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Rules on school buses being flouted in Fatehabad
PGIMS docs remove fish bone without surgery
The fish bone removed from the food pipe of a patient. Photo by writer |
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PAC panel surveys Yamuna to check pollution
Institutes told to curb ragging
Jhajjar to have police-public school soon, says IGP
Teachers’ body asks govt to fill vacancies in private colleges
CLASS X CBSE RESULTS
Animal fair organised on Biodiversity Day
472nd birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap celebrated
Orientation programme for teachers at Kurukshetra
Hooda eyes foothold in Ahirwal belt
Ultrasound machines to be tracked
Sonepat lad selected for international badminton tourney
District Legal Services Authority to launch anti-ragging drive
Nehru remembered on death anniversary
Lt-Gen Dr DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, pays floral tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in Kurukshetra. Photo: DR Vij
New governing body takes charge
Search panel to suggest names for CIC, ICs
Rs 500 crore scholarships for poor students
Erratic power supply
Paralegal volunteers to be appointed in rural areas
Rs 71 cr earmarked for free stationery, school uniforms
INLD seeks probe into gangrape of Khanpur Kalan varsity student
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Rules on school buses being flouted in Fatehabad
Fatehabad, May 28 There have been explicit guidelines from the government on the matter for the past over five years, but these are seldom followed by many school owners, who consider petty financial saving more important than the safety of children studying in their institutions. The authorities showed some concern in this direction after an accident involving a school bus in Ambala in which 11 kids lost their lives, but the reaction proved to be of a knee-jerk kind, as they did not follow up the initial concern shown for enforcing the guidelines in this regard. Gross violations in the observance of the rules in this regard came to the fore recently when a bus belonging to Mother India Convent School, Ratia, hit a tree near Rattangarh resulting in injuries to nearly 50 children on board. Luckily, the students escaped with minor injuries, but the untrained driver jumped out and ran away leaving the children in the lurch while the conductor was merely a 13-year-old child, who was working in the bus in gross violation of the child labour laws. The school authorities had not even painted the name of their institution anywhere on the bus and there were no first aid facilities on the vehicle. In pursuant to the guidelines issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on a civil writ petition, the government had issued instructions on how the school buses were to be painted and the way the institutions were supposed to write their names on these vehicles. The guidelines fixed the number of years of driving experience of the drivers of school buses. Besides,the driver, the rules said, should wear a proper uniform with a nameplate showing his name and licence number on it. The drivers were also supposed to undergo a refresher course every two or three years. Similarly, the school owners were supposed to keep attendants or conductors, who should be trained to attend to children, in the buses. Besides these, there were rules regarding speed limits, seating capacity of the buses and disembarking of children. However, hardly any of these rules are being followed properly. The situation is equally bad in other towns of the district, including Ratia, Tohana, Bhattu, Fatehabad, Bhuna and Jakhal. Some of the schools though follow the rules, but there is hardly any check from the authorities. Efforts made to contact Sant Lal Pachar, secretary, Regional Transport Authority, did not succeed, as he did not respond to calls made on his mobile.
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PGIMS docs remove fish bone without surgery
Rothak, May 28 “The patient had reported in the OPD a few days ago with a severe pain in his chest and the neck area. He was almost unable to speak properly and faced a respiratory problem. All tests, including endoscopy, of the patient found that a fish bone had got stuck in the food pipe and this was causing severe pain to the patient. It was also posing a serious risk to his life as the sharp-edged fish bone was placed in such a manner that it could have ripped apart the food pipe, damaging respiratory organs also,’’ said Dr Parveen Malhotra, the head of the department, who operated upon the patient. The patient said the bone had got stuck in his food pipe the previous night. Dr Malhotra claimed that they were able to remove the bone in an operation that lasted for about 15
to 20 minutes and the patient felt an immediate relief. Suresh was discharged soon after a detailed check up.
