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Illegal occupation of govt land
Assembly Poll
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Ex-servicemen seek Cong ticket
Assembly Poll
4 IAS, 30 HCS officers transferred
Drive to make people aware of welfare schemes
Library to provide books for competitive exams
Amendment to educational allowance scheme sought
Anangpuria Institutes
Performing difficult tasks a habit for him
DHBVN directions on bulk supply connections
Use e-mail for official communication, officers told
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Illegal occupation of govt land
Panipat, August 6 As per the official records, a copy of which is available with The Tribune, the Haryana State Agriculture Mandi Board (HSAMB) had come up with a new grain market in Samalkha under a special World Bank scheme. Soon after the plots were allotted to commission agents, a total of 6562.65 square yards that was meant for roads and sewers was encroached by them. The commission agents constructed concrete shops on the encroached land. According to the figures, the market price of the said land was calculated to Rs 24.11 crore. Though a number of complaints were filed with the senior authorities, no action was initiated against the encroachers. Under pressure from various quarters, the local market committee passed a resolution in which it was decided that the encroached land would be registered in the name of those who were occupying it in lieu of the market prices. However, social activist PP Kapoor filed petition with the HSAMB under the RTI Act seeking information from the chief administrator whether the roads (on which encroachments have been made) could be allotted to the commission agents. In his reply, the chief administrator said under the rules, the roads could be allotted to the commission agents. Following this, the move of the market committee was thwarted. Meanwhile, the market committee prepared a report in which it mentioned the details of encroachments. According to this report, 109 out of a total of 151 shops that exist in the grain market had been encroached upon the government land. The encroachments had started here in 1995 when 14 shopkeepers had extended their shops. As no action was taken against them, the number swelled to 109, said a senior official of the HSAMB. Till date, no responsibility has been fixed on any of the officers who were supposed to protect the government land from the encroachers. Recently, when some more shopkeepers tried to extend their shops illegally by encroaching upon the government land, the local officials of the market committee swung into action and removed the constructions after seeking police assistance. One of the senior officials of the market committee on condition of anonymity told The Tribune that it was not possible for them to remove all encroachments as the encroachers were politically well connected. Even close relatives of some senior leaders of the ruling party were in the list of encroachers. He said it was not possible for them to move against the illegal occupants without the full-fledged support from the state government. He stated that for a while, they were not allowing any new encroachments in the grain market and an appropriate action would be taken against the encroachers as and when possible.
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Assembly Poll
Gurgaon, August 6 “From now on, the visually impaired voters knowing Braille will be able to cast their vote themselves in privacy without the help of any assistant/escort,” said Haryana chief election officer (CEO) Sajjan Singh at a meeting held here recently. The meeting was attended by Gurgaon divisional commissioner DPS Nagal, besides deputy commissioners of all six districts falling in the division. Addressing the meeting, Sajjan disclosed that EVMs at all polling stations would have Braille ballot strips pasted to enable the visually impaired voters to exercise their franchise in secrecy. “Those visually impaired electors who do not know Braille can cast their vote like before with the help of an assistant/escort,” he added. This is a new step taken by the Election Department in the state. In the recently held Lok Sabha elections in the state, special ballot papers in Braille were made available to the visually impaired voters on demand. While reviewing the progress in the work of updating the electoral rolls, Sajjan asked the deputy commissioners, who are also the district election officers, to ensure that the electoral rolls had the photos of the electors and that Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) were distributed well in time.“Booth-level officers (BLOs) should thoroughly verify the eligibility of all applicants before registering them as new voters,” the CEO said, clarifying that for being registered as a voter, a person should have attained the age of 18 on January 1, 2009. He said though the revision of electoral rolls would come to a halt on August 6, they should not stop receiving Form-6 for the registration of new voters and keep on disposing these of continuously. He revealed that till now, 8.14 lakh new Form-6 had been received in the state. The CEO asked the deputy commissioners to get the de-duplication software installed in the computers of their election offices so as to check the possibility of a person being registered as a voter at more than one places. Sajjan also directed the deputy commissioners to ensure that the polling booths fall in the Assembly constituencies as per the latest notification of the Delimitation Commission. ‘Braille ballot an eyewash’ Mohan Singh Ahluwalia, who had resigned from the post of commissioner (disabilities), Haryana, in protest against the failure of the election authorities in facilitating the differently abled to exercise their franchise, has termed the Braille ballot provision an eyewash. “The Election Commission is trying to escape its responsibility by making provision for Braille ballot strips as a majority of the visually impaired persons do not know Braille,” he said. He asserted that a provision of sound ballot in EVMs would have been more effective. “In this, the EVM utters the name of the corresponding candidate and party on the press of a button…wherever the voter feels like casting the vote, he/she presses the button again and it is done,” he explained. The former commissioner maintained that while he was in service, the Central Election Commission had assured him of the provision of sound ballot, but nothing had been done in this regard so far. Ahluwalia further pointed out that the Election Commission had also failed to provide ramps and tricycles/wheelchairs for the differently abled voters despite its commitment.
