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March 27, 2001, Chandigarh, India   
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No-trust motion against ZP Chairman NCP to hold kisan rally on March 31 Tehelka: NSUI to back YC
protest Foreign cooperative experts in
India DGP to probe beating up of mediapersons Drug abuse on the
decline Waterless summer ahead |
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Health awareness drive from April
16 Dowry death: husband, in-laws booked Hooda calls party
meeting Unity efforts didn’t work, admits MLA 4 killed, 4 hurt in
mishap Roadways bus
stolen Two killed in mishaps Airstrip at
Gohana proposed
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No-trust motion against ZP Chairman Hisar, March 26 Twelve members, including the Vice-Chairperson, Mrs Anita Malik, submitted the notice, which was signed by the 16 members to the City Magistrate as the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anurag Rastogi, was out of the town. They asked him to fix a meeting to discuss the motion at the earliest. Mrs Malik claimed that the Chairman, who was backed by the ruling INLD, had lost the confidence of a majority of members. She said 18 of the 23 members had assured of their support for the motion. There was a strong resentment among the members against his style of functioning, she added. She alleged that the Chairman had failed to implement the Panchayati Raj Act in the district properly. The development works in the area had come to a standstill due to inefficiency of Mr Litani. Mrs Malik, who also belongs to the INLD, alleged that the corruption in the parishad was on the rise. Another member Ramesh Kumar alleged that bureaucrats were running the parishad. He said under the Panchayati Raj Act, the state government had allotted 16 departments, including Education, to the parishad three months ago. The parishad had consequently constituted various committees to look after the working of these departments. But the officials had not convened any meeting of these committees. He held the Chairman responsible for it. |
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NCP to hold kisan rally on March 31 Panipat, March 26 This was stated today by the state president of the party and national president of kisan cell, Mr Ved Pal, while talking to mediapersons here at the local PWD Rest House. The national president of the party, Mr Sharad
Pawar, will be the chief guest at the rally. Mr Pawar charged that both the governments had cheated the farmers who had been the backbone of the country’s self-sufficiency in foodgrains production. But the Vajpayee government at the Centre had failed to protect the interests of this community by not providing remunerative prices for their produce. He pointed out that the procurement prices of the crops should be announced before sowing because the farmers could then opt for sowing crops on time. Mr Pawar criticised the increase of Rs 30 per quintal in wheat procurement price and said it was insufficient when the cost of inputs was taken into account and “our party outrightly rejects it”. He demanded that in the wake of the GATT Agreement, the Central Government must ensure that the interests of Indian farmers and industries were protected. Otherwise, he said, the Indian economy, particularly in the agriculture sector, would be ruined. Mr Ved Pal came down heavily on the state government and said the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, before coming to power, had asked the people not to deposit the electricity bills. But now not only the pending electricity bills were being recovered forcefully, but other methods had been devised through installation of new meters and fixing the minimum load to force the people to pay higher bills for electricity charges. |
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Tehelka: NSUI to back YC
protest Bhiwani, March 26 Mr Kaushik said resentment prevailed among youths against the central government over alleged Tehelka expose of corruption in defence deals. He said activists of the NSUI would go in each district, blocks and villages of the state and expose before public the corrupt practices being undertaken at high level. |
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Foreign cooperative experts in
India Faridabad, March 26 The team members which paid a visit to the cooperative sugarmill at Palwal in this district yesterday told mediapersons last evening that India had made good progress in several fields in which cooperative bodies had been functioning. Mr
K.S. Islam, Registrar of the Cooperative Societies in Bangladesh, who went round several projects in various states as part of an exchange programme, said that the Indian experiment in cooperative sector had been successful, especially in milk production. He said proper management and involvement of people had been the main factors behind the success. Mr Abelardo V. Llarena of the Cooperative Development Authority, Manila, said he was impressed by the mill’s functioning as the recovery level of sugar and capacity utilisation of the machinery was good despite the fact that the plant had old machinery. Mr Ramchandra Nainabasti of the National Cooperative Development Board of Nepal said involvement of farmers and management had proved that the cooperative sector was still the best option of production in a developing country. Mr
R.P. Dharmasena, a Deputy Commissioner in this field in Sri Lanka, said the cooperative sector should adopt new technologies to improve production and profit. Mr Rusmin Juwahir from the Farmers Authority Organisation of Malaysia said he was pleased to visit the mill which had been awarded the first prize in India for best financial management. The others were Mr Sun Linang from China, Mr Lekponk Musikaman from Thailand, Mr Boon Piyachan of Thailand, and Mr Bishwa Prasad Pathak from Nepal. Chandigarh, March 26 Mr Chautala told the delegation that the incident would be probed by the Director-General of Police, Mr M.S. Malik, and action taken against those found guilty. He also telephoned Mr Malik and asked him to take up the matter. The delegation included Vishnu Joshi, Rakesh Bharatiya, Pradeep Sharma, Praveen Moudgil, Bharat Bhushan, Sarbjit Bawa and Pradeep Bhatnagar. The police reportedly beat up a reporter and a press photographer at Yamunanagar when they were talking to people who were subjected to a cane charge by the police while attending the cremation of a person who died in police custody. |
