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Wednesday,
October 23, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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HPSC ‘committed’
irregularities N-energy unavoidable option,
says Chidambaram
Dalit killings: Cong plans adjourn move Jhajjar: Mayawati to address rally |
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Encroachment
issue dominates MC meeting Mill director: Cong
leader for repoll Mysterious fever leaves 6 dead One held for storing firecrackers Man kills wife, son, self Girl shot accidentally
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HPSC ‘committed’
irregularities Chandigarh, October 22 Talking to newsmen here today Mr Dalal said the Supreme Court had restrained the state government from filling 14 posts of the HCS (Executive), which were advertised in 1999. However, the court had allowed the HPSC and the state government to complete the process of selecting suitable candidates for these posts subject to condition that they would not be issued any appointment letters. Mr Dalal said not only the HPSC committed irregularities in the selection of the candidates for these posts by including the names of wards of influential persons and of those who were close to the powers that be, the government issued the appointment letters to 14 candidates. When a contempt petition was filed against the government before the Supreme Court, Chief Secretary,
A.N. Mathur filed a reply before the apex court stating, among other things, that “the appointments... have not been made against the 14 posts advertised in 1999 which are in question(before the court) but to the vacant posts which arose subsequently and were existing on that date, over and above the said posts in question. It is further submitted that the 14 posts which were questioned...have been left unfilled”. Mr Dalal said if the Chief Secretary’s contention was correct, then the government should have advertised these posts so that the other deserving candidates could also compete for them. The government, he said, was bound to have advertised these posts after it got a Bill passed in the Budget session of the state Assembly which specifically prohibited the appointment of any person on posts in excess of the posts which were advertised by the
HPSC. Mr Dalal alleged the government favoured certain candidates twice. First, he alleged, their names were wrongly recommended by the HPSC and then the government appointed them in violation of the law framed by itself as well as in violation of the court orders. He said a petition, in which he was a party, had already been admitted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court against the HCS selections. He would now file another petition challenging the appointment of these candidates. |
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HPSC withdraws lecturer’s posts Chandigarh, October 22 An official press note said that the posts in Punjabi, physical education, public administration, Hindi, music (vocal) and music (instrumental) had been withdrawn. The number of available posts against each subject would now be Sanskrit (eight), geography (16), economics (five), Mathematics (19), botany (10), psychology (20), philosophy (three), English (61), military science (10), home science (two), History (two), political science (three) and physics (two). In view of the changes, the date for submission of applications had been extended up to November 6. |
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N-energy unavoidable option,
says Chidambaram Ambala, October 22 Stating this here today, the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Union Government, Dr R. Chidambaram, said eight nuclear plants of the 3,960 MW capacity were under construction. Of these only two plants were being constructed with Russian collaboration while the rest would be indigenous. Dr Chidambaram, architect of Pokhran nuclear explosion, was delivering the 13th Gian Chand Jain Memorial Lecture on “Technology Imperatives of Development”. He said in view of the limited coal and oil resources in the country, nuclear energy was an important and an unavoidable option. He said Dr Homi J. Bhabha, who laid the foundation of nuclear research in the country, had stressed the need to open an atomic research centre in the country as early as 1943 (even before the first nuclear bomb was exploded in Japan) so that “when the nuclear energy will become a practical proposition, we will not have to look for experts outside the country”. Stressing that national development and national security were the two sides of the same coin, Dr Chidambaram said unless a nation felt secure, it would not go for development. On the other hand, development of technology helped a nation feel secure. The greatest danger of the perceived weakness of a nation was that an enemy country could become adventurous. He said a nation’s development should be measured in terms of its per capita electricity consumption and female literacy rate. He said a higher female literacy rate was a measure of social equality and justice in a society. He said the purposes of making technological advances included creation of national wealth, improving the quality of life, particularly