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Investors duped in Fatehabad in name of township
Fourth girl child brings joy to Sirsa couple
Shortage of docs leaves Sonepat patients in lurch
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Hisar to register all new voters
Immunisation services at your doorstep now
School management meetings made mandatory
Eco-tourism in Bhondsi
20 new centres for TB patients
Regularisation of 34 colonies on the cards
Elected representatives lukewarm towards proposal
Yamunanagar to have industrial estate soon
Trauma centre adds to patients’ woes
Gen VK Singh’s options in politics limited
Tobacco ban will help in controlling oral cancer: Docs
Sonepat varsity gets Rs 2-cr grant
Issue postmortem reports without delay: VC to docs
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Investors duped in Fatehabad in name of township
Fatehabad, August 2 District town planner Arvinder Dhull has stopped earthwork activities in the township after reports of selling plots in this township, whose license had expired in June 2010, came to his notice. Some local property dealers gave advertisement in a local evening daily offering residential plots in a township situated on the newly constructed bypass road. Sources in the property business said several unsuspecting buyers have already invested their money. However, after action by the district town planner, another advertisement on behalf of owners of the township was published in local newspapers today denying any link with the sale of plots. Local residents allege that the property mafia had become active ever since the authorities have announced award for land acquired in Gorakhpur. Residents allege that the authorities have been doing little to safeguard the interests of genuine buyers and investors. “It was a pre-planned activity to attract buyers by starting the earthwork on the township site to give the impression that the colony would be developed soon, though in reality the license of the same had expired two years ago,” residents said. Dhull said the township was approved by the government in June 2008, but its license expired in June 2010, as the company did not apply for its renewal. He said the company owes nearly Rs 30 crore to the government towards internal development charges and till it gets its license renewed, it was not authorised to sell plots or undertake any development activities. He added that he had served a written notice to the developer, who has denied any role in the earthwork or selling of plots.
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Fourth girl child brings joy to Sirsa couple
Sirsa, August 2 Rajesh Kumar, a poor worker who ekes a living by painting walls of people, and his wife Sarla today showed the world that the birth of a girl child is no less an occasion for celebration. The family recently organised “kuan poojan” on the birth of their fourth girl child. “I do not consider any difference between boys and girls, when women today are excelling in almost all fields of life,” said Sarla. The father of the girl child, who has named the newborn Komal, said: “Yeh to saakshaat Laxmi ayi hai mere ghar (The Deity Lakshmi has come to my home in the shape of my daughter).” The “kuan pujan” is performed in the Jat heartland of Haryana, conventionally on the birth of a son. Tradition has it that praying to the well and at the well, the only source of water in olden times and the lifeline of the village, will not only bring good luck for the newborn son, but will also earn the blessings of God in the process ensuring that the next birth in the family too is a son. However, Rajesh and Sarla’s gesture of celebrating the birth of a girl child is being appreciated well in the society.
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Shortage of docs leaves Sonepat patients in lurch
Sonepat, August 2 The situation creates problems for patients, who are forced to visit Rohtak or Khanpur Kalan for treatment. They prefer to visit private hospitals and clinics for their treatment, which is expensive for the common man. In the recent past, about Rs 18 crore were spent by the government on the renovation of the Civil Hospital building and in equipping it with other state-of- the-art medical equipment, but shortage of specialists made these facilities useless for the patients. Besides, a number of newly constructed CHCs and PHCs could not be made functional due to lack of doctors and specialists and other necessary medical equipment. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Suresh Chander, said as many as 52 posts of doctor against the sanctioned 128 posts were lying vacant in different health institutes of the district and the
demand to fill these vacant posts had already been made to the higher authorities. “As the selection process for the recruitment of 300 specialists is almost over, I hope the district will get 10-12 specialists soon,” he said. He said with the available strength of doctors and specialists, every effort was being made to examine maximum patients. The average daily OPD in the local Civil Hospital was around 900. As the Civil Hospital was located near the GT road, five to 10 patients were being referred daily to the
PGIMS, Rohtak, and the Khanpur Kalan medical hospital, he added. As far as the functioning of newly constructed health centres at Juan, Bhatana Zafarabad and Mahra was concerned, Dr Chander said the process of making them functional was in the final stages.
