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Withdraw shrine Bill: Sadhu Samaj Cane growers disappointed HVPN official held for graft Scholarship applications
invited in Haryana Raids in search of Avedna prove fruitless 4.36 lakh cases settled at lok adalats |
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Insurance company told to pay 69,500 3 held for rape of Dalit woman
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Withdraw
shrine Bill: Sadhu Samaj Kurukshetra, July 27 In the memorandum the Shathdarshan Sadhu Samaj had criticised the Haryana Government’s move and had warned that it would be opposed tooth and nail. So far as the restoration and beautification of the dilapidated Hindu shrines was concerned, the Samaj was not against it but was ready to contribute in this direction. To safeguard the Hindu samaj’s religious faith in temples, the Haryana government should withdraw its move without further delay, Mahant Beeram Das demanded. |
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Cane growers disappointed Chandigarh, July 27 However, as soon as the Centre announced the package for these three states, other states too raised the demand for a similar package, leading to indefinite delay in its implementation. Haryana has 15 sugar mills, three in the private sector and 12 in the cooperative sector. The private sugar mills have gone to the court and obtained a stay against the payment of the SAP to the growers. The Punjab and Haryana High Court, while granting the stay, ordered the mill owners to pay interest on the difference between the SAP and the SMP to the growers, if they lost the case in the Supreme Court which is already seized of the matter. The SAP in Haryana is Rs 110, Rs 106 and Rs 104 for the early, middle and late sugarcane varieties, respectively. The cooperative sugar mills are paying the SAP to the canegrowers. The cooperative sugar mills, which crushed about 362 lakh quintals of cane this year, had to shell out about Rs 290 crore if they had paid the SMP to the growers. They will have to pay an additional about Rs 100 crore to the growers on account of the SAP. The cooperative mills are still to pay about Rs 143 crore for which they have sought the government's assistance. If the Centre had implemented the package expeditiously, the cane growers of Haryana could get early payment. However, it is not known if the package had helped those growers who had supplied their produce to the private sector mills. Even before the other states, particularly Maharashtra, had demanded a share in the package, it was obvious that the implementation of the package would not have been as expeditious as Mr Rajnath Singh would have desired. Since the money for the package had to come out of the sugar development fund(SDF), the Centre would have had to issue bonds for raising the required amount. This would have naturally taken a considerable time. Moreover, the SDF is earmarked for the modernisation and development of sugar mills. Therefore, there could have been legal hurdles in diverting it to pay the cane growers. The sugar mills are in no position to pay the SAP. In Haryana, the cooperative mills alone have an inventory of about 41 lakh unsold bags of sugar, the price of which has come down from Rs 1436 to about Rs 1200 per quintal in the past two years. The SAP, however, has remained constant since 1999. The mills are not even given a free hand to sell their produce. It is the Centre which fixes the quotas of sugar to be sold by each mill. |
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HVPN official held for graft Kaithal, July 27 Protesting against the arrest of the foreman, the Power Board Employees Union held an emergency meeting here yesterday and threatened to an agitation to protest against the ‘highhandedness’ of the administration in implicating their colleague in a false case under the pressure of a minister. The union took a decision to protest against the said minister and the Deputy Commissioner from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. from Monday, July 28 by raising slogans out side the SDO’s offices in the Kaithal power board Division. It was also decided that no board employee would go to detect power theft till the SDO and the police party accompanied them. |
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Scholarship
applications invited in Haryana Chandigarh, July 27 Mr Dhanpat Singh, Higher Education Commissioner, said here today that students who had passed matric, 10+2, BA, B.Sc. and B.Com. III could apply under the National Merit Scholarship Scheme provided the maximum annual income of their parents did not exceed Rs 25,000. Similarly, those who had passed matric, 10+2, BA, B.Sc B.Com.III, B.Ed could apply under the Haryana State Silver Jubilee Merit Scholarship Scheme. There was no income limit under the scheme. Girl students who had passed 10+2 could apply under a scheme in which a one-time scholarship was admissible for taking up the medical or non-medical stream at the degree level. There was no income limit under the scheme. Under the Haryana State Merit Scholarship Scheme, those students could apply who had passed matric, 10+2, BA, B.Sc., B.Com.III, MA, M.Sc. or M.Com. The students who had passed
