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Jhajjar residents demand better bus services
Process of issuing smart ration cards begins in Sirsa
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State to strengthen water supply system in Gurgaon
Panipat-Kurukshetra-Pinjore circuit
Illegal constructions
ADC raps banks for ignoring SHGs in granting loans
‘Welfare schemes not reaching the poor’
Need for citizen-centric administration: VC
Maintain records of customers, says DC
Autos create nuisance in Faridabad
Karnal Jats oppose quota on caste basis
Sex ratio up in Karnal
Muslim conference emphasises on women education
Ray of hope for hearing and speech impaired children
Revolving fund of Rs 25 lakh set up for students
Schoolchildren create traffic awareness
Fatehabad college holds annual athletics meet
Pharmacy college gets research grant of Rs 43 lakh
Murthal varsity organises biotechnology workshop
Over 50 pc graft complaints disposed of: Lokayukta
Two-day kisan mela from March 14
Farmer gets high returns on turmeric
Kidney diseases on the rise
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Jhajjar residents demand better bus services
Jhajjar, March 7 The commuters have to wait for a long time for the roadway buses. Though private buses and other vehicles give some respite to the commuters, but during the ongoing wedding season, private transporters prefer to engage their vehicles for wedding functions instead of plying to ferry commuters. The commuters have urged the authorities concerned to deploy more buses in evening so that they could return to their homes without facing any transportation hurdles, but to no avail. There are a few roadway buses for Sonepat, Bhiwani, Gurgaon and Delhi in evening, whereas many people come to Jhajjar daily for their jobs and business purposes. People have to depend on private buses and other vehicles, like jeeps, in evening. Commuters say the roadway authorities have included several buses in its schedule, but most of the scheduled buses do not ply in evening. Rajesh, a resident of
Sonepat, says people of Sonepat district, who are working in Jhajjar, have to face hardship in going back to their home town in evening. “There is hardly any bus for Sonepat in evening. The passengers have to depend on private buses or jeeps to reach
Sonepat,” he says, adding that the passengers have to change at least two vehicles to reach the destination. Kuldeep Singh, who has been running his business in Jhajjar, says he has to go to his home town Charkhi Dadri in a truck or jeep as there is no bus service for Charkhi Dadri in evening. “I come to Jhajjar from Gurgaon daily for my job, but have to wait for a long time as there are few buses. The ones which come are jam-packed and one has to jostle to get into the bus,” said Surender Kumar, a resident of
Gurgaon. Meanwhile, the district roadways authorities claimed that there was no lack of roadway buses on the
Sonepat, Gurgaon, Bhiwani and Delhi routes plying in evening. Buses were available after every hour in the evening, they claimed.
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Process of issuing smart ration cards begins in Sirsa
Sirsa, March 7 An official spokesperson said smart cards had been completed in two villages while survey work had been completed in 55 villages of the Sirsa block. He said smart cards of 41 more villages had been sent for verification. The Smart Card Project, which is a pilot project of the Central Government, has been
introduced only in Haryana
and Chandigarh. Over 56 lakh eligible families of the state would be issued smart ration cards under various categories, he said. The Smart Card Project provides a technology solution to the problems of leakage and diversion in the PDS. “The total project cost is over Rs 137 crore,” he said, adding the ground work on the project had already been initiated. In the first phase of the project, four blocks of Ambala, Sirsa, Sonepat and Gharaunda have been selected. The field camps were organised in these four blocks to capture the fingerprint impressions of all the 10 fingers of all family members above 12 years of age. The unique feature of the Smart Card Project is its integration with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The smart ration cards will have different colour strips for various categories of families - pink for Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), yellow for below poverty line (BPL) and green for above poverty line (APL). Fingerprint of three authorised members of the family who usually go for drawing essential commodities will be stored in the chip of the card and essential commodities will be issued after electronic authentication of authorised recipient. Smart ration cards will be issued after complete biometric de-duplication by the UIDAI, which will ensure that the menace of bogus ration cards is removed.
