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Kuldeep Bishnoi outside the assembly on Monday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari
Nuclear power team arrives today
Nursing students hold rally on AIDS
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Rainwater harvesting project launched
Help or I’ll kill myself, student to President
Jhinda’s suggestion irrational, says Nalvi
Another H1N1 patient in hospital
Opt for treated seeds, farmers told
Protests over school director’s ‘killing’
Lee’s marriage will get approval
Tarlochan seeks bypoll without delay
Pistol recovered from school student
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HJC chief Bishnoi meets Speaker
Chandigarh, December 1 He stands “betrayed” by his own lieutenants, his five MLAs who switched sides to join the Congress recently. Bishnoi admits he is hurt by their action but that has made him more determined to take them back to the people’s court. “I have not let them off the hook. They cannot contest an election on a party ticket and then join another. They must seek a fresh mandate from the people and I, owing moral responsibility for their betrayal, have taken the task of ensuring a re-election on all five seats,” Bishnoi said. In city to meet Vidhan Sabha Speaker HS Chatha to know of the fate of his MLAs, Bishnoi said this betrayal had been a learning experience for him and would help him build up his party better. “There is no reason to be disheartened because we have a long innings ahead. Chaudhary Devi Lal and Chaudhary Bansi Lal, too, faced adverse situations but didn’t give up. They rose to become big names in politics. Similarly, the betrayal by these MLAs is not the end of the world for me,” he remarked. Admitting that he had not been able to consolidate his position to project himself as an alternative to either the Congress or the INLD, he said: “The making of alliances took up a lot of time. Then, there were a few bad sheep who have either been thrown out or have left the party. Earlier, after meeting the Speaker, Bishnoi, speaking to mediapersons outside the Vidhan Sabha, said he had requested the Speaker’s office for a copy of the order by which his MLAs had joined the Congress as also other documents submitted for the merger. “I first sought this order on November 17 and sent a reminder, but no reply seems forthcoming. I have personally come for a copy of the order so that I have proof in hand and can pursue action against the five MLAs. The Speaker has again said that it will be given shortly.” Maintaining that when all documentation was completed within 30 minutes when the MLAs were to be inducted into the Congress, Bishnoi wondered what was taking the Speaker’s office so long in providing him a copy of the order. The Speaker downplayed the issue. “I did everything within the parameters of the provision. We have nothing to hide. He’ll get a copy,” he said.
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Nuclear power team arrives today
Chandigarh, December 1 The Union Government has approved the setting up of a 1,400 MW nuclear power plant in Kumharia village of Fatehabad district in the first phase during the 11th five-year plan. Meanwhile, reports received here suggest that certain local residents are planning to oppose the project. The team will tomorrow meet senior officers of the state government led by finance secretary Ajit Mohan Sharan. The NPCIL team will comprise S Thakur, executive director, Corporate Planning, TR Arora, chief engineer, and MN Ray, advisor, NPCIL. A day after, it will visit the proposed site of the project. MD of the Haryana Power Generation Corporation Sanjeev Kaushal will accompany the NPCIL team to Fatehabad. The team will meet Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Delhi on December 4. It seems that there is a sort of political unanimity on the project. The site was first selected in 1984 when Bhajan Lal was the Chief Minister. The site selection committee of the NPCIL visited Kumharia village in 2001 when the INLD was ruling the state. However, after that the project remained in cold store. When Hooda became the Chief Minister in 2005, he tried to put the project back on the rails. The site selection committee of the NPCIL reassessed the site on June 18, 2007. About 2,500 acre will be acquired for the project, which will bring an investment of Rs 12,000 crore to the state. |
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Nursing students hold rally on AIDS
Sirsa, December 1 Deputy Civil Surgeon Dr Viresh Bhushan and Dr GS Somani, Principal Medical Officer of the hospital, Dr SL Agarwal, District Nodal Officer on AIDS, Dr Rohtash Singh, Dr Gobind Gupta, Dr Archana Agarwal and several other doctors participated. Ellenabad: Women wing of the Youth Welfare Federation organised a rally on AIDS in the town. Manjit Singh, SDM, flagged off the rally. Starting from Dabwali Road, the rally passed through Talwara Chowk, Devi Lal Chowk, Panchmukhi Chowk, Nohar Road and ended at the grain market.Pushpa Rani, national vice-president of the federation, said women should come forward to create awareness on this disease. Fatehabad: The District AIDS Control Society organised camps at Labour Chowk, the local bus stand and the General Hospital. Addressing people, Dr Rama Bansal said addicts who used injections and those who hid gynaecological infections were at the highest risk of contacting HIV. Deputy Civil Surgeon NK Chakarvarti, SMO Dr SB Kamboj and Dr Anamika Bishnoi also told the people about AIDS. An awareness programme was held at the local Government Postgraduate College for Women to educate girls on the issue. HISAR: The Haryana State AIDS Control Society and Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology organised an exhibition entitled “Youth Voice on HIV-AIDS Free India” to mark World AIDS Day. Inaugurating the exhibition, Vice Chancellor DDS Sandhu said AIDS awareness was still poor and the government as well as social organisations needed to join hands to spread the word on the dangers posed by the disease. He said AIDS was more prevalent among the youth and this marked a dangerous trend. Rakesh Chaudhry, Additional Project Director, Haryana State AIDS Cobtrol Society, said Rohtak had the highest number of HIV patients, which stood at 394. This was followed by Jhajjar with 206, Sonepat 202, Jind 162, Bhiwani 141, Hisar 89 and Mahendragarh 23. Ambala had one HIV patient. Sandeep Rana, coordinator, NSS, GJU, said a state-level poster-making contest was also held as part of the exhibition. Students from all universities of Haryana and 18 colleges participated. SONEPAT: The District Red Cross Society, Health Department, Sai Janseva Samiti, Inner Wheel Club, Arogyadham Charitable Trust and Satya Kiran Para-Meducal Institute jointly organised rallies at five places in the town to create awareness on AIDS. Stalls were put up at the bus stand and the railway station where HIV tests were conducted.Subhash Vashist , secretary, District Red Cross Society, said as many as 208 persons volunteered for such tests. An audio-visual programme was also organised to spread awareness on AIDs. At least 200 students of the local Rural Nurses Training Institute in collaboration with the health department also held an awareness rally and distributed pamplets among the people. Similar programmes were organised at Gannaur and Gohana.