matric or 10+2 could apply under a scheme aimed at providing merit scholarships to children of school teachers working in the state. The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students who had passed 10+1 to BA, B.Sc., B.Com., MA, or M.Com. or M.Sc. could apply under a scheme aimed at providing post-matric scholarships to such students. He clarified that those Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe students who were studying out of Haryana, including Chandigarh, or in professional institutions which were not under the direct control of the department, should apply through their respective heads of the institutions to the Director, Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Department. Those students who belonged to the Backward Classes denotified (Vimukt Jatis) and Tapriwas and had passed 10+2, BA, B.Sc., B.Com. could apply under the state (education) welfare scheme for award of stipends and reimbursement of the tuition and examination fees. There was another scheme, the lower income group scholarship, under which those students who had passed matric, 10+2, BA, B.Sc., B.Com. III,
M.A.II, M.Com. II or M.Sc. II, could apply. |
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Raids in search of Avedna prove fruitless Ambala, July 27 The warrant officer has been appointed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to find Avedna Sharma who is missing from Ludhiana since July 15. The officer carried out raids at two places. While the parental home of junior engineer Zakhir Husain was raided in Gunet Behari village in Gurgaon late last night, he also raided the house of Zakhir Husain in Boh, Ambala Cantonment early this morning. Neither Avedna Sharma nor Zakhir Husain were found during the raids. The warrant officer was appointed after Avedna Sharma’s father filed a Habeas Corpus petition in the High Court seeking that his daughter be recovered. Avedna Sharma had gone missing from Ludhiana when she was travelling to Vaishno Devi with her husband. Before the train reached Ludhiana, Avedna Sharma told her husband that she has to go to the toilet. Thereafter, she has gone missing. Mohd Zakhir
Husain, a junior engineer in the Punjab Wakf Board, was alleged to be involved in the ‘disappearance’ of Avedna Sharma. Zakhir has been placed under suspension. On the night of July 19, local residents had reached Mahesh Nagar police station and demanded that the girl be recovered. Although police teams were sent to different places, Avedna and Zakhir could not be traced.
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4.36 lakh cases settled at lok adalats Faridabad, July 27 Mr Justice Bali, who is also the Executive President of the Haryana Legal Services Tribunal, said the 1733 lok adalats had settled 4,36,560 cases of various nature. He said around 22,631 cases of accidents had been settled and victims had been given a compensation totalling around Rs 140 crore. Around 15,196 persons, who have an income less than Rs 30,000 and come from backward and other categories have been benefited from these adalats, he added. He asked the advocates to come forward to help the poor to get justice without any harassment and extra cost. Later, addressing a press conference, Mr Justice Bali said the tribunal had set up permanent lok adalats in Panchkula, Ambala, Gurgaon, Bhiwani and Karnal districts. He said efforts were on to set up such adalats at the remaining 14 districts. |
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Insurance
company told to pay 69,500 Kaithal, July 27 This order was passed by President and forum members on the complaint of Aadi Ram son of Jagat Ram of Serdha village. He had alleged that the Insurance company had refused to settle his claim regarding his jeep damaged in an accident. The forum was told that the insured jeep met with an accident at Pundri in October 1999 and the driver had got registered an FIR with the police. He had got the vehicle repaired from three different workshops which cost him Rs one lakh.
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3 held for rape of Dalit woman Kaithal, July 27 S.P. Yogender Nehra said yesterday said that accused Suresh and Leela of Sega village along with car driver Rajinder had taken the victim at the farm of Raja Ram in Chhot village and raped her. Following this all four were booked under Section 376/34 of the IPC and the SC and ST Act. He said that Mr Raj Kumar DSP (HQ) was investigating this case. |
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