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July 7, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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INLD to decide on relief today Cong high command rejects Hooda’s reply Haryana demarcates bundh Akharas
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Income Tax Commissioner granted bail Rs 92.66 lakh spent on flood control Five feeders
energised
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INLD to decide on relief today Chandigarh, July 6 All party legislators, executive committee members and office-bearers have been asked to attend the meeting. “A proposal will be put up before the meeting for paving the way for awarding compensation to the affected families. In all probability, the proposal will be approved”, a senior INLD leader said. Earlier, a government committee headed by Finance Minister Sampat Singh assured a BKU team that it would urge Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, President of the INLD, to give Rs 5 lakh each to families of slain agitators on behalf of the party. Questions have been raised as to why the money is being given by the party and not the government. While ruling party functionaries have not cleared the issue, it is believed that by involving the party in giving the money, Mr Chautala wants to send across the message that the step taken by his government to drive away the agitators was correct. The other theory doing the rounds in this regard is that since the Congress has decided to give compensation to the families of the slain agitators, the INLD must follow suit. Significantly, the Congress, which earlier gave Rs 1 lakh each to the families of five BKU supporters who died at Gulkani, today announced that it would give Rs 1 lakh each to the families of three more agitators on Monday. Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, HPCC chief and other party leaders would give the money to the families of Rajesh, Ram Swaroop and Ramdiya on that day in their respective villages, a Congress leader told the TNS. While the Congress is giving compensation to families of eight farmers, claimed to have been killed in the police action by the BKU, the number of families who will be benefited by the compensation to be given by the INLD will be less. “Family members of those who have been certified by the medical authorities to have died due to bullet injuries will be given compensation”, a senior INLD leader said. He said the BKU was yet to submit a list regarding the number of persons killed. While it has been certified medically that five persons who died in Gulkani were hit by bullets, there is a controversy over the deaths of Rajesh, Ram Swaroop and Ramdiya. Ram Swaroop died in a clash with the police in Nagura village on May 19. The administration has denied that he died in the police firing. It is, however, believed that the post-mortem report of Ram Swaroop was tampered with. Ramdiya and Rajesh, according to the state government, due to natural causes. This claim of the government is supported by independent observers. |
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Cong high command rejects Hooda’s reply New Delhi, July 6 Taking a serious note of the slogan-shouting at the May-23 rally, the high command had asked Mr Hooda to identify and punish the troublemakers so that such incidents were not repeated. Sources said in his reply to the high command’s letter, Mr Hooda had explained that it was an impromptu reaction by the crowd and it was difficult to identify persons who had protested in the big crowd as almost all of those present had raised their hands when Mr Bhajan Lal began to speak. He pointed out that the rally lasted for over five hours in the presence of senior leaders and hands were raised only when Mr Bhajan Lal spoke. Apparently dissatisfied with Mr Hooda’s reply, the high command has asked him to punish those who had caused indiscipline in the rally. Feeling the need of strong action to check indiscipline in its Haryana unit, the high command wants that proper message be sent to those encouraging factionalism. The sources said that the top-level changes in the Haryana Congress had been finalised and might be announced next week after final decision was taken by Congress President Sonia Gandhi. While Mr Birender Singh was likely to be made the PCC chief, Mr Bhajan Lal might continue as the CLP leader. Mr Hooda might be given an assignment at the
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Haryana demarcates bundh Yamunanagar, July 6 A joint team of both states comprising the SDM, DSP of Jagadhri and revenue officials of the district and their counterparts of Uttar Pradesh were camping there for past one week. Uttar Pradesh officials said the bundh being constructed by the Haryana Government was on Uttar Pradesh side and would create problem for the people residing in about 50 Uttar Pradesh villages. Whereas Haryana officials were constructing the bundh because during the monsoon about 20 villages are cut off from all sides and become an island. The officials of both states decided for the demarcation of the border. Mr Rampal Majra, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, who is also looking after the Irrigation Department of Haryana said yesterday that he talked with his counterpart Mr O.P. Singh, Irrigation Minister, Uttar Pradesh to ensure peaceful completion of the bundh for the benefit of the people of both states. He said the Haryana Government had spent Rs 25 lakh on the bundh of which 90 per cent of the job had already been