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July 23, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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INLD gives relief to BKU stir victims Ex-CS reluctant to join new post? Global conference for regular review of varsity rules Economic package
sought Garbage
contractor gets notice |
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Quality Marking Centre’ Ambala, July 22 The Haryana Exporters Association has demanded that the Haryana Government should reactivate the Quality Marking Centre (QMC) at Ambala cantonment. 
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INLD gives relief to BKU stir victims Jind, July 22 According to sources, Rs 5 lakh was given to each family of the deceased farmers. INLD leaders Mr Sampat Singh, Finance Minister, Mr Surinder Singh Barwala, MP Mr Suraj Bhan Kahal Chairman, Finance Commission, Haryana and President of the Jind Unit of the INLD and Mr Ram Pal Majra, Chief Parliamentary Secretary handed over the money to families of the deceased at Gulkani and Rajpura villages. Mr Ram Phal Kandela, state general secretary of the BKU, Mr Mohinder Singh Ghimana, President at the Jind unit of the BKU and Mr Vijender Singh, Mr Mohinder Singh Ghimana, President of the BKU Hisar unit accompanied the INLD leaders. Rajbir, Vijender and Naresh Lohan of Gulkani village and Dilbagh Singh, Om Parkash and Maha Singh of Rajpura village were killed when the police resorted to firing to lift the road blockade on the Jind-Hansi road near Gulkani village in the last week of May this year. The call for the road blockade was given by the BKU as a part of its agitation. The Congress had already given Rs 1 lakh as financial assistance to each family of the deceased farmers at condolence meetings held at Gulkani village on June 9 and July 17. |
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Ex-CS reluctant to join new post? Chandigarh, July 22 Mr Goyal, who was unceremoniously replaced from the Chief Secretary’s post when he was abroad, in stead of joining the new assignment went on one week’s leave on return from his foreign trip. He was scheduled to join today. He has reportedly taken leave for five days from today. Talking to TNS, Mr Goyal said he could not join today as he was still not well. “I may join later in the week”, he said. All this may create problems for the government in the context of the drought-like situation prevailing in the state. The Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, it may be stated, also functions as the Relief Commissioner in the case of any calamity hitting the state. If Mr Goyal remains unavailable for the job, the state government will have to make an alternative arrangement. Mr A.N. Mathur, who succeeded Mr Goyal as the Chief Secretary, held a meeting here last week in which various departments were asked to prepare themselves for the drought-like conditions. Mr Goyal did not attend the meeting as he was on leave. On Wednesday, a meeting has been called in Delhi by the Union Agriculture Ministry regarding the parched conditions prevailing in the northern states. Mr Goyal is unlikely to attend this crucial meeting too. A junior officer will be sent to Delhi to represent Haryana’s case if Mr Goyal is unable to go to Delhi. The Relief Manual of Haryana, on the basis of which action will be initiated in the state in the case of drought also assigns a key role to the Revenue Department. It is the Revenue Department which will have to make assessment about the loss suffered by the farmers elusive monsoon. In the absence of Mr Goyal, Mr Sarban Singh, Special Secretary, Revenue Department, is looking after the department. |
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Global conference for regular review of varsity rules Karnal, July 22 This information was given by Mr R.S. Chaudhry, Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, in an interview with The Tribune here today. Mr Chaudhry was one of the seven participants from the Indian universities at the three-day conference. The conference discussed subjects relating to academic values, national dreams of universities and global realities facing the education system in the attempt to globalise it. Mr Chaudhry said he had suggested that in order to match the demands made by the state and the functioning of the university system, the curriculum being pursued in the liberal i.e. humanities and the professional courses in the universities needed to be drastically changed throughout the world. It was felt that the liberal courses should have the aspect of skill development and the professional courses the ‘tinge of value consciousness’. Mr Chaudhry had also suggested that in professional education core elements of social sciences and humanities should be included. His proposal that the liberal courses must have specialised skills to match the market needs was appreciated at the conference. In his paper “National Dreams and the University Development,” it was stated that the universities contributed towards national and international development especially in the form of human capital. What was desired of them was to produce “human beings with vision for future society”. Therefore, the universities should produce thinking beings. The Vice-Chancellors and Presidents of universities were of the view that the universities should work to make the students rise above the material aspects and instead become spiritual beings who should think about the development of humanity and international brotherhood. |
