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Voices against acquisition of land get louder
Power cuts throw life out of gear in Jhajjar
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NUCLEAR POWER
Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda and Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar alight from the Shatabdi Express at Tohana. Photo: A Tribune photograph
Turf war between INLD, HJC hots up over Hisar
GORAKHPUR N-POWER PLANT
Unsafe eatables pose health risk
Opposition leaders anti-development: Deepender
Land acquisition for nuclear plant
Police launches public helpline service
Water shortage: Residents up in arms against admin
Preventing School Bus Accidents
Jind farmers lead way in pesticide-free farming
Proposed pro-quota Jat stir
Mahavir Park in a state of neglect
Website enables disposal of recovered vehicles
REVISED TAX STRUCTURE
Retired principals, teachers seek revision of pension
Govt to create awareness in favour of girl child
Development of faculty programme
NIT orientation programme for students
CRPF celebrates Raising Day
Suraj Bhan Kajal, DIG of the Sonepat group centre of the CRPF, waters a sapling on the occasion of Raising Day of the CRPF. Photo: BS Malik
Chilean wines launched
Home science scores
44 vet graduates take oath
20% internal assessment in KU
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Voices against acquisition of land get louder
Mahendergarh/Rewari,
July 30 Following a massive protest demonstration by farmers against the acquisition of their fertile land in the Bawal area of Rewari district, the state government, which was not paying any heed to their voices of discontent, has offered to make them beneficiaries in the newly launched land-pooling scheme. Buoyed by this, land-owners opposing acquisition in other parts of the state have also decided to put their foot down. Farmers from 84 villages of Mahendergarh district asserting at a mahapanchayat that they won’t part with their land proposed “wrongfully and needlessly” to be acquired by the state authorities is a case in point. Protests against land acquisition are going on at several other places across the state. While the farmers’ affection towards their land is the primary reason for their opposition to its acquisition, the huge difference between the sarkari compensation and the prevailing market price of the land is also a major contributing factor. Then, there are unscrupulous elements like small-time politicians and dubious property agents who use their clout with top government functionaries to get notices under Land Acquisition Act issued to land-owners at their will to create an atmosphere of fear. Thus, these elements make the farmers sell their land to them at rates much lower than the prevailing market price and make huge profits. Needless to say, many administrative as well as police officials designated to ensure the safety and security of public and its property actually play an instrumental role in safeguarding the interests of their political bosses who back such land-sharks for their vested interests. Now, the people have understood the game-plan of such players and started asserting their right over their land. The people’s new-found awareness and assertiveness, coupled with media exposures and specific orders of high courts, may spell doom for the land-grabbers playing their games under the double-protective shield of khadi and khaki.
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Power cuts throw life out of gear in Jhajjar
Jhajjar, July 30 “During the period of power cuts, our business comes to a complete halt as we cannot even run generators for long hours because it adds to the operational cost and is costly,” said a shopkeeper. Farmers of the nearby villages said they were finding it difficult to run tube wells owing to power shortage. “Even when the supply is resumed, we do not get the required load to run water pumps,” they said. “Regular power supply has become a dream for the people of the villages. Power plays hide-and-seek with the residents almost everyday and this has badly hit the normal life,” said Om Prakash, a resident. Sunil Kumar, an activist, said acute power crisis across the state had exposed the tall claims of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda where he promised to make power available to the residents round the clock. Manju Sharma, a housewife, said the government would have to pay the price for power crisis in the next Assembly poll as people had to face a lot of problems due to prolonged power cuts. A senior official of the Power Corporation said power supply to the district got disrupted due to shutdowns. Local officials were helpless in this regard as the directions for shutdowns came from higher levels and direct to the power grids, he added.
