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Haryana second largest power purchaser
Grid collapse not due to overdrawals, say power utilities
Electronic transfer of pension begins
Four bonded labourers freed from farmhouse
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Contempt Proceedings
2 delivery-related deaths in Sonepat
Kids ‘exploited’ at Karnal Apna Ghar Houses in illegal colonies not to get water, power Delay in Conceding Demands Sangwan’s Shekhpura village to boycott viewing of Olympics
Diarrhoea Cases
Accident victim dies, kin block highway
Nestle factory raided
Panel to keep watch on rainfall formed
Maruti Manesar staff not to get pay
Road mishap toll touches 31
Contractual APROs finally get salaries
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Haryana second largest power purchaser
Yamunanagar/Ambala, Aug 1 This despite the fact that at the onset of this financial year, the state government had announced that there would be no power cuts this summer as enough generating capacity had been added to the existing system. It included 85 per cent share in CLP 1,320-MW Jhajjar thermal unit. The state’s own generation on paper was 5,050 MW, which is a comfortable power position. Causes of power shortfall
The assessment of the government went haywire with the forced closure of two thermal units of 300 MW each at Yamunanagar and one 600-MW thermal unit at Khedar. The Yamunanagar and Khedar thermal plants were built by Reliance Infra Limited with Chinese equipment. Further, the newly commissioned 1320-MW units at Jhajjar have faced a coal problem ever since their inception. The units remain unoperational for months together for want of coal. Even now, only one unit is operating at Jhajjar. The power demand rose beyond expectation this year and the position worsened with the delayed and below normal monsoon. According to official records, short-term purchase in the past 10 days before grid failures was about 342 million units. These included power purchased through bilateral arrangements from power exchanges and by overdrawing from the Northern Grid. The average short-term purchase of 331 lakh units included 195 lakh units arranged by traders through bilateral arrangements. The direct bilateral power purchase is around 23 lakh units. The average daily power purchase through power exchanges has been around 26 lakh units. The average power purchase cost through power exchanges in the past 10 days works was about Rs 5 per unit. The average overdrawal from the Northern Grid was more than 100 lakh units. It varied between 88 and 190 lakh units as per the NRLDC record. |
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Grid collapse not due to overdrawals, say power utilities
Chandigarh
(TNS): The Haryana Power Utilities have denied that the collapse of the Grid on July 30 and 31 was on account of overdrawal of power by the constituent states.
A spokesman said here today that Haryana had been overdrawing to the extent of 51 per cent. The frequency at 2.32 am. on July 30 was 49.8 Hz and it ranged between 49.92 and 50.27 Hz between 12 noon to 1 pm. on July 31, which showed that the generation and the demand were in balance. At the time of the collapse of the Grid, the total load of all states in the northern region was about 31,726 MW of which the net overdrawal by all northern states was 1573 MW, which was about 4.8 per cent. This was perfectly within limits. |
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Electronic transfer of pension begins
Chandigarh, August 1 With the introduction of the new system, Haryana has become the first state in the country to disburse pensions under various social security schemes to the beneficiaries in cash on the first of every month. This was achieved by the electronic transfer of Rs 126 crore to the dedicated account of the 6,067 gram panchayats and 85 municipalities, which had been opened solely for this purpose in the past one-and-a-half months. — Shingla Devi Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Geeta Bhukkal said the state government had eliminated all unnecessary channels, making the pension disbursement system simpler and more efficient, adding that the database of pensioners had been upgraded. The process to streamline the existing system started around two months back when the database of the pensioners under social security schemes, including old-age pensioners, widow pensioners, destitute women pensioners and physically-challenged pensioners was updated with the deletion of 68,157 ineligible beneficiaries, including 54,609 deceased
persons, Ashok Yadav, Director-General, Social Justice and Empowerment, said. Carrot and stick policy did it
A carrot and stick policy “no pension, no salary”, adopted by the Social Justice and Empowerment Department, seems to have achieved the desired results for the government on the pension disbursal front. It was made clear to the staff that they would not get salary till the disbursement of the pension. For the month of June, the department staff got salary only around June 15. |
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Four bonded labourers freed from farmhouse
