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Rajasthan violence
Haryana asks Centre to enact law on MSP
Bonanza for disabled
Nigam gives last chance to power thieves
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Ground water depletion
WHO to visit villages for drug
de-addicition
Kaushik denies charges of anti-party activities
Women protest against liquor vend
Rs 18.36 cr loans given to safai karamcharis
Pact signed for free computer education
Man assaults mother-in-law
One assaulted by trio
Body found
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Rajasthan violence
Sirsa, May 29 One company has begun moving towards the disturbance-hit areas, while another company will leave for Rajasthan late night. Deputy Commissioner V. Umashankar was intimated by the Centre about the decision of the withdrawal of the forces after violent clashes in Rajasthan today. Eight companies, including the ITBP, RAF and the BSF, had been deployed in the district after the tension prevailed here following the conflict between Sikhs and dera followers. Besides this, Haryana Armed Forces have also been given the responsibility to maintain the law and orders here. Now some of the jawans of the ITBP and BSF companies deployed on the border area of the district are being shifted for the security of the dera, Gurdwaras and other religious establishments. Earlier, the Central government had decided to keep the paramilitary forces in the district till May 31. Even after reviewing the situation, the state government has sought permission for the deployment of the force till June 10. Confirming the developments, the DC said the positions of the RAF jawans were now being replaced by the jawans of the ITBP and BSF. |
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Haryana asks Centre to enact law on MSP
New Delhi, May 29 This request of the State Government was made in a speech of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, which was read in his absence by Haryana Finance Minister Birender Singh in the 53rd meeting of the National Development Council on ‘Food and Agriculture related Issues’ here today. Hooda pointed out in his speech that the National Commission for Farmers has clearly brought out in its final report that even the cost of cultivation is not covered by the MSP in case of paddy, wheat, bajra and gram in Haryana. He said the commission had recommended that MSP should at least be 50 per cent more than the weighted average cost of production. The rate of subsidy varies from 25 per cent to 50 per cent. However, in most of the schemes there is a provision of a financial ceiling per hectare or per farmer. In many cases this implies providing subsidy at a rate much lower than the prescribed level. He said that there was a provision of subsidy of 30 per cent in the distribution of certified seeds of oilseeds and pulse crops. The minister said in case of crops like groundnut and urd, the prescription of the maximum limit of Rs.800 per quintal results in the farmer getting subsidy only to the extent of 15 per cent. He said to remove this anomaly, the ceiling on subsidy for individual farmers in all the Central schemes should be done away with during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. He said that the role of women in agriculture had hitherto not received due attention. Therefore, the level of subsidy to small and marginal farmers and women farmers should be increased to 75 per cent in all the Central Schemes and especially, for the scheme pertaining to improved farm implements. |
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Bonanza for disabled
Chandigarh, May 29 The news comes at a juncture when the Union Government has decided to have more bureaucratic jobs for the disabled and carry forward the reserved seats to the next year, if suitable candidates are not found during the civil services exam in a particular year. Haryana will adopt the list of 1900 identified jobs as notified by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment under Section 32 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995. According to officials of the Social Welfare Department the jobs which have been included in the notification for any category of disability will be used to give effect to the 3 per cent reservation in jobs in each establishment within the meaning of Section 2 (k) of the Act. What is even better, the establishments covered under the Act will now have the discretion to identify additional posts, apart from those already identified. At the same time the establishments recruiting people will not have any discretion to exclude any post from the purview of the already identified posts for effecting reservation under Section 33 of the Act. In other words this means that the establishments will have to go by the book and not include or exclude disabilities at will to accommodate or reject candidates. According to the orders passed by Anuradha Gupta, Commissioner and Secretary, Social Welfare Department, any exclusions or inclusions in the adopted list by an establishment will first have to come in the form of a representation before the Director, Social Welfare, who in turn after perusal of the matter will place it before an inter-departmental committee for consideration. Other than this will be empowered to make any modification to the adopted list. While the list of jobs adopted by the Haryana Government is displayed on the central government website, there are certain department that will be exempt from the 3 per cent reservation for the physically challenged. These include some top posts in the Aeronautical Engineering Department, Post Masters, telecommunication engineers and certain training officers. There is a further classification in jobs that are not available to orthopaedically handicapped, those with speech or hearing disability. |
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Nigam gives last chance to power thieves
Hisar, May 29 A spokesman of the Nigam said here today that the benefit of the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) would be available for both domestic and non-domestic consumers in Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Gurgaon, Mewat and Faridabad districts. They will have to deposit nominal regularisation charges. A consumer with a single phase meter will have to deposit Rs 200 per kilowatt load and those having a three phase connection will have to deposit Rs 300 per kilowatt of the sanctioned load. The Nigam will regularise the connections without registering a case of power theft. For declaration the consumer will have to apply to the Nigam’s office by filing an application along with a photocopy of the recent bill and depositing the prescribed regularisation charges. It is mandatory for such consumers to clear their arrears, if any, to avail the benefit of VDS. In many cases, the irregularities may have been unintentional. After June 15, if any consumer is found stealing electricity, his meter box will be painted red for a year so that passersby can know that a particular household has been stealing power. If the consumer pays his bill honestly for a year, the red box will be replaced by a normal box. |
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National Survey
