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Encroachers grab prime land near IFFCO chowk
Shivalik region residents cry foul over regional bias in development, jobs
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INTACH team visits Rewari to study heritage monuments
Railway federation threatens to launch nationwide strike
Amendments In PhD Ordinance
Bhiwani has great potential in field of sports: Kiran Choudhry
Saplings planted on Ajay Chautala's b'day
Special children have a 'special status' in society
GNG College tops in science exhibition
SP office gets computerised booth
MCI nod for Kalpana Chawla medical college still awaited
Naveen Jindal
Priyadarshini Awaas Yojna for providing housing in rural areas
'Mechanisation of agriculture will solve labour shortage'
Free treatment for children
Industrial corridor set to be game-changer for Haryana
Rise in greenhouse emission, a challenge to crop productivity: Experts
Bahadurgarh to have CCTV cameras to check rising crime graph
Individual style of working in country lowers efficiency to 20%: Prof
260 students get degrees
HSGPC for withdrawal of coming 'Gurbani' serial on Colors channel
PWD gets construction industry award
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Encroachers grab prime land near IFFCO chowk
Sukhrali (Gurgaon), March 14 The land in question is situated along the johad (pond) of Sukhrali village, which has now become a part of Gurgaon city. While several buildings have come up on one side of the pond, another chunk of the land on its other side is being used for parking. A visit to the area revealed that construction was still going on in the vicinity of the pond. Several multi-storey buildings have come up in the area. The area was earlier under the jurisdiction of the village panchayat, but now comes under the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG). Local residents maintain that if the prevailing 'system' is allowed to continue, the land sharks may eventually usurp the entire pond. They claimed that the buildings were being constructed without the requisite building-plan and other approvals. However, the MCG authorities do not seem to be taking a serious notice of the encroachment or initiating any concrete steps to check it. Local municipal councillor Anoop Singh admits that public land is being encroached upon with impunity, but expresses his helplessness in preventing it. The councilor points out that nearly 1.5 acres of prime land along the pond has been encroached upon, while a 700 square-yard plot lying vacant as of now may also be grabbed. "I have brought the matter to the notice of the MCG authorities and even raised the issue at MCG meetings, but no action has been taken in this regard till date," he maintains.
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Shivalik region residents cry foul over regional bias in development, jobs
Chandigarh, March 14 Miffed at lack of development in the region, the Shivalik Vikas Manch, an apex non-political organisation of a cross-section of society, has decided to take to streets and organise a six-day 'padyatra' from Kalesar (Yamunanagar) to Kalka (Panchkula) from March 17. "We have no other option except taking to the streets to fight for our rights as both the ruling and opposition parties have given us a raw deal regarding development works and jobs over the years," Vijay Bansal, president of the manch, told The Tribune. Bansal said during the 'padyatra', he would endeavour to sensitise the state government functionaries and the general public about the lack of basic amenities in general and major development projects in particular in the region. Representations regarding lack of development in the Shivalik region would be sent to the Prime Minister, the Haryana Governor and the Chief Minister during the 'padyatra'. Taking potshots at Hooda and his bete noire in the Congress and Ambala MP Kumari Selja, Bansal alleged that infighting in the Congress had left the region at the mercy of an apathetic bureaucracy leading to lack of development in the region. Alleging discrimination with the Shivalik region in development, the manch president alleged that major development works were concentrated in Rohtak district alone. Of the 1,237 announcements made for Rohtak district during 2005-2012, work on 1,082 projects had been completed. However, while 47 and 43 announcements were made by the Chief Minister for Panchkula and Yamunanagar, only 16 and 27 projects had been completed in the two districts, he alleged. Despite the fact that a special Shivalik Development Board had been created for inclusive growth of the region, nothing concrete had been done for the region. While the state government had claimed that an amount of Rs 2,800 crore had been spent on the development works in the region, the ground reality was entirely different giving a lie to state government's claims.