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Rohtak park turns into protesters’ refuge
Rohtak, August 2 While supporters of Anna Hazare have still been staging a dharna since July 25 here, members of various employees and trade associations have used the place to stage a protest in the recent past. The members of the DEd Students Association, Haryana, had stopped the movement of traffic on the main road for over an hour in support of their demands here recently. The protesters assembled at this park earlier in the morning and decided to block the movement of traffic on the road. While this led to a traffic jam at the place, it was removed only after the intervention of senior district officials. “The park has emerged as a top spot for all those who want to highlight any issue, which may be aimed at getting publicity or at lodging a protest,” said Deepak, a local resident. He said several protests and meetings had been held here in less than a year. “Besides these rallies, meetings of various organisations have also become a common here just because of the fact that the place is located right in the heart of the city and protesters use the spot to start a procession from here as offices of the district administration is located nearby,” he said. The park had been under refurbishment as Rs 2 crore had been spent on its renovation and providing swings and slides for children. The ground level of the park had been raised by several feet to prevent waterlogging, an official of the municipal corporation said.
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Hisar to register all new voters
Hisar, August 2 A directive issued by the administration today warned them that any laxity in this task was punishable under section 32 of the Representation of Peoples’ Act, 1950. The officials have been directed to enlist the support of NGOs, educational institutions, post offices and banks for this purpose. Those who have acted as polling officers would remain present in their offices after lunch hours to help Aanganwari workers fill forms, register new voters and amend voters’ lists. All necessary forms would be made available. After receiving the applications, these officers would verify the claims and then deposit the forms with the voter registration office at the end of each week. The Aanganwari workers have been directed to keep a record of all voters and also ensure that those left out were enlisted. They would also submit a monthly report to the registration officer on the seventh of every month.
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Sirsa lad becomes Bollywood producer
Sirsa, August 2 The film’s star cast was in Sirsa recently to promote their film. The team went to Maharaja Agarsen Senior Secondary School, Jan Nayak Chaudhary Devi Lal Vidyapeeth, OHM Cine Garden and some other places to interact with youths. A six-member team comprising Mohit Chauhan and Sayani Gupta playing lead roles in the movie, Charu Rohtagi and Vishal Nayak, both actors, Aditya Agarwal, a singer and composer, and Vinod Mehta arrived in Sirsa after its promotional activities in Amritsar. “This is the first Bollywood movie that has been filmed completely in north India,” said the producer, Mehta. He said he had given a break to some fresh faces from the area, including singer and composer Aditya Agarwal, who hails from Sirsa. He said his film, “Second Marriage Dot Com”, was an idea-oriented movie, and if the experiment succeeded, he would give chance to the youth from Haryana in general and Sirsa in particular in his next ventures. “Akshay, a young IT professional from Delhi, only child of a single parent Suneel Narang, embarks on a journey to get his father, a widower, married, to finally put an end to his prolonged loneliness. Co-incidentally in Jaipur, a vibrant young girl, Poonam, is on the same hunt to find a partner for her mother, Shoma, whom she has seen as a divorcee since her childhood. They get in touch with each other through a matrimonial website named 'second marriage.com' and after initial denial of the idea by their parents, they finally sail through and get them married,” Mehta said about the storyline of his film. But this undefined marriage takes some sharp turns and twists, when brother and sister get attracted romantically to each other, and this family discovers the dark shades of complex
relationships. After working as a stringer for some national dailies, Mehta worked as Additional Media Adviser to the then Chief Minister, Haryana, Om Prakash Chautala, from 2001 to 2003 and then launched a news channel Total TV in 2004. After severing his association with the news channel last year, Mehta launched his production house, Vin Mehta Films Private Limited, whose first movie “Second Marriage Dot Com” is being launched on August 10. Directed by Gaurav Panjwani, the film has Mohit Chauhan, Vishal Nayak, Sayani Gupta, Charu Rohtagi, Manjeet Toger and Nikita More in its cast.