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State to strengthen water supply system in Gurgaon
Chandigarh, March 7 An official spokesperson said here recently that the state government had approved a canal-based water supply scheme costing Rs 65 crore for Sohna, on which the work was in progress. At present, water supply in Sohna is tubewell based and the residents were being supplied water from 32 tubewells. He said the state government had approved another scheme of Rs 75.09 crore for strengthening water supply system in Pataudi and Haily Mandi towns. These towns would also get canal-based water supply. Similarly, the state government had approved a separate canal-based water supply scheme for Farukhnagar town costing Rs 28.77 crore. He said land had been identified for the construction of water works in Mussaidpur village. Farukhnagar also gets water supply from tubewells. As far as sewerage system was concerned, he said new schemes amounting to Rs 26.45 crore had been approved for Pataudi, Hailey Mandi and Farukhnagar towns. — TNS
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Panipat-Kurukshetra-Pinjore circuit
Kurukshetra, March 7 Speaking at the prize distribution ceremony of the first all Haryana Hospitality ensemble held at the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition held in Jyotisar (Kurukshetra), Dhanpat Singh said the project included a provision of Rs 465.64 lakh for setting up of a Multi-Media Art Gallery on Mahabharta and the Gita at Sri Krishna Museum Kurukshetra. He claimed this gallery would draw a large number of pilgrims and tourists and help in projecting Kurukshetra as a major tourist destination. Referring to tourism-related activities in the state, he said the government had created a network of 43 tourist complexes with 848 room capacity and about 30 lakh tourists were staying in these complexes. Haryana had adopted a multi-pronged strategy for tourism promotion and tourist complexes had been set up at strategic points along the highway passing through the state and most of the complexes had been developed around Delhi for promotion of leisure and conference tourism, he added. Referring to the infrastructure needed to meet the global tourism requirements, Dhanpat Singh said Haryana was moving ahead in this direction and strengthening the existing infrastructure to cater for the needs in “academics, management and operational tourism”. He said Haryana Tourism had created job opportunities for the dumb and deaf youths and would chalk out more such projects in which the helpless and differently abled youth could get employment according to their basic qualifications in tourism.
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Faridabad DC asks committees to submit monthly reports
Ravi S Singh/TNS
Faridabad, March 7 The meeting held recently was attended by senior officials of various departments, including the Faridabad Municipal Corporation, HUDA, police, and SDMs of Faridabad and Ballabgarh. The Deputy Commissioner had constituted 17 committees, each comprising of an official of the concerned department, police personnel of the area and a member from the district administration. Addressing the meeting, Gupta ordered for immediate registration of FIRs against those indulging in illegal constructions and encroaching on public land. He told the officials to be vigilant on the issue. He said unauthorised constructions and grabbing of public land were major crimes and the district administration would deal with the culprits strictly. He said he would regularly convene a meeting to review the progress on the two issues. He directed the committees to submit to him every month a report of action taken by them in their areas.
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ADC raps banks for ignoring SHGs in granting loans
Kurukshetra, March 7 Presiding over a meeting to review the functioning of nationalised banks at a meeting here, she quoted specific cases duly recommended by the DRDA. She said as per the policies and guidelines of the Union Government, nationalised bank should have abided by the instructions and cleared the loan cases of the SHGs. “Despite all our efforts and completion of formalities towards the scheme, returning the loan cases recommended by the DRDA at a time when financial year is coming to a close is highly objectionable and speaks volumes of the callous and indifferent attitude of the banks,” she regretted. Kataria also chided the bank officials for the non-compliance of guidelines of the RBI regarding the differential rate of interest of 4 per cent for petty advances to the poorest of the poor. Representative of the RBI and Assistant General Manager PK Lamba took notice of the matter and assured to take the issue at the high-level monitoring committee to initiate the action against the authorities concerned responsible for flouting the terms and guidelines.
