Badal arm-twisting BJP for INLD’s sake
Yoginder Gupta
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 24
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal must have his own reasons when he said at a press conference yesterday that for his party the issue of electoral alliance in the next Lok Sabha elections was open. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), he said, could also go with the BSP, with which the Akalis had an alliance once, when BSP founder Kanshi Ram was alive.

Badal, who is heading a coalition government with the BJP in Punjab, went on to say that nobody was untouchable in politics and we are ready for alliance with any party except the Congress (to many in Haryana he must have sounded like repeating what INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala, an old family friend of the Badals, often says).

Badal’s statement is being viewed in Haryana as “an attempt to arm-twist” the BJP so that it contests the next Lok Sabha elections in the state in alliance with the INLD.

During the recent drama over the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, the BJP had invited Congress rebel MP Kuldeep Bishnoi to the dinner hosted by BJP prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani. Bishnoi made it a point that not only he attended the dinner but also ensured that the pictures of his attending an event, which was more of a political n ature than a social gathering, were flashed on TV screens.

It is not known if the BJP had invited any leader of its erstwhile partner, the INLD, to Advani’s dinner. But no report suggested that anyone was present there on behalf of the INLD. In fact, the same day secretary-general of the INLD and elder son of the party supremo Ajay Singh Chautala was seen in the company of UP Chief Minister and BSP chief Mayawati.

Bishnoi’s presence at Advani’s dinner has led to speculation that the BJP and the HJC are coming closer while the BJP and the INLD are drafting apart.

Political observers in Haryana view Badal’s statement in this context. They feel that Badal wants the BJP to go with his friend, Chautala, and therefore, his statement is a pressure tactics. If it is true, Badal can exert pressure on the BJP only to a limited extent. If the BJP needs Badal more during the Lok Sabha elections, the latter is dependent upon the former for staying in the Chief Minister’s saddle in Punjab. His party does not have the required majority in the Assembly on its own.

The Chautalas know that with Mayawati, they can never be comfortable because of her unpredictable nature. Sources close to Mayawati say she does not trust the Chautalas because they had ditched her mentor Kanshi Ram after contesting the 1998 Lok Sabha elections with him. They had shifted their support to Atal Behari Vajpayee immediately after the announcement of the election results. Moreover, the presence of Ajit Singh in the Mayawati camp too is discomforting for the Chautalas, who see the RLD leader as an obstacle in their vision of being the “pan-north India farmer leaders”. When the Chautalas were in power in Haryana, they had unsuccessfully contested the UP elections in a bid to damage Ajit Singh.

In the context of her home state, Ajit Singh is more important for Mayawati than the Chautalas. Mayawati may not hesitate in taking advantage of the mass base of the Chautalas in Haryana during the Lok Sabha elections if it furthered her designs to become the Prime Minister of the country. But she may decide to adopt a different path when the Assembly elections come after a year. Moreover, the communities, which constitute the respective constituencies of Mayawati and the Chautalas in Haryana, have always been on loggerheads. An alliance between the two may not be translated in votes on the ground.

On the other hand, the INLD and the BJP are considered to be natural allies, one representing the countryside and the other the urban areas. Meanwhile, there are voices of discomfort with the HJC also over its possible alliance with the BJP. Many HJC leaders feel that such an alliance would deprive them of their constituencies.

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About dinner diplomacy and electoral ties
Raman Mohan
Tribune News Service

Hisar, July 24
Even though the presence of Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) chief Kuldeep Bishnoi at the NDA hosted dinner in Delhi last week has sent jitters through the Chautala camp, it is by no means an indication of an electoral alliance between HJC and the BJP in Haryana.

There are several reasons for this. Firstly, any alliance between HJC and the BJP can never be as potent as the INLD-BJP combine mainly because both Bishnoi and the BJP have the same constituency i.e. non-Jats.

So, an alliance between these two players from the same constituency will leave the Jats out of its ambit. Thus on the basis of caste factors, the HJC-BJP alliance appears much weaker than the time tested INLD-BJP combination.

