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UP poll debacle
Govt promoting crop diversification through horticulture
Babus to get laptops
Brisk wheat purchase on
Central fund for drinking water
Notice to govt
HAU tests to be held on June 16
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Land acquisition: Farmers block Jaipur highway Gurgaon, May 13 Farmers from villages in and around Gurgaon today took to streets and blocked traffic on the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway 8 here.They were protesting against the acquisition of their land on prices below market rates by the government for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Police books 12 for assault,
murder
Couple thrown out of train, wife dies
Minister assails Bhajan, son
Instructor held on charge of
attempted rape
2 die in road accident
3 get life term for murder
2 nabbed for looting shop
Remand for commando, others UHBVN official alleges trespass
Cong activists quit party
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UP poll debacle
Kurukshetra, May 13 While addressing a public meeting here today, Bishnoi said Gandhi could not restore the base of the Congress in UP and she had no right to continue in the chair of the presidentship of the Congress. Besides, not only the Haryana Chief Minister but even the Cabinet should submit their resignations on this ground, he added. Bishnoi reiterated that the people of Haryana had voted to the Congress with the hope that Bhajan Lal would be the Haryana Chief Minister, but contrary to this, Bhupinder Singh Hooda was thrusted on them. He said the Congress had become the party of the privileged and not of common man. He further alleged that in Haryana the law and order situation was deteriorated to such an extent that the criminals of neighbouring states got shelter in Haryana easily because they had no fear of their arrest. He said he had raised voice against acquiring 325 acres of land for setting up Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the interest of farmers, but instead of being appreciated, he was served with a show cause notice by the Congress high command. He alleged that the Congress leaders had been surrounded by anti-Congress people and were misleading the public. However, barren land should be acquired for such purpose. In this way, such land would be used purposefully, he added. Organiser of this function and former Haryana forest minister Devender Sharma claimed that the Congress workers associated with Bhajan Lal and Kuldip Bishnoi were faithful workers. Mr Sharma, who has covered dozens of villages and urban areas campaigning for his superiors, reported that a wave for these leaders had started getting momentum. Dr S.N. Arya, former vice-chancellor, Kurukshetra University, blamed the Congress high command for not doing justice to Kuldip Bishnoi by serving with a show cause notice for raising his voice against acquiring fertile land for SEZ resulting in ruining the small farmers and for forcibly imposing Hooda on the people of Haryana. Former district committee president Pawan Garg said this movement was launched by Bhajan Lal and Kuldip Bishnoi from Kurukshetra last year. Now, this movement had gained momentum and day by day more people were joining them. Meanwhile, Dr Devender Sharma, organiser of the function, was honoured by Kuldip Bishnoi.
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Govt promoting crop diversification
Chandigarh, May 13 Promoting horticulture as a more lucrative option for farmers as compared to traditional wheat-rice cropping, the Horticulture Department has launched a campaign to persuade farmers to diversify into citrus and other fruits like mango, berries and strawberries. To support farmers who are already into horticulture, the state government has announced a grant of 50 per cent for the renovation of old orchards in all the districts of Haryana. A grant of Rs 15,000 per orchard was being given for the orchards of mango, guava, ber, kinnu and aanwla, he added. Giving details about the grants provided by the state government for setting up orchards under the National Horticulture Mission, a spokesperson of the department disclosed that grant at the rate of Rs 9750 per hectare was provided for the cultivation of guava, Rs 15750 per hectare for mango, Rs 11,250 per hectare for ber and Rs 18,525 per hectare for
cheeku. He said the amount of grant was disbursed in three years in the ratio of 50:20:30 and was provided for a maximum area of 4 hectares. The facility of this grant was available for the fruits of mango, cheeku and ber. He said that to boost floriculture, the state government was also providing a grant of 50 per cent to small and marginal farmers and 33 per cent to other farmers for floral
cultivation, he added. The spokesman said that grant at the rate of Rs 11250 per hectare for the cultivation of fragrant plants was also provided. This facility was being provided in the districts of Ambala, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Sirsa, Karnal, Faridabad, Mewat, Bhiwani and Gurgaon. A similar grant of Rs 11,250 per hectare was being provided for the growth of spices such as chillies, garlic, ginger and turmeric. Protected cultivation under the National Horticulture Mission is also being promoted in the State by providing a grant of 50 per cent to small and marginal farmers and 33 per cent to other farmers for setting up Green Houses. The State Government was also encouraging organic farming in all districts and was providing a grant of Rs 30,000 per unit for vermi compost and a grant of Rs 5 lakh for registration of organic farms. Bee-keeping was also being given a boost in Haryana and a grant of Rs 450 was being provided for the purchase of each honeycomb and Rs 350 for the purchase of each colony. A maximum grant of Rs 2.50 lakh was being given for on the basis of the projects of bee-keeping to the registered farmers. To encourage farmers and to make them confident, the government was has launched several training programmes for farmers across the state. The farmers are also being paid to get trained at the rate of Rs 1500 for seven-day training in Haryana and Rs 2500 for training outside the
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Babus to get laptops
Chandigarh, May 13 It is now official that officers of the rank financial commissioners, special secretaries, heads of the departments, chief executives and managing directors of boards and corporations will be given laptops. This is despite the fact that not many babus are computer literate. Some years ago, the Haryana government had sanctioned mobile phones to senior officials. Each officer has a mobile phone, but hardly is this number given out to anyone. So much so that even the official phone directory of the government does not carry the numbers of mobile phones of officers. Critics feel that laptops will be used for personal use in the same manner in which the mobile phones are used. Though, the objective of giving away laptops is stated to be better coordination through faster communication system, it is learnt that not many officials have subscribed to the National Informatics Centre (NIC) connectivity, even though it is free for officials. The decision to give away laptops was announced by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology through a notification.
