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Move to curb female foeticide in Jhajjar
Fissures in state cotton millers’ association
Traffic constables get tips on English speaking
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Indo-Gangetic plain, glaciers, monsoon ‘gifts’ of Himalayas
Protect litigants’ interests, acting CJ tells lawyers
Impact of poverty-alleviation schemes studied
Counselling fair for students held
Police asks schools to form ‘trafffic clubs’
Siddharth Saxena
Private hospital to pay Rs 8 lakh as relief
Juvenile Justice Act
Inter-state smuggling of liquor
Kurukshetra to have online ration card facility
Health check-up campaign in Kalka
Family Planning Drive
Honour for Kurukshetra NIT
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Move to curb female foeticide in Jhajjar Ravinder Saini
Jhajjar, July 12 The authorities have decided to make cellphones available to Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) and Anganwari Workers free of cost to get feedback about the expectant women and school going children of less than six years of their area concerned. The mobile phone service would also enable the ANM and Anganwari workers to furnish updated information to their senior officials in this regard. Ajit Balalji Joshi, Jhajjar Deputy Commissioner, while interacting with The Tribune here yesterday, claimed that Jhajjar would be the first district in the country where mobile phones would be provided to the ANM and Anganwari workers as part of special programme being carried out by the authorities to check female foeticide in the district. “The move aims at plugging the communication gap between the workers and their senior officers besides getting vital information about the number of expectant women and school going children, health and immunisation programme. With the mobile phone service, the ANM and Anganwari workers will be able to send their progress report daily through SMS to their senior officials,” said Joshi, adding that the plan would be supportive of curbing pre-natal gender determination test in the district. He maintained that officers of the Health and Women and Child Welfare Department had been asked to provide mobile phones to ANM and the Anganwari workers soon so that the plan could be implemented at the earliest. “The mobile phone service will also be helpful to bring similarity in the record of the Health and Women and Child Welfare Department as the ANM and Anganwari workers will also be able to get accurate information about birth-death rates of far-flung areas through cellphones,” said the Deputy Commissioner. Notably, all sonography machines in ultrasound centres here had been put on the active-tracker advanced technological equipment in the beginning of this year to check the misuse of ultrasound machines through its round-the-clock tab on them. The ‘active tracker’ not only keeps a record of the use of ultrasound machines but also connects online with a central monitoring system so as to check pre-natal gender determination test in the district.
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Fissures in state cotton millers’ association
Sirsa, July 12 Mittal, who submitted his resignation to the association patron Sumer Chand Garg yesterday, cited personal reasons for his action. However, sources in the organisation said he had taken this step after some members did not support his endeavours to stop evasion of market fee as per his commitment to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda when the state government reduced market fee on cotton in Haryana last year. Hooda had reduced market fee and the Haryana Rural Development Fund (HRDF) from 4 per cent earlier to 1.6 per cent after a prolonged agitation by the cotton industry on an assurance by its members that they would compensate the government’s loss by stopping evasion completely. “It is true that the industry has already paid market fee on more than one crore quintal of cotton against commitment of 90 lakh quintals, but it is all largely due to a bumper production last year,” said a member of the Haryana Cotton Industries Association requesting anonymity. “Evasion by some members is not only against the spirit of assurance given by the industry to the Chief Minister, but it is also denying level a play field to others, who have been paying their taxes honestly,” the member maintained. Sirsa, responsible for one-third of Haryana’s total production, is the biggest producer of cotton in Haryana. Sources in the cotton industry maintained that while evasion of market fee and HRDF in Sirsa and Fatehabad districts was hardly five to seven per cent, a higher percentage of millers from Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Meham, Hansi, Uchana, Narwana and Barwala had been evading taxes. Sumer Chand Garg said a meeting of the general body of the association would be called to discuss the issues connected with Mittal’s resignation.
