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Saturday, January 11, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Attend SYL meeting,
Chautala asks Oppn Haryana Cong rift deepens Make KU central
varsity: KUTA Schools defy official order Toll post to be set up near Yamunanagar |
Stories from Haryana towns falling in the National Capital Region are put in NCR Tribune.
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Attend SYL meeting,
Chautala asks Oppn Jind, January 10 The Chief Minister was addressing a meeting of the panches, sarpanches and members of the gram vikas samitis here today. On this occasion he also released a booklet about the development work undertaken in the district. Mr Chautala criticised the decision of the Haryana Pradesh Congress to stage a dharna in front of the residence of the Prime Minister on the SYL issue and said instead the Congress should stage a dharna in front of the residence of the Chief Minister, Punjab. He said under the Devi Lal Puraskar Yojna the panchayats whose performance would be outstanding at the district and state levels would be given a cash award of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, respectively, for development in their villages. He assured the farmers that his government would give them adequate power as 792 MW of additional power had already been added to the power kitty of the state during his tenure. He said the work on the seventh and eighth units of the Panipat thermal plant had been given to BHEL with the condition to complete it within 29 months. He said the Union Government had agreed to give loan for the construction of the 500 MW Yamuna thermal plant at Yamunanagar. Mr Krishan Mohan, Secretary, Public Relations, highlighted the achievements of the state government in the past three years. An exhibition on the development of Haryana was organised by the Public Relations Department on the occasion. |
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Haryana Cong rift deepens Chandigarh, January 10 Addressing a press conference here, Rao Inderjit Singh, MLA, and a senior Congress leader of the Ahirwal belt; and Mr Raghubir Singh Kadiyan, MLA, also announced that they would organise a rally at Jhajjar on March 2 to demand completion of the SYL canal. Mr Kadiyan, who is chief of the Jhajjar DCC, would be the convener of the rally. The rally would also focus on the issue of inequitable distribution of the Ravi-Beas waters in the state. Rao Inderjit Singh alleged that since 1970, 2 MAF of Ravi-Beas waters was coming to Haryana through the Narwana canal but only Sirsa and Hisar districts were benefiting from it. While Sirsa is the home district of Chautala clan, whose member, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, is the present Chief Minister, Mr Bhajan Lal, who had three stints as the Chief Minister of Haryana, hails from Hisar. The southern districts of the state such as Rewari, Mahendragarh, Bhiwani etc were being deprived of this water which had been monopolised by Hisar and Sirsa districts, the Congress legislator alleged. Asked whether the rally on March 2 was being held to target those politicians who had ensured better supply of water for Sirsa and Hisar districts, Rao Inderjit Singh evaded a direct reply and said that the rally would also demand completion of the SYL canal in Punjab. Mr Raghubir Singh Kadiyan, a staunch loyalist of CLP leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said Mr Hooda as well as party legislators such as Mr Jaiparkash Barwala, Mr Shadilal Batra, Mr Sher Singh, Mr Jitender Malik etc and former PCC chief Mr Birender Singh would attend the Jhajjar rally. Asked whether Mr Bhajan Lal would take part in the rally, which was being dubbed as a state-level affair, Mr Kadiyan said he had not yet received confirmation from the HPCC chief. It was also announced that a workers meeting of the party would be held at Jind on February 2 to streamline preparations for the March 2 rally. About the possibility of participation by members of the pro-Hooda faction in the demonstration being organised under the leadership of the PCC chief in Delhi on January 15, Rao Inderjit Singh said: “There are still four days left for us to take a decision”. Rao Inderjit Singh said he had not yet postponed the January 15 meeting of party workers at Narnaul which clashed with the programme announced by Mr Bhajan Lal. He, however, added that the workers’ meeting was “a small thing” while the SYL issue was of great importance to Haryana. Certain vested interests were working to politicise the SYL issue, adding that even if water flowed to Haryana through the canal, a section of the users would be deprived of it. |
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Make KU central
varsity: KUTA Kurukshetra, January 10 In a statement released to mediapersons here today, the KUTA president, Dr Pradeep Chauhan, said a resolution to this effect was passed by the KUTA general body on Wednesday. Dr Chauhan said being the oldest university in Haryana, it deserved the status of central university. The general body also sought an increase in the representation of teachers in Kurukshetra University Executive Council and also inclusion of the teachers of University College and College of Education of the University. The teachers expressed resentment over the functioning of the office of Controller of Examinations. They lamented that the leakage of question papers of entrance tests and other examinations had eroded the credibility of the university. They also showed resentment over the shifting of departmental libraries to the main library, saying that it would affect research scholars, teachers and students. Dr Chauhan blamed the university administration for ignoring the demands to provide intercom and Internet facilities to the teachers. He also demanded that 30 more houses be constructed on the campus. |
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Schools defy official order Ambala, January 10 Not only the CBSE affiliated schools, but even the state government aided schools also did not implement the official orders. Most of the CBSE schools in Ambala city and Ambala Cantonment remained open while the aided schools asked the students to attend the special extra classes. Moreover, privates schools did not take care of the government order. One of the office-bearer of a CBSE affiliated school said they were not bound to obey the order of State Education Department since those did not take any grant from the government. Moreover, those were directly under the administrative control of the CBSE. On the other hand, an official of the district administration said the Deputy Commissioner had ordered the closure of the schools as a District Magistrate and his order was a binding on all the institutions of the district. Some of the guardians of the children said the administration should take action against the principals for violating the Deputy Commissioner’s order. |
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Toll post to be set up near Yamunanagar Yamunanagar, January 10 Mr Vijayendra Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, said here today it had been notified that the toll post would be set up under the Haryana Mechanical Vehicles Act, 1996. According to the notification, a particular type of vehicles were identified for the toll levy. He said trucks loaded or unloaded, mini trucks, canters, bull dozers and earth movers would have to pay Rs 100 and motor bus, including mini buses with or without passengers, would also have to pay Rs 100 per vehicle. Vehicles having more than 10 tyres would have to pay Rs 150 per vehicle. The Deputy Commissioner clarified that the above toll rates were for a single return trip on the same day through the same toll points and if the same vehicle had to cross the toll point more than once the same day than the users would have to pay the toll again. However, the user would also have to pay toll at all other toll points crossed the same day. He also said defence vehicles, non-commercial vehicles of state governments and Government of India, police vehicles, ambulances and funeral vans would be exempted from the toll tax. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, January 10 Counsel for the petitioner had earlier contended that the Commission of Inquiry on Prohibition in Haryana had passed an order on November 18 whereby it had accepted the former minister’s request and had directed that the arguments in the case shall be heard after the decision of civil writ petitions pending in the court. He had further contended that the petitioner had, however, received a notice on December 28 requiring him to appear before the commission on December 30 and that the proceedings before the commission had been resumed on a reconsideration of the matter. Going into the background of the case, counsel had submitted that the petitioner was Prohibition and Excise Minister in the government headed by Bansi Lal of the Haryana Vikas Party in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Commission on Prohibition was, subsequently, notified to inquire into the reasons of implementation and lifting of prohibition, besides the pecuniary gains to the individuals and selling of liquor during the prohibition period. |
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Haryana R-day function at Jhajjar Chandigarh, January 10 |
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Ved Pal NCP observer for HP Chandigarh, January 10 |
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Meeting on crime detection Chandigarh, January 10 |
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Scooter stolen Ambala |
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