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Commonwealth Games
CWG over, fight on for piece of credit cake
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Grievance panel to correct BPL lists
INLD out to woo non-Jat communities
Tohana horses in demand abroad
Leela Ram Sangwan
State to organise 12,000 camps
Neelinderjeet Kaur Sandhu
Guest teachers hold procession
Key accused in high-profile murder case surrenders
Haryana to set up data centre
Communal harmony key to nation’s integrity: DC
15-day course on art opens
CM asks banks to cut loan interest rates
‘Swami’ of bodybuilding honoured in Singapore
Purchase of paddy and cotton crops
Gurgaon-Manesar draft development plan
Police cracks murder case in two days
Modern buildings for 40 more
Factory licence fee can be paid online
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Haryana emerges as new face of Indian sports
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, October 18 By returning home with 28 medals, including 15 gold, in the recently concluded Delhi Commonwealth Games, young Haryanavis have catapulted their state to such a position that can be a matter of envy as well as emulation for other states. Given the fact that Haryana has only two per cent of India's population, the feat of bagging more than a fourth of the country's 101 medals in the Games is laudable. Haryana sent the biggest contingent of 52 sportspersons to the Games. The medals won by Haryanavi youths included 15 gold medals of the 38 gold won by the entire Indian contingent. The performances of shooter Anisa Sayyad, who won two gold, wrestler Anita Sheoran and two sisters Geeta and Babita, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, Harvinder Kaur, Seema Antil and Saina Nehwal were exceedingly well. Notwithstanding the ongoing tussle between the Congress and the INLD to grab credit for these performances, people feel that the credit must be given to young boys and girls, who defied all odds to come out with flying colours. Though there is no denying the fact that sportspersons in the state are getting better treatment than their counterparts in other states get, it was sheer hard work and determination to perform well that fetched them the position they got. “Haryanavi lads have always been on the top when it comes to physical activity of using the muscle power. They displayed it during the Kargil conflict and now they have done it again,” said Rajesh Malik, an assistant professor of CDLU, Sirsa. Mahabir Jaglan, an associate professor of Kurukshetra University, maintained that the performance by the athletes and players from Haryana reflects the potentials of sports in the state that has been tapped to some extent due to encouragement and support of the government in recent time. “Women athletes and players from the state have put extra efforts and have brought glory to the nation. This, of course, does not condone the deep entrenched gender discrimination in Haryanavi society,” Jaglan adds. Jagmati Sangwan, director of Women Studies Centre in MDU, Rohtak, lamented that political parties fighting for credit of this spectacular performance forgot that the only sports college of the state was closed in 2000 and no efforts were being made to reopen it despite several demands. Herself an alumnus of the sports college in CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, Jagmati said the government would do well to open the college now. “The potential to perform was already there in Haryanavi boys and girls and it is the pressure to explore new avenues for employment that has motivated them for that extra effort,” maintained Sangwan. She said giving credit of the performance of these youths to the sports policies of the present or the past government would be wrong. “If we look into the profile of most of these sportspersons, they have come from villages and trained themselves without basic infrastructure. The whole credit goes to the investment put in by these youths and their parents, who, despite adverse circumstances, gave their best,” Jagmati adds.
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CWG over, fight on for piece of credit cake
Gurgaon, October 18 Now that the sporting competitions are over, leaders of major political parties of Haryana are vying with each other in seeking the credit for the good performance of the state’s sportspersons. While the incumbent Congress regime in Haryana has attributed the sporting success to the state’s new sports policy, leaders of the main opposition party, INLD, assert that it was “Chautala potion in Hooda bottle”. Former Chief Minister and INLD commander Om Prakash Chautala as well as other party leaders maintain that it was due to the policies formed by their government that the sportspersons of the state had excelled in the Games. On the other hand, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda claims that the new sports policy formed by his government had developed an atmosphere favourable to sports. During his recent visit to Gurgaon, Hooda said the government would honour the medal winners at a state-level function in Sonepat on November 1, Haryana Day. Meanwhile in a press statement, HPCC spokesperson Ved Prakash Vidrohi has stated that the way the Chuatala family was taking the credit of the 27 medals won by the players belonging to the state in the Games was “the limit of self-praise”. Interestingly, after having claimed that the state players had done well under the Congress regime, Vidrohi opined that politics should not be involved in the important feat, which was a matter of pride not only for the state, but also for the entire nation.