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Assembly Poll
Panchkula, August 6 The rumours of early elections have made all such leaders restless and many of them have even started contacting voters and holding “nukkad” meetings in Kalka. As many as 12 Congress leaders have already started lobbying to get the party ticket from Kalka keeping in view the bright prospects of success following the thumping win of the party in the parliamentary elections. The INLD has already announced Pradeep Chaudhary as its candidate from Kalka. Chaudhary belongs to the Gujjar community, which accounts for more than 10 per cent of the voters. Kalka is expected to have around 1,20,000 voters after the process of new registration of votes is over. The constituency, falling in the Gujjar-dominated area, has attracted at least five Gujjar leaders from the Congress to compete for the party ticket. These include Om Parkash Devi Nagar, district president of the party; Om Parkash Gujjar, president of the Gujjar Sabha; Ajaib Singh; Ram Kishan Gujjar, Naraingarh sitting MLA; and Sanjay Chhoker from Smalkha. Leaders belonging to other communities include Bhagat Singh, son of former Rajya Sabha MP Lachchman Singh; his cousin Manvir Kaur Gill, a former president of the Panchkula civic body; Vijay Bansal, a former state secretary of the Congress; Naresh Mann, block president, Pinjore; Usha Sharma, director, Haryana Sahitya Academy; and Dhanender Walia, a former chairman of the Block Samiti. These leaders, however, discount the prospects of a Gujjar being The area used to have a good population of Gujjars prior to the delimitation, said Vijay Bansal. “Now, many villages with a large Gujjar population have been included either in Panchkula or Naraingarh, rendering the number of votes from the community little above 10 per cent of total votes,” he said, adding that the voters in the area had already made up their mind to elect a local leader as the area suffered neglect during the past 15 years. Bhagat Singh, who is banking upon the support of Kalka residents following his successful move against the NHAI demolition drive, has made his intentions clear to the high command for contesting the elections, sources said. Bhagat Singh has already started holding meetings with his supporters and residents in and around Kalka. While he is busy visiting the rural areas, his wife Ruby Singh has been holding “nukkad” meetings in the town for the past two months. “We have already geared up for the elections and contacted people in 30 villages of Raipur Rani and reached 90 per cent people of the Doon Raitan area,” claimed Bhagat Singh.
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Ex-servicemen seek Cong ticket
Rohtak, August 6 The Ex-Servicemen Association, an organisation of retired defence personnel in the state, recently held a meeting here and urged the Congress to give at least one ticket from the Rohtak-Jhajjar belt to an ex-serviceman. In a resolution adopted at the meeting, the association has asked Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to consider fielding a retired defence officer from Jhajjar or Rohtak region so as to honour the contribution of the soldiers of the state in the defence sector. According to Col Rajinder Singh Suhag (retd), Jhajjar and Rohtak are well known for a large number of both serving and retired personnel in defence. Many of them had even won laurels in various operations and wars, he added.
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Assembly Poll
Rewari, August 6 The sammelan adopted several resolutions, exhorting members of the samaj to eliminate the menace of drinking, which was prevalent among a sizeable section of the samaj, and to do away with the tradition of holding big feasts to mark the demise of family elders and imperatively educate their sons and daughters to bring the samaj on a par with other advanced sections of society. Sarpanch Roshni Devi and her co-workers were honoured on the occasion for their successful drive against drinking in public places at Kothal Khurd village in Narnaul. Seeking political empowerment of the samaj, Dr Jangra urged Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to allocate five tickets to the nominees of the samaj in the coming Assembly elections.
