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Hooda offers to build memorial for Chandra Shekhar
BJP holds session at Panipat
Cong policies pose threat to country: Chautala
Thousands attend Bishnoi rally
Haryana frames advertisement norms after HC order
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Experts call for uniform aquaculture policy
Plans to improve traffic flow
DCI poll: Seven in fray
Polythene bags, garbage choke drains
Youth shot dead
One held for damaging buses
20 examinees caught with mobiles
Maintenance of Lord Mahavir
relic sought
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Hooda offers to build memorial for Chandra Shekhar
Chandigarh, July 8 Hooda said if the family members of Chandra Shekhar desired, a suitable memorial would be set up at Bhondsi in Gurgaon district. The Chief Minister said the country had lost a staunch supporter of secularism and true nationalist and it was a personal loss to him. He said Chandra Shekhar had great affection towards Haryana and had set up his Ashram in Bhondsi where he stayed for two or three days in a week. Hooda’s father Ranbir Singh, who is said to be very close to Chandra Shekhar is believed to have persuaded his son to set up a memorial. In a message, Dr Kidwai described Chandra Shekhar as one of the tallest personality of Indian Politics. He said Chandra Shekhar worked throughout his life for the welfare of the downtrodden classes. Hooda on the other hand described Chandra Shekhar as man of masses and a seasoned parliamentarian. Hooda said the former PM had served the nation as MP by getting elected to Lok Sabha eight times. He said Chandra Shekhar had also undertaken 4,260 km long ‘padyatra’ in 1983 from Kanyakumari to Rajghat in New Delhi to establish rapport with masses and understand their problems. He said the former leader would be long remembered for his qualities as he always raised his voice to ensure justice and socio-economic uplift of masses. |
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BJP holds session at Panipat
Karnal, July 8 Talking to the Press this afternoon, Vijay Goyal, the party in charge for the state, said the BJP was geared up to raise its voice against the misrule in Haryana. In a scathing attack on the Hooda government, he said the Congress government had miserably failed on the development front. He alleged that the Hooda government had adopted a dual policy in recruitments. Because of obvious bias, people, particularly the unemployed youth, felt hurt. On the SEZ, Goyal said the state government had put the future of the farming community at a stake. He charged the state government with working on behalf of the big industrial houses to benefit them. He said with a view to reactivating the BJP in the state the party had started a mass awareness programme to reach the grassroots level. He said that people in the state were fed up with the Congress regime. He revealed that the party had planned a public rally in Rohtak, the home district of the Chief Minister on October 27 in which several national leaders are expected to participate. He also charged the Centre with playing the vote bank politics. Levelling serious charges against the Presidential candidate, Pratibha Patil, he said the UPA candidate had failed miserably to answer the allegations leveled against her in the public. |
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Cong policies pose threat to country: Chautala
Rewari, July 8 Addressing a huge INLD rally at Mahendergarh, he cast aspersions on the style of functioning of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi alleging that she was bent upon having only pliable and nominated persons on prestigious constitutional posts of the country. Emphasising the urgency of protecting the democratic fibre of the country against such onslaughts, he said at the outset, she brought Dr Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister of the UPA government and then a person of her choice was elevated to the post of the chief election commissioner. Flaying the Congress and other allies of the UPA for devaluing the post of the President of India, he said it was all the more deplorable that their presidential candidate Pratibha Patil was embroiled in serious allegations even before her elevation to the presidential post.