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‘Welfare schemes not reaching the poor’
Kaithal, March 7 There seems to be no end to the woes of the labourers due to delay in disbursement of wages under the MNREGS, deletion of names from BPL families list, deletion of names from old age pension scheme and delay in allotment of 100 yards plots to SC / ST and poor families. They have been running from pillar to post to avail benefits of these schemes. The administration is always under fire for various acts of omission and commission committed by the field staff, who are entrusted with the job of collecting information from beneficiaries of various welfare schemes. Sita
Ram, president of Akhil Bhartiya Khet Majdoor Union said, “Thousands of
labourers, who had worked under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Generation Scheme (MNREGS)in various villages had been knocking at the
doors of administration for the last couple of months demanding payment of their
outstanding wages for the last 8-15 months but their problem had not been
addressed”. Those desirous of getting themselves registered to get employment under MNREGS were not given any receipt while they submitted their application for grant of job cards. Many women sitting on a dharna complained that names of their families had been deleted from the BPL list though they were very poor and fall under the criteria fixed by the government for BPL families. Similarly names of many persons had allegedly been deleted from the list of old age pension scheme . Gyaso Devi(80)of Balraj Nagar and Raghbir (78), a local resident, said that their names were deleted from the list in the latest survey and they had not received pension which they had been receiving for the past many years. Municipal
councillor Prem Chand said that despite government’s tall claims, 100-yard
residential plots had not been allotted in a number of villages to the eligible
families. When contacted, Deputy Commissioner A Mona Sreeniwas said, “A
survey was conducted as per directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
and names of thousands of beneficiaries who were not found eligible were deleted”. “If
any bonafide person was left out he could contact the concerned officials to get
his name included in the list, which would be done so after proper verification,”
she added.
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Need for citizen-centric administration: VC
Kurukshetra, March 7 This was stated by Dr DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, while inaugurating an UGC-SAP sponsored two-day national seminar on “Emerging Issues in the Indian Administration” at the University Senate Hall here recently. Dr Sandhu said services to citizens should be either free or highly subsidised. There must also be an effective citizen grievance redressal mechanism system, in case the administrative agency does not cater as per the satisfaction of the citizens, he said. In his keynote address, Prof BS Ghuman of Punjab University, Chandigarh, said in the traditional model of the public administration, thrust was on the delivery of public services irrespective of citizens’ satisfaction. He said an alternative model of administration had been introduced in advanced countries. In the new model, citizens had been placed at the centre of public organisations. This citizen-centric model of governance had also been gaining momentum in India. For making the administration citizen-centric, a large number of policy initiatives like the Right to Information Act, Citizens’ Charters, setting up of institutions like Ombudsman for combating corruption, introduction of speedier mechanisms for redressal of grievances, e governance, simplification of procedures to reduce time and cost in the delivery of services and the Right to Service Act had been taken in the country. Out of these, the Citizens’ Charters and the Right to Service Act played pivotal role in making the administration citizen-friendly and ensuring time-bound delivery of services, he added. Prof SC Arora of MD University, Rohtak, talked about the system of audit of government performances being replaced by social accountability of the state towards its citizens. Prof Ashok Mukhopadyay, former professor of Public Administration, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, said public private partnership (PPP) in the country was suitable for infrastructural development only. He added that the success of this strategy of development largely depended upon the negotiations between the public and private party. Prof Sanjiv Mahajan from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, said there were 729 Citizen Charters so far, prepared by 19 states and five UTs. Gujarat had the highest Citizen Charters. Unfortunately, there was not only inadequacy but also ineffectiveness in their execution, he added. Prof Ajmer Singh Malik, chairman, Department of Public Administration, Kurukshetra University, said a quest had arisen, especially among the educated and empowered citizens, for more participative and citizen-centric governance.
