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Cong woos Brahmins on Parshuram Jayanti
Tension flares up as dera, Arya Samajis trade charges
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Delivery of Baby on Road
Institutional delivery scheme comes a cropper in Mewat
CCTV cameras to be installed at bus stands
MC POLL
Panipat to get land for plastic park
Fearing safety, villagers decide not to send girls to school
Illegal portions of 3 hotels axed
Couple killed in accident
One killed, 10 injured in accident
Man arrested for molesting woman
Man held for bid to rape daughter
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Cong woos Brahmins on Parshuram Jayanti
Bhiwani, May 12 Venod Sharma and Kuldeep Sharma are the two top Brahmin leaders in the Congress and, besides being close to Hooda, they are related to each other. “It is for the first time post-independence that any state government has announced reservation for Brahmins and other upper castes and the they are grateful to Hooda for this,” said Venod Sharma, a close confidant of the Chief Minister, who was the chief guest of the function. He said besides the Brahmins, other communities like the Punjabis, the Agarwals and the Rajputs too had benefited from the government’s decision to grant quota to these communities. “Haryana is the only state in the country to have announced quota for the Brahmins and other upper castes based on their economic status and for this Hooda’s gesture deserves to be applauded,” Venod Sharma said. He, however, told people that they needed to support Hooda. The Ambala MLA also reminded people the Hooda government’s gesture to give ownership rights to people who held land as “dohlidars” for years. Later, interacting with The Tribune, Sharma said the ownership rights of the land given by zamindars to the Brahmins for their services decades back still vested with the original owners, while the Brahmins possessed the land as “dohlidars”. “In a notification issued by the government last year, ownership of such lands was transferred to over 50,000 families, who were in possession of the land for decades, but were not its real owners,” he said. He said it was in the Karnal "sammellan" organised by Speaker Kuldeep Sharma, where the members of the Brahmin community had raised this demand and Hooda enacted the Haryana Dholidar, Butimar, Bhondedar and Muqararidar (Vesting of Property Rights) Act to grant them the ownership rights of such lands. In an obvious reference to the BJP, Speaker Kuldeep Sharma warned members of his community to beware of those political parties, who sought their votes in elections and then forget them conveniently. Sharma said people from all communities voted for the Congress in the past two elections and this time too, the ruling party would come to power in Haryana as well as at the Centre. ‘Pagri’ and garlands were presented to Venod Sharma and Kuldeep Sharma on this occasion by the Haryana Kshtriya Rajput Mahashaba, Gurgaon, Bhiwani and Kalayat and the Bhiwani Punjabi Society, the Halwai Association, Bhiwani, the Veopar Mandal, the Dalit Samaj, the Muslim Samaj, the Vaish Samaj, the Brahmin Samaj reperesentatives from the state. MLA Zile Ram Sharma, former MLA Shankar Bhardwaj and several other Brahmin leaders were present on this occasion. |
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Tension flares up as dera, Arya Samajis trade charges
Rohtak, May 12 The ashram run by 'self-styled' godman Sant Rampal whose preachings, said Arya Samajis, had been a cause of trouble as objectionable comments had allegedly been passed against Swami Dayanand Saraswati. However, a dera spokesman refuted the allegations and termed the Arya Samajis as egoist. He said nothing had been done to hurt the sentiments of the Samajis. Though the tension had been simmering for the past several years, the authorities failed to gauge the sensitivity of the situation and did not make much efforts to resolve it. “The objectionable remarks had led to a protest that gained momentum against the functioning of the dera and its followers", claimed a member of the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, Haryana. He said the Arya Sabha had been trying to safeguard the interests of the samaj as a large population in the region had been followers of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and they were unable to tolerate remarks against him. While the state government had sealed the ashram after violence in 2006, the police had booked the dera leader under various sections of the IPC, including murder, the situation took a curious turn after the dera was awarded the possession of the ashram in 2012. As the state government kept the matter of handing over of the ashram in abeyance suspecting a clash again, the dera had approached the Supreme Court, which ordered the state government to hand over the ashram to it
