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Sikkim tribals take to modern dairying
UHBVN set to provide online bill payment facility
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Apology for English, this!
Students enact delegates at model UN conference
SC families await possession of plots allotted in 1982
Stress laid on quality in higher education
Police to crack down on drunken driving
SBoP celebrates foundation day
Ambala school celebrates annual function
Campaign to root out graft advocated
200 examined at medical camp
Project to produce biogas in gaushalas sent to Centre
Vivekananda centre opened at Yamunanagar college
Venod Sharma assures help to PNB employees
Support pledged to civic staff
Govt employees found absent
State purchases simulator
Governor opens varsity lab
MLA flays proposed hike in water, sewerage charges
KU looking for global tie-ups
46 schools participate in 'Rendezvous-2010'
Revenue cases in Sirsa to be computerised soon
Students apprised of developments in science
Deepender for expansion of banking services
Abduction, rape cases on the rise
Workshop on MEMS technology held
Power generation record broken
Kalka hospital sans specialists
Dharna to highlight UPA failures held
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Sikkim tribals take to modern dairying
Karnal, November 22 Lepchas and Bhutia tribes of North Sikkim were in the habit of taking black tea with salt and were rarely selling milk earlier, but after the state government initiated a programme to organise cooperative milk societies in 2008, dairy farmers have formed 33 milk cooperative societies and started collecting and selling surplus milk (200 to 300 litres per day) to Gangtok after meeting the demands in Mangam town. This was revealed by CD Lepcha, chairman, Milk Union of North district of Sikkim, who was here with a group of eight farm women and 10 farmers of Lepchas and Bhutia tribes, including three Nepalis from different villages of North district of Sikkim, who were imparted three-day training on scientific dairy farming at National Dairy Research Institute here. As a result of the efforts of the government, Rs 48 lakh were given to the members of dairy cooperative societies during the past 26 months for the milk sold to different societies, he added. The group, which was imparted tips pertaining to hilly situation on breed improvement of cattle, scientific feeding, shelter management and clean milk production by experts of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Dairy Training Centre (DTC), was advised to improve the breed of their cattle through artificial insemination (AI) so as to have jersey crossbred cattle to get more milk, said Dr Dalip K. Gosain, head of the KVK. During the interaction of the group with Dr Gosain, it was revealed that farmers of North district of Sikkim were engaged in cultivation of rice, horticultural crops, cardamom, ginger through terrace cultivation and keeping cattle of local breed with low milk production. Dr Gosain stressed the need for scientific feeding and explained its benefits to farmers for better herd productivity. Some tribes, who live in tough terrains and face difficulties in selling fresh milk, used to prepare butter and ‘churpi’ from milk using traditional method and bamboo pots. Surplus milk, boiled or raw, was put in a bamboo pot of 2-ft height and then placed in a room where curdled milk was churned in half-filled pot. The butter thus obtained was sold at Rs 200 to Rs 300 per kg, while the whey, gently heated and filtered, was fed to young calves or even taken by family members. Whereas, the solid thus obtained called as ‘churpi’ was sold for Rs 80 to Rs 150 per kg. Bhawani Pradhan, milk procurement officer of the Milk Union, told that the members of the societies were being provided subsidised cattle feed, AI and other services to their cattle and assured collection of milk. Chung-Chung Lepcha of Gaur village told that people in her village, having 62 households, earlier used to sell milk to their neighbors, but now they were selling it to a dairy society. Private vehicles had been hired by the Milk Union for collecting milk and its shipment to Mangam Milk Plant, she added.
