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Panchayati Raj Institutions
Power crisis: Roads blocked in Jind, Ambala
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Dalit man found murdered in Jhajjar
Three Karnal Nari Niketan girls traced
Jawan’s death sparks row
Deceased jawan Shakti Singh’s kin and Gonder villagers block the Karnal-Kaithal road at Nissing in Karnal district on Wednesday. Tribune photo
Efforts to improve sex ratio
Man thrashed for ‘molestation’
Contaminated
water
22 more accept land award
DLSA team inspects shelter homes
Jat samiti plans maha rally on Aug 12
Welfare plan for anganwadi workers, helpers
Maruti arson culprits not to be spared:Deepender
Woman gives birth in auto-rickshaw
Missing student’s body found
Honda workers flay Maruti arson
Employees of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India observe the seventh anniversary of the ‘uprising’
in Gurgaon on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed
INLD accuses Cong govt of regional bias
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Reservation for women proves a dummy show
Bhanu P Lohumi/TNS
Karnal, July 25 A peep into the state of affairs in most of the panchayats where women representatives have been elected reveals that they are no more than dummy representatives and thus have no actual say in the day-to-day working of these institutions. The Tribune conducted a survey of districts located along the National Highway 1 wherein it was found that male members of the families to which these women representatives belonged were calling the shot. In most of the cases, it was their husbands who talk on their behalf or the women would seek their nod to speak. The situation is even worse in those panchayats where the number of village elders is more. There are about 2,028 women sarpanchs and 21,726 panchs in the state with 461 panchayats. Bhiwani has the highest number of women representatives (1,686) while Panchkula is in the bottom of the pyramid with only 348 women representatives in 121 panchayats. Prof Ranbir Singh, Consultant, Haryana Institute of Rural Development (HIRD), is entrusted with the task of imparting training to panchayati raj representatives. He says the husbands attend the sessions and the women representatives are absent during training workshops many a time. “Male members are allowed to participate along with female representatives so they can guide them, if needed. From my experience of past ten years, I can only say that not even three dozen women were performing their duties independently,” Prof Singh says. What has been found more disturbing is the fact that even the educated women are not in a position to assert themselves, he added. Nilokheri Surat Singh, HIRD Director, said the reason behind women not actively participating is the ‘Chaudhry culture’ prevailing in the state where the male domination was all pervasive in all spheres of life, especially in the rural areas. ‘Chaudhry culture’ to blame
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Power crisis: Roads blocked in Jind, Ambala
Jind, July 25 The movement of traffic on the Jind-Rohtak national highway was stalled for over an hour when the residents of Kila Zafargarh village squatted there, demanding adequate power supply. The protesters claimed that the daily supply of power
had been reduced to two to three hours. The second incident took place on the Jind-Gohana road when hundreds of residents from nearby colonies blocked the road for around three hours to lodge their protest against inadequate supply of water and power. The blockade was lifted after the police and the officials of the department persuaded them to clear the road. While the BKU dharna at Ram Rai village continued for the second day today. A majority of the shopkeepers in various markets expressed solidarity with the protesters by keeping their shutters down for many hours. A spokesperson of the traders association said the protest could be extended if the problem was not solved. Ambala: Protesting against power shortage, a large number of farmers, led by Rajbir Barara, INLD legislator from Mullan, blocked the Ambala-Yamunanagar highway for three hours on Wednesday. A large number of farmers from various villages blocked the traffic at 10 am due to which vehicles en route western Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal remained stranded on the road. The protesters raised slogans against the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam and the state government. |
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Govt clips tehsildars’ wings
NOC must along with conveyance deed Pradeep Sharma Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 25 This decision was taken at a recent meeting presided over by Surjit Singh, HUDA Administrator (Headquarters). The tehsildars and executive magistrates (Revenue) will be directed through the Financial Commissioner (Revenue) to execute sale deeds/gift deeds only after the issuance of NOCs by the estate officer concerned with a view to updating HUDA records. Meanwhile, the estate officers will launch a drive to collect information from the tehsildars concerned regarding sale deeds registered without NOCs. The estate officers will then approach the transferee and the original allottee for completing the formalities for the change of ownership in the record of the estate offices, the sources said. The meeting observed that the ownership of HUDA plots/buildings in various urban estates of Haryana was being changed directly through sale deeds/gift deeds by the tehsildars/executive magistrates (Revenue) concerned on the basis of the previous conveyance deeds. Due to such change of ownership/title of the property, HUDA records are not updated, which results in it suffering losses on account of non-delivery of enhancement letter to the current owner. “In fact, the situation becomes more embarrassing in case the ownership is changed more than once without any intimation to the estate officer concerned, who is the main custodian of the allottees’ files,” a senior official added. As per the established policy, HUDA issued a transfer permission letter (TPL) with details such as the area of the plot, status of construction and the covered area of construction for the purpose of generation of revenue to the authorities concerned. On the basis of the TPL, sale deeds are executed by the tehsildars. After submission of copy of sale deeds, the re-allotment letter is issued in favour of the transferee in whose favour the TPL is issued by HUDA.