this year. The handing over of the ashram on April 7 this year led to a protest by the Arya Samajis. Though a minor clash took place on April 9, the district authorities persuaded the protesters to wait for another three weeks for a solution. But the things went out of the control of local administration as a local court in response to a petition ordered status quo, which meant that the dera owners could not be evacuated. The Arya Sabha held a panchayat today and the hotheads in the crowd, however, fuelled the sentiments leading to violence. The police did not allow them to march towards the ashram. |
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BKU president’s fast enters third day
Sonepat, May 12 Conceding to one of the demands of Gurnam Singh, all farmers, who were taken into custody when they were going to gherao the Chief Minister’s residence at Rohtak on May 8, were released from different jails today. Meanwhile, a number of representatives of different political parties, including HJC-BJP state coordinator Dharam Pal Singh Malik and of farmers’ organisations, today reached Rukhi village to support their demands. Additional Deputy Commissioner SB Lohia also reached the spot to enquire about Gurnam Singh’s health. Elaborate police arrangements had been made in the village to avoid any untoward incident and doctors were regularly monitoring the health of the BKU chief who had reportedly lost weight during the past three days. Karnal: The Bhartiya Kisan Union has decided to intensify its agitation for Rs 300 per quintal as bonus on wheat and cautioned that repressive measures taken by the government to crush the agitation will backfire. Farmers, demanding a higher bonus for wheat, said the agitation would continue till their demand was accepted. They also burnt the effigy of the government and raised slogans against the administration. President of the Kisan Union, Karnal, Ram Krishan Arya lashed out at the government for not accepting the demand for Rs 300 per quintal as bonus and said some neighbouring states were already giving Rs 150 and Rs 200 per quintal as bonus, but it was not enough. BKU leader Rattan Mann said it was unfortunate that the government was sleeping over the Swaminathan report which had recommended the cost of production plus 50 per cent profit as minimum support price (MSP). The government must give Rs 300 as bonus till the recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee were implemented and in case the government remained adamant on not accepting their demands, a prolonged battle for justice would be launched. He said Haryana was a major producer of wheat and in case the farmers did not get remunerative prices for their produce, they would stop growing wheat and rice.
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Delivery of Baby on Road
Fatehabad, May 12 Acting on a complaint by RP Malhotra, state convener of the Human Rights Cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the National Human Rights Commission has asked Principal Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Haryana, to file response within six weeks. Malhotra today received a copy of order issued by the NHRC on his complaint. Malhotra had approached the NHRC with a copy of news, “Woman shooed away by docs delivers on road”, published in The Tribune on April 8, 2013. A poor woman from Bodiwali village in Fatehabad was forced to deliver her baby on the road outside the General Hospital, when doctors in the General Hospital showed her the door and told the patient to go to Medical College, Agroha, on April 7. Even as her attendants were looking for a rickshaw, the hapless woman took the support of a scooter parked outside the hospital and delivered her baby on the road. The incident sent shockwaves among intelligentsia after the news-item was published in The Tribune. Earlier, the State Human Rights Commission as well as the Punjab and Haryana High Court had taken a suo motu note of the incident after reading the report and sent notices to various authorities to explain reasons for the incident. |
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Institutional delivery scheme comes a cropper in Mewat
Gurgaon, May 12 The scheme promises free treatment, pick-and-drop facility, health check-up and tests for the mother and newborn at government hospitals. However, paucity of health staff is proving to be a biggest roadblock for successful implementation of this scheme. While the government boasts of a general hospital, three community health centres, 13 primary health centres, 84 health sub-centres and several delivery huts, there is only one gynaecologist at the General Hospital. There are 571,480 females in the district. None of the facilities has any radiologist or pathologist to carry out ultrasound and sonography. With just one gynaecologist around, the deliveries are being conducted by nurses or multi-purpose health workers (MPHWs). The complicated cases are referred to Gurgaon or other places. “We admit there is staff crunch. But we are doing our best for women who come to us for deliveries. We are trying to provide them whatever has been promised in the scheme,” says Dr Naval, Deputy CMO, Mewat. It may be noted that a majority of population of this district is Meo Muslim who strongly denounce institutional deliveries. They claim that getting their children born by anybody else other than the trusted midwives is against their religious practices. With rampant purdah system the fact of a male doctor inspecting a women is still not acceptable to them. |