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4 IAS, 30 HCS officers transferred
Chandigarh, August 6 All these four officers are members of the IAS and have completed their training at Mussoorie. Among HCS officers WS Goyat, ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA & Special Officer, APZ, Hisar has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Karnal. Anita Yadav, joint commissioner, MCF Ballabhgarh, has been posted as MD, Coop Sugar Mills Sonipat. Geeta Bharti, ADC-cum-CEO, DRA, Karnal, has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Jind, and MD, Coop Sugar Mills, Jind. Pankaj Chaudhry will now look after the work of ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Hisar. Bhal Singh Bishnoi, additional director (admn) and deputy secretary, women and child development department, has been posted as city magistrate, Jind. HC Jain, SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Jagadhri, has been posted as general manager, Haryana Roadways, Panipat, against a vacant post. Dharam Vir Singh Dhankhar, general manager, Haryana Roadways, Hisar, has been posted as zonal administrator, HSAMB, Hisar, against a vacant post. MK Ahuja, SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Ambala, has been posted as SDM, Karnal. Rajesh Jogpal, SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Kaithal, has been posted as additional director (admn) and deputy secretary, higher education department. Aurbind Sharma, general manager, Haryana Roadways, Ambala, has been posted as SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Ambala. Rakesh Kumar Yadav, SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Sirsa, has been posted as general manager, Haryana Roadways, Hisar. Yashendra Singh, SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Bhiwani, has been posted as city magistrate, Gurgaon. Rajiv Mehta, SDM, Karnal, has been posted as zonal administrator, HSAMB, Karnal, against a vacant post. JK Abhir, SDM, Fatehabad, has been posted as SDM, Ratia. Ram Kumar Singh, SDM, Bilaspur, has been posted as city magistrate, Kurukshetra, and chief executive officer, Kurukshetra Development Board, Kurukshetra, against vacant posts. Shakti Singh, joint commissioner, MC Gurgaon, has been posted as secretary, RTA, Rewari, and Mahendragarh. HC Bhatia, SDM, Loharu, has been posted as SDM, Bahadurgarh. KS Gill, city magistrate, Ambala, has been posted as secretary, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation. Sandeep Singh, city magistrate, Jind, has been posted as SDM, Mahendragarh. Veena Hooda, city magistrate, Gurgaon, has been posted as joint commissioner, MCF, Ballabhgarh. Hawa Singh, SDM, Bahadurgarh, has been posted as SDM and estate officer, HUDA, Kaithal. Satbir Singh Jangu, SDM, Mahendragarh, has been posted as SDM, Loharu. DR Kairon, secretary, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation, has been posted as city magistrate, Ambala. Satyender Duhan, secretary, RTA, Rewari and Mahendragarh, has been posted as estate officer, HUDA, Faridabad and land acquisition officer, Faridabad, against vacant posts. Amrita Singh, joint director (admn) and undersecretary, higher education department has been posted as joint director (admn), Revenue Training Institute, Ambala, against a vacant post. Subita Dhaka awaiting posting orders will be the new city magistrate and estate officer, HUDA, Panipat. Manjeet Singh, SDM, Dadri, has been posted as SDM, Ellenabad, vice Hoshiar Singh Siwatch, who will be the new SDM, Dadri. Virender Singh, city magistrate, Panipat, has been posted as SDM, Bilaspur. SK Chahal, SDM, Ratia, has been posted as general manager, Haryana Roadways, Rewari, against a vacant post.
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Drive to make people aware of welfare schemes
Panipat, August 6 According to district public relations officer Harnam Das, most of the beneficiaries of the welfare schemes were not able to derive all benefits due to lack of awareness. He said the main aim of the campaign was to make certain that the target population was informed about the schemes. The department has constituted a special team that has been asked to visit various villages in the district and tell the masses how they could benefit from the welfare schemes. The official said assistant district public relations officer Deepak Parashar had been asked to monitor the progress of the campaign. Along with publicising the welfare schemes, the department has also been using the same platform to voice concerns against social evils like female foeticide, dowry, drugs etc. The department has already held programmes to attract villagers to the venues where the needed information was provided to them. Parashar said during the campaign they met a large number of villagers who stated that they had no idea about the welfare schemes as they were illiterate and could not read newspapers. He said the campaign had proved beneficial for such villagers.
