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Public hearing ends amid farmers’ protest
Plant not at any cost: INLD
Bishnoi opposes land acquisition
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Many childcare homes to shut shop
11 HCS officers transferred
NHRC team meets Bhagana Dalits
Rewari clash
Farmers lock sugar mill
Power schedule changed
Fake cosmetics seized
Sex racket busted, 11 arrested
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Public hearing ends amid farmers’ protest
Gorakhpur, July 17 The meeting was scheduled to begin at 11.30 am but the Deputy Commissioner left the venue at noon, after declaring that the public hearing was “over” . Many villagers were stopped by the police on the outskirts of the village stadium, the venue for the hearing. “People like me who had come prepared with questions pertaining to our safety were left high and dry. The officials ended the proceedings suddenly without giving us even a chance to raise questions,” said Yogesh Kumar, a resident of Fatehabad. TR Arora, Chief Project Manager of NPCIL for Haryana, said the proceedings were held in advance to finish early. Activists of some NGOs opposing the power project raised concerns amid chaos. The farmers held a demonstration at the venue and hundreds of villagers stood on the road leading to the stadium. The police did not allow any private vehicle to go towards the venue. Even mediapersons had to walk several kilometres under the hot sun only to learn the meeting had ended. Hisar MP and HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi and his cavalcade were stopped on the outskirts of the village for over 45 minutes. He was allowed to proceed towards the stadium only when the authorities and NPCIL officials had left the venue. INLD MLA Abhay Singh Chautala reached the spot after a while. Both Bishnoi and Chautala termed the public hearing as a farce. Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Prahlad Singh Gillankhera reached the outskirts of the village but did not go to the meeting venue. Arora said about 30 persons asked questions on various environmental issues which were answered on the spot. Kaushik said the public hearing was successful, adding the authorities had to end the meeting early as they were apprehending mischief. He said the authorities would now announce the award tomorrow. “The farmers have won half the battle by forcing the authorities to make a hasty retreat despite heavy police deployment,” said Hans Raj Siwach, president of the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti spearheading the agitation against the project. |
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Plant not at any cost: INLD
Chautala, who reached Gorakhpur today with a large number of supporters after the authorities had already finished the proceedings, said even if the authorities succeeded in doing so by using force, the party would abandon the project soon after coming to power. Describing the public hearing to issue environmental clearance to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd for the Gorakhpur plant as a farce, he said the authorities did not allow even elected representatives to attend it. |
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Bishnoi opposes land acquisition
Bishnoi said he would not allow even an inch of Gorakhpur land to be acquired by the government and he would not hesitate making any sacrifice for this. He said his party was of the view that farmers’ land should not be acquired for any development project without their consent. |
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Many childcare homes to shut shop
Chandigarh, July 17 Sources said the Women and Child Development Department had received information that eight such homes had either expressed their intention to close down or had already downed their shutters. The real problem is increasing number of inmates who need accommodation. While two such homes have already been closed down in Kurukshetra, another home has closed in Panipat while four other homes were in the process of winding up. The department says that children have been handed back to the parents while other orphans were adjusted elsewhere. The department will face a crisis with all government childcare institutions already packed to capacity and private-run homes unwilling to accept new inmates. In Kurukshetra, two homes have handed over 25 inmates to their parents while an orphan child has been sent to another childcare home. These home have been closed down to avoid registration. Gurwinder Kaur, programme Officer, WCD Department, Kurukshetra, said two more homes had expressed desire to close down rather than register with the department. “We are trying to convince them to carry on with running the homes because there is no place to accommodate the inmates in any of the existing homes,” Kaur said. Similarly, children were handed over to their parents after one such home closed down in Panipat. Sources revealed that a few homes in Hisar too wanted to close down. HC notice to Haryana
Chandigarh: Acting on a petition by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for setting up fully functional state commissions for protection of child rights and children’s courts, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana for September 18. The petition comes a month after the surfacing of the Rohtak shelter home scandal. In its petition the NCPCR asserted that the states of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh did not have functional state commissions for protection of child rights . “Accordingly, incidents of child abuse and violation of child rights in shelter homes in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh go unreported and unnoticed”. |
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11 HCS officers transferred
