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May 26, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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Taoru MC to be restored: CM POSTINGS/ TRANSFERS Water-borne diseases hit Tohana GJU begins M.Tech admissions Procurement of new
arrivals stopped Farmers protest against non-purchase of wheat |
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Power nigams’ offer to farm
tubewell owners Chandigarh, May 25 With a view to minimising litigation, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and the Dakshin Hrayana Bijli Vitran Nigam have decided to give a one-time opportunity to settle cases out of court to consumers with agricultural tubewell connections whose cases relating to theft and unauthorised extension of load are pending in different courts and consumer forums. Hindi writers’ conference today Haryana decision on guard of honour Maharana Pratap remembered Backward class panel hearing Nephew killed over land dispute 3 proclaimed offenders held Accused in murder case identified Murder case suspect shot
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Taoru MC to be restored: CM Chapeda (Taoru), May 25 Mr Chautala announced the restoration of the municipality during the government’s “aap ke sarkar, aap ke dwar” programme here. The municipality, along with others in some parts of the Haryana, had been abolished here by the state government,a few months ago. The decision to restore the municipality followed pressure from political leaders and residents of the area. Mr Chautala publicly expressed his distrust for the Engineering Department and its staff and said the money for development given by the government for implementation of the schemes in the villages would now be directly routed through the panchayats.The panchayats and the village committees can spend the money without any approval or involvement of the Engineering Department. He said the involvement of the engineering department not only injected an element of delays in the implementation of the schemes, but also led to embezzlement of two-thirds of the funds. He elaborated his empirical finding saying that the panchayat could construct a building at a lesser rate than the Engineering Department and much quicker. His statement embarrassed officers present on the occasion. The Chief Minister reiterated his government’s resolve to remove encroachments in the villages and in the towns. He, however, held out concessions for those houses which had been built on the panchayat or government
land. The owner of these houses could pay the dues to the government or the panchayat, as the case may
be, to get the structure regularised. The Deputy Commissioner will be the head of the committee involved in the process. In all 142 village panchayats of Taoru and Nuh blocks in Gurgaon district and Hathin in Faridabad district made representations about their grievances to the Chief Minister. Incidentally all blocks fall in the Mewat area of Gurgaon and Faridabad districts. Mr Chautala cautioned that the development funds will not be released for the villages which do not pay the electricity
dues. The panchayats concerned will have to get a clean chit on the issue for availing the development fund of the state. The government announced a number of potable water schemes. It raised the supply of optimum supply from 40 litre per person to 70. It also announced the expeditious setting up of the proposed bus stand near bypass in
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POSTINGS/ TRANSFERS Chandigarh, May 25 The three IAS officers who have been given additional charge are Mr P. K. Mahapatra, Mr Sant Kumar and Mr Chander Parkash. Mr Mahapatra, Special Secretary, Home-I, has been asked to look after the General Administration Department during the leave period of Mrs Surina Rajan. Mr Sant Kumar, Joint Secretary, Industries, has been given additional charge of Director and Joint Secretary, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, during the training and leave period of Mr S. K. Gulati. Mr Chander Parkash, Deputy Secretary, Boundary Area Committee and cell for proper utilisation and disposal of government property, has been given the charge of Deputy Secretary, Industrial Training and Vocational Education Department. The following HCS officers were given transfer orders: Mr N. K. Singh, District Transport Officer, Panchkula, has been posted as Chief General Manager (P & RM), Haryana State Small Industries and Export Corporation, against a vacant post. Ms Anita Yadav, SDO(C), Hodal, and Mrs Sunita Verma, Joint Commissioner, MCF, Old Faridabad, will swap places of posting. Mr Ram Nath, City Magistrate, Bhiwani, has been posted as Under Secretary, Planning, relieving Mrs Ranju Prasad, IPS, of the charge of Deputy Secretary, Planning. Mr K. K. Kalson, SDO(C) and Estate Officer, Urban Estate, Panipat, has been posted as City Magistrate vice Mrs Pankaj Chaudhary, who becomes City Magistrate, Bhiwani. Mr Jagtar Singh, Chief Staff Officer of the Chief Minister, Haryana, has been posted as District Transport Officer, Panchkula. Mr Virender Singh Hooda, Managing Director, Cooperative Sugar Mills, Panipat, has been given additional charge of SDO (C) and Estate Officer, Urban Estate, Panipat. |
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Water-borne diseases hit Tohana Fatehabad. May 25 The state Health Department and the Public Health Department have been trying to shift the responsibility on each other but nothing