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Thousands attend Bishnoi rally
Rewari, July 8 The rally, which was spearheaded by Rajender Singh Thekedar, a former functionary of the INLD and Satish Khola from Jatusana, was attended by Rakesh Kamboj, MLA from Indri ( Karnal ) and over a dozen former ministers and legislators. Flaying the Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her “dictatorial” style of functioning, Kuldeep Bishnoi asserted while the people wanted to see Bhajan Lal as the next chief minister after they voted the Congress to power in the previous assembly elections, Bhupinder Singh Hooda was made chief minister by Sonia Gandhi much against the people’s expectations, wishes of majority of the congress MLA’s as well as in utter disregard of established democratic norms. He wondered how and why an inexperienced administrator like Hooda was entrusted with the chiefministership of the state by Sonia. Bishnoi asserted that Haryana had definitely lagged behind almost all progressive states of the country in the matter of development and other such things owing to the poor stewardship provided by Hooda. Having a dig at the chief minister for his reported announcement that the law and order situation was excellent in Haryana, he said the chief minister’s own Rohtak region was witnessing increase in the incidents of crime. He said that it was beyond his comprehension why he was suspended from the party by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi when he had only raised his voice for water and power for the state. Making mention of the party high command’s attempts to stifle his voice of dissent, Bishnoi claimed that he was offered a ministerial berth in the union cabinet twice during its two time- expansion previously. He went on to say that he had firmly told the AICC general secretary Janardan Diviwedi that he was working for the prosperity of the people of state. He announced amidst loud applause that if he was voted to power, he alone would bring the Ravi-Beas water to Haryana and particularly in Ahirwal He also announced that a university of international level would be set up here. |
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Haryana frames advertisement norms after HC order
Chandigarh, July 8 An affidavit, dated June 19, 2007, by the director, public relations and cultural affairs, Haryana, a copy of which is in the possession of The Tribune, states that the guidelines/policy have been framed in pursuance of a high court order given last year on July 18. A Division Bench of the court, comprising the then acting Chief Justice H.S. Bedi and Justice Ranjit Singh, while hearing a PIL by H.C. Arora, advocate, had ordered last year that both Punjab and Haryana should draft policies to cut short public expenses on advertisements, eulogising state or national leaders or a political party, which had no connection with the achievements of administration. “The advocates-general of both states (Punjab and Haryana) are requested to get instructions as to the policy that states wish to adopt in such matters so that the democratic process may proceed without any strain on the public exchequer,” the Division Bench had stated in its order. Coming in the wake of the said order after a lapse of almost a year, the Haryana government’s guidelines say that “visuals or photographs of any appropriate national or state-level leader or any other prominent personality, whose ideals and life-sketch suits the occasion, may also be used to give effect to the message carried through these advertisements and to generate feeling of participation in the democratic process amongst all sections of society.” Importantly, when read in the context of the HC order, one is left guessing as to whether the aforesaid guidelines have succeeded in capturing the essence of the order or not. Incidentally, Arora had highlighted, through various examples in his petition, the misuse of public funds over advertisements glorifying a political party or political leader at the cost of state exchequer. The judges, too, had broadly accepted the submissions made in the petition and stated in the order that some advertisements bearing photographs of leaders like Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi or Sant Longowal had no connection with the administration in Punjab and Haryana though these reflected the leadership of the Congress party. Further, the Haryana government’s guidelines also say, “Display advertisements will also be released in furtherance of various publicity campaigns launched in the state from time to time for educating the masses about policies, programmes, and achievements of the state government”. “All state government departments, boards, corporations, PSUs, universities and autonomous bodies or other state government offices or organisations shall release their display advertisements through the public relations department only,” the guidelines assert. |
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Experts call for uniform aquaculture policy
Chandigarh, July 8 The scientists from the Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, various universities of the region and directors of fisheries from Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan made this recommendation
after a two-day workshop that concluded here last evening. The scientists also recommended that aquaculture should be treated at par with agriculture keeping in view its role in poverty alleviation, employment generation and for providing nutritional
rich food. It was also recommended that management of all the water bodies should be transferred to the Fisheries Department for their scientific management and to increase the fish productivity. Scientists participating in the workshop advocated encouraging utilisation of inland salt affected areas for aquaculture with adequate safeguards against possible environmental degradation. They also recommended having an environment friendly policy to provide incentives for encouraging private investment in creating basic marketing infrastructure, fish processing and value addition. It was further recommended that cooperatives and self-help groups should provide self-employment and collective management of open water bodies with some regulatory mechanism for sustainable fish production. It was pointed out that instead of increasing the production we should first strive for sustaining the present fish productivity of nearly 5,000 kg per hectare
per year. In the valedictory function, Sameer Mathur, financial commissioner and principal secretary, Fisheries, appreciated the initiatives taken by the CIFE in sensitising and facilitating the process
of developing the policy guidelines. Naseem Ahmad, financial commissioner and principal secretary, Environment, highlighted the environmental
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Plans to improve traffic flow
Chandigarh, July 8 The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded work of completion of the 63.5 km long road on Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis at a cost of Rs 486 crore to M/s KCT-ERA (consortium). Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that apart from six-laning of the existing National Highway, two long bypasses would also be constructed at Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. The bypass of Bahadurgarh would be 13 km long and that at Rohtak would be 25 km. The six-laning of the National Highway and construction of these two bypasses would considerably help ease traffic congestion and the movement of traffic would be more safe and comfortable. One of the major features of this project would be the construction of five-grade separators and four underpasses to facilitate free flow of traffic. There is a provision of construction of service roads on Bahadurgarh bypass. Apart from this, 29 bus lay byes would also be constructed as part of this project, which will facilitate free movement and parking of large number of buses plying on this section of the road. MP from Rohtak, Deepender Hooda while expressing his gratitude to UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh said this would meet the long standing demand of the people. He further said with a view to easing congestion of traffic at Panipat, the 10 km long stretch of National Highway No 1 was being six-laned at a cost of Rs 270 crore.