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Maintain records of customers, says DC
Faridabad, March 7 The Deputy Commissioner directed the authorities concerned to make surprise checks on the records with immediate effect. He warned of strict action against the errant PCO/STD operators and shopkeepers dealing in cell phone instruments and sim cards. A senior member of the district administration said the DC’s directive was part of precautionary measures from the view of security and law and order.
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Autos create nuisance in Faridabad
Faridabad, March 7 The auto-rickshaw drivers have been inviting frowns from the public since long because of their casual approach while driving. The drivers park their vehicles at roundabouts and crossings, including B K Chowk, Hardware Chowk, Neelam Chowk, Old Faridabad Chowk, crossings of sectors 7/10 and 22/23 and under the railway over bridge near the office of the Faridabad Industries Association, to pick passengers. Auto-rickshaws parked in the middle of the road at the major roundabouts is a common sight creating a nuisance on the road. The drivers stop their speeding vehicles in the middle of the road without even giving signal to the vehicles behind them. They also misbehave with the public on petty issues. Reports suggest that of late mafia at various places in the city have started patronising the vehicles. Local goons have been noticed collecting money from the drivers in lieu of parking their vehicles illegally at the chowks to pick passengers. City residents have urged the authorities to deal with the auto-rickshaw drivers with an iron hand. Recently, a delegation of industrialists raised the issue with Faridabad Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Gupta. A demand was also made for designating stands for the auto-rickshaws in the city. Anil Rao, Joint Commissioner of Police, Faridabad, said the police has launched a drive to regulate the drivers, especially on the national highway. He said efforts were on to designate stands for
the vehicles. According to an estimate, there are over 15,000 auto-rickshaws operating in Faridabad city. Many auto-rickshaw drivers do not have proper documentation and they lack driving skills too. Many of the drivers do not have driving licences.
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Karnal Jats oppose quota on caste basis
Karnal, March 7 The Jat Mahasabha, Karnal, at its meeting here differed with the Jat leadership on the issue of reservation and resolved that the “reservation should be on the basis of economic backwardness and not caste and poor people of all castes should benefit from it”. President of the Karnal Jat Mahasabha Pyare Lal Narwal was critical of Jat leaders pressing for reservation on caste basis and said that the government had already set up the backward classes commission and its report was likely to be submitted soon. Jats are resourceful and affluent people in Haryana and the benefit of reservation should go to poor sections of the Jat community as also to poor people belonging to other castes, he said. “The purpose of reservation is to bring the socio-economically backward classes on a par with others. In case the reservations are not linked to economic status of the people, the benefits will be cornered by influential people of other backward classes,” he argued. The poor sections among Bishnois, Rods, Brahmins and other castes are demanding OBC status . If all the castes are accommodated, the idea of reservation for uplift of poor would become a farce, he said.
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Sex ratio up in Karnal
Karnal, March 7 Karnal Deputy Commissioner Neelam P Kasni, who started a mass pledge programme against foeticide in September last year and involved different sections of society, said the campaign would continue till a balanced sex ratio was achieved. The programme of mass pledge by all sections of people to "save girl child" and stop foeticide on the 6th of every month was started in September and the sixth such programme was held at
various places in Karnal district recently during which more than 5 lakh people took the oath. Speaking at the programme at Kalidas Rangshala, Kasani said people should voluntarily shun prenatal sex determination to stop foeticide and an intensive campaign should be launched to make people aware of the social fallout of "skewed sex ratio".
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Muslim conference emphasises on women education
Karnal, March 7 Lack of education among Muslims and ignoring women is responsible for backwardness and inequalities in the Muslim society and education alone can bridge the gaps, members of the Muslim Think Tanks said. The conference organised by the Haryana Muslim Khidtmat Sabha was attended by a large number of Muslim intellectuals and leaders from 10 states and the participation of women was also encouraging. The women representatives, like Shahidunisa from Bangalore, exhorted Muslim women to come of "Purdah" and join the mainstream by getting education for uplift of Muslims. “Education is the key to progress and development and unless Muslim women are educated, it will be difficult to end backwardness and disparities,” said
Shahidunisa.