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Demand for power has multiplied: Deepender
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Tohana (Fatehabad), July 30 “The running of the Shatabdi Express train between Delhi to Ludhiana will prove a boon for Haryana and its stoppage at Tohana is no less than a gift for this parliamentary constituency,” Deepender Singh Hooda said after alighting from the train at Tohana Railway Station. He said he was happy that he had reached Tohana by boarding this train. He said Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar was pleading on behalf of the people of this area before the central and state governments regarding this issue. Replying to a question regarding the setting up of the Gorakhpur nuclear power plant, he said nuclear power plant was need of the hour as demand for power had increased manifold. “Nuclear power plants are being set up in many countries and they are completely safe. All the apprehensions of the people will be dispelled with the passage of time and they will appreciate the nuclear plant,” Hooda said. Hooda congratulated Tanwar and also praised his party workers for the development works undertaken in the Sirsa parliamentary constituency. “We all are working unitedly for ensuring holistic development of the state and we are getting whole-hearted cooperation from the public in this regard,” he added. Tanwar asked the party workers to work sincerely for strengthening the organisation. He said the train would benefit not only the people of Tohana, but also the people of Jakhal and Fatehabad districts. Both MPs congratulated Pranab Mukherjee on his being elected as the President of India and said the country would benefit from his experience.
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Turf war between INLD, HJC hots up over Hisar
Hisar, July 30 In the bypoll in October 2011, caused by Bhajan Lal’s death, Ajay Chautala jumped in the contest as the nominee of the INLD. He put up a strong fight though he was defeated by Bishnoi by a margin of just 6,000-odd votes. But the Congress slipped so badly that its nominee, Jai Parkash, lost his security deposit. Bishnoi polled 3,55,941 votes against 3,49,618 votes polled by Chautala. The Congress suffered a major setback as Jai Parkash managed to get only 1,49,784 votes losing his security deposit by a narrow margin. Since then Bishnoi and Chautala have been engaged in a turf war with the Congress haplessly watching from the sidelines. Both these young leaders try to remain in constant touch with the voters. Every month both Chautala and Bishnoi visit different Assembly constituencies of the area for this purpose. Chautala shifted his residence to Hisar immediately after the Lok Sabha bypoll last year. He visits the city often to meet party workers. Recently he met the local lawyers at a dinner meeting. Bishnoi, too, spares no effort to try to increase his mass base. He has held dozens of meetings in the city as well as the rural areas during the past few months. The keen interest shown by the two political rivals in the agitation against the proposed nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district is also being viewed as a part of the turf war. The Hisar-Fatehabad-Sirsa belt which earlier comprised the old Hisar district is of crucial importance to both of them. The Chautalas hold the sway in Sirsa. The close fight Chautala gave to Bishnoi in the Hisar Lok Sabha bypoll has encouraged him to extend his hold to Hisar. In Fatehabad, the INLD has considerable support. The Bishnoi family has considerable influence in Hisar and Fatehabad though not so much in Sirsa. Hisar is home to the Bishnois as is Adampur, their ancestral village now a small mandi township. Thus the Bishnois will leave no stone unturned to prevent Chautala from making inroads in their pocket boroughs. While all this is understandable, the reluctance of the Congress to do anything to regain ground here is baffling. The party has not taken any steps since the humiliating loss in the October 2011 bypoll to recoup its political and electoral health. This has made the task of Bishnoi and Chautala easier and their turf war fiercer.
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Politicians employ wit, humour, rhetoric to defend their stand
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Fatehabad, July 30 While those in opposition are leaving no stone unturned to assail the 2,800 MW prestigious power project that has the potential of mitigating some of THE power woes of Haryana by terming it hazardous for human health, those in power are at pains to tell people that it is safe. Both those in power as well in the opposition are emphasising their respective stand by the use of rhetoric, wit and Haryanavi humour to their best. The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) organised a public hearing on the environment impact assessment (EIA) of the project on July 17, an exercise necessary to grant environment clearance to such projects. Scientists and experts from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) came all the way from Mumbai to answer people’s concerns on the issue. The NGOs opposing the project, too, had some experts on the subject, who came prepared with the “perils” involved with nuclear power plants. However, no one listened to them and the authorities ended the public hearing abruptly, as political leaders from opposition invaded the venue with a large number of their supporters. Sample some of the arguments used by politicians from the opposition parties. “After this plant starts functioning, it will emit radiations, which will render any habitation impossible around the plant. Children will be born with deformities,” said an opposition leader showing some pictures culled out of the Internet. “Is plant se aise jaraseem niklenge ki insan to kya fasal bhi paida nahi hogi (this plant will produce such micro-organisms, that not to speak of human beings, even crops will not grow in the surrounding areas).” “Ye neta apna aadha saal videsho mein bitate hai jahan nuclear plant ki hi bijli istemaal karte hain. Wahan to inhe radiation nahi chipkti, yaha Gorakhpur aakar logo ko bahkate hai (these leaders spend more than six months in a year in countries, where they use power produced in nuclear plants. They don’t find radiation harmful there, but they mislead people in Gorakhpur),” replies a ruling party politician. A political commentator makes an interesting observation in this regard. “In Haryana, you can expect anything from a politician. When Bhakra system started, a political leader used to tell people that the water they were getting for irrigating their fields was not that effective, as electricity had already been taken out from it,” he said. “Doodh mein se jhagga maar ke makhan nikal to baaki kya rah jayega? (what will remain if you take out butter from the milk by shaking it?),” the politician used to say in speeches.
