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Tehsildar stripped of powers to register sale deeds
Road rage incident
Jhajjar witnesses an improvement in sex ratio
Illegal Parking at Brahmasarovar
Tributes paid to Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Panchkula poet bags Haryana Sahit Akademi Award
Drive against foeticide
must continue, says DC
'Impose complete ban on sale
of liquor in Kurukshetra'
15,000 police stations
to go online soon
Promotion sought for Rewari pugilist
Govt urged to streamline wheat procurement
KU teacher gets award
for work on
foeticide
FSL scientists to attend conferences in Turkey, US
Samajik Nyay Party floats Pitroda’s name for Prez
Workshop on digital school technology
Anganwari workers threaten stir if services not regularised
Vigilance for action against 14 gazetted officers
RTE Act
INLD opposes shops on
Gochi drain
Forum gets building
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Procured wheat lying in the open
Rohtak/Jind, May 10 The wheat lying in open has also been faced with the risk of getting wet or damaged by the unseasonal showers these days. The procurement process is likely to go on till the end of this month. “The lifting of the procured wheat from the grain market was done by a contractor allotted this work by the administration. Though this produce ought to reach the godown within 24 hours to 48 hours, contractors or the agency responsible for this job fail to remove wheat from the mandi from several days,” claimed an agent at a mandi here. He said this had been mainly due to shortage of
gunny bags, labour and vested interests of contractors and the officials who leave no opportunity to milk the agents at this juncture.
“A report from the grain market at Jind revealed that a lot of wheat that was purchased by various agencies on April 24 was removed from the market today after a gap of about 15 days. Thousands of bags had been lying at the mandi here thus choking the place and hardly leaving any space for the fresh arrival and this scene had been going on for the past about a month,” said an agent at Jind grain market.
Admitting delay in lifting, an official claimed that certain factors, including the shortage of bags had been a cause of the problem. More than 6,000 quintals of wheat has been lying on the national highway connecting Gohana and Panipat for the past over 15 days.
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KU council hikes remuneration for exam duties
Our Correspondent
Kurukshetra, May 10 Stating this to mediapersons, Prof Brajesh Sawhney, Director, Public Relations, Kurukshetra University, said the UGC would allocate funds and projects in the 12th Five Year Plan on the basis of the proposed plan submitted by the university. He said in a major incentive to enhance the quality of examination work, the EC approved the rates of evaluation and re-evaluation of answerbooks of undergraduate students from Rs 8 to 12 per copy. Similarly, the rates of remuneration for the evaluation of postgraduate answersheets were enhanced from Rs 10 to Rs 15 per copy. The rates of paper setting for undergraduate courses had been enhanced from Rs 400 to Rs 600 per question paper and for postgraduate classes had been enhanced from Rs 600 to Rs 800 per question paper. The remuneration for setting of question papers of certificate courses had been enhanced from Rs 300 to 500 per question paper, he added. The remuneration for supervisory staff appointed in examination centres for chairpersons and members of the Unfair Means Committee, for practical and oral examinations and other contingent expenses related to the examination work has been adequately enhanced by the EC. The EC confirmed 23 superintendents, five assistant registrars, four university senior secondary school lecturers and four professors and one director, physical education and sports after the completion of the probation period. The EC has also approved the revised rates of remuneration paid to lecturers, masters, language teachers, JBT teachers and drawing teachers employed as guest teachers in University Senior Secondary Model School on the pattern of the Haryana Government. Professor Sawhney said the recommendations of the selection committee meetings held for recruitment of eight assistant professors in various departments, including the directorate of distance education, Department of Physics, University College, Department of Sociology and Department of Botany were also placed before the EC. Prior to this, the university conducted interviews for recruiting 33 assistant professors in various departments and institutes, he added. Meanwhile, Haryana College Teachers Association (HCTA) president Rajbir Parashar and press secretary Ravinder Gasso welcomed the hike in the remuneration of Kurukshetra University examination duties. However, the HCTA has urged the KU Vice-Chancellor to take concrete initiatives to strengthen and streamline the semester system by reviewing it properly. The HCTA has urged the Vice-Chancellor to allow undergraduate and postgraduate teachers of affiliated colleges to work as supervisors and guides for PhD so that an ‘academic mafia’ in research is discouraged.
