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All set to restrict male calf birth
Energy conservation action plan tomorrow
All set for ‘green project’
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Govt benefiting own men: Oppn
High-voltage distribution system for feeders
1,877 cases settled at lok adalats
Last pay drawn to determine pension
Panchayat urges warring groups to compromise
Row over dera building on HUDA land
Khaanak Mine Dispute
Residents set an example of brotherhood
Rs 190 cr approved for water supply
Sarpanch Bypoll
Protest over BPL list
Exam for promotion of constables
Modern cowshed for Sirsa
Man attacked with lathis, dies
Protest against water, power shortage
3 telcos booked for power theft
1 killed in accident
Accidents claim two lives
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All set to restrict male calf birth
Chandigarh, December 16 “This does not amount to foeticide in anyway. The technology involves separating the X and Y chromosomes bearing the sperm cells based on their DNA content, done through a technology known as flow cytometry. This will help us with preconception selection of gender of the calf and we intend using it to promote our Murrah buffalo,” says secretary, animal husbandry, Dalip Singh. Though the technology is not specie-specific, sperm sorting can be optimised for each species, including the buffalo, to achieve fertility of the sex-sorted sperm. “The technology works on the basic principle that the male sperm cells decide the sex of the calf. So, if the X (female) and Y (male) chromosomes can be sorted out, we can have as many male calves as is required while ensuring that the rest of them are females, using this technology,” says Dr K.S. Dangi, director-general, animal husbandry. Though the machine is not in use at many places, a group of scientists from Italy, Belgium and Germany have used it for sex sorting on the Mediterranean Buffalo and the machine is marketed by a company in the US. A committee constituted to look into the advantages and working of the machine has given its nod for the same, officers of the department, with a scientific attitude and experience in semenology, would be deputed to visit Germany and the US for a feasibility study in February next year. “Before the availability of sex-sorted semen of buffaloes becomes a reality in the state livestock production programme, we want our officers to study the actual functioning of flow cytometery and get hands-on training,” the secretary added. Initially, the technology would be tested and used on bull mothers being maintained at government farms before its application to the farmer’s doorstep. While highly skilled and suitably trained manpower would be vital to the success of the programme, the department is also upbeat about rearing quality bulls. The process involves staining of the sperm cells with fluorescent dye, passing of droplets containing the sperm through laser beam, charging of each cell and sorting of sperms by suitably charged deflector plates. With the department already running a sperm bank in Hisar, they are hopeful that the purchase of the machine costing nearly Rs 2 crore would help them supply quality Murrah calves and cows in India and abroad while restricting the population of male calves to the number required.
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Journalists have a bigger role to play: Kidwai
Karnal, December 16 He said this while addressing the mediapersons at an annual function organised by the Haryana Patarkar Kalyan Manch at Kurukshetra University here today. Dr Kidwai said India had made rapid progress in this age of globalisation and the responsibility of the mediapersons had also increased substantially. He said if the growth rate were maintained at 9.5 per cent, the country would become the world’s third biggest economy by 2020. While referring to journalism as the fourth pillar of the democracy, the Governor said journalists could work as a bridge between the government and the people. He asserted that the progress of the country had been possible only due to the invention of information technology. He said the country was fulfilling 65 per cent of the needs of the world in the IT sector. Similarly, the country was placed third in the automobile sector. Dr Kidwai urged the youth that they should properly utilise the opportunities available to them and work untidily for the progress of the country without letting caste, creed, religion and political considerations clouding their judgement. While referring to the progress made by the state, he said Haryana was producing 55 per cent of all cars produced in the country, 30 per cent of the tractors and 60 per cent of the two wheelers, besides 80 per cent of the rice produced in the state was being exported. He said the government had given a number of facilities to the journalists and would remain committed to their welfare in future also. Political adviser to the Chief Minister Virender Singh said journalism was a profession of dignity and responsibility. He expressed concern that the electronic media in a few cases telecasting news without ascertaining the facts. He said the state government had announced awards for journalists amounting to Rs 21 lakh and Rs 11 lakh at the district level to encourage the budding journalists. President of Jai Ram Vidhyapeeth Brahmsawroop Brahmchari, who also spoke on the occasion, said Mahatma Gandhi published a newspaper, Harijan, to motivate the youth and infuse the feeling of patriotism in them. He urged the mediapersons to fulfil their responsibility in a sincere way. The director, mass communication and information technology department, Kurukshetra University, B.K. Kuthiala, said a revolution was taking place in the media and the future of media was very bright. He said a new concept of citizen journalism was on the anvil. He lauded the role of the Haryana government for announcing the media policy, a first in the country. President of the Haryana Patarkar Kalyan Manch Pawan Ashri said the amount of the insurance policy for the members of the manch had been increased to Rs 6 lakh from Rs 5 lakh from the next year. The insurance policy had been started by MP Naveen Jindal in memory of his late father O.P. Jindal. A Jindal memorial award was also given to philanthropist G.D. Goel. Thanesar MLA Ramesh Gupta, deputy commissioner Pankaj Aggarwal, SP A.S. Dhillon, KU registrar V.K. Aggarwal, and general secretary, HPKM, Babu Ram Tushar, were also present on the occasion.
