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TREATING
TRASH Gurgaon, March 1 Industrialists of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonepat, Panipat, Rohtak, Bahadurgarh, Yamunanagar, Hisar and Bahadurgarh have joined hands to float the Haryana Environmental Management Society(HEMS), a non-government organisation, to act as an ombudsman with regard to controlling the pollution caused from emission and solid waste disposal from the units. HEMS has been floated under the presidentship of the former President of the Gurgaon Chamber of Commerce and Industry(GCCI) and now an office-bearer of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry(PHDCCI), Mr Sunil Sabarwal. The guiding hand behind the initiative is the President of the PHDCCI, Mr P. K. Jain, who also has his unit here. Incidentally, the areas from where the industrialists have teamed up for the worthy cause are the ones which represent the busier hubs of industrial and commercial activities in Haryana. The HEMS’ primary objective is to set up a solid waste disposal treatment plant with the support of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board. The board has intervened with the government on behalf of the HEMS to get a site measuring about 32 acres near Gwalparhi, bordering Gurgaon in Faridabad district, free of cost for the project plant. At a meeting of office-bearers of the HEMS held here last evening, it was decided to expedite the construction works on the project. Significantly, the Chairman of the Pollution Control Board, Mr H. S. Bains, also attended the meeting as an invitee. Also, Mr Jain attended the meeting, which was later took on the character of a brainstorming session. According to Mr Jain, the operative cost of the project will be collectively borne by the industrialists. The HEMS has already hired a Canadian firm called SENES as consultant for the project. The project will be given to a firm which will set it on build, operate and transfer(BOT) basis. The project will cost more than Rs 15 crore, much of which will be subsidised by the Centre. According to Mr Jain, the project will be the first of its kind in the entire North India. The solid wastes from the units will be transported to the project site where they will be treated. Mr Bains told NCR Tribune the initiative on the part of the industrialists to safeguard the environment was an object lesson for others. |
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Rally season is on with heavy ‘impounding’ of vehicles Faridabad, March 1 According to sources, the Faridabad district authorities had requisitioned the services of at least 130 buses and trucks by Saturday evening, while the number of medium and small vehicles for ferrying rallyists to Rohtak and back has reached about 150. It is learnt the vehicles thus ‘impounded’ will be handed over to ruling party leaders here who will decide how to make use of them. Reportedly, the authorities of nearly every district, including the police department, had been asked to keep in touch with the local leaders of the party and make available the number of vehicles required by them for ferrying people. A local leader on condition of anonymity said the availability of vehicles and number of persons ferried to the rally could decide the fate of some of the officers and politicians of the ruling party. The Congress party leader and Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is also holding a rally to highlight the ‘failure’ of the government at Jhajjar the same day, has already alleged the misuse of official machinery for the INLD rally. Some of his supporters have also claimed that vehicles hired by them had been taken away forcefully for the Rohtak rally. They said the ruling party leaders feared that their rally may turn out to be a flop show if vehicles meant for the Congress rally were not impounded. They alleged their vehicles were being challaned to harass them. It is also learnt that certain district police chiefs have ordered the cops and traffic police personnel to challan those vehicles whose owners do not make available their vehicles to the administration. Even the Public Relations Department is fully charged up. The DPRO office here has issued a press note propping up the claims of development by the government in the past three years. On other hand, opposition leaders have described the past three years of the INLD government as a ‘total flop’. They have severely castigated the Chautala government on several fronts and issues. The RPI MLA from Palwal and a former minister, Mr Karan Dalal, said the government had failed miserably on all fronts. He said inadequate relief to drought-hit farmers, demolitions on discriminatory basis, corruption, unemployment, power and water shortage and the worsening law and order situation were the ‘achievements’ of the present government. The President of the state unit of the Janata Dal, Mr Ved Pal Vidrohi, said the failure to get any new project for the state in the Railway Budget, the proposed hike in urea and diesel prices and no relief to farmers in the new budget was quite `shameful’ for the Chautala government which was supporting the NDA government at Centre. |
