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Re-appointment of retired MDU official sparks row
Three districts to have CHILDLINE advisory boards
Govt making efforts to develop state as education, sports hub
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‘Mini Sachin’ finds place in Limca Book of Records
Rohtak faces shortage of safai karamcharis
Impact of recession ‘felt more in food sector’
Society to hold literacy classes for villagers
900 students take Pathfinder Talent Search Test
Haryana Sahitya Akademi holds kavi goshti
Seminar on tackling crime in Rewari
Villagers, students demand shifting of protection home
Rohtak PGIMS to charge for services from April 1
Better infrastructure sought in industrial sectors
Kurukshetra varsity holds recruitment drive
Poets regale audience at kavi sammelan
Samast Bharatiya Party completes four years
Samast Bharatiya Party chief Sudesh Agarwal gets a warm welcome in Rewari. Photo: Nawal Kishore Rastogi
Placement drive held at GNIT
Kanipla institute conducts mock AIEEE
Students attend a lecture at a mock All-India Engineering Entrance Examination organised by the Geeta Institute of Management and Technology, Kanipla. Photo by writer
Cricket academy started
Right designs of buildings ‘can cut construction cost by 50 pc’
Conference on innovative methods in textile manufacturing
Dignitaries share the dais during an international conference on ‘Innovative Methods in Textile Manufacturing and Clothing’ in Bhiwani. Photo by writer
Girl students learn about country’s democratic structure
No city bus service in Yamunanagar, Jagadhri
Need for doubling global food production by 2050: Scientist
Conference on folk art objects from Feb 16
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Re-appointment of retired MDU official sparks row
Rohtak, February 13 The EC, in its meeting held on January 13, has taken up the item concerning the engagement of a consultant (Landscape and Horticulture) for one year initially, which could be extended for another year on an honorarium of Rs 20,000 per month. Dalal had completed three-year tenure as administrative officer in the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) before appointed as consultant in the horticulture on new terms. Dalal, who had retired as secretary to the Vice-Chancellor in 2008, was appointed as the administrative officer after superannuation. While Dalal's name figured in the list of probable candidates for the post of the administrative officer again, the UIET Director has been asked to recommend him. Though the EC has also resolved to put forward the name of Dalal as consultant (Horticulture), one of the members of the EC, BS Rathee, has raised objection to the move. In a letter to the authorities, Rathee said it was wrong to appoint a retired official as consultant in the field, which required credentials, and his appointment would prove controversial as the university has signed an MoU with an agency. According to the MoU, if there is any need of a consultant, the agency should hire the professional. Such an appointment would be a liability on the varsity and could be unexplainable before the law and hence this item be dropped from the minutes of the EC, he said. University Registrar SP Vats claimed that appointment of Dalal as the administrative officer and the decision to engage him as a consultant was legal. Any official could be appointed against such a post on superannuation on the basis of one's expertise as per the rules, he said. The appointment had been based on the experience of the official in question as he had been holding the post of officer in charge of the horticulture department, Vats added.
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Three districts to have CHILDLINE advisory boards
Gurgaon, February 13 An official communiqué issued on behalf of the Director of the Department of Women and Child Development, Panchkula, directs the Deputy Commissioners to encourage the local administrative bodies to set up CHILDLINE advisory boards and ensure membership of senior officials of the Police, Health, Transport, Social Welfare, Telecom and Education Departments therein. The DCs have also been asked to extend necessary support in creating awareness about the Child Helpline n umber 1098 in their respective areas. However, the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, which runs the CHILDLINE-1098 project, has appointed the CHILDLINE India Foundation as a nodal agency for initiating and facilitating various services included in the project.
