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Lok Sabha Polls
Murder Case
State divided on corporal punishment to
children
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Avantika Maken (third from left) campaigns for her husband Ashok Tanwar in Sirsa. Photo: Amit Soni
Lok Sabha Polls
Cong leaders’ bid to strike a chord with commoners
LS Polls
Awareness must to protect human rights: Experts
UPA govt has failed on all fronts: Khurana
LS Polls
Rural Lok Adalat settles 198 cases
Three dowry cases registered
HAU entrance test on June 13
CRR, SLR could be lowered: Expert
11 shields for Ambala rail divn
Academy strives to make women self-reliant
‘PR helps in strengthening democracy’
SMS poll on traffic jams
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Hot weather, ‘cold’ voter
Raman Mohan Tribune News Service
Hisar, April 23 Earlier this week, temperatures started rising sharply touching 43.7° Celsius on Tuesday. This level of mercury is several degrees above normal for this time of the year. As if the lackluster campaigning was not enough, the heat wave has driven voters to stay indoors and skip poll meetings. More by chance rather than design, over the past two decades elections have always been held in Haryana during the peak of summers. And yet, politicians never found voters staying indoors to beat the heat as well as poll fever. But this time round, things are altogether different. A veteran poll manager of a leading political party said it was the first time in his long career that he had faced such a disinterested electorate. “I think the voter can beat the heat so long as the poll issues interest him. But this time, voters are obviously not connecting to the issues raised by the candidates,” he said. Jai Singh, a resident of Sisai village, said the voter reaction was understandable. “What will I get out of this election? Politicians are all the same. Winning and losing is for the candidates, the voters will be the losers anyways. So why sit under the blazing sun listening to rubbish,” he said, sarcasm written all over his face. These words coming from a farmer, who has actively supported various candidates in the past elections, indicate the mood of the voter in this area. Politicians are worried that the thinning crowds could ultimately mean low turnout. A poor turnout is a double-edged sword. It can mean both gains and losses for ruling and opposition parties depending on which party has motivated its supporters to come out and cast their vote. With the weathermen predicting temperatures to soar further in coming days, the politicians are already fine-tuning their campaign schedules to account for this factor. That essentially means early morning starts and late night endings. While this can take care of the heat factor to some extent, there is yet no solution in sight for the lack of voter interest. This election is surely putting the candidates’ mettle to a severe test.
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Villagers form panel to seek justice
Tribune News Service
Panipat, April 23 The police had registered a case against nine persons and has already arrested four persons in this connection. Residents of Nara village have been up in arms alleging that the rest of the accused have not been arrested by the police despite the fact that a number of cases pertaining to various crimes are pending against them in several police stations. The 32-member committee was constituted by including one representative of each village falling in the Matlauda block. The committee stated that the prime accused, Surinder Kala and Ramesh, were notorious criminals, against whom many cases had been registered not only in the state but also in various police stations across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The committee said the people of the area were in awe of these criminals, but the police had not done nothing to put them behind the bars as they were politically well connected. The villagers demanded that the police should announce a cash prize of Rs 21,000 on these miscreants and should step up efforts to nab them at the earliest. Committee president Kuldip Singh said in case the police did not initiate a prompt action against the accused, the villagers would be left with no other option but to hold dharnas and block roads to make themselves heard. The police has already arrested Sumer, a resident of Gangana village in Sonepat district, Sunehra, a resident of Nara village, along with Jasbir and Pratap, a resident of Nara village. The accused were produced before a local court, which sent them to the police remand for five days. Meanwhile, the other accused in the case, Surinder Singh, Ramesh, Rajinder Singh, Soran Singh and Naveen, are yet to be arrested. Sushil had been allegedly kidnapped by these persons and later his body was found outside a petrol pump in Matlauda village.