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Tehsildar stripped of powers to register sale deeds
Fatehabad, May 10 Acting on a report by District Town Planner (DTP) Arvinder Dhull, the Deputy Commissioner has asked ADC Ashok Kumar Meena to conduct an inquiry into all sale deeds registered in contravention of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975. Reports say a team from the DTP office had gone to Sirsa road of the town recently to demolish unauthorised structures. However, those who had constructed structures on the land showed registered sale deeds executed in their favour. Under the provisions of Section 7-A of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, permission of the District Town Planner was required before registering any sale deed notified under the Act. However, the office of the Tehsildar registered sale deeds of lands situated on Sirsa road without asking the parties to get a no-objection certificate from the DTP. Kaushik said he had complaints that the sale deeds had been registered in unauthorised colonies carved out on agriculture land in violation of the law. The ADC said he would probe all such illegal deeds.
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FIR registered after IG’s intervention
Bijendra Ahlawat Tribune News Service
Rohtak, May 10 The victim got some relief after he approached the IG, Rohtak range, Alok Mittal, today. Mittal ordered the police officers concerned to register an FIR and launch a hunt to trace the culprits. The victim said two motorcycle-borne youths had attacked him on his face and hands after a minor scuffle over the issue of giving a pass near Ashoka Chowk on May 3. Virender disclosed that the accused, who were riding an unnumbered Apache bike, had stopped his car near the SSP’s residence after they could not overtake him. They then attacked him with an axe-type weapon. When the victim approached the police station at Arya Nagar for registering an FIR, he was told that the matter had been registered in the daily complaint register. But no FIR was registered till today when he met the IG. The police has now registered a case under various sections of the IPC and recovered the weapon used by the accused from the spot along with a blood-stained cloth. Though this is not the first case of road rage, the police is yet to come out with any strategy to check such incidents. “We have started the process of installing CCTV cameras at various spots in the town and this will help in curtailing such incidents,’’ Mittal said, adding that instructions would be issued to the policemen to register such complaints in future.
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Jhajjar witnesses an improvement in sex ratio
Jhajjar, May 10 As a result of awareness campaigns and the new Active Tracker System, the improvement in sex ratio has been witnessed in the district in the past two
months. Jhajjar, which had had the dubious distinction of having the worst sex ratio in the state in Census-2011, was the first district of the country where modern software like active tracker systems were installed at its ultrasound
centres. Stating this here recently, Jhajjar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ajit Balaji Joshi said active tracker systems were installed in 29 ultrasound centres in Bahadurgarh and Jhajjar towns. “Though the Health Department has also been taking steps to effectively implement the PNDT Act to check this practice, the active tracker system is turning out to be quite effective in this direction,” said Joshi. In 2001, sex ratio in Jhajjar was 847, which increased to 861 in 2011 as against the sex ratio of 877 women per 1,000 males of the state in the Census 2011. Female sex ratio figures were 16 less in the
district as compared to the state figures, the DC said.
“In 2011 from January to December, the sex ratio was 815, while after the installation of the system, the ratio improved to 837 in February 2012. The results of the two months have exhibited a great difference,” said Joshi, adding that similarly, in the rural areas, in April the sex ratio improved to 876.
From January 2011, it became 959 in Jhajjar municipality and 936 in Beri municipality as against 788 and 787 in Jhajjar and Beri municipalities, respectively, in December 2011.
He said the tracking systems were installed in the ultrasound machines of sonography centres of the district to keep the record of all the checkups done.
Through these trackers, the administrative and Health Department officials could keep an eye on the centres which resulted in the improved sex ratio in the district, he added.
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Illegal Parking at Brahmasarovar
Kurukshetra, May 10 When the workers started removing the barricades, the nearby shopkeepers joined them while those who were charging parking fee escaped from the scene. Arora lodged a complaint at the Aadarsh Police Thana, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, (KUK) demanding action against those who were charging the parking fee illegally. He told mediapersons that the thana in charge Avtar Singh had assured him that he would look into the matter and action would be initiated against those who were allegedly charging the parking fee. After removing the barricades, the INLD workers, led by Arora, went to the Kurukshetra Development Board (KDB) Office situated on the northern bank of Brahmasarovar and met KDB secretary Upesh Kumar. The workers told Kumar that they would launch an agitation if such barricades were erected again. Kumar told Arora that the KDB had already issued a notice to those who were charging the parking fee illegally, but no action had been taken so far. Arora alleged that the parking fee was being charged illegally in front of the KDB office and under the nose of the police for the past one and a half months, but neither the KDB nor the police had initiated any action against the culprits.