of those living in the rural areas and enhancing national security. Material scientists in modern industry could synergise with artisans in the rural areas to create jobs outside the agriculture and related sectors. He quoted the instance of how scientists working in a ceramic unit tought potters of Rajasthan to make minor changes in their equipment and processing techniques to make glazed terracota and stoneware of a much higher value instead of plain terracota items they had been making for years. Regretting that the “velocity of research and development in India was so slow” that “we miss the bronze medal(as in the field of sports) by a whisker”, Dr Chidambaram said the country must participate in international mega-science projects and it must go for international cooperation in science and technology on an equal basis. The Gian Chand Jain Memorial Foundation, which had organised the lecture, also conferred the Scientist of the Year awards upon Dr M.S.N. Srinivas of the Advanced Optical Processing Division of the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) and Mr V.M.L. Narasimhan, Emeritus Scientist, CSIO, for their contribution in developing “head up display” for light combat aircraft(LCA). Earlier welcoming the guests, the Chairman of the foundation, Dr N.C. Jain, said the annual lecture was an effort to “enrich the intellectual interest of a truth-seeking individual and intended to provide state-of-the-art knowledge on a subject of universal interest”. |
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Dalit killings: Cong plans adjourn move Chandigarh, October 22 This was decided at a meeting of the Haryana Congress Legislature Party(HCLP) held here today under the chairmanship of Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The meeting was attended by 15 MLAs, including Mr Bhajan Lal and his son, Mr Chander Mohan. The party will also oppose the government’s move to open casinos in the state and start on-line lottery. Mr Hooda said it was decided that the party should also raise the issue of the police lathi charge on peaceful BKU activists protesting against the irregularities committed by the ruling party in the cooperative sugar mill elections at Shahabad. Among other issues on which the Congress will try to corner the Treasury Benches are drought, retrenchment of employees and delay in the construction of the SYL canal. Mr Hooda said another meeting of the HCLP would be held on October 30 before the opening of the session. |
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Jhajjar: Mayawati to address rally Chandigarh, October 22 Importantly, the BSP, which has charged the police with murdering the five Dalits is planning to take up this issue in a big way. The party announced today that Ms Mayawati, Chief Minister of UP, would address a rally at Badshapur on Friday in protest against the killings. Ms Mayawati may announce cash compensation for the families of the slain persons, Mr Narendra Kumar Kashyap, Coordinator of the BSP in Haryana, said. Talking to TNS over the phone last evening, Mr M. Akil, SP of Jhajjar, said the police would not like to arrest anyone till the report of the Commissioner-level inquiry ordered into the killings was submitted. The SP said the post-mortem report ruled out any possibility of the five victims killing the cow. Incidentally, Mr R.R. Banswal, Commissioner of Rohtak division, who has been assigned the work of carrying out the probe into the brutal massacre, answered in the negative when asked whether the ordering of the inquiry meant that the police would not be able to take action against the culprits till it was over. “There is no such restriction,” Mr Banswal said. Mr Banswal is slated to visit the site on Friday. |
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Plan for march to Assembly Chandigarh, October 22 This was decided at a meeting held at the HPCC office here today was presided over the Mr Shamsher Singh Surjewala, President, Haryana Krishak Samaj; and Mr Tejendrapal Singh Mann, President, Haryana Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress, stated a press note issued here. |
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Encroachment
issue dominates MC meeting Ambala,
October 22 Municipal Councillors were of the opinion that in the matter of encroachments, while ‘stringent action’ was being taken against the poor, well-connected persons were being left untouched. Mr Lalita Prasad, Municipal Councillor wanted to know why alleged encroachment at Minerva complex had not been removed yet. “How did the construction take place. Officials are quick to demolish dwellings units of poor people, while the influential are left untouched,” he said. He even offered to pay for the demolition cost of the alleged encroachment at Minerva complex. The leader of the Congress in the Municipal Corporation, Mr Hira Lal Yadav, said if strict action was initiated against influential persons, it would automatically act as a deterrent for others. Mr Kamal Kishore Jain, BJP councillor, said he had objected to the building plan of Minerva complex. “When I leant that building plan had been passed for the complex. I immediately rushed to the MC office and instructed the ME not to hand over the building