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N-plant will affect health: Chautala
Pratap Singh Chautala quits Cong
13 theme cities on anvil, says Deepender Hooda
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Check on Drunken Driving
Seeking medical college, NGO writes to minister
Ensure education to every girlchild: Guv
HPSC to hold screening test by month-end
Gotra Trouble again
Assn seeks pension parity with Punjab
Excise services automated
Rowdies on bus
Woman returns bag with cash to owner
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N-plant will affect health: Chautala
Fatehabad, December 6 Talking to mediapersons at Daulatpur village in this district, Chautala maintained that no life or plantation would be possible within a radius of 5km of the proposed plant and people living in the vicinity would always run the risk of radiation. “This government will not do anything for the benefit of Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad because for ‘advantageous’ projects, the Hooda government has only Rohtak, Jhajjar and Sonepat in mind,” Chautala alleged. The government had already done much harm to these areas by taking away its irrigation waters. Earlier, addressing party workers, Chautala regretted that people of old Hisar district (Hisar, Bhiwani, Fatehabad and Sirsa) did not give him support in the manner that old Rohtak district (Rohtak, Jhajjar and Sonepat) lent to the Chief Minister. “Old Rohtak district gave 13 out of its 14 assembly seats to Hooda. Had the old Hisar district given even 12 out of its 21 seats to the INLD, we would have formed government in the state this time,” Chautala told his workers. He called upon his party men not to be disheartened but to strengthen the organisation. He claimed that power would automatically come their way once the Hooda government fell. Hisar: Former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala said here on Sunday day that his party would challenge the appointment of Chief Parliamentary Secretaries in the High Court. Addressing mediapersons after a meeting of INLD workers, he said there was no provision for such appointments in the Constitution and these nine appointments had been made by the Chief Minister only to save his
government. He said the ‘merger’ of Haryana Janhit Congress (BK) legislators with the Congress was illegal. His party would initiate appropriate legal action in this regard. Chautala alleged the state was reeling under acute shortage of irrigation water, power and agricultural inputs. Development works in Haryana were at a standstill since the Congress assumed power in 2005. Law and order was deteriorating and corruption had peaked inder the Hooda regime. Regretting that “the people had handed over the reins of power to looters,” Chautala said his party would nevertheless play the role of Opposition in a constructive and responsible manner. |
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Pratap Singh Chautala quits Cong
Sirsa, December 6 He sought the support of all non-Congress, non-INLD and non-Communist parties. “ The Hansi-Butana Link Canal will be a major issue as farmers of Sirsa and Fatehabad are likely to suffer the most due to this canal,” Pratap Singh said while talking to mediapersons here today. He blamed Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and HPCC president Phool Chand Mulana for the poor performance of the Congress in Sirsa.
