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Unethical Practices
LS Poll
Cong strategy to corner BJP, INLD
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Ranjit Singh: INLD has lost originality
UPA govt has failed to check terror, says Chautala
Join hands, alliance activists told
Uneven Growth-I
Paddy losses drive farmer to suicide
Implement revised pay scales: Doctors
Kisan mela from tomorrow
Youth festival
Two held for murder
Three held for cheating trader
Give reservation, get votes: Jat body
15 cases settled at lok adalat
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Unethical Practices
Chandigarh, October 19 Following complaints in Panchkula and Yamunanagar and as a warning to “errant” doctors, the department has shifted out six doctors, three each in Yamunanagar and Panchkula, on the basis of a complaint and prima facie evidence. Sticking to ethics in the business was also highlighted at a recent session of video-conferencing between civil surgeons and the commissioner and secretary, health, Anuradha Gupta. That propaganda drugs are high on the priority of doctors came to light when the Panchkula Chemists Association lodged a complaint with the authorities against a few doctors, giving 80 prescription slips as evidence. These little-known drugs manufactured by local units with prices higher than branded drugs and low efficacy were prescribed by doctors and were available only with particular chemists. Primarily antibiotics, analgesics and anti-virals, the complaint also exposed the doctor-chemist nexus ailing the health set-up whereby patients were being fleeced. Gupta had the complaint investigated by the civil surgeon, Dr Kamla Singh, who confirmed the allegations after which the doctors in question were shifted out. A fallout of these prescriptions by doctors was that the drugs available in hospitals free of cost, too, didn’t move and continued to pile up, never reaching the patients they were meant for. Another unethical practice found among doctors was that of charging a personal fee from patients for giving dates for surgery which was in addition to the nominal hospital charges. Contrary to the government’s policy of free deliveries, a doctor in Yamunanagar was found to have prescribed items way in excess for a Caesarean operation. These were later recycled to the chemist, according to the findings. Then, some hospitals were also found to be asking for government drug supplies in excess of the requirement which led to wastage of the drugs after the expiry period lapsed. Private practice, which is being done by some doctors on the sly despite directions to the contrary, has also earned the ire of the department and they have been told to discontinue this “side business”. With so much on hand and the health department urgently needing to set its house in order, Gupta says, “We are asking our doctors to be true to their profession and say no to unethical practices. If they take our word on this, it’s is alright but if they don’t, we will take action.” |
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LS Poll
Sirsa, October 19 Jagtap met Congress workers in Sirsa and Fatehabad on Thursday and Friday, respectively, to ascertain their views on the Congress party’s possible candidate for the forthcoming parliamentary elections. At present, the Sirsa seat in Parliament is represented by Atma Singh Gill, who won the last elections by defeating Sushil Indora of the INLD. “Jagtap had a routine set of questions for all workers, who went to meet him. He asked me as to what type of MP I preferred,” said a senior Congress functionary from Sirsa on condition of anonymity. Most of the workers told Jagtap that they wanted an educated and honest MP, who should be from this area so that they could meet him when required. While different workers suggested different names, a large number of workers expressed their reservations about re-nomination of Gill. “Most of the workers complained of inaccessibility of the MP and alleged that he was not even familiar with many senior functionaries of the Congress in the two districts that comprise the Sirsa parliamentary constituency,” said another Congress leader from Sirsa on condition of anonymity. The workers are believed to have cited the infamous Narwana incident, in which Gill was allegedly found in the company of two women in a rest house last year. Interestingly, a majority of Congress workers, both in Sirsa and Fatehabad, preferred the nomination of union minister Kumari Selja from the Sirsa parliamentary seat this time. Selja has represented this constituency twice. Some workers also suggested the names of Om Parkash Keharwala and Rer Chand Kalia, both of whom have contested the Sirsa parliamentary seat once each, though unsuccessfully. Meanwhile, Atma Singh Gill told mediapersons today that he was ready to contest the next parliamentary elections from any state of the country, but he himself would prefer the Sirsa
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Cong strategy to corner BJP, INLD