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Govt making efforts to develop state as education, sports hub
Jhajjar, February 13 Haryana Education and Social Empowerment Minister Geeta Bhukkal state this while addressing a gathering during an Open Sports Competition organised by the Dada Mathurapuri Yuva Mandal at Matanhale village here last evening. She said the government had been framing novel policies to uplift sports in the state, besides motivating youngsters to explore their career in the field as well. “Sportsmen succeeding in grabbing positions at the national and international level are being offered government services at attractive posts in police and other departments so that budding players can also toil hard to bring glory for the country after getting inspiration from them,” said the minister. She said these policies had started showing their colour as Haryanavi players were giving outstanding performance by getting positions in national and international level events of different games. She said SPAT programme was being run across the state to encourage schoolchildren to participate in sports for developing their skills at the junior level. Selected children for the programme were also being awarded from Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 as motivation amount, she added. In kabaddi event of the Open Sports Competition, the Air Force team grabbed first position by defeating Varu Stadium Ridhana team in a close match. A team of Nimali village got third position. As many as 32 teams from nearby areas had participated in kabaddi competition. The minister gave away prizes to all the winners. Later, addressing the people during an annual function of Navyug High School at Khachrauli village here, Bhukkal said the Right to Education had been successfully implemented in the country and in Haryana, free of cost education, dresses and books were being provided to children aged between 9 and 14 years under the Act. “Education is the fundamental right of every child, hence the state government will pay fees of private schoolchildren of those villages where government school is not being run,” said the minister. She added that it was imperative to give admission free of cost to the children of BPL families on 25 per cent seats in every private school in the state.
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‘Mini Sachin’ finds place in Limca Book of Records
Sonepat, February 13 This honour was given to him at a function at hotel Taj Palace in New Delhi in the presence of renowned personalities like Pandit Ravi Shanker, Asha Bhonsle and Hariharan. Sagar had earlier got his name registered in the India Book of Records for being the youngest playing cricketer of the country. He was also honoured with the Spirit of Sports Award at a programme in New Delhi on February 5 and the award was given by Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor. Union Minister Kapil Sibbal, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, flying Sikh Milkha Singh, tennis star Leander Paes and international boxer Bijender were present in the programme. It was a moment of pride for the little master, nick named as ‘Mini Sachin’ by his well-wishers, when he received some batting tips from Sachin Tendulkar at a live programme of NDTV in Mumbai last year. Within one month after this programme, Sagar hammered an unbeaten 102 as an opening batsman of the Sonepat team at a friendly match of young cricketers against the Gohana team. Sagar was accorded a
warm welcome by the school management, students and other family friends on his arrival at the school after receiving the Spirit of Sports Award. Chairman of the school Ashish Arya, director Sonia Arya and principal Asha Goyal congratulated him for receiving such honours and wished him more success in the future. Sagar has been practicing under the guidance of the BCCI-qualified coach Narender Negi and his one of the targets was to break the world record of Pakistani cricketer Hasan Raja who became an international cricketer at the age of 14. According to Sagar’s father Surender Dahiya, who is a farmer and hails from Jharonthi village in this district, Sagar played an under-19 Haryana State Inter-Centre cricket match at Bhiwani at the age of six years and since then he had been improving his talent despite meagre family resources.
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Rohtak faces shortage of safai karamcharis
Rohtak, February 13 The shortage of civic staff and machinery has resulted in problems for the maintenance of civic amenities in the town which was upgraded to the municipal corporation last year. There is just one regular sweeper (safai karamchari) for a population of over 1,000 persons in the city, which has grown by leaps and bounds in the past couple of decades, claim sources in the civic body. “No recruitment has taken place for regular staff in the civic body for the past over a decade in the state,” said Naresh Kumar Shastri, president of the Nagar Palika Karamchari Sangh, Haryana. Alleging corruption in the present policy of outsourcing, he said upgradation of seven civic bodies to the municipal corporation level last year had failed to serve the purpose as the authorities concerned were outsourcing the civic work, which, he said, had several loopholes. The population within the municipal limits in Rohtak has gone over 4.60 lakh, but the number of regular employees for the work of cleanliness has been just 380 and another 400 have been hired on a contractual basis at present. Ironically, the number of regular safai karamcharis was more about a decade ago, said a member of the Karamchari Sangh. Though the authorities are claiming that civic amenities have improved over the past few years, the picture had been different as a large number of residential areas remain in a neglected state. Due to staff shortage, safai workers were unable to cover the entire city. The civic condition in some of the villages, which was included in the municipal limits since April 1, had been poor as there were no arrangements on a permanent basis. The disposal of garbage had been one of the prominent problems which was yet to be addressed by the civic body, said Nitin Singh, a resident of Subhash Nagar, here. While around one fifth of the residential colonies were still devoid of a proper sewerage system, the solid waste treatment plant remains non-operational.
