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Students block highway, lathi-charged
Shopping festival on Dubai pattern planned
RIL pockets 4-laning, widening project
Mullana, Kanda get going for Ellenabad rally
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FCI-rice millers dispute may cost govt dear
MC staff hold protest, seek arrest of policemen
MEd Admission
Traders down shutters against rowdyism
Farmers left high and dry
Japanese film fest kicks off in Yamunanagar
Principals’ conference from December 9
1 held for attempt to loot bank
Villagers protest over medical negligence
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Students block highway,
lathi-charged
Yamunanagar, November 23 Girls also took part in the protest. The students were agitated as two days ago a plus one student of the school was seriously injured in an accident that occurred due to negligence of a roadways bus driver. “It is the responsibility of Haryana Roadways to provide proper bus services to students. But we have been facing a lot of harassment as the buses do not follow their routes,” they said. The students said they were stopped from meeting the GM, Haryana Roadway, Jagadhri, to apprise him about the problems being faced by them. “Bus drivers usually do not halt for students and we have to run after the bus to catch it. As a result, many students are hurt in accidents. The higher authorities must intervene to resolve the issue,” they demanded. “When we were not allowed to meet the GM, only then did we resort to blocking the road to express our anguish. However, the police resorted to a lathi charge,” the students complained. |
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Shopping festival on Dubai pattern planned
Gurgaon, November 23 Haryana Tourism in collaboration with Haryana Travel Mart will be organising the event, said RK Kataria, Gurgaon DC here today. “The festival will kickstart with a grand opening ceremony. It will be one of the biggest shopping festivals that India has ever seen with prizes for shoppers. It will include entertainment programmes to cater to a cross-section of consumers,” he said. Kataria said the objective of holding such a festival was to promote Gurgaon as one of the world’s most modern townships and the country’s foremost shopping destination. The three-week event in spring will offer the best shopping deals from a wide range of brands and retailers, showcase handloom and handicrafts and promote cuisines from around India. The festival will be a preamble to the shopping festival to be held during the Commonwealth Games 2010 in the Capital. The highlight of the festival will be a weekly bumper and a jackpot to entice the shoppers. The DC sought suggestions for the festival logo from the residents. Kataria said a presentation on the festival would be made before potential stake-holders and sponsors on December 3. After this, principal sponsorers and organising partners would be decided by December 20. A steering committee would be constituted to review the progress of arrangements for the festival. It would meet at least once a week. Anand Bhardwaj and Maneeza Ahuja from HT Media, Deputy Director, Haryana Tourism, Mahesh Behl, Project Officer Mukesh Rao, SDM, Gurgaon North, Satender Duhan, DLC GS Thakur, Suman Kundu, GM, IT, MK Sardana, GM, DIC, HS Sehrawat and officers of Excise and Taxation attended the meeting. |
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RIL pockets 4-laning, widening project
Chandigarh, November 23 In this regard, CEO-Road Business of the company Sudhir Hoshing handed over a demand draft of Rs 150.30 crore as "negative grant" to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here today. The concession period for this Rs 780-crore project is 17 years, including construction period of two years. The scheduled date of completion of the project is May, 2011. On the occasion, Hooda directed the Public Works (Building and Roads) Department to lay more emphasis on maintenance of roads, especially in the crusher zones. He also suggested that the parameters enlisted for the BOT project should also be considered while constructing and strengthening of roads. Hooda said the department had achieved an important milestone in public-private-partnership projects as it was the first of its kind road project on the BOT basis undertaken by them. He directed the officers concerned to get the work completed within the scheduled period. Under this BOT project, the road from Gurgaon to Faridabad would be four-laned and that from Ballabhgarh to Sohna (up to Lakhuwas junction) would be widened to 10 mts, which serves the purpose of four-laning without central verge. For improvement or upgradation, both bituminous and concrete pavements would be provided. In addition, some links of the roads like MCF road, crusher zone road and Pali Bakhri road would also be improved. The total length of roads covered under the project would be 66 km. The serviceability standards and other parameters of maintenance are specified in the agreement, which are binding on the concessionaire. PWD Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala said some more projects were likely to be taken up on the BOT model in the near future. One potential project is four-laning of the Kotputli-Narnaul-Mohindergarh-Dadri-Bhiwani road for which preliminary studies had already been completed. Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Public Works (B&R), SS Dhillon said road safety features, improvement of curves and gradient to improve speed and other roadside amenities such as truck lay byes, bus shelters, route patrol etc. had been incorporated in the project. He said an independent consultant had already been engaged for supervision of work. With the completion of this project, travel time would be reduced considerably. Also, tourists visiting Badkhal Lake, Surajkund Craft Fair, Damdama Lake, Tourist Complex Sohna, Bird Sanctuary Sultanpur and Rajasthan would also be largely benefited. Engineer-in-Chief Mahesh Kumar said the financial bids for the project evoked a good response, with seven bidders submitting their bids. Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. quoted the highest "negative grant" of Rs 150.30 crore and was eventually awarded the work. The lowest "negative grant" quoted was Rs 16.50 crore. |