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Rainwater harvesting project launched
Gurgaon, December 1 It is a part of Coca Cola’s initiative of fostering public-private partnerships for taking up community development projects and is slated to be completed by June 2010. The move assumes significance in view of the recent findings that the Gurgaon water table has fallen by 2 metres since 2006 and it is apprehended that if its depletion continues at the current rate, Gurgaon may run out of groundwater by 2017. Amita Puri, CEO, CAF India; Darshan Singh, project director (rainwater harvesting) and CMD PAN India, SURGE; Carlos Pagoga, director, Coca-Cola Foundation; Deepak Jolly, vice-president and Praveen Aggarwal, general manager (public affairs and communication), Coca-Cola India, were also present. Rao Inderjit Singh said: “The latest McKinsey report has predicted that India’s demand for water is expected to double in the next 20 years, which is 40 per cent more than the estimated reliable and sustainable supply today. This has made water management a serious challenge that requires immediate attention. To combat the water crisis, rainwater harvesting has emerged as a viable option that will redirect rainwater, which will otherwise go waste, back into the ground.” Darshan Singh pointed out that the ban on digging of borewells was a step in the right direction, but it was not enough to tackle the grave problem. “Personal contributions are also required from people in order to overcome the crisis in future,” he maintained. Carlos Pagoga observed that rainwater harvesting was a time-tested and sustainable solution to water crisis. “Keeping this is mind, we have installed 29 rainwater harvesting structures in Gurgaon through public-private partnership,” he said. |
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Help or I’ll kill myself, student to President
Ambala, December 1 The President’s office forwarded the letter to the chief secretary, Haryana, for necessary action. The chief secretary has forwarded the letter to Ambala Deputy Commissioner Sumedha Kataria. She is accessing every possibility to get the boy education loan from a bank to carry on his further studies. The letter, which was written to the President on December 30, 2008, was delivered to the chief secretary’s office in August 2009 after around 8 months. Sourabh has written in the letter that his father died a few years ago and his mother does not have any source of income except the family pension of Rs 350 per month. He said the government had been providing every facility to SC/BC students. However, it should also take care of the students of poor families. He said he had passed senior secondary examination from Sainik School, Kapurthala, securing 80 per cent marks. He also mentioned in the letter that his mother applied for the post of anganwari worker, but she was not given any priority despite her being a widow among candidates. He said he was sitting idle in the house and was seeking professional education that would enable him to get properly settled in life, but he was not seeing any ray of light in the dark future of his and his family because of poverty. He also mentioned in the letter that if he was not given any response, he would commit suicide. The DC said she had a word with a few bankers to provide him education loan on minimum interest rate so that the boy could continue his studies. |
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Jhinda’s suggestion irrational, says Nalvi
Karnal, December 1 Nalvi said Jhinda was not aware of the fact that the HSGPC could only be constituted by invoking Section 72 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, and passing a legislation for which the support of the Prime Minister and Chief Minister was mandatory. He said it was a foolish move and a retrograde step after Chief Minister BS Hooda had committed to a separate SGPC for Haryana. Instead of building pressure on the state government to honour its commitment, Jhinda was suggesting leaving the matter to the SGPC. Lashing out at Jhinda for not consulting the 19 lakh Sikhs in Haryana before making such an “irrational” suggestion, Nalvi said the latter was trying to sabotage the efforts of the Haryana Sikhs by misleading them.He criticised Jhinda for wavering at critical times and weakening the movement for a separate SGPC. The committee fighting for a separate SGPC had earlier split into the Jhinda and Nalvi factions which later decided to unite under the banner of HSGPC. |
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Another H1N1 patient in hospital
Sirsa, December 1 “The patient, a 48-year-old villager, was referred to the general hospital by a private nursing home today. He suffered from respiratory distress,” said Dr Viresh Bhushan, nodal officer on swine flu in the local general hospital. The patient has been kept in the isolation ward of the hospital set up especially for swine flu patients. Category C of swine flu, as per the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, is the most serious kind of H1N1 type, where the patient develops one or more of conditions like breathlessness, chest pain, drowsiness, fall in blood pressure, sputum mixed with blood and bluish discolouration of nails. He said so far 106 samples of suspected patients had been sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD). Fifteen out of 106 samples were tested positive. These include cases that have contacted the disease from outside and their samples have been taken here. No report from the district was pending with the NICD,said Dr Viresh Bhushan.