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UHBVN set to provide online bill payment facility
Jhajjar, November 22 The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) has chalked out a plan to provide the online payment to its consumers residing not only in Jhajjar district but also Panchkula, Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonepat, and Jind.The facility is likely to be implemented soon in all 130 operation subdivisions for 24 lakh consumers. Moreover, the consumers will be able to enjoy the facility of viewing their current bills on the UHBVN’s official website www.uhbvn.com, besides using their credit card, debit card or net banking covering around 40 to 50 banks for making online payment. He said that the nigam had already provided various options of electricity bill payment to various categories of consumers through its counters at subdivisional offices, anytime payment machine, post offices, banks etc. Meanwhile, the spokesman said the UHBVN had earned a record revenue amounting to Rs 1721.22 crore up to October during the current financial year. He said the collection of record revenue was the result of a special drive launched by UHBVN officials by adopting a three-pronged strategy targeted to reduce aggregated technical and commercial (AT&C) losses considerably. Under the strategy, special efforts are being made to collect revenue by launching disconnection campaigns, replacing electro-mechanical meters with electronic ones and strengthening power distribution infrastructure so as to reduce technical line losses.
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Apology for English, this!
Hisar, November 22 "In..........College Deputy Commissioner Dr Yudhbir Singh Khialiya addressed to the college staff at the topic IDEAL TEACHER, DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONALITY. Dr Khialiya said that Teachers are the blessed group of the society, teacher can grow the society. A teacher is a roll modals for the society. A full personalities of the teacher following the students so improve the personalities features in the life. Dr Khialiya said that if a teacher effected by his family, society and any other reason, he can not done his job properly. So for doing their jobs honestly be positive and focus and their services. He said that energy level of the teacher played an important role. Teachers use their energy in positive way and development of the society. Dr Khialiya share his personal experience with the staff and give Demo to them. If a teacher have a passion for their profession really a good teacher grow more idea, a knowledge and new words. Teachers are motivator and motivate to the students for positive work. Dr Khialiya said a teacher grow and evelop their physically, mentally and intellectually power. At this occasion............ and all college staff presented there."
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Students enact delegates at model UN conference
Gurgaon, November 22 Padma Bhushan awardee GP Chopra, president of the DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi, was the chief guest at the function. Addressing the students and teachers, he exhorted them to protect the diminishing forests and save the flora and fauna from extinction. In her presidential address, Rineeta Naik, assistant information officer, United Nations Information Centre, congratulated the delegates of the member countries for reaching logical, diplomatic and agreeable resolutions on agendas of discussion. She remarked that the virtue of tolerance would help them accept differences for a peaceful future. Anita Makkar, principal of the host school, observed: “It was an eye opener to watch young delegates proposing women empowerment with passion in the Human Rights Council, minutely scrutinising the questionable tunnels in the Kashmir issue and contesting the defunct Chinese and US satellites”. The underlying idea behind the event was to give the students a sound exposure of deliberating on various issues of global concern within the confines of protocol and diplomacy, she added. At the closing ceremony, the students of the special wing of the school expressed their sentiments aspiring for a peaceful world through their dance number “Mil Ke Chalo”. Keeping in sync with the UN declaration of the international year of Youth and International Year of Biodiversity, the students performed a ballet “taru-mitra”, depicting the woes of the hills of Garhwal in the 70s due to the cruel disruption of the ecological balance and their consequent victory through the launch of the Chipko Movement.
Kaithal students win laurels Kaithal, November 22 In all, 115 teams of 90 schools from various parts of the country participated and they represented
OSDAV’s Vivan Kartik Sharma, Shiwam Chawla, Akash Chawla, Yash Mittal, Anurag Aggarwal, Vishu Rana, Arundhti Ahlawat, Shreya Gambhir and Arshita Grover took part. All students were honoured by GP Chopra, president of DAV Managing Committee. Suman Nijhawan, principal-cum-regional director of the school also gave away awards. In another achievement, OSDAV’s students Ananya Gulati and Vasundhra participated in state-level drawing competition on the topic biodiversity in Chandigarh recently. They were among 50 children honoured by Central Water Resources Minister Pawan Bansal.