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State divided on corporal punishment to children The tragic death of a Delhi girl, allegedly due to corporal punishment by her teacher, has led to a debate among teachers and parents throughout the country. Members of The Tribune team talked to a cross-section of people in various towns of the state
The opinion on the desirability of corporal punishment was divided. While for teachers working in government schools, it is a Hobson’s choice, their counterparts in private schools consider corporal punishment as “Talibanisation” of education. Government schoolteachers say they cater to an entirely different segment of students as compared to the private schools. Students in government schools generally come from the rural areas or economically weaker sections of society where they are used to such punishment at home. Teachers are also not sure as to what extent and of what type of punishment should be given to students. The increase in number of students to unmanageable limits and pressure on the teachers to give good results has added to their woes. While a majority of the teachers feels that corporal punishment is “unacceptable”, the minority is of the view that corporal punishment is required under certain compelling circumstances, but a line has to be drawn to ensure that it did not lead to torture and proves counter-productive for the growth of the student. Though no such incident took place in the Rohtak region in the recent past, the Delhi incident has raised the concerns of sociologists who favour some basic changes in the overall concept and mindset of the teaching fraternity itself. Leading educationists in Gurgaon feel that if adults focus and appreciate the positive behaviour rather than reprimanding the negative it would have far more reaching impact on the behaviour of a
child. ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ Ashwani Tuteja, principal of a government senior secondary school in Karnal, says he is not against physical punishment in certain situations but it should be “measured” and should not lead to the demoralisation of the student. No doubt, patience is another name of a teacher, but it would be too much to expect a uniform level of patience among all teachers, he observes. Mukesh, a teacher of Chanda Bal School in Atta village of Panipat district, says the purpose of punishing the students is not to harm them. He says it could be a coincident that the Delhi girl after being punished suffered a physical trauma and died. Kiran Bannerjee, principal, St Joseph Public School, Ambala, says it is true that a school is not a police station. But a light whack of the ruler should be permitted. Holding mothers completely responsible for indisciplined children, Bannerjee rues, “I have found that mothers in Ambala are not organised and they don’t take care of their children, who are being sent for tuitions whereas they can be taught at home.” “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” she advocates. “We have to beat the child with a ruler on the palm. Our intention is not to kill him but to discipline him. We as children also used to get the same punishment when we used to be disobedient.” Archana, a teacher with the Air Force School, Ambala, says there are many factors at play when a teacher raises his hand on the student. “At times, the child is so disobedient while at times the teacher overreacts.” She also feels that society needs to realise that the teachers are one among us, they too have children and they have no intention of hurting anybody. A career consultant in Gurgaon, Shweta, who is also a mother, says, “We still believe that discipline can be imposed by subjecting the children to some sort of physical abuse. Not just teachers, but I as a parent fail at times, not realising that the problem is with the communicator rather than the child. If the message is effectively conveyed, there shall be no need of reinforcing. But if the question is who can punish whom? The obvious and easiest solution is to try and use the rod instead on working on and finding a better and more way to communicate”. Kiran Ranout, a teacher and a mother, also in Gurgaon, says even if a child is not punished, he should have some fear of the authority, be it parents or teachers. Manisha Malik, a teacher in a government school in Hisar district, says she has to award some sort of corporal punishment to erring students as mere cajoling or convincing rarely works since these children are used to such punishment at home. “So, nothing will work with such students and as a teacher I have only one choice - punish with a little physically discomforting manner. It’s a Hobson’s choice, really”, she says. Malik says in her decade-long career, she has not witnessed one instance of a teacher punishing a student so harshly as to cause even mild injury. She feels that serious injuries can only happen if there are some other underlying health problems. In such cases, corporal punishment may act like a catalyst triggering a serious problem. Jaipal Singh, a graduate and farmer by profession in Hisar district, is a strong votary of corporal punishment. “I firmly believe in spare the rod and spoil the child theory. I will not hit my child at the first instance, but if he repeats the mistake, sure enough he will get a sound slap. The teachers should do the same. I remember my mathematics teacher in school spanking me when I failed to do my homework. There’s nothing wrong in it.” “Physical punishment should be there, but mild one. Now even parents hit a child so much so that children go to commit suicide. However, a balance has to be made,” states NK Sharma, an employee with BSNL in Ambala. ‘Teachers have no business beating up children’ Col. Arun Dutta, principal, Sainik School, Kunjpura in Karnal district, says corporal punishment is not at all advisable and he is against it. However, he