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Sunday,
April 14, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Thakur announces ayurvedic college for
Haryana Market Committee secy
suspended ‘Operation Speed-breaker’
from April 14 CET for MBA on June
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Minister’s directive against colonisers |
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Truck carrying cows impounded Students protest against errors
in paper Bhutan team visits
HAU DC recommends SDO’s suspension Chetna yatra flagged off Sadbhavana
yatra
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Thakur announces ayurvedic college for
Haryana Yamunanagar, April 13 Dr Thakur said this while addressing a gathering after inaugurating a health mela at Khizrabad near here today. While the hospital and the college would be set up near Yamunanagar, the trauma centre would be set up at one of the national highways. He urged the farmers to cultivate medicinal plants as the demand for herbal products had increased immensely in the domestic as well as international market. Cultivation of these crops were economically more viable and pay rich dividends. Dr Thakur also extended his greetings to the people on the eve of Baisakhi. While forwarding the demand for the hospital, ayurvedic college and the trauma centre, the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, said the present government had been making concerted efforts to expand the health services. The state government would organise such health melas all over the state as the aim of the present government was to serve the masses at their doorsteps, Mr Chautala added. He thanked the Central Government for providing assistance to the state for initiating new projects. While speaking on the occasion, the Minister of State for Health, Dr M.L. Ranga, said having achieved the target for the elimination of leprosy set by the Government of India and the World Health Organisation, Haryana was all set to achieve zero polio status by the end of the current year. Under the malaria eradication programme, the Health Department had done commendable work in this regard. The Minister informed that the National Health Programme including Prevention of Tuberculosis, Blindness Control Programme, Leprosy Eradication etc were being effectively implemented in the state. Earlier, the Union Health Minister went around the Herbal Park at Chuhurpur village and unveiled the statue of Devi Lal. The Chief Minister inaugurated a sewage treatment plant of 10 million litres per day capacity. The plant had been constructed across western Yamuna canal at a cost of Rs 4.33 crore and would treat 10 million litres of sewage per day. He also inaugurated the newly constructed building of Yamunanagar Central Cooperative Bank Limited. The building had been constructed over an area of 1,700 yards at the cost of Rs 80 lakh. The canal rest house constructed at Hathni Kund Barrage Complex was also inaugurated by the Chief Minister. Others present on the occasion included Ms Kailasho Saini, MP, Mr Rajesh Sharma, Deputy Chairman, Planning Board, Mr Akram Khan, Mr Banta Ram, both Chairmen, Dr Malik Chand Gambhir, Mr Balwant Singh, Dr B.L. Saini, Mr Kanwarpal, all MLAs, Mr M.K. Miglani, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Mr Bhagwati Prashad, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary Health and other senior officers of the state government. |
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Market Committee secy
suspended Bhiwani, April 13 Stating this here today, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Harpal Singh Malik, said a team comprising Marketing Board Chairman Balwant Singh Maina and senior civic officers of the district had conducted raids on grain markets and oil mills yesterday. Mr Maina had recommended suspension of the secretary after finding irregularities in the recovery of market fees. It is learnt that as the Deputy Commissioner received complaints regarding theft of market fees and sales tax, he constituted separate teams which conducted raids in the local mandi and at Charkhi Dadri. According to reports, a team comprising the local SDM, Mr S.B.Lohia, and the City Magistrate, Mrs Pankaj Chaudhary, conducted raids on oil mills and the grain market today and found irregularities in connection with market fees and sales tax. During these raids, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Rohtash Ahalawat, the District Food and Supplies Controller, Mr Bhagolia and officials of Sales Tax and Market Committee were also present. Mr Malik said stern action would be taken against the erring officials. He said the accused could be penalised with 30 times more sales tax and market fee and licences of such arhtiyas could be cancelled. He said the government would realise nearly Rs 10 lakh as sales tax and market fees due to these raids. He said constant vigil had been kept on mandis and raiding parties would remain active round the clock. The raiding teams had been directed to take stern action against the unscrupulous staff. He said arrangements had been made for the procurement of rabi crop and every grain of the produce would be purchased. |
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‘Operation Speed-breaker’