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SC families await possession of plots allotted in 1982
Kaithal, November 22 Some of the allottees called on Deputy Commissioner Amneet P. Kumar in this connection. In a memorandum they pointed that the government had allotted plots to them after purchasing land from farmers. They rued that they had been struggling to get physical possession of the allotted plots for the past 28 years. They pointed that the said land was still in the possession of original land owners who were still cultivating it . The aggrieved persons said that many of them have registered deeds and mutations in their favour pertaining to these plots. Some of the allottees alleged that their registered deeds had been lying in the tehsil for the past many years as these had not been handed over to them. They urged the Deputy Commissioner to help them get physical possession of their plots. The Deputy Commissioner told this reporter that this matter had been referred the Tehsildar for inquiry and and appropriate action.
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Stress laid on quality in higher education
Sonepat, November 22 Dr Khandelwal was speaking at a seminar of the association of principals of non-government colleges of the state at local Geeta Vidya Mandir Girls College. The topic of the seminar was “Present Scenario in Higher Education in Haryana”. Dr OP Pruthi, chairman of GVM Educational Society, presided over. He said the state government had given top priority to opening new institutions of higher education with the aim of making the state an educational hub of the country in terms of providing qualitative education. But the government had so far not achieved the desired results, he added. “There is no dearth of talent among the teachers and the need of the hour is to make best possible use of their skills in imparting qualitative education to youths,” he said and added that the principals should shoulder this responsibility for the benefit of the society. RR Malik, association’s state president; Bala Dhankhar, general secretary; SK Garg, secretary; and Dr Deshmukh, principal of SD College, Ambala; also spoke on the occasion. The second session of the seminar was marked by the unanimous elections of office-bearers of the association. The principal of Hindu College, Sonepat, was elected as president. Other office-bearers of the association included Dr Subhash Tanwar of DAV College, Pundari, as general secretary, Dr DK Kaushik of MM College, Fatehabad, as finance secretary, Dr Alka Sharma of Palwal as vice-president, and Dr Jyoti Juneja of GVM as secretary.
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Police to crack down on drunken driving
Ambala, November 22 Paying homage to persons killed in road accidents at a function in Ambala City, he said people were of the view that most road accidents occurred due to police negligence while the fact was that around 80 per cent accidents occurred due to laps of the Engineering Department. He disclosed 4553 persons lost their lives in road accidents during 2009 . The DGP said that according to a survey, the main cause of road accidents was rash and negligent driving. Driving under the influence of liquor was one of the major reasons for road accidents. The police had decided to take strict action against the drunken drivers. KK Sindhu, IG, Ambala range, said a vehicle driver should have proper knowledge of road safety and traffic rules. Ambala SP Shashank Anand suggested that the students should be educated about the traffic rules. Orthopedician KD Sharma offered free medical aid in his nursing home to the road accident victims who did not have local contacts. Advocate Ajay Jain offered free legal aid to accident victims.
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SBoP celebrates foundation day
Fatehabad, November 22 Harish Khurana, branch manager said, the bank was founded in 1917 by Maharaja of erstwhile Patiala state Bhupinder Singh, with one branch by the name of 'Chowk Fort, Patiala' to begin with. The bank, then known as 'Patiala State Bank', was state owned and set up for the explicit purpose of fostering growth of agriculture, trade and industry. Khurana said State Bank of India had 970 branches and over 21,000 ATMs. The branch also opened 100 new accounts on this occasion. — TNS
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Ambala school celebrates annual function
Ambala, November 22 Flair of activities like dance, mime, choreographed items, orchestra, acrobatics, comedy skit and modelling were presented by vatikans. Tiny tots of kinder garden left the audience spellbound. While addressing the students, Sharma said there was a tough competition in every field and students should prepare themselves to be the best. He asked the students to develop their all-round personality. He said the government had been taking up various steps to provide the best education to every student. He also briefed various schemes introduced for girl students. Jain said teachers should educate students in such a way that they could be able to meet every challenge of their life. He also appreciated the performance put up by students. President of the school management committee, Bharat Bhushan Jain, secretary Rajesh Jain and principal Uma Sharma also addressed the students. Uma said the main objective to organise such events was to provide platform to students to showcase their talent.
