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Saturday,
August 11, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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Haryana plans ST on
cattlefeed Clearance for more IT
courses KU measures to curb
ragging Now Green Corps in
Haryana Make family planning people’s scheme:
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Is police a tool of the ruling
party? Blockade against meter installation Reduce operational risks, says air chief MC restrained from demolishing construction DGP can sanction GPF
advances 5 killed in mishaps 2 polio cases suspected in Bhiwani dist AIDS case detected Accountant’s murder: traders on fast Interdisciplinary
admissions to B.E., B.Tech allowed Applications invited for
scholarships Special chance
to students
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Haryana plans ST on
cattlefeed Rohtak, August 10 The proposed sales tax on oilcakes etc is likely to be imposed from September 1 although confusion prevails among the traders that it has already come into force from August 1. The Haryana Traders Association has opposed the imposition of sales tax on oilcake, cattlefeed and fertilisers. The association president, Mr Narain Prasad Goyal, in a letter faxed to the Chief Minister today, said the sales tax on these products would burden the rural population financially. The Haryana Government, Mr Goyal said, should not succumb to the pressure of the Centre and should impose tax only after the neighbouring states fall in line, failing which the state would suffer heavy revenue losses. The association said the price of fertilisers was already very high and after the imposition of sales tax on it, it would go beyond the purchasing power of the poor and marginal farmers. The government should also bring uniformity in tax structure of many other items. While Haryana charged 12 per cent sales tax on karyana, it was 4 per cent in Delhi. Mr Goyal said sales tax on jewellery in Haryana was 4 per cent against 1 per cent in Delhi and less than 1 per cent in Rajasthan. The government must bring uniformity in the sales tax rates on such items, he said. The association has also pleaded for the withdrawal of professional tax imposed on halwais in the state. The flat tax of Rs 9000 per bhatti was beyond the paying capacity of the vast majority of the halwais in Haryana, Mr Goyal said. The meeting of the Haryana Beopar Mandal, which was slated for August 8 to consider the government proposals was postponed and the mandal president, Mr Lakshmi Chand Gupta is likely to meet officials in Chandigarh to discuss the issue. |
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Clearance for more IT
courses Chandigarh, August 10 According to an official statement, a three-year diploma course in IT, with an intake of 30, will be started in Government Polytechnic,
Nilokheri. There will be an increase in the intake in the case of the diploma course in architectural assistantship from 40 to 60 in Government Polytechnic,
Ambala. There will be also an increase from 40 to 60 in the intake for the diploma course in architectural assistantship in Government Polytechnic for Women,
Sirsa. In Vaish Technical Institute, Rohtak, a three-year diploma course in IT with an intake of 40 will be introduced under a self-financing scheme. The release says in CR Polytechnic ,
Rohtak, a three-year diploma course in IT will be introduced for 40 students under a self-financing scheme. In BPS Mahila Polytechnic, Kanya
Gurukul, Khanpur Kalan, a three-year diploma course in computer engineering with an intake of 40 under a self-financing scheme will be introduced. In Technical Institute, Bhainswal
Kalan, there will be an increase in the intake from 30 to 40 in electronics and communication engineering and computer engineering. In
P.D. Memorial Polytechnic, Sarai Aurangabad, Jhajjar district, three-year diploma course in IT will be introduced with an intake of 60 and the intake in the case of diploma courses in computer engineering will be increased from 90 to 120 and from 80 to 120 in electronics and communication engineering. The statement says that admission against these seats will be made during the current academic session immediately after approval of the
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KU measures to curb
ragging Kurukshetra, August 10 The Vice-chancellor stated that indulgence in ragging would lead to expulsion or suspension from the institution or imposition of a fine with a public apology. He said that the punishment may also be in the form of withholding scholarships or other benefits, debarring students from representation in events, withholding results, suspension or expulsion from hostel etc. Mr Chaudhry said in the case of technical institutions, where normally more ragging cases occur the university could consider derecognising the institution in question. To check ragging, special directions have been issued to the Dean, Students Welfare, the Chief Warden and the Chief Security Officer. The district police chief has been requested by the university administration to intensify police patrolling on the campus, including deployment of police personnel on the roads leading to the girls’ and boys’ hostels. The Kurukshetra University Non-Teaching Employees Association (KUNTEA) has been asked to help in curbing ragging. The Director, Public Relations, of the university has been asked to give publicity about the negative aspects of ragging. All “vulnerable” locations on the university campus and outside it have been identified. Senior students will not be allowed to interact with their juniors after dinner. Some important telephone numbers will also be displayed in hostels so that in case of emergency, these could be used. The university authorities have made it clear that failure to prevent ragging shall be treated as an act of negligence in maintaining discipline in the institution on the part of the management, the Principal or the person in charge of the institution. |
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Now Green Corps in
Haryana Chandigarh, August 10 The Green Corps comprises members of the eco clubs (ecology clubs) formed in 1900 schools in the state for working for nature conservation and spreading environmental awareness in society. Officials here said that in each district, 100 schools had been chosen for setting up these clubs. Each club 50 has students from Classes V to XII as its members. A
book, “Saturday: School Environment Day”, published by Children’s
Alliance for Protection of the Environment (CAPE), a unit of the
Environment Society of India (ESI), with 24 exercises, will be
explained by the teacher in charge to the members of the eco clubs
through lectures, demonstrations and field visits. The classes will
be taken on Saturday and the exercises given in the book will be
attempted to be completed in 24 weeks’ time. The awareness
activities associated with the programme comprise lectures, film
shows, street theatre, festival celebrations, science fairs, etc.
