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Local bodies to get Rs 2,583 cr for development works
Implementation of National Commission’s Report
MDU leasing hostels, students face crunch
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ALC office in for a revamp
Ex-gratia demanded for slain student
Ventilator at trauma centre still non-operational
Medical college celebrates foundation day
Hb Colour Scale Kit
Salon opened at Ambala
Art Exhibition At Murthal Varsity
Ban on Student Union Poll
‘One MP-One Idea’ contest in LS constituencies
Cong has failed on all fronts, says BJP
Eye check-up camp in Sirsa
Stray cattle a traffic hazard in Hisar
Sports meet concludes
Minister redresses power complaints
Teacher’s Day
Sirsa college felicitates dons
Ensure effective implementation of 20-Point Programme, officials told
Protests become a regular feature to fight power woes
Forest Dept to plant 10 lakh trees
College holds talent hunt
Steps to protect wildlife sanctuary
KU tops in distance education
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Local bodies to get Rs 2,583 cr for development works
Gurgaon, September 6 This was stated by the chairman of the commission, LSM Salins, during a meeting with officers of Gurgaon division here yesterday. He said in the changed scenario of Constitutional amendments, rural as well urban local bodies were now reckoned as vibrant units of local governance.“The 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments have given new dimensions and institutional strength to the rural and urban local bodies vis-ŕ-vis the democratic decentralisation in the country,” he said, adding that the 11th and 12th Schedules listing out 29 functions for PRIs and 18 for ULBs had given a new impetus to the local bodies. The Constitutional Amendments Acts (CAAs) also envisage devolving to the local bodies functions relating to preparation of plans for economic development and social justice as well as for implementation of various development schemes, he maintained. Salins said the commission was required to make recommendations on measures needed to improve the financial and functional status of PRIs and ULBs and recommend devolution of funds, functions and functionaries for these institutions for their empowerment during the next three years. Keeping this in view, the Finance Commission is organising interactions at the divisional headquarters of the state followed by district meetings and field visits. The commission is also taking opinion of the elected representatives of these bodies. The First Central Finance Commission gave Rs 100 crore to PRIs and ULBs of Haryana while the 13th Central Finance Commission recommended a Rs 1,580- crore grant for them. After the constitution of the Third State Finance Commission in Haryana, the grants given to PRIs and ULBs were increased significantly to Rs 1,305 crore. According to recommendations of the Fourth Finance Commission, the amount of grants for the PRIs and ULBs in Haryana has been stepped up to Rs 2,583 crore during the current financial year.The Deputy Commissioners of Gurgaon, Rewari, Mewat, Mahendergarh, Faridabad and Palwal attended the meeting.
Panchayats to maintain tubewells
Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner PC Meena told the meeting that the operation and maintenance of
water-supply tube wells in 60 villages of the district had been handed over to the respective village panchayats.
The electricity bill of the tube well will be paid by the Public Health Engineering Department and an amount of Rs 11,000 was being given per month to the panchayat for keeping an operator and maintenance purposes. “The village panchayat can fix a certain amount per household in the village for supplying drinking water,” he said and added that if the installation of new tube
well(s) or change of pipeline was required, it would be done by the department. Meena suggested that succession mutation should be registered at the panchayat level, which would help in improving the financial health of
the panchayat. He also suggested that like the municipal committee, the village panchayat should also get some per cent of share in the sale-deed registration fee of the property sold in the area under its jurisdiction.
