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Selection criteria for lecturers ‘biased’ against rural candidates
20 nations to take part in Surajkund Crafts Mela
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New Chandigarh-Delhi Shatabdi Express
Multiple-laning could prove costly, feel Rohtak residents
Commissioner lays foundation stone of training centre
Sonepat writer honoured
Asha Hooda pays tributes to social activist
Poster-making, slogan-writing competitions held
'Integrate visually impaired persons with
society'
Budding engineers should 'acquire new skills'
Security arrangements for R-Day celebrations reviewed
Illegal plinths, shops demolished
Proclaimed offender from Uttar Pradesh held
Parole jumper arrested
Wild animal kills 17 goats
One held for duping couple
Residents seek regular campaigns to check traffic violations
Faridabad industry approaches HERC
VC seeks legal opinion on probe report
direct Kaithal-Delhi train
IT services firm holds grand finale for students
Jhajjar govt engineering college to be set up in 40 acres
Village youth achieves rare ability in mathematics
Prawasi sahitya 'not evaluated yet'
Kurukshetra Professor gets lifetime achievement award
Chautala's confrontation with IAS officer
Tributes paid to ex-Speaker on death anniversary
Robbery plan foiled in Gurgaon
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Selection criteria for lecturers ‘biased’ against rural candidates
Gurgaon, January 21 Professor Sangwan required a person to read for him, and Nakul started working as a reader for him. By virtue of his assignment and encouragement from his teachers, the simple rural boy developed an interest in literature and passed his exams with reasonably good marks. He went on to do MPhil and also cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC). As of now, Nakul is a research scholar pursuing his PhD. However, the phenomenal improvement in his academic outlook notwithstanding, the bright and promising youngster has not been able to qualify for the post of lecturer at any privately managed aided college of Haryana. The reason: The criteria for the selection of lecturers at non-government colleges in the state, which are apparently biased against the students coming from rural background. According to the revised criteria, the candidate’s knowledge of the subject which he/she is supposed to teach and his/her research publications are accorded insignificant consideration. On the other hand, substantial weightage is given to the marks secured by the candidate in matriculation, 10+2, graduation and master’s degree. Now, candidates like Nakul, who have not secured first divisions in their lower classes, are clearly at a disadvantage. They are unjustly denied an opportunity to have a level playing field like their urban counterparts. And, his is not an isolated case. In fact, this is the plight and predicament of most of the students of the agrarian state of Haryana who come from villages and begin their career endeavour only after they are able to get university-level exposure. “The selection criteria give excessive weightage to a candidate’s marks and little consideration to his/her knowledge of the subject, which is unfair, especially to those who have not been able to secure high grades but have worked hard on research qualification and publications,” points out Ashish, who holds an MPhil and has cleared the UGC-NET. Other anomalies are also evident in the selection criteria as NET has been accorded a weightage of 17 marks, while the PhD, which is regarded as an equivalent qualification according to the UGC norms, has been given only 12 marks. The candidates having MPhil as well as PhD would get just 15 marks, while those having NET plus MPhil get a weightage of 18 marks. A perusal of the “revised” selection criteria indicates that these have been prepared in accordance on the whims and fancies of the policy-makers, who obviously have little knowledge of the ground realities. What is more unfortunate is the fact that the promising youngsters have to bear the brunt of the slack approach of those at the helm of affairs.