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Campaign to root out graft advocated
Rewari, November 22 Pratibha Nayak, national convener of the AIDYO, was the main speaker at the conference. Comrade Rajender Singh called upon youths to take a cue from great revolutionaries and come forward to combat the menaces of unemployment, corruption and disparagement of cultural values. Delivering the keynote address, Partibha Nayak expressed concern at the existing enormity of liquor vends as well as the growing dissemination of obscene Haryanavi songs in the state, which, she rued, was degenerating youths rapidly. Stating that the colossal problems of unemployment, inflation and illiteracy were the consequential outcome of the present system of governance, she asserted that a panacea for these ills lay in the building of an India of great revolutionaries’ cherished dreams. While the conference adopted several resolutions emphasising upon a concerted campaign against addiction, unemployment and increasing atrocities on women, a new district committee under the chairmanship of Comrade Sher Singh was also constituted to strengthen the youth movement in the district.
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200 examined at medical camp
Rewari, November 22 Nearly 200 employees of the plant were examined free of cost for heart ailments by cardiologists of MAX Hospital, Saket (Delhi). While the cardiologists provided useful tips to the employees to keep fit and healthy, Dr Geeta Asthana, Medical Consultant of BHEL Corporate, advised them to take regular exercise as well as balanced diet, coupled with green vegetables and fruits to avoid cardiac disorders.
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Project to produce biogas in gaushalas sent to Centre
Sirsa, November 22 Addressing people in Shiv Shakti Krishan Muni Gaushala at Chaharwala village, Tanwar said this would improve the economy of gaushalas and provide the much needed power. He said the constitution of the Gausewa Ayog by the state government was a step in the direction of improving the condition of the cowsheds. Tanwar added the government had provided straw reapers to all gaushalas so they could collect wheat and paddy straw from fields, which would solve the problem of stubble burning on fields. Prahlad Singh Gillankhera, chief parliamentary secretary was also present on the occasion.
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Vivekananda centre opened at Yamunanagar college
Yamunanagar, November 22 Speaking on the occasion, Dr Sushma Arya, principal of the college, said that “our college is commencing the Vivekananda Study Centre to acquaint the students with the nation builders and their contribution to social reforms. The college already has a women study centre, Gandhi study centre, human rights centre and Nehru study centre." Sudha Chugh of the English Department who will head this centre, said: "The centre will focus on acquainting the students with social reforms and the reformers. It will also organise seminars and workshops highlighting the moral deeds of Swami Vivekananda, besides organising trips to the holy places connected with Swami Vivekananda." Jang Bahadur said Mahatma Gandhi was also highly inspired by the teachings of Vivekananda.
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Venod Sharma assures help to PNB employees
Ambala, November 22 JK Sawhney, general secretary of the PNB Workers Union, said Punjab National Bank was the second largest nationalised bank in the country, which had achieved over 22 per cent growth in business and over 32 per cent profits. But PNB employees were being paid less than their counterparts in government service. Venod assured full cooperation as and when required by the PNB staff. He also assured the union of taking up the matter with the higher authorities. Another union leader DP Tank said business as well as profit was continuously increasing whereas the number of bank employees has decreased from 72,000 to 56,000 in the past few years. He said while the hike given to the government employees ranged between 40 and 60 per cent, the bank employees were given only a 17.5 per cent hike. The bank union leaders also spoke on other demands, including promotion of all clerks with 20 years of service to LMG (Scale-1) without discrimination. All eligible peons should be promoted as clerks after 20 years of service in the bank.