agrees that it was unintentional as no teacher would ever like to “kill” a student. The reason for some teachers to award severe punishment is that they never realise the agony of student undergoing punishment. Rajan Lamba, principal, Tagore School, Karnal, attributes the tendency on the part of the teachers to beat the students or subject them to physical torture to the “lack of skill and capability” to handle the young ones. The psychological fear of the teacher should be such that the need for corporal punishment should not arise, although sometimes situation forces teachers to be harsh, he adds. Krishan Kumar, secretary, Haryana Teachers Sangh, opines that the teacher should exercise restrain and remain patient even under compelling situations and avoid physical punishment. The schools should maintain proper teacher-student ratio and the stress should be on good teaching and not entirely on results, he emphasises. Dr Manju, a counsellor and university teacher, says corporal punishment is a stigma on a civil society and if schools are “temples of learning, tiny tots are gods” and they should be treated accordingly. Surinder Singh, a senior teacher at Government Primary School in Naryana village in the Samalkha block of Panipat district, while condemning the incident says teachers could always module their students by encouraging them and making them feel loved. He says teachers should understand that by being cruel they could destroy the child, but could not teach them. Surinder Singh, who is also the associate founder of the Rajkiya Prathmik Shiksha Sangh, says the teacher who had inflicted physical torture upon a young girl to such an extent that she lost her life, has no right to belong to the teaching community. Subhash Chander, another senior government teacher, says young students are already quite afraid of teachers and they generally follow whatever they are told. He says there are only one per cent of the students who disobey their teachers. But even in their case, physical punishment is not an option. He says in case, the teachers develop a personal relation with each student and make them feel cared, it becomes much easier for the teachers to impart education without even scolding or punishing them. Sandeep, who teaches in the Chanda Bal Vikas School in Atta village of the district, says a teacher should stay within his limits while subjecting the students to punishments. He says each student has different mental level and it is a must for the teachers to analyse a child’s abilities and teach him accordingly. He says positive remarks and encouraging words can work wonders for the students who otherwise appear to be dull and unwilling to study. Rajinder Kumar, a resident of Panipat, whose son goes to a government primary school, says it is quite unbecoming on the part of the teachers to punish students to such an extent that they die. He says children need to be encouraged and not discouraged. Om Parkash Jain, a retired government teacher of Panipat, says the need of the hour is to create conducive atmosphere in the schools where children should bloom and grow as healthy adults rather then instilling the feeling of fear in their psyches. Vidya Dhaka, principal of Government Senior Secondary School (Girls) in Rohtak, describes the incident as the most unfortunate and undesired, as she claims that a female teacher in a primary school is not expected to go for such a harsh punishment and that too on a student of class II. According to TS Tomar, a retired headmaster of a government school in Rohtak, it is perhaps the utter failure on the part of the principal and the teacher concerned to discharge their duty in a proper manner and the lack of communication between the student and the teacher has led to this gory incident. Dr Jitender Prasad, a professor in the sociology department of Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, claims that the incident has been a result of utter lack of sensitivity. Describing it as a part of the “slumdog syndrome”, he says majority of the students in primary schools run by the MCD in Delhi and Haryana, come from poor and weaker sections, while the teaching fraternity is mostly from the upper classes. The students’ social background is enough to make them an easy victim of such actions, he adds. “Only strict action against the accused teacher can prevent such corporal punishment acts. Besides, a campaign should be launched to spread awareness against the corporal punishment,” says Dr Udey Bhan of Shashtri Colony in Yamunanagar, whose daughter is a student of class II in a convent school. According to Vikas Kohli, principal of Police DAV Public School, Ambala, counselling is the correct way to guide a child and to address his behaviour problems. “And to ensure this, we have even appointed a psychologist two weeks ago. They help in maintaining better relationship between the teacher and the student,” he says. At times, parents are also involved. It takes time but in the end it is more effective as the change introduced is lifelong, he adds. Indu Mehrotra, a teacher and parent in Gurgaon, says, “How do we instill order and discipline in children is the perennial question adults struggle with. The age-old adage of spare the rod and spoil the child does not seem to work any longer. What is required is to enable the children to self-manage their behaviour because the fundamental principle of discipline is the development of self-control.” “Teachers have no business beating up the children. They have eight hours at their disposal to make children learn through love and persuasion. If corporal punishment is to be given in schools, I will prefer home-schooling of my child,” says Pallavi, whose son is a class I student of Sutlej Public School, Sirsa. Meenakshi Dahiya, a college lecturer, whose son studies in in Bal Vatika in Fatehabad, echoes the fears of Pallavi. “Students from educated families are brought up at home with a certain sense of discipline inculcated in them from the beginning. So such punishment is not only unnecessary but also counterproductive,” says Shelly Tandon (not her real name), a principal of a popular private school in Hisar. Nisha Bhatia, a lecturer in a Hisar college, feels corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects. “Spanking has been associated with higher rates of physical aggression, more substance abuse and increased risk of crime and violence when used with older children and adolescents,” she says, adding that parents must raise their kids with a strong sense of discipline to make the teachers’ job easy. Inputs from Raman Mohan, Bijendra Ahlawat, Sunit Dhawan, Bhanu P. Lohumi, Amrita Dhaliwal, Manish Sirhindi, Kirandeep and Sushil Manav
