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Wheat growers find ways
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Hooda promises wheat bonus for
Fate of dental college hangs in the balance
Teacher’s murder: prime suspect identified
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Bhiwani to have hotel management institute
Mystery shrouds man’s death
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Wheat growers find ways
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Rohtak, April 22 Still others are selling wheat right in their villages to traders or fellow farmers who pay them more than the MSP and later dispose it of in Delhi’s mandis. A tour of the mandis in Rohtak and adjoining districts revealed that wheat arrivals are tardy because of these reasons. Encouraged by the rise in the prices of wheat and atta in recent months, the farmers appear in no mood to sell their produce to government agencies at the moment. Those who can afford to hoard it for the next three months or so want the procurement agencies to complete their job before they sell their produce to flour mills and private buyers. A retired Army officer Raj Dahiya of Bhatt Gaon in
Sonepat district said, “The village elders advised me to retain the stocks till July when they expect the prices to go up. So I have stored produce in my house. I am in no hurry to sell it right now. I will try my luck in July. By waiting for another 90 days I have nothing to lose”. Same sentiments were echoed by farmers in village after village in Rohtak, Jhajjar and Bhiwani districts. In the villages bordering Delhi, farmers have devised a novel way to take their produce to the capital’s mandis. The gunnysacks of wheat are labelled in the names of their relatives living in Delhi villages and taken by tractor trolleys through the border checkposts on the plea that these are meant for family members and not for sale. The Tribune found that neither the Haryana Police nor the Delhi Police object to such transportation of wheat. Most even allow the vehicles to cross over even if the bags are not labelled. Farmers were seen carrying their stocks in open trolleys without even packing it in bags. Policemen at the checkposts said they were also sons of farmers and there was no harm in letting the poor peasants get more for their produce be it in Haryana or Delhi. “After all from Kashmir to Kanyakumari India is one”, one of them quipped. The going rate in mandis like Narela and Najafgarh is Rs 700 to 750 per quintal against Rs 650 in Haryana. Besides, the market fee in Haryana is considerably higher too. This encourages farmers to prefer Delhi where they earn more even after meeting the cost of transportation. In several villages, many farmers are buying stocks right in the farmers’ fields at Rs 700 a quintal. They then take it to Delhi mandis along with that of their own for sale there. The stocks are weighed right at the farmers’ doorsteps. Others can choose to accompany the buyer to Delhi, get the wheat weighed there and accept cash at the rate agreed to in the village. Any profits over this rate go to the buyer. Mahesh Bajaj of Gugheri village near Meham sold his stock to a neighbour. He said he did not even go the mandi as he had a fair idea of how much his produce weighed. “Besides, my neighbour will not cheat me unlike a city dweller. I have got my profit of Rs 50 a quintal over and above the MSP. Let my neighbour earn something from it as a reward for his enterprise”, he added. Commission agents in the mandis said the farmers had more business sense now than a few years ago. |
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Hooda promises wheat bonus for earlier sales
Chandigarh, April 22 In a statement here Mr Hooda thanked the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, for conceding the demand of the farmers by announcing the bonus. The Chief Minister said he had several times requested the Agriculture Minister and the Prime Minister to enhance the minimum support price of wheat or to grant bonus. He appealed to the farmers to bring their entire produce to the mandis so that the country did not have to import wheat from other countries. |
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Fate of dental college hangs in the balance
Gurgaon, April 22 The college is run by the Dashmesh Educational Charitable Trust and the first batch of students are scheduled to take annual examination this summer. The Haryana State Admission Committee (Medical Education), constituted under the guidelines of the Supreme Court and headed by retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, justice
R.K. Nehru, has issued a show-cause notice to the College authorities. The matter assumes seriousness as Justice Nehru has gone on record to say that the state admission committee will recommend
action, including de-recognition and dis-affiliation of the college, if found guilty. A former minister of Haryana, Mohandas Pippal, had complained to various authorities on February 6 alleging that ineligible candidates were given admissions by the College under its management quota at the cost of natural justice to eligible students. There are 100 seats in the college.35 per cent of the seats are fixed for management quota and 15 per cent fixed for NRI
quota. It is alleged that 30 candidates, who secured less than 50 per cent in the Common Entrance
Test (CET) and thus failed to qualify in it were given admissions under the management quota against the
rules. One of the candidate was given admission despite securing meagre 22.25 per cent marks out of 180. Inquiry reveals that some students, who should have got admissions to any of the private Medical colleges of the state on the basis of their marks obtained in CET and merits have been denied