What Shivalik region needs
A government university, a medical college and an engineering college More development projects and a greater share in government jobs Provision of basic amenities for people, particularly in the Morni area Special economic package to catch up with other regions of Haryana
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INTACH team visits Rewari to study heritage monuments
Rewari, March 14 The team mainly comprised of Atul Dev, convener, Sarbajit Kaur, co-convener of the Gurgaon chapter of INTACH, Lt Gen Narain Chatterjee (retd), former Deputy Chief of the Army, Yasmin, contractor-principal, Summer Field School, Gurgaon, Dr Kiran Rekha Banerjee, principal, Rabinder Nath World School, Gurgaon, Navin Piplani, director, CCTCB, INTACH, New Delhi, Gurmeet Singh, former director of Air India and others. Accompanied by Sudhir Bhargava, convener, and Dr LN Sharma, a doyen of the Rewari chapter of INTACH, they visited Saint Andrews Church, built here in 1891, at the outset. While they were impressed with its structural grandeur as well as its freshness, they also gathered some valuable information from a father of the church. Then they had a round of the town's four historic security gates, the Kanaud gate, Delhi Gate, Jaipur Gate and the Gokal or Jhajjar Gate, whose renovation was accomplished recently by the Municipal Council on Rewari INTACH's initiative. Speaking about their historicity, Bhargava highlighted their importance during the Moghul and the British regimes. Next the visitors paid a visit to the Town Hall and the Government Boys Senior Secondary School here. They found the Town Hall that was constructed in the 1890s and whose renovation was carried out recently, in good condition. Similarly the historical school, whose benches were once adorned as pupils by celebrated freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai, Sir Shadi Lal, the first Indian Chief Justice of a High Court during the British regime and Syed Muzaffar Hussain Burney, a former Governor of Haryana, was of great interest to them. In succession, the visitors went to the Bada Talab ( historical huge tank) whose fine archaeology was highly appreciated by them. They wrapped up the excursion with a visit to the Steam Locomotive Heritage Shed, popularly known as Rewari's rail musuem. While the museum contains nine working steam engines and a lot of other railway equipments, a documentary on the history of the railways was shown to the visitors as well. Besides they also made a courtesy call on Congress MP Rao Inderjit Singh here and thanked him for the liberal grants provided by him out of his MPLAD fund for the upkeep of the cultural heritage in the Rewari region.
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Railway federation threatens to launch nationwide strike
Jhajjar, March 14 Shiv Gopal Mishra, general secretary of the AIRF, stated this while interacting with The Tribune at Bahadurgarh town here on Wednesday while going to Rohtak from Delhi for attending a rally of Northern Railway Mens’ Union (NRMU). “Under the agitation, not only railway services across the nation will cripple but also all railway employees will go on an indefinite strike without serving any notice. The government will be responsible for that if it happens,” said the general secretary. He said deep resentment prevailed among the railway employees owing to an irresponsible attitude being adopted by the Railway Ministry towards the federation’s demands. “Top officials of the railway authorities have already accorded their consent orally to the demands during meetings with leaders of the federation. Notwithstanding, the authorities have not so far issued any notification regarding execution of these demands leading to resentment among the railway employees,” said Mishra, adding that now the federation would not sit calmly and get the demands met at any cost. Lambasting the Union Government’s bid to privatise the railways, the general secretary said the federation would not let the government succeed in its intention and carry on its campaign against the proposed move, he added. “How can the government hand over such a giant network of Indian Railways in private hands when around 22,000 trains are being run successfully and crores of commuters reach their destinations daily across the nation,” said Mishra, adding that the government should not ponder over privatisation of the Indian Railways if it stood for the welfare of the railway employees in a real sense. Expressing concern over the plight of the railway colonies especially in Haryana, the railway employees’ leader said they had demanded that the government give "maintenance allowance" to the railway employees so that they could spend it on keeping railway colonies neat and clean on their own. “Though the issue of maintenance allowance for employees has been discussed at the meeting of the railway board, the federation is also making sincere efforts to get it executed at the earliest,” said he. Meanwhile, Mukesh Sharma, a leader of the NRMU, said they had been struggling hard to get their demands met for a long time. The demands included implementation of cadre restructuring, removal of MACP discrepancy, recruitment of children of railway employees in the railway department under the LARSGESS scheme, payment of Rs 4,800 to senior observers as grade pay instead of Rs 4,600, he added.