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Women power strengthens campaign in Sirsa
Sirsa, April 23 Several women activists of different political parties have been active in Sirsa ever since the elections have been announced. Some of these women have been canvassing during the campaigns of major political leaders of their respective parties, while others have been campaigning only among women voters. Congress candidate Ashok Tanwar’s wife Avantika Maken is looking after the campaign of her husband’s poll campaign among women voters. She along with Sunita
Setia, chairperson of the Improvement Trust, Sirsa; Punita Kadyan, general secretary of the Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress; and Shilpa
Verma, district president of the Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress, has been campaigning in the towns and villages of Sirsa to campaign for
Tanwar. “Women can play a major role in politics. If we can manage our families, we can also have a role in forming the government,” Avantika Maken says in her speech. She tells women that the Congress has done a lot for women by ensuring 33 per cent reservation to them in local bodies. “The state government has also given reservation to women in polytechnic colleges, besides allowing them free travel on
Rakshabandhan,” she adds, trying to strike the right chord with
women. Avantika is not new to politics. She has been active in the NSUI as well as in the Indian Youth Congress. She is the daughter of former MP Lalit Maken and is a granddaughter of former President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma. From the NDA side, Renu Sharma, district president of the
BJP, and Krishna Fogat, district president of the women wing of the INLD, have been actively campaigning for the INLD candidate, Dr Sita Ram. Both Sharma and Fogat have rich experience in politics and have been campaigning with INLD supremo Om Parkash Chautala and Abhey Singh during their village
tours. Sanju Bala, a BSP leader has been campaigning for party candidate Rajesh
Vaid. CPM candidate Ram Kumar Bahbalpuria has the support of a number of women leaders associated with the All-India Democratic Women Association
(AIDWA) under the leadership of its president Jagmati Sangwan and general secretary Shakuntala
Jakhar, who have been campaigning for the CPM. The target areas of AIDWA activists are the slum areas and women belonging to the weaker and downtrodden sections of society.
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Lok Sabha Polls
Kurukshetra, April 23 The seat was won by Raghubir Singh of the BLD in 1977 who polled 3,22,164 (76.92 per cent) votes against Dev Dutt Puri of the INC who secured 71,322 (17.33 per cent) votes. This was the highest percentage of votes polled by any candidate in this constituency. Manohar Lal of the JP(S) was elected in 1980, defeating Bishan Singh of the Janta Party (JP) and Jagit Singh Marwaha of the INC. He polled 37.37 per cent votes while the two runners-up polled 30.82 and 25.72 per cent votes. A Sikh candidate Harpal Singh of the INC made it to the Lok Sabha from here in 1984 polling 2,75,112 (54.08 per cent) votes while his rival Manohar Lal of the Lok Dal polled 13,18,36 (25.92 per cent) votes. The BJP and the JP together polled 15 per cent votes. Gurdyal Singh Saini of the JP defeated Harpal Singh of the INC to win the seat in 1989, polling 49.72 per cent votes against 43.43 per cent votes polled by his rival. Tara Singh of the INC won the seat with the lowest percentage of votes (33.44 per cent) in 1991, defeating Shyam Singh of the JP who polled 28.72 per cent votes. Gurdyal Singh Saini, who contested as the Janta Dal candidate, finished third, polling 21.24 per cent votes. In 1996, the seat was won by OP Jindal of the HVP, again a non-Jat, who polled 2,91,172 (36.45 per cent) votes against Kailasho Devi of the Samta Party who secured 2,40,395 (29.99 per cent) votes. Later, Kailasho Devi joined the INLD and became the only woman candidate to win the seat twice in 1998 and 1999. She defeated Jatinder Singh Kak of the HVP and Kuldeep Sharma of the INC, both of whom polled 25 per cent votes. The victory of Kailasho was spectacular in 1999 and she polled a highest number of 4,38,701 (60.61 per cent) votes against Om Prakash Jindal of the INC who polled 2,75,091 (38.01 per cent) votes. Sitting MP Navin Jindal of the INC won the seat in 2004 defeating Abhay Singh Chautala of the INLD, a powerful Jat leader and son of former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala. Jindal polled 3,62,054 (42.55 per cent) votes against 2,01,864 (23.72 per cent) votes polled by Chautala. Later, Gurdyal Singh Saini contested the election as BJP candidate and secured 1,26,910 (14.92 per cent) votes. History is all set to repeat this time as no powerful Jat candidate is in the fray. The INLD-BJP alliance has fielded Ashok Arora against Navin Jindal while Gurdyal Singh Saini is contesting as BSP candidate and Jaswant Singh Cheema from the HJC. Barring Kailasho Devi, who won twice in 1998 and 1999, no other MP was re-elected from this seat.
