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2000 seats vacant in engineering colleges
VC to encourage rural students
NDRI Joint Director is Chennai varsity VC
Talent show for MBA, MCA students
Rider on remarriage of divorcee Malik men
61 arms seized during Operation Agni
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Cong panel to visit districts Dara Singh seeks job
quota for Jats
Special girdawari in 11 villages
DC against unscheduled power cuts
Separate HC for Haryana demanded
Power cuts hit Jagadhri units hard
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2000 seats vacant in engineering colleges
Hisar, September 12 Since around 2,000 seats in various engineering colleges of Haryana have not been filled, the government has now decided to allow the college authorities to fill the vacant seats themselves. For this, private engineering colleges will start a fresh admission process. However, on the other hand, many students who had got admission to engineering colleges are leaving these on one pretext or the other. Mr Devender Kasania, Registrar, Guru Jambheshwar University here, where the counselling for admission to engineering colleges was held, confirmed that new students were leaving colleges. He said around five to 10 applications in this regard were being received daily and more than 200 fresh entrants had sought permissing to leave their colleges till date. Talking to The Tribune here today, the Registrar said the university would conduct fresh counselling for the unfilled seats in the six government engineering colleges of the state. He said first preference would be given to the candidates who had appeared in the common engineering entrance test (CEET) for Haryana state. Following this, candidates of the all-India engineering entrance exam (AIEEE) would be considered. If some seats still remained vacant, students who had cleared their senior secondary (plus two) examination would get a chance on the basis of the marks obtained in the plus two exam. Mr Kasania said managements of private colleges had been directed to include a representative of their affiliating universities in the admission committee. There are 37 engineering colleges in the state, of which 31 are privately managed and six are run by the government. |
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VC to encourage rural students
Rohtak, September 12 Prof Dhanker, who is expected to take charge early next week, told The Tribune on the telephone today that rural students were at a disadvantage as compared to students in the urban areas because of the relative lack of opportunities and facilities. “My emphasis will be to bridge this gap through special emphasis on students in the rural areas of Haryana”, he said. Dr Dhanker will succeed Maj-Gen (retd) B.S. Suhag who had put in his papers to contest the recent Lok Sabha elections from the Rohtak parliamentary seat for the ruling INLD. Stressing the need for establishing a good academic atmosphere on the campus, the Vice-Chancellor-designate said cordial relations between the students and the faculty were of paramount importance. Apparently conscious of the falling academic standards in MDU, Dr Dhanker said he would try to establish a proper synergy between students and the faculty — the two vital components — so that the university could improve its academic atmosphere and standards. The new Vice-Chancellor said he would aim to catapult MDU from a state university to a university of national renown. “It has all the potential and the infrastructure. There is no reason why it should not become a top centre of higher education in the country,” he added. Dr Dhanker said he would work out details of his mission once he took over and identified the areas on which he would need to work first. “I have to be on the scene before I can spell out how I plan to achieve my goals. But I have a broad framework in mind”, he said. Talking about the Haryana educational scene, he said the lack of opportunities for rural students were the problem all over Haryana. In a way, rural students are an underprivileged lot. They need to be paid special attention to help them compete better, he added. Dr Dhanker will be heading a university which has been run for years by retired Army officers. His appointment has been welcomed by the university community as he is an academician.
