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State seeks SC clearance to
puncture Bhakra main line
Panipat workers’ reinstatement
Power problems serious, admits Hooda
Family blames patient’s death
on hospital
Sarpanch escapes bid on life
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5 hurt in lathicharge
4 held for betting
Unscheduled power cuts
Chander Mohan neither here nor there
Shopkeepers put up shutters
Head teacher suspended
for beating up girl
Varsity gets TV studio
Fire in house
Police unravels plot to kill doc
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State seeks SC clearance to
puncture Bhakra main line
New Delhi, September 21 The Supreme Court had stayed the puncturing of the BML in its interim order on August 17 following a suit filed by Punjab challenging the construction of the Hansi-Butana feeder channel. Rajasthan today also joined Punjab to file a separate suit seeking to restrain Haryana from executing the work of feeder channel. Haryana’s counsel Shanti Bhushan urged a three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, to permit the state to puncture the BML when water flow into it was proposed to be stopped by the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) in the first week of October for some repair work. The Haryana’s counsel said during the period the gates would be installed to link the feeder channel to the BML but water would not be released into it till the court grants the permission. He said 80 per cent of the work of the feeder channel had been completed with the state government already spending Rs 275 crore of the Rs 354-crore project, which was vital for irrigating the dry areas of southern Haryana. The feeder channel would also facilitate bringing water to Delhi by reducing the load on the Narwana branch of the BML. But the BBMB counsel Harish Salve said the BML was only being closed for two days and it was not possible to complete the puncturing and the gates installation work in such a short period. Punjab and Rajasthan’s counsel Rajiv Dhawan and K.K. Venugopal, respectively, opposed the plea of Haryana. The court posted further hearing in the case for October 5 to decide whether permission could be granted to Haryana to puncture the canal on which an interim stay would continue till next hearing. Rajasthan, joining hands with Punjab in opposing the construction, in its suit said if Haryana was allowed to take water from the BML its share during the peak sowing period for rabi crop between October and December would be reduced from the existing 0.90 MAF to 0.72 MAF. Like Punjab, Rajasthan also accused Haryana of going ahead with the project in spite of the Centre Water Commission clearing the project and getting concurrence of the two state which was mandatory under the 1959 Bhakra Dam Agreement. Punjab in its counter to Haryana’s affidavit claiming that all required clearances for the project had been obtained stated that the Centre Water Commission had not cleared it and this was evident from its letter of March 26. But Haryana did not endorse the letter terming it only an internal communication of the commission. Apart from questioning the legal validity of Haryana’s action, Punjab also raised questions over the environment clearance of the project from the union ministry of environment and forest. But Haryana in its reply claimed that the clearance relating to design, hydrology, flood, cost, irrigation planning, ground water, agriculture and inter-state angel had been obtained. |
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Panipat workers’ reinstatement
Chandigarh, September 21 The mill owners, following a workers’ agitation demanding higher pay and better working conditions, threw out from jobs 1,000 workers employed in 105 textile mills. P. P. Kapoor, state organiser of the Indian federation of trade unions (IFTU), later wrote to union minister of state for labour and employment Oscar Fernandes about the strongarm tactics used to suppress the agitation. In reply, the minister sent to Kapoor a letter received by him from the Haryana labour department on the subject. According to the letter, the labour department had got reinstated all 1,000 retrenched workers. Kapoor then moved an application under the RTI act and sought details of the re-employment of the workers from the labour department. Kapoor asked the information officer in the labour department office here to give him a factorywise list of re-employed workers, the dates of their rejoining, photo copies of the government orders asking the mill owners to re-induct the sacked workers and photo copies of the joining letters. The information officer in Chandigarh wrote to Kapoor that the letter to Fernandes was based on information received from the Panipat labour office. The assistant labour commissioner in Panipat had been directed to give the necessary information to Kapoor, wrote the information officer to the trade union activist. According to the assistant labour commissioner, the information regarding the reinstatement of the workers was collected from the labour officers of circle 1 and circle 2 in Panipat. He directed the officers to supply the information sought by Kapoor and sent a copy of his letter to the IFTU leader. The two labour officers then wrote to Kapoor in separate letters that the information sought by him was never available with them. Therefore, it was not possible for them to supply Kapoor with any information regarding the reinstatement of the workers, they wrote. Kapoor told TNS that that none of the retrenched workers had been reinstated by the mills till date.
