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September 15, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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12 fresh cases of diarrhoea
reported Xen absolved of corruption
charges 5 gazetted officers may face criminal
cases 28 lakh kids given polio
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Plant 1,000 saplings, get a job:
CM Shivalik foothills to get 45 dams Dairy officials ‘need’ to update
knowledge Horticulture Director inspects plots Clarification
on question paper sets sought Congress factionalism
comes to fore POTA being misused, says Sanjay Singh
65 cases settled at Lok Adalat Environment awareness
drive launched
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12 fresh cases of diarrhoea
reported Yamunanagar, September 14 The number of patients in Government Hospitals has touched 73 while in private hospitals it has crossed the 100 mark. In the Civil Hospital, 44 patients have been admitted while in the ESI 19 have been admitted. The Public Health Department has geared up to improve the source of water and has disconnected about 52 illegal water connections. According to sources, the health department has not been using bleaching powder. In Yamunanagar, there are 50 tubewells and the requirement of a tubewell varies from 5 kg to 6 kg of bleaching powder. It is learnt that a few tubewells were functioning without chlorinator. The Financial Commissioner, Public Health, Haryana, Mr N. Bala Bhaskar, visited the district yesterday and sought first-hand information from department officers. Mr Ashok Arora, state Transport Minister, Dr M.C. Gambhir, MLA, and the Deputy Commissioner visited the affected colonies last evening. Mr Arora said an inquiry would be conducted. He asked officials of the Public Health Department to take samples of water on regular intervals. Mr Jagdish Singh, councillor blamed the health department for the deaths. He demanded a high-level inquiry into the matter. Dr Naresh Sharma, Civil Surgeon, said out of 12 water samples sent for examination, eight samples were declared unfit for consumption. He said the report had been sent to the Deputy Commissioner. He said a team of doctors and paramedical staff had been camping in the colonies round the clock. As many as 20,000 chlorine tablets had already been distributed. Dr B.S. Dahiya, Director-General, Health, Haryana, has also been camping here. Mr H.B. Munjal Engineer-in-Chief, said the Chief Engineer (urban head office) had been asked to investigate the matter and submit a report. |
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Xen absolved of corruption
charges Kaithal, September 14 The Deputy Commissioner today confirmed the receipt of the report and said he had forwarded it with his comments to the DIG, State Vigilance Bureau (Ambala), and the Managing Director of the HVPN. He said the official had been absolved on the basis of the statements made by the SDM, Mr Sanjay Rai, who accompanied the raiding vigilance party and independent witnesses. A complainant accompanied by a team of the Vigilance Bureau reportedly tried to put Rs 5,000 signed and powdered note in the pocket of Mr Arora. He resisted the attempt and the Vigilance team tried to put him in a vehicle forcibly. However farmers who were witness to the drama came to his rescue. The villagers had thought that the Xen who had come out of his office along with them was being kidnapped as the Vigilance officials, including the DSP, were in plain clothes. When the Vigilance members insisted that they had caught the official taking bride, the SDM who accompanied the raiding party said if after washing hands, the water turned red, Mr Arora should be held guilty otherwise he should be considered innocent. The official was found innocent in the presence of the farmers and department employees who reached the scene. The matter was taken to the Deputy Commissioner but the DSP (Vigilance) was adamant. The Deputy Commissioner asked the ADC to inquire into the matter. Senior officials from various departments on condition of anonymity condemned the attempt by the Vigilance Bureau and the complainant to implicate the official and said it was not a healthy trend. The Vigilance Bureau had registered a case under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the official merely on the basis of an application by the complainant submitted at the bureau's office in Ambala. |
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5 gazetted officers may face criminal
cases Chandigarh, September 14 It also suggested that departmental action should be taken against 20 gazetted officers, 34 officials and seven others, who were found guilty in 24 cases investigated by the bureau during this period. An official spokesman said here today that the bureau had also recommended the recovery of over Rs 11 lakh from the guilty. The revenue wing of the bureau had detected three cases involving leakage of revenue amounting to Rs 1.47 crore and recommended departmental action against five gazetted officers and an official. He said 11 officials were caught accepting illegal gratification during this period. During August the persons convicted by various courts on corruption charges included Om Prakash, Forest Ranger; Mangat Ram, Forest Guard; Mangali in Hisar district; Ramesh Kumar, Field Officer of the Haryana Scheduled Castes Welfare Corporation, Yamunanagar; Kuldeep Singh, Junior Engineer, HSEB, Hisar; and Gulab Singh, a Patwari posted in Kurukshetra district. |
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28 lakh kids given polio
drops Chandigarh, September 14 Dr B.S. Dahiya, Director-General, Health, said those children who had been left out today would be administered polio drops at their residences on September 15 and 16 by 28,000 house-to-house teams of two persons each. Mr Om Prakash Chautala later administered polio drops to children at Ambala, Kurukshetra and Karnal also. AMBALA:
The Chief Minister on Sunday also administered drops to children in civil hospital. The Military Hospital also took part in the campaign and 27 teams of doctors and paramedical staff gave polio drops to children in the cantt area. Brig Y.V. Sharma, Commandant, Military Hospital, was also present. The NSS unit of MM Engineering College, Mulana, also took part in the drive. Nearly 100 students of the college went to the surrounding villages and gave polio drops to nearby 100 children. The Principal of the college, Dr R.C. Bahal, and the secretary of the MM Education Trust were also with the students. FTHEHABAD:
The Deputy Commissioner, Dr R.B. Langyan, on Sunday administered polio drops to kids at the general hospital to launch the national Pulse Polio drive here. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Veena Chugh, said 519 booths had been set up for administering polio drops to children. She said 97 mobile teams had also been set up for this purpose. The NGOs like the Rotary Club, the Innerwheel Club and the Bharat Vikas Parishad had rendered their services for the drive. YAMUNANAGAR:
The intensified Pulse Polio campaign was launched on Sunday in the district by the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Vijendra Kumar, from the Yamunanagar club. Polio drops were given to children in the age group of 0-5. Dr Naresh Sharma, Civil Surgeon, said the drive had been organised by the Health Department and all six branches of the Rotary Club and the Inner Wheel Club of Jagadhari. The NSS volunteers from Government Senior Secondary School, Khizrabad, organised a camp on cleanliness and participated in the Pulse Polio immunisation programme. |
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Plant 1,000 saplings, get a job:
CM Ambala, September 14 At a party workers’ meeting at Ambala, he said the government had also decided to grow medicinal plants and herbs on the vacant panchayat land and the youths planting at least 1,000 sapling there would be given preference for the jobs. HVP chief Bansi Lal, he said, had been making false promises on providing jobs if voted back to power. “The HVP has already lost credibility among the masses,” he said. He asked the workers to reach Karnal on September 25 to celebrate the birth anniversary of Devi Lal. Earlier, at a religious function organised by Shri Krishan Kripa Sewa Samiti, he flagged off two trucks carrying food items and clothes to the families affected by terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing party workers at Saini Dharmshala in Kurukshetra, Mr Chautala said a Devi Rupak Scheme had been launched in the State with a view to bringing the sex ratio back to normal. Mr Sher Singh Barshami, president, INLD, Haryana; Ms Kailasho Saini, MP; Mr Ashok Arora, Transport Minister; and Jaswinder Sandhu, Agriculture Minister, were also present. |
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Shivalik foothills to get 45 dams Panchkula, September 14 A sum of Rs 32 crore has already been sanctioned for the construction of these dams in the districts of Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar. It is learnt that while Rs 29 crore has been sanctioned for 22 earthen dams, Rs 3.12 crore has been earmarked for construction of 26 sub-surface dams. The sites for sub-surface dams have already been identified. Officials of the Shivalik Development Board
(SDB) inform that the construction of these dams will be done in three phases. “In the first phase, the dams will be constructed in the Shivalik region falling in Panchkula district because the irrigated area here is just 26 per cent of the total area, while that in Ambala and Yamunanagar is over 80 per cent,” says the Chairman of the board, Mr B. R.
Lall. Officials in the SDB inform that they are also carrying out a survey on the existing dams/water recharging structures constructed by the Forest Department as well as by the SDB in the foothills in these three districts. The survey of Panchkula district is almost complete. It has been found that 34 dams of a total of 64, constructed over a period of 15 years, are now lying defunct. The SDB plans to identify those dams that can be desilted and revived again. It is believed that of the 34 defunct dams, over 12 can be revived after desilting. Forest Department officials, when contacted by TNS, said the dams at Lohgarh, Bhatogra, Khet Parali, Chowki, Masoomopur, Bhudd and Raina could be revived. Officials of the board say that to ensure a longer life of the dams, they plan to carry on afforestation exercise in the upper catchment area of the dams, in a concerted way, so that silt deposition is reduced. Large-scale afforestation activity has been carried out in the catchment area of two dams constructed by the Forest Department this year — one at
Gobindpur, with a capacity of 19.6 hectare metres, and another at
Jauli, with 10 hectare metres (both in district Panchkula), to reduce silt deposition. “The amount of soil erosion in the Shivaliks on one single day, is formed in about 400 years. Thus we have planned afforestation in a big way in the catchment area of these dams,” says Mr
Lall. |
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Dairy officials ‘need’ to update
knowledge Karnal, September 14 Dr Ram Chand, head of the extension division of the NDRI, interviewed 70 animal husbandry and dairy officials of Punjab and studied their attitude towards the job and latest technologies in the dairy sector. He found that 85 per cent of the officials were satisfied with their job, but the majority was not fully aware of the latest technologies. He said the NDRI had developed latest techniques on a par with the international standards to improve the productivity and quality of milk, but these technologies were not fully adopted practically at the ground level among the marginal farmers in the state. “The new technologies have been adopted by well-off farmers, but poor and marginal farmers are still far behind in improving breeding, feeding, management and health cover of their cattle,” said Dr Ram Chand. Since the bulk of milk produced in the country comes from poor and marginal farmers, they need to be educated and trained to sustain this production. In his study, he has suggested the best approach for the animal husbandry and dairy officials of Punjab would be to work closely with farmers and serve as links between formers, extension scientists and basic dairy scientists. |