Bureaucrats vs educationists
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20 nations to take part in Surajkund Crafts Mela
Surajkund (Faridabad), January 21 Anand Mohan Sharan, Managing Director, Haryana Tourism Development Corporation, said recently that more countries were likely to take part in the event. The number of foreign countries taking part would be double in comparison to the last edition of the annual fair. The event has acquired greater global aura as the Centre, the state government and the mela authorities have rechristened it as “International Surajkund Crafts Mela”. Sharan said this year Africa was selected as a continent would be a “partner” to the mela instead of the earlier practice of giving the honour to any one country. As many as six African countries have joined hands to represent the continent. Besides, member-countries from SAARC, Eurasian and Latin American countries will participate in the mela. On account of increased foreign participation, the authorities have decided to increase food courts at the mela ground to 36, including those relating to African and Latin American cuisines. Karnataka will be the “theme state” at the mela this year. A good dose of culture and ambience of the state will be on view at the venue. Like the “apna ghar”, which will be created at the mela ground to display the culture of a traditional Haryanvi family, a similar mechanism will be in place to reflect the mores of a traditional Karnataka society. Visitors at the mela this year would cross the 10-lakh mark recorded during its last edition, the authorities said. The authorities have expanded the mela ground area from 37 to 39.5 acres.
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New Chandigarh-Delhi Shatabdi Express Suman Bhatnagar
Ambala, January 21 The new Shatabdi which was launched recently does not have its halt at Ambala Cantt. Union minister and MP from Ambala Kumari Selja has written a letter to the railway minister in this regard. While urging the Union Railway Minister Pawan Bansal for a stoppage at Ambala Cantt, Anil Vij, MLA, Ambala Cantt said that Ambala Cantt was a very important railway junction of the Northern Railways. Rattan Lal Kataria, former MP from Ambala, has supported the demand of the local citizens. He said that people of Ambala had a right to avail the service of the new Shatabdi train. He said that he would request the BJP MPs to raise the matter in the coming Parliament session. Former MLA and senior Congress leader Nirmal Singh is also in favour of the demand. Former chairman of Haryana Chamber of Commerce and Industry Rajinder Nath, who is also a leading industrialist said that both Ambala City and Ambala Cantt have a number of industrial units which have their offices at Delhi too. He said that one of the stoppages of the new Shatabdi should be at Ambala Cantt so that the entrepreneurs of the twin cities could avail the facility. TC Kansal, general secretary of Haryana Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Association, has also written a letter to the union railway minister in this regard. The president of Haryana wholesale cloth merchant Association Harcharan Singh Bhatia said that a number of executives of various cloth mills from Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi visited Ambala City frequently, the new Shatabdi would prove to be a boon for them.
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Multiple-laning could prove costly, feel Rohtak residents
Rohtak, January 21 As many as seven state highways culminate or connect the city to other towns of the state and the national capital. Commuters are expected to pay for using roads built on BOT basis as per rules, claimed an official of the local civic body. He said work on four laning of the Rohtak- Hisar and Rohtak-Jind highways had been started in some parts and is in the pipeline in some others in view of the announcement made by the state government. All these roads would be widened on the BOT basis and would be toll roads as the work was allotted to private companies, he added. Though the road connecting Bhiwani has been widened to four lanes till the border of the district, the work on this highway could be announced anytime now as Bhiwani is represented by influential politicians. The four laning of the Rohtak- Sonepat road could also be announced in the next few months in view of the political importance of the belt, claimed sources in the department. Describing the widening of the highways as a remarkable achievement of the present state government, Yoginder Dahiya, a social activist, here said that the state government would have to ensure a system that the toll plazas do not become burdensome for the residents of the district. “Paying a toll tax every time one moves out of the district would be a cause of concern as it would result in hindering an individual’s right to free movement provided by the Constitution,” claimed Raj Singh Hooda, another city resident. Claiming that development was welcome till it do not prove to be a hindrance in any form, he said that the government should ensure free passage to those who do not want to use a toll road. Expressing concern over the problems that could emerge after all the toll plazas become functional, Raj Kumar Kapoor of the BJP said that the authorities ought to ensure that financial burden on the comman man remained the least. Another resident Virender Phogat said that it would create problems not only for the residents of nearby villages but would also make travelling costly for everyone.
