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No government-run drug de-addiction centre in Sirsa
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Mobile jammers still not a reality in state jails
Whitefly attack worries cotton farmers
Government to boost education among SC/ST girls
Ragging in Educational Institutes
Overuse of painkillers leads to kidney failure: Expert
Land deals to prove Hooda’s Waterloo, says Kuldeep
Workshop on creating jobs for 50 MLAs from 17 states
Protection units for children of sex workers
Crop diversification programme
State govt to set up Institute of Fiscal Policy
Ch Birender Singh to focus on strengthening party
Lensman captures Hola Mohalla for Canadian spectators
Rai MLA inaugurates veterinary hospital building
Rai MLA Jai Tirth Dahiya inaugurates the building of a veterinary hospital at Nahri village in Sonepat. Photo: BS Malik
BJP to woo professionals to expand its support base
INLD to form panels for all polling stations
Smoke spews from the sugar mill situated near Kurukshetra. Photo: DR Vij
MBBS students' second batch to get admission by August end
Rewari assembly list includes 25,000 fake voters
KU Sports Council to train its sportspersons
Blood donation camp in Fatehabad
INLD submits memo on pollution to DC
Ways to manage disaster in schools
Khalsa college student wins bronze medal in 2nd Golden Gloves Championship in Serbia
Guru Nanak Khalsa College Principal with Deeksha Chadha. A Tribune Photograph
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No government-run drug de-addiction centre in Sirsa
Sirsa, July 22 Jagga realises that he has been trapped in this addiction, but he is unable to come out of this. “Earlier I thought I was consuming “bhukki” (the name by which poppy-husk is called in local parlance), but now I realise it was this drug that was slowly but surely consuming my health, wealth and my family’s joys,” he says as he looks with sunken eyes. Jagga is not an isolated example of a youth falling prey to addiction. Hundreds of villagers, including farmers, labourers, truck drivers and in some cases even students, have been becoming victims of this narcotic shrub. Poppy-husk is the dried remains of poppy plants and it serves as a cheap source for a kick for villagers. Poppy-husk has been eating into the vitals of society in villages adjoining the Punjab border in the Kalanwali and Dabwali belts of Sirsa. Others like Singhpura, Faggu, Rori, Taruana and Raghuana near Kalawani and Desujodha, Mangeana, Shergarh, Masitan, Alika, Shergarh, Saktakhera and some other villages coming under the Dabwali area. The sale of poppy is legalised in Rajasthan and it is in great demand in Punjab’s Malwa
belt.
Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh and Ganganagar districts and Punjab’s Malwa region’s Bathinda and Mansa also touch Haryana’s boundary in Sirsa. “Earlier, the traffickers used jeeps and other private vehicles to bring poppy husk in these villages. But now, most of the contraband coming to our villages comes through Haryana Roadways buses and trains,” says Sukhpal Singh, general secretary of the Dabwali Jagruti Manch. He adds that earlier professional traffickers used to bring the contraband, but now they have started using women and children as couriers. Poppy-husk is available for Rs 700 to Rs 800 per kilogram in adjoining Rajasthan, but when it reaches Punjab and Haryana, it sells for Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,600 per kilogram. “We had a de-addiction centre at Kalawali, which was closed sometime ago due to some reasons. Now, I have released a grant of Rs 8 lakh for its renovation and it will begin working soon,” says Dr J Ganesan, Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa. He says another centre for Sirsa town has also been approved and it will start functioning very soon. Senior Superintendent of Police, Sirsa, Saurabh Singh claims that there is a marked decrease in the trafficking of poppy-husk in Sirsa in comparison to what it used to be a decade earlier. He says the police has recovered nearly 1,500 kg of poppy-husk, 2.5 kg of opium this year and has arrested 112 persons.