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Power problems serious, admits Hooda
Fatehabad, September 21 Hooda was addressing a public meeting at Tohana town in this district after laying the foundation stone of a railway flyover to be constructed at a cost of Rs 16 crore here. Hooda said a recent survey conducted by a magazine showed that Haryana was ahead of others in many fields and would soon become the number one state in the country. He said with a per capita investment of Rs 78,500, Haryana was next only to Goa, which was a very small state. The CM admitted that electricity was one area where the problems were serious despite best efforts of his government but attributed this to ‘lackadaisical attitude’ of his predecessors. He claimed that soon after coming to power he took steps to improve the power situation and the fruits of those steps would start coming from November 1 this year when the Yamunanagar thermal power plant will be inaugurated. He added that after the completion of power projects, at Khedar and Jhajjar, Haryana would be in a position to provide 22 hours of electricity in a day to its people. While Hooda avoided direct criticism of his political opponents, the other speakers, who included HPCC Chief Phool Chand Mulana, irrigation minister Captain Ajay Yadav and Chief Minister's political secretary Prof Virender, came down heavily on dissident Congress MP Kuldip Bishnoi and INLD leader Om Parkash Chautala.
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Family blames patient’s death
on hospital
Gurgaon, September 21 When the family members learnt about the death of Ashok Kumar, they staged a dharna in front of the nursing home and demand that an FIR be lodged against the hospital for negligence. According to the father, Rup Dayal Kumar, Ashok was admitted to the Lal hospital for being operated upon for swelling in his throat. After the operation, he complained about pain in his throat. The doctors referred him to Kalyani Hospital, Gurgaon. When the doctors in Kalyani Hospital found Ashok Kumar’s condition deteriorating, they referred him to AIIMS, Delhi, where he died. |
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Sarpanch escapes bid on life
Kunjpura (Karnal),September 21 Sarpanch Subhash Bhatia said he was about to retire for the day after talking to the organiser of the village “jagrata mandli” when he noticed three persons sitting in a Tata Sumo SUV, which was parked near his house. Two of them, who were drunk, started abusing him and when he tried to get into his house, one of them attacked him with a butcher’s knife. Bhatia caught hold of the knife and shouted for help. Within no time, his neighbours and other villagers reached the spot and caught hold of the culprits and thrashed them before handing them to the police. According to Bhatia, the attack on him has its roots in an incident which happened in August last year when Ramesh, a Dalit, was beaten up by the sarpanch of Mehmadpur village, Sohan Lal, and his goons. Sohan Lal had won the contract to sell liquor in Kunjpura and Ramesh was selling liquor in the village without permit. “Sohan Lal did not stop here. He and his gang then went around the village firing into the air,” said Bhatia. A case was registered against Sohan Lal on the complaint of Ramesh. Bhatia tried to work out a compromise between the two parties in the Kunjpura panchayat, but failed. The Mehmadpur sarpanch blamed Bhatia for the failure to reach a compromise. Interestingly, the date for recording of evidence in the case is September 22. “The motive behind the attack was to intimidate the witnesses,” said Ravinder Kumar, a Kunjpura resident. |
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5 hurt in lathicharge
Yamunanagar,September 21 The trouble started when residents of the colony learnt that Narinder, accused in a case registered under Section 306, had come to his brother’s house located in the colony. Iqbal of the colony had allegedly committed suicide on July 24. On a complaint of his relatives, his wife Preetam Kaur, her paramour Narinder and Bitu were booked. Preetam and Bitu were arrested while Narinder had managed an anticipatory bail. When relatives of Iqbal learnt that Narinder was present in the area, they informed the police. A large number of people gathered and gheraoed the house. When repeated efforts to disperse the crowd failed, the police resorted to mild
lathiharge.