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NDRI Joint Director is Chennai varsity VC
Karnal, September 12 With his appointment Vice-Chancellor, the post of Joint Director (Research), NDRI, has fallen vacant. Besides, two posts of Joint Director (Academic) and Joint Director (Extension) have been lying vacant for the past many years. Dr Balaraman was also the officiating Joint Director (Academic) of the NDRI, a deemed university. According to Dr Balaraman, he did his graduation in veterinary sciences from the Animal Sciences and Veterinary University, Chennai, in1966-67. “I am very happy to head the same institute,” he remarked after his appointment. Grandson of an eminent scientist, Dr Balaraman Iyyer, and son of Dr Subramaniam, Dr N. Balaraman joined the NDRI on November 27, 2000, as head of the cattle nutrition division. Later, he was appointed Joint Director (Research). He started his career as a scientist in animal sciences. He was selected as a scientist (animal nutrition) in the first batch of the Agriculture Research Services (ARS) examination in 1976. The Agriculture Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB), New Delhi, had advertised the post of Joint Director (Academic) of the NDRI on June 14, 2003, but could not select a candidate for the post even after the interview was conducted on April 15 this year. Four scientists of the institute — Dr S.P. Agarwala, head of the dairy engineering division, Dr B.K. Joshi, head of the dairy cattle breeding division, Dr B.S. Prakash, head of the dairy cattle physiology division, and Dr G.R. Patil, head of the dairy technology division, had appeared for an interview to the post. The selection procedure of the ASRB got mired in a controversy following issuance of new procedures and norms for promotions and fresh selections of scientists. Many scientists senior to those called for interviews for various posts had resented against the selection procedure. Ever since the NDRI was granted the status of a deemed university in 1989, the post of Joint Director (Extension) has not been filled. On many occasions, it was recommended to the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) by the then Directors of the NDRI to fill the post, but to no avail. The post of Joint Director (Extension) is mandatory as per the norms of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for a deemed university controlled and financed by the ICAR. The posts of Joint Director (Extension) in all other three deemed universities of the ICAR are occupied. These institutes are Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi; Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly; and Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mumbai. The NDRI, Asia’s premier dairy research institute, is the only institute where the post of Joint Director (Extension) is lying vacant ever since it was accorded the status of a deemed university. Sources in the Union Ministry of Agriculture said the government was considering amending the selection procedure for top posts in various research institutes, including the NDRI, due to which the two posts of Joint Directors at the NDRI were likely to remain vacant for some more time. |
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Talent show for MBA, MCA students
Yamunanagar, September 12 Dr Raj Kumar, Adviser, MAIMT, said that the talent show was organised in collaboration with Kurukshetra University and the prizes have been sponsored by university. The winners of the show would be participating in a higher level talent show to be organised later.
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Rider on remarriage of divorcee Malik men
Seink (Panipat), September 12 The directions will have far-reaching consequences as the Malik gotra is one of the biggest gotras of Jats in the country and in Haryana itself the population of the Malik gotra is over one lakh and is in majority in about 100 villages. A proposal in this regard was presented by former Haryana minister Kulbir Singh Malik during the mahapanchayat and was adopted unanimously. Talking to The Tribune, Dada Baljeet Malik, said the ban had to be imposed to stop trend of divorcing and torturing the girls belonging to the Malik gotra. Actually, the mahapanchayat was organised on the request of Amir Singh Malik of Jasrana village. Amir Singh had contacted the head of the khaap to provide him justice as the husband of his daughter had married another girl while the case of divorce was still pending in a court. According to information gathered by The Tribune, Amir Singh’s daughter Rekha was married to Sanjeev Tomar of Rohtak six years ago. Amir alleged that Tomar started torturing Rekha and did not mend his ways even after repeated requests. Instead, he filed a case in a lower court to get divorce from Rekha. Further, Tomar married another girl, Promila, daughter of Jitendra Malik of Seink village. Following which, the mahapanchayat was called by the khaap on the premises of Government School of Seink village on Saturday. The panchayat members of the village were also present during the mahapanchayat. The mahapanchayat ordered Jitendra to get his daughter Promila back to his house and to sever all type of relations with Tomar. At this, Mr Kulbir Singh Malik presented the proposal that if any person tortured or divorced his wife of Malik gotra, ban should be imposed on the persons of Malik gotra to marry their daughters to that person. Subsequently, the directions were issued by the
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61 arms seized during Operation Agni
Sonepat, September 12 According to a report, the main aim of the
operation was to detect illegal arms and weapons possessed by anti-social elements and dreaded criminals. The operation was launched on June 9 and ended on September 8. During the campaign, the police registered 44 cases and recovered 61 unlicensed or illegal
