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Rajnath visits state granaries BJP MP Rajnath Singh at a government warehouse in Palwal on Friday.
Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed
District panel to check ragging in colleges
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Rules on disposal of biomedical waste flouted
VC seeks report from controller of exams
INLD’s Godara gets interim bail
Admn wants madarsas modernised
Police recruits take part in a passing-out parade at the Madhuban academy on Friday.
Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
Fingerprints can tell criminal tendencies
Protest over fee hike by pvt schools
Villagers ransack powerhouse
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Rajnath visits state granaries
Faridabad/Palwal, April 16 Expressing disgust over wastage of the foodstock due to “mismanagement” by the Union Government and its agency, the Food Corporation of India(FCI), Rajnath Singh said his party would raise the issue on the floor of both Houses of Parliament. Another BJP team consisting of the national Secretary of the party, Krit Somaiya, and the Haryana president of the party, Krishan Pal Gurjar, visted FCI godowns in Hodal, Soundh and Puhana (Mewat). Rajnath Singh demanded that the UPA government tabled the Food Security Bill in Parliament so that a law was enacted to ensure that the food stock in the country did not go waste. The BJP leaders collected samples of the putrified wheat in the warehouses, saying these would be shown to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Singh said there were about 2.50 lakh gunny bags of wheat stocked in the Bhagola warehouse, about 2 lakh in Aalapur, 1.5 lakh in Sondh, 2 lakh in Hodal and about 50,000 in Punhana warehouses. The rotting up of such a large amount of foodstock was unacceptable when lakhs were going to bed on an empty stomach. He claimed the foodgrains had been procured about three years back and had been allowed to rot even when the country was in the grip of food shortage. The visit by the BJP leaders is part of the party’s larger goal to bring to the fore the two issues of food security and rising prices of edibles and force a national debate on the these. He said to ensure that another food crisis did not occur, the government must ensure effective intervention. Singh said his party had also collected samples from warehouses in other states. He wondered why the government had not distributed foodgrain through the public distribution
system (PDS) in time and allowed it to rot. He said the presiding officers of both Houses of Parliament would be urged to constitute a parliamentary committee to verify the quantity of foodstock stored in the warehouses as well as its condition. As per the national buffer norms, the government was obliged to store a total of 200 lakh tones of foodstock consisting of wheat and rice as a contingency measure. But the quantity stored in various warehouses was more than 450 lakh tonnes. He suspected that about one-third of the wheat stored had rotted. More than 72 lakh tonnes of wheat was stored in the government warehouses in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, he claimed. He charged the government agencies with clandestinely disposing of the rotten wheat through the PDS by mixing it with quality stock. The government appeared indifferent towards the welfare of farmers and the state of agriculture. In this connection he urged the UPA government to table the Land
Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, assuring “unconditional” support to it. He later visited Khedi Kalan in Faridabad district and met farmers agitating for enhanced monetary compensation for their land acquired by the Haryana Urban Development
Authority (HUDA). He assured the farmers of his party support to their agitation. |
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District panel to check ragging in colleges
Fatehabad, April 16 The committee constituted by Deputy Commissioner Rajini Kaanthan today includes the SP, the ADC, principals of all colleges and educational institutes of the district, representatives of some prominent NGOs and journalists Sunil Sachdeva, Gurdeep Singh Bhatti and Dharmender Goswami. Tanya, Dheeraj, Kiran and Vinod, all representatives of students, have also been included in the committee. The monitoring and coordinating cell (MACC) of the state government set up consequent to the decision of the Supreme Court had earlier written to all Deputy Commissioners in Haryana in this regard. “The façade of welcoming new students to educational institutions - ragging - is a notorious practice wherein senior students get an excuse to harass their junior counterparts. They more often than not make the fresher easy target to satiate their own perverse sadistic pleasures,” said a letter of the MACC. The Supreme Court, said the letter, had issued directions to implement the recommendations of the Raghvan Committee to eradicate the menace of ragging from educational institutions. The DLC will hold preparatory meetings during the summer vacation to take stock of the preparedness of educational institutions and their compliance with the guidelines of the appropriate bodies. The DLC will also act as the appellate forum to the action taken by institution-level committees constituted under the Supreme Court directions. “The first meeting of the DLC will be held in Fatehabad on April 21,” said the Deputy Commissioner. |
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Rules on disposal of biomedical waste flouted
Sirsa, April 16 In the tug-of-war between the doctors and the contractor over hike in service charges, it came to light that most biomedical waste of town’s private hospitals was being disposed off like domestic refuge.The contractor, who charged Rs 20 per month from domestic customers, had been charging Rs 300 per month from hospitals. He had been dumping biomedical waste along with the town’s other garbage and had hiked the charges to Rs 1,000 per month.
The Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling), Rules 1998, aim at controlling indiscriminate disposal of hospital/biomedical waste. The rules are applicable for hospitals, nursing homes, veterinary clinics, animal houses, pathology labs and blood banks. The rules say: "It shall be the duty of every occupier of an institution generating biomedical wastes, including a hospital, nursing home, clinic, dispensary, veterinary institutions, animal house, pathological labs, blood bank, by whatever name called, to take all steps to ensure that such waste is handled without any adverse affect on human health and the environment". The generators of biomedical waste are required, under the law, to set up their own facilities for its management or have a common facility for its disposal. The generators of biomedical waste and operators of facilities for its management are liable to penalty under the Environment (Protection) Act 1986, and other pollution control Acts. However, the laws are being flouted with impunity in the district. Although almost all private doctors have registered themselves with Synergy Waste Management, a company appointed by the pollution control board to collect and destroy biomedical waste, they have been dumping it with other garbage because the company, the doctors allege, is not collecting the biomedical waste regularly. “The company representatives collect services charges as per the number of beds in the hospital, subject to a minimum of Rs 850 per month, and are expected to collect biomedical waste from all 120-odd private doctors of Sirsa on a daily basis. But they do not care to visit Sirsa for days,” maintained Dr Ved Beniwal, patron of the Haryana Chapter of the IMA. “They rarely visit our hospitals, sometimes at the time of collection of charges alone,” confided another doctor. “We are not in a position to raise our voice as the company has been appointed by the pollution control board and we are bound to register with it to continue medical practice,” he explained.
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VC seeks report from controller of exams
Jhajjar, April 16 Terming the case “extremely serious”, the VC said the procedure had been initiated to verify the facts that came out during investigation of the case and stern action would be taken against the principal and management of the Sanskriti Institute of Education and Technology, Narnaul, and two employees of the university who had been found “guilty” in the inquiry report. “After going through the news report, I discussed the matter with the CoE and called for a complete report of the case from him so that further proceeding could be initiated in this regard. All those, who have been held guilty of committing fraud and corrupt practice, will be punished as per law,” said Hooda. Notably, a nexus between the Sanskriti Institute of Education and Technology and the MDU officials was exposed by The Tribune on Friday. The report disclosed that five fabricated admit cards for the annual theoretical exams were issued by the university employees to candidates who were not even enrolled for the BPEd course. Interestingly, on the basis of fabricated admit cards, three of the five candidates - Rashida Jamal, Amit Joshi and Mukesh Chander - succeeded in appearing for the theoretical exams against Ekta Gangwar, Menka and Chhaya Gangwar, respectively. |
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Ill-trained cops gun down panther
Jind, April 16 The beast was not a man-eater. The police and the Department of Wildlife failed to capture it alive. It was shot at, which resulted in its death. This is ironic since the country has been on “Save the Tiger” mission with the government launching a publicity blitz to create awareness on the need for preserving endangered species.
"Officials of the department concerned reached the fields of Mandokheri village to capture the wild cat, aged about four. They had no tranquilizer though one of the employees from Hisar had brought a gun,” claimed sources. It is reported that the panther, which was sighted by one Gugan Singh of the village for the first time at 8.45 am, had been calm and did not attack anyone till challenged. The officials had no sedative which could be used to fire from the gun. They used sticks to gain control over the beast which tried to hide itself. As many as 12 persons, including three officials of the Wildlife Department, a DSP and some villagers received injuries as the panther retaliated. Those who did not attack the beast were not touched. This clearly indicated that it was not a man-eater and could have been captured alive, if the officials had been well-trained, claimed an expert. The panther which was chased for more than seven hours died after it was fired upon by policemen who obtained permission from the department concerned for doing so. A head constable was injured when he was hit by a bullet meant to kill the beast.
