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Dadupur canal inaugurated
‘Criminal Neglect’
Faridabad gets Police Commissioner
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Upgrading of School
Power substation attacked
501 acres demarcated for central varsity
Govt committed to forming gurdwara panel
Protest over youth’s murder
Subdivisional engineer assaulted
Woman abducted, raped
2 held for killing girl
Manas drain to be reconstructed
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Dadupur canal inaugurated
Yamunanagar, August 1 “The irrigation scheme which costs Rs 267 crore was approved not only to provide water to the farmers for irrigation purpose but also to recharge the ground water table of the area. The canal water will now benefit the farmers of 225 villages of Yamunanagar, Ambala and Kurukshetra,” said Hooda after the inauguration. Later, the CM also inaugurated five major development projects and laid the foundation stones of three projects. Hooda said unlike previous governments in the state, the Congress took the project seriously. The canal with a capacity of 590 cusecs will get water supply from Dadupur headwork. Besides, surplus water from Hathnikund barrage presently going downstream would be diverted into the canal during Kharif season. Its second phase was likely to be completed by June 30, 2010, he added. The state government was committed for overall development of the state. The Haryana government has formulated an ambitious plan to strengthen the power transmission network in the state under which Rs 4,322.10 crore would be spent during the next three years. The construction of 106 new substations, augmentation of 83 existing substations and erection of 3,473 km new transmission lines had been approved to ensure transmission of qualitative and uninterrupted electricity supply to consumers, Hooda further said. Irrigation Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav said due to overexploitation of underground water, the water table had reduced considerably. Now, availability of water in Dadupur Nalvi canal would help to recharge the ground water table of the area and in sustaining the existing irrigation system. The CM also inaugurated a major project of making artificial foot by the Red Cross Society started by Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar Aggarwal for free of cost distribution to needy people at the mini-secretariat here. The CM also distributed 150 artificial feet made by the District Red Cross Society to physically challenged persons besides tricycles to others. The CM laid the foundation stones of 220 kV substation at Rampur Kamboyan village. Later, the CM announced a grant of Rs 10 lakh to the District Bar Association for the construction of library, books and furniture after inaugurating the litigant hall and canteen at the district courts. Other projects, which the CM inaugurated, included the district jail and PWD rest house in Jagadhri. He also laid the foundation stones of the construction of the consumer court and construction houses for the Revenue Department. |
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2 siblings die at Civil Hospital
Sunit Dhawan Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, August 1 Barely a day before the minister made the aforesaid announcement, Vijay Kumar Pandey, a 34-year-old migrant construction labourer, brought his two kids and mother-in-law to the Gurgaon Civil Hospital in a critical condition. It was around 2 am on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. “The doctor on duty first asked us to run away as they could not accommodate so many patients at a time...On our repeated pleas, he admitted my mother-in-law but refused to admit or treat the children,” Pandey said while talking to The Tribune here today. As the condition of Pandey’s 10-month-old son Atul deteriorated, his brother-in-law Pankaj requested the doctor to have a look at the kid. “However, instead of coming along, the doctor verbally abused me and pushed me out of the room, stating that if we were in such a hurry, we should go to some private hospital,” asserted Pankaj. When the condition of the child worsened and the hapless family couldn’t bear it any more, Atul’s mother Aarti again went to the doctor. “The doctor told us to get a packet of Glucon-D from a chemist shop outside, mix it in water and keep on giving it to Atul...He said he could do nothing more as the child specialist would arrive only in the morning,” said Aarti. They continued to do so, but Atul died in their arms around 5 am. Following this, Pankaj sent Pandey and Aarti home to arrange for Atul’s cremation. Meanwhile, the condition of Atul’s sister, two-year-old Tannu, also worsened. The hospital staff then gave a slip to Pankaj, but when he took her to the paediatric wing, he was told that there was no bed available. Ultimately, Tannu also died around 11 am. While the family members and other patients and acquaintances staged a protest demonstration, Atul and Tannu’s elder sister Soni (8) was traumatised at her siblings’ death. Her parents Vijay and Aarti were also inconsolable. “Finally, after the intervention of a woman doctor, Soni was admitted to the hospital and her treatment began,” said Pankaj. While civil surgeon Dr SS Dalal was not available for comments, principal medical officer Dr Khajan Singh said a committee of doctors had been formed to inquire into the incident. In other words, operation cover-up has begun for the umpteenth time. In the given state of affairs, one wonders what purpose would be served by the hundreds of vehicles being hired by the government to ferry patients, especially when those reaching the hospital with a hope are treated in such an inhuman manner. Do the authorities (un) concerned have an answer?