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CDLU dons cannot allot interview marks to aspirants: Vice-Chancellor
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, March 14 Some teachers have also objected to seats reserved for executives and bureaucrats in all subjects, accusing the university authorities of devising method for backdoor entry of influential persons to the PhD course. However, unmindful of the opposition, the university authorities are going ahead with the admission process under which a written test of the applicants is scheduled for tomorrow. According to the PhD ordinance, approved by the academic council in 2010 during the tenure of former Vice-Chancellor KC Bhardwaj, 50 per cent marks were reserved for academics, 13 per cent for research and publications, 12 per cent for seminars and conferences and 25 per cent for the interview. Now, the present VC, ML Ranga, has amended the ordinance by considering only academics as criteria for selection - 60 per cent for marks obtained in postgraduate exams and 40 per cent based on marks in undergraduate exams. The move has completely taken away the discretion from the hands of teachers, who are eligible for enrolling PhD students under them. The teachers allege that a complete U-turn in the existing ordinance will prove “disastrous for all stakeholders.” “Unless we measure the research aptitude, general awareness, motivation level, past achievement, future vision and practical orientation of the prospective candidates, there can be no suitable match, which may result in poor academic performance,” said a memorandum submitted by the teachers to the Vice-Chancellor. The teachers have demanded that at least 20 marks should be reserved for the interview. “Marks for interview are merely a means to ensure back door entry of favourite candidates, which the university will not allow at any Continued on page 2 CDLU dons cannot allot interview marks to aspirants: Vice-Chancellor cost,” retorted the Vice-Chancellor, ML Ranga.He said the ordinance had been amended to ensure that only the best students could get into the PhD course and no one should be able to make a back door entry by procuring high marks in the interview. Ranga also justified the seats reserved for officers and executives and said this would allow entry of senior managers from the corporate sector thereby increasing job opportunities for the students of this university.
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Bhiwani has great potential in field of sports: Kiran Choudhry
Bhiwani, March 14 The minister was addressing people at the concluding ceremony of Choudhry Surender Singh Memorial Sports Festival at Badhra in Bhiwani today. Choudhry said Bhiwani had the greatest potential in the field of sports and hence the district deserved an international-level sports university. She said she would also make efforts to set up a college for women at Badhra. The minister’s daughter, Shruti Choudhary, who represents the Bhiwani- Mohindergarh parliamentary constituency in Parliament, announced a grant of Rs 10 lakh from her MPLAD funds for the setting up of a mini stadium at Badhra. Shruti, who had earlier given a grant of Rs 5 lakh for this purpose last year, said she would also take up the issue of sports university and women’s college with the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda. In the sports festival that ended today, Haryana defeated Punjab to win men as well as women's kabaddi title. In the volleyball (smashing), the Secunderabad Police defeated the Haryana Police to win the title. Choudhary Surender Singh Memorial Sports Festival is held every year near the death anniversary of Kiran Chodhry’s late husband and a former Haryana minister Surender Singh, who died in a chopper crash on March 31, 2005.
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Saplings planted on Ajay Chautala's b'day
Kurukshetra, March 14 Earlier, as many as 153 persons donated blood at a blood donation camp organised by the INLD Youth wing and the Indian National Students' Organisation (INSO). The camp was inaugurated by INLD state president and MLA Ashok Arora on the premises of Punjabi Dharamshala here. The function was presided over by former Haryana minister Jaswinder Singh Sandhu while former Haryana minister Balbir Saini was the guest of honour.
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Special children have a 'special status' in society
Kaithal, March 14 This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Chander Shekhar, who was the chief guest in a two-day inaugural function of physically and mentally challenged children, during a function jointly organised by the Youth and Sports Department of Government of India, special Olympic Bharat and local NGO Seva Sangh here recently. About 250 children from six blocks of the district participated in the programme. Earlier Additional Deputy Commissioner Dinesh Singh Yadav flagged-off the rally of such children from Geeta Bhawan which culminated at RKSD College. Olympic boxer Manoj Kumar and national coach Vikram Dhull were also present on the occasion. On the concluding day function SP Kuldip Singh Yadav gave away prizes to the winners. Shiv Shanker Pahwa, secretary, Seva Sangh, was also present on the occasion.
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GNG College tops in science exhibition
Yamunanagar, March 14 The college Principal, Dr Varinder Gandhi, said the exhibition was divided into five subjects and GNG College participated in all subjects. The college students got the first position in four subjects, the second position in two subjects and the third position in one subject. Harneet Kaur, Shreya, Gagandeep and Vatsala were placed in the first position in collage-making in zoology, botany, physics and chemistry, respectively. Nishi Tyagi got the second position in the chemistry model and Tannu and Akanksha were runners-up in computer science. The third position was bagged by Prapti in physics. MS Sawhney, the general secretary of the management committee, congratulated the students.