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Mullana, Kanda get going for Ellenabad rally
Sirsa, November 23 Officially, the purpose of the rally has been stated as a part of Hooda's exercise to thank people for giving him another opportunity to form a Congress government in Haryana, but the impending bypoll for Ellenabad assembly seat, after former chief minister Om Parkash Chautala's resignation from here, is believed to be the real motive behind the rally. "Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president Phool Chand Mullana and Haryana Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala are coming to Sirsa tomorrow to review the preparations for the rally," said Hoshiari Lal Sharma, president of the District Congress Committee. Gopal Kanda, Minister of State for Home, Industries, Commerce, Sports and Youth Affairs, and Prahlad Singh Gillankhera, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, have been touring the area for the past two days to mobilise people for the proposed rally. Bharat Singh Beniwal, a former MLA from Darba Kalan, who lost to Chautala from Ellenabad in the October 13 election and Anil Khod, son of former MLA Lal Chand Khod, have also been campaigning in the area. "Hooda will make several new announcements during his rally," said Gopal Kanda, while addressing meetings in villages Shahidanwali, Choburja, Modiakhera, Dhigtania, Nejia, Ali Mohammad, Chahiwal and Sahuwala. Gillankhera addressed meeting in villages Sarwarpur, Bodiwali, Mehuwala, Banmandori, Pilimandori, Thuian, Jandwala Bagar and Dayyar. |
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FCI-rice millers dispute may cost govt dear
Chandigarh, November 23 As a result of the dispute, rice worth crores stored in the open may face damage if winter rains come sooner than expected. No arrangement has been made for tarpaulins and wooden crates to protect the rice lying in the open. The genesis of the dispute arose last year when the FCI, on rechecking the stocks of rice delivered to it by the millers, found that the produce was below specifications at certain places. It asked the millers to replace the stock. The millers argue that since the FCI staff checks the quality of rice at the time of delivery, it is unreasonable for the corporation to asking them to replace the stocks. The corporation has now issued general instructions, warning the millers that they could be asked to replace the substandard stocks any time, even if it has been checked for quality at the time of delivery. When the FCI asked the millers to replace the stocks, it also charge-sheeted some of its employees. This has made the field staff jittery. The latter is reluctant to accept the rice stocks from the millers. Though the government has relaxed the norms for damaged and discoloured grain, the staff is now raising objections on the ground of “dehusking”, which means that certain grain has remained unpolished. The millers say the method by which the FCI checks the unpolished grain is faulty. They say the corporation should install foolproof equipment to measure unpolished grain in the stock delivered by the millers. Sources in the trade say the state government should immediately intervene to resolve the dispute or else it would incur huge losses because the millers have mostly milled the paddy purchased by the state agencies for onward delivery to the
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MC staff hold protest, seek arrest of policemen
Faridabad, November 23 The employees took out a procession from the MCF headquarters near BK Chowk to the office of the ACP at Ajronda Chowk. They submitted a memorandum to the office of the ACP demanding suspension and arrest of the policemen under the provisions of the Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act. A daily-wage employee of the MCF employed for switching on and off the streetlights alleged that yesterday he parked his motorcycle near Rose Park to switch on the lights. When he returned from the park, his motorcycle He informed the police of the incident, following which he was asked to meet them at one of the gates of Nahar Singh Park. When he reached there, the policemen asked about his details, including his caste. When he informed them that he belonged to the Scheduled Caste and was working with the MCF, they allegedly threatened him for showing courage to inform the police about the theft of his motorcycle. He further alleged that when he along with other employees went to the NH-2 police chowki with a complaint against the personnel and missing of his motorcycle, the personnel misbehaved with them. The employees said a criminal case under the SC/ST Act be registered against the accused police personnel and sought their immediate arrest and suspension. |
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MEd Admission
