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UP wheat growers block Karnal-Meerut road
Sirsa farmers seek bonus like Rajasthan
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HUDA can reserve up to 50% of quota plots
HC for ‘working paper’ on oustees’ problems
curbing female foeticide
Societies in state can’t have over 300 members
Rural roads scheme to be revived, PM tells MPs
Girl booked for suicide attempt; no action against tormentors
London Olympics to see staging of Hindustani ‘Twelfth Night’
Prahladgarh murder case
Mobile seized from inmate in new dist jail
Gas leak: Mock drill held at LPG plant
ADC’s official vehicle stolen
Parents lock school building
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UP wheat growers block Karnal-Meerut road
Karnal, April 25 The growers were demanding that they should not be stopped from selling their wheat produce in Haryana mandis as there was no ban on inter-state movement of foodgrains. Long queues of trucks and canters were seen on both sides of the road and the commuters had a hard time. The blockade started around 8 am and was not lifted till the filing of the report. Farmers said the Union Ministry of Agriculture had clearly stated that the farmers could sell their produce anywhere in the country and the Food and Supplies Department, HAFED, the Food Corporation of India and CONFED were designated agencies for procuring foodgrains for the Public Distribution System (PDS) on behalf of the Centre. Vinod Narval, a protesting farmer, said farmers of Haryana brought their sugarcane to UP but the state government had never raised any objection and asked that why the Haryana Government was not allowing the UP farmers to sell their produce in the state. Our artiyas sat in Haryana grainmarkets (anaj mandis) and we were closer to Haryana Mandis. The state government had made it clear that only the wheat produced by the local farmers would be purchased and no wheat from other states would be allowed in its mandis. The increase in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for wheat from Rs 1,120 per quintal to Rs 1,285 per quintal and a bumper wheat crop and better procurement infrastructure was prompting the UP farmers to sell wheat in the Haryana mandis. District officials reached the spot and tried to pacify the farmers and tehsildar Om Prakash Atri said it was the policy of the government and they were not in a position to change it. Meanwhile, DFSC Ravinder Malik said the farmers of Haryana, who had purchased land in UP, could sell their produce in the Haryana grain markets by showing the sale papers of property and residential proof of
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Sirsa farmers seek bonus like Rajasthan
Sirsa, April 25 Rajasthan had announced Rs 100 per quintal bonus over and above the MSP on the procurement of wheat. Several villages of Sirsa situated in Chopta, Ellenabad and Dabwali block share their boundaries with Rajasthan. “Many of our farmers have taken their crop to grain markets purchase centres situated in Rajasthan resulting in losses to traders,” said Jasbir Singh, a grain market trader in Ellenabad. Sanjay Midha, a trader in Dabwali, however, maintained that it would not make much difference to the arrivals in Haryana. “Authorities in Rajasthan have started demanding girdawari (revenue documents regarding ownership and possession of land) from farmers bringing wheat in the markets, making it difficult for Haryana farmers to sell their produce there,” Midha said. Midha maintained that if the announcement of bonus by Rajasthan had any impact, it had stopped the invasion of farmers from that state to Haryana markets with their produce, which was a routine in previous years. Ram Singh, District Food and Supplies Controller, said bonus in Rajasthan had not affected arrivals in Haryana in any way. However, the Rajasthan move has caused a lot of discontent among local farmers, who, too, are demanding bonus in Haryana. Meanwhile, Swaran Singh Virk, state vice-president of the Haryana Kisan Sabha today demanded a bonus of Rs 200 per quintal for farmers. Virk said the Haryana Kisan Sabha had already submitted a memorandum to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda through a memorandum submitted to the Deputy Commissioner earlier
this month. |
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7 killed in mishap on Jind-Narwana Highway
Jind, April 25 It is learnt that the accident took place near Belarkha village in the district around 4.45 am, when the members of a marriage party were returning home in a Cruiser maxi-cab after attending a function at Bathinda in Punjab. The mishap took place when the maxi-cab carrying 15 persons was trying to overtake a Tata Ace van near the village, it collided head-on with a canter coming from the opposite direction. As all three vehicles got involved in the accident, seven persons died on the spot. Those who have been killed have been identified as Deepak, Vikas, Mukesh Bhagwat, Satnam, Babu Lal and Gurtej Singh. Satnam and Deepak were driving the maxi-cab and Tata van, respectively. The injured include Mannu, Vikas, Ajay, Jeevan, Gulshan, Pankaj, Mahender, Jagsher, Vijender, Mohammed, Sanghir and an unidentified person. While the maxi-cab and the van got mangled due to impact of the crash, the canter got overturned in the nearby field. “The dead include two persons hailing from Punjab and five from Jind and Bhiwani district,” claimed a police official, who said the accident might have taken place due to the possibility of the driver of one of the vehicles got drowsy on the steering wheel. A case has been registered after shifting the injured to a hospital, where the condition of some of the injured is reported to be critical. |