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Mobile jammers still not a reality in state jails
Ambala, July 22 Ever since jailed convicts were found to be using mobiles to keep in touch with the outside world -- and carry out their criminal activities as usual -- the Supreme Court had directed the states to install mobile jammers. The Haryana Jail Department also took up the matter and in 2006 it directed cell phone service providers including Bharti, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications to install jammers or "face prosecution". However, the ‘directions’ did not work and it was then decided to outsource the project to a private company. Even as the department continued to claim that the process of installation of jammers was in progress and almost on the verge of completion, the reality remained different. Sources said some of the jails in the state did get jammers installed, but these were found to be outdated and had a limited scope of functioning while some of these jammed mobile signals in the range of three to four kilometre around the jail affeced the mobile services. The state then awarded tenders to install jammers to a Delhi-based company. The then DGP jails even gave an undertaking in the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the process of installing jammers was on and the work would be completed soon. However, this project also did not materialise. There had been repeated instances when the jail authorities recovered multiple mobile phones from various jails across the state. The sources in the Jail Department said authorities had recovered more than 120 phones from the possession of inmates lodged in various jails at Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Bhiwani, Sonepat and Panipat in 2011. In January 2012, eight criminals made a sensational escape from Sonepat District Jail after making arrangements with the help of cellphones. More recently, an inmate of Ambala jail made an extortion call to a property dealer in Panchkula, again bring to fore the failure of the authorities in installing jammers. After the 2012 Sonepat jail break case, the Haryana Government again ‘decided’ to install highly efficient mobile jammers in all 19 jails of the state. The Department of Telecommunications and the Home Department approached Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited which undertook an extensive survey of all jails. But till date, the jammers have not yet been installed. One of the senior jail officials said now the ball was in the court of State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd and that the delay was on their part. The Jail Department was not responsible for that.
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Whitefly attack worries cotton farmers
Sirsa, July 22 Gurjeet Singh Maan, a progressive farmer from Kirpal Patti, also shared his concern for his crop, though he said the insect had been coming every year. Whiteflies are sucking pests who feed on the juice of cotton leaves. The insects are found on the underside of the leaves. Besides causing damage to the cotton plants by sucking juice from the leaves, the whiteflies work as carrier for cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV), a more potent threat for the cotton crop in the area. The CLCuV curls leaves of the plants and hence impedes their growth considerably. Owing to the declining interest of farmers, the area under cotton has already decreased from 5.95 lakh hectares last year to 4.86 lakh hectares, a shrink of almost 25 per
cent.
The infestation, if not controlled timely, can threaten to cut cotton production in Haryana considerably, according to experts. "We have conducted a survey of cotton fields in Sirsa and found presence of two sucking pests -- whiteflies as well as thrips on the plants. We have even noticed the presence of CLCuV in some areas," said Dr Dalip Monga, a Principal Scientist and Head of Regional Centre of the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) at Sirsa. He said the CICR would soon start survey of fields in Fatehabad, Jind and other cotton-producing districts of Haryana. Thrips are tiny slender insects with fringed wings and these insects, too, suck juice contents of the plants and in the process hamper their growth. Ravi Punia, Joint Director (Cotton) in the Haryana Agriculture Department, however, said that the problem was not very acute. "If the infestation is less than the economic threshold level (ETL), the farmers are advised to use pesticides prepared from Neem, as that was sufficient to control it. However, if the problem has crossed ETL, the use of systemic pesticides was advisable," Punia added.