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13 theme cities on anvil, says Deepender Hooda
Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), December 6 This was stated by Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda while addressing people during his thanks-giving visit to Kanauda village here today. He was on a tour to many villages in Bahadurgarh area. The MP said industries which would emerge in these theme cities would provide ample job opportunities to people of the area and the NCR would not trail behind the nation’s capital in the field of development. “By December 2010, the issue of power shortage which dominated Haryana politics for a long time will completely die. It is for the first time in Haryana that by adopting a visionary approach, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been instrumental in setting up a series of power plants in the state, the construction works on which was in the final stages of completion,” said Deepender, adding that the NTCP Thermal Power Plant of 1,500 MW at Jharli would start generating power by April-May 2010 and 1,320 MW power plant of Khanpur Khurd by the end of next year. Earlier, the MP paid tributes to Dr BR Ambedkar on his Mahaparinirvana. |
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Gender Tests
Sirsa, December 6 “We have taken into custody records starting from January 2008 from the diagnostic centre,” confirmed Setia, adding that his report, including the cases of ultrasound of foetus during these two years, would be complete by tonight and submitted to the Deputy Commissioner by Monday. Anuradha Gupta, Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is looking after health besides other departments, meanwhile, directed the district authorities to take statutory action against the diagnostic centre without any further delays. The SDM had completed his probe last week and his inquiry detected 614 cases of ultrasound of foetus in violation of the PNDT Act in July and August 2009 alone. The revelations warranted institution of a case under the PNDT Act against the centre owner in the court of law. However, the district authorities constituted a committee comprising some local private doctors to assist the SDM and decided to take the inquiry further with a view to make it broad based and to find out if some other doctors were also involved in the racket. However, sources revealed that Anuradha Gupta had asked the district authorities to launch statutory proceedings as provided under the PNDT Act against the centre owner without any further delay as that did not stop the authorities from probing the role of other doctors. Meanwhile, Setia said the name of Navdeep Kaur, woman whose lead was communicated by the Mansa authorities, had been found in the computer records of the centre but it was missing in the manual records, which were submitted to the authorities. The authorities in Mansa had received a complaint on their helpline on female foeticide that Navdeep Kaur had undergone a test and medical termination of pregnancy at Sirsa and on quizzing the woman had named the centre under scanner now. |
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Health camp for poor in Ambedkar’s memory
Sirsa, December 6 Prominent doctors of the town - Dr GK Agarwal, Dr Santosh Agarwal, Dr Sunita Kaushal, Dr VP Goyal, Dr Ashok Bishnoi, Dr Preeti Gupta, Dr Karan Singh, Dr Karan Singh, Dr MM Talwar, Dr Vimla Talwar, Dr Vinod Mehta, Dr Ashok Sama, Dr Amar Singh Sidhu, Dr Ramesh Dudi, Dr SP Sharma, Dr Nilesh and Dr Nikhilesh - examined patients and distributed free-of-cost medicines amongst them. “The foundation has been working for the welfare of the poor, downtrodden and the needy people. It will now organise health camps in each of the nine assembly segments of the Sirsa parliamentary constituency,” said Avantika Tanwar, nee Maken, after inaugurating the first of the series of such camps today. She is the wife of Congress MP from Sirsa and Indian Youth Congress President Ashok Tanwar. She called upon other social organisations and NGOs to contribute in the health sector as providing good health services to all was a step in the direction of nation building. Sonepat: Tributes were paid to Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on his 53rd death anniversary in the meetings organised by various organisations at different places in the district on Sunday. In a meeting at Gannaur, Working President of the HPCC and MLA Kuldeep Shrama recalled that Dr Ambedkar would always be remembered as a messiah of the downtrodden in the country who had been the victims of the socio-economic exploitation in the country. In a meeting of the Scheduled Castes and the Backward Classes Vikas Manch at ShyamNagar here, MLA Jagbir Singh Malik said social evils like casteism and untouchability could be removed by following the teachings and guidelines of Ambedkar. Working president of the Haryana Scheduled Caste and Backward Classes Minorities Council Hawa Singh Bohat said Dr Ambedkar devoted his life to uplift the neglected sections of society and his three-point programme became a watchword for the people of poor sections of society.