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4 held for betting
Sirsa, September 21 Police sources said acting on a tip-off that the accused were placing bets on the match, the four - Ashok, Ravi, Sunil and Aman - were arrested by a team headed by inspector Joginder Singh from Dabwali. The police is checking the call records of the mobiles used by these accused and also details of persons mentioned in the diaries. |
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Sirsa, September 21 “However, we have been imposing eight-hour scheduled power cuts due to shortage of the power these days,” he said. — TNS
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Chander Mohan neither here nor there
Chandigarh, September 21 One of his supporters aptly put it when he remarked, “Congresswale Chander Mohan ko Congressi nahin maante, uska baap aur bhai use apna nahin maante (Congressmen do not consider Chander Mohan to be a Congressman, while his father and brother do not consider him to with them).” Chander Mohan, who entered politics in 1993 when his father was heading the state, has never lost any election. Kuldeep is a much late entrant in politics as compared to his elder brother. But while Chander Mohan bound himself to the party discipline, Kuldeep adopted an aggressive attitude. He openly defied the party high command and, in the process, projected himself as the successor of the political legacy of his father. That way Chander Mohan became a victim of his convictions about the party loyalty. Chander Mohan has a limited choice. He is number two in the Cabinet. If he joins the political outfit Kuldeep plans to launch later this year, there also he will have to play second fiddle to his younger brother. His supporters say it is better to be number two in a national party than being number two or three in a regional outfit, the future of which is still uncertain. In the national party, they say, Chander Mohan can at least hope to make it to the top, as and when the high command decides to change guard. In a regional party, his supporters say, he will have to always play a subservient role. Since the regional parties are usually based on personalities, their fate is linked to that of their mentors. The Haryana Vikas Party of former Chief Minister Bansi Lal was one such outfit. Those who gave their entire life to the HVP were left in the lurch when Bansi Lal merged his party with the Congress. No wonder, Chander Mohan does not want to join hands with his father and brother after they quit the Congress.
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Shopkeepers put up shutters
Bhiwani, September 21 Hansi chowk market president Vijay Sharma said the police had so far not arrested the culprits who beat up a shopkeeper on Thursday afternoon. He said the bandh could be extended if the police did not arrest the culprits. This is the third bandh during the past fortnight when Hansi chowk market suffered a huge loss. Earlier, a bandh was observed to protest the murder of a Dalit youth of Gohana and later, to protest the murder of a class IV employee, Moti Lal, of the local civil hospital.
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Head teacher suspended for beating up girl
Yamunanagar, September 21 Head teacher Shiv Charan had beaten Kajal with a stick on Wednesday when she came to school after remaining absent for a couple of days, according to a complaint by her father Kiran Pal. Deputy commissioner Nitin Yadav had ordered an inquiry into the incident. The enquiry conducted by block education officer Kuldeep Mehta found the teacher guilty following which he was suspended. — UNI
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Varsity gets TV studio
Hisar, September 21 Kidwai said India had emerged as the second-most progressive nation in the world because of its human capital which was the result of the excellent educational infrastructure laid by the national leaders after Independence.
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Fire in house
Gurgaon, September 21 According to the chief fire officer, Gurgaon, Hanuman Singh, the Fire Department was informed about the fire, which broke out at 3 AM, only at 8 AM. Singh said items such as beddings, computer parts, TV and almirah were damaged in the fire. The owner claimed that the loss was around Rs 5 lakh.
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Police unravels plot to kill doc
Ambala, September 21 The duo talked about a plot to kill Dr Ashok Goel in July this year. They told the police that the plot was hatched in the Ambala Central Jail. A deal of Rs 25 lakh was reportedly struck. SP K.V. Ramana today said: “Three other persons are being brought to Ambala tomorrow after we had sought production warrant,” he said. He said a land dispute is believed to be the cause of the plot to kill Dr Goel. Apparently, Amit Kumar and Satnam Singh kept a close watch at the hospital run by Dr Ashok Goel in Ambala. Thereafter, one of them, acting as a drunkard, entered the hospital armed with a pistol with the purpose of shooting Dr Goel. He pointed the gun towards Dr Goel and pulled the trigger but nothing happened. Dr Ashok Goel asked the man to leave the premises as he did not suspect that it was an attempt on his life. This incident was not reported to the police. But, after the duo was arrested in Punjab, police officials asked Dr Ashok Goel whether such an incident had taken place and he replied in the affirmative. It was then that he realised that there was a threat to his life. — TNS
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