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CRIME SPIRAL Meerut, March 1 The kidnappers were in their 20s, wearing jeans, T-shirts, jackets and sports shoes. The identity of the captors is yet to be established. The police have seized two single barrel guns, four country-made revolvers, a hand grenade and a big quantity of cartridges. The grandson of Rajan Dubish, Abhinav was whisked away from outside his house on Friday morning when he was on his way to school and about to approach his rickshaw-puller. Two men in their 20s were waiting on a Hero Honda Splendour outside Abhinav’s house. The pillion rider threw a blanket over the boy’s head, grabbed him and together they drove into lane. The rickshaw puller raised an alarm and Abhinav’s father chased the kidnappers on his scooter, but in vain. Several senior police officials, including Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gurdarshan Singh, SSP Mukul Goel and the SHO also rushed to the spot. The DIG ordered immediate checking of all vehicles leaving the city. The Inspector General of Police, Meerut Zone, also reviewed the situation and constituted four police teams, which were dispatched to the rural areas for conducting raids on possible hideouts. The search operation lasted for more than three hours but yielded nothing. The police also questioned the domestic help of Rajan Dublish, but failed to get any lead. Meanwhile, some other eyewitnesses confirmed that the kidnappers had shifted the boy into a white Maruti car in the Begum Bridge area. According to SSP, Meerut, Mukul Goel, the police had received information that some villagers had heard a child wailing in the sugarcane fields of Kartar Singh of Jinjokhar village. The DIG, SSP, four Circle Officers and all the SHOs of the city rushed to the village and cordoned off the sugarcane field. The kidnappers tried to escape under the cover of gunfire. The police also retaliated, but taking care as the child was still in the sugarcane field. Once the police had engaged the kidnappers, SSP Mukul Goel and Deputy Inspector General Gurdarshan Singh entered the field and took the child in their safe custody. A blanket and some chocolates and biscuits was also found in the field. Three kidnappers died on the spot while the fourth one succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital. The bodies have been sent for autopsies, though the identities of the kidnappers are yet to be established. The officers also announced a reward of Rs 17,500 for the police party involved in the operation. |
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FIENDISH
CRIME Sonepat, March 1 The protesting villagers carried the body of the victim, 17-year-old Kanta, daughter of Om Prakash, during the demonstration. Her body was recovered from the fields of a village adjacent to Ghasoli on February 27. However, on being given an assurance by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Arun Singh, that the police would take measures to quicken the pace of investigation and they would be impartial, the villagers returned home late in the evening and reportedly cremated the body. The body was handed over to them after a post-mortem examination in the local Civil Hospital. Kanta, who had gone to answer the call of nature on the evening of February 26, did not return home. Apprehensive that something untoward had happened, her father reported the matter to the village panchayat, alleging that he suspected the involvement of a village youth, Manoj, in his daughter’s disappearance. But when the panchayat was called, Manoj pleaded his innocence. Not satisfied with the panchayat proceedings, her father lodged a complaint with the police, holding Manoj responsible for her abduction. Later, Manoj reportedly confessed before the village panchayat that he along with two others, Satnarain and Sonu, had abducted Kanta. They had dragged her to the sugarcane fields and gangraped her before strangulating her to death. The villagers reached the site and recovered Kanta’s body. They later informed the police about the recovery of the body. Manoj was arrested and during interrogation he reportedly confessed to the crime. But the other two accused are still to be arrested. |
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Get rid of populist steps: PHDCCI New Delhi, March 1 At a meeting with Mr Saathi, the chamber advocated that there should not be any cross subsidisation, particularly those harming the interests of trade and industry. Subsidies to the vital sectors of education, transport and nutrition needed to be reviewed in totality. The chamber stressed upon the need for prudent fiscal management through reduction in non-Plan expenditure, right-sizing the government set-up, reduction in multiple layers in decision making, introduction of pension reforms etc. It also suggested the Delhi Government should encourage private sector participation in the areas of solid waste management, water supply projects, maintenance of industrial areas, development and maintenance of parking and outsourcing services for collection of user charges. For public-private partnership in solid waste management, the chamber sought budgetary support by way of incentives for technology collaboration, subsidy schemes for composting, transporting and energy recovery and tax rebates. The chamber expressed concern over the high rate of stamp duty in Delhi and called on the need to reduce the same from 13 per cent to between five and seven per cent. Such a move would increase compliance and enhance revenue from stamp duty. It quoted the example of circle rates in Haryana and lower stamp duty in other states as well as in other countries. |
