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‘Stop land acquisition in Pinjore’
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Government to equate dwarfs with physically disabled
Shubhadeep Choudhury Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 3 Eunuchs, for whom the CM made a similar announcement, could not be adjusted in the category of the disabled and would have to be dealt with separately.
Disbursing pensions to these two groups of people will start after the finance department clears the proposals. As for the dwarfs, it has been decided that the maximum height of a male cannot be more than 3 ft 8 inches for being eligible for the pension. The corresponding maximum height for women has been decided to be 3 ft 3 inches. Men and women having the above mentioned heights will fall in the 70 per cent disability category and can get Rs 300 per month pension given by the state government. The health department of the state government was asked by the social justice and empowerment department to determine the definition of dwarf. The health department, in a letter on May 25 last year, gave the definition of dwarf as “medical or genetic condition that usually results in an adult height of 4 ft and 10 inches or shorter, among both men and women.” Later a meeting was held on October 4 under the chairpersonship of a director of the health services to decide whether “dwarfs and eunuchs can be considered under the category of disability”. It was decided in the meeting that dwarfs might be considered under the category of “orthopaedically handicapped”. The original definition of dwarfs - of people with a height of 4 ft 10 inches or less - was accepted in case of men in the October 4 meeting. But a rider was added saying that the “percentage of disability will be five per cent for each inch shorter than the height specified above (4ft 10 inches)”. Thus an adult man with a height of 3 ft 8 inches will fall in the 70 per cent disability category and will be eligible for drawing the pension. The corresponding dwarfing height for adult women was given as 4.5 ft. Thus 3.3 ft became the maximum height for a woman to be eligible for getting the pension. Health and social welfare minister Kartar Devi recently gave the figure of 942 dwarfs in the state who are eligible for getting the pension. This figure has been derived from an estimate worked out on the basis of medical theories on various dwarf types likely to be found in the total population of Haryana. The same figure was mentioned in the social justice and empowerment department proposal defining a person with a height of 4 ft 10 inches as a dwarf. The health department committee failed to accommodate the eunuchs in any of the existing category of disabled people given pension by the state. One can expect that the CM’s announcement on pension to eunuchs will be implemented in letter and spirit.
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Talk on US military intervention in Iraq
Kurukshetra, March 3 Dr Wiberg, a former Director of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Denmark, and a peace researcher, came from Denmark on the invitation of his former colleague and now Principal of the Shahabad College, Dr Vinay Kumar Malhotra. In his lecture to students and faculty, Prof Wibreg said there were many causes, specific or general, suggested for military interventions or threats by great powers: geostrategic control, control of energy sources or pipelines, testing new weapon systems or tactics, feeding the military-industrial complex, deflecting domestic (or intra-alliance) crises, etc. Prof Wiberg’s lecture suggested the hypothesis, whether supplementary or contradictory to the above, of “war for war’s sake”, in the sense that war had a function quite apart from those indicated above: to demonstrate or augment the weight of military power relative to economic (and other) bases of power and forms of influencing. This is assumed of importance for a great power that has much and increasing military power but was losing relative economic power, especially when geopolitical changes are decreasing the weight of economic power. To confront the hypothesis with empirical evidence, the lecture was delivered through several major examples of actual or threatened interventions after the end of the cold War: Iraq (Kuwait), Iraq (Kurdistan), Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Albania, East Timor, Iraq 1998, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq 2003.
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Non-teaching staff want ban on recruitment lifted
Yamunanagar, March 3 Welcoming the notification lifting ban on appointments in Kurukshetra University and Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, the union demanded similar notification for non-teaching employees. President of the union Kirpal Singh in a release here said no appointment had been made to the vacant posts including those of clerk, librarian and laboratory assistant since 1981. He said there had been increase in the number of students in all such colleges and subsequently work burden on temporary or ad hoc employees had also increased. The union has also complained there was no clear policy for non-teaching staff and no promotions had been made for several years. The union demanded all employees of such colleges who were working for more than five years be made regular employees. |
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Bhiwani may get law college, says MLA
Bhiwani, March 3 Dr Bhardwaj, who is also DCC president, said he had talked about a law college in Bhiwani with Union Law Minister Hans Raj Bhardwaj during his recent visit to Delhi. He said Rs 29 crore had been sanctioned for development of the town’s slum localities. He thanked Union minister Selja for it. The Bhiwani-Ghaggar drain had been sanctioned and NABARD had sanctioned Rs 22 crore for it. Zila Councillor Satbir Pehlwan and HPCC general secretary Bimla Parmar were also present at the press meet.
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Ateli MC councillors elected
Rewari, March 3 Elections were held to eight of the 11 wards while councillors from wards 3, 7 and 11 were declared elected unopposed as only single nominations had been filed from each of these three wards. Voter turnout was 87.48 per cent. More men to 47.48 pc than women (40 per cent) cast votes in these elections. |
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‘Stop land acquisition in Pinjore’
Panchkula, March 3 In the representation, Bansal has added that HUDA has gone ahead with acquiring the land in this pocket for the purpose of setting up residential sectors in the area. He has also sought the land of the farmers should not be ‘usurped’ only to set up more residential sectors since it would not only encroach upon forest land and the habitat of the wild animals in the area but
also spoil the ecological balance. |
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