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Implementation of National Commission’s Report Tribune News Service
Hisar, September 6 A former Inspector-General of Police, Rajpal Singh, who is now the vice-president of the All-India Kisan Conference (AIKC), said here recently that the report had given a mantra to the Centre to solve farmers’ problems, but it had been gathering dust for the past several years. He said the farmers’ organisations had now decided to seek the help of Dr Swaminathan to get the report implemented and ameliorating the lot of the peasantry. Dr Swaminathan had accepted an invitation to attend the All-India Kisan Conference being organised at Baraut in Uttar Pradesh on October 2 - the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Rajpal Singh said the commission had said the agrarian distress had led farmers to commit suicide in the recent years. The major causes of the agrarian crisis were: unfinished agenda in land reform, quantity and quality of water, technology fatigue, access, adequacy, timeliness of institutional credit and opportunities for assured and remunerative marketing. Adverse meteorological factors added to these problems. He said the commission had said the farmers needed to have assured access and control over basic resources, which included land, water, bio resources, credit, insurance, technology, knowledge management and markets. It recommended that “agriculture” be inserted in the Concurrent List of the Constitution. He added that other main recommendations of the commission included distribution of ceiling-surplus and waste lands, prevention of diversion of prime agricultural land and forest to corporate sector for non-agricultural purposes, to ensure grazing rights and seasonal access to forests to tribals and pastoralists and access to common property resources. The commission recommended establishment of a national land use advisory service, which would have the capacity to link land use decisions with ecological, meteorological and marketing factors on a location and season specific basis. It also advocated setting up of a mechanism to regulate the sale of agricultural land, based on quantum of land, nature of proposed use and category of buyer. Rajpal said all these major recommendations had not yet been implemented despite the best efforts of farmers’ organisations. He said the AIKC had decided to elicit suggestions from progressive farmers of the state for the inclusion in the agenda of the proposed October 2 conference. These farmers would meet at Dumara village of Kaithal district on September 9. They would also represent Haryana at the conference, he added.
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MDU leasing hostels, students face crunch
Rohtak, September 6 ‘I have been told to arrange for an accommodation outside the campus as there are no room available,’’ said Vipin Kumar, a student of Library Science course. He said majority of students who have taken admission this year have been denied hostel facility though they had applied on time. According to Ravi Kumar, a student of Law Department, the authorities clearly refuse accommodation facility to students who approach them. Sunil, a student of Commerce Department, claimed that he had been left with no option but to seek an accommodation outside the campus. The university offers hostel accommodation to around 3,000 students in about 15 hostels here. These include seven hostels for girls and eight for boys. “Despite high demand for hostel accommodation, the authorities have been leasing out this facility to other institutions like a health university or have allotted the accommodation to ineligible candidates,’’ claimed Pardeep Deswal, a student leader of the Indian
National Students Organisation (INSO). He charged that the allotment process was unfair and has resulted in its undue shortage. Many of the occupants in the hostels are either outsiders or are staff members, he alleged. Questioning the leasing out of one of the boys hostel to IIM, he said the authorities were interested in income generation than providing accommodation to its own students. He added that one of the newly built girls hostel had also been leased out to Pt BD Sharma Health University, though several of the girl students of the MDU had been awaiting hostel accommodation. The INSO staged a demonstration and have submitted a memorandum to the Vice- Chancellor in this connection, he said. ‘The shortage of hostel facility had led to mushrooming of private hostels in the city whose charges had been more than double or triple of what is paid in the university hostel,’’ claimed a girl student on condition of anonymity. When contacted, Chief Warden of MDU hostels (boys) Dr SS Chahar admitted to the shortage of accommodation. He said around 550 students had been waiting for accommodation though around 1,500 would get the facility this year. However, Indira Dhull, Girls hostels incharge, claimed that there was no shortage of accommodation for girl students.
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ALC office in for a revamp
Gurgaon, September 6 To make the system transparent and effective, Naresh Narwal, ALC, said that a quick check list was being drafted for all activities, which will be circulated to all offices and factories. The documents need to be presented in standard formats now, he said. The office which has issued more than 500 factory licences in the past six months has not only started day to day monitoring of pendency but has also sent back the old files of building plans to all factories for completing pending compliances. “More than 100 building plans have been approved in the last few months. Even the physical checking of some of the buildings was done to cross-check the documents,” said Narwal. The registration certificates verified at DLC’s level have been withdrawn for delayed compliance and a deadline of one week has been fixed to deliver Registration Certificates. A drive to check all offices from the level of LO, AD to DD, DLC and JD is being launched on a pre-drafted format by the ALC. “Anybody having any problem in any office is free to approach us and we will sort things out. We have undertaken administrative reforms to nurture the booming industrial scenario,” added Narwal.
