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TRIBUNE FOLLOW-UP
M.Phil courses in MDU to
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Businessman shot, nephew hurt Three injured in train-truck collision Ensure security of pilgrims: sabha 9 years gone but no tubewell Rumour mars anti-polio
drive 29 cr earmarked for flood control
works 6 arrested in murder case Dangi to appear in court on May 29 70 posts of vet
to be filled 8 writ petitions
dismissed Parents, 2 kids commit suicide Recruitment of constables on June 3
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TRIBUNE FOLLOW-UP Chandigarh, May 23 This unprecedented raid, the first of its kind, caught the lecturer conducting the class, in defiance of the state government’s directive that no government lecturer should take private tuitions, at the Yamuna Institute of Competition. The raid took place around 7.15 a.m. The lecturer concerned, though living in Yamunanagar is at present posted at Government College, Kalka. The raiding team videographed the entire session and recorded the statements of those attending the class. The Tribune, it may be recalled, had highlighted the menace of private coaching centres run by lecturers of government colleges and government-aided private colleges early this month. The Haryana Government had prohibited college lecturers from taking tuitions. In the case of government-aided private colleges, the Department of Higher Education had circulated guidelines on May 10 this year urging the managements to make sure that no lecturer violated these guidelines. Investigations reveal that while most of the coaching centres run by lecturers of non-government aided colleges have been closed during the past few days, some lecturers of government colleges in the state are still taking private tuitions. The state government, while notifying the new UGC pay scales for lecturers of non-government aided colleges, had made it clear that private tuitions were prohibited. “The UGC code of conduct adopted and enforced by the Haryana Government also bans private tuition as it is an evil that corrodes the very foundation of the education system. The state government is concerned about this menace and has, therefore, provided in the notification that in order to curb the menace of private tuition, the help of the Income Tax Department may also be sought,” the letter said. Before issuing this letter, the matter was discussed threadbare with college principals of the state on more than one occasion. They were exhorted to impress on the teachers the need to maintain professional dignity and refrain from taking private tuition. The presidents and principals of the non-government aided colleges were required to submit by this evening joint affidavits that no lecturer of their institutions was taking private tuition. Unless this certificate was submitted, the grant-in-aid, including salaries, for the past two months would be held back. Sources maintain that the raid this morning was made to send a signal to lecturers working in government colleges that the menace of private tuitions would not be allowed to continue. |
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Fire in fields a major
concern Ambala, May 23 The summer season keeps the Fire Department personnel on their toes especially in the rural areas as they have to battle the blaze spread over a large area. The danger of a fire destroying the harvest is a worry for the farmers since help is also not close at hand. Even a carelessly thrown matchstick can ignite fire which can destroy a standing crop in a short span of time. For the Fire Department, controlling a blaze spread in a field can be a challenging task as some of the fields are not easily accessible and a water body, from where the fire tankers can be refilled, may not be closeby. In one of the major fire incidents in Ambala in recent times, a fire broke out in about 90 acres of wheat field in Naggal area. The fire apparently started from a field where harvesting was on and it soon spread to adjoining fields. In less than three hours, the farmer’s hardwork of the season went up in flames. The farmers who had lost their produce in the fire lamented that this season they were going to face financial hardship. “I have to repay the loan given to me by an arhtiya. I was hoping to repay by selling the wheat in the mandi. Now, I don’t know what I am going to do,” a farmer said. Deputy Commissioner of Ambala D.D. Gautam said that this time there had been a decline in the number of fires in the district. He said that prohibitory orders had been clamped on the use of combines and the fields being set on fire after the combines had been used for the harvest. “As a matter of fact, the fires in the fields used to cause a smoke haze in the area but this season, it is not so,” he said. A fire official pointed out that one of the major reasons for the fires used to be the use of combines. “The farmer would use combine for harvesting and to clear the field, set stalks on fire. Due to winds, the fire would soon spread to neighbouring fields where the crops had not been harvested. In a few hours time, a large tract of land would go up in flames,” he said. He suggested that farmers must keep water drums near the fields during harvesting so that in case of fire, it can be immediately controlled.
