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Wednesday,
November 13, 2002, Chandigarh, India
  
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White Paper on CM’s
visits sought Govt ‘connived’ with dealers Paddy arrivals
in Haryana HCTU resents ‘punctuality’ norms Govt to set up 17 petrol outlets |
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Haryana postings Survey of small industrial units HIGH COURT Drug
racket busted Relief for victims of Jaguar crash Vidushi, Gandharv win singing contest
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White Paper on CM’s
visits sought Chandigarh, November 12 In a statement issued here today the Secretary of the party, Mr Sat Pal Kaushik, said the White Paper must clearly state what had the State achieved out of the foreign visits of Mr Chautala and what was the cost-benefit ratio. Mr Kaushik said while farmers in the State were suffering, Mr Chautala was enjoying paid holidays on the expenses of the public exchequer. He said a meeting of the State Sugarcane Board, which was convened to fix the cane price, had to be postponed because of the foreign visit of Mr Chautala. He said for the past three years the Chautala Government had not revised the cane price, though the production cost of the farmers had risen many fold during this period. The Congress leader urged the Governor that in view of the drought conditions in the State, the sugar mills should be asked to start crushing operations immediately. He also criticised the murderous attack on a former Minister, Mr Phool Chand Mullana, and demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident. |
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Govt ‘connived’ with dealers Chandigarh, November 12 Talking to newsmen here today, Mr Dalal said the Government had approved different rates of 38 different manufacturers of sprinkler sets of the same specifications. While the rate of the sets supplied by the Haryana Agro Industries Corporation was approved at Rs 414 per piece, the private manufacturers were given rates varying from Rs 435 to Rs 635. Mr Dalal said it was astonishing that several firms whose higher rates were approved by the Government agreed to supply the same material at much lower rates to the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Bhiwani. Alleging underhand payments to influential persons in Haryana, Mr Dalal said eight of the firms whose rates were approved by the State Government, were supplying the same material at Rs 357 to the Uttar Pradesh Government, which had allowed a uniform rate to all the approved firms. When the matter was brought to the notice of the Director, Agriculture, a show-cause notice was issued to the firms asking them to explain why they should not be blacklisted and the difference in rate should not be recovered from them. Mr Dalal alleged that when a “deal” was struck with the powers that be, the Agriculture Department dropped the matter and asked the defaulting firms to give an undertaking that they would not sell their products at rates below than those approved by the government. |
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Paddy arrivals
in Haryana Chandigarh, November 12 While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Food and Supplies Department said that out of the total arrival, 18.94 lakh tonnes was leviable paddy and 6.21 lakh tonnes non-leviable paddy. He said that over 42,000 tonnes of paddy was arriving in the mandis daily. He said that out of the total leviable arrivals, 14.95 lakh tonnes of paddy had been purchased by various government agencies. The Food and Supplies Department had purchased over four lakh tonnes of paddy, HAFED 5.40 lakh tonnes, Food Corporation of India 1.11 lakh tonnes, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation 1.79 lakh tonnes, Haryana Warehousing Corporation 1.44 lakh tonnes and Confed 1.19 lakh tonnes. He said that Kurukshetra district was leading in the State with the arrival of l5.11 lakh tonnes of paddy, followed by Karnal with 4.47 lakh tonnes, Fatehabad 3.21 lakh tonnes, Kaithal 2.98 lakh tonnes, Sirsa 2.10 lakh tonnes, Ambala 1.68 lakh tonnes, Jind 1.40 lakh tonnes, Yamunanagar 1.26 lakh tonnes and Panipat 1.23 lakh
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HCTU resents ‘punctuality’ norms Yamunanagar, November 12 Mr Sharma stated that a few principals were wrongly misinterpreting the recent letter of the Haryana Education Commissioner on the ‘Observance’ of punctuality in the colleges. He said that they were forcing the teachers to stay for more than the prescribed duration without justification. Mr Sharma added that the teachers had been following the guidelines laid down by the University Grants Commission, the Haryana Government and state universities on the duration of the stay in the colleges. He appealed to the Higher Education authorities to direct the principals to adhere to these guidelines. Dr K.R. Bhardwaj, Zonal President of the HCTU said that a delegation of the union would meet the Higher Educational Commissioner, and Secretary Mr Dhanpat Singh and Mr Bahadur Singh, Education Minister, tomorrow to apprise them of the said order which was not interpreted properly by the principals of various colleges. |