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Library to provide books for competitive exams
Sirsa, August 6 “The library at present has 1,200 members and the number is increasing day by day ever since it was converted to e-library last year,” said librarian Rachna Dewan. Rachna said she had been receiving 2 to 3 new membership requests daily. Besides these, as many as 125 readers visit the library daily for reading newspapers and magazines. “We find the e-library very handy for us as we can use Internet facilities and also have access to several e-journals and other reading materials. Printouts are also available at nominal costs,” said Rajni, a visitor. The e-library was set up in the District Library in June 2008 with an expenditure of Rs 15 lakh. The authorities spent around Rs 5 lakh on civil work, Rs 5 lakh on purchase of computers and other fixtures, and Rs 5 lakh on online journals and online encyclopedias.However, the library is beset with some problems too. The journals need to be updated every year, but the lack of funds has delayed the process this year. Five air conditioners installed in the e-library have added to the electricity bills of the establishment. Besides this, expenditure on the repairs of computers and inverters has also necessitated extra expenditure. However, the Higher Education Department that looks after the District Libraries continues to provide the same old amount of funds for meeting the recurring expenditure of the library. “The district authorities have provided Rs 50,000 this year for meeting out additional expenditure on electricity and other unexpected heads so we did not have to face any problem this year,” said Rachna.
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Amendment to educational allowance scheme sought
Rewari, August 6 Describing the existing programme of a monthly allowance of Rs 5,000 up to two children up to class XII strictly on the basis of the receipt of tuition fee paid to the school concerned, as detrimental to the benefit of middle and lower level employees, the HSLA demanded that the monthly educational allowance of Rs 500 be paid and the condition of the submission of a receipt be waived off. Anil Yadav, state president of the HSLA, said children of most of these employees were studying in government schools where the tuition fee was almost negligible. Asserting that the scheme in its present form would certainly deprive all such employees of its benefit, Yadav rued that simultaneously it would also hurt the interest of those employees whose children were now studying in central schools like Navodaya and other government aided recognised schools where, too, the tuition fee was nominal. Stating that the scheme in its present form would only benefit those government school employees whose children were studying in private schools where exorbitant tuition fee was being charged, Yadav feared that it could lead to the large-scale shifting of children from government schools to private schools as other employees would be tempted to do so to derive financial benefit from the existing scheme.
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Anangpuria Institutes
Alampur, (Faridabad), August 6 Located on the Ballabagarh-Sohna road, the institution, set up on a sprawling 41-acre campus, has been doing service to the region by way of capacity building of the youth professionally through academic facilities as well as by providing job opportunities to locals in various capacities on its staff roll. Although the campus houses four institutes, the one related to pharmacy, christened as the BS Anangpuria Institute of Pharmacy (BSAIP), stands out on account of the academic excellence exhibited consistently by its students over the years. The students who have passed out from the institute have found placement in top-notch hospitals and research institutes of the country. The three other institutes relating to law, education and technology and management are also doing well academically. According to principal of the BSAIP Prem Saini, in the annual examinations held in May this year by Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), to which it was affiliated, the institute’s students of B.Pharmacy have yet again set up new records. Out of 45 merits (15 merits allowed by the MDU for each term-year of the course), the BSAIP students clinched 30. In 2007 also, the institute came out with 100 per cent result and 85 per cent of the students secured the first division. This year, Varun Middha and Pooja Solanki of the final year of B.Pharmacy, stood first and second, respectively, in the university. Along with the students of the final year, the students of third year of B.Pharmany bagged the first, second and third ranks in the university examinations held this year. The result story of the second year of B.Pharmacy in the annual (term exam) is the same with students emulated the feat of their seniors. The first three ranks were bagged by the students of the institute. Dr Saini said the students passing from the institute had found placements in top-notch firms and medical institutes.
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Performing difficult tasks a habit for him
Sirsa, August 6 He dragged a school bus tied with his hair for several yards, lifted 20-kg weight with the help of his teeth, put a thread in a needle with his eye and performed many other difficult feats for the entertainment of schoolchildren. The 51-year-old Chaudhary started performing difficult feats at the age of 13. Initially, he started pulling cars and jeeps and after practice buses, railway engine and even aircraft. Chaudhary claims he has so far performed 14700 shows in different part of the country and abroad.