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PAC panel surveys Yamuna to check pollution
Yamunanagar, May 28 Recently, a four-member team of Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Haryana Assembly, led by Chairman Sampat Singh (MLA) had visited the Yamuna River and the industrial units, who are allegedly involved in polluting the river. The team also checked the treatment plants of two big industrial units and got samples of effluents from some of the factories. The team met senior officers of the administration and asked them about the steps that have been taken to check the pollution of Yamuna river. The team has summoned the concerned officers to Chandigarh on May 29 and asked them to file a detail report in this regard. One of the members of the team, MLA Ashok Arora, said he found out that untreated effluents were tossed into Yamuna. He said some of the treatment plants were out of order. “It seems that the Municipal Council and other departments concerned are not performing their duties in a responsible manner,” he said. Two other members of the team, Krishan Panwar and Parvinder Singh Dhull (both MLA), were of the opinion that ‘harsh steps are to be taken to save Yamuna’. About eight months back, the pollution department had given nine samples of Yamuna’s water, out of which eight failed the purity test. One of the local environmentalist said that Yamuna would get polluted in Yamunanagar like it happened in Delhi if effective steps were not taken immediately. Meanwhile, it is learnt that the Municipal Corporation, Yamunanagar, has planned to spend Rs 50 lakh to make the ‘ghats’ neat and clean.
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Institutes told to curb ragging
Sirsa, May 28
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Jhajjar to have police-public school soon, says IGP
Jhajjar, May 28 Alok Mittal, Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Rohtak Range, said this while interacting with mediapersons at Aasudha village in Bahadurgarh sub-division here recently after a meeting of police officials over their welfare issues. “The school will be established in collaboration with the DAV School Management, which is already running Police Public Schools in Rohtak and Panipat districts. Besides wards of the cops, children of common men will also be able to get admission in the school. For wards of policemen, 50 per cent quota in admission has been reserved,” said the IGP. Nearly 50 per cent concession in fee would also be given to cop’s wards, he added. The aim of setting up the police school is to make quality education available to children of the Haryana police personnel. Jhajjar SP Patram Singh has been asked to prepare a detailed report in this regard so that the decision could be executed at the earliest. Apart from this, plans are also being embarked upon to provide better residential facilities to the cops, Mittal said. In reply to a question regarding recovery of mobile phones persistently from the possession of undertrials in jail premises, the IGP said directions had recently been issued to jail superintendents and police chiefs of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Panipat and Sonepat districts. “The police chiefs have been directed to transfer all those cops with immediate effect who are deputed in jails for a long time. All the jail staff will be kept under surveillance to find out who are indulged in illegal activities of providing mobile phones to the undertrials,” said the IGP. The chiefs had also been asked to carry out surprise raids in jails at regular intervals to nab the undertrials who were using cell phones, he added. The SPs had also been directed to ensure removal of all electronic points from barracks so that prisoners could not charge their mobile phones, Mittal said. Along with other police officers, Jhajjar SP Patram Singh, Rohtak officiating SP Vikas Dhankar, Bahadurgarh DSP Rajeev Deswal and Jhajjar police PRO Devender Dangi were also present at the meeting.
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Teachers’ body asks govt to fill vacancies in private colleges
Chandigarh, May 28 A delegation of the association led by its president Rajbir Parashar met Prasad last week in this regard. The delegation said the staff of such colleges was thankful to the government for streamlining the disbursement of their salaries. However, a large number of posts, both on the teaching side as well as the non-teaching side, had been lying vacant since 2008. Urging Prasad to intervene to resolve the issue, Parashar also requested him to notify the extended date of implementing the API system from July 2012-2013 on a priority basis. According to HCTA general secretary Narender Chahar, the delegation also protested against the letter issue by the Director-General, Higher Education, which re-categorised college librarians as ‘non-teaching’ staff which was contrary to the UGC norms and sought its withdrawal. Prasad assured the delegation that the pending issues of the government-aided private colleges would be resolved soon. The delegation, others members of which were Ishwar Singh, Inder Singh, Attar Singh, SS Dhillon, R Gasso and RP Saini, also met Principal OSD to Chief Minister MS Chopra, who assured them of resolving the issue of giving matching grant by the government for the new pension scheme for teachers joining service on or after January 2006 in aided colleges.