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Ray of hope for hearing and speech impaired children
Sirsa, March 7 The centre has over 90 children and is run by a society headed by Deputy Commissioner J.
Ganeshan. The society gets funds from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment under the Government of India, but the grant is grossly insufficient to meet the needs of the
centre. Ganeshan, who presided over the annual function of the centre recently, appealed to the local philanthropists to adopt one child each so that the authorities could run the centre smoothly. Those adopting a child will have to give Rs 12,000 per annum to the centre towards the annual expenditure on one inmate. The appeal showed immediate results and within no time as many as 56 persons offered to become foster parents of children. The centre received donations worth Rs 10.40
lakh. Differently abled children presented a variety of cultural items on the
occasion. Ved Beniwal, a former president of the state chapter of the Indian Medical Association, offered to hold regular medical camps at the centre in future. RS
Sangwan, patron of the Sirsa Education Society, demanded the appointment of a speech therapist for the
centre. Additional Deputy Commissioner Roshan Lal and Civil Surgeon Daya Nand were also present on the occasion.
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Revolving fund of Rs 25 lakh set up for students
Sonepat, March 7 He was speaking at the inauguration of a National Science Day seminar, “Clean Energy Options---Nuclear Safety”, organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology interface on the university premises. Stressing the need for tapping other sources of energy in place of fossil fuels, which would get exhausted one day, Chahal pointed to some misgivings among people about nuclear energy plants in the country. “It is the need of the hour and the duty of scientists and technocrats to address such thinking of people,” he added. Dr VC Sahni, renowned atomic energy scientist and Professor, Homi Bhabha Chair, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, said that as fossil materials like coal, oil and natural gas were likely to be exhausted in 122 years, 40 years and 60 years, respectively, there was an urgent need for a global energy revolution for finding energy solutions to have affordable and sustainable new sources of energy. “The wind, the sun and biomass can be other most viable alternative sources of energy,” he said, adding these sources required new energy storage capacity. Commenting on nuclear technology and misgivings about this source of energy, Dr Sahni emphasised that people, particularly the young generation, should have the scientific temperament and critical attitude to allay any fears about nuclear plants. Dr ON Srivastava, Professor, Physics Department, Banaras Hindu University, laid stress on the need for the use of renewable sources of energy to meet the fast-growing demand for energy as well as to save the environment from pollution.
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Schoolchildren create traffic awareness
Karnal, March 7 The children deputed at various points on major highways made the commuters aware of traffic norms by distributing pamphlets and counselling the passersby. The students were well-versed with traffic rules, pitfalls of rash driving, breaching red lights, not following the speed limits, listening to mobile phone while driving and other violations and explained the same to the vehicle owners and also guided the pedestrian about safely crossing the road. As per the latest data, 13 persons die and 26 are injured everyday and, therefore, road safety is the need of the hour and a large number of people succumb to their injuries as the passers-by do not stop for help. The students also performed street plays at different sectors to sensitise the public about the importance and need of helping the injured in road accidents. Principal of the school Kiran Soni said, “We have told the students that they should not forget the value of precious human life and little precautions taken by us can save life and reduce accidents”.