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Govt to set up 17 petrol outlets Chandigarh, November 12 While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Urban Development Department said that the sites selected for setting up the petrol outlets included one each at Karnal, Rewari, Sonepat Panipat, Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Fatehabad, Sirsa, two each at Jhajjar and Gurgaon and three at Yamunanagar. While the details for setting up petrol outlets at eight sites had been finalised, the details for the other outlets would be finalised shortly. He said the sites at Karnal, Rewari, Yamunanagar and Sonepat measuring 2000sq yards, 1100 sq yards, 1000 sq yards and 1400 sq yards, respectively, would be leased out to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The operation and maintenance of these sites would be looked after by the IOC. He said that in case of Jagadhari, land measuring 222 sq yards would be utilised for setting up a retail outlet with two petrol pump units. An investment of Rs 50 lakh to to Rs 60 lakh would be made by the IOC for development of the the land and the Municipal Council, Jagadhari, would avail the commission of 63 paise per litre of petrol and 38 paise per litre of diesel sold from this retail outlet. Similarly, another retail outlet at Yamunanagar and Bahadurgarh would be set up on the same conditions. The site of the petrol outlet decided to be set up at Jhajjar was located at the Shahidi Park for which additional land was proposed to be acquired by the Municipal Council. |
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Haryana postings Chandigarh, November 12 Mr Surinder Pal Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dadri, has been posted as DSP, headquarters, Karnal, against a vacant post. Mr Rohtash Singh has been posted as DSP, Dadri. Mr J.R. Vadhera, Private Secretary, Chairman, Haryana Bureau of Public Enterprises, has been posted with the Agriculture Minister, Mr Jaswinder Singh Sandhu with immediate effect. |
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Survey of small industrial units Chandigarh, November 12 While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Industries Department said that all registered and some selected unregistered units would be surveyed during the census operation. The enumerators authorised by the General Manager, District Industries Centres, were approaching the units for collection of data during this month. He said that information on production, employment, exports, fixed assets, plant and machinery products or services, net worth, outstanding loans and a few classified characteristics would be collected during the third census operation. An assessment of sick and incipiently sick small scale industrial units would also be made. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, November 12 Convicting the advocate, Mr Justice R.L. Anand and Mr Justice Gupta had earlier observed: “In view of the fact that the respondent had uttered disparaging remarks in the Court which interfered with the due course of judicial proceedings and lowered the dignity of Courts, amounting to criminal contempt, we, therefore, hold the respondent guilty of criminal contempt”. The Judges had observed: “He should have shown maturity of mind towards law. He totally forgot that he owes some responsibility in maintaining the magnanimity of law. His conduct was non-excusable. So much so, even before the High Court, he did not show any remorse. He wanted to justify his contemptuous role, still keeping in view the fact that he is an old man of 81 years and he has a standing of 46 years at the Bar, we sentence him to simple imprisonment till the rising of court and pay a fine of Rs 500”. |
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Drug racket
busted Sirsa, November 12 According to information four teams comprising seven members
executed raids. These teams raided the local Sama Nursing Home and
Dayal Nursing Home besides, stockists Manoj Agencies and Behal Medical
Agencies in the local new M C Market. Eight drug samples were
collected from the chemist shop in Sama Nursing Home whereas six
samples were taken from the medical store of Dayal Nursing Home.
Samples given to doctors by the medical representatives had also been
recovered from these medical stores.
During the raids medicines worth lakhs of rupees were found without
proper billing. Some expired medicines were also found at the
stockists’ shop. The raiding teams collected nine samples from Manoj
Medical Agency whereas eight samples were taken from Behal Medical
Agency. Nearly 25 cartons of banned drugs were also found at one of
the stockists. The owners of these shops could not provide the
vigilance party with the credit and debit bills.
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Relief for victims of Jaguar crash Chandigarh, November 12 An official spokesman said here today that a written communication to this effect had been sent by the Chief Minister to the Union Defence Minister. He said that the State Government had already given a relief of Rs 1 lakh to the families of each of the deceased person. |
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Vidushi, Gandharv win singing contest Bhiwani, November 12 Eleven school teams took part in the junior category and 14 school teams participated in the senior category of the solo song competition. The results are: solo song (junior category): Vidhushi, Bal Bhavan Public School, 1, Bindia, K.M. Public School, 2, Manjeet, hobby classes, Bal Bhavan 3; group song (junior category); DAV Public School 1, Public Senior Secondary School 2, K.M. Public School 3; solo song (senior category): Gandharv, Bhiwani Public School, and Deepika, Public Senior Secondary School, 1, Priyanka, DAV Public School, and Shikha, K.M. Public School 2, Vishal, Vaish Senior Secondary School and Sandeep, hobby classes, Bal Bhavan 3; group song (senior category): Public Senior Secondary School 1, Utmi Bai, Arya Girls Senior School 2, K.M. Public school 3. |
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