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Traffic constables get tips on English speaking
Gurgaon, July 12 The traffic policemen were taught how to conduct a conversation in English. They also practiced role-plays designed to handle real-life situations encountered in daily routine while apprehending violators or assisting commuters. As many as 26 constables attended the training programme. “As Gurgaon is home to multinational companies and global professionals, English communication skills are essential for traffic police,” the organisers said, adding that the training programme had been designed to improve the overall communication skills of the participants and increasing their confidence through participation and practice. The participants became more engaged and confident as the training progressed over the weeks, eventually becoming confident enough to stage role-plays in English before the DCP. “Such courses help us upgrade the skills of our workforce and increase our involvement with the public. The constables who went through the training are happy with the course and have asked for more. I also appreciate all the hard work by the volunteer instructors and look forward to more such initiatives in the future,” observed Bharti Arora, DCP (Traffic), Gurgaon. Subinder Khurana, president, CyberCity Welfare Society, said: “The traffic police personnel have a tough job. They have to work long hours even in harsh weather amidst noise, dust and heavy traffic movement. We hope that this programme will help them perform their duties in more efficient manner.”
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Indo-Gangetic plain, glaciers, monsoon ‘gifts’ of Himalayas
Panchkula, July 12 This was stated by Dr Om Narain Bhargava, a retired Director of Geological Survey of India and a well-known expert on the Himalayas, at a lecture on “Making of the Himalayas” organised by the Society for Promotion of Science and Technology (SPSTI) here recently. The Himalaya that has given glaciers, rivers, monsoon and vast stretches of fertile alluvium was not built in a day and its making is a fascinating saga from the sea bed to snowy peaks spread over 1,900 million years. In his well-elucidated presentation, Dr Bhargava said the Himalayan mountain chain emerged from the sea due to collision of the Indian Plate with that of the Asian Plate and during the past 1,900 million years, the position of the Indian Plate kept on shifting until its collision with the Asian Plate. The drifting of the Plate caused changes in the latitudes and the longitudes resulting in a varied geographic scenario and climate. Though the oldest rock that laid the foundation of the mountain chain is about 1,900 million year old, the Himalaya finally emerged from the sea bed only about 25 million years back. The plate is still not stationary. It is still rising, making it the youngest mountain in the world, whereas other mountain chains like Alps and Andes have stabilised. Also the Himalaya is the only example of a continental-continental Plate collision. During the 1,900 million years, the area that now constitutes the Himalaya witnessed eight episodes of extensive igneous activity, three ice ages, four periods of regional aridity, four cycles of reef-building, repeated withdrawals and invasions of sea, punctuated by hiatuses. Each marine invasion brought different aerial extent and depth of sea. Surprisingly, prior to the main Himalayan Orogeny, there have been also earlier mountain-building activities. In his introductory remarks, Dharam Vir, president of the SPSTI, described the Himalayas as a mountain of destiny, adding that it was an integral part of the ethos and culture of the Indian sub-continent and crucial to its survival.
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Protect litigants’ interests, acting CJ tells lawyers
Faridabad, July 12 Speaking at a function here recently in connection with the laying of foundation stone of an additional block at the Judicial Court Complex in Faridabad, Justice Jasbir Singh urged the lawyers “to give something positive” to litigants who visited the court complexes to seek justice. The foundation stone was laid by an incumbent judge of the Supreme Court and former Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice TS Thakur. He was the chief guest at the function. Addressing lawyers, Justice Jasbir Singh said: “You are known as persons belonging to a noble profession. The salutary epithet has been bequeathed to you by our forefathers who earned respect by dint of their hard work and social service”. He urged the lawyers to pursue higher goals and used an Urdu couplet to stress that high goals were achieved not by wings but by courage. He said lawyers should transcend themselves to higher order of thoughts and rise above petty issues like strikes which affected litigants. He urged them to be role models in society. Making a strong pitch for professionalism, he said judges and lawyers were accountable to the litigants. They must treat court complex as a “temple of justice”. The ideal situation would be when a litigant leaves the court complex with admiration and respect for the judicial system and its practitioners, he added. Judges of the High Court SK Mittal and Hemant Gupta also spoke on the occasion. Faridabad District and Sessions Judge Darshan Singh proposed the vote of thanks at the function.
