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Girls’ common room: Rajya Sabha MP Ishwar Singh inaugurated the girls’ common room at Markanda National College, Shahabad (M), on college premises here on Saturday. College principal Vinay Malhotra said Singh announced a grant of Rs 5,00,000 to the college from his discretionary fund for the completion of its projects such as construction of green room and departmental rooms. A cultural programme was also
organised. REWARI
1 killed in accident: Gajraj Yadav (42), an employee of the Rewari branch of Indian Overseas Bank and a resident of Bagthala village, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gurgaon on Friday. Gajraj was critically injured when the motorcycle he was riding on was reportedly hit by an unknown vehicle on the Rewari-Bolni road, near Bakhapur village, on Thursday night. He was admitted to a hospital in Gurgaon, where he died on Friday. The police has registered a case of causing death by negligence in this regard. SIRSA
Office-bearers appointed: District president of the INLD Padam Jain on Saturday appointed Pardeep Mehta as the senior vice-president of the district unit of the party. Suresh Bansal, Narender Mehta, Subhash Nain, Charanjit Mehta, Vinod Kamboj and Gajanand Soni have been nominated vice-presidents of the unit. Ranbir Rana will be the secretary general while Leela Dhar Saini, Munshi Ram, Dharam Pal, Girdhari Bissu, Gobind Gujjar, Sohan Lal, Balwinder Sran and Atam Rohilla have been nominated as general secretaries of the party. Ramesh Mehta will head the legal cell of the party in the district.
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HJC leader lashes out at govt: Senior Haryana Janhit Congress leader Dharampal Singh Malik on Sunday questioned the logic of dissolving the state Assembly seven months earlier than the scheduled date and remarked that the state government did not have the courage to face the electorates because of growing resentments against the government. Talking to mediapersons here, Malik alleged that residents of other areas in the state except Rohtak had been discriminated while inducting the youth in government services. A number of political activists, including Mahila district president of the Congress Bimla
Bansal, Municipal Councillor Satbir Vats, former MC Joginder and BKU leader Braham Singh Dahiya joined the
HJC. Student’s body found: The body of an ITI student, Jagminder of Bhawar village in Gohana subdivision here, was found lying in a park near the Gymkhana Club in Sector 7 adjoining the GT road on Sunday. The body bore deep head injury marks. The body was handed over to his family members after a postmortem. On the complaint of the victim’s brother,
Jagdish, the police has registered a case against unidentified persons. Jagdish said his brother had gone to Gohana on Saturday, but did not return home. He suspected that Jagminder had been murdered.
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IDP threatens to intensify stir: Activists of the Internationalist Democratic Party (IDP) have threatened to intensify their stir if the state government does not order a probe immediately into the killing of peace activist Hoshiar Singh and his wife Shashi Bala in a ‘terrorist attack’ last year. The party men have been demanding a thorough probe into the killing, as they believe there was a deep-rooted conspiracy behind the killing of the couple. The couple had been fighting against the drugs menace in the area.2 held from railway station: The police on Saturday arrested two men moving suspiciously from the Samba railway station. Sources said the Samba police arrested the duo, identified as Moulvi Mohammed Ilyas and
Yaqoob, residents of Thannamandi in Rajouri district, from the railway station. The sources said both of them were later shifted to the Joint Interrogation Centre
(JIC) in Jammu, but nothing incriminating was recovered from their possession. Man found dead: Mystery shrouds the death of a man, who was found dead at Baba Sidh Goria Mandir in Swankha on Sunday. Official reports said
Sachidanand, disciple of Shiv Anand, who was native of Kanyakumari, died under suspicious circumstances at the religious place in
Swankha. Meanwhile, the police said Neena Padha of Gangyal and Yashpaul of RS Pura were admitted to the GMC after they allegedly consumed poison. AIDS
awareness workshop: An AIDS awareness week observed by the Tiger
Division began here on Friday. The workshop is being conducted by AIDS
counsellor and a three-time award winner from the UN AIDS Society
Narinder Basi. The workshop aims at educating troops and their families
about the dreaded disease. Basi is interacting with troops and their
families in different locations of the Tiger Division to spread
awareness about the disease. He is distributing AIDS literature. Plantation drive organised: Government College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, in collaboration with the Directorate of Environment and Remote Sensing on Saturday organised a plantation drive. The drive was followed by a symposium on ‘environment and conservation’. Various medicinal plants were planted by the principal and staff of the college on the campus. Prof. Nalini Kohli, principal of the college stressed on the value and importance of medicinal plants to keep up environment healthy. Students also participated in the symposium. Zeba Bhatti, Neha Sharma stood first and second, respectively, and Sumneet Kour and Lakshmi Bilouria shared the third place. Students donate Rs 87,000: Students of KC International School collected and handed over an amount Rs 87,843 to the HelpAge India. Around 20 students of the school had mobilised their resources and collected the amount to help elderly people. Appreciating the students, Sunita Santoshi, Jammu unit manager, HelpAge India, and senior executive Neeru Sharma said students bit would help the elderly persons. Rajouri
