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Jaswanti stripped off Indira Shakti Award
Change rules to protect shelter home inmates: DGP
HC grounds Agnivesh’s plan
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Dalits refuse to end dharna
Boost to direct paddy sowing
Ex-Army Chief not to join politics
Former Army Chief, General VK Singh, is felicitated on a visit to his native village, Bopara (Bhiwani), on Sunday. A Tribune photograph
State refuses more water to Delhi
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Jaswanti stripped off Indira Shakti Award
Chandigarh, June 11 The government also withdrew the Indira Gandhi Mahila Shakti Award given to her. Haryana Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Geeta Bhukkal said that this decision had been taken in view of the FIR registered against Jaswanti Devi for offences under various sections of the IPC, the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act 1956, the Bonded Labour Act and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act. The controversial shelter home came into news for all wrong reasons when a team of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) raided it on May 9 and rescued about 120 inmates, including children and women. The conscience of the state and the nation was shaken after the inmates revealed how they were exploited allegedly by Jaswanti Devi, her son-in-law and other family members. While the Punjab and Haryana High Court constituted a four-member committee to go into the affairs of the shelter home, DGP Ranjeev Dalal set up a special investigation team headed by MS Mann, ADGP (Law and Order), to investigate all aspects of the case after allegations appeared in a section of the media that certain policemen were also involved in the exploitation of inmates. The NCPCR and the National Women’s Commission are also investigating the case. Rohtak: The special investigating team (SIT) of the Haryana police, which is probing the Apna Ghar shelter home case, is believed to be zeroing in on a retired Child Development and Protection Officer (CDPO) of Rohtak. The CDPO was directly concerned with the child shelter home as this office has to process the recommendation for any grants to NGOs, including the one running the shelter home. The said official had retired before the shelter home wrongdoings were exposed. Sources said the NCPCR members had summoned and pulled up the said CDPO for her gross oversight on the misdemeanors of Jaswanti, who ran the NGO Bharat Vikas Parishad.
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Change rules to protect shelter home inmates: DGP
Hisar, June 11 He said this while addressing a press conference here after the passing-out parade of the first batch of recruit drivers at the the Police Lines. He said such institutions must be made more answerable to the government because they are becoming prone to corrupt practices. He claimed the guilty in the Apna Ghar case would not be spared and assured of proper investigations by the police. |
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HC grounds Agnivesh’s plan
Chandigarh, June 11 Swami Agnivesh was booked in FIR No. 294 dated May 26 last year registered under Section 295 and 295-A, IPC, at Hansi City police station on the complaint of Parveen Kumar Tayal. |
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Dalits refuse to end dharna
Hisar, June 11 Virender Bogaria, their leader, said the administration had promised to remove Section 124 to enable them to seek bail. However, the police did not remove this section from the FIR. — TNS |
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Boost to direct paddy sowing
Sirsa, June 11 The power distribution companies (DISCOMS) are under immense pressure during the second half of June and the first half of July every year due to an increased demand for electricity in the agricultural sector. Initially, the department will introduce direct sowing in 150 demonstration farms on a trial basis. If found successful, this would be taken up on a larger scale. Under direct sowing of paddy, rice is sown directly in soil using a machine. With direct sowing, rice seed is sown and sprouted directly into a field, eliminating the laborious process of planting seedlings by hand and greatly reducing the crop’s requirement of water. |
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Ex-Army Chief not to join politics
Bhiwani, June 11 He said the issues like corruption and black money raised by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev were serious and he supported the spirit behind their movement. Corruption had reached alarming heights in various fields in the country and citizens should collectively work to eradicate this menace. He said he would continue to raise his voice against corruption. Hinting at a defamation case filed against him in a Delhi court, the former Army Chief said certain persons having ulterior motives were trying to malign his clean image. He refused to comment on the reversal of one of his decisions by the new Army Chief, General Bikram Singh. |
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State refuses more water to Delhi
New Delhi, June 11 He said this at a meeting with the Chief Secretary of Delhi government, PK Tripathi. The issue was raised at the last meeting when the Chief Ministers of Delhi and Haryana, Sheila Dikshit and Bhupinder Singh Hooda, met in Delhi to discuss the construction of Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Western Express Corridor. They assured that the water issue of Delhi would be worked out in the next meeting when the Chief Secretaries of the two sates meet. PK Chaudhary told the Chief Secretary of Delhi that Haryana was already supplying 400 MGD water to Chandrawal Water Treatment Plant of the Delhi Jal Board that was more than its share, sources said. Haryana cannot spare anymore water for Delhi as it needs water for itself, he said. As far as the construction of Munak Canal is concerned, Chaudhary said it was already giving water enough to Delhi so the construction work of the canal did not come in the way of water distribution. A huge amount of water given to Delhi goes waste as the present canal is not concrete. If the canal is made concrete, there will be less wastage of water and Delhi will have sufficient water, he added. At present Delhi receives 845 MGD water through different sources. Of these, Haryana alone provides 400 MGD. But that is not enough and a large portion of the capital does not get water supply. The residents either depend on water tankers supplied by private persons or on groundwater. Till last year the level of ground water in the colonies located at the banks of the Yamuna was 50 feet below the earth. The water level has gone down further. In South Delhi, the water level has reached 600-800 feet beneath the earth, sources said.
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The Haryana Government today removed Jaswanti Devi, director of the controversial Rohtak-based shelter home, “Apna Ghar”, as a member of the Rohtak Juvenile Justice Board.
The government also withdrew the Indira Gandhi Mahila Shakti Award given to her.
Former Army chief, General VK Singh, has clarified that he has never thought of joining politics as he has no interest in the field.
He was talking to newsmen here after he was felicitated by residents of his native village,
Bopara, in the district and also honoured at a function here yesterday.