Sirsa, November 23 A spokesperson of the university said the Department of Education, Evening, had four vacant seats, two for Scheduled Castes candidates, one for physically challenged and one for backward classes (B) candidate. Others will be accommodated in one vacant seat of MM College of Education, Mulana (Ambala), 14 seats of Defence College of Education, Tohana (Fatehabad), 10 seats of Guru Dronacharya College of Education, Bhuna (Fatehabad), one seat of Seth Tek Chand College of Education, Kurukshetra, eight seats of Swami Devi Dayal College of Education, Barwala (Panchkula), and 17 seats of Surya College of Education, Tohana (Fatehabad), the university spokesman informed. All these are seats are under the self-financing system. "No candidate could obtain even 60 out of 100 marks in the entrance test for M Ed course organised by the Kurukshetra University this year," said Dr Jai Parkash, principal of the JCD College of Education. He said all the seats in the college have already been filled and candidates with as low as 32 marks out of 100 have managed to get admitted. "The manner in which the government has allowed BEd and MEd colleges to mushroom has led to a decline in the overall standards," said Dr Mamta Chaudhary, principal of the MM College of Education, Fatehabad. "At present, 180 colleges under the Kurukshetra University and 276 colleges under the Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, have a total intake of 62,000 students in the B Ed course," she added. She informed that 14 colleges have provision of MEd course with intake of 25 seats each, besides the Kurukshetra University's own department of Education, which has an intake of 150 seats. Dr Chaudhary said till a few years ago only four colleges in Haryana - Hisar, Ambala, Karnal and Dabwali - had provision for BEd degree. "But now, every small town has two or three BEd colleges. Many of them do not press for regular attendance of students and are happy with proxy system as they do not have to appoint teachers," she said. "So, one should not be surprised if candidates with 19 per cent marks in entrance test manage to bag seats," Chaudhary added. |
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Traders down shutters against rowdyism
Rewari, November 23 The agitating shopkeepers demanded immediate arrest of the group that misbehaved with them. Sources said as many as 12 youths forced the shopkeepers to close their shutters yesterday and also made a bid to extract ransom from some of them. A deputation of the shopkeepers led by Arun Goyal, president of the Agarwal Samaj of Kosli, also submitted a memorandum to the SDM Jaideep Singh in this regard. Meanwhile the Kosli police, which registered a case of rioting, criminal intimidation and extortion in this regard, has arrested six persons - Sunil of Bhakli village, Inderjeet of Lilodh village, Ravinder and Vivek of Sadat Nagar village, Lala Bhand and Pawan of Kosli town. They were today produced in the court of the Additional Civil judge (Senior Division) PK Lal who remanded them in judicial custody for three days. |
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Farmers left high and dry
Jhajjar, November 23 She also warned that action would be initiated against erring officials in case the same was not done. The minister was addressing a meeting of district officials at Canal Rest House here last evening. “Farmers whose fields are at the tail-end are regularly making complaints that they are not getting canal water. They even complained that they were being deprived of their due share of water because of laxity on part of officials concerned,” said Bhukkal, adding that complaints regarding theft of canal water were also being made by farmers. The minister ordered the officials to ensure availability of canal water at the tail-end and also warned that she would take stock of the situation by visiting the fields after a week. According to reports, farmers of several villages in this district have been facing acute shortage of canal water for irrigation purposes for the past few months. They alleged that theft of irrigation water was the main cause behind the situation. They also alleged that a number of farmers who enjoy political patronage were indulging in largescale theft of canal water. Although the state government has been spending a heavy amount on cleaning operations, the situation has hardly improved. |
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Japanese film fest kicks off in Yamunanagar
Karnal, November 23 “Japan celebrates its cultural month in India to create awareness among Indians about the culture of Japan every year and various activities are held during the month in different parts of the country,” Kujero Ucchiyama, director of Japan Information Centre, Embassy of Japan, said before leaving for Yamunanagar for inauguration of the film festival. The Embassy organises various activities like Japanese arts and culture, screening of Japanese films, exhibition of panels on Japan and India relations, Japanese speech contest, painting exhibition, workshop and exhibition, Ikebana demonstration (Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement), Japan quiz competition and musical performance of Okinawa islands of Japan. The three-day film festival to be inaugurated at DAV Girls College, Yamunanagar, by SSP Vikas Arora is one such activity in the itinerary for this year. Japanese film “Always zoku San-chome no yuhi (Always - Sunset on Third Street 2)” will be screened on the first day for the staff and students of the college while animation film “Summer Days With Coo” will be shown at Geeta Niketan Awasiya Vidyalya. “Always Sunset on Third Street 