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Delayed monsoon
Kapal Mochan in a state of neglect
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Assembly Poll
Political, religious functions
Poor representation in
Assembly
Lobbying begins for Gurgaon seat
Assembly Poll
‘Delhi-based panel not governing body of KU-affiliated DAV Colleges’
EC do’s and don’ts for netas
Induction programme for week-end MBA students
Focus on improving women’s reproductive health
Reward scheme for cops
Fatehabad Seat
Revised pay brings cheer to sugar mill workers
Ambala registers around 48,000 new voters
Panipat college among top 50 institutions
Movie this week Urvashi Sharma in ‘Baabar’
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Disease hits paddy crop
Ruchika M. Khanna Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 10 The area under the paddy and basmati crop has come down drastically (by almost 1.20 lakh hectares). Against a total area of 12.10 lakh hectares under the crop, the area under cultivation has come down to 10.90 lakh hectares. Since the crop requires more water, the lack of rain led to less paddy being planted this year. But now, when the raingod has finally relented, instances of the crop being affected by this disease have been reported in Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra and Karnal districts. The disease has been sighted in PUSA Basmati 1140 and PUSA Basmati 1 varieties. Most of the pesticides are not effective in treating the disease, which can drastically reduce the crop yield. Officials in the Agriculture Department say it is only by adopting farm practices like reducing the moisture level in the field that the disease can be prevented from spreading further. But the delayed showers are only aggravating the problem. “We have already issued advisories to the district agriculture officers, asking them to assess the problem and advise farmers on tackling the spread of the disease,” said Anil Malik, director, agriculture. He said though the area under the crop has come down, the yield was expected to be much higher as compared to the last year. “As compared to 32.98 lakh tonnes of paddy and basmati produced in the state last year, we are expecting the produce to be around 33.90 lakh tonnes,” he said. The farmers, however, feel that if the humidity continues to be higher this year, their crops could also fall prey to attack by neck blast and white grasshopper. Ishwar Singh, a farmer in Karnal, said most farmers in the area had already started with farm practices like cutting the crop from the top to ensure that neck blast does not occur in the crop. “If there is any further incidence of disease or the leaf blight spreads further, the farmers will be the worst sufferers, especially as they have spent high input costs to run tube wells with diesel,” he rued.
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Kapal Mochan in a state of neglect
(Kapal
Mochan) Yamunanagar, September 10 Lakhs of devotees throng this place because of its religious sanctity as Lord Shiva, Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Gobind Singh are believed to have visited Kapal Mochan. The famous three-day fair is held on Kartik Purnima every year at Kapal Mochan in Bilaspur, which is situated about 25 km from here. Pilgrims, mostly Hindus and Sikhs, visit here especially on Kartik Purnima, as it is believed that after taking a holy dip in the three sarovars, namely Kapal Mochan, Rin Mochan, Surya Kund, people can get rid of their sins. However, all sarovars are in a state of apathy. They lack regular source of water and insanitary conditions prevail all around. Besides algae, plastics and other waste materials at the corners of the sarovars also disappoint the pilgrims. Besides it, the place also lacks proper arrangements for the stay of the pilgrims and also proper maintenance of the area around the place. Meanwhile, the Union Ministry of Tourism has accepted a project of the district administration for the development of this place. However, the expansion and progress of the area will only be done after the release of funds by the ministry. “To make Kapal Mochan a pilgrim centre, maintaining its religious and cultural images and providing a better and sustainable environmental to the pilgrims, we have proposed a more than Rs 10-crore development project to the ministry,” said deputy commissioner Amit Kumar Agarwal. Giving details, Amit said the district administration had adopted a development plan to achieve its motto of creating a religious centre known for its spiritual content. “After getting the funds, we have decided to widen and strengthen the internal roads near ghats at Kapal Mochan. Besides it, we have also decided to install railings and lay Agra Red stone all over Suraj Kund and Kapal Mochan. Besides, the construction of an administrative block, near the museum, musical lights surrounding Kapal Mochan and Rin Mochan, recycling plants in all ghats and development of the museum for providing modern recreational facilities to the pilgrims is also on the cards,” he further added.