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Support pledged to civic staff
Faridabad, November 22 Buoyed up by the support the Nagar Palika Karamchari Sangh,Haryana,has decided to join about 30-odd employees-related associations functional in this district which would take part in tomorrow’s nationwide agitation called by the All-India State Government Employees Federation.The federation is a national-level apex body of a conglomerate of several state-level employees’ associations. Rattanlal Rohilla, deputy general secretary of the Nagar Palika Karamchari Sangh,Haryana, said there were about 1,200 employees alone in the MCF who were awaiting regularisation of their jobs. These employees have completed several years of job, but successive governments in the state have been finding one excuse or the other not to regularise them . The employees are also agitated over the growing culture of “contractual system” of employment and outsourcing of jobs relating to works for which already there were adequate personnel in the civic body.They cited the case of hiring of safai workers (scavengers). They allege that this approach was costing the civic body, already short of funds, dearly. The employees are of the view that in the name of policy of public-private participation, it was the contractors and middlemen who were ruling the roost at the cost of employees and contractual workers. According to them, the workers were deprived of their rights and robbed of their real wages by the contractors.
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Govt employees found absent
Kaithal, November 22 Ram Mehar, clerk, and Krishan Kumar, DAO, were not on their seats when the checking team reached the office of the XEN Water Services Division, Pundri, at 9.05 am recently. The team also found SK Sharma, auditor, absent from duty in the Water Services Division, Kaithal. The team reached the civil surgeon’s office at 9.25 am where Rakha Rani, steno, Ishwar Singh, assistant, Kamlesh Lumar, clerk, Suraj Bhan, Vakil Singh, Madhu Pal and Sham Sundar, all sevadars, were found absent. In the office of DIO of civil surgeon’s office, Manoj Kumar, Tarun Kumar and Rakesh Kumar, all clerks, and Ramesh Chand and SK in the office of medical superintendent were found absent. The deputy commissioner said action would be taken against all those found absent during the visit. She said all officers and employees leaving office due to official work should make entry in the movement register of their department. She asked for maintaining proper cleanliness in the offices and ensure that problems relating to women, elderly, handicapped and all other sections were redressed on a priority basis. She added that staff should behave in a courteous way with all those visiting offices in connection with official work.
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State purchases simulator
Chandigarh, November 22 The simulator, which has reached Karnal, will be shortly installed at the civil aerodrome and made operational by the middle of December this year after obtaining approval from the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and completion of other formalities. Order for the simulator had been placed after the state government approved the proposal for purchase. Inspection of the equipment was made by the executive director, Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation (HICA), at Karnal Civil Aerodrome. Two installments of the cost of simulator have already been released in favour of the concerned firm. Once the multi-engine simulator is installed, all branches of the HICA will send trainees to Karnal where, besides those seeking commercial licence, all pupil-pilots will undergo training required for qualifying to join the airlines. The Civil Aviation Department plans to set up flying training institutes at all airstrips, aerodromes and general aviation hubs (at Hisar and Bhiwani); and helicopter aviation hubs (at Narnaul and Pinjore) in the state through the PPP mode in the current fiscal 2010-11.
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Governor opens varsity lab
Sonepat, November 22 According to HS Chahal,Vice-Chancellor of the university, there are six divisions-environmental assessment, material, food and pharmaceutical, calibration and automotive, energy and fuel and quality assurance and publication division, in the testing house. The testing of material used in construction of roads and buildings, purity of food items and medicines, quality of electronic and electrical equipment etc will be carried out under one roof and the certificate issued by the laboratory will be recognised everywhere.
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MLA flays proposed hike in water, sewerage charges
Sonepat, November 22 Kavita Jain said government policies had been putting financial burden on industrialists and people in the urban areas. “Residents have yet to adjust their budget on account of hike in electricity and roadways bus charges and the proposed increase in drinking water and sewerage charges would make things worse for them,” she commented. Presently, domestic consumers in the urban areas are paying drinking water charges at the rate of Rs 1.25 per kilolitre and in the commercial areas, at the rate of Rs 2.50 per kilolitre. Now, the government has proposed to charge Rs 3 per kilolitre from domestic consumers and Rs 4 per kilolitre from commercial consumers, she said and added that there was a proposal to increase per seat sewerage charges by 25 per cent. She alleged industrialists were also being targeted with the decision to impose additional charge of Rs 120 per KW load on LT and HT connections. The MLA also pointed out that the Haryana Bijli Nigam had issued an order by which industrialists had to pay 50 per cent additional charges for running their units during peak hours after obtaining prior permission. If the units were run during these hours without prior permission, the owner had to pay 100 per cent more charges, she said.