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Grievance panel to correct BPL lists
Chandigarh, October
18 The committee will have sub-divisional magistrate, executive officer or secretary, Municipal Committee or Council or joint commissioner, Municipal Corporation, district food and supplies officer, assistant project officer, District Urban Development Authority, and district social welfare officer as
members. While stating this here recently, an official spokesperson said the committee would also take suo moto action and recommend the names of ineligible families for deletion from urban BPL
lists. He said the deputy commissioners would also be authorised to delete the names of ineligible families or persons and include eligible families or persons in the urban BPL lists on the recommendation of the committee.
However, the deputy commissioners would ensure that overall figure of each town of their district should not exceed the figure of updated urban BPL lists, he added.
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INLD out to woo non-Jat communities
Hisar, October 18 The Indian National Lok Dal is holding a state-level rally at Gurgaon on November 1. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will be addressing a similar function on the same day in Sonepat. While Hooda has chosen the heart of the Jat belt to demonstrate his standing, INLD supremo Om Parkash Chautala has gone southwards of his original political turf of Sirsa. Chautala's choice of Gurgaon fits completely in his scheme of things. He is aiming to woo non-Jat communities, particularly backward classes and minorities. Gurgaon thus is an ideal choice from this angle. With a large population of Yadavs and Meos, south Haryana is being accorded due recognition by the INLD. Chautala gave clear indications of his stress on non-Jat communities when he recently refused to support reservation for Jats in government jobs. Instead, he suggested that the state should create ample jobs for members of all communities thus eliminating the need for reservations for any community not enjoying the benefit so far. The INLD leader understands that it will not be easy to make inroads into the Jat belt where Hooda now holds the sway. The only alternative for him is to try and win support of the non-Jat Hooda and the Congress on the other hand want to make the most out of the recent medals haul at the Commonwealth Games. At the Sonepat function, Hooda plans to honour all medal-winning athletes hailing from Haryana. It will give him an opportunity to showcase his sports policy. The Chief Minister is also likely to announce a refurbished land acquisition policy at the Sonepat show, which already has won praise from Congress President Sonia Gandhi and General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. Hooda is keen to project both policies as the most significant achievements of his government. The next few weeks will also witness a power struggle within the Congress. The anti-Hooda forces are likely to raise the pitch for a Cabinet reshuffle and appointments of chairmen of boards and corporation. Hooda has so far avoided appointing chairmen to avoid controversies. But, his opponents might force his hand.
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Tohana horses in demand abroad
Fatehabad, October 18 The horses bred in stud farms of Tohana are high in demand in foreign countries. A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock. The word stud comes from the Old English stod meaning herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding. Six stud farms are operating in Tohana and cost of horses of these farms ranges between Rs 10 lakh and Rs one crore, according to official sources. “Kotal” horse of Krishna Stud Farm, Tohana, is famous all over the world. Apart from this, the horses of Vikram Green Land Stud Farm and Balwant Singh Gorkha Stud Farm are also very famous. Krishna Stud Farm of Parmveer Singh, a Minister in the Haryana government, has 45 mares with having more than 36 colts and fillies, said the spokesperson. The famous breeds of horses include Kathiayawari, Pushkar and Arabi. At Krishna Farm, breeds developed from crossbreeding with Arabi horses to Kathiayawari or Pushkar have been given the name of mixing and Baredi breed. To develop this breed, an Arabi horse has been imported from Dubai at a cost of Rs 1.25 crore. Apart from sending these colts and fillies to Bangalore and Kolkata, they are also sent to Dubai for participating in horse riding competitions and exhibitions. These horses have made significant achievements by their outstanding performance in various competitions, the spokesperson added.
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State ‘ignores’ 1958 CWG gold medallist
Bhiwani, October 18 He said India had got only two gold medals in the Melbourne CWG held in 1958 and one of them was won by wrestler Leela Ram Sangwan of Mandoli village in Bhiwani district and the other by Milkha Singh. “Sports reviewers and media referred Milkha Singh in their articles during the New Delhi CWG, but they forgot to refer Leela Singh Sangwan, which is quite disappointing,” observed Sangwan. He said Mamta Sauda was greatly acclaimed for climbing Mt Everest by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former CM Om Prakash Chautala and other leaders. But they forgot Capt Suman Sangwan of Bhiwani district who had climbed the world’s highest peak in May 2005. “The President of India had honoured Suman in the presence of the then Army Chief JJ Singh. Suman is the first serving government servant to have climbed Mt Everest,” he said and expressed gratitude towards the Sangwan Khap for its decision to honour Sangwan players for winning medals in the CWG. The samiti would honour all medal winners with mementos made of one and a half kg of silver after the Asiad games to be held in November, Sangwan added.