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Cong leaders’ bid to strike a chord with commoners
Faridabad, April 23 The Congress leaders are especially covering the NIT area, the older part of the city dominated by Punjabi migrants from Pakistan, to mobilise support for Bhadana. There are about 100 gurdwaras in the NIT area. Organising secretary of the state Congress Gulshan Bagga admits that he and his colleagues have been visiting gurdwaras on the requests of the party management committee. He visited NH-5 gurdwara along with his party colleagues recently and partook langar. Bagga, a local resident belonging to the Punjabi community, admits that the visits to the gurdwaras and other religious places become important during elections. According to sources, the Congress leaders thronging the gurdwaras is understandable. They believe that their party nominee appears to be having more critics than admirers, especially in the city. Punjabis have been traditionally supportive of the Congress, but the community so far does not seem to be enthused by Bhadana, although a bigger chunk of its members do have a soft corner for the Congress. Managers of the Congress' election campaign in Faridabad also apprehend of a section of the Punjabis voting against Bhadana on account of the resignation by the Haryana Local Bodies Minister AC Chaudhary in protest against the party ignoring the community while allocating tickets. Chaudhary is a sitting Congress MLA from the NIT Assembly segment. He was eager to contest from the Faridabad constituency, but the party preferred Bhadana.
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Nalvi faction assures support to Cong
Manish Sirhindi Tribune News Service
Panipat, April 23 Nalvi said an 11-member delegation of the Haryana Sikhs had met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda recently and assured him that the Sikhs community would cast its votes in favour of the Congress candidates across the state. Nalvi said the decision in this regard was taken only after the Chief Minister promised that the matter pertaining to formation of a separate body to run the affairs of the state gurdwaras would be settled after the elections. Nalvi claimed that Hooda had also assured the delegation that the state government would have a sympathetic approach towards the other demands of the Sikhs, including constituting a commission for the minorities in the state and giving Punjabi the status of the second language in the state. The working president of the HSGPC stated that it was unlikely that any other party would ever support the cause of separate body for the state gurdwaras and thus it had been decided to go with the Congress. He maintained that barring a few Sikhs, who had their loyalties with other political parties, a larger section of the Sikh community in the state would be voting for the Congress candidates in the upcoming elections. Disapproving the announcement made by Jhinda that they would take over the management of the state gurdwaras after the LS elections even if no law was passed in the regard, Nalvi said it was not possible to violate the law. He said the law of the land prevailed in the state and none was above it, adding that Jhinda had been making similar statements since long but has done nothing till date. He stated that the Sikhs would repose faith in the Congress so that their demands were fulfilled soon after the elections.
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Awareness must to protect human rights: Experts
Gurgaon, April 23 The proceedings opened
with an address of welcome by HIPA director Rajni Sekhri Sibal, while the keynote address was delivered by Justice S Rajender Babu, chairperson, National Human Rights Commission. Justice Babu elaborated on various constitutional provisions of human rights and stressed the need for implementing these provisions for effective protection of human rights. Dr KP Singh, additional director-general of police, Haryana, spoke on police
reforms and the perspective on preventing human rights violations. Prof D Banerjea, former chief coordinator, School of Criminal Justice and Administration, National Judicial University, Kolkata, gave a presentation on various legal provisions under the CrPC pertaining to human rights. He underlined the need for the enforcement of special laws specific to victims of human rights violations. Ajay Pandey, lawyer and human rights practitioner, pointed out that the Right to Information Act had given a tool to all citizens of India to ensure the protection of human rights.