Karnal, August 1 The labourers, identified as Raju of Balajipuram, Agra, Roshan Lal of Stana in Panipat, Jamuna Prasad of Dadra and Sanjay from Lakhanpur in Uttar Pradesh, were freed
from the farmhouse when the police raided the premises along with the officials of the Labour Department. A case has been registered under Sections 342,344,323 and 506 of the IPC and Section 16 of the Labour Act against Mangal Singh, who managed to escape from the farmhouse and is still at large. Two persons, Yogesh and Raju from Balajipuram, came to Karnal for work. They were lured by Mangal Singh, who offered them Rs 5,500 per month and took them to his fields. Both the workers were meted out inhuman treatment by the farmer, who also used to beat them up. They were kept under tight security and were not allowed to go out. They were even made to urinate in the room. However, Yogesh was lucky to give a slip to the security people and ran away with a biker when he came to throw cow dung in the fields. He rang up his father in Agra and reached home the next day. He told his father about Raju and the parents of both of them reached Karnal and established contact with Raj Singh Chaudhry, head of an NGO Pravasi Suraksha Vahini, who reported the matter to the police. A police team raided the village and freed the four labourers. |
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TCP chief gets stay from SC
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August
1 The matter pertains to Gurgaon Sectors 63 and 67. After the two sectors were developed, it was found that some of the internal roads were culminating into dead-ends. This was not all. A drain was also flowing between the sectors. The government then decided to further develop and extend the sectors in an attempt to solve the problems. The intention was to ensure the internal roads were connected to an outer road; and also to align the drain. Instead of naming them as new sectors, it was decided to christen them as Sector 63-A and Sector 67-A. The action was, however, challenged before the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Taking up the petition against the same, the high court ordered the maintenance of status quo in the matter. But, the authorities concerned went ahead and issued a licence for plotted colonies, resulting in the initiation of contempt of court proceedings. As the case came up for resumed hearing this morning before a Division Bench, Haryana Additional Advocate-General Randhir Singh defended the action. He asserted that the order of status quo was on new allotments and the issue before the court pertained to group housing societies and common area while the licence was issued for a plotted colony.
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2 delivery-related deaths in Sonepat
Sonepat, August 1 According to information, Sandhya (28) of Jeevan Nagar, here, was admitted in the Civil Hospital for delivery late last evening. She was operated upon by the gynaecologist, Dr Jyotsna, at night and she gave birth to a male child. However after sometime, the mother expired, reportedly due to excessive bleeding. In the second case, Sangeeta, resident of Chauhan Joshi village, was brought to the hospital for delivery by her family members around 4 am today. Around 6 am, she was referred to the BPS Government Medical Hospital at Khanpur Kalan by Dr Jyotsna, saying that the child in the womb was not breathing. No para-medical staff was deputed to accompany Sangeeta and her family members in the ambulance. When the ambulance reached near Shahzadpur village, Sangeeta delivered a male child who reportedly died soon after in the ambulance. Sangeeta’s husband has lodged a complaint with the Civil Surgeon, Dr Suresh Chander, alleging negligence on the part of the medical staff. The Civil Surgeon has asked the Medical Superintendent, Dr
R.N. Tehlan, to conduct an inquiry in both the cases. |
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Kids ‘exploited’ at Karnal Apna Ghar
Karnal, August 1 Enquiries reveal that the administration never tried to verify what was happening in Apna Ghar providing shelter to people in distress and destitute children and the inspections by the administration were mere eyewash. Five girls -- Sneha, Puja, Jasmin, Afreen and Rajani -- who were shifted from Apana Ghar yesterday on the pretext of paucity of space today alleged that they were being beaten up and forced to work as domestic helps by the director of Apna Ghar Anath Ashram. There were blue marks on Afreen’s leg. She said that she had been thrashed with a cane. She said a minor boy, Sumit, who was also shifted from Apna Ghar along with five other boys, was also tortured and beaten up. They also revealed that one of the inmates, Rajani, was not sent to school by the director, who allegedly declared the girl as mentally retarded and held her back at home for doing domestic works. Deputy Commissioner Renu S. Phulia, when asked about the maltreatment of the children, said she was not aware of it but now she would get the matter enquired and send the girls for a medical examination.
