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Sunday,
January 26, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Civic
bodies stand to gain new accounting system SPECIAL STORY CM
questions Hooda on funds ADC’s
office to use grants Hepatitis
B or viral jaundice, docs differ |
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Yuva sammelan
organised BJP
convention from Feb 1 Junior
engineer booked 
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Civic bodies stand to gain
new accounting system Chandigarh, January 25 Official sources said that the government had okayed a proposal of changing cash-based single-entry accounting system to accrual-based double-entry accounting system for 67 urban local bodies in the state. While stating that the existing system only covered income and expenditure of the municipal committees, the sources said that the double-entry system would record assets and liabilities, trial balance, net profit or loss, financial positions, budget preparation, etc. They said that the state government would soon appoint Project Development and Management
Consultants (PDMC) for carrying out conversion in the accounting system. Agencies or individuals having qualifications and experience in the field would be asked to send their bids by February 20 and would be opened on February 24. The bidders would be asked to deposit Rs one lakh as earnest money, the sources said, adding that earnest money of successful bidders would be kept and refunded after three months of satisfactory completion of the job. The PDMCs would be also asked to train the staff and develop the software necessary for the system. The sources said that with the introduction of the double-entry system, the most important change which would come about was that it would enable the municipal committees to record its assets which were hitherto unknown. For this purpose Geographical Information
System (GIS) and satellite mapping would be put into use. The state government had approved this, the sources said and added that through satellite mapping, the municipal committees would be able to monitor the taxable units located in the areas under their jurisdiction. The plan, according to officials here, is to identify each property and have their status displayed on the computer screen. Identification of all the units including properties belonging the municipal committees could be achieved manually only by spending a lot of time, the sources said and added that through the mapping system and updating the status of properties, indifference of staff to revenue collection as well as their possible collusion with property owners could also be effectively checked. |
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SPECIAL STORY Hisar, January 25 In the local Town Park where a statue was unveiled recently, 30 elderly men and women light the ‘desi ghee jot’ at the feet of the statue religiously both at sunrise and sunset. Many of them have even placed brass lamps normally used in temples for lighting the ‘jot’ at the statue’s pedestal for the purpose. A septuagenarian fan even brings a brass bell every evening to complete the ritual. Devi Singh and wife Bhateri say they began praying in front of the statue after they noticed a ‘jot’ burning at the feet of the statue about a month ago. They visit the park every day for their morning and evening constitutionals. The couple have no idea who lit it, but they liked the idea. The next morning they too brought in a brass ‘jot’ and have now been lighting it there regularly for several weeks. Asked whether he considered the former Deputy Prime Minister as a god Devi Singh said, “He may not be a god in the same terms as Lord Hanuman, but to me he was a true ‘devta’. He always worried for poor farmers like us. And in any case his blessings can only do us good. I have not known any gods in my life, but I knew Tau personally. So why not invoke the blessings of someone I knew rather than expect something from an abstract supernatural force?”. Many others say they light the ‘jot’ not to pray or seek blessings, but to pay their respects to their late leader. “This is a park not a temple. So I do not pray here but I pay my respects to Tau by lighting a lamp and bowing in front of his statue because to me Devi Lal was positively a different and better human being than the modern day leaders”, says Chander Singh Rathi, another ardent admirer of Tau. Deification of personalities is not new to the area. For decades, hundreds of locals have been paying obeisance at a small memorial here erected in 1857 at the spot where the then Deputy Commissioner of Hisar, late John Wedderburn, was killed by mutineers during the first war for Independence. The murdered bureaucrat is known as “angrezi pir”. Many offer eggs at the foot of the stone structure to seek his blessings. It is said several years ago a woman who frequented the nearby courts in connection with her son’s criminal case was resting in the shade of the stone memorial when a gardener played a prank on her and told here that the structure was a ‘pir’. He also made her offer eggs there. Luckily, her son was acquitted within weeks. Since then, the murdered Briton has been known as a ‘Pir’. |
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CM questions Hooda on funds Jhajjar, January 25 Regarding the controversy over the funds raised during the civic reception of deposed Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhary two years ago, Mr Chautala claimed that the money was with the Indo-Fiji Friendship Society, which was headed by INLD MP Inder Singh. Addressing a press conference at Bahadurgarh today, the Chief Minister said the amount could not be handed over directly to Mr Chaudhary as a complicated process was involved in
transferring money. Mr Chautala asked Mr Hooda where was the money collected at different Congress rallies as Mr Hooda had announced that the funds collected at rallies would be given to the families of the Dulina victims. The Chief Minister said farmers of south Haryana did not get drought relief as they had suffered nominal losses. |
