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Sports promotion top agenda: CM
Govt keeps secret details of CM, ministers’ foreign jaunts
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186 villagers taken ill after eating langar
A nurse attends to a child at Badalgarh village, near Ratia, in Fatehabad on Sunday. A Tribune photograph
Protest continues over denial of job quota at Central varsity
Pay of animal husbandry posts revised
State consumer helpline soon
Scholarships for MSc, BSc students
Faridabad wards to have computerised centres soon
4 booked for carving out illegal colony
Wife, paramour get life term
Petrol pumps told to install CCTV cameras
Former MLA dead
Faridabad MC for toll on vehicles entering city
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Sports promotion top agenda: CM
Gohana (Sonepat), August 26
The state-level function to honour the four 2012 Olympic winners with a strong Haryana connection was held here today. Besides handing over cheques to each medal winner, the Chief Minister offered land for opening sports academies. Even native villages of the sportspersons have been bestowed with cash rewards. Ironically, while the bonhomie over Haryanavis getting four out of the six medals won by India is justified, the state seems to have forgotten to check why Motilal Nehru Sports College, Rai, once known as the best sports training facility in the state, is losing out to other smaller academies and training centres. Hooda announced to recruit 790 coaches to provide coaching facilities up to the village level. Overwhelmed by the applauding crowd and praise of his government by the London Olympic medal winners, the Chief Minister today announced to double the cash awards for the state players for winning medals in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. “The gold, silver and bronze medallists wil get Rs 5 crore, Rs 3 crore and Rs 2 crore respectively,” Hooda declared. The Chief Minister has announced a cash award of Rs 1 crore for Gagan Narang's ancestral village Simla Gujran in Panipat district and Sushil Kumar's village Nilothi in Jhajjar district. Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt's village Bhainswal Kalan in Sonepat district will be given Rs 2 crore. This money will be spent on developmental works. The move Hooda said would help encourage sports in villages. In the Indian Olympic contingent, 19 were from Haryana. Further seven out of the 19 were from the Haryana Police. Speaking in chaste Haryanavi , Hooda who sported a pink turban, said If his government were in power then, he would “shower wealth on those who make the state proud.” Wrestler Sushil Kumar received a cash reward of Rs 1.5 crore for winning a silver medal while wrester Yogeshwar Dutt, badminton player Saina Nehwal and shooter Gagan Narang got Rs 1 crore each for their bronze medals. All four were also given away luxury Audi cars, LED TV sets and other consumer durables. The coaches of these players were also given cash rewards of Rs 1 lakh each. Fifteen other Olympic participants from Haryana, including Vijender Singh, Krishna Punia and others, were also given cash rewards and Maruti SX-4 cars. Olympic finalist Krishna Punia’s achievement was acknowledged with a cheque for Rs 31 lakh; quarter finalist Vijender Singh and Amit Kumar and woman wrestler Geeta Phogat were given cash rewards of Rs 21 lakh each. The other 11 participants from the state who got Rs 11 lakh each were Annuraj Singh, Garima Chaudhary, Jai Bhagwan, Manoj Kumar, Om Prakash Singh, Sandeep Singh, Sanjeev Rajput, Sardara Singh, Seema Antil, Sumit Sangwan and Vikas Krishan. Further wrestler Amit Kumar will be inducted into Haryana Police as an inspector, Hooda announced. He also asked the HAU Vice-Chancellor to name any suitable place or institution after Saina
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Govt keeps secret details of CM, ministers’ foreign jaunts
Chandigarh, August 26 In fact, such is the level of secrecy that even public representatives, including MLAs, are not given a peep into the amount splurged on the foreign visits. A case in point is Ellenabad MLA Abhay Singh Chautala, who drew a blank on his question on foreign tours of the Chief Minister, ministers and bureaucrats on the first day of the Monsoon Session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha. To his question, Hooda replied that “efforts put into collection of this information will not be commensurate with the results”. Though it would not have been difficult for the state government to cull out the data on foreign visits. Chautala also wanted to know the details of the total investment made in Haryana and the consequential benefits accruing to the state as the result of foreign tours. Reacting to Hooda’s reply, Chautala told The Tribune, “Huge public money has been squandered away on foreign visits without any consequential benefits to the state. The Chief Minister should come clean on the wasteful expenditure from the state exechequer.” |
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‘Trip that never was’ to cost Haryana Rs 54 lakh
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 26
Reliable sources told The Tribune that the state government would be put to loss on account of non-refundable payments made for arranging board and lodging at London’s plush Hotel Crown Plaza, non-refundable payments for buying tickets for watching matches at the games and amount incurred on getting the air tickets cancelled at the eleventh hour. While the amount on the making board and lodging arrangements is pegged at Rs 48 lakh, Rs 4.6 lakh was incurred on buying tickets for watching matches and the closing ceremony. The rest of the amount was spend on canceling the air tickets. Meanwhile, Abhay Singh Chautala, vice-president of Indian Olympic Association(IOA), has come down heavily on the state government for wasting public money and demanded the registration of criminal cases against those responsible for it. On August 2, the Union Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry has cancelled the trip of even a pruned 3-member delegation comprising Sports Minister Sukhbir Kataria, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) Prahlad Singh Gillankhera and Principal Secretary (Sports and Youth Affairs) Hardeep Kumar to London to cheer the players. Eighteen of the 81 sportspersons representing the country at the sports extravaganza were from Haryana. The Ministry of External Affairs had reportedly given “political clearance” to the visit of the 10-member team to London which was later rejected by the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry.
