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Land Acquisition for SEZs 45th Anniversary of Battle
New rules to safeguard govt properties
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Youth opens fire, two hurt
Badarpur Flyover
Looting incidents on the rise
Smart cards for construction workers
Bhajan ‘enemy No. 1’ of
non-Jats: BJP
60 livestock centres to be set up
‘Tiranga march’ organised
Mutation to be sanctioned in 60 days
Paddy
Convocation held
Departmental exam schedule
Games Housing Board plays
Over 2,000 war widows to be honoured
Goods train derailed,traffic hit
Quami Ekta Week from today
Graft case against ASI
2 free CFLs for BPL families
5 booked for forgery Labourer murdered, two arrested
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Land Acquisition for SEZs
Rohtak, November 18 This was announced by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while laying the foundation stone of a Rs 180-crore cooperative sugar mill complex at Bhali Anandpur village, near here, today. The Chief Minister also announced that 50 per cent of the dearness allowance paid to the Haryana Sugar Federation employees would be merged into their basic pay on the pattern of government employees. He asserted that the new sugar mill would produce export-quality sugar having negligible amount of sulphur. Besides, a 16 MW power-generation unit would also be established within the mill complex, Hooda said, adding that the new mill would be commissioned within a year. The Chief Minister also inaugurated a Rs 2.88-crore 33 kV power substation constructed by the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) in Baniyani village, near here, today. Addressing a gathering on the occasion, Hooda disclosed that the state government had made an ambitious plan to strengthen the electricity transmission and distribution network of Rohtak district, under which a sum of Rs 80 crore would be spent during the next 18 months. He maintained that the shortage of electricity could be lesser if people came forward and used energy-efficient electrical gadgets. The Government of India had specially set up the Energy Efficiency Bureau (EEB) which recommended these gadgets after proper tests and verification. The use of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) could minimise the gap of power demand and supply, he added. The Chief Minister said the state power utilities had given an opportunity to consumers to voluntarily declare their unauthorised load. The load shall be regularised without penalty up to November 30, 2007. Similarly, another chance had been given to domestic and tubewell consumers of rural areas to avail of the benefit of the electricity bills arrears waiver scheme. The Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of a new zila parishad building to be built at a cost of Rs 10 crore at Rohtak. He also inaugurated a tehsil bhawan at Kalanaur township of the district. Earlier, Hooda participated in a “sant sammelan” at the Durga Bhawan temple in Rohtak town. He honoured the next of kin of 65 martyrs by presenting them with shawls and citations on the occasion. The Chief Minister also honoured Asian kabaddi gold-medallist Sunita Dhaka and Special Olympic swimming silver-medallist Vikas Rana. Haryana health minister Kartar Devi, agriculture minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha, Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda, the Haryana Power Utilities chairman, Lt-Gen O.S. Lohchab (retd), UHBVN managing director A.K. Singh, Rohtak division commissioner J.P. Kaushik and deputy commissioner R.S. Doon accompanied the Chief Minister.
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45th Anniversary of Battle
Rewari, November 18 The battle of Rezang La was fought between the Charlie Company of the 13th Kumaon Regiment and the Chinese Army at the Rezang La Post at the height of 16,420 ft in the Chushul Sector of Ladakh on November 18, 1962. Nearly 1,300 Chinese soldiers were killed, while 114 soldiers were killed from India. Out of 114 martyrs, 111 were Ahirs, 62 from Haryana. The celebrations commenced with the laying of wreaths on the Rezang La war memorial near the Dharuhera Chowk here by Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh, Lt Gen Satya Vir Singh Yadav, Col of the Kumaon and Naga Regiments, Brig C.P. Singh , Col Ram Singh, chief patron of the RLSS and a host of others. While addressing the gathering at the ‘Rezang La shauriya divas samaroh’ held on the premises of Holy Child Public School here, Arjan Singh, who was the chief guest of the function, said this was his first visit to Rewari and he was delighted to be amidst survivors, war widows and other dependents of the heroes of the Rezang La. Recalling his visit to Rezang La region in 1955, he said he personally knew that it was a tough terrain, adding that it was something remarkable that Major Shaitan Singh was posthumously awarded with Param Vir Chakra and eight JCOs and jawans were awarded Vir Chakras. Making specific mention of the two valiant war heroes from Haryana - Victoria Cross winner Capt Umrao Singh and PVC winner Col Hoshiar Singh - he delightfully said Haryana’s peasantry as well as industries had made an excellent progress. Paying homage to the martyrs of Rezang La, Lt Gen Satya Vir Singh Yadav asserted that their sacrifices would always be remembered with gratitude. As many as 105 war widows were honoured on the occasion. Rao Ajit Singh of the Najafgarh area of Delhi donated Rs 1 lakh to the RLSS.