Under the “action oriented activities”, the students will launch a
plastic bag collection drive, uproot Congress grass, clean village
ponds, plant saplings, check pollution from vehicles and so on. Monthly
or annual reports on the activities of the eco clubs (along with
newspaper reports, if any) will be submitted by the teacher in charge
through the Principal to the District Education Officer (DEO). The
state Monitoring Committee, headed by the Commissioner and Secretary
to the Haryana Government’s Environment Department will evaluate the
performance of the school eco clubs and present annual awards to the
clubs as well as to the students and teachers whose performance has
been outstanding. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, which originally floated the scheme to raise the National Green Corps (NGC) in all states, will provide financial support of Rs 1,000 per annum to each club to meet the day-to-day expenditure. Besides, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board has agreed to release Rs 1,000 annually to each club to bear the cost of caps and lapel pins for the members of the clubs. The board will also bear the cost of publicity both in the print and electronic media. The principals of schools and the DIC may also seek sponsorship from local banks, business houses, social organisations and NGOs to mobilise their resources. In lieu of the support, the sponsors may put up their banners at functions to be organised by the eco clubs. Officials here said that the training programme of the 38 master trainers, two for each district of the state, had been completed. These trainers, picked up from among teachers with special interest in environmental issues, were imparting training to teachers who would conduct the eco clubs in the 1,900 schools comprising state board schools and Kendriya Vidyalayas. The state government would also have the names of the eco club members sent by the school authorities to the Education Department. The
state government wanted to make the eco clubs functional from August
15. Even if it was delayed, the clubs would certainly start their
activities from August. Officials said Haryana would be among the
first states in India where the school eco clubs would become
functional. “We will be the first state to implement the school club
concept in northern India”, an official claimed. |
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Make family planning people’s scheme:
DC Rohtak, August 10 Presiding over a seminar of sarpanches and panches of the Meham block, he said the gram panchayats should educate the people to adopt family planning as it was not the agenda of the government alone. Mr Malik said the panchayats should now concentrate on improving the education standard in the schools whose control had been vested in them by the government. The panchayats should constitute education committees to review the performance of the schools and mitigate the problems of the teachers and the students. To bring health awareness among the villagers, the panchayats should also constitute health committees which should ensure proper cleanliness in the village and help the health departments in the eradication of the diseases like malaria, tuberculosis etc, Mr Malik advised the village elders. The Deputy Commissioner distributed grants received from the government for executing various developmental projects to the Village Vikas Samities. The amount totalling over Rs 35 lakh would be spent direct by the Vikas Samities, headed by the village sarpanch. Hitherto, these funds were sent to the district administration, who had been spending it with the help of the engineering cells of the panchayati raj institutions or the B and R. The new decision will hasten the development process. Mr Malik said by allocating funds directly to the panchayat, the government has reposed faith in the people. He advised the panchayats to take the minimum population of the village into confidence before finalising the project and its site. He also advised the panchayats to plant saplings not only on common lands but in the courtyards of the houses also. Individuals could be persuaded to plant a sapling on the birth of a child or marriage or death of the eldest member of a family. Mr Malik disclosed that the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, would hold janta durbar of the Kiloi assembly constituency here on August 19. He will also inaugurate the newly constructed buildings of the ANM Training Centre and District Level Logistical Stores of the Health Department. |
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Is police a tool of the ruling