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Government to boost education among SC/ST girls
Jhajjar, July 22 She said the schools were being set up under Kasturba Gandhi Awasiya Balika Vidyalayas scheme in the state. "Nine such vidyalayas have already been opened in
Jind, Kaithal, Mewat and Palwal districts which have been upgraded to senior secondary schools," said the
minister. Bhukkal said the state government had also decided to fix the responsibilities of the teachers of government schools in a bid to bring qualitative improvement in the government schools and ensuring bright future of the students. "Under the process, a list of the government schools failing to deliver the results up to the mark in metric class examination is also being prepared so as to find the significant causes which are accountable for the concerned condition of the schools. Moreover, show-cause notices will also be issued to the school teachers in this regard," said the minister. She maintained that teachers were also needed to be imparted special training about the changing scenario of the education system and bringing qualitative changes in their teaching methods as well. Orientation training programmes for the teachers were also being organised to provide education in modern and qualitative manner in the government schools. Haryana was the first state of the country to provide free education and scholarships to the children in government
schools. Bhukkal said to ensure the attendance of teachers in the government schools, display boards would be installed in schools across the state on which name of the teachers, their joining dates, educational qualifications and mobile numbers would be noted down so that district officials could check the status of teachers any time. She added that it would facilitate the school management committees to know their absence from the school and also the reason of
absence. Bhukkal said work of distribution of books in government schools located in nine districts had already started. While books to be delivered in the remaining schools of the districts would reach within couple of days. "During the current academic session, about 1.40 crore books would be distributed to the students across the state," she added.
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Ragging in Educational Institutes Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, July 22 Under the Ordinance, stern punishments like six months' imprisonment and fine of Rs 25,000 for the head of the institution in case of contravention of the provisions and in case an institution or a university is found violating the rules, fine up to Rs 2 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively can be imposed by the government. Sirsa Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan today told the managements of all educational institutions in the district to set up committees of senior faculty members to check and report incidents of ragging on their campuses. Each committee will have three faculty members, with at least one woman member. The number of committees will depend on the vastness of the institution. The committees shall conduct raids in case of any complaint or a report in the media and after inquiry, they will report the matter to the head of the institution within two hours of the incident. The institution head will report the matter to the police, where a crime under the IPC is made out. In a proven case of ragging, the head of the institution shall order suspension of the candidate at least for two semesters, whether FIR is lodged or not. Depending on the gravity of the offence, the head of the institution can withhold scholarships, fellowships and other benefits, forfeit campus placement opportunities, debar from appearing in tests, withhold results, debar from representing institution in regional, national and international meets, order suspension or expulsion from hostel, rustication from the institution or any other punishments mentioned in the Ordinance.
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Overuse of painkillers leads to kidney failure: Expert
Gurgaon, July 22 Dr Yadav asserted that regular medical check-up is a must as in most cases, symptoms appear only after the problem gets acute and 80-90 per cent damage was done. “Our unhealthy lifestyle, including consumption of fast food, soft drinks and packaged eatables, coupled with lack of physical exercise, leads to disorders like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure, which, in turn, start damaging the kidneys,” he maintained. Dr Yadav, who has served as professor and head of the Department of Urology at PGIMS, Rohtak, and senior consultant at Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Delhi and Escorts Hospital and Research Centre, Faridabad, said preservatives used in packed food also harm the kidneys. He said excessive consumption of milk and milk products, tea, coffee, tomatoes and spinach etc led to formation of stones in the kidneys. The medical expert pointed out that in the medical check-up, ultrasound examination was also must along with kidney-function test (KFT) to ascertain the well-being of both the kidneys. “One normally does not come to know about renal failure as even if one of the kidneys stops functioning, the second one automatically starts working more to compensate. Thus, even the persons whose one kidney has become dysfunctional may show normal KFT levels,” he said. Dr Yadav said apart from adopting a healthy lifestyle, avoiding packaged food and keeping tabs on the use of painkillers was a must to ensure the well-being of the kidneys.