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New rules to safeguard govt properties
Chandigarh, November 18 Under these rules, the municipalities have been granted the right to allot sites to owners of adjoining plots or houses, provided that the size of the plot is less than 100 yards and cannot be sold in an independent auction. Even if a person has been in occupation of a land or site for over 20 years, the municipalities will now have the right to sell the plot or land to that person. Come to be known as the Haryana Management of Municipal Properties and State Properties Rules, 2007, the rules have been derived from the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, Haryana Municipal Building Bylaws, rules and notifications governing HUDA. Under these rules, the municipalities (with the approval of the deputy commissioners) will be able to put properties on its name to use. According to these rules, subject to any direction issued by the government, a municipality may dispose of any site, building belonging to it by way of sale or lease or exchange or creation of any easement right etc as per the provisions of these rules. The municipalities have also got the rights to sell plots, lands in colonies or schemes, which are sanctioned after getting the reserve price approved by the government. However, sites already approved for a public purpose or that is part of a town planning scheme will be exempt from the rights of the municipalities to include in their list of saleable properties. Another significant decision taken by the government and incorporated in these rules is that the municipalities have been given the rights to sell shops to the occupants that were constructed and leased more than 30 years ago. Those eligible to buy these shops will be the original allottees or their heirs, but will have to pay the prevailing market price. The same rules will also apply to leased land that has been occupied for over 20 years and have permanent structures built on them. For the purpose of setting up institutions, the government has amended rules that will now allow the municipalities to lease out property to the institutions for a period of 99 years. But all such bodies eligible to take benefit under this clause have to be duly constituted as a registered body under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, or the Haryana Cooperative Societies Act 1984. The rules further say that in case of a site, the building thereupon should be constructed within a period of three years from the date or allotment, failing which it will invite penalties.
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631 cases settled at lok adalats
Kaithal, November 18 A special lok adalat organised by the District Legal Services Authority was held in the judicial courts here. District and Sessions Judge H.S. Bhangoo presided over the proceedings of the adalat. As many as 723 cases were taken up out of which 221 cases were settled on the spot. CJM-cum-secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Ajay Pareshar supervised the proceedings. Fortynine cases of civil nature, four appeal cases each of civil and criminal nature, 25 under the MV Act and 45 cases under the MC Act were also settled and Rs 1, 81,150 were recovered as fine. As many as 15 cases related to Reliance and 25 cases related to Tata company were settled in which Rs 25,000 and Rs 40,000, respectively, were recovered on the spot. Addressing litigants and advocates, Bhangoo said lok adalats help in the settlement of pending cases and save time and money of litigants. He said the cases were settled with mutual consent of the parties. A gramin lok adalat was also held at Sikander Kheri village. Pareshar said out of 115 cases, five were settled on the spot. KURUKSHETRA: As many as 642 cases were taken up, out of which 222 cases were settled with the mutual consent of both the parties at a lok adalat organised by the District Legal Services Authority under the chairmanship of District and Sessions Judge R.C. Bansal at judicial courts complex here on Saturday. Chief Judicial Magistrate Pradeep Kumar said the litigants were feeling satisfied after settlement of their cases in the lok adalat, where a sum of Rs 42,450 was recovered as composition fee in criminal cases. The District Legal Services Authority, Kurukshetra, regularly organises lok adalats. Besides, rural lok adalats are also organised at various villages with the object of making the villages of Kurukshetra litigation free and to aware the masses about their legal rights and duties, added Kumar. KARNAL: A lok adalat was held on Saturday at the new judicial complex in Sector 12 here. It was inaugurated by P.L. Ahuja, District and Sessions Judge, Karnal. Thirteen cases pertaining to death/injury resulting from vehicular accidents under the Motor Vehicles Act were decided. Nearly Rs 13 lakh was awarded as compensation in these cases. Ritu Y.K. Behl, Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Karnal, said 536 cases were taken up in this lok adalat of which 188 cases of various categories were decided. She said this was the 96th lok adalat till date and 28,271cases had been decided so far.