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KU looking for global tie-ups
Kurukshetra, November 22 Making a humble beginning, the university recently celebrated “International Education Week” by organising an outreach activity in collaboration with the United States Educational Foundation in India (USIEF), affording an opportunity to students, research scholars and faculty members in regard to fellowships and other programmes administered by the USIEF. Lieut Gen DDS Sandhu, vice-chancellor, recently met Adam J. Grotsky, director, USIEF, in New Delhi to discuss opportunities of academic, cultural and institutional cooperation between KU and the USIEF. The USIEF administers Fulbright fellowship opportunities for study, research, teaching and professional development in the US and outstanding Indian students, academics, teachers, policy planners, administrators and professionals in all disciplines were selected on the basis of academic merit and strength of proposals submitted by them to visit US campuses and institutes for study and research for a period of four to eight months. Prof Brajesh Sawhney, Fulbright campus representative of KU, said the Fulbright Programme was established in 1946 soon after the World War II, under legislation introduced by former US Senator J. William Fulbright to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the US and those of other countries. Fulbright fellowship programme was now operating in 155 countries and over 3,00,000 fellowships had been offered worldwide since 1946. Prof AS Kaang, dean, academic affairs, KU, said, “International education is no longer an add-on to any major or field of study and essential in every field as today every student needs to gain skill, attitude and knowledge to succeed in an increasingly international sphere”.
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46 schools participate in 'Rendezvous-2010'
Mullana, November 22 Various events like declamation contest, quiz , spin-n-yarn , folk dance, western dance, group songs, skit , best out of waste, rangoli, poster making and other activities were organised in the fest. International food festival, live science exhibition, Indian Army exhibition were added attractions on this occasion. In the Army exhibition, 64 Engineer Regiment from Chandimandir displayed T-72 and T- 55 tanks and 'Hydrema', a mine-clearing vehicle. A team of the Army, Ambala Cantt, displayed anti-aircraft missile, radar which was the main attractions of this exhibition. The Bofors guns used in the Kargil war were also displayed in the exhibition. In English declamation contest, the topic of discussion was secret of happiness. Uchha shiksha ke liye videsh jaana uchit ya anuchit hai was the topic for Hindi declamation. Students presented cultural, patriotic, and non-filmi songs in the group songs section. Traditional designs was the theme for rangoli competition. The students made various interesting things from waste under the best-out-of-waste competition. In sports competitions, boys' teams participated in volley ball competition and boys and girls teams participated in table tennis competitions. The Chancellor of MM University, Tarsem Kumar Garg while addressing the participants said that these kinds of events would help students explore different horizons by interacting with one another. He asked the students to take active part in the games and sports, besides regular studies. Sameer Pal Saro, Deputy Commissioner of Ambala, who was the chief guest at the closing ceremony, gave away the prizes.
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Revenue cases in Sirsa to be computerised soon
Sirsa, November 22 The deputy commissioner had an interaction with Naresh Gulati, financial commissioner and principal secretary, Revenue, through videoconferencing on the issue recently. He said the cases related to the offices of the deputy commissioner, city magistrate and district revenue officers had already been computerised and the job of feeding the cases related to the offices of sub-divisional magistrate (civil) and tehsildars was in progress. The revenue records of all villages in the district had been computerised with the help of the National Informatics Centre and made online. Now, anybody could get the copy of ‘jamabandi’ of his land by downloading it from Internet, said the deputy commissioner. He added that Sirsa was the first district in the state to have computerised district revenue records.
