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GORAKHPUR NUCLEAR
PLANT
HJC-BJP to oppose N-plant
28 more farmers collect cheques
Power generation targets much below expectations
Fresh guidelines for power discoms
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Snag hits power station, 14 villages plunge into darkness
Irate mob blocks NH-73
Nari Niketan in the dock over escape of three inmates
HUDA earns HC wrath for refusing occupation certificate
Funds for Sainik School
Villagers feel cheated, threaten to stop varsity construction work
New NOC Norms
KU contractual staff end protest
State told to send Bhagana Dalits back
Hooda inaugurates Gurgaon-Faridabad road
Anti-party Activities
Sarpanch’s murder: One held
Prohibitory orders in Manesar
Field officer held
for taking bribe
Girl falls from moving train, hospitalised
XEN caught taking bribe of Rs 40,000
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GORAKHPUR NUCLEAR PLANT
Fatehabad, July 24 The MP said INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala and HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi should be rather happy that the Hooda government had done what their fathers wanted to do, but could not accomplish the task for some reasons. Deepender Singh advised the opposition parties to oppose the government in a constructive manner and refrain from misleading people by making baseless assertions. “Nuclear power plants are completely safe and information on their safety was also available on the Internet,” he said. He said in developed countries like the US, Japan, Germany, France and Switzerland, a major share of the energy required by them was being produced in nuclear reactors. He added that India had advantage over Japan geographically as there was no threat of earthquakes or tsunamis here. The MP alleged that the mindset of the opposition parties could be gauged from the fact that they were opposing the Education City being set up at Sonepat, which would turn Haryana into a hub of education in the country. Earlier, Deepender Singh accompanied by Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal, Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Prahlad Singh Gillankhera launched the first academic session of Government College for Women in Ratia. The college was a part of the Rs 300-crore package for Ratia announced by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in December last year after his candidate Jarnail Singh’s victory in a bypoll from here. The college has initially been started in a school’s building and the MP said the Chief Minister would soon lay the foundation stone of a new building of the college.
Hisar, July 24
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28 more farmers collect cheques
Fatehabad, July 24 “Till today, 248 farmers who owned 447 acres of land have collected their compensation to the tune of Rs 137 crore,” said Ram Singh Bishnoi, District Revenue Officer-cum-Land Acquisition Collecetor, Fatehabad. Phool Singh Sheokand, state president of the Kisan Sabha, Haryana, today visited agitating farmers and offered his support to them. Inderjit Singh, state secretary of the CPM, would visit Gorakhpur tomorrow to express his party’s solidarity with farmers’ movement. Local leaders of the CPM have already been supporting them. Harpal Singh, a former MLA and convener of the Ilaqa Bachao Samiti, alleged that the government had made the nuclear project a matter of its prestige and was not willing to listen to people’s views.
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Power generation targets much below expectations
Ambala, July 24
Out of a total installed capacity of 5,050 MW, the state power utilities could generate only 1,367 MW of power even as the demand has been hovering around 1,440 lakh units a day. The state had added two thermal power stations recently, including the Jhajjar Thermal Power Station of 1,320 MW capacity and the Khedar Thermal Power station of 600 MW capacity. Going by the generation statistics of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL), most of the thermal units in the state had been unable to achieve the generation targets to date. Topping the charts are the Yamunanagar Thermal Power Station and Khedar Thermal Power stations, where the shortfall had been more than 100 million units. The damaged turbines of thermal units have made the state power deficit. Sources in the power utilities informed The Tribune that even today six thermal units in the state were not generating even a single unit due to various reasons, including forced outages and shortage of coal. Two units at the Yamunanagar Thermal Power Plant of 300 MW capacity each have been under forced outages for the past several months. Two units at the Jhajjar Thermal Power Plant are also not producing any power. The unit number 7 at the Panipat Thermal Power Station and unit number 1 at Khedar also failed to add power to the state’s kitty today. The total shortage of power registered on Tuesday was 270 lakh units even as the Central power authorities have allowed the state to withdraw 2,250 MW of power from the Northern Gird to tide over the crisis that has been gripping the state since the onset of summer season. After withdrawing 736 lakh units of scheduled drawal from the Northern Grid, the power utilities had to overdraw 96 lakh units on Tuesday by paying additional charges of Rs 6.84 a unit as unscheduled interchange (UI) charges, adding to the losses of the already debt-ridden power utilities.