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Faridabad gets Police Commissioner
Faridabad, August 1 The system will have one Joint Commissioner of Police, four DCPs and 12 ACPs. It has been divided into three zones: Faridabad central Ballabgarh and NIT. True to its word, the present government has introduced the new system of policing in Faridabad, albeit a delayed measure when the countdown for the Assembly elections in the state has begun. The talk for injecting the new system was in the air in the government circles for a long time, especially after the system was introduced in Gurgaon. However, the Congress government had committed to introduce the system in Faridabad too and the issue could not have been delayed longer in view of the speculations of the Assembly elections in the state being preponed. The need for introducing the system was felt on account of the growing geographical expanse of Faridabad and the march of urbanisation of the area, which needed a more modern system of policing to control crime. Police Commissioner of Faridabad PK Aggarwal, who was already stationed here as IG, said the main focus of the police here would remain the same. The difference, however, would be the method of policing which would be more effective. The expectation of better policing in the system was on account of the presence of more officers as manpower. Also, the police would be given more power under the Arms Act and also under Section 107 and Sections 111-122 of the CrPC. He said: “The power under Section 107 of the CrPC and the enabling Sections from 111-122 gives power to make preventive arrests. The power for preventive arrests gives the police more teeth with respective preventive measure, which is also substantive and functional aspect of policing. Aggarwal further said efforts would be made to sensitise the force to further improve its public image and to make it more people friendly.
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Decision evokes mixed reaction
Tribune Reporters
Karnal, August 1 While Jagdish Singh Jhinda, president, Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (ad hoc), hailed the announcement, Didar Singh Nalvi, general secretary of the rival faction of the HSGPC, termed it as anti-Sikh and an attempt to hoodwink the state Sikhs. “The Hooda government has lost the confidence of the Sikhs who are feeling cheated by the announcement,” he said. He said the Sikhs were unable to understand the politics behind “shift” in the government’s stand as nearly 3 lakh Sikhs had submitted a memorandum in support of a separate HSGPC. The government took the state Sikhs for a ride by including the issue of a separate HSGPC in the Congress manifesto in 2005 Assembly polls, but delayed the issue by appointing the Chatha committee, which gave the report after four years. He alleged that to add insult to the injury, the government set up a legal committee to study the report and now the Chief Minister was trying to raise legal issues to wriggle out of the situation. Nalvi said a meeting of executive committee members of the HSGPC has been convened on August 14 to chalk out the future course of action. Jhinda, on the other hand, maintained that the announcement was welcome as for the first time a specific date had been announced for constituting a separate HSGPC. AMBALA: Senior vice-president of the Punjab Akali Dal and executive member, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), Karnail Singh Panjori said the SGPC would strongly oppose the formation of a separate SGPC for Haryana. He was talking to mediapersons at Gurdwara Manji Sahib here on Saturday. He said the announcement made by the Chief Minister was an interference in their religious matters.