Chandigarh, July 17 Mukul Kumar, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Karnal, has been posted as Estate Officer, HUDA-II, Gurgaon, vice Ashima Sangwan. Yash Pal, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Faridabad, has been posted as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Palwal, vice Sushil Sarwan, who goes as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Faridabad, vice Yash Pal. Munish Nagpal, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Ellenabad, has been posted as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Hansi, vice Mahabir Parsad, who goes as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Barwala, against a vacant post. Devinder Kaushik, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Jagadhri, and Estate Officer, HUDA, Jagadhri, has been posted as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil)-cum-Additional Collector, Brara, vice Sushil Kumar. Sushil Kumar, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil), Brara, has been posted as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil), Shahbad, vice Satbir Singh. Ashima Sangwan, Estate Officer, HUDA-II, Gurgaon, has posted as Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Rohtak, relieving AS Mann of the said charge. Satbir Singh, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil), Shahbad, has been posted as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil), Jagadhri, and Estate Officer, HUDA, Jagadhri, vice Devinder Kaushik. Amarjit Singh, Sub Divisional Officer (Civil), Sirsa, has been given the additional charge of Estate Officer, HUDA, Sirsa. |
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NHRC team meets Bhagana Dalits
Hisar, July 17 The team included D N Rath, Isham Singh and KPS Dhaka. They met Dalit villagers last evening at the Mini-Secretariat where it was briefed by a lawyer, Rajat Kalson, representing the Dalit families. The NHRC officials later summoned representatives of the Dalit families and recorded the statements of six persons. Kalson informed the team that representatives of the Dalit families had gone to Delhi on July 9 to meet Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. His office, in turn, sent them to meet Congress general secretary in charge of Haryana BK Hari Parsad. Prasad spoke to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda who then summoned them to his residence. The team is expected to complete its probe by tomorrow.
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Rewari
clash
Rewari, July 17 A case of rioting, attempt to murder, assault on public servants, obstruction of government work and damaging public property has been registered against more than 350 protesters here. The persons named in the FIR include district BKU president Ram Krishan Mehlawat, BJP state executive member Randhir Singh Kapdiwas, Sarpanch Lakhi Ram, ex-sarpanch Dhanraj, Nambardar Gurdayal, Bane Singh and Kalu Ram, advocate Ajay Yadav, Mahant Adityanath and Sukhanand and community leader Bhai Sheolal, besides women protesters. CG Rajinikanthan, Deputy Commissioner, Rewari, has imposed Section 144, ,CrPC, within a radius of 100 metres around the mini-secretariat. The protesters, therefore, shifted to a spot near Rajiv Chowk, a little away from the secretariat. They continued the dharna today and gave a call for a bandh at Rewari and Bawal on Wednesday. Government employees kept their work suspended in apprehension, putting people to considerable inconvenience. Gurgaon Divisional Commissioner TK Sharma today visited the district secretariat and took stock of the situation. He met the Deputy Commissioner and Abhishek Garg, SP, who told him that the protesters had not only assaulted and injured several police personnel, including policewomen, but also torn the clothes of a woman
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Farmers lock sugar mill
Gohana (Sonepat), July 17 The farmers staging a peaceful dharna at the sugar mill for the past one week lost their cool and locked the main gate of the mill today. They also raised anti-government slogans and termed the government as “anti-farmer”. Accusing the government of being “insensitive and callous”, the farmers said on the one hand they were reeling under debt and on the other hand the government was not making payment for sugarcane purchased by the sugar mill.
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Power schedule changed
Hisar, July 17 A spokesman of the DHBVN said one group of tubewells would run during day time and the other during the night. The timings of both groups would change alternatively after a week. He said the Group-I would be given power supply for eight hours from 1 am to 8 am and from 5 pm to 6 pm daily in the areas of operation circles Faridabad, Narnaul, Rewari and Hisar and from 1 am to 8 am and from 4 pm to 5 pm daily in operation circles Gurgaon, Bhiwani and Sirsa. Group-II would run for eight hours during day from 8 am to 4 pm daily in the areas of all operation circles. |
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Fake cosmetics seized
Sonepat, July 17 As many as 10 labourers working in the houses were taken into custody for interrogation and on the complaint of a company’s representative, a case under various sections of the IPC and the Copyrights Act has been registered against the owners of the seized material who were not found at their houses. The company has the distribution rights of these cosmetic products manufactured by MNCs. |
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Sex racket busted, 11 arrested
Karnal, July 17 Sources further revealed that five girls who were allegedly forced into prostitution were in the age group of 18 to 25. DSP Puja Dabla said the case is under investigation and the police is inquiring the whereabouts of the kingpin. A case under Section 3, 4 and 5 A of the Immoral Trafficking Act has been registered against six persons, including two women. All accused were presented before the court today which sent the five ‘victims’ to Narinaketan and the four men to police custody. The kingpin is still at large. |
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Fatehabad, July 17
Fatehabad, July 17