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Brisk wheat purchase on
Chandigarh, May 13
A spokesperson of the government said six government agencies had procured 29.32 lakh MTs of wheat while traders had purchsed the remaining 3.34 lakh MTs. Hafed had so far procured 11.28 lakh MTs, the Food and Supplies Department 7.06 lakh MTs, the Food Corporation of India 3.18 lakh MTs, the Agro Industries Corporation 2.88 lakh MTs and the Haryana Warehousing Corporation 2.60 lakh MTs and Confed 2.29 lakh MTs wheat. Sirsa district is leading in procurement with the arrival of 5.79 lakh MTs followed by Fatehabad 4.57 lakh MTs, Karnal 4.25 lakh MTs, Kaithal 4.22 lakh MTs, Jind 4.03 lakh MTs, Kurukshetra 2.85 lakh MTs, Panipat 1.47 lakh MTs, Ambala 98,417 MTs, Yamunanagar 75,411 MTs and Sonipat 74,695. |
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Central fund for drinking water
Chandigarh, May 13 This has been provided under the accelerated rural water supply programme (normal) of the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. An amount of Rs 5.55 crore has also been released to the State Government towards part of the first instalment of ARWSP-DDP funds against the total allocation of Rs 33.28 crore for 2007-08. This money will partly be spent upon Operation, Maintenance and for taking sustainability measures. The central government has also asked Haryana to delegate powers for management of Rural Water Supply Schemes through the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs).
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Punjabi teaching discouraged
Tribune News Service
Hisar, May 13 The commission has asked the education secretary to file its reply by July 24 next failing which it would decide the issue ex parte. The Akali leader had alleged that although Punjabi had been accorded second language status by the government, but it was imposing unrealistic conditions to discourage Punjabi teaching in schools. For instance, he alleged, the government had directed that Punjabi would be taught only if a school or college had at least 40 students opting for it. He said since Sikhs were in minority in the state, it was virtually impossible to meet this condition. He said by denying the members of the Punjabi community an opportunity to let their children learn their mother tongue, the state government was violating their constitutional rights. He alleged that through such tactics the government had virtually reduced the number of educational institutions teaching Punjabi to a single digit figure.
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HAU tests to be held on June 16
Hisar, May 13 Dr R.S. Dalal, Registrar, said here today said that these courses included B.V.Sc. and A.H., B.Sc.(Hons.) Agriculture, B.Sc.(Hons.) Home Science, M.Sc in Food Science and Technology, Bio-informatics, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology and Master's programmes in various disciplines of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Basic Sciences, Home Science and Veterinary Sciences. He said in addition to these, admissions would also be made to PG diploma courses in Biotechnology, Industrial Microbiology, Apparel Designing and Management, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, School Counselling, Communication Skills in English and English-Hindi Translation. He said that admission to B.V.Sc. & A.H., B.Sc.(Hons) Agriculture, M.Sc. Food Science and Technology, Bio-informatics and Biotechnology amd Molecular Biology courses would be made on the basis of merit in entrance test, while for other courses merit in qualifying examination would be taken into account. |
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Land acquisition: Farmers block Jaipur highway Gurgaon, May 13 They were protesting against the acquisition of their land on prices below market rates by the government for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Traffic on the busy highway was blocked for hours as the farmers protested in a large number. Reliance is setting up an SEZ spread over 10,000 hectares in Haryana and is working on a 8,000-hectare zone in Gurgaon. Omaxe intended to set up a 6,000-hectare enclave in Haryana. — UNI
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Police books 12 for assault,
murder
Fatehabad, May 13 One person was killed and six others injured, one of them seriously, when the accused attacked on them with knives at Sirdhan village yesterday. According to reports, Satya Narain of the village was married to Roshini, a physically challenged woman. He had eloped with some other girl and when he came back, he deserted Roshini and started living with the girl. The kin of Roshini had come to Sirdhan with their acquaintances to claim her right in the properties of Satya Narain. Heated exchanges were witnessed between the two sides but later, the police resolved the matter. When they were about to leave the village, the accused came in a Tata Sumo and attacked them with knives. Sonu, a resident of Sirdhan village and Manoj from Kirdhan village were seriously injured while Rohtash, Dalip, Raj Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Vicky and Suresh Kumar were also injured. |
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Couple thrown out of train, wife dies
Panipat, May 13 He too was thrown out of Hapa Express when he resisted their attempt to molest his wife. According to sources, there is also no trace of his cousin Yogendra Yadav who too was accompanying them in their journey from Ludhiana to Nagpur. Sources said Janardan and his wife had gone to Ludhiana in search of employment, but when they didn't meet any success, they left the city for Nagpur. Janardan said the youths were trying to molest his wife and when he opposed them, they threw them out of the running train near Babarpur railway station. While his wife,
Radhika, died in the incident, he was admitted to Civil Hospital in a critical condition. He was referred to the PGI, Rohtak, after recording his statement. |
