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Unemployment allowance to blind enhanced
Mulana: steps taken to encourage
Tosham MLA for due respect to party workers
Bhajan’s men skip function to honour Ram Prakash
Protest against hike in cable charges
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Block-level hospitals to work 24 hours
CM sanctions Rs 10 lakh for lawyers’ libraries
Medical camp for special children held
Staff selection panel reconstituted
Car driver shot by employer
Canal breach damages crops
Sentence of Rajiv Jain stayed
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Unemployment allowance to blind enhanced
Faridabad, October 23 Speaking at a 10 day camp for the physically-challenged at Ballabgarh, he said that in case of matriculate and diploma holder blinds, the unemployment allowance had been raised from Rs 400 to Rs 1000 per month and in case of graduate and matric pass diplomas holder, it would be Rs 1500 instead of Rs 500 per month earlier. Similarly, unemployment allowance for the post-graduate and graduate diploma holders had been raised from Rs 600 to Rs 2000 per month. He said that pension for the blind, deaf and dumb and mentally retarted had also been raised from Rs 300 to Rs 600. The Government had also raised the retainership allowance of caners from Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 per month. Mr Hooda said that the State Government would spend Rs 33.35 crore for the welfare of physically challenged during the current year. Mr Hooda said that facility of three per cent reservation would be given to physically challenged in government jobs. Also, they would be given a relaxation of 10 years in upper age limit in Government jobs. Referring to the issue of drinking water schemes, Mr Hooda said that the State Government had set a target to supply 70 liters of water per capita per day in next two years.
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Mulana: steps taken to encourage e-governance
Ambala, October 23 Mr Mulana was addressing the valedictory function of three-day national-level conference on the topic ‘Modern trends in IT technology’ in MM Engineering College at Mulana yesterday in which 187 research papers were presented by various scholars and educationists. The Chairman of the MM Education Trust, Mr Tarsem Kumar Garg was also present on this occasion. The Education Minister said the Union Government had established 500 community information centres in north-east India which was geographically isolated. He said several states including Haryana, had taken various steps to promote e-governance .The use of ITC had helped to bridge the gap between people’s opportunities for self-employment in the informal economy and the high growth sectors of the world economy. He said the mobile phone had revolutionised the rural scene. Illiterate villagers use it to supplement their household income. Referring the MM Group of institutions, he said that it had the required infrastructure to be a deemed university. Mr Tarsem Kumar Garg while honouring the Education Minister said that quality education was given to the students in these institutions. Dr Mukesh Sehgal, Registrar of the MM Group of Institutions, Dr H.P. Sinha, convener of the conference, Dr R.C. Chauhan, Dr H.S. Sharma and Mr A.K. Singh also spoke on this occasion. |
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Tosham MLA for due respect to party workers
Fatehabad, October 23 She exhorted people to participate in the November 16 blood donation camp in large numbers to pay tributes to late Surender Singh. Talking to reporters she said she was not after power and was happy to serve people under the leadership of Mr Hooda. She said that she had come to Haryana to fulfil dreams of her husband. She said 31 teams of blood banks; including one from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, would receive blood of volunteers. |
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Bhajan’s men skip function to honour Ram Prakash
Karnal, October 23 Earlier also Bhajan Lal, his sons Deputy CM Chander Mohan and MP Kuldeep Bishnoi as well as his MLAs D.P. Malik and Ramji Lal had kept away from the function held in Chandigarh to mark Prakash’s appointment as working president. Neither of Bhajan’s loyalists — DCC Karnal (Rural) president Zile Ram Sharma and its city chief Tarlochan Singh — attended today’s function. The DCC Karnal (Urban) president, Mr Suresh Gupta, reportedly close to Finance Minister Birender Singh, was also not present. Nilokheri MLA Jai Singh Rana and Indri MLA Rakesh Kamboj also did not attend the function. Mr Ram Prakash, addressing the gathering, said Mr Rana had welcomed him at Nilokheri this morning on his way to Karnal. Earlier while talking to mediapersons, he denied that he had any differences with Mr Bhajan Lal. He said he had replied to Mr Bhajan Lal in response to his letter but refused to divulge the details. Mr Bhajan Lal had reportedly written to him to cancel today’s “meeting”. |
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Protest against hike in cable charges
Sonepat, October 23 According to a report, cable operators had increased the charges from Rs 50 per month to Rs 250 per month without prior information. Owing to increase in charges most of residents have applied for disconnection of cable connections. Residents held a demonstration for the second day today in the city to protest against the increase in charges of cable connections by the cable operators particularly the Suvidha Cable owned by Head Constable Abhimanyu. They raised anti-police slogans at every chowk of the colonies. Representatives of the Sonepat Residents Welfare Association and the Sonepat Citizens Forum today urged the district and police authorities to intervene and take action against employees of the Suvidha Cables and other cable operators who had increased the charges for cable connections. In a press release they also alleged that cable operators were cheated the state exchequer by evading the entertainment tax and licence fee for the past two decades. |
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Block-level hospitals to work 24 hours
Rohtak, October 23 Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Animal Husbandry, H.C. Disodia, stated this at a State-Level function organised to launch a special statewide campaign to check foot and mouth disease, at Bahu Akbarpur village in this district today. The programme was launched by Rohtak MP Deepinder Singh Hooda. Mr Hooda expressed concern over the foot and mouth disease among cattle saying that this disease was causing an annual loss of Rs 7500 crore to the nation and of Rs 400 crore to cattle breeders in Haryana. He sought the cooperation of cattle breeders to make the State free from foot and mouth disease. Mr Hooda, who also gave away cheques of Rs 14 lakh, as incentive money to the breeders of buffalos of high quality, urged them to make use of this money judiciously. Mr Disodia said that there were 60 lakh buffaloes in Haryana and 37 lakh of them were of murrah breed. Milk production in the State was 54 lakh tonnes against 910 lakh tonnes in the whole country and 1600 lakh tonnes in the world, Mr Disodia said.
