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State dragged to SC over Rohtak land acquisition
Higher education top priority: Hooda
INLD to support SAD candidates
Jhinda, Nalvi factions back SAD (Haryana) nominees in Ambala
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RTE Act: State fares better than Delhi
Power Minister asks utilities to submit recommendations
UHBVN to launch VDS
ABVP to hold college bandh tomorrow
‘Withdraw work from member of Karnal dist consumer forum’
MP pulls up Health Dept officials
36 bags of poppy husk seized
2 cable network groups clash
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State dragged to SC over Rohtak land acquisition
New Delhi, August 7 While the state government is defending the acquisition of over 850 acres, which also covers land for the trust, at Ullawas village in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, an apex court Bench has sought its response on the land acquired in Kheri Sadh, Baliyana and Kharawar villages. A Bench of Justices JM Panchal and HL Gokhale on August 1 issued notices to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Urban Development Ministry and the Haryana government on a petition filed by an NGO contending that "one of the most fertile pieces of land " is being acquired despite availability of barren tracts in the nearby area. "Though admittedly, there was barren land available in the same tehsil of Rohtak, most suitable for the purpose of acquisition for establishing the township, the government has attempted to acquire huge tracts of lucrative arable land surrounding the same," the NGO, Bharat Bhoomi Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, said. The taking away of the land for development of a township would impact agricultural and other related produce in the area, the NGO said, giving details of the loss likely to be caused by the acquisition of land in these villages. — PTI
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Higher education top priority: Hooda
Sonepat, August 7 Hooda was addressing students and members of the faculty of OP Jindal Global University, after inaugurating a global library on the occasion of the foundation day of the university and the birth anniversary of the late Besides setting up a central university, a National Defence University, Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishvavidyalaya, an IIM, four new medical colleges were also being opened in the state, he said, adding that Haryana was emerging as an educational hub. The state had 21 universities and about 1,286 institutions of higher education. Hooda asked the university to start mobile court vans for its law students to visit real-life situations and solve problems on the spot. Paying rich tributes to Jindal, Hooda said Jindal believed in a relentless pursuit of excellence to bring social benefits to the disadvantaged sections of society. Naveen Jindal expressed his gratitude to Hooda and the Haryana Government for their support in establishing the university.
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INLD to support SAD candidates
Sirsa, August 7 Malkiat Singh Khosa, district president of the Congress, who is also associated with the HSGPC (ad hoc), said the party was likely to keep its distance from these elections and leave the decision of votes to its workers. The party, he said, had already taken this stand in Punjab. Nominations for the election, which started on August 4, will continue till August 11. Sirsa, which has two seats, Sirsa and Dabwali, will also witness a keen contest in these elections. The SAD and the HSGPC (ad hoc) shared honours by winning one seat each in the last SGPC elections. The SAD has already announced its candidates for all the 11 seats of Haryana. The list includes Parkash Singh Sahuwala, president of Dasham Patshahi Gurdwara from Sirsa, and Jagseer Singh Mangeana, a former sarpanch from Dabwali. The HSGPC (ad hoc) led by Jagdish Singh Jhinda today announced its candidates for seven seats, leaving two for its alliance partner Haryana Akali Dal (Harpal Singh Pali) and putting off its decision on Sirsa and Karnal seats. Jhinda announced the names of Jagdev Singh Mathdadu (Dabwali), Mohar Singh Tohana and Bibi Jasbir Kaur Ratia (Hisar), Karnail Singh (Kaithal), Apar Singh Kishangarh (Kurukshetra), Joga Singh and Bibi Satnam Kaur Bilaspur (Yamunanagar) and Harpal Singh Pali and Amrik Singh
(Ambala). Mathdadu is a sitting member from Dabwali. Didar Singh Nalvi, who heads another faction of the HSGPC (ad hoc) has also declared that he will field his candidates for all the 11 seats. Baba Gurmeet Singh Tirlokewala from Nirmal Sahib Gurdwara today announced his decision to contest the Sirsa seat as an independent. The INLD MLA from Ellenabad Abhey Singh Chautala today addressed meetings of his workers from Sirsa and Dabwali and exhorted them to launch campaigning for the victory of the SAD candidates. Chautala said both the SAD candidates would file their nomination papers on August 11. |
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Jhinda, Nalvi factions back SAD (Haryana) nominees in Ambala
Karnal, August 7 The Nalvi faction had entered into an alliance with splinter Sikh groups — the Sarv Hind Akali Dal and SAD
(Haryana) — four days ago. Jhinda sprang a surprise today by including Harpal Singh Palli and Amreek Singh from Ambala unconditionally in the list of candidates released by
him. Nalvi had also entered into an electoral understanding with the Panthic Morcha (an alliance of all the religious and political parties opposed to
Badal) while Jhinda followed suit today by announcing unconditional support to the morcha. Various Sikh bodies in Haryna are trying to bring the rival factions of the HSGPC (ad hoc) together to avoid division of votes and support of both sections to two candidates has raised a ray of hope, a veteran Sikh leader said.
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RTE Act: State fares better than Delhi
Chandigarh, August 7 This was stated by Suraj Kumar, state representative on the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), at a meeting held here with Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal in the chair to review implementation of the Act. Suraj said the RTE Act was notified in the state on June 3 and over Rs 10 crore of school fees had been returned to students to ensure their free education as per the Act . The other states were still charging these fees during the current academic session, he added. Suraj said that his team had conducted a survey of 25 gram panchayats in Mewat district and had found that 4008 children were out of school in the district. After implementation of the Act, it was found that 3321 out of these children were got admitted to schools. He said that the problem of shortage of teachers in Mewat was being improved. In Haryana, the situation was better than Delhi, he added.