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Farmers sore over
non-procurement Panipat, May 23 The farmers, who have been waiting for its purchase for more than a week, have expressed anger and resentment over this “undeclared ban on procurement” by the government agencies. During a visit to Panipat and Samalkha grain markets yesterday a number of farmers including Suresh of Chamrada, Subhash of Chhadia and Bijender of Mandi said they had been waiting for more than 10 days for the government agencies to purchase wheat but the agencies had refused to do so, maintaining that the wheat was wet. For this situation, the farmers blamed the agencies, explaining that the delay in purchase was due to the non-availability of gunny bags and delay in the lifting of purchased wheat from the markets. The farmers threatened to block the G.T. Road if the agencies did not purchase their wheat. According to estimates, over 60,000 quintals of wheat is lying in the open. The agitated farmers tried to block the G.T. Road yesterday to register their protest against the authorities. A similar situation is prevailing in Panipat and Bapoli grain markets. Hundreds of farmers from Bapoli market came to Panipat and urged the Deputy Commissioner to make arrangements for purchase of wheat. The secretary of the Panipat Market Committee said the procurement was stopped as the wheat had become wet and was considered as substandard according to government procurement norms. |
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M.Phil courses in MDU to
go Rohtak, May 23 It also proposes to discontinue the postgraduate diploma in labour laws, labour welfare and personnel management run by its Department of Law. The deans of faculties of the university have reportedly suggested the discontinuance of the M.Phil courses for various reasons such as relevance and viability of the course and the response of candidates, etc. The Academic Council of the university is likely to take a final decision on the subject at its meeting scheduled to be held here on May 30. The Academic Council is also likely to debate whether to recognise the Bachelor of Elementary Education Degree of Delhi University on a par with the B.Ed degree of the MDU for the purpose of higher study. The bachelor of elementary education course of Delhi University is a four-year professional teacher education programme for elementary school level after plus two. But the equivalence committee of the MDU has (through circulation) recommended to treat the said degree on a par with the B.Ed degree of this university for the purpose of admission to M.Ed/M.A. (education) courses. The university has also proposed to establish an MDU centre for management studies in the DAV Institute of Management, Faridabad, for starting a three-year part-time MBA course from the current academic session. There will be 40 seats out of which 50 per cent will be payment seats. The annual fee (all inclusive) will be Rs 30,000 for “free” seats and Rs 50,000 for payment seats. The university share will be 20 per cent of the gross fee realisation in 2001-2002 and 25 per cent in the subsequent years. It will have a five-day week with Monday and Tuesday as holidays. The faculty of humanities of the university has recommended that the acharya classes in the Gurukul Jhajjar scheme should be run only in four subjects. It feels the acharya examinations in itihas, yoga and jyotish should be scrapped. It has also recommended that the Prabhakar course should be made of two years instead of one year from the current academic session and the minimum qualifying examination for admission to the course should be matriculation instead of plus two. |
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Bring them home, say relatives of missing Ambala, May 23 Mrs Tambay had told her husband “Vasant, ‘V’ for victory. Carry on. The entire nation is behind you”. Fighter pilot Tambay never returned and he is strongly suspected to be languishing in a Pakistan jail. Thirty years since that fateful day, Mrs Tambay is still hoping to meet her husband to whom she was married less than a year before the India-Pakistan was broke out. Mrs Tambay, who was in Ambala today, recalling those turbulent days, said that she was informed about her husband’s aircraft being shot down in Pakistan. “News was published by a leading Pakistan newspaper “Sunday Pakistan Observer” on December 5, 1971, that five Indian pilots were captured alive, and my husband’s name was mentioned,” she said. She said that the news item is not the only evidence of her husband being captured alive. “My husband’s brother met a Bangladesh naval officer T. Yusuf at Jamnagar in 1978 who had stated that Indian Air Force pilot V.V. Tambay was with him in barrack no. 6 of Layallpur jail of Pakistan. Also, one prisoner Daljit Singh who was repatriated from Pakistan on March 24, 1988, had seen V.V. Tambay in the Lahore interrogation centre in February 1978,” she said. The relatives of all defence personnel who are still believe to be languishing in Pakistan jails have formed the Missing Defence Personnel Relatives Association. The family members of the missing defence personnel have collected several evidences to prove that