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Mujedi project trial in May FARIDABAD, Jan 31 — Trial operations of the 143 MW first unit of the prestigious 432 MW gas-based power project coming up at Mujedi village near here are expected to start in May and regular power supply would start from June. Cong kranti yatra launched |
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Woes of
Rohtak farmers Axe
Samalkha LPG dealer, IOC told Doc,
govt asked to pay Rs 4 lakh Governor
pardons murderer JD
accuses MDU of anti-Dalit stance |
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Mujedi project trial in May FARIDABAD, Jan 31 — Trial operations of the 143 MW first unit of the prestigious 432 MW gas-based power project coming up at Mujedi village near here are expected to start in May and regular power supply would start from June. The work on the project, being executed by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), is going on war footing. According to the agreement signed between the Centre and the Haryana Government, the first unit was to start functioning in January 2000. The project would be commissioned ahead of schedule in May this year. Mr B. K. Dubey, Additional General Manager NTPC, Mujedi project, told TNS that the second unit would be commissioned in July and the third, which would work by steam turbine, by March 2000. All civil works of the first unit had been completed ahead of schedule. The gas turbine supplied by Germany’s Siemens Company has been placed on the foundation. The accessories for the turbine have already been despatched from Germany and were expected to reach the project site soon. The generator of the turbine which has been manufactured at Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), Hardwar, was being tested there. It would come to Mujedi by the middle of February. The transformer from BHEL, Bhopal, is on its way to Faridabad. The 70-metre high chimney was being erected and the work on the switchyard was nearing completion. The work on the 16km-long transmission line from the project to Samaipur was being done by Power Grid Corporation of India and the 12km-long gas pipeline from Chhainsa village to the project site was also being laid. The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan has provided a loan of Rs 700 crore for the project. The project comprises two gas turbines each of 143MW and one of steam of 146MW, totalling 432MW. Natural gas which would be supplied by the Gas Corporation of India through its pipeline already in existence to run the turbines. The exhaust gas which has sufficient heat will be circulated through the recovery steam generators to run the steam turbine. The entire power generated from the Mujedi project would be supplied to Haryana which would make the state power surplus. Mr Bansi Lal, Chief Minister, who is taking keen interest in the project is closely monitoring the progress of the works. Mr Dubey said that no effort was being spared to improve the socio-economic status of the people whose land had been acquired for the project. Various community development works digging of tubewells, laying of roads, construction of school and hospital buildings in Mujedi had been undertaken by the NTPC. Various income generating schemes were also being offered to the villagers. The foundation stone of
the project was laid by Mr I. K. Gujral, the then Prime
Minister on August 3, 1997. |
Cong kranti yatra launched SIRSA, Jan 31 — The first phase of the kranti yatra of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee(I) started from Chautala the native village of Devi Lal, former Deputy Prime Minister of India, about 90 km from here yesterday. It was flagged off by Bhupinder Singh Hooda, president, HPCC. A large number of Congress activists of Sirsa district assembled at Chautala village on the occasion at a public meeting addressed by Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Ms Kumari Selja, secretary AICC, Mr Jagdish Nehra former minister and Dr K.V Singh among others. The Congress received a boost on the occasion when a large number of local leaders of the Haryana Vikas Party and Indian National Lok Dal joined the Congress on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the Kranti yatra, to culminate at Jind on February 13, will highlight the failures of the HVP-BJP government. He said all party MPs and
MLAs from the state and senior party leaders including
the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and
Delhi, would participate. |
Woes of Rohtak farmers ROHTAK, Jan 31 — Not having received compensation for the loss of crops, inability to sow rabi crops due to water-logging in fields and notices for repayment of the cooperative loans has added to the woes of residents of village Bau-Akbarpur near here. Mr Joginder Singh Balhara, Vice-President, Rohtak Block Samiti, says the government has not paid any compensation for the loss of crops suffered by the farmers due to un-seasonal rain last year. The district administration has failed to drain out water from the fields as a result the farmers have not been able to sow rabi crops. The government had last year announced to defer the recovery of cooperative loans but, the district authorities were demanding repayment of the loan amount. He has asked the government to clarify its stand on the issues of loans and payment of compensation for the loss of crops due to natural calamities. Mr Man Singh Balhara of the Gram Sudhar Samiti said that there were many farmers whose crops had been damaged year after