from April 14 Chandigarh, April 13 He said stringent action would be taken against persons driving beyond the speed limits, indulging in drunker driving, using private vehicles as taxis, plying private buses and maxi cabs without valid permits, improper display of registration number and other such offences. He said keeping in view the harvesting season, arrangements would also be made for the smooth flow of the traffic in and around grain markets. He said district SPs would prepare an action plan for this purpose, a copy of which would be sent to the police headquarters. The SPs would intimate the police headquarters about the result of this campaign in the first week of May. The better performers would be rewarded while those showing an indifferent and slack attitude would be punished, Mr Malik said. The Range IGs would also send their comments regarding the campaign to the headquarters, Mr Malik said and added that the general public would not be harassed in the course of the
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CET for MBA on June
16 Hisar, April
13 He said the Haryana Government had entrusted the GJU to conduct the CET for the MBA programme for the session 2002. The GJU, Hisar, KU, Kurukshetra and MD University, Rohtak, and their affiliated institutions were running MBA programmes. He said admissions would be made through the CET to be conducted on June 16 at various examination centres at Hisar, Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Rohtak, Kurukshetra and Charkhi Dadri. Dr Chauhan further said candidates having 50 per cent marks in aggregate in bachelor’s or master’s degrees were eligible to apply for this course. Candidates appearing in the final examinations of CA, CS and ICWA were also eligible to apply, he
added. He said the prospectus containing the application form would be available at the university sale counter from April 22. The last date for submission of application form was May 25. Ambala, April 13 Talking to mediapersons here, Mr Sampat Singh said the officials had been directed to inspect the colonies where roads had been constructed and poles set up and FIR should be lodged against the colonisers. He said the people should first enquire about the validity of the plot from the Municipal Council or the District Town Planner. He said besides HUDA, private colonisers might cut plots provided they fulfilled the norms. Answering a query, Mr Sampat Singh said the reason for not establishing sewage disposal plants in four HUDA sectors in Ambala City would be enquired into. He said farmers’ wheat would be bought at the minimum support price of Rs 620 per quintal. However, wheat brought to grain markets by businessmen would not be bought. He said the farmers would not have to pay commission. The minister said a sum of Rs 10 crore had been earmarked for the construction of SYL canal in the current budget. He said the portion of the canal in Haryana would be completed before Punjab’s portion was completed. Earlier, he listened to the grievances of people at the district grievances committee meeting held at Panchayat Bhavan. Among others, MLAs Jasbir Mallour and Veena Chhibber, DC Mahinder Kumar, SP Manoj
Yadava, Improvement Trust chairman Rameshwar Prasad and Col (retd) B.N. Bali were present.
Ambala, April 13 When the truck crossed the Patiala chowk at Ambala City, a team of the Taxation Department that was checking vehicles signalled the driver to stop the vehicle. However, the truck driver tried to flee from the site. Taxation officials followed the truck and found it abandoned at the Staff road, Ambala Cantonment. The driver and the cleaner of the truck, however, succeeded to abscond from the site. The police has registered a case against the driver. People suspect that the cows were being transported to Saharanpur for slaughtering.
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Students protest against errors
in paper Karnal, April 13 In a signed memorandum submitted to the Controller of Examinations, copies of which had been sent to the Vice-Chancellor, Head of the Commerce Department and the Director of Correspondence Courses, the students alleged that glaring mistakes had been found in unit 3 of question 9, in which the word “depreciation machinery" had been printed instead of “depreciation building” on the liabilities side of the balance sheet. This mistake would not allow the students to arrive at the correct answer, they added. In unit 3 of question 10 of the paper, there was confusion in the Hindi and English texts. The students had further alleged that the same batch had suffered the B.Com. II examination because mistakes in the final paper of accounts past year. |
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Bhutan team visits HAU Hisar, April 13 The members also had deliberations with the university’s experts on analytical methodology for the analysis of soils, plants, animal feed, water, food and pesticide residue.
PTI
Kurukshetra, April 13 Talking to mediapersons this evening, Mr Likhi said samples of substandard material used in the carpetting had been taken. These were being sent to the laboratory for tests, he added. |
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Chetna yatra flagged off Chandigarh, April 13 The participants comprising Dr Chandra Trikha, Dr Harish Chandra Verma, Mr Uday Bhanu Hans, Dr Meera Gautam, Dr Dinesh Dadhichi, Mr Madhav Kaushik, Ms Archana Thakur, Major Shergill, Mr Radhe Shyam Sharma and others will take a two-day trip touching Kurukshetra, Rohtak, Jhajjar, Narnaul, Bhiwani, Kaithal and Pehowa in the course of the journey. Similar expeditions will be organised by the academy in May and June as well, stated an offiicial spokesman here. Ambala, April 13 The yatra was led by the Sadbhavana Samiti convener, Mr Ashok Jain. A number of school students from Lord Mahavir Jain School, Arya Nursery School, Sanatan Dharam Kanya Mahavidyalaya and Hargolal Girls School participated in the march which passed through different areas of Ambala
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