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CM city no preference zone for PR officials?
Mewat gets first legal aid clinic
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At anganwadi centres, kids to have two meals
Foeticide
Figure craze driving metro youth crazy: Study
Draft to promote vocational education
Haryana girls win cricket cup
Four GJU students get placements
HUDA officials told to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation
Amity Business School holds international meet
Govt to spend Rs 5,000 cr on rural development
Hooda warns law violators
Engineering student designs convenient toll tax
Sirsa gears up to tackle floods
Mother’s Day celebrated
Conference on ‘Changing Contours of Media’ held
No polio case in state since January 2010
Minister lays foundation stone of village hut project
Parshu Ram Jayanti celebrated
Siddhivinayak Group organises prize
distribution function
Minister hints at review of school timings
Concern raised over acquisition of land
2,700 route permits up for grabs
Haryana villages rich in biomass-based energy resources: Study
Global shuttle maker ties up with Sonepat school
Hindu Girls College bags 17 merit positions
Bijli Sabha today
INLD flays govt’s ‘anti-people’ policies
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CM city no preference zone for PR officials?
Rohtak, May 9 “The attempts of the government to post an experienced official here have failed to materialise due to the fact that hardly any official posted at other district or at headquarters has shown interest here,” claimed sources in the department. The government had announced the posting of two officials here in the past six months, but none of them joined as they reportedly managed to get the transfer orders cancelled. It is perhaps due to the fact that the working conditions are challenging and the demand of satisfactory performance is an important criteria for those who work here, it is added. The last incumbent to the post of DPRO, was killed in an accident on November 10 last year. Since then, no one replaced him. The present incumbent is holding the officiating charge of the DPRO . The government recently ordered the transfer of DPRO from a neighbouring district to this place, but no one joined even as the transfer orders were issued about two weeks ago, suggesting that the official concerned is perhaps not interested, said an official. Some of the officials of the department posted in Chandigarh, Delhi or other cities prefer to travel along with the Chief Minister or other VIPs to cover their visits, but most of them backed out when they were asked to stay at Rohtak and look after the work on a permanent basis, it is claimed. Another fact that had surfaced here is the undue pressure from the lobby close to the power corridors, which wanted extra attention and coverage for them from the office of the DPRO and their intervention in the routine work is a reason that a majority of the officials do not want to serve in the home district of the Chief Minister, claimed sources in the department.
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Mewat gets first legal aid clinic
Nuh (Mewat), May 9 Justice Kabir later disclosed that NALSA had decided to open such legal aid clinics in all villages (or a cluster of villages in case of smaller units) of the country to educate the masses about their legal rights. Justice Kabir, along with Supreme Court judges P Sathashivam, Mukundakam Sharma and SS Nijjar, Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of HSLSA Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Administrative Judge of Gurgaon Sessions Division MM Kumar and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, also flagged off a legal awareness mobile van at Nuh. At a legal awareness programme organised at Nuh, Justice Kabir released the action plan of the HSLSA campaign aimed at overall development of Mewat. He administered an oath to the people present there that they would educate their children and not deprive their daughters of their right to education. A book in Urdu meant for the women of Mewat was also released. Addressing the gathering, Justice Kabir said any person having any legal problem could go to the clinic and seek legal aid and consultancy free of cost. The apex court judge said well-meaning people of the village had also been roped in as para-legal volunteers (PLVs) to spread legal awareness. Advocates as well as PLVs will guide the people in their day-to-day legal matters at these centres. Justice Kabir asserted that during this year, NALSA would focus on the rights of children. He laid emphasis on educating the girls and advised the people of Mewat to send their girls to schools to ensure true social progress in the area. Pamphlets bearing legal rights of the people and dos and don’ts for vulnerable sections, including women and children, were also distributed.