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Ex-gratia demanded for slain student
Rewari, September 6 Varsha Yadav (18), a student of first year of B Pharmacy course at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, was brutally killed allegedly by a Rohtak youth Chetan Sheoran in the university campus on August 10. Varsha was cremated in her native village Guraora, 26 km from Rewari, on August 10. The Manch pointed out that it was regrettable that while no MLA, MP, minister or the Chief Minister had visited Guraora till date to console the bereaved family, no ex-gratia relief had either been offered to the family of the deceased as well. The Manch also raised a point that while financial assistance of Rs 5 five lakh was given by the state government to the family of a girl student of Mahila University ,Khanpur Kalan, who was gang raped recently, why no such financial aid had yet been made available to the family of Varsha Yadav.
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Ventilator at trauma centre still non-operational
Ambala, September 6 Patients, who require immediate ventilator service, are referred to PGI, Chandigarh, and ambulance takes around one hour to reach Chandigarh. The trauma centre does not have any intensive care unit (ICU) and it was the reason that the ventilator could not be installed there. The equipment has been lying locked in a doctor’s room. Neither the civil surgeon nor the PMO ever took this matter seriously. Around two months ago, when Dr Narbir Singh, Director General, Health, had visited the trauma centre, some of the patients brought this matter to his notice. He directed the PMO to put it into operation at the earliest. He also directed that an ICU should be set up at the centre. RP Gupta, Commissioner, Ambala Division, has also taken up this matter with the Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, who assured that the ventilator would start functioning within 15 days. The matter was also brought to the notice of Union Minister Kumari Selja, who is also an MP from this Parliamentary constituency. Selja had made serious efforts for setting up the trauma centre. Though the trauma centre was started three years ago, it still lacks basic medical amenities. Recently, the Union Government had also provided Rs 4 crore for improving the medical services at the centre.
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Stone of examination hall laid
Hisar, September 6 Speaking on the occasion, Khokhar said the need for such a hall was being felt for the past several years. It would facilitate conduct of examinations in different disciplines simultaneously. This would result in saving time and manpower required to conduct examinations, he added. He said the building would be completed in two phases, adding that the ground floor with a seating capacity of 500 would be completed in the first phase. Sucheta Khokhar, dean, College of Agriculture, said the CEH would also provide sufficient space for conducting common entrance examinations for admission to different courses. Emergency exists would be provided in the building to avoid any untoward incident.
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Medical college celebrates foundation day
Sonepat, September 6 The Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Health Services Haryana, Navraj Sandhu, Director General, Mahender Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of Health Sciences University, Rohtak, Dr SS Sangwan, member of the Medical Council of India, Dr Ashok Gupta, Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Shiv Raman Gaur, and general manager of ABSS, Pawan Kumar, also participated in the celebrations. While giving details of the progress made by the hospital, Dr RC Siwach, director of the college, said around three lakh patients were treated and more than 14,000 patients were operated during the past one year. “The first day, OPD was visited by only 80 patients and within one year, it had crossed the figure of 2,000 patients,” he said.
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State to adopt painless method of haemoglobin estimation
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 6 This was stated by Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Dr Rakesh Gupta, while presiding over a state-level inter-convergence meeting organised by the National Rural Health Mission on the Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana (IBSY) on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by District School Health Officers, District Education Officers of all districts and State Programme Officers of the Health Department. Dr Gupta said under the IBSY, a comprehensive health check-up would be conducted for all children of government schools and Anganwaris to diagnose disease, deficiency and disability. The identified children would be provided the facility of corrective surgeries and treatment free of cost. He said the incidence of anaemia was very high in the school going children and it was the responsibility of the Health and Education Department to curb anaemia in hand to hand mode. He said as a prophylactic measure, all children up to the age of 18 years were being given Iron Folic Acid tablets for improving their Hb level and Albendazole tablets for deworming. He said external monitors from WHO would monitor the activities of IBSY to ensure proper implementation of the scheme in the entire state. He urged all the concerned officers to help in effective implementation of this scheme.
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Salon opened at Ambala
Ambala, September 6 She said there was a limited scope for new entrants in the profession as most corporate houses preferred established models for their publicity. She said although it was a glamorous profession, one had to work hard to reach the zenith. Referring to the role of yoga in her profession, she said it made the body fit and balanced. She said the financial returns of modelling profession were not very cheering. There were a number of models who were paid only Rs 5,000 per day, while there were a few who demanded lakhs of rupees for one presentation.