The INLD-BJP combination has thus far been successful because it brought Jat supporters of the Chautala clan and non-Jat voters of the BJP mainly from the urban areas together. This combination always worked for both parties though it is another matter that the BJP was badly humiliated by Chautala after the elections unlike his father late Devi Lal who had no problems with taking late Dr Mangal Sein along. Another impediment in the HJC-BJP alliance will be the senior BJP leadership of Haryana, including Sushma Swaraj, who is now a major player at the Centre. The senior Haryana BJP leaders are in favour of an alliance with Chautala despite their bitter experiences. These leaders include those who have remained ministers in past Chautala regimes.

As against this the younger leaders and the whole-time BJP workers want the party to go along with Bishnoi’s HJC. But, this section of the party does not have access to senior party leaders unlike the older and senior state BJP leaders. Bishnoi’s presence at the dinner was welcomed mostly by the grassroots workers of the BJP and not the older players.

Conversely, any alliance between the BSP and the Chautala camp will benefit none. The BSP has little presence in Haryana and in any case Dalits and backwards are unlikely to vote in favour of Chautala’s candidates because of the INLD’s predominantly Jat following. The end beneficiary of this combination will only be the Congress as instead of voting for the INLD-BSP candidates, the Dalits and backwards will prefer to cast their lot with the Congress.  

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Governance
Despite schemes, healthcare dismal in villages
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service

Fatehabad, July 24
Healthcare facilities in the rural areas of Haryana have always been lacking. It has been particularly so when it comes to maternity services for women.

People in the rural areas have to go for delivery of expecting mothers at home in the hands of quacks or “dais”.

The lack of proper facilities in villages and the absence of woman doctors in rural dispensaries and primary health centres are responsible for this trend.

Barring a few aware villagers, who take their pregnant women to hospitals and nursing homes for prenatal care and delivery, majority of the people are unaware of the hazards involved with delivery by the quacks.

A recent scheme of the Haryana government to encourage institutional delivery has started showing off results, although the picture is still not rosy as five out of every seven expecting mothers are not coming to the government hospitals or delivery huts in Fatehabad district.

But, the health authorities maintain that earlier the position was even worse.

Prior to the starting of delivery huts, only one out of 10 expecting women went for institutional delivery in the rural areas. “The authorities have set up 20 delivery huts in the district, which cater to the needs of a population of 1.03 lakh,” informs civil surgeon J.K. Bishnoi.

“As per an estimate, there are approximately 25 births per year per 1,000 people. Around 2,573 births have taken place in the rural areas of the district during April 2007 to March 2008. Out of these, only 904 children were delivered in delivery huts,” Bishnoi added.

Though these figures do not reflect a very good picture of healthcare facilities in the rural areas, there is a silver lining in the clouds.

Of the estimated 200 childbirths in the rural areas of the district in April 2007, only 33 were through institutional deliveries.

Barring a few progressive farmers, who can afford the luxuries of private hospitals and nursing homes, a large majority of rest of the births must have been carried out by quacks. The figure of institutional deliveries started rising with each passing month.

In May 2007, it was 59 while by March 2008, the figure had touched 79 births through institutional deliveries in a month.

“Some schemes initiated by the state government recently have helped in improving the rate of institutional deliveries,” claims Dr Bishnoi.

“The government pays Rs 2,200 to every woman who comes to delivery huts where the delivery is carried out by trained staff,” he added.

“In case of any complication, ambulance service is provided free of cost,” Dr Bishnoi adds. 

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Poor sanitation makes life miserable in Kaithal
Satish Seth

Kaithal, July 24
Poor sanitary conditions prevailing in this town have made the life of residents miserable. Indifferent attitude of officials of the municipal council has added to the woes of the people.

Heaps of garbage and overflowing garbage bins at different places in the town are a common sight. A numbers of localities in the residential areas are not visited by safai karamcharis for weeks.

Most of the nullahs in this town remain filled with silt and only few are partially cleared. Tall claims made by the senior officers in improving sanitary conditions remain on papers.

Heaps of garbage gets accumulated at many places, as the sanitary staff is slow in lifting it up. The whole town had been divided into beats that are under the supervision of an in charge who is further under the supervision of chief sanitary inspector. However, this system introduced since long has not worked properly. Neither the chief sanitary inspector nor the beat in charge has succeeded in improving the situation.