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Land deals to prove Hooda’s Waterloo, says Kuldeep
Gurgaon, July 22 Apart from the anti-incumbency factor being at play at the end of Hooda’s two consecutive terms, the Chief Minister also faces opposition from his detractors within the party. Though INLD commander Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Singh are under imprisonment, there is still a considerable possibility of either or both of them getting relief from the court, which can alter the political scene. As of now, Chautala’s younger son
Abhey, grandsons and veteran party leaders are touring the entire state to keep the morale of the party cadres and supporters up. Those indulging in anti-party activities are also being warned. On the other hand, HJC president Kuldeep Bishnoi is also hopeful of a better performance in terms of vote and seat share in the coming elections to the Lok Sabha as well as the Haryana Assembly. In a chat with The Tribune here recently, Bishnoi maintained that the shady land deals inked during Hooda’s tenure were enough to sink his regime and he would meet his Waterloo in the approaching elections. He said the given political scenario marked by factionalism in the ruling party, anti-incumbency sentiment and INLD being in a tough spot would work in favour of the HJC-BJP combine. Along with the mass-support base built by his father and late Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, Bishnoi is also banking on the conventional vote-bank of the
BJP, his alliance partner. “’The Chautalas have not won even a single Lok Sabha seat, nor has the INLD been voted to power ever since the demise of Devi Lal in 2001,” he said. The HJC leader said, “As of now, skyrocketing prices of essential commodities and corruption were the major issues perturbing the people, who had made up their mind to uproot the Congress-led UPA regime at the Centre as well as party's government in the state”. “Moreover, in such a situation, no national party would take the risk of getting its image maligned by joining hands with a regional party whose leaders are facing corruption charges in courts of law,” he said.
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Workshop on creating jobs for 50 MLAs from 17 states
Sirsa, July 22 The workshop is being organised by PR Legislative Research, a not-for-profit research initiative aimed at strengthening legislative debate by making it better
informed. Sampat Singh, MLA from Nalwa, Bharat Bhushan Batra, MLA from Rohtak, and Aftab
Ahemd, MLA from Nuh, are the three members from Haryana, who have confirmed their participation in the workshop. Over three days, the workshop will address several questions on the issue of ways to create jobs for our
youths. Sampat Singh, who has participated in workshops organised by the PR Legislative Research six times in the past, said the workshop would delve on the challenges and opportunities of the shift to a younger demographic profile, the governments’ role to help channelise youth into productive activity, the change in
labour-force distribution in India, sectors that can generate major employment in India for the future, expectations of the potential employers in their investment destinations and the role education plays in creating a skilled labour force within the state. The last time the PR Legislative Research organised a workshop was at Pinjore in June this year, where 25 MLAs from Haryana participated. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda inaugurated the workshop on “Effective Policy Making” while Speaker Kuldeep Sharma delivered the valedictory address at
Pinjore, Sampat Singh added.
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Protection units for children of sex workers
Chandigarh, July 22 Misra, who is also Member Secretary of Haryana State Child Protection Society (HSCPS) said that in light of the orders of the Supreme Court of India, the DCPUs have the responsibility to draw up an estimate of demand for Anganwari centres, Pre- School Programme and creches that are to be established in the neighbourhood and facilitate their grounding within 90 days of the demand that has been generated. The DCPU has to find the location for day and night centres (either abandoned buildings, improvised roof tops of existing school buildings, parks, community halls and so on) for children who are over six years of age and in consultation with the District and State Child Protection Society as well as the Department of Women and Child Development to create facility for education, tuition, recreation sports and cultural activities counselling within 90 days of the demand that has been generated. She said that the DCPU would also make arrangement for conducting training for all the care providers, maintain a panel of NGO?s working with the community and ensure that they are taken into confidence in planning and implementation of the facilities.The DCPU is to be held accountable for provisioning of all services. Also, the DCPU shall provide for all necessary physical infrastructure and functionaries.
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Crop diversification programme Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa/Fatehabad, July 22 For getting their share of free material, the farmers had to produce a certificate from patwari stating that the land against which they were claiming seeds, laid unsown. The agriculture authorities will distribute free guar seed for 10,250 hectares of land in Sirsa and 8,150 hectares of land in Fatehabad. “The department is giving 15 kilogram guar seed, 2.5 bags of single super phosphate and 25 kilogram of zinc sulphate for every hectare of land to the farmers opting to sow guar, instead of the traditional crops paddy and cotton in their fields,” said Anoop Singh, Deputy Director, Agriculture, Fatehabad. "The estimated market value for the commodities is Rs 175 per kilogram for guar seed, Rs 340 per bag for single super phosphate fertiliser and Rs 247 per 10 kilogram bag of zinc sulphate fertiliser," said a technical assistant in the department. Going by the high market cost of the items being distributed for free, a large number of farmers have been visiting agriculture department offices. Several of them have been meeting authorities with complaints that they were being denied of their share of free seeds.
