MDU inter-zonal youth festival begins
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, November 18
The inter-zonal youth festival of Maharshi Dayanand University commenced in University College here today. Inspector-General (Rohtak range) Resham Singh inaugurated the festival.

In his inaugural address, Mr Resham Singh said that youth festivals served to showcase the rich traditional Indian culture. He exhorted the youth to forsake the negative aspects of western culture. Dr Dharam Sukh Dahiya, principal of the college and convenor of the festival, welcomed the gathering and Dr R. K.Singh, organising secretary of the festival, proposed the vote of thanks.

One-act plays, mono acting, Haryanavi skit, mimicry, mime, ghazal and qawwali competitions were organised at the open air theatre. Musical events (group songs, bhajans, western songs), fine arts events (on the spot painting, rangoli, cartooning, clay modelling) and literary items (Sanskrit declamation, Sanskrit shloka ucharan, poetry recitation and symposium) were organised at four different venues on the college premises.

State Education Minister Bahadur Singh would be the chief guest in the prize distribution ceremony of the youth festival scheduled to be held tomorrow.

946 cases settled

As many as 946 cases of various categories were settled and a compensation amounting to Rs 1.45 lakh was awarded to the victims of accidents at a Lok Adalat organised under the chairmanship of Mr G. L. Goel, District and Sessions Judge here on Saturday.

Mr C.B. Sheoran, Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, said 20 cases pertaining to the MACT claim cases were put up before the Adalat, of which two cases were settled and a compensation of Rs 1.45 lakh was awarded to the accident victims.

Besides, seven cases under the Hindu Marriage Act were settled. Nearly 30 bank cases were also settled at pre-litigated stage and an amount of Rs 9.19 lakh was recovered.

Mr Sheoran said in the subordinate courts located at Rohtak headquarters, as many as 20 civil, 760 criminals and 127 mutation cases were settled and an amount of Rs 56,850 as fine was realised.

Youth Killed

A youth was killed on the spot when an unidentified vehicle ran over him near Rohad village on National Highway 10 last evening. The deceased, identified as Mahender Singh of Dehkaura village, was returning to his house after making some purchases from Sampla town.

HC to decide on Mirpur PG Centre
Our Correspondent

Rewari, November 18
The long-pending issue to establish the Postgraduate Regional Centre at Mirpur village near Rewari has now assumed priority on the agenda of the Haryana Government, apparently as a sequel to the recent court orders.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court would take up the hearing of a writ petition filed in this connection by the elders of the Mirpur village on December 2, 2002.

It is noteworthy that to clinch the issue of the establishment of the PG Regional Centre at Mirpur or any other alternative site, a high-level meeting of the state bureaucracy brass would be held in the office of the Deputy Commissioner here on November 22.

The meeting to be chaired by Mr P K Chaudhary, Commissioner and Secretary, Education, Haryana government, would mainly comprise Mr S K Saxena, Commissioner and Special Secretary Finance, Major-General (retd) B S Suhag, Vice-Chancellor of M D University, Rohtak and Mr Vineet Garg, DC, Rewari.

It may here be mentioned that following efforts made by the then legislator Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, the then Chief Minister, Mr Bhajan Lal, had laid the foundation stone of the P G Regional Centre on June 4, 1995 at Mirpur village on a 100-acre plot which was donated by the panchyat. Subsequently, a sum of about Rs 72 lakh provided in two instalments by the government, was spent on building a boundary wall as well as internal roads of the centre.

However, the matter got bogged down in a row over the selection of the site following which the above site at Mirpur village now stands abandoned, reportedly on account of its aloofness from Rewari town as well as its vulnerability to floods.

Meanwhile, the ‘Regional Centre Sangharsh Samiti’, headed by Dr S S Yadav, a former director of the PGIMS, Rohtak, tried to secure the re-clearance of the abandoned project. But when nothing fruitful followed, the Mirpur village panchayat comprising its sarpanch Mrs Sushila Devi and nine other panches filed a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking an injunction to start the construction. The High Court would now take up its hearing on December 2.