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Tributes paid to Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Panchkula, May 10 This was stated by IAS Roshan Lal, who was the chief guest at a function organised by the Saraswati Kala Sangam to commemorate the 39th death anniversary of the poet at Haryana Akademy Bhavan, here recently. Besides Sangam, a cultural organisation engaged in promoting Indian classical and literary arts, the programme was supported by the North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala, HSAMB and SBI which featured acclaimed ghazal maestros RD Kailey from Delhi and Dr Komal Chugh from Patiala. Noted poet JS Shingari threw light on the life of Shiv Batalvi and shared his old association with the poet while in Chandigarh. Kailey commenced the tribute soiree with a romantic song “ajj din chadya tere rang verga” before spelling the anguish and pathos of Shiv Batalvi in serious numbers like “sikhar dupehar sir rte…”, “ikk kudi jihad naam mohabbat”, “bhathi waliye”, “shikra yaar” and more. He later partnered with Komal Chugh for duets who also doled out solo songs “kandiyali thor”, “puniya de chann”, “phuliyan kaneran”, etc. The duo brought alive the deep philosophical meaning and essence of poetic couplets weaved in rustic idiom. Besides, Sunita Nain presented “mere dilan diya mehrama”. Senior Haryana bureaucrat and versatile vocalist Roshan Lal mesmerised the audience with immaculate rendition of Shiv’s most popular song “mainu tera shabaab ley baitha”. His voice traversed in all octaves to match the high-pitched melody of the poet who himself was a blessed singer. Debashish Dhar, Surinder Singh and Vijay Kumar gave matching musical accompaniment. A book in Sanskrit titled “Shakti Vijayam” authored by Dr MD Pande was also released on the occasion. Earlier, Saraswati Kala Sangam president Col IJ Ahluwalia, RN Trikha and Major KC Verma honoured the chief guest Roshan Lal, IAS, guests of honour Dr Pardeep Bhardwaj, HS Sarangal, Aruna Batalvi, wife of Shiv Kumar Batlavi and son Dr Meharban Batalvi, who lighted the traditional lamp and later honored the artists. Aruna Batalvi expressed gratitude to the Sangam for paying tributes to her husband.
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Panchkula poet bags Haryana Sahit Akademi Award
Panchkula, May 10 The award carries a prize money of Rs 1 lakh. A poet and devout promoter of Punjabi, Kidar led fellow writers to establish the Bazm-e-Adab, Punjabi Adabi Sangat and Bharti Kala Sangam in 1969 in Kuwait. The first Punjabi to recite his poetry on Kuwait radio on the eve of their national day, he was also the first Punjabi poet to be interviewed by BBC. He also aired programmes in BBC Hindi division. Mushairas and seminars were held in his honour from time to time and he was felicitated by International Punjabi Sabha UK; Editors Choice award by a UK organisation (1991); Writers Club Kuwait (2005) Haryana; Punjabi Sahit Akademy ( 2006); Punjabi Sahit Sabha USA Edmonton Canada government, Ajit Newspaper publications Toronto (2010), among many others. Back home the octogenarian poet launched a drive for promotion of Punjabi language and literature by holding series of poetic symposiums under the aegis of Kidar Adabi Sangat. However, his landmark endeavour to serve Punjabi in the true spirit came with floating of Kidar Adabi Trust with a initial and personal deposit of Rs 4 lakh. The trust offers awards and financial support to student toppers in Punjabi in Haryana government schools. Kidar’s passion for poetry dates back to his school days in the sleepy village of Ughi (Hoshiarpur) and later in Lahore where he learnt Pinghal - the grammar of sculpting poetry under the tutelage of Ustad Arshi Maan Singh way back in 1945. Credited with ten publications in Punjabi and Urdu, Kidar claims that his poetry was sung by legendary Punjabi melody queen Surinder Kaur and her illustrious daughter Dolly Guleria who lent her voice to his album.
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Drive against foeticide
must continue, says DC
Karnal, May 10 A champion of the “save-girl child” campaign, Kasni, who started the unique mass pledge programme to create awareness against female foeticide on the 6th of every month in September last, especially came to Karnal to administer the pledge and exhorted people to launch a relentless battle to end discrimination against girl child. Speaking at the mass pledge programme for eradicating foeticide at Sector 13 organised by the senior citizen societies, Kasni said “both girls and boys are the gift of God and we have no right to discriminate between them”. “It is a social cause and all sections of society should join hands and work for changing the old mindset that perpetuated discrimination against girl child and resulted in the inhuman practice of killing girl child in the womb,” she said. Citing the example of the girl who topped the IAS examination in the country this year, Kasni said girls were capable of competing with boys in all walks of life, adding that they should be treated on par with boys and provided equal opportunities. Kasni, who took the campaign as a mission, said her efforts did yield positive results and the female sex ratio had increased from 813 in July last year to 862 in April this year and the sex ratio was 851 and 873, respectively, in the rural and urban areas of the district. The mass pledge programme on the 6th of every month was just a reminder and the larger objective was to completely eradicate the “evil of female foeticide” by
creating mass awareness, she added. Meanwhile, the students and office-bearers of Brahaman Public school, Nissing, presented a 100m-long banner with the signature of 21,000 people in the support of the campaign to the Deputy Commissioner with the request to send it to the President of India.
