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Quackery on rise in Haryana ROHTAK, July 23 — Quackery has become a major health menace in rural and semi-urban parts of Haryana. Majority of these untrained and unqualified ‘doctors’ have been found to be using steroids to treat their patients. Such type of treatment is not only risky but it is reportedly makes several of the patients permanently addicted to certain drugs and blocking their chances of recovery. Implement Sarkaria report: CM CHANDIGARH, July 23 — In what is being seen as an important achievement for the State Pollution Control Board of Haryana, more than 180 electroplating units of Faridabad area have agreed to shift to a new location for the purpose of proper disposal of their wastes. Persistence pays 252 kg of poppy husk
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Enteritis cases
reported in Ambala Procedure flouted
in auction? MC staff’s plea to state govt Servant decamps with cash,
jewellery Case against woman ASI for
torturing girl Teachers oppose police interference Jat Samiti meeting on August 3 Cash & jewellery
looted
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Quackery on rise in Haryana ROHTAK, July 23 — Quackery has become a major health menace in rural and semi-urban parts of Haryana. Majority of these untrained and unqualified ‘doctors’ have been found to be using steroids to treat their patients. Such type of treatment is not only risky but it is reportedly makes several of the patients permanently addicted to certain drugs and blocking their chances of recovery. Clinics of these quacks which are either set up in rural areas or they have mobile clinics in urban and semi-urban areas. The quacks have been claiming successful treatment of diseases like arthritis, joint pain, asthma, TB, cough, sinus and all kinds of allergy in a very short duration of time. While some of these quacks have been prescribing some allopathic and ayurvedic medicines many of them have been providing medicines on their own in form of small packets which may cost anything from Rs 5 to Rs 30 depending upon the ailment and seriousness of the disease. The drug control authorities recently arrested a quack from Bhiwani district. The authorities found that the packets of medicines given by him to the patients contained Dexona, Wiselone, drugs in powder form both steroids and deryphylline tablets. According to drug officials the content of the steroids in the medicines given to the patients by the quacks was very heavy and impermissible under any circumstance. The arrested quack identified as Mohinder Singh, a resident of Karnal district, reportedly told the officials that he had been using the powder of certain allopathic tablets, including Phenylbutazone and Disulphiram, along with some steroids for treatment of various ailments including for alcohol deaddiction. Doctors believe that indiscriminate use of steroids especially by the quacks who are not qualified could lead to serious physical ailments and if the patient became addicted to steroids then the cure was impossible. The arrested quack told the authorities that he had been selling each packet of powder for Rs 5 only but the officials doubt his claim and believe that he may have been selling the packets at a higher rate. His income daily could have been from Rs 2000 to 4000. The accused had been on his periodic visit to Bhiwani and had been staying at hotel when he was arrested. There might be hundreds of such ‘doctors’ who may have been operating several such mobile clinics throughout the state. These quacks have not received any formal education, training or any other qualification which could make them eligible to prescribe and sell medicines. Majority of them call themselves as ‘vaid’ and claim to have got the art of treatment from their guru or any known vaid. The drug officials have reported to have nabbed about six to seven such quacks in this region in the past year. Most of them have been prescribing or giving packets of powder containing strong steroids to the patients. While two quacks had been nabbed from Rohtak, one each had been arrested from Meham and Kharark village in Kalanaur town of the district in the recent past. |
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Implement Sarkaria report: CM CHANDIGARH, July 23 — Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, has demanded the implementation of the Sarkaria Commission report on the relations between the Centre and the states and has also favoured devolution of more financial and administrative powers to the states. Talking to newsmen here last evening Mr Chautala said while his party was for autonomy to the states, it was opposed to the idea of the states having a separate Prime Minister or a separate Election Commission as demanded by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. Mr Chautala said if the Sarkaria Commission report had been implemented in toto, the Farooq Abdullah government would not have put forward its demand for autonomy to that state. He blamed the Congress for not implementing the Sarkaria Commission report. He said the INLD stood for strengthening the relations between the Centre and the states and not for disintegrating the country in the garb of greater autonomy. Mr Chautala said his party had urged the Prime Minister, to nationalise the river waters on the pattern of mines and minerals. He had also requested Mr Vajpayee to tap the vast 22000 MW hydel potential in Himachal Pradesh for generating power to meet the needs of northern states. These states, he said, were not in a position to tap this potential due to paucity of resources. While Mr Chautala was in favour of retaining Article 356 of the Constitution, he said it should not be misused. Similarly he saw no harm in retaining Article 370 as several states like Himachal and Rajasthan, he said, had laws which prohibited buying of property in these states by outsiders. He said his government was committed to provide basic necessities to the people and ensure all-round development of the state. He said differences with the BJP, if any, would be sorted out across the table. He accused the Congress and the other opposition parties of carrying out a disinformation campaign against his government. He said these parties had lost the credibility with the people which repeatedly had reposed their confidence in the policies of the INLD by voting for its candidates in various elections in the past one year. |