BUDGET Rohtak, March 1 Prof Shri Bhagwan Dahiya, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Maharshi Dayanand University, said that the Union Budget was very clever and pragmatic which addresses five objectives: (a) poverty eradication, covering health, housing, education and employment; (b) infrastructure development; (C) fiscal consolidation through tax reforms; (d) agriculture and related aspects; and (e) enhancing manufacturing sector efficiency. Prof Dahiya has been a visiting professor in several universities all over the world, including the University of Rome, University of Tuscia, Sussex University, Canberra University, University of Paris etc. The budget, he says, has announced the expansion of the Antyodaya Anna Yojna which has successfully channelled subsidised cereals to the poorest of the poor. It has a new group health insurance scheme where the premiums would be partly subsidised for the poor. The economist feels that the budget offers tax sops to a wide range of tax payers. For the salaried class, it has a higher standard deduction, abolition of 5 per cent surcharge on income tax, tax rebates for education expenses and a new subsidised pension scheme. For the rich, it has abolished the dividend tax and exempted equity long-term capital gains from tax. Senior citizens also have reason to feel happy. The budget has also restored Leave Travel Concession (LTC) which was discontinued two years ago. This would boost tourism, he feels. Prof Dahiya says that the hike in service tax has no justification other than a revenue mobilisation exercise. Similarly, the hike in fertiliser prices would be a big blow to the farmers who are yet to recover from the ill-effects of the recent drought. The Lok Jan Shakti Party has described the budget as by the rich and for the rich. The state party president Shamsher Singh Malik said that the hike in the prices of petrol, diesel, vanaspati ghee, fertilisers and telephone would be an unbearable burden on the common man, particularly the middle class families and the farmers. On the contrary, the budget has given relief to the rich by reducing custom duties on import of wine, cars, airconditioners, computer etc. |
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Budget aims at ‘economic reforms’ New Delhi, March 1 He expressed hope that the various innovative features of the budget would revive the industry and the capital market, which in turn will stimulate production, productivity, exports and employment. The GEA expressed happiness that the import duty on textile machinery has been reduced from 25 per cent to five per cent. This, they point out, will help exporters produce and export quality goods of international standards with least procedural and policy regulations. In a statement issued here, the GEA president urged the government to provide a suitable package of incentives including higher duty drawback rates adequate and need-based funds at a reasonable interest rate and restoration of 100 per cent exemption to export earnings. |
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FIRST PERSON Gurgaon, March 1 While complimenting the Union Finance Minister, Mr Parag Jain, a mechanic engineer, says that he is happy to learn that he would get the income tax relief on the expenses of his children’s education up to Rs 12,000 per child. He has to spend a lot to provide the best possible education to his children, said Mr Jain. His four-year-old daughter, Akansha Jain is studying in Summer Fields School while his son is just two and a half years old. This scheme would definitely encourage parents to spend more on their children’s education, he said. As the rates of luxury items would fall following the implementation of the budget, Mr Parag said that he would like to buy an airconditioner this summer. Working as Assistant Manager (Production) in Satyam Auto Component Ltd, a Hero group company, he gets a gross salary of Rs 20,000 per month. His spouse is a housewife while his father has retired from a nationalised bank around five years back. They have their own house in Sector 14. As the government has announced the tax incentives for gems, jewellery, gold etc, he would like to purchase certain items to appease his mother and wife and also save the tax, said the engineer. He opined that the government should not discourage savings. He would continue to save as much as possible, Mr Jain said. As he already owns a mobile phone and a personal computer, he would not buy a new one. But the less rate of IT goods would definitely entice him to buy new technologies. It is undoubtedly a good budget as it would encourage the middle class families like his to purchase new things to save taxes. The currency rotation would thus increase manifold which ultimately benefits the country’s economy. |