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Karate players bag 3 medals at global event
Jhajjar, September 6 The Bahadurgarh lads, Sumit Chhillar of Bamdauli village and Gaurav Sihag of Sector 6, along with their coaches and managers were accorded a rousing reception by the local residents when they came back on Wednesday evening. They were extended a floral welcome at Tikri border and were taken in an open jeep to their residences. Later, Rajneesh Chaudhary, coach of the karate team, informed mediapersons that hundreds of karate players from five countries had participated in various categories of the competition. “Though as many as 18 players from different states of India had taken part in this mega event, all three medals were won by the players of Haryana,” said Chaudhary. He informed that Chhillar grabbed the gold medal by defeating China’s player in the final match with the score of 5:2 whereas Sihag and Sonia of Hisar got a bronze medal each in the event. Sihag had registered a glorious victory over a player of Malasiya in the bronze medal match. Overwhelmed with his winning performance in the international championship, Sihag said his next target was to qualify for 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio town (Brazil). “I will toil hard with devotion to qualify for the Rio Olympic as it is my dream and I wish to bring laurels for my country as well as Haryana by clinching a medal,” said
Gaurav.
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Art Exhibition At Murthal Varsity BS Malik
Sonepat, September 6 Inaugurating the exhibition, Vice-Chancellor HS Chahal said the exhibition would give students an opportunity to look into the ancient culture of the different regions of the country. “The paintings help people trace the events which influenced society from time to time,” he added. While visiting the exhibition, former Principal of Bhagini Navedita College of Delhi University, Sarla Chahal, said the exhibition would give an opportunity to the young generation to peep into the rich ancient culture and folk art of the people who lived hundreds of years ago. “There should be creativity among human beings and art plays an important role in their development,” she remarked. Paintings of celebrated Indian artists like N Murgan of Tamil Nadu, late Ram Mehar Malik of Haryana, Vishwajit of Kolkata, Dr Abhinaya Gupta of Allahabad, Raja Ram Byas from Udaipur, EK Raja from Amritsar, Shiv Singh from Chandigarh will be displayed in the exhibition along with those of renowned international artists. Jamini Chisti of Nagaland gave a glimpse of the folk art and culture of the people of Nagaland. Harjit Kaur of Delhi has displayed a painting of Maal Road of Shimla. The joint family culture of Haryana has been depicted through paintings like women cooking food on a chullah, another woman serving the meal, a farmer returning from fields in a bullock cart, another one puffing on his hukka and cattle being taken to village pond. The exhibition was visited not only by students and teachers of the university, but also by people of the town having a keen interest in art and culture.
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MDU students’ problems go ‘unaddressed’
Bijendra Ahlawat Tribune News Service
Rohtak, September 6 “The students had been on the receiving end and there was none who could take up the issues of the students and this had got remained unrepresented for the past several years leading to an atmosphere of exploitation and discrimination as far as the rights of the students were concerned,” claimed a spokesperson of the state unit of the ABVP. Pradeep Deswal, leader of the INSO, students wing of the INLD, said it was only the affected students who were left with the onus of taking up their individual cases with the officials concerned but there was no guarantee that it would get sorted to the satisfaction of the complainant. The authorities had been left with unbridled powers due to absence of the students’ union and this had resulted in harassment of the students at various levels. The students had taken up the problems faced with the hostellers, but they were yet to resolve fully, he claimed. The MDU students union elections have not been held since 1996 when the then state government had banned the elections of such bodies across the state and none of the government since then revived the elections till today though some of the universities have adopted and implemented the report of the Lyngdoh Commission, which had proposed several changes in the election process to check the entry of the anti-social elements,” claimed a senior professor of the university. “The students were left with no option than to stage demonstrations on the campus from time to time to highlight grievances and this was the reason that over 24 demonstrations have been held here in the past few months,” said Ravi Kumar, a student. On the other hand, Sunit Mukherjee, director of the Public Relations of the MDU, said there had been several platforms available for the students to put forward their issues to the authorities concerned and the authorities concerned, including the Vice-Chancellor, had been attending the complaints lodged by the students from time to time.