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Energy conservation action plan tomorrow
Chandigarh, December 16 She said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would release the energy conservation plan at the conference where he would also felicitate the industries and institutions with the state-level energy conservation awards for doing good work in the field of energy conservation in the state. Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan would preside over the conference. Misra said Haryana was amongst the handful of states in the country to launch a scheme to give state awards of up to Rs 2 lakh to high tension (HT) and low tension (LT) consumers for excellence in energy conservation in industrial and building
sectors.
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All set for ‘green project’
Panipat, December 16 The Rs 16-crore project was initiated by the union textile ministry under its ambitious textile centre infrastructure development scheme (TCIDS) in association with the ministry of environment. The Haryana State Pollution Control Board and the HUDA have also contributed funds for this ‘green project’. Estate officer of the HUDA, executing agency of the project, Shakti Singh told The Tribune that in the first phase, the plant with a capacity to treat 21 million liters water per day (MLD) would be completed by December 31 and the work on the second phase with the same capacity plant would be started soon. He added that a 130 kV power station had also been sanctioned to run the treatment plant. According to the official estimation, each day millions of liters of water mixed with colours and chemicals was used for dyeing purposes in this handloom township. The allegations of unscientific discharge of polluted water by several industries had become a cause of serious concern for the state government and pollution control
agencies. Due to the reported problem of water pollution, the state government had earmarked Sector 29 (part II) for the dyeing units that are scattered in different residential areas of the town. At the upcoming site, the industrial effluent from all dyeing units will be collected at a common place though integrated drainage system, which will be further treated in eco-friendly manner. “The plant will ensure that each drop of industrial water is being treated in a scientific manner,” said Anil Makan, XEN of the
project. He said after treatment, certain sediments might be used as manure. There was also a proposal to reuse water for
dyeing houses. Though it is mandatory for the dyeing units to have effluent treatment plants (ETPs) at their respective units, but officials admitted that the same remained non-operational due to the high maintenance cost. There was a proposal to adjust more than 550 dyeing units at the industrial area out of which 470 plots had already been allotted. As many as 111 unit owners had already taken the possession whereas 40 entrepreneurs had submitted the building plans out of which 25 had cleared, sources said.
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Govt benefiting own men: Oppn
Yamunanagar, December 16 A secretary of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee and active member of the recently formed Haryana Janhit Congress (BL), Satpal Kaushik, in a press note issued here yesterday, alleged that the Hooda-led Congress government was benefiting people with large landholdings and other properties but ignoring the interests of BPL beneficiaries. He alleged that the BPL survey was biased as people close to those in the government managed to get their names on the survey list. Kaushik alleged that the survey was not carried out in a proper way and should be scrapped. He demanded that in the interests of poor people, the government should order a fresh survey to identify BPL beneficiaries. The Scheduled Caste Morcha of the district unit of the BJP also demanded a fresh survey. District general secretary of the morcha Karamchand Ratoli alleged that the one hand the government was talking about allotting 100 100 sq yd plots to the poor and on the other hand their names were missing from the BPL list. He and other leaders of the morcha alleged that there were several discrepancies in the survey. District president of the youth wing of the INLD Dilbagh Singh, Jagadhri block president Arjun Sudael and Daljeet Singh, in a joint statement, have voiced similar allegations and demanded a fresh survey.