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Impact of recession ‘felt more in food sector’
Karnal, February 13 In his
valedictory address, Dr MM Goel, Professor of Economics and Dean,
Faculty of Social Sciences, Kurukshetra University, stressed the need
for innovative remedies. He said there was an increased demand for
independent thought process which called for creative manpower to
promote “India of ideas” at the international level. Speaking on the
“consequences of global economic crisis for Indian economy”, he
said, “To save the economy from further financial damage, we need to
use the wisdom of the professional academic economists at all levels as
advocated by Dr BR Ambedkar”. “To provide grace, destiny and
poise (GDP) to the Indians, we need to measure gross national happiness
(GNH) which was better than the gross domestic product (GDP),” he said
and called for mission mode to remove corruption, check population and
inflation through good governance, manpower planning and inflation
targeting. The experts were of the view that recession in the global economy had starting having its impact on the Indian economy and vital sectors like IT, agriculture, industry and food and nutrition were feeling the pinch. In his inaugural address, Dr AK Srivastav, Director, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), said while the impact of the recession was visible in various sectors, its impact was felt more in the food and nutrition sector. “As
the number of people living below poverty line is increasing, we have to
increase the productivity and also increase micro nutrients into food,”
he said. “We can make people aware about food and nutrition through
rural education and fortify milk with iron,” he added. Prof Neera Verma, chairperson, Department of Economics, Kurukshetra University, gave a detail account of recession. She said the Indian economy was facing the impact of recession in the form of lowering domestic liquidity and falling stock prices. “However,
its impact has lessened due to our favourable demographics, proactive
regulations, strong export incentives, informal economy and low
globalisation,” she added.
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Society to hold literacy classes for villagers
Rewari, February 13 A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of its state executive committee held under the chairmanship of its president Thakur Attar Lal at Maharana Pratap College of Education at Dhanaunda, 40 km from here, recently. According to Thakur Attar Lal, as many as 10 villages, Siha, Aulant, Didoli, Mundi, Jarthal, Tankri, Gumina, Dhani Thetherbad, Rattanthal and Bhala in Rewari district, Khedi, Talwana, Sehlang, Pota, Baghot, Jhadli, Chhitroli, Dhanaunda, Mohanpur and Kapuri villages in Mahendergarh district and Ranila,Sanwad, Sanjarwas, Phogat, Achina, Bhageshwari, Kaila, Manheru, Haluwas and Jhinjhar in Bhiwani district have been selected for the pilot project. He said under the three-fold plan of the society, efforts would be made for cent per cent enrolment of children in the age group of 6 to 14 years in schools in the first place, whereas literacy classes for adults would be conducted in all these villages. Besides, the society would run vocational education-cum-computer training centres in the above villages to impart essential training to educated jobless youths to ensure their employment in self-run ventures or public and private sectors. Describing illiteracy as a huge stumbling block in the social and economic uplift of the villages, Thakur said the society would also set up a chair in the above college to perpetuate the memory of late Baba Karan Singh, who was a celebrated social activist of the region.
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900 students take Pathfinder Talent Search Test
Rewari, February 13 The PTST was held with the main objective of evaluating academic talent of the students. The management of the PGS, Pataudi, held a samman samaroh for 60 distinguished students, 10 toppers from each class, at the school complex recently. While Major Ashok Yadav (retd), chairman of Rao Lal Singh Shiksha Parishad, Sidhrawali, was the chief guest, Amit Yadav, director, PGS, presided over its proceedings. Capt Kanwar Singh and Lal Singh, a social activist, were the guests of honour. Major Ashok Yadav and Amit Yadav honoured the meritorious students. Three toppers from classes VII to XII were given cash prizes, trophies and certificates of merit. Felicitating the students, Major Yadav exhorted them to put in more efforts and come out with brighter performance in future as well.