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Immunisation services at your doorstep now
Chandigarh, August 2 She said the scheme would also ensure 100 per cent coverage of slums, construction sites and areas around brick kilns in the three districts. She said the state government would try to reduce Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) through the scheme. The Health Department is committed to reduce MMR from 153 per lakh to 94 per lakh by 2015 and the IMR from 48 per thousand to 32 per thousand during the same period. She asked the Health Department to take care of micro issues for good management. Health institutions paying sincere attention to micro issues were performing better in terms of health indicators, she said. She asked the civil surgeons to send demand for infrastructural needs to the head office so that necessary funds could be allocated by the government. Sandhu said 180 new doctors would soon join work and the doctors would be posted at civil hospitals for orientation before sending them to Primary Health Centres (PHCs). She added that new norms for the recruitment of paramedical staff were being framed. Dr Narveer Singh, Director General, Health Services, said that a committee to revise the existing laboratory facilities was also be constituted by the state government.
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School management meetings made mandatory
Chandigarh, August 2 According to the circular issued by the department, the district elementary education officers can effect changes in the timing of the meeting if they deem it proper. The meetings of the SMCs can be convened at any time, if the need arises. The quarterly meeting of the general body will take place on the last Saturday of July, October, January and April and it should be ensured that all parents of the students take part in the meetings. The secretary will forward written information about the meeting and its agenda four days before convening it. The proceedings of it will be recorded. The circular said the head of the school would prepare the agenda for the meeting. The circular said the help of the SMC members would also be taken in bringing back the dropout students to the schools. The details of the monthly meetings will be recorded in a register, which will be made available during inspection by the department.
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Eco-tourism in Bhondsi
Chandigarh, August 2 Chaudhery was presiding over a meeting regarding the utilisation of the land of the gram panchayat. He emphasised that the concept should focus on developing bio-diversity and dedicated learning of society especially of children about their ecological environment. He said the natural beauty of the forest land would be maintained and emphasised that children should be made aware of their environment. They should be educated and encouraged to maintain ecological balance. “Our efforts should be directed towards leaving some land without any major construction for the nature to flourish,”
he added.
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20 new centres for TB patients
Chandigarh, August 2 Under the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), the centres would be set up in the areas with a population of one lakh, and these would be set up in deserts, hills, remote areas and tribal areas where population was 50,000, he added. Fauji said Public Health Centres, covering one lakh population and where every day minimum 100 patients get registered, were also selected for setting up of DMCs. He said DMCs were also established at medical colleges, corporate hospitals, ESI and railway health facilities, private hospitals and other important places and there were 234 DMCs and 7,076 DOT centres in the state for the treatment of TB patients.
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Regularisation of 34 colonies on the cards
Rohtak, August 2 Almost 35, 000 residents of these colonies were likely to benefit by the government’s decision. “The process of regularisation of several colonies in the town which started about 15 months back has reportedly reached a final stage with the Department of Town and Country Planning giving its sanction,’’ claimed sources in the department concerned. The announcement is expected soon as the file gets cleared from the sate urban development ministry, sources said. Hundreds of families have been residing in these colonies which have been carved out mainly by private developers. While the colonisers would be required to pay fees for maps and other facilities connected with the construction of houses, the owners of the houses in these areas would be required to pay house tax. The civic body will provide basic amenities including roads, water supply and sewerage network and street lighting. Meanwhile, officials of the district Town and Country Planning Department have advised residents not to purchase residential plots in unauthorised colonies and areas mushrooming in the outskirts of the city. The district authorities have already imposed a ban on the registration of land and property in such areas.