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HUDA can reserve up to 50% of quota plots
Chandigarh, April 25 The Bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice A.N. Jindal also came out with seven commandments on the rights of oustees for allotment of plots, while dealing with an appeal filed by HUDA on the issue and 46 connected matters. The Bench ruled, “The date of notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, is relevant to determine the eligibility of a land-owner for allotment of a residential plot, even if the acquisition is for commercial, industrial or institutional purposes. “The entitlement of the size of the plot and the procedure for allotment shall be as on the date of allotment in pursuance of an advertisement issued inviting application from the oustees?. “The oustees are entitled to apply for allotment of a plot along with earnest money in pursuance of public advertisement issued that may be inviting applications from the general public and the oustees through one advertisement. If an oustee is not successful, he/she can apply again till such a time the plots are available for the oustees in the sector for which land was acquired for residential/commercial purposes or in the adjoining sector, if the land acquired was for institutional and industrial purposes etc. The plots to the oustees shall be allotted only by public advertisement and not on the basis of any application submitted by an oustee. “The price to be charged from an allottee shall be the price mentioned in the public advertisement in pursuance of which the plot is allotted and not when the sector is floated for sale for the first time; “The State Government or the acquiring authority shall not advertise any residential plot for sale without conducting an exercise in respect of plots earmarked for reserved categories and after identification of the plots available for the oustees in each sector. Thereafter, the State Government or the acquiring authority shall publish an advertisement inviting applications from such oustees to apply for allotment of plots in accordance with law. “And, if in any sector, more than 50 per cent plots have been allotted by way of reservation, including to the oustees, such allotment shall not be cancelled or reviewed in view of the judgment of this court.” |
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HC for ‘working paper’ on oustees’ problems
Chandigarh, April 25 “A working paper of the oustee problems is needed as a part of its information gathering activity, so that in future, the problems can be seen in that perspective,” the Bench has asserted. The assertion came out with the assertion on a petition filed by Ram Gopal and other oustee farmers of Wazirabad and Haiderpur Viran villages. Taking up their petitions, the Bench asserted, “The payment of monetary compensation is not the solution. Ousting of a person leaves unsolved burden of social, economic and environmental problems. The basic purpose of the oustee’s policy apparently appears to be that before displacing the persons for development reasons, they must be settled or their settlement must be made.”
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curbing female foeticide
Sirsa, April 25 The health authorities have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Magnum Opus, an IT consultant company working in the field of e-Governance for installing computerised-tracking systems. “Within four months, this software will be installed in the machines of 45 ultrasound centres of the district,” said Deputy Commissioner J Ganeshan here today. He said 39 ultrasound centres had already submitted Rs 30,000 each as installation charges to the company. The software company would also establish its service centre in the district. A control room would be set up at the office of the Civil Surgeon to keep an eye on the tracking system. He said the tracking system would be installed in the ultrasound machines and would keep the record of all the check-ups done. It would facilitate the administrative official to check the record of any ultrasound machine. The tracking system will protect the reports of tests done on pregnant women and will send a message to the control room regarding any illicit activity. The Deputy Commissioner said the campaign against female foeticide had been yielding positive results in the district. The state government, he said, had announced a prize money of Rs 20,000 for those giving information about sex-determination cases and the name of informer would be kept a secret. |
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Societies in state can’t have over 300 members
Chandigarh, April 25 Under the Act, which replaces the archaic Societies Registration Act,1860, the societies in the state cannot have more than 300 members. The Act also makes it mandatory for the existing societies to renew their registration within one year. “If the new registration number is not applied for within one year, the number will have to be applied for along with a prescribed fee within the next six months, failing which the registration would then be cancelled,” the Act said. Cracking the whip against “bogus” memberships, the Act asserted that the society would “re-determine the number of members of the general body by prescription of revised criteria, including membership fee, annual subscription and special additional charges.”. If the members opting for such revised criteria exceed 300, the membership may be decided by a draw of lots, it stated. “Where the membership of society exceeds 300, the governing body shall prepare a scheme of determination of the electoral college in accordance with the principles for holding elections to the collegium and place the same for consideration of its members as special resolution,” the