year due to floods. These families were on the verge of starvation. Most of these families were even unable to pay the tuition fees of their wards, both of them said. They said that a Central team had visited the village on October 27, 1988, to assess the loss to the crops caused by un-seasonal rains. The revenue officials had also conducted 'girdawri' of crops but so far no compensation has been paid to the affected farmers. Mr Joginder Singh and Mr Man Singh urged the Haryana Government to introduce the agricultural insurance scheme. Pending which it should provide seeds, fertilisers and pesticides at the half the price to farmers. The state Lok Dal President, Mr Om Parkash Beri, has said that the farmers, who were unable to repay the cooperative loans, were facing legal action under Section 67 of the Haryana Land Revenue Act and warrants were being issued to auction their agricultural land. He said that flood water was still standing in the fields in Narwana, Uchana, Julana, Hansi, Narnaund and Gohana areas. Because of stagnation of flood waters the farmers in Madina, Kharkhara, Ajaib, Bharain, Girnawathi, Lakhan Majra, Mokhra and Bau-Akbarpur have not been able to reap the sugarcane crop whereas the crushing season was near close. Because of water-logging the farmers in Bisahan, Dharana, Backra, Beri, Dubaldhan, Achhej-Paharipur, Jahajgarh and Palra have virtually become landless. All these villages are situated along the JLN canal. The Lok Dal leader said
that the rabi crop has been sown over two lakh acre in
the state. Wheat was sown late over six lakh acre and
because of dampness in the sub-soil, weeds have come up
in these fields, he said. |
Axe Samalkha LPG dealer, IOC
told CHANDIGARH, Jan 31 — The Additional Secretary of the Union Petroleum and Natural Gas ministry, Mr Devi Dayal, has asked the Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation, Mr MA Pathan, to terminate the distributorship of the Samalkha Gas Service, Samalkha in Panipat district of Haryana, expeditiously. The letter that Mr Devi Dayal wrote to the IOC Chairman says: "The government has found the indulgence of Samlakha Gas Service in a number of unfair trade practices/black marketing and unbearably low level of customer satisfaction. Therefore, the government has decided to take immediate action against Samlakha Gas Service for the termination of their distributorship as per the marketing discipline guidelines, as the penal action of offences committed by the distributor at the third time/instance in marketing discipline guidelines, is termination of the distributorship." The letter added:
"The distributor has not improved the services
satisfactorily even now. The IOC itself has recommended
several times in its investigation reports the
termination of the distributorship with alternative
arrangements. Complaints have been received against the
distributor even recently." |
Doc, govt asked to pay Rs 4
lakh KAITHAL,Jan 31 — The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Satish Ahlawat has ordered the payment of Rs 4 lakh as compensation to the dependants of a patient, who had died in the Civil Hospital here due to the allegedly negligence of a lady doctor in December 1990. The patient, Daropti, had died on December 14,1990 while giving birth to her sixth child. The husband of the deceased and other family members had filed a civil suit alleging that the patient was shifted from one ward to another ward a number of times and the doctors did not care for her. As a result the child died in the womb on December 11. However, the doctors attending on the patient, including a senior gynaecologist, were unable to take a decision regarding the removal of the dead foetus from the womb till December 14, when they decided to deliver the dead baby through the normal process. The patient expired after delivering the dead baby, due to pain and agony. After going through the
evidence and documents placed on record, the magistrate
found a serious lapse and grave negligence on the part of
the lady doctor, Ms Ranjan Jain. He held the doctor
guilty and ordered the payment of the compensation
jointly by the doctor and the state government. |
Governor pardons murderer HISAR, Jan 31 (UNI) — The Haryana Governor has granted pardon on certain conditions, remitting the unexpired portion of the life sentence of a murder convict, Siriyansh Kumar Jain, at present imprisoned in the Central Jail here. According to an official order issued on January 25 in this regard, the Governor has granted conditional pardon to the convict in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 161 of Constitution read with Section 432 of the Criminal Procedure Code 1973. The order said that before his release the prisoner shall furnish to the satisfaction of the District Magistrate concerned for the condition of keeping peace and good behaviour and surrendering when so desired by the Haryana Governor during the unexpired periods of his sentence, two bonds one for Rs 1,00,000 to be executed by the prisoner and the other by two sureties in the like amount. If during the unexpired period of the sentence he committed any act of violence/any other non-bailable criminal offence, the remissions granted to the prisoner shall be cancelled and he will have to serve the unexpired portion of his sentence in jail. The sum of the each of the bonds shall stand forfeited to the Haryana Government in case of breach of any condition of the bond. Siriyansh Kumar Jain was convicted in the Krishan Kumar Khandewala murder case. The Supreme Court