There is no change in their strategy to tackle the problem of huge garbage that gets accumulated in different parts.  Earlier, garbage used to be dumped along the roads and it was lifted manually and later carried for disposal through tractor-trailers, but during the past few years the municipal council had been provided big garbage bins, which are kept at different places. However, the filled garbage bins are not removed for days as a result of which the safai Karamcharis and residents of nearby localities put the garbage outside the bins that invite stray animals. Residents often complain about the stink emanating from overflowing bins but no notice is taken of such complaints.

Every year before the onset of the monsoon, announcements are made by senior officers of the administration that nullahs will be cleaned as if there is no need to clean nullahs during the rest of the year. The cleaning operations remain symbolic. The silt removed is not lifted for days and at places it again finds its way in the nullahs. The privatisation introduced in this field had failed to improve the situation. 

The setting up of a waste management plant, too, remains a distant dream. The prevailing red-tapism had delayed the project and the municipal staff continues to put garbage along roadsides. Neither the district administration nor the senior functionaries of the local municipal council find time to improve the situation and provide relief to the residents. The Ram Nagar locality near New Anaj Mandi and Subhash Nagar on the Khurana road here are some of the localities where people feel that they are living in a hell. The overflowing drains and potholed roads are a big nuisance for many localities but no solution seems to be in sight. 

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Long way to go for paddy  transplanting machine
Subhash Chauhan

Ambala, July 24
Paddy transplanting machine, which was introduced in Haryana around six years ago by the agriculture department, may soon be a farmers best friend, thus putting to an end their woes of dealing with labour problems. However, farmers here have not adopted the machine well, partly because it is a new and revolutionary concept and partly because it needs few improvements to be done.

Ajit Kumar, a senior engineer with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tepla, attributes the lack of success of the machine to the fact that the paddy saplings were required to be sown on a plastic sheet first, which is later cut into pieces and put on the machine that takes out the saplings individually and sows them. Sowing of the saplings initially on a plastic sheet proves to be a difficult task for the farmers, as they are since centuries used to sowing on the ground.  Getting the plastic sheets is  another problem.

Another grey area on which the Agriculture University, Bhopal, is now working is the intelligence of the machine to ensure that it picks the right side up of the sapling before planting it on the ground. A few times it has been observed that the machine accidentally planted the tip in the ground in place of the roots.

However, the machine was a much sought after gadget this paddy season, as the average farmer would have got a relief from the labour problem that plagues Haryana and Punjab this year due to the date of planting paddy overlapping. “But only if the machine was perfect,” rue the local farmers.

“Last year I have paid Rs 600 per acre but during this season I am not getting labour even though I am ready to pay Rs 1,100 per acre,” said Ravinderjeet Singh, a landlord from village Saha. This year the rapidly decreasing water table forced the governments of both the states to restrict early paddy transplantation.

Due to this the time overlapped in both the states, which has increased the problem of labour shortage as both the states depend on labour from Bihar.

“Influx of labour from Bihar is decreasing every year. Last year total number that came to village Sambhalkha was around 70. This year however there are only 30 labourers,” informs Phool Singh, vice-president of Kissan club, Ambala. 

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Meet a family of blood donors
225 units given and counting
Suman Bhatnagar

Ambala, July 24
There could be several families in Ambala who donate money to various religious and social organisations but there is one family in this city whose all members are regular blood donors and the five-member family has donated around 225 units of blood so far.

The head of the family, Rajinder Garg (54) has donated blood for 136 times so far while his wife Sucheta Garg (52) has offered blood for 35 times in various blood donation camps. Rajan Garg (30), son of Rajinder Garg, contributed blood for 22 times and his sister Rashi Garg (28) has participated in this noble deed for 17 times.

Moreover, Naina Garg (27), daughter-in-law of the couple, who entered in their family only three years back, has also donated blood for eight times.

Rajinder, who runs a retail shop in Ambala city, donated blood for the first time in 1971 during the Indo-Pak war when the Army hospital had made an appeal to civilians for blood donation. He was so motivated by this noble donation that he decided to donate blood every three months except under unavoidable circumstances.

He told that there was no harm in donating blood even regularly after the gap of three months. He said he wanted to achieve the target of donating 200 units. “All members of my family are regular blood donors and are quite healthy and in good physical shape,” he added.

