Gurgaon, August 2
The pregnant women of the Mewat area in Haryana, belonging to the weaker sections of society, will soon get the facility of free transportation from their doorstep to delivery huts for the safe delivery of their offspring.

The project for the safe transportation of pregnant women to medical institutes or delivery hut for delivering child has been approved by the Government of India for Mewat, the most backward district of the state.

The project for the safe transportation of pregnant women to medical institutes or delivery hut for delivering child has been approved by the Government of India for Mewat, the most backward district of the state.

Haryana will be the first state in the country to introduce such a project for pregnant women.

A round-the-clock control room will be set up at Nuh, which will have seven specially designed vehicles for taking such women. Initially, nine delivery centres will be set up under the project at various places in Mewat, which includes Government Hospital, Mandikhera, Community Health Centres at Puhana, Ferozpur Jhirka, Nuh, Hathin, and primary health centres at Taoru, Mandkola, Pingawana and Nagina.

All these centres will be connected with the control room, which will be have one computer having the map of whole district, including the details of roads and villages of the district to locate the residence of the patient easily.

The toll free number of the control room will be 102, which will be managed by four control room operators. The operators on receiving a call from the pregnant women will contact the drivers of the vehicles and guide them in locating the address of the patient.

Mewat Hospital Civil Surgeon Dr D.V. Saharan informed that there were about 40,000 pregnant women in Mewat district, out of which only 2,000 women have been registered with the government hospitals.

Ignorance and lack of education were the main reasons for women not availing advanced medical facilities in the hospitals of the district. With the commencement of this new project, many pregnant women’s lives will be saved, he said.

He said most of the pregnant ladies prefer to get the deliveries of their child in villages, which, in turn, has resulted in increase in the infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR).The project will help in reducing infant and maternal mortality rate in the district.

Saharan further said that transportation facility to pregnant women will also help in providing better pre-delivery services and post natal care. At present, the facility of deliveries were available at Government Hospital, Mandikhera, Primary Health Centres at Taoru and Mandkola and at seven delivery huts at various places in the district.

These delivery huts were set up by the state government in 2005 for facilitating proper delivery services to pregnant women of the area. 

Jind, August 2
To control the malaria menace, the district health authorities have come up with a novel method.

Bedsheets laced with deltamethrin liquid to keep mosquitoes away

It will provide people, especially those living in rural areas, with the facility of getting their curtains and bed clothes laced with anti-malaria liquid, deltamethrin.

The liquid will keep the mosquitoes and houseflies away from the spot for a period of about six months.

It is for the first time that this kind of experiment was taken up on a large-scale in any district.

The drug is non-polluting, odourless and harmless to human beings, doctors claimed. A total of about 3,538 malaria cases surfaced in Jind district till July this year.

The programme of checking malaria with the help of deltamethrin drug was formally launched by deputy commissioner at Igrah village, here, recently.

The villagers were asked to get their household curtains and bed sheets laced with this special drug to control malaria.

It was stated that a team of the health department would visit each village of the various subdivisions in the next one month to provide the facility to the people at their doorstep. According to the department, the team would dip the clothes in a liquid having this drug and it would be done free of cost.

A total of about 56 villages would be covered in the next 30 days besides the slum type of localities in the urban pockets.

Though residents in rural areas hardly use door or window curtains, it was stated that it could promote such a habit and an overall awareness about the disease, as the facility was being provided at doorstep and free of cost.

The department has also started releasing a special breed of fish named Gambuzia in the ponds and open water bodies in both rural and urban areas. This fish according to the experts stop the breeding of mosquitoes in the water as it eats up the eggshell at the breeding stage. Several such fish have been released already by the department in village ponds.

Jind is the only district in Haryana which has seven fish hatcheries. According to the malaria department, while the total number of malaria cases this year had declined in a majority of blocks, the number had gone up in Ujjana and Uchana blocks.

