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Mealy bug infests cotton crop in Hisar, Sirsa, Fatehabad
State to promote technical education among girls
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All cities, towns to have solid waste management plants
Army acts saviour
Fear of floods stalks villagers
Jindal assures help
Migrated units urged to return
Elements of good governance discussed
Crime on the rise in Rewari
Recognition sought for Hemu
SSA: Role of ADCs underscored
Withdraw VAT, demands industry
Protest against Hooda govt
Rs 15 cr for development projects
Lesser amount spent on power purchase
KU's engineering courses get AICTE approval
74,000 get senior citizen cards, benefits
Legal assistance cell for women
Names sought for Padma awards
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Mealy bug infests cotton crop in Hisar, Sirsa, Fatehabad
Hisar, July 12 However, the scientists said there was not much cause for concern as several mealy bug predators were also present in the cotton fields that preyed on weak bugs faster than their reproduction rate. These would act as a natural means of controlling infestation by mealy bug. Besides, heavy rain in the area in the past few days will also destroy the bug. Entomologists said white fly and other similar attacks on the crop were negligible so far. They said the next two weeks would be crucial as they expected the mealy bug predators to bring the infestation under control within a fortnight. They advised farmers to keep a constant watch on the crop. The scientists advised farmers not to spray the crop as yet to control mealy bug as the spray would also kill the mealy bug predators. However, if other infestation was noticed in the crop, farmers should take appropriate steps to control it. Entomologists of Haryana Agricultural University had found a way for natural control of mealy bug two years ago. They had identified two insects that killed mealy bug. Significantly, these insects can be reared and multiplied in the laboratory to be set free in cotton fields to check the population of deadly insect. These predators treated mealy bug in turn as a parasite. Field monitoring and laboratory rearing of the pest further indicated that the parasites killed on an average 47 per cent mealy bugs, which was quite significant.
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State to promote technical education among girls
Panipat, July 12 These will include more reservation for girls in technical education institutes and cash incentives for those topping competitive examinations at the national level. Stating this, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Sharda Rathore said the government had decided to set up seven new polytechnic colleges in the state to help girls take up technical education. A sum of Rs 12.3 crore would be spent on each polytechnic college by the government. Besides, the Union Human Resource Development Ministry had also chipped in with Rs 24 crore for the purpose, she said. Rathore said 25 seats in technical education institute at Khanpur, Hisar, and Sirsa, had been reserved for girls and the government had also mooted cash incentives for girls topping the IIT, the AIEEE and other competitive examinations. These would include Rs 1 lakh for the first position holder and Rs 51,000 each for top 10 students. He said four institutions dedicated to fashion designing, film and television, fine arts and commercial research were being set up at Rohtak, which was expected to be functional by next year. She said the IIM set up at Rohtak would also become operational from this year with a batch of 50 students and it would be shifted to a dedicated building by next year.
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All cities, towns to have solid waste management plants
Sirsa, July 12 G. Parsana, financial commissioner and principal secretary, environment, deputy commissioner CG Rajnikanthan and officers of the Environment Department accompanied Chahal. He said the main cause of pollution was the waste of cities and towns. These plants had so far been set up in Sirsa and Ambala. The land acquisition process for setting up these plants in all cities and towns had been initiated. The sewerage water was another reason for the spread of pollution. The sewerage treatment plants would help treat this water sewerage water and make it suitable for irrigation and other purposes. Chahal said the board had issued directions to all big and small industrial units to raise the level of effluent treatment plants in their industries to the prescribed capacity. Strict action would be taken against the defaulters. Chahal said that officers of the board were checking industrial units in this connection. Action was being taken and notices were being issued to the units that were not fulfilling the pollution control parameters. He said the board had also issued no-objection certificates to hospitals, pathological labs and other such units for ensuring proper disposal of the bio medical waste by these units. As many as 800 persons had been issued challans for using polythene bags not conforming to the prescribed parameters of the board. He said the board had signed an agreement with the Hammes Company for the management of waste of paint factories. This company would set up its plant in Faridabad district.