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State’s vote bank increases by 12
lakh
Geetanjali Gayatri Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 10 While scrutiny of applications received by the department is in full swing and 1.30 lakh applications have already been turned down for discrepancies, the department will continue to register new voters till the last filing of nominations. “It’s not that these new voters have appeared out of nowhere. In the recently held Lok Sabha elections, we had an elector population ratio of 50.13 per cent. However, according to the projected population for 2009 arrived at from the 2001 census, this figure should have been at 57 per cent. Immediately after the parliamentary elections, we began a campaign to find the missing voters and the Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) were involved for the first time,” explains chief electoral officer Sajjan Singh. The election office accepted application forms in bulk from the RWAs in Gurgaon, adding to the existing number of voters. However, the department still has a scope for a two per cent hike in the ratio. “With the addition of 12 lakh new voters, we will have an elector population ratio of 55 per cent, meaning thereby that two per cent voters are still being missed despite our efforts,” he explained. Even as the process of scrutinising the applications of new voters continues, the department will also target those who could not vote because their names were not in the electoral rolls in the last election. “If they have cards, it’s not possible that their names are not on the rolls. However, in most of these cases, it has come to our notice that the voters have shifted from their place of residence where their cards were made. In fact, we want to target them and inform them about where they should vote,” he stated. “All voters who have shifted their residence since the time the card was made, can fill Form 8 A to get their vote shifted to a polling station near their house”. “They need to get in touch with the area’s electoral registration officer whose information can be collected from the deputy commissioner’s office. Once the form is submitted, we will delete the name at the existing polling station and add it to the polling station closest to their home. Besides, we are shortly going to start helplines so that the voters can find out their respective polling booths and know the same in advance,” Sajjan maintained.
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Political, religious functions
Kaithal, September 10 Thanks to the “generous” attitude of the administration which has been promoting the practice by granting permission to hold such functions on roads, much to the inconvenience of people who have to suffer in terms of long traffic jams. A few days ago, organisers of a religious function closed the road outside Geeta Bhawan for holding a jagran which caused a lot of inconvenience to road users who had to use alternative routes passing through congested bazaars to reach their respective destinations. The administration for the past several years has been liberally granting permission to hold political rallies and other functions on the old Tehsil road, adjoining the city police station and Geeta Bhawan Mandir in the heart of the town. The subsequent closure of the road results in the disruption of traffic for hours. During the last Lok Sabha poll, the administration had earmarked the road as one of the venues for holding public meetings by political parties. During one such political meeting, the area witnessed a long traffic jam from Pehowa Chowk to the venue of the meeting where hundreds of vehicles got stuck in chaotic conditions for hours. Even senior political leaders could not reach the venue on their vehicles and had to walk. Those harassed questioned the wisdom of the administration to allow holding public meetings at such a busy place. Hawa Singh, SDM, Kaithal, who is also returning officer for the Kaithal Assembly segment, said the administration would certainly keep in mind the convenience of people and earmark only those places for holding public meetings which were approachable and situated at convenient places.
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Poor representation in
Assembly BS Malik
Sonepat, September 10 Leaders belonging to the backward classes blame all parties for adopting negligent attitude in providing political opportunities to them. If their representation in different tenures of the state Assembly is taken into account, the highest number was five in 1987, whereas no representation was given to these classes during 2000-05. Their representation in other tenures included one during 1972-77; three during 1977-82; two during 1982-87; one during 1991-96; three during 1996-2000; and two in the last Assembly. Except the nomination of Dr Ram Prakash and Ramji Lal in the Rajya Sabha, no one from the backward classes has so far been elected to the Lok Sabha from the state. During the 43 years history of Haryana, only five leaders -Parma Nand, Lachman Dass Kamboj, Dr Ram Parkash, Desraj Kamboj and Dr Kamla Verma - had served as ministers, which is being regarded as a meagre representation and not in accordance with their population, claimed to be around 22 per cent. Besides blaming political parties for poor representation, the leaders attribute it to other reasons as well, including their socio-economic conditions. They point out that people from these classes were rural artisans, who used to be an important part of village society. However, the green revolution and the modernisation of agriculture had rendered the rural artisans jobless, forcing them to look for other occupations to sustain their living. Their migration from villages to the town and cities in the search of work changed their social and economic life and also brought a change in their work culture. “This migration weakened the unity of all castes that fall under the backward classes,” a state-level office-bearer of the Congress remarked. About 71 castes are included in this class and these have so far not succeeded in forming a strong joint front because of their varying interests and occupation. State secretary of INTUC Braham Singh Rohilla pointed out though various industrialisation schemes were launched in the past, these failed to provide benefit to backward classes. “Had these schemes succeeded, there would have been sufficient opportunities for rural artisans to improve their socio-economic conditions as well as their unity,” he remarked. Several other leaders of these castes are of the opinion that proper representation to people of this category in the state Assembly and Parliament is one of the best ways to help them match the pace of socio-economic development taking place in society.