had set aside the acquittal of Jain and Ram Nath Bhumbla and an order of conviction and sentence was passed against the two on December 10 last year. However, Jain tendered a mercy appeal to the state Governor. On October 13, 1987 Krishan Kumar Khandewala was shot dead just a few hours before the election of the President of Hansi Municipal Committee and he was one of the aspirants for the post. The District Sessions Judge had awarded life sentence to five persons — P.K.Chaudhry, Ram Nath Bhumbla, Siriyansh Kumar Jain, Krishan Jakhar and Gurvinder. However, later the high court acquitted P.K.Chaudhry, Jain and Bhumbla. The complainant went to the apex court against this decision. Mr Justice G.T.Nanawati and Mr Justice V.N.Khare of the Supreme Court, while upholding the acquittal of Chaudhry set aside acquittal of Jain and Bhumbla. Meanwhile, in a written
statement released to the press here today, Mr Satyapal
Khandewala, brother of the deceased, said that he would
challenge the order of the Governor in the apex court
because the sentence of a murder convict had been
remitted without perceiving the magnitude of a heinous
crime committed by the guilty, he claimed. |
JD accuses MDU of anti-Dalit
stance ROHTAK, Jan 31 — Mr Ved Parkash Vidrohi, state president of the Janata Dal, has charged the Maharashi Dayanand University administration with misusing its powers for harassing Dalit students and teachers. In a statement here today, Mr Virodhi extended support to the agitating students and said the party would raise the issue in the Budget Session. He alleged that Lt Gen (retd) OP Kaushik, Vice-Chancellor of the university, had not been following the reservation policy as prescribed by the University Grants Commission in the matter of admission of students and recruitment of teachers and non-teaching employees. He demanded a high-level inquiry into the admissions and appointments of the past three years in the university. Meanwhile, the agitating students have threatened that they would resort to a boycott of their classes if their demands were not accepted. They have been demanding
dismissal of the Vice-Chancellor, an inquiry into the
affairs of his tenure and withdrawal of the expulsion
orders of Satish Bandhu, a student leader. |
Residents told to identify domestic
servants ROHTAK, Jan 31 – Mr Arun Kumar, District Magistrate, Jhajjar, has directed the residents of the town to identify their domestic servants properly and deposit their complete bio-data along with photographs at the local police stations. The District Magistrate,
while directing this under Section 144 of Code of
Criminal Procedure, has cautioned that any violation of
the order would be punishable under Section 188 of the
IPC, which prescribes imprisonment up to 6 months or a
fine up to Rs 1,000 or both. |
Roadways staff to join strike BHIWANI, Jan 31 — The Haryana Roadways Employees Union will take part in the demonstration to be held against the "suppressive" policies of the Government on February 3 in Chandigarh. A joint statement issued
by union President Joginder Singh and General Secretary
Mahabir Sharma here today said they would oppose the
privatisation of the roadways. |
Bring guilty to book: Hooda CHANDIGARH, Jan 31 — Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president, has expressed anguish over the "inhuman behaviour of the security personnel" accompanying the motorcade of the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, on January 30 on his way to Ambala in which the vehicle of a Major-Gen S.S. Grewal (retd) was damaged and the occupants thereof were subjected to uncalled for agony. He demanded stern action
against the guilty police personnel who are said to have
damaged the vehicle of the retired officer and put his
family to great inconvenience. He also flayed the
attitude of the policemen at the thana in which they
advised the ex-servicemen not to press for any
precipitate action as the Haryana Chief Minister's
entourage was involved in the incident. |
Welfare schemes to better
minorities' lot CHANDIGARH, Jan 31— Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, head of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, has thanked the party President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, for announcing seven welfare schemes for the uplift of the minorities. Mr Hooda said the Congress
had always worked for the betterment of the poor, the
downtrodden, and the minorities. The seven-point
programme announced by Mrs Sonia Gandhi at a function
organised to commemorate the 51st martyrdom day of
Mahatma Gandhi would go a long way in ameliorating the
lot of the minorities, he added. |
Samiti decries expulsion of
student leader ROHTAK, Jan 31 — The Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti of Maharshi Dayanand University has described the expulsion of Mr Satish Bandhu, Vice-President, Dr Ambedkar Students Front, from the university as being motivated. The samiti said that Satish Bandhu had raised his voice against the violation of the reservation policy by the university administration during the recruitment of teachers. The dharna by the agitating students at the Vice-Chancellor's office entered its eleventh day yesterday. The protesters have threatened to intensify the agitation if their demands were not accepted. They have demanded the
dismissal of the Vice-Chancellor and an inquiry into the
university affairs during his tenure. |
