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PSUs: more heads
Shankracharya for peaceful solution to Ayodhya issue POSTINGS/TRANSFERS
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BJP panel to hold meeting at
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PDS: Karat
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PSUs: more heads may roll Chandigarh, June 14 The proceedings of the meeting, including the CM’s suggestion, would be put up for further directives, a source here said. The move could take a concrete shape only after a proposal was drawn up for this purpose. Preparing the proposal itself would be a tough assignment, since the SDCL also sold seed through its outlets — a job which could not be assigned to the
HAU. It is also not clear yet whether the government will retrench the existing SDCL staff or accommodate it in other departments in case the corporation is disbanded. The staff had not been the only one affected by the government’s move to prune its expenditure. While chairmen of two corporations recently lost their jobs, at least two more are believed to be in the firing line. The state government recently removed Mr Inder Singh Dhull and Mr Ashok Verma as heads of Haryana Agro-Industries Corporation and Haryana Land Reclaimation and Development Corporation (HLRDC), respectively. Mr K.S. Bhoria, Financial Commissioner Agriculture, has been made Chairman of both corporations. The government is also going ahead with its move to bring three other corporations — Women Development Corporation, Haryana Backward Classes Kalyan Nigam and Haryana Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation — under a single administrative set-up. A key state government official told the TNS that the government would carry out the move as soon as some legal issues were sorted out. There will be one MD and one chairman for these corporations once the government implements its plan. This move, it is believed, may create ripples in the ruling party, as the Chairman of the Haryana Backward Classes Kalyan Nigam, Mr Ramesh Kumar Khatak, is an INLD legislator, while Mr Amar Singh Dhanday, Chairman of the Haryana Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, is also a ruling-party MLA. Mr Vimla Sangwan, sister-in-law of the Finance Minister, Mr Sampat Singh, is heading the Women Development Corporation. Unlike Mr
Dhanday, Mr Khatak and Ms Sangwan, Mr Dhull and Mr Verma were political lightweights and their removal would not create any problem for the government. |
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Shankracharya for peaceful solution to Ayodhya issue Karnal, June 14 The Shankracharya was addressing a press conference at the residence of Mr R.N. Vasudeva, a retired IGP (Haryana), in Model Town. Swami Nischala Nand is on a two-day visit to the city. Reacting to the move of the Shankracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, the Puri Shankracharya said all Shankracharyas stood for an amicable and peaceful solution of the dispute. The Shankracharya who delvedup on numerous issues confronting the country asked the political parties to rise above “personal party politics” to solve these problems. He regretted that politics was becoming a trade with each passing day. This trend was posing the biggest danger to the country’s political system and its stability. Swami Nischala Nand defended the age old caste system in the country which was based on providing basic jobs to the people at the village level to earn their livelihood. The caste system was based on professional talents of each caste. It also protected the economic interests of each caste, he maintained. The Shankracharya eulogised the liberalism and catholicity of the Hindu religion. The seer held that it was only because of that Ms Sonia Gandhi a Christian by birth-was ruling over 16 states in the country. Likewise, there had been three-Muslim presidents of the country and a Christian Mr K.R. Narayanan also adorned this august office, he said. Talking about the strength of the Hindu cultural heritage and its traditions, the seen maintained that both English and Mughal rule over India could not weaken it. He called upon the leadership of the country not to be dictated by any “foreign power and bow before it.” He also ruled out that there were any differences among the four traditional peethas of the country which were established about 20,570 years ago. |