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State govt to set up Institute of Fiscal Policy
Chandigarh, July 22 The Institute would have an advanced centre on planning and evaluation where training related to Results Framework Document (RFD) would be imparted. This was revealed at an International Workshop on Performance Management in the United States. The workshop was organised by the World Bank with the assistance of Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India here recently. Director of Performance Excellence of the United States of America, Department of Commerce Christina Helfin and Leader of the Public Performance Global Expert Team and Head for Public Sector Institutional Reform, World Bank, William L Dorotinsky were the key speakers in the workshop. Dorotinsky suggested the Principal Secretary, Finance, Sanjeev Kaushal, that financial and technical guidance for setting up of the institute could be sought from the International Monitoring Fund (IMF) of the World Bank through Union Ministry of Finance. In the inaugural address, the Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works Department, SC Chaudhary said Haryana was among the few States in the country who have implemented performance management in government departments.
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Ch Birender Singh to focus on strengthening party
Kaithal, July 22 Addressing a well-attended party workers' meeting in Kalayat town of the district today, Birender Singh exhorted the youth to come forward and strengthen the hands of youth leader Rahul Gandhi, who wanted to change the present political scenario by ensuring transparency in governance and party structure. The senior Congress leader had come to extend an invitation to party workers for their participation in a proposed public rally to be held in Jind on August 20 on late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's
bithday. While addressing mediapersons, Birender Singh ruled out the possibility of contesting the coming Lok sabha poll and said that he was a sitting Rajya Sabha member and his tenure would end after three years. At the same time, he also expressed his desire to contest from the Uchana Assembly constituency in the next Haryana Assembly elections and said that it had become necessary in view of the prevailing political situation in the state. While replying to a question raised over the presence of the Chief Minister at a meeting called in favour of reservation for
Jats, he said he could not answer that question and Hooda himself should clarify his position.
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Lensman captures Hola Mohalla for Canadian spectators
Ambala, July 22 Sodhi has been documenting the annual festival at Anandpur Sahib for the past 13 years and the efforts have translated into the exhibition which is reportedly attracting big crowds. Sodhi said that at Anandpur Sahib, he found simplicity in the devotion to the Almighty of those present. The spectrum of colours of Hola Mohalla conjured and confirmed the magical nature of our existence. Through 30 photographs, Sodhi told the world about the enthusiasm and devotion of the Sikh sangat. Through photos Sodhi told the spectators about Sikh warrior and their dresses. Sodi also told them about different war styles and holy places of Sikhs. Interestingly, Sodhi is not a professional photographer. Basically he is an engineer. His father, BS Sodhi, was, too, awarded for excellence in photography. Sodhi spent a long time with his father, spellbound by his ability to print black and white photographs in his homemade darkroom.
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Rai MLA inaugurates veterinary hospital building
Sonepat, July 22 The building had been constructed at a cost of about Rs 5 lakh and it would meet the
animal-treatment requirements of the adjoining 10-11 villages. Dahiya said for promotion of dairy farming even in small units, the state government was providing a number of benefits including giving subsidised loans, free training and insurance cover etc. He exhorted the villagers to make use of the opportunities with the remark that the village was located on the outskirts of Delhi and it was easy to supply milk in the Delhi region. He claimed that the government had undertaken development works estimated to be valued at around Rs 2 crore in the village and many of these had already been completed. "There is no dearth of funds for starting development works in villages,"
he added. With the fast pace of development during the past eight years, he said, the Rai region, including
Kundli, Bahalgarh, Murthal, had become an area of international fame in the fields of industrialisation and education. Dr Dharmendra Singh, Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Department, senior Congress leader Surender Sharma and other prominent citizens of the area were present on the occasion.