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Lobbying begins for Gurgaon seat
Gurgaon, September 10 With the state Assembly poll scheduled for October 13, leaders of all parties have started hectic lobbying for getting nomination. The Congress is likely to give the ticket to its sitting MLA Dharambir
Gauba, who has won several times from Gurgaon, and post-delimitation, the seat has become more of a Punjabi dominated one. However, the younger generation feels that the nomination should be given to some other candidate, as Gauba is neither active in public nor done anything for them. Moreover,
Gauba, while campaigning for the last Assembly poll, had requested people to vote for him as it would be his last election. Now, it is up to the Congress high command to decide whether it wants to field a young candidate from the millennium city or stick to the old gun. Another prospective candidate is Madan Lal Grover, who recently joined the Hooda camp switching loyalties from the Rao Inderjeet group after the latter could not secure a ministerial berth in the Manmohan Singh cabinet. Other claimants for the Congress ticket are KL
Yadav, an old Congressman, and GL Sharma, senior vice-president District Congress Committee, Gurgaon. Punjabis as well as Brahmins seem to be in favour of Sharma this time, as they say he is half the age of present MLA and can do much better. The INLD is likely to field a Jat candidate, Sukhbir
Kataria, as its earlier candidate Gopi Chand Gahlot, a former MLA and former Deputy Speaker of Haryana Vidhan
Sabha, shifted to Badsahpur, a newly formed Assembly constituency. The BJP has many new entrants and one of the contenders among them is advocate Kulbhushan
Bhardwaj. It also has old timer Sita Ram Singla, who won in 1987, but lost clout in politics later. The HJC has a string of Punjabi and non-Punjabi leaders and favourite among these are Kanahiya Lal
Pahwa, a socially active Punjabi leader, and a businessman. Kulraj
Kataria, a Jat leader actively involved in party affairs, is another contender. The real battle would start once parties declare their nominees. A survey conducted by SND Detective Agency shows that there are approximately 2,06,323 voters in the Gurgaon Assembly constituency. There are 35,250 Punjabis, 10,059 Sikhs, 31,913 Brahmins, 14,277
Yadavs, 10,368 Thakurs, 5,999 Gujjars, 18,834 SCs/STs, 14,429 Banias, 15,930 Sainis
(Jangid Brahmin), 17,720 Jats, 2,878 Christians, 8,043 Muslims, 5,420
Sunhars, 3,341 South Indians, 1,092 Bishnois, 5,709 Biharis, 2,810 Bengalis, and 2,252
Nepalis.