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POSTINGS/TRANSFERS Chandigarh, June 14 Mr A.N. Mathur, Chief Secretary, was given the additional charge of Principal Secretary, Home, Jails, Criminal Investigation and Administration of Justice Department during the leave period of Ms Promilla Issar. Mr S.C. Jain, MD, Haryana State Minor Irrigation and Tubewell Corporation, was posted as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Faridabad in place of Mr Pushp Raj Singh who would be the Director and Joint Secretary, Primary Education. Ms Jyoti Arora, awaiting posting, was posted as Director, Industries and Mines and Geology, relieving Ms Keshni Anand Arora of the charge. Mr M.K. Midha, Joint Secretary, Home-II Department, was given the additional charge of Home-I Department during the leave period of Mr G.S. Sorot. Mr H.S. Dhankar, Director, Agriculture, was assigned the job of looking after the World Trade Organisation cell in addition to his present duties, relieving Mr Ashok Khemka of the charge. Mr Vineet Garg, Deputy Commissioner, Rewari, was posted as Director, Social Justice and Empowerment and Welfare of SC and BC, relieving Ms Dheera Khandelwal of the charge. Mr Raj Kumar, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, was posted as MD, Hartron, relieving Ms Keshni Anand Arora of the charge. Ms Neerja, ADC, Rewari, was posted as DC, Rewari. The state government also issued transfer and posting orders to 18 HCS officers. Mr R.C. Verma, City Magistrate, Bhiwani, was posted as Joint Director, Primary Education, against a vacant post. Mr Y.C. Bhardwaj, SDO(Civil), Fatehabad, was posted as General Manager, Haryana Roadways, Jind, in place of Mr Jagbir Singh. Ms Monica Malik, Estate Officer, HUDA, Panchkula, was posted as Secretary, Agro Industries Corporation, against a vacant post. Mr Ashwani Maingi was posted as District Transport Officer, Fatehabad, in place of Mr Satbir Singh Kundu, who went as Zonal Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, Karnal, in place of Mr Maingi. Mr Ashwani Kumar was posted as Estate Officer, HUDA, Panchkula. Mr Sanjay Rai was posted as SDO(Civil), Kaithal in place of Mr Jagdeep Singh who had proceeded on leave. Mr Bir Singh was posted as Administrative Officer, PGIMS, Rohtak. Mr Satbir Singh-II has been posted as GM, Haryana Roadways, Kaithal. Mr Subhash Sheoran was posted as SDO(Civil), Fatehabad. Mr Om Prakash Sharma was posted as GM, Haryana Roadways, Fatehabad. Mr Sushil Kumar was posted as GM, Haryana Roadways, Kurukshetra. Mr Amardeep Jain was posted as Joint Commissioner, MCF, Ballabhgarh. Mr Om Prakash was posted as Deputy Director, Industries(Administration). Mr Rajiv Ahlawat was posted as GM, Haryana Roadways, Bhiwani. Mr Vikram Singh Malik was posted as District Transport Officer, Jind. Mr Suresh Kumar was posted as DTO, Sirsa. |
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inspectors promoted as DSPs Chandigarh, June 14 Mr Ronki Ram and Mr Ram Sarup have been appointed as the DSP State Vigilance Bureau. Mr Rajinder Singh has been posted as the DSP, CID and Mr Samme Ram as the DSP, Haryana Armed Police, Madhuban. Mr Sajjan Kumar has been posted as the DSP, Faridabad. Mr Tek Ram has been posted as the DSP, Fourth Batallion, Haryana Armed Police, Madhuban, Mr Arun Kumar goes as the DSP, Headquarters, GRP, Ambala and Mr Pardeep Singh as the DSP, CID and Mr Vikram Kapoor as the DSP, GRP, Faridabad. Mr Phool Kumar has been posted as the DSP, Chief Minister’s Flying Squad and Mr Balbir Singh as the DSP, Fatehabad, Mr Naripjit Singh as the DSP, Panchkula, and Mr Raj Singh as the DSP, Haryana Armed Police,
Madhuban. The government also cancelled the transfer orders of Mr Gurbachan Singh, DSP,
AEC, Kaithal, to Chief Minister’s Flying Squad. |
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Anti-encroachment drive
begins Yamunanagar, June 14 The District Country and Town Planning Department started demolishing the illegal constructions being carried out by factory owners. The factory owners alleged that they tried to show all valid documents to the officials concerned but they later carried out the demolition. According to a press note released by the District Public Relation Department, five unauthorised factory sheds, two boundry walls, one labour quarter and a road constructed on the Jagadhri-Chhachhrauli road near Udhampur village, which had been constructed without getting agricultural land conversion certificate and in violation of the Controlled Area and Urban Area Act, were demolished, Ms Gurmeet Kaur said. The District Country and Town Planning officer said the owners of these unauthorised constructions were time and again asked through legal notices to remove encroachments but they did not respond. |