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Food Park
to give impetus to exports Sonepat, March 1 According to official information, the Haryana Chief Minister, Om Parkash Chautala, will also lay the foundation stone of the Agriculture Testing Laboratory in the park on the same day. The cold store will be used for storage and preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables with facilities to maintain the quality of these produces. The products to be stored will include apple, banana, grapes, lemon, mango, papaya, lichi, moshmi and
bananas in fruits and brinjal, cabbage, green chilly, garlic, karela, peas and ginger in vegetables. The store will also cater to the needs of customers for their daily requirements of produces and medicines. The laboratory, which will be set up in collaboration with IDMA laboratory of England, will be used to testify the quality of produces and to certify its suitability for human consumption as well as for export. |
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SPECIAL FOCUS ON REWARI Rewari, March 1 Prior to this, the Railway Minister and the Haryana Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of the Rs 80 crore cold chain complex at Rai near Sonepat today. Complimenting the construction wing of the North-Western Railway (Jaipur) and the Container Corporation of India for completing the project in a record minimum time of only 83 days, the Railway Minister announced a cash prize of Rs 2. 5 lakh for them. He said that the Inland Container Depot would provide many facilities to the importers and exporters of this region. Besides, it would also generate a lot of employment for the local youths. Making a special mention of the cold chain complex at Rai, which would take one year to be completed, the minister said that it would prove a boon for the fruit and vegetable growers of Haryana and would also boost the diversification project of the state. In response to demands raised by the Chief Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar announced a two-minute halt of the Chetak Express at Ateli Railway Station (Rewari Region) from May 1, 2003. He also said that the demand pertaining to the extension of the Delhi–Chandigarh “Himalayan Queen” and the Bhiwani–Chandigarh “Ekta Express” to Rewari would be examined by senior officials of the Railway Board. Expressing gratitude to the former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal for the patronage and guidance provided to him, Mr Nitish Kumar was full of praise for the ongoing development work in Haryana under the able leadership of Mr Chautala. He assured the people that the Railway Ministry would provide all possible help to Haryana in its rail-related development projects. Earlier, Mr Chautala said that the full-fledged Inland Container Depot of Rewari was the 51st such facility of the Container Corporation of India. He asserted that it would emerge as an important dry port, which would provide many benefits to the transporters and traders of this region. The Chief Minister also felicitated the Union Railway Minister for presenting a balanced rail budget. Mr I.M.S. Rana, Chairman of the Railway Board, MR A.K.Kohli, Managing Director of Container Corporation of India and Mr H.C. Disodia, Commissioner, Agriculture Department, Haryana, also spoke on the occasion.
Police Examination The Special Selection Board of the Central Police Organisation is holding a written examination for the posts of Assistant Commandants in B.S.F., I.T.B.P. and C.R.P.F. on Sunday March 2. The examination, which will be conducted at various centres throughout the country, comprises of two papers– General Awareness /Intelligence and English (descriptive and subjective). However, there are rumours of leakage of the examination papers in Haryana, where Hisar is the only centre. Allegedly, some people involved in the scandal are doing brisk business as examination papers have been sold at exorbitant price. |
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Special attention to girl education: Minister Rewari, March 1 He said that as many as twenty-two schools had been upgraded in the Bawal constituency alone during the past three years. Contrary to this, only eighteen schools of the Bawal constituency had been upgraded by the previous state government during the past thirty-five years. He further said that Government Middle Schools of Majra, Mamadia Ahir, Suthana, Cheemnawas, Sanjharpur, Kasaula and Tihara villages had been upgraded into High Schools while Government High Schools of Garhi Bolni, Mohanpur, Nangal Teju, Bagthala, Gujar Majri, Mayan, Khandora and Banipur villages had been upgraded to the level of Senior Secondary School by the present state government. Exhorting the villagers to send their girls to schools, Dr Ranga said that female education was essential for the establishment of a progressive society, which alone could ensure all round development of the state. |
