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Haryana produces more foodgrains Abhay warns erring leaders Cong to
support Dangi : Hooda 5 teams set up
to inspect colleges HAU scientists get
ICAR awards Congress workers hold rally |
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Quack arrested Seven
booked for granting loans on fake documents Youth
castrated: 2 eunuchs held Armed
youths thrash two
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Haryana produces more foodgrains CHANDIGARH, July 21 — The Haryana Agriculture Department is on cloud nine these days. It has every reason to be so. Against the target of 122.50 lakh tonnes of foodgrains fixed for 1999-2000, the state produced 130.65 lakh
tonnes. The state Agriculture Minister, Mr Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, said at a press conference here today that the production in 1999-2000 surpassed the previous best production of 120.88 lakh tonnes during 1998-99 by about 10 lakh tonnes. Mr Sandhu said taking the average production of the past three years as the bench mark, his department had fixed a target of 126.5 lakh tonnes for 2000-2001. The Commissioner, Agriculture, Mr Naseem Ahmed, who was also present, added that the department expected a production of about 134 lakh tonnes during the current year. Several factors like the introduction of new high-yielding disease-resistant varieties like PBW-343, WH-542, Raj-3765 and UP-2338 over 80 per cent of the cropped area, increased use of DAP and three new herbicides coupled with ideal weather conditions, pushed up the average yield of wheat from 40 quintals per hectare to 41.67 quintals per hectare. Mr Sandhu said to break the paddy-wheat rotation, crop diversification was being encouraged. While sunflower cultivation had been propagated in Haryana since 1990-91, the cultivation of rajmash and soyabean, was also being popularised. In spite of a decline in the cropped area, Mr Sandhu said, the consumption of agricultural inputs was not allowed to go down. Certified seeds to the tune of 3.94 lakh quintals were distributed among farmers, surpassing the target of 3.66 lakh quintals. The target in this regard for the current year was 4.80 lakh quintals. The average fertiliser
consumption in the state was 140 kg per hectare against the national average of about 86 kg. A subsidy of Rs 180 crore on phosphatic and potassic fertilisers was given to the farmers against Rs 150 crore during 1998-99. Mr Sandhu said incentives were being provided to the farmers to pursue unconventional areas of farming. The area and production under fruits had increased considerably from 26, 177 hectares and 1.92 lakh tonnes, respectively, in 1998-99 to 28, 629 hectares and 2.12 lakh tonnes respectively. As many as 600 mushroom growers had been trained and the production target for mushroom had been fixed at 3,600 tonnes. The government planned to set up a “food park” at Rai in Sonepat district to promote agro-processing units. A delegation of farmers would be sent to Israel and the USA for getting expertise in setting up modern horticulture farms. |
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Abhay warns erring leaders SIRSA, July 21 — Rori MLA Abhay Chautala, while addressing a press conference here today, said nobody was above law and misdeeds would be punished. He was speaking regarding the cases of former minister and Congress leader Anand Singh Dangi, youth Congress President, Randeep Singh Surjewala, and son of former Finance Minister Charan Das Shorewala. Mr Abhay Chautala said the case against Mr Dangi was quite old as it was registered after an inquiry during the Bansi Lal regime. Mr Dangi as the then Finance Minister had allotted nearly 1400 acres of land to his near ones. Regarding Mr Shorewala’s son he said people had raised voice against son of Mr
Shorewala, for selling jobs. How could this government be responsible for the action against these persons, he questioned. Recounting the INLD government’s achievement he said development of a state could be measured by the condition of water, electricity and roads. The present government had spent Rs 850 crore on laying and maintenance of roads in one year. The old age pension was doubled to Rs 300 crore, he claimed. He said a state-level rally would be organised at Kaithal on July 24 to celebrate the completion of one year by the government. The rally would be addressed by the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala. Later, he addressed a workers meeting at the local Janta Bhavan. |
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Cong to
support Dangi : Hooda Chandigarh, July 21 — The Congress will give moral and legal support to Mr Anand Singh Dangi against whom the State Vigilance Bureau has registered a case for allegedly indulging in malpractices in allotment of rehabilitation lands during his stint as the Revenue Minister of Haryana. Mr Dangi’s petition for anticipatory bail was recently rejected by the Supreme Court. Talking to the TNS here, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, president of the Congress in Haryana, however, alleged that the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, was registering cases against his rivals for settling political scores. Mr Hooda, who had already made two trips to
Madina, Mr Dangi’s ancestral village, said that he would soon visit the village again. He added that the party would give both moral and legal support to the former Revenue Minister. The HPCC chief said that if Mr Chautala was serious about fighting against corruption, he should institute investigation by the CBI into the case against Mr Dangi as well as corruption charges brought against Mr Chautala by his brother Mr Pratap Singh. Meanwhile, in a related development, an HPCC press note issued here today said that Mr Hooda had constituted a state level committee to provide free legal aid and guidance to Congress members who had been “implicated in false cases by the INLD Government for political vendetta”. The press note quoting Thakur Bijandar Singh, Chairman of the HPCC Legal Cell, said that 14 practising lawyers of the Punjab and Haryana High Court would be members of the state level committee. Such committees comprising five lawyers each would also be formed in all the 19 districts of Haryana, the press note said. |
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5 teams set up
to inspect colleges CHANDIGARH, July 21 — The Haryana Higher Education Department yesterday constituted five teams of officers to conduct random inspections of colleges with a view to improving the academic climate. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Bahadur Singh, said a system of inspection of colleges had been introduced so that every government college in the state could be comprehensively inspected at least once a year. The colleges had been asked to increase the size of sections, composition groups and practical groups to ensure that the maximum students were accommodated and there was optimum utilisation of the services of the faculty. The strength of the section had been kept at 80 students in place of the earlier norm of 60. The strength of the composition group had been fixed at 40 students and of the practical group in the case of all undergraduate classes at 20 students in place of 15. The colleges had also been asked to club classes with a common syllabus. The institutions would strictly adhere to the University Grants Commission norms of 40 hours per week workload for every lecturer. A minimum stay of five hours in the college was mandatory for every lecturer. The minister said the colleges had been advised to conduct house examinations in December and in addition introduce a system of weekly or monthly tests. Besides, the college principals had been specifically directed to ensure that lecturers did not take private tuition. |
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HAU scientists get
ICAR awards HISAR, July 21 — Scientists of Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University
(CCSHAU) here have won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) team awards for their research. Four of them — Dr Rajinder Singh, Dr Joginder Singh, Dr Ranvir Kumar and Dr
M.C. Aggarwal — were given the award for developing simulation model to check the rise in water level, soil salinity and
waterlogging. They developed an on-farm irrigation and management support system for south western and central Haryana. The others who have been given the award for developing genetic male serile line in desi cotton hybrid variety AAH1 are: Dr
B.P.S. Lather, Dr D.P. Singh, Dr B.S. Chhabra, Dr S.S. Siwach, Dr L.K.
