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Early monsoon a boon for paddy farmers
DHBVN staff old protest
Ghaggar Mishap
Girls on a roll with education loan scheme
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Disclosure of wildlife items mandatory
Fraud Case
2,337 students to get scholarship
Pay Rs 4 lakh to policyholder,
Co told
Approve Mehra report, SC panel urged
2 killed in train-tractor collision
Man done to death
Hearing adjourned in kidney case
Bungalow case gets murkier
Man held for 4-yr-old’s sexual abuse
KU don to deliver lecture in US
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Early monsoon a boon for paddy farmers
Karnal, June 20 Thanking the rain god, officials concerned said they were free from the tension of providing ample power to run tubewells for irrigating fields. A visit by a team of The Tribune to different parts of the district today revealed that due to timely rainfall, the state agriculture department and farmers expected a bumper crop this year. According to an official estimation, the hybrid paddy would be sown on nearly 50 per cent of the total cultivable land of the district. Nearly 1.70 lakh hectares was under paddy cultivation in Karnal. Deputy director, agriculture, Dr S.S. Dahiya today said the hybrid varieties, including JK-10, royal bhog and pepsi, had emerged as the most preferred among the range in the area. Besides high produce, these hybrid varieties consumed less water. He said normally the sowing of paddy started from June 16 and lasted for next one month but this season the early rainfall had encouraged the farmers for early sowing. It was indeed a heartening sowing season and farmers were expecting a considerable produce, said an agriculture scientist. The state agencies are also cheerful. “It was a tough challenge for us to provide ample power for paddy irrigation, but the early rain have certainly eased out the situation to an extent,” said a senior bureaucrat. Officials admitted that this year the state agriculture department had failed to discourage the local farmers against the sowing of saathi variety of paddy, which required enormous irrigation water. Despite identifying the farmers, the state agencies had failed to dissuade them due to the assembly byelections in Indri area of the district. According to the department, 1 kg of saathi variety required 4,000 litres of water. |
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DHBVN staff old protest
Bhiwani, June 20 They were protesting against the anti-employees policies of the nigam administration. Circle secretary of the Haryana Power Corporation Workers’ Union Zile Singh Kharab led the demonstration. The employees were protesting against the exploitation of rural power representatives, including part-time workers. They alleged that the nigam administration would start sacking rural power representatives from June 30 and would not fill the vacant seats. They were also protesting against outsourcing of all power-related works, nigam’s decision to stop providing services to the next kin of the deceased employees and not to review the Power Act 2003. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the managing director through the superintending engineer. Union leaders said the time had come to review the Power Act, 2003 under which the state government had divided the electricity board into four separate
nigams. As many as 39 lakh power consumers and 28,000 departmental employees were on road, they said, adding that the employees and their families were worried of their future. |
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Book SDM, contractor: Residents
Our Correspondent
Fatehabad, June 20 Surender Garg, father of Sonu, threatened that he would sit on hunger strike in front of the SDM’s office till June 29 and in case the government did not pay heed to the demands of residents by then, he would commit suicide along with his family. A mahapanchayat of residents of Ratia and adjoining villages was held today which condemned the alleged indifferent attitude shown by the authorities in saving the lives of the Man-son duo. They alleged that despite several requests by residents, the SDM and the naib tehsildar did not press rescue operations into service in time. Even when some local residents tried to enter the river to save the victims, they were stopped by the authorities. They alleged that the contractor was clearly responsible for the action as he allowed the erosion of the soil beneath the road by diverting the water through a portion of the river only. They alleged that the authorities had registered criminal cases against 150 persons of the town just to cover up their malfunctioning. The mahapanchayat demanded a compensation of Rs 20 lakh each for the family of the victims.
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Girls on a roll with education loan scheme
Chandigarh, June 20 Rolled out on April 1 last year, the scheme has benefited as many as 687 girls. Some of them have been able to seek admission to prestigious universities abroad, including Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics and coveted institutions in India. With the bank loans for higher education available at 11 per cent, the 5 per cent subsidy offer by the state government has been of great help to the girls. “It has served the purpose of encouraging more and more girls to pursue higher education without bothering about its exorbitant cost,” said Anuradha Gupta, secretary, women and child development, and the architect of the scheme. The best part is that the scheme comes without the red tape that comes with government incentives and the table-hopping by applicants for getting an approval. With no paper work involved, any girl wanting to pursue higher studies can apply for a loan with the bank. The bank verifies her credentials and the authenticity of the course she wants to pursue. After she gets the loan all that is required is the submission of a Haryana domicile to the bank, which passes on the information to the department concerned.