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State to organise 12,000 camps
Sonepat, October 18 This was stated by Dr KS Dangi, director general of the department, while inaugurating a district-level camp at Matindu village in the district recently. The department had formed 300 teams of veterinarians in the state and such camps were being organised on every Saturday, he said and added that the aim of the programme was to bring infertility in livestock to zero and to achieve the target of calf a year by creating awareness among people. Explaining the benefits of livestock breeding and dairy farming, Dr Dangi said dairy farming had become the need of the hour in the agriculture sector for strengthening of rural economy and to generate additional source of income for families. Though Haryana had become a model state in milk production, lot more was required in promoting dairy development and in taking care of livestock against the diseases and other deficiencies, he added. Dr Dangi disclosed that a MoU in public-private partnership between the state government, SBI and Lakshya Food India Ltd was signed recently at Chandigarh in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for promotion of dairy entrepreneurship in the state. He exhorted the people present in the camp to take full benefits of these camps for keeping their livestock free from disease and overcoming the problems of infertility in animals. Brig (retd) Satdev Singh, former secretary of the Haryana Sainik Board, said the livestock breeding and dairy farming was one of the best options for the people in the rural areas in the prevailing circumstances when the per capita land holdings had considerably decreased. Dr Ranbir Singh Kharab, deputy director, Animal Husbandry, Sonepat, said animals with mineral deficiency were treated in the camps and the progress was monitored by veterinary surgeons. “If there is no recovery, then the animal is given hormonal treatment for 100 per cent fertility,” he said and informed that as many as 262 animals from neighbouring villages were treated against infertility in the camp.
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Principal attends UK conference
Ambala, October 18 The conference was organised at Older Shaw School, Liverpool, in which eminent educationists from England enlightened the participants with their views and research.
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Guest teachers hold procession
Kaithal, October 18 The veteran Congress leader reportedly assured the agitating teachers to apprise the state government of their demands and take up their cause with the Chief Minister.. Earlier addressing the protestors in Jawahar Park, Balbir Singh, president of the Rajkiya Adhyapak Sangh, said the agitation would continue till their demands were met .
Subhash Ravish, president of the Kaithal district unit of the sangh, and other speakers said that following the firing on guest teachers protesting in Rohtak on September 7, 2008, the government had arrived at an understanding with the teachers’ representatives that all those who had completed one year of service as guest teacher would be regularised and those injured during the firing would be paid compensation.
The government, they rued, had neither paid any compensation to the injured and nor the services of teachers had been regularised .
Bhupinder Singh, a member of the state committee of the Guest Teachers Association, said that they had been on a relay fats in Rohtak since September 19.
Extending full support to the agitating guest teachers, Ramesh Harit, president of the Sarv karamchari Sangh, Kaithal district unit, said it was a matter of concern that the government was not paying any heed to the demands of the teachers .
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Key accused in high-profile murder case surrenders
Karnal, October 18 Kalyan’s anticipatory bail was rejected even by Supreme Court but he continued to evade arrest and his daughter-in-Law, Renuka, who was lone eye-witness to the gruesome incident that occurred on the intervening night of April 22 and 23, 2008 and also got injured in the firing, had alleged that her brother Sranveer was shot by Ram Kumar Kalyan. After the rejection of anticipatory bail, non-bailable warrants were issued against him but due to his political clout he was continued to evade arrest and Renuka and her father Randhir, who was himself an advocate repeatedly approached the courts.
During the last hearing, the Court took exception to the conduct of the police and directed the SP, Karnal to arrest Kalyan by October 15 and gauging that the pressure of police was mounting, he surrendered in the
court. At the time of the incident, Kalyan had told that Sranveer had shot himself after shooting his son Nabheet Kalyan (30), who was married to Renuka but she nailed the lie and accused Ram Kumar Kalyan of killing her brother.