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Horticulture Director inspects plots Fatehabad, September 14 He directed the authorities to plant jamun saplings around medicinal plants at Matana village and contact Delhi-based ayurvedic pharmacies for the sale of the plants. He also visited a “kinno” farm developed by using the drip irrigation method and an amla demonstration plot at Dhani Majra village. The Horticulture Director visited a government nursery and orchard situated at Bhuna village and directed officials of the local Horticulture Department to complete the target of planting fruit saplings and medicinal plants. He asked the authorities to help farmers in contract marketing. |
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Clarification
on question paper sets sought Kurukshetra, September 14 The school heads say that previously there were five types of papers each containing separate questions. But the board authorities announced that counterparts in the Central Board of School Education (C.B.S.E.) had been consulted in this connection as the C.B.S.E. question papers were of three types having 30 per cent separate questions in second and third question paper besides jumbling of the questions. The school heads want the board to clarify whether there will be separate questions in a set of three question papers or there will be 30 per cent changed questions along with jumbling of them in second and third question papers on the
C.B.S.E. pattern. |
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Congress factionalism
comes to fore Punhana (Mewat), September 14 The president of the Mewat district unit of the Congress, Mr Azad Mohammad, was absent from the meeting. His supporters alleged that a former minister of Haryana, Mr Shakrullah Khan, as well as his supporters, ignored him regarding the meeting. Mr Bhajan Lal claimed that his government had undertaken the maximum number of development works for the area. He was also critical of the NDA government at the Centre and said it had taken no single action which proved beneficial to the masses. Mr Shakrulla Khan, while speaking on the occasion, alleged that the state government was implicating opponents of the INLD. Among others who attended the meeting were two Congress MLAs from Gurgaon district, Rao Dharam Pal and Mr Zakir Hussain. |
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POTA being misused, says Sanjay Singh Ambala, September 14 Mr Sanjay Singh said people were unhappy with the Mayawati government. “Mayawati had thrown democratic functioning to the wind,” he said, adding that the possibility of the BJP being behind the formation of the SP government could not be ruled out. The forum president, Dr Bikram Sarkar, said they were going to start a campaign for generating awareness about the Ganga.
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railway platform shed to render birds homeless Ambala, September 14 Around 5000 coffee coloured medium size birds look like “maina” have been using the sheds of the platform No1, 2 and 3 as their night shelter for last about one century. With the sun rise the birds leave the platforms and again come back in the evening. This has been going on since British empire. Interestingly, these birds neither make their nests nor breed on the sheds of the platforms. They have made their nests outside the railway station where they live during day time. The railway station authorities said the birds discharge their waste throughout the night which make the floor of the platform unhygienic many time it fell on passengers standing on the platform waiting for their train. Otherwise these birds do not create any inconvenience. Five years ago, the railway authorities made an attempt to get a solution to this problem. The railway authorities had covered the sheds with screen so that the birds could not get the space to sit but the birds, however, managed to sit thereby making holes in the screen. Later the screen was removed. The newly designed platform sheds would be quite attractive in and it would not leave any uncovered space under the shed where the birds could spent their nights. The construction of the newly designed shed had almost been completed on platform number one while it is being constructed on platform number 2. There would be no option left for the thousands of birds but to say good bye to their century old night shelter for ever and to some extent the railway station would turn into a silence zone. The Station
Superintendent, Mr Prem Prakash, said that he had been witnessing these birds on the railway station for a long time. One of the oldest porter of this station said he had been working on this station since pre-Independence and since then he had been watching these birds there. He said: “These birds are really good looking and nice to listen.”
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65 cases settled at Lok Adalat Karnal, September 14 A spokesman for the district Legal Services Authority revealed that 693 cases were also disposed of which include 15 cases regarding family disputes, 19 civil cases, 383 petty cases and 198 criminal cases. A sum of Rs 2,32,820 was collected as fine in these cases. |
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Environment awareness
drive launched Karnal, September 14 Besides this, other activities like planting saplings, cleaning the school campus by picking up polythene bags, tins and other plastic waste, painting and gardening competition were also organised to bring awareness about environment among the students. The Principal of the school said these activities would not only promote environmental ethics but also inculcate the sense of conservation and preservation of environment among students. |
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Twelve fresh cases of diarrhoea were reported here today. The epidemic broke out on September 10 at Jaswant Colony, Vijay Colony and Ravi Nagar and 10 deaths have already been reported with more than 100 patients in various hospitals.
Chandigarh,
September 14
Ambala, September 14