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‘One MP-One Idea’ contest in LS constituencies
Sirsa, September 6 The authorities here have sought entries of solutions and innovations by September 30 and Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwar will honour those providing the top three solutions with cash prizes of Rs 2.50 lakh, Rs 1.50 lakh and Rs 1 lakh, respectively, at a public function soon. “For this competition, innovative solutions have been invited in the areas of education and skills, health, water and sanitation, housing and infrastructure, agriculture, energy, environment, community and social service,” Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan said, who also heads a committee to select the top solutions and innovations. He said innovative solutions could be submitted either directly by any individual or by a group of individuals, industry, academia, NGOs or other institution from the constituency. The innovations could be nominated by reputed people in the constituency in the capacity of third party having knowledge of the nominated innovative solution, he added. He said a certificate of honour and cash prize of Rs 2.5 lakh, Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs one lakh would be given to first, second and third prize winners, respectively. The Deputy Commissioner said certificates of appreciation would also be given for the next five best innovations based on the list prepared by the selection committee.
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Cong has failed on all fronts, says BJP
Karnal, September 6 The Congress, which ruled the state for decades, had ‘failed’ on all fronts and the INLD, which tried to occupy the space, proved ‘no better’ and there was a ‘political vacuum’ in the state which the BJP was trying to fill, he told The Tribune. Claiming that the BJP was capable of providing a viable alternative, he said if voted to power, the party would take stringent steps to eradicate corruption and ensure transparency in decision making. All clearances would be given by a single window and lengthy paper work that led to delays and corruption would be reduced to a minimum, he added. Expressing concern over cultural ‘degeneration’ and crisis of ‘character’ in top leadership of political parties, Capt Abhimanyu said the infamous “Kanda episode” was an example of fading morality in politics and alleged that “Kanda was an INLD product which flourished and blossomed under the Congress regime”. Lashing out at INLD Supremo Om Prakash Chautala and Chief Minister BS Hooda for promoting ‘anti-social’ elements like Kanda, he said, “It was by virtue of political power and clout enjoyed by Kanda as a minister that helped him in exploiting Geetika, who was forced to take the extreme step of finishing her life”. “The people of the state have tried, tested and rejected the INLD and the Congress and are pinning their hopes on the BJP-HJC alliance, which had helped in consolidating anti-Congress and anti-INLD votes and strengthened the alliance in both the urban and rural areas,” he said. He urged the Speaker to expeditiously decide the case of five MLAs who defected to Congress after getting elected on the HJC ticket. “It is a minority government formed by unethical means and it is matter of concern that their case was pending for nearly three years,” he said When asked about the stand of the BJP on the issue of a separate Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee for Haryana, he said, “We do not wish to interfere in religious and community issues and leave the same to the people of communities concerned”.
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Eye check-up camp in Sirsa
Sirsa, September 6 At the camp organised by the DLSA in the district jail at Sirsa recently, Dr Mahip Bansal, an eye specialist examined the prisoners and glasses were provided to 50 inmates free of cost. Harish Gupta, Chief Judicial Magistrate, DLSA, said over 200 of the 800 odd prisoners lodged at the jail were drug addicts and directions had been given to the jail authorities to start a drug de-addiction centre inside the jail. In a traffic awareness camp, the CJM, advocates empanelled with the DLSA and the volunteers of the Rotary Club pasted reflectors on hundreds of vehicles. Hundreds of vehicle owners were administered the oath of following road safety rules in future. Gupta appealed to the vehicle owners to install speed governors at the earliest.