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Employees told not to act on behalf of candidates Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 10 Haryana chief secretary Dharam Vir has, through a communication addressed to all heads of departments, drawn their attention specially towards the provisions of section 134 A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, mentioning penalty for government servants for acting as an election agent, polling agent or counting agent. The communication further states that the government will consider any disregard of the instructions as a serious act of indiscipline. In case of any doubt, the employees should not hesitate in consulting their superior officers. The legal provisions are contained in sections 129 and 134 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, and in Rule 5 of the Government Employees (Conduct) Rules, 1966. The government employees are required to maintain an attitude of strict impartiality in the elections. They should, in fact, not only be impartial, but also appear to be impartial. They should so conduct themselves as to inspire confidence in the public in regard to their impartiality, which means that they must avoid even giving room for any suspicion that they are favouring any party or candidate. They should, for instance, take no part in any campaign or canvassing and should take scrupulous care not to lend their names, official position or authority to assist any group or individual against any other. In the matter of election meetings at a public place, no distinction should be made between political parties in granting permission to hold such meetings. If two or more parties apply for holding a meeting at any place on the same day and the same time, the party, which applies first should be given preference. No person who has to perform any duty in connection with the election, like returning officer, assistant returning officers, presiding officers and polling officers, is permitted in the conduct or the management of the election to do any act other than giving of his own vote, for the furtherance of the prospects of the election of a candidate. Nor may such a person or a member of the police endeavours to persuade any person to give his vote at the election or dissuade any person from giving his vote or influence the voting of any person in any manner. Contravention of these provisions is punishable with imprisonment, which may extend to six months or with fine or both. If any person is without reasonable cause guilty of any act or omission in breach of his official duty connected with the elections, he is punishable with fine up to Rs 500. Clause (4) of Rule 5 of the Government Employees (Conduct) Rules, 1966, provides that no government employee shall canvass or otherwise interfere with or use his influence in connection with or take part in the election to any legislature or the local authority. A government employee qualified to vote at all such elections may exercise his right to vote, but where he does so, he shall give no indication of the manner in which he proposes to vote or has voted.
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‘Delhi-based panel not governing body of KU-affiliated DAV Colleges’
Hisar, September 10 This has finally sealed the fate of the New Delhi-based body, which has been illegally controlling the administration of DAV Colleges in the state and the rest of the country. This is a landmark admission on part of the university which has been dealing all along with the committee to the detriment of hundreds of employees of DAV Colleges in the state for decades together. The university has admitted the fact in response to an application filed by a local resident Anil Bhatia under the Right to Information Act. Bhatia had asked the university to state whether after the 1996 amendment in the Haryana Affiliated Colleges (Security of Service) Act the New Delhi-based committee comprising more than 2,500 members is the statutory governing body of all 13 DAV Colleges in the state when elected representatives of teaching and non-teaching staff of these colleges were not members of the committee. The university had also admitted that under the University Calendar Vol. I, 2009, every non-government recognised college in the state is required to have a governing body of its own with a minimum of 11 and a maximum of 21 members. This admission came in response to the query whether after the enactment of the Act in 1979 each DAV College had its own governing body with tenure of three years and which was the appointing and punishing authority of a principal or a teacher of a DAV College in the state. Bhatia had also asked for the rules under which rule the committee had been claiming to be the appointing, punishing and transferring authority of a lecturer or principal of a DAV College in the state. The university candidly admitted that the only governing body of a college is competent to do so. In yet another admission, the university admitted that it recognised only the governing body of each college and not the DAV College Managing Committee. The university has also stated in reply to another query that it deals only with the governing body of a college and not the New Delhi-based body. This is despite the fact that the university has all along been allowing the committee to appoint principals and lecturers in DAV Colleges in the state by way of transfer from one college to another at will. The university had also been dealing with the committee in all administrative matters all these years. The admission of facts comes after a long battle Bhatia fought with the university to elicit this information under the RTI Act.