plan,” he said. He said apparently the building plan had been kept among a number of building plans and even the name of the property was not mentioned in it. “We objected to it and lodged protest with the then Executive Officer, but no action was taken,” he said. The Executive Officer, Mr K.K. Jain, said the matter was sub judice. The issue of 45 colonies had been regularised by the state government was also taken up. The councillors said these colonies were facing a host of problems. A councillor said those who had helped in establishing the city an unhappy situation while those who set up colonies on agricultural land had been rewarded by regularising these colonies. Mr Hira Lal Yadav said the regularised colonies had been asked to pay ‘high’ development tax. This had economically affected the local residents. Mr K.K. Jain said the matter has decided by the state government. Mr
Rajiv Gupta, Municipal Councillor, said the files regarding
contractors were put up before the Secretary of the Municipal Council
and there seemed to be a delay in clearing the files. Dr Ved Prakash
said these files should go directly to the Executive Officer. Mr Hira
Lal Yadav and Mr K.K. Jain also supported it and it was decided that
in future, all the necessary files pertaining to contractors would be
put up before the EO. |
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Mill director: Cong
leader for repoll Kurukshetra, October 22 These demands were made by a Haryana Congress leader, Dr Devender Sharma, addressing corner meetings at Ladwa and Pipli near here. Dr Sharma described the lathi charge on the farmers, peacefully demonstrating under the banner of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), at Shahabad, 30 km from here, on October 15 last, in protest against the alleged irregularities in the election held there on October 11 last, as undemocratic. A section of farmers in Haryana, could neither avail the benefit of the maximum support price (MSP) nor the bonus, as they hold sold their 45 per cent produce before the announcement, he added. Among others, who had attended the corner meetings, included Mr Ranjeet Singh, Ms Kamlesh Saini, Mr Satish Kumar, Mr Layak Singh, Mr Viney Moudgil, Mr Nazir Ahmad Nambardar, Mr Sandeep Kohli and Mr Rajender Bhargawa. |
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Mysterious fever leaves 6 dead Karnal, October 22 This fever has already claimed six lives though unconfirmed reports have put the toll at 14. The district administration in a press statement today claimed to have taken precautionary steps to check the spread of the disease. The statement quoting Civil Surgeon H.N.D. Arora said “Japani fever’’ was behind it. According to a survey, the number of patients suffering from this fever in private hospitals here was 148. There were 26 persons suffering from this fever in the Civil Hospital alone. The number of such patients at Nissing was 25 in private hospital and 15 in the civil hospital. The respective number of such patients was 40 and 18 in Nilokheri, 30 and 12 in Indri, 38 and 10 in Gharaunda and 66 and 26 in Assand subdivision.
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One held for storing firecrackers Ambala, October 22 The DSP (headquarters) Mr Raj Gopal, along with DDPO and Fire Brigade officer, had raided at several places in Ambala City. The police had sealed three of the firecrackers godowns. The police has also registered a case under Explosive Act in this regard. The Deputy Controller Explosive and Fire Brigade Department has issued several directions to its wholeseller licensee which is otherwise mandatory. The retailers are granted permission by district administration. The administration had received several complaints that some of the wholesellers of firecrackers in Ambala City have been violating the directions of the Explosive Department. |
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Man kills wife, son, self Jind, October 22 According to reports, Subhash Chand (50), a resident of the local Gopal Nagar colony allegedly gave poison to his wife, Manju (45), two sons — Nishu (16) and Meetu — and daughter Poonam and later himself consumed it. Subhash, Manju and Nishu died while Poonam and Meetu have been admitted to the local General Hospital. They are stated to be out of danger. It is alleged that Subhash Chand took this step due to continuous harassment by one of his relatives. |
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Girl shot accidentally Kurukshetra, October 22 While the girl died on the spot, her mother was taken to hospital in a serious condition where she was declared out of danger. The NCC cadet has been arrested along with his instructor as the gun belonged to the latter. The Pipli police has registered a case.
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No separate SGPC for state Kurukshetra, October 22 To streamline the functioning of the SGPC a committee has been formed to study the problems faced by these bodies and suggest suitable amendments in the Act. Mr Badungar was talking to reporters here yesterday. UNI |
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Impound stray animals: DC Kurukshetra, October 22 |
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