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Commissioner lays foundation stone of training centre
Jhajjar, January 21 While addressing the gathering on the occasion, Suprabha said the centre not only would meet the requirement of a multi-purpose hall where administrative officials would be able to convene their vital meetings to discuss various official and civil issues but also it would be used to impart training to the unemployment men and women under various government schemes for motivating them to adopt self- employment. The commissioner also directed the district officials to provide all possible facilities at the centre so that it could turn out to be instrumental in imparting special training to the aspirants in an efficient manner. The Jhajjar Deputy Commissioner (DC), Ajit Balaji Joshi, said the centre would have a sitting capacity of 250 people with a dais so that trainees could be addressed properly by the trainers regarding their courses. “The centre will also be given a modern look wherein all facilities from a store to a retiring room will be made available so as to make it multi-purpose as required," said the DC, adding that the authorities would finish the construction work of the centre within a stipulated period. Jhajjar ADC Pushpender Chauhan, SDM Pradeep Dagar, CTM Pradeep Kaushik, DDPO Vishal Kumar and Tehsildar Shyam Lal were also present.
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Sonepat writer honoured
Sonepat, January 21 The award carries a cash amount of Rs 1 lakh. Sumer Chand has written 28 books. Out of these, 10 were on culture of Haryana and four have been awarded. A research has been conducted on his three books. His seven other books are in the offing. He was also honoured with the Manav Seva Puruskar by the Institute of Economic Studies at Mumbai in 1992 along with Mother Teresa and Baba Amte. He has also pledged to donate his body to AIIMS, New Delhi, for research. Besides, Sumer Chand loves to carry the injured victims of road accidents to hospitals. Since 1958, he had taken 70 such accident victims to hospitals across the country which, he claimed, was a Guinness book of world record.
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Asha Hooda pays tributes to social activist
Sonepat, January 21 Asha Hooda, who is also the wife of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was speaking at a function on the occasion of the death anniversary of renowned social activist and promoter of education in the beginning of the 20th century, Peeru Singh, at Gurukul Senior Secondary School, Matindu, in the district. Paying rich tributes to Peeru Singh, Asha Hooda said Peeru Singh was a true Arya Samajist and a staunch believer in gender equality as well as women education. She exhorted the youth to follow his teachings and shoulder the responsibilities for building a society free from social evils which had brought a bad name to the society now-a-days. “A balanced social development can be maintained with the empowerment of women, eradication of social evils and preservation of social values,” she said and opined that society played an important role in nation building. The chairman of the Gurukul Education Council, Brig (retd) Satya Dev Singh, SP Arun Singh, SDM, Kharkhoda, Mahender Pal, DSP Usha, Pro VC of Women University, Khanpur Kalan, Dr Balbir Kaur were also present on the occasion which was marked by a cultural programme and holding of a declamation contest. Asha Hooda laid the foundation stone of the primary wing and a hall named after the freedom fighter, Bhim Singh Vedalankar on the Gurukul premises.
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Poster-making, slogan-writing competitions held
Kurukshetra, January 21 The initiative to provide a forum to the participants express their ideas on the contemporary social issues was taken by the university under the guidance of Lt Gen DDS Sandhu (retd), Vice-Chancellor of the university. Sandhu lauded the efforts of the participants in coming up with ideas and express them on posters and in slogans. In these competitions, 71 students from the university teaching departments, university colleges and other affiliated colleges of the university participated with enthusiasm. In the slogan-writing competition, Amit Kumar’s slogan, “Give me wings, I want to learn to fly. Give me freedom to touch the sky,” secured the first position. Ganesh’s slogan on a women’s endeavour towards freedom secured the second position and Sitaram’s slogan, "Boys of quality respect girls’ equality", got the third position. Kuni Rani and Sumit won consolation prizes. In the poster-making competition, Shiv Kumar’s poster on “Wake up India” got the first position, Monika’s poster on a woman's sacrifice won the second position and Shruti’s poster on "Stop eve-teasing" secured the third position. Diksha and Saloni won consolation prizes. Dean, Students’ Welfare, Prof Anil K Vashisth, congratulated the students of the university for contributing to such issues of social relevance by way of their creative participation and expression. Dr Tejinder Sharma and Dr Vanita Dhingra helped in successful organisation of the competition. The event coordinators thanked the members of the jury, Prof Dinesh Dadhichi, Prof Neera Verma, Prof Sudesh, Prof Ram Viranjan, Prof Ravi Bhushan and Dr RK Moudgil.
