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August 1, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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CM convenes all-party meeting Cattle being sold for a song 8 Sacha Sauda devotees, driver die in mishap 50 more MBBS seats for
Agroha college 84 pc children in state anaemic |
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Pilgrims allege harassment Tributes
paid to Army jawan Woman sarpanch removed 472 chosen as panches 
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CM convenes all-party meeting Chandigarh, July 31 The all-party meeting will be held in Haryana Niwas here on August 14 at 12 noon. Mr Chautala has invited all MPs and MLAs of the state as well as the Presidents of all recognised political parties in Haryana to the meeting. In a personal letter written to all invitees, Mr Chautala said after 1990 when the construction of the canal had come to a standstill in Punjab, it had not been restarted despite Haryana’s victory in the legal battle fought in the apex court, which directed Punjab on January 15, 2002, to complete the construction of the canal within one year. The Supreme Court also directed that in case Punjab failed to complete the canal within the stipulated period, the Centre would undertake the construction of the canal through its own agency. Mr Chautala said because of the incompletion of the canal, about three lakh hectares in Haryana was without irrigation, as a result of which the state had to incur an annual loss of Rs 500 crore. Foodgrains to the tune of eight lakh tonnes were not being produced. He said the Centre had convened a meeting of the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana for July 25. The Union Water Resources Minister, Mr Arjun Charan Sethi, he said, directed the Punjab Chief Minister to implement the apex court directions. Mr Chautala said it was the need of the hour that all Haryanavis should rise above political considerations and launch a joint struggle on the SYL issue. |
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Cattle being sold for a song Siwani (Bhiwani), July 31 Krishan Kumar, a farmer at Dhanibalara village, near here, said five buffalos had died in this village due to ailments linked to drought-like conditions. Dr Ramphal Singh, in charge of Veterinary Hospital here, said the animals were being affected by various ailments following drought-like conditions. One of the most common disease, according to him is lives flu which is caused by drinking contaminated water by buffalos. He said these diseases were potentially fatal. More and more cattle were undergoing miscarriages due to the heat. The animals, he said, were also suffering for want of essential minerals like calcium and phosphorous. The supply of medicines by the government to the dispensary, located in an area severely affected by drought-like conditions, is still geared to treat animals of ailments that occur in the rainy season. “We have got vaccines only for haemrogesic septicemia. Though we are vaccinating the animals, it normally takes place during monsoon”, the doctor said. He said the medicines were a mineral mixture which the farmers could purchase from chemists. “The farmers cannot afford other medicines”, he said. The situation is so grim that the farmers have already started selling their cattle at a throwaway price. Omvir Singh, a farmer at Jhanwari village, near
Tosham, said he had sold one of his buffalos for Rs 11,000. “ Had there been no drought, the buffalo could have been sold for Rs 16,000”, he said. Aankhe Ram, of the same village, has sold two buffalos for Rs 18,000. Under normal circumstances the buffalos would have fetched a much better price. Similar instances have been found at
Dhanibalara, Dhanikhera and other villages of this subdivision and at Rupana village of Hisar on the Hisar-Bhiwani border. “ People are selling their cattle and keeping only the bare minimum number necessary for the household”, Balbir Singh, who has sold three buffalos, said. The main reason why the farmers are selling their livestock is the shortage of fodder. The price of fodder has skyrocketed, and at times it is impossible to get it. “One quintal of ‘turi’
(bajra) used to be Rs 100 but now Rs 250”, said Bhim Singh, a farmer of
Tosham. The buffalos have also become particularly vulnerable as the water in ponds, has become contaminated. It is, believed that the cattle population of the state is the worst-affected due to the dry conditions. |
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8 Sacha Sauda devotees, driver die in mishap Sirsa, July 31 Eight of the nine persons who were killed in the mishap were the disciples of the local Sacha Sauda dera and were returning from the dera to Khanori in Sangrur district. The ninth victim was identified as the driver of one of the trucks. According to information truck number HR-08/6675 was coming from Dadri in Bhiwani to Sirsa when it collided with truck number HRJ-8391 carrying the devotees. According to an eyewitness, the trucks, carrying the devotees, was ripped apart. Another witness estimated the number of devotees to be around 10. The district police chief confirmed the death of nine persons. He said 39 persons were injured. However, according to UNI nearly 50 persons were injured in the accident. The district police chief said the injured were rushed to the local Civil Hospital. The condition of six of them was stated to be serious. One of them had been referred to Rohtak Medical College, he said. According to the survivors, the truck carrying the devotees collided with another truck while overtaking a motor cycle. CHANDIGARH: The Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash
Chautala, has condoled the death of nine persons, who died in an accident between two trucks on NH-10, near Ding crossing, 15 km from Sirsa, today. The Chief Minister also directed the district administration to provide medical facilities to the injured persons, who were admitted to the General Hospital in Sirsa. He also conveyed his condolences to the members of the bereaved families. |
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50 more MBBS seats for
Agroha college Chandigarh, July 31 The MCI permission was conveyed to the member-secretary of the Maharaja Agrasen Medical Educational and Scientific Research Society (MAMESRS), which has set up the Agroha college, as well as the Haryana Government by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare yesterday. According to Mr Bhagwati Prasad, Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Medical Education, Haryana, the Government is considering allowing admission to the Agroha college on the basis of the entrance test already conducted by Kurukshetra University. However, he says the final decision will be taken by Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala. The MCI had initially allowed the Agroha college an annual intake of 50 students. The president of the MAMESRS, Mr O.P. Jindal, told TNS that the society would soon apply for another 50 seats from the next academic session because the MCI team, which twice inspected the college, had suggested that the infrastructure available at Agroha, with some additions, was enough to qualify the college for having 100 seats. Mr Jindal said the society had initially applied for 50 seats because the college had only a 500-bed hospital, which would now be expanded to a 750-bed hospital so that 100 students could be admitted to the college. |
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84 pc children in state anaemic Panchkula, July 31 Moreover, the reproductive health of women in the state is a cause of serious concern. The use of recommended ante natal care is low, with only 20 per cent of mothers receiving the recommended ante natal care. The startling revelations were made by officials of the National Family Health Survey while addressing mediapersons here today. They were participating in a seminar on the National Family Health Survey, organised by the Directorate of Health Services, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, and Population Reference Bureau , Washington. The officials pointed out that the neglect of child and woman healthcare in the state was more because of age-old customs than deficiency in the services provided. Dr. Sumati Kulkarni, chief coordinator of the survey, said the survey had proved that nearly 50 per cent of the women in the state had no say regarding their own healthcare and were dependent on their husbands for taking a decision in this regard. She said teenage motherhood was also the highest in the state , with 16 per cent of women attaining motherhood in the age group of 15 to 20 years.
