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More farmers stage protest over power cuts
8-hour power supply to farmers from July 1: CM
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Bhajan Lal pledged support to UPA: Batra
HUDA to reserve sites for differently abled
Robbery bid foiled, 2 held
Ensure proper utilisation of specialist docs: Govt
Sirsa residents getting contaminated water
HR to provide seats to kids on half-ticket
Dist panel seals 2 swimming pools
Pensioners seek better deal
Cricket betting: 6 held
Man murdered
CM mourns Panchal’s death
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More farmers stage protest over power cuts
Karnal, June 22 The farmers from Mehmadpur, Nali, Kunjpura, Navel, Mainmati, Subri and Navgaon villages assembled near the Navel power station, 5 km from here, and squatted on the Karnal-Kunjpura highway. They also parked their tractor-trailers on the road for over an hour to protest against the erratic power supply. The villagers were angry over acute power shortage and feared that they would suffer huge losses if the authorities did not act and streamline the power supply. Seva Singh Aarya, general secretary of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, said the farmers were getting power for only six hours a day and tubewells were lying idle. Water was not available even for drinking as there no wells in villages,he added. The villagers rued that industry was getting adequate power supply but the farmers were being starved of power. The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam should curtail the power supply to industry and other commercial consumers to meet the demand of the agricultural sector, they said. Paddy transplantation started on June 10 and the work has to be completed by mid-July, failing which the farmers will not be able to get a good crop. The villagers lifted the blockade only after SDO Gagan Pandey gave an assurance that the power supply would be improved. |
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8-hour power supply to farmers from July 1: CM
Rohtak, June 22 Listening to public grievances at the canal rest house in Rohtak on Monday, Hooda said smart cards would also be made available the same day to the persons living below the poverty line (BPL) to enable them to get rice and wheat at a rate of Rs 3 per kg. “The state government has taken a number of steps to enhance the socio-economic status of the BPL families. A scheme to allot residential plots of 100 square yards each free of cost to the poor has already been implemented. Besides, they are being provided financial assistance at subsidised rates for construction of houses as well,” maintained Hooda. He asserted that the number of seats in the ITIs, polytechnics and engineering colleges had been increased from 30,000 to 1 lakh. The youth of Rohtak needed not go to other cities to join advanced film and television courses, fashion design and fine arts as these courses had now been made available in their town. The CM said 85 per cent of the seats at the integrated centre being set up at HUDA, Sector 6, Rohtak, would be reserved for the residents of Haryana. Besides, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) had also been sanctioned for the state. Replying to a question, he said the General Budget would safeguard the interests of the common man. |
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Bhajan Lal pledged support to UPA: Batra
Faridabad, June 22 Batra’s and former Haryana minister Krishan Murti Hooda’s expulsion will be debated upon at a public meeting of party workers at Jind on July 12. The former Home Minister's disclosure comes in the wake of Bishnoi's public statement that he would make efforts to win over the leaders who were not happy,except those like Subash Batra, who were close to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Batra challanged Bishnoi to deny that Bhajan Lal wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, pledging support to the Congress-led UPA government. He further alleged that Bishnoi was answerable to the HJC rank and file as to on what authority he went to meet the BJP leader, LK Advani, for pssibile HJC-BJP alliance before the Lok Sabha elections. Now Bhajan Lal and Bishnoi have entered into an electoral tie-up with with BSP, which was an "unholy" alliance, he added. Batra said it was the Punjabis of Haryana who had facilitated Bhajan Lal to become the Chief Minister of the state for 13 long years by their undiluted support.The total strength of the Bishnois, the sect to which Bhajan Lal belngs, does not form even half per cent of the state’s population. But Bhajan Lal always used the non-Jats, especially the Punjabis as his political base and deprived them of real political empowerment. This was amply borne out by the fact that Bhajan Lal bargained with the Congress leadership and made his elder son Chander Mohan (now Chand Mohammad) the Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana after the last Assembly election in the state. He ignored the claims of senior Punjabi leaders AC Chaudhary and Mange Ram Gupta to the post of Deputy Chief Minister. They were much senior to his son. Later on, he and his son quit the Congress even though the party had given them all political power. They quit the Congress simply because Bhajan Lal was denied the post of Chief Minister. Fatehabad: Meanwhile, Bishnoi claimed here yesterday that his party won from nine Assembly segments, while the BSP emerged winner in eight seats during the recent parliamentary elections and in 34 other segments, the two parties remained at second position. Bishnoi said people of Haryana had rejected the INLD-BJP alliance in the parliamentary elections and the Assembly elections would witness contests between the Congress and the HJC-BSP. |
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HUDA to reserve sites for differently abled