Act said. The general body or the collegium shall elect the governing body consisting of not less than three and not more than 21 members. And it would be mandatory for the governing body to meet once every quarter and hold at least four meetings in a financial year. Moreover, the Registrar of Societies would have powers to amend the byelaws of the societies “to bring the same in conformity with the provisions of the Act.” A senior government functionary said that the new Act would go a long way in bringing transparency in the functioning of societies as several provisions of the previous
Act had “outlived” their utility. |
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Rural roads scheme to be revived, PM tells MPs
New Delhi, April 25 The delegation included Birender Singh, Avtar Singh Bhadana, Rao Inderjit Singh, Ram Parkash, Deepender Singh Hooda, Ashok Tanwar, Shurti Choudhry, Navin Jindal, Arvind Sharma, Jitender Malik, Shadi Lal Batra and Ishwar Singh. The members of the delegation presented to the Prime Minister a written request to expedite the sanction or allocation of funds under PMGSY to Haryana. The MPs told the PM how Haryana was being penalised for the slow pace of other states. “Haryana has completed almost all projects up to phase IX of the PMGSY, for which sanction was given in 2009. For the past three years, 2010, 2011 and 2012, no project has been sanctioned or allotted to Haryana. This is despite the fact that Haryana, among all States, contributes maximum revenue to the Union Government by way of cess, which is imposed on the sale of petro products.” The delegation told the Prime Minister that the logic behind withholding of projects for Haryana was that since other states were lagging behind in implementation of the PMGSY projects, Haryana had been debarred from getting any new sanction, until the rest of the states came on a par with their performance. |
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CHC shows the door to critical patient
Fatehabad, April 25 Chhinda, an extremely poor man from Bajigar Basti of Jakhal town, was brought to the CHC by his kin in a critical state. “My husband suffers from cancer and we do not have the money to provide him treatment in costly hospitals. We brought him here after he complained of pain. But the doctors on duty simply refused to entertain the case and told us to take him away to some big hospital,” said a sobbing Sheela Devi, wife of the patient. She said the family just wanted the doctors to give some injection to relieve him of pain and allow him to take rest for a while before he walked back home with us. Unable to shift the critically ill Chhinda to their home or any hospital, his kin put him on the floor and started crying at the insensitive attitude of the doctors. Later, some passersby informed the local authorities about the incident and a naib tehsildar visited the hospital to inquire about the incident. The Civil Surgeon, Dr SB Kamboj, said the incident had come to his notice. He said the doctors had told him that they did not have any treatment for cancer in the CHC. He said he had asked doctors to admit the patient, if his kin so desired. |
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Girl booked for suicide attempt; no action against tormentors
Gurgaon, April 25 Even more paradoxical is the fact that the police has registered a case against Poonam on a complaint of Gurgaon Naib Tehsildar Ram Mehar, whose refusal to act upon the girl’s complaint led to the said consequence. Not only this, the Naib Tehsildar allegedly issued a false statement on the record, apparently to save his skin. In an official press note issued yesterday, Ram Mehar said the sale deed was registered on April 18, while the girl and her family approached him with the complaint on April 20. However, the Poonam’s family members maintain that they approached him on April 18 itself as the full payment for the property was not made to them at the time of the registry as promised. “The government officials are lying to save themselves…We approached the Naib Tehsildar as well as the Deputy Commissioner on April 18, soon after we realised that we had been cheated,” asserts Bhoop Lal, husband of Poonam’s elder sister. He admits that they made a mistake by getting the mandatory buyer-seller photograph clicked before getting the payment, but rushed to the officials concerned immediately after they were denied the payment after the registry. “It was a matter of mutual trust…the person to who Poonam sold her land was her own first paternal cousin, and we had not imagined that he could do this to own sister,” maintains Bhoop Lal. Ironically, while a police case has been registered against Poonam on Ram Mehar’s complaint, her cousin who duped her seems to have got away with it, at least for the time being. The pertinent question here is: If the district revenue and administrative officials, who are duty-bound to safeguard civil rights, refuse to redress genuine grievances of residents, which door should the commoners knock? |
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London Olympics to see staging of Hindustani ‘Twelfth Night’