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Fresh guidelines for power discoms
Chandigarh, July 24 In detailed guidelines to the discoms, the commission ruled that if a consumer did not install electricity meters, it was the sole responsibility of the discoms to install these. “No penalty should be levied on the consumers on account of damaged/ defective meter unless it is proved beyond doubts that the he has deliberately caused the damage or tampered with the metering devices,” the guidelines say. It will be the responsibility of the discoms if they want to replace the existing electricity meters with those of better quality. Also, the power consumer will not be penalised if he fails to procure his own meter and the discom fails to provide him the same. In the absence of no clear-cut guidelines, the onus of installing correct electricity meter is currently on the consumer. With hardly any grievance redress system in place, the power consumers remain at the mercy of the Power Department officials for installation of the correct power meter. "The new guidelines will put to rest the confusion surrounding the installation of new meters. Besides, the correct meters will also help the power department to bridge gap between demand and supply and serve the consumer better," a senior Power Department official said. “Normally, the service provider (discom) should be responsible for the procurement and installation of the electricity meters. However, discoms’ high-handedness made the power consumers responsible for the ‘faulty” electricity meters which led to hefty penalties on them. This led to a large number of cases being filed against the discoms in the consumer courts for deficiency of service. The latest HERC guidelines are a step in the right direction and should hopefully go a long way in providing better service to the consumers.” said Pankaj Chandgothia, a Panchkula-based advocate and social activist.
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Snag hits power station, 14 villages plunge into darkness
Ambala, July 24 The snag hit the sub-station at around 1.30 am, reportedly due to overloaded feeder that caused overheating of the equipment. Due to this, at least 14 villages and several localities of the Ambala Cantonment remained without power for hours together. The senior officials of the Haryana Vidyut Parsaran Nigam (HVPN), including Superintending Engineer RK Sharma and XEN KK Sarkar, rushed to the spot in the morning to assess the situation and initiated remedial measures. However, they maintained that it could take at least 15 to 20 hours to revive the sub-station as a new transformer was to be installed in place of the old one. RK Sharma, while talking to The Tribune, said they had restored partial supply to the affected areas from the adjoining sub-stations of Babyal and Tepla and IOC feeders. Executive Engineer KK Sarkar said the main transformer at the sub-station had been rendered useless and they would revive the sub-station within five hours of receiving a new transformer. Meanwhile, residents started gathering outside the sub-station in the morning and held a protest. Krishan Chand, one of the protesting villagers, said they had been witnessing flashes from the sub-station for the past several days, but the authorities did not initiate any measures to redress the overloading of the transformer.
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Irate mob blocks NH-73
Yamunanagar, July 24 The problem started when the policemen used force to lift the blockade on the national highway. The mob had blocked the national highway to protest against the failure of the state government in ensuring adequate supply of power. The protesters raised anti-government slogans and blocked the national highway. As the police arrived on the scene, efforts were made to pacify the agitators and restore the traffic movement on the NH. However, the public refused to move from the road following which the police used mild force to disperse them. This provoked the mob to pelt stones on the police vehicles. Later, the police managed to disperse the crowd. Nobody was injured in the clash, but the situation remained tense in the area and the traffic remained disrupted. A case has been registered against some persons for creating ruckus. Meanwhile, a large number of residents of Saasrauli and Sunderheti villages in Jhajjar today blocked the vehicular traffic on Saasrauli chowk for over an hour in protest against the government’s failure for not providing adequate supply of power. The commuters had to face trouble as their vehicles were stuck on both sides of the road. The protesters later lifted the blockade following an assurance by senior officials of the Power Corporation that power schedule would be released soon and the power supply would be restored in a proper manner.