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'Integrate visually impaired persons with
society'
Bhiwani, January 21 She was speaking at a function organised by an NGO, Astha Rehabilitation and Education Society, to mark the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille system of reading and writing, here recently. The programme was held on the District Red Cross Society premises here. “Blindness
is not a curse anymore. Many visually impaired persons have scaled
heights in their careers and have even cracked the Indian Administrative
Service exams,” Juhi Meena said. She said only those societies marched forward that believed in integration of its members. Stressing the need to educate visually impaired persons, Juhi Meena said education was very important for achieving anything in life. Paying tributes to Louis Braille, she said the Braille system of reading and writing invented by him had transformed the lives of millions of visually impaired persons all over the world. She said the revolutionary invention had helped several people earn their livelihood with dignity and many would enlighten their lives through this system in future. She also lauded the efforts of special educator Vijay Sharma, who presided over the function, for helping visually impaired children educate themselves. Juhi Meena honoured visually impaired students by presenting them jackets and sweaters. Anu Mehta, programme coordinator, Jai Bhagwan, assistant secretary of the District Red Cross, Narender Kumar, manager of Indian Bank, Mahtab Singh and several others were present on this occasion.
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Budding engineers should 'acquire new skills'
Sonepat, January 21 This was stated by the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Prof Shevgaonkar, while delivering the keynote address on “Engineering Education” in the school of engineering sciences of BPS Women University, Khanpur Kalan, yesterday. He said in the present technical era, after every two-three moths, newer softwares were entering the market. “The engineers have to become competent to understand and analyse the results being given by the new softwares,” he added. There were a number of good opportunities in the field of engineering provided the budding engineers acquired skills according to the demand of the field, he said and stressed on positive thinking. Besides students of the school of engineering sciences, university’s Vice-Chancellor, Dr Pankaj Mittal, Registrar, Prof Asha Kadian, Chairperson Ajit Singh and faculty members were present on the occasion.
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Security arrangements for R-Day celebrations reviewed
Faridabad, January 21 Kapur said the Governor will arrive in Faridabad a day before the R-Day. He would participate at the proposed at-home in the evening after the parade ceremony. The police wants to leave nothing to chance with regard to the security arrangement on the occasion. Surveillance has already been mounted by it in a big way in Faridabad. An exercise to check the identities of the inmates in several parts of Faridabad, especially jhuggis, slums, hotels, rest houses and motels has Kapur said routes in the city will be monitored from early part of next week. Vigil around the area where the parade would be held would be stepped up from this weekend. The police appears to have gone into an overdrive on the security issue in Faridabad much in advance of the R-Day on account of its location. It has borders with UP and Delhi. Also, due to its vicinity with the national capital, the security agencies here have an added job to be aligned with national security concerns. The police authorities are in touch with their Delhi counterparts.
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Illegal plinths, shops demolished
Kaithal, January 21 Tehsildar Roshan Lal accompanied the demolition squad along with executive Magistrate and SHO Vishnu Prashad. District Town Planner (DTP) Ram Kumar, who led the team, said the colony had been developed on 11 acres without any approval from the government and in violation of the Urban Act 1975. He said as many as two shops,11 plinths and nine roads were demolished in the operation. He appealed to people not to purchase plots in unauthorised colonies. A case would be registered against those, who developed the colony, he said. Earlier, the department had launched a demolition drive on Kaithal-Jind road bye pass and had to face anger of the people, who resorted to road blockade, following which, the drive was postponed. The DTP said his department was awaiting nod from the local administration and would resume the demolition drive as a large number of people had made unauthorised constructions in many restrictive areas.