completed. Mr Majra made it clear that Haryana Government had constructed the bundh on their own land which had been clearly shown in the revenue record. He said it was baseless that 50 villages of Sharanpur district would be flooded during the rainy season. He said the demarcation of land from the Haryana side had already been completed. Ms Renu Phulia, SDM, Jagadhri, stated that joint team of the district officials and officials of Sharanpur district were present at the time of demarcation and added that the demarcation work from Uttar Pradesh side would be undertaken from Monday onwards. She said the affected villages of Haryana were Lakad Partappur, Kanyawala, Bhilpura, Nawajpur, Mandewala, Belgarh, Rilibhud and others. She said after the work of demarcation from Uttar Pradesh side the rest of the construction would be completed. She informed that the Deputy Commissioner, Yamunanagar, Mr Vijendra Kumar, had also visited the site twice. |
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Akharas threaten stir Kurukshetra, July 6 Many religious organisations have urged the Governor and the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, to reconsider the move. While talking to mediapersons at Shri Sangmeshwar Dhaam, Urnai (Pehowa), 30 km from here, today, the Panchayati Akhara Maha Nirvani general secretary, Mahant Gangapuri said if the move was not withdrawn then all akharas would launch a joint agitation. He said a decision to this effect was taken by the Sadhu Samaj at its meeting held yesterday. He said the meeting described the move as wrong step. The meeting also unanimously passed a resolution, according to which, the samaj would oppose the move. The Akhil Bharatiya Tirth Purohit Mahasabha president, Mr Shriprakash Mishra said by taking the step the KDB was attacking the rights of temple priests. The Brahman Aivam Teerthoudhaar Sabha here yesterday unanimously expressed resentment over the KDB move. |
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BSNL cell services in Karnal from August 15 Kurukshetra, July 6 Stating this at a press conference here last evening, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Karnal, General Manager, Mr C.S. Kataria, said that towers had been erected at five out of 22 sites for the services while foundation stones had been laid at another five sites. Similarly, the work on mobile switch at Panipat was being carried out on a war footing and the work for erecting a tower at Pipli, 5 km from here, would start by the end of this week. The roof top work at the rest of the 11 sites had been allotted to a private firm, he added. Talking about providing better services, including faultless telephone services to the subscribers, Mr Kataria said that BSNL was planning to make each of the district headquarters a pole-less town to bring the fault rate to zero. He said that the job had been assigned to three contractors and the assignment was likely to be completed within six months. Two new telephone exchanges, each with a capacity of 500 lines, had been commissioned at Kohand village near Ghrounda in Karnal district and Prabhot village in Kaithal district last month. While another two exchanges were likely to be commissioned at villages Pakka Khera and Landora in Karnal district this month, he added. |
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Income Tax Commissioner granted bail Ambala, July 6 “Keeping in view the totality of circumstances as discussed, the petitioner-accused is admitted bail a sum of Rs 50,000 with one surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of this court on the condition that he would not interfere in the investigational process and would rather cooperate with the investigating agency whenever required and would not leave the jurisdiction of the court without its permission,” the order of Special Judge, Ambala, Dr Bharat Bhushan Prasoon, said. The order added that the petitioner-accused working as Income Tax Commissioner was alleged to have demanded and accepted bribe of Rs 1,00,000 in cash from complainant Rajesh Bahl at his residence at Karnal on May 9. A trap was laid which was successful and the petitioner-accused was arrested. “This is the second application for seeking regular bail by the petitioner. The first application was dismissed on May 28. The petitioner-accused is in custody since May 10. An application for seeking interim bail on the ground of alleged illness of his wife, however, was dismissed on June 21,” the order states. |
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Rs 92.66 lakh spent on flood control Ambala, July 6 Mr Gautam said that monitoring centres had been established at the district, subdivision, tehsil and block levels so that immediate relief work could start in case of flood. He said that “A” class monitoring centres had been set up at Ambala, Barara, Naraingarh and Shahazadpur, a release said. He said that official were inspecting the spots from where there was a likelihood of excess water coming into the district. He said that excess water from Punjab side caused damage. |
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Five feeders
energised Ambala, July 6 The Deputy Commissioner, Mr D.D. Gautam, said that the feeders at Samalheri, Tepla, Mangoli, Bhanokheri and Sonda had been established with the financial assistant of the Rural Electrification Corporation. He said that two overloaded feeders at Samalkha and Mohri had been rehabilitated. With this, the problem of low voltage in 14 villages had been solved. |
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