party? Chandigarh, August 10 Is the alleged partisan attitude of the police a new phenomenon? Perhaps not, if the judgement of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in an appeal filed, among others, by Mr Nafe Singh, INLD MLA from Bahadurgarh. Mr Nafe Singh was convicted and awarded life imprisonment in a murder case by the trial court. The alleged incident had taken place on September 18, 1993, when the Congress was in power. Accepting Mr Nafe Singh’s appeal against his conviction, a Division Bench comprising Mr Justice H.S. Bedi and Mr Justice A.S. Garg made certain observations which only confirm the allegations against the Haryana Police that, instead of investigating a case on its merits, it acts as a tool of the ruling party of the state at any given time. After discussing the contentions raised by the defence counsel, Mr R.S. Cheema and Mr R.S. Ghai, and the prosecution counsel, Mr Bhinder, as well as the statements of certain prosecution witnesses, the Bench said : “The plea, therefore, that Nafe Singh had been involved on account of his political connections and political rivalry, cannot be wholly ruled out.” The Bench did not stop here. It said that the trial court had found corroboration of Mr Nafe Singh’s involvement in the incident from the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory, which opined that the lead bullet recovered from the place of incident had been fired from his licensed .32-bore revolver (Mr Nafe Singh had taken the plea before the court that he was not present at the site of the alleged incident). The Judges said: “To our mind, this fact by itself is insufficient to support this view. It is the admitted position that Mr Nafe Singh had been arrested on September 18, 1993, and the weapon taken into possession by the police. The lead bullet had been picked up by the police on the same day from the place of incident, which was a place virtually open on all sides. We are of the opinion, therefore, that a bullet fired from a revolver would thus have flown a long distance away and would not be located in these circumstances. “A conclusion that it had been planted by the investigators must inevitably follow,” the Bench concluded. Observers feel that the state needs a statesman and not petty-minded politicians who can help moulding the police into a professional and creditable investigating agency, immune from all pulls and pressures. Otherwise, it will continue to be a handmaiden of politicians. |
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Blockade against meter installation Kurukshetra, August 10 The demonstrators also raised anti-government slogans and took out a procession in the main markets of the town. They were demanding that the arrested persons should be released unconditionally and only defective power meters should be replaced. Meanwhile, in a unanimous resolution, the Nagar Sangharsh Samiti, at its meeting held at the residence of the Haryana BJP vice-president, Mr Rattan Lal Bansal, here last night condemned the arrest of the six who, it said, were peacefully protesting against the installation of electronic meters. Meanwhile the local District Bar Association at a meeting held under the chairmanship of its President, Mr Amar Singh, condemned the arrest of Ms Sudesh Kumari, advocate, who was leading a peaceful agitation of the residents here yesterday in protest against the installation of electronic meters. Mr Fateh Chand Gandhi of the BJP, in charge of media, Kurukshetra unit, said he had been informed by the vice-president of the state unit of the party, Mr Atam Prakash Manchanda, that the party would demand the stoppage of forcible installation of meters, when its deputation would call upon Mr Chautala. |
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Reduce operational risks, says air chief Sirsa, August 10 He is accompanied by his wife Mrs Molina Tipnis, president, Air Force Women Welfare Association (AFWWA). Addressing the officers the air chief called upon them to apply innovative means to reduce operational risks during training. “Good training must be backed by flawless implementation for successful mission accomplishment’’ he added. He urged the supervisors to continuously enhance the quality of training in all fields-operational, technical and support. The Air Chief Marshal would inspect the
squadron and also all lodger units of the station tomorrow. UNI |
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MC restrained from demolishing construction Ambala, August 10 The judge adjourned the case for August 17 for filing the written statements and replies on behalf of the defendants. The counsel of the defendants had requested the court to adjourn the case for replies. The plaintiff has made the Commissioner and Secretary Local Bodies, Haryana, Estate Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Ambala and Municipal Council, Ambala Sadar, party to the suit. The plaintiff had filed an application in the court seeking an injunction against the demolition of bungalow No. 127-A and 127-B located on the Staff road at Ambala cantonment. According to sources, the Additional Director, Department of Local Bodies, Mr M.L. Kaushik, had submitted a report to the state government regarding nine bungalows of old grant located in Ambala cantonment. In the report he had stated that some illegal structure had been raised in the bungalow premises. The government had been asked to demolish the illegal structure. Mr Tajinder Mohan had pleaded that a local MLA was interested in the property and was pressurising the executive to take action against him. |
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DGP can sanction GPF
advances Chandigarh, August 10 The DGP has been empowered to sanction a non-refunable advance from the GPF to the subscriber at one time during his whole service after the completion of 10 years of service to the extent of 90 per cent of the amount standing at the credit of the subscriber. The DGP can now sanction advances to the police personnel for the higher education of their children up to three months’ basic pay or the amount of fee and other charges, whichever is less, once in six months but not more than twice a year. He has also been empowered to sanction an advance for the marriage of each child to the extent of 12 months’ basic pay or 75 per cent of the credit amount in the GPF but only after the completion of 20 years of service. |