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Dalit man found murdered in Jhajjar
Jhajjar, July 25 The deceased has been identified as Nafe Singh of Mandhothi village and was the father of a murder accused, Ajay, who had allegedly murdered his three co-villagers four months ago. The Mandhothi police has started investigation whereas no case was registered till the filing of this news as the police was waiting for a formal complaint from the kin of the deceased. The incident came to notice this evening when someone informed the police that an elderly man was murdered on the bank of a pond at Mandhothi village. Vivek Kumar, in charge of the Mandhothi police post, immediately rushed to the spot and found the man murdered lying in
a pool of blood, said Devender Dangi, PRO of the Jhajjar police. The police sent the body bearing several injury marks inflicted by some sharp-edged weapon to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination after taking stock of the situation. Later, a team of forensic experts also visited the scene of crime and collected some blood samples from there, he said. “Exact cause behind the murder is yet to be ascertained while we have initiated probe into the case from various angles. We are also trying to find out that if the killing has any connection with the triple murder that was perpetrated by Ajay on March 18 night,” said Dangi. Ajay had murdered the three villagers when they were asleep at their cattle house. Later, the police had arrested Ajay who had confessed to his crime. Ajay’s family shifted to some unknown destination after the incident. Nafe Singh had come to the village this noon to take some belongings kept in his ancestral house, said the PRO. |
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Three Karnal Nari Niketan girls traced
Karnal, July 25 The series of inquiries and interrogations by the police, SIT and then by the CBI had exhausted the patience of these girls. It was not the first case of attempt to suicide by Rukhsar, one of the five inmates transferred from Apna Ghar, who had made the fourth attempt on July 22 to cut her veins. The veins were not cut by any sharp-edged weapon, but she had developed a tendency to hurt herself with any object she could lay her hands on. She did such an act for the fourth time, Shashank Anand, SP, Karnal, said. Rukhsar has on many occasions hurt herself to seek attention and even refused treatment and medical aid, Rajni Pasracha, the Nari Niketan superintendent said. The Nari Niketan was overcrowded and there were 55 inmates against the capacity of 25, which added to their frustration. Two of the five inmates shifted from Apna Ghar are deaf and dumb and even did not understand the sign language. However, this is the same kendra in which a hapless deaf and dumb inmate was allegedly raped by the “chowkidar” of the school for hearing impaired, where she had gone to study on January 30, 2011. A case has been registered against Rukhsar for attempt to suicide. The police has traced all three girls who escaped from the Nari Niketan on July 22 and 24. The SP said Pooja, who escaped on the night of July 22, was not a resident of Allahabad, but hailed from Batia district in Bihar and had reached home safely. “We have established contact with the Batia SP and she would be brought here soon,” he added. The other escapee inmate, Priyanka, was spotted at Jhajjar and the police teams presented her before the magistrate who sent her to the Nari Niketan, while Nisha was at her aunt’s house in Kalanaur, Rohtak, police sources said.