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Drug abuse on the
decline Fatehabad, March 26 Efforts in this direction were initiated by its former district police chief, Mr Shrikant Jadhav, in June last year who floated “Paryaas” for eliminating the menace of drug addiction and trafficking in the district. The young SP was moved by the travails of a young girl arrested under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act. The girl had been forced into prostitution by her father, a drug addict, so that his demands for drug were met. ‘Paryaas’ adopted a two-pronged strategy. While drug traffickers were nabbed by the police, ‘Paryaas’ members motivated people to shun drugs. The new SP, Mr Hanif Qureshi, continued the efforts started by Mr Jadhav and in the past nine months, the police has been able to minimise the crime in the district. Fatehabad, it may be recalled, had earned a bad name in the state due to large-scale trafficking of poppy husk. The contraband can be easily procured from Rajasthan and is in great demand in Punjab. Fatehabad, due to its location, was being used by the drug traffickers as a safe route for their consignments. The traffickers had made dens in various villages of Rattia subdivision of this district and were thriving under the patronage of certain politicians. The police has been able to bring to book most of the big names involved in the business. Known drug traffickers are behind the bars and many are absconding. Though the menace has not been totally eliminated, it is not on the scale it used to be earlier. Now only isolated cases of trafficking of small quantities of drugs are reported. The police has been able to arrest 32 drug traffickers in the first 85 days of this year. While on the one hand, the police has been able to nab the traffickers in large numbers, “Paryaas” members have successfully motivated hundreds of drug addicts to shun drugs. Free medical camps are being organised to provide medical aid to those who want to give up drugs. A number of social organisations have come forward to lend help the cause. While members of the Integrated Medical Association and the Indian Medical Association provide free consultation to the patients medicines are provided free of cost by the Chemist Association. Gurdwara committees provide ‘langar’ to patients while members of the Brahm Kumari Ashram give discourses to them. The patients are also given a demonstration in yoga. “Paryaas” has organised nine such camps in different villages and towns of the district during the past nine months. It is now constructing its own building to organise a de-addiction camp. The foundation stone of the building was recently laid by the INLD MP, Mr Ajay Singh Chautala. The SP, Mr Hanif Qureshi, is confident that he will be able to weed out the menace totally from this district, provided he continues to get public support. |
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Waterless summer ahead Hisar, March 26 Already, drinking water supply in major towns has been drastically reduced. The worst affected are those towns which are dependent solely on canals for the supply of raw water. These include: Hisar, Bhiwani,
Fatehabad, Sirsa, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Jhajjar, Mahendragarh and Rewari. The canals are likely to be operational again in two weeks, but it will be another three to four days before water reaches the water works reservoirs in these towns. Official sources say drinking water supply in both rural and urban areas will have to be further reduced in the coming weeks as the available raw water in the reservoirs will have to be stretched to the entire period of canals’ closure. Pressure level in most towns has gone down forcing people to use storage tanks at the ground floors. The sources admit on condition of anonymity that even after the canals start flowing again, there is little hope of respite as the failure of rain has dried up water reservoirs at the dams themselves. The canals had been running at their lowest levels for the past several weeks due to fall in water level at the dams. The situation is unlikely to improve till the next monsoons. Enquiries by The Tribune reveal that ponds in the rural areas have dried up almost completely. Since these are unlikely to be filled by supply from the canals, milch animals are in for a really tough time in the coming weeks as mercury continues to rise sharply. Already, maximum temperatures in the desert belt of Haryana are hovering around 34°C. The ponds that still have some water, will dry up before the mercury touches 40 degrees by the third week of April. The third successive year of drought has caused a fall in the underground water level in most districts of the state. This will seriously hamper sowing operations this season despite the best efforts of the government to arrange for the adequate supply of power in the weeks ahead. Sources say the power utilities are hoping to buy around 700 MW power from central agencies and West Bengal to tide over the crisis. Besides, the Panipat Thermal Power Plant is also expected to generate more power when the units closed for overhauling resume generation. Yet, all these brave words hold out little hope for the residents of the power starved and thirsty state. For even if the power supply position improves, it will only make some more water available for irrigation. The drinking water supply is unlikely to benefit from it except that whatever little supply is to be given, it may be given on time if power is available. Sensing the trouble ahead, farmers are planning to sell at least a part of their livestock lest they meet the same fate as their Rajasthan counterparts year after year. It will be some time before that actually happens, but the prospects of the distress sale of cattle loom large at least over the desert belt. The towns are already seeing sharp increase in sale of bottled drinking water. These plastic bottles can now be seen on the shelves of even the smallest of colonies. Shopkeepers expect sales to go up steeply from the next week or so. They say a major change this time is that the demand for five, 10 and 20 litre containers is looking up. And that is a sure sign of the hard times ahead. |