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At anganwadi centres, kids to have two meals
Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal stated this while interacting with mediapersons after inaugurating a veterinary hospital at Naugaon village recently. She said toilets would also be built with the help of the Public Health Department at nearly 444 anganwadi centres across the state. “The state government is trying to give a new look to the anganwadi centres. Chairs, tables and other furniture items are being made available while some more facilities have also been planned so as to ensure better bringing up of the tiny tots,” said the minister. Terming the gender imbalance as “an issue of great concern for the people of Haryana”, Bhukkal said female foeticide was the foremost reason behind the declining sex ratio in the state. “What is required is to motivate the people by launching special awareness programme otherwise the next generation will have to face dire consequences owing to considerable difference in the sex ratio,” she said, adding that the government had also taken some stringent steps to root out the social evil. Earlier, addressing the people at the village, Deepender Hooda, MP, said the government had implemented a number of development projects in the national capital region adjacent to Delhi, including Jhajjar. “Better management of rail and road traffic plays an important role in the development of any area and keeping this in view, work to build the four lane Panipat-Rohtak-Jhajjar-Rewari national highway has already started,” said the MP, adding that Rs 1800-crore four-laning project of the NH would provide new direction to the holistic development of the state. The MP maintained that the Congress was all set to curb the menace of corruption whereas the opposition parties were adopting double standards on this issue. The intensions of the Congress were clear and whenever a case of corruption was brought to its notice, immediate action was taken without wasting any time. The party had firm faith in democracy,” he added. (See photo on page 2)
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Foeticide
Jind, May 9 A spokesperson of the department claimed that the drive was focusing on villages where the drama and song parties of the department were holding programmes. There are about 306 villages in the district. The department has about 13 parties which include four bhajan parties, one cinema unit and nine other groups which have been given a contract to carry out the campaign. He said since bhajan and song parties used local dialect and raginis, it would leave a lasting impression on the mindset of locals as this way they were likely to take the message in a more receptive manner. Sarpanches of all villages had been contacted and they had promised support and help in staging special shows and programmes in their respective villages. Sex ratio in the district is 865. It has shown a marginal improvement in the past decade, although the Health Department has spent several crores on various drives, claim sources in the department. It is also revealed that the mushrooming of ultrasound centres has led to the misuse of the facility. The department has failed to keep a check on ultrasound centres which indulged in sex-detection tests. “The government should adopt more practical measures to check the menace and create the awareness among the people by offering various incentives, including scholarships and other facilities for the girl child during the school and college stage,” suggests Rattan Singh Punia, a local resident.
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Figure craze driving metro youth crazy: Study
Gurgaon, May 9
A recent study conducted by the ASSOCHAM Social Development Foundation (ASDF) has revealed that metro cities’ youngsters in the age group of 12-25 years consume diet pills and fat burners, besides resorting to crash dieting and self-induced vomiting etc in order to stay slim and look attractive. The study points out that most youngsters today are deeply influenced by modern lifestyles, coupled with ubiquitous show of perfect 10 figures and airbrushed faces in advertisements and shows of ramp models, film and sports personalities in newspapers, magazines, television and the Internet. An ASDF team conducted a survey in 10 big cities, including Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Lucknow as part of the study. During the course of the study, the team members interacted with around 2,500 young boys and girls in the age-group of 12-25 years. The study was carried out from October, 2010, to March, 2011. “An interesting aspect that emerged from the survey was that youngsters in urban India feel the need to diet as they aspire to be thin and beautiful as film stars, models, celebrities and feel that they will be popular if they are able to attain that ‘ideal body image’,” observed ASSOCHAM secretary general DS Rawat while releasing the findings of the survey here yesterday. Rawat says the trend is likely to have an adverse impact on young people, especially females, as it leads to eating disorders and psychological problems like distorted body image, sense of insecurity and a low self-esteem owing to fear of rejection. “Even the parents tend to overlook the strange eating habits of their growing kids, without realising that this is robbing them of their childhood,” he maintained. Mumbai youngsters topped the chart, with nearly 55 per cent of them admitting to dieting over three days a week and 35 per cent admitting to following a daily diet plan. Youth in Delhi-NCR ranked second with 40 per cent of them admitting to dieting over thrice a week and 30 per cent stating that they diet daily. Chandigarh ranked third, where 25 per cent youth conceded that they follow a strict diet regime everyday and 35 per cent said they diet at least three days per week. Ahmedabad stood on the fourth rung with 30 per cent youth admitting to dieting over three days a week and 20 per cent stating that they diet daily. Figures in Lucknow and Jaipur were almost equal as 25 per cent youth in both cities said they diet daily, whereas 15 per cent respondents admitted to following a daily diet chart. Majority of respondents said they had been following severe diet regimens, but were ignorant about the fact that it was affecting their growth. The ASSOCHAM study further reveals that youngsters obsessed with dieting are becoming anorexic by starving themselves relentlessly and are becoming more prone to diseases like depression, anxiety, insomnia and so on. Sharing their views with the chamber representatives, the respondents said they felt worthless due to being overweight and constant fear of becoming obese; and that was the reason they starved themselves to attain a lean look. A majority of them
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Draft to promote vocational education
Jhajjar, May 9 Bhukkal said professional courses could be helpful in enabling the youth to avail maximum employment opportunities and would also meet requirement of trained manpower in industrial development. She said the registration ratio of students in courses was required to be increased to include the country in the category of developed nations. The minister said a meeting of the state education ministers to prepare a draft of national professional education would be organised under the chairmanship of Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal during next month, where important issues would be discussed. It was being tried to introduce professional education at the level of the board on the pattern of traditional education as per which students getting professional education would not have to worry about getting employment and there would be no lack of trained manpower for industries. She said efforts had been made in the state to introduce new job-oriented courses in place of outdated courses in the Industrial Training Institutes (ITI). For this, assistance from the private sector was also being sought so that students could be imparted better professional education along with facility of campus placement. With the visionary approach of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, expansion of the ITIs had been undertaken up to every block in the state, she said. Bhukkal said the selection of the dress code had been left on government schools. She said better infrastructure had been provided in government schools in the state. Monitoring of facilities was also being conducted so as to see whether these were as per the interest of students.