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Army acts saviour
Ambala/Kaithal, July 12 As sheets of water spread out over vast expanses in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Fatehabad, the men in olive dived right into troubled waters to tame them, to reach out to marooned villages and villagers to establish a connect and provide relief material, food, water, candles etc to anxious people. Ambala, which was the first to be hit by floods after incessant rain and a breach in the Tangri, saw all the action along with Kurukshetra. Explains Brig AP Bam, “Our entire cantonement was under water and there was no supply. While we had our hands full, the Tangri breached and the local administration turned to us. Finally, we decided we could address our worries later and sent out columns of force for rescue and relief operations,” he maintains. As many as 350 personnel swam against the tide and speedy current of waters to bail out stranded civilians, take medicines and food to them. “Our core commander Lt Gen Anil Chait kept track of the developments and did just what was expected of them,” he adds. An operational bridge given by the Army now serves as a connection with villages in Naggal. In Kaithal, the 146 AD Regiment moved in on July 8 primarily to reach out to marooned villages of Gulha and to reestablish communication with the villagers completely cut off following the inundation by floods. At Ratta khera Kurham and Tatiyana, doctors, relief material was moved in though it took the Army a whole day to reach out to villagers of Rattakhera Luqman, a village that had been cut-off for four days after the floods. While they were still busy with relief and rescue operations, the Kaithal administration sought their help to plug a breach in the Hansi-Bhutana link canal. “It was an emergency and the entire city was under threat. We decided to move one column of 100 Army personnel to the site of the breach while leaving the rest in Gulha. We worked round the clock with support of the local administration and villagers and plugged the breach in two days contrary to expectations,” Col AS Rathore explains. This, as the district administration said, was done in record time. Without the Army, Kaithal city, too, would have been floating. In Fatehabad, too, the district administration has sought the help of the Army to bail the civilians out and the operation to save lives and property continues.
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Fear of floods stalks villagers
Yamunanagar, July 12 People living in the low-lying areas along the Yamuna and Som have been fearing for property and life due to the lack of enough measures to protect them. They rue that if the water level of the Yamuna rises to 2 lakh cusec then leakage is most likely to occur at many places due to the lack of concrete walls at sensitive places in the district. A similar threat also persists in villages situated along the Som rivulet. The villagers also complain that despite damage to crops and flood-like situation, no official came for a survey in the area. The situation is serious in the district as every year over 100 villages suffer damages due to the overflow of water in the Yamuna and seasonal rivulets, although the administration spends crores every year to deal with such situation. The incessant rain for four days last week hit the life of people in many villages of Chhachhrauli and Sadhaura subdivisions, besides Bilaspur, Gumthala, Lal Chappar, Sandhala, Sandhali, Pauwari and Unehati. Crops in over 500 acres were submerged in the Chhachhrauli subdivision due to a breach in the Som. Besides fields, roads were also submerged in Chhachhrauli, Sadhaura, and Bilaspur and residents of many areas in Yamunanagar and Jagadhari had to suffer due to water-logging. Meanwhile, Ashok Sangwan, deputy commissioner, said, “So far, the situation is normal in the district. We have been monitoring the situation round the clock and all senior officials have been directed to make proper arrangements to deal with the problem”.
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Jindal assures help
Kaithal, July 12 He also made an aerial survey of the flooded villages in Kaithal and Kurukshetra and later went on to meet victims in Kultaran, Ujhana, Keroak in Kaithal subdivision and Bau-pur, Kamehri and other villages in Guhla subdivision of Kaithal district. Jindal said he and the Chief Minister had asked officials to reach to the affected people and provide them all necessary relief. He said according to preliminary estimates, in Kaithal district alone crop on about 97,000 hectares and 2,500 tubewells suffered losses. He said the Chief minister had ordered special girdawri and demanded Rs 1,022 crore help from the Central government so that adequate help could be provided.
