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Nurses’ Council told to register degrees
CM’s largesse for ‘VIP’ college
DCs to head panels on school safety
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Fun for kids, misery for commuters
Water scarcity alarming: Experts
Ahlawat, Dilbag on varsity executive council
BUDGET 2010
Elderly hold protest
Cancel SDM’s transfer: Samiti
Mining
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Nurses’ Council told to register degrees
Chandigarh, February 26 Taking up a petition filed by Neelam Devi and another petitioner against the Haryana Nurses Registration Council and other respondents, Justice K. Kannan observed: “The petitioners, who have qualified for General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) degree find themselves unable to have their degrees registered with the council, which alone assures them a vista into the job market. “The contention of the petitioners is that the degrees have been awarded by Doon International University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, which is a university notified under the gazette notification dated November 7, 2003, established under the Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam Act, 2002”. “The petitioners after having completed course and earned the degrees had sought for registration with the council, but it denied such registration on the ground that the Supreme Court had in a judgment Prof Yashpal and another versus State of Chhattisgarh and others dated February 11, 2005, struck down the Chhattisgarh Act”. Counsel representing the respondent submitted that the degree secured by joining an institute situated in the State of Haryana had not been approved by the Haryana government, nor had it issued a no-objection certificate for opening and running of such an institute in the state of Haryana. As “the institute where the petitioners had studied was established in Haryana without either the government approving the same or approval from the Indian Nursing Council, New Delhi, the petitioners shall not be entitled to have registration,” the counsel
had added. Justice Kannan asserted: “Since the degrees of the petitioners have been obtained from the university set up under the Act, their degrees could not be registered. “The other contention and more formidable, according to the council is that neither the Punjab Nurses Registration Council nor the Government of Haryana had recognised the degree and, hence, registration could not be made”. Referring to apex court judgments, Justice Kannan added:“In this case, although the state government had not granted any recognition to the institute, the institute had been affiliated to the university established under the Act. “When the student had not been himself guilty of misrepresentation and had taken a degree through an institute affiliated to the university which till the date when the degree was awarded had a right to exist as such an institute, the student cannot be punished. “The petitioners are entitled to have the degrees registered by the council and there shall be a mandamus in the manner sought for by the
petitioners. “The writ petition is allowed, but there shall be, however, no direction as to the costs.” |
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CM’s largesse for ‘VIP’ college
Rohtak, February 26
This appeared to be proved when a grant of Rs 92 lakh was given to Sat Jinda Kalyana College (SJK) in Kalanaur town, 15 km from here, by the Chief Minister during the convocation and prize distribution function of the college here today. While Rajya Sabha member Shadi Lal Batra is the General Secretary of the trust running the college, local MLA BB Batra is the vice-president of the trust. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was the chief guest at the occasion that saw over 100 students being conferred degrees. The function had to be wrapped up before the scheduled time due to further appointment of the Chief Minister. This led to disappointment amongst some of the students as only a couple of certificates could be given on the stage by the CM.However, the CM’s announcement to provide a matching grant of Rs 92 lakh left the management, staff and the students in a happy and a jovial mood. This was made in response to the charter read out by Shadi Lal Batra, who had sought financial help in carrying out some development works. Hooda announced that besides the matching grant of Rs 60 lakh from his government, Rs 21 lakh would be given from the discretionary fund of Dr Ram Prakash, another Rajya Sabha member from the state who was present at the function. Another Rs 11 lakh was announced from the Chief Minister’s fund for the
purpose. This appeared to have left the college authorities more than satisfied in view of the short stay by the CM, claimed an employee. Hooda claimed that the state government was dedicated to improve the basic infrastructure for education in Haryana and the state would come up as an educational hub at the national and international levels soon. Stating that it was education which could spur development at a fast pace, he said the government had spent several crores to set up several national-level institutions. |