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High-voltage distribution system for feeders
Chandigarh, December 16 Though the installation of the HVDS in villages has resulted in improved voltage, better power supply, less tripping, less damage to the system and very little theft due to small transformers, the department is now keen to tap loss-making feeders. For the purpose, the nigam has drafted a Rs 500 crore scheme and approached the World Bank as also a German agency, KFW, for the funding of the exercise aimed at the reduction of losses. This sum will be spent over the next four years. A visit by a team of the World Bank is expected next week. Managing director, UHBVN, A.K. Singh said the focus of this new scheme to put feeders on the HVDS was to check losses. “This expenditure is only aimed at strengthening our own system and will in no way increase power supply or impact the duration of the supply in any way. At this point, the idea is to check high commercial and technical losses from feeders installed in the urban and rural areas. Under the scheme, loss-making feeders will be identified and put on the HVDS to check losses,” he explained. At present, one feeder caters to four or five villages depending on the number of households. Though every feeder is metered at the substation, which has .5 accuracy meters installed, the number of units lost cannot be ascertained. The total distribution losses and AT & C losses (due to theft and non-billing) in the circle had been pegged at 28.57 per cent and 35.25 per cent,respectively, till September, 2007, and switching over the HVDS for feeders was likely to reduce these considerably, according to the plan. “The idea is to bring down the losses to 16 per cent gradually. We are particularly encouraged by the response to the HVDS scheme especially since our revenue has increased by nearly 40 per cent. This jump in revenue was evident in a study of nearly 86 villages carried out recently,” A.K.Singh stated. The HVDS was first installed in a village in Kaithal where losses were high and the panchayat was willing to experiment with this new scheme. Given the improved power supply, a number of panchayats came forward to adopt the HVDS. At present, 183 villages and colonies had been covered by the HVDS in the UHBVN circle and work was in progress
at 103 places.
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1,877 cases settled at lok adalats
Chandigarh, December 16 A spokesman of the Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA) said the cases settled in the lok adalats included 42 cases pertaining to death or injury arising out of vehicular accidents wherein over Rs 63 lakh was awarded as compensation. In addition, 1,835 cases of other categories such as civil, criminal and bank loan, pending as well as at pre-litigative stages, were also settled. He said special lok adalats for MACT (vehicular accidents) cases were also held at Rohtak, Karnal, Sonepat, Jhajjar and Panipat. In the special lok adalats, 80 cases under the MACT Act were settled. Over Rs 1 crore was awarded as compensation, the spokesman said. He said special lok adalats of labour cases were also held in all industrial tribunals-cum-labour courts in the state. About 1,104 cases were settled out of which a maximum number of cases were settled by the court of J.R. Chauhan, presiding officer, industrial tribunal-cum-labour court, Faridabad. At least 131 cases of labour disputes were settled with the active cooperation of Jagbir Badhana, representative of a management in Fardiabad. Rural lok adalats were also held at Krishan Nagar, (Narnaul), Khera (Siwani), Kaul (Kaithal) and Thol (Pehowa-Kurukshetra), in which 421 cases were settled.
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Last pay drawn to determine pension
Chandigarh, December 16 Earlier, the pension was determined on average emoluments calculated upon the last ten months of qualifying service. A spokesman of the finance department said in case a government employee remains absent from duty on the day of retirement of his service with leave salary and also on extraordinary leave which counts for pension, or having been suspended, has been reinstated without forfeiture of service, his emoluments would be taken at what they would had been had he not been absent from duty or suspended, provided his pension must not be increased on account of increase in pay not actually drawn. He said in case a government employee had been on earned leave till last date of his retirement and during this period he earned an increment which was not withheld during the currency of the earned leave, such increment though not actually drawn, would be included in the last pay drawn.