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School celebrates students’ success
Our Correspondent
Kaithal, May 28 Surjit Bahadur Khurania, president, Indira Gandhi Mahila MahaVidyalya (IGMMV), was the chief guest while Sadhna Thukral, principal IGMMV, was the guest of honour. School president Jagdish Bahadur Khurania presided over the function. Subhash Sharma, Abhay Bhasin, Ram Swaroop and Satish Chawla all members of the managing committee and the parents of merit holders were also present. Shruti, Shivam and Lisha, who scored CGPA 10, were garlanded and mementos and gifts were also given to them. As many as 22 students scored above CGPA, more than 9.46 students scored above 8 CGPA. Meritorious students studying of the school were given a scholarship of 5,100, 2,100 and 1,100, respectively. The chief guest announced a cash prize of Rs 11,000 to help the economically weak students. The guest of honour announced a cash prize of Rs 1,100 each to the students who scored 10 points. The school president appreciated the performance of the students and encouraged them to work harder and win even better positions in Class XII. The function ended with a vote of thanks from the principal.
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Animal fair organised on Biodiversity Day
Karnal, May 28 The mela focusing on the theme of potential role of pastoralist communities in conservation of indigenous migratory cattle was a big draw. A milking competition, organised in the field areas of Ambala, Yamunanagar and Panchkula districts evoked big response. The competition was confined to local pastoralists during their migration and the highest milk production from migratory Belahi cows was recorded at 8.4 litre per day, which was good considering the fact that May and June are the hottest months in the region and these cows sustain themselves on pastures, mainly grasses along the road sides. In all, nine cash prizes (three in each district) along with de-wormer and mineral mixture were awarded to the pastoralists. Belahi is the possible new cattle breed identified by the bureau and their scientists are actively working towards the characterisation of Belahi cattle under a project lead by Dr
Vikas Vohra. The animals of Belahi cattle are medium stature, have a good milk potential under low input system and the bullocks are being used/sold for ploughing the fields of hilly regions in Himachal and Punjab. The animals are kept by the Gujjar community from both Hindu as well Muslim religions. The Belahi cattle are kept under migration for about 8-9 months of
the year. Dr BK Joshi, Director, NBAGR, emphasised on the need for conservation and sustainable utilisation of cattle diversity, which was reflected in 34 breeds from different agro-climatic zones available in
the country. The role of our farm animal genetic resources becomes even more important in view of present era of climate change,
Joshi said. Many scientists from the bureau interacted with the livestock keepers and replied to their queries.
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472nd birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap celebrated
Rewari, May 28 Members of the Rajput community from Bhiwani, Mahendergarh, Gurgaon, Palwal, Faridabad, Sonepat, Karnal and Kurukshetra districts and several other places of Haryana participated in the conference. Thakur Attar Lal, state chief of the AIRM, presided over its proceedings of the conference. Paying homage to Maharana Pratap, Lal highlighted his ideals of secularism, patriotism and sacrifice and asserted that these ideals are relevant for the Indians in the present times as well. At his behest, all present took a pledge to follow Maharana Pratap’s ideals in letter and spirit to strengthen the Samaj and the nation. Former MLA Rekha Rana, Mange Ram Chauhan, Satpal Chauhan (both vice presidents), Om Singh Parmar, Thakur Raja Ram, Badan Singh Chhokar, Kanwar Pal Singh Parmar, Subedar Surat Singh, Prof Surender Singh and other prominent functionaries of the mahasabha were also present on the occasion. Om Singh Parmar, Bir Singh, Dushiyant Rana, Kanwar Pal Singh Parmar, Ripudaman Singh Nambardar and Raj Kumar Singh also spoke on the occasion. Social activists Rajender Singh, Bhagirath Singh Parmar, Pahlad Singh, Amarpal Singh Parmar and Ombir Tanwar were honoured for their meritorious services.