Renuka and her father had been waging a lone battle against Kalyan, who had even refused to handover the documents of Renuka’s three year old daughter Ananya inspite of directions of the
Court. The widow, who lost her husband and brother within minutes in a bitter family feud, had been running from pillar to post for getting justice. She had urged the police and the court to provide her protection and also faxed similar messages to Supreme Court and the Prime minister yesterday.
Her condition had become so miserable that her daughter, who was born in USA, had no documents to prove her identity even for getting admission in nursery school as, according to her, all the documents were with her father-in-law.
On the fateful night on April 22, 2008, when Saranveer, brother of Renuka allegedly shot dead his brother-in-law Nabheet Kalyan (30) and his sister Renuka was also injured in firing, Sranveer Singh was allegedly shot dead by Ram Kumar Kalyan.
Nabheet and Renuka were having strained relations, on April 22, Sranveer came to Renuka’s house to leave her and left but again returned to her house. After some altercations with her in-laws, he allegedly fired at Nabheet, which proved fatal. Within minutes, Saranveer was also shot and Renuka, who suffered a jaw injury and was the only eyewitness, named her father-in-law as accused.
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Haryana to set up data centre
Chandigarh, October 18 According to an official spokesman, the project of state portal and State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) is also proposed to be implemented at an estimated cost of Rs 10.92 crore for utilising the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) Core Infrastructure. It will help in using infrastructure of the SDC, State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Common Services Centres (CSCs). CSCs, which are one of the core infrastructures under the NeGP, will also be set up in the state. These centres have been envisioned as the front-end delivery points for government, private and social sector services to rural people in an integrated manner. HARTRON will implement the scheme in the state under public-private partnership mode. Haryana is among the first states in the country to have made SWAN fully operational with a total plan outlay of Rs 102.62 crore. Under the network, the state headquarters has been connected with all district headquarters and that of blocks, subdivisions, tehsils and sub-tehsils for providing facilities such as inter and intra-data transfer or sharing, voice over Internet Protocol (IP) and video. Various offices of the departments like Finance, Revenue, Transport, Excise and Taxation, Panchayat, Urban Development, Women and Child Development, Agriculture, Education, Social Justice and Empowerment, Food and Supplies and Industries have been connected on this network. Moreover, all courts and jails of the state have been connected on this network and trials of accused are now being conducted online through video conferencing. More than 200 offices of the state police, including police stations, which were earlier connected on the Haryana Police Wide Area Network, have now been connected on this network, which is being extensively used by the Haryana police. About 800 offices have already been connected on SWAN till date and another 500 offices of various departments such as Transport, Health, Food and Supplies, Information and Public Relations, head offices of departments, Boards, corporations located at Panchkula and the Haryana Police are being connected on this network under its third phase. HARTRON has also initiated smart card technology in the state to ensure proper distribution of essential commodities from fair price shops. Under the project, paper-based ration cards would be replaced by smart cards and about 54 lakh eligible families of the state would be issued smart ration cards as per their category.
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Communal harmony key to nation’s integrity: DC
Sonepat, October 18 The seminar was organised by the local Nehru Yuva Kendra of the Union Ministry of Sports and Youth Welfare here in the local Idgah colony. Explaining that India was a country of different cultures, religions, regions and languages and every individual, section or community had been given equal rights under the constitution, the DC said: “It becomes the duty of every citizen to respect and protect the social and cultural values of all sections of society.” “The globalisation has brought the people of different regions, religions and cultures close to each other leaving hardly any scope for fanning communalism, regionalism and casteism,” he opined. Presiding over the seminar, Pradeep Gautam, president, DCC (urban), said: “Now, the responsibility for strengthening of national unity and integrity lies on the shoulders of the youths,” he said. Maulana Imran Nadvi of Idgah Madrasa assured that the Madrasa would continue to work for communal harmony and national integrity. The seminar was marked by distribution of copies of the Quran and the Gita among the participants of the camp. Krishan Lal Parcha, district coordinator of the NYK, said about 200 youths from Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Gujarat, Bihar and West Bengal participated in the camp concluded here on October 16. Youths, including women, acquainted themselves with the culture, customs, education and day-to-day life style of the people in Haryana in general and of Sonepat in particular during their stay in the camp.
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15-day course on art opens
Kurukshetra, October 18 Mr Rajesh Purohit said the objective of the course was to enlighten students about art, architecture, iconography and paintings through a powerpoint presentation and lecture demonstration so that they not only understood them but also learnt how to preserve them for the posterity. Haryana has a versatile archaeological heritage in the form of its archaeological excavated sites and monuments such as temples, stupas, forts, tombs, sarais or motels, mosques and memorials as the architectural wonders of Haryana have been displayed here in a photo exhibition.