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Check on Drunken Driving
Karnal, December 6 As per the data available with the State Crime Record Bureau, Madhuban, as many as 1,900 accidents took place during the past 11 months of the current calendar year that claimed 1,500 lives and left more than 400 persons injured. Layak Ram Dabas, director, State Crime Record Bureau, said only 10 per cent of such hit-and-run cases had been traced while 90 per cent had been closed as “untraceable” as most of the accidents took place during the night when there was no witness around. National highways and major towns like Gurgaon, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Sonepat and Faridabad are highly prone to accidents due to heavy traffic and rash driving and maximum numbers of cases are reported from these places. Referring to the increase in the number of road accidents in spite of several steps like intense patrolling to check drunken and rash driving, the DGP said regulating traffic had become a major area of concern as there had been an alarming increase in the number of vehicles plying on roads. He said the SPs in all districts had been directed to closely monitor the traffic staff weekly and take stringent action against errant drivers violating traffic regulations. Incidentally, Haryana was the only state that had systematic checking on over-speeding vehicles and a close network for conducting sobriety checks, he added. The police has no mechanism to solve such blind cases. The only silver lining for the victims was that the next of the kin get Rs 50,000 as relief in case of fatal accidents and the injured are given a relief up to Rs 25,000 in case of serious injury. |
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Seeking medical college, NGO writes to minister
Rewari, December 6 Copies of the communication have also been dispatched to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Prof Ranbir Singh Yadav, general secretary of the DHVLM, pointed out that while 50-bedded hospitals and primary health centres were being set up in cities and towns under the above mission, the requirements of rural areas, where residents needed such medicare facilities direly, were being ignored. Stating that while Delhi, whose population is nearly half of Haryana and whose area is 1/20th of the state, has as many as five medical colleges, Haryana had only one such college in Rohtak. Asserting that while the Kund region was well-connected with rail and road to other areas of the Ahirwal region in particular and those of the state in general, Prof Yadav said backwardness of the region as well as readiness of the Manethi village panchayat to donate land for the purpose, lent legitimacy to their demand of a medical college at Manethi. He urged the Union Health Minister to accord sanction for the opening of a medical college at Manethi in the interest of the people of the Ahirwal region. |
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Ensure education to every girlchild: Guv
Narwana(Jind), December 6 This was stated by Governor Jaganath Paharia while speaking at the 34th annual day function of Kanya Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya at Kharal village today. This is one of the few institutions in the state with focus on the Sanskrit language. Exhorting students to work hard, the Governor said no target was difficult to achieve if one was focused. The Governor, who inaugurated a multi-purpose hall and a stadium at the college built at a cost of Rs 70 lakh, stated that the state
government had launched various projects aimed at providing proper job avenues to women for their for the social and
economic ulpiftment. The setting up of the Bhagat Phool Singh Girls’ University at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat district was a move in this direction and would help end the age-old discrimination faced by the fairer sex. He said 33 per cent reservation for women in appointments in government schools and in local bodies would go a long way to serve the purpose. But discrimination needed to be fought at the family level and female foeticide had to be stopped. Birender Singh, a former minister, presided over the function. He also addressed the gathering. |
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HPSC to hold screening test by month-end
Chandigarh, December 6 Stating this here today, a spokesman for the HPSC said the exact date, time and venue for holding the test would be notified later on. He said the standard of the question paper would be of the level of the essential educational qualification prescribed for the respective post. The test would be of two hours’ duration. The question paper comprising 100 questions would be of 100 marks. There would be no negative marking. Candidates shall be expected to have a general and basic knowledge of the relevant subject as per the prescribed educational qualification for the post and also the ability to answer questions about general awareness, current events of national and international importance and knowledge of various facets of Haryana. The candidates shall also be tested for their analytical skills and aptitude. He said in order of merit in the test, candidates three times the number of advertised vacancies for each category of the posts will be called for interview. The screening test would be of qualifying nature and marks obtained in the test would not be given any weightage for the final selection. He said visually challenged candidate, if any, would be allowed scribe to write answers for him only with prior permission of the commission failing which he would not be allowed to use the facility of a scribe. The scribe should be a class XII student whose details should be duly verified by the principal of the school concerned. |
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Gotra Trouble again