Water supply scheme: The Army has come to the rescue of nearly 5,000 villagers in Rajouri district who have been waiting for regular water supply for decades. A defence spokesperson said the Army had laid a water supply system in Chowki Handan village. Inaugurating the water supply scheme, Maj-Gen RS Pradhan, GOC, Rajouri division, assured people of continued assistance by the Army in developmental projects. It has brought to an end the practice of women and children carrying pitchers on their heads and buckets in their hands, scouring for water from streams and springs far away. This summer was particularly harsh for the villagers with many springs drying up. There was little rain and no water in ponds. Horticulture plan: An amount of Rs 31.78 crore has been earmarked for the first three years of the five-year horticulture plan under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) aimed at achieving a four per cent growth rate in fruit production in Rajouri district. This was disclosed at a joint meeting of agriculture and allied sectoral officers held here. The department will work on 12 projects, including area expansion programme, creation of irrigation facilities, awareness camps, HRD popularisation of agriculture equipment, kitchen gardening, organised farming and vermin-compost and establishment of training centres at the district level. UDHAMPUR
Training programme: The District Health Society (DHS),
Udhampur, organised an ‘integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness’ training programme under the National Rural Health Mission on the premises of district hospital,
Udhampur, on Saturday. As many as 25 women health workers of of five health blocks of the district are being imparted training from August 17. These workers would be specifically trained to handle specific problems from the time of birth to two months and their treatment.
Regional potpourri
Farmer looks for rose oil buyers
Jagdev Singh tends his rose
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Jagdev Singh of Kalalwala village, who chose growing other than traditional crops, has been facing the problem of marketing his produce.Jagdev went for organic farming in six acres and planted rare variety of rose — Damask. Being highly perishable, the flower can be used for extracting ark (distilled water) or rose oil only. He had planted 21 quintals of rose buds in 2001. He was getting good yield of flowers, 15 quintals from an acre, but could extract only a litre of oil from entire produce. The state government’s apathy in respect of marketing the produce has distressed him. Claiming the oil to be very expensive, he said, “There is no fixed international price for it. But customers abroad, tell
THAT its price ranges between Rs 15 lakh and Rs 18 lakh a litre.” Jagdev said, “The soil and climate here are suitable for this crop and it does not need intensive care. But in the absence of marketing, it is good for nothing.” He said, “We have set up oil extracting unit but marketing is the main problem. Till now, we could sell only four bottles to an NRI from Canada at the rate of Rs 5 lakh a litre a couple of years back. We still have five bottles and are looking for buyers.” “We have been trying to sell it via the Internet but people hardly show interest. Even if someone is ready to buy the oil, he offers very low price,” he added. There are only few farmers having this variety of rose in the state. Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh is the hub of this trade. “Except motivating us for taking up crop diversification, no department of the state government has come forward to lend a helping hand,” he said, adding if the situation did not change he would be forced to uproot the whole crop. Education her mission
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Suman Nijhawan founder principal, OSDAV senior secondary public school, Kaithal and regional director DAV schools Kaithal zone has been in the field of education for over 25 years and was honoured by the district administration and social
organisations. The DAV managing committee, acknowledging her service to education made her member of the DAV Public schools governing body and the DAV college managing committee, New Delhi from 2005 to 2008. She said, “When I joined DAV public school, Kaithal, as principal on April 2, 1984, there was no building and the school started functioning from the Hall of Kaithal Club. Using the corridor of the Club as office I admitted 77 students.” Hardships could not deter her. Besides trying to overcome the problem of building, necessary infrastructure and paucity of funds she did not let teaching work suffer. With donation from philanthropist OP Gupta in 1987 four acres was bought in Patti Afgan and the school renamed OSDAV Public School, Kaithal. Since then, 118 rooms and nursery block have been built. The management has undertaken construction of three- storey building for primary classes in Sector-20 HUDA Kaithal. Nijhawan said apart from infrastructure and latest methodology of teaching school had spread education in this semi-rural area said to be backward till
few years ago. The school has produced nearly 20 IITians, more than 1,000 Engineers, 100 Doctors, Army and judicial officers. Students and staff have been contributing to help people affected by floods and earthquakes. Four years ago the school started “Project Uddan” to provide education free of cost to poor children, especially those not going to school. They were brought up to the level of class VI and admitted to government school. The school is going to start a new group this session. Nijhawan said
that now a total of 4,000 students and 175 teaching and non- teaching staff work here. Contributed by Rajay Deep and Satish Seth
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