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Orientation programme for teachers at Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra, May 28 In his inaugural address, Prof Chopra said orientation programmes played an important role in making teachers learn about the latest developments in teaching pedagogies, methods of evaluation, information and communication technology (ICT) in education and socio-cultural aspects of education. “The youth constitute 60 per cent of the country’s population and it is how we educate our youth will define the future of the country. Teachers will play a major role in guiding the youth to be innovative and responsible citizens of the world,” said Prof Chopra. Prof Shashi Anand, director, Academic Staff College, welcomed the chief guest and gave a brief overview of the four-week orientation programme. He said: “The Staff College at KU invites senior teachers and scholars from different areas of study to interact with the teachers”. Prof Anand further said since its inception in 1986, the Academic Staff College had played a key role in organising orientation and refresher courses for university and college teachers. As many as 30 teachers drawn from universities and colleges of Haryana and UP are participating in the orientation programme. — OC
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Hooda eyes foothold in Ahirwal belt
Mahendergarh, May 28 While local politicians like Kiran Chaudhary and Rao Narender Singh, Bhiwani-Mahendergarh MP Shruti Chaudhary, Rao Dan Singh and Anita Yadav are backing CM’s incursions to further their own political interests, Congress stalwarts of the region like Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh and state Cabinet minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav are lying low and watching the tide. Nonetheless, amidst the political circus, critical issues like acute scarcity of water and extremely slow pace of development works in south Haryana continue to remain unaddressed. Hooda has been touring the interior and far-flung areas like Dahina in Rewari district and Nangal Chaudhary in Mahendergarh and doling out sops. Lots of political games are being played and both internal factions as well as leaders of rival parties are being challenged to prove their might. High-sounding announcements are being made in the water-starved region of south Haryana in an apparent bid to divert attention from the real issues and serve ‘mutual’ interests. Addressing a rally organised in Rewari district a couple of months ago, Hooda had announced that a government engineering college would be established at Dahina village in memory of late Chief Minister Rao Birender Singh. Rao Birender’s son and local MLA Yadvendra Singh promptly demanded a degree college in memory of Hooda’s late father Ranbir Singh in the Kosli area. Needless to say, Rao Yadvendra’s elder brother Rao Inderjit as well as Rewari MLA and Hooda’s Cabinet colleague Capt Ajay Yadav were conspicuous by their absence. Rao Inderjit had also held a ‘jal rally’ at Nangal Chaudhary in Mahendergarh district last year, during which he had exhorted the people of South Haryana to write to the President and the Chief Justice of India for prompt disposal of the presidential reference on channelising the surplus Ravi-Beas waters to southern Haryana through the SYL canal. The MP had pointed out that the matter had been pending for nearly seven years. The President had referred the contentious issue to the Supreme Court after the Punjab Assembly passed the Punjab Termination of (Water) Agreements Act in 2004, annulling the tripartite agreement signed by the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan in presence of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1981. However, at a subsequent ‘chetna rally’ organised here in January this year, Rao Inderjit preferred to keep the focus on preventing the Congress from becoming a pocket party in the state. At a rally organised here recently, Hooda blamed the Opposition for the delay in commissioning of the Hansi-Butana Link (HBL) canal constructed during his tenure at a whopping cost of Rs 400 crore. He, however, failed to provide a proposed way out or explain his government’s stance regarding commissioning of the
SYL canal.
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Ultrasound machines to be tracked
Kurukshetra, May 28 Technical help of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) would be sought for this project, Brar added. He clarified that all the owners of ultrasound machines would have to save the ID of the pregnant woman who wishes to have ultrasound service. Brar called upon the civil societies, officers and political parties as well as Anganwadi and Asha workers to come forward in the ‘Save the girl child’ campaign. He urged upon the officials to ensure checking of the ultrasound centres from time to time. Civil Surgeon Vandana Bhatia briefed the meeting regarding the steps taken and proposals to be considered. Co-chairperson-cum-Zila Parishad chairman Praveen Chaudhary, ADC Sumedha Kataria, SDM Satbir Kundu were among those who were present on the occasion.