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Proclaimed offender from Uttar Pradesh held
Kurukshetra, January 21 Confirming this to The Tribune here recently, the district police chief, Rakesh Kumar Arya, said Virbhan, a resident of Karora village, Kaithal district, at present living at Mohan Nagar here, lodged a complaint with the police on November 20, 2006, that on the same day at round 7 pm, he stopped his motorcycle near the T-point of Sodi village when two unidentified persons signalled him to stop there. Virbhan told the police that one of them demanded whatsoever he had at gunpoint and threatened that he would be eliminated if he raised an alarm. Meanwhile, the other person tried to take out the keys from the motorcycle but Virbhan struck the person carrying a pistol with his leg and sped away. It was by chance that during December 2006, the CIA staff police team had arrested another accused Madho Singh, a resident of Adarsh Colony, Muradabad (UP), who had confessed that he along with his accomplice, Mamu, had detained and threatened Virbhan on November 20, 2006. The district police and the court had declared the accused, Mamu, as proclaimed offender on June 11, 2007, and Mamu, who was at large, was arrested ultimately by the proclaimed offender (PO) staff police team led by PO staff in charge Inspector Jagbir Singh. During interrogation, Mamu confessed to his crime while the police had already recovered a .315-bore country-made pistol, one live cartridge and one scooter from Madho. The accused, Mamu, was produced in the court here and remanded to judicial custody, Arya added.
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Parole jumper arrested
Kaithal, January 21 He was sentenced to life in a murder case but did not report in the Hisar Jail after his parole period was over. The accused, who was booked under the Arms Act, was produced in a local court today and sent to judicial custody till February 1. The police said a team headed by sub-inspector Ram Pal during a naka on Badsikri bridge noticed a person moving under suspicious circumstances. During the search operation, he was found with a .315 bore Katta and two cartridges and had planned to take shelter at his cousin's residence in Badsikri. The accused had been identified as Om Parkash of Danoda Khurd village in Jind district. The accused was involved in a murder case and had been charged of destroying evidence in a case registered against him in Israna police station of Panipat district in 2002. He was sentenced to life in the Hisar Jail. The accused came on parole on November 22 last year and had to report to the jail authorities on December 14 but jumped parole, following which a case was registered against him at Narwana.
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Wild animal kills 17 goats
Rewari, January 21 Simultaneously on hearing the frightened goats’ shrieks, when the watchdog came to their rescue, the dog, too, was instantly done to death by the beast who then vanished into the dense hilly forest area lying near the village. The beast had snapped necks of all the goats. This was the second onslaught of the wild animal who had killed 17 other goats in a similar mode in the above enclosure earlier on January 8. The post-mortem examination of the deceased goats was carried out by Nangal Durgu village-based Veterinary Hospital’s in charge Dr Ajay Pal.
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One held for duping couple
Kaithal, January 21 The police said accused Didar Singh of Siwan promised Jaspal Singh and his wife Sandeep Kaur of Bhatmajra village in Pehowa sub-division to send them to Canada. The deal was settled at Rs 21 lakh of which the victims paid Rs 4 lakh to the accused. —OC
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Residents seek regular campaigns to check traffic violations
Rohtak, January 21 The local police has claimed to have issued over 2,000 challans and recovered several lakhs as penalty from offenders during the month-long special drive. “Though the campaign has certainly raised the awareness level of residents and commuters regarding the traffic rules, pressure on habitual offenders was required and to achieve the same the district police and other organisations would help each other,” claims J N.Gehlaut, a retired government official and an official of the Road Safety Organisation (RSO) here. He said the recent drive has achieved fruitful results as the officials concerned ensured involvement of various sections of society, including students of educational institutions, in the campaign. Atul Kumar, a resident of Model Town, said there was a need for upgrading the traffic monitoring system in the town. He said there were several congested spots in the town where traffic jams were witnessed 24x7 and to deal with the issue more traffic police personnel should be deployed during the daytime. Anoop Kumar Saini, another resident, said the road safety drive should be a continuous process to tackle the increasing traffic violations. He added that due to the lack of presence of traffic police personnel there were large number of violations and incidents of road rage. A spokesperson for the Police Department, however, claimed that besides the recent drive, the district police had been continuously strengthening the traffic police wing with the deployment of as many as 63 personnel. The police had recovered over Rs 1.14 crore as penalty from 37,389 traffic challans during the past one year. These include 543 challans for using mobile phone while driving, 15,956 for triple-riding, 625 for drunken driving and 3,696 for vehicles having black films.