Rewari, December 6 Sheotaj Yadav, husband of woman sarpanch Suman Yadav, former sarpanch Ganga Dutt, Dr Kailash Yadav, nambardars Mahipal and Mahabir Singh, panch Harish Narain and other prominent residents participated in the panchayat, which was also attended by Sunil’s father. A hefty police force was present at the venue to ward off trouble. Meanwhile, following a complaint faxed by the girl to the DGP, appropriate police protection has been provided to the couple’s families in the village. Simultaneously, the couple has shifted to Delhi where they are living in hiding. The village has been tense eversince Sarla Yadav, a constable in the Delhi Police, and Sunil Yadav, a property dealer, tied the knot at an Arya Samaj Mandir at Jamna Bazaar in Delhi on November 13. A senior police official said if the villagers persisted in their ways, legal action would be initiated against them. |
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Five-year-old girl goes missing, search on
Gurgaon, December 6 It is being suspected that the girl fell into an open sewer main hole near the temple. The authorities concerned swung into action as soon as the girls' parents reported the matter. A team of the District Fire Department reached the site and some firemen were downed into the sewer to look for the girl. The search operation was on till the filing of the report, but there was no clue of the missing girl. |
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Panel on job quota for physically challenged
Chandigarh, December 6 An official spokesman said here on Friday that the committee would suggest modalities to provide reservations to physically challenged persons in terms of Section 33 of The Persons with Disabilities Act in the services of the Haryana Civil Services (Executive and Allied), Police, Home Guards, Fire Services and Health Department and Drivers and Conductors. The Chief Secretary would be the chairperson of the committee while Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Home; Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Health; Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Social Welfare Department; Legal Remembrancer and Secretary, Law and Legislative Department; Special and Joint Secretary, Political Services Department; and Joint Secretary, General Administration Department, would be its members.
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Assn seeks pension parity with Punjab
Bhiwani, December 6 Addressing a general body meeting of pensioners here today, association president RC Burman said pensioners in Punjab were getting 5 per cent and 10 per cent additional pension on attaining the age of 65 and 75 years, respectively. However, the Haryana government had steadfastly refused to grant this benefit to its pensioners. He said the benefit was also admissible to central government employees and Haryana was duty-bound to grant similar benefit to its employees. Vice-president of the association Chattar Singh said most of the pensioners of this age were originally employees of the Punjab government and were allocated to Haryana at the time of the reorganisation of joint Punjab in 1966 when Haryana came into being. As such, there was no justification for denying them a benefit that they would have enjoyed had they continued to serve in Punjab. Patron AL Malhotra sought personal intervention of the Chief Minister in the matter and hoped that the government would not force ageing pensioners to launch an agitation to highlight their plight. He said denial of this benefit was an insult to senior citizens who had spent their lifetime serving the government. The meeting decided to consider the future course of action at its next meeting to be held on January 3. |
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Excise services automated
Rohtak, December 6 Stating this here recently, commissioner of the central excise here said the system had been designed to enhance transparency, accountability and efficiency in indirect tax administration. Due to introduction of the system, tax compliance requirements would become hassle free through online filing of applications for registration, filing of returns and other related correspondence such as permissions and intimations. “The main objective of the ACES is to provide an electronic interface with the department that aims to reduce paperwork, visits to the department and transaction costs, said CS Parsad, commissioner and head of the department. He said the customs and central excise department was committed to simplifying procedures for trade and industry. Automation was another step to simplify and promote speedy and transparent administration. It is also announced that the ACES will also be facilitated in matter goods and services tax (GST) from the next financial year. |
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Rowdies on bus
Rewari, December 6 They along with their guardians and village elders, all residents of Khandora village, 15 km from here, met Deputy Commissioner TL Satyaprakash here on Friday and submitted a written complaint to him. They alleged that one of them even has a country-made pistol and he often threatened them with dire consequences if they dared speak against them. The kin of the girls pleaded for stringent action against the boys. The girls and the boys travel to Rewari almost daily by the same Roadways bus.
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Woman returns bag with cash to owner
Rewari, December 6 On disboarding a train at Jatusana station, Kavita Devi woman was going towards Motla Khurd
village when she found the bag near a railway crossing. The address in the passbook enabled SHO Sube Singh to contact its owner Shish Pal, a resident of Iqbalpur village in Gurgaon district. After ascertaining facts, the bag was returned to Shish Pal. |
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