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CCTV cameras to be installed at bus stands
Chandigarh, May 12 He further said destination boards would be installed in the roadways buses which would indicate its route. Global Positioning System would also be installed in the city buses but this would take another 6 months as tenders would be invited next month. He said the department would increase the number of buses in Gurgaon city bus service to 150 in the next four months which will include 50 AC and 100 ordinary buses. The local bus service, which was initially started with 32 buses on 12 May last year, now has 100 buses. He said till now, the city bus fleet was lacking AC buses. He said with the increase in the number of buses, the frequency of buses would be increased on the routes. The buses would ply on the Dhaula Kuan-IMT Manesar route, which, according to Arun Kumar, was the main corridor. The passengers would get bus in an interval of 10 minutes. He said the state government would spend Rs 32 crore on the new buses. From today, a new 17th route of local bus had also been started which ran from Metro Station of Sector 29 to Badshahpur via Sector 40, 41, Jharsa village, Medicity Hospital, Bakhtawar Chowk, Meyfield Garden and Nirwana , he added. Unfolding new projects for Gurgaon, Arun Kumar said five more buses would be added to the fleet of Volvo buses, taking the number to 20. These buses ply between Gurgaon and Chandigarh. He said two new bus stands would be constructed in Gurgaon. One modern AC bus stand would be constructed in Sector 29 and the other constructed at Rajiv Chowk, near NH-8. The Haryana Roadways Engineering Corporation (HREC) is funding these projects. At the same time, Arun Kumar said 48 staff quarters at a cost of about Rs 5 crore would also be constructed for drivers and conductors deployed on intra-city buses so that they could do their job with more dedication, even during late hours. The Transport Department has already deposited Rs 3 crore with the HPHC for these flats. |
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MC POLL
Faridabad, May 12 Although the HJC had publicly declared that it would not put up nominees, it had, however, also left it upon the individual party leaders who aspire to contest the elections. Sharma said the BJP would not put up nominees on the seats where HJC leaders would be in the fray. Likewise, the HJC would persuade its leaders not to pit themselves against the BJP nominees who have winning chances. He said HJC president Kuldeep Bishnoi was firm that both parties must ensure that the Congress-backed nominees were defeated in the elections. According to leaderships of the BJP and the HJC, bad showing by the Congress in the elections would send a strong message to the public against it before the next parliamentary elections. |
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Randeep lays stones of projects
Kaithal, May 12 The projects include the laying of the foundation stone of the second block of PWD Rest House, the laying of paver blocks on the sides of the Manas drain on the stretch between the Ambala road and Kurukshetra road here, the construction work on nullahs and laying of paver blocks on both sides of road from Pehowa Chowk to Jat school and dedicating to the people Rajeev Gandhi Vidyut Bhawan on Pehowa Chowk here. Talking to mediapersons, Randeep said PWD Rest House had only six rooms which had been constructed 40 years ago. Now the rest house was being extended and renovated at a cost of Rs 1.75 crore and after its completion, it would have 17 rooms, including a CM suite. He said paver blocks, a footpath and streetlights along Mansa drain would come up at the cost of Rs 66 lakh. Rs 1.73 crore would be spent on the construction of nullahs and and laying of paver blocks on both sides of the Pehowa Chowk-Jat School road. He inaugurated multi-storey Rajeev Gandhi Vidyut Bhawan on Pehowa Chowk which is spread over 36,000 square feet. The offices of SE Operation, UHBVN, XEN and SDE are situated in this building which were earlier located at different places. |
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Panipat to get land for plastic park