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186 villagers taken ill after eating langar
Badalgarh (Fatehabad), August 26 About 20 cows have died and 48 others were taken ill at a gaushala in Babanpur village, where villagers supplied the leftover food. Five villagers have been admitted to government hospitals in Fatehabad and Ratia while three others are getting treatment at a subsidiary health centre. “Four medical teams have been camping in the village since morning, who have so far examined 241 villagers, out of whom 186 have been found suffering from diarrhoea and other symptoms of food poisoning,” said Dr VK Jain, Senior Medical Officer of the Community Health Centre, Ratia, who visited the village along with medical teams. Ratia MLA Jarnail Singh and SDM Harish Bhatia also visited the village to take stock of the situation. Ajaib Singh, husband of the village sarpanch, said increased instances of diarrhoea were already being witnessed in the village due to supply of contaminated drinking water. Dr Jain said the cause of such a high number of cases of diarrhoea today is due to food poisoning. He said chlorine tablets had been given to villagers. |
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Protest continues over denial of job quota at Central varsity
Mahendergarh, August 26 Protesters have alleged that instead of helping them to get their due, local administrative officials and other government functionaries were trying to camouflage the issue. “In a bid to abdicate their own responsibility, the district administration and university authorities are accusing us of politicising the matter,” said Ranbir Singh, who heads the Aarakshan Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, Pali-Jant, under the aegis of which villagers are struggling. He said the villagers would not allow anybody to break their unity or sabotage their fight against injustice. Kailash Pali, a prominent figure among the protesting villagers, pointed out that during recent meetings with the protesters, the local MLA and the DC had stated that they would request the CM to accede to the villagers’ demands. “We take strong exception to such statements…we are fighting for our rightful claim and not seeking any personal/special favour from the CM or any other state authorities,” he said. The villagers said nearly 500 acres of panchayat land of their villages had been given for setting up the university on a 99-year lease at a token rate of Re 1 per acre per year. They alleged that the village panchayats passed resolutions to this effect under the government pressure and on assurance that the local residents would get preference in admissions and jobs at the university. However, after the university was set up, they were denied any reservation/preferential treatment on the ground that the Central Universities Act did not have any provision for granting quota on the basis of domicile. |
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Pay of animal husbandry posts revised
Chandigarh, August 26 Finance Minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha said as per the revised ACP pay structure, the veterinary surgeons (Group-B) would get an entry level pay band of Rs 9,300-Rs 34,800 and a grade pay of Rs 5,400. Similarly, SDOs (Group A) would get an entry level pay band of Rs 15,600-Rs 39,100 and a grade pay of Rs 5,400 in pay band-3. After five years of regular satisfactory service, veterinary surgeons and SDOs would get a pay band of Rs 15,600-39,100 and a grade pay of Rs 6,000 in pay band-3. After 11 years of regular satisfactory service, their pay band would be Rs 15,600-Rs 39,100 and grade pay Rs 7,600. It would be limited to 25 per cent of the total cadre post in the categories of veterinary surgeon or SDO and deputy director. After 17 years of regular satisfactory service, their pay band would be Rs 37,400-Rs 67,000 and grade pay Rs 8,700. It would be limited to 20 per cent of the total cadre post in the categories of the veterinary surgeon or SDO and the deputy director. Chattha said the government had also revised the pay scales of ayurvedic dispenser, homoeopathic dispenser and unani dispenser in the Ayush Department, PBX operator in the Agriculture Department and basketry instructor in Government Adult Blind Training Institute, Panipat, Social Justice and Empowerment Department. |
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State consumer helpline soon
Chandigarh August 26 This was stated by NK Mittal, Deputy Director, Haryana Food and Supplies Department, while addressing a seminar on “Indian Consumers in the New Age: A forward looking Agenda to Address the Concerns of the Common People’’ organised here recently. Haryana Food and Supplies Minister Mahender Pratap Singh who was to inaugurate the seminar could not do so owing to health reasons. The seminar was organised by CUTS International, an NGO, in collaboration with Citizen Awareness Group. He said the state consumer helpline, which will be a toll-free helpline will be set up at the headquarters of the Haryana Food and Supplies Department, Chandigarh. The consumers from any part of the state can contact this helpline in case of any grievances. Trained staff of this helpline will not only guide the consumers properly for the redressal of their grievances but also educate them about their rights. The consumers will be able to lodge their complaints online, he added. |