Chandigarh, August 2
In order to promote the balanced use of fertilisers on soil test basis, the Haryana agriculture department has fixed a distribution target of 3,09,000 soil health cards free of cost to the farmers of the state during the current financial year.

Stating this here today, a spokesman of the department said that as many as 1,91, 081 soil health cards had been prepared till March 3, which were distributed to the farmers free of cost.

He said a soil-testing campaign had been launched, under which soil across the state would be tested under the jurisdiction of each agriculture inspector and agriculture development officer of the department.

Soil health and soil-testing awareness camps were also being organised throughout the state.

Samples of the soil collected were being sent to laboratory and the analysis report was being given to the agriculture inspector or SDO, agriculture of the areas so that they could appropriately guide the farmers on the use of fertilisers according to the soil type.

Chandigarh, August 2
The Haryana government has issued the posting and transfer orders of 15 IPS and one HPS officers with immediate effect.

Laik Ram Dabas, inspector-general of police (IGP), posted in Haryana Viduyat Parsharan Nigam, has been transferred as IGP, reforms, M. S. Ahalawat, IG, prisons, has been transferred as IG state vigilance bureau.

On promotion, Balbir Singh, M.S. Malik and Rajbir Singh Deswal have been posted as deputy inspector-general, telecom, DIG, Haryana Viduyat Parsharan Nigam, and DIG, CID, respectively. Similarly, Des Raj, awaiting posting orders, has been posted as DIG, Haryana Armed Police, against a vacant post.

Dr. C. S. Rao, DCP headquarter, Gurgaon would now be the Superintendent of Police, Yamunanagar, K. Venkata Ramana. Charu Bali, commandant first Battalion HAP Ambala City has been given the assignment of SP, DGP’s Flying Squad against a vacant post.

Sandeep Khirwar, SP Ambala will be the SP of Panchkula against a vacant post. Rajinder Singh, SP, Kaithal has been posted as DCP (crime) Gurgaon.

Rajinder Kumar, who has been posted as DCP (crime), Gurgaon, has been posted in State Crime Branch.

Subhash Yadav, SP Mewat has been posted as SP, CID against a vacant post. Sibash Kabiraj posted in State Crime Branch has been appointed SP of Mewat district.

J. S. Lamba, SP, State Vigilance Bureau, Rohtak, becomes SP Jind, while Anil Kumar Dhawan HPS awaiting posting orders has been posted Deputy Commissioner Police, Headquarter, Gurgaon. 

Khanpur Kalan (Sonepat), August 2
Haryana became the first state in the country to have the first-ever sub-centre of Cambridge University for certification in English language proficiency today.

The British Council and North India’s first women university, known as Bhagat Phool Singh (BPS) Women University, located at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat district of Haryana, today, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer Business English Certificate (BEC) and Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) from the University of Cambridge ESOL examinations to the students of the Mahila Vishwavidyalaya.

The MoU was signed by the Minister-Cultural Affairs British Council Division, British High Commission, Rod Pryde on behalf of the British Council. Vice-chancellor of the university, Dr. Anuradha Gupta signed on behalf of the Women University in the presence of Haryana governor, Dr. A. R. Kidwai and CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda on the university campus.

Chandigarh, August 2
The PIL filed by Abdul Rasheed, a Delhi resident, seeking directions to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to drop the word “Rahim” from his name was referred to the Division Bench of Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Mahesh Grover.

The petitioner had sought directions to the Haryana home secretary to ensure that the Rahim word was deleted by the dera chief from his name.

The matter was today listed before the Division Bench, comprising Justice P.Sathasivam and Justice Rajive Bhalla, and would now be heard by the bench headed by the CJ on August 22 where other dera-related PILs are being heard.

Earlier, the plea had been taken up for preliminary consideration by a Division Bench, headed by Justice J.S. Khehar, before the summer vacations. The petitioner has averred that the inclusion of the word Rahim by the Dera Sacha Sauda chief was causing resentment among Muslims.