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Load disclosure scheme from May 1
Ex-minister smells wheat scam
Pollution level touches new high in Faridabad
EO caught red-handed taking bribe
Haryana to have 2 more fish seed farms
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high court
Govt not procuring wheat,
sarson: INLD
Doctors please VIPs, ignore patients
Cong prepares for rally in Jind
Agro policy needed, say experts
TB referral centre for Karnal
Trade unions resent factory lockout
Youth poisoned to death
Dowry harassment case registered
Gangster arrested
Three unnatural deaths
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Load disclosure scheme from May 1
Karnal, April 29 According to a circular consumers of the domestic and non-domestic categories, willing to declare their unauthorised loads, will be required to submit advance consumption deposits (ACD) and complete formalities to get their unauthorised loads regularised. There will be no need to submit a test report up to an extension of 5KW of load. The applicant will be required to submit a certificate to the effect that the wiring for the extended load had got carried out from an authorised contractor and it had been tested as per the provisions of the Act. He said for the extension of beyond 5KW of load, the applicant will be required to submit a test report. The extended load will be considered as regularised with immediate effect after all formalities having been completed and no penalty would be charged from the applicants for the regularisation of their unauthorised load, he added. The tubewell consumers should have to declare their extended load only by submitting an application and agreement form but submission of terms and conditions forms or affidavits will not be mandatory for the applicants of this category. This scheme will also be available to the consumers who have applied for extension of load and the applications were under process for approval. |
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Panel on power bills meets on May 2
Chandigarh, April 29 The committee could not meet earlier as two of its members, Agriculture Minister Surender Singh and Power Minister O.P. Jindal, were killed in a helicopter accident. Recently, the state government inducted into the committee the Education Minister, Mr Phool Chand Mullana, and the Transport Minister, Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, to fill the two vacancies. |
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Ex-minister smells wheat scam
Hisar, April 29 Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Prof Sampat Singh categorically stated that wheat meant for the BPL families was being sold in the open market by transporters in connivance with government officials and ration depot-holders. The former minister pointed out that at several places wheat was being transported from FCI godowns to ration
depots at incredibly low prices. He alleged that the persons involved in the scam had pocketed crores of rupees. “The transporters, in connivance with government officials and ration depot-holders, quote nominal rates for transporting wheat, which is apparently transported on paper only,” he said. The senior INLD leader demanded that a CBI probe be instituted in this regard. |
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Pollution level touches new high in Faridabad
Faridabad, April 29 ‘The SPM level of the atmosphere in certain parts of the town and district have crossed the permissible limit and at some spots it has gone above almost by 30 to 38 times of the permissible level, thus putting at grave risk the lives of a large number of population and other living beings’. This fact has been surfaced after a laboratory in Delhi tested the air samples taken from the Pali-Mohabbatabad area in the district recently. It is reported that the SPM level here has touched a whopping level of 18727.75, while the permissible limit of SPM at any residential area should be less than 500 points. The Bandhua Mukti Morcha, a social body engaged in welfare of the labourers, has claimed that the dangerous levels of air pollution in the mining areas of the town have been posing a grave risk to the health of hundreds of workers working there and the population residing in the nearby villages. The air of the Aravalli hills in the region, where the Supreme Court has imposed a ban on mining, seems to have become quite safe since then as there has been no open mining activity in the 5-km radius of the border with Delhi. But the activity has been going on a large scale in the hills of Khori and Sirohi villages in the district, which do not come within the ban limit. The district administration seems to be ignoring the growing need and demand of introducing CNG-based transport system and putting a stop to the movement of old and outdated vehicles like mini-trucks and auto rickshaws. ‘Majority of the 15000 three-wheelers running in the city are a source of pollution’, said K.L Gera, a social activist, here. |
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EO caught red-handed taking bribe
Panipat, April 29 This was stated by SP Vigilance (Rohtak range) Mr Rajbir Deswal while talking to mediapersons here today afternoon. The SP said that Suraj Mal had demanded Rs 5,000 as bribe from Mr Sachdeva, running his cloth shop in Sanauli for enhancing his limit from 2 to 3 lakh. At this, Mr Sachdeva contacted the VB, which laid a trap under inspector Surender Kumar and caught Suraj Mal red-handed. An FIR under Sections 7 and 13 of Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered.