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Jawan’s death sparks row
Nissing (Karnal), July 25 The villagers rued the “indifferent” attitude of the administration and blocked the Karnal-Kaithal highway for more than three hours. All shops were closed at Nissing in protest. Havildar Shakti Singh, a resident of Gondar village in Karnal district, was posted at Guard Post No IV at Baramulla and had joined duty on July 1 after availing two months leave. He was shot dead while on duty four days ago and the Army authorities sent his body to his native village, describing the death as suicide. The relatives alleged that the deceased had received bullet injury on the back of his head and a few injuries on some other parts of the body and it was improbable that he committed suicide. The wife and brother of the deceased alleged that he was shot and murdered and was being constantly harassed by his seniors. Subedar Jaswinder Singh, who accompanied the body from Baramulla to his village, said he could not be accorded the guard of honour as he had committed suicide. The relatives were not convinced and insisted that they would not lift the road blockade till the guard of honour was accorded to him. Finally, the police gave the guard of honour to Shakti Singh and the villagers lifted the blockade. |
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Efforts to improve sex ratio
Chandigarh, July 25 The circular states that issues like child sex ratio, illegality of sex determination of foetus and female foeticide should be discussed in the special gram sabha meetings. The mahila sabha should hold regular meetings and review actions taken in this regard. The panchayat will convene mahila sabha meetings consisting of all women voters and tell them about steps being taken for improving the sex ratio. Sex determination is possible only after three months of pregnancy. Pregnant women, who register themselves at anganwadi centres or with ANMs after three months, are likely to have gone for sex determination. Such cases must be brought to the notice of the panchayat concerned. As per the circular, the names of women who register during or after the fourth month of pregnancy should be announced in the gram sabha or mahila sabha meetings. The volunteers or ward members will report to the police about agents who come from outside for facilitating women in sex determination tests and their names should be announced in the gram sabha and mahila sabha. They have been directed to closely monitor the registration of pregnant women, birth, immunisation and other activities.
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Man thrashed for ‘molestation’
Faridabad, July 25 Inquiries revealed that one of the miscreants had a dispute with the victim over the passage of
storm water to his agriculture land. The charge against the victim was fabricated to settle scores with him. The police also debunked the charge against the victim. It registered an FIR against three persons identified as Aarshad, Rajju and Babbu last evening. It said the panchayat was a sham as no elected member of the village panchayat took part in it. However, the sarpanch of the village could not be contacted for his comments. The three accused allegedly have a criminal background and are absconding from the village. |
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Angry residents parade SDO
in Hisar
Raman Mohan Tribune News Service
Hisar, July 25 The protesters, including a large number of women, carrying contaminated water drawn from taps lifted the blockade only after senior officers reached the area and assured them that an estimate for replacement of pipelines would be prepared immediately and sent for approval. The officers also brought in specialised equipment to open choked drains and flush out water from the streets. The residents said they had brought the issue of supply of contaminated drinking water and flooding of streets due to choked sewers to the notice of the authorities several times. However, no action was taken, forcing them to take to the streets.