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180 electroplating units to be relocated CHANDIGARH, July 23 — In what is being seen as an important achievement for the State Pollution Control Board of Haryana, more than 180 electroplating units of Faridabad area have agreed to shift to a new location for the purpose of proper disposal of their wastes. Official sources said that a plot of land near the industrial area of Faridabad has been tentatively identified for shifting these units. The factory owners have already raised about Rs 70 lakh among themselves for acquiring the land where a common plant will be installed for treating the wastes from these factories. The sources said that the common effluent treatment plant would either be set up collectively by the owners of the electroplating units or it would be set up by some private party who would be charging the electroplating units for the service. Stating that the final shape of the project was still being worked out, the sources said that State Pollution Control Board had played an important role for persuading and motivating the factory owners for agreeing to shift their units. The electroplating units, which supply material for manufacturing silencer, shockers etc of motor vehicles, use chromium, acids, cyanide and other chemicals and their waste is extremely hazardous in nature. The sources said that the total number of electroplating units in Faridabad was 250, and that the remaining factories were also expected gradually fall in line and give consent to shifting their units. The State Pollution Control Board, it may be mentioned, has already ordered the closure of three distilleries in Haryana for inadequate waste treatment facilities. The closed distilleries are at Sonepat, Hisar and Yamunanagar. The SPCB also gave notice to the Ashoka Distillery at Hathin in Faridabad district but this one got an amazing 22 months time from the Central Pollution Control Board to reduce the level of pollution caused by it. The sources, however, said that since the electroplating units were all small units, the SPCB did not ask them to instal individual effluent treatment plants. Taking into consideration various aspects of the electroplating units, the SPCB also felt that extreme steps such as ordering the closure of these units would not be proper and it focused its efforts on persuading these factories for re-locating their units and dispose wastes through a common treatment plant, the sources said. While, the industrial units are being dealt with firmly by the SPCB, the hospitals and clinics are also on its agenda for these are found to be guilty of not disposing the bio-medical wastes properly. The Union Government has already issued notification in this regard asking the states to ask the hospitals to dispose of the bio-medical wastes by using incinerators, autoclave or microwave system. In fact the deadline for installing such systems for hospitals with 500 beds or above was June 30, which has already expired. The deadline for hospitals with 200 beds or above (but less than 500 beds) is next December 31, while the deadline for hospitals with a capacity of more than 50 but less than 200 beds is December 31, 2001. For hospitals with less than 50 beds, the deadline is December 31, 2002, which is also the deadline for all other institutions generating bio-medical wastes. The sources said that the SPCB had been already empowered to enforce the Union Government notification, and added that hospitals and clinics would be soon intimated about this. Though a number of hospitals in Haryana have incinerators, these were not being used and the poisonous wastes were being disposed without proper treatment, the source said.
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Persistence pays SONEPAT, July 23 — Ms Anurita Malik’s efforts bore fruit when she got an appointment letter for the post of Lecturer in Hindi after a lapse of about two years from Mr Ashok Yadav, Additional Deputy Commissioner-cum-Administrator of the local CRA College, yesterday. The managing committee of the college, it may be recalled, had advertised the posts of Lecturer in Hindi in August, 1998, and the candidates were interviewed on November 27, 1998. A panel of three names, including that of Ms Anurita Malik, was prepared by the selection committee. Ms Kusum Lata whose name was at serial No 1 was appointed lecturer. But Ms Malik whose name was at serial No 2 was refused the appointment in spite of a vacancy in the college. Having failed to get the appointment, she filed a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court where the managing committee contended that there was no workload for the second post and hence the petitioner was not given the appointment. The High Court consequently dismissed the petition. However, after the dissolution of the managing committee, Mr Ashok Yadav, the ADC was appointed administrator of the college and the petitioner gave a representation to him contending that the managing committee had concealed facts and filed a “wrong” affidavit in the High Court. Mr Yadav, after a detailed inquiry into the matter, found that there was a workload for the second post and he issued the appointment letter to Ms Anurita Malik. The appointment has been approved by the Director, Higher Education, Haryana, Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, and the Legal Remembrancer, Haryana. |
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252 kg of poppy
husk seized, 2 held FATEHABAD, July 23 — The police today arrested two persons under Rattia police station of this district under the Narcotic Drugs and Pychotropic Substances (Prevention) Act and seized 252 kg of poppy husk from their possession. The district police chief, Mr Shrikant Jadhav, told here today that the district police had launched a campaign to prevent drug trafficking and drug abuse by people in this district. Under this campaign while on one hand the police had been organising functions to educate people in the affected villages with the active co-operation of the NGOs, on the other hand it had launched a special drive to check the drug trafficking. He said acting on a tip-off, a police party stopped four persons carrying poppy husk. While Ram Swaroop, a resident of Alahalwas village and Janak Raj, a reisdent of Mehmadki village were arrested by the police, two others escaped. These have been identified as Chhinder and Hanuman residents of Lali and Alahalwas villages respectively. In four other cases under the Excise Act, the police today claimed to have arrested three persons and seized a working still, 14 bottles of illicit liquor, 10 kg of lahan and 1900 pouches of country-made liquor from their possession. The accused Bhola Singh, Satnam Singh and Ram Parshad were arrested by the police while two others — Bhoop Singh and Subhash escaped. |
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Enteritis cases
