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Deputy Commissioners in eight districts shifted
Hooda announces Rs 16-crore
railway overbridge at Dhani
Shergarh becomes a village
em-powered
Re-employed Chief Engineer removed
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Arrested for selling spurious seeds
New driving licence test centre
Craft fair opens
Woman pickpocket held
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Deputy Commissioners in eight districts shifted
Chandigarh, January 7 Interestingly, three of the DCs transferred today are believed to be close to a Union Minister. The government has also shifted police chiefs of Sonepat and Faridabad districts of the NCR. Ms G. Anupama, Deputy Commissioner, Faridabad, has been posted as Director, Women and Child Development, Special Secretary to Women and Child Development and Managing Director, Haryana Women Development Corporation, releaving Jai Wanti Sheokhand of the charge. Deputy Commissioner of Hisar Phateh Singh has been made Administrator, HUDA, Hisar, in place of Mr Rajeev Ranjan, who has been appointed Deputy Commissioner, Panipat. Mr J. P. Kaushik, Deputy Commissioner, Yamunanagar, has been posted Special Secretary, Home-I Department. Mr R. P. Bharadwaj, Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon, and Chief Administrator of Shree Mata Sheetla Devi Shrine Board, Gurgaon, has been posted as Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, as well as Estate Officer for management of government land, Ambala, in place of Mr OP Langayan, who has been made managing Director, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation. Mr D P Nagal, Deputy Commissioner, Panipat, has been made Deputy Commissioner, Sonepat vice Ms Neerja, who has been posted Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula, and Chief Administrator, Shree Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, Panchkula. Ms Deepti Umashankar, Joint Secretary, Personnel, Training, Vigilance and Parliamentary Affairs Department, and Director, Training, Haryana (ex-officio), has been made Deputy Commissioner, Hisar. Rakesh Gupta, has been posted as Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon and Chief Administrator, Shree Mata Sheetla Devi Shrine Board, Gurgaon. Mr Brijendra Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula, and Chief Administrator, Shree Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, Panchkula, has been made Deputy Commissioner, Faridabad. Mr Nitin Kumar Yadav, ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Rewari, has been posted as Deputy Commissioner, Yamunanagar, whereas Mr T L Satyaparkash, Additional Director (Admn), Secondary Education Department, has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Rewari. Mr R P Chander, Special Secretary to Home-II Department and Joint Secretary, Gurdwara Elections, and Managing Director, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation, has been posted as Managing Director, Haryana Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation. Mr Dhanpat Singh has been posted as Managing Director, Haryana Seeds development Corporation. Mr Vijai Vardhan, Managing Director, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation, has been transferred as Special Secretary, Home-II Department and Joint Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections. Mr Dheera Khandelwal, Special Secretary, Finance Department, has been posted as Special Secretary, Personnel, Training, Vigilance and Parliamentary Affairs, and Director, Training, Haryana (ex-officio). Among the IPS officers, Mr Swaranjit Singh, Director, V&S, HPVNL, Panchkula has been posted as ADGP, Human Rights and Litigations, in place of Mr Brijinder Rai, who had been posted as OSD, Rules, against a vacant post. Mr Laik Ram Dabas, IG, Prisons takes the place of Mr Singh. Mr Alok Mittal, SP, Panipat, and Mr M S Sheoran, SP, Faridabad, swap places. Similarly, Mr K K Rao, SP, Jhajjar, and Mr Yoginder Nehra, SP, Sonepat, will swap places. Mr Anil Kumar, SP, Special CID, Panchkula, has been posted as SP, Rural, Faridabad, in place of Mr Jagwant Lamba, who becomes SP, SVB. Mr Hemant Kalson, SP, SVB, Panchkula, has been transferred as SP, Narnaul, against a vacant post.