Chandigarh, October 19 In the Ahirwal area of Haryana, water, being a perennially scarce commodity, holds an emotional appeal. When Bhupinder Singh Hooda became the Chief Minister of the state in 2005, he was quick to realise the importance of water for the people of southern Haryana in general and those of Ahirwal in particular. His government soon started the Hansi-Butana link canal, which would take water from the Bhakra main line canal to southern Haryana. So far, this water is flowing to Hisar and Sirsa districts. Hooda promised the thirsty southern Haryana that he would make every endeavour to ensure that the available canal water was equally distributed among all areas of the state. The Hansi canal is to take 1,000 cusecs, which is part of the Sutlej-Beas water already flowing into Haryana through the Bhakra main line, to the parched lands of southern Haryana, with parts of Bhiwani and Mahendragarh districts, being the main beneficiaries. Chautalas, who head the INLD, and whose native district is Sirsa, opposed the project from the very beginning, even threatening a civil war. Punjab and Rajasthan also moved the Supreme Court to oppose the construction of the Hansi canal. Though the apex court did not stay the construction of the canal, it restrained Haryana from puncturing the Bhakra main line to link the Hansi canal with it. The project lies incomplete. After the delimitation of constituencies, the Mahendragarh constituency, which forms part of the Ahirwal, has been merged partly with Gurgaon and partly with Bhiwani. While the BJP is expected to contest the Gurgaon seat, the INLD has declared that Ajay Singh Chautala, elder son of the INLD supremo, would be its candidate from Bhiwani. Hence the Congress strategy is to corner the two parties in the two Lok Sabha constituencies. Independent MLA Naresh Yadav, who is supporting the Congress government, has decided to take out a 200-km-long padyatra from Gaud Balah village in Mahendragarh district to Delhi from November 1. The ostensible purpose is to submit a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil urging her to intervene to ensure the speedy construction of the Hansi canal. But on the ground, Yadav plans to highlight the “nexus” between the Chautalas and Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal in obstructing the project, which could be the lifeline of Ahirwal. Yadav says he will educate the people of the region on how Badal, who has close family ties with the Chautalas, is creating legal hurdles to the construction of the canal at the behest of the INLD. Because if the canal is constructed, it will harm the INLD politically. He will also try to put the BJP on the mat by raising the question how the Saffron party had harmed the interests of Ahirwal by aligning with the Chautalas, who were instrumental behind Punjab’s resistance to the canal. |
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INLD-BJP Alliance
Fatehabad, October 19 Talking to mediapersons here today after addressing a meeting of the district committee of the CPM here, Inderjit Singh, state secretary of the party, said the INLD and the BJP should clarify to people as to on what agenda they were going to work. He said in the absence of any such statement, people were bound to believe that it was an opportunist alliance aimed to gain power. The CPM leader demanded substantial reduction in the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas in view of drastic fall in international prices of crude oil. Inderjit Singh said the central government had enhanced the prices of petroleum products on the sole premise of international spurt in prices in the past. However, now the international prices of crude oil had declined to about $70 per barrel in comparison to $150 during the past months. Describing the unprecedented global recession as the logical consequence of bankrupt capitalist system, he warned the central government not to embark on neo -liberal path of reforms. The CPM leader claimed that it was for the effective blocking of reforms in the financial sector like banking, insurance and pension that had saved the earnings of employees and workers from falling prey to vagaries of the stock market. |
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Ranjit Singh: INLD has lost originality
Sirsa, October
19 Ranjit Singh, younger brother of INLD supremo Om Prakash
Chautala, maintained that Rohtak and Sonepat had always been “crowns” of the INLD since the times of his father Chaudhary Devi
Lal, but the panicky leadership of the INLD had surrendered both these seats to the BJP now. Pooh-poohing the
INLD, the Congress leader said the party had no more remained the major party in the alliance by agreeing to give six of the 10 parliamentary seats to the
BJP. The Congress leader alleged that the poll pact between the two parties was based on opportunism and had been thrust upon the workers of the two parties. He maintained that INLD workers in Sonepat and Rohtak would in no case support Kishan Singh Sangwan and Captain
Abhimanyu, respectively, and would prefer working in Bhiwani. |
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UPA govt has failed to check terror, says Chautala
Kaithal, October 19 This was alleged by former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala while addressing a public meeting in Pai village in the district today. Chautala said the Congress had no concrete policy to solve the problem of terrorism and various other problems facing the country. In such a situation, it was necessary to overthrow the UPA government during the next parliamentary elections and for this purpose the INLD had entered into an alliance with the
NDA, which alone could take the country out of “mess” created by the
UPA. Chautala gave a call to other parties to join the NDA in “national interests and to save the country from UPA misrule”.