Colonies awaiting regularisation
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PPP-driven water-management system in Faridabad Ravi S Singh Tribune News Service
Faridabad, August 2 The elected representatives included the Congress MP, Avtar Sing Bhadana, two Haryana ministers, Mahender Pratap and Shivcharan Lal Sharma, and the chief parliamentary secretary, Sharda Rathore. Majority of the 35 corporators and all the MLAs, including ministers and the MP of the area, did not appear at the joint meeting, which was convened by the Commissioner of the corporation, D Suresh, to reach a consensus in favour of a PPP-driven water- management system in Faridabad and on the issue of increase in tariffs. Nine corporators who took part in the meeting categorically asked D Suresh to regularise the existing unauthorised water connections in the city before contemplating any hike in the tariffs. The corporators argued that the municipal corporation would mop up Rs 100 crore as additional income by approving unauthorised connections. According to the official, there were about 85,000 unauthorised water connections. A corporator said the elected representatives were upset over the suggestions of PPP model and increase in the tariffs. Anand Kaushik, the Congress MLA, said other MLAs were absent as they had to go Chandigarh. They, however, met the MCF Commissioner at the local circuit house before leaving for Chandigarh. He said the Commissioner was requested to build public opinion on the proposed PPP model and on the issue of tariffs. According to him, the Commissioner urged the MLAs to ask the government to provide the corporation Rs 250 crore immediately to complete development projects in Faridabad. Earlier while addressing the corporators at the HUDA Convention Centre, the Commissioner said there was a pressing need to increase the tariffs. He said the tariff rates in Delh were double the rates in Faridabad.
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Big rush for submitting fee in KU
Kurukshetra, August 2 Thousands of students were waiting for their turn while standing in long queues. Authorities had made four counters for submitting the fee and three to get fee voucher. Even after seeing the crowd, no positive action was taken by authorities. As a result, a student fainted and another was injured. Finally, to control the crowd, authorities had to call the university security and a police force. “According to information given to me, the girl might have fainted due to a power cut. The counters will not be increased as the arrangement is working well,” said Dr Surender Deswal, Registrar, Kurukshetra University. “There is a lot of problem in submitting fee and power cuts lead to further congestion. It is difficult to even stand in a queue in these conditions. The authorities should increase the number of counters,” said Manoj, president of the Students Federation of India (SFI).
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Yamunanagar to have industrial estate soon
Yamunanagar, August 2 This was stated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during his recent visit to the district during which had held various meetings with district officials to oversee the ongoing development projects. While interacting with the local industrialists during his visit, the Chief Minister said the land for the industrial estate had already been identified and a notification in this regard would be issued soon. He said Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and the Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Industries, would soon hold a meeting with the industries associations of Yamunanagar to sort out issues, if any. The Chief Minister also assured the industrialists that any problems being faced by the manufacturers would be redressed on a priority basis. He said the government had also come up with a unique farmer-friendly land pooling scheme to ensure the participation of land owners in the development process. This would lead to the expansion of the industry and would also benefit the land owners, he said. He also came down heavily on the previous INLD-BJP regime accusing them of having neglected the district.
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Trauma centre adds to patients’ woes
Ambala, August 2 The centre does not have the required medical equipment and specialist doctors to deal with a serious trauma patient. It is the main cause, due to which, doctors of the hospital generally refer serious trauma patients to the PGI, Chandigarh. Hospital sources said more than 70 per cent serious patients were referred to the PGI, Chandigarh. The doctors avoided taking risk as the centre lacked basic facilities. A trauma centre should have the facility of a neurosurgeon, a radiologist, a general surgeon and medical specialists. Besides, the centre must have MRI, CT scan, angiography, coloured X-ray, ultrasound, ECG and a ventilator should also be available, but the centre lacks these basic facilities. Moreover, no neurosurgeon is available here, which is the most urgent requirement of a trauma centre. About one year ago, the state Health Department had provided a ventilator to the centre, but it is lying in disuse till now. The serious patients, who are urgently in need of a ventilator, are asked to visit Chandigarh. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while inaugurating the trauma centre had said that now patients would not die as the crucial time of around one hour wasted in transporting them to Chandigarh would be saved. The purpose, however, could not be served. During the past three years, many patients died while on their way to Chandigarh. Recently, during a surprise visit, the Director-General Health, Dr Narveer Singh, had expressed a serious concern regarding the performance of the centre.