YAMUNANAGAR: Four children of different schools were today tested positive for swine flu. Besides, 25 persons, including children, have also reported symptoms of swine flu in the Civil Hospital. The administration has directed all principals of schools to not allow any student with symptoms of swine flu to attend school. |
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Opt for treated seeds, farmers told
Jind, December 1 A senior official of the Department of Agriculture said here today that important pesticides like Rack Seal and Vita Vax would now be made available to the farmers at a rate of Rs 57 (per 100 gm) instead of the market price of Rs 114 per 100 gm per packet. These are used to check the growth of pests, including fungus, in the wheat crop, which had been a main problem for farmers. He said the farmers were being trained to sow treated seeds to keep away pests and weeds. The depertmant had pressed into service two mobile vans to spread word among the farmers on the need to adopt new techniques for better results. A team of experts and doctors had been deputed to help growers achieve a better yield. According to the department, the wheat crop has been sown in 1.90 lakh hectares in the district so far against a target of 2.15 lakh hectares this season. The department has advised the farmer to adopt the “Crown root initiation technique” while irrigating the wheat crop, said Dr Rohtas Singh, Deputy Director, Agriculture, here. The first watering is done after 22 days under this method, he said. This was one way to ensure a better yield, he explained.
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Protests over school director’s ‘killing’
Rewari, December 1 Irate residents of Sehlang village too blocked traffic on the Kanina-Charkhi Dadri road. They demanded arrest of the alleged killers of Bhardwaj and action against a police official of the Kanina police station, whose lackadaisical approach they said had “facilitated” the assailants .Shopkeepers in Sehlang also observed a bandh. The blockade at Mahendragarh was lifted on the intervention of Narnaul ASP Sukhbir Singh, who assured the demonstrators that the killers would be arrested and action initiated against any police official found guilty. Meanwhile, the Kanina police, which registered a case of rioting, murder and criminal intimidation against the assailants, has arrested Hoshiar Singh, leader of the assailants and resident of Maudi village.
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Lee’s marriage will get approval Chandigarh, December 1 The petitioners through counsel Ghulam Nabi Malik asserted their marriage was not being registered as they were told to bring Ran’s parents for the process. As the case came up before Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, Haryana’s advocate-general assured the court the marriage would be registered, if they appeared before the tehsildar concerned.
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Tarlochan seeks bypoll without delay
Chandigarh, December 1 He was erroneously quoted in these columns yesterday as saying that he wanted the byelection to be delayed. In a letter to Navin Chawla, the Rajya Sabha member has alleged that the Haryana Government led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda has acted with impropriety by announcing a package for Ellenabad at a rally in Sirsa on Sunday. “Even before the assembly elections were held recently in Haryana, people all over India were critical of the the way the Chief Minister was spending government funds for personal publicity,” he
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Pistol recovered from school student
Farukhnagar (Gurgaon), December 1 The incident came to light when a police team conducted a raid after receiving a tip off. The pistol and the cartridge were recovered from the bag of the student. The student is a juvenile and has been booked under the Arms Act. “We have arrested the student and he does not have any criminal record. He will be produced before a CJM within next 24 hours before being sent to a juvenile home,” a police official said. The official said they were investigating the matter. The student claimed that a man, namely Bindar, came on a motorcycle and gave him the pistol in the morning and fled. He told the police that he thought of returning it after the school was over. |
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