reported in Ambala AMBALA July 23 — About one dozen persons suffering from gastroenteritis were admitted to the Civil Hospital at Ambala Cantt yesterday evening. The persons admitted to the hospital belong to different localities of the town. The relatives of the
deceased stated that contaminated water was being supplied in their area for the past several days. The hospital sources said that over 30 patients suffering from water borne diseases were admitted to the hospital during the past week. The Civil
Surgeon, Mr R.K. Patnaik, also visited the hospital and met the patients. Meanwhile, the residents of some of the localities of Ambala City have also made a complaint to the district authorities that they have been getting muddy water for the past three-four days. The Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mr Mohinder Kumar, said that the Public Health Department had been directed to ensure the supply of clean water to the residents of the twin towns. |
Procedure flouted
in auction? PANIPAT, July 23 — A case of auction in which the proper procedure was not followed has come to light. The administration of the local roadways last week auctioned 13 buses and other accessories. Sources confirmed that late on Tuesday night nine buses were driven out of the workshop and abandoned at a taxi stand on the G.T. Road. The roadways administration auctioned 13 condemned buses, 62 tyres, spare parts and batteries. The auction details were given in a hand-written bill affixed at the workshop office without the signature of the General Manager of the roadways and the number and date of the bill. The sources said the headquarters had ordered the auction of the condemned buses. The workshop manager confirmed the auction but gave no details stating that only the General Manager was authorised to do so. The General Manager, however, could not be contacted.  |
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MC staff’s plea to
state govt ROHTAK, July 23 — Members of the Nagarpalika Karamchari Sangh have appealed to the state government not to discriminate against them in implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission report.
Mr Poonam Chand Rati and Mr Rattan Lal Rohilla, president and general secretary, respectively, of the state unit of Sangh, yesterday said municipal employees had gone on a 79-day strike during the tenure of former Chief Minister Bansi Lal in protest against his ‘anti-employee’ policies. They said the then government had adopted punitive measures against the employees and decided to provide them the benefits of revised pay commission with effect from April, 1999. The leaders said other employees in almost all departments, universities, boards, nigams and even the aided private colleges had been provided with the benefits of the Fifth Pay commission with effect from January, 1996. They said the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, after taking over, had assured the municipal employees in Faridabad in August last year that they would be given the benefits of revised pay commission with effect from January, 1996, to bring at par with the other employees. However, they said the Chief Minister had failed to keep his word so far which has created resentment among the municipal employees. |
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Servant decamps with cash, jewellery AMBALA
July 23 (UNI) — A Nepalese domestic servant decamped with cash and household valuables worth Rs 30,000 from the house of Dr Sudhir Gupta a medical practitioner at Ambala Cantonment. According to official information, the servant, Ram
Chawri, mixed some poisonous substance in the meals of Dr Gupta and his wife on July 21. When both the husband and wife fell unconscious, the servant broke open the almirah and stole the cash and valuables, including a silver plate, two wrist watches and other articles and escaped. The couple is residing in the posh area of Tribune Coloney of the town. A case has been registered in this regard. |
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Case against
woman ASI for torturing girl JIND, July 23 — The police has registered a case against an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of police, Ms Bishni Devi, on a charge of torturing a minor girl, according to report received here today. The report said Ms Bishni Devi allegedly tortured and beat up Usha in a theft case. The case has reportedly been registered following a direction of the Human Rights Commission. About four years ago a complaint was lodged at the local police station that Usha had stolen a gold chain from a house in Urban Estate Colony here, she was taken to the police station and was allegedly tortured and beaten up by Ms Bishni Devi. The matter was referred to the Human Rights Commission. On the direction of the commission the police has registered a case against her under Section 323, 342, 325 and 193 of the IPC. She has, however, not been arrested so far. |
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Teachers oppose
police interference ROHTAK, July 23 — The Haryana Rajkiya Adhyapak Sangh has opposed the “police interference” in school work.
In a statement issued here today, a spokesman for the sangh said it would not allow police officials to check the attendance register of the teachers. He said resentment prevails among the teaching community over this
move. He said it was being viewed as a direct attack on the “self-respect” of the teachers. The association said the new education policy of the Haryana Government would promote the privatisation of
education. It appealed to the state government to incorporate the suggestions of the teaching community to make proper amendments in the policy. The association requested the government not to deploy women as safai karamchari or chowkidars in schools. It said services of ad hoc teachers should be regularised. |
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Jat Samiti meeting
on August 3 SONEPAT, July 23 — The Haryana Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti has decided to launch a statewide agitation against the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Government, if its main demand for giving reservation to Jats was not accepted.
Mr Tara Chand Mor, Coordinator and spokesman for the Samiti told mediapersons here today that a meeting of the executive committee of the All India Jat Mahasabha would be held on August 3 in New Delhi. |
Cash & jewellery
looted FARIDABAD, July 23 — Six youths armed with small knives today, looted cash and jewellery from a house in Sector 15 here.
Reports said the youths who were in their teens collected the family members in a room and bolted it from outside. Earlier, they had forced the family to part with Rs 10,000 in cash and
jewellery.
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