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Disclosure of wildlife items mandatory
Chandigarh, June 20 A spokesman for the department said the decision had been taken as per a notification issued by the union ministry of environment and forests in 2003. He said owners of wildlife items belonging to schedule I and part II of schedule II should have certificates of ownership issued by the chief wildlife warden, Haryana. He said the forest department had issued certificates of ownership of declared wildlife and wildlife products and had sent these by registered post to those who had declared the articles and where all requirements were fulfilled. But, some letters had returned undelivered with the comments that the addressees were not residing at the mailed address and hence the registered letters could not be delivered to them. He said all such persons who had not received the ownership certificates should immediately produce affidavits regarding their present address for correspondence as soon as possible to enable the department to take appropriate decision regarding the ownership certificates. He said if the addressees were found false, the declared wildlife and wildlife products would be seized and legal action initiated against such persons. |
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I am being framed, says Cong leader
Ravi S. Singh Tribune News Service
Faridabad, June 20 Saluja and his kin were booked on the charges of cheating on Wednesday. However, Saluja, who is the chairman of the Haryana Vyapaar Cell, a front organisation of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) asserted that he was being framed by his political opponents. The police had registered a case in connection of sale of land by Saluja and his family members. The Saluja family had allegedly sold land, which they had got several years ago from the then ministry of rehabilitation, on which a petrol station was run. The land was given to the family several years ago on a 99-year lease. However, the family sold off the land after constructing shops. Saluja said the shops, which were constructed on the land, in question were sold to seven persons, including husband of the complainant, about 12 years ago. The complainant’s husband had purchased only one shop, thereby a portion of the land. His wife has now alleged that Saluja and his family members had sold the whole land to them though it was the property of the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad. The complainant allegedly took to legal recourse as the MCF had sent a notice to her husband, in whose name the land was registered.
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2,337 students to get scholarship
Chandigarh, June 20 The scholarships will be paid from class IX to class XII for a maximum period of four years. An official spokesman said under the scheme, scholarships would be given to those students whose parental income was not more than Rs 1.50 lakh per annum from all sources. He said the fixed quota of scholarship of 2,337 students had been decided on the basis of enrollment of students in class VII and VIII. The scheme would provide reservations to different categories of students as per the Haryana government norms. These scholarships would be provided quarterly to the selected students. He said since each state would have to conduct its own test for selection of students for the award of the means-cum-merit scholarship, the government had decided to conduct the examination on August 17. He said the last date of applying for the examination scheduled for August 17 was July 21 and application forms were made available in the offices of district education officers from June 16 onwards. The students had to submit applications forms at the respective examination centre of the district.
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Pay Rs 4 lakh to policyholder,
Co told
Jind, June 20 The payment is to be made within a period of two months and failure to release the amount in the designated time period will invite a further interest of 9 per cent per annum on the delayed payment. The order was delivered by the forum today in response to a complaint lodged by Dalip Singh, a resident of Saini Mohalla. The complaint was lodged in August 2005. The complainant said he had applied for the reimbursement of his medical claim with the company after he suffered from an illness, for which he was admitted for a certain period in four different hospitals in Rohtak and Delhi for treatment. He said he had foot a bill of Rs 4 lakh for which he had submitted relevant medical treatment records and the bills to the company. However, he alleged that despite repeated requests and reminders, the company did not release the payment and harassed him for no reason. |
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Approve Mehra report, SC panel urged
Rohtak, June 20 Committee president Vijay Kayat, who is also the general secretary of the national coordination committee for the revision of the reservation policy, has written to commission chairman Buta Singh in this regard. In the letter, it has been pointed out that the seats in government service and higher educational institutions allocated to the Scheduled Castes under the reservation policy had been appropriated by some politically and economically powerful castes in almost all states for the past some decades.
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2 killed in train-tractor collision
Kaithal, June 20 After the accident, the railway traffic remained suspended on this line for a few hours, which was restored later. The 4 JNK Jind-Kurukshetra train hit the tractor-trailer when it was passing through an unmanned railway crossing. Pala Ram of Tabra in Panipat district, who was driving the tractor, died on the spot, while another person sitting with him succumbed to his injuries on his way to a hospital. Narinder Sharma, assistant stationmaster, Pehowa Road station, immediately informed the authorities in Kaithal and Delhi about the accident. Sources said the engine of the train was damaged a bit but the train reached Kurukshetra behind schedule. The victims were going to purchase diesel from Dhand. |
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Man done to death
Sonepat, June 20 The assailants managed to escape from the spot in a canter. The police reached the spot. The body was handed over to the family members of the victim after a post-mortem today. A case has been registered against the three unidentified persons. |
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Hearing adjourned in kidney case
Ambala, June 20 The court handed over copies of the chargesheet to the accused. According to legal experts, now the case will be committed in the court of the Special Judge of the CBI where arguments on framing charges against the accused will be conducted. The court has also issued the production warrant of Dr Amit and Dr Jeevan for June 30. The Maharashtra police had taken them to Mumbai in connection with a case registered against them there.
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Bungalow case gets murkier
Ambala, June 20 Officials stated that the registry had been impounded as it was found to be underpaid. Bansal said he was not aware of any such thing. The bungalow situated in Harding Lines of Ambala Cantt is spread across 6 acres. The sale was executed for Rs 20 lakh. Meanwhile, local politicians have termed the sale as fraud and a few of them have even demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter.
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Man held for 4-yr-old’s sexual abuse
Karnal, June 20 According to the police, Ajay, a resident of Modi Nagar in the township, was arrested last night after he sexually abused the innocent girl of the same locality yesterday. The police said the victim had gone to the nearby market and her family got suspicious after she did not return by late evening. The situation in the area turned tense last night after the girl was found. She was taken to the civil hospital for a medical examination and the accused was arrested by the police. Meanwhile, he has been sent on a judicial remand by a local court. |
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KU don to deliver lecture in US
Karnal, June 20 Goel is scheduled to address the plenary session on “Needonomics: Rationale for global welfare” at the seventh international conference of the World Association for Vedic Studies at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. The seminar is slated to be held from June 27 to June 29. |
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The monsoon’s early arrival has not only brought cheer on the faces of the farming community of this paddy-rich district but has also brought relief for agencies of the power-crunched state.
