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April 5, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Chautala:
Centre must solve problem of excess wheat POSTINGS/ TRANSFERS Cong fails
to hold sadbhavna rally
Haryana modifies house allotment policy |
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Buses intercepted for
sales tax evasion HSMITC staff hold
protest
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Chautala: Centre must solve problem of excess wheat Chandigarh, April 4 During his meeting with the committee headed by Prof Abhijit Sen, Mr Chautala said that it was high time for the Union Government to formulate a policy on the diversification of crops with incentives like the minimum support price. Mr Chautala said that in view of the open trade in grain, the government should not ignore the importance of the maintenance of stocks for emergency situations. He added that the farmer must know which crops he could substitute for the traditional crops of wheat and paddy. Mr Chautala said the system of centralised procurement of grain had stood the test of time. Decentralised procurement would be suitable for those states which had more demand under the public distribution system. The Chief Minister urged the Central Government to continue with the centralised procurement of grain in the larger interests of the farming community. The Chief Minister said that in Haryana, the demand for wheat under the PDS was about 1 per cent of the total procurement while the demand for rice was negligible. The quantity procured under the decentralised system in west Bengal, MP and UP was very small as compared to procurement in Punjab, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh. The demand for grain under the PDS in the deficit states was much higher that what was procured by agencies, Mr Chautala said. He said that despite having a big administrative set-up, the performance of the FCI was not satisfactory as far as the procurement operations in Haryana concerned. He said the FCI had not added any storage capacity in the state since its inception, The Central Warehousing Corporation had added only 2.14 lakh tonnes capacity recently. He urged Professor Sen to create adequate storage capacity in the state. Mr Chautala said that the requirement of grain of consuming states should be worked out on an annual basis instead of monthly requirements. While referring to the policy on buffer stocks, open market intervention and export and import of grain, the Chief Minister said that there should be a long-term policy on maintaining a higher quantity of grain in the central pool. He said the Government of India and the FCI should coordinate their activities to create infrastructure to store grain in food-deficit states in the larger interests of the country. Mr Chautala also pointed out that while the MSP was being announced for 26 agricultural commodities in the country, only 10 were relevant to the state. He said there had always been a sizeable difference between the MSP and the prevailing market price in the case of oilseeds, pulses and coarse cereals. He said farmers had to bear the brunt of distress sale in the case of these commodities every year. |
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Action plan for crop diversification Ambala, April 4 Different agencies, including the Krishi Gyan Kendras (KGK) of Haryana Agriculture University, and the Agriculture Department, are jointly holding farmers training camps to stress the need for changing the cropping pattern and adoption of pulses and oilseed crops as an alternative to rice-wheat rotation. Thousands of farmers, farm women and unemployed rural youth attended the farmers training camps held in a series at Fazailpur, Tandwal, Sambhalkha and Sherpur villages in this district recently. Practical training in new farming techniques through demonstrations in order to reduce the cost of production was given at these camps.
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POSTINGS/ TRANSFERS Chandigarh, April 4 Mr M.S. Mann an IPS officer has been made Director, Sports, Students and Youth Welfare. Mr R.S. Dalal (IG), Gurgaon Range, and Mr Swaranjit Singh (IG), Telecommunications, Panchkula, will swap places. Mr Swaranjit Singh will also hold the additional charge of (IG), Railways and Technical (H), Panchkula. Mr Parminder Rai becomes DIG, Telcom, Panchkula; Mr R.C. Jowel has been posted Deputy Commandant General Home Guards (H). Mr Manoj Yadav goes as SP, Ambala; Mr Sandeep Khirwar becomes SP, SVB Hqs, Chandigarh; Mr Alok Roy will be the new SP, Rohtak; Mr Attar Singh Ahlawat has been appointed Commandant, Ist Bn, HAP, Ambala; Mrs Charu Bali becomes SP, Panchkula; Mr Inder Dutt has been posted as SP, Security, Haryana Bhavan, New Delhi. Mr Raj Pal Singh goes as SP Crime II, Madhuban. Mr Raghbir Singh becomes SP, Computers, SCRB, Madhuban; Sri Kant Jadhav goes as SP Commando, Newal; Mr O.P. Kadian will be the new SP, Hisar. Mr Sanjay Kumar will be the new SP, Sirsa. Mr Vikash Arora will be SP Security, CID (H). Mr Saurabh Singh will be the new Additional SP, Rohttak; Mrs Bharati Arora becomes Additional SP, Panchkula. |
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servants shifted Chandigarh, April 4 Ms Shakuntala Jakhu has been posted as Special Secretary and Director, Information Technology Department, against a vacant post. Ms Rajni Sekhri Sibal, Special Secretary, Finance Department, goes as Special Secretary, General Administration Department, Secretariat Establishment and Inquiry Officer, Vigilance -
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New deputy chief of planning board Chandigarh, April 4 While the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, is the Chairman of the Planning Board, Mr A.N. Mathur, Finance Secretary of Haryana, was earlier officiating as the Deputy Chairman. |
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Dr B.K. Sinha Chandigarh, April 4 |
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Cong fails to hold sadbhavna rally Kurukshetra, April 4 While Pradesh Congress President Bhupinder Singh Hooda, MLA, according to party sources in Chandigarh was away to New Delhi, most of other party leaders in the city stayed put in their homes. Mr Hooda had announced that a sadbhavna rally would be held here today to promote communal harmony in the state in the wake of Gujarat violence.
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Haryana modifies house allotment policy Chandigarh, April 4 While stating this here today, a spokesman of Public Works (B&R) Department said that it had come to the notice of the government that employees who were allotted houses on first floor or second floor did not occupy the house and continued to submit representations for allotment of ground floor flats. This tendency created administrative problems and delayed further allotment of houses. The spokesman said that it had been decided that an applicant desiring change of accommodation in a house of the type already in his or her occupation would be given preference. He said that fresh allotment would be made on second floor or first floor and no allotment would be made on ground floor. No change of house from Sector 39-B, Chandigarh to Panchkula would be allowed. However, if someone applied for fresh allotment of a house at Panchkula even if he or she was occupying a house in Chandigarh, his or her seniority would be fixed and allotted a house when their turn came. |
Buses intercepted for sales tax evasion Ambala, April 4 The sleuths set up nakas on the G.T. road near Mohra. The nakas were also set up along the G.T. road in other districts. Acting on a tip-off, six tourist buses were stopped for checking. During checking of the buses headed from Delhi to Punjab, it was found that goods were stashed in cavities built under the chassis. The goods including spare auto parts, TV kits, CD players and fans. |
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HSMITC staff hold protest Ambala, April 4 Among others, Mr Krishan Kumar Sharma, Mr R.D. Shukla, Mr R.K. Handa, Mr Balinder Singh, Mr J.S. Virk, Mr Gyan Chand Sharma and Mr Harmohinder Singh addressed the demonstrations. The speaker demanded that the decision to shut down the HSMITC should be taken back and officials who were “misleading” the government should be removed. |
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