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Scholarships for MSc, BSc students
Chandigarh, August 26 A spokesman of the department said MSc students would be given a scholarship of Rs 6,000 per month plus contingency stipend of Rs 5,000 once in a year, whereas students of BSc (Honours) would be given a scholarship of Rs 4,000 per month plus contingency stipend of Rs 4,000 once in a year. He said students with at least 60 per cent marks in their previous class were eligible for this scholarship. He said a subject-wise merit list of the candidates would be prepared as per the criterion laid down by the department. He said application must be submitted to their head of institution or department concerned. The application form could be downloaded from the website www.dstharyana.org The last date for submission of the application form is
October 19. |
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Faridabad wards to have computerised centres soon
Faridabad, August 26 The proposed centres will be linked with a server of master computer system of the MCF at its headquarters. Ramesh
Bansal, MCF’s Executive Engineer, said the opening of centres was a part of expansion of e-governance project of the corporation. Initially, the centres would open in 12 of the 35 wards. Each would cater to residents of a cluster of wards, he added. The centres would
be computersied and managed by a private firm, Web Monitor Software System Pvt Ltd. The firm had already been assigned to manage the
IT-related services of the MCF. The e-governance project is being financed through
a Central Government project, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
(JNNURM). About Rs 14 crore would be spent on the project. While the Union Government would share 50 per cent of the amount,
the state government and the MCF would share 30 and 20 per cent, respectively. |
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4 booked for carving out illegal colony
Fatehabad, August 26 On the complaint of District Town Planner Arvind Dhull, a case has been registered against Kulwant Singh, Rajinder Singh, Gurjit Singh and Hardeep Singh, all original owners of the land, under Section 10 and 11 of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975. The authorities had recently received complaints that some property dealers and colonisers of the town had carved out an illegal colony on 49 kanal agricultural land near the Fatehabad’s historic Chilli Lake. Complaints said the colonisers were carving out streets and roads in the illegal colony. However, none of the property dealers or the colonisers has been booked by the police. |
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Wife, paramour get life term
Sirsa, August 26 According to the prosecution’s allegations, Kailash Rani, wife of Bhagi Ram had illicit relations with a villager, Vijay Kumar. On June 28, 2010, Kailash Rani kidnapped her husband with the help of Vijay and another person Madan and took him to Rajasthan, where they attacked him. A critically injured Bhagi Ram later died in a Sirsa hospital. The police arrested Kailash Rani, Vijay and Madan for murder. Today, Additional District and Sessions Judge RP Goyal sentenced the three to imprisonment for life. |
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Petrol pumps told to install CCTV cameras
Hisar, August 26 The directive follows a communication by the Superintendent of Police to the Deputy Commissioner requesting that pump owners be given a specified time frame to install CCTV cameras, alarms and appoint security guards. The communication was necessitated by the fact that despite being asked to install these gadgets, all petrol pump owners had not done so. This increased the chances of criminals getting away after looting cash from petrol pumps. The administration is now preparing a notification under Section 144,
CrPC, to force the pump owners to install these gadgets for their own security. |
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Former MLA dead
Jhajjar, August 26 He is survived by wife, two sons and a daughter. Suraj Mal had been a member of Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 1996. The mortal remains of Suraj Mal were consigned to the flames at the Ram Bagh cremation ground this evening with full state honours. Besides a large number of dignitaries and local residents, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda attended the funeral.Hooda paid tributes to the former MLA by laying a wreath on his body.
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Faridabad MC for toll on vehicles entering city
Faridabad, August 26 The corportors cited the toll system of the MCD (Municipal Corporation Delhi) to bolster the case for passing the resolution for collecting toll on such vehicles. The House also passed a resolution favouring the regularisation of illegal water connections in Faridabad. An officer of the corporation said more than 80,000 houses had illegal connections. The MCF could earn about Rs 100 crore annually in terms of revenue. |
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Badalgarh (Fatehabad), August 26
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has no right to squander away a huge amount of Rs 54 lakh on the trip that never materialised.Since it is taxpayers’ hard-earned money, it should be recovered from the Chief Minister and his aides, who were originally part of the London-bound delegation.