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Migrated units urged to return
Ambala, July 12 This was stated by general manager of District Industries Centre Pradeep Ranjan while addressing mediapersons. According to information, about 55 units in Ambala, manufacturing mixis and pharmaceuticals, have migrated to Himachal in lure of the special packages and incentives by the Centre. Assuring better benefits to entrepreneurs setting up their manufacturing units at Ambala that has been declared as an Industrial Model Township by the state, Ranjan said special schemes were being introduced for NRIs and entrepreneurs, who were interested in investing there. However, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had taken steps in wooing the NRIs to invest in the state by considering preferential treatment in allotment of land and other fiscal incentives for NRIs realty investment, Ranjan added. He said efforts were on to bring large industrial manufacturing units in the district and the state government had already received a few beneficial proposals. He made an appeal to owners of the migrated units to return and avail the schemes being offered by the state government.
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Elements of good governance discussed
Kurukshetra, July 12 He was addressing participants of an orientation course, ''Rationale and Issues in Good Governance", for university/college lecturers being organised by the UGC Academic Staff College, Kurukshetra University. "We need good governance at all levels of operation in the Indian economy. Good governance means smart administration which means simple, moral, accountable, responsive and transparent. The other internationally recognised features of good governance are participation, consensus oriented, effective and efficient, equitable and inclusive and follow the rule of law. It assures that corruption is minimised, the views of minorities are taken into account and that the voices of most vulnerable in society are heard in decision-making. It is also responsive to the future and present needs of society," said Prof Goel. To adopt and accept the normative approach to HRD in good governance, it is essential to understand "SIMPLE" model of HRD consisting of six human development activities such as spiritual quotient (SQ) development, intuition development, mental level development, love yourself attitude development and emotional quotient (EQ) development. The synergy of these six aspects of HRD is essential for human resources.
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Crime on the rise in Rewari
Rewari, July 12 Miscreants forcibly took away two tractors after tethering the drivers and their aid to cots at tractor-owner Vikram Singh’s farmhouse on the Rewari-Bawal road, near Suthani village, 8 km from here in the wee hours recently. In a second such incident, some armed Scorpio-borne criminals looted a car at pistol point from one Mohammad Shakil on NH-8, near Salhawas village, 12 km from here. According to sources, Shakil, a resident of Sikar district, Rajasthan, was going from Jaipur to Delhi. However, the police has registered a case of dacoity in both cases. In another incident, car-borne criminals looted Rs 32,000 from a truck driver Jagdish Prasad on the Rewari-Rohtak road, near Tehna Deepalpur village, on July 7. The miscreants left him after injuring him with a sharp-edged weapon. Next day the police got him hospitalised. The incident took place when Jagdish, a resident of Sikar district, Rajastahn, was going from Jaipur to Rohtak. The police has registered a case of robbery in this regard.
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Recognition sought for Hemu
Rewari, July 12 Sudhir Bhargava, convener of HVF, said Hemu (1501-1556), a vendor of Saltpetre at Rewari, rose to be the Army chief as well as the Prime Minister during Adil Shah Suri's regime in Delhi when the Mughals and the Afghans were desperately vying for power in North India. Hemu fought Afghan rebels across North India from Punjab to Bengal as well as the Mughal forces of Humayun and Akbar in Agra and Delhi, winning 22 battles without a single setback. He re-established the Hindu kingdom, albeit for a short duration, in North India, after over 350 years of foreign rule. He acceded to the throne of Delhi on October 7, 1556, while assuming the title of "Vikramaditya". Finally, Hemu was defeated and slain by Mughal invaders in the historic Battle of Panipat on November 5, 1556. Bhargava said when Governor Jagannath Pahadia visited Rewari recently, they had presented a memorandum to him seeking naming of the newly built flyover at Panipat as "Hem Chandra Vikramaditya Setu", besides appropriate coverage and exposure to Hemu as well as Sada Shiv Rao Bahu (the hero of the Third Battle of Panipat) in exhibits at Panipat War Museum, removal of encroachments from Hemu's cenotaph in Panipat and provision of a suitable site in Rewari for the installation of his statue.