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Nari Niketan in the dock over escape of three inmates
Karnal, July 24
The fresh episode has exposed the callous and indifferent attitude of the management about the safety and security of the inmates and also raised suspicion about connivance of some staff members in the escape of three women. The Nari Niketan has often been in the news for wrong reasons but the failure of the management to tighten security after the escape of an inmate Puja on July 22 and an minor inmate slitting her vein on the same day has put the functioning of Nari Niketan under scanner. Two inmates, Nisha and Priyanka, escaped in the wee hours today. Surprisingly, the inmates managed to escaped despite the fact that an attendant, a chowkidar and cops were on duty. Nisha (22), a mother of two children, was sent to Nari Niketan from Jhajjar on court orders, while Priyanka reached here from Charkhi Dadri, also on court orders. However, Puja, who hails from Allahabad, reached her home, informed her father. There was, however, no trace of other two missing inmates. The reasons for attempting suicide in the third case is yet to be ascertained. Nisha and Priyanka reportedly used a ladder kept in the Nari Niketan compound for cutting trees. They escaped by jumping over the boundary wall on the back side adjoining the old court complex. Deputy Commissioner Renu S Phulia and SP Shashank Anand visited the Nari Niketan and questioned the staff. When asked about the steps taken to avoid such incidents after Puja escaped on the night of July 22, the Deputy Commissioner replied that the tools used by the inmates to escape have been removed. The management had no answer to as to why the security was not beefed up after the escape of Puja. The SP said that barbed wire fence, proper lighting arrangement and CCTV cameras would be in place and a woman constable would be deployed. Report of missing inmates has been lodged at the Civil Lines police station. A magisterial inquiry has been ordered.
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HUDA earns HC wrath for refusing occupation certificate
Chandigarh, July 24 The ruling came on a petition filed by Amita Sehgal against HUDA and another respondent. In their petition placed before the Bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Rajiv Narain Raina, the petitioners had sought directions to the respondents to issue the occupation certificate for a house in Sector 25, Panchkula, following the completion of the construction as per the sanctioned site plan. The petitioner was allotted a six-marla plot vide an allotment letter dated January 18, 1994. Its possession was handed over on June 8, 2009. But, the petitioner was not issued the occupation certificate for the reason that he was to complete the construction within 15 years from the date of offer of possession, which expired on June 15, 2010. The period was specified in the policy for granting extension to raise construction. After hearing counsel for the parties, the Bench ruled: “We find that once the petitioner has raised construction before any proceedings for resumption have been initiated, the non-issuance of the occupation certificate is not warranted. “The policy for extension of raising the construction is to facilitate the allottees for raising construction. The resumption of a plot for not raising construction is the last resort, which has the effect of depriving the allottee of the property”. Disposing of the petition, the Bench asserted: “Since the proceedings for resumption have not been initiated whereas the petitioner has completed the construction though beyond the extended period of construction, we find that declining the occupation certificate is not justified. We direct the respondents to issue the occupation certificate if the building is as per the plans or the violations are compoundable”.
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State to sign MoU with Defence Ministry soon
Bhanu P Lohumi/TNS
Karnal, July 24 Hooda, who was the chief guest at the 52nd Founder’s Day Celebrations of Sainik School, Kunjpura, said Haryana was the state in the country with two Sainik Schools while the first Defence University was also being set up in the state. Hooda, who himself is an aluminous of Sainik School, Kunjpura, said the school that was set up on July 24, 1961, has produced 2,500 officers during the past 51 years. He also announced release of grant of remaining amount of Rs 3.95 crore for the completion of a new hostel and a mess block being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs. 19.50 crore. Exhorting students to carry forward the rich legacy of the school and live up to the school’s motto “Ready to Accomplish, emulate the ex-Kunjeans and become law abiding, dutiful and responsible citizens.” Lauding the achievements of the school, Hooda said it had the distinction of sending maximum number of boys to the National Defence Academy (NDA) among all Sainik Schools in the country and had been awarded “Raksha Mantri Trophy” for seven times in a row, thus setting a record. Former Army Chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor said Sainik School, Kunjpura, was premier institution of the state and it is the hard work and dedication of the Kunjeans that makes difference between mediocrity and excellence.