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SAD (B) wants more DSGMC seats New Delhi, March 1 He said the number of seats for the DSGMC was determined by the Act passed by Parliament in 1971. Since then, the composition and the character of the Capital has undergone a sea-change with the Sikh population multiplying manifold. Mr Bhogal said in a statement here that when the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee Act was formed in 1971, the Capital had a chief executive councillor and at that time it was divided into 46 seats. Now after 32 years, when Delhi has its own assembly, the number of seats should be increased to 70. He asked the Centre and Delhi government to increase the number of seats to make it equal to assembly seats in view of the increase in the population of Sikhs. Moreover, at present the number of electorate for each seat varies from 13,000 to 5,000, which should be equalised. Mr Bhogal charged that those in power in the Sikh body did not allow timely election and used the court to delay the polls. He asked the government to fix a date for election of the management committee as it has been done for Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee in Amritsar. |
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Rs 2.14 crore budget for Gohana MC Sonepat, March 1 According to information, the municipality has set a revenue target of Rs 1,92,17,000 during 2003-2004, with maximum revenue of Rs 42 lakh from rents of municipality shops. Other sources of the proposed revenue includes Rs 36 lakh from house tax, Rs 35 lakh from sale of land, Rs 25 lakh from stamp duties, Rs 18 lakh from development taxes, Rs 4.40 lakh from licence fees and trade taxes, Rs 3.50 lakh from driving licences and registration of vehicles and Rs 3 lakh from contract of dead animals besides generating Rs 25 lakh from other sources. In the expenditure proposals of Rs 1,91,89,600, a major amount of Rs 1,31,44,600 has been earmarked for staff salaries and other office expenditures. Only Rs 36.75 lakh has been spared for development works. The amounts of Rs 15.55 lakh and Rs 10.15 lakh has been proposed for spending on miscellaneous expenditures and unexpected works respectively. The meeting, presided over by the Chairman of the Committee, Kanshi Ram Wadhva, approved that the five acres of land which was to be acquired in village Nagar for shifting of dairies, would now be acquired in village Barot on Gohana-Sonepat road. |
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Deve Gowda lambasts Noida Authority Noida, March 1 “But the Noida administration was busy making huge profits at the cost of farmers, whose vital interests have been ignored or compromised. The farmers should organise themselves for securing their basic rights and solving this serious problem”, Mr Deve Gowda said. The former Prime Minister said the main problems of the farmers of Noida and Greater Noida region include getting 10 per cent land in developed areas, development of rural areas, fair compensation for land, employment for at least one member of each family and rehabilitation of farmers driven out of their home in the name of development. The general-secretary of JD(S), Mr Kanwar Danish Ali, alleged that farmers were being exploited through out the country. |
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Mahashivratri celebrated with fervour New Delhi, March 1 Shivlings were bathed with milk as women, attired in their traditional best, offered flowers to the deity in tastefully-decorated temples. They observed a fast to get the blessings of Lord Shiva, whose marriage to goddess Parvati is celebrated as Mahashivratri. They will keep awake till midnight singing bhajans. Significantly, many people were on fast to seek the blessings of Lord Shiva for the Indian Cricket team, which is playing its crucial match against Pakistan in the World Cup. Children were equally enthusiastic about the festival. Many of them went to the temples along with their parents despite their on-going examinations. A festive atmosphere prevailed everywhere. Long queues of devotees were seen outside many temples, causing traffic snarls in congested localities. |
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PNB Inter-Zone Cultural Meet New Delhi, March 1 In his address, Mr Kohli emphasised the need to participate in sports and cultural activities and the need to expose the talents of those within the organisation. Mr Akhilesh Sharma of Chhatisgarh came first in the category of Rare and Innovative Instrument, followed by Mr D K Patti of Punjab Zone and Mr P K Saxena of UP Central. In the One Act Play category, Delhi Zone stood first followed by Northern Zone and Punjab Zone. Atul Arya of Delhi Zone came first in the western classical instrument category followed by D K Patti of Punjab Zone and A K Chhetri of Uttranchal Zone. |