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Students apprised of developments in science
Bhiwani, November 22 Dr RS Hooda, chief scientist of the centre, said the objective was to make the students aware of developments in the frontier areas of science and to sensitise them about developing a career in these fields. He gave a lecture on “Remote Sensing Applications in Haryana” and said HARSAC had completed about 85 projects related to natural resources mapping and management for various user departments of Haryana. While inaugurating the workshop, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, DEO, said science had found use in many walks of life like telecast of radio and TV programmes, internet, mobiles, weather forecasting, tele-education, telemedicine, mapping of natural resources, infrastructure planning etc. The department has also planned to develop a school in each district as science model school where a science gallery would be established, said Dr VS Arya, a senior scientist, and coordinator of the workshop. Dr AK Dhawan, director (technical), Centre for Plant Biotechnology (CPB), Hisar, gave a lecture on “Tissue Culture and Biotechnology”. He explained about the latest technology of tissue culture and biotechnology and discussed its applications in the present scenario. Padmavathy, a scientist with ISRO, said India was one of the leading countries in space technology having capability of fabricating and launching its own satellites with indigenous launch vehicles. She told that since the launching of first Indian satellite Arya Bhatt in 1975, India had successfully launched 17 remote sensing satellites and 24 geostationary satellites. She further emphasised that recently launched Cartosat-2B remote sensing satellite had less than one metre resolution which was capable of identifying objects smaller than one metre and would be highly useful for urban and infrastructure planning.
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Deepender for expansion of banking services
Rohtak, November 22 Deepender said there was a need of at least 30-40 bank branches in his constituency as several people were still unable to use such services due to poor accessibility. He said though numerous branches of various banks had already been opened in the constituency during the past five years, there was a need and scope of improving such facilities as these would prove beneficiary to both banks and customers. He has urged the Union Minister to allow opening of bank branches at several villages, including Pilana, Titauli, Kharkara, Lakhan Majra, Roorki, Samchana and Garnawathi of Rohtak district; Dubaldhan Majra, Mandauthi, Jahangirpur, Badhsa, Jharli, Machhchhrauli and Ladayan of Jhajjar district; and Ratanthal, Bawwa, Nehrugarh, Lilod, Nimoth and Lisan of Rewari district. He said while branches of leading banks should be opened on priority basis, the government should also focus on improving the network of Haryana Rural Bank at the earliest. He said the economic condition of the people of the area adjoining the National Capital Region, was fast changing due to a number of development projects implemented during the past five years and in view of this changed economic scenario, the demand for banking services was perpetually increasing. Terming the demand for bank branches in villages as an indicator of economic progress, he said the number of economic institutions in an area certainly indicated the socio-economic development of that area.
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Abduction, rape cases on the rise
Rewari, November 22 In a recent case, a teenaged girl, who was shopping at Mayan village under Khol police station of the district, was forcibly picked up on November 12 by Raj Kumar Yadav, a resident of the surrounding Mamadia Ahir village and a part time employee at the BSNL’s centre in the above village. She was allegedly raped by the accused in the secluded premises of the centre. The alleged rapist fled after committing the crime. Raj Yadav was, however, apprehended later and produced in a court which remanded him in judicial custody on November 20. In another such case, a teenaged girl (18) was lured and abducted from nearby Kalaka village on November 11, allegedly by Surender Yadav of the same village, who then took her to Ladpur village of Alwar district in Rajasthan. The girl was repeatedly raped there by the accused. The girl later managed to reach Kalaka after which Surender was booked on the abduction and rape charge. Surender, who was eventually arrested by the police and then produced in a local court on November 19 which remanded him in judicial custody.