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BJP to woo professionals to expand its support base
Faridabad, July 22 The party feels that even though professionals are generally passive in the electoral arena, they form part of a good chunk of floating voters which has the capacity to tilt the scale in keenly contested elections. Senior BJP leaders of the district have been specially drafted in the strategy to carry forward its "catch-professionals" agenda. Leaders who were either professionals themselves or have links with profession-related bodies have been asked to buttress the party’s efforts to expand its base. Frontal organisations of the party have been roped in to give effect to
its strategy. Shivdut Vashisth, a state leader of a frontal organisation of the
BJP, based here, said the party functionaries had already visited the court premises here. More visits have been lined up during the month-long door-to-door campaign which was kicked off on July 1. Ajay Gaur, Faridabad president of the
BJP, said the party had also touched base with medicos and other professionals in other walks of life. He claimed the party was getting an encouraging response from them. The party highlights the failure of the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress government in Haryana. It specially focuses on scams that surfaced during the UPA regime. They also allege that the UPA government was using law-enforcing agencies to settle political scores with its opponents. Simultaneously, the party highlights “good governance” and the projects implemented by the Atal Behari
Vajpayee-led NDA during six years of its rule. Also, its leaders harp on inflation being kept
in check during the NDA regime.
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INLD to form panels for all polling stations
Faridabad, July 22 Addressing a convention of INLD workers in the Ballabgarh Assembly constituency recently, Abhay Singh said each of the committees would have at least 50 representatives from all sections of society. The committees would strengthen the party at the ground level, he added. According to senior leaders of the
INLD, apart from adding muscle to the party, the proposed committees are aimed at ensuring better returns to it in the elections. Abhay Singh also urged his party cadres not be demoralised in the wake of conviction and jail of their leader, Om Prakash
Chautala. He said,"You must work with more vigour and prepare for a struggle to dethrone the Congress from power." He took potshots at the Congress and alleged that it used the CBI to implicate Om Prakash Chautala in the teachers' recruitment case. "The people of Haryana will teach the Congress a befitting lesson for its misadventure at the time of elections," he said. In an apparent bid to boost the morale of his
partymen, Abhay Singh asserted that the INLD would bounce back in power in the next election. Referring to the Haryana Government, he alleged that it had failed on all fronts. He was especially critical of it for a rise in the incidents of crime. He further said that the government's claims of development of the state rung hollow as the growth of infrastructure in the state had gone down in the past seven years.
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MBBS students' second batch to get admission by August end
Sonepat, July 22 According to the Director of the college, Dr RC
Siwach, the council's inspection team found no deficiency in the institute in respect to infrastructure, patient care, state of art machinery and equipments and other facilities being provided to the patients. The second batch of MBBS students will be admitted by the end of August 2013. After the admission procedure, the campus will have a strength of 200 girls. "It is a matter of pride for the institution that the council gave two consecutive permissions to admit 100 students to pursue their MBBS course. The hospital became operational on trial basis from September 1, 2011 and the first batch of the MBBS students was admitted last year," said
Siwach. "The Institute is about to get an another boost as the government is already in process of installing CT scan and MRI machines very soon.
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Rewari assembly list includes 25,000 fake voters
Rewari, July 22 Addressing a press conference here recently, activists of RNC’s legal cell, comprising advocates- Vishal Somany, Rohtash Singh, Narender Singh, PK Yadav, Dhanpat Singh and Umesh Bhardwaj, said RNC activists visited every nook and corner of the constituency in the past several weeks and then prepared a detailed list of all those voters whose whereabouts could not be ascertained. They further said when the list of voters touched 25,000 mark, they got worried and submitted the detailed lists to the offices of the Deputy Commissioner and Tehsildar (Elections) for speedy verification, cancellation of all such fictitious votes an publication of a comprehensively rectified voters’ list.