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EC do’s and don’ts for netas
Chandigarh, September 10 According to the Chief Electoral Officer of Haryana, Sajjan Singh, mosques, churches, temples or other religious places shall not be used for election propaganda. No party or candidate shall indulge in any such activity as may cause tension between different groups. Nor any appeal to caste or communal feelings for securing votes would be made. Criticism of other political parties shall be confined to their policies and programmes, past record and work. The parties and candidates shall refrain from criticism of all aspects of private life, not connected with the public activities of the leaders or workers of the other parties. Criticism of other parties or their workers based on unverified allegations must be avoided. All parties and candidates shall avoid scrupulously all activities which are “corrupt practices” and offences under the election law, such as bribing of voters, intimidation of voters, impersonation, canvassing within 100 m of polling stations, holding public meetings during 48 hours before the end of the poll and transporting voters to and from the polling station. The right of every individual to peaceful and undisturbed home-life must be respected. Organising demonstrations or picketing before the houses of individuals to protest against their opinions or activities is a big no. No political party or its members would put up banners, flags or write slogans on anyone’s property without his permission. The political parties and candidates would ensure that their supporters do not obstruct or break up meetings and processions organised by other parties. Workers of a political party shall not disturb public meetings organised by another political party by putting questions orally or in writing or by distributing leaflets of their own party. Posters issued by one party shall not be removed by workers of another party. The party or candidate shall inform the local police of the venue and time of any proposed meeting well in time so as to enable the police to make necessary arrangements for controlling traffic and maintaining peace and order. Organisers of a meeting shall invariably seek the assistance of the police for dealing with the persons disturbing a meeting. The organisers themselves would not take action against such persons. A party or candidate organising a procession shall decide before hand the time and place of starting the procession, the route to be followed and the time and place at which the procession will culminate. The organisers shall give advance intimation to the local police authorities of the programme. If the procession is very long, it shall be organised in segments of suitable lengths, so that at convenient intervals, especially at points where the procession has to pass road junctions, the passage of held up traffic could be allowed by stages to avoid traffic congestion. The political parties or candidates shall keep a check to the maximum extent possible to ensure that participants in a procession do not carry articles which may be put to misuse by undesirable elements, especially in the moments of excitement. The carrying of effigies purporting to represent a member of other political parties or their leaders, burning such effigies in public and such other forms of demonstration shall not be countenanced by any political party or candidate.
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Induction programme for week-end MBA students
Gurgaon,
September 10 An induction programme for the first batch of Executive MBA (week-end) was organised here recently. VP Bajaj, MD, Bajaj Motors and president of the Gurgaon Industries Association, was the chief guest, while Prof Ajay K Rajan, dean, Faculty of Management Sciences and director, IMSAR, presided at the inaugural programme. Narender Kumar Nijhawan, executive director, IFCI, New Delhi; RP Mittal, vice-president (corporate affairs), Somany Ceramics, Bahadurgarh; KS Chahal, deputy director, industrial safety, Haryana; SK Kapoor, GM (HRD), Jindal Steel; Prof MS Chhikara (retd), MDI, Gurgaon; and other faculty members were also present. Prof Rajan asserted that executives working in MNCs and other big concerns had aspirations for faster growth in their careers but lacked formal management degree. "As employed, they could not go in for full-time courses... hence, we thought of launching this week-end programme,” he maintained. Different speakers highlighted the importance of bridging gaps in management education and exhorted the new students to use the opportunity. The students enrolled in this course come from diverse sectors of the economy, including IT, BPO, real estate, FMCG, manufacturing sector, construction, legal, hotel and aviation, health etc. Dr Poonam Dutta, director, ILMS, and coordinator of the Executive MBA programme, proposed the vote of thanks.
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Focus on improving women’s reproductive health
Jhajjar, September 10 The programme was attended by around 200 delegates from across the state and the National Capital Territory Region (NCTR) of Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, chief guest S.N. Chugh, Pro-Vice Chancellor (PVC) of Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, stressed the need for more such interactive platforms for betterment of the reproductive health of women. Dr Rita Gulati, Dr Krishna Sangwan and Dr Deepti Jain were among the experts in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology who not only identified major issues of women's health, but also discussed them in detail. Dr Smiti Nanda, Senior Professor and Head of the Department, Senior Professor, Dr Daya Sirohiwal, Prof Savita Singhal, Prof Meenakshi Chauhan and Prof Nirmala Duhan focused on enhancing knowledge on important disorders related to women’s health. Eminent Professor Alka Kriplani, Dr K.K. Roy and Dr J.B. Sharma were among the noted faculty from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Earlier, the inaugural function, held in the auditorium of the institute, was also attended by Dr V.K.Jain, Dean, PGIMS, Dr Nirmala Gulati, eminent gynaecologist of the city and former Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the PGIMS.