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BJP panel to hold meeting at
Panchkula Rohtak, June 14 The state party chief, Mr Rattan Lal Kataria, will preside over the two-day meeting which will be attended among others by MPs and MLAs from Haryana, presidents and general secretaries of the district units and frontal organisations. Since the meeting will also consider organisational elections, the district election officers and their assistants have also been invited to attend the meeting. The party is expected to finalise its strategy on the issues on which the traders, government employees and farmers have launched agitations. The party had already constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Mr Kishen Singh Sangwan, MP, to study the issues and submit its report to the state executive for a final decision. The traders are agitating against the implementation of the VAT system and the farmers demanding the release of their state president, Mr Ghasi Ram Nain. The state government employees are up in arms against the policy of privatisation, liberalisation and retrenchment. The employees leaders allege that the government has not implemented the assurance given by the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, on October 24, 2002, on the rehabilitation of the retrenched employees of the MITC. The meeting will finalise dates for holding the election of the pradesh president and other office-bearers and members of the state executive. The elections of the pradesh unit are scheduled to be held by September end. The meeting will also consider reports of district units. Meanwhile, Mr Kataria has appointed 16 persons as ‘special invitees’ to the state executive committee meetings. They are Dr R.D. Bansal (Faridabad), Mr Rao Shiv Rattan Singh (Rewari), Dr Lakshmi Narain Yadav (Mahendergarh), Mr Dwarka Parsad Bansal (Charkhidadri), Mr Vaidya Sri Niwas (Sirsa), Mr Chander Bhan Gupta (Palwal), Mr Bjola Nath Chugh (Hansi), Mr Bhagat Amar Nath (Kaithal), Mr Satya Parkash Sharma (Bahadurgarh), Mr Sanjay Bhatia, President, Municipal Council, Panipat, Mr Krishan Bajaj (Kurukshetra), Mr Karnesh Sharma and Mr Ghanshyam Dass (both from Yamunanagar), Mr Shiv Parsad, former MLA, Ambala, Mr Har Bilas Jindal and Mr Shyam Lal Bansal, both from Panchkula. |
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Poor excluded from PDS:
Karat Fatehabad, June 14 Talking to The Tribune at Bhirdana village in the district today, Ms Karat said the current food policy of the Government of India had put a huge burden on rural women. She said it was ironical that on one hand about 4 crore tonnes of wheat were lying in godowns of the government while on the other hand poor failed to get a square meal a day. She said the whole system of
targeting in PDS by classifying people as Above Poverty Line (APL) and Below Poverty Line (BPL) was a farce and many poor people had been excluded from the BPL list. To substantiate her claim, she gave an example of a widow from the village who lived in a katcha house and used to receive Rs 200 per month as pension but the government records showed her as Above Poverty Line. Ms Karat said the AIDWA had already conducted the survey in eight states and found a huge percentage of poor women had been excluded from the PDS. Ms Karat said she had visited poor families living in about 15 villages of Haryana and that the condition of the poor, particularly the landless labourers was deplorable. She said the AIDWA had given a memorandum to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and has also met the Food and Public Distribution Minister, Mr Sharad Yadav, in this regard and demanded the scrapping system in the PDS as it had proved to be a total failure. |
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2 die after consuming spurious liquor Fatehabad, June 14 |
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HCS (Executive) results out Chandigarh, June 14 |
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BKU dharna continues Tohana, June 14 |
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Ambala, June 14 |
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