Referring to a memorial occurrence related to blood donation, he told that immediately after the marriage when he was on the way to some hill station for honeymoon, he remembered that he had to come to PGI, Chandigarh, for donating blood.

Garg has also formed a club of blood donors through which he has organised more than 60 blood donation camps in Ambala.

Around 5,000 persons have donated their blood in those camps. A number of organisations, including state Red Cross Society and PGI, Chandigarh, have honoured him for his contribution.

Sucheta, a lecturer in a private institution, said she started donating blood regularly when she happened to meet few children suffering from thalassaemia at a blood donation camp. She said she was convinced that blood donation was the biggest donation. 

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Inside Babudom
Mystery behind Malik’s posting
Geetanjali Gayatri
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 24
Postings, transfers and orders are a matter of routine for babus. However, one particular order of a bureaucrat, right after his return from central deputation and issued by the Haryana government, has become some sort of an enigma with its fate unknown.

Yudhvir Singh Malik, also known for his proximity to a close confidant of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, cut short his deputation at the Centre where he was posted as joint secretary in the ministry of company affairs to come back to the state.

Though his return was expected right after Hooda came to power in Haryana, when it did finally happen, he was posted as a member of the personal staff in the office of the Chief Minister. This, too, was on expected lines. The posting orders issued by the government pronounced him as special secretary to the CM. With his arrival, Malik was expected to get some “heavyweight responsibilities” also and add another dimension to the power centres within the CMO.

However, contrary to the expectations, he was neither given a room on the fourth floor corridor housing the office of the CM as also that of his personal staff, nor any workload pertaining to the CM office. However, he was given the charge of secretary, forests and environment.

It was contemplated that he would be handed over all the departments being handled by additional principal secretary to CM, Chattar Singh, after the latter moves to the Centre. This, too, has been put on hold for the time being after Chattar Singh was convinced against going to the Centre.

However, with the departure of industries and IT secretary, P.K. Chaudhary, to the Centre, Malik was given additional charge of this department as well.

In the recent posting orders, the charge of forest and environment was withdrawn from him following his differences with the minister of state for forests. He was given full-fledged charge of the industries and IT department though the fate of his orders as special secretary in the CMO remained unknown.

Sources said his posting orders for the fourth floor could have had something to do with his timing of return to the state as well. A section of the officers feel that he came at a time when byelections in Gohana and two other seats were round the corner. His posting was seen as a move aimed at pleasing the Malik community by giving them a representation in the CMO since they form a substantial population in Gohana.

Also, his posting had invited curiosity since it is usually the secretarial staff in the CM office which gets such positions while all IAS officers get the designation of additional principal secretary to CM where “principal” is the key word.

However, sources in the CMO maintain that he was first posted as special secretary in the CMO to facilitate his return to Haryana by cutting short his deputation. It is learnt that his case was presented in a fashion whereby it was said that Malik was wanted in the state to be a part of the personal staff of the CM to ensure there was no delay in his relieving orders from the Centre. That done, the officers in the CMO, too, are unclear about what subsequently happened to his first posting on return to the state.  

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Dalal calls on youth to take up farming
Raman Mohan
Tribune News Service

Hisar , July 24
Karan Singh Dalal, MLA and chairman of the Haryana Administrative Reforms Commission, has said the food security issue could only be resolved if the youth were encouraged to take up farming and cattle breeding. He said to achieve this goal agriculture had to be made remunerative for farmers.

He was addressing a seminar on challenges to agriculture organised by the Haryana Agricultural University Directorate of Human Resources to provide the commission members an opportunity to interact with university faculty.

Pleading for greater cooperation between the state agriculture department and the university, Dalal said scientists should develop technology that could be easily assimilated by farmers.

Farmers also needed to be acquainted with drip-irrigation system and other ways of water conservation. The use of solar energy in farming should also be encouraged. Dalal also underlined the need for simplifying government rules and regulations so that most of the common man’s problems could be solved at the district level itself. Dalal said the commission would not submit its recommendations in a hurry but it would take its time to prepare a detailed report.

HAU vice-chancellor J.C. Katyal suggested setting up agricultural training institutes on the lines of industrial training institutes to train young farmers. The younger generation could take up and understand modern agricultural technology. If trained properly, they could change the face of agriculture in Haryana.