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Gen VK Singh’s options in politics limited
His first hurdle will be which party to join. Despite the exalted post from which he retired and his reputation as a man of impeccable integrity and a no- nonsense soldier, no party has so far shown any inkling of wooing him. There are reasons for that. In the present scenario, no political party wants a man who would at any stage in the future challenge the authority of its leadership. So far as the Congress is concerned, given his strident stand on his age row during the last few months of his tenure, he will have to surmount many obstacles to gain entry to the party. His visit to Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district earlier this week to express solidarity with the farmers opposing the establishment of a nuclear power plant there has all but nuked his chances of entering the Congress at least in the immediate future. The other alternative can be the INLD. However, given his military background, he will find it extremely difficult to fit in with the culture of a family-dominated political party. His being a Rajput will also not help. That leaves him the choice of either the HJC or the BJP. The reasons that make him a misfit in the INLD are equally valid in the case of the HJC. Kuldeep Bishnoi is not an easy leader to work with. The BJP on its own has almost no political standing in Haryana. Besides, it, too, is at present allied with the HJC. That does not exactly serve the former general’s cause. Singh will have difficulty choosing a constituency to contest from. He belongs to Bhiwani district which is a part of the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seat. The Rajputs account for only about 80,000 votes in the constituency. That does not make him an ideal choice for any political party to put him up as its nominee for this Lok Sabha seat. So far as an Assembly seat is concerned, his ancestral village Bapoda falls in the Tosham Assembly segment which is a Jat-dominated segment currently held by Kiran Chaudhry, a senior minister in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. So, Tosham is ruled out given the huge following of former Chief Minister the late Bansi Lal in the area and Chaudhry’s own standing. Although his village had backed him solidly on his row with the UPA government over the issue of his age, he is not exactly viewed as a future political leader in the area. His long years with the Army did not allow him much time to mingle with the villagers and create a political base for him. The Jats and the Rajputs have been traditional rivals of each other in Bhiwani district. Earlier a very dominant community in the area, the Rajput hegemony ended with the advent of Bansi Lal on the political scene. A Raput can thus neither hope to poll votes of Jats nor those of Brahmins and
Dalits.
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Tobacco ban will help in controlling oral cancer: Docs
Rohtak, August 2 She said that the decision to ban tobacco products was a welcome step as the use of such products has been on the rise despite warnings being printed on the packets and packing of such products. She said that her department has a large number of patients who report cancerous developments in the mouth caused mainly by the consumption of gutkha or pan masala. She said most of the new patients were of pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions in the oral cavity and many of them were serious. According to Dr Sanjay Tiwari, Senior Professor and Principal of the PGIDS, India accounts for 86 per cent of the total cases of oral cancer in the world, which he said had been confirmed by the study conducted by the National Institute of Public Health in February 2011. Gupta said oral cancer was the most common cancer in Indian males and the third most common cancer among females, adding that approximately 90 to 95 percent of oral cancer was due to tobacco. “The ban on such products was eagerly awaited as the foremost cause of oral cancer is consumption of tobacco through smoking and chewing,” observed Dr Adarsh Kumar, PGIDS. He said though in Haryana, use of beedi, hooka and cigarettes was very common, the use of gutkha and pan masala had also been on the rise. According to him, the lesser known reason of such high proportion of oral cancers in India is the rampant use of betel nut (supari) and areca nut products. “Raw and processed tobacco used as pan masala contains more than 2,500 chemical constituents like ammonium compounds, pyridine bases, phenols and nicotine which are responsible for carcinoma. Betel nut and areca nut contains four major alkenoids- arecoline, arecodine, guvacine and guacoline,” he said. “Prolonged use of areca nut causes peculiar facial and systemic features known as ‘Gutkha Syndrome’ and its withdrawal may lead to mood swing, anxiety, irritability and loss of concentration,” said Dr Harneet Singh, a dental surgeon. He said smokeless forms of tobacco like khaini, betel nut, pan masala, mishri, gutkha, snuff, etc were dangerous as they are kept in mouth for a longer period of time.