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Unsafe eatables pose health risk
Kaithal, July 30 The rates of these items are much lower than those being marketed by reputed companies. In number of cases, the quality of eatables is so poor that no sensible person would like to purchase such items. But those interested in cheap items, purchase them from the market. Shopkeepers selling such items find ready buyers from the rural areas coming to towns and slums, besides the urban poor. Such poor quality items pose a risk to health. The indifferent attitude of the local law-enforcing agencies to act against unscrupulous elements has boosted their morale and they continue to violate the law with impunity. The sale of such items had been going on for the past some years, but the authorities have miserably failed to check the activities of such manufacturers. According to available information, those running such units do not adhere to the hygiene standards as most of the work from preparation to packaging is done manually. The residents want that the authorities should act against the people who had been making a mockery of the existing laws passed to safeguard the interest of consumers. Deputy Commissioner Chander Shekhar said he would direct the officials of the departments concerned to take necessary action against those found guilty of violating the law. CMO Surender Nain said his department would look into this matter and the food inspector would take samples if certain substandard eatables were being sold in the market. The samples would be sent to government laboratory and if results of the samples failed, action would be taken against the erring manufacturer or the shopkeeper selling such items. He said the newly constituted FDA Department could also take action as per its jurisdiction.
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Opposition leaders anti-development: Deepender
Israna (Panipat), July 30 He said their resistance to a nuclear power plant to be set up at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad district and an education hub being set up at Sonepat indicates that they were not interested in the development of the state. He said the nuclear plant for power generation was must to overcome power crises, adding that land acquisition to set up the nuclear plant was the need of the hour. However, some villagers were heard whispering that bills of 1,600 crore waived by the Congress government when the power utilities were already under the debt of over 280 crore was responsible for today’s situation and now the government has no money to buy electricity. Stating that the present government had made concerted efforts to improve the education scenario in the state, he said during the past seven years schemes have been implemented by keeping in view the benefit of people belonging to every strata of society. Earlier, he inaugurated “Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra” at Madloda village
in Panipat district and Government Veterinary Hospital at Kavi village and visited nearly 12 villages of Panipat district. The INLD received a setback when its senior leader, who is also the sarpanch of Lahori village, joined hands with the Congress along with other 100 hundred party workers.
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Land acquisition for nuclear plant Sushil Manav/TNS
Fatehabad, July 30 Sources said the owners of land could be broadly divided into three groups. One, who do not want their land to be acquired, the others who are ready to surrender their land provided they get a handsome compensation and the third who are willing to give their land for any compensation as their land is either prone to waterlogging or sandy dunes. Those who were willing to give away their land had collected their cheques while those who wanted better compensation had rallied behind people; there were those who were opposing the acquisition in the hope that the farmers’ agitation could enhance their compensation amount further. The authorities as well as ruling party politicians, particularly the chief parliamentary secretary, Prahlad Singh Gillankhera, are in touch with the second category of the farmers and persuading them to accept their payments. Some of them have already collected their cheques in the past three days. It is on the request of such farmers that the authorities have refused to make their names public. This has created a sense of suspicion among farmers. Besides, the announcement of award has also brought tension in the families of some farmers, whose lands have come under acquisition. In some cases, younger members of the family want the elders to accept the cheques, as they have aspirations of enjoying life by buying vehicles and items of luxury.
