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October 5, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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No truck with INLD in Assembly
Cong for right to information Wheat flour scam unearthed 18,000 apply to KU for correspondence courses |
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‘Follow’ Punjab on paddy bonus, Chautala urged Junduo calls upon Governor,
CM 13 scavengers given financial help Blood transfusion panels planned INTACH launches awareness drive Eunuch arrested in castration case
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No truck with INLD in Assembly poll: SAD Ambala, October 4 Talking to mediapersons here today, he said in 1999 Assembly election the Haryana Akali Dal had fully supported candidates of the INLD and the BJP in the state. The dal was not accommodated even on a single seat in the elections then also it continued its moral support to the INLD government. He said during the last three years the Akali leaders and workers were not given proper regard by the alliance partner. Moreover, the dal was not invited in the all-party meeting summoned by the state-government on the SYL issue in Chandigarh recently. When asked whether he had sought the permission of Mr Parkash Singh Badal to break the political alliance with sought INLD since Mr Badal had cordial relations with Mr Om Prakash Chautala, Mr Gobindgarh said recently a delegation of the Haryana Akali Dal had met Mr Badal in this regard who had authorised them to take the decision keeping their interest in mind. He said the Haryana Akali Dal would do all efforts to bring SYL water in Haryana. He said that his party would give first priority to the interests of Haryana and would oppose Punjab on the SYL issue. The secretary of the Haryana unit, Mr Randhir Singh Fauji and chairman of the disciplinary committee of the party, Mr Amarjit Singh Sidhu, were also present on this occasion. |
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Cong for right to information Chandigarh, October 4 The Congress leader said the state government must issue a white paper on the steps taken to give relief to the farmers hit by drought. Southern Haryana has been affected the most by drought and till date no cash relief has been given to the farmers. The Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, who claimed to be the champion of farmers, must issue a white paper in this connection. He added that the drought relief of Rs 20 per quintal was a cruel joke with the farmers. “The MSP should have been at least Rs 700 per quintal”, he asserted. |
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Cong leader Sheokand dead Hisar, October 4 Mr Sheokand, a former president of the Haryana unit of the Farmers cell in the Pradesh Congress, had actively participated in the freedom movement. He was associated with various social and cultural organisations. Haryana Congress President and former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal has mourned the death of the veteran partyman. He visited the bereaved family to convey his condolences. UNI |
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Wheat flour scam unearthed Kaithal, October 4 According to reliable sources, many senior officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department and Confed are involved in the scam. According to reports, after receiving a preliminary inquiry report submitted by the City Magistrate, Mr Sanjeev Verma, who is also the nodal officer for Kalayat block, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anurag Agarwal, has sent the report to the government. He has recommended a high-level enquiry into it. Officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department, Confed, chakki owners and ration depot owners, who are allegedly involved in the scam, have started roping in politicians and senior bureaucrats to hush up the scam. On the other hand, the complainants who brought these irregularities to the notice of the Deputy Commissioner have demanded that criminal cases should be registered against all those indicted in the preliminary report. The Deputy Commissioner confirmed that he had received complaints from some beneficiaries, holding yellow ration cards under the BPL scheme, that they were not receiving flour and the same was being sold on the black market. He said after receiving these complaints he appointed five nodal officers, including two SDMs, the City Magistrate, the DRO and the DDPO, to conduct an inquiry in all five blocks of the district. He said the City Magistrate had submitted his inquiry report to him, in which officials, chakki owners and ration depot holders had been found responsible for not supplying the flour to the beneficiaries, and selling huge quantities of wheat on the black market. According to information, there are 37,054 ration card holders living below the poverty line in the district and they are entitled to 35 kg of flour. The FCI supplies wheat to the Food and Civil Supplies Department and Confed at Rs 4.15 per kg to be further supplied to the beneficiaries at Rs 5.65 per kg. The officials of both organisations manipulated the supply in such a way that only a small quantity of flour reached the beneficiaries while the rest was sold on the black market. As the wheat had to be lifted from godowns of the procurement agency, the officials also committed bungling in the transportation and grinding charges. Interestingly, some trucks shown to have been engaged in transporting wheat were not available in the district and were engaged in other states. |
