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Sunday, September 22, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Congress rally at Sirsa today Youth Cong seeks aid for farmers Minister sent to judicial custody Youth INLD workers to donate eyes
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Traders
resent fire, trade taxes Bank drafts found 
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Congress
rally at Sirsa today Chandigarh, September 21 The Congress will organise a rally at Sirsa tomorrow to felicitate Mr Bhajan Lal on his becoming the President of the party in the state. The star attraction will be the son of the late Madho Rao Scindia. Next day the ruling party, the INLD, will organise a rally at Jhajjar to commemorate the martyrdom day of Shahid Rao Tula Ram. A sub-group of the Congress led by Mr Inderjit Singh will organise a similar function at Rewari, which is likely to be attended by all those party leaders, who are considered to be anti-Bhajan Lal. After a day’s rest the INLD will organise a state-level rally at Jind to the celebrate the birth
anniversary of Devi Lal. Though an annual feature of the INLD, this year the September 25 rally is being described by INLD leaders as an answer to all the rallies which have been organised so far by Mr Bhajan Lal after becoming the President of the Haryana Congress. The INLD and the State Government have arranged a series of functions on September 25 to celebrate the 89th birth anniversary of Devi Lal. Before coming to Jind, the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, will participate in a prayer meeting to be organised at “Sangharsh Sthal”, the samadhi of Devi Lal in Delhi. He will also lay the foundation stone of the Jan Nayak Cultural Heritage Centre to be built by the Haryana State Industries Development Corporation at Manesar in Gurgaon district. Mr Chautala will also lay the foundation stone of a Rs 15-crore Japanese hostel-cum-restaurant at Gurgaon the same day. After the Jind rally, Mr Chautala will fly to Hisar to unveil a statue of Devi Lal at the campus of the Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar. The same evening the Chief Minister will preside over the valedictory function of a two-day “Pashu Kalyan Mela” being organised at Teja Khera, the native village of Devi Lal. He will also inaugurate a “Janamsthali” memorial dedicated to the memory of the former Deputy Chief Minister. |
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Youth Cong seeks aid for farmers Jind, September 21 Later, they organised a rally in front of the local Mini Secretariat and sent a memorandum to the Governor of Haryana through the Deputy Commissioner of Jind. The memorandum stated that the state government was promoting corruption and nepotism and was giving protection to the criminals and, therefore, it should be dismissed. They demanded that in view of the drought conditions, recovery of bank loans of farmers should be postponed for two years, compensation of Rs 10,000 per acre be given to the farmers and Rs 5,000 to each farm labourer affected by the drought. Mr Surjewala alleged that the Haryana Government had failed to fulfil its election promises made to the farmers. He said resentment prevailed among the farmers as the government had failed to fully implement an agreement reached between the Bharatiya Kisan Union and the government. Keeping in view the sentiments of the farmers, the INLD should not organise a rally at Jind on September 25 to celebrate the birth anniversary of late Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal. Mr Surjewala alleged that the law and order situation in the state had deteriorated and there was a feeling of insecurity among the people.
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Minister
sent to judicial custody Panchkula, September 21 Meanwhile, acting on a bail application moved by the accused, the court also issued notice to the state of Haryana to file reply. The application will now come up for further hearing on September 26. Earlier, contractor Gautam Sethi complained to the Haryana Vigilance Bureau alleging that the minister, through a Sub Divisional Officer, had demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from him. Mr Sethi had been given the contract for the construction of Sector 6 General Hospital building by the Haryana Government in 1998. In an affidavit to the bureau, Mr Sethi had alleged that the minister conducted inquiries about some alleged discrepancies in the construction work and demanded the money to settle the case. He used an SDO with the HPWD as a mediator. Acting on the complaint of Mr Sethi, the bureau booked him under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. He had been eluding his arrest since then. The minister had also evaded his arrest warrants, non-bailable warrants and was later declared a proclaimed offender. As a result, the court started attaching his movable and immovable properties. In the meantime, he was arrested by the Gurgaon police in some other criminal cases from where the Panchkula police today sought his arrest. While talking to the TNS the former minister said he was a victim of political vindictiveness and was implicated in a false case. He alleged that former Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal had implicated him in false cases since the time he left the Haryana Vikas Congress. Mr Bansi Lal was shielding Sethi and seven other senior departmental officials. ‘‘After going through the records I had found misappropriation of Rs 27 lakh and had suspended seven senior HPWD officials in this connection. Just in a couple of weeks after I left the party, cases were registered against me’’, he claimed. |
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Youth INLD workers to donate eyes Yamunanagar, September 21 Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, Member of Parliament and President of the Youth INLD, while addressing a youth party workers’ meeting at Jagadhri today, stated that from Yamunanagar district alone more than 5,000 workers had filled the forms to donate eyes. He said in the country there were more than one million cases of blindness. He said Haryana would take the lead in providing vision to the blind. Mr Chautala announced that on October 2, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, the Haryana unit of the Youth INLD would start a cleanliness drive in the state. Earlier, Mr Chautala inaugurated an office of the Youth INLD at Jagadhri. Mr Balwant Singh, district president and MLA from
Sadhaura, Dr M.C. Gambhir and Mr Banta Ram, INLD, MLA, and Mr Akram Khan, Chairman of the Haryana Dairy Development Board, were present on the occasion.
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Mobile telephony from Oct 2 Ambala, September 21 Talking to mediapersons after inaugurating the integrated customer service network and upgraded customer service centre, Mr Prithipal Singh said that full-scale preparations were under way for the October 2 launch. “We are going to be give better package and better coverage. Besides that, we are going to take care of the needs of the common people,” Mr Singh said. He said different types of segments were going to be tapped. To a query, Mr Prithipal Singh observed that there was no contradiction between wireless in local loop and mobile telephony, both of which were going to be offered by “BSNL”. A person can choose according to his need,” he said. The upgraded customer service centre was inaugurated by Mr Prithipal Singh at the GMT Office. Ambala Cantonment. Mr Singh suggested to the telecom officials that efforts must be made to ensure that there was a single-window processing. In Ambala SSA, wide area networking has been used for extending customer services at Ambala Cantt, Ambala City. Yamunanagar, Chhachrauli and Kalka. In these customer service centres, the subscribers will be facilitated with online payments for new telephone connections STD PCOs and telephone bills. Other activities like requests for provision of STD, re-setting of STD code, internet ISDN connections, leased lines, web and IT cards, provision of STD and CCB PCOs and shifting of telephones can be made from any of these centres. |
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Traders
resent fire, trade taxes Kaithal, September 21 The mandal criticised the new house tax policy introduced in the state said that burden of the house tax was so such that the property owners felt as if they were tenants and not owners of the property. Similarly the issuance of if power bills on the basis of one kv of minimum consumption by the consumers was illegal and unjustified. The mandal alleged that by introducing ST 38 forms the government had provided an opportunity to the officials to harass the traders. It took exception to imposition of fire tax and trade tax and called withdrawal thereof. |
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Bank drafts found Chandigarh, September 21 One of the drafts for Rs 150 is in favour of the Bar Council of India. Two other drafts of Rs 700 and Rs 1000 , respectively, are in in favour of the Punjab and Haryana high Court Bar Council. Major Guraya can be contacted in Chandigarh (3075/35-D) on phone number 0172-604345. The drafts were found about 15 days back and since then the Major has written to the bank in Hisar but to no avail. |
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Stress laid on
tree plantation Yamunanagar, September 21 He said the objective of Herbal Nature Park is to conserve the medicinal plants of Haryana. |
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Air Marshal visits Air Force Station Ambala, September 21
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