Bishnoi, Dr A.P. Sharma, Dr P.D. Sharma and Dr M.S. Chauhan. In addition, Dr M.L. Saini, Professor of Plant Breeding, and Dr Indu Grover, Dean, College of Human Science, have bagged the outstanding teacher award. Dr Saini is a winner of the prestigious Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award and is credited with developing several new varieties of crops. The awards were given by the Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, at a ceremony in Delhi, according to a press note issued by the university here today.
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Congress workers hold rally KALKA, July 21 — The Kalka MLA, Mr Chander Mohan, while addressing residents of this town today, criticised the Chautala government. The Congress workers today held a demonstration at the local Gandhi Chowk. The Congress workers demanded that new house tax be imposed and the development tax and the new sales tax be taken back. They also demanded that the registration of small plots in the municipal limits of
Kalka-Pinjore should be reintroduced and action should be taken to streamline the water supply in the town. |
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Quack arrested SIRSA, July 21 — The police arrested a quack running a nursing home in Ding in the district on a complaint lodged with the District Welfare Committee. Disclosing this today district police chief K.K.Mishra said that Ram Krishan of Ding Mandi had lodged a complaint against Dr Surender Sharan of CMCD & Nursing Home in Ding alleging that his mother had died because of the negligence of the ‘doctor’ and his assistant female ‘doctor’. Ram Krishan accused the two medical practitioners of not being qualified doctors. DSP Rai Singh, during his investigations, found that Surinder’s whose real name of Salender Singh belonged to Bhadra village in Baraguda. Salender was running the nursing home under a psuedonym. He, along with his woman assistant, had failed to produce the required testimonials stating their qualifications as doctors. |
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Seven booked for granting loans CHANDIGARH, July 21 — The Haryana police has registered a corruption case against five employees of the Primary Cooperative Agriculture Rural Development, Kurukshetra, and two other persons for sanctioning loans to applicants of the area on fake documents by taking 10 per cent commission. A police spokesman said Gurcharan, alias Premi and his brother, Dinesh Kumar, had opened three fake agencies under the name of Premi Agriculture Wooden Manufacturing, Premi Auto Repair and Agriculture Wooden Manufacturing and Dashmesh Electrical Works and Agriculture Implements at Kurukshetra. They were preparing fake loan documents and getting it sanctioned from the bank. On verification it was found that these agencies were not in existence as per the address given by them on the documents. The bank employees who were involved in releasing the loan are Om Pal, Bank Manager, Nand Lal, Field Officer, Satvir Singh, LVO and two accountants. An FIR has been registered at Thanesar police station in Kurukshetra district. |
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Youth castrated: 2 eunuchs held KURUKSHETRA, July 21 (PTI) — The Haryana police has arrested two eunuchs at Shahbad Markanda on a charge of castrating Pardeep, a 20-year-old youth. The accused eunuchs, Zamil and Riyasati Ali, were produced in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kurukshetra, and were remanded in police remand till July 22. Several social organisations and people of the area held a demonstration in front of the office of the police chief on Wednesday demanding the arrest of one more eunuch allegedly involved in the crime. |
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Armed youths
thrash two YAMUNANAGAR, July 21 — Two persons were beaten up mercilessly by four youths. The assailants also deprived them of their motor cycle. According to information received here today, Naresh Kumar of Khurdi village and Laxmi Chand of Bahadurpur were going towards their village on a motor cycle (HR-05B-7794) at around 8.30 p.m. last evening when four persons signalled them to stop. The miscreants then asked the two to hand them over cash and jewellery. When the two offered resistance, the youths who were armed started beating them. On hearing their cries for help, Inder Raj of a nearby village tried to rescue them, but was also thrashed by the miscreants. The miscreants fled on the motor cycle of the victims. The police has registered a case under Sections 392, 323 and 34, IPC. |
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