Hisar, March 17
The local authorities have declared 98 polling booths in the district as hypersensitive and sensitive for the Lok Sabha elections.

Ms Deepti Uma Shankar, District Returning Officer, stated in a press note that 52 and 46 booths in six Assembly segments had been identified as hypersensitive and sensitive, respectively. The booths of Haryana Agricultural University, Sainian Mohalla, Parav area, Dhani Shyam Lal, Dhani Barwali, Bharat Nagar, Vinod Nagar, Shiv Nagar and Surya Nagar in the town were identified as hypersensitive. Ten other booths in different colonies were declared as sensitive.

Bass, Petwar, Thurana, Narnaund, Majra, Pali, Ugalan, Data, Kheri Gangan and Gurana villages of the Narnaund segment and Daulat Pur, Litani, Chhan, Bhanbhori and Mirch Pur villages of the Barwala segment were identified as most sensitive. Polling booths in 13 villages of both these segments were identified as sensitive.

She said Sisai, Ghirai, Ladwa, Kinala and Niyana villages of the Ghirai segment and Balsamand, Salem Garh, Sadal Pur, Chaudhariwas, Adampur and Siswal villages of the Adampur segment as hypersensitive. Four villages of the Ghirai segment and eight villages of the Adampur segment were declared as sensitive.

Ambala, March 17
Former Ambala MP Ratan Lal Kataria today claimed that the Chautala government would collapse after the Lok Sabha poll.

He said Mr Chautala’s MLA’s would desert him after the Lok Sabha results. “The INLD MLAs are unhappy with the functioning of Mr Om Prakash Chautala,” he said.

Mr Kataria claimed that INLD had been able to form government in Haryana in the past owing to the BJP support.

Ambala, March 17
The Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, has directed officials of various boards and corporations to remove the hoardings eulogising the achievements of the state government which were put up at various places in the district a few months ago. He had summoned a meeting of district officers in this regard today noon.

About 85 hoardings were put up close to state and national highways in Ambala against the target of 125 a few months ago. Two days ago one of the corporations had put up a few hoardings which were later removed. According to information, the Chief Election Officer of the state had sent a fax message to the Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, asking him to get the hoardings put up by the state government removed.

The officials of the corporations have not started the process of removing the hoardings till today evening. One of the officials said it was not easy to remove such huge hoardings on a short notice. He said they had to arrange some vehicles to transport these hoardings to the offices safely.

Talking to reporters at Gohana yesterday, he urged the Chief Election Commissioner to order a high-level probe into the use of police vehicles, officials, telephones and wireless sets of the DGP and take action if Mr Malik was found guilty of violating the model code of conduct in the Lok Sabha elections.

He also alleged that motorcycles of the police Department were being used and telephones and wireless sets made available by the DGP to his wife for reaching the people in the remote areas of the constituency.

Mr Sangwan also alleged that constables in plain clothes had been deployed by the DGP for canvassing and for putting pressures on voters to vote in favour of his wife.

Panipat, March 17
Though she lost her upper limbs in a tragic train accident which left her mother and sister dead, Nirmala, a 17-year-old girl, is not disheartened. This resolute girl is now appearing in her class XII examinations not only to clear these but also as a show of her determination to be a topper. She is not taking any help for writing her exams, but has learnt to write with her wrist.

Armed with determination Nirmala has developed a sort of addiction for success. She came out in flying colours in Class VIII and Class X exams as she managed to top the merit list of successful candidates with more than 80 per cent marks to her credit. She says as she is busy putting her best foot forward in the Class XII examination being conducted by the Haryana School Education Board. She is also a fine painter and a computer savvy girl.

She lost her limbs when she was just eight-month-old. Despite all odds, she worked hard to learn to write like other children. After constant efforts she learnt to write with her wrist. When asked about her inspiration and support, she gave all credit to her family members, school teachers and friends. Nirmala said all the persons had helped her to over come her disability and bank on her strength instead of her weaknesses.

Talking to The Tribune at her house near Kalandher Chowk, she said. “I was three-year-old when I took admission in the school. The Principal of the school helped me a lot and arranged a special teacher to improve my writing. Thereafter I devoted hours to overcome my disability”.

Talking about her achievements Nirmala said: “I scored 87 per cent marks in Class VIII and 83 per cent in Class X exams. The district administration gave me a prize for my achievement twice on Independence Day and Republic day.

Karnal, March 17
A girl who met with an accident and suffered injuries while going to her examination centre was allowed to take English paper in the Matriculation examination at Gharaunda, near here, yesterday while lying on a stretcher.

Sikha Arora fractured her foot as the motor cycle on which she was riding pillion collided with a car 15 km from here.

Hisar, March 17
The Vice-Chancellor of Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Dr R.P. Dahiya today announced that the annual examination of graduation classes would commence from March 31.

Talking to reporters here, he said the university had decided to hold examination for postgraduate classes after the Lok Sabha elections. These examination would begin from May 15. The university would make a foolproof arrangement to avoid any incident of paper leakage during the examination. Question papers would be sent to examination centres on the same day of the examination. Besides checks by flying squads, special teams of university and local district officials would also visit the examination centres.

Dr Dahiya said he had called upon a meeting of university officials on March 26 to discuss the introduction of some new courses from the next session. The university had also decided to hold entrance exam for B.Ed classes on its own.

The University Grant Commission (UGC) had recognised the university and students of colleges affiliated to this university should not worry about their future.

Mr Dhanpat Singh, Commissioner, Higher Education, Haryana, was the chief guest of the function. Mr Ram Kumar Rawalwasia, a local industrialist, presided over the function.