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Haryana Sahitya Akademi holds kavi goshti
Panchkula, February 13 He said poets were born and not made but the wealth of vocabulary in the chosen language could certainly embellish literary creations. Rajbir Deswal, IPS, and a well-known writer, too, delineated his thoughts in paradigm of words like “baarishein girti rahi, baarishein girti rahein...” As many as 12 poets recited their verses on varied themes. Poet Sushish Hasrat Narelavi opened up with “deevangi jo Hind mein hai kahin nahin...” Amarjit observed “voh jo sab se kta sa lagta hai, yakinan khfa sa lagta hai…” Akademi director Dr Sham Sakha Sham observed “dard toh jeene nahin deta mujhko, aur main marne nahin deta usse”, and Urmila Sakhi shared “woh meri rooh mein basta hai buss itna fasaana hai...” Another poet and DPRO Vinod Kashyap recited “andhe josh mein behkar tum ne jo fenka tha pathar”. Poet Hamdam Kalia, Sunita Nain, KL Dhawan, Dr Subhash Rastogi, Chaman Lal Sharma and others read out their poetry while Narinder Ahuja conducted the symposium. Director Granth Akademi Dr Mukta and a former director, HAS, Dr Chander Trikha, graced the function.
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Seminar on tackling crime in Rewari
Rewari, February 13 As regards fatal road accidents, the SSP directed the police officials of the respective areas to go deep into the causes of each such accident and then deal with the defaulter(s) sternly. The SSP also instructed them to prosecute the operators of overloaded trucks and other vehicles. Simultaneously, the district police chief instructed the SHOs and heads of police posts to give a patient hearing to aggrieved callers and expedite fair redressal of their complaints. Similarly, while urging the police officials to keep a strict surveillance over the movements of proclaimed offenders and bail jumpers, the SSP also directed the SHOs to augment patrolling and obstructive provisions to curb incidences of vehicle lifting and chain snatching.
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Villagers, students demand shifting of protection home
Fatehabad, February 13 The villagers as well as the girls have been demanding shifting of the protection home to some other place for long, but to no avail. Following orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the district authorities had set up a protection home for the runaway couples in the staff residences of the college last year. Couples living in the protection home, situated close to the girls’ hostel, use the common entrance that is used by the girls coming to the college. Even the lawn used by the couples is the same, where the girls sit during their free time. “It is not proper to keep runaway couples in a college, where young girls go for studies. This vitiates the atmosphere of not only the college, but also the entire village,” village sarpanch Jai Singh said. He said they had given several complaints in this regard to the authorities, but nothing had come out. “We brought the matter to the notice of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during the Ratia bypoll and we were assured that the protection centre will be shifted from the college soon, but the authorities have not taken action so far,” Jai Singh said. Bhodia Khera falls under the Ratia Assembly Constituency. Girls living in the hostel alleged that their concentration was distracted due to the movements of runaway couples. RK Sharma, principal of the college, said the protection home had been running here before he joined in the college. He said the protection home should have been made at some other place.
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Rohtak PGIMS to charge for services from April 1
Rohak, February 13 Though a formal announcement in this regard is still to be made, according to sources, the decision to make the diagnostic and testing facilities chargeable, which has been free so far since the institute came into being, has already been taken. The reason behind the move is reported to be the financial condition of the PGIMS and the health university to which it is affiliated. The varsity authorities had been “faced with a financial crunch” and had a tough time in paying salaries of their staff recently, the sources said. The annual budget of the PGIMS has been reported to be around Rs 35 crore at present, which had no visible increase even after the health university came into being in 2008. Though the Union Government has sanctioned a special grant of Rs 125 crore for the PGIMS, the institute will have to fulfil certain conditions including construction of a centralised operation theatre and purchase of latest medical machinery and instruments for various departments. The PGIMS and Postgraduate Dental College and Hospital were also likely to revise the cost of consultation card for patients in the OPD to Rs 10 per card. The cost is Rs 5 per patient at present. The other factor that is reported to be behind the move to implement medical charges from April is the fact that all such services at civil hospitals in the state were charged at present. Dr Ashok Chauhan, medical superintendent, said no final decision had been taken so far in this regard.