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Panchayat urges warring groups to compromise
Panipat, December 16 The panchayat, which was presided over by khap pardhan Ram Phal Dahiya, unanimously passed two resolutions. In the first resolution, it urged the groups concerned to approach the court and the advocates concerned to defer the next date of a murder case, which was on December 18, to some other date. In the second resolution, the panchayat urged the groups to not to indulge in any other untoward incident and maintain peace. The representative of the Nathan group, Hukam Singh, urged the panchayat to bring the absconding alleged accused in murder cases to the panchayat. However, the panchayat could not take any decision on this demand. As there was no representative of the Dalel group in the last panchayat, it made all efforts to bring Dalel Singh, who is in judicial custody in Sonepat jail, to the panchayat under the police custody and with due permission of the court, as the concerned judge was on leave. However, Dalel Singh could not be brought to the panchayat. It can be recalled that Jagbir and Dalbir of the Dalel group and Narender, Atma Ram and Inder Singh of the Nathan group have so far been murdered, whereas Kartar Singh and Prem Singh of the Nathan group have been missing for the last 20 months. Besides, five other alleged accused in these murders from both the groups are absconding.
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Row over dera building on HUDA land
Jind, December 16 Tension was visible this morning when bulldozers of the district administration were deputed for removing the structures on the land. The authorities, however, could not raze the dera building after there was a stiff resistance by a large number of dera followers present there. A seven-member committee has been formed by the followers to have a dialogue with the administration. Satpal Saini, a member of the committee, who was present at the spot, claimed that the administration had no right to occupy the land measuring about 15 kanal, as the building was constructed well before the acquisition by HUDA. He said the followers would not vacate the building till the dera was allotted an alternative space nearby. HUDA has proposed to carve out four new sectors in the area, but there had been a few constructions whose occupants were served notice of vacation a couple of weeks ago. The dera building falls within the proposed Sector 8 and a road passes through the said building. Deputy commissioner Yudhvir Singh said there was no tension on the issue, though there had been some dispute over the possession process. He said the authorities had started a dialogue with the dera people, who, he said, had assured to vacate the space as soon as they get another site. He claimed that the issue would be resolved peacefully and there was no need of using force to get the possession of the land.
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Khaanak Mine Dispute
Bhiwani, December 16 The meeting, which was presided over by Rajender Aneja, unanimously decided to seek coupon from the office of Baba Mungipa Mines Company situated at Jawera Stone till the matter was not resolved. The administration stated that the situation was under control but hinted to bring more force if the matter gains heat. However, complete peace was observed in Khaanak today and members of one group issued receipts at every naka. However, the other group alleged that the mining department people were being partial.
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Residents set an example of brotherhood
Sonepat, December 16 Koomat, sarpanch of the village, told the visiting officials of the district administration and the mediapersons today that the residents had already given a facelift to the village by cleaning the streets and roads leading to the village. All streets and roads looked clean and pothole-free. The residents woke up around 4 am daily and they work for the cleanliness of the village. They had also laid as many as 450 saplings of various trees around the “phirni” of the village for making the village pollution-free. The sarpanch also said Amar, a panch of the village, had constructed as many as 45 toilets in the village for the benefit of the women folk and he had not taken a single paisa from the village people or the gram panchayat for these toilets. He also claimed that the residents had been paying chullah tax and amount of the electricity bills regularly for the past 30 years and none of the amount was due against them so far. The sarpanch also claimed that the village had remained crime-free so far, as the police had not registered any criminal case against any of the resident living in this village. The state government, he said, had given a cash reward to the village two years ago for the all-round development of the village and the unique initiative taken by the residents for it. According to the sarpanch, the village had also made arrangements for the drainage of storm water. Sujan Singh Yadav, SDM Ganaur, accompanied by Suresh Kumar, tehsildar, Jagdeep Duhan, DPRO, Mahesh Sardana, APRO, and other officials visited the village today on an invitation by the sarpanch and panches of the village and paraised the self-help of the residents for the all-round development of the village. — PTI
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Rs 190 cr approved for water supply
Chandigarh, December 16 An official spokesman said the nine towns were Rewari, Ganaur, Bahadurgarh, Beri, Kalanaur, Kharkhoda, Meham and Sampla. The project would also improve the water supply of Kosli and Bhakli villages and the railway station area of Kosli of Rewari district. He said the work on another project for improvement of water supply of five towns was almost complete. The towns included Sonepat, Rohtak, Jhajjar, Rewari and Gurgaon. The NCR Planning Board provided a loan for 75 per cent of the cost of the project while 25 per cent was given by the state government. The spokesman said another project for improvement of water supply and extension of sewer in Hisar, a counter magnet town under the NCR, was likely to be completed by March. He said a project for the improvement of water supply in five towns, namely Rohtak, Rewari, Sohana, Palwal and Hodel, and extension of sewer in eight towns, namely Rohtak, Rewari, Palwal, Sohna, Samalkha, Panipat, Gohana and Hodel, was approved last year by the NCR Planning Board. The funds of Rs 68.80 crore had been released and work on the scheme was in progress. The spokesman said 52 towns of the state had been covered with skeleton sewer facilities. The work of sewage treatment plants at Jind, Narwana and Kaithal had been taken up besides accelerating the pace of work of laying sewer system in various other towns.