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INLD’s Godara gets interim bail
Sirsa, April 16 Sanjay Saini and Satnam Singh, the two other accused, who were in judicial lock-up in this case, were also given bail today. The police had booked seven identified and 20-30 unidentified persons on the complaint of Gobind Kanda after an unsavoury spat between the Kandas and INLD activists during the Sirsa bandh called on the Chief Minister’s visit on April 3. “INLD activists Pardeep Godara, Mahavir Bagri, Leela Dhar Saini, Yogesh Sharma, Raja Kaswan, Suresh Darban, Ram Singh Saini and 20-30 others attacked and beat up me and my brother Gopal Kanda in Hisaria Bazar, Sirsa, when we were passing through that route during the bandh organised by the INLD. The accused, who were armed with sharp-edged weapons and lathis tore the National Flag installed on the bonnet of the minister’s official car and snatched my mobile phone and threatened to kill us,” Gobind Kanda had alleged in his complaint. However, the police later dropped Section 307 of the IPC, various sections of the Arms Act and Section relating to the dishonour of the Tricolour from the FIR for want of evidence during the investigation and replaced Section 148 of the IPC with Section 147. The court today allowed interim bail to Godara till May 3, the next date of hearing after the police replied that he was wanted by it under Sections 147, 149, 323, 382 and 506 of the IPC. The court has directed him to join investigation by the police as and when required and the police will have to accept his bail in the event of his arrest. |
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Admn wants madarsas modernised
Yamunanagar, April 16 These villages are dominated by poor minorities, who prefer to send their children to madarsas for religious education instead of regular schools. Of the 115 madarsas in the district, 82 still believe in traditional teaching rather than formal education. Citing these facts, the district administration has written to state project director SK Dass, stating that there was need for integrating formal education with religious education in madarsas. The administration has also highlighted that there has been a steep decline in the strength of minority girl students and they should be provided school dresses and shoes as a special incentive under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan so that their parents are motivated to send them to school. Besides, the administration has decided to run a month-long campaign in these villages to make the villagers aware about the benefits of education. Educationists, doctors, engineers, politicians, businessmen will be roped in to tell villagers how education helped them achieve success, Additional Deputy Commissioner Narender Singh told The Tribune. Giving details, he said in these 264 villages, poor Muslim parents generally did not prefer to send their children to a non-Urdu school. However, with much persuasion the administration had managed to convince the heads of 33 madarsas to provide formal education up to primary classes and the administration had trained their teachers in formal education. “Last year, we organised a five-day seminar in minority-dominated villages. The religions heads (pirs) of madarsas and masjids took keen interest to join the mainstream of modern education. As a result, formal education up to primary level has been taken up by 33 madarsas in the district,” he added. |
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438 pass out from police academy
Madhuban, April 16 Of the 438 recruits of batch No. 73 who passed out today, 11 are postgraduates, 104 graduates and 323 were high secondary pass. As many as 406 recruits hail from rural areas and 32 from urban areas. The passouts formally became a part of the police force after DGP Ranjiv Dalal took the salute at the passing-out parade at the police parade ground. Inspector-General of the Haryana Police Academy Sudhir Chowdhary escorted Dalal, who felicitated recruits
Amrik Singh, Narinder Kumar and Om Bir for securing the first, second and third positions, respectively, in their final examinations of the police training. Amrik Singh was awarded a laptop along with a first-class appreciation letter while Narinder Kumar and Om Bir were awarded a
digital camera and a first-class appreciation letter each by the police chief
Dalal. |
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Fingerprints can tell criminal tendencies
Karnal, April 16 Director of the bureau, Layak Ram Dabas, says it is possible to curb criminal tendencies among children if fingerprints are examined and necessary corrective measures taken. The bureau conducted a study on the fingerprints of 3,200 hardcore criminals, whose data was available with the bureau, and reached the conclusion that anyone with les than five mounds (chakras) in both hands showed an inclination towards crime. The survey revealed that 1,880 of the 3.200 criminals whose fingersprints were examined had less than five mounds while 1,320 criminals with more than five mounds were involved in less serious crimes. Parents and guardians need to observe the fingerprints of their wards to identify latent criminal tendencies and take suitable measures to
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Protest over fee hike by pvt schools
Sonepat, April 16 They handed over a memorandum, addressed to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda , to ADC Dr SS Dalal. Their main demands included implementation of the orders of the Commissioner and Director-General of School Education, Haryana, issued on July 6, 2009, under which all recognised and aided schools were directed to regulate the fee to be charged from students. — OC
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Villagers ransack powerhouse
Kaithal, April 16 The villagers alleged that they had been facing a lot of hardships due to power shortage. They also ransacked the office of the powerhouse and reportedly attacked the staff on duty. Furniture and other articles were broken and a lineman was injured in the attack. The police has registered a case against 60 persons.
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FCI manager held
SIRSA: A team from the CBI on Friday arrested a manager of the FCI at Dabwali town here while he was accepting Rs 50,000 bribe from a transporter-cum rice sheller owner. The complainant - Sushil Mittal - had approached the CBI with a complaint that the accused - MC Berwa - had demanded Rs 50,000 as bribe for his lawful work. A trap was laid and the sleuths of the CBI arrested the accused red-handed.
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Faridabad/Palwal, April 16