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SP office gets computerised booth
Kurukshetra, March 14 Balbir Singh said the police quasak would help public in giving information regarding passport, unclaimed vehicles and traffic rules. Balbir Singh appreciated district police chief Rakesh Kumar Arya for establishing the booth. The work for getting information about missing persons, complaints, proclaimed offenders and most wanted criminals was in progress and expected to be completed very soon, he added. — OC
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MCI nod for Kalpana Chawla medical college still awaited
Karnal, March 14 "However, a proposal for establishment of medical college was received by the council for the 2011-12 and the application was returned to applicant as disapproved as they were not meeting the required qualifying criteria as prescribed in the establishment of medical college regulation," a MCI communique said. As per the agreement, the work has to be completed within 25 months and time limit for concept plan was one month, the Detailed Project Report (DPR) approval and bid process management in two months each and construction, procurement of medical equipment and training and capacity building in 20 months and till now DPR has not been finalised. As per the information procured by RTI activist Rajesh Sharma, the minutes of meeting held on October 5 last year revealed that the first phase of the vocation plan had to be implemented in the end of October last year while premises for the second phase would be vacated by the end of March this year. The project duration shall be 25 months from the date of release of the first payment towards project fund or from the date of release/deposit of the estimated cost or the date on which the site is made available to agency free from all encumbrances, whichever is later and going by the pace of progress, it appears that the government was playing politics with the issue keeping the 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in mind, Sharma said. Getting permissions and clearances from statutory authorities for construction of college buildings would take a long time and if the college was not made functional within 25 months (December 2014), the allegations of discrimination with North Haryana would gain credence, he said, adding that the college would be fit for filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to establish the charge. Kalpana Chawla medical college director Dr Surinder Kashyap admitted that evaluation and costing work of the Rs 650 crore was a time-consuming process and informed that major hurdles were removed at the last meeting held on March 8 and the detailed project report was in the final stage and could be available next week. The Police Housing Corporation has been roped in by the government for monitoring and speeding up the work and two unfinished blocks with 20 residences has been handed to the medical college by the police and the process of shifting of police lines would be completed by March end. As far as the permission of medical college was concerned it was mandatory before admitting the students, we would fulfill the required criteria before applying for permission for the year 2014-15, Dr Kashyap added. The medical college would have 500-bedded hospital, OPD, maternity hospital, emergency, hospital block, nursing college, auditorium, animal house and other advanced facilities and the state government had already provided Rs 105.5 crore during the current financial year for the medical college.
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MP for Kurukshetra-Yamunanagar railway line
Kurukshetra, March 14 Jindal said that he had already reminded Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal of the promise, which was made by his predecessor Mamata Banerjee. He said the Patiala - Kurukshetra and Kurukshetra—Yamunanagar lines were of vital importance and should be included in the 12th Five Year Plan. He said the draft of the Patiala - Kurukshetra had already been forwarded to the Planning Commission for evaluation. Jindal demanded that the draft of Kurukshetra - Yamunanagar line should be sent to the Planning Commission immediately. The former Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced that Kurukshetra would be getting a modern station but no work had been done in this direction following the announcement. Jindal said every year lakhs of people visit Kurukshetra during the solar eclipse and other religious occasions, therefore, all important trains should halt at Kurukshetra. Lifts, escalators should be provided keeping in mind the needs of elderly , women and children. Taking in view the dense population around Kurukshetra-Narwana rail line, Jindal has asked that the line be moved away from the populated region. Moreover, there are three railway-level crossings surrounding the old Thanesar city in Kurukshetra that routinely witness traffic jams. In accordance with the NHAI’s amended guidelines of 1989, the work for moving the line away from the populated area was allotted to the Railways Land Development Authority. Jindal said if the rail line was shifted, the vacated old land could be used for commercial purpose and the revenue generated from it could be used for developing the new line. He also recommended that hooters be installed at unmanned railway crossings to avoid accidents and casualties due to the sudden passage of trains.