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Haryana to have 2 more fish seed farms
Karnal, April 29 Disclosing this after presiding over a meeting of the Fisheries Department here yesterday, the Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Fisheries, Mr
H.C. Disodia, said an ambitious programme of fish culture had been formulated in the state at a cost of Rs 25 crore for the next five years. Under this programme, steps would be taken for addition of different varieties of fish and setting up of a fish care centre at every district headquarters. In order to reduce the mortality rate of fish seed, arrangement would be made for medicines and experts would be posted at the centres. Mr Disodia said at present more than 17,000 youth were engaged in this profession and in the next five years 15,000 more would be given employment in this vocation. He said Haryana was at the number two place in the country in the production of fish. He said the area under fish production would be increased from 8,882 hectares to 14,500 hectares. With this, the production of fish in the state would go up from 42,000 tonnes to 75,000 tonnes. He said in order to provide marketing facilities to fish farmers, new fish markets would be set up Ambala, Hisar, Bahadurgarh and Gurgaon district, whereas fish markets were already functioning at Panipat, Faridabad and Yamunanagar. He also revealed that a national-level aqua culture research and training centre was being set up at a cost of Rs 1.60 crore at Hisar where farmers would be imparted training by experts of fish culture. They would also be trained in Jhinga fish production. Later, Mr
Dosodia, along with other senior officials of the Department of Fisheries, visited the modern fish farm of progressive fish farmer Sultan Singh at Butana village near here and exchanged views on the
indigenious technology adopted and developed by him for induced breeding, almost 13 weeks prior to the natural breeding season. |
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Suit against Bhajan Lal dismissed
Our High Court Correspondent
Chandigarh, April 29 In his petition, Mr Chautala had stated that he made a complaint to the Sirsa Superintendent of Police on April 13, 2004, through an affidavit, seeking registration of case against Mr Bhajan Lal. But no action was taken. The petitioner had also given details of the alleged properties owned by Mr Bhajan Lal and his family members. Mr Chautala had demanded that a case should be registered against Bhajan Lal for having allegedly amassed property worth thousands of crores by misusing his position as a minister and chief minister of the state. He had also sought handing over of investigation into the matter to Central Bureau of Investigation. However, today, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Mr Justice D.K. Jain and Mr Justice Hemant Gupta directed the petitioner to pay Rs 10,000 as costs. The amount is to be deposited with the Punjab Legal Services Authority. The Bench observed that the counsel for the petitioner had failed to prove the allegations levelled in the petition as also in the additional affidavit that the petitioner had submitted in the Court. Notice to Khandelwal The High Court issued notice to Haryana Director Secondary Education K.K. Khandelwal, asking him to tell the court why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for not implementing High Court orders. The officer has been accused of not implementing the March 28 order of the Division Bench of Mr Justice N.K. Sud and Mr Justice A.K. Mittal. The Bench had directed the officer to reconsider the show-cause notices issued to schools in residential premises in rural areas. The petitioners, Bal Vikas Public School, Saraswati Public School and Akash Model School, Karnal, have sought initiation of contempt of court proceedings against Mr Khandelwal for not implementing the High Court orders. The school petitions have stated that following the High Court orders, which was to be implemented within four weeks, the school representatives even met the officer, but the show-cause notices were not withdrawan. Saying that by not taking any action as directed by the High Court, the officer had violated the school owners fundamental right to earn a living, the petitioners have sought action against the officer. The Bench has issued notice for May 13.
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Govt not procuring wheat,
sarson: INLD
Jhajjar, April 29 Mr Chautala was talking to mediapersons at the INLD office in Bahadurgarh today. He said, “The government agencies are rejecting the sarson produce at one pretext or the other. In cases where the produce has been procured, the payment is being delayed for one month,” the INLD leader alleged. He said the Hooda regime was deploying the ‘tainted officers’ at key posts. |
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Doctors please VIPs, ignore patients
Sirsa, April 29 Ms Selja, Union Minister for Poverty Alleviation, laid the foundation stone on the hospital campus though no new building was scheduled under the plan. According to hospital sources, under the hospital development plan only the facilities like air-conditioning of departments etc could be set up at a cost of Rs 1 crore. Meanwhile, the patients had to face a tough time as ‘certain doctors’ were busy gathering crowds to impress the VIPs, including Dr K. V. Singh, OSD to the Chief Minister, and Mr L. D. Arora, Industry Minister. The function started more than three hours behind the schedule and till then most of the departments remained without medicos and other subordinate staff. |
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Cong prepares for rally in Jind
Chandigarh, April 29 To mobilise the party cadre, a meeting of workers will be held in Chandigarh on May 2. According to the Working President of the Haryana Congress, Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, the meeting will be attended by former party chiefs, office-bearers of the state, district, block and town-level units, MPs and MLAs, former MLAs, AICC members from Haryana, members of the Pradesh Congress Committee and the heads of front organisations, departments and cells of the party. Mr Surjewala today allotted various districts to senior leaders for supervising the mobilisation operations. |