admissions. One such students is said to be Bharat Gupta of Ambala who secured 131.25 out of 180 and whose serial number in merit of the concerned CET is 288(his telephone number is 9315120036). He was denied admission even in the BDS course. Complaints of Mr Pippal also include the college admitting local students under the NRI quota even though they not fall in the category as specified by the
norms. Also, the institute admitted only 14 students under the NRI quota even though 15 had been
allotted to it. One of the NRI seat was adjusted in the Management quota which was wrong. According to sources in the Health
Department, the investigation by the expert team constituted by the State Admission Committee found that in one case one NRI person had recommended three cases for admission under the “NRI-sponsored”
provision, which was illegal. In an explanation to the Dental Council of
India (DCI) the college had justified all admissions made under the Management quota. |
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Teacher’s murder: prime suspect identified
Hisar, April 21 “A hunt is on to nab the prime suspect, who has been identified,” SSP Arshinder Singh Chawla told The Tribune here today. He claimed that the police had worked out the case and the killer(s) would soon be arrested. Santosh Chawla (52), a woman teacher of the Urban Estate-II locality in the city, was hacked to death with some sharp-edged weapon, while her husband was injured at their residence. The deceased was serving as a teacher at the Government Middle School in Zevra village here. Her husband is working with the Forest Department. The incident came to light when their son Amit, alias Babloo, found his mother’s body and injured father on returning home from a marriage party yesterday morning. Meanwhile, three unidentified youths entered a house in the Model Town area of the city this afternoon and decamped with gold ornaments. Before fleeing, they also injured a child. The youths entered the house soon after children of the family returned from school.
They snatched six gold bangles from two women of the Nangru family and fled the scene.
The police has registered a case in this regard.
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Birender finds novel ways to stay in news
Chandigarh, April 22 His latest move is to set up a college in his constituency Uchana Kalan and name the college after the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It was learnt that the Finance Minister has invited the Congress President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, to come to his constituency and inaugurate the construction work of the college. Mr Birender Singh met Ms Gandhi in Delhi and requested her to come to Uchana in August on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi's birthday. Ms Gandhi is yet to confirm the engagement. If the Finance Minister can pull it off, it will certainly be a shot in the arm for him and enhance his clout in Haryana. Earlier, at another function related to the proposed college, Mr Birender Singh roped in Mr Janardhan Dwivedi, AICC General Secretary, who looks after the party affairs in Haryana. There is indeed deep politics behind inviting Ms Sonia Gandhi or bringing Mr Janardhan Dwivedi for the educational institute Uchana has always longed for. Naming it after Rajiv Gandhi is also a masterstroke. The nature of the project chosen by Mr Birender Singh is such that at least one AICC heavyweight (Mr Dwivedi) has already become a participant in the going-
ons. The proposed college, which will have humanities and commerce to begin with, is being set up with the participation of the local community. It is proposed that each village in its neighbourhood will contribute money for constructing at least one room of the college. Incidentally, the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has also made handsome contributions for the college and so has Mr Birender Singh himself. Donations from private
individuals are not being asked for. The Finance Minister had earlier taken up the issue of the alarming sex ratio of Haryana and organised a function at Narwana on the occasion of late Sir Chhotu Ram's birth anniversary with the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, as the chief guest. Since Sir Chhotu Ram had only two daughters and no son, he could be projected as an icon to combat society's preference for male children, the Finance Minister had argued at the meeting. |
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Bhiwani to have hotel management institute
Bhiwani, April 22 She said youth passing out of this institute would get employment in reputed five star hotels of the country. After the review of its response, such institutes would also be opened at Rohtak and Kurukshetra. At present the Tourism Department is running one such institute of Hotel Management at Panipat. Mrs. Chaudhary said concrete steps would be taken to bring out tourism from the losses. She said as part of the programme, a petrol pump was being set up near Baya tourist complex at Bhiwani so as to bring this complex out of losses. The minister said the state government was giving priority to the power and water needs of the people. She said power plants of 5000 MW capacity were being set up in the state and the state would become self sufficient in power in the next three to four years. |
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Mystery shrouds man’s death
Pinjore, April 22 Sources said that Harpal Singh, serving as a cook in a rest house, had a glass of juice at a fruit juice vend in the market, following which his health started deteriorating. He took juice after departing his wife to his home. After having the liquid, he complained of dizziness and was admitted to Civil Dispensary, Pinjore. The doctors referred him to the General Hospital, where he breathed his last. The body was sent for postmortem examination.
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