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Houses in illegal colonies not to get water, power Fatehabad, August 1 ML Kaushik, Deputy Commissioner, said the authorities had already issued orders against registration of any sale deed without prior clearance from the office of the Town and Country Planning. The DC has called a meeting of senior official of the department concerned in his office next Monday. “Officials from the Public Health Department, the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Nigam, the sub-registrar for registration of sale deeds, the district town planner and some others have been called to the meeting for proper coordination,” Kaushik said. The authorities have so far failed to check the mushrooming of illegal colonies in the district. Unscrupulous property dealers have been carving out residential colonies for the past several days. This has increased ever since the award for Gorakhpur land was announced as dealers feel that the money would ultimately flow into the real estate market. Dealers carve out colonies in four to eight acres and leave very narrow lanes between the houses. In some cases, dealers carve out shops and booths too in such colonies. They do not make any provision for parks or parking of vehicles. Later, it is left for the authorities to provide sewers, drinking water and electric supply in these narrow lanes following pressure from people,
who start living in these colonies.
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Delay in Conceding Demands Hisar, August 1 A spokesperson for HFUCTO said here today that the government had issued a notification regarding new pay scales recommended by the UGC. However, this notification had not been implemented in totality. He said HFUCTO leaders had met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda several times but the government had not taken any steps in this direction. He said in the next phase, teachers would hold dharnas at their respective campuses on August 13. A hunger strike would be organised on the Kurukshetra University campus on August 25. Other than implementation of the notification, HFUCTO demands include benefit of advance and additional increments for higher educational qualifications as per UGC guidelines, creation of posts of professor in colleges, benefit of study leave, duty leave for seminars, childcare leave to all university and college teachers of the state, qualification for recruitment of professor as per UGC recommendations, workload as per UGC guidelines, raising the age of retirement to 65.
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Sangwan’s Shekhpura village to boycott viewing of Olympics Shekhpura (Karnal), August 1 Talking to The Tribune, Sumit’s father Surinder Sangwan said that villagers were pinning hopes on Sumit and were now feeling cheated by decision of the jury. The match was video graphed and the jury could have reviewed their decision, now what is left for us to watch in Olympics, he questioned. The villagers were eagerly waiting for the bout and were glued to their television sets hours before the starting of the event yesterday evening. Sumit(19) hit the headlines after he won the gold medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Kazakhstan which gave him a chance to prove his worth at the sports extravaganza in light heavyweight, punching out Jordan's Ihab Almatbouli 20-13 to ensure himself a place at the London Olympics.
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Hooda suspends SDO, JE
Manish Sirhindi /TNS
Yamunanagar, August 1 During an inspection by a team headed by the Deputy Commissioner and Civil Surgeon, it had been found that the chlorination box in the area was missing. Terming it to be a serious lapse, the CM directed the superintendent engineer to suspend the two officials. The Chief Minister, who was here to preside over the meeting of the district officials to review the development works, stated that the Centre had approved the four-laning of the Yamunanagar-Panchkula section of National Highway-73. He said the this project has been allocated to Gaman India Private Ltd and Rs 935 crore was expected to be spent on it.