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Villagers feel cheated, threaten to stop varsity construction work
Mahendergarh, July 24 The villagers, who are protesting to press for the grant of reservation as promised to them before the Jant and Pali panchayats leased out nearly 500 acres of land for the construction of the university, have threatened to stop the ongoing construction work on the university campus if no concrete step was taken in this regard by July 28. “The panchayats of Jant and Pali villages were made to lease out nearly 500 acres of shamlat land for setting up the university for 99 years at a token rate of Re 1 per acre per year…the villagers feel cheated as they have not got anything in return,” said Ranbir Singh, the president of the Aarakshan Bachao Sangharsh Samiti (Pali-Jant), which is championing the cause. The villagers maintain that the Haryana Government functionaries had promised them reservation in admissions as well as preference in jobs at the university if they provided land for it. We leased out land under govt pressure: Ex-sarpanch Malkhan Singh, who was the sarpanch of Pali village at the time when the panchayat land was leased out, said they had to pass a resolution to this effect under pressure from the state government functionaries and district administration. “Though the authorities concerned had promised to get seats and jobs reserved for us at the university, we now feel cheated as we have not got anything in return for our land,” he said, adding that their proposal to acquire the land required for the university at government rates was also turned down.
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New NOC Norms
Rohtak, July 24 The brick kilns in the district produce over 5.25 lakh bricks daily in the season that remains operative between October and June each year. The notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government Of India on May 18 states that in order to ensure compliance of the order of the Supreme Court in February this year, it has now been decided that all mining projects of minor minerals, including soil, their renewal and irrespective of the size of the lease would henceforth require a prior environment clearance. The projects, including the minor mineral, with lease are less than five hectares are also required to follow the procedure prescribed under the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, 2006. A spokesperson of the Rohtak Brick Kiln Owners Association said the brick kilns, which use the soil from the nearby fields had now been asked to procure a NOC from the Ministry of Environment and Forests to carry out the operation besides the procurement of permission from the Department of Mining of the state government. Describing it as a major bottleneck in the work, he said it would encourage the red tapism and the inspector raj as the formalities and the process of seeking the NOC would get longer and difficult and the brick kilns owners could be at the receiving end. He said while the government was expected to simplify the process in order to prop up the manufacturing and trade of such industry, which comes handy to all sections of society and serve the basic need of the construction, including the housing and residential sector, in the state. He said the association was opposed to such a move and would not accept any rule which was draconian in nature and which was likely to hamper the process of manufacturing bricks and as result the owners of the brick kilns were not left with any option than to close down the operation from October when the season of manufacturing would start. It is also claimed that as the lifting or removing of the upper crust of the soil from the fields was helpful for the farming operation, there was hardly any need of the NOC from the Ministry of Environment and Forest and thus the notification was unjustified and required to be withdrawn.
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KU contractual staff end protest
Kurukshetra, July 24 He said we requested the registrar to give his verbal statement in written, but he refused and said these things were always done verbally. Moreover, we were also getting threat calls from tender holders (thekedars) that they would not come on job from tomorrow. “Our demands regarding old provident fund is still pending and our fight will continue. We are just looking on action to be taken by the authorities in given time period and if authorities are not able fulfil the demands, our protest will start again,” said Subash.Meanwhile, the registrar was not available for the comments.