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Better infrastructure sought in industrial sectors
Faridabad, February 13 They met the Deputy Commissioner under the banner of the Faridabad Industries Association(FIA) as a follow-up to their meeting with him held in November last year. At the earlier interface with him they were assured of immediate steps by the departments concerned to redress their grievances. At the earlier meeting the Municipal Corporation, Faridabad(MCF), said that Rs 10 crore had been allocated to repair roads in the industrial sectors. The roads to be repaired by March-end were identified at the meeting. The FIA alleged that construction work on four-laning the Hardware Chowk-Sohna road had stopped since January-end. Also, the repair work on the segment connecting the Mujesar crematorium ground and DHBVN Chowk was not satisfactory. It demanded the fixing of a date for the completion of the roads. The industrialists alleged that “no progress” was made on the commitment given by the MCF to repair the Ballabgarh-Mohana road (20 km) which connects Faridabad with several other areas in the district. The authorities have planned to repair the road at an estimated cost of Rs 15 crore. They also drew the attention of the Deputy Commissioner to garbage lying on roadsides. They sought a permanent garbage removal system. The Deputy Commissioner responded by setting up a committee, including office-bearers of the FIA, to help the MCF locate the spots from where garbage was to be removed.
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Kurukshetra varsity holds recruitment drive
Kurukshetra, February 13 A written test was organised and the shortlisted candidates participated in a group discussion which was followed by personal interviews by Ashok Banial, HR, Tech Mahindra, and his team. The job locations offered to the students are Chandigarh and Noida. “As many as 70 students from various colleges and polytechnic institutes were shortlisted and will be given appointment letters in the coming days,” he added. JL Tuli, training and placement officer, KITM, said many companies were likely to visit KITM in near future for recruitment. More than 300 students from 80 colleges spread across Ambala, Karnal, Kaithal, Yamunanagar, Rohtak, Sonepat, Panipat and Kurukshetra participated in the placement drive.
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Poets regale audience at kavi sammelan
Panchkula, February 13 Lauding the spirit behind the endeavour, chief guest Samir Mathur, IAS, Home Secretary, Haryana, appreciated the efforts of poet Hamdam and the society to keep alive the memory of the great poet. Roshan Lal, IAS, who presided over, and Uday Kumar Sinha, Editor, Amar Ujala, also expressed their views on the promotion of literary arts for mutual harmony in the region through such ventures. As many as 15 poets from the region participated in the annual kavi sammelan and the chief guest, an acclaimed prolific author, recited a thought-provoking verse “haan ya naa”. Similarly, bureaucrat Roshan Lal, also a vocalist, doled out a ghazal before the host poet BD Kalia. Hamdam observed “yakeen unse karma hi padta hai ya rabb jo khaa ke teri kasam bolte hain”. Nafas Ambalavi, a doctor by profession, said “mera vajood bhi kuchh iss tarah jahaan mein hai. Qashia teer hai magr kamaan mein hai…”. Mohd Feroze Khan Nadvi was more articulate to advise poets “koshish naa ker nadvi kabhi sheyer-o-sukhan ki, manzar jo agar fiqr ke kabil nahin hai”, as Dr KK Rishi perceived “sitam perver zamana ho gya hai, karm toh ikk fasana ho gya hai”. Zahid Abrol, Dr SP Shrama Tafta Zari, Mohd Feroaze Nadvi, Dr KK Rishi, Balkishan Bezar, Nafs Ambalavi, Rattan Singh Dhillon, Shahid Hussain Shahid, Maikash Ambalavi, Sufi Jagjit, and CL Sharma Chaman also conducted the mushaira. In the concluding speech, Uday Sinha revered the poets as the visionary and omniscient persons blessed to serve society through their didactic verses.
