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93 MITC employees’ salaries not paid Haryana amends PCS rules Banswal to hear Dulina cops on Nov 6 Samba mishap victims cremated |
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93 MITC employees’ salaries not paid Fatehabad, November 3 The state government had decided to wind up the MITC on June 29. It had locked the MITC offices and served retrenchment notices to its employees. The employees have since been fighting a battle for survival on various fronts without much success. The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, had recently announced that the state government would soon release salaries of the MITC employees for July and August before Divali. The announcement had brought hope to the employees and their families. But the list of employees, whose salaries have been released has distressed many employees. As many as 93 out of 247 MITC employees of the district have been left out in the list. Most of these employees are Class IV employees. The employees, now living in far flung areas, came here yesterday to get their salaries. But those whose names were missing from the list had to return empty-handed. The authorities cited some technical reason for the delay in the release of their salaries. The employees were told that the department had lost the list of some employees. Mrs Rajwati, widow of an employee Dina Nath, told reporters here that her husband could not bear the shock of losing his job due to closure of the corporation and died of heart attack. On learning that the department was paying two month’s salary to the employees, she had come here to collect the salary of her late husband. But she was told that the name of her husband did not appear in the list. She has four children, including two daughters. The elder daughter had to leave her studies midway, as the mother was unable to bear the cost of her studies. One of her sons eked out a living for the family through labour. Mrs Rajwati’s younger daughter is a student of BA II and her university examination forms are to be filled by November 21. She said ever since her husband died, the family had been passing through a financial crisis. Mr Prem Chand, another Class IV employee of the MITC, had come here from Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. He said when he learnt that the government was paying their salaries for two months, he got a loan Rs 500 from a friend and reached here. But on coming here he learnt that his name was missing from the list.
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Haryana
amends PCS rules Chandigarh, November 3 The amended rules would be known as the Punjab Civil Services (Executive branch) Haryana 2nd Amendment Rules, 2002. Regarding the recommending authorities, the press note said the Chief Secretary would be able to make three recommendations, the Principal Secretary, Revenue, two recommendations while one recommendation each could be made by all remaining heads of departments and state public sector undertakings. Those who had not completed five years of continuous government service or service under a public sector undertaking would be ineligible for recommendation. The Cabinet also approved a proposal of the Urban Development Department to allot 17 marla municipal land of the Assandh Municipal Committee to the Rangreta Dal Samiti for the construction of a chaupal. |
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Banswal
to hear Dulina cops on Nov 6 Chandigarh, November 3 According to the official presentation of the incident, thousands of people who were returning from the Dasehra festival had suspected the victims as cow slaughterers and lynched them by snatching them from the custody of police personnel deployed at the outpost. The story, however, has been challenged by all opposition parties who had claimed that one of the five men were accidentally killed by the police following an altercation over bribes demanded by the latter. When one of the men died, the panic-stricken policemen, fearing that they were going to be charged with a case of death in police custody — instigated local people to kill the four remaining persons by raising a hue and cry over the carcass of the dead cow purchased by the victims from nearby Farooqnagar. Those who have accused the police to be the main culprit include two former chief ministers, Bansi Lal and Mr Bhajan Lal. Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, while refusing to entertain the Opposition’s demand for a CBI inquiry into the incident, stood by the cops, saying that the opposition charges were not true. Talking to TNS from Jhajjar, official sources, however, said the cops posted at the Dulina outpost on that day had been already sent to the police lines for their failure to protect the victims. The sources said Mr Banswal had already held sittings with the families of the victims as well as with the person from Farooqnagar from whom the carcass was purchased by the victims. A mahapanchayat, which was held in Jhajjar yesterday to demand the implementation of the Cow Slaughter Act in Haryana and the declaration of cow as the national animal, was in fact, an attempt to put pressure on the administration to refrain from taking any action against the culprits the sources said. They added that the mahapanchayat was organised by followers of the Arya Samaj movement. |
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Samba mishap victims cremated Yamunanagar, November 3 The deceased include Lieut Col Gurcharan Singh Mehta (retd), his son Capt Rajat Mehta, daughter-in-law Leena Mehta, all residents of Yamunanagar, and Sangeeta, daughter, Priyanka Mohini, Grand-daughter, both residents of Rohini, New Delhi. Colonel Mehta, Capt Rajat and his wife Leena were cremated here today. The bodies of Sangeeta and Priyanka were sent to Delhi. Capt Rajat Mehta was posted at Coimbatore. He was married on October 14 with Leena. The Mehtas had decided to pay obeisance at Vaishno Devi and then visit Leena’s parents in Delhi. Their car collided head-on with a sugar-bag laden truck near Samba in Jammu yesterday. The car had caught fire. |
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Cong for CBI probe Sirsa, November 3 |
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Voters lists’ review Kaithal, November 3 |
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