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CM sanctions Rs 10 lakh for lawyers’ libraries
Rewari, October 23 An announcement in this regard in the presence of the Chief Minister was made by Mr Justice D.K. Jain, Chief Justice, of the Punjab and Haryana High Court while addressing lawyers at Kosli and Rewari yesterday. Making a mention of the predicament faced by litigants due to disconnection of power supply due to non-payment of electricity bills of litigants sheds at certain places in the state, the Chief Minister also announced henceforth electricity bills of all litigants’ sheds in Haryana would be paid by the state government to avoid inconvenience to litigants. |
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Medical camp for special children held
Fatehabad, October 23 Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Yogesh Sharma, inaugurated the camp in the morning. Civil Surgeon, A.K. Hooda presided over. As many as 28 children with intelligent quotient (IQ) level between 30 to 70 visited the camp with parents and benefited from services of experts. Experts counselled the parents of the children on ways to make children self-reliant. Mrs Usha Dahiya, president of the NGO said that her organisation had been running a school for the special children in the town under Ms Kavita. She said that mental retardation came to children due to various reasons at pre-natal, natal of post-natal stages. She said that such children could not be completely cured but they could be provided proper training to make them self-reliant for day-to-day chores so that they did not become burden on others. |
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Staff selection panel reconstituted
Chandigarh, October 23
The other members of the commission are Ms Vinay Shama, Mr Vijay Kumar Chugh, Mr Ashok Jain, Mr Ram Saran Bhola, Mr Raghubir Singh Virk and Mr Tribhuwan Prakash Bose. The state government had earlier dissolved the SSC constituted during the Om Prakash Chautala regime. The previous SSC had come under cloud following allegations of malpractices in recruitment by the commission. Its image also took a nosedive when Mr Mool Chand Sharma, a member, resigned from the SSC to contest the February 3 Assembly elections from the Ballabhgarh constituency as a candidate of the then ruling INLD. |
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Car driver shot by employer
Fatehabad, October 23 Victim Ramesh Kumar worked as a driver of the accused car. According to the FIR lodged by Amit Kumar, son of the deceased, the accused had been harassing his father ever since he joined duties. The accused also owned a shop in the Rattia grain market. Last night when the accused Sheel Kumar, his brother Surender Kumar and their partner Yadvinder were drinking liquor in their shop, Sheel Kumar shot at his father from his licensed revolver from close range. Ramesh Kumar died on the spot. The accused fled after committing the crime. Labourers working in the grain market at Rattia blocked traffic there and demanded arrest of the accused. The police later registered an FIR against the accused. |
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Canal breach damages crops
Sonepat, October 23 This is the second time the embankment of this minor had been breached during the past three months. The official of the Irrigation Department rushed to the site and plugged the breach. Many farmers alleged that the embankments of this minor had become weak and the authorities concerned had utterly failed to strengthen them in spite of repeated complaints made to them. They demanded a high-level probe into the complaints about the weak embankments and stern action against erring officials. |
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Sentence of Rajiv Jain stayed
Sonepat, October 23 According to a report, the District and Sessions Judge of Sonepat, had convicted and sentenced Mr Jain to two years imprisonment with a fine of Rs 5,000 in a case for having more property against the source of known income filed against him during the regime of the INLD Government headed by Mr Om Prakash Chautala. |
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