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Youth opens fire, two hurt
Sonepat, November 18 The injured have been identified as Daya Singh and Partap. The police has arrested Ramesh along with the weapon from the village. However, Ramesh’s other accomplices, Sandeep and Wazir, managed to escape. According to information, Parmod, who had come on leave, filed a complaint against Ramesh, Sandeep, Wazir and Kaptan for allegedly assaulting him two days back in the village. Angered over this, Ramesh along with Sandeep and Wazir allegedly attacked Parmod, his father Daya Singh, Vinod and Rajesh. Ashok allegedly fired five rounds from the weapon at Parmod. However, the bullets hit Daya Singh and an onlooker, Partap.
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Badarpur Flyover
Faridabad, November 18 BJP leader Kishanpal Gurjar, who led the agitation, cautioned that in case the work did not start by December, the party workers would intensify the stir. He alleged that the Delhi government was creating hurdles in the project. The agitation began with a procession of vehicles from Sector 28 in the city and gathered at the site of the proposed flyover at Badarpur. The party workers and leaders sat on dharna, which continued for more than an hour during which the highway remained blocked. Although the movement of vehicles was not affected in the city, as the administration had diverted traffic towards the bypass, there was problem on the road falling in Delhi territory. Senior BJP leaders, including leader of the party in Haryana Assembly Ram Kumar Gautam, party’s state vice-president Kailsah Sharma, former MP Sudha Yadav and senior leader Sitaram Singla, took part in the agitation. The leaders alleged that the project was conceived during the NDA regime, but the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress governments in Haryana and Delhi were delaying the work on the project on political grounds. Gurjar said the Chief Minister of Haryana and the Congress MP and MLAs of Faridabad were misleading the public and had been vacillating on the schedule for starting the project. According to him, the flyover would become the lifeline of Faridabad and it would help in the development of the district.
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Looting incidents on the rise
Rewari, November 18 Seven incidents of looting and robbery have been reported from various parts of the district in the past few days. The police is clueless about the perpetrators of the crime. In the latest incident of robbery, four miscreants reportedly looted Rs 2,000 and a cellphone from a car owner, Jagdeep of Lisan village, on the Rewari-Lisan road, near Gothra village, 20 km from here, in the wee hours on November 15. Similarly, in the wee hours on Tuesday, armed desperadoes thrashed employees of two petrol stations - Raj Filling Station and Shyam Filling Station - on the Rewari-Shahjehanpur road and looted Rs 14,000 and two mobile phones from them. In another incident, armed miscreants intercepted a truck and looted Rs 2,500 from its driver and conductor on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, near Dharuhera, late on November 9. In other incidents, armed desperadoes looted Rs 4,200 from employees of a petrol station at Berli Khurd village, near Jatusana, on November 5, while some other armed miscreants looted over Rs 13,000 and cellphones from drivers and other occupants of a Canter and a truck on the Rewari-Shahjehanpur road on November 4. Taking serious note of these incidents and the lacklustre performance of the district police, S.N. Vashishtha, IG, Gurgaon Range, made a surprise visit to Rewari. He visited the two petrol stations at Khandora and Tankri villages on the Rewari-Shahjehanpur road which were looted. Later, he held a meeting with senior police officials, including SHOs, at the district secretariat here. He directed the police officials to see to it that the criminals were brought to book expeditiously.
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Smart cards for construction workers
Chandigarh, November 18 Haryana minister of labour and employment A.C. Chaudhary, under whose chairmanship the meetings of the two boards were held here, said the decision to issue smart card to workers engaged in building and other construction activities would facilitate their proper identity and they would be able to draw all benefits allowed to them under various welfare schemes. He said this category of workers had been covered under ‘Jan Shree Bima Yojna’ under social security schemes. Under the scheme, the workers could avail the benefits of housing loans, purchase of tools, medical facilities and educational assistance for their children. Other benefits included maternity leave and allowances, pension and family pension. The board also decided to reduce the monthly contribution from such workers from Rs 20 to Rs 5 only so that workers do not feel burdened and they are encouraged to enrol themselves as members under the scheme. Under the scheme, against the ensured amount of Rs 30,000, in case of eventuality of accidental death, the compensation to the tune of Rs 75,000 would be paid and in case of loss of both limbs or permanent disability, the same amount would be given to the concerned worker. This is in addition to the ex gratia amount of Rs 50,000 being paid to such workers by the board. — UNI
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Bhajan ‘enemy No. 1’ of
non-Jats: BJP
Rohtak, November 18 Gautam has warned the people, especially non-Jats, against being misled by the misinformation campaign of former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal. He said the former CM, who claimed to be a messiah of non-Jats, had done nothing for them and was actually their “enemy No. 1”. Terming Bhajan Lal an impostor, Gautam quipped that he could adopt any community to further his political interests. While previous Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala engaged in open loot and sheltered criminal elements, Bhajan Lal was the fountainhead of corruption in the state, the MLA said while addressing a press conference here yesterday. The BJP legislator in the state Assembly lambasted former Chief Ministers as well as the present Congress regime headed by Bhupinder Singh Hooda. “The Congress rule has become synonymous with rising prices and anti-people policies. On the other hand, the small regional parties are working as gangs of blackmailers and extortionists,” he maintained. Gautam appealed to the people of the state to vote BJP to power for getting due representation for all sections of society in the government. The BJP leader, who was accompanied by Ram Chander Jangra, the president of the backward cell of the party’s state unit, informed mediapersons that the party would launch a campaign to mobilise mass support against the UPA government on the Ram Setu issue.