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'Impose complete ban on sale
of liquor in Kurukshetra'
Kurukshetra, May 10 He also directed all SHOs and police post in charges that they should further direct shopkeepers selling SIM cards falling under their respective jurisdiction that they should not sell SIM cards without proper ID proof. Keeping in view the security, Arya told the officers to check vehicles and anti-social elements by erecting barricades. Surjeet Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Pehowa, Veer Singh, DSP, Kurukshetra, Nirmal Singh, DSP City, Sunil Kumar, DSP, under-training SHOs, police post in charges, Rajesh Kumar, CIA inspector, police superintendents and branch in charges were present on the occasion.
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15,000 police stations
to go online soon
Rohtak, May 10 This was stated by Union Minister of Home Affairs Jitender Singh while addressing a gathering on the occasion of passing out parade of 407 women cops at the state police academy in Sunarian village here on Monday. While this has been the perhaps the first time that all women batch of the Haryana Police completed training at this academy, which came up about a couple of years ago, it has been revealed that Haryana had been the first and only state in the country to reserve 10 per cent seats for the fairer sex in the Police Department. The minister said women in the state had been trying to prove their mettle in every field and the Police Department was no exception. Announcing that an amount of Rs 350 crore would be spent on the modernisation plan he said the online system would help in keeping a track of the movement of criminals in the region. Around Rs 100 crore had been earmarked by the 30th Finance Commission this year for the upgradation of the Police Department in the state.
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Promotion sought for Rewari pugilist
Rewari, May 10 Boxer Sunita Garg (22), daughter of Gulab Rai Garg of Tohana town in Sonepat district, who was recently appointed a constable under the sports quota, is presently under training at Police Training School, Madhuban, Karnal. AVS chief Ashok Buwaniwala and Mahila AVS president Sushila Sarraf said it was a matter of pride for the Vaish community as well as the state that Sunita, who made her debut in pugilism in 2003, had consistently won gold medals in the 2nd Open All-India Women’s Boxing Championship at Nainital, Uttarakhand, in 2007, 7th Senior State Boxing Championship at Mansa, Punjab, in 2008, 8th Senior State Boxing Championship at Jalandhar in 2009, 9th Senior State Boxing Championship at Sangrur, Punjab, in 2010, 1st North India Women Boxing Championship at Gurgaon in 2009-2010, 2nd North India Women Boxing Championship at Gurgaon in 2010-2011, 2nd Inter-Zonal Women Boxing Championship at Guntur, AP, in 2011 and 7th Federation Cup Boxing Championship at Nainital, Uttarakhand, in 2011. They said while she was honoured with the Shakti Samman Award for her meritorious achievement in pugilism at a recent Shakti Sammelan of the women’s wing of the AVS at Rohtak, she deserved to be promoted to the post of DSP.
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Govt urged to streamline wheat procurement
Hisar, May 10 In a statement issued here, he said the mandis in the state were choked with wheat lying in the open as the procurement agencies were unable to lift the stock for a number of reasons. In many mandis the government agencies had stopped buying wheat. In others, there was a shortage of gunny bags. In still others, the procured stocks had not been lifted to free space. Chautala said the farmers of Haryana had toiled hard to produce a bumper wheat crop, but the inability of the government
to properly manage the procurement process was causing them great hardships. He said there had been protests by farmers in several places but the authorities had not taken any steps to improve the situation. Uncertain weather conditions and intermittent showers had already damaged stocks lying in the open. Farmers were not receiving payment for their procured stocks in time. The INLD leader said in Hisar, Adampur, Barwala, Hansi, Bawani Khera and Badhra wheat stocks had spilled over to roads because of inadequate space in the mandis. This was causing traffic snarls besides damaging the wheat. He asked the government to take immediate steps to streamline the procurement process.