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Haryana girls win cricket cup
Rewari, May 9 Ravinder Bhardwaj, coach of the HGE and state secretary of the Amateur Cricket Federation of India (Haryana unit), said teams from Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana, Goa, Daman and Diu had participated in the 10-Ten women’s cricket tourney of the National Cricket Federation Cup held under the auspices of the Amateur Cricket Federation of India. The HGE included six girls, Simran Mann, Pooja, Kanchan, Shabnam, Seema Lamba and Pooja Nandal, all students of Happy Senior Secondary School, Kosli. While Simran Mann bagged the “woman of the series” title, the “woman of the match” award went to Pooja. Bimla Malik, principal, and Birender Mann, chairman of Happy College of Education, Kosli, a sister institution, felicitated the girls on winning laurels for the school as well as the state.
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Four GJU students get placements
Rewari, May 9 Stating that these four students are from the first passing out batch of the Geo Informatics (M Tech), Prof Narsi Bishnoi, chairman of the ESED, said the M Tech course in the Geo Informatics was being run jointly by the ESED of the GJU and HARSAC. He said, “While the Geo Informatics is a rising segment in the domain of engineering, there is an ample scope for such qualified technicians in public as well as private sector.” Dr ML Ranga, Vice-Chancellor of the GJU, Prof Narsi Bishnoi and Dr RS Hooda, chief scientist of HARSAC, have felicitated the students on their achievement.
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HUDA officials told to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation
Yamunanagar, May 9 In 1992, a decision was taken by HUDA to revise the size of the plot of the housing block and after demarking the area the size of the plot was revised to 343.925 sq m. In June 2005, a convince deed was also prepared by the Estate Officer, HUDA, Jagadhri. When Sudesh Rani approached the Estate Office, Jagadhari, to take the possession of the plot, it was informed that the possession of only 261.425 sq m could be given as the size of the plot had been reduced. She contacted the local Estate Office as she wanted to construct a house. She, through her counsel Mehar Chand Gupta, served a registered legal notice on April 16, 2008, to HUDA and requested for the physical possession of the plot. Thus, the respondents have failed to give the physical possession of the plot, she asked to pay Rs 9 lakh on account of increasing the rates of construction material, to pay compensation as well as the cost of proceedings. Acting upon the notice by the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Yamunanagar, Anuj Jain, the counsel for the respondents (HUDA, Panchkula and Estate Office, Jagadhari), appeared and filed the written statement stating that the plot was allotted to Rajinder Krishan Mehta at the tentative area of 209 sq m in 1991, the area of the plot was increased from 209 sq m to 343.925 sq m, which was revised and approved on January 18, 1994, but due to oversight by the then junior engineer instead of revised plan for the measuring of 261.425 sq m, this fact came to the knowledge of the staff of the office, the account statement got recalculated and as per the actual area on the spot is 261.425 sq m and the excess amount of Rs 40,218 was refunded to Sudesh Rani. She was also informed to construct her house as per the new policy guidelines of HUDA but she has been failed to construct the same. As per the evidence produced by both parties, it is clear that the respondents have received the installments of the plot on the basis of increased size of the plot. The officials of the respondents kept mum for 11 years and suddenly sent the notice on October 27, 2005, regarding the reduction of the area of the plot on the basis of raised demarcated plan of January 18, 1994. Under these circumstances the complainant has suffered financial loss as well as harassment due to the negligent act on the part of HUDA and the Estate Office. District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum president Dina Nath Arora and member VK Sharma in their decision said, “Under Section 14 (d) of the Consumer Protection Act - 1986, the complainant is entitled for punitive damages to the tune of Rs 1 lakh from the respondents.” They also directed to give a period of two years to the complainant from the date of offer of actual physical possession for raising the construction after getting the plan approved and till then the respondents will not charge any extension fee. It is made clear that the amount of compensation of Rs 1 lakh be recovered from the erring officer or officials after holding the enquiry within three months from the date of receiving the copy of the order from the forum and the chief administrator, HUDA (Panchkula), is also directed to take an action in this regard within a period of 15 days after taking the final decision in the enquiry.
