turbine and other
equipments for the mills and stern action against the
officials found involved. |
Youths beat up teacher KURUKSHETRA, Nov 30 — Mr V.K. Sharma, a lecturer in mathematics, University College, Kurukshetra, was assaulted by two youths near the college campus today. He was on his way to the college when two youths on a motorcycle assaulted him with iron rods. Mr Sharma was just nearing the college gate when two students riding a scooter stopped in front of the professor. Mr Sharma too had to stop his scooter. In the meantime, the motor cycle riders overtook Mr Sharma, hit him with iron rods on his head and escaped. Mr Sharma fell down and students of the college informed the police at gate No 3 of the university. He was taken to Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. The police has registered a case but no arrest has been made. Faculty members of the university teaching departments are upset over the incident. Dr M.L. Ranga, Vice-Chancellor, when contacted on the telephone condemned the incidents and urged the police to arrest the culprits. The Vice-Chancellor also visited the injured professor in the hospital. Mr Sharma was an
activist of Kurukshetra University Teachers Association. |
Fault in BBMB transformer FARIDABAD, Nov 30 — The 220-KV transformer of the Bhakra-Beas Management Board (BBMB) at Ballabhgarh has developed a major fault forcing the authorities to impose unscheduled power cuts in the town for seven days from tomorrow. Mr G R Sharma, Superintendent Engineer of the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, said here today that excessive gases had been formed in the 30-year-old transformer. The Central Power Research Institute had advised the Nigam to shut of and dehydrate the transformer to prevent a serious damage to it leading to its failure. Mr Sharma, however,
assured that all efforts would be made to ensure
uninterrupted power supply through other local sources. |
Plea to regularise ad hoc
teachers KAITHAL, Nov 30 — The Haryana Rajkiya Adhyapak Sangh has demanded regularisation of the services of teachers working on an ad hoc basis prior to the recruitment of fresh teachers. In a written statement here today, the district secretary of the Sangh, Mr Jai Parkash Shastri, said Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son had promised to regularise the services of these teachers before the Assembly elections, but now they had announced the recruitment of 1,300 more teachers. He said this decision would not only affect the future of the already employed teachers, but also the functioning of the Education Department as services of experienced teachers would be terminated. The Sangh had decided to
support the state-level rally to be held on December 5 at
Panipat in this connection, Mr Shastri added. |
Make health awareness
campaign a ‘success’ CHANDIGARH, Nov 30 — The Haryana Governor, Mr Mahabir Prasad, and the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, have appealed to the government officials and voluntary organisations to render whole-hearted cooperation for the success of the family health awareness campaign being launched from December 2 to 9 by the Haryana AIDS Control Society. In his message issued here on the eve of World AIDS Day, the Governor said it was a matter of great concern that nearly 35 lakh people were HIV positive in the country. While pointing out that AIDS was an incurable disease, he urged the people to follow the advise of the physicians regarding preventive measures for AIDS. The Chief Minister
described AIDS as the biggest challenge to the humanity
and urged the people to follow all preventive measures to
protect themselves from the deadly disease. He also
called upon the people to avail of the facilities being
provided at the health institutions regarding family
health care needs during the campaign. |
Train with relief material
flagged off AMBALA, Nov 30 — A train containing relief material for cyclone victims of Orissa was flagged off by Commissioner Ambala Division, Chander Singh, here today. About 15 truck loads of relief material was sent. Deputy Commissioner of Ambala Mr Ram Niwas, said of the 15 trucks, 10 trucks of relief material was collected from Ambala district, four trucks from Kurukshetra and one from Panchkula. He said the relief material included clothes, 160 bags of rice, 20 bags of flour, shoes, utensils, medicines, one bag of pulses and 90 bags of ‘kheel’, a release said. Mr Ram Niwas said 20 trucks carrying foodgrains, clothes and other material were sent to Orissa on November 24. Besides, 230 trucks were flagged off by Haryana Chief Minister, Om Parkash Chautala on November 10 from Ambala Cantonment. FARIDABAD: Relief material worth Rs 13 lakh consisting of food items and polythene sheets donated by various organisations was despatched for the cyclone victims yesterday. Mr Ajay Chautala, MP,
flagged off 10 trucks carrying the relief material at the
municipal auditorium. The district Red Cross Society had
earlier sent relief material worth Rs 40 lakh in 40
trucks, the highest contribution made by any district in
Haryana. |
Haryana postings CHANDIGARH, Nov 30 — The Haryana Government has posted Mr M.Shankar, IAS, on return from deputation with the Government of India, as Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Prohibition, Excise and Taxation department vice Mrs Deepa Jain Singh, who has been posted as Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Social Welfare, Women and Child Development and Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes departments and Commissioner, Inquiries-II, relieving Mrs Meenaxi Anand Chaudhary of the said charge. Mrs Navraj Sandhu,
Labour Commissioner, has been given additional charge of
Joint Secretary, Industrial Training and Vocational
Education department, Managing Director, Women and Child
Development Corporation, Director and Joint Secretary,
Women and Child Development Department vice Mrs Dheera
Khandelwal who has been posted as Joint Secretary,
Revenue department. |
Harijan Kalyan Nigam directors CHANDIGARH, Nov 30
— The Haryana Government has appointed Mr Faqir
Chand Mullana of Ambala district, Mr Sat Narain of
Adampur, Hisar district, Capt Mange Ram Badhra of Bhiwani
district, Mr Laxmi Nambardar of Sihol village, Mr Ashok
Kumar Bahmania of Bahmania village, Sirsa district, Mr
Jarnail Singh of Ratia, Fatehabad district, and Mr Raj
Kumar Balmiki of Rohtak, non-official members, as
directors of Haryana Harijan Kalyan Nigam. |
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