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Sonepat lad selected for international badminton tourney
Sonepat, May 28 In less than three months after his arrival in Auckland from India on a study programme, Sunil won other tournaments, including the Li-Ning North Island Championship, North Harbour Open 2012 and the tournament organised by the Punjabi Association of Waikato (Newzeland) in which he won the Men’s Singles and Men’s Doubles). According to Sunil’s father Kuldeep Famous, Sunil had gone to New Zealand to pursue his studies in Postgraduate Diploma in International Affairs on January 28 this year. Sunil was a distinguished player throughout his scholastic career, from school to the university. He won the top honour at the Inter-Institutional Badminton Championship (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and the Gurgaon Badminton Championship (U-19 Singles and Doubles and Men’s Singles and Doubles). Sunil was the runners-up and the best player at the first Chiranji Lal Ansal Gold Cup Memorial Tournament. Khalsa College honoured him with the Best Player and the Best All-Rounder of the Year Award in 2011.
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District Legal Services Authority to launch anti-ragging drive
Sirsa, May 28 Talking to The Tribune, Harish Gupta, Chief Judicial Magistrate and Secretary of the District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) in the two districts, said lawyers will visit colleges and universities to apprise students and teachers about the Supreme Court guidelines in this regard. Harish Gupta would also visit institutions and see to it that the SC guidelines are followed properly. “Ragging is a notorious practice, wherein the senior students get an excuse to harass their junior counterparts. They make the fresher easy target to satiate their own perverse sadistic pleasures,” said Gupta. He said ragging is a criminal offence and the punishment for such offence is stern. “As per the Supreme Court guidelines, in every single incident of ragging a First Information Report (FIR) must be filed by the educational institution,” the Chief Judicial Magistrate said. He said the DLSA would create awareness among senior students ragging could finish their career and the newcomers would be apprised of their rights in this regard and would be told how to report cases of ragging. He said the educational institutions are supposed to constitute committees and they have to take certain measure to prevent the menace. “The educational institutions shall ensure that all teaching, non-teaching, administrative, security and hostel staff have the proper knowledge of anti-ragging guidelines, so that they could stop such incident,” he said.
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Nehru remembered on death anniversary
Kurukshetra, May 28 Dr Sandhu said Pandit Nehru played a key role in the freedom struggle of the country. He said Pandit Nehru was a man of great vision and he laid the foundation of many socio-economic policies for the development of the nation and for the uplift of the poor and the marginalised. The youth of the nation should learn from the life and works of Pandit Nehru, he added.
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New governing body takes charge
Faridabad, May 28 The FCCI’s pro-active stance in favour of entrepreneurs was firmed up at a meeting of its new governing body. All the founder members, the past presidents and newly elected members of the organisation, including the incoming president, TC Dhawan, took part in the meeting. The new office-bearers are as follows: SC Gulati, RC Khandelwal, PIS Sarna and Ajay Joneja: vice- presidents; Ashish Jain: general secretary; Rohit Rungta: Joint Secretary; JS Malik: treasurer.
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Search panel to suggest names for CIC, ICs
Chandigarh, May 28 The Search Committee will have Lt General DDS Sandhu (retd), Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and Sarban Singh, Financial Commissioner, as its members. The Search Committee shall henceforth assist the Statutory Committee under the Right to Information Act while firming up its recommendations for the appointment of a Chief Information Commissioner or an Information Commissioner pertaining to the State Information Commission of Haryana. The committee will consist of a chairman and as many other members as are appointed as such by the government. It will devise its own principles while arriving at the procedure and the criterion adopted for making suitable recommendations and furnishing requisite details and materials supporting the suitability of the recommended candidates to be placed before the committee competent to make recommendations in terms of the Act for its consideration. There will be no requirement to adopt a fixed set of said principles, procedure and criterion to be adopted and the Search Committee in its own wisdom may fix or vary the said principles, procedure and criterion at any time. The Search Committee will recommend three times as many names as the vacancies notified to it to be considered for being filled. In case of any deviation on this count, the committee will unanimously certify to the committee competent to make recommendations in terms of the Act and the government that despite their earnest efforts, they are unable to identify and endorse any more suitable persons. The government will have the competence to change or vary any or all conditions constituting these procedures at its discretion and at any time. The office of the Chief Secretary, Haryana, or any other office or officer appointed by the Chief Secretary will provide secretarial assistance to the Search Committee.