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Minister assails Bhajan, son
Rewari, May 13 Addressing a largely attended public meeting at Kapriwas village, 20 km from here yesterday, he said that Bhajan Lal’s elder son was now the deputy chief minister of Haryana, his younger son a party MP from Bhiwani while he himself ruled the state as Congress C. M. for 12 long years and presided over the state party unit for several years as well. He wondered what more did they expect from the Congress asserting that the lease of life long chiefministership could not be bestowed upon the Bhajan family. Simultaneously
Capt Yadav had a dig at the father-son duo for dabbling in casteist politics with overt and covert mobilisation of non-jats. Making mention of the step motherly treatment which was meted out to South Haryana in the matter of canal water by the successive state governments in the past three decades, the irrigation minister said that it was only due to the fair-mindedness of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda that Rs 260 crore Bhakra Main Line Hansi Butana Link Canal was being expeditiously constructed to fully implement the government’s assurance of equitable distribution of canal water in letter and spirit. As regards the neglect and indiscrimination suffered by the Rewari region in developmental works, the minister announced that under the benign stewardship of the chief minister Rewari was now making strides in all spheres of development. He said while construction of the Rs 13 crore polytechnic college at Lisana village, 4 km from Rewari, was in progress, the tenders for the building of the post graduate regional centre at Mirpur village, 10 km from Rewari, had already been released. Simulataneously he said in the past two years as many as seven high schools were upgraded to the level of senior secondary schools, five middle schools to high schools and 18 primary schools to middle schools in the Rewari region. Capt Yadav also inaugurated four newly upgraded schools at Kapriwas, Khatavali, Hansa Ka and Saharanwas villages where he addressed public meetings as well. |
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Instructor held on charge of
attempted rape
Rewari, May 13 But when the girl raised the alarm. the accused who tried to flee, was reportedly overpowered by the inmates who thrashed him severely. Later Neeraj was handed over to the police which took him to the community health centre at
Nahar. In view of his critical condition the doctors referred him to the
PGIMS, Rohtak. |
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2 die in road accident
Rewari, May 13 It had reportedly stopped abruptly on National Highway No. 8 near Sangwari village, 10 km from here, in the wee hours. Both were the residents of the Jaipur region of Rajasthan. The Kasaula police has registered a case of rash and negligent driving against the trailer driver who fled soon after the accident. |
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3 get life term for murder
Kaithal, May 13 According to prosecution, Jaiveer Singh of Chandan Nagar, Hisar, had lodged a complaint against truck driver Vikram Singh of Siwan, cleaner Vicky and Jeeta for the murder of Romesh Chand, employee of an oil mill at Hisar. Jaiveer who along with his brother worked in the mill alleged that he and his brother Romesh Chand on February 22, 2005, delivered oil cake at Kurukshetra in a truck and they were carrying Rs 1 lakh. All three accused attacked his brother to snatch cash from him . He tried his best to save his brother but the accused murdered his brother and took away cash. He informed the police and a case was registered against the culprits. Later, the accused were arrested by the police and put on trial. After hearing the prosecution and the defence, the court held all three accused guilty of murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
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2 nabbed for looting shop
Kaithal, May 13 Both accused were produced in a local court today and were sent on seven-days police remand to facilitate the recovery of goods and arrest of other members of the gang. The SSP said Arun Gauba, a local scrap dealer, lodged a complaint with the police on April 14 last that at about 2 am some persons with muffled faces came to his shop and overpowered the chowkidar on the knife point. They started loading iron sheets and other goods lying outside the shop in a vehicle. Some neighbourers sleeping on the roof noted this activity and raised an alarm but the robbers threw stones at them and fled in the vehicle. A team of police after intensive investigation arrested two persons from the Jind road here who were riding a motorcycle. They have been identified as Atma Ram and Bhagi Ram, both residents of Meham. The SSP added that accused refused to participate in the identification parade before the court, however, the court conceding police request and sent them on remand. |
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UHBVN official alleges trespass Ambala, May 13 In a letter addressed to Ambala SP, the SE has stated that criminal trespassing took place on the property of the office of the UHBVN in Ambala City. The office is located near Aggarsain Chowk, which is the prime commercial area. The letter stated, “On April 21, in the absence of officials of the UHBVN, Sukhdev along with his son and 10-12 other associates forcibly trespassed into the office and illegally demolished its boundary wall and after encroaching the plot constructed a new wall to include it into his own area. He alleged that no order of eviction was passed by any competent court against the UHBVN. Ashu Sareen stated that the land had been wrongly handed over to the electricity board in the 1960s. “We had approached the grievances committee which had given its order in our favour. Following that order, we were given the possession on April 21 in the presence of competent officers,” he said.
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