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RESERVATIONS IN REWARI CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
Kanda’s religious image takes a beating
Mobile courts for all disabled persons in state
Undertrials escape; 4 policemen held
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Farm experts work out strategy to fight drought
Over 17% increase in tax collection, says Choudhary
Chautala is misguiding people: Cong leader
Five proclaimed offenders arrested
Check illegal mining of sand: MP
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RESERVATIONS IN REWARI CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
Rewari, August 13 The samiti started an indefinite dharna before the main gate of the Central University at Pali-Jat in Mahendergarh district, 60 km from Rewari, on July 30, seeking reservations in admissions and jobs for the students and the residents of these twin villages. The dharna, which is already being held for two weeks, is still continuing. A spokesman for the samiti, Malkhan Singh, said that they had to launch an agitation now only when their repeated communications sent to the university authorities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, remained unanswered, much to their dismay. However, recently when their dharna was in progress, a 21-member delegation of the samiti, met Dr Saket Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Narnaul, at Narnaul on August 2 and held detailed discussions with him. While the negotiations failed to have any positive outcome, the DC urged them not to politicise the issue. Soon after the samiti announced that it would continue the stir, it received a shot in the arm when leaders of the Haryana unit of the All-India Rajput Mahasabha (AIRM) extended their whole-hearted support to their agitation recently. Describing the samiti’s demands as “genuine” and “justified”, Thakur Attar Lal, state chief of the AIRM, ruefully asked that if residents of Khanpur and Bhainswal villages in Haryana were already enjoying reservation and other such benefits for their children in admissions to various courses at Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila University, Khanpur Kalan, which has been set up on land given by these two villages? They rightfully deserved these privileges. He went on to say that when residents of Murthal village, too, had got such benefits at Chaudhary Chhotu Ram Science and Technology University, Murthal, why residents of Pali and Jat villages here were being discriminated against for no fault of theirs? He further pointed out that when the state government had already conferred all such benefits on residents of 14 village panchayats, which had offered their land for the establishment of District Institutes for Educational Training (DIETs) in various districts of the state, it was simply ironical that hapless residents of Pali and Jat villages here had been singled out for such unfair treatment. Thakur Attar Lal, Subedar Surat Singh and several other prominent leaders of the Rajput Mahasabha have urged the government to accept the samiti’s genuine and justified demands to avert the situation from taking an unsavoury turn.
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Kanda’s religious image takes a beating
More than his political career, it is Kanda’s religious image that has taken a severe beating. The ‘Tara Baba Kutiya’ run by the trust has a 108-feet high statue of Lord Shiva and the Kanda brothers hold programmes on Shivratri, Janamashtmi and other festivals every year. Several celebrities like Hema Malini, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Narinder Chanchal, Anuradha Podhwal and Richa Sharma have visited the Tara Baba Kutiya during these programmes. Narinder Chanchal and Richa Sharma had sung devotional songs in a jagran held in the ‘Tara Baba Kutiya’ on Shivratri this year. Thousands of people have been visiting the Kutiya on such occasions. The religious gatherings in the Tara Baba Kutiya have also helped Kanda in cementing his position in Sirsa politics. With Kanda embroiled in a controversy where his morality is being questioned, it would become very difficult for the Kanda brothers to clear doubts from the minds of those who have been faithfully associated with Tara Baba Kutiya. However, the Geetika Sharma case has come as shock not only to the common people in Sirsa, but also to his ardent supporters. “Yeh to aisa hua ki oont pe baithe ko kutta kaat gaya (this is like someone sitting on the back of a camel is bitten by a dog),”said a supporter of the former minister. Though Kanda is an independent MLA in the state legislative Assembly, his supporters were confident of his being nominated by the ruling party in the coming election due to his clout. Kanda, whose rags to riches story in a span of less then two decades has been a cause of envy for many big businessman, had made Sirsa residents wonder about his meteoric rise in politics. He won his first election as an Independent and rose to become a minister in the Haryana cabinet. However, after his inclusion in the list of “tainted” politicians, it will become very difficult for him to get a Congress ticket. Even if he contests the election as an Independent, he will have to answer several difficult questions to his electorate.