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SEARCHWITHIN In one of his articles on self-improvement, Swami Sivananda, founder of the Divine Life Society, refers to the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790), which offers valuable hints for youth on practising various virtues. Among those virtues the great inventor and philosopher practised were temperance, industry and frugality. By temperance he meant, “Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.’’ Being industrious meant, a man must always be employed in something useful. He must not waste time. Similarly frugality, in his opinion, consisted in making “no expense but to do good to others or for oneself.’’ Frugality is a virtue seldom written about these days. While everyone complains about ever increasing taxes and levies, rising costs of living and difficulties of balancing budgets, there is hardly any reference to avoiding extravagance in spending or wasteful living. For a youth, beginning to labour for his livelihood, there is a wealth of wisdom contained in a famous essay, ‘Way to Wealth’, published by Benjamin Franklin in 1757, under his pen name, Poor Richard. Though an old document, it contains insights into human nature valid to our contemporary situation. To those who would complain of heavy taxes, Franklin would point to far severe burdens they carry: “We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our folly.’’ No relief is possible to the affected persons from these “taxes.’’ So the young man, who begins to earn his livelihood, should be more worried about greater indiscretions than paying of taxes. He must learn ways of making an honest living and conserving what he earns. He must know that it is a folly to ape the rich “as for a frog to swell in order to equal the ox”. For such imitation will soon bring misery. There is this old saying: “pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy.’’ More than ever today’s world is concerned about money; and some of the finest qualities of human nature are intimately related to the right use of money such as generosity, honesty, justice, and self-denial. On the other side are the counterparts of avarice, fraud, injustice and selfishness as displayed in the nature of greedy men. Then there are those who waste money by their thoughtlessness, extravagance and improvidence. The old term for what we today call “consumerism” used to be extravagance. Today, it is not the rich alone who are usually extravagant, but the middle and the working classes as well. There is a burning desire on the part of the youth to keep up appearances. They want to appear rich by putting on costly dress, by lavish spending, dining in style, driving the most fashionable car, or by imitating other mannerisms of high society. There is a superstitious reverence for the ways of the rich and “respectability” or social standing consists in conforming to their customs and styles. This again is part of human nature. There is a “restlessness in men’s minds to be something that they are not, and to have something that they have not’’ leading them to immoral conduct. They are out to create an “impression” among peers and in the neighbourhood and in the process might get into life-long debts. With the introduction of credit cards and easy credit and dazzling shopping complexes, the temptation to overspend or buy things that one does not really need are numerous. To be in debt is to lose one’s independence and often subject oneself to humiliations. “It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright,’’ reminds poor Richard. He would rather advise young men to go to bed supperless than rise in debt. Dr Samuel Johnson, who always spoke from experience, once told his biographer Boswell: “Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Let it be your first care not to be in any man’s debt. Whatever you have spend less.’’ That is sound advise for this age as well as warning to young men who might live beyond their means. Many a man, he observes, “for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly and half-starved their families.’’ Silks and satins, scarlet and velvet put out the kitchen fire, he warns. How true of some households today which adopt a lopsided priority in the matter of spending! We must be more worried about sloth than about budget levies. “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy…He that riseth late must trot all day and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him…If we are industrious, we shall never starve; at the working man’s house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter!’’ This counsel for hard work must be compared to the “get- rich- quick” mentality promoted these days by the lottery business and other forms of gambling. If not by honest industry, people want to get rich through speculation, gambling, betting, swindling or outright cheating. Worldly success measured in terms of money is no doubt dazzling; but it is quite possible that riches may not reflect any elevation of character or goodness in its possessor. Riches are no proof of real worth. The power of money is also overestimated. Great thinkers, discoverers, inventors and other benefactors of mankind had often been men of moderate means. A fine motto inscribed on an old monument reads as follows: “My richness consisted not in the greatness of my possessions, but in the smallness of my wants.’’ Wealth consists in having few wants, according to the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Only a simpleton can presume that wealth will supply all his wants; in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it creates more wants than it supplies. Writing in his Almanac, Poor Richard adds: “If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost time is never found again.’’ If anyone loves life, then he must not squander time because that is the stuff life is made of. But men spend more time sleeping, forgetting that “the sleeping fox catches no poultry.’’ After making many well reasoned out statements on ways of getting rich, he cautions his readers not to depend ``too much upon your own industry, frugality and prudence. Though they are excellent things, they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven. Therefore ask that Blessing humbly and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them.’’ MPK Kutty |