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Sarpanch Bypoll
Jhajjar, December 16 According to official figures, about 52.4 per cent of votes were polled. There are 13 candidates in the fray. Deputy commissioner Vijay Kumar Dahiya visited the village and instructed the officials to make foolproof arrangements for the counting of votes which would begin immediately after the polling. Bahadurgarh DSP Arun Nehra, who was also in the village, said no untoward incident was reported during the polling. The byelection for the post of sarpanch was held as the reigning sarpanch, Jaipal Gulia, was murdered by a rival in June this year. After this, four other villagers, including a former sarpanch, were shot dead in the broad daylight. As many as 25 persons had been arrested after the incident and the police had tightened the security of the area as three main accused, including brother of Jaipal, had been absconding.
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Protest over BPL list
Bhiwani, December 16 The district tops in irregularities in the BPL lists. Holding the sarpanch responsible for irregularities committed in the list, the villagers, including women, sat in dharna in the middle of the road near Tosham bus stand and shouted anti-government slogans. The sarpanch and gram secretary tried to pacify the villagers but left when the latter got more furious. They alleged that the real eligible names were not included in the list while rich families got their names registered in the list. Ram Niwas Jangra, a resident, said the new list had only 400 names whereas the previous lists had 1,600. At least 2,500 families were eligible in the area, he added. The villagers lifted the jam after SDM Hawa Singh Pachar assured them that the survey would be re-conducted within a month.
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Exam for promotion of constables
Chandigarh, December 16 An official spokesman yesterday said the examination would be conducted during January and February. He said the online computer test would be organised in the police department. |
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Modern cowshed for Sirsa
Sirsa, December 16 The amount for this purpose would be generated from the contributions of employees of various departments, said deputy commissioner V.Umashankar here yesterday. The deputy commissioner donated his three days’ salary for the construction of the cowshed. |
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Man attacked with lathis, dies
Sonepat, December 16 The police has registered a case against the alleged assailants and sent the body for a post-mortem examination. The alleged assailants, who managed to escape after the incident, are still at large. A hunt is on to apprehend them. Police sources said Raj Singh had a dispute with the rival group in connection with canal water for irrigation purposes. On a complaint of the rival group, Raj Singh, his wife Santosh and sons Ishwar, Sanjay and Sonu were arrested and sent to jail on November 1 in a “false case” instituted against them. They were released on bail on December 11. An unidentified man destroyed the wheat crop sown by Raj Singh on Friday night. On Saturday, Raj Singh, along with his relatives, thronged the Sadar police station at Gohana town against the suspect. While he was returning home, he was allegedly waylaid by the rival group and assaulted
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Protest against water, power shortage
Bhiwani, December 16 The agitators threatened to jam the main circular road if the problem was not sorted out within the next two days. Raising anti-administration slogans, they said the area was not getting electricity for the last several days and their children were suffering a lot as their examinations were going on. They said the drinking water supply was badly hit and their complaints to the department concerned had yielded no result so far. |
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3 telcos booked for power theft
Sirsa, December 16 |
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1 killed in accident
Rewari, December 16 Manoj, who was admitted in a private hospital at Dharuhera, is stated to be out of danger. The mishap occurred when they were trying to cross the road to reach the factory near Khatavali village while the truck was coming from Delhi. |
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Accidents claim two lives
Sirsa, December 16 The boy who was identified as Navsangeet was crushed to death by a college bus while he was playing in front of his house at Luhana village in Dabwali area here. He died on the spot. In another incident, Anar Singh, a helper, was killed when the truck he was travelling in collided head-on with a tractor-trailer on the NH10 in Ding town of the district.
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