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Amity Business School holds international meet
Manesar, May 9 The two-day conference, titled “Enhancing Organisational Growth through Innovation and Creativity Issues: Opportunities and Challenge” was inaugurated by Deepak Pahwa, group chairman, Pahwa Enterprises, and MD, Bryair (Asia) Pvt Ltd, along with Aseem Chauhan, additional president, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation (RBEF). Addressing the participants, Pahwa said: “The ever-changing global business environment poses a challenge to the present-day organisations and it becomes indispensable for them to develop competencies and focus on being creative and innovative.” He exhorted the youth to take risks, which, along with optimism, is the key to successful entrepreneurship. Chauhan observed that in the present global business scenario, there could be no sustenance without innovation and creativity. Hence, focusing on how to create an organisational culture that fosters, nurtures and encourages constant innovation is the need of the day, he maintained. Dr Padmakali Banerjee, director, ABS, welcomed the delegates while Prof Arun Kumar Jain from IIM Lucknow delivered the keynote address. Nearly 150 research papers from various business schools and universities located in different parts of the country as well as the US, Iran, Phillipines, Oman and Pakistan were present at the conference. Several informative technical sessions and panel discussions on several functional areas pertaining to management were also held.
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Govt to spend Rs 5,000 cr on rural development
Sirsa, May 9 Haryana Local Bodies Minister Gopal Kanda said out of this, Rs 2,500 crore would be spent on the development of cities and Rs 5,000 crore on the development of villages. He said Rs 500 crore and Rs 1000 crore would be spent every year for a period of five years on the development of cities and villages, respectively. The minister said the Rajiv Gandhi Urban Development Mission was being implemented by the state government in cities and towns of the state. Under the mission, Rs 200 crore would be spent on water supply, drainage schemes, Rs 100 crore on providing affordable houses and Rs 200 crore on providing basic facilities in cities during the year, he added. Kanda said the process of regularising unauthorised colonies had already been initiated as the department had so far received 1,300 proposals for the regularisation of such colonies. Blueprints for the development of Sirsa city had also been prepared. A sum of Rs 750 crore would be spent on it.
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Hooda warns law violators
Rohtak, May 9 He said his government was committed to providing clean and transparent administration. "Any incident which jeopardises the security of the common man will not be tolerated at any cost," Hooda said. He issued directions to the officers concerned to effectively deal with law and order complaints. Directions had already been issued to police officials to make sure that FIRs are registered as soon as information on any incident was received, he said. A women cell had also been set up in the state to deal with cases of family disputes, dowry and other issues related to women, he said. — PTI
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Engineering student designs convenient toll tax
Kurukshetra, May 9 Talking about the current toll tax barrier systems, Amrendra says in some of the currently implemented toll tax barrier card systems, manual operation for the opening of barrier is required, while the proposed system provides complete automation of toll tax barrier systems and eliminates the requirement of operators. He says according to his project, a card will be issued to one person that will contain the identity and amount-related information of the particular user. In this project, a software is intelligent enough to distinguish among different types of vehicles and different amount is deducted if the user is using a car or a truck. The proposed model will decrease the rush on toll tax barriers because in traditional models mainly time is consumed in money exchange, but in this model prepaid card will be recharged like mobile SIM card. All the required modules like creation of card, recharging of card and money deduction and opening of barriers have been embedded in this project. The project can also be implemented in car parking, he adds. Amrendra claims that implementing this project will decrease the number of operators on toll tax barriers. The project will be useful to daily users passing through toll tax barriers. In future, the same project can also be attached to the accounts of the users that will include direct transaction of toll fee from the account of the user. This model was presented in the hardware display event at a two-day technical fest - National Symposium on Electronics Technology (NASET - 11) - organised by the Electronics Department of Kurukshetra University which concluded on the university campus here recently. Amrendra won the first prize in this project on toll tax barrier using card sensor in the hardware display event. The project was developed under the guidance of Er Shiv Goel, Head, ECE Department, and Er Paras Chawla, associate professor, ECE Department, KITM. Besides, he won the title of the Best All-Rounder Student of the batch 2007-11 in KITM. He was awarded the title by Dr TK Garg, director in-charge, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, at the KITM annual fest - “GOONJ” - held at the KITM premises recently. He also won the third prize in the paper presentation on “Aaron” - the first robot in human history to paint original art.