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Stray cattle a traffic hazard in Hisar
Hisar, September 6 The problem becomes more acute late in the night when these animals sprawl themselves in the middle of the roads. Since most roads have poor lighting at night, the number of road accidents has been on the rise. The city police has tried several times to rope in gaushalas to check the menace. In 2008, the police had launched a campaign to put stray cattle in gaushalas. The campaign was a great success and at one time it appeared that the problem has been solved once and for all. However, after the then Superintendent of Police was transferred, the cattle were soon back on the roads. The city and its surrounding areas have seven gaushalas, occupying about 400 acres and sheltering about 15,000 cows. Last fortnight, the SP had called a meeting of office-bearers of these gaushalas and appealed to them to adopt 20 cows each to check accidents in the city. However, the response was lukewarm. The office-bearers of gaushalas were of the view that there was no guarantee that more animals would not come to the city’s roads after they adopted 20 cows each. They also pleaded that they did not have funds for sheltering more cows. Officials of the Municipal Corporation said a 100-acre plot was needed to set up another gaushala. Land was available near Satrod village on the outskirts of the city. A plan was being prepared to speed up the work.
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Sports meet concludes
Ambala, September 6 In the final match, KV No 1, Patiala, defeated KV AFS High Ground. Earlier semi-final matches were played between KV No 1, Patiala, vs KV Zirakpur (29-15), KV, Kapurthala, vs KV AFS High Ground (22-27) and the winner teams that qualified for the final matches were KV No 1, Patiala, and KV, AFS High Ground. Principal Nisha Yadav thanked the players for maintaining discipline during the sports meet.
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Minister redresses power complaints
Chandigarh, September 6 He said this while reviewing the working of Power Utilities here on Tuesday. He said that Power Utilities had set up local complaint centres for prompt redress of grievances of the people. During the meeting, he redressed 69 complaints, out of which 18 were received by the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, 46 by the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and five by the ADGP, Vigilance. Meanwhile, Yadav suspended Parveen Kumar, junior engineer of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam posted at Raipur Rani in Panchkula district, for dereliction of duty. The minister said the junior engineer was adopting a pick-and-choose policy and had failed to release connections while maintaining seniority. Also, he was allegedly demanding illegal gratification against the release of new connections.
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Five Gurgaon teachers get state-level awards
Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, September 6 The awards were presented to the teachers, including a Principal, by Haryana Governor Jagannath Paharia and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at a function organised at Haryana Raj Bhawan in Chandigarh yesterday. According to an official statement issued here, Principal Sheel Kumari of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Jacobpura (Gurgaon), social science teacher Dhoom Singh and Hindi lecturer Sumitra of Government Senior Secondary School, Nathupur, and JBT teacher Chanchal Chawla of Government Primary School, Suncity (Gurgaon) received the award for 2010 while physical-training teacher Ved Kumari of Government Senior Secondary School, Nathupur, was awarded for 2011. The award carries a citation, a cash prize of Rs 21,000 and extension of two years of service, in addition to two increments in salary. Sheel Kumari, who joined the state Education Department as a maths teacher in 1987, was promoted as Headmistress in 2000. She rose to become a Principal in 2006 and was posted at Government Senior Secondary School in Chakkarpur village of Gurgaon district. During her five-year tenure there, she focused on inculcating the habit of planting saplings and looking after them among the students. Sheel was transferred and posted as Principal of Government Girls Senior Secondary School at Jacobpura in Gurgaon, which is one of the biggest girls’ schools in the heart of the city. She attributes her success to her family members, who extended full cooperation in enabling her to discharge her duties as an institution head.
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Sirsa college felicitates dons
Sirsa, September 6 INLD MLA from Dabwali Ajay Singh Chautala, who is also the chairman of the vidyapeeth, honoured BP Mohan from Hisar, who retired as principal from Mansa, NP Sharma, a former school principal, Shakuntala Sehgal, former principal of CMK National PG College, Sirsa, BL Taneja, principal of Tagore Niketan School, Fatehabad, Manisha Godara, director of three schools in Sirsa run by the management of the vidyapeeth, and Geeta Kathuria, a special educator and director of Disha, a school for special children. Speaking on the occasion, Chautala said teachers had an important role to play in the growth of society. Teachers not only shaped the future of their students but also contoured the destiny of a nation, he added. BP Mohan, an octogenarian who retired as principal from a Mansa college, said teachers of today were neither as ‘learned’ as those of the yesteryears, nor were they ‘ready’ to share their knowledge fully with their students. Disagreeing with Mohan, Sehgal said it was only because of today’s teachers that the best of doctors and engineers across the world were Indians. Kathuria emphasised the need to have inclusive education in the country where children with special needs could also get education with others. Godara, the youngest teacher to be awarded at the function, dedicated her award to millions of unknown and unsung teachers, who were working to shape the future of their students. NP Sharma and BL Taneja also shared their experiences and exhorted the teaching fraternity to work hard for making the country a better place to live. Shamim Sharma, managing director of the JCD Vidyapeeth, and Gurcharan Dass, principal of the host college, said if Indian youth were shining in all the spheres world over, credit goes to teachers.