Karnal, April 25 The play has been translated into Hindi by Amitosh Nagpal from Karnal who also plays the lead role of Viola while Geetanjali Kulkarni has been cast in the role of Sabestian. There will be no clowning this time and instead this version is a true-blue Hindustani musical, translated into Hindi. Nagpal said the proprietors at the Globe in London had come up with a novel scheme to keep the theatre circuit alive as part of the citywide Olympic festivities. A veritable Olympics of works by Shakespeare would be performed by theatre companies from across the world and these companies have been invited to present their own interpretation of the bard's classic works at the Globe Theatre. “Twelfth Night”, a comedy by Shakespeare touches themes like young women seeking independence in a "man's world", "gender-bending" and "same-sex attraction". As part of this unique Globe theatre festival, all 37 of Shakespeare's plays will be performed in 37 different languages. Two theatre companies from India are also in the fray with their adaptations of “Twelfth Night” and “All’s Well That Ends Well”. |
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Prahladgarh murder case
Chandigarh, April 25 While the victim’s relatives have alleged that the police had framed innocent persons to spare influential persons, one of the injured in the attack on March 20 at Prahladgarh, Subhash, has reportedly not identified the accused. However, another injured person, Venod, is believed to have confirmed their involvement in the attack. For reasons not known, a polygraph test of Venod was conducted a few days ago, the report of which is awaited. The Director-General of the Haryana Police, RS Dalal, denied the allegation. He said he had inquired from the Bhiwani SP, who told him that the crime was committed by robbers, who had a criminal background. Dalal said just as Punjab DSP Balraj Singh Gill and his companion Monica Kapila were done to death by ordinary robbers, in the present case also the crime was committed for the purpose of robbery. Asserting that there was no other angle to the case, Dalal said otherwise the police would have investigated that also. Meanwhile, the two accused have been remanded in police custody for
five days. |
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Mobile seized from inmate in new dist jail
Rohtak, April 25 Two mobile phones were also recovered from two inmates about three weeks ago. There are around 1,100 inmates in the district jail at present. Police sources said a Nokia mobile handset was found from an inmate, Surender, hailing from Kisanpura of Panipat on Tuesday during routine checking. Surender has been imprisoned in a case related to dowry death. The mobile phone had, however, no SIM card and battery when it was seized by policemen, the police sources added. Though a case has been registered against the accused, the jail officials are uncertain of the modus operandi through which the mobile phone could have reached the inmate. “We have been investigating the matter and would ensure that such an incident is not repeated,” claimed an official, adding that thorough checking would be conducted of all the barracks in the new jail as the recovery of a mobile phone was a cause for concern. Mobile phones were also seized from two inmates earlier when the jail was located inside the city. Both the accused were arrested and remanded in police custody after a case was registered against them. The new jail complex is spacious as it has a capacity of housing at least 2,100 inmates at one time. |
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Gas leak: Mock drill held at LPG plant
Guda (Karnal), April 25 During the exercise, an alarm was raised and personnel of the departments concerned rushed to the plant in five-25 minutes to take care of the situation. Karnal DC Neelam Pradeep Kasni said it had been observed that the mechanism to check leakage of gas in the plants was in place but even then in the case of gas leaks outside, endangering lives of residents in adjoining areas, the drill was meant to create awareness. Manager of the plant PS Bhatti said a crisis management committee had been constituted and members of the committee imparted training to plant employees about the gas leakage, damages, precautions and controls. Deputy Director of the Labour Department Manish Mehra said in case of a leakage in any plant or factory, chlorine and ammonia gas spreads and the victims should be given sugar, hot tea or milk after rushing them to open spaces and, if critical, the victims should be rushed to the nearby health centres.
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ADC’s official vehicle stolen
Panipat, April 25 It is learnt that the case was registered after the ADC filed a formal complaint with the department stating that his official Bolero had been stolen. He told the police that he had seen the vehicle parked outside his house till 12 am after which he went to sleep and found that it was missing in the morning. The police has registered a case and checkposts have been put up across the district to trace the vehicle. |
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Parents lock school building
Fatehabad, April 25 The two teachers, one of whom is head of the school, were on the collision course for the past some days. The cause of conflict was not yet known. The two started quarrelling in the morning and their spat turned into a high-pitch fight in which abuses were hurled at one another. Soon, residents of the locality assembled there and after asking the students to come out, they locked the building from outside. Residents intimated the matter to the police and the education authorities. District Elementary Education Officer Asha Grover rushed to the school and assured the residents that action would be taken against the guilty teachers. |
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