2” will be presented again at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, in the evening while the same animation film will be screened at Tagore Bal Niketan School in Karnal on the last day and a film show will be held at the mini-auditorium of National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI). NIFAA president Pritpal Singh Pannu said he was informed by Kojiro Uchiyama that since many years Japan had been organising a cultural month in November in India and a host of cultural activities were being organised in different part of India. Pannu said such programmes were earlier confined to major metro cities only but with the efforts of the NIFAA, small cities like Karnal had found place in hosting the events. Karnal ASP Ashvin Shenvi will be the chief guest at the closing function. Yamunanagar: Japanese film “Always Sunset on Third Street-2” was shown to students and teachers at DAV Girls College as a part of Japan Cultural Month here today. The film was a part of a programme organised to promote Japan-India relations by the Embassy of Japan in collaboration with the National Integrated Forum of Artists and Activists (NIFAA). Inaugurating the function, Director of Japan Information
Centre, Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, Kojiro Uchiyama said the films were a vital mode of communication to impart information about cultural of country and form bond with people. So the country chose films to impart information about their culture. Others who spoke on the occasion include chairman of the NIFAA Pritpal Singh Pannu and SP Vikas
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Principals’ conference from December 9
Gurgaon, November 23 It will host around 750 principals from all over the country as well as abroad. This was disclosed by Indu Khetarpal, chairperson, Gurgaon Progressive Schools Council (GPSC), and principal of Salwan Public School. She said a three-day event would be organised from December 9 to 11. “Principals from various schools in the country will participate in the event. Principals of schools in Dubai and Singapore have also given their consent to participate in the event,” Khetarpal added. Kapil Sibal, Minister for Human Resources and Development, will inaugurate the event. Vineet Joshi, chairman/secretary CBSE, along with other dignitaries of the Board will grace the occasion. “The aim of the event is to facilitate networking and collaboration among schools of the CBSE family. The Sahodaya School Complexes is a group of neighborhood schools who voluntarily come together to share best practices and innovative strategies in various aspects of school education, including curriculum design, evaluation and pedagogy, and also in providing support to teachers by regular capacity building exercises,” she explained. “Besides facilitating broad interactions among practitioners, it also serves as an effective channel of interaction between schools and the CBSE and thereby helps the Board in formulating policies in a progressive and pragmatic manner,” she added. The theme of the conference is “Rethinking School Reforms - Opportunities and Challenges”. “The topic is relevant and timely in the wake of new wave. It envisages a paradigm shift from teaching to the test to holistic education,” said Nirmal Yadav, secretary (GPSC) and principal CCA School. The sub-themes are: “CCE - Paradigm shift from teaching to the test to holistic education”, examination reforms and continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE), assessment for learning, objective assessment of learners for CC, holistic assessment, changing classroom assessment, building capacity for enhancing classroom assessment, contextualsing pedagogy to CCE, CCE and societal change, engaging parents and community for CCE and embedding technology in assessment. On being asked about the government’s decision on giving grades instead of numbers, Asha Sharma, vice-chairperson, GPSC, and chairperson, SD Adarsh Vidyalaya, said, “This is a good step and will help students come out of the feeling of jealousy. Moreover, it will lessen the stress.” Anita Makkar, founder member (GPSC) and principal, DAV Public School, added, “Every new system takes time to settle down. This will also be adopted soon. Principals are being trained regarding the process and soon they will provide training to teachers also.” Suman Gulati, founder chairperson (GPSC) and director, Blue Bells Group of Schools, said this would help a child to grow in a field he wants to instead of just getting pressurised by parents for studies. “This might be one of the topics in the conference,” she said. |
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1 held for attempt to loot bank
Kaithal, November 23 |
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Villagers protest over medical negligence
Yamunanagar, November 23 Family members of the deceased alleged that Sharmila, who was admitted to the hospital with severe chest pain, was administered glucose only and thereafter no doctor attended to her. As a result she died. Denying the allegations, the hospital authorities said she had died due to heart attack. As the situation grew tense, a large number of police force headed by SDM HC Jain and DSP Krishan Hooda was deployed outside the private hospital to pacify the relatives of the deceased. Jain said they had not got any complaint from the deceased’s family so far. If they would get a complaint of medical negligence from the deceased’s family, then only they could conduct an inquiry, he added. |
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Rewari, November 23