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Sirsa gears up to tackle floods
Sirsa, May 9 Deputy commissioner Yudhbir Singh Khyalia recently visited the flood-prone areas of the Ghaggar to review the preparedness of the authorities to tame the river in the district this time. Speaking to mediapersons, Khyalia said with a view to enhancing the water storage capacity of Ottu weir in the district, Rs 20 crore would be spent on its de-silting work in the third phase. He said about Rs 45 crore had already been spent earlier on de-silting of Ottu weir in two phases. The main course of the Ghaggar from Ottu weir to Rajasthan border would be further widened and small private bunds constructed on the river by farmers would be removed as these posed threat of flood in different places in the district. Khyalia said the removal of silt from the Ghaggar would be carried out under the Mahatma Gandhi National Grameen Rojgaar Guarantee Yojna. The deputy commissioner visited Musabhiwala, Nejadela Khurd, Nejadela Kalan, Mallewala, Ottu, Ferozabad and Rangoi drains to see the present situation. Apart from strengthening embankments, thorny bushes and small trees in the river would also be removed to increase the capacity of the Ghaggar, he added.
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Mother’s Day celebrated
Sonepat, May 9 Sapna, who is preparing for civil services examinations and does not know about her parents, said: “House mother Phoola Rani has taken care of her like a mother and I hardly felt the need of my real mother”. Aarti, who was admitted to Bal Gram about 11 years ago and a student of M.Sc in Kurukshetra University, said the role of a foster mother was nowhere less important than of the birth-giving mother. House mother Kamla Devi has been discharging her duties of a mother to Neha, a student of senior secondary class in MNSS, Rai, and has been living in Bal Gram since her birth. “The love and affection I got from my house mother has always been inspiring for me and I cannot forget her throughout my life,” said Neha. The director of Bal Gram and the house mother, Phoola Rani, who has been serving as house mother here since 1981, said it was their since efforts to provide a family atmosphere to the inmates and take full care of their requirements.
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Conference on ‘Changing Contours of Media’ held
Rewari, May 9 While Finance, Irrigation, Forest and Environment Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav was the chief guest, Sanjay Rathi, the state president of the HUJ, presided over its proceedings. Expressing concern at the growing prevalence of commercialisation in print media, the Finance Minister ruefully pointed out that scribes as well as the press barons were very much aware of the declining values of journalism as well as its deviation from well-set aims and objectives. Further lamenting the proclivity towards presentation of distorted views and news under the social impact of mammon worship, which was slowly but surely affecting the functioning of the scribes as well as the newspapers, the minister called upon the journalists to rise above such things and do their job fairly and fearlessly. Dittoing the same sentiments, Rathi also exhorted mediapersons and newspapers to provide a fillip to altruistic and fearless journalism to ensure advancement of the society and the nation on the right path. In the same vein, senior journalist DR Chaudhary deplored the increasing depreciation in journalism and wondered why journalists alone should be burdened with the onerous responsibility of cleansing such filthy Augustan stables? Thus while a number of prominent journalists were honoured for their meritorious services in the domain of journalism , the Finance Minister announced a grant of Rs 2 lakh out of his discretionary fund for the
HUJ.
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No polio case in state since January 2010
Fatehabad, May 9 Haryana has not witnessed any case of wild poliovirus since January 2010 and the only case found in the country this year was in January this year in West Bangal. Dr Kamaljeet Singh, a National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) expert with the WHO, stated this during a state-level continuous medical education (CME 2011) organised by Fatehabad branch of the Indian Association of Pediatricians here yesterday. Dr Kamaljeet Singh is a sub-regional team leader of the NPSP with the WHO and looks after Haryana and Rajasthan for the project. He said there had been a continuous and marked decline in the number of wild poliovirus cases in India during the past some years. From 740 cases of polio in the country in 2009, the number came down to 42 cases in 2010 and its has decreased further to one case in the first more than four months of the current year. He said, “Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan and India are four endemic countries of the world left with the wild poliovirus.” Though the virus has now entered in some non-endemic countries like DR Congo, Chad, Angola, Mali, Congo, Niger and Gabon too, where cases of wild poliovirus have been detected this year. The NPSP expert said the biggest relief was that the case that was detected in the current year was not from UP or Bihar, the two states with the worst record in this regard. In Haryana, Dr Kamaljeet Singh said the authorities had been able to control the situation through surveillance of cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in the state. “While earlier, we concentrated on the surveillance of typical cases of the AFP, where the child developed sudden weakness of limbs, emphasis is now being laid on a typical cases of the AFP too, where the child has recovered after suffering from weakness of limbs once,” he said. He said while the NPSP received reports from other districts of Haryana on regular basis, Sirsa, Fatehabad and Hisar had a relatively worse track record in this regard. He said 668 cases of the AFP were reported to the NPSP last year, while this year 169 cases had been reported so far. Over a hundred pediatricians from all over Haryana participated in the CME organised in the local Sagar Park View. Dr Satish Bansal, organising chairman, and Dr Pawan Mehta, organising secretary of the CME, said senior faculty members from the PGIMS Rohtak and super specialist doctors from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, delivered lectures on various aspects of pediatrics practices.