Indian defence personnel are till today lodged in Pakistan jails. Many of the family members died before they could meet their loved ones. An evidence cited is of Major Ashok Suri of 5th Assam Regiment, son of Dr R.S. Suri, of Faridabad. Major Suri had written letters from the Karachi jail on June 16, 1975, and another letter on August 13, 1975, stating that he is in Karachi jail along with 20 officers and he had requested his father Dr Suri to contact the Defence Ministry for their release. Mr Mohan Lal Bhaskar of Ferozepore, Punjab, who had been lodged in Pakistan jail from 1968 to 1974, on his return had informed the Indian government that in various Pakistan jails, prisoners of war of 1965 and 1971 wars were still rotting and they were being given inhuman treatment by the Pakistan jail authorities. Another prisoner, Mr Roop Lal Saharia, who was in Pakistan jail from 1974 to 2000, on his return has confirmed that many Indian prisoners were languishing and rotting in Pakistan jails for a number of years. Time magazine dated December 24, 1971, had carried a photograph of an Indian prisoner behind bars. The photograph had turned out to be that of Major A.K. Ghosh who did not return with the Indian Prisoners of War. Mr M.K. Paul, vice-president of the Missing Defence Personnel Relatives Association, said that we are trying to raise the matter at the International Human Rights Commission. “It has been a long struggle and we are only hoping that the defence personnel will be returned in whatever state they are in,” he said. He said we have demanded that all defence personnel who are lodged in Pakistan jails must be treated at par with Kargil martyrs. “They should be considered to be on duty and pay for their service must be given to their next of kin,” he said. Mr Om Prakash Malik, a local advocate, said that the government must initiate steps to ensure that all those defence personnel who are still in Pakistani jails must be brought back home.
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Businessman shot, nephew hurt Panipat, May
23 According to information, three persons armed with pistols came to Pritam Ahuja’s residence around 8.30 a.m. in a Tata Indica car without numbers. They parked the car in front of the house. One of them entered the house and fired several rounds at Pritam Ahuja from point blank range. His nephew received bullet injuries on his ears and temple when he tried to grab. Pritam Ahuja died on the spot whereas Gurcharan has been admitted to a private hospital. The assailant managed to escape. A case under Section 302, 307 and 334 of the IPC has been registered. The police started a hunt for the assailants. Thousands of people, including local leaders of all political parties, officers of the District Administration, representatives of business and trading community reached his residence at Babarpur Mandi. The Inspector General of Police (Rohtak Range), Mr Resham Singh, DC, Mr
M.R. Anand, SP, Mr P.R. Dev, Chairman, Improvement Trust, Mr Om Prakash
Matta, SDM and leaders of the BJP, Congress and the INLD, among others attended the funeral. |
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Three injured in train-truck collision Rohtak, May 23 Three persons, travelling in the truck, were injured in the mishap. According to reports, the mishap occurred around 6.30 pm when the rear portion of a truck carrying building material to Basana village was hit by the train engine while the truck was passing through the unmanned railway crossing. While the Bhiwani-bound DRB passenger train was terminated, the Sirsa Express train had to be halted at Rohtak railway station due to the disruption of traffic owing to the derailment, a railway official said. UNI |
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Ensure security of pilgrims: sabha Yamunanagar, May 23 A memorandum was given to Mr I.D. Swami, Union Ministry of State for Home, on Monday at Kapal Mochan here by a deputation led by Mr Shiv Partap Bajaj, president of the sabha, demanding security measures for the pilgrims. Mr Bajaj said the Jammu and Kashmir police and administration were unkind to the pilgrims last year. Some of them lathi-charged and beaten mercilessly. Registration documents of some of the pilgrims from the district were rejected and torn by officials despite the fact that the documents were duly attested. Mr Bajaj also demanded permission be given to the organisation for holding ‘bhandara’ on the way to the shrine. Mr Swami assured that the Government of India would give security cover to the pilgrims, he added. |
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9 years gone but no tubewell Yamunanagar, May 23 A resident of Khajuri village in the district, he had applied for a 3-power cable connection in September 1992. He said here yesterday that he was in service at that time. He met the Superintendent Engineer many times but to no avail. He had taken up the issue with the Chairman of the Board, he added. |
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Rumour mars anti-polio