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Workshop on MEMS technology held
Kurukshetra, November 22 Padma Bhushan Prof VK Aatre, former director of the DRDO, and adviser to Defence Minister, and presently, chairman, B-SMARTNPMASS, was the chief guest on the inaugural function, while Prof Girish Chopra, dean, research and development, KU, presided over. In his address, Prof Aatre stressed upon indigenously fabricating and designing MEMS products. He also highlighted on the need for MEMS education and research. He said the technology was highly interdisciplinary; therefore, it required energetic youngsters to join heads to make a mark in this field. Prof S Gopalakrishna from IISC Bangalore, presented modeling techniques for MEMS. Dr KJ Vinoy, also from IISC Bangalore, gave a comprehensive talk on fabrication techniques for MEMS. Dr Vijayraju from the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) gave an interesting talk on smart materials and MEMS for aerospace applications. On the second day, Prof Shiban Koul of IIT, Delhi, gave a talk on micro machines, microwave, millimeter wave circuit design and the importance of wireless communication network in various fields. The participants also learnt process for solving various MEMS design problems solution using the COMSOL multi physics. On the last day, Prof SB Karupanidhi of IISC, Bangalore, and Prof Navkanta Bhatt, IISC, Bangalore gave talks on various topics. The valedictory session saw the presence of Dr Nagachenchiah as chief guest and Prof Nand Lal as guest of honour. Prof Dinesh Kumar, convener of the workshop, claimed that this was one of the first workshops to be conducted in northern India by ISSS and NPMASS at one of its MEMS design centers.
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Power generation record broken
Chandigarh, November 22 An official spokesman said the HPGCL was all geared up to meet the peak demand during the coming winter and rabi season. He said the actual generation on November 10 would have been as high as 634 lakh units but the thermal units of HPGCL were backed down and forced to operate at a reduced load due to less demand. The thermal units of the Panipat Thermal Power Station (PTPS) were backed down by 120 MW and those of DCRTPP, Yamunanagar, by 80 MW on November 10 due to less demand of power in the state. Earlier, the HPGCL had generated 572 lakh units of electricity in a single day on November 1.
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Kalka hospital sans specialists
Kalka, November 22 Official sources confirmed that the sectioned posts of medical officers of specialist of eye, ENT, orthopedics and radiologist had been lying vacant. Patients allege that in the absence of the specialist medical officers, they are being referred to Government Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula, which adds to the problems of patients, particularly of rural areas. They allege that in case of emergency, they have to go to private clinics, which ask for hefty charges. They have urged the Health Department to take a serious note of the problem.
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Dharna to highlight UPA failures held
Rewari, November 22 Gur Dev Singh, state working president of the RNC, and Rakesh Sharma, state chief of its youth brigade, flayed the government for its “ dismal” performance on various fronts. Asserting that increasing unemployment, rising prices and rampant corruption had been eating into the vitals of the nation, they urged the President of India to direct the UPA government to save the common man from ruin.
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Bonded to traditional methods of dairy farming and averse to selling milk, farmers of Lepchas and Bhutia tribes of North Sikkim are gradually adopting cooperative dairy farming and modern dairy techniques for improving their economic lot.
More than 700 students from different schools across the country performed the roles of United Nations (UN) office-bearers and delegates during a model UN conference organised on the premises of DAV Public School in Sector 14 here.
Sonepat, November 22
Jang Bahadur Goel, Principal Secretary of Technical Education, Punjab, inaugurated the Swami Vivekananda Study Centre at the local DAV College for Girls set up in collaboration with the UGC on November 20.Speaking on the occasion, Dr Sushma
Arya, principal of the college, said that “our college is commencing the Vivekananda Study Centre to acquaint the students with the nation builders and their contribution to social reforms.
Sonepat, November 22
Around 1500 students from 46 schools of the region participated in 'Rendezvous-2010' organised by MM International Public School, Mullana. Schoolchildren from Jagadhari , Chandigarh , Karnal , Kurukshetra , Shahbad ,Patiala , Barara , Ambala Cantt , Ambala City , Ladwa , Sidhora , and Mullana participated in various events. Vice Chancellor of MM University SG Damle inaugurated the function.
Activists of the youth wing of the Rashtriya Nav Chetna (RNC), a prominent voluntary organisation of the region, held a dharna near the district secretariat here on November 17 to protest against the failure of the Congress-led UPA government to initiate effective measures to provide employment to millions of jobless youths, to curb spiralling prices of essential commodities and eliminate rampant corruption in various ministries of the government.