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KU teacher gets award
for work on
foeticide
Kurukshetra, May 10 Stating this to mediapersons here recently, Dr Dahiya said she was also honoured jointly by Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, Chief Minister, Haryana, and PK Dhumal, Chief Minister, Himachal
Pradesh, at a function organised under the auspices of the “Amar Ujala - Chandigarh Police Gali Cricket League” held in Chandigarh on April 28 for her contribution to uprooting the social evil of female
foeticide. Dr Dahiya, who is also president of the Women Cell of the All-India Jat Arakshan Sangharsh
Samiti, has obtained about 35,000 signatures of people belonging to the rural and urban areas of Haryana in order to motivate them to improve the sex ratio in the state. “She is planning to collect 1 lakh signatures for her campaign against female foeticide to present to President Pratibha
Patil,” she said. Dr Dahiya further said she was also honoured by the Haryana Brahman Sabha on the eve of Bhagwan Parshuram Jayanti held on the premises of Brahman Dharamshala here on April 23 and the Rashtriya Award was also conferred on her by the Jat Samaj at a function held in Chandigarh on November 27, 2011, for her contribution to saving the girl child.
— OC
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FSL scientists to attend conferences in Turkey, US
Madhuban (Karnal), May 10 They have also been invited to attend the international conference on forensic research and technology to be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-NorthShore, Chicago, USA from October 15 to 17. The invitation was extended after the abstractsof their research papers on “Antidotes to Celphos in the Welfare of Mankind” and “Drowning Cases- a Bizarre of Events” were accepted by the organisers. The conference at Turkey is being organised by the International Academy of Legal Medicines while Omics Group Chicago, USA, is organising the conference on “Utilising Science and Technology for Peace and Justice”.
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Samajik Nyay Party floats Pitroda’s name for Prez
Kurukshetra, May 10 At a meeting chaired by the state president, Didar Singh Nalvi, the party endorsed the name of Sam Pitroda, who returned to India about 25 years ago on the request of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to serve the country. Mohan Lal Dhiman, state general secretary of the party, said the contribution of Sam Pitroda in the information technology revolution and vision for the development of the country was well known and his future plans were focussed on groundwater, health, infrastructure and transport and education sectors. If Pitroda was elected President, his vision and plans would be implemented more effectively and speedily, which was essential for a developing country like India. The meeting observed that a majority of the people want an eminent and non-political person as President but some political parties were debating the names of political personalities.
— TNS
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Workshop on digital school technology
Kurukshetra, May 10 While inaugurating the workshop, Nehra said, “We feel proud that we are able to introduce the facility of digital school technology to our students from this year, which we could not provide them earlier”. Dr Savitri Batra, director, Kanya Gurukul, said the digital school was a comprehensive solution for an effective and interactive teaching-learning process. Students could get an effective and overall development through this unique technology. Teachers could also create their own smart tests and use them in class for assessment and project works, she added. She said the technique would also improve the listening and speaking skills of students and develop their personality and communication skills. Sajan, an expert from HCL, and resource coordinator Anju Madan of the school rendered training to the teachers.
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Anganwari workers threaten stir if services not regularised
Karnal, May 10 The decision was taken at the fifth state-level convention of anganwari workers and helpers. Santaro Devi, newly elected president of the union, said the exploitation of anganwari workers and helpers was, in fact, "exploitation of women" which would not be brooked. The Haryana Sarv Karmchari Mahasangh and the state unit of CITU have supported the demands of the union and a memorandum would be submitted to the government soon for acceptance of the demands. While Santosh Rawal and Mahavir Dahia were elected general secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the union, Veero, Manju, Urmilla, Kitabo and Devindri Sharma were chosen vice-presidents. She also announced a 33-member executive committee.
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Vigilance for action against 14 gazetted officers
Chandigarh, May 10 A spokesman of the bureau said nine officers and officials were also caught accepting illegal gratification ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 15,000. Criminal cases have been registered against them under the Prevention of Corruption Act. These nine officers and officials included sub-inspectors Mahavir Singh and S Yudhisthir, building Inspector Dinesh Kumar, ASI Satish Kumar, PWD Executive Engineer Rajesh Kumar, patwari Mange Ram, and Subash, Raj Kumar and Bahadur, all drivers in the office
of the Flying Squad Officer, Gurgaon.
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BJP seeks action against pvt schools
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 10
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INLD opposes shops on
Gochi drain
Faridabad, May 10 The corporation proposes to set up the market along with roads on the 7 km-long open drain at a cost of Rs 70 crore. At a meeting with INLD leaders, D Suresh said the market was necessary to raise funds for the entire project. The plan was to sell the shops in the proposed market. INLD leaders, however, asserted that they would not allow construction of the market. They sought roads on the drain to facilitate smooth movement of vehicular traffic in the area. Several colonies fall on both sides of the
drain. — TNS
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Forum gets building
Ambala, May 10
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Active Tracker System yields results