arms from anti-social elements and criminals in the district. Of these, 11 arms were destroyed on the orders of a court. Official sources have revealed that eight cases have been registered with the Kharkhauda police, seven with the Civil The sources revealed that the police recovered 35 pistols (315 bore),
five (32 bore), seven (12 bore), one (303 bore), one (38 bore) and one revolver (9 mm)
during the operation. Moreover, 50 live cartridges and four empty cartridges
were also seized by the police. |
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Cong panel to visit districts
Chandigarh, September 12 This decision was taken after a two-day meeting of the committee. After the conclusion of the meeting here today, the committee Chairman, Mr Shamsher Singh Surjewala, announced that the committee would visit Faridabad on September 15, Gurgaon (September 17), Sirsa (September 20) and Kurukshetra (September 22). Besides Mr Surjewala, the meeting was attended by Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Mr Harpal Singh, and Mr Birender Singh, all former party presidents; Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, acting leader of the Congress Legislature Party; Mr Karan Singh Dalal, MLA; and Mr Phul Chand Mullana, Mr Jagdish Nehra and Mr Ran Singh Mann, all former ministers. Mr Surjewala said the committee had received a large number of letters from members of the public containing information regarding various acts of omission and commission of the Chautala government. After examining the letters, the committee now wanted to verify the allegations. |
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Dara Singh seeks job
quota for Jats Ambala, September 12 Drar Singh was in Ambala to address a conference of the Haryana unit of the All-India Jat Maha Sabha. He is also holding the post of president of the maha sabha. Talking to mediapersons here today he said Manmohan Singh was an intelligent leader but due to the pressure of coalition partners he was not able to implement his policies properly. In reply to a question he said tainted MPs should not be inducted in the Cabinet and political parties should come forward to oppose this practice. He justified the protest of BJP in and outside Parliament in this regard. Defending the BJP leaders Lal Krishan Advani and Uma Bharti he said they were not the tainted leaders as the cases registered against them were of political nature whereas the tainted ministers of Congress were involved in criminal cases. Referring to the poor performance of Indian players in Athens he said the players had not been getting proper facilities and undue interference by politicians and bureaucrats in the selection of the players should be stopped. Briefing about the activities of Jat Maha Sabha he said Jats should be included in OBC list and should be given reservation in jobs. He said personally he favoured reservation in jobs but was of the view that promotions should be made on the basis of merit. |
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Special girdawari in 11 villages
Bhiwani, September 12 Special girdawari has been ordered to provide relief to those affected, administrative sources revealed. According to sources, fields in Dhanana, Mundhal,Kungar, Bhaini Thakran, Bhaini Jatan, Bhaini Mitathal, Badesra, Alakhpura, Ghuskani and Talu villages were inundated and crops were damaged. It is learnt that the state government has ordered to conduct a special girdawari in those villages where crops got damaged due to rain. Revenue officials, who have been assigned the job, have reportedly been asked to be impartial while collecting the data. The farmers too have been urged to cooperate with the officials in conducting special girdawari to enable the administration to prepare an early report. |
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DC against unscheduled power cuts
Yamunanagar, September 12 The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Vijayender Kumar, after making a surprise check at the power substation, asked the officials to promptly attend to any fault in lines. He also asked the officials to provide at least eight hours of continuous power supply to farmers and ensure stable voltage. Earlier, Mr Kumar made surprise visits to the dairy complex in Jagadhri and Yamunanagar and ordered the officials of the municipal committees to provide cattle pounds. |
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Separate HC for Haryana demanded
Panipat, September 12 Mr Bhardwaj said the state assembly had already passed a resolution for the constitution of a separate HC for the state. He also demanded that mini secretariats should be constructed in each district of the state. Similarly, lawyer chambers and bar rooms should also be constructed in every district and at sessions courts. |
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Power cuts hit Jagadhri units hard
Yamunanagar, September 12 According to Mr Sunder Lal Batra, general secretary, Jagadhri Metal Manufacturers and Suppliers Association, the metal and iron industry of the town is on the brink of closure because of the cuts. “The cuts are unscheduled and this is causing an irreparable loss to the traders,” Mr Batra said. There are around 500 big and small metal units in Jagadhri with an average per day production of 300 tonnes. Meanwhile, a new power cuts schedule came into force in the district from today. As per the new schedule, the urban areas would be subjected to a minimum of eight hours of cuts. Industrial units consuming more than 1 MW of power will not get the supply till September 15 and those consuming below 1 MW would only get two-phase supply during the night. The rural area would be given a 6-hours-a-day supply. |
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