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Minister lays foundation stone of village hut project
Rewari, May 9 The minister said these small shops would be allotted to the members of BPL families who would run these huts to eke out their living. Besides, such small shopping complexes would be instrumental in accomplishing marketing requirements of the villagers as well, he added. Later, the minister also initiated the pavement work of streets under the Chief Minister’s Nirmal Basti Yojna for Scheduled Caste people at Nandrampur Bas and Bhatsana villages of the Dharuhera region. A sum of Rs 25 lakh each would be spent on the pavement of streets in the Harijan colonies of the above two villages.
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Parshu Ram Jayanti celebrated
Rewari, May 9 Besides, Finance Minister Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav and a former minister Ram Bilas Sharma were distinguished guests, whereas Brahmin Samaj patriarch Mange Ram Sharma, chairman of the World Brahmin Organisation (WBO), was the main speaker. Paying tributes to Parshu Ram, Sharma asserted that he was a legendary icon of renunciation and sacrifice who single-handedly annihilated chieftains of evil forces in pre-historic times and enabled the Samaj to tread the path of virtue and righteousness. Lamenting the present-day depreciation of age-old values and ideals, Sharma called for introspection and a radical transformation of such mindset to ensure the betterment of the Samaj. Simultaneously recalling the valuable contribution made by Brahmin Samaj leaders like late Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru and others to India’s freedom struggle, he exhorted all to elect only men of character and integrity as their MLAs and MPs to ensure the corruption-free functioning of the vital organs of democracy. He also distributed 15 sewing machines among needy women of the Samaj and also announced a financial assistance of Rs 51,000 for the DBS. Similarly paying homage to Parshu Ram, Capt. Yadav exhorted the people to take up the cudgels against exploitation and atrocities while following the noble teachings and ideals of Parshu Ram. In response to certain demands raised by the DBS, Capt. Yadav assured that a chowk would be constructed here in the name of the late Chief Minister Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma. Besides, he also announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh out of his discretionary fund for the development of Brahmgarh, the prestigious complex of the Samaj here. In the same vein, paying tribute to Parshu Ram, Mange Ram Sharma sought reservation for the poor sections of the Samaj and other communities on an economic basis while calling for the abolition of the prevalent caste-based reservations. Former Minister Ram Bilas Sharma, Ram Sharan Mudgil, Vishnu Dutt Sharma and other prominent Brahmin Samaj leaders also spoke on the occasion.
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Siddhivinayak Group organises prize
distribution function
Yamunanagar, May 9 He emphasised on nature management and urged the youth to follow the path of ethics and learned gurus. He gave away prizes to the university merit holders and all-rounder. Dr MK Sehgal, chairman of the institute, presented the welcome note. He congratulated the winners of various categories and also motivated the students. Dr Rajni Sehgal, director-general and chairperson, said for secure future, one should properly plan career and cent percent effort was must for survival in the cut-throat world. She told the youth not to be disappointed by adversities and challenges of life and make them milestones for success. Students performed a number of cultural events like solo dance, choreography, skits, bhangra, giddha and Haryanavi dance on the occasion. As many as 300 students, including Sanjana Bhutani, Pushpinder, Shalu, Kirti, Amit Chopra, Amandeep, Himanshu, Harshit, were awarded prizes for their contribution in academics, subject-wise performance, university positions, talent show, sports activities and various other activities organised during the year. Faculty and staff members were also motivated with citations, prizes and cash awards ranging for their excellent contribution to the institution. Prof RC Sharma presented the annual report of the institute. Professor Sheetal Sharma, Dean, presented a vote of thanks.
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Minister hints at review of school timings
Jhajjar, May 9 Interacting with mediapersons after attending a religious function at a temple at Talav village here recently, she said teachers’ associations were always welcome for a dialogue on their problems and demands. “The government is not against the teachers. The decision to extend the school timings was taken under the Right to Education Act being implemented in the state from the current academic session. If the teachers were feeling any discomfort following the decision, they should have talked to the government before launching their agitation,” the minister said. She said since admission process was still on in government schools, the teachers must join duty so that the work was not affected. Asked about 25 per cent quota fixed for the poor in admission to private schools, she said all private schools had been directed to follow it. The government had changed the school timings of the government schools from May 1. As per the new schedule, the schools open at 7 am instead of 8 am and classes are over at 2.30 pm instead of the earlier 2 pm.