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Ensure effective implementation of 20-Point Programme, officials told
Chandigarh, September 6 Mullana was presiding over a meeting of the officials of various departments concerning the programme to review various development works in Karnal recently. He directed the officials to redress grievances related to the basic necessities of people on a priority basis. He reviewed the Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojna, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and schemes of various other departments, including Health, Education, Women and Child Development, Power, Water and those formulated for the welfare of members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes. At the meeting, Mullana was apprised that 86 per cent progress had been registered under the Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojna in Karnal. As many as 41,955 eligible families of the district had been identified, out of which residential plots measuring 100 sq yards have already been allotted to 33,947 eligible beneficiaries. Out of these, registries of the plots have been handed over to 29,132 people. It was also informed that panchayati land was not available in 83 villages, however, a proposal in this regard has been sent to the government to give benefit to the people of these villages also. The officers told him that under MGNREGA, Rs 16 crore had been spent in the district during the last year and Rs 9 crore had so far been spent during the current financial year. Mullana was also apprised that the payment to the labourers was being made directly in their bank accounts. He was told that due to delay in rains this year, plantation drive in the district was initiated in August instead of July, but the fixed target had been achieved. Mullana said during the plantation, officials should lay emphasis not only to achieve targets to plant saplings but also ensure their maintenance. He said the target of plantation should be further increased.
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Protests become a regular feature to fight power woes
Rohtak, September 6 While several hundred persons have been booked by the police for disrupting the movement of traffic and resorting to violence during the past six months, more than 60 such protests have been reported in these districts in this period. Though the authorities concerned blame the villagers for power and water scarcity due to non-payment of bills, the residents on other hand allege discrimination with them on flimsy grounds. “It is not that we are not ready to pay for consuming power, but the department ought to ensure proper supply before asking us for bills,’’ claimed Manjit Singh of Karontha village of the district. He said the government had not only failed to strengthen power supply in villages but had been blaming the consumers for the problem. According to Vijay, a resident of Ismaila, where residents resorted to 8-hour blockade of the National Highway recently and where a bus had been torched by angry protestors, the Electricity Department has become defunct. Complaints and grievances of consumers were not attended to due to rampant corruption, he rued. He said faulty transformers and outdated mode of power supply cause frequent breakdowns. The department officials are never hauled up for poor work, he alleged. He claimed that tension prevailed in the village since the blockade took place as residents feared a backlash by the police. The number of similar protests in this district have risen to six as residents of some other villages including Kharkara, Kultana, Sisarkhas, Bhalaut, Masoodpur also took to blocking the movement of traffic in their respective areas. The police have booked over 60 persons for blocking traffic on National Highway 10. In Jind, the number of similar protests has perhaps been higher than that in Rohtak during the past six months. According to reports, the number of demonstrations and disruption of traffic here had been more than 40 in the past 6 months. Residents of some of the colonies including Joginder Nagar, Bishanpura, Ramrai, Kharkbura, Julana, Khatkar and Danoda Kalan villages adopted such obstructive means for more than four times during the period. Over 300 persons have been booked by the police for disrupting traffic on the National Highway. It is alleged that as the transformers installed by the department in the rural areas are either faulty (poor quality) or can carry low voltage, they get damaged soon after installation. Hundreds of damaged transformers are lying in the HVPN stores in the district, claimed sources in the department.