concrete has been done by any of the two departments in this direction. The district administration has now taken steps in this regard by banning the sale of ice candies and cut fruits and vegetables. A survey of Tohana revealed that persons suffering from typhoid and viral fever were present in almost all households. Many have been admitted to the general hospital, besides private hospitals and nursing homes. Doctors say that in most cases the serum test has clearly shown that these patients suffer from enteric fever. In many other cases where the blood samples have tested negatives, doctors have diagnosed the patients as suffering from viral fever. Doctors attending these patients told this correspondent that while the viral fever was due to an unidentified virus, the enteric fever was due to the consumption of contaminated drinking water in the town. Residents lament that they have been complaining about the supply of contaminated drinking water for the pastmany months but the authorities concerned have done little to solve the problem. While the health authorities claim that the supply of contaminated drinking water is the main reason behind the spread of typhoid and viral diseases, the Public Health Department refutes the claim. Mr Kamal Kishore Sharma, Subdivisional Engineer, Public Health
Department, Tohana, denied that contaminated water was being supplied in the town. He said potable water was being supplied after chlorination. He claimed that his department had been getting the water samples in the town tested from time to time and all these had been found fit for human consumption. Meanwhile, the District Magistrate, Mr O.P. Indora, has banned the sales of ice candies and cut fruits and vegetables in the district with immediate effect. In his order issued here yesterday, Mr Indora authorised the officers concerned to take suitable action to stop the sale of such commodities. |
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GJU begins M.Tech admissions Hisar, May 25 Dr R. K. Chauhan, Vice-Chancellor, said here today that the entrance test for Master of Information Technology, M.Sc, mass communication and PG diploma in advertising management and public relations would be held on June 25. Likewise, the entrance test for M.Tech computer science and engineering and M.Sc food technology would be held on June 26. The test for M.Tech environmental science and engineering and M.Sc environmental science would be held on June 27. For M.Sc applied physics and M.Sc mathematics the entrance examination would be held on June 28. Dr Chauhan further said all courses being taught on the campus were
technical and job-oriented. The syllabi of these courses met the present day needs of the industry. The entrance examination for M.Sc industrial chemistry and M.Sc applied psychology would be held on June 29 whereas the entrance examination for B.Tech printing technology, master of business economics and M.Sc bio-technology would be held on June 30. The interview for the admission to MBE course would be held on July 6. Dr Chauhan said the university was also running management, Master of computer applications and B.Pharma courses. The entrance examination for these courses would, however, be conducted by Kurukshetra University and Maharshi Dayanand University, respectively. The handbook of information containing application form and other information would be available at the university counter from May 26. |
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Procurement of new
arrivals stopped Faridabad, May 25 While this has sent a wave of anxiety and uncertainty among farmers, the district authorities have reportedly ordered the clearance of wheat lying in the mandis before the purchase of fresh wheat arrivals could be started. The agencies have already purchased over thrice the total wheat procured last year but the authorities and mandi officials are finding it difficult to lift and store wheat lying in the mandis. It is learnt that all available space in godowns of various agencies, including the FCI and the State Warehousing Corporation, has already been occupied and there is hardly any space for more stocks. While lakhs of quintals of wheat have been lying in the open, the agencies have not been able to provide covered shelters to a large amount of purchased wheat. Thousands of gunny bags of wheat are reportedly facing threat from inclement weather. One such open storage for wheat is in Sector 16. Where several bags of wheat are lying in the open. The alleged failure of the authorities to lift the wheat from mandis has not only annoyed the farmers but also arhtiyas. At some mandis, including those at Hodal and Palwal, they have been on strike for over a week in protest against the delay in the lifting of wheat. The district food and supplies authorities have also “suspended” licences of some arhtiyas in the district on charges of irregularities. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr. S.C. Jain, has directed officials concerned to clear the wheat stocks from the mandis so that fresh procurement could be undertaken. He said steps were being taken to deal with the shortage of gunny bags. The total procurement of wheat this season is likely to touch five lakh tonnes in comparison to 1.75 lakh tonnes last year. |
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Farmers protest against non-purchase of wheat Sonepat, May 25 Mr Rajinder Singh, Tehsildar-cum-Executive Magistrate, along with Mr Kuldeep Singh, DSP, Gohana, arrived on the scene and assured the farmers that the purchases of wheat would continue as usual. Several farmers alleged that officials of the procurement agencies were harassing them on some pretext or the other and not buying their produce despite assurances from the SDM. Meanwhile, resentment prevails among the farmers of Ganaur sub division against the stoppage of wheat procurement. They also approached the authorities concerned with the help of INLD leaders on the issue but they declined to restart the purchases on account of shortage of gunny bags. According to official sources, the district administration has already stopped buying wheat in 19 purchasing centres of this district. |
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Power
nigams’ offer to farm
