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Hooda’s sops show in
CM visits hailstorm-hit areas
Mustard crops develop freak flowers
Salwan: It’s Dalits vs police
Resolution on Haryana “SGPC” to be adopted today
Bid to rob Rs 2 lakh
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1 held for child's murder; sacrifice ruled out Patwari, kin held
for graft Plan to save Naggal from floods
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Hooda’s sops show in supplementary demands
Chandigarh, March 14 Out of the total demands of Rs 3,020 crore passed by the assembly, the second and the fourth largest expenditures are, respectively, on account of social The demand of Rs 2,530 crore under the head of irrigation (which includes demands made for the power sector) tops the list of supplementary demands. However, Rs 2,022 crore out of Rs 2,530 crore will be merely a book adjustment as the subsidy offered by the state government to the power utilities will be adjusted against a loan sanctioned by the government to the power utilities in 2003-04. Demands amounting to Rs 189 crore under the head of social welfare and rehabilitation figure at the very next place after the jumbo-size demand made for irrigation and power. Out of the total amount, over Rs 150 crore was needed for meeting expenses on the increase in the financial assistance given by the government to various groups and also for fresh schemes introduced by the state government. The new schemes included giving ex gratia grants to family members of personnel of central paramilitary forces killed in terrorist strikes, setting up of a juvenile justice fund for the welfare and rehabilitation of juveniles and children, the swavlamban scheme for NGOs working for the welfare of women and giving of financial assistance of Rs 1,000 per month to 470 Kashmiri migrant families settled in Haryana. Increase in the financial assistance for destitute children, increase in the widow pension, increase in the pension of widows of ex-servicemen and doubling of the pension of physically disabled persons from Rs 300 per month to Rs 600 are among the steps that led to the additional Under the same head a demand of Rs 2.4 crore was passed for installing solar lights in villages having a dalit population of 50 per cent of more. Also, demands amounting to Rs 15 crore and Rs 6.5 crore were approved, respectively, on account of scholarships of dalit students and tuition fee of backward class On the community development front, the two largest demands fall in the empowerment category. While a demand amounting to over Rs 5.5 crore was approved for meeting the increase in the honorarium and uniform allowance of village chowkidars, another demand of Rs 9.34 crore was passed for meeting the increase in the honorarium received by members of panchayati raj institutions.
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CM visits hailstorm-hit areas
Narnaul, March 14 Addressing villagers at Government College at
Mahendergarh, Hooda said that the state government would give the maximum compensation to the Lamenting over the farmers’ genuine problem, Hooda said that there was an extensive damage to the crops and at some places there was 100 per cent damage. Crops have been damaged in rain and hailstorm during the past two days in Mahendergarh and
Narnaul. The Chief Minister said that a special girdawri had already been ordered. Revenue minister Ajay
Yadav, parliamentary secretary Rao Dan Singh and Narnaul MLA Radhey Shyam Sharma accompanied the Chief Minister. |
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Mustard crops develop freak flowers
Rohtak, March 14 This, however, will not lead to an increased yield as scientists and farmers say these flowers will not be pollinated and hence there will be no seed formation. On the contrary, the freak weather has already damaged unripe seeds in the standing crop which would adversely affect the yield. Officials of the Agriculture Department said this freak growth appeared only rarely because the current weather conditions were not the norm. Unseasonal growth of flowering stems in mustard had been noticed in the past also after heavy rains and fall in day temperatures in February-end or early March. They said these shoots would hamper crop maturity. Suresh Hooda of Rurki village said most of the standing crop in his fields had developed fresh flowering stalks. However, he had noticed this phenomenon for the first time in his 35 years as a farmer. He said similar growths had been noticed in the fields of mustard growers in neighbouring villages. According to official sources, the area under wheat this year had gone up by 7,000 hectares. The increase was at the cost of mustard which had shrunk this year to 20,000 hectares compared to 29,000 hectares last year. The area under wheat this year was 95,000 hectares compared to just 88,000 hectares last year. Officials attributed the fall in area under mustard to heavy losses over the years due to pest infestation and lower returns. They said the freak weather conditions would lead to a further reduction in the area under mustard next year.