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SSA: Role of ADCs underscored
Sonepat, July 12 In fresh guidelines about the role and responsibilities of the ADCs, the parishad has pointed out that a perusal of the working of the SSA in
recent years revealed that the shortcomings in SSA implementation were due to lack of strict monitoring and supervision of the scheme by the DPIU chairmen. Making the ADCs accountable for the working of SSA in the districts to the Executive Council as well as to the Governing Council headed by the Chief minister, the parishad had issued the new guidelines. Under the new directions, stress had been laid on collection of correct district information system for education data about schools, including number of students, teachers, school rooms and other facilities available and required for the schools. “ The ADCs are to ensure correctness of the data being supplied to the head office and thereby facilitate correct formation of the state plan “, the communication adds. For timely preparation of district plan, the ADCs are required to ensure that there was no deviation in the annual work plan and budget approved by the Government of India (GoI) at their level. Once the plan is approved by the GoI, the same is required to be implemented as per the guidelines and procedures of GoI. Laying stress on enrollment drive and reduction in dropout rates, the parishad stated that the enrolment drive must be started during the first week of April every year and all villages must be covered so that no child should remain out of school . The ADCs have been asked to monitor implementation of many other welfare schemes like Mid Day Meal, Indira Bal Swasth Yojna utilisation of grants etc for beneficial execution of the SSA. They also have to monitor that the financial provisions to meet the needs of children with special needs and to carry out focused activities for the education of girls and SC and minority children.
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Withdraw VAT, demands industry
Panchkula, July 12 A state-level meeting of the HCCI was held here recently in which the member discussed various industrial problems being faced by district chapters of the state. Vishnu Goel, Satish Gupta, CB Goyal and AL Aggarwal were among those present in the meeting. HCCI president OP Khurana said notification regarding VAT on closing stock issue in 2009 by the state government should be withdrawn. He said the industry had already been paying heavy taxes to the state government and the further increase in the VAT from 4 to 5 per cent and the subsequent surcharge of .25 per cent had further marginalised their profits. Khurana said several representations had been made to the Chief Minister in this regard, but to no avail. He said a committee headed by him would shortly meet the Financial Commissioner, Excise and Taxation. He said the government should simplify the tax procedure besides abolishing the ST-38 form. He said the central government should give tax soaps to only those states who allow industrialists to set up their units about 100 km from the main GT Road otherwise industries in Haryana and Punjab would continue to suffer on this account. He said the government should provide subsidy on diesel as the recent increase in fuel prices had hit them badly.
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Protest against Hooda govt
Kaithal, July 12 The protesters raised slogans against the government for its anti-people policies. The party, besides raising other demands, wanted immediate dismissal of the state government for its failure to save the honour and dignity of Dalits of Mirchpur and other places in the state. Addressing party workers Allaria said the Hooda government had failed to check atrocities against Dalits and other weaker sections of society. She said at some other places also the attacks on Dalits by dominant community had increased during the present regime, adding that the government had failed to check corruption prevalent in the state. She said such a government, which could not provide security to its people, had no right to remain in power. Earlier, talking to mediapersons at Koel Tourism Complex, Allaria said the Chief Minister had turned to be a property dealer and the Centre should institute an inquiry into the Change of Land Use Scam, which would turn out to be the biggest scam of the recent times.