Chandigarh, June 22 Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is also the Chairman of HUDA, said under the scheme 2 per cent of commercial sites designated as kiosks and booths in shopping centres would be reserved for the persons with disabilities. He said the reservation of commercial sites would be made in all shopping centres in all urban estates where more than 50 per cent of the total commercial sites designated as kiosks and booths are unsold and available for allotment and the commercial sites so reserved would be allotted on the reserved price fixed by HUDA. The applications for allotment of commercial sites earmarked for persons with disabilities would be invited through advertisement and in case of more than one applicant for a particular site, the site would be offered through draw of lots, said the Chief Minister. Preference would be given in allotment of social and charitable sites reserved for social organisations to the organisations constituted with the persons with disabilities in case of 10 per cent of the advertised sites. Besides, 2 per cent institutional plots in exclusive institutional sectors would be reserved for organisations of persons with disabilities, he added. For recreational sites, HUDA would create barrier-free environment in buildings where handicapped persons could move easily, he added. He said the entry of persons with disabilities would be free in the auditorium and parks developed by HUDA. Such persons would be given 10 per cent concession in the fee prescribed for membership of gymkhana clubs and sports facilities developed by HUDA in sports complexes/stadium. Hooda said under the scheme these concessions would be given only to those persons with disabilities who are Haryana domiciles with 70 per cent or above disability. |
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Robbery bid foiled, 2 held
Panipat, June 22 The incident took place in the Sukhdev Nagar locality at the house of Dr Parshotam Bansal. Three robbers forced entered into his house late in the night and held him and his wife hostage along with doctor’s assistant. However, the doctor managed to alert his neighbour who reported the matter to the police. A team of police officials from the nearby police station immediately reached the spot and surrounded the doctor’s residence. The police managed to rescue Dr Bansal and his assistant from the clutches of the robbers, who, in the meantime took the doctor’s wife to the terrace and held her hostage there. The doctor, after being rescued, told the police that two of the robbers were armed with pistols while one was carrying a knife. Sensing danger of getting arrested, the three robbers made a daredevil attempt to jump from the terrace of the building and give the police a slip. Even as two of them managed to flee from the scene, the police managed to arrest one of them as he sustained injury in his foot after they jumped from the building. The one who was arrested was later identified as Mahabir, son of Fateh Singh of Hatt village in Jind district. He told the police about the other two robbers who were identified as Vinay, son of Ravinder and a resident of Machreli village, and Suraj, son of Lekhram and a resident of Rewari. Police teams were dispatched to arrest the accused. Vinay was also arrested and a country made pistol was recovered from his possession. Besides, the police also recovered Rs 2,200, a driving license, a gold chain and some documents that they had looted from Ashok Kumar, doctor’s assistant. The police said the doctor had installed CCTV cameras on his premises which would help the police nail the accused in the court of law. The arrested were produced before a local court which sent them in police remand for three days. The police registered a case under Sections 392, 294 and some sections of the Arms Act against the three accused. |
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Ensure proper utilisation of specialist docs: Govt
Sirsa, June 22 In a communication to all civil surgeons, principal medical officers and medical superintendents, Anuradha Gupta, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Haryana, has directed them to ensure optimum utilisation of specialist medical officers in the district hospitals, so that their services could be of benefit for the general public. Gupta has directed the authorities against using the services of specialist doctors for causality and postmortem, unless it is absolutely imperative in the absence of non-specialist doctors. “Even in such cases, it should be an exception and not a rule,” the orders issued by Anuradha Gupta emphasise. Doctors working in nearby community health centres and primary health centres are now being assigned casualty and postmortem duties in the district hospitals after these orders. The step has been taken after complaints received from the specialist doctors that their services were being wasted by the authorities in these routine jobs leaving with them no time and energy to concentrate on OPD and IPD work relating to their own speciality. Meanwhile, the state government has also directed the health authorities at district level to issue special sanction to purchase essential ENT instruments out of the user funds under the Swasthya Kalyan Samiti (SKS)-the funds collected by the health authorities from patients through registration for the OPD, IPD and for other services. |
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Sirsa residents getting contaminated water