drive Panipat, May 23 According to information, during the first five days of the operation, it was noticed by the visiting medical teams that a number of Muslim families were not agreeing to get their male children administered polio drops. The matter was reported to the Health authorities, which sought help from the administration. The medical teams, along with the Revenue officials and police personnel, reached the
targeted areas yesterday. On seeing the teams, several persons ran away and tried to hide themselves in the fields to avoid the administration of polio drops. However, their children forcibly administered polio drops by the team members. Such incidents were reported from Noorwala village and a number of industrial units on Jatal and Barsat roads, Kataria Nagar and the area behind Khadi Ashram. the sarpanch and panchayat members of Noorwala village cooperated with the medical teams in getting the polio drops administered to the Muslim children. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr M.R. Anand, claimed that during the second-phase of mopping-up operation, as many as 1,87,005 children upto five years of age were given polio drops, against the target of 1,32,373. The children of migrant labourers from Bihar and Rajasthan were identified and covered by the medical teams. |
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29 cr earmarked for flood control
works Sonepat, May 23 Giving this information, Mr Chander Singh, Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Irrigation Department, Haryana, told this correspondent here yesterday that this amount would be spent on the construction of new bundhs and the repair of old ones in the rural areas. Similarly, stone studs would be constructed and strengthened along the Yamuna to check the erosion on the Haryana side by the Yamuna and save the village residents from the onslaught of floods. He said there was no plan to store the water of the Yamuna at Tajewala Headworks as it was impossible to implement this plan. He also disclosed that the state government had already undertaken the work for the construction of watercourses in the districts of Sonepat, Jind, Panipat, Rohtak, Faridabad and Gurgaon and Rs 20 crore would be spent on the scheme. The Central Government, he said, was giving 50 per cent subsidy for the scheme. He disclosed that the state government had taken a series of measures to overcome the water crisis in the rural areas. The authorities of the Irrigation Department had been directed to fill up all tanks and ponds with canal water on priority basis. |
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6 arrested in murder case Narnaul, May 23 In a feud in the village over disconnecting water supply, on ex-serviceman, Subedar Rohtas Singh of the village was beaten by his opponents. He later succumbed to his injuries. The police had registered a case of murder. The arrested persons include Shiv Ratan Singh, Satish, Jaipal, Vimla, Manphool, and Godawri. They were produced before the ilaqa magistrate on duty. The women have been sent to judicial custody for 15 days and the men remanded to police custody. Dangi to appear in court on May 29 Rohtak, May 23 The Special Judge also directed the Superintendent of Police, Rohtak, to ensure complete security during the shifting of Mr Dangi from District Jail, Rohtak, to Ambala. Mr Shiva Sharma, in whose court Mr Dangi was produced today, allowed the former minister to be produced in the court of Special Judge, Ambala. The Special Judge also directed the other accused, who are already on bail, to appear before Special Judge, Ambala.
Chandigarh, May 23 An official spokesman said out of the total posts, 44 were meant for general category candidates, 14 for the Scheduled Castes and seven for the backward classes. Besides, three posts were reserved for ex-servicemen and two for physically handicapped persons.
8 writ petitions
dismissed Chandigarh, May 23 In their petitions, masters working on 89-day basis had alleged that the Secretary of the Haryana Staff Service Selection Commission had changed the criterion for shortlisting the candidates.
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Parents, 2 kids commit suicide Jhajjar, May 23 According to sources, Virendra (32) and his wife Guddi (30) allegedly consumed poison along with their two children, Ravi (6) and Tamanna (3). All of them have died. A family feud is stated to be the reason behind the act. The bodies of the deceased were lying in the village till the reports last came in. The police had reached the spot for investigation. Sonepat, May 23 NARNAUL:
The Haryana Government has decided to extend the cut-off date for the recruitment of Constables (men and women) in Mahedragarh district to June 3, 2001. This was stated by Dr C.S. Rao, Superintendent of Police, in a press note issued here. He said the applicants would have to send a demand draft of Rs 500 in favour of the Superintendent of Police. Those applicants who had applied in response to the earlier advertisement need not apply again. The process of acceptance of forms, scrutiny of application forms and physical measurements would also be taken up on June 3, Mr Rao added. Chandigarh, May 23 |
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Youth shot dead Jhajjar, May 23
Department exams from June 25 Chandigarh, May 23 |
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