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CM asks banks to cut loan interest rates
Chandigarh, October 18 This issue was raised with SBi officers here on the occasion of signing of an MoU between Lakshya Food India Limited and State Bank of India (SBI). Lakshya milk plant is the first milk-processing unit established by Lakshya Food India Ltd at Kandela village near Jind. According to MoU, SBI will provide Rs. 100 crore to the farmers to buy 10,000 buffalos and, in turn, Lakshya will provide germ plaza, feed and other technical support to the farmers. The Chief Minister said nationalized banks should also release the additional land of farmers that was mortgage by banks agaonst loans disbursed for purchase of tractors by farmers as the state cooperative banks have already released the additional mortgaged land of farmers. He said the government had slashed the rate of interest on cooperative loans in the agriculture sector to 7 per cent and also promised incentives for reducing it to 4 percent. He said the floor rates had been fixed by the government and banks should go by these rates while disbursing loans to farmers and mortgaging land for the purpose. Lakshya would establish integrated murrah breeding farms, with each farm having 20-50 cattle. Lakshya will provide the dairy farmers with milk chilling facility at their doorstep to create cold chain. Lakshya will buy back the milk from these dairy farmers on remunerative rates. Lakshya has set a goal of establishing an integrated system of around 10,000 murrah buffalos in Haryana first. Lakshya has decided to invest ` 100 crore to establish a powder plant and fine-quality export-oriented cheese plant to produce different types of cheese, including mozzarella.
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‘Swami’ of bodybuilding honoured in Singapore
Rewari, October 18 The award was presented to him by Datuk Paul Chua, secretary general of the WBPF, at a function held in Singapore
recently. Acclaiming the valuable services rendered by Swami for the promotion of bodybuilding in the country and elsewhere, Datuk hoped that the efforts being made by Swami and others would further provide enrichment to the sports in Asian countries in the years to
come. It is noteworthy that Swami has assiduously endeavoured to boost the sports in India, US, UK, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, UAE, Oman, Netherlands, Switzerland, Nepal, Bangladesh and other countries of the world during the past 15
years. Simultaneously, the IFBB Achievement Medal was also presented to Swami for his contribution to promote bodybuilding and fitness among Indian youth by late Dr Ben Weider, former founder president of the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB), at Montreal (Canada) in January
2008. Simultaneously, Swami was also awarded honorary professorship of the International Institute of Physical Culture at
Montreal. Swami, who is also the founder president of the Youngmen’s Association of India, has been continually motivating youth for de-addiction from drugs as well. Besides bodybuilding and youth development, he has also brought out a Hindi translation of “Napoleon - The Man Who Shaped Europe” for which he was recently awarded the “Legion of Merit” for his contribution by the International Napoleonic Society, Montreal.
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Purchase of paddy and cotton crops
Faridabad, October 18 It made out a case for waiving the extra charge on tarrif from the industry sector imposed on the units for availing power during the “peak load
period”. These demands were made at a meeting of the Faridabad unit of the Haryana Pradesh Vyapaar Mandal presided over by Bajrang Garg, president of the Haryana Pradesh Vyapar Mandal. Garg lamented that in the present scheme of things the wholesale traders purchasing cotton and paddy from the farmers had to be pay 4 per cent market fees to the Marketing
Board. In the final analysis it was the farmers and the common man who suffered as the some of the burden of the market fees got transferred to
them. Garg, who is also chairman of the Haryana Confed,said that the vyapaar mandal wanted the market fees cut by
half. The mandal expressed the view that the additional charges on power tariff made it difficult for them to make cost-effective
products. Garg disclosed that the government would soon set up a coordination committee in every district having representation both from the government and the business community to facilitate early redressal of the grievances of traders, industrialists and other segments of the business community.