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Hooda announces Rs 16-crore
railway overbridge
Charkhi Dadri (Bhiwani), January 7 Addressing a rally at the local Qila maidan here today, Mr Hooda said he had got the opportunity to serve the people of the state with the blessings of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and support of the legislators. He said the results of the ambitious schemes which his government had implemented during the past 22 months had started yielding better results. Admiring the heroism and valour of the people of this area, he said during 1857 revolution when Nawab of Jhajjar and King Nahar Singh were executed, the brave people of Dadri had heroically tried to save the fort of Dadri. He said efforts were being made to provide better power and water facilities and law and order condition in the state. He reminded that waiving off outstanding electricity bills of Rs 600 crore was indeed a ‘difficult’ task and he could not have sleep for a single minute for two nights and two days while taking the decision as the total budget of the state was Rs 2200 crore that time. He further reminded that the then Chief Minister Devi Lal had waived off debt of Rs 26 crore during his rule. Describing about the availability of electricity, Mr Hooda said viewing the increasing demand, an additional production of 5,000 MW power would be made during the next three and a half years. Talking about the equal distribution of water, the Chief Minister said Hansi-Butana canal being constructed from Bhakra main line would cost Rs 2,600 crore and Bhiwani district would get maximum water from the additional 2,000 quesecs to be supplied after the completion of this canal. Describing the statement of INLD leaders about civil war during the construction of this canal, he reiterated "Canal will be dug come what may". Referring to steps taken to quell corruption in the state, he said the police recruitment was continuing. He said the present government had lifted ban on recruitment promulgated by the previous government. Accepting a demand made by Maj Nripender Singh, MLA and organiser of the ‘Pragati Rally’, Mr Hooda announced construction of a railway overbridge at Dhani crossing at a cost of Rs 16 crore. He said work on this bridge would start from next year and a Rs 9-crore water work would be
constructed at Kapoori Ram Nagar village. He also sanctioned setting up of an ITI institute on 15-acres at Rawaldhi village. It will have 64 units and about 1,000 students would be imparted
training in it. Earlier, MLA Nripender Singh presented a shawl to Chief Minister and other dignitaries. HPCC working president Dr Ram Prakash presided over the rally. Others who spoke were Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda, C.P.S Dharmbir Singh, former Chief Minister Hukam Singh, MLAs Shiv Shankar Bhardwaj, Ranbir Singh Mahendra, Ram Kishan
Fauji, Rao Daan Singh, the political adviser to the Chief Minister, Prof Verender and the Dairy Development Board chairperson, Ms Chandrawati. Later, addressing the Dadri Bar Association, Mr Hooda urged lawyer community to work for brotherhood in society. He announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for library and furniture on demand of the Bar. The Chief Minister unveiled statue of late Nihal Singh Takshak, former member of the Constitution Committee at Bhagwi
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Shergarh becomes a village
em-powered
Kaithal, January 7 While it has ensured better power supply to all "connected" houses, eliminated the menace of kundi connections and put an end to frequent breakdowns, Shergarh, touted as the show window of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), is now a model its neighbours want to replicate. In the past couple of months, the village landscape, too, has changed with small transformers standing tall amidst houses. Dangling wires are a thing of the past. Since the project took off in November last year, all 90 households without connections put in their applications for the same, making Shergarh one of the few villages of the state where every home has a regular power connection. Says 30-year-old Rajinder: "Smaller transformers catering to a few homes are certainly a better option than the bigger ones. Last year, our transformer got burnt four times and each time it took a week to repair the system. Till then we were forced to go without power. Ever since the new system was put into place, there's been no breakdown." Though the power supply is limited to eight to 10 hours a day, village elder Abhay Ram says: "With the new system, we get uninterrupted high-voltage supply. Earlier, even if there was power, the last connected house did not get any supply because electricity was stolen through kundis." Village sarpanch Satpal has donned a new role since the new "lighting" project rolled out. "We have people from neighbouring villages coming to Shergarh to see how the system works. We are pioneers in this field. Deol Kheri, another village, has also begun collecting money to install transformers," he explains. However, the take off was not easy with the villagers reluctant to accept the project initially. It took a lot of convincing to allow replacement of the 440 volt lines and three 100 KV transformers in the village with 11KV high voltage lines. "There was drama every other day over kundis by households with no power connection. This problem has been dealt with now. If a villager tries a kundi on the 11 KV mainline, he will end up burning all his electrical gadgets," says Panch Harikesh. Superintending Engineer SC Goyal and XEN SK Bansal are enthused with the response the project has elicited. "While the demand for connections has gone up in the village and line losses have reduced, there are many other villages who have come forward with a similar request," Mr Goyal says. Meanwhile, both distribution companies- UHBVN and DHBVN- are taking the HVDS project to villages in every electricity circle. Seka of Mahendergarh district has become the first under the DHBVN to adopt this scheme.