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Rs 15 cr for development projects
Sirsa, July 12 A major part of the funds would be used on making water channels cemented in areas, where irrigation water did not reach farmers properly. For education and literacy, Rs 50 lakh had been reserved under the scheme, he added. The funds under this head would be used for construction of additional rooms and development of libraries in schools. "New anganwari centres would be constructed in the district at a cost of Rs 3 crore," said Kaanthan, adding that 400 centres had been sanctioned for the district by the state government and new building would be constructed for centres working in rented accommodations. The DC said Rs 1.62 crore would be spent for providing better drinking water facilities in the rural areas, adding that around 18 tubewell had already been constructed under the scheme. A sum of Rs 3 crore had been reserved for development activities in urban areas of the district. The money would be spent on construction of roads and sewerage system in towns, he said. The authorities have spent Rs 1.25 crore on the purchase of 55 straw reapers for the "gaushalas" of the district, which have been supplied free of cost to the "gaushalas" so that the stubble left after harvesting of wheat could be reaped and used as fodder for cattle. The plan has the provision of spending Rs 21.38 lakh on the total sanitation campaign in the district. A sum of Rs 13.61 crore had already been dispatched to various agencies in the district for implementation of these projects, the DC added.
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Lesser amount spent on power purchase
Chandigarh, July 12 The saving by the distribution company would translate into payment of lower fuel surcharge by consumers in the long run. The companies purchased 29,188.11 lakh units from different sources in June at an average cost of Rs 3.15 per unit at a total cost of Rs 918.66 crore. Arun Kumar, MD, UHBVN, said the two companies had purchased 29,443.55 lakh units at an average cost of Rs 3.45 per unit at the total cost of Rs 1014.58 crore in June 2009. He said more than one-third of the total power to the state's kitty had been contributed by power generating stations of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Ltd (HPGCL). The tentative rate per unit of the power produced by the HPGCL was Rs 3.08 during June 2010. Arun Kumar said one of the major reasons of saving was that the Haryana companies made banking arrangements under which over 700 MW power was procured daily from Tamil Nadu, Himachal, Assam and Orissa. The state incurred an average expenditure of Rs 4.25 per unit during June this year on short-term purchases against Rs 6.22 per unit during June 2009.
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KU's engineering courses get AICTE approval
Kurukshetra, July 12 Stating this here recently, Kurukshetra University vice-chancellor Lt-General DDS Sandhu said: "Following approval from the AICTE for UIET courses, there will be more research avenues in the UIET and technical education will reach new heights. The GATE-qualified UIET postgraduate students will become eligible for the AICTE fellowship and institute will be benefited from various funding agencies like the AICTE, World Bank and TEQIP in the form of sponsored projects for research and development." The institute has been running BTech in four streams i.e. computer science and engineering, electronics and communication engineering, biotech and mechanical engineering. Besides, the institute has also been running MTech in four streams i.e. software engineering, computer engineering, electronics and communication engineering and biotechnology. Officiating director Dr CC Tripathi said after getting the approval from the AICTE, the students would get good placements after finishing the courses.
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74,000 get senior citizen cards, benefits
Jind, July 12 All senior citizens aged above 60 were being issued Senior Citizen Card and this would make them eligible for travelling concession. Such beneficiaries could avail 50 per cent discount in fare of the state government-run buses, he added. The authorities keep on inviting and receiving applications for issuance of senior citizen card and the process of preparing such cards had been an ongoing process. The Department of Social Welfare has been asked to pace up the work so that no eligible person was left out in this scheme, said the deputy commissioner.
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Legal assistance cell for women
Rewari, July 12 Shashi Bala Chauhan, Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum Secretary of the DLSA, said here that aggrieved women could seek free legal advice from woman counsel who would remain present in the office of DPO Neelam Sharma from 3pm to 5 pm on each
working day. Three women counsel- Anita Sharma, Kusum Yadav and Jyoti Sharma- had been appointed for the purpose for one month each.
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Names sought for Padma awards
Chandigarh, July 12 The recommendations would then be forwarded to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs before October 1. The Padma Awards, are given for distinguished and exceptional achievements in various fields.
— TNS
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Hisar, July 12