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Health awareness drive from April
16 Bhiwani, March 26 In order to make the programme more effective and benefit more people, a meeting was organised here today under chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner, attended by the Civil Surgeon, Dr S.C. Sharma, medical officer and other senior officials. According to an official information, the training session will be completed by March 30 and thereafter the staff would start checking the male and female members between the age group of 15 to 49 years from April 1 and 15 and ailing members will be sent to the nearest health centres. According to sources the members found ailing in the preliminary examination will be diagnosed free between April 16 to 30 and given treatment. Several programmes will also be organised to interlace people with this move which includes seminars and medical camps. Such camps will be held at the civil hospitals of Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri from April 16 to 30. Besides, special medical checkup camps will be organised at Loharu, Gopi, Dhanana, Bond Kalan Community Health Centres and other villages from April 16 to 21. Likewise, camps at Community Health Centres Dinod, Jui, Sanwad, Manakwas, Beeran, Jamalpur, Dhani Mahu, Jhumpakalan, Leelas, Siwani will be held from April 23 to 30. |
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Dowry death: husband, in-laws booked Panipat, March 26 According to information, Sudesh Rani of Tihar Khurd village in Sonepat district was married to Bijender of Vikas Nagar about 8 years ago. She was a mother of two children. She died of burn injuries on Saturday. Her in-laws stated that she had committed suicide by setting herself on fire. But her father suspected a foul play in her death alleging that her in-laws had been demanding more dowry after the marriage. On the complaint of her father, the police has registered a case of dowry death and the body has been sent for post-mortem. In another case, a married woman of Budsham village yesterday threw her two minor daughters in West Jamuna Canal (WJC) and then herself jumped into the canal. However, one of the daughters was rescued. A family dispute is stated to be the reason for the suicide. Chandigarh, March 26 While stating this, an HPCC press release said Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, chief of the party in Haryana, had called a meeting of the office-bearers of the PCC, AICC members from the state, party MLAs and MPs and presidents of the DCCs on March 29 at the PCC office in Chandigarh to finalise the strategy for organising the protest programme. The meeting would be addressed by Mrs Mohsina Kidwai, general secretary of the AICC and in charge of party affairs in Haryana.
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Unity efforts didn’t work, admits MLA Rohtak, March 26 Addressing mediapersons here last evening, the Congress leader said the party would continue holding rallies at different places to mobilise people against the ‘anti-people’ policies of the government till it was removed. Referring to the Bhiwani rally he alleged that nuisance was created by a few supporters of a former minister, Mr Krishan Murti Hooda. On the other hand, Mr Hooda said the rally was a show of strength but ‘total mismanagement’ had disappointed the leaders as well as party workers. He alleged Mr Dharambir was blaming others to save face. |
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4 killed, 4 hurt in mishap Bhiwani, March 26 The police said Ram Kumar, Ankit, three-wheeler driver Pankaj and an unidentified woman died on the spot. Four persons identified as Ram Kishan, Sunder, Kamla and Phoolwati were injured. Ramkishan and Kamla had been referred to PGI, Rohtak.
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Roadways bus stolen Rohtak, March 26 A Haryana Roadways Bus was stolen from the Rohtak depot yesterday. A complaint was lodged by the local state roadways depot authorities in the city police station here. It stated that a bus belonging to Rohtak depot of Haryana Roadways was stolen by some persons from the depot. UNI |
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Two killed in mishaps Jind, March 26 According to reports, Mr Gyanender, an employee of the local gas plant, was injured when he was hit by a jeep on the Jind-Rohtak road. He succumbed to his injuries on way to the local General Hospital. In another accident, a cyclist was killed on the spot after he was hit by a truck on the Jind-Gohana road. The deceased was identified as Mahavir, a resident of Bhawar village. At least 20 passengers were injured when a private bus in which they were travelling overturned near Uchana Khurd village in the district. The injured were admitted to hospitals at Uchana and Jind. |
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Airstrip at
Gohana proposed Chandigarh, March 26 While presiding over the third annual general meeting of the Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation here today, Mr Chautala also stressed the need for strengthening the infrastructure at the Pinjore, Karnal and Hisar civil aerodromes. Haryana Addl
AG resigns Chandigarh, March 26 He said he submitted his resignation to the Chief Secretary on ‘personal grounds’. He was appointed to this post on August 6,1999 after the take-over by Mr O.P. Chautala as Chief Minister of Haryana in July, 1999.
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