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Mobile courts for all disabled persons in state
Sirsa, August 13 Shashi Bharat Bhushan, State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities in Haryana, who was on a tour to Sirsa, said the disabled persons had to go to Chandigarh for petty cases and as such they had to face a lot of problems. Keeping in view the problems of such persons, it has been decided to organise mobile courts at all district headquarters where senior officers of all departments will be present to sort out their problems on the spot. Bhushan conducted checking of the government-aided institutions being run in Sirsa to help the disabled. He inspected Disha, a home for special children, Sharavanvani, a centre for persons with hearing impairment, and Bhai Kanhaiya Ashram in Sirsa town. After inspection, he expressed satisfaction over the facilities being provided to the inmates in these institutions, claimed an official spokesperson. Shashi Bharat Bhushan said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was making all-out efforts to provide every facility to the disabled persons in the state. The state government had also increased the scholarships being given to the disabled students. Now, students studying in Classes I to IV will get a scholarship of Rs 400 instead of Rs 300 and those studying in Classes V to VIII will get Rs 500 instead of Rs 400. Similarly, the scholarship of the students studying in Classes IX to XII had also been increased from Rs 500 to Rs 600. The scholarship of the students studying in BA, BCom and BSc had also been increased from Rs 600 to Rs 800. “About 1.3 per cent of the total population of Haryana is disabled and about 70 per cent disabled persons are living in villages and such persons are not getting all facilities which they deserve. The state government has now decided to organise camps in villages to apprise these people about the facilities being extended to them by the government,” the State Commissioner for Disabled Persons added.
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Undertrials escape; 4 policemen held
Faridabad, August 13 The policemen have been indentified as Ram Diya and Lajwan (ASI), and Balwan and Krishan (Head Constables).They were posted in Kaithal district and were part of the police escort team for the transit of the two undertrials from Kaithal to Neemka jail in the district. The undertrials, Suresh and Vikas, hailing from Jind, were being tried for murder in Kaithal. They were also facing trial for committing robbery in Ballabgarh. They had been lodged in Neemka jail. They were taken to Kaithal on Thursday from the jail and produced before a court. While returning back, the escort team halted at Annapurna hotel at Ajronda Chowk in Faridabad at about 11pm, along with the undertrials, when the latter escaped. ACP Crime, Faridabad, Mohinder Singh Sethi, deputed as inquiry officer in the case, attributed the escape of the undertrials to the negligence of the escort team. Subsequently, an FIR was registered against the personnel, followed by their arrests. Sethi said the Kaithal police authorities were authorised to take departmental action against the personnel. Meanwhile, the police have failed to trace the undertrials.
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Farm experts work out strategy to fight drought
Hisar, August 13 Discussions were held between the Zonal Project Director (Zone-1), the Indian Council for Agricultural University, and the Director Extension Education , HAU. The experts said the overall rain deficiency in the state had been pegged at 73 per cent, which was alarming for agriculture sector. The highly deficient monsoon had already affected sowing of Kharif crops in the state. The crops had been sown only on 21.64 lakh hectares as against the target of 30.75 lakh hectares. So far bajra has been sown only on 2.15 lakh hectares against the target of 6 lakh hectares. Similarly, jowar could be sown on an area of 0.60 lakh hectares against the target of 0.80 lakh hectares. The percentage of area covered under other crops was also lower than expected. The experts recommended spraying cotton crop with KNO3. They said irrigation could be done in alternate furrows in cotton fields and moisture could be conserved by weed hoeing. Farmers were suggested to adopt mechanical weeding or hoeing to conserve soil moisture and minimise crop-weed competition. In delayed conditions, the experts recommended sowing of short-duration varieties of bajra (HHB-67 improved, HHB-68, HHB-194, HHB-223), moong (Satya, Basanti, Pusa Vishal, MH-421), urd (T-9) cowpea, maize (HM-4, 1006). They advised farmers to grow maize and cow pea as fodder in the unsown areas where paddy was to be grown. Seed rate should be increased by 20 per cent in case of delayed sowing, experts added. The experts also discouraged the sowing of guar in rain-fed areas of the state. In the fields where vegetables were sown, farmers should apply light irrigation in evening and fertilisers should be applied through foliar applications, they said. The experts stated that rainfall in several areas of the state during last week would assist farmers to confront the challenge posed by deficient rains. However, majority of the suggestions were still valid for farmers, they observed.