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Impact of poverty-alleviation schemes studied
Kurukshetra, July 12 Kurukshetra University has recently declared Dr Bharti eligible for the award of the degree of “Doctor of Philosophy” on the recommendation of the board of examiners and the research degree committee. “To remove urban poverty in Haryana, we need a sense of commitment alongwith political will as observed in Rohtak in the survey made to evaluate the impact of ongoing targeted poverty alleviation programme, namely SJSRY from 1999-2000 to 2009-2010 in the state,” said Dr Bharti. She said there was something wrong either with the poor persons or with the implementation of the scheme. “We have observed that if they are given enough space and pace to grow, they will be as tall and good as anybody else,” she said. “To make the SJSRY a success story in the state, we should differentiate among poverty alleviation, elimination and eradication programmes along with zero tolerance against corruption in the schemes for the poor which can make a dent on the economic health of urban poor,” added Bharti.
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Counselling fair for students held
Rewari, July 12 It was sponsored by the Somany Institute of Technology and Management, Rewari. Besides professional specialists, nearly 350 students from over a dozen engineering and other professional institutions and universities of Rewari, Narnaul, Gurgaon and Jhajjar districts of Haryana and Neemrana and Pilani areas of Rajasthan participated in the fair. Vishal Somany, vice-chairman of the institute, said such fairs provided valuable guidance to students for professional courses and institutions of their choice. Subject specialists from Raffels University, Neemrana, Lovely Professional University of Distance Education, Narnaul, and other such institutions as well as counsellors of AIF gave tips to the students regarding professional courses and institutions of engineering, technology, medical science, law, nursing and hotel management. — OC
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Police asks schools to form ‘trafffic clubs’
Faridabad, July 12 Kapur said the idea behind the proposed traffic clubs was to organise inter-school competitions on aspects related to road safety. A schedule was being made ready, he added. The objective was to create awareness among children which would also help them to become responsible citizen in future, he said. He said the clubs would involve students from primary, middle and higher levels. The schools would be provided a manual incorporating various aspects related to road safety. The inter-school competition would be based on the contents of the manual to be prepared by the police, he added. He further said the move to rope in school children in the campaign would have many benefits. After being made aware of the issue, the school managements would be roped in to motivate them to regulate vehicles outside their institutes as part of social service. They could take part in traffic regulation for some time at the start and end of school hours, he added. They would also be in a position to propogate the message of road safety among their peer group. He expressed concern over the growing trend of underage children driving vehicles. Those who are eligible, drive vehicles without procuring a driving licence and do not have any sense of road rules, he added.
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Rewari lad wins laurels
Rewari, July 12 Siddharth recently passed his class XII examination of CBSE from St. Xavier School,
Jaipur, with distinction. He has always bagged meritorious positions in academics, sports and other extra-curricular activities during his school
career. Siddharth received coaching for the above entrance test at coaching institutes of Jaipur and Kota in
Rajasthan.
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Private hospital to pay Rs 8 lakh as relief
Yamunanagar, July 12 According to the prosecution, over a year ago, the complainant Ravinder Kumar, a resident of Gadhaula village, approached Dr Vivek Talwar for a problem in his eyes. The doctor disclosed to him that he had a major problem in his eyes for which he would be administered injections. Thereafter the doctor injected four injections near the eyes of the complainant and charged Rs 4,500 as his fee and the cost of injections. After the injections were given, the eyes of the complainant got swollen but the doctor assured him that within one or two hours everything would be fine. Thereafter the complainant was surprised to see that his whole body had swollen and felt acute pain in his body. The next day he again approached the doctor who assured him that it would get alright. The condition of the complainant deteriorated day by day. After conducting the ultrasound in another private nursing home, he was shocked to know that both his kidneys had suffered acute damage. Thereafter he went to PGI Chandigarh where the doctors said both his kidneys needed replacement. The president of the consumer forum DN Arora and member Urmil Beniwal observed in the order, “It is medically well established that it is for the eye surgeon to ensure before undertaking a surgery on a patient that at least two important medical parameters of the patient, blood sugar and blood pressure, are under control. In case these are not within permissible limits, the eye surgeon postpones the surgery till such time that these have been controlled through medication and related treatment”. They further observed, “We are of the confirmed view that this is a case of medical negligence which led to avoidable renal failure resulting in permanent disability and impairment”.