Chautala said his party would raise the old-age pension to Rs 700 per month. Ram Pal
Majra, a former chief parliamentary secretary who represented the Pai assembly constituency twice, also addressed the public meeting. Meanwhile, Sajjan Singh
Dhull, who contested the last election from Pai on the Congress ticket, announced his decision to join the
INLD. |
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Join hands, alliance activists told
Rewari, October 19 With an exhortation of making NDA candidates victorious in all 10 parliamentary constituencies in the state, Ashok Arora asked them to sink their differences, if any, to ensure ascendancy of veteran BJP leader
L.K. Advani to the post of Prime Minister and simultaneously INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala’s elevation to the post of Chief Minister in Haryana in succession. Lashing out at the Congress for allegedly creating dissensions among major communities by vigorously pursuing its divisive agenda of vote bank politics, Manchanda exhorted the BJP-INLD activists to put in efforts for the rejuvenation of the alliance. |
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Uneven Growth-I
Chandigarh, October 19 These three districts have been dotted not only with multiplexes, new industrial units but are also making rapid advances in infrastructure development, including motorways, flyovers and new housing complexes. Unfortunately, the rest of Haryana, especially areas that are in the immediate periphery of the shared state capital, have not been that lucky to get new investments that could accelerate industrial as well as its infrastructure development. If one is talking about new generation and modern lifestyle that centres on young executives, mall goers, multiplexes for entertainment and high-rise buildings, then Gurgaon and Faridabad followed by Panchkula to a limited extent are the answers. Delphi Automotives, DLF Universal, Genpact, Hero Honda, Honda Motorcycles and Scooters, HMSI, Flextronic Software Systems, IBM India, Indian Oil Corporation, Johnson Matthey, Maruti Dog, GlaxoSmithKline, Sona Koyo Steering Systems, Svedala, Wipro Infotech, Yamaha Motors and YKK India are among the companies which have entered Haryana during the past two decades. Incidentally, almost all of them have chosen the National Capital Region (NCR) as their investment destination. The scientific and instruments industry in Ambala has, for example, not recorded that much of industrial progress as Gurgaon or Faridabad has. It is true that Ambala, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Kaithal or for that matter Hisar, Jind, Mahendragarh and Sirsa did not get even 5 per cent of new projects since 1966 than what Gurgaon or Faridabad alone got in the past 10 to 15 years. Clearly, there is a divide in Haryana as well. Some pockets are getting all attention for many reasons, including their proximity to the union capital, better connectivity, both within the country and with the outside world and availability of land for development. Though some of the underprivileged or neglected districts may have more land, skilled and unskilled manpower and other resources to offer, still they do not have many takers. Sirsa, though the hometown of former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, had to content with a new university named after Ch Devi Lal. Sonepat, too, got an all womens’ university - Bhagat Phool Singh Women University - at Khanpur Kalan. Other consolation for this so-called neglected Haryana has been a deemed university, Maharishi Markandeshwar University in Mullana. After reorganisation, Haryana got MD University in Rohtak and also Guru Jambeshwar University. Kurukshetra and Haryana agricultural universities were there before 1966. Karnal has a deemed university.