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60 livestock centres to be set up
Chandigarh, November 18 An official spokesman said here today that as many as 2,605 veterinary institutions were functioning in the state for looking after 94.45 lakh livestock in the state. He said 198 new livestock institutions had been opened in the state during the past two years and 60 such new institutions would be opened during the current financial year. He said since a number of persons were dependent on the profession of rearing animal wealth such as buffaloes, cows, sheep and goats, giving proper treatment and care to this animal wealth had become essential. “Keeping in view this objective, two polyclinics in Bhiwani and Sonepat and one pet animal treatment centre and training hospital in Panchkula are being set up for giving timely treatment to the livestock,” he said.
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‘Tiranga march’ organised
Yamunanagar, November 18 The march was held to celebrate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, which falls tomorrow. Members of the Yuva Hindustani took a pledge to make their city and state number one in the country and free the state of all social evils like poverty and child labour. The programme started about two hours late but the participants did not leave the venue. Participants wearing white T-shirts and holding the national flag marched from O.P Jindal stadium to Bhagat Singh Chowk.
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Mutation to be sanctioned in 60 days
Chandigarh, November 18 She was presiding over the review meeting of district revenue officers yesterday. The minister said the possibility of appointing mahila nambardars would be examined. She said various manuals such as land record manual, land administration manual and registration manual would be suitably amended to make them compatible with the system of computerisation of land records. She said the revenue department would impart training to unemployed graduates in patwari work at the Patwar Training School. They would be awarded certificates which would help them to find jobs in the private sector also. She said computer centres would be set up in all tehsils, including sub-tehsils, by December 15 this year.
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Paddy
Chandigarh, November 18 An official press note said 17.55 lakh tonnes out of 35.85 lakh tonnes of paddy arriving in mandis had been procured by six government procuring agencies. The remaining paddy (18.30 lakh tonnes) was purchased by private millers and traders. A spokesman of the food and supplies department said HAFED procured 7.10 lakh tonnes of paddy, food and supplies department 5.57 lakh tonnes of paddy, while the FCI procured 9,312 tonnes of paddy. He said Kurukshetra district was on the top in arrival of paddy among all districts of the state with the arrival of 6.86 lakh tonnes of paddy followed by Karnal (5.92 lakh tonnes), Fatehabad (4.66 lakh tonnes), Kaithal (4.26 lakh tonnes).
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Convocation held
Kaithal, November 18 Professor Jagdish Mukhi, leader of opposition, Delhi Assembly, was the chief guest and Gurcharan Ghai, district governor, Lions Club, Delhi, was the guest of honour on this occasion. Mukhi exhorted the students to face the challenges of life with a spirit of dedication. Principal S.K. Garg distributed degrees among the students. Faculty members and other staff members completing 25 years of service in the institution were also honoured on this occasion.
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Departmental exam schedule
Chandigarh, November 18 According to a press statement, the officials who intend to appear in this examination should inform the secretary of the Central Committee of Examinations, Haryana Civil Secretariat, latest by December 5 regarding the subjects and groups in which they want to appear. However, the intending examinees, who are prevented from appearing in the examinations for any reasons, should give timely notice to the secretary and if the cause of their absence is sickness they should furnish medical certificate to their superiors.