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Police launches public helpline service
Jhajjar, July 30 The helpline service has recently been launched by Alok Mittal, IGP, in Rohtak, Jhajjar, Panipat and Sonepat, falling under the jurisdiction of the Rohtak Range. The service will be functional during all working days (Monday to Saturday) from 10 am to 5 pm and complainants can obtain update of their complaints by making a call at toll free number - 9996000777 - of the police. Moreover, anyone can give suggestions about the improvement of police functioning and about any pending criminal cases by sending an SMS at the same number. The move aimed at making the functioning of the state police high-tech and more efficient in the direction of speedy disposal of complaints, besides providing a relief to the complainants, who had to visit police station to get updates about action taken on their complaints, the IGP said. “The helpline service is purely for the complainants and he/ she can seek update about the progress of his/ her complaint. Except complainant, no one is allowed to get information about any crime case through this service,” the IGP said, adding that complainants would have to tell the FIR number, its date and name of the police station by making a call to the toll free number. He said the complainants would be given a few hours time for making another call to get information about their complaints. Meanwhile, a special police team constituted at district-level would gather all information about the said complaints from police station concerned. Thereafter, the team would submit the progress report to the cops deputed at helpline service and they would later forward it to the complainants, he said.
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Water shortage: Residents up in arms against admin
Ambala, July 30 Lieutenant Kuldeep Singh, a former navy officer, who shifted his base to Ambala from Mumbai about six years ago, said coming back to Ambala after remaining posted all across the nation was like coming back to home. “However, if I would have known that the local authorities were so unwilling to redress the problems of local residents, I might have decided to stay in Mumbai or any other metropolitan city.” The local residents have submitted several complaints with the local PWD authorities, who oversee the water supply in the area, but their pleas seem to have fallen on deaf ears. A local woman even handed over her own plot for setting up a new tube well in the area so that residents could get water. But this generosity also failed to get water supply for them. Though, a new tubewell was set up near this locality in March this year, it was never connected with the water supply of the residents. The authorities continued to supply water to the locality from Babyal tubewell, which never reached their homes. Former police inspector SR Malhotra, another resident of the locality, said they had repeatedly met the superintending engineer of the PWD, but instead of listening to them, he asked them to meet the SDO or the JE of the department. But the two officials also never bothered to do anything in this regard. Former flying officer Karnail Singh, said: After having served the nation for the whole life, now we have to fight for water, which is not only demeaning but also disgraceful. If the authorities are incapable of providing us with water, they should resign and let someone else take over and redress our issues.” The superintending engineer of the PWD could not be contacted for his comments despite repeated attempts.
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Preventing School Bus Accidents Suman Bhatnagar
Ambala, July 30 About seven months ago, 13 students of a school in Ambala were killed when a van carrying more students than its capacity collided with a truck. Some of the schools of Ambala City and Ambala Cantonment are not following the directions of the High Court and violating traffic rules. Though the district administration has warned of stern action against the management of such schools, the violations have not stopped so far. According to the directions of the High Court, ‘school bus’ must be prominently written on the back and front of every bus and van carrying schoolchildren, and if it is a hired bus, ‘on school duty’ should be prominently displayed on it. No bus belonging to an educational institution should carry children in excess of its permitted seating capacity. The court has directed that a school bus must have a first aid box and windows of the bus must be fitted with horizontal grills. Besides, a fire extinguisher, school name and telephone number of the school must be written on it. In addition to it, driver of the bus must have a minimum experience of five years of driving heavy vehicles and must not have any previous record of traffic offences. The court had directed that school vehicles would not be permitted to exceed the speed of maximum 50 kmph in any part of the city. A large number of schoolchildren are being carried by auto-rickshaws, which are not safe in any respect, but the administration has failed to rein in erring vehicles, especially auto-rickshaws and school vans, which are in poor condition and are being driven by inexperienced drivers. Recently, Deputy Commissioner Shekhar Vidyarthi in an order had said school management and principal would be held responsible if any school bus met an accident due to the negligence and improper security measures. He added that in case of any accident, the official concerned would be booked under Section 304-A of the IPC and the High Court directions would be implemented at every cost.