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Economic package sought Ambala, July 22 Talking to mediapersons here today, the general secretary of the party, Mr Surinder Singh Hooda said the Centre must grant an economic package worth Rs 15,000 crore so that overall development could take place in the state with particular emphasis on the farmers. Mr Hooda said the district unit for Ambala was going to be set up soon. “The Haryana unit was established about a year back and since then we have held two major rallies. In our party, there is no place for spent forces,” he said. “We will raise our voices of the oppressed classes,” he said. He said the cases against the farmers in Kandela should be withdrawn and the Kandela agreement implemented. “We demand that Haryana should be declared a drought-hit state following the delayed monsoon. |
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Garbage contractor gets notice Ambala, July 22 Municipal Council officials are not satisfied with the garbage collection being carried out in the areas allotted to a contractor. Following inspection of the garbage collection by officials, a show-cause notice has been served on the garbage contractor. The privatisation of garbage collection had been carried out on for the first time in colonies falling in ward Nos 6 to 7. According to an estimate, about 50 colonies fall in the area allotted to the contractor. The contractor had begun work from the beginning of the last month. Although, people did look forward to privatisation with the hope that there will be considerable improvement in garbage collection, their hope seems to have been belied. The Executive Officer of the council, Ambala Sadar, Mr K.K. Jain, said the notice had been served on the contractor. “We were not satisfied with his work so the notice was served,” he said. Mr Jain said reply to the notice is awaited. “About seven weeks has elapsed since the contractor began his work. There were certain complaints of unsatisfactory work,” he said. He pointed out that the contract was awarded for Rs 1.60 lakh for a month. “However, we imposed a penalty of 20 per cent on his payment for the last month as we were not satisfied with the work,” he said. “The contractor was paid about RS 32,000 less in the first month itself,” he added. The Ambala Cantonment MLA, Mr Anil Vij said: “Even if there is privatisation of the garbage collection, I am of the opinion that public committees should be set up so that the cleanliness is monitored regularly.” He said although the cleanliness drive in each ward was the prerogative of the councillor, the setting up of committees would keep a check on safai karamcharis and effectively monitor the garbage collection. Incidently, even some municipal councillors have come in for flak during the garbage collection effort by the contractor. Apparently, some councillors would ‘oblige” particular areas in their wards and not pay much attention to certain pockets where they do not enjoy much support. The Municipal Council authorities have also been informed that some councillors had taken on the responsibility of “directing” the safai staff of the private contractor. However, only select areas saw effective implementation while the rest of areas continued to be ignored. “The possibility of teething problem cannot be ignored. Afterall, this is for the first time that privatisation of garbage collection is taking place. It would be premature to say that privatisation attempt in garbage collection has not the desired result,” an official said. |
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‘Reactivate Quality Marking Centre’ Ambala, July 22 The association stated that the centre would provide testing facilities for the improvement of instruments manufactured by the scientific instruments industry. “The QMC should operate from the building of the IDDC on the Staff Road since this building was originally with the QMC. A grant of Rs 2 crore may be given to the QMC to establish the latest and modernised testing facilities,” a release said. The association has suggested that the IDDC centre should confine its activities to research, development and design. “For this purpose a grant of Rs 1 crore should be given by the Haryana Government and the R and D centre may operate from a new building on the G.T. Road,” the release stated. On the change of land use issue, the association stated that in the present circumstances, the control area limit might be reduced from 8 km to 5 km. “This is necessary since the units in the control area have to close link with the town for their day-to-day work. All applications under control area are to be processed by the Director of Industry and to be decided within three months,” the release stated. |
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