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Reward scheme for cops
Fatehabad, September 10 One mark for managing to deposit five licenced firearms of his beat with police station concerned before the election process and two marks for arresting a person against whom non-bailable warrants have been issued. This is the system of marking formulated by the district police for the Rewards and Reprimand Scheme initiated by Dr CS Rao, SP, Fatehabad, to activate the police in view of the forthcoming Assembly elections. “A strategy has been made to ensure free and fair elections in the district, where people can exercise their right to franchise without any fear,” said Rao. He said focus was on maintaining law and order during the polls so that those associated with the election process could ensure the exercise with fairness and objectivity. “Before the elections process begins, the district police has several tasks in hand. These include depositing 8,500 licenced firearm weapons in respective police stations, arresting 10 parole jumpers, 534 bail jumpers and 97 proclaimed offenders in the district. Arrests of 179 persons with non-bailable warrants are also pending with the district police,” said Rao. The other tasks include initiating preventive action against suspected persons, identifying vulnerable points, blocks, polling booths and villages, identifying suspicious vehicles and checking those, curbing manufacture of illicit liquor and implementation of the model code of conduct during the elections. For activating the police, Rao has announced a cash reward of Rs 3,000 for a DSP coming at the first place by scoring the maximum number of marks through the system formulated for each and every task. The SHO coming first, second and third will get cash rewards of Rs 2,000, Rs 1,500 and Rs 1,200, respectively. The beat in-charge would get Rs 1,000, Rs 800 and Rs 700, respectively, for securing the first, second and the third position, respectively. All beat officials would get Rs 200 each for their beat securing the first, second or third position in their respective police station. Besides, giving the cash rewards, the winner cops would be given citations too. While, those giving better performance would be rewarded and those coming at the bottom would invite reprimand, concluded Dr Rao.
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Leaders queue up for Cong ticket
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Fatehabad, September 10 The maximum rush is being witnessed by the ruling Congress due to its performance in the recent parliamentary elections.The Fatehabad Assembly constituency is witnessing a huge scramble for the Congress ticket. Several villages of the abolished Bhattu Kalan Assembly constituency have been merged with Fatehabad, leaving political stalwarts like Sampat Singh “homeless”. Sampat Singh, a former INLD leader who recently joined the Congress, intends to make Fatehabad his new abode. Kunal Bhadoo, son-in-law of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who has been active in the Fatehabad assembly segment for the last two years, is also in the fray.His supporters have passed a resolution seeking ticket for Bhadoo. Pahlad Singh Gillankhera, a Kiran Chaudhary loyalist, is banking on his leader’s support for getting the ticket this time.Last time, he lost the battle to Dura Ram, who is again determined to leave behind his competitors in the game. Other prospective candidates for the Fatehabad Assembly seat include Arvind Sharma, a senior party leader; Atam Parkash Mehta and Sharad Batra, both Punjabi leaders, besides several local leaders. The delimitation has reduced the number of Assembly constituencies in Fatehabad district from four to three, abolishing the Bhattu Kalan constituency.Out of the three Assembly constituencies of the district, Ratia is reserved for the Scheduled Castes. In Ratia, Gurdeep Singh Gill, son of former MP Atma Singh Gill, is in line for the Congress ticket. Gill contested the poll in 2005, but lost to INLD’s Gian Chand Odh. This time, his candidature is being opposed by Zila Parishad vice-chairperson Mandeep Kaur Gill, Jagdish Mistri, Jarnail Singh, Ram Swaroop Rama and several others, who are themselves seeking the party ticket. Sushil Indora, who resigned his seat from Ellenabad to quit the INLD and join the Congress, is also among the ticket-seekers. The Tohana Assembly seat has been a stronghold of former Haryana Minister Harpal Singh’s clan and none from outside his family is seeking ticket this time.The contest, if any, is going to be between Paramvir Singh, an MLA in the dissolved Assembly, and Randhir Singh, District Congress Committee president, both sons of Harpal Singh. With the Congress screening committee for ticket already in place, the next few days would witness a keen contest between the ticket-seekers.The INLD, the main opposition party in the state, has, however, already declared its candidates.