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Paddy losses drive farmer to suicide
Sonepat, October 19 Sandeep had taken five acres on an annual lease of around Rs 12,000 per acre and brought the area under paddy cultivation. His cultivation charges ranged between Rs 10,000 and Rs 12,000 per acre. Yesterday, when he went to the fields to spray pesticide on the disease-hit crop, he found that the crop had almost been damaged. He could not bear it and consumed the pesticide. After consuming the poison, he rang up his friend Ashok of Gamri village. When Ashok, along with Sandeep’s father Kanwar Singh reached the field, they found him lying unconscious. He was taken to the CHC, Gohana, but could not survive. His death is an alarming signal as a large number of farmers in different pockets of the district have suffered heavy losses due to disease-hit paddy crop. Meanwhile, the Chief Minister’s announcement to compensate farmers whose paddy has been damaged has brought some relief to them. Vice-president of the Haryana unit of the All-India Kisan Sabha Shradha Nand Solanki has welcomed the decision and demanded that as it was a sort of a natural calamity, the government should bail out the affected farmers on the pattern of industrial units. |
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Implement revised pay scales: Doctors
Yamunanagar, October 19 “The state government should implement their enhanced pay scale before the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission, so that they could get increased salary accordingly,” said president of the HCMSA Vijay Kumar Dahiya. He said a delegation of the association met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Rohtak yesterday and apprised him of all problems. The CM had assured to provide us all possible help, he added. Giving details about the doctors’ problems, he said doctors of the HCMS were feeling neglected as they had been getting Rs 10,000 less salary per month as compared to their counterparts in Punjab for the past thirteen years and it was likely to increase substantially if not revised prior to the Sixth Pay Commission’s implementation. “Due to low salary package, many doctors in the state have left the job and others are on the verge of leaving,” he rued. |
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Kisan mela from tomorrow
Karnal, October 19 The farmers will be imparted training and provided technical know-how regarding modern farming practices from pre-sowing to post harvesting, deputy director, agriculture, S.S. Dahiya said. As many as 120 stalls would be set up at the mela to give demonstrations about research and other activities of agriculture and allied departments, including fisheries, animal husbandry, dairy, floriculture and horticulture, and the departmental officials would answer the queries of farmers. The farmers would be informed about modern trends in pest management, use of insecticides, pesticides and fertilisers, vermi composing, environmental issues and female foeticide. The agriculture department had extended its services to rural areas and organised camps to reach out to the farmers. Some progressive farmers had been selected from identified villages for giving demonstration and at least 25 farmers from adjoining villages had been motivated to join the camp. |
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Youth festival
Sirsa, October 19 Vijaja Tomar, principal of the college, informed mediapersons today that Mange Ram Gupta, education minister will inaugurate the festival on October 21, while R.P. Bajpai, vice-chancellor of Kurukshetra University, will preside over the inaugural function. Ranjit Singh, deputy chairman of the Planning Board, Haryana, will be the chief guest of the evening session on that day, while Pawan Dingwala, president of the Municipal Committee, Sirsa, will preside over it. Tomar said Gopal Kanda, chairman of MDLR Airlines, and Lachhman Dass Arora, industries minister, Haryana, will be chief guests of the morning and evening sessions, respectively, on October 22, while Sushil Mittal, chairman of the Haryana Cotton Association, and Yudhvir Singh Khayalia, additional deputy commissioner, Sirsa, will preside over the two sessions respectively. |
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Two held for murder
Kurukshetra, October 19 The arrested have been identified as Suman, wife of Surender, and Anis Ahmed. District police chief K.V. Ramana said Suman, a resident of Parsuram Colony here, told the police that her husband and Pradeep had jointly started a juice corner, following which illicit relations were developed between her and Pradeep. She further told the police that her tenant, Anis Ahmed, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, also knew about her relationship with Pradeep. She said when her family came to know about this, she asked Pradeep to refrain from the illicit relationship, but in vain. Therefore, she along with Anis chalked out a plan to kill Pradeep. She said she mixed intoxicants in Pradeep’s food on October 13, after eating which he became unconscious. Later, she and Anis strangled Pradeep to death. |
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Three held for cheating trader
Rewari, October 19 Simultaneously, the police has also seized the truck along with 186 bags of sarson from Chhitroli village in Mahendergarh district. All three accused were today produced before Duty Magistrate R.K. Dogra, who remanded them in judicial custody for 14 days. Deepak Kumar, proprietor of Bansal Sales Corporation here, had dispatched a consignment of 186 bags of sarson to a firm at Singur town of West Bengal in a truck, which he had hired through Raj Kumar on October 3. However, when the consignment did not reach its destination, he made inquiries from the consignee whose negative response made him realise that the trucker had duped him. |
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Give reservation, get votes: Jat body
Rohtak, October 19 Former DGP and MP from Rajasthan Gian Prakash Pilania was the chief guest, while former Haryana Chief Minister Master Hukam Singh was the guest of honour on the occasion. Addressing the gathering comprising participants from Haryana as well as nearby states on the occasion, the Jat leaders exhorted the community members to demand inclusion in the central and state OBC (reservation) lists. “Give reservation, get votes” was the slogan adopted by the
organisers, who maintained that they would make all-out efforts to bring Jats under the reserved categories. |
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15 cases settled at lok adalat
Kurukshetra, October 19 It was presided over by Additional District and Sessions Judge Neelima Shangla. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Pradeep Kumar also decided the cases. |
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