Surajkund mela begins today SURAJKUND (Haryana), Jan 31 (PTI) — Hyderabad’s famous ‘Charminar’, designed as the master motif, will be setting the ambience right for the 13th Surajkund crafts mela commencing here tomorrow reflecting this year’s theme ‘Andhra Pradesh’. About 250 award-winning craftspersons and 300 artists from all over the country, would take part in the country’s premier fortnight-long extravaganza. As many as 180 artists and 60 craftsmen exclusively from Andhra Pradesh, will make their exhibits on the spot and also put them up for sale, Secretary, Union Ministry of Tourism M.P. Bezboruah told reporters here today. Organised every year by
the Surajkund Mela Authority under the aegis of the Union
Ministry of Tourism and the Haryana Government, the mela
aims at highlighting outstanding handicrafts and handloom
traditions of the country and identify the languishing
and lesser known crafts to give them wider exposure, Mr
Bezboruah said. |
Residents block traffic SIRSA, Jan 31 — Residents of Begu road and its surrounding areas here blocked traffic on Begu road on Sunday in protest against the failure of sewerage in the area and said they would gherao the local Minister and senior officers of the Public Health Department if the system was not restored. In a complaint to the Chief Minister, members of the Agarsain Colony Sudhar Samiti here, alleged that the public health authorities had adopted a dictatorial and indifferent attitude in desilting sullage from sewerage pipes in the colony. Sullage was seeping from manholes in the area. Members of the samiti and
residents of the colony threatened to block traffic on
the GT road if the sewerage pipes were not cleaned
immediately. |
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Inculcating
lofty ideals in school kids SONEPAT: Janki Das Public School occupies a pride of place in this fast-growing industrial city which is a district headquarters in Haryana. The school strives to develop the various aspects of a child’s personality through quality education. All class-rooms are well-equipped with the latest and innovative teaching aids. It also has well-equipped laboratories and a well-stocked library. The school is unique not only in terms of having a modern infrastructure, but also by way of contributing to the society’s growth by imparting to its students lofty ideals and values. The school has been recognised by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) upto the higher secondary level. * * * * The unauthorised quarrying of sand from the Yamuna near Jhundpur and other villages has paved the way for fear of inundation among villagers residing nearby as and when the waterlevel in the river rises. Many residents said they had made several complaints to the authorities concerned in this regard, but to no avail. They alleged that the contractors were quarrying up to seven to eight feet below the ground The villagers said the routine was repeated every year. After the rains, the river swelled and flooded the fields. As soon as the water receded, it left a thick coat of sand, making the fields infertile. The farmers, thereafter, removed the sand from the fields to make it cultivable. However, under the garb of removing the layer of the sand, the contractors managed to dig out sand which was sold to builders and others for huge commercial gains. Official sources, however, revealed that the contractors were only permitted to remove the top layer of the sand. * * * * The Haryana Government is reported to have suffered a huge financial loss due to the washing away of three stone studs by the swollen Yamuna near Raskhera village of the district during October last year. According to official sources, the stone studs were constructed by the Irrigation Department to check the erosion of agricultural land on the Haryana side. Residents of the area have demanded a high-level probe into the unsatisfactory work done by department officials and stern action against those found responsible for the sub-standard materials used in the construction of the stone studs. * * * * Despite the lifting of prohibition, smuggling of liquor in the district is still continuing. The police has started a special campaign to nab smugglers and succeeded in arresting many of them. Sonepat is surrounded by UP and Delhi and thus smuggling in the district becomes easier. The wine contractors promote smuggling in order to get cheaper wine from the smugglers. In fact, there is a monopoly of wine contractors on all wholesale points in the district. In several villages under the Baroda police station, illicit liquor is distilled by the liquor mafia. Many people in the villages sell illicit liquor with the connivance of some influential persons. * * * * The Haryana Government has been suffering a huge financial loss due to the misuse of government vehicles in the district in violation of the instructions issued in this regard by it. Vehicles of most of the government departments carrying family members of the officials can be seen in the main bazaars of the city. Similarly, the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) presses into service a number of its vehicles for the purpose of transporting children of officials from 132 grid power sub-station, Fazilpur, to various educational institutions in the city and bringing them back home. * * * * The menace of monkeys in
the city has assumed alarming proportions. The Sonepat
Municipal Council and the Forest Department authorities
have failed to trap them. This has caused widespread
resentment among residents who are bitten by monkeys
almost every day. |
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