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Rs 500 crore scholarships for poor students
Kurukshetra, May 28 Addressing a conference of the Jogi Samaj here, he said elementary education had been made free under the Right to Education (RTE) Act and the state government was providing various incentives to poor students to have access to higher education and asked children of SC and BPL families to take maximum advantage of the incentives. Asserting that his government was committed to the uplift of under-privileged families, Hooda said the government allotted 100 sq m plots free of cost to landless SC families and the left out deserving families would also be given free plots. Earlier, paying rich tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi while addressing the Brahmin Sammelan on his death anniversary at Brahmin Chhatrawas, Hooda called upon people to take pledge to work collectively to fulfil the dreams of Rajiv Gandhi.
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INLD state chief flays Hooda
Our Correspondent
Kurukshetra, May 28 Arora was addressing a corner meeting held in Jyoti Nagar here recently. He also alleged that the bills of the consumers who don’t pay their dues are being waived and no ACD is being charged from them either. He alleged levying undue charges by the state government was not fair to the consumers who pay their electricity bills regularly. They should be given incentives instead, he demanded. Lashing out at the state government, he said Bhupinder Singh Hooda had promised round-the-clock supply of electricity in the state within two years when took over as the Chief Minister. But even after seven and a half years he has failed in doing so. Arora alleged that after having received commission, inferior quality of machinery was installed at Deenbandhu Chhoturam Thermal Plant in Yamunanagar. As a result the plant has not been working for the last four months. Similarly, two units of Panipat Thermal Plant have not been working for the past quite some time and same is the case of Khedar Thermal Plant in Hissar where the thermal plant units are not working due to the non-availability of coal, he added.
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Paralegal volunteers to be appointed in rural areas
Chandigarh, May 28 “Till now 514 such legal aid clinics have been set up in Haryana and their number would soon be raised to 1,000,” Justice SK Mittal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court said. “Each clinic is set up for a cluster of four villages,” Mittal, who is also the executive chairman of the Haryana State Legal Services Authority, said in Rohtak recently. Member Secretary of the authority Deepak Gupta said the authority had launched Student Legal Literacy Mission (SLLM) since 2009 in collaboration with the State Education Department to create awareness among the student community. He said the mission had been established so that the students could understand law and was aimed at educating specified target groups, who were marginalised and vulnerable sections of society, through awareness and free legal aid. “The main aim of this programme is to educate society about their constitutional and statutory rights and duties, of which they are unaware,” he said. — PTI
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Rs 71 cr earmarked for free stationery, school uniforms
Chandigarh, May 28 As a result of this step taken under the Right to Education Act, about 21 lakh students would be benefited in the state during the current financial year, State's Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said here recently. She said the Education Department would also focus on increasing enrolments and arresting
drop-out rates. The minister said the Elementary Education Department had issued guidelines for providing free stationery, uniforms and school bags and reimbursement of school fees of students of Classes I to VIII for the financial year 2012-13. She said funds for procurement of these items would be directly transferred from the Directorate to the schools concerned in the account of their school management
committees (SMCs). For this purpose, the authorised bank would transfer the funds to the SMCs concerned, she said. Bhukkal said funds for free stationery to non-Scheduled Caste students of Classes I to V at the rate of Rs 100 per student and of Classes VI to VIII at the rate of Rs 150 per student, as per the strength given by various SMCs, would be transferred to respective accounts by the bank. These funds would be further transferred in the bank accounts of these students duly opened by them, she added. — PTI
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INLD seeks probe into gangrape of Khanpur Kalan varsity student