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Fatehabad college holds annual athletics meet
Fatehabad, March 7 Dev Raj Batra, president of the Manohar Memorial Education Society, inaugurated the meet, while Additional Deputy Commissioner Ashok Meena was the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony. Anil and Pooja also won the 100-m race in their respective categories. Ram Mehar and Sanjay bagged second and third position in the male category while Manisha and Varsha got second and third position in the female category of the 100-m race. In the 200-m (men), Ramesh, Ram Mehar and Rahul bagged the first three position, while in the female category, Pooja, Manisha and Varsha repeated the feat. Ramesh, Rahul and Sanjay got the first three positions, respectively, in the 400-m race in the men’s section, while Pooja, Manisha and Suman bagged the first three positions, respectively, in the women’s section. In the 800m (men), Ramesh, Pawan and Ram Niwas got the first three positions, while in the women’s section, the positions went to Manisha, Suman and Manju, respectively. Anil, Pawan and Ravi bagged the first three positions in the javelin throw (men), while Pooja, Geeta and Sunita emerged winners of the first three positions in the women category. The first three positions in the long jump (men) went to Anil, Parveen and Sanjay, while in the women section, the positions went to Pooja, Manisha and Sunita. Anil, Rajender and Pawan got the first three positions, respectively, in the men’s section of shot put, while Manisha, Pooja and Sunita bagged the first three positions in the women’s category. In the discuss throw, Anil, Harpal and Manoj were adjudged first, second and third, respectively, while in the women’s section, Sunita, Pooja and Manisha got the first three positions, respectively. DK Kaushik, Mamta Chaudhary and MS Komal, principals of the colleges run by the MM Education Society, Vinod Mehta, Atam Parkash Batra, Kailash Batra and Atam Parkash Mehta, all office-bearers of the society were present.
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Ambala college organises talent hunt
Ambala, March 7 There was cut-throat competition among the participations of the function. The winners came out with flying colours. In solo song, Seema, Muskan and Monika got first, second and third positions, respectively. In solo dance competition, Gagandeep, Akanksha and Madhu Rana achieved first, second and third positions, respectively. In group dance competition, the Madhu Rana group was declared first, while the Shrestha group and the Jayshwari group were declared second and third, respectively. Sujata and group secured first position in skit, while Yogita’s group got second position. Sanjiv was awarded the best actor award. President of the college Bharat Bhushan Jain said co-curricular activities help in harmonious development of students. Principal of the college Mudita Bhatnagar congratulated all the winners and said co-curricular activities provide recreations which are conducive to mental, emotional and moral health.
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Pharmacy college gets research grant of Rs 43 lakh
Sirsa, March 7 Dr Viney Lather, Principal of the college, said the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Delhi, had granted Rs 7 lakh for conducting a two-week scientific “Staff Development Programme” to be organised in June. The AICTE had also given another grant of Rs 16 lakh under the Research Promotion Scheme for carrying out research and the purchase of sophisticated instruments. Dr Deepti Pandita is coordinating this research project. Dr Pandita has also received the Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology,Delhi, under the Fast Track Scheme under which she will receive about Rs 20 lakh for carrying out research activities on nanotechnology for cancer treatment. These research projects would be run in the institute for three years. — TNS
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Murthal varsity organises biotechnology workshop
Sonepat, March 7 The workshop was attended by 34 participants from the host department and nearby universities and institutes -- KUK, Kurukshetra; MDU, Rohtak; CCSHAU, Hisar; and IGIB, New Delhi. The course schedule of the workshop involved both lectures and hands-on practical sessions. The participants collected over 70 samples from all over India for isolation of various phages. The isolated phages were carried out through various purification steps for further analysis, and the positive results obtained were processed at molecular level for establishment of their identity.
DNA obtained was further analysed on software programmes such as DNA Master, BLAST,
GENEMARK, and GLIMMER for genome annotation. Participants also gained knowledge from the lectures conducted by Dr Louise on various topics such as use of bacterial viruses as natural antibiotics, phage life cycle, DNA sequencing and genome annotation tools. Through the lectures, the participants also learnt about the mechanism of tuberculosis disease and how discovery of these viruses could help in combating the disease. Besides Dr Louise, other internationally renowned scientists were also heard and viewed via video-conferencing. Thus, in this two-week workshop, the participants gained a rich hands-on experience along with an exposure to the bio-informatics tools required to conduct preliminary analysis of the viral genomes. At the valedictory
function of the workshop, Vice-Chancellor of the
university HS Chahal hoped that the participants could use the experience gained during the workshop for the development of fruitful projects. The major objective of the workshop was to discover viruses infecting mycobacterium smegmatis, a soil bacterium related to tuberculosis causing bacterium that would contribute towards novel biological materials. Professor JS
Rana, chairman of the biotechnology department and convener of the workshop, said the workshop was a learning experience for the
participants. “By organising this
workshop, the department has opened up the research opportunities and probable collaboration with the US research laboratories,” he said, adding that such
programmes will go a long way in initiating
collaborative efforts at international level.