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DCI poll: Seven in fray
Hisar, July 8 Dr Mahesh Goel, Dr K.N. Dune, Dr Rohit Miglani, Dr Rajiv Gupta, Dr B.K. Sharma, Dr Parveen Sethi and Dr Akash Rao are the seven candidates. Only dentists registered as dental surgeons in Haryana are eligible to cast their vote. There are around 1,300 voters in Haryana. The votes have to be polled by postal ballot. The result will be declared on July 23. Like the Medical Council of India, which virtually governs the functioning of medical colleges in the country, the DCI ensures that dental colleges follow the rules, have proper infrastructure and are maintaining academic standards. The term of elected member of the DCI is five years. This is the first time that postal ballot is being used for the purpose. The candidates are campaigning aggressively. Dr Goel, who visited the town today to seek votes, is perhaps the youngest of the seven candidates. He claims the support of the young dentists. He said if elected he would ensure that teaching and research facilities in dental colleges all over the country were raised to international standards. However, like any other poll, DCI elections are also attracting controversies. Rao has alleged that Sethi, director, Dental Services, Haryana, had used his official letterhead to seek votes. He had also used the name of Dr Tiwari, principal of Government Dental College for seeking votes. He said Sethi was misusing his official position to seek votes and was in the process violating the code of conduct. |
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Polythene bags, garbage choke drains
Yamunanagar, July 8 MC officials of both the towns admit that now no major cleaning work of the drains could be taken up as monsoon has already started in the district. The Yamunanagar MC had spent more than Rs 3 lakh to clean the drains and Rs 2 lakh more have been sanctioned. Similarly, an official of the Jagadhri MC claimed that most of the drains had been cleaned and if required more cleaning jobs would be taken up. During the last rainy season there was water logging in low-lying areas. Residents too are responsible for the bad shape of the drains. Residents at Subhash Nagar Colony are using drains to dump garbage.
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Youth shot dead
Sirsa, July 8 Ram Bhagat shot at Prithvi Raj while he was sleeping in his house. The police has registered a case of murder against Ram on the complaint of youth’s father Chanan Ram. Police sources said Ram had heated arguments with Prithvi over some matter last night, following which he killed Prithvi. |
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One held for damaging buses
Rohtak, July 8 A case has been registered against him under Sections 148/149, 341/353, 186/427, 307/436 of the IPC at the city police station in this regard. Kirad has been accused of stopping and damaging buses along with some other persons. He was produced in a local court today. |
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20 examinees caught with mobiles
Ambala, July 8 The candidates were caught when a senior officer of the commission conducted a surprise check at three centres in Ambala Cantonment. Talking to mediapersons, the commission officer said the candidates had already been informed that no mobile phones would be allowed in the examination centres. He added that the matter had been reported to the chairman of the commission.
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Maintenance of Lord Mahavir
relic sought
Ambala, July 8 In a letter written to the director general of the Archaeological Survey of India, Jain said Lord Mahavir was the last Tirthankara of Jainism. His idol was found near Puliyankadi village in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The idol was converted into Hindu Goddess Aadhali Amman. Jain observed that such antiquities were a reflection of the rich cultural and religious heritage of the country.
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