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5 killed in mishaps Bhiwani, August 10 According to reports, Om Prakash of Asalwas Marotha village committed suicide by consuming poison. In another incident a girl was run over by a truck and killed at Naurangabad village. The truck driver fled the scene after the accident. Meanwhile, the GR police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a platform at the local railway junction. In another incident, Naresh of Nidana village was electrocuted at Talu village. His body was handed over to his relatives after a post-mortem. In yet another incident Bhalle Ram of Nimri village, who was working as chowkidar at the NCC office, committed suicide by consuming poison. |
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2 polio
cases suspected in Bhiwani dist Bhiwani, August 10 According to the reports, symptoms of polio were detected in Seema (5), daughter of Mahender of Kairu and Manish (1), son of Dalel Singh of Bond village, during medical examination. A team of doctors visited both villages on Tuesday and took samples of their stool. Considering the seriousness of the disease, the doctors have sent the samples to Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh for further testing. The PMO Mr R.C. Gupta, said these were the two cases reported with suspected symptoms of polio during the past four years in the district. It may be recalled that the “anti-polio drive” is on in the state since 1997 and employees of the Health Department have been giving polio drops to children below 5 years of age in each village twice a year. |
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AIDS case detected Sirsa, August 10 According to information received today, a 24-year-old youth of Barasari village had been found HIV positive. He was treated for tubercluosis some times ago and during blood tests he was found to be having AIDS. However, the local Civil Surgeon Dr
S.K. Batta has denied that any case of HIV positive has been reported after April 1 this year. |
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Accountant’s murder: traders on fast Rewari, August 10 They were demanding the withdrawal of the case of murder registered against Mr Surinder Kumar Jain, owner of a local factory in which its accountant Rakesh Kumar was allegedly thrown into a burning furnace on August 3. They demanded the registration of a case against those who tried to create disturbance in the factory while protesting against the incident. The relay fast was launched yesterday under the auspices of the joint action committee of traders and industrialists. Meanwhile, Mr Surinder Kumar Jain, who was arrested by the police in the case has been remanded in judicial custody till August 22 by Mrs Bimlesh tanwar, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rewari. |
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Interdisciplinary
admissions to B.E., B.Tech allowed Chandigarh, August 10 Giving this information here yesterday, an official spokesman said the step had been taken after due deliberation in the larger interest of the students. Diploma holders were being admitted directly into the second year of Engineering Degree course. The first year of degree course, which is common for all disciplines, mainly consists of applied sciences, humanities, engineering drawing and workshop practices. The specialisation starts in second year. |
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Applications invited for
scholarships Chandigarh, August 10 An official release said the forms for applying for the scholarships could be obtained free of cost from the Haryana School Education Board, Bhiwani, the institution concerned or the university. The completed forms could be forwarded by the head of the institution where the student was enrolled. |
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Special chance
to students Chandigarh, August 10 A spokesman of the department said the exams for such students would be held in November or December this year and May or June next year. He clarified this would be the last opportunity to such students. |
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Illicit liquor seized, 6 held Faridabad, August 10 According to police sources, 3875 pouches of illicit liquor and 15 boxes of English wine were seized from a house in Kheri village, near Old Faridabad. The owner of the house, Hardayal, has been taken into custody. In similar raids, 704 pouches of liquor were seized from three other places. About 400 pouches were seized from Ballabgarh and Sector-7 here. Five persons were arrested by the police yesterday in this regard. |
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Haryana PCC list soon New Delhi, August 10 |
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Need to popularise
Punjabi stressed Ambala, August 10 Punjabi authors and poets opined that there is need for working towards the spread of Punjabi language. |
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Sonepat rocked Sonepat, August 10 |
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