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Priyadarshini Awaas Yojna for providing housing in rural areas
Ambala, March 14 Later, while addressing sarpanches and officers of the division, he said the government had launched a scheme, Priyadarshani Awaas Yojna, to provide housing facility to the weaker sections of society. He said the scheme was to provide housing facility in rural areas to eligible beneficiaries under IAY and other families who were allotted the 100 sq. yards plots under Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojna having no house or kutcha house by providing financial assistance to each identified family in a phased manner. He said each beneficiary was being given financial assistance of Rs 81,000 by the government for the construction of a new house. In addition an assistance of Rs 9,100 was being provided to each of the beneficiaries for the construction of toilets in convergence with the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). Thus, a beneficiary under the scheme was getting a financial assistance of up to Rs 90,100. The financial assistance of Rs 81,000 would be provided in three instalments. The first instalment of Rs 25,000 would be released at the time of sanction of grant, the second instalment of Rs 35,000 after completion of the construction up to lentil level and the final instalment of Rs 21,000 will be released on putting up doors and windows.
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'Mechanisation of agriculture will solve labour shortage'
Hisar, March 14 He was speaking at the inauguration of a training on machinery for straw management here recently. The training was organised by Farm Machinery and Power Engineering Department of the university under All-India Coordinated Research Project of ICAR. Scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) participated in the training. Dr Khokhar said the practise of stubble burning was most prevalent in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh where wheat-rice cropping pattern was most common. It led to emission of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide and aerosols. Besides, the heat generated by the straw burning led to loss of useful nutrients and microbes in soil, adversely affecting soil properties, he added. Dr Khokhar said mechanisation of agriculture would also solve the problem of shortage of labour emerging in agriculture to a large extent. He said an agricultural machinery mission on the line of horticulture mission, if implemented, would surely provide necessary impetus to the farm mechanisation. Speaking on the occasion, Dr JS Dhankar, director, Extension Education, pointed out that there would be need to produce more food grains in future. He said if the practice of stubble burning continued unchecked, it would pose serious threat to the natural resources. Dr AK Goel, Dean, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology said that India was the second largest producer of rice after China. So, use of environment-friendly technology to dispose off paddy straw was most essential. Dr NK Bansal, head, Farm Machinery and Power Engineering Department also spoke on the occasion. Dr SS Dahiya, Registrar, directors and deans of constituent colleges of the university, were also present on the occasion.
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Free treatment for children
Sonepat, March 14 The Director of the college, Dr RC Siwach, said one of the super specialists was Dr Anita Sharma. who is DM paediatric in neurology and a super specialists from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Dr Sharma was one of the few super specialists and a well-known name in the field. Another super specialists was Dr Dheeraj Parihar, who had expertise in surgery, Dr Siwach said.
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Industrial corridor set to be game-changer for Haryana
Gurgaon, March 14 An official spokesperson of the Haryana Government said four investment nodes (cities) have been proposed in the state along the DMIC, which will connect the Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai with Dadri in the National Capital Region (NCR), covering a length of around 1,500 km.
These nodes, including the Manesar-Bawal Investment Region (Phase-1A), Kundli-Sonepat Investment Region (Phase-2A), Faridabad-Palwal Investment Area (Phase-1B) and Rewari-Hisar Investment Area (Phase-2B), will be developed in a phased manner. The value of output in the DMIC sub-region of Haryana is estimated to grow by 15 times over a 30-year period (2010-2040). The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (HSIIDC) is the nodal agency for the implementation of the project in the state. Under Phase-IA, Manesar-Bawal Investment Region has been identified as major investment region for development. Besides, three early-bird projects, two priority projects and five key projects have been planned in this phase. The early-bird projects include an exhibition-cum-convention centre at Manesar, an integrated multi-modal logistics hub at Rewari and Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) between Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal. The key projects in MBIR include fresh water storage and transmission, integrated passenger hub at Pachgaon chowk, education-cum-health hub, affordable low-cost housing and eco-city project in IMT, Manesar. The priority projects include Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, Global Economic Corridor and cargo airport in the NCR. Singapore-based Jurong Consultants, KPMG, DTZ and ESRI have been appointed consultants by the DMIC Development Corporation (DMICDC) for preparing the concept masterplan for the Manesar-Bawal Investment Region (MBIR) and undertaking feasibility studies for the early-bird projects. It may be recalled that the Union Government is establishing a dedicated freight corridor between Delhi and Mumbai with terminals at Dadri in the NCR and Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai. To tap the immense opportunities likely to be thrown open by the corridor, the area along the corridor falling in Haryana, UP , Rajasthan, MP, Gujarat and Maharashtra is proposed to be developed under an ambitious plan.