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22 more accept land award
Fatehabad, July 25 “A total compensation of over Rs 149 crore has so far been paid to 270 farmers for their 486 acres of land,” said Ram Singh Bishnoi, Land Acquisition Collector, Fatehabad. Bishnoi said 173 farmers from Gorakhpur village alone had received compensation of over Rs 117 crore for more than 382 acres of land. Besides this, 96 farmers from Baropal were given compensation of over Rs 31 crore for 102 acres of land. Cheques for Rs 54 lakh had been given to a farmer of Kajalheri village for 1.78 acres of land. Meanwhile, Inderjit Singh, state secretary of the CPM, today visited farmers sitting on dharna and expressed his party’s solidarity with their struggle. “This is not a political battle. This is farmers’ fight to save their fertile land from acquisition,” the CPM leader said. The CPM leader castigated the Congress for using letters written by Bhajan Lal and Devi Lal to justify the project, saying that these were written when people had not seen the Fukushima nuclear disaster. |
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DLSA team inspects shelter homes
Gurgaon, July 25 Narender Kaur said a team constituted for the purpose visited four children shelter homes, including three run by an NGO Asha Bhawan and located in Sectors 10, 10-A and in Kadipur industrial area on Pataudi road, besides Udyan Care in Narsinghpur village. The team also interacted with inmates separately and asked them if they were facing any problems. They also talked to people living in the neighbourhood of these shelter homes. Necessary guidelines were also issued to the managers of these shelter homes. "It is mandatory for the managers of children shelter homes to keep all records of their inmates, including complete information about the native place of the child and occupation of his or her parents must be included," said
the CJM. The shelter home managers were required to take clearance from the District Child Welfare Committee before it started functioning and the inmates should be registered with the committee, she added. |
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Jat samiti plans maha rally on Aug 12
Hisar, July 25 Samiti chief Hawa Singh Sangwan said it was becoming increasingly clear that the government would not be able to provide reservation to the community by August 15, the deadline set by the samiti. He said the samiti had to formulate its strategy under the circumstances. Sangwan said he was of the view that the Centre should first categorise the Jats as a backward community. Several states had during the past decade provided reservation for Jats. However, since the Centre had not categorised Jats as a backward community, the proposals remained on paper all these years. The Jat leader said the community members had been agitating for more than a year on this issue. However, the Centre had not yet accepted the demand. The samiti would devise a strategy to force the Centre to declare the community as backward to enable the Haryana government to extend the benefit of reservation to
Jats.
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Welfare plan for anganwadi workers, helpers
Chandigarh, July 25 Sumita Misra, Director-General, Women and Child Development Department, said here today that this scheme was being implemented with the assistance of the LICLife Insurance Corporation (LIC). Under this scheme, Rs 100 with the LIC every month, Rs 83 is saved in the form of savings and Rs 17 as a risk premium for the beneficiaries. He said Rs 50,000 was provided to the nominee in the case of sudden death whereas after retirement, the accumulated amount was paid with interest.
— TNS
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Maruti arson culprits not to be spared:Deepender
Sirsa, July 25 Talking to mediapersons at Kalanwali in Sirsa, Hooda said the culprits involved in the Manesar incident would not be spared.
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Rape victim alleges
police apathy
Fatehabad, July 25 The girl ekes out a living by making ‘chapatis’ at marriage parties with some other women. The girl alleged that the women took her on the pretext of preparing ‘chapatis’, where one Sonu and a few others raped her. “We have been running from pillar to post to get justice for the girl, but the police seems to be hand in gloves with the accused,” alleged a number of women from Guru Nanakpura, Fatehabad. Later, SHO Virender Singh confirmed that an FIR was registered against Sonu and others today. |
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Woman gives birth in auto-rickshaw
Rohtak, July 25 “We had no information about such facility and had to depend on an auto-rickshaw to take Rekha to the
PGIMS, Rohtak, when she complained of acute labour pains yesterday,” said
Geeta, a kin of Rekha. She said though both child and mother were safe, they could have been at risk if there was some complications.” She added that none of the family member was aware of the toll free number 102 for requisitioning the free ambulance service provided by the Health Department.
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Missing student’s body found
Rewari, July 25 However, the victim’s father has complained that multiple injury marks on the body clearly showed that his son was first done to death and then thrown into the village pond to make it appear as a case of death by drowning.
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Honda workers flay Maruti arson
Chandigarh, July 25 Workers of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India condemned the arson at the Maruti plant in
Manesar. He said the Labour Department had been taking all steps to ensure industrial peace. Workers demanded an impartial inquiry into the Manesar violence. “The culprits should be punished but no innocent workers should be harassed,” said HMSI union general-secretary Harjit Singh. |
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INLD accuses Cong govt of regional bias
Sirsa, July 25 Addressing a meeting of traders and urban people in his assembly constituency of Dabwali today, INLD secretary-general Ajay Singh Chautala alleged that development activities had been limited to a few districts in the present regime. Chautala alleged that the condition of roads was pitiable and people were not getting regular supply of power and drinking water. |
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