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KU Sports Council to train its sportspersons
Kurukshetra, July 22 Stating this here recently, The KUSC Director, Dr Dalel Singh, said a budget of Rs 9.50 lakh has been sanctioned by the KUSC to organise an off-season coaching camp. The sportspersons will be provided housing, DA and medical facility from this budget, he
added. The coaching camp is being organised in two sessions. The first session has already started on July 15 and will continue up to July 31and the second session will continue up to August 17. The focus of the coaching camps will be on the physical fitness of
sportspersons. Dalel Singh further informed that in the first camp, coaching was being given to men and women in gymnastics, net ball, hand ball, cross country, volleyball, cycling, hockey and wrestling while in the second camp, coaching will be given in rowing, basket ball, handball, athletics,
volleybalsl, football and hockey.
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Blood donation camp in Fatehabad
Fatehabad, July 22 Dr Virender Siwach, patron, Dr Sharanjit Kaur, chairperson and Harmeet Singh, secretary of the management committee of the group of institutions, were special guests. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Kamboj said blood donation was the biggest gift in the world as a unit of blood could save a precious life. As many as 70 units of blood were collected during the camp. Mamata
Choudhary, principal of Shaheed Baba Deep Singh College of Education, said the students had set an example by donating their blood for the needy. Dr Virender Siwach said that blood donation did not do any harm to the human body and hence people should keep donating blood as per medical advice in their
lives. Arvinder Kaur, principal of SBP School, said women were generally found anaemic and hence incapable of donating blood.
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INLD submits memo on pollution to DC
Kurukshetra, July 22 Arora said immediately after the sunset, the environment in and around the town starts spewing from the mill a foul smell compelling people to inhale polluted air. Being a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Hayana Vidhan Sabha, Arora had raised the issue at the PAC meeting and had submitted a written complaint against the mill recently. Taking action on the written complaint, the PAC had directed the officiating Executive Superintendent of the Pollution Department to initiate action against the mill owners for polluting the environment, but no stringent action had been taken so far mainly because the mill owners were well connected with the ruling party, Arora alleged.
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Ways to manage disaster in schools
Chandigarh, July 22 While stating this, an official spokesman said that according to the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court, the safety of schools was very necessary during a disaster situation. Efforts would be made under the project to make students understand ways to manage disaster. At the block level, 15 teachers would be imparted training in disaster management and the trained teachers would further train students in identified schools.
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Khalsa college student wins bronze medal in 2nd Golden Gloves Championship in Serbia
Yamunanagar, July 22 On the occasion, Principal Dr Verinder Kaur, said sports person from 21 countries mainly from Kaziksthan, Russia, Serbia, Sweden and India participated in the championship. Deeksha won in below 69 kg category. Jubilant Deeksha has given the credit of her success to her parents, teachers and coach. She gave a special vote of thanks to Guru Nanak Khalsa Group of Educational Institutions Chairman S Bshupinder Singh Jauhar.
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Jagga Singh (32) looks much older than his real age. A landless farmer, who works on the fields of others in a Sirsa village located on Haryana’s border with Punjab, Jagga Singh has been consuming poppy husk for the past 16 years.
Members of his family made several attempts to rid him of the addiction, but to no avail.
Gurgaon, July 22
Sonepat, July 22
Faridabad, July 22
Deeksha Chhada, a student of BA-I of Guru Nanak Khalsa College has won bronze medal in 2nd Golden Gloves Championship 2013, held in Serbia. She was given a warm welcome by the coaches and the college staff.
On the occasion, Principal Dr Verinder Kaur, said sports person from 21 countries mainly from
Kaziksthan, Russia, Serbia, Sweden and India participated in the championship. Deeksha won in below 69 kg category.