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Gurgaon-Manesar draft development plan
Chandigarh, October 18 While stating this recently, an official spokesman said the development plan was published on October 4 and objections and suggestions had been invited from the public within 30 days from the date of issuance of the
notification. He said the objections or suggestions on the draft plan could be sent to director, Town and Country Planning, Haryana Aayojna Bhawan, Sector-18, Madhya Marg, Chandigarh; chief coordinator planner (NCR), Haryana, Sector-6, HUDA Office Complex, Panchkula, Haryana; senior town planner, 3rd Floor Sector-14, HUDA Office Complex, Gurgaon; and district town planner, Sector 14,
Gurgaon. The spokesman said 15,148 hectares had been reserved for residential purpose to cater for the projected population of 40 lakh. The Haryana Urban development Authority (HUDA) and licenced colonisers have already developed residential area of 8,000 hectares in various residential sectors of this development plan. The area developed in public and private sectors would accommodate a population of 20 lakh. The existing town and village population falling within urban area are also accommodating 2 lakh
population. The additional residential areas proposed in the development plan would cater the residential demand of the rest of the 18 lakh projected
population. He said the average net residential density of 250 persons per hectare would be maintained.
The spokesman said as per the decision of the government, the minimum width of the roads in the residential sector shall not be less than 12 m and the minimum area for parks or open spaces in a sector shall be planned in such a manner that it shall meet the minimum norm of 2.5 sq m per person.
He said in the development plan, an area of 1,404 hectares had been reserved for commercial purpose, out of which HUDA had already developed 480
hectares. The new commercial areas in the plan shall be developed in form of big commercial malls and corporate commercial complexes. In addition, the commercial belts with a width of 200 m had also been provided along the selected roads to cater to the needs of the surrounding
areas. The spokesman added that the demand for developed industrial plots in the Gurgaon-Manesar urban complex was increasing day by day and to cop up with the demand of software industries, automobile industries and other pollution- free hi-tech industries, 5441 hectares had been reserved for it.
The Haryana State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) and HUDA had already developed an area of 1246 hectares in the said
complex. The new industrial areas have been proposed along the express highway adjacent to the IMT, Manesar.
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Rs 6.59-crore sports stadium for Kaithal
Kaithal, October
18 During a media briefing here Randeep Singh local MLA and Minister for PWD and Public Health, Haryana, said besides the stadium a huge multipurpose hall with 23-foot-high ceiling was also being constructed at cost of `1. 25 crore . A number of indoor games would be played in this hall . A `1.10-crore visitor's gallery was also under construction.
The stadium would have skating yards, two synthetic tennis courts, besides two basketball
grounds. This project, due for completion by February, 2011, was being constructed by the Haryana Panchayti Raj Department.
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Kaithal first in table tennis
Kaithal, October 18 Deputy Commissioner Amneet P. Kumar inaugurated this tournament by hoisting the flag As many as 1500 students from 49 schools under Panchkula zone participated in various events during the tournament. A cultural programme was held and yoga items were presented on this occasion. The results were: Table Tennis : Kaithal- 1 , Sonepat - 2. Badminton :Panchkula --1 Assandh- -2 . Judo: 36 kg category : Pargya (DAV School, Panipat)--1. 40 kg :Sunaina (OSDAV School, Kaithal)- -1 . 44kg : Shivani (DAV School, Samalkha)--1. 48 kg :Sweety(DAV School, Pundri) --1. 52 kg : Pooja DAV School Pundri --1 . 57 kg :Poonam (DAV School, Pundri)- -1. 61 kg : Manpreet (OSDAV School, Kaithal)--1 . 61+ Kg : Priya (DAV School, Pundri)--1 . Yoga: DAV School, Pundri --1 , OSDAV School, Kaithal --2 , DAV School, Kurukshetra- -3 . Kho-Kho: Kaithal -- 1, Assandh --2.
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Police cracks murder case in two days
Kaithal, October 18 The police team, headed by Randhir Singh, SHO, Kalayat, arrested Vinod Kumar, a contact labourer, and Dilbagh, who owns land adjoining the farm of Pardeep. It came to light that Vinod was brewing grudge against the deceased because of his frequent objections on his style of functioning and Dilbagh was not getting water from a tubewell of Pardeep for irrigating his land. Both of them hatched a conspiracy and killed Pardeep. The SSP said in another case, the police had arrested Chuni Lal of Ahmedabad who along with his son looted chain, earrings, mobile phone and some cash from a woman, Birmati, on the Kaithal-Karnal road on October 12. The snatched items had been recovered and the police was on the lookout for Ganga Ram, son and accomplice of the accused. — OC
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Modern buildings for 40 more
Chandigarh, October 18 According to BS Sandhu, Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, 35 ultramodern police station buildings have already been made functional so far in the state. Annually, the government spends Rs 1,800 crore on the Police
Department. He says 1,500 new vehicles have been provided at police stations during the past three years to strengthen the police network in the state. — TNS
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Letters
It is matter of great pride for all Haryanavis that Haryana’s daughters are in news for all the good reasons (for a change). We were fed up of reading about Haryana’s notorious reputation for sale and purchase of brides, declining sex ratio, sexual harassment (e.g. Ruchika murder case), child marriages, and, of late, honour killings.