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Faridabad industry approaches HERC
Faridabad, January 21 Apart from the Faridabad Industries Association (FIA), about a dozen industrial units here have petitioned to the regulator. Their charge is that the power utility has “illegally” withheld the NOCs for the past two months. The Indian Electricity Act, 2003, a central legislation, lays down the Open Access policy. A unit which has a sanctioned load of 1 MW and has an independent feeder for the supply is eligible to avail itself of the policy. The policy was introduced in Haryana in 2008. The HERC had directed that the applicant units must seek NOCs from the utility, every month, in keeping with the provisions of the Act. According to the FIA, members from the industry here had recently met the authorities, including the Chairman of Haryana Discoms, Devender Singh, against the negative stand of the utility, but to no avail. Faridabad Superintending Engineer, DHBVN, SS Deshwal, reasoned that his department was all for the open access policy. With regard to withholding the NOCs, he alleged the industrialists did not give notice sufficiently in advance to the department regarding their proposed power schedule which adversely affected its management relating to distribution of electricity. “If the units are ready to give a 24-hour notice, the department will have no objection to their availing themselves of open access policy,” he added. The industrialists on the other hand wonder why the utility has started picking faults after four years in vogue of the policy. They say it is impossible to conform to the 24-hour notice as private purchase of power is done through “power exchange”. A captain of industry, on condition of anonymity, alleged that the industry actually helped the government by making private purchases as the state was power-deficit. “The negative mindset of the power authorities is inexplicable. Impractical conditions were being imposed on the units”, he lamented. As many as 45 units in large scale here, including Escorts, Star Wires, Alchem International, Bhupinder Steels, Punjab Industries and Sadhu Forging avail themselves of the policy. They are said to constitute 40 per cent of the bulk of consumers under the policy in the state.
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VC seeks legal opinion on probe report
Sirsa, January 17 The inquiry committee comprising Prof Sultan Singh, Prof Praveen Aghamkar and Prof Suresh Gahlawat had submitted an 85-page detailed report on Saturday in the absence of Dr Ranga. After seeing the report, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to seek a legal opinion on it and now, Dr Ranga is expected to take a decision only after he receives the opinion. The Vice-Chancellor had constituted the committee to hold a probe on January 4 after non-teaching employees and teachers associated with the Chaudhary Devi Lal University Association (CDLUTA) had launched an agitation on the issue. On January 2, Ram Kumar, an office assistant, had alleged that teachers Shailender Hooda and some others had manhandled him while he was on duty in the camp office of the Vice-Chancellor. While Hooda apologised for his conduct by coming to the dharna venue with the university registrar, Dr Manoj Siwach, on the same day, he is alleged to have thrashed an associate professor DP Warne, who was sitting there. While Hooda and those from his group had denied the allegations, the Vice-Chancellor had constituted a committee of three professors to probe the issue.
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MP submits memo to Union Railway Minister
Our Correspondent
Kaithal, January 21 A press statement issued by the local office of the MP said, Jindal apprised the minister about the longstanding demand of a direct Kaithal-Delhi rail link by local residents. The minister urged to extend the already existing Delhi-Narwana train service up to Kaithal or start a new train from Kaithal via the Kurukshetra-Panipat route for Delhi. Jindal told the minister Kaithal, which was a district headquarters town and an important trade and commerce centre and a historical town, needs a direct train to Delhi. This rail link would usher a new era of development for residents of the area. He said the Senior Commercial Manager, Northren Railway, had agreed in principle to set up a train halt at HUDA colony, Kaithal, but the matter needs to be expedited as the Deputy Commissioner had already suggested a name for this proposed halt station as desired by the railway authorities. It is learnt that the minister had assured the MP to look into these two demands and take up the matter on priority.