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UPA govt has failed on all fronts: Khurana
Rohtak, April 23 Speaking to the media here yesterday during his one-day visit to the town in connection with the campaign in support of Nafe Singh Rathi, INLD-BJP candidate from Rohtak, Khurana claimed that if the BJP was returned to power under the leadership of LK Advani, it would arrange to bring back the black money which he said would be used for the development projects. Charging the UPA government at the Centre led by Manmohan Singh with gross failure on all fronts, he said the common man was feeling unsafe due to the rising terror attacks in various parts of the country in the past few years. He said no development and peace could be there till the country was made free of terror and claimed that it was only the BJP-led-NDA which could ensure safety and security of the people. Stating that the UPA government had failed to take stern action against terrorists active in various parts of the country, the BJP leader said the convict of the Parliament attack had still been alive, thanks to indifferent attitude of the UPA government on such a vital issue. He added that the demand for bringing back the money deposited in foreign banks had gained a momentum as an amount of about Rs 70 lakh crore had been lying there while the country was struggling with various problems, including poverty.
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Squads to check flow of liquor
Tribune News Service
Kurukshetra, April 23 The police has constituted a number of squads consisting of the police and the excise staff to conduct raids to check the sale of illicit liquor, SSP, Karnal, AS Chawla said at a meeting of election officers concerned. The SSP said he had already directed the force to stop the sale or purchase of illicit liquor and launch a campaign against those drinking at public places and driving in a drunken state. Earlier, district election officer-cum-district magistrate Chander Prakash directed the officers to launch a vigorous campaign against the sale or purchase of illicit liquor in the district. The Haryana and Uttar Pradesh police have already decided to maintain close coordination to check the smuggling of liquor or arms during the elections and seal the borders of their respective states 48 hours before the commencement of the polling on May 7.
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Rural Lok Adalat settles 198 cases
Kurukshetra, April 23 While addressing the gathering, Bansal called upon the rural gathering to settle their disputes amicably at panchayat level instead of going to legal court or to the police for settlement. The Rural Lok Adalat is such a platform that plays an important role to maintain brotherhood in villages. Cases are settled with the mutual consent of both the parties approaching the adalat, he added. According to Gurvinder Kaur, secretary-cum-chief judicial magistrate of the authority, cases were settled at the doorsteps through these adalats. Persons whose income was less than Rs 50,000 per annum were eligible for free legal assistance by the authority. So far, 2,165 cases had been settled in 21 Rural Lok Adalats while 29,632 cases had been settled in 113 Lok Adalats held and a sum of Rs 16,66,70,000 had been compensated in 2,371 claim cases. No appeal could be made against these adalats, added Kaur. The cases of villages, including Jyotisar, Indbery, Hingakheri, Mundakhera, Samaspur, Bagthala, Balahi, Dabkhera, Jognakhera, Bahri, Narkatari, Raogarh Kainthala, Barwa, Dayalpur and Gamri Jattan villages were settled in this adalat. Ajit Singh, block development and panchayat officer, Kurukshetra, SC Thukral, advocate, surpanches, panches and villagers were present on the occasion.
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Three dowry cases registered
Rewari, April 23 A case under Sections 498-A, 406, 323 and 506 of the IPC has been registered against them on a directive of the court of the JMIC, issued on a petition earlier filed by Kavita Yadav (24), daughter of Sube Singh Yadav of Dahina village. Kavita, who got married to Kailash in February 2006, alleged that she was tortured by her in-laws for dowry. In the second incident, the Bawal police has registered a case of harassment for dowry against Dhanpati’s husband Namit Kumar, her father-in-law Rajender Kumar and mother-in-law Kitabo Devi, all residents of Gadoli village of Gurgaon district. Dhanpati of Kheri Dalu Singh village, near Bawal, who got married to Namit Kumar in June 2006, alleged that she was persistently subjected to cruelty by her in-laws for dowry. A third case of cruel treatment and criminal breach of trust under Sections 498-A, 406 and 34 of the IPC has been registered by the police against Neeru Yadav’s father-in-law Jawahar Lal Yadav and mother-in-law Santra Devi, residents of Gurgaon. Neeru Yadav of Zenabad village near Khol, who got married to Krishan Kumar Yadav, son of Jawahar Lal Yadav in November 2003, lost her husband in January 2009. She alleged that after the demise of her husband she was subjected to cruel treatment by her in-laws.