Other members of the panel who accompanied Dalal were: M.P. Gupta, R.K. Sethi, R.P. Lather, Ajit M. Sharan, D.R. Chaudhary, Prem Prashant and M.P. Midha. VC of Guru Jambheshwar University Devendra Dayal Singh Sandhu also attended the meet. 

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Watch out, it’s dengue time
Raju William
Tribune News Service

Gurgaon, July 24
It’s that time of the year when dengue — “the killer with a buzz” — is feared to claim more unsuspecting victims. And those suffering from heart diseases, pregnant women, cancer patients and kids need to take special care, as they are more vulnerable, in order to ward off dengue.

Dengue fever is an infectious disease that is characterised by severe pains in the eyes, head, and extremities. It is transmitted by the bite of the Aedis Aegypti mosquito. A person develops fever within 3-14 days of being bitten by the mosquito. Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a more severe form of disease, which may cause death. It happens in severe cases when the blood platelet count becomes too dangerously low.

Speaking on the affects of dengue on the patients suffering from heart condition, Dr Umesh Gupta, senior cardiologist, Umkal Healthcare, Sushant Lok here, observed that dengue affected the heart very rarely but if the virus travelled to the heart it may lead to a severe condition called Mycarditis, which could further lead to swelling of the heart muscles causing a decrease in the pumping capacity that might lead to strokes. “It also causes Pericardial effusion — a condition in which the pericardium layer that surrounds the heart, fills with water,” he said.

This infectious disease is manifested by a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, muscle and joint pains; the dengue rash is characteristically bright red patches and usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest — in some patients it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be some abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea.
Dengue fever can also cause some complication in case of pregnant women, observed Dr Shivani Sachdev Gaur, infertility specialist and gynaecologist, Phoenix Hospital. “Pregnant women should take extra precaution in case of dengue infection otherwise it could lead to conditions such as water in the lungs, lung enlargement and complication in labour, as in baby passing meconium in the uterus, reduced fetal movements, high need for caesarean section for delivery, excessive bleeding during the delivery or poor healing of the wound,” she said.

In some rare cases, the onset of dengue fever might be cancerous in nature. In view of Dr Amit Bhargava, consultant oncologist, Max Healthcare, the decrease in the level of blood platelets should be taken very seriously and a dengue serology test should be conducted immediately to check for symptoms. If the test results come negative then an ITP test (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpora Test) should be done to rule out any possibility of blood cancer.

According to Dr Sonali Gaur, paediatrician, Umkal Healthcare, kids below the age group of 15 years and so are more prone to this severe infection, which can express itself in the form of hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome in severe cases. “The Aedis Aegypti mosquito is most active during the day time and has a short flight span, meaning that people in close vicinity of the infected persons are most likely to get affected by the disease,” she added. 

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KU issues directions to check ragging
D.R. Vij

Kurukshetra, July 24
Ragging in any form on the campus or outside, especially in hostels, is strictly prohibited. Anyone reported to be involved in this act will meet strict disciplinary action leading to expulsion from the hostel and the rolls of the department, institute and college concerned.

A notification to this effect has been issued by Ramesh Sharma, registrar, Kurukshetra University, under the orders of the university vice-chancellor Prof R.P. Bajpai here on recently.

All chairpersons, directors, principals, chief wardens and hostel wardens have been requested to keep strict watch on the students, with a view to ensure that no ragging takes place.

They have been further requested to take necessary preventive actions.

In the notification, it has been conveyed that the Supreme Court, in its verdict dated May 16, 2007, has issued certain directions to all educational institutions for necessary compliance of the recommendations of the committee constituted to suggest remedial measures to tackle with the problem of ragging.

According to one of the committee’s recommendations, the punishment to be meted out has to be exemplary and justifiably harsh to act as a deterrent against recurrence of such incidents. 

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Job scheme turns a boon
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service

Fatehabad, July 24
Sarbati’s household was in a shambles due to excessive drinking habits of her husband Satbir, who spent more on his daily dose of booze than what he earned through manual labour. Sarbati wanted to contribute towards the family income, but in the conservative environment of her village it was not possible for her to go out for work.

