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Candidates suffer, courtesy HSSC
Hooda for extending Metro up to Manesar
Gurgaon violence: clean chit to Admin
No parks for Jagadhri residents
Varsity results in record time: VC
Land submerged due to breach in Gurgaon canal
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Candidates suffer, courtesy HSSC
Chandigarh, February 6 The interview for three posts was held in Yamunanagar yesterday. Some of the candidates, who visited The Tribune office today, said they received the interview letters only yesterday afternoon. Three of them, Mangal Sein, Rishi Pal and Vishal, said they did not receive the letters at all. Incidentally, Mangal Sein and Vishal belong to Rohtak, the native district of the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Out of the three posts, one is reserved for ex-servicemen or their dependants. One candidate, who falls in this category, said according to his information, there were only three candidates qualified for the post reserved for ex-servicemen. He said if he had appeared in the interview, he would have had a good chance of being selected because of his experience. The interview letters were dated January 19, 2007. But the envelopes in which the letters were posted bore the postal mark of January 24, 2007. The letters were sent through ordinary post. A spokesman of the commission said a public notice was published in a number of prominent newspapers, urging the candidates to collect their duplicate interview letters from the commission's office in case they failed to get their interview letters by a particular date. He said in view of the large number of interview letters issued by the commission almost daily, it was not possible to send them by registered post. The commission could not be held responsible for postal delays. However, the system certainly needs improvement. The commission office is often seen flooded by candidates complaining about the non-receipt of interview letters or admit cards bearing roll numbers for written tests. Even today a girl was seen complaining in the commission office that she had not received the interview letter for the post of Child Development Project Officer, the interviews for which were being held in Rohtak today itself. One fails to understand how she would have reached Rohtak after getting the duplicate interview letter. Two other candidates, who hold the Master's degree in pharmacy, had a grievance of a different nature. Both had applied for the post of Senior Scientific Officer as well as for that of Drug Inspector. Interviews for both posts were held yesterday, but at different stations. The educational qualifications for both posts are common. In such cases, they said, the commission should be careful in fixing the dates of interviews. Such lapses are definitely affecting the credibility of the commission. Recently, it had to cancel the written tests for the posts of PTI and DPE, following reports of the use of mobile phones for helping candidates. The candidates would not mind paying a little more in addition to Rs 500 the commission already charges from each of them, if the interview letters or admit cards are sent through registered post. This will save the commission from avoidable criticism and help restore the credibility the institution has lost during the past years. Otherwise also, it is a commitment of the Chief Minister to restore the credibility of such institutions. If the system of communication is improved in the commission, it will be certainly a gift to the unemployed by Mr Hooda on the completion of two years of his tenure as Chief Minister. |
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Hooda for extending Metro up to Manesar
Manesar (Gurgaon), February 6 In his speech during the inauguration of three manufacturing units of Maruti Suzuki in IMT, Manesar, and Gurgaon, he further said that the Nanocity being set up in Panchkula was proposed to be developed as the Intellectual Property Capital of the country.This initiative would bring together research and development institutions and companies working on next generation technologies like nano-technology, development of new materials, bio-technology, development of new drugs, alternative sources of energy, etc. Apart from providing employment opportunities to engineers and scientists within India, the
government proposes this as a major step forward that would take the country to a place of a world leader in intellectual property, generating wealth for the nation and motivating the youth towards creativity, he added. The state government got support from the Japanese Ambassador to India, Mr Y.Enoki,who said on the occasion that the state was contributing immensely to the growth of the country as a whole.He said he would prefer Haryana as business and investment destination. He praised the development of road infrastructure in the state. He said that a global corridor had been planned along the KMP Expressway, which would open up exciting new opportunities and would become the destination for investment by foreign and domestic companies in diverse areas.This economic corridor would be dotted with Industrial Model Townships, technology parks, hotels and recreation facilities . He further said that Haryana would impress upon the Centre to choose in the first phase the stretch falling in the state with regards its decision to develop "National Industry Corridor" between Delhi and Mumbai. |
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Gurgaon violence: clean chit to Admin
Chandigarh, February 6 The report submitted to the government by the Chairman of the commission, Justice G. C. Garg, last month said the police action against the workers was justified. Provocation from the side of the workers led the police to act in the fashion it did, the report said. Left parties, the CPI in particular, were actively involved in organising protests against the police action, the severity of which was captured by television cameras of various news channels. Apparently, the workers, who were agitating against the HMSL management, had allegedly attacked a police contingent and inflicted injuries on some of the cops. The policemen then allegedly entrapped the workers near the Deputy Commissioner’s office and mercilessly rained blows on them with canes. The Garg report did not record anything adverse about the police action. The report mentions provocation by workers, arson by them and loss to property caused by the protesters leading to the violence. Ideally, the government should now try to identify the workers responsible for the violence and prosecute them. The Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will take a decision in this regard. The police booked some 90 workers back in 2005 at the time of the incident. The Chief Minister may leave the matter at that rather than launch a fresh drive against the workers. The report, drawn up almost entirely on the basis of depositions by civil and police officials and the HMSL management, is bound to attract criticism from anti-government quarters as well as various workers’ organisations and the Left parties. The Left parties, at whose insistence the commission was set up, distanced themselves from it as soon it got going. Communist leaders, including veteran parliamentarian Gurudas Dasgupta, and others had submitted affidavits to the commission but did not turn up before it to give evidence in support of their charges. The workers’ representatives had objected to the phrasing of the terms of reference of the commission. They opposed the description of the workers as an “unruly mob” in the terms of reference and wanted the probe to focus on the police “excesses”.
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No parks for Jagadhri residents
Yamunanagar, February 6 There are as many as 11 sites in the town which have been reserved for parks but till date none of these has been developed. As per sources in the Jagadhri Municipal Committee (MC), there were no gardeners with the MC. Most of the sites have been encroached upon. On the other hand, the adjoining Yamunanagar town has several parks. It is to be mentioned here that Jagadhri is more than 200-year-old town. The MC had reserved sites in Amar Vihar, Shivpur Colony, Atam Nagar, Satsang Vihar, New Jain Nagar, Mukherjee Park, Gobindgarh Farm, Vishnu Garden, Shrinagar Colony and Gandhi Dham for development as parks. "There is a site of park in our colony but nothing has been done by the MC to convert it into an actual park," complained Ms S. Sharma of New Jain Colony. The MC had allocated Rs 7 lakh in its 2006-07 budget for developing small parks in the town. The MC has plans to build boundary walls and beautify the sites and work on it was likely to start soon, said an official of the MC. The Chairman of the MC could not be contacted for comments. |
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Varsity results in record time: VC
Sirsa, February 6 Disclosing this here today, the Vice-Chancellor claimed that it was for the first time in the history of the university that the results had been declared in such a short span of time. Dr Bhardwaj said the study material for distant education courses had been published by a reputed publisher and duly checked by eminent academicians. The study material would be dispatched shortly, he added. — TNS
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Land submerged due to breach in Gurgaon canal
Jhajjar, February 6 According to
information, bankments on both sides collapsed when HPCL employees were trying to lay an underground pipeline across the canal. Villagers said about 400 acres of land were flooded with the canal water at Dabodha village. Later,
district officials, including the SDM, Bahadurgarh, and HPCL officials reached the spot and assured the villagers that the farmers would be adequately compensated for the damage to the crops due to the breach in the canal. |
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