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Ex-MLA Arya held in dowry case
Yamunanagar, August 7 Arya’s son, Jitender Arya, was also arrested by the Faridabad police in the same case. They were produced before the Duty Magistrate today at the end of their one-day police remand. The two were arrested by the Yamunanagar police from Ropar yesterday in connection with a fraud case while they were there on a personal visit.
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Power Minister asks utilities to submit recommendations
Panipat, August 7 The minister issued the directions during talks with the representatives of the engineers of all four power utilities of the state on August 5. The minister also assured the engineers that other demands raised by them would also be looked into and efforts would be made to find a suitable solution at the earliest. The minister had invited the engineers for talks after they had threatened to launch a statewide stir against non-acceptance of their demands. An 18-member delegation led by RS Dahiya and RK Jangra, presidents of the HSEB Power Engineers Association and the HPGCL Engineers Association, respectively, had put forth the demands, which included restructuring of the discoms, parity in pay scales of assistance engineers and state power engineers, retirement of directors of the power utilities after they attain the age of superannuation and filling of the vacant posts. Dahiya said the pay anomalies of engineers working in the HPGCL and the HVPN had already been removed, but the issue was still pending in the other two utilities. He said the minister assured that pay parity would be introduced soon. The HPGCL authorities told the minister that a consultant had been appointed to fill the vacant posts in the utility. However, the minister asked the HVPN officials to expedite the process. The issue related to the appointment of directors in utilities was also taken up and the minister was requested to allow the serving engineer having at least one year pending of service to be appointed as director. Jangra and Hardeep Sangwan urged the minister to revise the allowances of thermal engineers, which had not been done so for after the revision of pay scales. The minister asked the power utilities to look into the matter. Dahiya said during the meeting it was decided to create a human resources cell in each utility to look after the manpower requirement.
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Unauthorised Load
Chandigarh, August 7 It was observed that a large group of electricity consumers, mainly in rural areas, were interested in disclosing their unauthorised load. —
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Astronomy workshop a big draw
Kurukshetra, August 7 The teachers observed the sky till late in the night. The lecture of Dr Arvind C Ranade, Scientist, Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology, analysing several subjects of practical aspects of astronomy like recognising the pole star, changes in seasons, rising of the moon 50 minutes late everyday was a real treat for participants. A special session for direct interaction between the teachers and Dr Ranade stressed on importance of astronomy. During the activity session, RK Yadav from Vigyan Prasar underlined the need for providing astronomy kits to students for practical knowledge and experience. Sanjeev Kumar, educational assistant at the planetarium gave lecture on the “joy of sky watching” and provided useful information about the methods of night sky watching. An amazing sky-view session was conducted at the conclusion of the workshop by Vigyan Prasar and planetarium members with the help of specialised telescopes brought by Vigyan Prasar in which various constellations, planets and moon were shown to the participants.
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ABVP to hold college bandh tomorrow
Rohtak, August 7 A spokesperson of the state unit of the ABVP said in a statement yesterday that as corruption had made the life of the common man miserable, the students being an integral part of society had also been a victim of the menace. Holding the Congress-led UPA government responsible for the steep rise in corruption, he said the scams and scandals had rocked the country in a way that there was no alternative left other than to join the stir against the “corrupt leaders” and the rulers. He said the strike on August 9 would coincide with the movement launched by the Father of the Nation, Mahatama Gandhi, the Bharat Chhoro Andolan, in which he had given a call asking the British to leave the country. The agitation by the ABVP would be named as ‘Bhrashtachario Satta Chhoro’.
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‘Withdraw work from member of Karnal dist consumer forum’
Panchkula, August 7 In a complaint against the member, Om Lata Kalyan, Karnal-based advocate Randeep Chauhan had alleged that forum member Kalyan had filed a complaint in the Karnal consumer forum on May 11, 2010. The complaint was filed through her husband, Ram Kumar Kalyan, as her Special Power of Attorney (SPA). Chauhan had alleged that in the complaint, filed by Om Lata Kalyan, she had challenged the bill for Rs 2,15,050 issued to a petrol pump---Kalyan Filling Station---by the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN). Chauhan had alleged that she owned the petrol pump; therefore, she used her position to get a favourable verdict in her favour. Thereafter on February 25, 2011, the Karnal consumer forum rejected the bill issued by the UHBVN and also imposed compensation of Rs 5,000 and litigation expenses of Rs 5,000 against the UHBVN. Now after verifying allegations at its own level, the Haryana State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in Panchkula has recommended to the state government for withdrawal of her work.
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MP pulls up Health Dept officials
Sonepat, August 7 Malik was reacting after receiving complaints about blocking of sewer lines and erratic drinking water supply while listening to public grievances here at the PWD rest house. He announced to provide a sucking-jetting machine worth Rs 30 lakh from his MPLAD fund for cleaning and desilting of sewer lines. He directed the officers to ensure that there was no blockage of sewer lines in the town and all manholes of these lines be covered with caps during the rainy season. — OC |
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36 bags of poppy husk seized
Yamunanagar, August 7 Truck driver Surinder was also arrested The driver said he had brought this consignment for Pankaj Shoes of Yamunanagar. A case has been registered. — TNS
2 cable network groups clash
Rewari, August 7 While the assailants assaulted Pawan Kumar, an office assistant, and a client, they also fired in the air. A case has been registered. |
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Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today reiterated that his government was committed to providing quality education and was bringing about comprehensive reforms in school, college and technical education.