Interestingly, while more than 75 per cent of the women were receiving ante natal check ups during the previous survey in 1992- 93, this had declined to 58 per cent now. The survey showed that if a couple had two daughters more than 80 per cent still wanted to take another chance as against only 5 per cent couples who wanted to have another child after having two sons. Dr Rajib Acharya, MACRO consultant, International Institute for Population Science, while giving the details said the infant mortality rate in the state was 57 per 1000 births. The percentage of children being immunised was 63 percent, he added. The positive aspect of the survey was that the birth rate in the state was declining rapidly. This has gone down from 4 per cent in 1992 to 2. 9 percent now.
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Rat
menace under control Ambala,
July 31 The rat menace at Ambala cantonment railway station has been considerably brought under control during the past few months. There had been an alarming increase in rodent population at the railway station which has now been significantly brought under control through a major project. The railway authorities, concerned over the high rodent population, at Ambala railway station had awarded work to a Chandigarh-based pest control organisation. Over the past few months, the population of rats, which, according to an estimate, was running into a few thousand, has been brought down. Additional
Divisional Railway Manager B.K. Sonawane said that the operation to
check rodent population is still on. “There has been reasonable
relief since the operation against rats was launched at the railway
station. The rat population is no longer a serious issue,” he said. Mr
Sonawane said that it was an experimental effort to control the rodent
population which has proved successful. “If we receive similar
complaint of a major rat menace from any other station in the Ambala
Railway Division, efforts to check the rat population will definitely
be actively considered,” he said. Mr Prem Singh of the pest
control organisation said that work against rats was initiated in
February this year. “Initially, it looked to be a formidable task
but we have managed to bring down the rodent population,” he said. He
said that a large number of rats have been killed but more rats come
from the surrounding areas. “According to our estimate, a few
thousand rats have been exterminated by us. This work will continue
for about two years,” he said. “Also, we are doing regular spray
to control the population of flies. We believe that about 80 per cent
of the fly population has comedown,” he added. To a query, he said
that birds do not eat the chemical mixed with eatable which is put
near the rat hole. “The rat menace was on all the platforms of the
railway station but their presence has become negligible now,” he
said. The pest control employees said that when they began work, the
rats would come out in large numbers even before the eatable laced
with chemical could be given. “The rats, which died, were huge,”
the employee said. Once the rats were killed, a chemical spray was
sprayed before a perfume spray was used in the area. “Later, we
buried the bodies of the rats after using chemicals,” the employee
stated. Interestingly, the pest control employees have observed that
some of the rat holes in Ambala railway station were connected to the
nearby Subzi Mandi, located across to GT Road. “Earlier, the rats
were big and round. Now, we have spotted rats with long noses which
are commonly seen at the Subzi Mandi in the rat holes,” he said. |
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Pilgrims allege harassment Yamunanagar, July 31 According to information here today, a bus carrying the pilgrims of Gorakhpur was going to Jammu when they were stopped by employees of the department who demanded the papers of the bus when they entered Haryana from Kalanaur border. According to driver of the bus, they had deposited the tax of Haryana at the border, the receipt of which was shown to the members of the checking staff. The driver further alleged that the employees misbehaved with him as well as with the passengers. In protest, the passengers sat on the road, blocked the traffic and smashed the windowpanes of the DTO’s gypsy. Subdivisional Magistrate, Jagadhri, Ms Renu Phulia and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Ashok Kumar, reached the spot and tried to pacify the pilgrims and returned them the papers of the bus. They assured the pilgrims that action would be taken against the culprits and on their assurance they restored the traffic. |
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Tributes paid to Army jawan Hisar, July 31 He was a member of one of the three companies engaged in operations against terrorists in the area. During one such operation, he was fired at from close range by a terrorist holed up in a building. He received gun shots in his chest, face and leg. He died fighting the enemy. Mr Ajay Chautala, MP, attended the meeting along with senior district officials. Paying tributes to the martyrs, he assured a government job for a member of the family of the martyr. |
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Woman sarpanch removed Bhiwani, July 31 On a complaint, an inquiry was instituted by the SDM, Charkhi Dadri, who found the sarpanch guilty. |
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472 chosen as panches Chandigarh, July 31 Of the 25 vacant seats of member of panchayat samiti, 15 had been elected unopposed and now voting would take place for the remaining 10 vacant seats only. For the one vacant seat of ward No 4 of the Zila Parishad, Sirsa, Mr Gurbachan Singh had been elected unopposed. |
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Special seminar Chandigarh, July 31 |
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Haryana wins first position Chandigarh, July 31 |
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