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State Advisory Board reconstituted
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 12 While stating this here recently, a spokesperson for the Women and Child Development Department said Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Women and Child Development Department, Anita Yadav, would be the member of the board. He said financial commissioners and principal secretaries of the Finance Department, Home Department, Technical Education Department, Labour and Employment Department, Health Department, Women and Child Development Department, School Education Department and Industrial Training Department would also serve as the members of the board. He said other members of the board included chairperson, Women Commission, Haryana, Sushila Sharma, Director-General Health Services, Director-General of Police, director, Prosecution Department, director, Sports Department, state representative of the Indian Medical Association, state representative of Lions Club, state representative of Rotary Club, Honorary General Secretary, Haryana State Council for Child Welfare, general manager, BSNL Haryana, among others. The Director General, Women and Child Development Department, would serve as member secretary of the board, he added. While highlighting the functions of the board, the spokesperson said the board would advice the state government on matters relating to the establishment and maintenance of the homes. It would also consider ways and means for the mobilisation of human and material resources for the implementation of the Act. He said the board would issue guidelines for the provision of facilities for education, training and rehabilitation of child in need of care and protection and juvenile in conflict with law. Apart from this, it would also serve as a forum for an effective coordination among various official and non-official agencies concerned. He said the term of the advisory board would be for a period of five years and it would meet twice in a year.
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Inter-state smuggling of liquor Bhanu P Lohumi Tribune News Service
Karnal, July 12 On receiving a tip-off, policemen intercepted a container coming from Himachal Pradesh and recovered 850 boxes containing 10,200 bottles of IMFL being illegally transported from Himachal to Gujarat. The liquor was being smuggled as the bottles had a stamp “to be sold in Himachal only”. It is the first case of smuggling of liquor in the name of well-known courier companies and the police is probing the nexus between the liquor mafia and courier companies. The driver of the canter said he had no idea of the people behind the smuggling racket as he was only given the container and told to give the delivery of the container at the Gujarat border which is a dry state. “We get instructions on phone and have no idea as to who is the caller,” said canter driver, Sharavan, adding that they were told that the people concerned will contact us themselves at the border.
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Kurukshetra to have online ration card facility
Kurukshetra, July 12 This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Mandeep Singh Brar while inaugurating an extension of online services through the e-Disha centre at the mini- secretariat here recently. Thirtytwo other online services would be made available for issuing driving licence, commercial vehicle registration and obtaining ration card through e-Disha connecting with website www.kurukshetra.nic.in for the public, the DC said. He said he had directed the district food and supplies officer to ensure completion of all formalities to avoid any difficulty to the public.
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Hooda for periodic appraisal of schemes, projects
Chandigarh, July 12 Hooda, who was addressing the inaugural session of the two-day workshop on Results Framework Documents (RFD) jointly organised by the Haryana Government and Central Government here recently, said the periodic appraisal would enable us to know if our assumptions were justified, our direction was correct, and our efforts were adequate. The Chief MInister said officers should frame policies and programmes to ensure that the benefit reached the stakeholders. “For the sake of innovation, we usually make the system more complicated but the approach should be that it can be easily understood by the common man,” he said. Stressing the need for evaluating and monitoring the performance of government departments, Hooda said in case of non-achievement vis-à-vis targets they would also reveal why the results had not been achieved, where the things had gone wrong; what were the reasons for slippages; and what could be done to remedy the situation. Haryana Chief Secretary PK Chaudhery said it had always been the vision of the Chief Minister that the state should maintain high rank not only in terms of performance but also in delivering public services on time. The Chief Secretary assured the Chief Minister that his team of officers would make Haryana a trendsetter in implementation of RFD. Union Secretary, Performance Management Division, Prajapati Trivedi, said the workshop was being organised with the objective of familiarising senior officers with the preparation of RFD. Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Chhatar Singh, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Planning, Sanjeev Kaushal, administrative secretaries and heads of various departments and senior officers of the Central Government were also present on the occasion.