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IT services firm holds grand finale for students
Ambala, January 21 The event involved the participation of more than 50 schools of nearby areas like Ambala, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, Barara, Shahabad, Naraingarh. The Grand Finale involved an aptitude test, a puzzle round on the basis of which a team comprising Vivek, Simran and Ajay from Sacred Heart Convent School, Jagadhri, emerged as the winners of this competition. The team comprising Rajat, Tejasvi and Ishan from Lord Mahavir School, Ambala Cantt, emerged as the first runners-up of this competition and the team comprising Rohit, Vatsala and Ruchi from Blue Bells Public School, Naraingarh, emerged as the second runners-up of this competition. Chief guests of the event Saurabh Bali and Sobodh Saluja said their company had taken an initiative to approach leading schools through the GNI for selecting talented students and preparing them for a rewarding career. The winners of this event will be trained exclusively, free of cost, by professionals from the HCL at the GNI and their placement prospects will also be taken care of by the company.
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Jhajjar govt engineering college to be set up in 40 acres
Jhajjar, January 21 Dhanpat Singh, Finance Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Haryana, stated this after inspecting the site for the college here recently. He said the government had decided to conduct the classes for the course on the campus of Government Polytechnic Institute here from the coming academic session till the construction of the building of the engineering college. “After the setting up of the college, students of the region need not go to other colleges located in distance places to study engineering,” said he. The commissioner later visited the polytechnic institute and took stock of the building where engineering classes are to be held and facilities to be provided for the faculty members and students over there. Dhanpat Singh thereafter while holding a meeting of district administrative officers at the mini- secretariat here directed them to take care to provide all necessary facilities for teachers and students of the engineering college to run the course without any hurdle. The college will have more than 200 intakes, he said. The commissioner maintained that the college was being set up to provide quality education to students of the area. The Department of Technical Education was planning to develop this engineering college as a centre of excellence in the area of civil and environmental engineering and related fields according to the vision of the state government, he added.
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Village youth achieves rare ability in mathematics
Rewari, January 21 While he was honoured by his college authorities with the ‘Roll of Honour’ award for his meritorious performance at the graduation level, he had now been pursuing the mass communication course of MD University from Government Postgraduate College, Gurgaon. Besides, he was also getting coaching for the IAS Examination at a private Institute in Delhi. As regards his matchless brilliance in solving mathematical problems, Himmat works out square root and cube root of any number from 1 to 100 instantaneously to the amazement of onlookers. Besides, numerous complicated formulas of Science subject are on his finger tips as well. He has already received a national award for this achievement while his name has also been recommended by the higher authorities concerned for inclusion in the ‘India Book of Records’ for his overall performances. Himmat is also endowed with prodigious memory that has enabled him to recollect once memorised countless bulky numbers in direct as well as reverse order for a long time. Recollection of once-memorised several mobile phone numbers is a simple task for him. A number of social and voluntary outfits have already showered accolades on him. Himmat Bhardwaj said he would soon be visiting schools in the Ahirwal region where he would impart tips to students to sharpen their memory.
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Prawasi sahitya 'not evaluated yet'
Ambala, January 21 Speaking at a function organised in DAV College for Girls, Yamunanagar, Kamlesh Sharma, Chairperson, Haryana Sahitya Academy, said there was the question of identity in front of the Prawasi Sahitya; writers have to face that problem. Good literature is one that has been read by readers, said Sneh Thakur. She also said that good literature was one that prepared a good human being for future. Akanksha Pare, features editor from Outlook magazine, said there were many expatriate writers. India was the only land that gave birth to a number of expatriate writers. Vivek Mishra said the world of literature was a world of peace and humanity which developed life. Life could survive without literature very well. But literature could reach its destination with the right direction. Dr Trun Bhatnagar, famous critic, said literature was not literature of a particular country. It was creation for the whole world. We could create it showing any aspect of life. Dr Archna Painyulli, famous critic from Denmark, said Parwasi Sahitya in Hindi should be translated into foreign languages. It would give an opportunity to others also to be familiar with this literature.