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ADC’s office to use grants Fatehabad, January 25 According to sources, the Central Government sent funds under the national self-development scheme every year to the municipal committees. The municipal authorities were supposed to undertake development projects with these funds. The local Municipal Committee had also been getting the grants under this head. The sources said the government had received complaints regarding irregularities in the utilisation of these funds. So, it had entrusted the task of utilisation of funds under this scheme to the ADC’s office here. The government, according to sources, had been receiving complaints that the funds under this scheme were not being utilised for the purpose of uplifting the living conditions of those living in the slum areas and the targets set by the government were being totally ignored. The government, according to sources, had also received complaints that the funds were being siphoned off by the municipal authorities and used for some other purposes and the plight of those living in the slum colonies was going from bad to worse. The ADC’s office, the sources said, would utilise these funds for the construction of lanes in Dalit bastis, installation of hand pumps in these colonies and the construction of the drainage system. The ADC’s office would oversee the projects and the municipal authorities would not have any interference in it. The ADC’s office had identified certain colonies in which work on the construction of pucca streets was to be started immediately. These included Jandi Mohalla, Ashok Nagar and some other colonies. In all 18 slum colonies had been identified by the authorities for this purpose. |
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Hepatitis
B or viral jaundice, docs differ Rattia, (Fatehabad), January 25 Ranjit Singh, (25) died a few days ago of hepatitis. He was admitted in a private hospital here. When his condition worsened, he was referred to Hisar. He died before reaching Hisar. He reportedly was diagnosed a case of Hepatitis-B. After that several persons have visited private doctors of the town with symptoms of hepatitis. A survey of hospitals and clinical laboratories of the town revealed that over 24 persons showed symptoms of infective hepatitis in the town. Mr Vikas Kumar of ward 13, Darshan Kumar, of Nahar Colony, Phula Bai and Raju Monga of Old Bazar have suffering from this disease for the past many days, while private clinics have been receiving cases of infective hepatitis everyday local civil hospital doctors claimed that they had not received a single case of the disease so far. Civil Surgeon, Dr V.K. Dogra, when contacted, confirmed the presence of jaundice case in the area but maintained that these were not the cases of hepatitis-B but that of viral jaundice a lesser dangerous disease. He said Ranjit Singh suffered from jaundice and was completely cured in a private hospital in the town. After that he suddenly developed some complication and started vomiting blood. He died on way to Hisar. The Civil Surgeon said that teams of doctors and paramedical staff had been formed under District Malaria Officer, Dr Naresh Goyal. The team, he said had been sent to various colonies of the town to trace those suffering from the disease. Besides this samples of water had been taken from these areas and were being sent for testing. Halogen tablets were being distributed to be put in potable water and chlorination of water was on. He said that so far the department had located only two cases of hepatitis and that too of the vital hepatitis. He said that Darshan Kumar and Phula Bai, who earlier were suffering from the disease were cured now. Residents complained that water supply in the town was often contaminated and despite complaints the authorities did move in the matter. They alleged that whenever any disease of this kind was spread in the town, the authorities woke up from slumber but they forgot it again. The residents alleged that the authorities were not serious about ameliorating the condition of the residents but were more interested in the cover up exercise. |
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Yuva sammelan
organised Ambala, January 25 Talking to mediapersons before addressing the sammelan, Mr Dhankad said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, the country had made several significant achievements. “India has become a major nation in the international sphere due to Pokhran as well as the fact that there was no impact of sanctions. We have developed our missile technology and rocket technology. We have developed the super computer,” he said. “There is greater connectivity, including improvement in road network, information technology and telephones,” he added. Mr Dhankad said that the Union Government was planning to interlink all major rivers so that the problem of flooding in some regions and lack of water in other regions could be solved. “There is now planned development of villages under various programmes. Regarding Himachal Pradesh elections, Mr Dhankad said that Mr Dhumal had undertaken substantial development work in the state. “A number of factors including marketing, power, roads and irrigation facilities have been improved,” he
said. BJYM state president Subhash Brara said that an international conference against terrorism would be held next month. “We have invited delegates from all over the world,” he said. Mr Brara said that a signature campaign against terrorism had already been started. “We plan to collect five lakh signatures on a 5000 metre roll of cloth,” he said. Among others, BJP Haryana unit president Mr Ratan Lal Kataria, Ambala City MLA Veena
Chibber, BJP mahila wing state president Neeta Khera. Ambala Cantt Mandal president Shish Pal Bhola and Shubhadesh Mittal and Mr Raj Singh were present. |
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BJP convention from Feb 1 Yamunanagar, January 25 Mr Rattan Lal Kataria, Member of Parliament from Ambala Parliamentary constituency while talking to newspersons here yesterday said the SYL canal was the lifeline of Haryana and the BJP would extend support to the INLD for the completion of the canal. Mr Kataria alleged that Mr Bhajan Lal was politicising the issue. The BJP leader said he would complete three years as the state BJP president this year and there was no question of his stepping down. |
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Junior engineer booked Fatehabad, January 25 The police also recovered 75 bags of cement from the suspects when they were taking these in a tractor. The police has arrested the tractor driver Devi Lal, and was in search of the
JE, Dalvinder Singh, and storekeeper Karan Singh. The police has booked them under Section 420 of the IPC. The driver, Devi Lal, was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr R.N. Bharti, who sent him to judicial custody till January 27. |
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Mother, 3 sons sentenced to life Fatehabad, January 25 |
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Protest
against KU move Fatehabad, January 25 |
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