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Agro policy needed, say experts
Karnal, April 29 Dr Ram Chand newly appointed Assistant Director General of the Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), who presided over the technical session as chairman, said that the scientists had recommended to the Union Government to improve research extension linkages, involve non-public agencies in extension efforts and develop equipments/practices suitable for women who constitute major work force in agriculture and its allied professions. The main factors that the scientists had found responsible for gaps in technology transfer were inappropriateness of technology, lack of suitable technology assessment mechanisma, weak extension farmer linkages and lack of suitably trained extension workers. Dr Panjab Singh, Director of the School of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), while presiding over the valedictory function, said that a developed nation mean all-round prosperity of its people. “We need to develop a definite ‘road map’ to attain the food and nutrition security that still remains elusive to nearly one-fourth of our population”. |
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TB referral centre for Karnal
Panchkula, April 29 Ms Gulati said that STDC would be set up by upgrading the Public Health Laboratory at Karnal. It was also decided that those, who contribute significantly for the success of the programme, will be felicitated. They might be from government or private sector, or even volunteers form the community. She said that the training programme will also be conducted at the State Health and Family Welfare Training Centre in Panchkula and monitoring will be carried out by the State TB Cell. She said that last year, treatment was given to about 3,400 patients and the state had achieved a sputum conversion rate of 85 per cent and a cure rate of 83.4 per cent. About 150 community volunteers, 150 private practitioners, 25 charitable trusts and 23 non-governmental organisations are already working for the programme. Efforts will be made to increase the involvement of private sector, and need for involvement of all Railway and military hospitals in the state under the Revised National TB Control Programme. Others who were present at the meeting included Director General, Health Services, Dr Sushma Madan, Director, Health Services, Dr N.K. Sharma, State TB Officer, Dr Vijay Garg and other members of the State Tuberculosis Control Society. |
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Trade unions resent factory lockout
Sonepat, April 29 Many workers alleged that the management had declared the lockout without giving any prior notice to them. Mr S.N. Solanki and Mr Howa Singh, president and the vice-president, respectively, of the Haryana Committee of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), condemned the move of the management and the failure of the state government and the Labour Department to take any action against the management. They warned that if the lockout was not lifted immediately, the situation might worsened and the state government and the Labour Department would be responsible for it. They alleged that the management had been violating the Minimum Wages Act and the Factory Act. |
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Youth poisoned to death
Yamunanagar, April 29 The victim, Ram Kumar, had boarded a train from Chappra, to Saharanpur in search of employment and was to meet his cousin, Mr Ram Naresh, an autorickshaw driver. According to Mr Ram Naresh, when he met his brother at the Jagadhri railway station last evening, Ram Kumar appeared ill. Ram Kumar told his brother that he got unconscious after consuming ‘’parsad’’. When he regained consciousness, his belongings were missing. He got down at Saharanpur and travelled to Jagadhri without ticket in another train. Ram Kumar was admitted to the Civil Hospital here where he died. The Railway police took the body in its possession and post-mortem had been performed on it. In another incident, a 35-year-old man, Raj Kumar, allegedly ended his life by consuming some poisonous substance last evening. Raj Kumar, who was staying with his wife and two children in Shyam Sunder Colony here, reportedly took the extreme step because of abject poverty. Meanwhile, cleaner of a truck, Naresh Kumar died allegedly after run down by another truck near Ratangarh village on the Saharanpur-Kurukshetra road today. A case has been registered. |
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Dowry harassment case registered
Rewari, April 29 The order has come in the wake of a petition filed by a young married woman, Mrs Savitri Devi, who alleged that she was subjected to cruelty for dowry by her in-laws. Mrs Savitri Devi, daughter of Mr Mangtu Ram, a resident of Bhurthala village near here, was married to Mr Ram Avtar, resident of Jhal village under Kosli police station of the district.
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Gangster arrested
Rewari, April 29 Dr C.S. Rao, SP, Rewari, said the gangster had also confessed to his involvement in 16 other cases of murder, theft and robbery. He further said his four accomplices, who were hardcore criminals and were involved in about 12 cases of murder and robbery, were still at large. |
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Three unnatural deaths
Ambala, April 29 According to family members of Manish, when Manish went to Saha to bring back his wife, his mother-in-law refused to send her with him. Instead, she allegedly pressurised Manish to settle down with them. Manish was said to be under considerable stress due to this. Yesterday, he left home saying that he was going to get a cold drink. But, he was later found in an unconscious state on Railway Road. He died before he could be taken to hospital.
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