Karnal, May 29 Chairperson of the National Safai Karamchari Commission Santosh Chaudhry revealed this at a news conference here today. She said the Centre had mooted an ambitious project to end the ‘evil’ practise of carrying the night soil. Work of cleaning toilets at railway stations and ‘unsafe’ lavatories at houses with open drains also fall under the category of carrying night soil on head. Systems would be upgraded to streamline it, she added. Chaudhary said the Centre had allocated a sum of Rs 735 crore to rehabilitate the unprivileged engaged in the practise. As many as 3.41 lakh would be benefited with the opportunities of the self-employment and other schemes under the new plan. The authorities have chalked out a plan to eradicate the exercise completely by March 31, 2009. She stressed on outsourcing the safai karamcharis to meet the growing demand of these workers. However, she added that contractors were exploiting workers engaged in the menial job. They are under paid and have also failed in getting benefit from the welfare schemes in the past. The safai karamcharis were being deprived of the basic facilities at work, including shoes, gloves and masks, and no medical facilities were being given to the karamcharis, she rued. |
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Ground water depletion
New Delhi, May 29 The state irrigation minister while addressing the Chief Minister’s conference on power sector issues here, said due to continued denial of surplus Ravi-Beas water to Haryana, our farmers have no option but to exploit groundwater to sustain agriculture production. This has depleted ground water resources, affected our soil and put a strain on our electricity system. The state is providing subsidy to the tune of Rs 2,366 crore in the current year on the account of subsidised power to the agriculture sector. — TNS
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WHO to visit villages for drug de-addicition
Sirsa, May 29 The state has identified 83 villages where many persons are addicted to poppy husk and opium. The drugs are easy available from the nearby districts of Rajasthan. Giving details, DGP R.S. Dalal said the state government was serious about all those who were involved in drug smuggling and would also start a de-addiction programme to reform the people. We would also involve the village people in the campaign to control the drug menace, he added. Keeping in view the urgent need to find out all those involved in the drug menace from the interstate, the matter has also been discussed with the DGP of Punjab and Rajasthan. He said the WHO team, after visiting the villages, would decide the ways to remove the drug addiction among the villagers. Besides this, in order to develop a good network among the affected states, a meeting of the senior officials from Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan will soon be held at Dawbali in Sirsa. The first meeting of the officials in this regard had held in Bathinda. Besides Sirsa, Fatehabad is another district where drug addicts are in large number. |
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Kaushik denies charges of anti-party activities
Chandigarh, May 29 It is learnt that Kaushik, in his reply to the notice, said the charges were all baseless and devoid of any truth. He sought more time from Ram Prakash for giving a detailed and point by point reply to the notice. The HPCC secretary had earlier written two letters to the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi criticising the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led government in Haryana. While in the first letter he alleged massive corruption in recruitments in vacancies by the state government, in the next letter he accused the government of confining development works to Chief Minister Hooda's home district Rohtak. The contents of both these letters found their way to the press. Ram Prakash, in a letter to Kaushik on May 10, asked him to show cause why disciplinary action should not be initiated against him in view of the press statements issued by him criticising the party government in Haryana. The HPCC secretary was asked to give his reply within 15 days. |
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Women protest against liquor vend
Kaithal, May 29 The women demanded that it should be shifted at least 1 kilometre away from the village limits. The protestors alleged that the wine contractor had opened an unauthorised ‘khurdas’ and the persons manning these were supplying eatables and liquor even on credit, which resulted into more and more people getting attracted to such places. The drunkards pass remarks on girls and women and create scenes, which has made their life miserable. The women said though they had submitted a memorandum to deputy commissioner Rajinder Kataria on May 26, no action had been taken so far to redress their grievances. The women called on the DC and urged him to take an action on their demand. Later the protestors met the excise officials and explained them their problems. |
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Rs 18.36 cr loans given to safai karamcharis
Ambala, May 29 The meeting was presided over by Santosh Chaudhry, chairperson, National Commission of Safai Karamcharis, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. She was informed that Rs 18.36 crore were released as loans to safai karamcharis. As many as 2,090 loan applications were received in Ambala district out of which 875 applications were matured by the department concerned. Secretary Naraingarh Municipal Council informed that 32 posts of safai karamcharis had been sanctioned out of which 25 got filled. On the remaining seven posts, contractual employees had been working. In the meeting, the housing problems of safai karmcharies were taken up and Chaudhry said their problem would be forwarded to the government. Chaudhry ordered that every employee of the Municipal Committee must be issued a salary slip. She also ordered to the health authorities that all safai karamcharis must be checked up medically twice a year. She also directed that no female safai karamchari would perform night duty. She assured that no safai karamchari would be allowed to work as domestic servants. |
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Pact signed for free computer education
Chandigarh, May 29 An official spokesman said director, school education, Haryana, Anil Malik signed on behalf of the directorate’s vice-president, information and communication technology division of the company. No fee will be charged from the students for learning computers, he said. — TNS
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Man assaults mother-in-law
Ambala, May 29 According to the information, Nirmla, grandmother of Mehak (5), was coming from the market. When she was passing through Bazar Basti Ram, a scooter-borne person forcibly snatched Mehak and fled. One of the passersby informed the police and with in an hour the police nabbed the person near Devinagar village. It is reported that parents of the child are living separately for the past several months due to family differences. Mahak was living with her maternal grandmother along with her mother. The police has handed over the child to her mother.
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One assaulted by trio
Rewari, May 29 It is also reported that the trio thrashed him and then one of the assailants threw acid causing severe burns on his back. Meanwhile, on his statement, the Khol police has registered a case under Sections 323, 324, 506, 34 of the IPC against the accused Rai Singh, Hawa Singh and Suresh Devi, all residents of Dahina village. |
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Body found
Ambala, May 29 According to the information, the body was in semi-naked position. A deep injury was also noticed on the upper part of the body. The deceased was not identified so far. The police suspects that someone has murdered her and threw her in the fields. The body has been sent to the Civil Hospital for the postmortem examination. |
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