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18,000 apply to KU for correspondence courses Karnal, October 4 Dr Gupta told The Tribune in an interview today that during the last two days of admission — October 1 and 3 — over 6,500 students submitted their forms for admission. Last year, only 13,855 students were admitted to the correspondence courses of the university. The Directorate of Correspondence Courses had sold 40,000 prospectuses this year. The directorate introduced eight new courses from this academic year. These are Bachelor of Information Management, MA (mass communication), Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management, Post-Graduate Diploma in Insurance Business Management, Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Master of Computer Applications and Master of Business Administration. The courses which attracted maximum number of students included MBA, M.Com, MA (Economics), MA (English), MA/M.Sc (mathematics and geography) M.Sc in computer science (software) and Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications. The directorate has introduced some lateral entry courses also. For instance, a candidate who has passed a two-year Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management can seek admission to part-III of the Master of Marketing course. Similar is the case for the Master of Human Resource Management course and the M.Sc — computer science (software) course. In these courses, a candidate can seek admission to part-II after completion of a one-year post-graduate diploma course. Likewise, for Master’s in mass communication (2-year), a candidate who has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism, or a Diploma in journalism or a Bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication of one-year duration can seek admission to Part-II. About 2,000 applications have already been received for M.Phil courses in mathematics, Sanskrit, Punjabi, economics, Hindi, political science, English, commerce and physical education. The number of seats are limited. |
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‘Follow’ Punjab on paddy bonus, Chautala urged Chandigarh, October 4 In a statement issued here yesterday the General Secretary of the organisation, Mr Sat Pal Kaushik, said the Haryana farmers had been as badly hit by drought as their counterparts in Punjab. Despite facing a severe financial crunch caused by the wrong policies of the Akalis, the Congress Government in Punjab had given a bonus to the farmers. Mr Kaushik said the Chautala Government, which claimed itself to be the champion of farmers, should have taken the lead in this matter. The least it could do now was to follow in the footsteps of the Punjab Chief Minister. |
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Junduo calls upon Governor,
CM Chandigarh, October 4 Babu Parmanand said the two countries shared historical relations as several Chinese scholars had visited India in the past to study its culture. Unfortunately, due to certain misunderstandings, the bilateral relations had become bitter. He also discussed with the Ambassador the Indian theory of rebirth as well as the Chinese theory of Taoism. Mr Chautala recounted an incident from the life of the famous Chinese traveller and scholar, Hieun-Tsang, who was offered milk when he asked for a glass of water in a Haryana village. The Chief Minister told the Ambassador that he had been to the Bhutong special economic zone in Shanghai where he was impressed by the developments in the field of tissue culture. Mr Junduo told the Governor and the Chief Minister that India and China had common problems in the rural areas and they could learn from each other’s experience. He said his country was now self-sufficient in foodgrains production and Chinese farmers were now adopting mechanised farming. He invited Mr Chautala to visit China. |
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13 scavengers given financial help Pinjore, October 4 He was presiding over a state-level function organised as part of Wildlife Protection Week being observed in the state. He also gave financial assistance of Rs 20,000 each to 13 scavengers of Panchkula district to enable them to start some other income-generating activity, thus making Panchkula as first district to be free from scavenging. The Chief Minister lauded two-pronged strategies adopted by the district administration to liberate and rehabilitate 228 persons of rural, semi-urban and urban areas, who involved in manually removing night soil and filth. He regretted that wild animals were being killed for small gains, leading to several animals getting extinct. As against target of planting 4.5 crore saplings during this year, 4.23 crore had already been planted despite drought in the state. He said the Department of Forests had been directed to ensure survival of these plants and he would personally visit the areas to monitor the survival rate. While urging people to keep their surroundings clean, he said Gandhiji himself used to visit Harijan bastis and encourage people to keep themselves clean. An exhibition of posters and photographs was also put up on this occasion. Students of Hansraj Public School, Panchkula, presented a choreography on saving wildlife. The