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Samast Bharatiya Party completes four years
Rewari, February 13 Alluding at the level of politics today, he asserted it had been vitiated by selfish, corrupt and incompetent elements. The party supremo urged the people to send only honest, principled and competent representatives to the state Assemblies and Parliament. He stressed on the need to radically transform unethical system of governance. He sought support of the people for implementation of the policies and programmes of SBP. He said the SBP would contest the next Assembly elections in Haryana. Agarwal said policies and programmes of the party would be extensively disseminated through a 26-episode TV serial and state-wide training camps would also be held for party workers. State-level party offices would soon be set up in Delhi and Rajasthan. Earlier, Agarwal was accorded a rousing reception by party workers. — OC
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Placement drive held at GNIT
Ambala, February 13 Shikha, senior HR official of the company, said the selection criteria of the company required students to pass through group discussion and personal interview. As many as eight students were selected who would be appointed as software testing engineers in the company. The selected students thanked the management, especially Sachin Chawla, Dean of the GNIT Group, for conducting the placement drive. Dr Chawla congratulated all the successful candidates and wished them a bright future.
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Kanipla institute conducts mock AIEEE
Kurukshetra, February 13 Addressing the students, Subhash Jagota, chief executive officer, Global Business Solutions, New Delhi, said they should develop appropriate communication skill and business antiquates. He also asked the students to understand cross-culture communication techniques as the Indian market was getting globalised. GIMT managing director DK Gupta said the institute would give cash awards of Rs 21,000, Rs 11,000 and Rs 5,100 to the first, second and third toppers, respectively. Besides, GIMT would provide coaching to top 30 per cent performers of this test for qualifying the AIEEE main examination, he added. Gupta also urged upon the students to take their studies seriously without missing even a single class. GIMT Quality Improvement director LN Mittal said students should be serious about practical work, industrial training and project work as mere obtaining a degree would not be sufficient. GIMT management senior members, including Ramesh Goel, Rakesh Goel, Neeraj Garg, Vinod Goel, and GIMT director, projects, Raman Gupta, GIMT director-principal Sorabh Gupta, GIMT Dean, Academics, Deepali Gupta and public relations officer Ashwani Goel, were among those who were present on this occasion. Around 2,000 students drawn from different parts of the state participated in this test.
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Cricket academy started
Ambala, February 13 While addressing the students, chairman of Jain Vatika, Bharat Bhushan Jain, said that sports are an important part of education and schools should promote sports. A friendly match between the teams of PKR Jain Vatika and SD School was also played on the occasion. Aruna Sood asked students to take active part in sports. Principal of the school Uma Sharma also addressed the students.
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Right designs of buildings ‘can cut construction cost by 50 pc’
Sonepat, February 13 Noted German architect Uta Pottgiesser said products and materials as well as design and planning methods could not directly be transferred to another culture or another country. She said there were options to transform innovations in architecture into innovation architecture as a systematic approach. Renowned Indian architect Anil Lal was of the opinion that if the right designs and techniques were used in the construction of buildings, the construction cost could be reduced by 50 per cent and energy conservation achieved to a great extent. “If we adopt the policy of Holland in building designs, we can solve the housing problem of our country,” he added. During the conference, 30 research papers were presented on different topics, including energy conservation in urban areas and energy saving in buildings. Building designs of both countries were displayed at the conference for on-the-spot explanation of the designs by participants, including a team of students and architects from Germany. Students of the Architecture Department of the university also presented a “Green School” design at the conference. Director-General of the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency Ajay Mathur and the Chairman of the India Green Building Council, Dr Prem Jain, were among those who
participated in the deliberations. In the opinion of the university Vice-Chancellor, HS Chahal, the conference provided opportunities to the faculty members and students of the Architecture Department of the university to know about the latest designing of buildings the world over in general and in Germany and India in particular. He hoped that the gains and experiences of the conference would ultimately be used at the ground
level for the benefit of consumers.