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Games Housing Board plays
Panipat, November 18 However, the inauguration function, which was scheduled for today at Madlauda village, has now been postponed for Tuesday. Sources revealed that the state authorities had spent lakhs of rupees by inserting advertisements in various newspapers for the project that was inaugurated by then Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala. Though officials remained tightlipped over the issue, the sources said the foundation stone laid by Chautala still stood there, which also confirmed that the village panchayat had given more than 4 acres of shamlat land for the project. The land was handed over by the panchayat on the condition that about 80 houses and 33 shops would be allotted to the bonafide residents of the village on a priority basis. Chautala had also laid the foundation stone of another HUDA project in the same village for which about 7 acres of land was given by the panchayat. The sources said elaborated arrangements were made for today's public function. When contacted, chairperson of the Housing Board and Congress MLA from Naulatha Prasanni Devi admitted that Chautala had laid the foundation stone of the project. “But we have planned only to undertake the auspicious ceremony of cracking coconut at the site,” she added. She said due to a meeting called by Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi, today's programme had been postponed for November 20.
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Janhit Rally
Yamunanagar, November 18 The supporters carrying yellow flags of the proposed political party visited several villages of Yamunanagar Assembly constituency. Secretary of the Haryana Pardesh Congress Committee (HPCC) Sat Pal Kaushik, who led the supporters to various places, claimed that Bhajan Lal and Kuldeep Bhishnoi were getting more than expected support from the masses. More than 10 lakh people were expected at the Rohtak rally. Kaushik said the Rohtak rally would force Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to rethink about his policies which were discriminatory. Vashudev Sharma and Preetpal Singh claimed that a large number of people from the Congress and the INLD from the district would participate in the rally.
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Over 2,000 war widows to be honoured
Bhiwani, November 18 The founder of Shaheed Baghdawat Singh Memorial Club, Ravi Shankar, who dedicated the club to his father Baghdawat Singh, who had laid his life in the Indo-China war of 1965, will organise the function. He said though he had been organising programmes in memory of martyrs at his native village, Sanjarwas, for the last five years but this time it would be on a big level. “Fauji punarmilan samaroh and Shaheed samman samaroh” programme will be held on December 15 and former vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat will be the chief guest. Lt Gen Raghu Sehrawat (retd), Lt Gen P.K. Arora (retd), Army General J.J. Singh (retd) and Major-General Harish Chand Dua (retd) will also attend the function. Representatives from every regiment had also been invited for the function, he said. Shankar said 1,477 martyrs from Haryana, 10 from Delhi and 1,360 from Rajasthan would attend the function. Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Jind, Rewari, Rajasthan Jhunjhunu, Churu and Sikar districts had maximum martyrs. He said families of these martyrs had been invited and over 2,000 persons were expected to come. The function would be followed by a wrestling competition, in which wrestlers of national level would participate. Women wrestling competition would also be organised. Besides honouring martyrs’ relatives, meritorious students having attained first three positions in classes VIII, X and XII in the Haryana School Education Board examinations would also be honoured.
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Goods train derailed,traffic hit
Sonepat, November 18 Due to the incident, around 16 trains originating from Delhi were diverted towards other routes. Besides the suspension of local passenger trains, Himalayan Queen and Shan-e-Punjab, originating from Delhi were cancelled, according to a Railways official. The trains bound for Delhi on this section were also diverted from Ambala and Panipat via Saharanpur and Rohtak. A rescue team from Delhi with cranes had reached the spot and operation to lift the derailed bogies as well as repair of the track was in full swing under the supervision of senior railway officers. There was no loss of life, though some of the bogies have fallen on the boundary wall of the hostel of local Hindu Higher Secondary School. The cause behind the incident is yet to be ascertained, said the official.
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Quami Ekta Week from today
Chandigarh, November 18 While giving this information here, an official spokesman said the state government had also decided to hold a pledge-taking ceremony for government officials working in the Haryana Civil Secretariat and New Secretariat buildings in Chandigarh on November 19. The pledge would be administered by chief secretary Promilla Issar.
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Graft case against ASI
Chandigarh, November 18 A case has been registered against the ASI under the Prevention of Corruption Act at the vigilance police station in Rohtak.
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2 free CFLs for BPL families
Chandigarh, November 18 Earlier, the nigam provided one CFL of 15 watt to applicants living below the poverty line. A spokesman said here yesterday that domestic connections to the BPL aplicants were being released free of cost under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana. This facility was also made available to government schools in the rural areas.
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Labourer murdered, two arrested Ramgarh, November 18 Raju’s head was split open with a spade, which was found at a distance from the body.
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5 booked for forgery
Sirsa, November 18
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