tubewell owners Chandigarh, May 25 An official spokesman said here today that earlier this facility was available to domestic, non-domestic and industrial consumers only. The spokesman said the scheme would be available till June 30, 2001, to those consumers whose theft cases were pending in courts up to December 31, 2000, and whose cases of unauthorised extension of load were pending in courts up to March 31, 2001. |
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Hindi writers’ conference today Kurukshetra, May 25 Stating this here today, Mr Ravinder Ghasso, press secretary, Janwaadi Lekhak Sangh, Kurukshetra, said noted Urdu poet Shaharyaar from Aligarh would preside over a poetry session-tomorrow. A seminar on “Emerging Fascist tendencies in cultural life and possibilities of writer’s intervention in this scenario”, would also be organised, he said. Mr Gasso said a cultural programme would be presented by members of the Jan Natya Manch under the guidance of Dr Karamjeet Singh. Besides, street plays, songs and ghazals would be presented. Several Hindi writers, including Kunwarpal Singh, Murli Manohar Prasad Singh, Vishnu Nagar, Anad Prakash, Jawarl Mall Parikh, Ramesh Upadhyay, Manmohan and Chanchal Chauhan, would also participate in the conference, Mr Gasso added. |
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Haryana decision on guard of honour Chandigarh, May 25 An official spokesman said here yesterday that a guard of honour would not be arranged in tourist complexes for anybody, including police officers. He added that these instructions would not be applicable to Central ministers or ministers of other states, the Governor of Haryana and VIPs from outside the state who were entitled to the honour as per protocol. |
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Maharana Pratap remembered Faridabad, May 25 Senior Congress leader and a former Union Minister, Mr Arjun Singh, who was the chief guest at the occasion called upon the people to follow the ideals of the late ruler. He said national interests should prevail upon the personal and sectarian interests. Visibly ‘unhappy’ over the mismanagement at stage Mr Arjun Singh asked the organisers to take a lesson from the Maharana Pratap’s ideals. The Governor of Rajasthan, Mr Anshuman Singh, who presided over the function, said the community should uproot social evils like dowry, child marriage. The Governor left soon after he completed his address. But what marked the programme was “pandemonium-like” situation that developed on the stage at one time. |
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Backward class panel hearing Chandigarh, May 25 A delegation of the Swami Sadh Sabha met the commission and requested for the inclusion of the caste in the Central list. The commission had been constituted to examine the request for the inclusion of any class of citizens as a backward class and hear complaints in this regard. |
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Nephew killed over land dispute Sirsa, May 25 According to the information received today, Luna Ram of Keharwala village had four sons namely, Rati Ram, Mani Ram, Banwari and Rameshwar. Luna Ram divided six acres among his sons, but Rati Ram and Mani Ram got less, which generated a dispute among them. Last night when Mani Ram and Rati Ram alongwith Mani Ram’s son Atma Ram, and grandson Chaitnya who had come from Madhya Pradesh to visit his maternal grandfather, were going towards the fields, they were attacked with sharp-edged weapons by five persons including Rameshwar and Banwari. The 15-year-old nephew, Chaitnya, died on the spot while the other three received serious injuries, The body of Chaitnya was thrown in Nathore minor which was recovered and sent for post-mortem. A case has been registered. |
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3 proclaimed offenders held Fatehabad, May 25 In another case, the police today booked a person for fraudulently selling the tractor of a farmer by first getting it transferred in his name. Mr Bag Ram, a resident of Ahlisadar village, had complained that Kulbir, a resident of Bahbalpur village, had fraudulently got his tractor transferred in his name and sold it to some other person. A case has been registered. |
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Accused in murder case identified Panipat, May 25 According to police sources, as many as four police teams, each headed by a police officer, have been sent to different places after one of the three accused was identified. The DSP, Panipat, Mr Arun Singh Nehra, has been made the in charge of the police teams. Meanwhile, the injured nephew, Sunil, is stated to be out of danger. The police has also taken clues from the telephone calls received and made from the mobile phone of Pritam Ahuja on Tuesday. Besides, the accused had also made a call from an STD booth outside the Babarpur Mandi gate on Tuesday. The police has taken into custody a number of persons with criminal records in this connection. |
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Murder case suspect shot Bhiwani, May 25 Nandkaran Godara, a suspect in a murder case, was on bail. His son is still in jail in the same case. According to reports, an unidentified youth arrived at the residence of Nandkaran and introduced himself as a resident of Rohtak. As Nandkaran came down, the assailant shot him from point-blank range. He fired another shot when he tried to escape. The police has seized the pistol which the assailant dropped in a hurry. No arrest has been made so far. |
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Prisoner hurt in attack Rewari, May 25 An argument is reported to have taken place between the two. Bhagmal was referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak, where he is stated to be out of danger. A case has been registered. |
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Cyclist
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