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State told to send Bhagana Dalits back
Hisar, July 24 The order was passed by the panel chief, PL Punia, in Delhi after a hearing. It said the families would be summoned to the Deputy Commissioner’s office before these families were sent back. A congenial atmosphere would be created for their return. The commission directed that the government would post enough security forces in the village along with a magistrate to ensure their security. The families would be given access to drinking water and transport facilities. No encroachments would be permitted on common land and members of these families would be provided employment under MNREGA and the ceiling of 100 days a year would not apply to them. The commission also directed the government to arrange financial help for the family of Raj Kumar who had committed suicide. These families have been squatting at the mini-secretariat here since May 21 after the upper caste villagers raised a wall around their colony. They have refused to return to the village even after compromises were worked out between the Dalits and the upper caste villagers several times. |
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Hooda inaugurates Gurgaon-Faridabad road
Faridabad, July 24 He said almost all main roads in Haryana have been given a face-lift. The project of widening the Gurgaon-Faridabad-Ballabhgarh-Sohna road was undertaken by Reliance Infrastructure Limited, which is a part of Reliance Group, on BOT (build, operate and transfer) basis at cost of Rs 800 crore under aegis of the Public Works Department (PWD) of the state. The firm had started tolling operation of the road on June 28. The concession period given to the firm by the government is 17 years. In effect the firm would maintain and operate the road for the period after which it would transfer it to the PWD. The Gurgaon-Faridabad-Ballabhgarh-Sohna road is about 66 km stretch. The Gurgaon-Faridabad stretch, which has been widened from two-lane to four-lane, accounts for 25 km. Four toll plazas are part of the project so as to bring the entire road in the toll ambit. The toll paid at any plaza would be valid for the entire route. The Gurgaon-Faridabad corridor begins at Sikanderpur in Gurgaon and
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Anti-party Activities
Ambala, July 24 The three had constituted the Sanjha Morcha about 15 days ago to hold protests against step-motherly treatment being meted out to the local residents by the authorities. The three had claimed that political leaders were more concerned with their own vested interests and had little to do with the problems of the masses and thus they had formed this new body. The party said the three should had supported local BJP legislator Anil Vij who had already launched a campaign against various issues. The party stated that by constituting a separate body, the three leaders had violated the party’s code of conduct. |
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Sarpanch’s murder: One held
Faridabad, July 24 Ram Singh, former sarpanch of Chaprola village, his two sons and brother, are the main accused in the case. The accused, armed with fire-weapons, had barged into a private nursing home located in Ballabgarh, near here, and opened fire on the sarpanch, killing him on the spot. The accused were identified through a CCTV camera installed at the nursing home. |
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Prohibitory orders in Manesar
Gurgaon, July 24 Meena, in his orders, has prohibited gathering of five or more persons and carrying of any weapons like firearms, swords, lathis, barchchas, bhallas, jellies, knives, cycle chains etc. The administration has banned any procession without prior permission. |
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Field officer held
for taking bribe
Fatehabad, July 24 A Dalit youth Krishan of Dhabi Khurd had complained to the Vigilance Bureau that a field officer Amarnath had refused to give him the grant of Rs 50,000 for the construction of a house for which he was legitimately eligible under a government scheme, unless he give him Rs 4,000. On his complaint, the team nabbed the accused while accepting the bribe. —
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Girl falls from moving train, hospitalised
Rohtak, July 24 The girl, identified as Jyoti, was admitted to the PGIMS by volunteers of Hari Om Jan Sewa Dal yesterday. No one from her family has visited the hospital so far. According to her, she was pushed off by someone while she was travelling by a train bound for Delhi. Hailing from a village located near Dadri of Bhiwani district, she had boarded the train after she was allegedly beaten by her relatives, including her brother and mother. She claimed that she was being maltreated by her family and thrown out of her house. According to her statement given to the doctors, she fell on the railway track near Sampla, about 20 km from here, but she says that she was pushed by someone. She has sustained fractures on her head, chest and legs. The doctors attending on her said she was under a shock and giving confusing statements.
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XEN caught taking bribe of Rs 40,000
Ambala, July 24 A team of the Vigilance Bureau raided at the office of the XEN at Ambala City this noon. The team raided when the complainant was offering the amount to the XEN. The raiding team recovered the amount from his possession. A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against him. The XEN said no payment of the contractor was due with the department. He was imposed penalty for which he wanted to take the revenge. He said he was falsely implicated in the case. It is learnt that the contractor was given the contract of Rs 25 lakh for constructing the stone band on the bank of a river at Naraingarh. |
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Karnal, July 24
The Haryana Government will soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Defence for providing funds, training and facilities at Sainik School,
Kunjpura, (SSK) said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today.
The contractual staff of Kurukshetra University today ended their protest against the non-payment of dues after getting assurance from the registrar.
“We haven’t got any order in written but the registrar, Dr Surender Deswal, has assured us verbally. He has fixed our salary date as 10th of every month and told us that our new provident account number will be issued till july 31,” said
Subash, president, Kurukshetra University Daily Wages Employees Association.
Mystery shrouds the incident in which a 12-year-old girl fell from a moving train and was admitted to the PGIMS, Rohtak, with multiple injuries. While the girl claims that she was pushed by someone while she was travelling by a train yesterday, the Railway police officials said no such complaint had been lodged so far.