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HAU entrance test on June 13
Hisar, April 23 According to university Registrar RS Dalal, the courses included BVSc & AH, BSc (Hons), Agriculture, BSc(Hons), Home Science, MSc, Food Science and Technology, Bio-informatics, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology and Master’s programmes in the disciplines of Agriculture, Agriculture Engineering and Technology, Basic Sciences, Home Sciences and Veterinary Sciences. He said admissions would be made on the basis of merit in the entrance test for BVSc & AH, BSc (Hons), Agriculture, MSc, Food Science and Technology, Bio-Informatics and Biotechnology and Molecular Biology courses. In the case of other courses, the merit in qualifying examination would be taken into account. However, in BTech (Agri Engg), MBA (General) and MBA (Agribusiness), candidates would be admitted on the basis of merit in AIEEE/MAT as per the policy of the Haryana government, he added.
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CRR, SLR could be lowered: Expert
Kurukshetra, April 23 To make the credit pricing more transparent, there was certainly a case for an early review of the BPLR as suggested by the Committee on Financial Sector Assessment, observed Goel who welcomed the move of the RBI to constitute a working group to implement the recommendations of the CFSA. Banks were becoming apprehensive of higher NPAs and were not sanctioning loans. New kind of innovative instruments should have been launched to minimise or spread risks associated with new projects so that banks disbursed loans, he said. The RBI pursued various objectives contextually and the need of the hour was an objective of growth. “Here again, we see scope for qualitative methods; we can enhance loan disbursement to selective sectors e.g. food processing, industries, housing, power, roads, ports, etc”, believes the professor.
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11 shields for Ambala rail divn
Ambala, April 23 The Railways celebrated the 54th railway week in New Delhi. Meanwhile, the division has registered a 1.6 per cent increase in revenue than last year. This year, it earned Rs 1,224.43 crore against Rs 1,205.45 crore during the same period last year. Talking to The Tribune, H.K Jaggi, DRM, Ambala Division, said the department had registered a 7.3 per cent increase in earnings from STD/PCO contracts, 21 per cent increase in earnings from unconventional sources and a 26.16 per cent increase in earnings through ATMs. Meanwhile, the earnings from ticket checking were Rs 9.54 crore against Rs 8.29 crore last year. The department has also activated telephone no 154 at the Chandigarh, Ropar, Nangal Dam, Ambala, Kalka, Jagadhri, Bhatinda, Saharanpur and Shimla telephone exchanges for the public.
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Academy strives to make women self-reliant
Gurgaon, April 23 As a part of a corporate philosophy, the academy has decided to contribute, through training, towards making 45 financially and socially disadvantaged girls employable. With the help of
SEWA, an NGO involved in empowering women who have identified the participating girls from Delhi, the academy proposes to impart basic skills training in the areas of computers, accountancy, spoken English and social etiquette to these girls. It is expected that on completion of the programme these girls would be well equipped to join the productive workforce and be financially independent.
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‘PR helps in strengthening democracy’
Fatehabad, April 23 He said “Narad
Muni” was the first public relations person known to us and after that instances of PR have been found in the history. He said PR was increasing day by day and more and more modern techniques are being used in this. He said emails and websites have made the world look so small and information could be transmitted to different corners of the world at a click. Additional deputy commissioner Ashok Kumar Meena said PR had assumed much importance in today’s world of information. The democracy demanded transparency and PR was the most important aspect of ensuring transparency by providing the right information at the right time.
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SMS poll on traffic jams
Sonepat, April 23 SSP Navdeep Singh Virk in a statement said the police had publicised its mobile number about two weeks ago and sought public opinion on this issue. The police came to the conclusion that creating hurdles on the road resulted in inconvenience to the public and it is not a solution to any problem. He said blocking of road was an offence under Sections 341 and 283 of the IPC and the people should shun the path that led to inconvenience to the fellow public if they had some problem. The police administration always tried to resolve public grouse and if any delay occurs on part of the police, people should show patience instead of taking the law into their own hands.
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