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Washed away road bane of 6 villages
Haryana lays special emphasis
on health of girl child
Urja divas on Aug 20
Institute completes 7 years
Two arrested for raping minor
Kin working on my behalf: MP
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I-Day celebrated
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Washed away road bane of 6 villages
Barwala, August 16 No representations seemed to have worked for Toka, Shamtu, Rattewali, Tibbi, Khetarpalli and Sabilpur and many other villages of the belt, tucked away far down a muddy bylane off the Panchkula-Naraingarh road, bearing the brunt of the “snapped connections”. “I was coming home on my mobike from Kalka to spend the extended weekend with my family yesterday night. I took the road that usually took me home and even before I realised it, I was inside muddy water, injured, bruised and crying for help. I remember somebody coming to help me before I passed out. “Today, I spent the whole day getting myself bandaged and examined. I ended up with a fractured foot, some stitches, a broken bike and a battered body. The holiday turned out to be very expensive”, Prakash, a resident of one of the villages working in Kalka, said. He, like many others, was caught unawares and crashlanded in the rivulet. "We have had a number of accidents in the past. There’s Surinder Kumar, who is still recovering from his injuries after a similar fall. Three cars have had a similar landing in the water in the past. “In the absence of any lighting on the road and not enough barricades to bar entry, an unsuspecting passerby usually lands in the rivulet. All accidents take place at night and being the Sarpanch, I am invariably sent the message first”, states Rani Devi. Another villager, Rajpal, explains that while two spans of the bridge on the rivulet collapsed last year, the road, built as an alternative route to cater to the heavy traffic of trucks till the time the bridge could be opened, too, got washed away this monsoon. “We are at the mercy of a kutcha path made by jeeps running through the rivulet. If it rains, everything comes to a grinding halt since the path becomes too slippery to allow any vehicular movement. The work on the bridge, too, has come to a standstill. We have approached possibly everybody but have got nothing but lip service”, rued Rajpal. The Sarpanch of Rattewali, Mr Banta Ram, chips in, “We have to travel an extra 25 km everyday if the kutcha road is not traversable. That means an extra hour-and-a-half of travel because the road too is full of potholed and liberally sprinkled with pitfalls, not repaired in the past about 10 years. Manak Tabra village Sarpanch Sunil Kumar, too, laments the poor pace of work. “As many as 25 villages are affected by the collapsed bridge and washed away road. Just because we are far away, nobody seems bothered to redress our grievances. There is no explanation for inaction when so many accidents have taken place. In my village, too, a handful of people have sustained injuries due to a fall off the washed away road“, he maintains. Hundreds of trucks carrying riverbed material (RBM) from the stone quarries and vehicles are now being forced to drive through the rivulet, as no approach road has been constructed. This bridge and road allows a short-cut of 8 km to travellers to Naraingarh, Kala Amb, and subsequently to Uttaranchal before Barwala. Officials in Public Works Department (Bridges and Roads) say that the contract for the bridge has been awarded and it would soon be reconstructed. |
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Haryana lays special emphasis
on health of girl child
Chandigarh, August 16 Officials in the Health Department informed TNS that though the programme was being run for primary school children in all government schools across Haryana for some years, it has now been decided to lay special emphasis on the health of the girl child. Girls in all government schools will now be regularly examined for physical ailments, hygiene and nutritional deficiencies, besides being counselled for sexual abuse and HIV-AIDS. Officials said though the private schools had their own doctors on board, but the Health Department could involve these schools in the ambit of the scheme, if so demanded by these school authorities. It is thus that the scheme is now being given a lot of publicity, especially by way of jingles on FM radio. "The key indicators of health in adolescent girls in the state are poor. It was thus suggested by the Governor, Dr A R Kidwai, that we extend the scope of the School Health Programme, following which we have issued orders. Since last month adolescent girls are being regularly examined by doctors," said Ms Urvashi Gulati, Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Health. Other than doctors from the Health Department, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), panchayats and District Red Cross Societies, too, have been involved. "The Deputy Commissioner, who is the Chairperson of the District Red Cross Society, has been asking the local chapters of the IMA to depute some doctors in the schools for the job. In Faridabad, the IMA is now playing an active role and private doctors will be examining girls in a large number of schools there," said Ms Gulati. Also, special health cards have now been introduced for the primary school children, where the date of check-up, general physical attributes (height and weight), diagnosis and treatment will be recorded. "The idea is to make the programme more systematic. These children will be given free spectacles (in case of weak eye sight), and free treatment for minor ailments, including dental treatment. In case of a serious ailment, they will be referred to the nearest government health centre" said the Secretary, Health. |
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Urja divas on Aug 20
Chandigarh, August 16 The Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Chander Mohan, said here today that a number of programmes would be held to mark the day, including an essay-writing competition, a painting competition and a slogan-writing competition, besides an exhibition and “akshay urja
daud” (race). Mr Chander Mohan said panchayats which had installed renewable energy-based devices would get awards on the occasion. Three categories of awards — state, district and block-level — would be given to those panchayats which had done commendable work in conserving energy. He said the Renewable Energy Department had taken an initiative by instituting state-level awards in energy conservation for high-tension (HT) and low-tension (LT) and government-sector consumers. He said under the HT category the first award of Rs 1 lakh and a shield would be given to a firm of Panchkula. Similarly, the second award of Rs 50,000 and a shield had gone to a firm of Hisar. In the government building category the Mini Secretariat, Panchkula, had been adjudged first and a prize of Rs 50,000 would be given. |
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Institute completes 7 years
Rewari, August 16 Mr Ram Chander Vikal, a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was the chief guest while Prof Ranjit Singh, Director, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, presided over the function. Mr Naresh Yadav MLA (Ateli) was a guest of honour. Lauding Mr Vijay Somany, chairman of the SITM, for his contribution to technical education in south Haryana, nonagenarian Vikal said that he was delighted to note that with its excellence in academics and placement opportunities for outgoing engineers and technocrats, the SITM had carved a niche for itself in six years among the 36 engineering colleges of Haryana and North India. He exhorted students to attain proficiency and steer the country in the years to come. Mr Vikal, Prof Ranjit Singh and Mr Naresh Yadav distributed prizes among students of the SITM. Students presented a programme of dances, music and acting on the occasion. |
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Two arrested for raping minor
Yamunanagar, August 16 Based on the complaint of the girl, the police had laid a trap for the accused. In another incident, a 70-year-old woman was run over by a train near Jagadhri Railway Workshop. She was taken to the Civil Hospital, Jagadhri, where she succumbed to her injuries. The Railway police found the body of an unidentified person in his mid-twenties along the tracks near Pansra, here. The body was mutilated. The police got a post-mortem of the body done and handed it over to officials of the Municipal Committee for cremation. |
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Kin working on my behalf: MP
Karnal, August 16 The MP has claimed that he himself was distributing the MPLAD funds and his relatives and family members were working as a team for the development in the area. The MP welcomed any enquiry by the police or other authorities into the matter. |
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Ambala, August 16 Under the banner of “Student’s social responsibility”, a team of teachers and students visited Sector 9 and Model Town in Ambala City and planted more than 100 saplings of fruits. — TNS |
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