The girls have brought such high laurels in the Commonwealth Games that we can start a whole new series of TV serials with Haryanavi background titled “Agle Baras mujhe Bitiya hi Deejo”, Zarror Aana is Desh Laado”, “Ladakiyaan Ghar-Ghar Khelen”, so on and so forth. Which parents will not like to have such golden girls who can wrestle or shoot their way to
glory? Though in the past too Haryana has been proud of the daughters like Kalpana Chawla, Sushma Swaraj and many more this time almost all of them are from rural Haryana, and, to top it all, it is not only the support, encouragement and contribution of their parents which has enabled the girls to scale such great heights but in many cases (e.g. Krishna Punia) the husbands and in-laws have joined hands to promote the interests and talents of their “bahus”. And Haryanavis really deserve kudos for
this. The day is not far when we will wash away the stigma of being “daughter killers” and prove that girls are equally welcome in Haryana. I wish and pray that the people of this state become a little more liberal and let their daughters choose their life partners too irrespective of caste, colour or creed.
Amen. Amrit Kaur,
Assembly session sittings: State must follow Karnataka
The recent monsoon session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha was for just three days. Similarly, the budget Session in March was only for eight days. In recent years, the number of days on which the State Assembly functions has been on the decline. At the same time, the adoption of continuing disruptive tactics by opposition parties is also somewhat responsible for these short sessions. On the part of the government, it seems a couple of sessions are called in a year only to fulfil the constitutional requirement as it is mandatory to hold a session within six months. In this monsoon session, the government’s priority was merely completing pending legislative business i.e. to table and get those ordinances passed as laws that were promulgated in the intervening period since the last session.
Unfortunately, there is no provision in the rules regulating functioning of the Haryana Assembly for referring an introduced Bill to a standing legislative committee for due examination and report on the lines of Parliament. Legislations here are passed without much debate within minutes and sometimes even during boycott/absence of the opposition. This practice merits substitution by earmarking allotment of certain specified time period for thorough discussion on Bills, particularly those affecting the interests of public at large. It would be wise if mechanism for constituting select committees comprising members from both treasury benches as well as opposition parties for examining select laws is also put in place.
The Hooda government must emulate the example of Karnataka which enacted the Karnataka Conduct of Government Business in State Legislature Act, 2005, to ensure functioning of the state legislature for not less than 60 days in a calendar year spread over four sessions viz. opening session of New Year in January, budget session in March, monsoon session in July followed by the winter session in November with each one ranging from 13 to 20 days.
All leading political players in Haryana would support such a law so that the system of parliamentary democracy functions in letter and in spirit. After the recent hike in salary and their allowances, all legislators ought to discharge their duties more effectively and efficiently. HEMANT
KUMAR,
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Tohana in Fatehabad district of the state has emerged as a famous centre of quality horses of different breeds, which are exported to different countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, France and New
Zealand.
Hundreds of guest teachers held a protest march here on Saturday, raising slogans in support of their
damands. Their procession culminated at the residence of Shamsher Singh
Surjewala, President of the All India Kisan Khet Majdoor Congress, where they submitted a memorandum of their demands addressed to Haryana Cabinet Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala to be forwarded to the state government.
A 15-day course (October 16 to November 2) on art appreciation was inaugurated at Srikrishna Museum here inaugurating the course, Dr SS Bura lauded Srikrishna Museum for organising comprehensive lectures and practical aspects of art, architecture and iconography etc. He emphasized the value of art in contemporary times in the light of sustainable development and biodiversity and utility of such courses in our economy.
The conferment of the prestigious “Award of Excellence” by the World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Federation (WBPF) on Amit Swami, general secretary of the Indian Bodybuilding Federation, secretary general of the South Asian Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, and assistant secretary general of the Asian Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, has added one more feather to his cap of prominence and global
recognition.