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Over 17% increase in tax collection, says Choudhary
Chandigarh, August 13 While stating this here today, Excise and Taxation Minister Kiran Choudhry said that collection of VAT up to June 2012 was more than Rs 3,959.18 crore which was 20.77 per cent more as compared to that of the corresponding period of previous year. As far as Value Added Tax (VAT) plus Central Sales Tax (CST) collection is concerned, more than Rs 4,354.19 crore had been collected by the department during the same period which was 19.49 per cent more as compared to the corresponding period of last year. Choudhry said that the department had registered 33.64 per cent growth in collection of entertainment tax by collecting more than Rs 11.72 crore during the same period. Passenger and goods tax collection was more than Rs117.68 crore up to June 2012, which was 10.45 per cent more compared to that in the corresponding period last year. The revenue collection under local area development tax was over Rs7.22 crore upto June 2012. The minister said that the excise collection up to June 2012 was more than Rs 951.03 crore which was 8.71 per cent higher as compared to that in the corresponding period last year.
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Chautala is misguiding people: Cong leader
Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), August 13 While interacting with mediapersons here on Wednesday, Krishanmurti said it was the outcome of ambitious policies of Congress-led state government that international business houses and several reputed educational institutes were coming up in Haryana. He said all sections of the society were feeling secure and safe in the regime of the Congress government while during Chautala’s rule people were in the grip of fear due to crime. Extortion was demanded by the criminals from jails in the Chautala government, he added. Krishanmurti said people of Haryana were sensible enough to distinguish which party could give overall development of the state and which one can push the state on the path of destruction. Therefore, people had given a second chance to the Congress in the Assembly polls of 2009 for serving the state. “Om Prakash Chautala has been exposed among the masses following his false statements. So, people are not taking his statements seriously,” said the spokesperson. In reply to a question about expansion of Metro train upto Bahadurgarh, he said it would become instrumental in the overall development of Jhajjar and its nearby districts. “Extension of Metro project will give a fillip to the industrial growth in the town and people of both, Delhi and Haryana,” said Krishanmurti, adding that the state government had been making serious efforts for the extension of Metro upto
Bahadurgarh.
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Five proclaimed offenders arrested
Kurukshetra, August 13 A case under various sections of the IPC was registered against them at Sadar Thana, Pipli, on August 26, 2008. They were declared proclaimed offenders by the court on October 6, 2010. In another case, Mukesh Kumar, alias Mukka, a resident of Gandhi Nagar, Kurukshetra, was arrested and a case under Section 379 of the IPC was lodged against him at Sadar Thana, Pipli, on June 12, 2007. He was declared a proclaimed offender by the court on March 1, 2012. Arya said Gogimasi, a resident of Nainsi village, was arrested by the police and a case under Sections 457 and 380 of the IPC was registered against him at Ismailabad thana on October 9, 2008, and he was declared a proclaimed offender on February 24, 2012.
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Check illegal mining of sand: MP
Faridabad, August 13 Presiding over the District Monitoring and Vigilance Committee, a statutory body of the Union Government, Bhadana asked for strict monitoring against poaching of government land, including the green belt in Faridabad. “There are reports of exploitation of underground water by anti-social elements for commercial purposes,” he said. He warned the officials that he would summon the Chief Secretary of the Haryana Government, if they failed in their duties regarding the issues raised by him. He reviewed the progress of the projects, which were announced by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
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Movie This Week
Directed by: Kabir Khan
Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ranveer Shorey and Girish Karnad
Ek Tha Tiger, produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Kabir Khan, the ‘Kabul Express’ and ‘New York’ fame director, is going to rule Independence Day this year. The film has already created great excitement due to its star cast. Salman is looking dashing in the promos and the song ’Mashallah’ is already a chartbuster.
Trade pundits predict that this movie will definitely cross 100 crore plus business. It is about a RAW agent on a mission, who falls in love and destiny puts them on a dangerous journey together, where they explore a murky world of espionage and battle their way from one country to another. This action-romantic thriller has the hot pair of Bollywood, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif. The film opens today at Fame Shalimar, KC (Panchkula), Sun City-Hissar, Anand, Bawa (Sonepat), Harsha, Movie Time, Inder Palace (Karnal), Fun, Minerva, Nigar, (Ambala), BMG, Radhika (Rewari), Naval-Panipat, PVR MGF, PVR Sahara, PVR Ambience, DTCC, DTMM, SRS Omaxe, SRS Celebration, SRS Wedding, Big Palam, DT Star Mall (Gurgaon), SRS Sec 12, SRS Pristime, SRS Sec 31, SRS Eldeco, SRS Shubham, Inox, Q Cinema (Faridabad), Glitz-Kurukshetra, Sheila, Bangar, Satyam
(Rohtak). — Dharm Pal
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Sirsa, August 13