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Power crisis deepens as three thermal units shut down
Power cuts cripple life in Faridabad
Reduction
in CST
Dengue on the rise in Sirsa
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Crackers
godown fire in Karnal
Mother-son duo get life term
Mishaps claim two lives
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Power crisis deepens as three thermal units shut down
Panipat, October 14 According to the sources in the Haryana Power Generation Corporation (HPGCL), unit number 3 at the Panipat thermal power plant went down at 7.30 in the morning. Unit number 1 at the Rajiv Gandhi thermal power plant, Kheder, was shut down at 1:30 pm and unit number 2 at the Yamunanagar thermal plant was also shut down today. The sources said these units had developed some technical snags due to which generation had to be stopped. Unit number 3 at the Panipat power plant contributes 110 MW of power to the state’s kitty while unit number 1 at the Rajiv Gandhi thermal plant is of 600 MW capacity. The unit number 2 at the Yamunanagar thermal plant is of 300 MW capacity and had been generating adequate power till yesterday. Following the shut down, the state is facing a shortage of 180 lakh units against a power demand of 1,244 lakh units. According to the sources, the state power utilities had managed to garner 1,044 lakh units from all sources available within and outside its territory. However, the utilities had failed to bridge the gap between the supply and demand that had resulted in long power cuts across the state. Meanwhile, in order to tide over the crisis, the UHBVN has got into a remedial mode. The utility has decided to divide the consumers under its jurisdiction into different groups to ensure maximum supply of power. The consumers of the first group will get three-phase power supply from 00:00 hours to 08:00 hours and the second group from 08:00 hours to 16:00 hours daily. The rural domestic electricity consumers will get power in three groups, which will be morning (two hours), day time (One hour and 30 minutes) and night (eight hours and 30 minutes). Besides, the utility has also decided to impose a peak load restriction on the industry, which will be from 4 pm to 12 am daily even as efforts were being made to increase the supply to this sector from 10 to 16 hours a day. The sources said that the measures were being taken to limit the power cuts to the extent possible.
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Power cuts cripple life in Faridabad
Faridabad, October 14 Jagdish Bhatia, president of the Faridabad Vyapaar Mandal, said the shop owners were using inverters, but these hardly get charged due to long spells of power cuts. The cost of using generators sets was prohibitive on account of the soaring price of diesel. Besides, it caused air and noise pollution. According to Bhatia, sales in the markets had come down by about 20 per cent as business during peak hours in the evening had thinned due to lack of electricity. The business community was feeling the pinch as it was a festive and shopping season. Bhatia lamented, “Even the meagre supply of power is erratic on account of regular tripping and official cuts.” Dr Bhim Raj, chairperson of a nursing home in HUDA’s Sector 3, said his establishment used a generator set as it had to keep providing services. He had to run the show even if the cost went up by using a generator set. |
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Reduction
in CST
Chandigarh, October 14 The demand was made by Excise and Taxation Minister Kiran Choudhry at the meeting of the empowered committee of Finance Ministers in Delhi today. She said against the CST claim of Rs 2249.63 crore for 2010-11, the state had received only Rs 356 crore. Also, the state had filed a compensation claim worth Rs 4015.23 crore for previous three years, but it had been paid only Rs 2969.02 crore. Choudhry said since goods and services tax (GST) had not yet been introduced, states like Haryana were regularly incurring huge losses with the CST rate at 2 per cent. On the issue of CST compensation, Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and chairman of the empowered committee, indicated that the National Development Council would meet in Delhi on October 22 where the issue would be taken up with the Union Finance Minister. Opposing imposition of tax on textile and sugar, Choudhry said the inflation was at its peak and the economy was showing signs of sluggishness. Under these circumstances, any additional tax on textile and sugar, which were items of daily consumption, would further hit the common man. Therefore, a decision regarding imposition of VAT on these two items should be taken collectively by the states at an opportune time. |
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Dengue on the rise in Sirsa
Sirsa, October 14 He said the Dengue Diagnostic Test Kits were being provided to Sentinel Surveillance Hospitals (SSH) set up in those districts. The Rapid Response Teams, each having three doctors, had been constituted in all districts. Almost all hospitals of the district have been receiving patients suffering from fever coupled with low platelets count in blood. The Dera Sacha Sauda’s Shah Satnamji Multi-Specialty Hospital here has 80 cases of suspected dengue in their indoor, while 30-40 patients come to its OPD with these symptoms daily. “Though more than 60 per cent of these patients come from Bathinda, Mansa, Rama Mandi and other towns bordering Sirsa, the situation is still alarming in the district going by the number of cases coming from various parts of Sirsa,” said Dr Aditya Insan, a spokesman of Dera Sacha Sauda hospital . Insan said patients were tested in their hospital with Card Test, which the health authorities refused to rely, as they trusted in Mac ELISA test, which, he said, was not considered a very reliable serological test. Dr VP Goyal, a local physician, said he had also been receiving dengue patients, three of whom were still under treatment. Goyal said these were confirmed cases of dengue tested positive for the disease in a private laboratory. However, Dr Daya Nand, Civil Surgeon, denied any outbreak and maintained that only six cases of dengue had been reported so far in Sirsa. Meanwhile, giving details of the steps taken to control dengue, Rao Narender Singh said funds of Rs. 1.31 crore had already been released to all districts for control of the vector-borne diseases under the National Rural Health Mission.
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Crackers
godown fire in
Karnal Bhanu P Lohumi/TNS
Karnal, October 14 Enraged family members of the victims and residents placed eight-year-old Simran’s body on the road in the afternoon and burnt effigies of the Deputy Commissioner and the MLA to express their anger. The blockade was on till the filing of this report. Two persons had died in the fire and the death toll rose to three with Simran succumbing to her burns, but no action was taken against the cop whom the residents held responsible for the mishap. They alleged that the police raided the godown without making adequate arrangements and forced the people, including children, to remove boxes of crackers. Blaming the police squarely for the tragedy, residents in a letter to the Deputy Commissioner alleged that the “fire broke out after a policeman dropped a cracker box while removing it from the godown and it caught fire. Some of the cops were drunk and coerced the children into shifting crackers to other places”. The residents were annoyed that no interim compensation had been paid to the victims. The Deputy Director (Explosives), who visited the spot and examined the burnt crackers, observed that some banned chemical was used in manufacturing firecrackers which could burst due to friction.
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Mother-son duo get life term
Sirsa, October 14 The mother, Savitri, was allegedly annoyed with the victim, who, she alleged, had been maligning the reputation of his son, Satish. The victim, Mamta (15), said in her statement given to the police on June 16 last year that Savitri beat her up and used abusive language against her at her Ellenabad home on June 15, 2010, after an altercation over the issue. A day later, when she was working in her kitchen, Savitri allegedly came there with her son, Satish, and set her on fire after sprinkling kerosene on her lying there. The victim, who suffered 95 per cent burns, died after the incident and the statement was produced before the court as her dying declaration. In the course of trial, the victim’s parents turned hostile, which the prosecution alleged, was due to the payment of Rs 5.50 lakh. The court relied on the dying declaration of the victim and sentenced Savitri and Satish to imprisonment for life. |
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