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Accident victim dies, kin block highway
Fatehabad, August 1 The victim’s kin alleged that eyewitnesses caught the person who was driving the car from the
spot and handed him to the police after the accident. However, when they went to the police station in connection with the investigation, they
found that ‘some other person’ was sitting there in place of the ‘accused’, they said. The kin started raising slogans against the police. Later they blocked the NH-10 at Laal Batti Chowk for an hour. They alleged that the police had let the person, who was driving the vehicle, go scot-free and had rounded up ‘some other person’ in his place. |
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Nestle factory raided
Chandigarh, August 1 Dr Gupta said the injections were sealed and were produced before CJM RK Bhankar and the custody order was taken. An FIR has been lodged under the Drug Act. He said a team headed by Dr Anita Tandon, civil surgeon, Panipat, raided the factory of Nestle in Samalkha. The team seized a few infant milk substitutes. A notice has been sent to Nestle. The manufacturer of such products are likely to be booked under various Sections of the Infant Milk Substitute, Feeding Bottle and Infant Food (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992, which prevents deliberate advertisement and promotion of such products in the market. |
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Panel to keep watch on rainfall formed
Chandigarh, August 1 The committee comprises administrative secretaries of the departments of revenue, cooperation, Irrigation, agriculture, power, public health, food and supplies, rural development and animal husbandry would meet every week to take stock of the situation. At the first meeting of the committee, today, the Chief Secretary reviewed the situation with the administrative secretaries. While the present situation was worrisome in view of 72 per cent deficiency in rainfall between June 1 and July 31, the next 10 days would be crucial. The Chief Secretary asked all the departments concerned to be in a state of readiness to meet a possible eventuality of failure of monsoons. He asked the power department to
take steps for ensuring adequate power supply to the farm sector. |
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Maruti Manesar staff not to get pay
Gurgaon, August 1 According to company officials, neither the workers not the top executives will be given salary as according to company norms the workers are not paid for lockout period. “The wages of employees for the period before the incident will be paid only after the lockout is rolled back and the plant starts functioning. At present, the company has no record of the workers and their duty hour details for the entire month. The data will have to be retrieved to make payments,” said a senior official. “I have a family of five to support and it is raksha bandhan. How will I manage? I did not resort to violence, but am suffering,” said a worker.
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Road mishap toll touches 31
Hisar, August 1 The deceased are Praveen Kumar and his mother,
Rajpati. While Praveen died in the local Jindal Hospital, his mother died in a private nursing
home. Praveen Kumar had his foot severed in the accident. He was referred to Jindal Hospital from the General Hospital in view of his serious condition. Incidentally, his severed foot was left at the scene of the accident while he was removed to the hospital here. As many as 36 persons had been injured in the accident. A Canter carrying around 70 persons including children and women had collided head on with a truck on Monday morning. |
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Contractual APROs finally get salaries Ambala, August 1 Despite running from pillar to post and requesting Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, these APROs had not been given salaries for the past four months. On the issue of TA and DA, senior officials in the Public Relations Department stated that the department had decided to give TA and DA to the contractual APRO as was being paid to the regular employees. However, the government has not yet revised the salaries of APROs, who had joined the department in April, 2008 at a monthly salary of Rs 12,500.
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Free travel for women today Chandigarh, August 1 An official spokesman said here today that the government had been extending this facility
to women since 2006.
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5 IPS officers shifted
Chandigarh, August 1 Yoginder Singh Nehra has been transferred as Commandant, 4 th India Reserve Battalion, Manesar. B. Satheesh Balan goes as SP, Hisar, while Pankaj Nain has been posted as SP, Bhiwani. Hamid Akhtar has been transferred as Commandant, 3rd Battalion, Haryana Armed Police, Hisar, while Anil Dhawan has been posted as SP, Jhajjar. Pat Ram Singh has been posted as SP, Mewat.
— TNS
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HC notice to Deepender, Rao Inderjit
Chandigarh, August 1 |
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2 killed in mishap
Jhajjar, August 1 |
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It is a matter of shame that such distasteful things are happening in shelter homes. Stringent action should be taken against not only the managements of such homes but also officers in the government who have been allowing such inhuman practices to perpetuate.
— Krishan Pal Gurjar, Haryana BJP chief