Sonepat, May 12 Hooda was addressing the inaugural programme of the newly constructed building of the Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) on the premises of the DCR University of Science and Technology, Murthal. He claimed that the state government during the past eight years had ensured to provide all essential facilities like skilled manpower, land pooling, infrastructure development and congenial atmosphere for speedy industrial growth. As a result, the state had witnessed a growth rate of 9.4 per cent, he added. Realising that skilled manpower was a must to meet the requirements of industries at the local level, Hooda said the state opened 489 additional technical training institutes and increased the yearly intake strength of students in these institutes up to 1,15,000 in the state. For setting up of this institute, the state government had not only donated about 10 acres on the Murthal University’s premises to the university authorities but also spent Rs 25 crore for the construction of its new building, the Chief Minister said. Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilisers Srikant Kumar Jena announced to reserve 25 per cent seats for students of the state in the institute. “Though, the institute is providing three-year diploma courses, undergraduate, postgraduate and research classes will also be started here from the next academic year,” he said. He said CIPET had 16 centres with state-of-the-art infrastructural facilities in the country and was devoted to academic, technology support and research activities for the growth of plastic and allied industries in the country. |
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Fearing safety, villagers decide not to send girls to school
Rewari, May 12 The number of school-going children of these
villages comes to around 400 which include nearly 200 girls. A decision to this effect was taken at a panchayat of elders of these six villages held under chairmanship of Amar Singh, a retired DSP of Gadania village, at Pal village recently. The panchayat, which was attended by Nihalawas sarpanch Zile Singh, Pleh sarpanch Rajender Singh, Gadania sarpanch Pradeep Kumar and other villagers, demanded security for their daughters and sons from the police while seeking immediate arrest of the remaining two youths, who had attempted to outrage the modesty of a Class XII girl, a resident of Nihalawas village, when she was returning home from the school on May 6. On a complaint filed by the victim’s father, the Mahendergarh police had registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act against three youths, Ashok, Manoj and Jagmohan, all residents of Berawas village. The police had arrested Ashok while Manoj and Jagmohan were still at large. Meanwhile, Mahendergarh Superintendent of Police Simardeep Singh along with other senior police officials yesterday visited Nihalawas village and assured the villagers that their daughters and sons would be provided proper security and asked them to send their children to the school from Monday onwards. However, the residents of Nihalawas and other villages said they would first watch the situation and then take the final decision. |
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Illegal portions of 3 hotels axed
Faridabad, May 12 Delight Hotel, Raj Mandir and Raj Mahal on which the corporation's axe fell are well-known land marks in the city. The six-hour-long operation against the hotels was a smooth affair. Not much police force accompanied MC demolition squad. However, a strong contingent of the police team was kept on standby in the nearby NIT Police Station as a contingency measure. The demolition squad raized structures on the third floor of Hotel Delight and on the fourth floors of the other two hotels. Officials said the structures had been constructed in violation of the sanctioned building plans. |
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Couple killed in accident
Rewari, May 12 A senior police official said the bodies were still lying at the PGIMS. The driver of the car sped away after hitting them fatally. — OC |
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One killed, 10 injured in accident
Rewari, May 12 The deceased has been identified as Sharaft (40), resident of Shashtri Nagar, Jaipur. The mishap took place when 30 members of a family of Gautam Budh Nagar town of Uttar Pradesh were on their way to Ajmer to pay obeisance at the Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti shrine. The injured have been admitted to the local Civil Hospital. |
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Man arrested for molesting woman
Karnal, May 12 Meanwhile, Karnal Superintendent of Police Shashank Anand today instructed all police officers to immediately register a case of molestation, rape and eve-teasing. He warned that any laxity on the part of the police officers concerned in such cases would be viewed seriously and attract stringent punishment. The SP, who was addressing the monthly crime meeting to reduce incidences of crime, said a complainant woman should not be summoned to the police station and the police should go to her house to record the statement in the presence of a woman police officer or a woman advocate. He also directed the police to step up patrolling in the vicinity of women schools, colleges and institutions and keep a vigil on miscreants. Women should also be made aware of women helpline- 1091 so that they can inform the police immediately in case of an emergency. |
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Man held for bid to rape daughter
Rewari, May 12 He was admitted to the Community Health Centre at
Nahar. When he was discharged from the hospital, he was produced in a court which remanded him in 14-day judicial custody.
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