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Health check-up campaign in Kalka
Kalka, July 12 Stating this, Dr Anuja Gagan, dental surgeon of the CHC, said under the campaign, a team of doctors and other health workers visited Anganwari centres twice a week and so far 20 centres out of the 49 in various villages, falling under the local CHC, had been covered under the health drive.Dr Gagan said during the past couple of months, under the School Health Programme, a total of 4,443 children of 50 government schools were examined, out of which 200 children were found anaemic. Children having a weak eye sight were provided with spectacles. — OC
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State to utilise services of ASHA
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 12 While stating this recently, Health Minister Rao Narender Singh said ASHA would be incentivised for counselling newly married couple to delay child for two years after marriage and couples with one child to have spacing of three years after the birth of the first child. Under this scheme, ASHA would be paid Rs 500 for ensuring spacing of two years after marriage, Rs 500 for ensuring spacing of three years after the birth of first child and Rs 1,000 in case the couple opts for a permanent method after two children only. He said it had been observed that the uptake of various methods, especially spacing, remains poor in the state. Various reviews and field visits revealed that in spite of trained personnel available in the field, clients do not avail of spacing methods due to the absence of proper counselling and information regarding the benefit, myths or misconceptions. He said ASHA would also counsel eligible couples who have up to two children to opt for permanent limiting methods. He said ASHA would prepare and update the list of newly married eligible couples, eligible couples with one child or pregnant with first child, eligible couple with two children or pregnant with second child and get it certified by Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) or Medical Officer (MO). He said if women opt for temporary family planning methods after marriage and goes for planned conception after two years, she would conceive in a planned manner. It would reduce the conception rate resulting in lowering the risk of infant and maternal deaths, he added.
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Honour for Kurukshetra NIT
Kurukshetra, July 12 Dr RL Bhatia, project director, while announcing the awards said the award was intended to spur excellence in professional education. The awardees were chosen through a stringent process which included assessment of students, alumni, and a committee of experts from the academia and industry, he added. Prof Anand Mohan, director, NIT, Kurukshetra, expressed gratitude to ABP News for conferring this honour on NIT, Kurukshetra. — OC
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Cocktail
Directed by: Homi Adjania
Produced by Saif Ali Khan’s Illuminate Films and directed by Homi Adjania, “Cocktail” has been shot at locations like Capetown, London and Hyderabad’s Ramoji Film Studio. “Cocktail” is a love triangle between Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and debutant Diana Penty. Saif and Deepika are shown to be in a live-in relationship in the film in which Deepika plays an aspiring photographer. The story takes a turn when Saif falls in love with Diana and ends up marrying her. “Cocktail” is touted as a beautiful romantic comedy. Some tracks composed by Pritam are potential chartbusters. Watch it from today at Fame Shalimar, KC (Panchkula), Radhika, BMG (Rewari), Nigar, Fun (Ambala), Fun, Cinemax (Panipat), PVR Ambience, PVR MGF, PVR Sahara, SRS Omaxe, SRS Wedding, DTCC, DTMM, Dimple-Jagadhari, INOX, SRS Pristine, SRS Eldeco, SRS Shubham, SRS CC, INOX, Movie-Time CM, Q Cinema (Faridabad), Glitz-Kurukshetra, Sheila, Satyam (Rohtak). — Dharam Pal
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Sirsa, July 12
Kurukshetra is the first district in the state where issuing of ration card facility has been introduced online through
e-Disha centre here.