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Over 50 pc graft complaints disposed of: Lokayukta
Indri (Karnal), March 7 Talking to the mediapersons, the Lokayukta, who was here to preside over a function at Senior Secondary School, Gari Birbal, said number of complaints against the bureaucrats was more as compared to complaints against politicians. The Lokayukta had received 924 complaints so for and had already disposed of over 500 complaints, he added. Exhorting people to come out openly against corruption and corrupt persons, he asked people to come out with true facts, supported by a sworn affidavit but refrain from making false complaints to tarnish the image of any person or indulging in character assassination. He also pleaded for bringing all the investigative agencies within the purview of the Lokayukta for establishing a balanced judicial system in society.
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Two-day kisan mela from March 14
Hisar, March 7 A spokesman of the university said the mela would be organised to acquaint the farmers with latest agricultural techniques so that they could increase agricultural production. Farmers from the neighbouring states like Rajasthan, Delhi, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh would also participate in this mela. Exhibition of agricultural implements would also be organised on this occasion in which all the departments of the university would display their products and technologies developed for giving impetus to agriculture, animal husbandry and rural development. Besides this, agro industries and multinational companies would also exhibit their products in the exhibition. Special arrangements would also be made for testing of soil, irrigation water and diseased plants. He said high quality seeds for kharif crops would also be sold in the mela. Sale counters of seed would be set up for the convenience of farmers. They would also be taken to research farms of the university to show rabi crops cultivated through new technology, herbal crops, farm forestry and new technology to cultivate fruits and vegetables. He said 250 stalls on agro industrial exhibition would also be set up.
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Farmer gets high returns on turmeric
Fatehabad, March 7 The crop has brought cheers in his family, as he could not have dreamt of such high returns by producing any traditional crop. "I sowed turmeric on one-acre land taken on lease on the Bhuna Road in the village in April last year and now i have harvested over 100 quintals of turmeric, which is fetching me Rs 50 per kilogram in the
market," said farmer
Lala Singh. "I have found turmeric highly profitable crop, as we can get 100 to 125 quintals of turmeric on one-acre land without having to invest on anything after its sowing. The crop takes 10 months to grow fully. The crop is not affected by cold or hot weather and there is no threat from the pests," he added. Encouraged by his experiment, several farmers of the area have decided to sow turmeric on their
fields this year. Most of his produce is being purchased by farmers, who will use it as seed in their fields in the
coming April.
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Kidney diseases on the rise
Faridabad, March 7 Head of the Nephrology Department, Dr Jeetender Kumar, said women were becoming more susceptible to the disease on account of luxurious and sedentary lifestyle which causes metabolic disorders. The trend was visible also among women from the lower strata of society. “Out of the 11,000 dialysis done last year, around 40 per cent were on women,” Dr Kumar said. Dr NK Pandey, Chairman and MD, AIMS said kidney diseases and failure was on the increase in the country. But kidney damage could be prevented by educating oneself about chronic kidney disease(CKD), and by proactive ways that would reduce the risk of renal failure. “Millions of people at risk for CKD may be able to prevent the need for dialysis and kidney transplantation with early diagnosis and by inculcating healthy habits, he added. — TNS
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notwithstanding, commuters of this historical district have been bearing the brunt of inadequate roadway bus services, especially in evening, here.
Faridabad, March 7
Fatehabad, March 7