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Jind farmers lead way in pesticide-free farming
Jind, July 30 Ranbir Malik, a farmer of Nidana village, said pests were the only weapon to battle pests. “Our research in the past four years has proved that awareness is required among farmers and their families so that their fields remain pest free in a natural manner instead of using pesticides made available by the government or the manufacturers,” he said. He said it was just a beginning of a campaign that could result in a kind of a revolution later. “The organisers have decided to rope in khaps and panchayats so that people can understand the importance of the issue” Ranbir added. He said while a ‘pathshala’ (field study) for creating awareness among the farmers about pests had been started a couple of years back and a large number of farmers had benefited from it, the idea of involving the Khap representatives was taken to put a strong message across to the farmers that majority of the pests were helpful and there was a need to know and identify those pests. “Various meetings have been held during the past one month in which representatives of various Khaps have been apprised of the issue and they have become a part of the drive,” Kuldeep
Dhanda, convenor of the panchayats, said. Dhanda said while the 18th panchayat in this connection would be held on October 30. The matter regarding further use of pesticides in the fields would be finally decided in the 19th meeting, which was scheduled to be held in November. He said the participants had spent several hours in a day to study the ‘useful’ pests in the
pathshala. Manbir Redu of Igrah village told the panchayat members that he had not used any pesticide for the past four years in his fields and there had been no adverse impact on the total yield. Other farmers also echoed similar views on how the drive on no use of pesticides had yielded god results. They have pledged to give up the use of pesticides and to create awareness among fellow farmers on the issue. “The experiment at Nidana will go a long way in showing a new path to the farmers. The use of pesticides results in a huge financial burden on the farmers and poses a health risk too,” claimed Surender
Dalal, an expert on the subject. He added that participation of women in the drive had been quite motivating as a large number of women were active farmers.
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Tough times ahead for Hooda government
Raman Mohan Tribune News Service
Hisar, July 30 The All-India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti has already announced its plans to organise a ‘maha rally’ at Kharar village on August 12, where it will decide its strategy, if the deadline it has set for the government to accept its demand expires on August 15. Although the spate of agitations appears to suggest that Haryana is on the boil, yet there is no commonality in these agitations. The agitation against the proposed nuclear power plant in Fatehabad has only provided the Haryana Janhit Congress and the Indian National Lok Dal an opportunity to cement their hold in the Hisar-Fatehabad-Sirsa belt. HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi and INLD secretary-general Ajay Singh Chautala had contested the last by-elections from Hisar for the Lok Sabha seat. Since then both Bishnoi and Chautala have been trying to gather support for themselves before upcoming 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The ongoing anti-nuclear plant stir has come handy for both of them. Otherwise there is no logic in opposing a project, which Devi Lal had taken up first and Bhajan Lal remained keen on implementing during his various terms in office. The violence at Maruti plant is a direct result of the failure of the management and the labour unions to settle issues between themselves. The calm that returned to the plant after last year’s agitation was at best an uneasy as no one expected peace to prevail for long. The support to the Maruti management extended by the panchayats of 200 villages around Manesar and Gurgaon was a clear indication that the people in that area wanted peace and economic progress. The Bawal violence stemmed from the administration’s failure to address the farmers’ concerns. After they initially opposed the land acquisition, they were given an assurance that their land would not be acquired against their wishes. However, the words were never honoured,which led to unrest in Bawal. Amid the intense environment if Jat agitation resumes, it will become much more difficult and complex problem for the government to handle. The pro-reservation agitation in the past had led to violence and deaths. The stir also has the tendency as well as the capacity to spread quickly to the entire state and that may prove to an acid test for the government.