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Forest Dept to plant 10 lakh trees
Hisar, September 6 This was stated by Principal Chief Conservator of Forests CR Jotriwal while addressing a gathering at the Beed area here recently. He planted a sapling of ‘triveni’ in the Beed taking the number of such saplings planted in the area so far to 1,100. This is the highest number of ‘trivenis’ planted in any part of the state. Jotriwal said so far 2.84 lakh saplings had been planted in the Beed area and 10 lakh more saplings would be planted by the end of the current fiscal. He said the department had launched a scheme under which farmers could get trees planted in one acre area of their land falling on roadside. The trees would be planted by the department free of cost. The department would also nurture the plants at its cost for three years. On maturity the entire proceeds of the plantation would go to the farmers. Jotriwal lauded the employees and officials of the department for enabling the department to plant such a large number of trees in the area in a record time.
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College holds talent hunt
Yamunanagar, September 6 Dr Arya said such platform could help students improve their talent and succeed in various fields. Dr Nita Dwivedi, chairperson of the Music Department of the college, said the college organised such talent shows every year to bring out the best in the students. Krishna and Roma jointly got the first position, Alka and Surbhi jointly got the 2nd position, while Gurleen maintained the 3rd position in the declamation competition. In singing competition, Purnima, Trunpreet and Minaxi got the 2nd position, while Shreya Mishra and Himani got the 3rd position. Supriya, Vasundhra and Raveena got consolation prizes.
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Architect wins distinction
Chandigarh, September 6 What is more creditable for Archana, currently heading the architecture wing of the Housing Board Haryana, is the fact that she is the only one from the region to be featured in
the book. The book analyses the characters, personal growth, role models and impact of feminist architecture movement in India. A professional with over two decades’ experience, she has contributed to the city of Chandigarh and region in diverse capacities. Currently, she is joint secretary of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), Chandigarh-Punjab chapter, and Member of the Publication Board of Journal of the IIA for the term 2010-12. She has several awards to her credit in the field of architecture. Her projects have been exhibited on several occasions like ArchiFest 2011 organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects, Singapore and Young Architects Festival, 2011, at Chandigarh.
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Steps to protect wildlife sanctuary
Kurukshetra, September 6 The meeting was presided over by Deputy Commissioner Mandip Singh Brar, who is also the chairman of the committee. Talking about the draft proposal, Brar said the sanctuary was a pocket of small depression, often attracting winter migratory birds. It was surrounded by fertile agricultural land. According to the guidelines of the Supreme Court and the Government of India, the draft proposal was being finalised based on certain norms, while the physical picture of the sanctuary would be finalised on the basis of the draft, he added.
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KU tops in distance education
Kurukshetra, September 6 Students’ perception of 65 universities and institutes in India, offering distance learning programmes, was assessed on parameters ranging from quality of study material, library support, quality of faculty, access to study centres, conduct of exams and publishing of results among others. — TNS
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Raaz 3
Directed by: Vikram Bhatt “Raaz 3” is sequel to “Raaz: The Mystery Continues” which followed
“Raaz”. This suspense thriller in 3D format is a movie where horror meets sensuality. “Raaz 3” stars Bipasha
Basu, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Yusuf Hussain and Mohan Kapoor. The film reportedly has references from Bipasha Basu and director Vikram Bhatt’s real life. The story revolves around Bipasha
Basu, Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta. Bipasha essays the role of an actress whose career takes a steep fall because of the arrival of a new actress. She then takes to black magic to get her revenge. “Raaz 3” has story by Shagufta Rafiq and has melodious score by Jeet
Ganguly, Mithoon and Rashid. The movie releases today at Fame Shalimar, Suraj (Panchkula), Fun, Minerva, Nigar
(Ambala), Harsha, Inder Palace (Karnal), Sun City - Hisar, Hind - Kaithal, Amrit -
Sonepat, PVR MGF, PVR Ambience, DTCC, DTMM, DT Star Mall, SRS Omaxe, SRS Celebration, Big Palam (
Gurgaon), PVR Crown Plaza, SRS Sector 12, SRS Pristine, SRS Eldeco, SRS Shubham,
INOX, Q Cinema (Faridabad), Fun, Cinemax (Panipat), Glitz- Kurukshetra, Bangar,
Satyam, Sheila Complex (Rohtak) — Dharam Pal
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With the new academic session already on, the outstation students of the Maharishi Dayanand University are having a tough time getting hostel accommodation in the university. The 15-odd hostels of the varsity are short of accommodation with around 600 students waiting to get place in the university hostels.