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Kurukshetra Professor gets lifetime achievement award
Kurukshetra, January 21 GIMT press in charge Ashwani Goel said the award was conferred on Prof Mittal for his outstanding contribution to growth, development and quality improvement of technical education over the past 50 years. Professor Mittal has widely travelled in India and abroad and executed many projects at the national and international levels. Besides attending several national conferences, he has attended two world conferences on cooperative education, one in Scotland and the other in Jamaica in 1985 and 1995, respectively. Professor Mittal, who is a chartered engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IE) India, did his MTech (Civil Engineering) from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, and PhD from BITS, Pilani. He was also invited as a resource person in the national summit to deliberate on the theme, “An Effective Manager-Cognitive View Point”. In his lecture to senior executives from the corporate world, he explained system’s view point of management, dealing with human behaviours having different maturity levels and techniques of planning and time management for a manager to be effective. As many as 250 delegates from the corporate world, both public and private sectors as well as academia, including eminent industrialists, CEOs, HR Managers from Reliance, Power Grid, Hero Motors, NTPC IFFCO, SAIL, JCB, NHPC, Jindal Industries participated in the summit.
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Chautala's confrontation with IAS officer
Rewari, January 21 The Deputy Commissioner's office was housed in the old mini-secretariat in Model Town here at that time. It is noteworthy that Chautala, who was then leading a massive demonstration of party activists and who himself was to present a memorandum against the Bansi Lal government to the Deputy Commissioner, had to wait there persistently while facing a heavy downpour due to the delayed arrival of Sibal. Though the party activists were in a furious mood at such delayed appearance of the DC, yet Chautala, while keeping his cool, simply counselled Sibal, "Madam, we are representatives of the people and you were expected to discharge such responsibility of yours while keeping the sentiments of the people It is not known how this advice of the INLD chief was taken by Sibal. However, subsequent withdrawal of support by BJP legislators had resulted in the downfall of the Bansi Lal government as well as simultaneous formation of the Chautala (INLD)-BJP government in July1999. The rest is now common knowledge.
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Tributes paid to ex-Speaker on death anniversary
Rewari, January 21 Besides Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Power Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) Anita Yadav, Congress MP Shruti Chaudhary, Aftab Ahmed, MLA (Nuh), Dr ML Ranga, Vice-Chancellor of GJU, Hisar, other local dignitaries also marked their presence in the commemorative convention. Paying tributes to Col Ram Singh, the Chief Minister said while he occupied ministerial berths in the Union as well as the Haryana Governments and simultaneously adorned the highly dignified post of the Speaker of the state Assembly, he was the pride of the Ahirwal region whose rights and interests were relentlessly pursued by him. Recalling his late father Ranbir Singh Hooda’s as well as his own deep-rooted association with Col Ram Singh, the Chief Minister said he fully benefited from Col Ram Singh’s rich and variegated experiences in politics. The Chief Minister announced that a statue of Col Ram Singh would be installed at a Chowk at the bypass here. Besides Power Minister Captain Yadav, CPS Anita Yadav and others also paid homage to Col Ram Singh. Later Sanjay Rao, son of late Col Ram Singh, expressed his gratefulness to the Chief Minister and other dignitaries for their participation in the Shradhanjali Samaroh.
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Robbery plan foiled in Gurgaon
Gurgaon, January 21 The gang leader, Virender Nehra, alias Fauji, is a resident of Rohtak and a notorious criminal who has a reward of Rs 1 lakh announced on him by the Jhajjar police. The other three have been identified as Bahdurgarh resident Sandeep, alias Dhillu, Sonepat resident Sanjay, alias Kaira, and Rohtak resident, Ashish, alias Chotu. Inspector Sanjiv Balhara, who led the police team, said the gang had confessed to at least four murders. The police had got the gang on a day's remand for further investigations.
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