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Mahavir Park in a state of neglect
Ambala, July 30 The park, spread over around 20 acres of land, is located in the middle of a lake. The lake is the main attraction for the visitors but it is now filled with wild plants. Earlier, the Municipal Council was looking after its maintainenace and had made arrangements for boating in the lake, but not even a single boat is available now. Last year, the council spent lakhs of rupees on getting the lake cleaned. The wild plants covered the lake again but the council did not bother to clean it up again. Foul smell emanates from the fountain, which is one of the main attractions of the park, as the water has not been replaced since its installation. The people of the nearby areas have started encroaching on the banks of the lake. Last year, the council had started construction work on the boundary wall around the lake. A part of the wall was constructed but later work was stopped. A canteen was also constructed in the park but a year after its inception, it is still lying vacant. The provision of a reading room was also planned so that the people visiting the park in the morning could go through the newspapers. No proper arrangement of toilets for women has been made. The children corner also needs more attention. A large number of school children visit the park especially in the winter season. It could be developed as a picnic spot but no sincere efforts have been made to renovate and beautify it.
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Website enables disposal of recovered vehicles
Karnal, July 30 The website, www.iib.gov.in, was launched by the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) on the directions of the Supreme Court but Haryana took a lead and sensitised the police and the other officers about the proper and effective use of the website for speedy disposal of recovered vehicles. The main advantages of this new process is that the huge space occupied by the seized vehicles in police stations will be vacated and there will be reduction in the expenses on vehicles’ safety as national loss will be prevented.“The limited space available in police stations has been choked by a large number of recovered vehicles; those are awaiting clearance for disposal and the concerned police stations can easily dispose of vehicles and can get the space cleared,” Karnal SP, Shashank Anand said. It will also benefit insurance companies as it will become easy to get possession of the insured vehicles, recover money and settle the claims. To apprise the Police officers about the website, a workshop on the disposal of seized property was organised by the Police Commissioner, Faridabad, in collaboration with General Insurance Council and Insurance Regulatory Development Authority at Madhuban police academy and more than 500 police and insurance officials took part in the workshop. The Supreme Court has now allowed the sale of recovered vehicles with a condition that Police must take photos and do videography of the recovered vehicle, which can be produced as evidence.
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Sonepat MC begins survey of houses, shops
BS Malik
Sonepat, July 30 As many as 24 teams of officials of the council headed by seven supervisors have been pressed into service to prepare a new survey list which is expected to be completed within two months. There are 31 wards in the municipal limits of the town. According to council authorities, the area has been divided into 108 parts and the survey was likely to be completed in two or three months because the teams are required to take exact measurements of houses and other premises. During the survey, the teams will also prepare the building maps of houses and commercial establishments. In the present situation, there are 22,885 houses of up to 100 square yards area, 5,848 houses between 100 to 200 square yards area, 9,460 houses up to 300 square yards area and 4,348 of up to 400 square yards area. Besides, there are 12,876 commercial buildings, including the shops, 423 industrial units, 5,095 sheds and vacant plots as well as 4,431 residential-cum-commercial complexes within the municipal council’s limits. The annual income from the house tax recoveries has been ranging between Rs 84,000 to Rs 99,000 since 2006-07 and it is expected that the income may go up to Rs 2 crore after enforcing the new structure of the house tax.
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Retired principals, teachers seek revision of pension
Karnal, July 30 These teachers have no other source of income and survive only on pensions, but due to the ‘insensitive’ attitude of the government, they are forced to lead a life of penury and are not in a position to meet their medical expenses. The Retired College Principals Teachers Federation has urged the government to revise their pension and ensure regular payment of pension, besides paying arrears. Federation president Prof IJ Bharti said the teachers who dedicated their entire lives in grooming children were themselves facing financial hardships and there was neither any support nor sympathy from the government. The payment of pension was irregular and the pension for December 2011 and January and February 2012 was made in March 2012, while the pension for March 2012 was paid in April 2012, he said. Prof Bharti also demanded reimbursement of medical expenses on par with government pensioners and said the ageing teachers were finding it difficult to meet the high cost of treatment of diseases like heart attack, arthritis, cancer etc. The revision of dearness relief for the pensioners should be done immediately along with government pensioners and employees as retired people needed the relief more than serving employees, Bharti added.