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Conference on innovative methods in textile manufacturing
Bhiwani, February 13 Prof Ziri Miltaki of the Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic) presented his research paper on nano technology in textile field and explained how nano fibres proved practicable in every field of late. He said textile had been used in every field by the use of nano fibres, adding that it had proved quite beneficial in aircraft structure and medical line. Prof BK Behra and BP Das of IIT Delhi and Rajesh Mishra of Technical University of Liberec presented their research papers on design, manufacturing and characteristics of 3D woven composites. They told how modern 3D weaving of textile was being used in the preparation of power and energy. “Textile is being used to make sky-high buildings as earthquake-proof, which is a successful technique,” Prof Behra said. Vikas Chanchra of Clariont Chemicals Ltd presented research paper on “Ecology on textile” and explained about new techniques and products in the textile field. He described how better rates could be earned compared to other sellers in the market with new techniques. Dr A Khandul of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Manpreet Manhasia of TIT, Prince Kumar Sharma, Faridabad, Lalit Jachpura of BPS University, Sonepat, Amandeep Manocha, NIT, Jallandhar, Garima Ahlawat, Hisar, Yamini Dhir of TIT, Sneha Sharam, Ratna Tiwari, S Sharma and V Rastog of Gaziabad also presented their research papers. During panel discussion, Prof Kushal Sein, Dr GV Rao, Prof KL Gandhi, R Subramanium and Prof Ziri Miltaki emphasised on the importance of educational institutions in achieving “Vision 2020” of the textile and clothing world. “We should have up-to-date knowledge about new machineries so that we could make use of these to raise our production and profit,” said Prof Sein. TITs director Dr RP Jamdagni, Dr S Dhamija, Dr AK Patra, Dr SS Mahish, Kamal Sardana were also present at the seminar. Earlier, the conference was jointly inaugurated by TITs director Dr RP Jamdagni, Prof Ziri Miltaki of Technical University of Liberec, Prof KL Gandhi of England and Harswaroop Chahal, Vice-Chancellor of Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University, Murthal, by lighting the traditional lamp.
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Girl students learn about country’s democratic structure
Fatehabad, February 13 However, due to ignorance, illiteracy and the lack of awareness, people are oblivious of their position and many of them do not exercise their right to vote. Many youths, who have become eligible to become voters after attaining the age of 18, have not yet got their names enrolled in the voters’ list. This is more so in the case of girls, particularly in the rural areas, where people have a self-conceived notion that the votes of girls are made in their marital homes only. In the backdrop of this, Government Post Graduate College for Women organised a seven-day camp for girls under the aegis of the National Service Scheme.The theme of the camp was “Democratic structure of India.” The residential camp was organised at the Health Sub-Centre of Bhodia village. During the camp, students learnt the nuances of the democratic system of the country through mock exercises. “They constituted three political parties, the ‘Bhartiya Gaurav Party’, the ‘Bhartiya Sarvajan Party’ and the ‘Bhartiya Pragtisheel Party’, for this purpose and an ‘Election Commission’ was also been set up to conduct the mock poll,” said Dr Meet, in charge of one unit of the NSS wing of the college. She said the students also learnt community living through this camp. The students also performed the role of voters and the media. LN Yadav and Monika Gill, in charge of the other two wings of the NSS, said resources persons from various fields delivered discourses during the camp. Principal RK Sharma said the residential camp gave the girls an opportunity to stay together and learn about the democratic process of the country.
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No city bus service in Yamunanagar, Jagadhri
Yamunanagar, February 13 Students are hit hardest by the lack of bus service as they have to travel in the auto-rickshaws to reach their educational institutions. The auto-rickshaws are generally overloaded with total disregard to safety measures. Samardeep Singh, a student of Udhamgarh village, said the city bus service of the Haryana Roadways could solve the problem to a great extent and it would help in curbing the growth of auto-rickshaws in
the town. "Travelling to the railway station or the main bus stand in Yamunanagar is a tough exercise, especially for women, as there is no safe mode of transport in the town. One is forced to use auto-rickshaws or rickshaws to move from one place to another," said Paramjit Kaur, a local resident. The Haryana Roadways had suspended the local bus service citing shortage of staff and buses to ply on the local routes. Despite repeated representations by the residents to the authorities concerned, the bus service has not been resumed. Ram Singh, Inspector and station in charge, Yamunanagar, said, "The Yamunanagar Haryana Roadways Depot has 650 buses against the sanctioned fleet of 670. There is a shortage of 75 drivers and 70 conductors." He said interviews had been conducted for recruitment of drivers and conductors and the new incumbents are likely to join duty shortly. The city bus service is likely
to resume next month, he added.