Commissioner and Secretary, Forests, Mr Sanjay Kothari and the Chief Conservator of Forests , Mr
J.P.L. Srivastava, urged people to conserve wildlife. The Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti
Arora, said the scavengers who were given financial aid had already been imparted training to get alternate employment. She said dry toilets had been converted into regular ones, thus making the district the only scavenger-free district in country. CHANDIGARH: Under its Wildlife Week - 2002 programme, the Hindustan Scouts and Guides Chandigarh, today organised a painting competition with the theme “Let us protect and conserve our wildlife” at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. The competition was held in collaboration with the Department of Forests and Wildlife, Chandigarh, and the Indian Council for Environmental Education. About 200 Scouts and Guides from different schools of the city participated. Results in order of merit are as follows Group A (junior) — Gunish Kumar
(VIIIA, DAV Senior Secondary School); Simarpreet Kaur (VI, Shivalik Public School, Sector 41); and Chaman (VIII, Moti Ram
Arya, Senior Secondary School, Sector 27) and consolation prizes — Bharat (IV, C.L Aggarwal DAV Model School, Sector 7); and Manoj Kumar (Government High School, Khuda
Lahora); Group B — Manish Toor (XI, DAV Senior Secondary School ), Dharam Raj Maurya (X, DAV Senior Secondary School) and Vishal (IX, Shivalik Public School). Mr Ravinder
Talwar, Hindustan Scouts and Guides, Head Quarter Commissioner, Mr Ajay
Choubey, secretary, Mr R.S Dutt, State Commissioner(s), Dr Vikas Kohli, general secretary of the Indian Council of Environmental Education and Mr
R.K. Kaushik, were also present on the occasion. CHHAT BIR: As many as 50 students from 12 different schools from urban and rural areas participated in a Drawing Competition organised by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology in collaboration with the Forest and Wildlife Department of Punjab and Centre for Environment Education Punjab, at Mahendra Chaudhray Zoological Park, here during the ongoing Wildlife Week celebrations. Three best paintings submitted by Aniket and Astha, both of Shivalik Public School, SAS Nagar and Nitesh of Gian Jyoti Public School, SAS Nagar were adjudged the best. They were given away prizes by Dr Vinod Kumar Sharma, Chief Warden (zoos), Punjab, for their creations. The participants and visitors were also made aware of the threats being faced by wild animals due to environment degradation. The students were also explained the initiatives to be taken to preserve the wild life. Ms Puja, PSCST and Ms Ravleen, CEE, also spoke on the issue of bio-diversity and wildlife conservation on the occasion. Free booklets of “Wake UP to your responsibility towards the Environment” were also distributed among the students. |
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Blood transfusion panels planned Chandigarh, October 4 As per the national blood policy, a committee was constituted to recommend minimum requirements for nursing homes and voluntary organisations to apply for licences to open private blood banks. Blood storage centres would be opened at the first referral units to achieve the objective of providing safe blood to the needy at far-off places. Dr Ranga said the motivation programme for voluntary blood donation would also be taken up in a big way in the state. |
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INTACH launches awareness drive Ambala, October 4 The Subdivisional Magistrate, Ambala, Mr
M.K. Ahuja, flagged off a student’s tour from DAV Public School, Ambala City. The tour will pass through different historical sites, including Ambika Devi Mandir and terminate at Mission Hospital, Ambala City. The INTACH convener and principal, MDSD Girls College, Dr Kiran
Angra, said that the Ambala chapter of INTACH had begun work three years’ back. Special mention was made of Big
G.S. Lamba and Mr Tajinder Singh Walia who had compiled a brief on the history of various sites. The Principal DAV Public School (project director), Ms Reena Nagrath, the Principal, PKR Jain Public School, Ms Jyotsana Sachdeva, the Principal SA Jain Model School, Dr Anima Jain, and the Principal S.A. Jain College, Dr C.L. Singla, have been instrumental in arranging for the awareness generation students tour. Dr Kiran Angra said that in the near future, painting exhibitions and quiz competitions would be organised as part of the
awareness drive. |
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Eunuch arrested in castration case Karnal, October 4 Eunuch Asha, alias Moli, alias Dalbir, of Machra Mandi, Bhattu Kalan, was reported to have confessed that she had castrated Bashir, Shambhu, Negdhu and an unidentified person. She also reportedly confessed to taking Rs 10,000 per “case” from another eunuch Chandni who afterwards “performed surgery” on the victims, the police said. Chandni was already in the police custody along with her drum-beater Gyan. Meanwhile, on the report of the doctors, the court has added Section 307 of the IPC to the case.
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Mr A.K. Dhul Chandigarh, October 4 |
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Dr Dalip Sharma Chandigarh, October 4 |
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