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Govt to create awareness in favour of girl child
Chandigarh, July 30 This was stated by the Director General, Women and Child Development Department, Sumita Misra, here recently. She said the programme officers were directed to organise awareness camps with the help of panchayati raj institutions, village level committees, sakshar mahila samoohs and anganwari workers to motivate the people to change their mindset. She said the initiative of the khap and women of Bibipur village would also motivate other panchayats for including such issues on
their agenda. The programme officers have also been directed to send a quarterly report to the head office for a review and to take further steps in this regard. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had also appreciated the initiative taken by the panchayats and awarded Rs 1 crore to
Bibipur.
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Development of faculty programme
Yamunanagar, July 30 As many as 96 faculty members from 21 various educational institutes from across the country participated in the programme, which commenced after the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by renowned educationists Dr DD Arora, Prof Mohd Masood Ahmed, Prof MR Rao and Dr Raj Kumar, director,
MAIMT. While welcoming the chief guest, Dr Raj Kumar said the faculty development programme aimed at benefiting the teaching fraternity by enhancing their skills. Dr DD Arora, professor and dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management at University School of Business, and dean of colleges, KU, Kurukshetra, who was also the chief guest, said the new-age teacher should have quality to keep up pace with the changing scenario and upgrade his teaching skills to help students grasp better.
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NIT orientation programme for students
Kurukshetra, July 30 Brar said the NIT alumni were doing well in various fields such as the scientific, the technical and the administrative after studying in the institute. “After admission to this prestigious institute, students should make maximum use of its facilities and work hard to succeed in their carrers,” he added. In his presidential address, the NIT director, Prof Anand Mohan, said the institute had many achievements in various areas. Even at the time of recession, the placement of its students was 100 per cent and that, too, with good packages. “The institute has a good faculty to nurture the students well,” he added.
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CRPF celebrates Raising Day
Sonepat, July 30 This was stated by Suraj Bhan Kajal, Deputy Inspector General, Sonepat Group Centre of the CRPF, here recently, while celebrating the 73rd Raising Day of the force. The force had been discharging its duties and shouldering responsibilities with full dedication and it had been acknowledged on many occasions, he said. The force was founded by the British on July 27 at Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh in the name of “Crown Representative Police”, he said, adding that its name was changed to CRPF on December 28, 1949, after passing a Bill introduced by the then Union Home Minister, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
in Parliament. The occasion was marked by the presentation of a guard of honour, plantation of trees, organising sports activities and other entertainment
programmes.
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Chilean wines launched
Gurgaon, July 30 The Ambassador of Chile to India, Cristian Barros, who was the guest of honour on the occasion, said: “I am proud to present the most celebrated Chilean wines Valdivieso in India. Vina Valdiavieso has been consistently the most rewarded Chilean winery around the world, obtaining the most prestigious awards in France and England, among other countries.” Agnetta International director Komal Goyal and chief operating officer Puneet Ralhan were
also present.
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Home science scores
Hisar, July 30 In the general category, the first cut-off list touched a score of 97.5 per cent. The last candidate on the list had scored 76 per cent in the qualifying examination. The competition was even tougher for Backward Class candidates. Candidates with less than 88 per cent marks failed to make the grade. The candidate topping the first cut-off list in this category had a score of 94 per cent. In the scheduled caste category, girls with less than 64.8 per cent marks did not figure in the list.
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44 vet graduates take oath
Hisar, July 30 The Dean of the college, Dr Suresh Chander, administered the oath. Vice-Chancellor RR Jowel congratulated the fresh graduates on their achievement and stressed the need for working in a dedicated manner for the welfare of society in general and animals in particular. He emphasised that the fresh graduates must opt for working in remote areas of the state. On this occasion, two books, “Veterinary and Livestock Sector: A blueprint for capacity building” and “Handbook of quality control of dairy and meat products”, written by Dr SR Garg and Dr Vijay Jadhav were also released.
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20% internal assessment in KU
Kurukshetra, July 30 This was stated by the DDE director, Prof Rajneesh Sharma. He added that the BA,
BCom, BIM, BCA, Certificate Course in Urdu, CC in Computer Applications, CC in Fashion Designing, Diploma in Library Science and Bachelor of Library Science were the courses, in which internal assessment was introduced. Professor Sharma said fashion designing and a certificate course in French would be introduced from the session 2012-13. “The other details are available on the website of the university as well as in the prospectus,” he added.
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