Albeit, she worked on the agricultural fields of others but that was only a seasonal job, mostly during the harvesting season. However, after work on digging of a pond has started in her village under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) earlier this month, her fate has changed for the better. Now, Sarbati works for a few hours on the pond with a spade in her hand and comes back richer by Rs 135 every day.

Sarbati is not the lone gainer. There are many others whose lot has improved, thanks to the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) under which the scheme NREGS is being taken up in this district.

NREGA was already in force in four districts of Haryana but after April 1, 2008, it has been implemented throughout the state. The scheme guarantees 100 days of job to all villagers who are ready to do manual labour. After implementation of the Act, authorities are under obligation to provide a job to anyone who visits the village sarpanch and demands work.

In case the authorities are unable to provide a job to a person within 15 days of such a demand, they will have to pay compensation to him or her. But, despite the implementation of the scheme on papers, there is much to be done before the benefits of the scheme reach people in letter and spirit.

Till today, out of the 240 villages of this district, NREGS is being run in 36 villages only.

The scheme envisages preparation of job cards and opening of bank accounts of all those who are willing to work.

The remuneration of workers is transferred to their bank accounts instead of cash payment.

Sources revealed that out of the 50,000 people who showed interest in taking up jobs under the scheme only 3,591 have got job cards and bank or post office accounts have been opened for 5,594 persons only. The additional deputy commissioner-cum-chief executive officer of the District Rural Development Authority (DRDA) C. G. Rajnikanthan said the speed of implementation of the NREGS is much better in Fatehabad district than in many other districts.

He said in the first phase of the scheme 36 works have been selected by the authorities on recommendations of the panchayati raj institutions (PRIs).

Eight of these are in Bhattu Kalan administrative block, seven in Bhuna, five in Fatehabad, five in Ratia, six in Tohana and five in Jakhal administrative block. He said in all an amount of Rs 37.15 lakh has been released in the first phase of these projects.  

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Moudgil gets Shiromani Punjabi Sahitkar award
S D Sharma

Chandigarh, July 24
A writer’s job is generally limited to his literary creations but a few chosen ones are blessed with an implicit urge to serve the literature and language both in the larger interest of the society. Leading by the example, is a prolific litterateur of considerable magnitude, the Kurukshetra based Chhotu Ram Moudgil, who had been rightly acclaimed as a writer and promoter of Punjabi language in Haryana.

Endowed with a vision and admirable ability to translate his perceived plans into reality, Moudgil had revitalised the process of propagating the Punjabi language in a consistent phased manner in his capacity as a director of Haryana Punjabi Sahit Akademy besides sculpting creative writings.

His valuable contribution of 55 Punjabi literary works including 19 books, seven translation projects, 16 co-authored books on children literature, 13 edited works, with a versatility encompassing all genres of literature, has won him the coveted Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award -2007 (for a writer living out of Punjab). The award instituted by the language department of Punjab government carries a prize of Rs 2.5 lakh, a citation and scroll of honour. Punjab minister for education and languages Dr Upinderjit Kaur declared all the 28 awards in different categories for the years 2007 and 2008 while presiding over a meeting of the state advisory board at Chandigarh. The awards will be presented at state-level ceremony on August 8 at Chandigarh.

Moudgil, talking to the Tribune, reiterated his resolve to serve the Punjabi language and literature with an innate passion and unflinching zeal. Born in a sleepy village named Duggan in Punjab, Moudgil rose to the position of a respectable writer and director of the Haryana State Punjabi Sahit Akademy.

His expertise of law and literature and uprightness had won him a three years prestigious deputation with CBI.

Sincere approach, hard work and venturing into bold initiatives is the success mantra he learnt from his mentor, legendary scholar Giani Lal Singh who sermonised Moudgil “Qatalgah- E - Ishaq mein apna hi sarr jhuka, kisi aur ka nahin ” 

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‘Name Panipat flyover after Hemu’
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 24
The Rashtriya Yodha Samaarak Samiti has supported the demand of the Hemchandra Vikrmaditya Foundation, Rewari, that the newly built flyover in Panipat should be named as “Hemchandra Vikrmaditya Setu”.

President of samiti Darshan Lal Jain has justified the demand of the foundation that the flyover should be named after the valiant fighter of Haryana, Hemchandra Vikmaditya, popularly known as Hemu, who laid down his life while fighting for the country in the Second Battle of Panipat on November 5, 1556.