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Concern raised over acquisition of land
Fatehabad, May 9 Chaudhary was delivering his keynote address at a seminar organised on the 66th birth anniversary of late CPM leader Prithvi Singh Gorakhpuria at Gorakhpur village in the district recently. Chaudhary said what was being done in the name of development, particularly in the NCR, was nothing but pure and simple property dealing. He said several corporates, including Reliance, had purchased hundreds of acres of agricultural lands in the NCR in the name of Special Economic Zones, but no industrial activity was seen anywhere. The government, he said, had claimed that a large number of job avenues would be generated through these SEZs, but not a single employment had been created. “The government acquired 2005 acres of land near Sonepat in the name of Education City, but not a brick has been laid so far,” he said. Chaudhary warned that the phenomenon of unbridled acquisition of agricultural lands in this manner was certain to have serious sociological fallouts. He also expressed concern over the increasing corruption at every level in the administration and the government in the country as a whole and Haryana in particular. Remembering Prithvi Singh Gorakhpuria, Chaudhary said the late CPM leader never compromised on principles. All-India Kisan Sabha leader Krishan Swaroop presided over the seminar on “Prithvi Singh Gorakhpuria’s Ideology and Politics of Haryana”. Subhash Sharma, director of the MM Group of Educational Institutions, Gulbahar Singh and Devi Lal, both former presidents of the District Bar Association, and Dr Raj Bahadur Yadav also spoke on
the occasion.
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2,700 route permits up for grabs
Chandigarh, May 9 Transport Minister OP Jain claimed that the new policy would provide “efficient and effective” transport service to the people. While about 2,700 route permits would be given to individuals or cooperative societies, the Haryana Roadways, a public sector undertaking, would ply on all interstate routes as well as on most of the routes connecting district headquarters with each other. Hence, he said, the new policy would not have any adverse financial implication on the Haryana Roadways. The individual applicants and members of cooperative societies should be domicile of Haryana. An applicant should be matriculate and more than 18 years and less than 45 years of age. The condition of age limit would not be applicable to the existing permit holders, who would be given preference in the allotment of permits over the new applicants. If there were more than one applicant for a
particular route, the allotment would be made through draw of lots. Only those existing operators would be given the preferential
treatment, who were plying their buses on valid permits and against whom no tax or fee or any other government dues were pending on that date. Jain said facilities, such as concessional passes to students and free travelling facilities being provided now by the Haryana Roadways would continue as such. The fare fixed by Haryana Roadways officers would be charged by the cooperative societies.
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Haryana villages rich in biomass-based energy resources: Study
Sirsa, May 9 A study by Dr Rani Devi, an assistant professor, the Department of Energy and Environment Sciences of Chaudhary Devi Lal University, revealed that villages in Haryana were rich in biomass-based energy resources (non-conventional energy), and so far it has not been trapped and used properly. Dr Rani Devi did her study jointly with Vijender Singh, RP Dahiya and Ashok Kumar in Bibipur village of Jind district, when she was pursuing her PhD programme in the Centre for Energy Studies in the Indian Institute of Technology. The study found that in the domestic sector, maximum energy is used on cooking (51.2 per cent) and 45 per cent of it is supplied from non-conventional energy sources and 10 per cent from conventional energy sources. Dr Rani Devi conducted her survey of household energy consumption pattern and she covered heterogeneous population belonging to different income groups, education groups and social groups. The total energy available from all sources (animate, biomass, non-conventional and inanimate sources) in the village was 468205 MJ (mega joules) as compared to the total requirement of 592220 MJ. It was found that in the agriculture sector, maximum (60 per cent) energy came from the conventional sources, while the non-conventional sources counted for 30 per cent only. The study also showed that the maximum population having good economic condition like electricity as the preferred source of energy, followed by the LPG, biogas, coal, firewood and agriculture residue. Emphasising the need for exploiting non-conventional sources of energy, the study observed that India’s 70 per cent people live in its 580,000 villages, where the bulk of energy requirement for the domestic sector was met by wood fuel, vegetable and animal wastes. Another developing country China, which is a big agriculture country and has most abundance straw resources in the world, meets about 33 to 45 per cent of energy requirement for the domestic sector from straw. In Bangladesh, the fossil fuel reserves are very less and the bulk of total energy supply comes from biomass. The study said the villages were rich in biomass-based energy resources (non-conventional energy) and so far it has not been trapped and used properly. Thus, efforts for promoting efficiency in energy use in this area stem primarily from socio-economic and environmental consideration and it may be possible by educating people on the energy problem and raising awareness of its importance. The report suggested that to use the animal dung optimally, for energy as well as fertilisers, biogas technology may be introduced, but it has to be integrated after considering all other aspects. The report also suggested the use of solar energy, which is available in abundance.