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Re-employed Chief Engineer removed
Karnal, January 7 Sources said in the orders passed on December 26 last retired officer S.P. Gupta was “shifted” to what is termed as lucrative post of Adviser to Chairman of Power Utilities Limited, Lt General Omkar Singh Lohchab (retd). Mr Johar has been appointed CE (Operations), Rohtak in Mr Gupta’s place. In a report on September 17 last, The Tribune had highlighted the anomaly in the appointment of Mr Gupta, known for proximity to several politicians of the ruling party. The Haryana Power Engineers Association (HPEA) had threatened to move the high court against the decision of the government. The controversial retired CE had remained posted for more than a decade at Rohtak, home district of the Chief Minister. The CE in question retired on August 31, 2006, on attaining 58 years and availed all retirement benefits. According to sources, he was been granted re-employment for one-year from September 1, 2006. In an effort to “adjust a well-connected individual”, sources said terms of conditions of working of the newly re-employed CE were not finalised at the time of his appointment, sources said. It aroused resentment among officials as it had hampered promotion process of all engineers from the SE to the junior professionals.
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Arrested for selling spurious seeds
Fatehabad, January 7 The accused, Rohit Jain, had been evading arrest since November last year. Mr Saurabh Singh, Superintendent of Police, Fatehabad, informed media persons here today that Mr Inder Singh, Quality Control Inspector in the local Agriculture Department, had lodged a complaint with the police against a local firm, Oswal Brothers, owned by the father-son duo of Rakesh Jain and Rohit Jain for selling fake seeds, fertilisers and pesticides. The agriculture department had unearthed an unauthorised godown of the firm in the local Batra Colony where the firm had stocked hundreds of bags of fake seeds, fertilisers and pesticides on October 18, 2006. The police had arrested Rakesh Jain on November 12, 2006, and he is still behind the bars. His son, Rohit Jain, the other accused in the case, had been evading arrest since then and the police had raided several hideouts in search of him. The SP said the accused today surrendered before the court. The police, he said, had obtained police remand of the accused till January 10.
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New driving licence test centre
Ambala, January 7 SP Ambala Amitabh Dhillon said there would be more transparency with the introduction of the new computerised system. There will be a computerised exam and candidates will learn about the result immediately. Any person who applies for a driving licence will be photographed and a user ID will be provided after entering the name and address. Thereafter, the person will enter the user ID in another computer and 10 questions related to traffic will be asked. Only if at least six questions are answered correctly, the candidate will be considered to have passed. Mr Dhillon observed that lack of proper knowledge of traffic rules resulted in accidents and every motorist must know the traffic rules.
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Craft fair opens
Ambala, January 7 The programme is aimed at promotional activities whereby the craftsmen are able to sell their products, exchange ideas, understand the implements and ultimately get new ideas. Mr Langyan said rich tapestry of north-eastern India had interwoven in its fabric, the traditions of many people settled in the fertile Brahmaputra valley and Barak valley. |
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Woman pickpocket held
Ambala, January 7 The woman had tried to pick the pocket of a bank customer on Nicholson Road. A by-stander noticed it and raised a hue and cry. The woman was apprehended and handed over to the police.
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