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Villagers stage dharna
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, August 1 It is not that the villagers are not willing to send their sons and daughters to school and college. They have been sitting in dharna outside the village primary school for 12 days in support of their demand for upgrading the institution to the middle standard level. On the 12th day of their dharna today, even women came out in support of their men and sat in protest in front of the school for the whole day. “We are illiterate but we can understand the importance of education. We, too, want our daughters to become self-reliant after getting good education,” said Manni Devi, sitting in a veil at the dharna site. She said they could not send their daughters to study in Rania or Kharia, both of which were 10 km from their village. “Only three days ago, the bodies of two teenaged schoolgirls were recovered from a sarovar in nearby Jeewan Nagar. No one knows what exactly happened. We do not feel safe even sending our sons at a tender age of 10 or 11 to school 10 km away,” said Savitri. Inder Pal, a villager, said the only primary school of their village was established in 1969. Since then the village panchayat had made several efforts to get it upgraded but in vain. Gulzari Lal Dhaka, sarpanch of the village, said:”Fed up with false assurances given by the authorities, we locked up the school building on July 7.” They had decided now to continue the dharna till their demand was met.
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Power substation attacked
Jind, August 1 The power supply remained disrupted for over about three hours. The incident took place when residents converged at the substation to lodge a complaint and to know the cause of disruption of the power supply. The residents and a couple of employees attending to the complaint had heated exchanges over the fault. The response of the staff there, however, could not satisfy the complainants and the verbal duel led to exchange of blows. The mob started pelting the substation and the staff with stones. The residents alleged that the employees were deliberately not making efforts for immediate removal of the fault. However, the staff of the power nigam claimed that a snag in one of the transformers had led to the disruption of power supply and the residents, who had assembled there, refused to listen to them and started abusing them. |
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501 acres demarcated for central varsity
Narnaul, August 1 In addition to this, 150 acres of land had also been earmarked for the Higher Education Department for setting up of new He revealed that all works had been finalised at a meeting held recently with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. He said along the Dadri-Mohindergarh Road, six acres of land had been acquired for the front gate of the university. |
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Govt committed to forming gurdwara panel
Yamunanagar, August 1 The legal aspects of the report were being examined and if there were no legal hitch, a separate SGPC for Haryana would be constituted. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda stated this when asked regarding the demand of the Sikhs for a separate SGPC at the PWD rest house, Jagadhri, today. Reacting to the possibility of the early elections in the state, the CM said the elections in the state were due in February 2010. However, the Election Commission had jurisdiction to pre-pone or postpone elections by six months.
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Protest over youth’s murder
Yamunanagar, August 1 He was admitted to the Civil Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The police has registered a case against four youths. However, no one has been arrested so far. Old rivalry is stated to be the reason behind the incident. The deceased’s grandfather, Rameshwar Chohan, who is a member of the BJP State Working Committee, threatened that if the police failed to arrest the accused, they would launch an agitation. |
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Subdivisional engineer assaulted
Sonepat, August 1 In his complaint, the SDE alleged that after receiving the complaints of canal water thefts by village farmers, he inspected the Thana Kalan distributory late last night. He noticed that some of the farmers were engaged in canal water theft and when he objected to this, they allegedly beat him up. The police has registered a case against one Rajinder Singh and others under various sections of the IPC. However, no arrest has been made so far.
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Woman abducted, raped
Faridabad, August 1 The police has nabbed one of the three accused, Ashok, who was the driver of the vehicle. The other two are still at large. The three forcibly took away the woman from near her house in Surya Vihar in Sarai Pall area, near here, in a Tata Sumo in which they were travelling yesterday evening. The police got into action when the woman’s husband lodged a complaint. The local police informed the Delhi police, which was also put on alert. The woman was traced at Okhla police station. The driver of the vehicle was arrested on the complaint of the woman. The police said the other two involved in the crime would be arrested soon. |
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2 held for killing girl
Rewari, August 1 Sources said the girl, daughter of Ranjit, was abducted allegedly by the duo on Wednesday night. She was taken to a place on the hillock, adjoining the village, where she was allegedly raped by the accused and later strangled to death by them. Enmity is stated to be the reason behind this, the sources added. The police has registered a case of rape and murder in this regard. |
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Manas drain to be reconstructed
Kaithal, August 1 Giving details to mediapersons here today, MLA Shamsher Singh Surjewala, also president, All-India Kisan Khet Majdoor Congress, said the drain, initially constructed to save the town from floods in early 70s, had become a stinking nullah as numbers of residential colonies had come up in its vicinity. Surjewala said the construction work of the project would start soon. |
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