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Global shuttle maker ties up with Sonepat school
Sonepat, May 9 As part of this initiative, Victor has also sponsored three badminton players from the school - Rajat Joon, Komal Antil and Neeraj Vashist - who had performed exceedingly well in the National CBSE School Tournament (team event) U-19 held in Kerala in November last year. The three had also won the school national (team event) U-19 held in Chandigarh in January. Victor has been sponsoring badminton academies in various educational institutions across the country and as part of its initiative focused on attracting children and youth across the country to the sport. Raman Kwatra, business head for Victor at Stag International, said, “The initiative was geared towards investing in future badminton champions. The company believed that the country has a huge talent pool and efforts are needed to recognise and nurture it in smaller towns and cities”. Kwatra said the company would be providing all the requisite training gear to the students bagging the sponsorships. Besides, they would be provided with opportunities to undergo professional training in the selected sport which would open new possibilities for them to participate in various state and national level tournaments. While appreciating the initiatives taken by Little Angels Senior Secondary School, he said promoting sport culture amongst the students was a must for every educational institute to ensure all-round development of the students. Ashish Arya, chairman of the school, said the school firmly believed that sports helped in building a strong physical as well as emotional foundation in every student. He said it was a matter of delight that Victor had extended support to the school’s badminton academy. This initiative taken by the company would benefit the students in excelling in sports. He said the partnership would encourage the students to take to the sport of badminton.
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Hindu Girls College bags 17 merit positions
Sonepat, May 9 According to college principal Nirmal Jabbal, Sujata topped the university in biotech 3rd semester by securing 81.6 per cent marks. In the same examination, Priya was placed at the sixth position with 78.6 per cent marks, Neha Chaudhary at the seventh place with 78.2 per cent marks, Monika got the 10th position with 76.8 per cent and Sharmila with 76.4 per cent marks was place at the 13th position in 15 merit positions of the university. In biotech 5th semester examination, Sahiba got the second position by securing 87.6 per cent marks and she was followed by Bindu and Jyoti at the sixth place with 85.6 per cent marks and Swati with 85.4 marks at the seventh position. Shailja, Priyanka and Komal Kaushik with 85 per cent, 83.6 per cent and 83 per cent marks got the ninth, 12th and 14th positions, respectively. Similarly, in biotech 1st semester examination, the 10th, 12th and 13th merit positions were bagged by Raveena, Anupma and Varuna Malik by securing 70.8 per cent, 70.2 per cent and 69.4 per cent marks, respectively. Aarti got the sixth position and Pinki was placed at the seventh position of the merit list in the 1st semester examination of BA. The principal congratulated the students, their parents and teachers on this great feat and urged them to maintain this tempo of excellence in future also.
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Bijli Sabha today
Kurukshetra, May 9 Stating this to mediapersons here today, Gian Chand, XEN, OP Division, UHBVN, Kurukshetra, said the Sabha meeting would be presided over by TK Mahajan, superintending engineer, (OP) Circle, UHBVN,
Kurukshetra.
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INLD flays govt’s ‘anti-people’ policies
Kalka, May 9 The protesters raised anti-government slogans and submitted a memorandum related to their demands to the Haryana Governor through Kalka SDM Vandna Disodia. While addressing the gathering, Choudhary condemned the Hooda government on various aspects like hike in collector rate, stamp duty and VAT. He said the Congress government’s tax-free budget in the last Vidhan Sabha session was mere an eyewash. INLD leaders like Vijay Bansal, Sushil Garg and Ujala Bakshi also criticised the government on inflation, corruption and deteriorating law and order situation in the state. —
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Mewat, which got the country’s first mobile court in 2007, has now got the first legal aid clinic as well.
Keeping in view the problems like the requirement of change and wasting time while waiting in a queue at toll tax barriers by the commuters, Amrendra Singh, a final-year student of Electronics and Communication Engineering
(ECE), Kurukshetra Institute of Technology and Management (KITM), 20 km from here, has designed a model which presents a solution that will save the time of daily users of toll tax barriers.
Finance, Irrigation, Forest and Environment Minister Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav laid the foundation stone of the Village Hut Project for BPL families at Alawalpur village, near
Dharuhera, recently.A sum of Rs 15.50 lakh would be spent on the construction of this mini shopping complex comprising small shops.
Brahmins from various parts of South Haryana participated in the concluding function of the Parshu Ram Jayanti celebrations held under the auspices of the District Brahmin Sabha (DBS) at Brahmgarh here recently. While Kuldeep Sharma, Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan
Sabha, was the chief guest, DBS chief Ramsharan Mudgil presided over it.
The 3rd annual day and prize distribution function “PARYAS: 2011” was organised at Shree Siddhivinayak Engineering and Management Institutions, Bilaspur, which was inaugurated by Prof DD Arora, Dean of Colleges, Kurukshetra University.Speaking on the occasion, Prof Arora lauded the efforts of the institute in bringing a qualitative name in the region with focus on all-round development of students.
Jhajjar, May 9