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Salwan: It’s Dalits vs police
Chandigarh, March 14 The police further stated that forces had been sent to Salwan an hour after the incident of Dalit violence was reported. Incidentally, the NCDHR today submitted a memorandum to the SC Commission, stating that the police arrived on the scene three hours later. Further, while Dalit organisations have resolved to get hold of all agreements which the district authorities got them to sign for a compromise, the district authorities today said the issue had been resolved amicably between the Dalits and members of other castes. The Karnal police also said only 68 houses had been marginally damaged in the violence on March 1, whereas only four properties had been burnt. The NCDHR in its fact finding had, however, stated that 200 houses had been destroyed. While the NCDHR and other Dalit outfits that met in Chandigarh today were vociferously demanding relief for the affected families, he Karnal district authorities said Rs 8 lakh had already been distributed as relief. They also said the families had returned and resettled as against the findings of the NCDHR that these had not returned due to fear. Meanwhile, the Regional SC Commissioner assured Dalits’ organisations that he would visit Salwan to take stock of the situation.
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Resolution on Haryana “SGPC” to be adopted today
Chandigarh, March 14 The Haryana government had earlier set up a committee headed by agriculture minister H S Chatha for examining the demand of a separate SGPC for the state. The committee is yet to give its report though Chatha had revealed that a huge majority of the affidavits received by him from Sikhs of Haryana advocated a separate SGPC for the state. Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal as well as the SGPC leadership in Amritsar are opposing the demand tooth and nail.—
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Site for shifting anaj mandi identified Ambala, March 14 The site is near the original site, which was earlier earmarked for the anaj mandi adjacent to the HUDA sectors on GT Road. The process for acquiring land for the site has been started. Ambala Cantt MLA
D.K. Bansal said sufficient land was being acquired for the anaj mandi site. “The site is located on the GT Road and will be easily accessible,” he said. “Once the land has been acquired for the anaj
mandi, it will be shifted out of Ambala Sadar at the earliest. I have raised the issue in the Assembly and an assurance in this regard has been given to me by Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda”. The issue has been hanging fire for quite sometime. Initially, the land for anaj mandi had been earmarked near the HUDA sectors on the GT Road. However, there had been objections about the “look” of the HUDA sectors being spoilt due to the anaj mandi right in front of the sectors. |
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Bid to rob Rs 2 lakh
Yamunanagar, March 14 As per police sources the man attempted to rob cash from the bill collection point of the Electricity Department of Model Town here. He laced cashiers Leela Krishan and Ashok Kumar’s tea with intoxicants. The two fell unconscious. The man started collecting the cash. But in the meanwhile another person reached the point and raised the alarm. The man ran away leaving behind the cash. He had ordered tea from a kiosk near the electricity office. Tea seller Reshma told the police the man had come to her and asked for three cups of tea. He carried cups of tea to the office but returned soon and asked her to deliver the tea. In another incident, two armed persons looted a liquor shop located under the Farakpur police station area last evening. They took away Rs 1,600 from the shop. |
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1 held for child's murder; sacrifice ruled out Ambala, March 14 Dhillon said the case had been solved with the arrest of Satpal, alias Sahib Singh, a resident of the village. Satpal was arrested from Saddopur today. On March 12, Balbir Singh had reported to the police that he had gone to attend a marriage. When he came back he found that his six-year-old son Gaurav was not at home. Later, the child’s body was taken out of the village well. The post-mortem report confirmed that the boy had been sodomised. Satpal confessed that he lured Gaurav by offering him eatables. He sodomised the child at a desolate place before strangulating him.
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Patwari, kin held for graft Ambala, March 14 Ram Pal, a resident of Kurukshetra, purchased a piece of land in Bindalpur village, which falls in the Mulana constituency. Patwari of the area Rajinder Kumar allegedly demanded Rs 4,000 from him. Ram Pal complained to DIG of the Bureau M.S. Ahlawat. He told the bureau that March 15 was fixed for handing over the amount to patwari at a shop at Mulana. This morning while Ram Pal was handing over the amount to one of the relatives of the patwari the raiding party nabbed him.
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Plan to save Naggal from floods Ambala city, March 14 Bhardwaj said a stadium would be constructed in Sector 10, Ambala city, having modern facilities like Gurgaon Sports Stadium. Three teams of food and supplies, vetenary and agriculture officers had been formed to check the effect of standing water to crops, animals and human beings.
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