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Revised pay brings cheer to sugar mill workers
Rohtak, September 10 The local unit of the Haryana Sugar Mill Workers Federation has expressed satisfaction over the package awarded to them and have praised the gesture and the role of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in this regard. This is first employees’ body which has openly expressed its happiness over the new wages after the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission report. Leaders and office-bearers of the federation have described the revision of their pay scales and the move to merge DA with basic pay as unprecedented and a relief which they had not even expected. According to Ashok Dattarwal and Shyam Sunder, president and general secretary, respectively, this is for the first time that the government has voluntarily revised their pay scales along with other government employees. They said the merging of DA with basic pay had helped the sugar mills workers to consider themselves as mainstream employees while this status had not been given to them by any previous government. While the financial condition, sugar recovery and production levels have not been very good in some of the sugar mills across the state, the gesture of the government has left them happy and satisfied, said one of the employees. “Besides the benefit of ACP scheme, retaining allowance has been hiked by 10 to 15 per cent and the process of regularising daily wage workers has also been taken up. The minimum pay band given to a semi-skilled worker is Rs 5,200- 20,200, while an official of the level of chief chemist/chief engineer or chief accounts officer will get the pay band-three of Rs 15,600-39,100 after the revision. About 10,000 employees of 10 cooperative sugar mills in the state are likely to be benefited,” said an official.
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Ambala registers around 48,000 new voters
Ambala, September 10 Refuting these allegations, Ambala deputy commissioner clarified that all procedure had been adopted in making new votes. Four constituencies fall in the district i.e. Ambala Cantonment, Ambala City, Naraingarh and Mullana (SC). According to the DC, the district had received 51,512 applications for new voters out of which 47,986 forms have been accepted while 1,262 names have been removed from the voter list due to various reasons. As many as 15,545 new voters have been registered from the Ambala City constituency. While the male vote is 8,149, the female vote is 7,396. Ambala Cantonment has 13,298 new voters of which male voters are 7,286, while female voters are 6,012. The Mullana (SC) constituency has 10,505 new voters of which 4,455 are female voters and 6,050 are male voters. In the Naraingarh constituency, which has least number of votes in the district, 8,638 have registered themselves as new voters. Of these, 4,880 are male voters while 3,758 are the female voters. He stated that arrangements for postal ballots were being made for defence personnel and employees who would be on election duty.
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Panipat college among top 50 institutions
Panipat, September 10 The Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, SD Panipat, bagged 528.61 points to be placed in the list of top 50 colleges of the country. The college’s B.Eng. (honours) computing course is enlisted with the Staffordshire University of the UK. The APIIT offers specialisation in engineering courses approved by the All-India Council of Technical Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, and the Department of Technical Education, Haryana. The college is promoted by the SD Education Society, a non-profit organisation. Director of the institute Dr RK Choudhary said the institute was committed to excellence and success of all its students. He said the faculty had adopted an enthusiastic approach to inculcate and build the new technocrats of tomorrow. The institute had all international facilities, including a separate software development cell where students were encouraged to work and receive stipend apart from knowledge, he added.
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Baabar
Producer: Sunil Saini, Mukesh Shah Director: Ashu Trikha Cast: Soham, Mithun Chakraborty, Urvashi Sharma, Mukesh Tiwari, Govind Namdeo, Om Puri, Tinu Kashish, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Shauq and Vishwajeet Pradhan A world our society dreads, where corruption excels, which the politicians exploit and where the honest succumb, unfortunate but there. ‘Baabar’ shows all these sequences. It releases today at OHM - Sirsa, Suraj - Panchkula, India Bulls, SRS Sector 12, SRS Pristime, PVR Crown, INOX, Movie Time Parshavnath Mall, Movie Time Parshavnath City Mall (All Faridabad), SRS OMAXE, PVR MGF, PVR Ambience, DT City Mall, DT Mega Mall, PVR Sahara (All Gurgaon), Fun - Panipat, Fun - Ambala, Minerva - Ambala Cantt. What to watch out for: An action-packed film shot at realistic locations of Lucknow, stars’ performances and direction. — Dharam Pal
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National award for entrepreneur
Faridabad, September 10 The award was given by the Prime Minister a few days ago. Head of the locally based Belz Instruments Pvt
Ltd, Nehra left his job to set up the enterprise about 15 years ago. The company was started on an industrial shed on a project for calibration laboratory with a fund of Rs 50,000.The firm has now a turnover of Rs 2
crore. It has expanded its activities by opening offices in Haridwar and Mohali. Nehra dedicated the success to his employees, who, he said, were like his "companions" and family members.
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Kapal Mochan, the place of religious sanctity and historical value, which symbolises the unity and integrity of people of different classes, castes and religion, is in a state of neglect.