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Need for doubling global food production by 2050: Scientist
Karnal, February 13 Dr Paroda, who was conferred the 3rd Dr D Sundaresan Memorial Lecture Award of the National Dairy Research Institute here, cautioned about food security and pointed out that buffer stocks had also depleted from over 50 million tonnes in 2001 to almost 10 million tonnes in 2008 and are around 55 million tonnes at present. Presenting a grim picture of food and nutrition in India , he said that nearly 180 million children were severely underweight, over 800 million chronically undernourished, 400 million women of child-bearing age were anaemic and over 200 million children deficient in vitamin A. Identifying food security, soil health and climate change as three major and vital concerns to our agrarian society, he explained that “food security” was a situation when all people at all times had access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life. The Green Revolution in the mid-sixties started the introduction of high-yielding varieties of seeds and increased use of fertilisers and irrigation led to increased production to make India self-sufficient in foodgrains, he added. Quoting figures, he said the per capita dietary energy supply had increased from 2,370 kcal/day in 1990-92 to 2,440 kcal/day in 2001-03, and the prevalence of under-nourishment decreased from 25 to 20 per cent and hoped that the record foodgrain production in 2010-11 should improve the situation. He advocated the adoption of hybrid technology to increase the productivity of grains and emphasised that irrespective of the nutrition or climate debate, soil quality and its organic matter content must be restored, enhanced and improved. He cautioning that crops would fail if soils were not restored in spite of good rains. He said “hunger will perpetuate even with emphasis on biotechnology and genetically modified crops.” Referring to climate change, Dr Paroda said that according to the IPCC Report (2007), the emission of green house gases from agriculture was found to be 13.5 per cent, leading to the warming of the climate system in the past 100 years (1906 to 2005). The expected temperature rise by the end of the current century was 2 to 4.5 0C which was significant, he said, and suggested reducing emissions , avoiding deforestation, minimising soil-erosion risks , eliminating biomass burning and incidence of wild fires, improving input use efficiency and growing aerobic rice as options to combat climate change.
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Conference on folk art objects from Feb 16
Kurukshetra, February 13 The conference, which is being organised jointly by the Dharohar Haryana Museum and the Indian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property, will discuss the papers presented by the participants on different folk art themes. It will also have a special plenary session on the agricultural heritage and folk art of Haryana. The conference will be inaugurated by Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Culture Selja while KK Chakraborty, Vice-Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, and former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, will deliver the keynote address.
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Sagar Dahiya, an eight-year-old student of class III here in Little Angels Senior Secondary School, has earned the distinction of becoming the youngest cricketer of India after entering his name in the Limca Book of Records on January 31 this year.
This honour was given to him at a function at hotel Taj Palace in New Delhi in the presence of renowned personalities like Pandit Ravi
Shanker, Asha Bhonsle and Hariharan.
As many as 900 students from classes VII to XII from various CBSE-affiliated senior secondary schools of Rewari, Kosli, Pataudi, Sidhrawali, Gurgaon, Bhiwadi, Jhajjar and other parts of the Ahirwal region took the Pathfinder Talent Search Test ( PTST) conducted by Pathfinder Global School (PGS), Pataudi, 24 km from Rewari, recently.
Kurukshetra, February 13
Activists of the Samast Bharatiya Party (SBP) participated in a convention held to mark the fourth foundation day of the SBP here recently.
The proceedings commenced with the unfurling of the party flag by national SBP chief Sudesh
Agarwal.Alluding at the level of politics today, he asserted it had been vitiated by selfish, corrupt and incompetent elements.
Kurukshetra, February 13
A two-day international conference on “Innovative Methods in Textile Manufacturing and Clothing” concluded at TITs College here recently in which students and teachers from the country and abroad participated.
This conference was organised to mark the completion of 60 years of mutual relations between India and Germany. Its objective was to provide a platform to students, researchers, scientists, academicians and businessmen to have discussions and interaction at the international level on how the existing innovations and experiences in the field of energy efficiency and resource optimisation could be adapted and modified for a country like India with its rapid 
The residents of the twin cities have been left at the mercy of three-wheeler operators. These three-wheelers ply on some fixed routes and operate under different unions. The minimum fair charged by these auto operators is Rs 5. If one has to travel from Jagadhri to Yamunanagar, he has to travel on these routes of auto-rickshaws to reach the destination. Besides it being a costly exercise, it involves wastage of time.