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Sonepat varsity gets Rs 2-cr grant
Sonepat, August 2 According to head of the management studies in the university Dr Shaweta Hooda, an amount of Rs 50 lakh out of this grant was being utilised for the construction of the new building of the Department of Hospitality and Hotel Administration on the university premises. The building would be completed by the end of this year. Besides, in order to impart practical training and knowledge about the functioning of 5 star hotels and technical upgrade of the department, the equipment and implements of laundry and house keeping had already been purchased, she said. Hooda said the process for the purchase of kitchen equipment was on. Keeping in mind the large-scale job opportunities in the hospitality and hotel administration sectors, she said, the upgrade process was taken up on the initiative of Vice-Chancellor of the university Dr Pankaj Mittal. Dr Hooda claimed that there was cent per cent placement of students of the first batch of the BSc in Hospitality and Hotel Administration passed out this year and it had been a morale booster for junior students. “Moreover, the annual fee charges for this degree course is just Rs 10,000 in comparison to Rs 40,000 to Rs 2 lakh being charged in other universities and private institutions,” she added. Dr Mittal opined that this was one of the fast growing industries and there were ample job opportunities not only at the regional level but also at the national and international levels. “It is our sincere desire to give the best possible practical training to students during their period of studies,” she added.
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Issue postmortem reports without delay: VC to docs
Sonepat, August 2 Responding to observations raised by Alok Mittal, Inspector-General of Rohtak Police Range, the Vice-Chancellor of the university of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Dr Sukhbir Singh Sangwan asked doctors to issue postmortem reports without any delay. “When the operations can be performed in the light, then why not the postmortem,” he questioned. While delivering the keynote address in the symposium, Mittal informed the participants that a software had been developed which helps the doctor to prepare the report while conducting the postmortem. He also suggested that the doctors should inspect the crime spot before completing the postmortem report so that there was no scope for contradiction between the postmortem report and police investigation report.
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Jism 2
Directed by: Pooja Bhatt Arunoday Singh, Randeep Hooda and ‘Bigg Boss’ fame Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone are on a roll. Their adult-thriller ‘Jism 2’, a sequel of the 2003 John Abraham-Bipasha Basu starrer, has already created a lot of buzz with its sultry promos and raunchy posters. The film marks the debut of Sunny Leone who plays a struggling actor in the movie. Trade analysts say it is much bolder and bigger than ‘Jism’. Arunoday Singh plays an intelligence officer and Randeep Hooda plays a dreaded assassin. Shot widely in Sri Lanka, ‘Jism 2’ is director Pooja Bhatt’s much-awaited film which opens today at Fame Shalimar, KC (Panchkula), Fun, Minerva, Nigar (Ambala), Movie Time, Harsha, Inder Palace Karnal, Radhika, BMG (Rewari), Amrit (Sonepat), PVR Ambience, PVR MGF, PVR Sahara, Big Palam, DTCC, DTMM, SRS Omaxe, SRS Wedding (Gurgaon), PVR Crown Plaza, Inox, SRS CC, SRS Pristine, SRS Eldeco, SRS Shubham, Movie Time CM, Q Cinema (Faridabad), Dimple-Jagadhari, Satyam, Bangar
(Rohtak).
Krishna and Kans
Directed by: Vikram Veturi The much-awaited, animated feature film ‘Krishna and Kans’ is based on Krishna’s early years. It shows the sequences from his birth to his fight against his uncle, Kans. The movie is produced by Reliance Animation and releases today at Fame Shalimar - Panchkula, Movie Time, Harsha (Karnal), Glitz (Kurukshetra), Minerva (Ambala), Bangar, Satyam (Rohtak), PVR MGF, PVR Sahara, PVR Ambience, Big Palam, DT CC, DT MM (Gurgaon), Inox, Parsavnath CM, SRS Sec 11, SRS Eldeco, Q Cinema (Faridabad) and Glitz (Kurukshetra). — Dharam Pal
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In a society where birth of a female child is often seen as a scourge, celebration on the birth of a girl comes like a whiff of fresh air to the desert.
Hisar, August 2