Gurgaon, May 28 A delegation of the INLD led by party general secretary and Haryana MLA Dr Ajay Singh Chautala met Raju Parmar, a member of the National Commission for Schedule Castes, and apprised him of the issue recently. The team also approached the National Commission for Women. In a communiqué to the chairpersons of the said commissions, Dr Chautala alleged that due to the “disappointingly callous” attitude of the state government towards the atrocities against women and children especially those belonging to the weaker sections of the society, there has been an alarming rise in such cases. The letter also drew the attention of the Commission towards the alleged brutal exploitation and sexual abuse of the inmates (comprising minor girls and mentally challenged women) at the shelter home run by an NGO in Rohtak and the alleged gangrape of a 19-year-old pursuing law at BPS Women University in Khanpur Kalan. The victim belongs to the Scheduled Caste. The representation also points out that Jaswanti Devi, who ran the Rohtak NGO, had also been honoured by the state government for exemplary service also bagged several other awards and grants. “As reported in the media, the administration is trying to hush up the matter evident from the fact that even after 12 days, the medical tests of the victims have not been conducted,” the letter states. The members have also alleged the involvement of politicians and bureaucrats and demanded the INLD has also demanded an impartial inquiry into the matter. The letter also points out that on May 16, a student of BPS Women University was allegedly abducted by four accused from the university gate and gang-raped in broad daylight. “When the incident was reported to the hostel warden but she tried to brush it aside and even asked the victim not to report the matter to the police. The victim later approached the university Registrar and the Vice-Chancellor, but they also wanted to keep the matter under wraps, he alleged. The authorities allegedly put pressure on the victim to remain silent for sake of the image of the university. “The officials allegedly tried to influence the victim’s parents and told them to take their daughter home,” the letter states. Dr Chautala said many students of the university had committed suicide over the past six months, which, coupled with the incidents of sexual assaults on girls, point to sexual crimes under the patronage of the university administration and influential politicians. Maintaining that the cases reported above were just the “tip of the iceberg”, the INLD leader has sought immediate intervention of the commissions to take stern measures in this regard.
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Rules pertaining to school buses are being flouted with impunity by school owners in Fatehabad much to the peril of children travelling in these vehicles.
There have been explicit guidelines from the government on the matter for the past over five years, but these are seldom followed by many school
owners
Suresh Kumar, a middle-aged local resident, got a new lease of life after doctors of the Gastroenterology Department of the PGIMS removed a piece of fish bone that had got stuck into his food pipe a few days ago.
Water pollution is rampant in Yamuna River as sewage of the city and industrial effluents enter the river without being treated. Even heaps of garbage could be spotted on the both banks of the river.
Recently, a four-member team of Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Haryana Assembly, led by Chairman Sampat Singh (MLA) had visited the Yamuna River and the industrial units, who are allegedly involved in polluting the river.
With a view to providing better educational facilities to wards of the Haryana police personnel, the Rohtak Range Police has decided to set up a police-public school on the police lines campus in Jhajjar. A considerable concession in the school fee would be given to children of the cops.
The new electronic tracking system connected with the office of the Civil Surgeon, Kurukshetra through a chip fixed in the 52 ultrasound centres working in the district will be introduced shortly. An order to this effect was passed at the district task force Pre-Natal Diagnostic Test (PNDT) meeting held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Mandip Singh Brar in the Mini Secretariat.
Sunil Dahiya, a 21-year-old boy from Rohna village here, has been selected to play in the international players’ category (as a member of the Auckland Badminton Association of New Zealand) in the Auckland U-23 Men’s Representative Team and the Auckland Senior Division One
(Wisdon Cup) and the Division Two (Slazenger Cup). The championship will take place in Australia next month.
Kurukshetra, May 28