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Rise in greenhouse emission, a challenge to crop productivity: Experts
Karnal, March 14 Inaugurating the two-day national seminar on “Agriculture and Environment: Challenges and opportunities” at the Central Soil Salinity Research Institute
(CSSRI), he said there had been a steady increase in the emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous and the increase of 2 to 3 degree in temperature would result in global warming, ultimately impacting the productivity of the crop. “The country had achieved record foodgrain production of 259 million tonnes in 2011-12 but we have to produce 80 to 100 lakh tonnes of additional foodgrains to meet the demand of the growing population in a scenario where water is scarce and quality of groundwater is poor," he said. Dr Gurbachan Singh, who is also former Director of
CSSRI, called for increasing crop productivity in rainfed areas and developing some agriculture model, which would ensure sustainability of farmers as 50 per cent of farmers were marginal with land holdings less than 2.5 acre. He said the climatic changes were the another factor that affect productivity, especially of wheat crop, and suggested multiple uses of resources for multi-enterprise agriculture to combat climate change. Suggesting that the farm scientists should work on developing heat, waterlogged and drought tolerant
germplasm, he emphasised on the efficient use of water and fertiliser and diversification of crops for sustaining the soil health.
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Bahadurgarh to have CCTV cameras to check rising crime graph
Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), March 14 A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of district administrative officials held at the mini- secretariat in Jhajjar town recently. Presiding over the meeting, Jhajjar Deputy Commissioner (DC), Ajit Balaji Joshi, said special surveillance on main and cross roads of the town was required to check criminal activities in the area. He said that main points where the CCTV cameras would be installed to keep a close a tab on activities had been earmarked and the process to set up the cameras would be initiated soon. “These cameras with cost of around Rs 50 lakh would be installed at public places like the bus stand, the railway station, the main markets, all bypasses, schools, colleges and all main crossroads of the town. A special control room will also be set up to monitor the CCTV cameras,” said the DC, adding that the SRS society and the IT society had taken the responsibility of upkeeping these cameras and the control room. Joshi maintained that Bahadurgarh had rapidly been emerging as a big industrial hub of the state due to being located adjacent to the national capital Delhi. Several reputed business houses were already running their industrial units here while some more were also planning to set up their units in near future. Therefore, arrangement of a high-tech security cover was being felt for the past some time, he added. “Industries owners have also demanded to install CCTV cameras at various important points of the town in order to check criminal activities. Keeping in view all these things, we have decided to install CCTV cameras to keep all activities in the town under surveillance,” said the DC, adding that the graph of the criminal activities was likely to be brought down in the town after setting up of the cameras. Joshi has urged the industrialists and representatives of business houses’ associations to come forward for providing financial aid to the authorities so that CCTV cameras could be installed at vital points of Bahadurgarh town soon.
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Individual style of working in country lowers efficiency to 20%: Prof
Sonepat, March 14 Professor Reddy as chief guest, was addressing the inaugural session of the national conference on “Contemporary Techniques and Technologies in Electronic Engineering” organised by the Department of Electronics and Communication of the DCR University of Science and Technology, Murthal, on the university premises on Wednesday. Because of the habit of individual working, working efficiency in India was around 15 to 20 per cent; whereas it was up to 86 per cent in small countries like Singapore and Taiwan because of collective working, he remarked. “The DRDO has developed a light combat aircraft which can fly at such heights where it is not picked by radars,” he said and pointed out, “we should develop such radars which can track this war plane.” In his presidential address, university’s Vice-Chancellor HS Chahal said, “We cannot dream of a modern society without electronics and it has become an integrated and essential part in our day- to-day’s activities.” The university had created a revolving fund of Rs 25 lakh for promoting research and innovations, he said and hoped that students would avail themselves of this facility in the interest of society and the country. The coordinator of the conference and the head of the department, Dr Manoj Duhan, said as many as 138 research papers were received for the conference and out of these 48 were rejected. As many as 90 faculties from different universities and colleges presented their research papers, The university’s Registrar, RK Arora, Deans, faculty members and students were present on the occasion. Professor Reddy also released the proceedings of the conference.