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DCs to head panels on school safety
Gurgaon, February 26 Following the guidelines of the state government, a District Education Committee (DEC) has been formed in Gurgaon under the chairmanship of local Deputy Commissioner Rajender Kataria. Chairing a meeting of the local DEC convened here today, Kataria asked the committee members to launch a drive to make the students and teachers aware of the safety measures to be adopted in the event of fire or some other mishap on the school premises. District Education Officer Ajit Singh Kadian has been appointed member-secretary and District Elementary Education Officer Jyoti Chaudhary additional member-secretary of the local DEC. The other members of the committee include Fire Officer Hanuman Sihag, Civil Surgeon Dr PS Dhawan, District Town Planner (Enforcement) BK Saini, Mechanical Engineer of the Municipal Corporation Bhopal Singh, Superintendent Engineer of the PWD (B&R) and two representatives of private schools, including aided and unaided schools. Kataria asked the member-secretary to get the staff members and students of Classes VI to XII of the schools trained in the application of safety measures. The Deputy Commissioner, who is also the chairman of the DEC, told the meeting that help in this regard could be taken from the State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT), District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) and Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA). He asked the officials concerned to ensure that every school should have a fire and emergency wing. The DC disclosed that the state government had decided to observe April 14 as Fire Safety Day every year to acquaint the people about fire-safety measures. “First-aid kits will be kept in schools to meet out any eventuality,” he said, adding that adequate fire extinguishers should be kept readily available in the school building. The DC also made it mandatory for all schools to take prior permission for organising programmes from the district administration so that the safety measures could be checked. He said no high-tension electric wires should pass over the school premises and if there were any, the member-secretary would supply a list of such cases to him so that these could be got shifted
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Fun for kids, misery for commuters
Excursion
Policy The excursion scheme is causing a lot of inconvenience to commuters as a number of roadways’ buses are being used by schools for organising tours
Sirsa/Fatehabad, February 26 With an aim of providing a conducive atmosphere for the all-round growth and development of children through interaction with other children and exposure to new places of interest, the state government has initiated this scheme since January this year. Under this scheme, schoolchildren are taken to places like museums, botanical and herbal gardens, historical places, big industrial units, universities, exhibitions, trade fairs and book fairs within a radius of 100 km from their schools. The state government has prescribed that only Haryana Roadways buses are to be taken for this purpose. The government pays the actual bus fare of the students and a refreshment expenditure of Rs 1,500 per trip, subject to the maximum of Rs 8,000 per trip. The schoolchildren are told to take their own tiffins with them so that they can enjoy their meals together. “Children are enjoying these tours. We took them to a herbal park in Gillankhera village, Ottu Weird near Rania and Tarkeshwar Dham in Sirsa,” said Kavita Baghla, a teacher from Government Girls High School, Dhangar, in Fatehabad. However, for the daily commuters, the scheme has brought miseries. “Now, I have to wait at the bus stand for long periods to reach my university in Hisar. Earlier, I used to buses at an interval of less than five minutes,” said Swati, a student. Lajpat Rai, General Manager, Haryana Roadways, Sirsa, admitted there was some difficulty for the daily commuters, but added that it was a matter of a few days now. “We have a fleet of 153 buses, of which 20 to 25 are now involved in students’ tours daily,” he added. Roshan Lal, City Magistrate, Fatehabad, who also holds the charge of General Manager, Haryana Roadways at Fatehabad, claimed that only 10 of the fleet of 146 buses were being placed at the disposal of schools. “The scheme was initially to end on March 5, but now it has been extended by the government till March 31,” said HS Chhokar, District Education Officer, Fatehabad. “The government has also given some relaxation in the upper ceiling of Rs 8,000 per trip and has authorised teachers to utilise money from children welfare funds, if the expenditure exceeds the prescribed limits,” Chhokar added. |
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Water scarcity alarming: Experts