Sirsa, June 22 Of the 56 samples of water taken by the health authorities from various parts of the district in May, 38 were found containing quantities of coliform bacteria that render the water unfit for human consumption. Likewise, of the 53 samples taken by the authorities in April, only 13 samples were found fit. The health authorities took three samples of water from three different areas in Ding village of this district and all three were found to be unfit for human consumption. Four samples taken from four different places of Ellenabad were declared unfit for human consumption. In Mallekan, six samples were taken and five of those failed. Besides, samples of drinking water taken from Nejadela Khurd, Sahuwala, Baragura, Buda Bhana, Korarkot, Mallewala, Burtwala, Amritsar Kalan and Amritsar Khurd villages and ward 17 and ward 15 of Ellenabad town were found contaminated and unfit for human consumption. C Block, DC Colony, the CMK National PG College for Women and B Block of Sirsa town are some areas of Sirsa town, where drinking water has been found contaminated. Mercifully, judges, lawyers and government doctors are relatively safer as samples of drinking water taken from the local District Courts Complex and the General Hospital contained only two coliform bacteria per hundred millilitres each. The chlorine test was found to be positive in a majority of samples taken from the water tanks of the public health department, while it was found nil in a majority of samples taken from the actual outlets, the water taps from where the public takes water. Confirming the reports, Dr GS Somani, District Health Officer, Sirsa, said the health authorities had been taking samples of water from all parts of the district on a regular basis. RK Malhotra, superintending engineer (SE), Public Health, however, contested the reports of the health authorities and maintained that the health authorities did not take the samples in the manner these should be taken. |
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HR to provide seats to kids on half-ticket
Chandigarh, June 22 Transport Minister Mange Ram Gupta said instructions to this effect had been issued to all staff members. They had also been directed that instructions regarding providing seats to half-ticket passengers should also be written in the buses and at all bus stands, he added. To provide better facilities to the passengers, the Haryana government has decided to construct 20 passengers friendly ultra modern bus stands in the state. Gupta said the proposed sites where the modern bus stands would be constructed included Karnal, Panchkula, Bahadurgarh, Pipli, Palwal, Manesar, Gurgaon (Sector 29), Faridabad (Sector 12), Faridabad (NIT), Faridabad (Ballabgarh), New Bus Stand for Sonipat, Ambala City, Bawal, Panipat, Yamunanagar, Rohtak, Hisar, Kundli, Gurgaon (near Rajiv Chowk) and Gurgaon (existing Bus Stand). The proposed bus stands would be constructed on built operate and transfer (BOT) basis and would have top- class infrastructure and support services to cater to the needs of the general public for at least next 30 years, Gupta said. |
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Dist panel seals 2 swimming pools
Gurgaon, June 22 The swimming pools sealed today include those of Retreat Apartment Owners Association of Sector 30 and Oakwood Estate Condominium Association, Akshmeen Marg, DLF City Phase-II Gurgaon. According to official sources, the persons running these swimming pools were issued notices in April last to get registered from the Sports Council, but they did not respond. The committee members led by Gurgaon (North) SDM Jai Singh Sangwan today visited these pools and found that these were running without a valid licence. Following this, the pools were sealed. The other members included District Sports Officer-cum-Secretary of District Sports Council Kulwinder Singh, swimming coach Jagbir Singh and Naib Tehsildar Sant Ram as Executive Magistrate. |
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Pensioners seek better deal
Kurukshetra, June
22 Sharma said their demands included additional pension at the rate of 20 per cent, 30 per cent, 40 per cent, 50 per cent and 100 per cent on attaining the age of 60, 65, 70, 75 and 80 years instead of 80, 85, 90, 95 and 100 years, respectively, as suggested by the Sixth Pay Commission; grant of house rent on a par with government employees like medical allowance; government service to one member of the pensioner’s family according to his/her educational qualifications, whose family wholly depends on one member's pension; government service to one member of the deceased family according to his/her educational qualifications so that the deceased's family may stand on its feet; the ex gratia grant being given to the deceased's family may be dispensed with immediately; and concession in Haryana Roadways buses on the Punjab pattern or the Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan governments’ pattern. |
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Cricket betting: 6 held
Gurgaon, June 22 Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Anil Kumar Dhawan said the arrested persons were Balkishan, alias Balu, of Arjun Nagar, Amit, alias Raju, of Model Town and Sanjay of Nai Abadi, Arjun Nagar. Two TV sets, six mobile phones, two recording machines, and some cassettes were seized from their possession, he added. SIRSA: Three persons were arrested on Sunday night on a charge of engaging in satta on the Twenty-20 cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. A police spokesman said a team from the city police station raided a house in B Block of the town after getting a tip-off that cricket satta was in progress there. Shish Pal, Deepu and Sunny were arrested. The police team allegedly recovered 12 mobile phones, a laptop, a colour television set, a recorder and a slip mentioning details of satta bookings from them. |
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Man murdered
Rohtak, June 22 According to the reports, Ashok had gone to Karnal and was returning back from there late at night on Saturday after unloading a consignment from his vehicle there. But, he did not return. |
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CM mourns Panchal’s death
Chandigarh, June 22 The recipient of the Babu Bal Mukund Gupt Award, conferred by the Haryana Sahitya Akademi last year in recognition of his contribution to Hindi literature, Panchal breathed his last on Saturday at Kurukshetra. In a condolence message issued here today, the Chief Minister described Panchal as a very humble person, who was sensitive to his surroundings.
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