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260 students get degrees
Yamunanagar, March 14 He said character and discipline were the best ornaments of a human being and that the true education enabled the students for right thinking and right doing. He called upon the graduates to take the mission of higher education with great passion as learning was a continuous process. He said convocation gave students an opportunity to seek what had been already done and achieved. He said a new chapter was about to begin in their lives and myriad of new challenges and options were also on the horizons. Delivering brief report of the College, Dr PK Bajpai, Principal of Maharaja Agrasen College, Jagadhri, asserted that the institution was aware of the fact that socio-economic scene around us was transforming itself at an accelerated pace as a result of demographic shifts, impact of new technologies, the growing economy and several other developmental initiatives. As many as 260 graduates of the Maharaja Agrasen College, Jagadhari, and Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management and Technology were awarded degrees. Dr Anita Dhingra coordinated the convocation, along with Dr Karuna, Dr Bahadur Singh, Mr Adarsh Agarwal and Ruchi Mittal conducted the ceremony. The president of the governing body of the college, Lala Des Raj Goel, presided over the ceremony.
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HSGPC for withdrawal of coming 'Gurbani' serial on Colors channel
Karnal, March 14 “Gurbani" is very sacred for every Sikh and naming a serial as well as the lead actress as Gurbani has deeply hurt the religious feelings of Sikhs and we will not allow the serial to go on air even if we have to take to the streets to stop its telecast,” general secretary of the HSGPC Youth Wing Angrez Singh Pannu said. “We warn the director, producer and artistes of the serial "Gurbani" that the Sikhs who believe in “Guru Manyo Granth” will never brook even the slightest disrespect to “Gurbani,” he added. He said the HSGPC would also explore the legal options to dissuade Colors from hurting the sentiments of the Sikhs, but the inevitable option of taking to the streets and launching an agitation was always open. The director and producers must change the name of the serial and the lead actress and make other amends to ensure that the religious feelings of the Sikhs are not hurt or Colors be restrained from telecasting the serial, he demanded.
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PWD gets construction industry award
Chandigarh, March 14 The Haryana PWD was conferred this award for the quality construction work of the new District Jail in Rohtak and the Haryana Government housing complex at Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi. The CIDC has been setup jointly by the Union government, the Planning Commission and the Indian construction industry with the purpose of making the Indian construction industry more professional and competitive. The new district jail at Sunaria in Rohtak has been constructed on 86 acres at a cost of Rs 43 crore with a capacity to house 1,350 prisoners. It is an earthquake-resistant building with beautiful landscape. The complex, constructed on personal initiative of Mahesh Kumar, Engineer-in-Chief, PWD (B&R), is based on many innovative ideas.— TNS
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3G
Directed by: Sheershak Anand, Shantanu Ray
The film, ‘3G’, produced by Eros International and Next Gen Films Production, delves into the supernatural, a completely different domain of which you have very little or no knowledge, and are attempting to recreate that experience on celluloid. The concept about exploring the unknown trajectory will attract the viewers. As the title suggests, ‘3G’ revolves around the technology gone wrong. The film stars Neil Nitin Mukesh and Sonal Chauhan. Both have some underwater stunts in the horror thriller. Sonal Chauhan has also crooned a romantic melody ‘Kaise bataoon …’ along with KK. To know the mystery of the 3G phone and horrific aftermath watch out it at theatres in Haryana. Mere Dad Ki Maruti Directed by: Ashima Chhibber Ashima Chhibber, assistant director of ‘Ab Tak Chhappan, Chak De India and Rockstar’ makes her debut as director with Y Films presentation ‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’. The film is set against the backdrop of a loud Punjab wedding in Chandigarh. The film stars TV star Ram Kapoor, Huma Qureshi’s brother Saqib Saleem, MTV VJ Rhea Chakraborty and Prabal Punjabi. One of the track ‘Punjabiyaan di batterey’, sung by Mika and rapper Honey Singh has created a lot of curiosity among the viewers. Watch this Aditya Chopra’s different comedy at theatres in Haryana. Jolly LLB Directed by: Subhash Kapoor How our courts function and frankly, it is scary and our judicial system is so arcane. ‘Jolly LLB’ takes an interesting look at our system. The film has Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Amrita Rao and Saurabh Shukla. The satire on the Indian law system, Jolly LLB, promises tyo be a different movie. Watch Arshad Warsi-Boman Irani chemistry again after 'Hum Tum Aur Ghost' at theatres near you in Haryana. —Dharam Pal
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The Haryana Public Health Engineering and the Excise and Taxation Minister Kiran Choudhry said that she would make all endeavours to set up a sports university of international level in
Bhiwani.
Sonepat, March 14