Sirsa, February 26 Lt-General DDS Sandhu (retd), vice chancellor of Kurukshetra University, who inaugurated the conference, said ever-depleting resources of drinking water, fast increasing carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere and increase in the environmental temperature were the biggest challenges before the humanity today. “Only 3 per cent of the total water available on the globe is fresh water and merely 10 per cent of that is available to human beings,” said Sandhu about the scarce resources of water. “Unless, we take urgent steps, water will soon become the scarcest commodity on earth,” the Vice-Chancellor said citing the oft-repeated quote that the next world war, if ever, would be fought over water. Sandhu said the rate at which carbon dioxide contents were increasing in the atmosphere and temperature rising, the day was not far when the glaciers would melt. “Human race has been living comfortably on the globe for thousands of years, but we have virtually raped the planet in the past one century,” he added. He said China and India were termed as the biggest emitters of gases, but as a matter of fact, the per capita gas emission by the Indian and the Chinese was much less than that of the Americans. KS Dhindsa, Director-General of JCD Vidyapeeth, said 60 per cent of the cultivated land suffered from soil erosion, waterlogging and salinity. Overexploitation of groundwater was problematic in the states of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, he added. Vijaya Tomar, principal of the CMK National Postgraduate College for Women, Sirsa, Shamim Sharma, principal of the Mata Harki Devi College for Women, Odhan, and Jai Parkash, principal of the JCD PG College of Education, attended the inaugural session. |
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Ahlawat, Dilbag on varsity executive council
Sirsa, February 26 Six candidates were in the fray for the two seats of the EC, polling for which was held in the Tagore Bhawan block of the university. Sixty-one teachers - lecturers and Readers - cast their votes for the two seats, said SK Gahlawat, returning officer for the poll. Ahlawat polled 24 votes, while Dilbag Singh got 22. Among others, JS Jakhar, a Reader in the Law Department, polled 21 votes, Satyawan Dalal, a lecturer in Public Administration (20 votes), Shalender Hooda, a lecturer in the Commerce Department (18 votes) and Rani Devi, a lecturer in the Energy and Environment Sciences Department (12 votes), Gahlawat added. Only two members to the EC are inducted from the teaching community through elections. All Readers and lecturers are entitled to contest these two posts, at least one of which is to be filled by a Reader. |
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BUDGET 2010 There was a strong case for raising tax savings limit to Rs 2 lakh. We need to increase the propensity to save and invest with a multiplier effect to serve society instead of increasing the propensity to consume by promoting greed through loans — MM Goel, KU The increase in petrol and diesel prices and hike in indirect taxes will further squeeze the common man. Huge concessions have been given to the corporate sector at the cost of the common people. The cut in subsidy on food items is deplorable — Inderjit Singh, CPM It will further increase the prices of essential commodities. The Budget is another example of anti-farmer and anti-common man policies of the UPA government — Kuldeep Bishnoi, HJC It is pro-rich and against the interests of farmers and the common man. It will increase the cost of foodgrain production and the farmers will suffer — Brig OP Chaudhary, INLD It is an anti-poor Budget and will trigger price hike. The hike in petrol and diesel rates will hit the urban and rural citizens alike — Anil Vij, BJP The minister should have abolished the CST and introduced the GST. The industry was expecting more. Entrepreneurs were expecting relief in taxes as given to HP — OP Khurana, HCCI
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Elderly hold protest
Yamunanagar, February 26 They said the state government had failed to repair roads and they had now decided to repair internal roads by collecting funds from locals and work as volunteers. The senior citizens, under the aegis of the Haryana Environment Society, today submitted a memorandum to the Governor, the Chief Minister, the PWD Minister and MP Kumari Selja through Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar Aggarwal. The senior citizens gathered outside the mini-secretariat for the protest. |
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Cancel SDM’s transfer: Samiti
Narnaul, February 26 President of the Mohindergarh Vikas Manch Rao Kulbir Singh Bohra said the present government was not paying any heed to their demand. Sandeep Singh as SDM used to work for the welfare of the people, but he was transferred deliberately, he alleged. They warned of launching a non-cooperation movement if transfer orders of the said officer was not withdrawn.
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Mining
Chandigarh, February 26 The HC had earlier made it clear that a go-ahead from the state-level “Environment Impact Assessment Authority” was essential. — TNS
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