Jain said Hemchandra started his career as a businessman and by dint of his integrity, courage, military strategy and fighting skills rose to the position of a samrat. Hemchandra was coronated in Purana Quila, Delhi, on October 7, 1556.

He fought 22 battles and won all of them. In 20 battles, he defeated Afghans from East India to Gwalior and in two battles, he forced Akbar to flee from Agra and Delhi. In the Second Battle of Panipat, he proved his mettle in fighting and died as a hero in the battleground at Saudapur village near Panipat, where his samadhi still exists.

Jain said it would be an appropriate homage to the great martyr if the magnificent flyover built in Panipat was named after this great warrior and patriot.

He urged Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to take up this issue with the authorities. 

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Citizens’ Grievances
Treat NET as equivalent to PhD

Qualifying UGC-NET examination is a compulsory qualification for teaching in degree and higher courses. But due to the lack of sufficient number of NET qualified candidates, exemption has been provided to the PhD degree holders. But, very often for professorship and for the post of principals in the colleges, the PhD degree is required but why the NET qualified candidates are not eligible for this? This is a matter of regret that equal status has not been given to the NET qualification in this matter and in case of some other professions also. This also increases a mad rush of people towards PhD degree that encourages duplicity and lowers the quality of work in university research departments. I urge the authorities to look into the matter.

Rabindra Giri, Ferozepur Jhirka, Mewat

Waterlogging in Shahabad

Shahabad is surrounded by GT road, Ladwa road, Barara road and grain market road and the ground level of all roads is higher than that of the town. The rainwater flows from these roads and enters the inner roads of the town and makes it look like an island. The worst rain-affected areas of the town are bus stand, service lanes, Nirankari Bhawan market, Devi Mandir road, HUDA sector road and Khalsa Sarbat Bhawan road. Besides, choked sewers and power cuts add to the misery of the residents. The MC has raised the levels of some roads, which has created more problems for the lower areas. The residents demand that a master plan for proper drainage of rainwater and steps for ensuring supply of drinking water in the town.

Surinder Pal Singh Wadhawan, Shahabad Markanda

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Movies this week
Money Hai Toh Honey Hai

Producer: Kumar Mangat
Director: Ganesh Acharya
Music: Sony Chandy, Nitin Arora
Cast: Govinda, Upen Patel, Aftab Shivdasani, Celina Jaitley, Hansika Motwani, Manoj Bajpai.

Eros presentation " Money Hai Toh Honey Hai will see a release today at Suraj - Panchkula, Inder Palace - Karnal, Bawa - Sonepat, Capitol - Ambala Cantt, PVR MGF, ,PVR Ambi, DT City Centre, DT Mega Mall ( All Gurgaon) SRS City Mall, SRS Prestine Mall, Inox Movie Time, Sector 20, Movie Time Sector 12, SRS Shubham ( all Faridabad), Fun - Panipat, Fun - Ambala City, Naaz - Palwal, Bangar - Rohtak, Sun City - Hisar.

Special Attraction: King of comedy Govinda's performance, Ganesh Acharya's direction plus music by Nitin Arora and Sony Chandy

Mission Istaanbul

Producer: Suneil Shetty, Shabbir Boxwala, Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor
Director: Apoorva Lakhia
Music: Anu Malik, Shamit Tandon, Chirantan Bhatt,
Cast: Suneil Shetty, Zayed Khan, Viviek Oberoi, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Nikteen Dheer, Shweta Bhardwaj, Shriya Saran.

Mission Istaanbul Apoorva Lakhia's action packed film will be released today at Minerva - Ambala Cantt, Fun -Ambala City, Fun - Panipat, Cinemax - Panipat, PVR MGF, PVR Europa, PVR Ambi Mall, PVR Sahara, DT City Centre, DT Mega Mall ( All Gurgaon) SRC Cinemas, SRS Prestine Mall, SRS Shubham, Inox Leisure, Pyramid Saimira, Movie Time Manhattam Mall, Movie Time City Mall ( All Faridabad) Sun City - Hisar.

Special Attraction: A different international espionage drama, ensemble star cast and melodious score by Chirantan Bhatt, Shamit Tandon and Anu Malik.

— Dharam Pal 

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