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DELHI DIGEST New Delhi, March 1 The leader, Achary Mange was arrested in 1990 for the same offence. He guided his accomplices from inside the jail. This is how the gang was being run, police said. The police had a tip-off that fake certificates and marksheets of different courses were supplied by the gangsters. The racket was run from a house at Gopalpur village. A decoy was sent to the suspects who promised him that the documents would be given to him on Friday. A raid was conducted in the house and the suspects were caught red-handed while they were handing over the documents. The suspects were identified as Yogender, alias Yogi, and Pradeep. Their third accomplice Sukhbir Singh is still absconding. Sleuths of the raiding team recovered thousands of filled and unfilled certificates of the DFMC, B. Pharma, BAMS, M.D., D.M.L.T., M.B.B.S., B.Sc., LL.B., M.B.A., B.U.M.S., B.H.M.S., B.Ed., B.A., B.V.Sc. and A.H. X-Ray Technical, etc. During interrogation, the suspects disclosed that the certificates were being sold for Rs 4,000 to Rs 1,00,000, depending upon the certificate of the course and the division required and the status of the customers. They said that earlier Achary Mange Ram ran the racket. After his arrest, his associates continued it as per his instructions. Effort is being made to trace the printing press from where the certificates were got printed. The possibility of more recovery and arrest cannot be ruled out, the police said.
Call girls caught Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Delhi Police has arrested three call girls and their two pimps who operated in South Delhi. The gang was run by Ashok Dutta who is absconding. He operated the gang through mobile phones. The prospective clients used to contact Ashok Dutta on his mobile phone to strike deals and also gave their requirements. He used to charge between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 for one girl. A decoy customer contacted Ashok on his mobile and it was decided that the deal would be struck near shopping complex last evening. When Ashok, his associate Shiv Rattan reached there along with the girls, they were arrested, the police said.
Body found Body of a 35-year-old woman was recovered from a coach of Panipat Mail on February 17. Her height was around five feet and 10 inches. She was wearing a green colour suit. Her body is kept in Sabzi Mandi mortuary under the supervision of the police of Old Delhi Railway Station. |
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NCR BRIEFS Sonepat, March 1 According to a report, this step followed by the strike of the workers who had been demanding salary and bonus for the past few months. Meanwhile, the management has called the police for the safety of the factory and other goods. The police have also pushed away the agitating workers from the main gate of the company who were trying to stage a dharna there. However, the workers have been asked to stage a dharna 50 ft away from the main gate. Liquor vend looted Four unidentified armed miscreants are reported to have looted a liquor vend near the old bus stand at Gohana town, 35 km from here last night. According to a report, the miscreants forced their way into the liquor vend and snatched the cash bag from the salesman, Sharvan at pistol-point and fled. The police swung into action and started a chase but could not apprehend them. The Gohana Police have registered the case and further investigations were in progress. Theft at Subzi Mandi Thieves are reported to have entered the house of one Mr Titoo in Subzi Mandi area here last night and escaped with an inverter from it. The police are investigating the case. A spate of thefts in and around Sonepat city have caused resentment among the people of the city. Held under Arms Act The Ganaur police have arrested a youth, Satish of Ahir Majra village under the Arms Act following the recovery of a ‘kamanidar’ knife form his possession. Scribe dies Mr Basant Bhagat, a local journalist died after heart attack here yesterday. According to a report, he was 61. Various social and religious organisations have mourned his death in several meetings held last evening. Road blocked Faridabad: Several dozen persons blocked Tigaon Road here this morning in protest against improper functioning of the power department. The protestors alleged that due to weak and loose wiring near the Tigaon village, the chances of accidents had risen. They said that a bull had been electrocuted by the wiring on Friday. The blockade was lifted after 45 minutes at 10.30 pm when the DSP, City Ballabgarh and the SHO assured them of a proper action. |
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