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DHBVN directions on bulk supply connections
Hisar, August 6 A spokesman for the DHBVN said here recently that complaints had been received by the DHBVN and the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission that residents of various group housing societies or multi-storeyed buildings having bulk supply connections were being charged more than the rates approved by the nigam. The nigam had issued notices to all such consumers asking them to submit undertakings in this regard which would be verified by field officers of the DHBVN on a half-yearly basis. The instruction was applicable to the existing as well as prospective bulk supply connections. It would now be mandatory for such consumers to install three-phase four wire meters having dual registration facility for recording consumption through the DHBVN’s system as well as through their own generating sets. The spokesman said failure to comply with the one-month notice would attract disconnection and no further appeals in this regard would be entertained. Such colonisers or builders would have to change the connections in the name of the residents’ association after 50 per cent occupancy. An affidavit in this regard would have to be submitted by them to the DHBVN, along with the occupancy statement, to be filed The nigam has directed its all general managers (operations) to carry out an extensive survey to identify housing societies, residents’ associations or multi-storeyed buildings who are charging higher tariff or where occupancy has crossed 50 per cent, but connections had not been transferred and where meters with dual registration facility are not installed. In case of violation of the directions, the defaulter consumer would be issued a notice of disconnection.
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Use e-mail for official communication, officers told
Sirsa, August 6 In a recent communication to all financial commissioners and principal secretaries, heads of the departments, managing directors of boards and corporations, divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners and subdivisional officers, the chief secretary has issued certain guidelines with a view to promoting the use of e-mail for official communication. The communication said the secretariat for information and technology had published an e-mail directory of officers, which had been uploaded on the websites, www.haryana.gov.in and www.csharyana.gov.in. “The official e-mail should be extensively used by the departments and the officers and they should regularly check their e-mail accounts. E-mail messages sent on the official e-mail IDs shall be treated as valid communication for all official purposes,” said the communication, adding that it should be the responsibility of the officers to ensure that their accounts were operational. The letter said the officers, who wished to use private e-mail IDs in addition to their official IDs could inform NIC about it, but the private IDs would be considered as additional and any communication sent on their official ID would be considered good enough for the purpose of communication. The communication said the officers concerned should be personally liable for responding to the e-mail, although they could delegate the responsibility of checking the mails to any of their subordinates. Officers holding multiple charges should use multiple IDs and communication relating to a particular charge should be sent through the e-mail ID concerned. “In the case of transfer or otherwise, the new incumbent shall use the e-mail ID of his or her predecessor and the change of password can be obtained through the NIC,” the letter further said and added that the new incumbent should have to ensure that the account remained operational.
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Movies this week
Producer: Bharat Shah After the debacle of Himesh Reshammiya-starrer “Karz”, director Satish Kaushik is back with teenage love story “Teree Sang”. Sheena Shahabadi makes debut with this film which opens today at OHM - Sirsa, Fame - Panchkula, Movie Time - Karnal, Fun - Panipat, Cinemax - Panipat, Big Cinemas, PVR Ambi Mall, PVR Sahara, PVR MGF (All Gurgaon), INOX, PVR India Bulls (All Faridabad), Minerva - Ambala Cantt. What to watch out for: Plot, lead stars’ performance, direction and melodious score by
Salim-Jigar.
Agyaat
Producers: Ronnie Screwvala, Ram Gopal Varma “Agyaat” has been shot extensively in the jungles of Sri Lanka. The film has Ramu’s favourite Nisha Kothari who makes a comeback as Priyanka Kothari. The film opens today at OHM - Sirsa, Sun City - Hisar, Fun - Ambala, Fun - Panipat, Minerva - Ambala Cantt, PVR MGF, PVR Sahara, PVR Ambience, Big Cinemas, DTCC, DTMM (All Gurgaon), PVR Crown, INOX, SRS Sector 12, SRS Pristine, Manthan Mall, City Mall, India Bulls Eye (All Faridabad), Fame - Panchkula, Harsha - Karnal, Cinemax - Panipat, Sheila - Rohtak, Suraj - Panchkula. What to watch out for: Fear in the jungle, plot, direction, South’s star Nitin Reddy’s performance and background score.
— Dharam Pal
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government land worth over Rs 24 crore at the Samalkha grain market, the authorities concerned are not in a position to proceed against them following tough resistance put up by the illegal occupants.
Alampur,
(Faridabad), August 6
Sirsa, August 6
